Digital Social Hour - Branding Secrets: How to 10X Your Business Impact | Jay Monopoly DSH #897

Episode Date: November 17, 2024

Discover game-changing branding secrets that will 10X your business impact in this eye-opening conversation with Jay Monopoly 🚀 Learn why branding is more powerful than marketing and how it can transform your business success. Jay Monopoly shares his journey from humble beginnings to becoming a successful entrepreneur, real estate investor, and master networker. Get exclusive insights on how he built multiple 7-figure businesses, leverages powerful networking strategies, and creates massive value through free events. Packed with actionable advice on building a strong personal brand, scaling your business, and creating long-term wealth through real estate. Learn how J turned online success into real-world assets and why relationship building is the ultimate ROI. From crypto success to section 8 properties, discover how combining digital and physical assets can create unstoppable business growth. Plus, get J's proven strategies for hosting successful networking events and building genuine connections that last. Ready to take your brand and business to the next level? This episode is your blueprint for success. Watch now for exclusive strategies you won't hear anywhere else! 🎯 #leadgeneration #personalbranding #digitalmarketing #socialmediamarketing #howtonetworklikeapro CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - Jay Monopoly 01:11 - Moving to Miami 02:36 - Real Estate Investment 05:55 - Networking Strategies 07:20 - Long Game Mindset 09:35 - Free Venues for Events 12:57 - Importance of Branding 14:46 - Influential Connections 15:39 - Josh's Humble Beginnings 18:10 - Dating in Major Cities 21:00 - Trust Issues in Relationships 22:35 - Balancing Work and Life 24:15 - When to Start a Family 26:13 - Jay Monopoly’s Military Stories 29:17 - Travel Destinations 31:20 - Upcoming Projects APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Jay Monopoly https://www.instagram.com/jay.monopoly/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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If you have great marketing, unless you have great marketing, you don't need a great sales guy, because the marketing takes care of a lot of it. But if you have great branding, you don't even need great marketing. Right. Branding is everything, man.

All right guys out here in Miami with Jay Monopoly. Thanks for coming on, man. Appreciate you, my brother. Long time coming. Absolutely. You look like Miami with your fit. Yeah, that's what I was going for, bro. That's what I was going for. But you're from New York.

Originally from New York, been out in Miami for the last four years, bro. But it's hard to leave Miami, man. Everything's over here, bro. I love it over here. Love it. So New York, been out in Miami for the last four years, bro, but uh, it's hard to leave Miami, man Everything's over here, bro. I love it over here. So New York or Miami. I picked Miami all day. Wow Miami all day, no question. Over in New York City? Over in New York City. Damn. No question. Is it because of the weather? The weather, the women, you name it. Yeah, I did hear the woman. Yeah, if you like Latinas out here, it's the spot to be. Yeah, yeah, what do you like? I'm with a Latina. All right, perfect. Oh, he's cuffed up. I can't ask him those questions.

Yeah, seven years in, man. I love it, I love it. What about you? You single out here? It's complicated. That's what I hear every time I talk to a guy in Miami. It's complicated. Man, when you moved here though,

you started doing much better business-wise. Yeah, man. I was already, I've lived everywhere, man. So I lived in LA before. I've lived in LA.A. before I've lived in L.A. I've lived in Houston, San Diego, New York, Tampa, Orlando. You're young for all these cities. I was in the military for a little bit. So I moved around a lot.

But I can't I moved here straight from Tampa. I live in Tampa before I moved to Miami. And the minute I got to Miami, man, it's crazy. It felt like my business just took off. And it wasn't because I was doing anything different. It was because everyone that I needed was here. Like there was somebody who I needed for whatever business I was doing, I needed.

And I met him here. It was crazy. I feel that. And you're in crypto, like so am I. And a lot of crypto people are here. Yeah, and I moved here 2020. So you already know that was when like everything was really started to boom with crypto.

So I made a ton of money living here, bro. Miami was like the capital of the world in crypto that year. Yeah, that year, a lot of people don't remember this, but if you had money that year, yeah, I remember this. I was making crypto money this year. You used to be able to go to the club and pay in crypto. And all the yachts used to be able to pay in crypto and stuff like those people were buying watches and crypto. That would have time to be alive. It's coming back. I think another bull runs due soon. That's what everybody keeps saying, man. I'm sitting tight waiting for it. This week's been rough. I wouldn't look at your portfolio right now. I'm waiting for it down like 20%

this week. But what else do you do? I know you got some real estate too, right? Man. So I really started off with real estate. I started off wholesaling properties, you know, wholesalers? Yeah, you basically flip it. Yeah. So flipping paper. I started off wholesaling, man. I made my first seven figures, wholesaling properties. And then in 2020, everything went to shit. Everything went to complete shit because I had to close down my office. I had 15 employees in office. They forced me to close it down.

