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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the most special edition of the Money Monday.
We have absolutely no guests whatsoever.
It is just me and the co-host, the real Tarzan here.
The reason I'm so hyped up is one hour ago, a brand new social media platform called Threads
just came out.
And you've got a guy that gets 200 million views a month across social media here
so he's just I don't know why I'm just hype
so here's the thing over the last decade
every time someone's like there's a new social media there's a new social media app I say the same thing
nobody cares they have no chance do you know why because any of the top six major platforms
are either gonna shut them down or acquire them?
The only one that had any chance was called musically.
What happened?
They switched over to TikTok and blah, blah, blah,
that was it.
They also had billions of dollars behind them.
That was the only one that broke through.
Think about it.
There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of social media platforms and you can't name any of them
except for Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook,
YouTube, Snapchat, that's about it, right?
And there was one called Twitter but I don't know, there's about to be a big competitor
with threads.
Alright guys, so typically we go over three topics.
How to make money, how to invest money, how to give it away to charity.
But today you get a special edition episode where me and the real Tars are going to walk
through our business lives
We're gonna talk about why we built a 26 acre animal sanctuary called the wild jungle
I'm gonna talk about my masterminds my investments
As IE ball stores sports car stores and everything between that we can fit into 40 minutes for you
My my heart's beating
Look at my phone because I just got 700 followers on threads in the last few minutes
I'm like, oh, let's go. This is so much fun.
All right, guys.
I'm gonna let Tarzan explain to you real quick,
the main concept of why he moved all the way from Miami.
We're here already had a ranch.
All the way out here to Mechila, California
to build this 26 acre wild jungle.
So yeah, man, I mean, we've been talking for years,
and like I told you before, I ain't leaving my
end. I'm not leaving. Show goes on. Show goes on. You know, I was just so happy and so
comfortable there, you know, half of me wanted to stay because I was comfortable. I
settled in. It was an area where I got it out the mud, you know. I moved to Miami
about over a decade ago. It's like 18, 19 years old. I had a game plan, but I didn't know how to execute it.
So I came there and I'd been homeless
like the first three years.
A long story short, I got my break in social media
about six years ago.
And I kind of did everything I could possibly do in Florida
besides like settling by a house
and open up my own sanctuary.
And a time came where, you know, and a time came where you know
Me and you were going back and forth
We even looked at a couple properties in Florida to do the wild jungle down there. Yep, and
One of my main goals are driving down to South Beach every time I see
Jungle Island
I would say I want to buy that place one day and I'm gonna shut it down. It's gonna live there
You know that was the end of the animal and I wanted going to shut it down. It's going to live there. You know, that was the end of the world. And I wanted to start a cruise ship
line across the street and just send aid to Cuba
and South America and any surrounding areas
that need to help.
But just imagine a giant cruise ship
where there's nothing but employees on there.
And animals, animals, you know,
you can rehab animals, medication,
like heart-cating disaster relief program, earthquake, you know, response, anything, man. So, you know, once my mind started rolling around in
that area of Miami and you said, you know, I'm going to look in California for a property. So,
I had one now and I kept traveling, doing my thing and then I'm like midway through a trip and you're
like, bro, I got the keys. Yeah, I don't really got the keys. You're like, I'm like, bro, you're talking about this.
You sent me this link and I looked at a couple of photos
and I'm like, I look kind of dope, but you know, like,
you're like, no, when you get off the plane,
fly straight to California, like, I don't care.
I got the keys.
And then I came here and I seen this place and I'm like,
well, it was a winery by the way, guys.
Yeah.
It was 26 acres and almost 80 or 90% of it was covered
in wine vines.
Yeah.
Within a few weeks, it took all the wine vines. Yeah. Within a few weeks, we took out all the wine vines
so we could build an animal sanctuary.
Now, animal sanctuaries are very expensive to upkeep.
We don't have tourists here, we don't have tour guides here.
This is a business we're going to walk you through the concept
of the wild jungle.
All right, first things first.
We have like 155 animals here.
We're actually doing the accounting right now because we think we just had like four more babies
It's like 159 there's a lot of babies that are happening. It's summertime God bless them all the babies are having fun out here
All these animals are having fun. So feeding a hundred and fifty nine-ish animals. It's very expensive
You've got hay pellets seeds then we give them bonuses like carrots and sweet potatoes and color greens
Just talk about like the concept of of how often do we feed,
how much, we don't really buy it by the bag,
we buy it by the ton,
and we just walk us to the main idea
of feeding lots of animals.
Yeah, people don't understand how much it actually takes,
how much medication, how many vet bills,
how much, thank God we got free water.
So it's like food, you see that hay bill
that comes every twice a month.
It's $9,200 a week.
Just so people understand.
I'm going to walk you through our actual math of my whole life today.
It's $9,200 a week.
And hay.
And hay.
And hay.
But again, we're feeding lots and lots and lots and animals.
The highest grade food.
Yes.
You know, the whole concept of the wild jungle is to give animals all the possible
and enrichment they would need in a jungle,
all the nutrition they would need in the jungle.
You're going out every other day to Ralph's and Mayan.
Fresh sweet potatoes, fresh carrots, fresh color grease.
Hand feeding them.
Hand feeding them yourself.
You bought an industrial $3,000 food chopper.
We're chopping fruit and carrots and everything so fast.
For the first couple of months.
My hands are as orange as they're happening right now.
We were in there with a cheese grater
for the first couple of weeks
and then we had a grinding one
and then we went to chopping it,
we'd do new knives and we're like, bro, you know what?
Let's just, you invested in a big, huge food processor.
We're just like, man, man, man, man, man.
