The Money Mondays - Why Most People Never Build REAL Wealth (and How to Change That) 💵 EP147

Episode Date: November 10, 2025

In this special episode, Dan Fleyshman sits down with three guests, Raul Villacis, founder of The Edge men’s empowerment movement, and the Chapman Brothers, Aaron and Eric, who recently collaborated on a thought-provoking and visually stunning new book. Together, they share insights on entrepreneurship, financial discipline, personal growth, creativity, and giving back.---Raul Villacis is the founder and CEO of The EDGE Program, a movement helping high-performing businessmen find purpose, discipline, and clarity in every area of life. Before leading thousands of men around the world, he was one of them, a man who had achieved success on paper but felt empty inside.---Aaron J. Chapman is a veteran of the real estate finance industry, speaker, and author, while Eric J. Chapman is a professional illustrator and fine art painter. Their latest collaboration showcases the intersection of entrepreneurship, art, and personal growth reminding listeners that true wealth lies not just in money, but in meaning, impact, and legacy.---Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇Building a Billion-Dollar Platform Across Law, Healthcare & AI w/ Sean Callagy 💰: https://youtu.be/HEyjoJSrIgQHow One Man Went From Prison to Building a Fitness Empire (REDCON1) | Aaron Singerman 💪 : https://youtu.be/9p4dpUEEFDITurning Setbacks Into Millions: Tim Storey & Natasha Graziano On Making, Multiplying & Giving Money: https://youtu.be/Stbx6c5bawIFrom Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 : https://youtu.be/INn4jL1iRR4Watch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k---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.If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1Dan Fleyshman,The Money MondaysLearn more here: https://themoneymondays.comWatch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6kLet’s Connect...Website: https://themoneymondays.comPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondaysLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondaysFB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Money's podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. Normally, this podcast is done inside of an RV motorhome. I travel around the country, been doing over 200 episodes in that fashion. The podcast today is number 40 in the world out of 5.4 million podcasts because of you guys, liking, commenting, subscribing, and sharing. So I appreciate you guys for doing that.

We've been keeping this commercial free. I'm spending around 70,000 months just to keep it commercial free for you guys. We have a 93% listen to rate because of this. We keep these podcast episodes short, sweet, and straight to the point. Why is this one not an RV motorhome? Because we are inside the Amerit Bank Arena. Today, we hosted Main and Arena Tour part two. At the first one, we had an amazing lineup of speakers,

including our guests who's here with us today, who then spoke again for us here in Florida. Florida today, literally a few hours ago. He just crushed the stage. And hopefully we'll have him at number three, number four, et cetera, as one of our few repeat speakers. Now, as you guys know, we keep this very focused, very pointed. And the whole point of it is, it's not just for you. This podcast episode might be for your friends, family, and followers. It might be for someone from your past, present, and future. So don't just listen to our rule. The things he said for you, it might be for people around you, again, from your past, present, or future.

Without further ado, Raoul, can you give us the quick two-minute bio so we get straight to the money? Love it, love it, love it. Thank you, Dan. Man, the 40th podcast of the world. Love it, man. I can't wait for this to be number one. We're going to get it there. So make sure you click on the link, share this podcast. It's when I continue to bring value into the world.

I don't know if I can beat Joe Rogan, but we're going to try. We're going to try. We're going to try. We're like competition. So my name is Raul Velazas. I built a brand called The Edge is a man empowerment movement. I work with men who somewhere in their lives have lost their edge because that happened to me.

I built a real estate company. I made millions of dollars and I went to depression. I started drinking every single day and I knew that I had to find some help. So I spent half a million dollars in my personal development to find my edge back. So when I did that, I went to do a seminar to raise capital for real estate

because my back was in real estate. But guess what everybody wanted to talk about? How did you break through depression? How did you find your edge back? So I had all these asset managers, all these investors, pick my brains about how to find your edge. And from there, I built a brand called The Edge, helping men find their edge back.

All right, so on the make money side, why do you think that most men are not good at making money? I think a lot of us, we're very good at making money, but we suck at keeping the money. Nice. Because I speak to guys all the time, make millions of dollars. But Roe, how do I keep the money? So my mentor, when I started in real estate, gave me this book.

He said, Raoul, read this book. It's going to make you a millionaire, okay? This book, hands down, we read it from the first page to the last page, you're going to make millions of dollars. That book was the white pages. If some of you guys don't know what the white pages is, you're probably too young. It's where you have all the numbers, four numbers,

names of every person who lives in your city. Because he says, start calling, cold calling. So I was selling real estate, call calling. So he was right. two years into real estate, I made millions of dollars, cold calling. But I didn't know how to keep the money.