And I started to learn how to make money online from there. So I dropped a wholesaling course at that time. And I think I made a little over $900,000 with that course. But I did that in nine months. When no employees, no overhead, no nothing. When the most I ever made wholesaling was 1.1 million and I had employees overhead, all of that. So I kind of learned the power of making money online and building a strong brand for yourself. So my philosophy nowadays is, you know, make this online money, right?

Because we make a bunch of online money, digital assets, right? But I use all that online money, right? Because we make a bunch of online money, digital assets, right? But I use all that online money to buy real life stuff. I make online money to buy real life stuff like, you know, Section 8 properties, invest into different businesses. So that's kind of my philosophy right now. I feel that Section 8 is hot right now. Yeah, yeah, Section 8. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio with Section 8 properties. And it's not sexy money because how old are you? 27. 27? I was 28 bro. So we're young. Yeah.

So knowing that I'm gonna put 15,000 into a property and I'm only making a thousand a month doesn't really sound sexy. You know, it doesn't get me excited because we know how to make a thousand dollars a month a million other ways. But I know that in as I keep doing it, it's gonna be good for me. Yeah, by the time you're 40, 50. Yeah, I'll have like I'll be making a hundred grand a month Yeah, cuz if you get a hunter houses out a thousand a month, I mean, that's a hundred K month Yeah, my partner though when I work with he's the one that put me on to the section 8 properties He has over 200 doors damn so he makes 180 grand a month. That's fire forever

And it's passive passive somewhat passive not fully. He's 29. Yeah, I'm wrong. That's amazing Yeah, how's that cashflow at that age. So that's the goal for me right now. I have six doors right now. Nice. So you have to put down 15K. Is that 20% of the house? Well, you have to put up, I do DSCR, DSCR loan. So it's debt service coverage ratio.

So that means that as long as the... So I first came to Edward Jones with a great deal of trepidation. When I first met with my advisor, I really was feeling vulnerable about what I would have to share. I was of course pleasantly surprised to find that there was absolutely no judgment and a lot of support. And when it was time to get serious, he really took my hand and helped me to do that. Edward Jones.

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90,000 so it's pretty cheap the most I'm ever coming out of pocket is about 25 grand damn for a house that's insane yeah it's like my monthly payment right now holy crap it's pretty cheap. The most I'm ever coming out of pocket is about 25 grand. Damn for a house. That's insane Yeah, it's like my monthly payment right now Holy crap. It's crazy because my mortgage I had to pay my mortgage two days ago. My mortgage was 400 bucks, bro I was like, this is not a mortgage. It's a bar tab That's a night out Holy crap. Yeah, but that's a good mindset to have because it's not like sexy money, but it's it's kind of safe Yeah, it's not the big check and it but but it's the forever check. That's what I tell people to think about it as right

There's the big check and there's just a forever check and sometimes when we're still young we get caught up into the check, bro It's easy to compare yourself. Yeah Chase that big bag I'm always trying to chase the big check brother that I had to take a step back and realize I while I'm chasing the big check I got to put my money towards the forever check you know absolutely how do you network out here I know you host events I love doing events bro the power the networking I think is and I'm sure you agree bro you never know who you're gonna meet yeah right like I met Christiana her through networking with my boy Orlando and through the through her I

ended up doing you know doing business with two a few years ago Yeah, and now we're here. You know what I'm saying? So it's like one conversation could really take you to the next level. So I personally networked by hosting events I love curating a Environment where there's winners around you know what I'm saying where people are talking about money Because a lot of people can't get that where they're at people fly in for that You know what I'm saying, where people are talking about money, because a lot of people can't get that where they're at. People fly in for that. You know what I'm saying? But my biggest thing when it comes to networking, and I'm sure you probably would agree with me on it is, I never try to talk about myself. I kind of more so want to know what the other

person has going on. Yeah, right. Because the more I know what you have going on, and this person has going on, the more I can connect pieces. You know what I'm saying? And that's how I've always made my money. I consider myself like a professional peace connector, dot connector. No, that's how I make my money. Dan Fleishman too. I learned that from him.

