The Money Mondays - Steve Weatherford & Brad Castleberry Get Real About MONEY | E6

Episode Date: March 24, 2023

Superbowl Champion Steve Weatherford & Bodybuilder Brad Castleberry Get Real About MONEY 💰 Episode 6 NFL Superbowl champion Steve Weatherford & world famous bodybuilder Brad Castleberry are sharing all their money secrets in this episode! Hear how two of the world's most competitive athletes climbed their way to financial success. -- Steve Weatherford is a former NFL football punter who won Super Bowl XLVI over the New England Patriots as a member of the New York Giants. He played college football at Illinois and was signed by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2006. Weatherford has been a member of the New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets, and New York Giants. He also knows a thing or two about money, business, wealth building and making an impact. He's sharing all his secrets to success, including the reality of NFL paydays and more. Brad Castleberry is a Pro bodybuilder, powerlifter, and former football player also. Brad was always an athletic child growing up. His first encounter with weight training was at the age of 15 years old, and since then, he never stopped excelling at bodybuilding, sports, and weightlifting. He's grown an audience of millions of followers on social media with his exclusive bodybuilding content, and is sharing his secrets here for how he makes money, invests it, and works on charitable projects including what it's like to work with brands and sponsors, and what it takes to go to the next level. --- The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money.

Man, there's a really scary statistic for me. Thank God I made it over the hump, but 79% of NFL guys are either broke or divorced within two years. 79, dude, because most people, here's the most people think NFL guys made millions and millions of millions. Oh, you played for eight years. Oh, you probably made at least 40 million, right? years, oh, you probably made at least 40 million.

Buddy, you know, like there's only like 5% of the roster that makes 95% of the money. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Money Mondays. We have the most special edition ever. We have 1000 pounds of money. I have to listen to this podcast. You're going to go straight to the gym. You're going to be eating lean chicken for the rest of your life after hearing. What we have for you today. We have a super bowl champion here.

We have a fitness trainer. The personal influencer was millions of followers. We have the most famous animal influence of the panion with over 200 million views a month. And I get to ask a bunch of questions. Please welcome Mr. Steve Weiss the Verde, Brad Casselbury and the Real Tarzan. That's not the problem. Let's go. We're about to spec out. All right guys. So what we're going to do here on the money Monday is we talk about three topics and three topics only. How do people make money?

How do they invest money? How do they give away the charity? So first off, we're going to do two minute vials with each of you guys and then we're going to get straight to the money. Steve, by the fur, start with some. Two minute vials. Well, I've just turned 40 years old. Dan and I've been friends for about five years now. I've been married for 16 years. I've got six kids. I've played in a field for 10 years. This is the first time that I've ever done a four-man podcast or done it from inside of RV or my wife. Brad and I have listed with alongside of each other for a while. And things that I'm passionate about is my family. I love fitness. And I just love getting excellent things. You know, for a while it was the NFL and

and then I got really into entrepreneurship and then I felt like God really got a hold of me four years ago. And now I just been on this spiritual vision quest with him and building deep and meaningful relationships with you because I have made enough money to realize that a whole lot more of it's not going to like shift or change my circumstance or my purpose, but here's a deal. You freaking need money to make things happen and to make people's dreams come true. So to end my bio, I would just love to honor you, man. You have been such a great friend, not just to me, but this RV that we're in on this farm that we're on. I watched

you for five years, and I know you've been doing it for a lot longer than that, but I've been watching you make people's dreams come true. Not just like on podcasts like this, but making people's dreams come true because I've seen Dan Fleshem in flight of three different cities in one day just to show up for his friends and never get paid a dollar. He's blessing you and I know you know this might but he's blessing you in a major way and making your dreams come true. Um, and that's just the type of guy that he is but that's what this farm really represents is I don't believe that Dan is going to have to like go out and make people's dreams come true anymore. It's cool that this this our view will do that because that's your heart for people. You wanna make it easy, but this farm is gonna be a place

where people can come to sit with the wise man and they'll help them their dreams come true without a ton of grind, but it would just be that wisdom, that experience and the price that he's paid. So I know that was more than two minutes, but I just, I'm pretty proud of you. I just do, and then I go for you.

