The Money Mondays - We Broke the Guinness World Record for World's Largest Toy Drive! 🎁 E44

Starting point is 00:00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Money Monday's podcast. This is a quick, sell-out episode to talk about the most important, passion thing that I have, which is charity, and the biggest version of charity that I've ever done, I want to walk you through it. Okay, typically on the Money Monday's, we talk about three core topics how to make money How to invest money how to give it away to charity So this episode is gonna be a shorter version where I just talked about charity on one core topic Not about the model citizen fund which I've had for 11 years which we make backpacks for the homeless with a 150 emergency

Starting point is 00:00:38 Supplied them inside. I'm not talking about treaters kids where we do the Thanksgiving food drive Or the back-to-school drive or the report card day. We're not gonna talk about the homeless Not about the toy drives. We're not gonna talk about the $100 tipping club Which you guys could be doing $100 tipping dinners get your friends together get five 10 15 20 friends together Pitch in a hundred bucks each and surprise the waiter waitress and the kitchen staff with like you know a thousand bucks Two thousand bucks of all you guys chipping in now talking about any of those things today Talk about one core thing because it's about to happen. This December 2nd through 17th,

Starting point is 00:01:09 we're doing the world's largest toy drive, the 10 year anniversary of the world's largest toy drive. Where we already broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the toy drive twice before, this time for our 10 year anniversary 10 cities in 15 days. I might be a psychopath because I'm going to fly around to all 10 cities. Me Vince Richie and Roger Rojas are videographer Vince Richie the co-founder of Trenus Kids are going to actually fly around to all 10 cities in a 15 day period. And in between

Starting point is 00:01:41 there December 5th and 6th, a Spire Tour, worth throwing a 5,000 person events with Kevin Hart, Rick Ross, two chains, A-Rod, Sarah Blakely, Jesse Itzler, Marcus Lemontis, and my co-founders, Andrew Cordo and Eddie Wilson. So, if you're going to be anywhere near Atlanta, go to SpireTour.com, come see us in Atlanta December 5th and 6th. The night before, on December 4th, is the world's largest toy drive in Atlanta. December 2nd is in Los Angeles. I'm going to give you all the dates here. I actually have it right here.

Starting point is 00:02:18 World's largest toy drive is Los Angeles on Saturday December 2nd. I'm going to be reading off of this thing real quick. Atlanta Monday, December 4th. St. Louis Thursday, December 7th at the first form headquarters. We're Andy for Sella, Salford Sella, first form. I'm going to do the back of their warehouse area, Thursday, December 7th in St. Louis. Tampa, Florida Friday, December 8th. Tampa, Florida is with Vic Tipness. Vic Tipness owns a humongous medical care company.

Starting point is 00:02:49 Just yesterday, he bought his first Gulf Stream private jet, and he's being nice enough to have us host the World's Largest Toy Drive in Tampa in a private jet hangar. How cool is that? So it's going to get a lot of media, a lot of press about toy drives. Keep in mind, with largest toy drive, largest toy drive.com, people can donate there, but mostly we care about is you actually giving out toys. And so our goal is to make a lot of media that inspire people so they can do toy drives also in their local towns, anywhere in the world.

Starting point is 00:03:18 So to have cool places like stadiums, first form headquarters, airport hanger, like a private jet hanger, et cetera, have really cool factors to get us more media, more eyeballs for people to do more toy drives in their local towns. Small, medium, or large. Okay, so Tampa is December 8th, right? December 8th with Vic Tipness as the host. Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville is Saturday, December 9th. Jacksonville will be at the aspire tour headquarters aspire tour.com which I just mentioned is that tour we do all over the country We get 2000 to 5000 people at every event sometimes 7000 or more at our big conferences in the arenas aspire tour.com at the headquarters in Jacksonville Saturday December 9th all the guys from cards and coffee our cards and coffee location Is there in Jacksonville as well? They're gonna be be there supporting us and bringing all the sports cards over there. The next

Starting point is 00:04:07 day is in Miami Sunday December 10th in Miami. If you have friends, family or followers in these cities is why it's important. You might be in your main city where you live, but you got friends, family and followers that could go support us in cities like Miami Sunday December 10th. This will be at Boxer Gym, B-O-X-R. Boxer Gym has allowed us to be inside of their 48,000 square foot gym on Sunday, December 10th. Go to Boxer Gym.

