The Entrepreneur DNA - No One Is Coming to Save You: The Brutal Truth About Success | Aaron & Eric Chapman

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Get the book 'Redneckinomics' here: https://quitjerkingoff.com In this episode, I sat down with Aaron Chapman and his brother Eric to talk about responsibility, discipline, and the real cost of success. We dug into the ideas behind Aaron’s book Redneckinomics and why no one is coming to save you. Aaron shared raw stories about rebuilding his life after a near-fatal motorcycle accident and financial collapse, while Eric explained how the artwork brings the message to life in a powerful way. This conversation is honest, uncomfortable, and necessary for anyone serious about growth, ownership, and earning their outcomes About Aaron Chapman: Aaron Chapman is a highly respected real estate finance expert, investor, and entrepreneur known for helping clients source, finance, and grow cash-flowing real estate portfolios. With more than 25 years in the industry, Aaron has been ranked in the top 1% of mortgage loan originators nationwide, closing well over 100 transactions per month and establishing himself as a trusted authority in real estate finance and wealth creation. His approach blends real-world experience with no-nonsense lessons on resilience, discipline, and self-reliance — themes he explores deeply through his work and leadership. Aaron’s insights come from a lifetime of hard lessons learned across multiple industries before entering finance, including cattle work, oil fields, mining, and long-haul trucking. Beyond his professional achievements, Aaron is also an educator and mentor at heart, frequently speaking on entrepreneurship, mindset, and the practical realities of building success on your own terms. You can learn more about him and his work at https://aaronchapman.com/ About Justin: Justin Colby is the host of The Entrepreneur DNA and The Science of Flipping podcasts and a best-selling author. He is a serial entrepreneur who built his wealth through real estate, completing nearly 3,000 deals across wholesaling, fix and flips, and long-term rentals. With over 18 years of experience, Justin has generated seven figures in active income and accumulated a diverse real estate portfolio that includes apartment buildings, single-family homes, and commercial assets. His longevity comes from his ability to adapt to changing markets, raise private capital, and build powerful lead-generation systems. Driven by a passion to help entrepreneurs thrive, Justin created the Entrepreneur DNA community to support business owners in building wealth, systems, and long-term freedom. Through his podcasts, books, education platforms, and hands-on mentorship, he continues to help entrepreneurs scale with clarity and confidence. Connect with Justin: Instagram: @thejustincolby YouTube: Justin Colby TikTok: @justincolbytsof LinkedIn: Justin Colby Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Entrepreneur DNA, you will not want to miss this episode. We got a book alert. New book coming out this upcoming year. I have the author. I have the illustrator. They happen to be brothers. Previous guest Aaron Chapman and his brother Eric Chapman are here. The illustrator is Eric. The author is Aaron. He's been known for over two decades as the real estate investment financial experts. And now he is coming out with redneck economics. Redneck economics. You got it. economics. So this is going to be a great book. Coming out, when? January 13th is the actual release date. You'll be able to get a Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or go to quitjurkingoff.com, pre-order it and be able to order directly for me. So, and that is not a joke. So we're all clear. That's actually where you can go. Check it out on all the different, whether it's Amazon, et cetera, or quitjurkingoff.com, and you can go ahead and order it. Talk to me about the book. Where did it come from? You come from. Everyone knows you. You're a well-known is a personality in the real estate space and the real estate financial space, the real estate finances space, although.

The investment space. All of that. All those things. But it didn't necessarily financial book. It is not. Everybody's got a financial book, right? But then there's a lot of self-help books. But certain things resonate with certain people.

Yeah. And I didn't intend to write that to begin with. You really just boiled down to I had written other things for the sake of my kids. I wanted to pass off. we published and they did a little bit of something. You can actually download those ebooks from the website as you're going through it with the code. What website is that again? Quitjerkingoff.com.

Perfect. Nailed it. Exactly. I think that's a real thing. Yes, it is. It is a real thing. Do you guys need to freaking quit, seriously? In all aspects of it. It's not just all with it.

It's literal and figurative in many ways. And we do talk about that within the book because ultimately life is a NASBET and it just is. And if you're going to be an entrepreneur and a successful entrepreneur, you can't, the big problem I see with a lot of people to look around seeing the people getting shit done like, oh, that guy had an edge or he's lucky or he must something that happens. It's like, no, guys, he just knows how to take the beating.