So the second book I read was rich that poor dad. Nice. And that's when he said, make the money, invest it, and buy real estate. So I bought my first property. I flipped it.

I made $100,000. I thought I was rich. Yeah, for sure. So I did what most men will do when they make some money, go to the dealership, I get a BMW, right? Yeah, of course,

I didn't finish reading the book. I was only halfway through I came back, finished the book and I said the worst thing you could do is buy a car. Sure. So I went back to the dealership. I said, man, I'm sorry, made a mistake. Can I just get my deposit back? They said, well, we have BMW. We proud ourselves in

customer service. Here's your money back. And I went and I bought another real estate property. And that's what we continue to do. Buy real estate, flip, hold, and eventually that's what we made millions of dollars. So on the investing side, what do you think holds people back? What are they so scared about investing?

into real estate, stock market, cryptocurrency, angel investing. There's so many options. What do you think holds people back from making that first investment? It's fear. Fear. Fear holds everybody back

from doing something that they know deep in their heart that they should do. We all know that we should invest. We should save money. But the fear, and when I look back and I teach my son this,

like he's 19 years old. I said, if you broke in your 20s, that's fine. As long as you take risks, you got a teacher. I see this young kids. they're just waiting for the new opportunity. Everybody wants to have a safe risk.

Risk is risk. The way I look at it is like at the end of the day, if you are a producer, if you make money, take the risks by the same time. Don't take a risk that you're not going to come back from. I made that mistake. So that's why I'm speaking from experience. I put everything on real estate.

I thought I was the man. I got a letter from my account when I was 30 years old. I was a Ronald, you're a multimillionaire. Congratulations. You made it. and then a year later I was for closing on my property because the market crashed so because I thought

I did everything right but it was the wrong timing so that fear of losing is what holds people back those stories they hear it like I don't want to be like Raul

why don't want to be like this guy so that holds them back so there's so many different options to invest into you've chosen the real estate path but within real estate there's Airbnb's fix and flips multi-family commercials

storage, RV parks, mobile homes, so many options in the real estate space, how can someone study and try to figure out what part of real estate they should dive into? Again, like I'm teaching my son right now. He just bought with me his first multifamily. Cash flow properties. I know you probably hear this all the time, but multifamily is the safest investment in a way because you depend on tenants to pay the rent. So for me, I always look at a property that if it's cash flowing, I can maintain it through the the recession, through the depression, people are still going to need to

live in a property. So the mistake that I did when I lost millions of dollars, because I started developing properties. I had my cash from properties. They were paying the bills, but then I got too greedy, and I started building properties, commercial, and I got out of my lane. If I were to stick to multifamily,

if it were going to happen. All right, so what about the charity side? Why do you think it is important for a household? Let's just go with fathers in particular. Why do you think it's important for that to have some type of charity component for their wives, children, parents, friends, community, and employees

to see them doing some philanthropy. The most important thing that I teach my kids is the value of money. I teach them that money is not meant for you just to keep. Money is meant to circulate. That's what it's called currency. The value of money is necessary for them

to learn early age. So my son, when he was, eight, nine years old, he came to me, dad. My friends are having allowances. Should I not have an allowance? How much is my allowance? Interesting. So what are you talking about?

I'm allowing you to live in my house. Right. That's your allowance. I allowing you to eat my food, right? So I said, but if you're talking about making money, I could help you through a transaction, bring value. So my kids have always, I've never given them allowances.

They always brought something to the table. What are you going to do in order for you to do? in order for you to earn money. But we also taught them you also have to give back. So every holiday is what we do is we could do around our properties. We look for the tenants who don't, you know, they're not doing so well. We look for other neighborhoods and we go for a run. Thanksgiving, we actually, that's one of the most fun times for us to actually give back to

the community, giving gifts. And then once you learn what they want, we also go back in Christmas and we give the kids gifts. And we were doing that since they were nine, ten years old. And they remember that from all the holidays. That's the magic moments. Like that, you know, with that kid, when we gave them that bicycle, when we give them that a scooter, like it lit up. They actually love doing that as opposed to just receiving presents.

So I think part of as a family, it's so important for you to teach your kids that money is not just meant for you to keep. Money is supposed to circulate. You have to give back. What about as a business owner or a brand? Why do you think it's an important component to have some type of charity philanthropy tied into a brand or just for the employees, the clients, the vendors, the customers to see you as a leader of this company have some type of charity component? You know, at the end of the day, every entrepreneur is focused on making money. But if that's all you want to do, you're going to have a short-term life.