Starting point is 00:04:32 Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, December 13th, is Dallas, Texas with Ryan Stuman, his Instagram is at Hardcore Closer or at Ryan Stuman. And so in Dallas on Wednesday, December 13th, forumman, it's going to be at the Apex headquarters, APEX. Apex is a humongous mastermind group. It's pretty much the biggest mastermind group on the planet where you can get coaching from him.

Starting point is 00:04:56 Ryan Stum has been in the game for many, many years. He's allowing us to use his office, his headquarters, which is super cool on Wednesday December 13th in Dallas, Texas. Phoenix, Friday, December 15th, Phoenix, Friday, December 15th will be at the Dixon clothing headquarters, DIXX-O-N. You should check out the episode we had the CEO of Dixon. He built up over a $100 million dollar a year flannel's company. Flannelannel shirts company. I have the episode where you can hear that interview on the money Mondays with the owner of Dixon clothing. So Phoenix Friday, December 15th at the Dixon clothing warehouse. Salt Lake City Saturday, December 16th. Salt Lake City will be at the headquarters of a very large company. I'm going to have to give you the address here. I'm going to go read it in a second. On Saturday, December 16th, let me get you

Starting point is 00:05:49 that address because that's not going to be as easily searchable. And then the finale one will be Las Vegas Sunday, December 17th. That's going to be at the Dragon's Layer Gym. Las Vegas Sunday, December 17th at the Dragon's Layer Gym. Dragon's Layer is owned by Flex Lewis. Seven time, Mr. Olympia won all these awards. He's allowing us to use his gym on Sunday, December 17th. We'll have Michael Sartane and that whole crew will be helping bring us a lot of influencers and models and friends and nightclub people in Las Vegas to help us promote at this one on December 17th at the Dragons Lair Gym. Now really quickly, let me find the address for you

Starting point is 00:06:26 of the location for the Salt Lake City one really quick. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, I got it right here. Okay, Salt Lake City, budding, budding, budding, boom. All right, that's going to be at the active headquarters. Active is a very large 5132 North, 300 West, and Provo, Utah. Okay. So I've given you the quick overview of the 10 cities toy drive. Let me walk you through, how do you do it? Why do we do it? How can you do it?

Starting point is 00:06:56 How can you support? Okay. First things first, the main focus of the toys themselves. Can you donate money? Of course you can. Go to largesttoydrive.com or go on Instagram at TrinasKids, T-R-I-N-A-S, K-I-D-S, TrinasKids. There's a link in bio there.

Starting point is 00:07:15 You can donate through TrinasKids there. If you prefer, if you've already donated to Model Citizen Fund over the years, you can donate through Model Citizen Fund, ModelCitizenFund.com or dot org, Model Citizen Fund. You can donate through any of these three and all collectively it's the same thing goes to the toy drive. Money does not go to our overhead. Dan is paying for the overhead. I personally am covering the overhead because I want 100% of the money

Starting point is 00:07:41 every little penny to go towards buying toys. So when you hear us talking about traveling and flying around and all the staff volunteers, people in between the shipping, the trucking, I'm paying for that. And so do not be concerned about raising extra capital for the overhead of this huge endeavor, which is very expensive to do. I care so much about this. I want to make sure that every single penny goes towards the toys. So if you donate through Trina's kids, Modelsis and Fund, or largesttoidrive.com, you can donate money there. However, if you can be there in person and bring toys or have your

Starting point is 00:08:18 friends, family followers, co-workers, etc. bring toys, that's what we really want. So let me walk you through the quick process, make this short and sweet. Right now, starting this week, my entire life for the rest of this year, the rest of 2023, I've been turning down all speaking engagements for the rest of the time from November 15th through December 17th, the final event. I'm not doing any speaking engagements

