Digital Social Hour - Invest Like a Pro: Claudia Gadelha's Winning Strategies | Claudia Gadelha DSH #777

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

Step into the ring of life with Claudia Gadelha, as she shares her winning strategies on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🥋💪 This episode is packed with valuable insights into how Claudia transitioned from a UFC champion to a savvy investor. Discover her unique journey from the favelas of Brazil to the global MMA stage, and learn how she leveraged her fighting spirit to conquer the world of investments. 💼💰 Join the conversation and find out how Claudia overcame challenges, built her wealth, and achieved high performance in all areas of life. 🌟 Don't miss out on her inspiring story that proves even the toughest battles can lead to the greatest victories. Tune in now and uncover her secrets to success! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Growing up in Brazil 04:17 - College Life and UFC Career 06:06 - Transitioning from Fighting 08:10 - Law Studies and Career Focus 10:22 - Poverty in Brazil vs America 11:38 - Meeting Derek Moneyberg 12:59 - GOAT Female Fighter 15:48 - Claudia Gadelha and $100M Goal 18:18 - Value of $2M in Brazil 20:44 - Claudia Gadelha's Real Estate Ventures 24:10 - Current Projects and Goals 27:25 - Importance of Assessment 29:40 - Coaches Need Coaches 31:14 - Finding Claudia Gadelha APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Claudia Gadelha https://www.instagram.com/claudiagadelha https://cgadelha.com/ SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly 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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And I went through that three years ago. And I tried to be very strong because it is very hard. athletic career to something else right and i went through that three years ago and it was you know i tried to be very strong because it is very hard and i talk to retired athletes all the time and it's very challenging you know like i tell people all the time like an athlete dies twice you die the day you retired and then you die later in life when you physically die yeah all right guys former ufc fighter that grew up in brazil claudia thanks for coming on yeah my pleasure man what was that like in brazil for how long were you there it was rough rough i grew up in one of the most challenges parts of brazil in. Grew up in a very humble, traditional family. And I saw my parents struggling to raise five kids.

In Brazil, everybody does soccer and trains Jiu-Jitsu. And I started training Jiu-Jitsu as a kid. And I saw an opportunity to change my life and change my family's pattern of life. And I decided at a very young age that I was going to go through that path. Wow. When I was 14 years old, I was like fully committed to jujitsu, but there was not a lot of money in jiu-jitsu. Like it was very hard to build a career in jiu-jitsu. So then I saw a lot of people in my gym

moving outside of that town to go train MMA. And I understood that that was the path. I didn't want to get hit in the head. I didn't want to go through everything you go through in your MMA career. And I had this love for jiu-jitsu and for the philosophy of jiu-jitsu. But I was committed to change my life and change my family's pattern of life. And I decided to go fight MMA. And I'm talking about a time where women was not in the UFC yet, right?

So I made that decision right there. So I'm a pioneer in the sport of MMA. When I made it to the UFC, I was in the first ever strawweight fight in the UFC history. Oh, wow. So I launched a division in the UFC back in 2014 and spent almost 10 years fighting for the UFC. And now I work for the company. So a lot of struggles to get here. And, you know, I watch people that grew up with me

and people that didn't make the right decisions in their lives back then. And they're still there, right? And my life just has changed so much from being like very dedicated from a very young age and making the right decisions throughout my life did you move your family over here too they don't want to move here oh really no they don't they don't like america they don't speak english you know it's hard for them to to you know drive here to communicate here so they don't want to move here but they have a really good life in brazil i bet you upgraded them to the penthouse

yeah this is one of the things i'm most proud of you know because it's it's not even about the things you achieve throughout having uh through like i had a really challenging life growing up in brazil then moving to the favelas in rio de janeiro to be able to make it all the way to the ufc without any help my family couldn't help me or support me you know and just seeing my family now living the life i dreamed about it's one of the the best things that could have have in my life, you know, because like, yeah, like the money I made, it was good in my career. Like I learned how to invest my money, which is one thing that most athletes don't learn in their, throughout their career.

And I learned that in a very young age that I needed to learn how to invest my money and leverage the money I was making and fighting. But like, what really matters is it's the person I became making in fighting. But what really matters is the person I became on the way of chasing those things for my family and for myself. I'm very proud of the person I became throughout those years. Yeah, so you had to grow up quick. Yeah, I had. At 14, I was fully committed to jiu-jitsu and MMA.