The biggest opportunities that I've had to be in rooms, actually my first thing, event. I was in a fundraiser and there was a movie producer. I don't know if you know the author Eckertoli of the book, The Power of Now. I've never heard of him before. So for me, everything was brand new. But they were raising capital to raise money for the movie. So the guy comes out of the stage having this conversation and he tells me, so what do you do? I said, I want to risk the company, but I'm putting on a seminar. Maybe you want to speak at my event. I could help you raise money. He said, absolutely. Here's my card. I had no seminar.

I don't know where that came from. I looked at my wife and she was like, what are you talking about? I said, I don't know. I just came. I want to put a seminar. I got we got a seminar. So I said, you know what? I'm nobody. The guy probably just forgets about me. He's a big producer in Hollywood. And he calls him, hey, Raoul, we met, you know, I'm interested in knowing more about you seminar.

All right? Like, I ignore him. He calls me every single day for a week. Come on. And I'm like, I was so embarrassed to call him. I said, oh, you're probably not interested in what your real estate guy is very very unconscious behavior, not like a cartoulli. We drink. Like, we talk about money.

He goes, when I met you, something told me that I have to support you. So whatever you do, I'm there. Wow. So I had to put a seminar. Yeah, for sure. Now I can't look bad because that's, you know, I told this guy. So I looked around and I said, well, where does everybody go to put seminars? That's Vegas.

I said, that's Vegas. That's Vegas. Let's pick a place. I called the way and I said, do you have this dates? I looking back now I was constantly trying to sabotage my my first events I picked two weeks before Christmas

oh boy they actually had it available called I got back says hey this is the dates he goes I'm in I'm in fuck so now I have to come through December 15 there we go so now how to get speakers because I've never spoken before

so guess who I call who is my first speaker do you think now knowing me in this in this arena who do you think I call first to be a speaker in that event I'm hoping it was Garrett J. White I just met Garrett about a couple of weeks before that event in a stage. And I said, hey, maybe this guy wants to speak in my event. I called him up and say, hey, I'm going to have an event in Las Vegas.

Would you come down to speak? Because, you know, it's just so happened. I have an event there, so I'll be there too. Wow. So now, see, all these words are colliding, right? So at that event, one of the things that we had to do is I took them, the attendees, to a hospital for Christmas to visit kids that had cancer

that had an illness that, you know, that they were hospitalized. That was the most impactful thing that we could have done. We took a couple hundred people into the hospital giving gifts. Wow. Like, imagine Garrett, like, you know, like interacting with kids,

all the speakers. And that event created such a magical pivot in our lives that every, every speaker wanted to support me because I had that component. The component of giving back. The component of actually doing something, not just a seminar,

not just like listening to our lives, but now we're actually going to do something for the community wherever we went. All right, so there's only one question I've asked on all 200-plus episodes, and I've never gotten the same answer before. Hopefully, it's not until 100 or 200 years from now when you finally passed away.

What percentage of your net worth do you leave to your children? I look at net worth, not just in money. My net worth that I like to think that the value is more of the time. We're empty nesters now. My wife and I, we look to each other, like people say,

I'm empty nesters because my kids are in college. They moved out. But I feel like a fool nester. I don't know if that's even a word. Because we gave time to our kids. We spend time with them. But I want to let my kids know that they can depend on me.

to provide for them. They have to go there and create their own. I'm going to provide opportunities. I'm going to create, I want to live an opportunity for them to create, but I cannot stop them from doing their own lives. So my kids know. Like when that leaves, that's it.

It's done. That's it. I want them to know that they have to work to create their own legacy. I want to create my legacy, but they have to create their own legacy. So ideally, I would like to give my kids the net worth of knowing their value,

their capacity to produce, but at the same time the opportunity to provide for themselves. So where can people find you on social? Where can they find The Edge? Where can they find everything about your ecosystem? I'm very active in Instagram. They could just send me a DM

and Instagram, Raul De Edge. We also have a podcast. We did a podcast actually a couple months ago. Great. Got great feedback, the Kingsville podcast. But right now we're focusing on supporting the movement of the men in the arena. I want to see this event with 10,000 men.

Amen. That's my vision, 10,000 men. So I know it's coming. And I know we're going to need every single one of you to start supporting because it's not about competition. There is billions of people in this world. Men are dying every single day because they don't have a brotherhood.

They don't have connection. I am convinced that the reason that God put Garrett and I together is for moments like this. We're creating a movement, a global movement, a man going into the arena to find their edge to get the shit together. Because I believe that this is the moment that men need to fucking step up on lead.