Starting point is 00:08:41 besides our own, obviously the aspire to event. I'm not doing anybody else's engagements because I need a hundred percent of my mental energy, my phone book, my phone calls, my emails, my text to be focused on. The world's largest toy drive because 10 cities in 15 days is insanity. So how can you help? How can you help execute? Couple things. One, spread the word. Posting the flyer for your local city or the all-ten city flyer helps a lot. Share it with people that you know what's called hand-to-hand

Starting point is 00:09:10 combat. Share it directly with the news reported that you might know. Share it directly with your friend that owns six card dealerships. Share it directly with your friend that owns a bunch of gyms, or your friend that has 1,000 employees, or 30 employees.

Starting point is 00:09:23 Sharing it directly with people that are movers and shakers helps a lot. Inviting friends, family, or followers to go to events in their city. So if you can send them the flyer in that city so that they can go to the toy drive in Las Vegas, Utah, Atlanta, etc. Tampa, Florida, Jacksonville, whatever, you can send them that flyer for that city for that time so that they can show up in person. The flow of the event is 9am to 5pm.

Starting point is 00:09:49 The beginning of the day between 9am and 1pm is typically when most toys are arriving, sometimes the day before, but most of the time we want you to bring them the day of that morning. And then we invite children's hospitals, homeless shelters, teen abuse shelters, women's shelters, etc. to come there in person and pick up toys from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Now they can come throughout the day anytime they want. Really from 9 to 5. You can drop up toys at 4.59 p.m. We'll still take them. You can drop off toys at 9 a.m. anywhere in between and you can come pick up toys anytime. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in

Starting point is 00:10:23 your local town. But prior to that, starting November 15th, we would like your help placing large brown boxes or large white boxes at office buildings, restaurants, corporate headquarters, high-rise buildings, and apartment buildings. So if your friend has card dealerships or your friend has restaurants or has gyms or has real estate offices, etc

Starting point is 00:10:46 Or you live in a high-rise building or apartment building or you just know someone that does Talking with those front desk people the concierges the HOAs, etc At these buildings and ask if you put if you can place a large brown box or large white box Outfront or if it's cold there right inside the doorway that just has a big flyer on it that's just to put toys there. These are collection boxes. We need collection boxes placed all over your city within an hour of the location. So don't go too much farther than that because obviously it becomes too big of a headache.

Starting point is 00:11:21 Really we'd prefer the 20 to 40 minute vicinity, there's plenty to do there. But within our radius, we want as many big brown boxes, big white boxes place there, that has a big flyer on the side that says, toy collections for the world's largest toy drive. And it shows the address of the location. So let's say it's Las Vegas, it's gonna be at Dragon's Layer gym,

Starting point is 00:11:41 and here's the address, or Salt Lake City, it's gonna be at Aptivh, here's the address. Wherever the city, Tampa, boom, it's gonna be at this's Layer gym and here's the address or Salt Lake City. It's gonna be at Active, here's the address. Wherever the city, Tampa, boom, it's gonna be at this airport hanger with big tippness, like having the address of the location of where these toys are gonna go and what the date of where they're gonna go. So those collection boxes help because it gives us a few weeks in advance of collecting toys on the day of the event. We need people to go out there and pick up those big boxes

Starting point is 00:12:05 and bring them to the host location. So if it's in Miami at the Boxer Gym, make sure that it's there that morning, those collection boxes. So if you can help place two boxes, five boxes, 10 boxes, 50 boxes, whatever you can do around your city and apartment buildings, high-rise buildings, corporate offices,

Starting point is 00:12:24 warehouses, restaurants, et cetera, place those boxes everywhere so we can have collection boxes out there in the streets to collect a bunch of toys. Now, getting to game day, right? The days come for your city. You are posting about this is what you can do to help us, texting people, posting on social media and saying,

