Digital Social Hour - Importance of Breathwork, Moving to Dubai & Going Completely Sober | DSH #345

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

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One year of breath work eliminated my asthma. What? No doctors could have solved the problem, and I actually had very, very borderline, very, very tough. Like, I would, one time I went to the ER, and they're like, you're having a severe asthma attack, and I was just sitting there normally.

I was like, this is normal for me. Like, I can't breathe, but this is normal. And they're like, I don't know, we need to check you in. And I'm like, I'm kind of fine. This happens every day. And they're like, what? This is not supposed to happen every day.

Wherever you guys are watching this show, i would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe it helps a lot with the algorithm it helps us get bigger and better guests and it helps us grow the team truly means a lot thank you guys for supporting and here's the episode welcome back guys got a good friend of mine ali hasib here here today. How's it going? From Dubai, right? Well, yeah. Now we just moved. So now I can call Dubai my home. Dude, thanks for flying out here, bro. Absolutely. It's a long flight.

What's it like over there? Man, Dubai is a, you know, for a lot of people, it's a fairytale land, right? But for me, it was a lot of opportunity. As soon as I went, dollar signs, just, you know, multiple ventures, the people, the culture, the languages right and i just see the future you know how miami is currently yeah so dubai reminds me of miami but in the middle east i feel that i feel like miami's losing its touch a little bit why would you say that i just like vegas more dude i think vegas has the edge it i think vegas

is his own world right a lot of the conferences just because the the money comes over here too you know every sports league is here um every big major event my first 10x growth con you know started in vegas so my entrepreneur career started in vegas yeah essentially same that was my first event ever yeah we were probably at the same one which one the one at the luxer lux uh 10x2 i think oh you were like what 2017 or 18 yeah it was early it was the second one i believe okay okay uh the one i went that really you know changed the trajectory for me was uh 2019 got it it was at the mandalay bay yeah i think i was at that one yeah something about vegas all the conferences are here man every single one traffic and conversions affiliate summit west is here i mean every week there's one i can't even keep up with it for sure yeah but um in dubai what's it like there?

Because you used to party pretty hard, right? I was a raver for a while. So, you know, before entrepreneurship, that was my passion, just going to music festivals and traveling. So I didn't go on that side of the world. During my music festival career, I went to 40 states and maybe seven countries. Dang. And in six years, I did like 65 festivals. Holy crap. Yeah. So I got like, it was, that was like my first kind of, you know, go at entrepreneurship. I got paid to just go out and bring a group with me.

Oh, you got paid? Yeah. So I would have my own tent and I would have my own merch and stuff like that. Wow. And that was like the first thing while in college. So I was doing two degrees, had two jobs, and then I DJed on the weekends and traveled every other week. Jeez, you're a hustler. Yeah. What were you doing job wise? So I was in the restaurant business, and then I was working T-Mobile, and then I was DJing. Wow. Because the whole thing is I went to college for free. So I had a full-time schedule. I got a scholarship to go, but I also had to support my family. So even though I got paid for college, I still got to make money somehow. So I was just back to back to back. And did you have a sense of wanting more at that time?

Always. Since I was like 13, 14, I was like, you know, I'm, you know, I thought of myself like bound for greatness. I was like, I gotta, I gotta figure out how to get the most money as possible. I changed the most lives, um, you know, get the healthiest version of myself, travel and speak to people. Because for me, learning comes from learning from books and conferences. But the biggest one, just talking to people. One conversation can change the game for anybody. Facts.

So what was that big first conversation you had, that first big breakthrough? Great question, bro. So I was in a business fraternity in college. So shout out to my AK side brothers. A lot of times fraternities get a bad rep. Yeah. But I was in a business fraternity in college, so shout out to my AK side brothers. A lot of times fraternities get a bad rep, but I was in a business fraternity. So instead of like regular hazing stuff, they put you in a business hazing. They'd be like, all right, you got to go raise 20 grand. You got a week.

You're like, how do we do that? Figure it out. You got to sell pizzas and donuts on campus, whatever you got to do. Wow, I never heard of a business fraternity. Yeah, yeah, business fraternity. So it's big. Actually, crazy story. Last Monday, I just spoke at UT Austin, and I had seven or eight of my fraternity. It's big. Actually, crazy story. Last Monday, I just spoke at UT

Austin and I had seven or eight of my fraternity, I guess brothers in there too, still pledging, still working too. It was an automatic bond. The first thing that I learned was the ability to network through mentors and mentees. You learn knowledge and you share knowledge

either on one side of the spectrum or the other. Either you already made it in some way or the other, whether financially free, spiritually aligned, physically fit, emotionally strong, and you're teaching somebody or you're seeking those things and someone's teaching you. It's just a flow of energy. Yeah. So when was that moment when you achieved that financial freedom? Was it in college or after?

It was definitely after. The story is funny. So unlike a lot of entrepreneurs i went to college i got two degrees you know i did the whole traditional thing when you're when you're middle eastern uh you have three choices you're either a doctor a lawyer or a failure right yeah so i didn't want to be either one of them so i was like how can i really take things to the next level so right shout out to rocket money have you guys ever had a subscription you forgot about or double paid on a subscription?

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But it's supposed to be on an iPad. It's supposed to be very integrated with technology. iPad, the doctors are taking their notes. I've seen some places do that, yeah. So that's the best way to do it because there's laws called HIPAA laws. You have to keep patient files on site for seven years. So it's just like laws they have to go around. So in order to, so my old facilities, they had three or four rooms full of file cabinets. So I was like,

yo, this is very slow. You're seeing 20, 30 patients a day. How can we speed this up? So me and this other guy that worked there, we put together a game plan to create an EMR software with the churn rate, you know, going through the patients, instead of 30 a day, we got to 100 a day, because now we eliminated four extra rooms. So now patients can come through and everything's on an iPad. So you're not waiting for people to go pull files. Long story short, I generated my boss $50 million in three years. Whoa, guess how much he gave me? 500k? No, he gave me zero. Wow. Yeah, he gave me zero bucks. He promised me a salary to hit six figures. And I was young at that time, right?