So did you drop out of school? Just go full time? No I actually went I went to college. I have a law degree Oh wow. Holy crap So while I was fighting the highest level in the UFC I was going to college. Jeez so two full time jobs pretty much. Yes

A lot of people were making fun of me and my friends in the gym you know the fighters that were also fighting in the UFC they were all making fun of me and my friends in the gym, the fighters that were also fighting in the UFC, they were all making fun of me because I was doing both. They were like, oh, you're not going to get anywhere trying to do two different careers like that. But I was fully committed to that. No distractions, no addictions, no partying with friends,

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Oh, so you didn't drink your whole... No. 20, what, 25 years? First 25 years, pretty much? Yeah. So I started at 14 till now, living a high performance life life you know and uh it's very hard to transition from professional sports to anything else right like you build the whole life learning skills in in your career and by the time you are 30 35 somebody tells you hey now guess what forget everything

you did go do something else you're gonna go live a whole different life now that's why we see a lot of athletes depressed and killing themselves i know so many athletes that killed themselves and took their lives because it's so hard to transition from an athletic career to something else right and i went through that three years ago and it was you know i tried to be very strong because it is very hard and i talk to retired athletes all the time and it's very challenging you know like i tell people all the time like an athlete dies twice you die the day you retired and then you die later in life when you physically die yeah so yeah tough life i could see that though because you get wrapped up in your identity as being that person and then

it's all gone and then what do you do now yeah imagine like a medical doctor right you go to like you go to college and to residency for like well almost like 14 years of your life so imagine like midlife somebody takes take your degree and just tell you hey um go do something else because everything you studied for everything you were passionate about everything you have always dreamed about now is gone go do something else you know this is kind of like what an athlete goes through because you put your whole life mind soul tears blood in there and then when you get to like mid 30s you don't you have to do something else so it's very very challenging yeah luckily you had the law degree to fall back on though, right? So you kind of transitioned easier than most people? Yeah.

And like the reason why I got a good job in the UFC is because I have a good background. I know, you know, like most athletes from where I'm from, they barely know how to use a computer. They're not very educated. And I educated myself because I was thinking about the next thing. So only three fighters ever retired from the UFC and worked for the UFC, and only one female, and I am the one. So only one girl ever retired from fighting and worked for the UFC. I have a pretty good position in there, helping the community, helping jiu-jitsu, helping MMA,

and I get a lot of joy from that. That's incredible. So Daniel Cormier is the other one, right? He works for ESPN. Oh, ESPN. So Forrest Griffin and Minotauro are the other two. Okay, that's cool. What type of law did you specialize in?

So in Brazil, you go to law school to decide what you're going to do next, right? Like there are seven things you can do after you finish law school. And I wanted to be a federal agent. Whoa. That's why I went to law school because in order to become a federal agent in Brazil, you have to go to law school first. So I didn't want to be a lawyer. I didn't like study law to follow that path

to become an attorney. I just wanted to be a federal agent. You wanted to be a fed. I wanted. Okay. But, you know, my MMA career worked pretty well and I took that path. So you didn't like criminals

and there was probably a ton of those where you grew up. Yeah, a lot. So that left an impression on you. A lot, yeah. I grew up seeing, you know, a lot of crime, a lot of girls getting raped. Jeez. People getting almost killed, you know.

Oh, my gosh. The favelas in Brazil are rough. I've heard about them, yeah. They're very rough. Anything goes over there, right? Everything, yeah. Anything happens. And I saw that, a lot of that growing up.

And that's when I made the decision of like, whatever it takes in my life to get out of this and build a life for myself, I'll do it. And that was my thought in tough fights. You know, when I was in bad situations, in fights, I was always thinking about the main purpose and changing my life and changing my family's life. And that's what made me hang in there, you know, because I'd never been finished in the UFC.

Oh, yeah. But I had a fight where I was like, my mind was telling me that I was ready to quit, like just quit, like tap, get out of here. But then I kept telling myself, you know, no, like you can do more. Like stand in here, stay. You can do this. And, you know, I lost the fight, but won in life. Yeah, yeah. You're like the female Chito Vera.

Yeah. That guy never drops out. But yeah, like South America is like rough area to grow up in, right? Yeah. We see so many good athletes coming out of that area. That's true. Look at Charles Oliveira, Jose Aldo. All those guys, they grew up pretty rough.