Yeah, thanks, man. All right, Brad Castleberry, tell us the story. Yeah, Warren Ray's in San Diego, just raised by my mom. I have two kids. They're beautiful. They've made me who I am. I just work hard every day. Honestly, the ups and downs of life have really shown me

who I am and what people need. People need to disappear around positive people. They need to be like doing what they love to do. A lot of people get lost I guess in life, if I lose themselves and I feel like there's not really many men out there like supporting people, like having people in the back. It's like a pat on the back to a lot of men and a lot of people are missing that and that's like something I feel like back to a lot to a man and a lot of people are missing that and that's like something I feel like I want to do to people make them feel good and give them hope. I Stress out. I get all messed up in my mind too. I'm just like a lot of people and to show people like that's this life man

Life is gonna hit you like where you like don't know it's coming and you gotta just keep working hard Little steps and another thing is just like, it isn't health. Like I've done it my whole life. And I feel like that's one thing that's really helped me sustain. You kind of lose your body, you start losing your mind. But yeah, so like, honestly, just working out. It's really kept me going, my kids.

And now I'm here with you guys. And I'm honestly like, we bet, like, no, week back like now with you like brand new like all the new like all this is just like meant to be. So just for me where I'm at where I'm going is just I want to help more people with what I've gone through and what I've experienced. So fitness is how to do that. And now I coach people train train them and, uh, help them be better. And that's kind of where I'm at.

And, uh, teach my kids that honestly, like men should be taking care of their kids and leading them in the right direction. Be there when they need them. I mean, that's something that I feel that in this world is kind of forgotten. There's a lot of men out there that leave their kids. If you're a man, don't leave your kids. You gotta take care of them. And, uh, I have a daughter. I'm like the man in her life. So I'm just proud of them and I'm proud that I've

become the man I am without having a father in my life. And so like it's one thing I had to teach myself on what I would always, what I never wanted to do and leave my kids behind. So like not having a father, it made me do the complete opposite of like sticking there with my kids. So yeah, I think a lot of people like make that excuse like, oh, I didn't have a father. Now I didn't know how to be a father. It's a choice. So I made the right choice on changing the opposite of what I had. So yeah, that's a little bit of who I am and where I'm going. Oh, that right.

And to our co-host, the real tiresome give us a 60 second bias. Wow. Fast. I'm from Rhode Island, the smallest state United States. I think guys know I love animals, and it was my whole life. Travel 25 countries. I have a couple million followers on social media, but we're going to get them. So that's just a big bit.

In the video last week, that I got 105 million views until I was just behind you in 35, but it's actually I didn't look today. Shake the sound scan. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is.

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Mm-hmm. So this RV motorhome typically drives the people's houses. We'll go pull up the damsels area in the house and go pull up the this lady's house and we'll show up. But right now, we're actually sitting on the 26 acre ranch, nicknamed the wild jungle, WYL. The U.S. with Farge's has been building here. There's over 85 animals and growing.

We rescue a lot of the animals. We buy some of them and we rescue 95% of them. So, you guys are wanting to visit us. We're in San Diego right there in the Temecula area. All right guys, let's get straight to the money. Steve Weatherberg, Radcasta Berry. Got some serious questions for you. All right, we'll go through the three things. How do you make money? How do you invest money? How do you give it away to charity? If someone wants to get into professional sports, there's a very, very, very tiny percentage of people that go from college athlete to NFL, NBA, M.O.B. etc. What do you think the difference is in mindset that gets someone, because I don't think it's the body.

There's a lot of amazing specimens that are out there. If you line up 100 college athletes, there's not going to be that much difference in 4.6 or 4.4. I'm already out there, right? I think it's the mindset. What do you think is the difference between an amateur, college athlete, and one of those NFL players? Yeah, I would say today when I'm here

and you say it's like, what's the difference between good and great? Really, really great amateur and a real pro. And I feel like this, maybe this answer can serve those guys at the football sports that are listening to this for money. It's grit because the size of the athletes and in major cause like Big Ten is where I played I put universe it was on the size of those athletes

At the level and the size of them in the NFL is about the speed, right? Their speed of play is different, but it's a grittiness, right? Because it takes great athleticism and great abilities to get a shot in the NFL, but it really takes a lot of grit to stay because a lot of people don't realize for the NFL, for example, the majority of the contracts, like the 95% of the contracts aren't guaranteed. Like my signing bonus was guaranteed, but I remember calling my dad, you were speaking a lot to father, so I'll speak to this. I remember calling my dad in honor,

and he was a great dad, but I remember calling him and telling him, like, hey, I like, I made the team. And I remember him before we, you know, he said, you know, congrats on proud of you. It's like, hey, remember this job's only week to week. And so pretty for the majority of my career, my job was week to week. So people would

like celebrate you on Sundays, but they don't realize that your wife is at home fasting. And every time that you put it and she's in the stadium, she puts her head between her laughing. She's like, please, God, please, God, please, God, you know, it's really stressful. You know, but I believe that a lot of people that aren't athletes can really connect with high-pressure situations and I'll share the statistic that I was going to share. So context for it is once you make the NFL, like I did as an undrafted free agent and and I'll compare me to first-rounders, there are more undrafted free agents that have a 10-year NFL career.