Because you are the fucking problem, but you're also the solution. Appreciate you for being here. As you guys know, these podcasts, it's very important for you to like, comment, subscribe, and share. When you hear the things today, there might be someone in your life

that you forward this to, and it might not just be today. You might think back on this episode two, three weeks from now, two, three months from now, and want to forward what Raul said. So check them out on social media, Raul with the edge. Make sure to like, comment, subscribe. And we will see you guys next Monday here at the Money Mondays.com.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of the Money Monday's podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, I'd invest money, how to give away to charity. Normally, I do this podcast inside of an RV motorhome that I travel around the country in. And normally, I only have one guest at a time. But tonight, we are inside of an arena, a Merritt Bank Arena. We just finished the Man in Arena tour. We had Tim Story, Trent Shelton, David Gagin, so many amazing speakers. This is the event I do with Garrett J. White.

This was the second time we've thrown in it, first time in Salt Lake City, this time out here at the Merritt Bank Arena in Florida. So, as you guys know, these podcasts are typically around 30 to 35 minutes because the average workout is 35 minutes. The average commute to work is around 40 minutes. so we keep these episodes to around 35 minutes for your listening pleasure. Without further, too, can I get both of the guests

to give a quick two-minute bio so we get straight to the money? Right on. Well, thank you. Appreciate you to let me come on here. My name's Aaron Chapman. I am an author. I'm into the real estate finance game. I've been doing that since 1997.

Also a grandfather, which is an interesting environment to be in, husband, and now author, published author, and I'm excited to come on the show and talk about business, talk about the book, and also introduce my brother, Eric Chapman, who illustrated this piece of art. Brother, tell us.

Yeah, my name's Eric J. Chapman, and father, husband, illustrator, now book illustrator. I find out oil painter is more what I do, but this opportunity came to me, and it's been an amazing experience to do. Tell us, you're sound busy. You've got a lot of things going on in your world. Why decide to write a book? I was at an event, much like what we had here, and Robert Allen spoke, where we all know who this man is, a powerhouse in real estate, author, one of the, you know, New York Times bestsellers

way back when you couldn't manipulate it, right? And he was speaking, not on real estate like he normally did, he was talking about books and how to write a book. Well, I had published other books, but everything he said you shouldn't do, I did on the other books. So I cornered him, said, okay, I'm going to need your help. I'm going to pull these back from the publisher. I'm going to finish them. He's like, no, you're not. And the longer we talk to is, you're going to write another book. From scratch. I'm like, I don't want to write another book. I've already written again. I've already got 800 pages that I need to correct. So I had this crazy idea. I had my 800 pages. Another publisher read it said, nobody gives a shit. Make something that somebody will

give a shit about. Now, I was on a call with one of my, with my brother-in-law, and he said, hey, you should actually break up your chapters in the individual little books. So I published those, kind of like the dime novels of the 1800s. They were kind of cool. But Robert, when he described what I did, I did it wrong, and I asked him to fix. He wouldn't let me fix. I said, okay, then what am I? So what's this book going to be about?

Because you tell me. Well, I'm not the one wanting to write it. So then we got talking, talking, talking more, and then we hit something. And he said, I'll help you with the outline, but you go from there. So after we did the outline, I still started writing. And it started to just flow, and in five months it was done. And I would send him a chapter out of time, and he had said, this is perfect. Keep going.

Like, what do you mean? Perfect. Like, you're Robert Allen. You're the most critical, some bitch I've ever met my life. When he sees a book that's crap, he'll tell you, this is crap, he'll throw it. He goes, perfect, go, hit another one, hit another one, then we're 13 chapters in. He says, you need to illustrate this book. I'm like, how am I going to illustrate this book?

Who do I get for an illustrator? Do you have an illustrator? He goes, no, I've never illustrated in my books. Like, okay, so what do you think I do? He says, call an artist. I'm like, I only knew one. So I called Eric up, said, do you illustrate books? He's like, no, I don't illustrate books.

but yeah illustration was i mean i did i did one book before i mostly do you know oil paintings for people's homes and whatnot portraiture and landscapes and all that but uh i kind of didn't like the process when i did it the first time it was all right but uh after i kind of got erin's vision what was going on it really intrigued me uh this was going to be a different approach than anything i'd ever done and um and you know how could i say no to that right i love a new experience So on the painting side of life, some people paint for money, some people paint for passion, some people paint for their livelihood and to pay the rent, some people paint and make extravagant prices, and some people make it for 50 bucks and 500 bucks or 1,000 bucks.

How do you decide as a painter what's a charge for your work when it's typically up to the value that either you perceive or your customer perceives? For me, I charge based off of size and medium, and there's a certain element where, you know, over time I've kind of developed an idea of how long something's going to take, how much effort is going to be involved in there. But so as to not feel like someone's getting, like if you had two paintings of the same exact size, same exact medium, and one costs more than the other, you know, clients, you know, they scratched their head about that. So I try to keep it that way just based off of that. And it also started out to be a lot cheaper endeavor. I mean, we were going with 14 paintings. It was actually 13 paintings, just because of 13 chapters.