Starting point is 00:12:43 come to this toy drive, it's gonna be at this city this location this time 9 am to 5 pm You doing that helps us dramatically you getting your friends family followers staff etc to do it also helps dramatically the goal is to make everyone on the planet know about the largest toy drive so that they can do it too If people start doing these in other cities, in other countries, etc. like we've watched happen over the years, this is our 10th year going into it, the butterfly effect of that is massive. So this one, we want worldwide fame because we want this to be replicated all over the planet every year, long after I'm dead. I don't need my name

Starting point is 00:13:21 recognition, I don't need a shout out, I don't need a tag. I need people to know about the world's largest toy drive so we can make this as big as possible for hundreds and hundreds of years to come. Especially this year when we're in the midst of a recession and inflation and all these things that are happening, people are cutting back on buying toys. What do I mean by that? Let me give you a quick example. People are fighting through 9% of your inflation, but at the same time, bread, milk, water, eggs, gasoline, as you've heard me say before, have all gone from $2, $3, $4, $5, $6. That's 50% to 100% inflation. So people that used to buy their core food items and their core beverage items are now double the price.

Starting point is 00:14:02 Well, they got to cut back from somewhere. If they're only making X amount of dollars per month, if they're making 2 grand, 3 grand, 4 grand a month, and their core beverage items are now double the price. Well, they got to cut back from somewhere. If they're only making X amount of dollars per month, if they're making two grand, three grand, four grand a month, and they have a family of four, and now they're spending 200 bucks a week on groceries instead of 100. Well, that 100 bucks a week extra,

Starting point is 00:14:16 that's $5,000 a year. That's a lot of freaking money. That's massive blow to many families households. And so where are they gonna cut back? They're not gonna buy less bread, they're not to buy less milk, not going to buy less meat and eggs and things that they need for their life and their family and their kids, right? For what they're feeding them, they're going to cut back on clothing, accessories, and toys. And so this, this holiday season is extra, extra, extra important for us to really

Starting point is 00:14:41 get behind the toy drive, make it as famous as possible, get as many kids as many millions of toys as possible, far beyond what we do at our actual toy drives, spreading the word in showcasing the world, why we need this to happen. Okay, on the toy drive, you also might have heard last week I mentioned what's called two years, too long. Two years too long, the movement is,

Starting point is 00:15:02 you go into your closet and also do this with your significant other, your kids, your friends, staff, etc. Tell them to go into their closets and any clothing, accessories, or shoes that they haven't worn for two years or more, it's too long and they're going to get rid of it. They're either going to donate it to a local shelter, donate it to a good will, or they're going to sell it. You can sell it to thrift shops. You can sell it on the realreal.com or websites like that.

Starting point is 00:15:29 There are plenty of sites that you can sell online clothing or shoes or accessories or purses or dresses or jewelry. You can sell on these type of sites. Poshmark is a huge one. Poshmark is a massive company. So you're either going to sell your items that are more expensive or medium priced items, or they haven't been worn and they might have tags on them. That's definitely too long, right?

Starting point is 00:15:52 If you have not worn something for two years, your excuses are irrelevant. Meaning, if you didn't wear something for one season like, oh, it's winter season, I didn't get to wear that jacket or those snow boots. That, one year or one time or one year, you might skip a season. If you haven't worn it in two years or two seasons, it's too long. You're not going to wear that jacket or those snow boots. That, one time or one year, you might skip a season. If you haven't worn it in two years or two seasons, it's too long. You're not gonna wear it.

Starting point is 00:16:09 You probably have a new jacket or new snow boots or a new whatever, and that applies to everything. You're like, oh, I'm definitely gonna wear that bikini or that dress. You're not. It's been two years, it's been three years, it's been four years, you're not gonna wear it. You probably bought more bikinis to replace it.

Starting point is 00:16:21 And when the time comes, subconsciously, you're gonna always pick the new ones. You're not gonna wear the old ones from two three four five years ago. So it's been two years it's too long. Go into your closets please get your friends family and followers I'm creating this movement you might have heard it on last week's podcast. I want people to do this again don't need to tag me this is not for Dan this is for the movement to happen so that millions of people can receive clothing accessories and shoes this holiday season and beyond. So the two years, two long movement, it's really passionate of mine.