Then first rounders that have an 10-year NFL. Those are the greatest pedigree athletes of the... Walking the planet, the best athletes around the USA track and field team. They're in the NBA and in the NFL you see Tyree kill. Oh, for crying my god. That's the context for you. Yeah. The greatest speed and the greatest athletes that we have or guys like LeBron James and Tyree kill

and they're not running track. And I say those things to say what's the difference between those high-pattery animals, right? And I say that in an honor, like I wish I was like that. I'm close, right? But I'm not that. Those guys, less of those guys have a tenure in the felt career than guys like me.

And it's grip. Like he doesn't get to where he's at then and you don't get to where you're at because you're really smart and you are so smart and you're so good with people. You've got grip, man. You've had so many people betray you with facts stab you and steal from you.

Like, hey, I've seen some of it, but I just would assume because you're so generous and you open your world to people. So I say those things to say, if you didn't have grit, because I wouldn't be sitting here right now. But if I didn't have grit, I wouldn't be sitting here right now.

If you didn't have grit, you wouldn't be sitting there. When you put that first video, people making fun of you. Mike, what's this? What's this? What's this black dude doing talking about animals, jock and Steve Irwin, right? I'm sure you saw all that stuff.

Did you had grit, Mike? That's why you're sitting at the table with kings. That's why I afforded myself an opportunity to sit here with kings. Number one ingredient, man. Grit. So I don't know if that answered your question. Yeah, it's a great highlight. Yeah, I always say that.

I'm still proud. He's kind of lovely. I want to rewatch it myself. Hey, Brad Casabray, there are a lot of personal trainers, fitness influencers, people in supplement space. How does someone stand out to get millions of followers like you? How does it work? Ah, like you said, Greg, it's like I say be a man like Stainier Lane.

It's very similar. It's just like a mindset Man, you're always gonna come across like a lot of people are always the number one thing I feel like people would stop in themselves is like they will care about the opinion about it It's honestly, so if you want to really stand out you got to stop caring what people think and like to be original You got to do yourself so like to end in Instagram or social media. You want to be yourself Everyone is original, but they start following other people and then they forget who they are. So if you want it like to be somebody like be yourself like and for me like fitness

It's like really personal to me like fitness. I've been doing this like since how so young It's like in my blood. It's in my mind I'm like and I see everyone like how they are and And that's like why I'm doing what I do. It's like it meant to be a thing because it's about posture, how you stand, it's how you move the mechanics of your body. All those little things is what creates who you are. So like for me, like I feel like most people

in the fitness world don't even talk about that stuff. It's like skinny or fat. When it's like, skinny or fat, you don't even stand right. You don't even talk about that stuff. It's like skinny or fat. When it's like, skinny or fat, you don't even stand right. You don't walk right. You don't have good posture. So it's like, the basics to me is like the ABCs, like how you stand, how you walk,

like how you position yourself. And then that's like, we're talking about athletes. Like a lot of these athletes could be better athletes if they just knew the better stance and body mechanics of their cells, not just working, it's how you work. So I feel like a lot of people in the fitness world have no clue what they're even doing with the basics. They think it's just bench pressing and pull down. It's how you do the bench press, how you set your body up, how you do the pull down. So I just feel

if you're trying to like really build a proper, I'm all about sculpting a body. And like in the end of the day, you won't look good when you're naked. You want to look good like when you look in the mirror at yourself. So it's like, if you can't hold yourself right, you're not going to get the right look. So it's like, you're like, I want to look at that guy over there, but if you're standing all awkward, but you're doing the same workouts, you're not going to get to look at look like that. So I just feel like in the

fitness world, the number one thing I feel is wrong is the basic information of understanding the fundamentals of how to build a body and how to position it. And I feel like almost it's like nobody talks about it. Like, oh, you got to, so for me, I've gone through so many different styles of like training, higher practice and like therapists, and all these different things. I've been able to like kind of formulate that into my own little program of like what I think is correct. And everyone says like, they're, I just like this. Know your life that with your habits and your date, like what you've come from or how

you were raised. So like what I do is just like I want people to understand they needed like step a little further back than just saying like fat or skinny but like standing right is the most important to your posture. It's like that's just something that I just feel is like a lost thing in the fitness world and I just want people to know that that's the most important thing is the ABCs to me. Before you go, you want to get skinny or fat, you can have the best looking body and not even be really skinny. It's the shape. So I feel, yeah, fitness is that to me.