And when you grow up like that, I feel like anything that happens in your life is just another challenge because you already went through so many challenges growing up which is different than growing up in america you know yeah very different being poor in america is different than being poor in brazil that's one thing you can't teach though because there's a lot of fighters that grow up in money and they pay for coaches but they don't have that fire exactly Exactly. That fire of like, I have to hang in here. I got to stay here because I got to change my life.

Like a lot of fighters, they get like knocked out and get concussions and get injured fighting, literally fighting for 10, $20,000 because that money will change their lives. Wow. Here in America, not so much because you have so many opportunities. You know? Yeah. 10K here is nothing. It's nothing.

Two months of rent. When I learned that, you know, when I learned that you could make money with other things other than fighting in America, I was like, hey, wait, let me learn that. You know, let me learn that white people skills because I want to make that kind of money. And that's where Derek Moneyberg comes in. Shout out to Derek. Yeah. How did you two meet? We met in a fight, actually. Oh, nice. He came up to me and he was talking about business. I was like, oh, interesting. This guy is pretty confident. Like, I'm curious about him, you know, and we did

an interview together and I was amazed by, you know, how smart he is and the way he looks at investments. And I was already investing my money when i met him but he just taught me like a different level of investing and making money he really taught me how to go make money in america you know i was investing in real estate and a little bit in the stock market but then he just gave me a whole idea of what to do next and how to you know create businesses and stuff so now i do a lot of the different things other than my job in the ufc because of that yeah your money's working for you now right yeah yeah and very few people get to that position yeah exactly so like i like my job but i i i'm not too attached to because my money is working for me.

So I have the freedom of like, oh, hey, if I don't like that, if it's not serving me, I can go do something else I like because my money is good and my money is working for me. It's a pretty good position to be in. Who do you have as your GOAT for female fighters? Greatest fall time. I think Ronda Rousey. She kind of changed the game for us.

I was training very hard in Brazil, getting beat up by boys all the time. Oh, you trained with boys? Yeah, because when I was fighting, there was no girls in the UFC. So think about it. Gyms didn't have a lot of girls training in either. I was the only girl in the gym. Wow. I grew up training with Jose Aldo, Hennon Barral,

Josiah Formiga, like guys that made it to top contenders or champion level in the UFC. And I was getting beat up by those guys my entire life. Holy crap. Jose Aldo is beating up grown men and you're fighting him. Yeah, I trained with him a lot. And he was a big inspiration for me too. But Ronda just changed the game. She showed everybody that in order to be a good athlete in the MMA world,

you have to be a product, not just a good fighter. And that's when I learned how. I told myself right there how hey i gotta go learn english i gotta go talk to fans like i have to learn how to be a product that the ufc can sell right because fighting alone will not do the job you know and she kind of showed that to to other girls and then um i i started training before her actually but she went in there and showed the world that you have to be a badass, but you also have to be a product, you know? And when I

learned that everything kind of changed for me as well. Yeah. You see all the top fighters and boxers have that personal brand aspect to them. Yeah. Yeah. Personal branding is everything, right? Like if you understand marketing sales and that you are a personal brand like you're gonna make a lot of money yep sean o'malley is a good example of that yes he's crushing it he's the best personal brand like best active personal brand in mma today agreed yeah him and i know sean strickland's controversial he has like a cult following i know you're not a fan of him i like him you know like he's i well i trained at extreme couture i spent a lot of time on the mats with him you know like we cool with each other like i always talk to him and stuff i just don't like the way he talks to

people i like this stuff and listen that's his his type of marketing you I am more humble, philosophical. I respect art. I don't like the trash talking too much. I don't like humiliating people. I don't like that part of the game, but I understand that's another way of building your brand

and making money. McGregor did it. He did, and he made hundreds of millions of dollars because of it so yeah smart guy yeah is that your goal 100 million um i'm working on my on being a deca millionaire nice now uh i have a couple million already and it's crazy right like derrick always makes fun of of guys when we are together because he goes like, little girls out there are outworking a lot of men out there, you know, because I work very hard and, you know, I try to use my brain, not

just my body, you know, and I made, you know, a couple million dollars. Amazing. Not only from fighting, you know, like using my brain and investing the money I was making in fighting, you know, I got to the point where I had nine houses, nine properties. And I built an Airbnb business. And I started selling my houses this year because I fell in love with the stock market. I was like, oh, I don't have to deal with tenants. I don't have to deal with maintenance. You know, I don't have to deal with all of the things that comes with rental properties.