Yeah. They are some tough, some bitches to get things done. Nothing makes me more frustrated than hearing somebody say it must be nice. Like some bitch, you have no idea what I went through to get there. You have no clue what it is. And when people tell you that, oh, there's a certain race

that has an advantage. Really? Do any of those some bitches wake up in a hospital bed without a memory and they can't walk, everything is shattered and I have to start over at a, not just zero, negative 1.5 million and start over? No. So I can't, nobody can ever tell me

that I deserve something or it must be nice because it deserve is also a bullshit word in my opinion. I don't deserve anything. I don't deserve a freaking thing. I had to earn everything. You tell me I deserve what I got. You cheapen to every single bit of effort I ever put out. You know, so the chapters in and of themselves

are just great. They're titled great. ass beating one ass beating two ass beating three four or five there's literally 13 ass beatings in this you can't make it up

and they all have their own title but they are an ass subtitle right suck it up and put a bandage on it was one that just drew me to it because again I've been talking a lot

in my own world about things aren't easy but they're simple they are actually hard but they are simple to do and as easy as you've titled these

that's the of life. It is hard to suck it up and put a bandage on and keep moving forward. But that's the answer. It's easy. You have one answer. It's not, it's not a mathematical equation here. Yeah, sometimes you want to lay in bed and lament in your problem, but nothing happens. I can't do that. I don't know what it is. I hear about people's like, I just, they just lock themselves up in the room and they go into this, this fit of despair. I'm like, I can't do it. I got to move. Yeah. I have to be moving around. When I start getting in my head about something, I can't sit still.

I have to go do something. So you got to figure out when you're in that situation and things are going to shit. It's, okay, I need to move. I need to be doing something and then need a concert with. What is that thing? It has to be productive. Yeah. And maybe I'm just wired a little bit different.

I had to be wired a certain way over time. But you can wire yourself that way. I mean, Joe Dispenza says you can completely rewire your brain. I was just going to say that. You can absolutely. I mean, think about just the military. And we don't have to go into the military. But like, you create people who are like, oh, I'm a night owl and all this other stuff.

Well, the military is made up of all different types of. people and some of them were night owls but they damn sure now go to bed early and wake up early try not you rewire it it's it's not again hard choose your hard but it is simple right so let's talk about this dynamic here we got brothers we got the author we have the illustrator how did this all come about was this like a planned out hey bro let's do this cool thing together bro or yeah he's he comes up to me as like hey man i'm writing a book i want you to illustrate it and i'm thinking to myself personal. I'm a fine art painter, you know, oil paintings, nice, whatever stuff. And I know when my brother has an idea, like you've heard, quit drinking off and all this stuff,

it's going to be, something's going to be wild about it. And I'm not sure if it's going to drive with me. And I was like, I don't know, man. I don't know. But as I started reading it, I'm like, you know, this might be the way to go. But there were hurdles. I mean, imagine trying to illustrate, first of all, you don't illustrate a book like this to begin with. But second, imagine he says, okay, the chapter is put your helmet on, take your, take your, take, Take your blue pills. What is it? Say it. Was it, take your blue pills, put a helmet on. Take your blue pills. A screwing's coming. Take your blue pills and put a helmet on. A screwing is coming.

Yeah, illustrate that. You know what I'm saying? You know, quit jerking off. Illustrate that. By the way, I'm going to that page 115. Because ultimately, what it is is. I want to see what you illustrated on that. Each chapter has its own painting to describe the chapter. So he'd read a chapter and then he'd go all the way back to like illuminated manuscripts to the 1300s. The illustration for all of you. And there are blue peels there right there at the very bottom. Yeah, we decided on the illuminated manuscript, a medieval era sort of, because, I mean, these were texts that used for, you know, Holy writ and whatnot.

I found there was a lot of humorous things in them. I thought, let's use that. It's kind of like having a silly go with this and redneck it up. First of all, it is beautiful, right? I mean, coming from someone that literally can't draw a stick figure, this is rather beautiful, impressive. I mean, just the nuance of like, I don't know if you guys are going to be able to see all these, and I would tell you you go by the book, but like

even right before the scriptures, there's the bomb going off. There's such subtle nuances of all these different things. I think this is brilliant. And it's all in the subtlety of what to me is, it's so unbelievable. When I talk to him, we sit down, talk about some of these paints with the originals out, he'll start telling me

things he did. I'm like, holy shit, I didn't even see that. Because he would read it and pull out little tiny details and inject that into the image. And it's unbelievable. Yeah, I read it twice, trying to just extract all the imagery I could from it and not even really taking the book in for what it was, just looking at it from an image standpoint. And there were so many things that's peppered with, you know, it's pretty incredible. And it's kind of a history lesson, too, because I have hidden all kinds of artistic things. So if you're an art lover, you might see something, oh, yeah, that's from the Ghent altar piece.