So like, I'm really personal with me. It's like, that's what I want to share with the world. Is the ABCs I call them. How you stand, posture, and then you go build a body. But I feel like, yeah, that's just kind of where I see where people in the business world and if you want to create like yourself, like you got to start with that. Steve, the money Monday is the concept of it was a lot of us grew up, almost all of us grew up thinking that it's rude to talk about my parents. I was rude.

I'm wearing a type of stuff to talk to that. Can't talk about salary. I can't say that. I can't talk about what you make or what you spend on rent or how much you pay for your car. You can't talk about it. It was literally rude and the concept and the goal of the money money is to make it rude and not talk about money. I think a lot of the reasons there's credit deficits and the reason that people go bankrupt and the reason that 85% of NFL and NBA players go bankrupt within five years leaving the league like statistics like that are insane. And it hurts actually like I watched household name athletes have to borrow 20 grand when they had 40 you've watched your friends do the 40 million dollar contract. We share seven for people you've watched your friends do that over and over and over and

I think it stems from we never had talks about money. Right. We didn't talk about us save up money. how to invest, we didn't do those things. Why do you think so many professional athletes, musicians, etc. make a ton of money? Well, it leaves way. It's maturity, you know. I think sure you get more mature when you talk about things, right? But I think it's just overall maturity. Like for me, I was very thankful that when I got into the league,

I was like making the least amount that I was going to make when I was in NFL, but when I came into the league, was when you were friends with Ricky Williams, right? I was like, you're a whole boy. Remember when he got into the league and he had that contract with Master P? $8 with Master P and I know you wish you could go back knowing what you know now and you would make his life different, right? What is that? It's experience. With experience you get what? You get maturity. So now that you know what you know, that's what this show is for. It's for you to bring up the maturity of other people

because of the experiences of your life and the experiences of the other people that you're going to have on here. So, to kind of go back to your context, you said 85 percent, man, there's a really scary statistic for me. Thank God I made it over the hump, but 79 percent of NFL guys are either broker divorced within two years. Seventy-nine, dude, because most people, here's the deal. Most people think NFL guys made millions and millions of millions. Oh, you played for eight years. Oh, you probably made at least 40 million. Right. Buddy, you know, like there's only like 5% of the roster that makes 95% of the money. You know, like there's only like 5% of the roster that makes 95% of the money, you know,

but here's the deal. From my maturity, kind of coming back to my story and then I landed playing and it was, I've let Brad share. I made the larger amounts, like the $3 million signing bonuses, you know, that God blessed us with. That came when I was in my seventh year, right at ours. Married, I had some kids, I had some old surely, I had already made some mistakes and bought the stupid watches, jacked my truck ups on 40s and then traded it in a year later

because it drives like crap, my life can't get in. Like I've made all those mistakes and sure I blew a couple hundred grand but it's like I'm so thankful that I wasn't like Ricky and a sign of bad contract but what if you're like Reggie Bush and you get into the NFL and you make you sign a $62 million contract and you get all of your money right in the first two years right and you make mistakes with it because you're thinking to yourself, Mike, it's probably making money like this for a whole break. This will never happen to you, but what are you two should off the moral? You know, in the name of Jesus, that'll never happen,

but I'm saying things like that can happen. You know, and people just, they just think, thanks, we're just going to keep raining down and you're a businessman You've seen some of your businesses that you thought were positioned to sell for freaking hundred million and a year later You can't get somebody to take the inventory So I think a lot of that comes with maturity that says in scripture That with with many counsel comes much wisdom and so like when I was with Dan on the car ride last night, I was asking him questions about his relationship and taking interest in his life. But I knew at some point, if I had an opportunity,

I was gonna ask him for some business wisdom when I asked you about the company that I invested in the telehealth company that's just absolutely blowing up. And I'm like, do we have critical mass? Could I get some wisdom? Because I don't want to make more mistakes than I have when I have a friend like this, Mike. And you shouldn't either.

And Brad neither should I. I mean, we should just be. And I say that to honor you and I know you don't have all the answers, but you have taken so many more shots than me. So like if I can come in here and Dan could adjust my elbow and allow me to invest and protect myself, maybe I'm investing in the same thing, but maybe Dan allows me to put a clause in. So when my partner freaks out and gets to divorce, my business doesn't go to the floor, right?