And you wouldn't know how to connect. You wouldn't know what that's to connect unless you're asking people what they got going on, what their problems are. Because you're like, okay, cool, this person has this problem. I know this guy who had the solution because I asked. Not because they just stood there talking to me

and listening to me the whole time because I was listening to them the whole time. So now I know what to do. No, it reminds me of this guest I had on yesterday. Do you know George Storitsav? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's come on and that's what he's doing. So he's had a thousand consultation calls

with people doing 25K a month plus. So his network after four years of doing that's just insane. So he could piece anything you want. That's amazing, that's smart. No, it's smart as fuck, but think about that in five, 10 years, because those kids will all be doing 100k a month, a lot of them by then.

100%, and it's crazy you say that because I started doing events in 2018, and at this point I didn't really have a big brand. Like my business was going good, but my brand wasn't really there. So I would only get like 25 people 30 people to show up You know fast forward to 2021. I've had events with 800 people down Yeah, but it's crazy a lot of the people that I did business with in 2018 They were basically kids at the time like 21. Yeah, 20 years old or rich as fuck now, bro

And like so you're right looking at it like long term, five years from now, these are all guys, some of them make way more money than I do. But they remember me as a person who like told them in the beginning and all that, so it's- People won't forget that. That hundred percent for them, they'll always remember. Yeah, so it's dope that you say that because sometimes we think about now and the effect that we're having

on people now, but if you think five years from now, bro, imagine all the dope that you say that because sometimes we think about now and the effect that we're having on people now. But if you think five years from now, bro, imagine all the people that you had conversations with behind these cameras, where they're gonna be at. You have to, man. And I get a lot of heat because I lose money on my events, actually. I host events and people are like, why are you doing that?

Like, I get the venue, I don't charge for tickets, but dude, I'm playing the long game. I just did a free event here About a month ago same thing I didn't charge anything and everybody at the event was like this is a dope event bro amazing venue Why didn't you charge for this what they don't realize is that my ROI is gonna come not now But my ROI does come relationships have the best investment. Oh for sure I invest so much money in relationships when I'm flying like wherever I'm going. I'm texting people the whole flight Amazing bro. I'm rekindling relationships a lot

of people never follow up on like contacts I got facts you know that's smart that's smart and that's why you're in the position you're at bro that's why I was able to film 850 episodes without paying a single guest wow a lot of shows yeah a lot of shows pay their big guests to come on but since I've built relationships I don't need to ever do that. That's amazing, bro. I got a I had a show back in 2020. It was a better way with Jay Monopoly. We ended up being top like 20 nice podcast. And I kind of let it go. Like, kind of back baby. Yeah, so I've been I've been shooting a bunch of episodes

right now. Same thing. I got a bunch of pretty big guests on. I have never paid for any of them. And it goes back to the whole relationship thing, you know? Exactly. Same thing with events, like if you want speakers. Breaking news happens anywhere, anytime. Police have warned the protesters repeatedly, get back. CBC News brings the story to you as it happens.

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I pay one speaker one time. And it was because he already had another event booked. Oh, okay. I was like, nah, bro, come to mind. Yeah. But in general, they're your friends or connections you meet. Yeah, 100%, bro, 100%.

Saves you a ton of money. Because speakers charge a lot, dude. Yeah, bro. I know speakers that just do it for a living. They're making like five million. When's your next event? It's in, so there's a UFC at the Sphere in September. I'm doing it the day before that,

because I know a lot of people are flying into town. So I always host my events during or before, right before or after a big event. That makes sense, that makes sense. So I could get 300 people in any city, any major city. You should stay in, you should do an event in Miami, bro. I've done two. There's always a big event going on over here.

I've done one in Miami. How was that? Good. Yeah, 300 people. Yeah, it was during Miami Bitcoin week, I think. Oh, yeah There's a lot of crypto nerds and shit. There's so many there's so many events in Miami that it's hard to plan around I know sometimes it's tough. We should do one together. I'm down bro. Next time I'm here. We'll plan one out No, 100% down. I never get less than 300 people in the room as well We'll probably get like 600 700 people Yeah, at least 500 probably with our networks and I got the I got the plug for the venues now. Oh, yeah Oh, it's right. I figured I figured it out. Where do you do your venues at? So I

I do what Flayshman does he taught me this so I don't pay for venues. I get them on an off night What do you usually do like uh a Thursday nights. Nice. Yeah. And usually do like a bar or bar stuff like that. Like somewhere, a lounge. So I got these, I basically do the kind of the same thing, but there's a lot of clubs out here in Miami that don't open until midnight. Like they open at midnight.