Or, hey, there's some Calvin and Hobbs or there's, you know, and then there's personal stuff in there, too. Like the forward has this bookcase and there's a lot of stuff in that bookcase that mean things to me and mean things to him. Yeah. I'm like, hey, dude, I just plotted your life every place you've ever lived in this bookcase. He had no idea, you know, so. I love it. I mean, I just flipped to a random page and I ended up reading this. This is a great.

You guys, what this is? Yeah, this is great. So there is an image, and I don't know if you guys can all see it. But there is a bottle of Jim Beam Bourbon. There is a razor blade. There's duct tape, a lighter, two magnet condoms. because it's a gold rapper, obviously, and a manual. And they basically, the quote you gave was,

we are going to get these loans done with one of these things. You choose which one? Pretty much. So, again, I mean, this guy, this is incredible. And what I love about it is the story that it tells, not just through your own life, but through the art. I mean, it is just phenomenal. I think worst case scenario, guys,

and I put it all over in the book. constantly over and over. If you don't like what you're reading, throw the sum bitch away. The only reason I'd say you'd keep it, because there's well over $100,000 in art there that you get to hold in your hand. Well, no.

Listen, the more and more I get to know you, they need to read it. Because literally the subtitle, unconventional success taken by taking the beaten path. And it's a different beating because all my editors is like, wait a minute, that's spelled wrong. It's like, no, it's not read the book. No, it is the right way.

Because the beaten path is not the path. mostly worn is the path that throws you the beaten every day. You've got to walk into that beating constantly. Every chapter is designed to give you the tools that you need to be ready to not only just take a beating, but curate the beating you're willing to take to achieve what you want to achieve. I have taken, I went myself and was able to sit down and write down a bunch of words that I want to achieve, not realizing I did it because I was getting interviewed for a position at a company. They said, tell us about your next five years. I'm like, shit, I don't know about my next five years. They wanted a five-year vision. They sent me the vision of the CEO. And it was a lot of

bullet points. And it's like, nobody identifies with a bullet point. So I wrote myself a story, will be a letter to myself five years in advance. And I've achieved every damn thing that was on that, not knowing I could. It was far beyond my reach at the time. And I've had other people come to me. It's like, how do we, we want to do the same thing. So I took him to my place in Missouri. There was also created with my mind in my pen. That's a whole other crazy story. They came out there. I went hunting. I put them in tree stands. These guys are from New York. They've never been out out in the woods at all, ever. So we showed up out there,

flew into Kansas City, drove out to the place. I put him on tree stands. I'm like, I'm going hunting on the other side of the property. I got eight acres right there. You got to keep your asses in the stands till after dark, because if you start moving around,

it's going to push the deer out, and you're going to piss me off. And so you wanted to come here. This is how it is. And these guys, I made them dressed in camel and they were kind of freaked out, put him in the stands.

I went and I hunted, came back and they were in my cabin with the light. I'm like, how long you guys been here? About 20 minutes. Like, no wonder, some bitches. there was a freaking buck that just busted through because you guys were moving. How much did you write? Well,

nothing. Well, one of the other guys came back late, and he had eight pages. So we went over his eight pages. We talked that night. We went to bed. I kicked their ass out of bed at four o'clock in the morning. I put him in the stands that you don't leave here until I'm going back hunting.

They all had, five, six, you know, one had eight, those were fine. The other guys had five or six pages. But by the end of three days, they all had eight to ten pages. You know, that was eight years ago, every single single. one achieved everything they wrote down within that five years. Wow. So we're going to help people do the exact same thing with that book on that place. No one gives a damn about you.

Yes. What's your take on that? You got to give a damn about you. Because nobody's going to, everybody's too busy giving a damn about themselves. You're in Miami, bro. Oh, that is extremely evident. What Miami does is it actually brings it to the surface. Very, very, very, very illuminated that nobody gives a damn about you.

They give a damn about themselves. And when you don't give a damn about you, you're going nowhere. You have to be your biggest fan. You have to love yourself enough to put yourself through the pain to become what you want to become. There's no, some people they talk about, I remember I had a girlfriend at one point. She was talking about Brad Pitt and Fight Club. She goes, you've got to be unbelievably narcissistic to get your body to that level. You've got to do that for everything.