And then after he read Roberts Ford, because after Robert finished the book, he wrote a Ford that was unbelievable. I still can't believe that man like that would write a Ford like this. Wait, he wrote the Ford. Robert wrote the Ford. Dolph de Roos wrote my afterwards. He's illustrated at the book. So then Eric, we were driving down the road to my dad's place. I said, you should illustrate the Ford.

He's like, what do you mean? I said, no, do the same thing you did with the chapters. He took, like, the illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s, you know, the religious books, and he rednecked it up for the cover of every chapter. So every chapter and you read it, it's painted into the cover art for the chapter. Well, then I wanted the book to look like something you'd pull off the Vatican wall, an old beat-up leather-bound book. And I said, you should actually illustrate the forward, too. So after reading the forward, he painted what his mind had for the forward. Well, then we went to find an editor.

And his wife is a professional editor. She was too busy. He says, hey, call these three guys. I reached out to them and said, hey, I've got a book that Robert Allen wrote the Forward for, and I need somebody to edit it. Like, oh, Robert Allen wrote a forward. We'll take a look at it. But then they started bastardizing my book. They would rewrite it to thou. They would write a book. I'm like, that's not my book. Well, that's how I edit. Like, well, then you're not my editor. So I called another guy, you may know him, Alan Stein Jr. He wrote, raise your game and sustain your game. I'm like, buddy, I need some help.

I need an editor whose balls are attached and not there for decoration. He's like, what do you mean? I said, every editor I've talked to you wants to bastard. my work. I need somebody who will dig in and just do it how I did it. He gave me a name. So I reached out to this guy. He goes, send me the manuscript. The guy read it within a week, got back to me, goes, I'll publish your book. It's like, what do you mean? Publish my book. I mean, he did an editor. He goes, and he sent me his information. He was the CEO of a publishing company. Wow. It says, this book needs to get published. Not everybody's going to like it, not everybody needs it, but the people who do need it badly. What's the title of the book? What's the

name of it? Read in economics. it's basically the economy of an ass beating just like goggins talks about just like white talks about just like what you talk about life is a series of beatings and it's going to sort you you're going to step up and take the beating and get what it's going to give you and then plan the next beating you're willing to take to achieve what you want to get or you're going to let it just push you down into the ground you're going to fade into nothing this is me giving people the formula to plan the beating you're willing to take and being i grew up we both grew up cattle ranching together we've we've been through the beatings and how it is to be successful in that type of

environment really any environment is me taking those those values and applying this here and then other people putting their name behind it robert allen d'allf de ruse that publisher and other people who have read it and put their endorsements on that to me is is monster and i still sometimes can't believe that they would put their name behind it. But now we're out trying to, and yourself, allowing us onto your podcast to talk about our work that we pray has a dent, just in least one listener's life. Yep. So we talked to a little bit about the making money side.

Let's talk about the investing side. Once someone starts to make money in their career and they want to invest into real estate, how would they decide I'm going to invest into Airbnbs or I'm going to buy short-term fix and flips or I'm going to buy multifamily or commercial or storage units or RV. parks. There's so many options. What would you say to someone how to figure out what might be right for them? See, I'm talking to the individual and finding out, what's the point? Why do you want to get an investing? What's investing going to do to you? A lot of times people think that when it comes to real estate, it's a very passive thing, just like going to stock market. I put a down payment,

closing costs, and it just pays you money. I was like, no, you're now becoming a business owner. This real estate is a business. You have to create the business. So instead of selling them on, hey, go to this guy and get the real estate and I'll do your financing. Like, let's dig down to where you're heading. And most of the time it's because people want to leave a legacy to somewhere. A legacy has been defined as money, but it's actually leaving behind a process, system, stop processes, leaving behind what you did to create that. So I take them all the way to Bread, Bedrock.

Let's figure out how you're going to put that capital together. Let's get your entities in place. Gets your trust, get your holding company to start the LLCs and I start working on the financing for that. But let's understand what's going to create the most value in the real estate itself, right? You can go all kinds of direction, as you just said. But let's look at what I believe is the most valuable per square foot real estate, which is a single family home. They're not making much more of them. It's becoming scarcer and scarcer and scarcer.