So I did my event on Saturday. It's like still a hot day. But the club doesn't open till midnight. So I did my event on Saturday. It's like still a hot day Yeah, but the club doesn't open till midnight. So I had it from 2 to 8. Wow, that's smart Yeah, and you just did like a cash bar cash bar. Yeah, that's what I do I they have to spend like 3 to 5k which we clear every time Yeah, so it was and it was a beautiful venue right in the middle of wind wood, bro It was it was it was amazing damn and like now I'm like, damn, a lot of these clubs in Miami, especially like Wynwood and stuff like that, they don't open till midnight. So they're losing money the entire day.

And they will just... Wow. Yeah, that's smart. Yeah, Miami, you guys are up late out here, dude. Bro, it's a problem. I don't know how you guys do that shit. It takes discipline to live here, man. I'll tell you that much. When I first moved here... You got lost in the sauce? It takes discipline to live here, man. I'll tell you that much. When I first moved here. You got lost in the sauce. I did for a few months, man, because I was making a shitload of money on crypto.

The clubs were digging crypto, but I've never been in the city where there's something to do every single day of the week. I'm sure you've seen it before. Like in Miami, it could be Wednesday night and someone would be like, hey bro, we're out. We're out till, yeah, Wednesday night. That's normal out here. I, we're out. We're out till Wednesday night. That's normal out here.

Yeah. I was kind of, yeah, yesterday was a weekend, but no, that's normal. I get invited to shit on Tuesdays out here. It's nuts, man. And it's like, what the hell? Where I grew up in Jersey, you only went out weekends and you went to the city or something.

Where did you get the idea for the podcast? I sold my crypto marketing agency and I went through that weird phase every entrepreneur goes through when they sell a company of like, what's my purpose? Yeah. It's like a weird thing. Like you got all this money, you could retire.

So you're like, what do I do now? And then I started this just interviewing friends and it turned into a podcast. Nice. Yeah. I love the branding, the branding behind it. Like the always got a brand man. Yeah. That's why I got these because people branding is the most important part, man. Yeah, that's why I got these. Cause people-

Branding is the most important part, man. People sleep on that. Nah, dude, you need it. Cause people rip the clips and then if you don't have any branding, no one knows it's your show. Like so many people reposted our sneaker interview, got like 50 million views.

And since we had these, like I got that recognition from it. It's crazy because I'm always talking about branding and the power of branding. And I always tell people like, if you have great marketing, let's say you had great marketing, you don't need a great sales guy, right? Because the marketing takes care of a lot of it. But if you have great branding, you don't even need great marketing. Right.

Elon Musk. They cancel each other out. Yeah, branding is everything, man. Now, Liver King, there's a few good examples of just really good branding. Yeah bro. It's so important. That's why I was really impressed with the way you did it. Thank you dude. You got to stand out, especially in the podcast space. There's fucking 10 million podcasts.

Yeah. It's way different than it was once upon a time. Yeah. If you kept yours going, you'd be like top five by now. How long you've been doing this for? Year and a half. Well, I made up for that short time with volume. I'm going to pull up on you in Vegas, bro, to and a half. Well, I made up for that short time with volume. I'm gonna pull up on you in Vegas, bro, to shoot a pot. Yeah, let's do it, man. Yeah, I've filled 15 a week in Vegas.

Damn. Oh, you stay busy, huh? You stay busy out here. If you were committed to it. Yeah, I'm trying to get an office. That's my next thing, I'm getting an office so that I could just record every day. Yeah, film here in the meantime, dude.