You got to love yourself that enough. And then when you think about the Ten Commandments, we go through that in there in the book, and we break down the greatest commandments, love God and love your neighbor as yourself. But how many people really love themselves? How do you fulfill the greatest commandment that's out there, which is to love God and love your neighbor as yourself if you don't even love yourself? You've got to come to terms with who you are. You can't use your genetics or anything for an excuse. You got to love what you have so damn much that you put everything out of the line to become who it is.

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And see how many people are actually there to help you or even listen to you. Offer advice. Everyone's willing to offer advice. I take that back. Everyone's, oh, here's what you should do. Who's going to really jump in the rain and pick you up when you're down? And it could be financial, it could be physical, it could be mental, it could be a relationship gone sour. Like, and you will come to find out.

There's a very small group. If you do it right, that will jump in that ring with you to pick you up. But also, they can only do so much. Because if you're going to lay in bed and waller in your shit, they can't come get you up. They can't clean you up. They can't make you work out. They can't work out for you. Right.

There's nothing they can do for you other than offer support. That's it. Just say, hey, we're here for you. you. Call me. I'll listen. They'll just, they'll help brace you up, but they can't do your work for you. They can't do your workout for you. They can't eat right for you. They can't do any of that for you. You are truly alone in this world. I'll give it damn. How much your mom loves you. How much your mom loves you? How much your kids love you? They can't do for you what you have to do for you. It's impossible. Absolutely. But the hand, they can't and they won't because they have their own mess. They're also

knocked down in their own ring. Exactly. Right. They're like, so you're not perfect. They're not perfect. Like, they don't have enough endurance to get over to your ring. Yeah, about 14 years ago, my wife passed away and I had an ex-girlfriend that reached out to me. And she says, right now, you're probably just getting bombarded by people reaching out to you. But, you know, her dad passed away. She goes, in about a month, there's just going to be nobody. It's going to be silence. And I'll reach out to you then.

And I was like, well, that's profound. I was extremely grateful because she got to use something that happened in her life and see that and recognize it. So whenever something like that happens to people I know, here for you now, but I make an effort to be here for them then, you know? I think that's great wisdom is because that's only true. When something happens, everyone rushes, but they're there to probably give you a couple pieces of opinion, and then they're gone. And you're like, I don't need your opinion right now.

I just need someone to listen or whatever the gate would be, right? Especially since their opinions, usually they have no idea. Lots of cases they haven't been through it. And for those that have, I mean, they know exactly what to do, but still, you still have to go through it. I mean, you can't just give it to them. So give everyone kind of the story behind the book, right? Because all these chapters have a meaning, but we can go into the motorcycle accident.

We can go into the story behind being a 23-year-old dad and trying to figure out your financial world and taking care of kids and everything in between there, because that is the impetus of this. And now for you to be as successful as you are, and if you don't know, go follow Aaron on all platforms. We do real estate together. He is incredibly successful in the real estate investing space, specifically with the finances and financing. He is the expert in that arena. But it wasn't just a, you know, you walked into Daddy's job, right? I mean, you've been taking it. I did walk into Daddy's job, which was mining in New Mexico. And when they laid me up, I had to find something else. And so we already did that episode. We talked about that. And that was one of the greatest times in my

life because you really get to see who you are when your face is down in the gutter and and you're at the lowest point possible. And when you crawl up from that, you look back on that, you see the wisdom in it. You see the gifts from God in you stepping through the hell that is where it going through the toughest parts of your life. And then you get to a point in, you know, in 2011, 2012 was when I decided to start writing something for my kids and I started writing all this out, 380 pages of stuff and went to a publisher and I sent her all this thing.

And she goes, yeah, nobody gives a shit. write something people give a shit about. I'm like, well, what is that? So I end up spending two days with her just downloading everything. And then they wrote something for me. I'm like, that's not me. That's not my voice. So I redid it. And then my brother-in-law gave me suggesting, we published four of these little books, 30 pages only. I'm like, if you got to write more than 30 pages on a concept, you're just jerking us off with words. It's a waste of time. And so in and out, those are great, great little books and they have great concepts, practical application of gratitude, one on being able to write these things down and make them happen. Another, any,

thing on on on uh on uh reliability you know so great books but they think they only sold a few thousand copies and then i hear robert allen at a at a at a event and robert allen's usually talking about real estate because he is the o g the king dangling of real estate there is no bigger badass than robert allen as far as real estate entrepreneurs are concerned and you consider where he came from plus a multi uh multi um new york times bestseller multiple properties and uh multiple books and international bestseller. Back when you couldn't manipulate it. Yeah, yeah.