So I would get bribed. So he'd be like, hey, here's a phone. Here's a car. Here's some tickets to here. He would kind of bribe me that way. Okay. But I was like, let me get to that six-figure mark. You know, ego speaking.

Let me get a six-figure salary. I never got it. I think I stopped at like $68,000 in a year. So on the three-year mark, I quit. I sent an angry letter to everybody. And I was like, hey, man, you in a year. So on the three year mark, I quit. I sent an angry letter to everybody and I was like, hey man, you're a piece of shit. And you didn't hold your principles to me. Because me and you sat together. I ate dinner with him. He ate dinner with my family. And we were connected for three years. I looked up to him as a mentor. I feel like he betrayed me.

And so I quit. And then what ended up happening is I had a second partnership that I started with a couple of friends at the time. Started an online marketing agency. And six months later, I found out they scammed me for 50K. They were using it for ad spend, but nothing ever happened. They just took it? They just took it. They were just funneling it. So what ended up happening is I had to go back to corporate America for a little bit.

And that's when 10X Growth Con came. I was like, this is the first big conference that I want to attend. And I always did little networking events and stuff. But once I got there, I really saw the power of surrounding yourself with the right frequencies. And at that point, I had already written my book. So I had a book called Create Your Frequency, talking about the entrepreneurship journey, but the spiritual element of it. Because I feel like entrepreneurship, it's its own beast. But if you incorporate spirituality and you take care of your mind and body and spirit, the money comes with ease. And I'm sure

you can attest to that. The more value you give, the more lives you impact, money just flows to you without having you have to chase it. Yeah. I know you're huge on spirituality. What are some daily practices you're doing to stay spiritual? Absolutely, man. So a lot of times in the age of information and technology, we get ungrounded because we're always on our phones or computers. So I try to go outside on a daily basis, of course, get some sunlight. The gym is very important. I'm down 50 pounds in the last two years. Wow. Yeah, just eating clean. I do the animal-based diet right now, so it's pretty strong. Just Gary Brekka 10X.

No vegetables? Only two, sweet potatoes and avocados. I love sweet potatoes, bro. Avocados are fruit, right? Oh, is it? It's something like that, right? Okay. I didn't know that.

Yeah, so avocados, um dairy and then meat and then maybe a little bit of rice every couple of days you know yeah the carbs are what screw people over man yeah so no bread no nothing it's working really well for me because i i i hoop i train you know and then i do muay thai and mma for four or five times a week damn yeah what made you go in all in on fighting um my my stepson So he's a huge, huge fan. And, you know, we're watching UFC and stuff. And he's like, I want to box. I was like, okay.

So I put him in Mayweather boxing for six months. And then like three months after that, I started. And then we're like, all right, boxing's cool, but let's add some kicks in there. So he started doing Muay Thai. And I was like the best way to lead by example. So I went with him every day. And four or five days a week we were doing, you know, we trained. And next thing you know, he has three or four fights under his belt

and I'm over here going to every gym in the world. Anytime I go to a different city, I go to the best MMA gym and I get trained and it's freaking fun, man. It's probably a good skill to have just in case you ever need to pull it out. Of course. As a man, you got to know how to defend yourself. Not saying I'm going to go and use it, but it's an art, man. Just like hooping, right?

It's an art, and it's one of those few also forms of meditation. When you're hooping, are you thinking about anything else besides hooping? No, that's why I love it, man. It's a form of meditation, right? Yeah, because we're grinding so hard, so being able to dedicate an hour or two to something else is nice. 100%. And so, fighting's the same way.

It's just me versus me, the battle to the self. So a few other things. I do breath work on a daily basis. Crazy story is I actually had asthma for 22 years. Damn. Yeah. And one year of breath work eliminated my asthma. What?

No doctors could have solved the problem. And I actually had very, very borderline, very, very tough. Like I would, one time I went to the ER and they're like, you're having a severe asthma attack. And I was just sitting there normally. I was like, this is normal for me.

Like I can't breathe, but this is normal. And they're like, I don't know. We need to check you in. And I'm like, I'm kind of fine. This happens every day. And they're like, what? This is not supposed to happen every day. So long story short, breath work changed my life.

I do three or four different types of breath work, but I even got the guy meditating kind of tattooed on me. But yeah, breath work eliminated my asthma within a year when no Western medicine could. Dude, I thought asthma was incurable. It is until you dig really deep and you heal the core. And like I said, I was doing the inhaler, you know, the big, I'll be the raw inhalers.

I had to do it like once or twice a week and it wouldn't be while hooping or working out or nothing. I'll just be sitting there and you can, you can, you know, people hear me breathing. Like you're, you're okay, man. It's not, that doesn't sound healthy. Dude, that's insane. Was it genetic? No, no one else in my family had asthma.

Just me. So it was environment then? Yeah. You know, I don't know if it was Houston or Austin or what what but uh really really bad geez and um yeah but it's gone now i haven't had my inhaler in like three two and a half years i could see it man i mean wim hof has breathed out disease from his body he's been hooked up to machines gets injected with diseases and he breathes it out even like gary brekker says right um the presence of oxygen is absence of disease yeah so i mean i do wim hof every morning i do in the sauna. This morning I did the sauna

cold plunge combo. Wow. So it's just the best thing, man. I'm trying to get to the best shape of my life and I'm down. I was 205 pounds at my peak. Jeez. And I'm at 160, 162. Yeah. And I can run three, four miles. I can hoop for four or five hours. I can train.