I know, bro, this is beautiful. Yeah, we got the view. We run poker games once a week. I gotta plug in with them. I'm definitely going locking with this this spot man. Yeah, dude. Who's your squad out here? Who do you hang out with? Honestly, bro Not I don't really hang out with anybody, but I know a lot of people are here. I know damn near everybody Shinkle spoke highly of you. Yeah. Yeah, like shingles my dog. I like shingle man. I've known him since 2018 damn I met him in in Arizona one and when he was out there

I use I host a toy drive every year. Oh nice toy drive for Christmas every year turkey driver for Thanksgiving Like I'm big on giving back and I've known Shinko for a long time But I really had a lot of respect for him because he came out to my my toy drive in New York Hmm, this dude's not even from New York, you know So he came to support me supporting toy drive in New York. This dude's not even from New York, you know? So he came to support me, supporting my neighborhood in New York. And we ended up donating like over like $12,000 in toys to a church.

And then the church was helping us give them out to the neighborhood. We were in the middle of the hood, bro. We're in the middle of the trenches, bro. And Shingo was there. That's where you grew up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, so you had humble beginnings.

Yeah, I'm from, originally from Jamaica, Queens. Damn, yeah, that's the hood hood So we was we were there and the shingle was there. He stuck out like a sore thumb, bro He was cold. He was cold as hell. I stuck out on the yacht. I was the only white guy there, bro You were like six five. Yeah, I was the tallest and the only white guy I ball yeah, so I could blend in with everyone because I mean if see me, they don't think I'm good, but I'm decent. Yeah, I was balling yesterday. I'm not as good as you though.

What's your game? Man, I suck, bro. I just, I'm a, you get me behind the free throw line. I hit from there, bro. Mid range? Yeah, mid range. Okay, you're a sniper. Yeah, I'm a post up.

I get blocks. You told me you're a tall dude, bro. Six six, gotta take advantage of him, man. Damn, I didn't know you grew up there though. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, do it bro. 6'6, gotta take advantage of it man. Damn I didn't know you grew up there though. That's that's pretty crazy. Yeah, bro. I grew up. Man, I ain't get a lot like I come from a great family, bro. Come from a great household. That's my brother actually came. That's my older brother.

I came from a great family, bro. Me and my brother grew up just doing dumb shit bro. Getting in trouble. I went to five different high schools. I got kicked out of all the high schools I went to. For what? Fights? Fights, bro. Just dump stuff like that. Get arrested. Yeah. My mom actually, after my freshman year, she was so fed up with my shit, she sent me to live in Ecuador for six months, bro. So I lived in third world country for six months. Like that's how bad I was. And honestly, what

really changed my life was joining the military. And like, I don't recommend it for everybody, but there's a lot of people out there. There's a lot of kids who are out there who are lost and they have nothing going on. For people like that, I definitely recommend it. Because for me, I didn't have anything going on, anything good going on. I had a lot of bad shit going on. But for me, what it actually did was it opened the doors for me to have a skill set. I learned how to fix helicopters in the military. I got out when I was 21 and I could have got a job at Boeing making $160,000 a year as a 21 year old. I didn't. I ended up going the entrepreneur route right before I got out. So I was making way more than that. But for like the person right who has nothing going on if they if you could find

Something that's gonna pay you to learn a skill set to win win. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I don't recommend it to everybody but people out there who are lost got nothing going on You're probably gonna get to jail if you don't get your shit together the military's where is that? Yeah for your situation that makes sense. I had a good time too, bro Like I got to visit a bunch of countries bro when you travel you really learn a lot, too Yeah, bro traveling is Biggest life hack bro. You learn so much about yourself so much perspective You learn a lot about yourself and I always tell people that are dating someone to travel with them because you learn a lot about

Your partner a hundred percent a lot dude. It's gone bad for me sometimes. Yeah in a good way, right? Because you can't hide it when you're sleeping in the same room. Yeah, bro. You know? That's what the relationship parts are tricky, right? Because it says you don't want to move in fast with somebody, right? Yeah. So you have to be able to figure out how they act when they're with you

for a long period of time. That's what traveling does, right? Because now you're locked in your plane house for like a week. Yeah. Like five days. For real. I heard it's tough dating out here because materialism. I think it's tough dating in general right now.

You know what I'm saying? I think it's tough dating in general right now. And I think it's because most women have a higher view of themselves than they should be. Right. And it's because it's the same reason. It's the same reason there's so many. This might be crazy, didn't say, bro. It's the same reason there's so many confident fat women, bro. didn't I say, bro? It's the same reason there's so many confident fat women, bro.

You know why? You know why there's so many confident fat women, bro? Because there's a lot of guys that fuck them quietly on the low. You're not wrong. You know, we both have a homeboy out there that we know takes down some big girls. Yeah, yeah.