It tells you something about what a badass is, and he's talking about how to write a book, not real estate. Like, he's telling about all the things I did wrong. So I asked him, how do I, can I bring these back and you help me fix him? He goes, no, you're going to write a new book. What book am I going to write? You tell me. Well, I'm not writing another damn book, right?

And so we've kind of fought over it. I literally almost told him to piss off. He goes, no, let's sit down, let's get the outline. He helped me with the outline. Now he just started writing. Yeah. Now, the outline, I had to come up with the outline, but he gave me the mechanics of it. And then I'd send him a chapter.

He goes, perfect, keep going. I'm like, you don't want to change it. He goes, no, you just keep going. That's perfect. And he's like, literally laughing over these Zoom calls. He goes, this is amazing. You just keep going, keep going, keep going. Then when it's done, he's like, you need to illustrate this book.

I'm like, do you haven't illustrated? He goes, no, I don't illustrate my books. Nothing's ever been illustrated. He goes, but he goes, you just find yourself an artist. Well, I had one. So convinced him to read it. You have what he was able to start to create. Then I need an editor.

His wife is a professional editor. So she hooked me up with a few names. I sent them the manuscript with a forward from Robert Allen, which was my entry in. They said, Robert Allen doesn't write forwards. Let's read this. They bastardized my work, so I couldn't find an editor. Finally, a friend of mine, Allenstein Jr. There was another author.

He said, talk to this guy. Sent it to that guy. He ended up being the CEO of a publishing company. He said, we will publish this, but you need more artwork. We had 13, actually 14 pieces of art in there for the chapter covers, which are unbelievable. But he wanted at least three pieces of art per chapter in it and do the whole cover. My cover, I wanted just be an old leather cover. Yeah.

He wanted it color with my face. I'm like, I don't want my damn face on the cover. But now you have that piece of art that was created because other people saw something I couldn't see. Yeah. Now we have no idea where it's going to go, right? We're out here shaking our asses like we're laid on rent trying to do something with it. But I pray that anybody who picks it up understands the reason behind it. It wasn't me that said to do it.

It was somebody else who said to do it. It wasn't some me that decided. to do the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the saw the vision of that. And, you know, one of the greatest compliments ever got was from the person I never wanted to read the manuscript because of the influence she had my own mother. Mm-hmm. She, she, she finally read the first bound sets, and she came to me and she said, I wished I had this to give you when you turned eight. Hmm. That was such a profound statement. And then she called me just a few days ago while I was working out. She was going to talk to you

about your book. I'm like, oh, here it is. She found something. He didn't like. He's found that one thing he's going to bust my ass for because of the language that's in it. Be guys be forewarned. But she says, you know, I finished your book for the fifth time. And I can finally forgive myself for the wrongs I did as a mother. She goes, what was spoken to me through your words have advanced me in a place I could never get. I've been trying for over 50 years. And I went back and She sent me a picture of where she took notes about being able to do that and is on the last page of the book. And as I'm reading the stuff she highlighted, I noticed right before the highlighted stuff, it says in the book, if you've made it this far, you're only 20% done. You got four more reads to get it.

I don't understand why I wrote that. I don't remember writing that, but I wrote it from my own mother. She was able to allow me to feel the gravity of being able to speak to my mom with something that she needed. and it didn't come from me. Yeah. There was something, I give that credit to God, that I was able to speak for him

to one of his children that she needed to hear something and be able to move on at 73 years old. Yeah. I would tell you, there's a lot of self-development books, but this is unique. This is special,

not just the name, but genuinely how you communicate, because you communicate in a way of real life example, not just concept or theory or, you know, metaphor. This is, I literally got served these hardships. This is how I handled them. This is how I overcame them. And it's practical and it's real. And that is, you know, as someone who genuinely reads slash listens to books a lot because I travel a ton, this is the uniqueness of this book. And I would tell anyone out there, make sure you get this when it's time to be able to buy it. Because if you want to be

able to move on in life successfully, the practicality that you put into this book is going to be incredibly useful. Whoever reads it. And you get to see some really awesome pieces of art. The art's incredible. Thank you. Thank you. One thing he mentioned to me on this trip that I thought was interesting because, you know, we've been going to all these different events. He says, you know, people here, guys up there telling stories that are just massive, things they've gone through that are just practically unrelatable, experiences that people have had or the problems they've had that, other people typically don't have. He goes, man, sometimes I wonder about, you know,

my experiences. I'm like, well, think about it. If you're talking about picking up change in a parking lot so you can buy some gas so you can get to the store to get diapers, that's something so many people can relate to. And a lot of those people are so low, they have no hold. Yeah. And here you are.