Starting point is 00:16:52 I've been thinking about it for a long time and we just finally launched it last week. Go into your closets, tell your friends, family, follower, co-workers, etc. Tell people on social media that if it's been two years, it's too long. So either donate it or sell it. Okay, so largest toy drive. let's wrap it up here. December 2nd through 17th, as you guys heard, all the dates are there, you can always check my social media, you can check on Trinus kids, you can check on everywhere,

Starting point is 00:17:17 we're posting this everywhere, get that flyer, take that flyer, the one that either has all 10 cities or has your main city, and please post about it. Please talk about it. I rarely ask for help on charity stuff. I'm always just talking about it and posting. This is our 10 year anniversary. This is the time I need people to show up. This is the time I'm asking for the favors. So I want to make this as huge as possible. Far beyond our 10 cities, I believe that we can make the world's largest toy drive something global. We've watched what happened when we broke the Guinness Book World Records. We took over Sofie Stadium. There's over 110,000 toys on that field with a few weeks notice. This time we've been

Starting point is 00:17:51 planning this for months and months and months. This time we've got ambassadors and people and big business people in each city to help us, Vic Tipness, Flex Lewis, all these type of people that are helping us, you know, active in Salt Lake City, helping us run these cities so that all their employees are getting behind it, all their staff, the whole aspire toward team out in Jacksonville. Like we're getting all of our staff friends and family and followers to get behind this thing to make it huge and really use your help. I want to make this really big, whether you can afford to donate, toys, money, time, energy, I just need the social media power, the social media to be Want to make this really big whether you can afford to donate toys money time energy

Starting point is 00:18:26 I just need the social media power the social media to be spread out there so that we can get this thing as big as possible All right guys you're listening to a quick special edition of the money Mondays We talked mostly about the toy drive and the two years too long movement We all grew up thinking it's rude to talk about money. I think it's rude and that we not talk about money It's the reason that so many people in our society have credit card debt, have bad FICO scores. They don't know about loans, they don't know about refinancing or renting

Starting point is 00:18:51 or apartments or jobs and how much to ask for salary and how much they should be saving and what are taxes and what's a FICO score that can't spell FICO because nobody brought up to them. We don't talk about it in school. We definitely didn't talk about our households and that's why the Money Mondays has been the number one podcast and the entrepreneur category for 34 weeks in a row because of you guys in this important topic.

Starting point is 00:19:12 So go out there, share it. Also you can go on to the moneymundays.com. If you want to be on our weekly Zoom call, it's every Monday at 4 p.m. PST. I'm personally hosting almost every Zoom call. Sometimes I have other CEOs and business people and friends that go on there to host. It's one hour every Monday at 4 p.m.

Starting point is 00:19:29 You go to the moneymundays.com. It's 200 bucks for the month. All that money goes towards the toy drive. I pay for everything. So that capital is strictly for more donations, more toys. I really want people to understand and know that if you go on these Zoom calls, you're gonna be interacting with myself and other business people

Starting point is 00:19:47 and be able to actually ask questions live. We bring you up on the spotlight. You can ask your questions or you can put it into the chat if you don't want to be on the spotlight. So we do these speeches for around 30, 40 minutes and talk about certain topics. And in the last 20, 30 minutes, we do these live Q&A sessions. So you get to ask questions about topics from real estate,

Starting point is 00:20:04 investing, business, charity, life, etc. And so it's really great. The MoneyMundays.com those Zoom calls. So please like, comment, share, subscribe, etc. for the MoneyMundays. It's really important. It helps us when you review us on the different platforms like Apple, Spotify, etc. on YouTube. Share us, share us with your friends, because we need to have these discussions about money and we're going to see you every Monday for as long as I'm alive. TheMoneyMondays.com.

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The Money Mondays - We Broke the Guinness World Record for World's Largest Toy Drive! 🎁 E44

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