So I'm just going to invest in the stock market. So I still have six houses, but selling them slowly to put all my money in the stock market and go do other fun things, help other people. I love helping other people as well. So that's where I'm at. That's incredible. Congrats on that. That's beautiful. Not many female fighters reach that wealth.

I know. You could probably count on one hand. That's incredible. Congrats on that. That's beautiful. Not many female fighters reach that wealth. I know. You could probably count on one hand. True, true. And you see, I see that. I see girls that, like they beat me in fighting,

but I beat them in life. Right. I go like, okay, you beat me in there and that was an opportunity for me to make some money, but then you made the wrong decision

with the money you made by beating me and I made the right decision with the money you made by beating me and i made the right decision you know so like i really focus in like the four core values in life which is wealth health right like i'm very big in in health relationships and career you know i'm very focused on those areas of my life and I try to put all my energy into those things. Cause I feel like if you got those four down, you're going to be happy and fulfilled. Yeah. 2 million goes a long way in Brazil too. It does. You guys are probably living like Kings out there. Yeah. I remember when I went to like Jamaica with like

a hundred grand, it was like a lot, you know, I was like a millionaire over there at the time. Yeah. Jamaica is pretty rough too. Yeah. Yeah. It was very rough. I think $1 there is like 13 bucks or something crazy. Oh, wow. That's pretty good. Is Brazil like that? Like how much is a dollar worth in Brazil? Almost six. Oh, six. Almost six reais. Yeah. So it's pretty good. Yeah. Quarter mil here is a millionaire over there. Yeah. Nice. That's cool, man. Do you go back there often um i don't go too much i i try to go to see my family and uh i miss the culture a little bit but i love the way like america thinks about business and responsibilities and. I love the way business is here, that I want to be in this environment more.

I had the chance of going to Florida when I moved to America, and I was like, okay, I'm going to be around a lot of Brazilians. And if I'm trying to learn a new language and learn all the things that happens in this country, I want to be in a place where I can learn, you know? So then I moved here, you know? Wow. So I go to Brazil sometimes to see my family,

but I just love America. I love Vegas too. Yeah, I do too. It's hard to be Vegas. It is. And you know what? I think Vegas, in my opinion, is one of the healthiest places you can be.

As crazy as it is, because people come here to go to the Strip, but outside of the Strip, we have great gyms. We have a lot of athletes, a lot of business people that are high performers. So they train. Look at Dana. The guy is a killer in the gym. He takes care of his health and stuff. You do too.

I watch you on Instagram. You're always in the gym, always taking care of his health and stuff you do too i watch you instagram you're always in the gym always taking care of yourself so like i feel like if you're in vegas doing business you are a high performer in everything you do so you're taking care of your health like great jiu-jitsu gyms great places to go do martial arts great athletes to surround yourself with healthy restaurants and you know just people looking to be healthy and making money here. I agree, though. I know it's a controversial take because people assume Vegas,

you party and drink and go out, but I don't even go out. Me neither. I probably go to the Strip like four times a year. Yeah, I barely go to the Strip. Only for like a business meeting, honestly, or a conference. And business here is great, right? Great. Every time I go to a UFC or PowerSop event event the people i meet phenomenal yeah you know it's so nice like

and there's always a conference here or an event derek's always hosting dinners or whatever so it's just always good people shout out to vegas man yeah it's slept on people always say la and miami but i got vegas over those me too and it's not too expensive to live here. Not at all. No estate taxes. Yeah. I just got my first house. Nice. Yeah. Congrats.

Trying to get like you. Congrats. Get to six. Yeah. You want to invest in real estate? I want to have a couple of houses in a couple of cities. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah.

That's when I started was kind of like that because I bought a house in Rio. I was living in Rio and I moved to America. I didn't know it was going to make the move so fast, but I lost the fight and I was getting injured so much. And when I was living in Brazil, like we had no clue what like recovery is. It was, I was killing my body all the way throughout to like my 25th year birthday. I was like killing my body. So then when I understood that I could have a healthier life, I moved here and I just started to understand how everything worked here. So then I rented my

house in Rio and was rented in Airbnb. And then when I moved here, I rented a house here in Vegas. And I was going to New Jersey to train with Frankie Edgar over there. And the house I was renting here, I put a listing on Airbnb. So when I was in New Jersey, my house was rented here. I was paying my rent and making money with that house. I was like, wait, now I got my house in Brazil making me money. And then now I got a house that I rented in Vegas that it's also making me money.