So I'll end the play there, but yeah, I would just say maturity, man. Brad, so normally we ask about investing money. I want to ask about investing to your body. How much money does it take to invest into Brad Casaburr? I always want to be that. This guy's like a lab. There's people doing it. It's not a tiny tube. It's tiny. I also took it in my bag too. Well, I spend like a thousand dollars a week at that lake.

I don't think that I'm a feeling we've been doing. What happens if we're talking like oh, I can't think that would feel like kids too. You know what I mean? The whole entire body costs you that much. The cost you're like, and I would say it's like, but even healthy does cost more money. And it does. And having your kids, I feed my kids very well.

And then I supplement protein supplements, shakes, shakes. Honestly, I do a lot of solid meals, and then I got supplements, protein supplements, shakes, shakes. I honestly, I do a lot of solid meals, but yeah, like investing in your body is like everything. It's just as much as important as finding, like if you have a whole bank account full of money and you don't have a body that is to match, it's like I don't agree with that.

Like you gotta, you gotta have more life. You have one life. You got to feel good. You got to be able to have mobility. You got to invest as much in your body, your mind, it will do financially. I think it's just the balance of both. If I had to choose what I would choose, money, or if my body, I'd probably choose my body. Because it's the most important thing. Yeah, like, because I feel like I want to help people with that. So as I can help people with my knowledge in teaching them through myself, what I'm walking around,

I just inspire people and they see me. And I think they just want to be better by the presence of me. Where I think sometimes I, like that's more powerful than seeing a lamb regaining dry by. Because it's like, individual, it's like, what are we with nothing? What are we?

Who are we? And I, so at the end of the day, you got to invest in your body, you got to invest in your mind, you got to invest in your friends around you. You have to, like, it's accountability partners. So for me, I always just want people to look around. Who do you have around you, get rid of the dead weight

and have people like, because you wanna be like, I said, pat it on the back. So if you're hanging out with people that don't pat you on the back, like that's not like, that's an investment that you're, like, you have the wrong investment partners around you, because we all need that support So you just keep complimenting all of us, you know, I mean that makes it all feel good. So then we're gonna go

Yeah, yeah, and I'm not saying so they're gonna continue to strive to do be able to do more But you gotta have money to do like everyone has a different gift They do it's we all have different gifts so like yeah, I just think you got to invest in your, it costs a lot for this, but it's a lifetime of information that's created this. And now I want to give it back to everyone else because it's like, I've been able to, yeah, I was working out like since I was six years old, seven years old. We can tell. It would be, it would be an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly , an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly, an ugly,

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Yeah, absolutely. So I think that's a really important thing that we're all talking about. It's just like share the knowledge, share the wealth, and we all have different wealth to share. So absolutely. Go. The tarzan we've invested millions of dollars since moving here this summer into the wild jungle.

Can you explain why, how, what is the wild jungle and why you said, why have you dedicated your life to animals? Well, animals saved my life. When I was a kid, I had a great childhood growing up and I lost my pops when I was 14. And I didn't really have anything going mentally for myself emotionally, and I was going down a dark path. And I didn't like, it was like a piece of me died too.

It was almost my whole self died. And I didn't have any, I really didn't want to live no more, you know, and the only thing I can look forward to was the small interaction of how it animals and I was like, man, I could live for that, you know, and then those animals brought back the feeling of being a human again even though I'm hanging out with animals. And then I brought back into my family and mentally, my brothers and stuff like that. So that's when I became like, I wouldn't say a servant, but I basically live for animals. And I do serve them. And I do serve them.

I do serve. You can't have too much of that serve a god. But I do serve animals in the sense of thankfulness. And people ask me all the time, how much does it cost to feed this or how much is that zor's cost and I say gross priceless. We talk about investing in ourselves and investing our money. I like to invest in something that I can't do anything for me, which is an animal. And in a sense, it do everything for me.

So, it's a having partners like Dan everything for me. You know, so it's cool. It's having partners like Dan and friends around the world that support what we do. People that come visit us or book events and they see how happy our animals are. It brings such a joy to us, you know. And while jungle is just, just getting started, man, you know, we got big plans. You know, we have 38 kids already now, 85 plus animals. We're going every week, we're rescuing animals, we're feeding them on the top quality food, you know,

and it's a beautiful thing, man. I can't, I can't, I can't pitch you anything else happening. We got a first committal dragon towards today. We got that 50 people go swim with the swimming type of lizard, and it's first, you know, set first, it was the first warm day in months here, been raining and snowing here. So it was, it was, it was, it was going for me to see lizard swim, but it was cool for me to watch 50

people enjoy a lizard swimming in a big, huge pond for the first time, you know, and it's a lot of hard work and, you know, sacrifice and finances. And is it a word we don't know, but, you know, it's, it's a lot of hard work and, you know, sacrifice and finances and Is it gonna work? We don't know, but you know, it's it's working, man. And as we can't think of them, God and you know, think our friends for support us, you know, It's a blessing. Mike's D. Hey, Mike's D, right? Be some deep thinking. And I just say, in a moment, glad you're in here, really, thank you, brother.