You're not coming out with some story about something that happened to you that was so grandiose that other people can't comprehend it. You're saying something that everybody has had. some knowledge of and they can relate to that and use it and apply it and and go down the path that Aaron's outlining here. Have the balls to stay your hand. Talk about this chapter as we wrap up. So that accident I talked about, you know, where a 17 year old kid in his dad's truck created the biggest devastation in my life and almost took my life. My attorney told me he went and searched all the stuff that his family had, and I was entitled to every damn bit of it,

according to the law. And I put myself in the position of that man. A 17-year-old kid driving your truck, you only have so much in your life monetarily you've been able put together at that point, but now something was done where you literally have everything at risk. Can you imagine what his nights were like? Can you imagine the conversations around the table with their son? Can you imagine what he felt like he had a baseball, potentially a baseball career ahead of him,

for what I recall. Who knows if he was able to even practice worth a damn because he knows that he was the cause of his family's losing everything. And I told my attorney to let it go because it was not going to make me whole anyway. I'm looking at my own children and say, by the grace of God,

well, I never have to experience that. Right now my youngest is 19 years old and she's about ready to fly the coup, but not a single one of the situation. I had to deal with that with four children. But I started to realize the power in being able, to understand the phrase meekness, or not the phrase, but the word.

Because it says in the scriptures, it says, bless art of meek, they shall inherit the earth. When you think meek, what are you thinking? Weak and just like... Really lowly person, exactly, very, very poor, humble situation. It's actually a very powerful person who chooses not to use their power. Who is, basically, it's the gardener, it's the warrior in the garden. That's a man with the sheath sword. Yep.

That is a meek man. and why and it says they only hear it the earth well if you're talking about a weak person they're going to hear it they're not that you're talking about this weakness thing for something promised in the future in the future life from god no it's here so when you know a person that has the ability to come around just start taking heads and he's a powerful some bitch but he chooses not to for the sake of the other person that's a person that you want to be around that's a person that you will trust with everything because you know he's not going to take from you that meek man is who i had to become to know that I could take everything. I was justified to come in anger. Silver

back on Coke after the sunbitch, but I had to calm it down and say it's not worth it. That there's more value in life than that kind of stuff. And so you start deciding that and understanding the value of meekness, that it's, it's a very powerful person. I had to find that power. The concept of not taking action through emotion, or at least knee jerk action, because obviously you're angry, your life was almost taken from you, you're, you know, physically less of a man than you were. You could easily have the anger, knee-jerk reaction, let me go after what I deserve. And you didn't. And you slowed down, you calmed down, and you took some reason within your decisions.

And then you looked to scripture and basically say, hey, I'm better than that. I don't need to ruin their life, right, just because I can. You have to find the power within to know that you're still going to be able to make it out of it. Yeah. Because I was going to, from a net worth of about $4 million to a negative net worth of 1.5, guys, this was August of 2008. Yeah. August 8th of 2008, I laid on that black top and I baked in Arizona. You got to know what that black top felt like.

Ugh. Now, shattered a bunch of us, 17 broken bones, collapsed lung, a memory that lasted three minutes, and I was tore up. Every time they came in to move me because of how bad my back goes from the road rash and the burns, I literally just cringed every time they walked in my room to move me around. because I had to move to all kinds of different treatment. They had pulled that sheet to move you, and it would crack all those scabs that I adhered to. Those sheet adhered to my body, and I have to put up with that pain over and over and over again as they cracked all those scabs, a full body of scabs. So when you consider all those kinds of things, I was justified in anything and everything

I was going to do, but it's a powerful, powerful step to know that I don't need to take from that. I'll find it a different way, a way that I will earn, not deserve, because it's also written in there how many things we deserve and it's absolutely freaking nothing. Yeah. You've got to earn it. Ladies and gentlemen, read in economics.

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