But in public, he would never say that, right? So now when a big girl comes up to you and they're trying to flirt and stuff and you say no, they think like, oh yeah, she's lying. Like the other dude was. But it's the same thing with social media, right? There's some girls who might not be tensed, bro, but they have celebrities in their DMs and all that. So then the average dude isn't able to really stand out. You know what I'm saying? Especially in major cities Especially in major cities. Yeah, I've only ever lived in major cities

I've never lived in a small town. I girl like not from the US, bro. That's what I've heard, bro. That's what I've heard I've heard that too. I was when I lived in Japan, bro I had a little nice job and I had a nice little Japanese girl, but the culture is so different over there. Yeah, the culture is so different Yeah, they're very disciplined, right? Yeah. Yeah, and the woman just love you so much over there for doing absolutely nothing. Yeah Yeah, I don't know if I'd like that. I want to earn that that love bro is crazy. I actually Crazy story. I was I was staying out in town because I was stationed over there when I was in the military I was staying out in town because I was stationed over there when I was in the military. I was staying out in town and I had this Japanese girl. I would stay I was staying in her house from time to time and she would cook for me in the mornings

One day I woke up late. So I ran out the house quick. I came back during my lunch break. She was crying She's crying. She said you don't love me anymore. You didn't let me let me make you make breakfast this morning. Whoa It's that deep. I was like, oh shit. I've never felt like this before. Whoa, it's that deep? I was like, oh, shit, I've never felt like this before. Holy crap. So they give everything for the man out there. Yeah, I guess certain guys like that, but no, I like to be just mutually respectful and you know. Yeah, I think that's the most important thing in a relationship is respect. Yeah. Everybody says love or trust, but it's respect because if you respect someone, you wouldn't really do anything to hurt their trust or anything like that, you know Absolutely, but you I mean, you know more than me Brian. I'm I'm you don't want to

Trust is important for sure and a lot of people have trust issues these days because of cheating I guess I don't know Yeah, I mean we live in a different time bro Our grandparents didn't have or even our parents like didn't have access to social media social media every time I go on my IG it's like a half-naked girl I'm like what the fuck yeah and worse for Twitter bro if you go to Twitter you see literal porn bro literally strolling next to my girl she's like why you getting up I don't even like the photos like they're just pushing it you know I feel that no 100% bro it's weird yeah we live in an interesting time yeah desensitizing kids.

100%. And porn's really bothering now too. I think that's one of the worst things, bro. And I don't think a lot of people talk about it, but porn's terrible for you, bro. I'm not a fan of it. The more I looked into it, right, when I was doing my research on it,

how it increases gray matter in your brain, it makes you lazy. It's crazy. And then you see, they say if the product is free, it's because you are the product. You ever heard of that? Wow. No, I haven't. But that's deep.

So it's like, why all these porn sites free, bro? Because we are the product, bro. Holy crap. Yeah. If it's free, you're the product. That's a good point. There's always a price in one way or another. Yeah, if it's free you're the product. That's a good point There's always a price in one way or another. Yeah, bro. Ain't nothing for free for real So like damn what are we giving up for all this free?

Fucking shit that we're seeing it's crazy to think about man. That's nuts. Are you just grinding non-stop still? Yeah, bro. I go through these phases. I'm sure you do too all the time I've gotten better now that uh, I want to have kids soon and I'm kind of preparing for that because that's a full-time job. 100%. So I got one on the way actually. Oh congrats. Thank you, thank you. I'm having one in January. That's awesome. Yeah that's 40 hours a week right there though. I know but I go through one ups and downs like with everybody bro because and I think you have to. I think to get to a certain level if you want to be great, if greatness is your goal, to. I think to get to a certain level, if you want to be great, if greatness is your goal,

I don't think there's a such thing as overall balance, right? But I think there's not overall balance. You're not going to be balanced day to day. You'll be balanced by season. Like if you have a lot of work on right now with this podcast to take it to the next level, you're not going to be hitting the gym as hard as you usually do. You know, your relationship is going to go to the side a little bit. But if you were to balance out every day with I'm working on this for four hours, this for four hours, this for four hours, you wouldn't get to that. No, it wouldn't work fast. You know what I'm saying?