Steve, I'm gonna ask you more of an emotionally be questioned. Good. When I say that money is the root of all evil, you think of it. It's the love of money is the root of all evil. So I feel like that's a misconception that a lot of people have is money is not the root of all evil. It's builds the love of money and you say that you can't serve two masters. I served one master from my whole life like I know it all that much time to spend, but I'm sure we can all relate with like something happened to us to we work it that we didn't deserve, right? So because of that, I thought that I needed to earn my way into like, my father's attention or earn my way into being worthy in Israel. Earn my way into like that thing that happened to me that I didn't

deserve. Like nobody knowing about it. And so my life became all about results. So I like, I grew up in church and like I knew about oh God, and I actually gave my life to Jesus when I was 11, but six months after that, something happened, right? And so I decided that, well, if God let that happen, hope God is real. And if he is, like, why would he let that happen? And so I went, I'll fall in, results. So what I'm hearing, like the theme of being in this RV is relationships.

You know, like when your dad wasn't there for you, you found relationships in animals because dad wasn't there for you, you found relationships in animals because animals can't reject you, animals can't leave you, and animals will always love you back. Like I said this with you, Dan, in the car on the way down there's like, then I love my wife so much, but I love dogs too. You know, because you can lock your wife in the trunk of a car and you can lock a dog in there.

And I would never do this, but you can leave for three hours and unlock the trunk. And your wife will leave you. And that dog is happy to see you. So like Mike, I totally like I get your heart, man. But to your question, bring me back and I'm gonna land the flight. Money is through the light. Yeah, money is the root of all either so so two masters. And so like, maybe I wasn't worshipping money, but I was worshipping results. Like getting the trophy and then I went from getting the trophy to getting the notoriety and from the notoriety, went to getting the money, right?

And then for the money, it was like, well, then I get the money and like, there's more of this gonna change this and then more of it didn't change this. And then I realized like my life is not about results and my life is not even about religion. My life is about relationships and my life is about relationship with God and that to me like flipped everything on its head. And I feel like my personality changed when God gave me that revelation.

So I know that was like, there's a deep question. So there's a deep answer. So for the last segment, the last 10 minutes or so, all our episodes are 40 minutes because the average workout is 45 minutes. The average commute is 45 minutes. So make our podcast 40. You have two minutes, put on your headbone, two minutes, take them off. Let's take one moment, count the 10 that we have left to realize how intentional and how strategic Dan is, not for the outcome or the benefit of him, but for every single person. He has this RV to make it easier on people like us. He makes sure that the length of the show is perfect for what most people will be doing when they consume his content. You are an unbelievable person. You have made your life about other people. Yes. It's incredible. We'll look at the But most people will be doing when they consume his content. You are an unmoving person.

You have made your life about other people. It's incredible. We'll look at the empire that is around you. If you make things about other people, the butterfly effect is everyone wins, and all these other people start to win. It actually goes into the last segment, which is about charity. So we like to talk about how do you make money, how do you invest money, how do you give someone away to charity?

So I like the butterfly effect of charity. My charity is I don't really raise money for. So a model citizen fund I've had for a decade. We make backpacks for the homeless with 150 emergency sub-items inside. Half of its food and beverages. The other half is like a pawn shop, a watch, a sleeping bag, things to help people get through.

We give out millions, millions, millions, millions of items to homeless. We also do it for our team of your shelters, women of your shelters, etc. But I really, really raised money for that outside of like some charity brokerage and it's for fun, that's an excuse to get everybody together. Because what I want people to do is do their own backpacks for the homeless. You don't need my backpacks, really. You can buy my backpacks if you want to, but you can make it home. You can fill up a supplies. You can get a Ziploc bag and put in 10 or 20 supplies. You don't need 150 items.