That's awesome. And everyone else is gassed and I'm good. Oh, yeah. Even though I'm chubby and stuff, I'm good. Did you neglect your health for a while because you were so focused on business? Absolutely. I wasn't focused on business. I was focused on somebody else's business. I was grinding for somebody else and working.

And it was in the healthcare industry. So 12-hour shifts, matrix schedule, right? So you have 12 hours to work and you got 12 hours to do everything else. Right. Including eat, you know, do whatever you got to do. Clean your house,

you know, train, you know, whatever. So it's not healthy. It's not sustainable. And during that time I was eating out every day

and every weekend I would go drinking or whatever, you know, just wasting time. Wow. Because that was my escape, right?

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Click the application link below, and here's the episode, guys. But once I really, you know, realized that your mind and body are the most important things, you don't have to chase the money. You just take care of your mind and body and take care of people, and the money comes to you.

Absolutely. Yeah, you mentioned drinking earlier. I know you quit alcohol now, right? Yeah. How long? It's going to be five years in February. Dang, that's a long time, bro. You're probably done for good at this point.

Well, right when 10X happened. So my whole thing was like, all right, universe, God, I'm talking to you right now, and I'm going to go all in. I don't want to backtrack and have these bad experiences with partners, but I'm going to go all in entrepreneurship. I'm going to give up everything that doesn't serve me. And what doesn't serve me was short-term pleasures,

including alcohol or weed or chasing, anything that doesn't serve me for my future. So as soon as I let those go, bro, as soon as I let those go, first year in business, made quarter million in revenue. Second year of business made 900 000 revenue third year of business made three million in a single month wow so um you know from there the trajectory has changed now it's i'm not doing stuff for other people so no more no more agency clients yeah it's only for ourselves

um principles academy you know long story short i don't know if you saw this, my tattoo. Oh, I didn't. Yeah. Principals. So my whole brand is based on the principals because my previous experiences, previous partners or bosses didn't have any. Right. I always wondered why your Instagram username was Ali.Principles.

Principals, man. Principals of life, principles of wealth, principles of personal development, principles of health and spirituality. Yeah. You live by a code, you don't change the code for nobody. And then you build the community that also lives by the code. So all you

guys have the same vision, the same work ethic, the same values and morals. So now you built a super team of everyone being the best version of yourself. Even think about it, right? The NFT project that we did. Also based on the principles. Goat Society. Greatest of all time. Try to be the best version of yourself. Even think about it, right? The NFT project that we did, also based on the principles. Goat Society, greatest of all time.

Try to be the best version of yourself, no matter what you're doing. I love that. Yeah, you're big on principles, man. So am I. I've been scammed a ton. I think it's part of the journey. Everyone gets scammed.

What was the worst one for you? Dude, it was this Forex one. You probably heard about it. These auto traders. FX winning? Yeah. I lost a lot on those, bro. Damn, I know a lot of people, man.

Forex is a tough one, bro. If you don't know what you're doing, you can get wrecked. Yeah, I'm never doing Forex again. You still in the NFT game or no? A little bit. I still have all mine, but I'm more focused on the pod. I have sort of an all-in mentality, you know? 100%. Just focused on one business at a time.

100%. Yeah. I sold Chibi Dinos, sold the NFT marketing agency, but I'm still holding some. What about you? I'm honestly all out of NFTs. Crypto, yes. Still in crypto. I like crypto. For sure.

NFTs, just because it was a wave, man. Again, our mission never changed. Our mission was to still create people being the best version of themselves. We were just doing it through a vehicle called NFTs. But it was cool, man. to still create people, you know, being the best version of themselves. We were just doing it through a vehicle called NFTs, you know? And it was cool, man. Learning a completely new technology within six, seven weeks, you know, putting a community together, putting a team together, selling out and then fulfilling on the roadmap. It was a fun day.

You guys crushed it. I want to talk about your mastermind group chat because it's one of the best I've been part of. What made you want to build that community? Absolutely. So, you know, we're part of a lot of masterminds you know you have a bad one yours yours has crazy value by the way even like we'll be scrolling on a daily basis damn even they're in there but uh so in order to again leading by example in order to find the best mastermind group uh we just wanted to create one you know and the whole there's two or three

purposes for it so the first one is creating a group of people with principles so you don't have to worry about scamming. Our rule is you screw somebody over once, you're banned for life. One screw up. Have you kicked anyone yet? Three or four people already. Dang. Even something simple. It was like a $1,500 service.

They didn't fulfill. You're done. Wow. That's it. We want to get to a point where we make people sign a contract and stuff. You know, like get them very nitty gritty. Again, abiding by the principles because you have to be impeccable with your word, right? So if you say you're going to do something, do it. Second piece was to provide like-minded people like our peers to do business with each other. So like if I don't know something but you do, we can connect and do business.

I'll give you an example. Like one of our boys, actually the CFO of the Circle Syndicate, Wolf, he does infinite banking. Have you heard of infinite banking? So I'm learning all about that. Shout out to Wolf. So I want to learn how to leverage my money, pull it out tax-free, and have it working for me while I can go and invest in real estate, whatever. So that's part of the reason I'm moving to Dubai, getting these international trust setups and asset protection and all that. So I wouldn't learn that.

Even reading all these books, you're not going to learn that until you're with someone who does that on a daily basis. He's like, hey, you have 5 million liquid, do this, X, Y, Z. It's not just pumping dumb chats or anything like, hey, get into this next wave. It's longevity moves. So that's the whole thing. And then the third piece is private equity.