And if I want to get my tinful hat on, we can go all the way back pre-crash and all the things that have happened that led to the hedge fund that hold the bulk of the single families out there are turning our society into a subscription-based economy. They don't get in on that subscription providing part of it, then they're going to miss out. So I want to get people into that part of it because it's easiest to get into, easiest to get out of if things get bad. But also understanding that is the biggest value, and that is the leverage itself. We have grown up in an environment where people want to tell you that the mortgage is debt and that you're going to be beholden to this thing for 30 years. So put extra in and pay it off.

Do the debt snowball. And I'm trying to tell them to stop. Quit listening to that. That's the banking world trying to program you. when you have an environment where somebody's willing to come in to give you 80% of the capital for your business, but take no stake in the business, let you keep that business, yet somebody else pays them back at a small percentage every month for the next 30 years, and you get to keep the asset that appreciated, you get to keep the asset that somebody else paid off,

you get the tax benefits, you get the cash flow, who wins? it definitely ate the bank and it sure as hell ain't the renter. The other thing that's awesome about the bank but people don't understand is that you're paying it back with the U.S. dollar. I like to illustrate something to the people with this. Let's go back 30 years ago.

It's actually a little more than 30 years ago. I walked to my very first Taco Bell in 1994. It's Moses Lake Washington. I bought two crunchy tacos, two bean burritos, and a drink for $1.99. What does that cost right now? Now, you probably don't go there, right? Somebody in this room might know,

but right now it's $14. bucks for those items. For two tacos and what? Two crunchy tacos, two bean burritos and a drink. It's $14. It was $1.99 back then. Of course. In 30 years, it swung over 800% in the buying power of the U.S. dollar.

800% in the buying power of the U.S. dollar. And it's not because they made bigger britos and bigger tacos. And it's not because, you know, RFK Jr. now discovered it's a senior superfood. And he's telling the whole world. It's because the dollar's buying less. I'm going to pass this to you. Tell me what that is. Well, it looks like a Susan B. Anthony, but it's gold version.

It's a gold liberty. And it tells you the denomination on the back. It's an 1888 gold U.S. gold coin. Tells you how many dollars it's for. I don't see it. It's in the band. Kind of. They'll tell you it's 20 bucks.

It's kind of hard. to read on that one. Yep. That means it's the same as this. Will this buy that? Will $20 buy a $20 coin? Yeah. Will it buy that $20 coin?

This $20 coin? Not today. What's the price of gold? Gold a lot. It's over $4,000. $4,000. This $20 won't buy my socks. But in 1888, actually up until the early of the 1900s, that gold coin would get you a hat, a

hand-tailored suit, a shirt, a tie, a pair of socks, and a pair of shoes. Like I said, this one will buy my socks. So why is it that that $20 is not this $20? What's interesting about a loan to people to be able to buy real estate, you get to pay it back with this, not that. So that means when you get a $200,000 property and you put 20% down, you're financing $160,000, you're paying them back every month for the next $360 months. And the math tells you you're going to pay $420,000 for that $160,000 loan.

But when you look at what's happening to this, you're actually paying $100,000. $152,000 or less. You pay back less than what you borrowed. So that's why the banking world is convinced people. You need to pay it off faster that you need to do the debt snowball and that you need to take your extra cash flow and pay them back. They want their money back faster so they can put it into somebody else's hands. The longer you take the pay, the less you actually pay.

And when you refinance for rate, you're being taken advantage of because it's not about the dang rate. How much is that coin now? That coin right now is about $4,700 to $5,000. That coin? That coin. That's a lot more than $20. A lot more than $20.

Because this is backed by nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you look what's happening in the world today, you look back interest rates, people keep wanting to know, the rates are going to go down, the rates are going to go down, the rates are going to go down, the rates are going to go. They're not going to go down unless we start doing quantitative easing again. That was started on, it was announced for the first time and at the end of November of people, 2008. We all know what happened in 2008. And that from that point on, November 25th, the 2008, all the way up until the end of 2021, there was a lot of capital that was printed,

shoved into the economy to keep our rates down. What's interesting about that date, if you look back after we had quantitative tightening, where we went down, the rate spiked up in 2022, every time we've hit the level in the mortgage-backed securities that was set up that day in 2008, every time we hit, we bounced off it, bounced off it, bounced off it. We are presently right now at the lowest rates that we should have unless moved upon by more quantitative easing by the federal government. And I think they're going to do it to crash the U.S. dollar to get us into a digital currency. All right. On the charity side of things, talking about making money, investing money,

but giving it away. Why do you think it's important for a family household to have some type of charity component, whether it's financially, emotionally, or taking the kids out, taking the parents out, taking the friends and neighbors out to an actual, you know, give back, feed the homeless, clean up the beach, go to a senior citizen home. But when it's commanded, it's biblical. So money is a resource. I look just like a river. As it's flowing, all the big cities started growing up around rivers, correct? But then when it gets damned up, what ends up happening? When it pulls up, it becomes corrosive, right? It will eat things. It will kill things. It needs to move. And it doesn't just need to move for the purpose of you because then you become a corrosive

person if it's just for you. It needs to go to something bigger. And we need to build up that charity. I think that if we as humans became more charitable, we wouldn't have a lot of the problems that have in the world today. Right? And I think that as far as the charities are concerned, it gets us out of ourselves, gets us to become aware of more things around us than what's in our own to our heart and we don't become corrosive people. Yeah, if communities don't give to communities who will, you know, families don't give, then, you know, you've left it to the government to do it. And that's not helping anybody.