I have the exact list on my list of the funds website. So you can see exactly what we put in. And I studied for over a year and a half and asking military and homeless, what would they need if I dropped them off in the desert? That's where we came up with that curated list. But you can go do it yourself and go get a Ziploc bag and fill it up with your kids, your friends, your family, neighbors, etc. The concept of the charity so some people can replicate it. At Rearway Trenus Kids Foundation,

we bring 400 Latin families to Hubble Studio downtown LA for the last eight years and nine years for the toy drive. We do a report card day, we do a back to school day. If the kids bring the report cards, we give them out prizes, choose fresh haircuts, back backs, supplies, etc. Then they come back and do the same thing when it's back to school time. They see me food drive. You can do a things to move food drive and you can do a things to move food drive and you can do a things to move food drive. That needs you to do any of the mind. Not because I have some money, it's because I want you to do it. That's all the point of the things to move food drive. I want to show people how easy it is to do charity. It takes texting, social media, rallying your friends together, and a location.

That's it. You don't need to raise millions of dollars. You get your friends together, you get your strangers together, you get people in your local community to show up to a warehouse, an office building, etc. You say, we're doing things in your food drive. You don't even have a dollar. Right. You have a self-hub. And you'd be annoying, like, text call, show up

to people's offices and houses. Hey, November 23rd, we're doing things to get food drive and everybody bringing turkeys and cranberry sauce and whatever. The toy drive, nine years ago, it was like eight of us sitting on a floor, putting boxes together, toys to give out to these couple hundred kids. And it was 14 of us, and it was eight of us sitting on a floor, putting boxes together, toys to give out to these couple hundred kids. And it was 14 of us, and it was 22 of us.

And then this December, we broke the Guinness Brook World Records for the largest toy drive in history. There it is. It was a wild rice. It compounded over time and energy of texting and calling and social media and Facebooking. Because people are always like, oh, you shouldn't post a lot of charity.

I post a lot of charity so that we can replicate it. I don't need to patent back from you. I don't need to patent back from strangers on social media. I need you to go do charity. We're trying to make it look as easy as possible and show them step by step how to do it. So my question is for you guys, what charities do you like? What do you, what do you passion about?

And not only the money part of it, but what is it that people can do to get themselves involved in charity, or figure out what forgot what somebody charity would like. I know that we have a limited time to show someone a lab lab, and then if whatever times they feel for ours. I think it's a lot of time. I think people can get time and go give back to like kids. A lot of people have very, very bad.

So like if you can just go and just be nice and go show up boys and girls club, if you think that you have something to give, like advice, I'm a father, I think these kids need to have a father figure. And I think a lot of people just think it's, like all those things help, but at the end of the day, if you don't have all those things,

like you don't have to give something, you can give your time. And then I think that's really meaningful. And like people, and then yeah, I think that's what people should do. It's like, you don't have all those means of what we're talking about, both with back rags, the turkeys, like, that's all like good and great too.

But I feel like, you can just give your time. You'll show up places and charities of everyday thing to me. I get charity every day. I go to Costco and I uplift the sample ladies. You know what I mean? Because they're there. They're people. So you can give your charity in a daily routine. Like, I think that's very powerful because we're out in a daily, we're out in the life. So you can give yourself every day. Doesn't need to be once a year. It can be daily charity that I love doing that.

I love to smile at people, open the doors for people. And today's day, it shocks people. Right, it used to be very nice to them. But it makes the biggest difference in their life. They could be wanting to kill themselves. And you go and ask them how they're doing or give them a compliment.

Honestly, I'm not probably not gonna change their mindset. You can just say, and that's charity, that's just give it back. So yeah, just give your time and just smile at people and we can all do that all day every day. Like I said, the paddocks on back, that's what we need. Scoring, and that takes you even further, because then you can go and do more.

And then though, like, oh man, I changed my life. Like, why do you even say anything? You know what I mean? Because you're somebody. Because we're all somebody. Present. How do you choose what animal organizations you can involve them? Because more than the money part, you're bringing them hundreds of my five balls. How do you choose where organizations are going to fly with? We'll talk about dogs today. A couple of episodes we talked about dogs. You should talk about dogs. I love dogs, man. I grew up with dogs. Dogs was the first animal that I had an interaction with coming home from the hospital. And I grew very, very close. You guys see my dog show you how it walks around and big, cute, pit-boys, sweetest thing you can ever meet. And every year, I try to do at least five to 10 dogs.