Wait a minute, let me buy houses. This is how everything started. I didn't have anybody advising me what to do. I just knew I had to invest my money because I wasn't just going to make that money I was making if I didn't multiply doing that thing you know yeah that's smart though because 80% of athletes go broke true so the fact that you have that mindset early on is is great yeah I think if you waited it would

have been tougher right yeah if I waited by now like I'm can you imagine now retired at 35 not having a job not having any money I would kill myself it'd be tough man so you were locked in were you even dating like when you were locked in no you gave up dating completely well i was so focused on fighting like fighting and um like building a life for myself you know so not a lot of dating in my life wow because those are like a woman, their 20s and 30s, those are like prime years for dating. Yeah, but I was focused on, you know, making money and building a career for myself.

That's respect, though, and that's why you are where you are. Yeah. You know? Now I can go date, you know, have fun, and go do whatever I want. That must be tough, though, because you got money, so a lot of these guys, you're richer than. I don't even, like, it's very hard for me to even to have a conversation with a guy,

you know, because, you know, it's very hard to operate in the level I operate in, right? Very hard to, like, think the way I think and do things the way I do. So, like, most guys that try to talk to me, I just, I have no patience. Dude, like, like, please don't talk to me. Cause it's, it's, it's complicated. It's intimidating from a, from a point of view of a man. When a woman is this successful as you,

this confident, you know, this experience, like I'd be pretty intimidated. Yeah. So I could see why they're striking out. And I can beat them up too. Yeah. Like imagine that, like, yeah, I'm good on that. Um, what's the next thing you're working on right now? So I built a coaching business and, um, I'm doing weight loss challenges, but like, you know, people love short-term results. Yeah. How's that, babe? The weight loss challenge is kind of like the catchy part of people getting into my business to work with me because I have a couple coaching certifications and I became a high-performance coach. And I work with athletes, too, that are, you know, retiring from fighting.

And I work with business people. Like, I have a client that is a CEO of a public traded company. I work with bank managers and stuff. So I draw in a lot of business people that want to operate in a high performance level. And I help them to build their physique and to have a strong mindset and to change their mentality and just block out the noise and go do what they want to do in life.

And I got people in through those weight challenges where, you know, people want short-term results. So then they come in and, you know, we go through four weeks of a whole transformation where we talk about values, goal setting, high performance life when it comes to fitness, recovery, nutrition. You know, I also talk about investing in personal finances, which most people in this country are totally lost about that. Like, it's very impressive to, you know, talk to people and see how like, they don't want to talk about money, they don't want to look at money, you know, they just want to work and, you know, they think that one day they will be okay with a life just like that, you know, and I always say that, hey, if you're not assessing, you are just guessing in any area

of your life. If you're not assessing your fitness, you're not going to achieve the exact numbers you want to achieve when it comes to weight, body fat, muscle mass, all that stuff. Finances is the same thing. If you're not assessing your numbers and understanding where you want to go and what you want to achieve, I want to become a decamillionaire.

So I have a plan, right? Most people don't have a plan to retirement. They don't even know how much money they need to retire, right? So I like talking about the core values I was talking about just to help people to understand that being in shape takes a lot more than physical capabilities and the idea of I got to go work out. If your finances are not doing well, you might eat your emotions and not go to the gym because you don't feel inspired and motivated. So like everything wraps around choosing to live a high performance life because you have a purpose. You have a motivation.

Now you understand your finances well. You understand your health well. Now you can go to the gym and have peace and clarity around where you're going in life. I love that. Yeah, it's almost like a full circle. Yeah, yeah. And you need that. Yeah.

You look like a high-performer guy, right? Yeah, I take everything serious. Health, finances, mindset, all that. Do you agree with that? Because you need everything. Because if you don't sleep well, it's going to affect everything. So you need everything. Exactly.

So do you agree with the if you're not assessing you're guessing yeah yeah i'm i'm pretty data driven i track my sleep i track my blood tests i track a lot of stuff because you don't know if you're gonna get better yeah just guessing exactly that that's my whole point like most people think oh they guess about what's gonna be next or what the future will look like. But it's not going to be like the way they're thinking if they just keep doing the same things and don't change things around and don't look at the numbers. Yeah, you can't do that.