So we want to connect dots with capital. So if you have a bad idea, you're like, hey, that's why it's called the Circle Syndicate. I might not have 50 million. You may not have 50 million. But we got 50 people that got 1 million each. We pull our money together and go invest in something and really change the game. Yeah, you've been able to help raise millions for some of the members, right? So in six months of being a part of this,

so my boy Kane, Kane Wave out of Dubai, he's the one who put it all together. He's like, hey, I want you as my other half. Can you help me take this to the next level? And I was like, all right, cool. So put together this ecosystem. Next thing you know, in six months, we've raised $72.5 million. Holy.

Yeah, $72.5 million dollars holy yeah 72.5 and um we have half a billion in underwriting right now to who but the crazy thing is man it's a numbers game so people you know submit deals like from all over the map all over the world uh all over every every single industry so we get real estate uh commodities early stage tech blockchain yeah random you know concerts, whatever. And so we have hundreds of lending partners that we've created relationships with. So we have a process, sign up on the form, NDA gets sent out. And if there's a bite, we hit you up.

Hey, there's a bite. Let's go have a couple more conversations. And then next thing you know, of course, you get a piece of the puzzle for finding the money. And best case scenario, you get a little equity too. I think being able to connect the dots is a high-income skill. But the way you're doing it is a whole other level because you're able to even raise money. Not a lot of people can do that, dude. Well, again, it's all thanks to the team and the network, man.

I'm learning because the biggest thing with me, I'm just a seeker of truth. So I like learning. That's why I read two books a week. Wow. Yeah, that's kind of my speed. Two books a week. I'm watching two hours of YouTube a day while I'm doing something and retaining information. So even private equity, the terms, the terminology, hedge funds, sovereign funds, private equity, lines of credit, all this kind of stuff, right? I'm learning it. And as I'm learning it, I'm putting it into practice at the same time. Right. You're implementing. Exactly. I'm learning them on the call,

on the call. I'm the, you know, I'm the dumbest person in the meeting. So I'm over here taking notes. They're saying things. I don't need, I'm Googling it right now, right next to it, you know, on the zoom call. And, uh, next thing you know, we're, you know, we're, we're moving, we're moving mountains because of our ability to execute really efficiently. And that's what separates you. Cause a lot of people read and listen, but they don't execute. That's, I think that's the biggest downfall. People, there's information overload, right? Yeah. They don't know what to listen to. And then they get analysis paralysis. They don't listen to

anything. For sure. They just take the information in and then don't do anything with it. I think that's the biggest weak point, man. In order to really succeed and do well in entrepreneurship, you have to be able to try it and fail and fail forward because you're not going to get it right on the first time. People aim for perfection. It just doesn't work that way. It doesn't work.

I used to struggle with this. People are scared to take that first step because of how they'll get judged online. Dude, I don't care anymore. You only get hate from below. 100%. No one above you is going to hate on you. You've dealt with haters? Oh, yeah. I have them. You only get hate from below. 100%. No one above you is going to hate on you. You've dealt with haters?

Oh, yeah. I have them all the time because of the podcast. Why do you think that is? Why do you think people go out of their way to try to bring you down on your frequency when they could be doing things just as you? It's actually mainly the guests that get the hate, but some people hate on me just for having them on,

which is interesting because I like to have both sides on. I'm not going to have just one side on. I like to hear both people's sides and then form my own opinion. But most people are so close-minded, they just want to see one side and then form an opinion. You know what I mean? Right, right. That's just cognitive dissonance in general.

When you tell them new information that they haven't been taught, it's like a you know culture shock for them like what's going on so yeah even if you provide all the facts you can be like hey this is an industry expert been doing this for 20 years i still get hate dude yeah it's nuts i mean look at my life right like i grew up in new jersey heavy left state so my whole life i was pretty left and i was never exposed to republicans i just thought they were bad people growing up right and that's so bad because i never heard them out, so I couldn't really form a logical opinion. And that happens to so many people, dude. That's the problem with the education system nowadays. You get only taught one perspective. You don't get taught how to learn and how to

form your own opinion. You get taught how to, you know, you get manipulated and programmed. And that's the last project we're working on. So the legacy project that we're working on is Principals Academy. So we're creating our own ed tech platform, revolutionizing digital education. And the whole purpose of that is because I went to school, I got two degrees, but my little brothers and my stepson, I pulled them out of school. You're going to get homeschooled and self-taught. Wow. Due to the fact that I feel like I can create a better curriculum that you'll be taught in a traditional education system. Dang, you pulled your bro out of school?

Two little brothers and my stepson. So all of them are like, hey, you're going to go through the principal's academy program. So the way it works is you got to read a certain amount of books. Yeah. Right? You have your own schedule. It's almost like an entrepreneurship boot camp. You have your own schedule.

You have a certain amount of books. There's an online program. You take tutors. There's different experts that I might not be the best in. Come and teach. And then you get physical fitness and training. So my stepson specifically, he trains two hours a day. Wow. Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu. And so I want everyone to be well-rounded, mind, body, business, and spirit. Dude, I love that. The gym at my high school was a joke.

I don't know if yours was like that too. You said the gym? Yeah, like the gym class. You know how you had to be like 30 minutes? No one did shit. We all just stood there. You know, the worst thing is when all the coaches are out of shape. And I'm just like, what's going on here?

Oh, yeah, we had fat coaches, fat gym teachers. Because they're getting paid $40,000 a year, so they don't give a shit. They don't give a shit. And that's the problem. See, now, think about all the stuff that's going on, all the programming in the media, all the misinformation. You're sending your kids out eight hours a day, nine hours a day, and they're not under your supervision. What are they getting fed? Exactly. And I don't want to do that. I don't want to put someone else in charge that doesn't care about my kid like me. And then they're taught their perspective and then the kid comes back like completely you know left field and like where'd you even learn that yeah that's kind of the reason pull them out um

you know feed them clean food uh clean water good education good music good you know fitness um and then show them the ability to you know be an entrepreneur and not be stuck in the rat race. Absolutely. Dude, school was pretty traumatizing for me, to be honest, because it taught me to fit in with everyone when I didn't. Did you ever get bullied? Oh, for sure. Every entrepreneur did.