I have different bets. I go to different friends and I pay just random dogs that builds. I'll go to the shelter and say, yeah, I got a couple thousand bucks. Whatever dog needs a home, whatever dog needs a surgery, whatever dog needs to set, like take care of it. I go travel, people don't know this,

but I bring a dewormer with me, and a deworm stray dogs. You know, I get some food, seven dogs, I don't have medication. So, you know, just little things like that, you know, and I'm just giving that advice, helping people with their dogs. I've done, I'm really sure it was work with human society,

going to a clean and poop, you know, walking dogs, just trying to help out, you know, and I post about it but there's 95% of time I don't post about it because it's just something I love to do, you know, and it's been inherited in my family to be around dogs. So it's just something I give back to my grandparents and my dad and my mom and them that should be love animals like you. What are you doing? I'm like a dog show that I call you back like I'm a boy and't show that colleague back, like, that's my boy. And that's that patent back right there. Maybe my family proud. It makes me happy, you know, because that's a human. Steve, last question. We're in a time of chaos in 2023.

The media, the news, TVs telling us for the recession. Thanks for closing down the stock market's going crazy. Cryptos up and down. And people feel like it's chaos. We need to feature on the news. If you don't try the news, it's nice outside, people are nice, we have a real nice life. And I looked at a lot of times, the few bad things happen in the world, and then you do the math, there's 8 billion humans, terrible that there's a school shooting. Man, there's 8 billion humans, so one bad kid that of 7.9999 billion people that are good today.

There are other times of chaos. How can people stay calm and focused? I would give this question to Mike. But Mike already knows. It's like when that tragedy happened for Mike, he wanted relationship, he wanted a connection, he wanted it be protected. And I feel like that's, if you look at it, and I just write a statistic over the go there, that out of every four suicides, three of them are male.

Why? Because it's almost tough to struggle alone. So Mike didn't have somebody like a real placement dad to like pull them in and say, hey, tell me these thoughts that you're thinking right now and tell me you're in securities and the same for you, Brad. Like, I'm hearing you say that you didn't have a dad. I mean, I had a dad and I still struggled, right? So everybody that's listening to this, whether you had like the best dad ever, he was still

inadequate in some way. And so when things are chaotic, I think it's really important to be around people who value what you value and people who have the fruit that you want in their life, right? Like you kind of mentioned about relationships and the people around and how it's important to get a pet on a back and an encouragement. That's really kind of essentially the same wisdom that he shared is the same wisdom that I'm sharing in chaos. Like if my business, my supplement company, if it starts to hit a nose dive because of supply chain or something, you know, I'm calling. I'm calling you. You know, I'm calling our friend Joel. I'm calling my buddies who have sold $100 million

supplement companies and I'm like, you I'm like, yeah, right. I'm like grinding to try to make it from seven to eight figures, right? Well, like, I feel like if you have wisdom and you have the right relationships, we don't need to struggle in business alone. We need to struggle emotionally alone. We don't need to struggle spiritually alone.

And this is the last thing I'll share. And I feel like this is wisdom for business, for relationship, for marriage is if you don't know the next what in life, maybe you need to stop pursuing the what and pursue the who. Because my mentor Keith Kraft says, alignments determine your assignments. And really another way of saying that is, the who you do life with ultimately will determine the what. So when you enter Dan's life and you invited you into his world, he's absolutely going to change what your life is and what you do with your life because of the food that you're with. So the encouragement would be if you

feel like your marriage or your finances or like your mental is in chaos, you need to get around a different group and most of the people maybe that's just one person. Last question for Brad Casabray. Some of those things the money Mondays they wake up in this Tuesday morning, 7 am, and they just don't feel like it's anything.

What do they do? Honestly, he clears his throat. He's throwing his stuff. Yeah, you're gonna make it a lot louder to say you got to pump yourself up because I get to say you are the only person that's gonna pat yourself on the back of the end of the day. We're men. like tough it up, like too many weak people out there, too many people making excuses. You need to go get it. You got to like, like nothing's going to be handed to you. Like people want things to be handed to them today's day. Like nothing's going to be handed to you. You got to go out there and get it. You got to ask for it. You got to,

um, just don't, you got to teach yourself things. You got to learn things. You got to evolve. You got to try things. You got to fail. Um. Like we're talking about just like all those learning things and we wanna share it, but it's like people gotta do that themselves, not just the people, like you can't just learn a failure through someone else's failure almost. You gotta like, if you ever experience failing, like I feel bad for you, you're not even trying.

So you gotta try things, like step it up. So it's like, you're gonna wake up, like don't be afraid to fail. That's all it is, like people's worried too much about like that and it you're gonna wake up, like, don't be afraid to fail. That's all it is. Like people's worried too much about like that. And it's just like wake up, be a man, be a person. Like that's, like you got it, like that's what makes us humans is that we just gotta wake up.

Sun goes up, you gotta get up. It's a man up, stop being weak. Sun's up, get up. Jim, let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, we just listened to 1,000 pounds of wisdom. What's the thing? What's the thing?

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