Podcasts wouldn't be as big. Exactly, bro. So it's like, yes, I believe in balance, but like, it has its time and its place. Yeah, it's important to communicate that in advance. So like before I started the show, I told my fiance, I'm like, babe, this is going to require a lot of work. At the time, I was taking weekends off and weekday nights. And I was like, those might that might need to change a bit.

And she understood it. You know what I mean? But I told her in advance that that would happen the first probably three years while I grow this thing. Yeah, so that's where I'm at right now, bro. I'm back in grind mode, bro. Like I took it easy for a little bit. Especially with a kid on the way now You got a grind even harder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be hard. I mean, I've never done it before

Kids ain't cheap dude. I know a lot of friends of mine struggling right now So you say you're looking to have some kids soon? I want kids probably around 30 maybe two three years Oh, that's what's up, bro I want to travel more in my 20s because I've been to like 15 countries, but I want to hit more Yeah, I travel I traveled a lot bro. I want to travel more in my 20s because I've been to like 15 countries, but I want to hit more. Yeah, I traveled a lot, bro. I've been to like 30 plus countries, bro. I've lived in different countries. Yeah, we got a cruise next week out in Miami.

Oh, for real? Yeah, Virgin. Nice. You been on those yet, living out here? Bro, I've never been on a cruise, bro. What? You live in Miami? I've never been on a cruise, bro.

Everybody always tells me that. I don't know. It's never interested me, bro. Dude. on a cruise bro everybody tells me that I don't know I've never it's never interested me bro dude so when I was in the military I um for six months I lived on a boat and it's the worst experience ever okay and ever since then I told myself I never go on another boat again was it that bad bro it's terrible and I know it's different obviously it's completely different but I don't know maybe it's just that psychological yeah Psychologically the crews you get off. Yeah, the boat is cool though the military bro So it's you're basically in jail for a whole month, right?

No contact with the outside world nothing Wow and then after a month they they stop at a country You've never been to before and they're like hey man come back in four days. Have fun. What? Yeah, were you in the Navy? No, no, I was in the Marine Corps. Oh, but we were we would go on Navy ships. I remember my first my first stop It was like after a month, bro. I'd never been on a deployment before so I didn't know what to expect So I was bored as hell man. They didn't download any movies had no music I'll just work out like crazy and then one day we just wake up and they're like hey man We're in Australia come back in four days. I was like, what?

Bro, it's nuts, bro. That's nuts. Did they give you a hotel or something? Nah, you would like pay for everything because you're getting paid the whole time. Yeah. Wow. You get paid the whole time and then you just, the stories that people have for deployments are nuts, bro, because imagine you're caged up, you haven't seen any women, you haven't

had any drinks, you haven't had good food for a whole month and then they just take you to a random country. Damn. Bro, yeah. So't had a good food for a whole month and then they just take you to a random Country damn bro. Yeah, so I had a solitary confinement. I had my share of fun in another country, bro Holy crap any other vivid memories from being in the Marines? This is traveling bro. The traveling is crazy. I got some stories for days when it comes to the different countries man. It's uh We've done some shit, man. We've done some shit. Australia's fun though, bro. Australia's crazy.

When we were, I remember when we got to Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia, the boats pull up to the harbor, right? And then there was a bunch of women out there, kind of waiting for us to come out. And when we came out, they had these party flyers. They said, come party with American Marines. We were the attraction. What?

And in the back, they would put their Instagrams and stuff. So it was like, they collected a bunch of party flyers, bro. I've never felt more rich in my life than being broke. And it's crazy because Australia, women outnumber men in Australia. And us being in the military, it was nuts. I never felt like more like a celebrity in my life. I would go to the bar and women would buy you drinks over there. No.

I swear, bro. It was nuts. I'd never experienced something like that before. That is nuts. The girls were coming up to us like, oh, they would buy you a drink, trying to take us home, bro like Yeah, it's like a parallel universe bro. It was it was nuts and I went to three different places in Australia

I went to Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne and It was like that in all Australian girls man, and it's great because you think Australia. Well, I don't know I thought Australia was kind of like I've only heard of Australia the movies something a desert kangaroos Yeah, bro. Sydney's like New York City, bro. Really Sydney, Australia looks exactly like New York City. Holy crap I wonder why there's so many girls The ratios off over there. Yeah, bro is nuts for something the water. You should go out there I've been to Melbourne in Sydney. I went in the summer and my face got fried off oh hot over there yeah did you enjoy it yeah it was fun

yeah i ate a kangaroo actually it was me too kangaroo was pretty good pretty good dude i'm not gonna lie i would eat it again yeah i actually was going out of my way to find a place that had a kangaroo because i'm not sure that bad because I pet one right before at the zoo. Oh man, that's terrible. Yeah. But they outnumber humans there, so you got to justify with logic. Australians hate kangaroos.