Fair enough. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, we're different. We're just thinking differently. We're not trying to fit in. I was trying to be friends with people that weren't meant to be friends with. That's the thing. That's the thing, you know, weren't meant to be friends with.

That's the thing, you know, that's your, that's the thing though, right? School is like that. Think about it. You're taking, you're taking a kid with unlimited creativity, just on the peak of their learning curve, you know, that can adapt language in three, four months. You're putting them in a room with no outside engagement besides 30 minute recess, they do anyway yeah you're feeding them food every day terrible terrible food right and you're around you know even though they have teachers the teachers are not the best you know curators of you know of programming right because they're they're taught a specific way and half the teachers are you know they're not the best yeah you know people have to follow an outdated script correct well they're not even passionate because it's different when people are passionate about teaching, right? Yeah.

Like you have a coach, like a fitness coach or something like that, training coach, basketball coach, a little bit more. But they're taught things that they don't really want to talk. They might not agree with. And so it's just a big game of telephone. And next thing you know, they have to deal with bullying and all this kind stuff where the the pros and cons just don't add up yeah i mean everything happens for a past i try not to dwell on this but think about how much time we spent in that system and where we would have been if we were this educated as teenagers 100 um i think if i was to go back i would definitely skip out on college. For sure. And high school, honestly.

To be honest, and I was about to say that, and high school. Right after eighth grade, after I got my people skills, just your cognitive ability to think and reason, there should be a program where we're like, all right. That's why countries overseas, after five, six years old, whatever skill sets you have, they start curating the program for that. Yeah, like if you look at certain Chinese schools, what ends up happening is the kid

after like three, until about three or four, there's no janitors in the school. They teach the kids to clean and do this stuff by themselves before they get into the school system. After four years old? Yeah, yeah. Kids, because now they're learning life skills. And then, then they get put into these curriculums and whatever

skill sets they show, the students get curated a program based on okay let's just say you're good at science and math you get put in engineering you get put in you know this kind of stuff if you're good at the body and health functions medicine if you're you know uh creative you might be a you know a painter artist something like that that's how it should be man yeah and i think about this a lot because i do want kids, and I would never send them to public school for sure. 100%. And that's kind of the reason, you know, moving over to Dubai,

putting our mark on the other side of the world because education system, you know, the food quality. It's another thing. We're silently poisoned here, man. It's crazy. I'll eat food here, and I'll feel so terrible. Over there in Dubaiai i ate pretty clean by whatever you know i was eating french fries and stuff like that right um and i lost three pounds

wow yeah no seed oils over there no seed oil natural meat and natural veggies and and it was pretty incredible so that mixed with the safety mixed with the education system uh and the culture you know i feel like we're we're this shit over here, and we're programmed. I want to stay away from that. We're NPCs, man. I was an NPC until I was probably 21. Maybe even later, dude. It was bad, man. Think about everyone in school right now

is just following a script. They don't even know. It's crazy. Think about the era you went to school, right? When growing up, we didn't have phones in schools. We had to go on bikes everywhere and stuff. Now kids have school. I mean, they have phones. They have laptops.

They could kind of do whatever post-pandemic. You just chill at home and watch school. And then they're still turning out dumb as hell. So it's like, you know, what's going on? You know, what are you actually being taught? And you're there eight, nine hours a day. Yeah. So it's kind of scary, bro.

It is, man. It is. But being in Dubai, surrounded by so much wealth and affluence, is becoming a billionaire one of your goals? Absolutely. How do you plan on getting there? So the first 100,000 was sheer hard work. The next, you know, getting to a million was smart work. Yeah.

And building the right team and having the right products and offers and just being good at different businesses, just like a marketing agency, NFTs, putting together teams and having the ability to do accounting and bookkeeping and marketing and operations. Get to that $100 million. It's all about the network. You have to meet the right people. And if you meet the right people, you provide value, you receive value. The next billion is just spiritual alignment. Because once you're making that impact, once you have the right people, you move mountains. There's a book by Deepak Chopra called The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.

And law number four is the law of least effort. And the law of least effort is literally the opposite of what we've been taught. We've been taught hustle, grind, stay up, sleep, do all that kind of stuff. But the law of least effort says when you're in alignment, everything flows to you without you having to lift a finger. So then the last piece of the puzzle, that's why the whole thing started. So now let's create, you know, beasts by giving the education that we had. Let's create this network where we teach people what we didn't know. And then let's raise capital for the best of the best ideas. And once you're doing all the combination of those three and your spiritually aligned, care of your mind your body your business your family you're not

chasing anymore you're creating the divine family the man and the woman you know shout out to my shout out to my wife sarah and you know being able to you know connect and create a bond of heavy hitters like me you you know dan all our people are working together uh and that's how you move mountains and then everything just flows i agree man that network can take you far and you're the best at it man you know i know but loyalty is important to me i would never try to f**k over someone for money like that's so it's such a low iq move in my opinion and it happens all the time 100 every day bro people people scam your 50k you could have made 50 mil who's whose loss is that?

Yeah, like anytime I get scammed, I find it so hard to believe because if you just kept me as a friend, you'd make 100X. Right. That's the hard part, bro. People have that short-term pleasure. It's like, all right.