Well, they use that for slavery. People giving it to people is to elevate, become more. I think we become more by giving. What's interesting about that is the more I let it flow into a source of giving, and I don't worry about that source or where it's coming from, more just teams to come. I've never had to worry where the core capital is coming from when I'm giving it. What I have to worry about it is when I'm keeping it. So there's only one question that I ask every single time on every single episode.

It's been 200 something and 240, I think, episodes. And I've never gotten the same answer before. And I'm definitely not going to get the same answer tonight. 50 years from now, 100 years from now, and it's time for you to finally pass away. What percentage of your net worth you end up leaving your children or your grandchildren? Well, at that time, it'll be 100% of the net worth that's left, whatever it is.

The intent I have right now with the family trust and with the holding companies and the LLCs and every single member of my family is living in a house that's owned by the trust, they pay the trust, and my children are all beneficiaries of that trust. I will use up all the cash capital that I have available to me, but the life insurance policies and all the things go to them. What legacy I leave to them is what to do with it. I'm not leaving them capital because the money never really leaves the trust. It's how do they perpetuate it?

How do they ensure that the next generation has something as well and the generation after that? There are certain rules in place that they all have to abide by to be able to sit on the board of the trust to decide what the money is done with or what's done with the money. If they don't meet those obligations, they don't get to vote, but they don't get to take it out either. They get to perpetuate it. And that's the job. That's the goal, is to make sure that the next five, six, seven, eight generations are still perpetuating that. And it's not for the sake of the family name or Aaron Chapman, right? I'm the first in my family to have ever created this and start perpetuating.

And I'm teaching that to my clients. I'm showing that to every single one of clients. I'm creating a software to help them to track it and manage it. So if something happens to them, their family can log in and see it. I love that. It's not paperwork locked up in a safe. It's not looking for keywords in a Google Drive. It's literally built in the way they can click and see everything and they can access every point and they know exactly where it was drawn to because I'm tired of seeing generations being left behind.

I watch my grandkids. I got three little grandkids and they walk up. I see them and they don't have a chance. And unfortunately, their parents have not been given a chance. It's up to me to create the chance for both. And so the legacy that I am leaving is the knowledge of what to do. What they do with is up to them. What do you think?

I'm an artist. I'm supposed to be starving, right? Isn't that how it goes? Well, eventually your paintings may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, it's possible. Anything's possible. What a 50 years from now? You've sold 100 paintings, and there are tens of thousands, 50,000, 100,000 each, and you actually have amassed wealth from this passion project that you had on the side. It becomes something that builds fortune. Mostly bought by the Fleischman family. Yeah, there we go. I'm not sure.

You know, I'll be honest. It's not something I've actually even thought about. You see, in my family, whenever somebody died, there was a big fight. You know, we're talking about when a grandparent on both sides of our family, it was a mess. It picked through the rubble. My father right now, he's just coming to us directly and saying, you want this? You want that? You want, you know.

And so it was kind of. of one of those things where it was, in my mind, that thought was kind of a pariah, and maybe I haven't addressed it because of that. Because I saw family, my own family get broken up by it. Yeah. It was interesting to watch on both sides. My father's side and my mother's side. What's interesting, they have lost contact with their siblings over that kind of stuff. Fragmented. Absolutely. I hear the stories all the time. Oh, yeah. My dad's trying to keep it all together. My dad has more money now than he's ever had in his entire life. He's 70, what is he's 79?

78. He's turning 79 here real soon. He has more money he's ever had in his life. And we finally got him to put together trust and put it all together for my siblings. I did not want to be part of it. I helped him put it together. I helped him get collect we need to get and get all the stuff in place,

but made sure that I was not written into it. It's written into it for my siblings. And if he were to write me, if I wasn't included, I wouldn't care because I don't want to fight my siblings. Yeah. We're not going to perpetuate that. Yeah, and I'm not trying to cut you off.