They hate them. Yeah, like we think they're like, oh, look, Australian kangaroos. But no, Australians actually hate kangaroos, bro. They're like rodents. They're like huge rodents. I know. I was trying to square up with one.

I was trying to find one on the street. Yo, it was crazy. There's actually, so obviously when we went, because it was the military, there's so many rules of things that we can't do. But there was like a spot that I saw that it said you can actually pay to box a kangaroo. Yeah, it was in Brisbane.

That's cool. But we weren't allowed to do it. Because we were gonna get, your fear of us getting hurt. Knocked them out. But I was like, But we weren't allowed to do it. As Marines, we would get, because fear of us getting hurt. Knocked them out. But I was like, damn, I really want to do it. I'm gonna go back. There's a lot of places that I visited in the military

that I go back to see as a civilian. Really? To make sure that it was actually that good. Where have you gone back to? So I lived in Okinawa, Japan, which is like an island off of Japan. They don't actually consider themselves Japanese They consider themselves Okinawan. That's a blue zone, right? Yeah people live long there. So it's like

Okinawa is like the Puerto Rico for Japan, you know what I'm saying? It's technically the US but not really and I had a great time there when I was in the military But then when I got out I was like was it really that fun? Or was it just because I had nothing to do? So I went back in 2020, and it was even more fun. Wow, because you had money now. Yeah, because I had money, and there

was a lot of spots in Okinawa, Japan, where as Marines, we weren't able to go. There was this place called Naha. We were never able to go there past, I think, 8 PM. So as a civilian. What is that, a bar? No, Naha is like a whole city. It's a whole city that we weren't allowed to be in after a certain time. And then I went there to 2020 right before the pandemic.

I went there and I saw why we weren't able to go there, bro. It's fucking turnt, man. It was crazy. There's all the cruise lines stop there. So a bunch of people from all different countries are there, it's nuts. Yeah, they party till like six in the morning. I see why the US military didn't want us here. It makes a lot of sense.

Those Japanese people will be partying. Yeah, bro. I didn't know that. Yo, they drink, drink, bro. Oh, sake, right? Yeah, they drink. I like sake, actually. They drink crazy over there, bro.

I'm a fan of sake. I don't drink anymore, though. You don't drink at all? No, do you? I've been cutting down on it, but yeah, I still see it from time to time. I don't get there, bro. I'm a fan of sake. I don't drink anymore though. You don't drink at all? No, do you? I've been cutting down on it, but yeah, still from time to time. I don't go, I don't get drunk though. Like you won't see me drunk in public. No, never.

You won't see me drunk in public. And I was known for that in high school and college. Yeah? Yeah, it was bad. And I'll have it. I'll have a drink at dinner or something like that, but I don't get drunk in public. No, it's not worth it. No.

You get fucked the next day. Not only that, bro, but rope were like you you people like People perceive as a certain kind of way, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so imagine like people watch your show and they think it's super dope and you're dope guess I mean dope host and then they see you Drunk in the street the first the perception is forever broken. Yeah, this guy's a fucking degenerate Yeah, who knows who's filming what these days thanks, bro. It's been fun. What are you working on next and where we will find you? Oh, honestly, bro. I'm gonna these events bro. I'm kicking it up, bro

So it's dope. We should definitely do one out here in Miami for sure But I want to do events at different cities kind of see what the reach is looking like. We'll do Vegas together, too Yeah, yeah, so I want to do events in a bunch of different cities, man. That's what's next for me, doing these events, all going to be free, three events, all different cities. Podcasts coming back soon. Let's go. Stay tuned for that one, bro. It's going to be some good episodes.

And then, you know, for me, you can find me, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, all same thing, jmanopoly, jay.manopoly. Love that name. We'll link below, man. Thanks for coming on. Yo, Sean, appreciate you, my brother. J-Monopoly, J-A-Y.Monopoly. Love that name. We'll link below, man. Thanks for coming on. Yo Sean, appreciate you, my brother. Thanks for watching.

Peace.