And the way I think of it now is like, you probably needed it more than me. Take it now. The relationship is severed. You know, do you. Yeah. Yeah, I try not to dwell i try not to have regrets and i try to just i try to forgive some of the scams are pretty hard but

how do you uh protect yourself from future scams dude that's a good question i just got scammed like a month ago so i don't know if i'm qualified to answer but um my girl honestly girls are very spiritual they're like your shield if you get a girl by your side very true she's never been wrong about someone that's actually very true about sarah too yeah within two minutes you'll know if i it's a good person or not damn yeah so every time i've gone against her opinion you've gotten scammed or screwed over yeah so their intuition's strong so that's why it's important to have that good woman by your side very very very important even the one from a month ago she told me not to do it damn so. And your gut was like, let me try it.

Yeah, because we're moving fast. So we're just trying to make moves. And like, yeah, we don't actually analyze on a spiritual level, you know? 100%. So that's why now I think I'm incorporating the spirituality a little bit more into business, right? Yeah. I'll give you an example. Like we think of entrepreneurship as this like hustle journey, but it's a very spiritual experience. I'll give you an example. We think of entrepreneurship as this hustle journey,

but it's a very spiritual experience. I'll give you an example. The elements, the water element. Water is the most important element for us because we're made 70% water and all this kind of stuff. Think about all the terms that are used to describe money. Think about it. Streams of income, cash reserves, cash reserves liquidity cash flow that's all water

elements man yeah so if you think about that what do you need to do you don't you can't go against the grain of water you'll get destroyed you know you ever seen a flood coming and nothing nothing survives strongest of houses get blown away you have to go with the current that's why um bruce lee says like become the bottle become the cup and become where the water can be abundant you know and once you once you relax and you flow with the the ebbs and flows of life it just becomes a lot easier because my problem a lot of entrepreneurship problems is that we go against the grain you know we're like creating friction that doesn't necessarily need to exist. Wow. And I'm really bad at that. Like if I have a certain schedule in the day, it has to be that schedule by the T.

Right. If I have a little, you know, it sways a little bit, my day gets thrown off. Right. Because think about it. If someone was late to your podcast, then you got the next podcast, then you got a meeting. Everything's delayed, right? It's happened. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So now imagine being so good at, so good at navigating through life and nothing, but there's no obstacles anymore because you're flowing so well. And then you're receiving. So one thing, again, it's about giving and receiving. When you don't receive these signs and changes and obstacles, you're stopping the flow of energy because you're giving out, you're not receiving.

Something as simple as someone asks you to help you with your bags, and you're like, nah, I got it. You're stopping the flow of energy because you're giving out you're not receiving something as simple as someone asks you to help you with your bags and you're like nah i got it you're stopping the flow of energy wow you know so you have to be able to give and receive the energy because energies need to create or destroy it's just transferred in forms interesting yeah that's a good take man i never thought about it that way So how can people get in that flow? So first, be very clear with your purpose and understand there's a higher source that's taking you through it. Of course, you got to be connected with yourself, connected with your family, connected with your body. But you have to relax a little bit. The strong suit of entrepreneurship is the hustle, go, go, go mentality. But that's the masculine. It's hyper, hyper masculine. You have to have both

hyper masculine and the feminine the feminine is present it's sit still it's receive so in order to really you know push the bounds of creativity make as much money as possible experience presentness and just be you know not always thinking of the future or the past you have to learn how to balance masculine and feminine. And once you do that, you'll see signs of start to work in your favor. I love that. Yeah. So that's the struggle that I've had too because I'm always in go mode.

Yeah. So now I got to slow it down and be like, what is the universe trying to teach me? I'll give you an example. Let's just say you're on the way to a flight, big meeting, but you missed the flight. Old me, I would have been like, damn, I missed the flight, man. I should have booked earlier. i should have done this how can i you know how can

i push it back and get the next one you know i'm frustrated but now i'm like yeah i could have died on that flight maybe the universe is like telling me to you know relax a little bit you know unwind you know just trust it so now i've changed my perspective so when things happen that are out of my control that it's it's it's meant for a greater purpose bro that literally happened to me so i was at the airport in vegas i was going to new jersey and uh i hear a voice in my ear swear to god it was crazy i believe it and it was my dad who's passed away he's calling me he's saying wow and the flight gets delayed so i'm like what the hell gets delayed again So I'm like, what the hell? Gets delayed again. So now I'm like, yo, this is weird. But like I said, the old mentality,

I'm like, no, I'm getting on this flight. Like I need to make this. I even got upgraded first class. So I'm like, I'm going. We get on, gets delayed again while we're on it. They say the stabilizers aren't working, which is the wings. So I'm like, bro, I'm out.

Like this is a sign i get out that flight ended up getting completely canceled wow so if it took off it yeah something bad would have happened what was that what was that voice dude it was just my dad calling my name and this actually happened to my cousin who served in iraq um his dad who passed away too him and his friend were walking and he heard his dad call his name wow his friend stepped on a landmine but since he heard his name he jumped a second earlier his friend passed away wow yeah it's crazy but how long ago did your dad pass passed away last or two years ago wow what month i think it was november that's crazy My dad passed December 2021

Wow Right after the biggest month of my life Crazy Financially Same It was around the same time when I was killing it Damn That's crazy

Sorry for your loss Dude it's one of my biggest regrets Cause You know We're Like we're in go mode So we're just making money We uh

We don't call them When we're living away from them As much as we should the crazy thing is man for me uh so november uh 10th goat sold out january 10th was my dad's birthday and i was going to retire him and december 10th right in the middle he passed away damn yeah it's terrible and i had a whole plan it was a big act of detachment again going with the flow of life because i was so stuck on giving him my you know whatever quarter million dollars and be like you're chilling

here's a check i want to take home the duffel bag and give him you know have my little ego experience but again i had a good intention i wanted to take care of my father and give him you know reward him for what he's done for me the universe was like look it's not you know his time is up and uh biggest act of detachment. So, again, one thing I'm learning is detaching from the outcome, doing your best, being present, giving it all you got, being smart, having the right intentions, but detaching from the outcome. Because let's just say you have all these goals and you don't hit it. What are you supposed to do? Be depressed through life?