I guess I'm playing with you. No, that's okay. No. But it's something that I see my siblings struggle. I see them fight through things. I've been blessed monetarily to not have to fight those. But I still fight. I mean, let's just be honest.

We're both. That's where we're here for because the battles in the hell and the destruction of it is. It's slaying the dragons all the time. And sometimes you can't even come home and take off your armor because you need to keep it on there. Sure. And it gets exhausting. But resources I have, resources I can use, I'm not going to take from others. And that's one of these things I think is probably one of my Achilles heels

are also my greatest strengths I take from no one. I'll go earn everything that I get and I'll make sure that whatever it is I do, people benefit from. But it's also something that is also Achilles heel because I ask from nobody. I will suffer. I will walk 100 miles for a call for a ride. That's true. And I don't let people's lives be blessed by helping me and it's wrong.

Damn it, I'll go bless other people's lives. but I will go walk 100 miles to carry them the 100 miles that they would have walked if I have to. All right. So where can people find the book, find you, find you guys on social, tell us everything. So you can go to Aaron Chapman.com. It's probably the easiest way of place to find me. The book itself would be getting sold on quitjerkingoff.com. It's also going to be on Amazon.

It's going to be on Barnes & Noble. It's been all the other places like that. SGOC underscore Aaron is where you be able to find me on Instagram. And, you know, that's me. My Instagram handle is at Eric J. Chapman. art. I know it's long. You know, E-R-I-C. And then I have a website, EJC-Art.com. I will have a piece in a group show over at the Brennan Gallery in Scottsdale come December. That's for the month of December. It's their 12 by 12 show. So if you're in Scottsdale, December, I believe the 11th is

the reception for that. All the pieces of for sale, of course. And last year, I mean, my piece sold before the show even started. To another artist, which is amazing. One of the guys that this guy has been looking up to for decades bought his piece, which is complete. He has quite a collection. It's, uh, it was very flat.

It was amazing for me to walk in and see that, see that whole situation. I'll just tell you about this thing here. It's not going to get released until July 13th through this next year. Actually, my dad's birthday. But this piece here, this book, I have an enormous amount of capital tied up in this book. And he gave me, it was like 61 illustrations in there. And he gave me an enormous.

discount even at $47,000. So a person buys this for $28. You're getting $47,000 worth of artwork to hold in your hand, which is, to me, an amazing bargain just in that, even if you don't like the words. And quite frankly, I even tell you right in the first paragraph, throw the some bitch away if you can't stand it. But somebody is going to read it and somebody gets something. But I will say, everyone that's looked at that book, especially if we've been at this

event, oh my gosh, nothing but positive. Everybody that has, you know, the thumb through it, read through it, check it out. But it's, their feedback has been incredible. And we're extremely appreciative to be here, by the way. And as far as the time, I'm not sure how we're at on our 35 minutes, but I do need to share. I didn't let my parents read the manuscript. I intentionally don't want to read the manuscript. My mother has a lot of influence on me.

I mean, she's 73 years old. I'm a 51-year-old man. She'll still chase my ass around the house with a chonkla. I have a Hispanic mother. I finally let her read the book after her is in print. and she asked me when it was getting close again in print she goes could you read this to the savior i said he's already read it five times mom i don't know to tell you she finally approached me after reading she goes yes you can and she goes let me tell you one more thing i wished i had this to give you

when you turned eight now she read it five times she called me the other morning but actually the morning before i came here before you guys invited me out here i'm working out my phone rings my mom at six o'clock in the morning she goes can we talk about your book i'm like oh she finally found something. She's going to bust my chops over something here. And she goes, I just finished your book for the fifth time, which blew my mind. I asked her, how many books have you read five times? And she said, only scripture. She's read thousands of books, but never anything else five times. And she sent me a picture of the last page where she wrote in it. She goes, on that fifth time, she goes, I finally have decided to give, I finally found the strength to forgive myself for the failings as a mother.

I don't remember a whole lot of failings. I remember a lot of volatility in my life. My mom's a very passionate woman. But for my own mother to be able to do that. Now I looked at the picture of what she read, what she sent me, as I read the page where she highlighted above where she started highlighting, it says in there, if you've gotten this far, you're only 20% done. You got four more reads. I don't know why I wrote that when I wrote it. But now I know it is for my own mother. So interesting. Let me tell you something. There's something special about being able to create something that does something for the most important woman

in your life that raised you. Now, aside for my wife, there is nobody more important to me than my mother. And it changed her. And it gave her some strength that she couldn't find somewhere else. And if that's all I got out of this book,

then it was worth every dang cent I put in it. All right, guys, you know what to do? I want you guys to check them out across social media platforms. Check out the book. Check out the websites. Check out the art. When you hear episodes like this

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