And a lot of people are scared to talk about numbers, but I think it's needed. Yeah, it is. My parents never talked about numbers. And I think when I have kids, I'll probably be pretty open if they ask yeah i think i think you should i think um like school should teach kids about you know investing like putting some money in s&p 500 funds like you know like start at your 20s put 200 dollars in there buy s&p 500 by the time you 70 you're gonna have a $200 in there. Buy S&P 500.

By the time you're 70, you're going to have a million dollars in there. From $200? Saving $200. Wow. So, like, it's so easy to save $200 if you pay attention. I wish I did that when I was in my 20s, you know? So, like, every time I see a 20-year-old person, I go like, hey, go buy S&P 500. Like, do something.

The compound on it, right? Yeah. 7% a year? Yeah. It's up to, like old person now. Go like, hey, go buy S&P 500. It's like, do something. The compound on it, right? Yeah. 7% a year? Yeah, you can. It's up to like 12 now. Damn, 12 a year? Yeah. Yeah.

Well, with inflation now, seven isn't really enough, 7% a year. True. You can't even beat inflation. Yeah. Inflation and then just everything's going up. It's crazy. They're printing nonstop.

They're printing nonstop money. It's crazy. But if you understand what's going on and choose the right investments. And, like, my portfolio is 70% up this year. Damn. 70%? 70? Uh-huh.

Sign me up for that. 70%. And, you know, shout out to Derek because he helped me, you know, in the beginning to choose the right stocks and understand how to analyze the stocks. That's great. in the beginning to choose the right stocks and understand how to analyze the stocks. And I own a lot of the stuff he owns and his portfolio is like over 100%. Oh my God. He said he's going to have 100 million in a few years. Yeah, I bet that guy will be a billionaire.

I could see it because he's pretty young still, 40s. He's 45. Yeah, he's still got good work. Shout out to Derek, man. It's good to have a mentor like that. It is. Important. Very good.

I love coaches. I think coaches need coaches. I still have fighting coaches because I still train jiu-jitsu. I don't train MMA anymore because I don't want to get hit in the head. Yeah. I did that so much that I don't want to do it just for fun, you know. But I still train a lot of jiu-jitsu. And now I've been training jiu-jitsu for 21 years.

Damn. I just love it so much. Kind of like restructure your brain, you know, and teaches you how to deal with hard stuff, you know. By the time it's 10 a.m. and I get to work, I already got choked out a few times. Somebody already twisted my arms in different ways, you know. So work is easy at that point.

Anything that happens during my day is easy because I already did the hard ways, you know? So work is easy at that point. Anything that happens during my day is easy because I already did the hard stuff, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, I love that. So I love training in jiu-jitsu and I still do a lot. And I have a coach for jiu-jitsu. I have a coach for my finances. I have a coach for my mind, you know?

And I just love that idea of having people that have done what you want to do and just have them in your life to help you to go where you want to go. Absolutely. I got coaches for everything. I got a sleep coach. I got a breathwork coach, business coach, health coach. I mean, it just saves so much time.

Yeah. So much time. And you can achieve so much more. People think that they're going to waste your money. No, you're going to make more money. You're going to make way more. Way more money. Yeah.

People have the wrong mindset when it comes to investing. Yeah. Like, you shouldn't see it as you're giving them money. No, you're going to make more money. You're going to make way more. Way more money. Yeah, people have the wrong mindset when it comes to investing. Yeah. Like, you shouldn't see it as you're giving them money. You're making, you're saving so much time because they took 10, 20 years

to learn all that stuff. You're making it back quick. Yeah. You know? Where can people find you and what you're up to next? So, I'm on Instagram. This is,

Instagram is my biggest platform. I'm working on other stuff to, you know, put my word out there more, help more people. Because when I talk about coaching and my challenges, when I started thinking about retirement, I wasn't sure if I was going to find something that brought me the same amount of joy fighting dead and something that challenged me the same the same way fighting dead you know and i love my job in a ufc i love what i'm doing there but coaching people and helping people break through fear and changing their mindset and getting shape and

getting ripped it's really what gives me a lot a lot of joy so i want to i want to help more people to get to that point in life because you're a high performer tell me if it's not good to operate in the highest level possible to the rest like closing the gap between the person you are now and the person you have the potential to be is one of the most challenging things in the world but also it's one of the most rewarding things in the world there's nothing compared to that so i love that and i'm working on getting more of that out there so i can help more people to achieve that high performance life as well awesome we'll link your stuff below thanks for coming on thank you yeah thanks for watching guys that was super fun i'll see you tomorrow