No, you still got to enjoy. You still got to be present. You still got to be grateful. The people that do care about you still got to take care of them instead of being hey i'm not a billionaire in five seconds you know i'm gonna be depressed you know so detaching is a big form of spirituality i love that man because yeah we have that mentality like when this happens i'll do this but you never know what happens in between and it happened to us and it's like wow i wish i took care of him more for sure absolutely so now with my with my mom and my my brothers i'm a lot more present so when i'm with them you know i turn my phone i

put my phone away it's not work while i'm there so i might be working during the day but evening i'm always spending time with them we're going places eating together you know spending time laughing and stuff so just being as present as possible for sure yeah i call my mom every day now and that's something i'm proud of actually because in college i only called her like once every four months dude wow yeah it was terrible so i definitely want to be there for her she took care of me her whole life you know absolutely well said brother and you know you want to hear something crazy a month i mean a year after my dad passed i went to costa rica to go do ayahuasca um and that was a mind-blowing experience for me because uh that's when when

i really tapped into the spirituality because i was always pretty spiritual growing up i studied the the quran i read the torah i read the bible i read the bahadur gita i read the tao de ching you know emerald tablets i read all of them again seeker of truth right i want to know all of it so but when i went to go do ayahuasca in costa rica so shout out to my boy jay he he put on a beautiful retreat he went to uh diamante valley which is the it says the energetic capital of the world and um crazy energy in costa rica and we we did it was a week but the first day we did a combo you ever heard of the toad that's the toad frog poison so they put it in your body and you know everyone throws up you purge all these negative energies out the next

thing we did was a temazcal uh it's a sweat lodge yeah and again you're you're praying to the elements and it's the crazy experience it's like a three-hour sauna holy crap yeah it's three-hour sauna um with steam and it's super hot and And then you're doing these prayers and these chants, and it's pretty crazy. How did you not pass out, dude? That's a long time. It was crazy. Actually, out of all the things, that was the hardest thing I've ever done. Because you're sitting there, and you're laying down.

It's muddy, and it's hot, and everyone's struggling to crawl out when you're done. But it was a very invigorating experience. You feel so connected to earth. I was so much grateful for water and plants and animals and just presentness when I came out. And then the two days of Aya ceremonies. And during my experience, I definitely saw my father after he passed. I saw my grandma. And I got connected to the the to the god molecule you know

i'm saying so it was crazy um three different cups three different experiences and the first one was where uh i asked the universe i was like show me that everything is a you know everything is a energy or vibration so i'm sitting there next thing you know it hits and it wasn't like a hallucinating or something out of body experience i'm present i can get up and go to the restroom come right back but i can feel every ligament in my body if i if i do this i can feel 40 ligaments that go to make this muscle move it's a vibration vibration everything's a vibration i can feel a heartbeat you know i can hear my breathing and then then I would have little panic attacks, like mini panic attacks.

I'm like, all right, am I good? What's going on? It's good, right? And then I remembered, of course, you know, as we learn to go back to our breath. So I'm going four, three, two, one. That's my breath work, right? My box breathing. Next thing you know, and we're not supposed to have our phones,

but I went to the restroom one time and our phones in our backpack in the back. So I was like, let me look up the frequency of life. What's the love frequency? And it's 432 hertz. So I kept saying 432 in my head for like four hours. So it kind of clicked. I'm like, all right, the love frequency. So love is the vibration we need to be on.

Second thing, I took another cup. And next thing you know, I saw sound. There's a word for it. I can't think of it at the moment. I saw sound. So when the shaman's singing and he has the drums, he hits the drums, so I see the ring come out, bounce off the wall, and his voice is like projecting.

So again, vibration. The universe is showing me everything's a vibration. Sound is a vibration. The way we speak is a vibration.'s a vibration sound is a vibration the way we speak is a vibration the way we think is a vibration but i literally saw sound and there's a thing so me me and me and sarah were doing me and my wife were doing research and um we were researching uh you know before ayahuasca i did i read six books you know 20 documentaries wow you know thousand articles because i'm again i'm a nerd i want to know everything right and when we got there uh there was a thing she was like try this uh there was a guy i think it was aubrey marcus on on youtube and he was talking about

uh there's different energies when you're in the room so she was like i remember she said try this so i'm in the the maloca right which is temple. So when I was going to the restroom, I stopped right in the middle, and half my leg is outside and half my body is inside. When I look right, it's just peaceful, dark, you know, nature, nothing going on. You hear the crickets and stuff. And over here on the left side, just crazy glowing energy. Wow.

So I'm literally in two realms at one time. And I was just like, just like oh wow this is crazy you know and when you when you walk when you look outside from the inside of the maloka because there's there's there's uh windows so you look outside because it's open right it's not like a real window it's just like an open hole you look outside and the crazy through the through the inside of the temple where the energies are crazy and everyone's going through their experiences you'll look out and the stars you can see the fractals and the constellations but as soon as you step out you look up it's normal sky craziest experience interesting yeah and then the third cup the second day

a second day only took one cup because it hit me hard it hit me so hard and um and again it was it was like a body it was like i took like 100 grams of edibles yeah so i was like I took 100 grams of edibles. So I was really feeling all, and I was coming back to my body. So again, the last piece when I was feeling all weird, there was a moment where I'm like, universe, show me that you're real. You got my back. So I felt an energy behind me just kind of lifting me up. It propped me up, sat me down, and I'm like, yo, so I'm kind of connected with you now. prop me up sat me down and i'm like yo so i you know i'm kind of connected with you now the next cup is going to be easy i'm going to come back every

other year to do this incorporate this into my spiritual journey uh but show me that you're real and then i heard a whisper um same thing like where you heard your dad so i heard like my grandma's voice she's like i got you and i'm like you got me she's like you got this you. And I'm like, you got me. She's like, you got this and I got you. So like never stress ever again. And from there, when I came back, so now I gave up drinking, I gave up smoking, I gave up chasing, and now I'm going to give up stressing. Wow. I'm just going to flow through life and whatever's meant for me, meant for me. And I know I'm going to do great things and just trust the universe that has my back. Dude, I love that.

Yeah, stress was a big part of my early years in entrepreneurship but i've i've done my best to eliminate most of it now yeah there's still stuff that pops up like lawsuits and stuff that are how do you handle when uh you have so much on your plate and something throws you off wim hof so i do that every day and if something stressful pops up i do it immediately and it's usually gone by then um i take some natural pills like magnesium and I think ashwagandha if I'm feeling a little stressed. But I try to cure everything holistically. I don't want to take anything synthetic. No random medicines and stuff? Yeah, I've done much better at being able to communicate.

I used to repress all my emotions because I got it from my dad. He had Asperger's. Okay. So he never, like I remember the one time he hugged me, I cried. Wow. I was moving to LA when I was 23. It was the first time he ever hugged me and showed's. Okay. So he never, like, I remember the one time he hugged me, I cried. Wow. I was moving to LA when I was 23.

It was the first time he ever hugged me and showed emotion. Wow. We both just started crying. So that was the environment I grew up in. So it took me years to be able to express myself. But once I started doing that, it really helped. Cause you bottle that stuff in,

man. Bro, trauma stored in the body. We don't, people don't even realize. Yeah. I thought I got rid of all this stuff. Even like my dad passed, right?

I handled it pretty well until I didn't. Right. It all came out. Because I was being there for my mom and my brothers and the whole family and this and that. And I still, because I remember my dad passed on a Friday. Monday, I got back to work. Wow. I had no choice.

Yeah. We had 60 employees. Like, what am I supposed to do, you know? Yeah, I went back to work too. And so it stays. And so months later, it comes out. It comes out when I'm stressed out. It comes out when I'm lonely.

It comes out and then, you know, my girl has been very supportive. She helps me through the recognizing what I need to fix and being aware enough to go and fix it. Because a lot of times as men, you're like, **** it, I'll handle it, you know. I got it, no worries. But you have to go and fix it. Because a lot of times as men, you're like, f*** it, I'll handle it. I got it. No worries. But you have to go and attend to this stuff because it'll come out one way or the other.

It might not come out now, but imagine you have a kid and then it comes out. Is that when you want it to really come out? Unhandled trauma? Inner child wounds? You don't want that to happen. Yeah. It's best to deal with it as soon as you can. Well, once you become aware of it, you want to handle it and learn to mitigate it you don't want to you don't want to suppress it you want to mitigate you want to alleviate it and understand it and you know be one with it and be like all right cool i went through

this now i'm healed and i can move forward in the journey yeah way too many people suppress it because that's what we're taught we're taught it's weak to show emotion is man it sucks man and that's why a lot of times in in friend groups too like you say someone's a friend of yours, but you're not even able to share with him how you really feel. Is that really a friend? Like, no, you got to be able to be like, hey, homie, I'm having a tough time. Come here. Come over. Let's talk about it.

Either you want, you know, you want to vent, or you want me to knock you back in place and tell you you're tripping. You know, which one is it? If you want to vent, I'm here. That'd be a ear to listen to. But if you really want true advice, I'll tell you, hey, you're screwing up. You got to fix this, this, and this. And I know you got it in you. Let's make it happen. How can I support? I love that. Yeah. There's not many friends that would actually do that.

If you look at your friend group and analyze it, I can only count a couple. Yeah. I mean, it's usually in your hands. You don't need a hundred pennies, man. You only need four quarters. Right. The same amount of money, right? But you have more value. It's the quality over the quantity. A lot of people growing up, like, I need thousands of friends. I need 20 different friend groups. No, you don't, man. You need two or three beasts around you.

And those beasts might shift based on your industry, the time period in your life. When you're younger, it's different. When you're a family man, it's different. But it's just good to have a small group around you. Have that small group, direct circle, your inner circle, and then you have your extended circle. Like me and you, extended circle. We might not talk every day, but if I needed something,

hey, Sean, you got this for me? Cool, I got you. Let me connect the dots. For sure. Same thing like that. Dude, I'm glad you got to connect with your dad and grandma. I actually got to connect with my dad too. And this is something people don't even know about, but these spiritual journeys can provide great closure.

Nice. Did you ever do plant medicine or anything like that? No went through a psychic medium we did some past life work and i got to connect with my father and it was great to get some closure because when they pass you don't know what they were thinking very true being able to understand where he was coming from and you know it was a really good moment that's amazing a past life progression right yeah have you done it? I have not. I've looked into it a couple of times.

I read these books by Dolores Cannon. She talks about it. You heard of Dolores? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, again, my readings take me a long way. But having these experts, it's a whole different game. Like I have my boy Jay, Adyemi, Christian.

They take me to these, you know, conversations and these meditations that do clear these inner child wounds and stuff like that. But again, you have to have these people in your arsenal. So if you want to connect me with that person, I'd love to. Oh, I got you. Yeah, she's in the chat. And she changed my life. We explored some past lives. You have a lot of past life trauma that you don't even know about. Generationally. Generational. Yeah. Yeah. So it adds up. But dude, it's been a pleasure anything you want to close off with or promote i'm good bro and honestly the biggest thing is for me is just uh you know connecting with the right people so i appreciate you having me on uh i look forward to

just continue building with you and uh connecting with everybody in the chat and just you know keep changing the world make an impact and income let's do it baby thanks for watching guys that's a great episode and i'll see you tomorrow