And it's just gone through.
So guys, this property of a $6.6 million.
For 26 acres, we're in California.
Listen, if we go to like a random city in the country,
you could go get 400 acres,
let's mostly dirt, mountains, and not a good topography.
We are right here in Subacular California.
Right down the street is grocery stores and freeways
and the bank and everything that we need
to run our real lives and our business lives
and to be able to afford to pay for all this.
We've then spent over $3 million in improvements in 10 months. We just moved your last summer,
last August. So I want you guys to literally understand like the amount of money we're approaching
the $10 million mark to keep this place going. I guess I didn't even mention the fact that we're
also spending six figures a month in like feeding animals and doing all the buildouts. All right, guys.
While jungle outside of what you see as far as the animals, the ATV course, the operation
black site, which will walk through in a bit, the things that are happening here, the
wedding venue, etc.
There's also the brands.
Tarzan, I wanted to work with for years because I've paid him, right?
Hundreds of thousand dollars to post products on social media for pet related products
and pet related brands and men's apparel, et cetera.
But now we can build wild jungle
into an overarching brand for animals.
Pet accessories, dog beds, dog leashes, pet food,
a highest end of version of everything, toys,
and also for humans, for kids, coloring books,
animal crackers, and all these fun products
we can make for kids
all under this wild jungle brand.
Talk us through your thoughts on taking this place
and making it like a content machine,
you and Trevor making content all the time,
and then turning that into an overarching brand.
You are what we call a serial investor,
almost like a serial killer, but, you know,
in a good way, just banging down.
Killin' deals, bang bang bang bang.
You know, the Tim Kennedy, the sniper rifle
of a hit and investment.
So, you know, we talked briefly years ago
on a whole branch of pet products, you know,
kids' lines, adult lines, different things.
So, when we first got into the whole,
the structure of the wild jungle,
we talked about bringing people in, the public,
opening up, and then now you felt
the bond with the animals there.
You know what it was also, I just saw
like little kids like trying to open up things
where the snakes are.
I'm like, that's a 16 foot snake.
You don't want to go there.
You don't want to open that.
Yeah.
And I was like, what if I wasn't here?
And so I started thinking about the fact
like you've got camels and zebras and horses and zorces
and everything between, just risks.
And so we'll still do some private events here. We'll have our friends here. You just had Russell Wilson and Sierra and allorxes and everything between, there's risks. So we'll still do some private events here.
We'll have our friends here.
You just had Russell Wilson and Sierra
and all these amazing people here with their kids.
We'll still do things kid related,
but on those days we'll have extra security
and extra staff that help manage the process.
Anyways, I hate to cut you off.
That was the reason why I was like,
you know what, let's just do some things
for our friends to come over,
but ultimately build us into a brand and a content machine.
I'm happy you definitely you'd definitely that mindset
because one of the gives our animals
another sense of peace and privacy.
A lot of these animals like a BB and the ghost,
you've now looked at them as your kids.
Yeah.
And you feel the sense of their privacy.
You feel the sense of building their homes.
And if we together can build this huge brand
of bringing animals to a whole
new sanctuary and actually letting them be peace, not have people stick cameras in their
face or people coming up in lines every day.
I mean, you see it sometimes we do have a couple people here.
Right, stop on the street.
Yeah, and the animals, they don't like it.
So with bringing this brand to life, all these products, we're able to keep these animals
private as possible, expand on their homes and still make revenue to take care of them and take care of ourselves.
Alright so you guys are gonna see the wild jungle be physical products really soon
there's also be some beverages for humans and for animals. I'm gonna explain that
to you guys soon we'll be doing more updates about that as it in progress.
These things are already being made. There's literally over two million dollars
again we're being very open. There's over $2 million dedicated,
just to make samples of all the products
for wild jungle related products, brands, et cetera.
So you're gonna see animal products, kid products,
all coming out, the samples starting to arrive already.
We have the merch already, et cetera.
Coming out this summer.
And then by the holiday season,
you're just gonna see it in major chain stores,
major stores, online, et cetera.
All right.
I also mentioned we have what's called Operation Black Site.
Operation Black Site is a couple acres
and that corner right over there.
I say that if you're watching on YouTube
because we are live, this RV motorhome
is live on the ranch, right?
We made an RV motorhome so we could show up
to people's houses and offices
to make it easier for celebrities and athletes.
But we also record right here on the ranch
a lot of times those celebrities and athletes
will come here to us.
Operation Blackside, we started with Badras.
Cool. Leon, he owns what's called fit body boot camps.
He has like five or six hundred gyms of franchises for fit body boot camps.
They're small format gyms.
He's been crushing with that throws live events, business events, et cetera.
I went to Badras.
I said, Hey, you've got something called the project, right?
75 hours.
It looks not just looks tough. It is tough. Like half the people don't make it through it.
Like they ring the bell and quit. And you're getting trained by Navy seals and it's bloody and messy, etc.
It's very intense to find out if you can really, er, handle it, right?
I wanted to make a CEO and women's version that they could go through it and go through the hard parts of it and the tough parts of it without blood.
That was my one ask. I said, hey guys, hey Navy SEALs, hey, UFC fighters, don't make the
girls of CEOs, my friends, the business people, don't make them bleed. Let them go through
the hard parts and feel like you're going to wrestle with Michael Chandler, right? You're
going to get to learn how to shoot from Tim Kennedy and Ray Cashcare is going to yell
at you and Steve Eckhart is going to yell, you're going to have real Navy SEALs and UFC fighters
messing with you, but you're not going to leave your bloody. That was my one ass.
Now, that mastermind is annual.
It's $20,000 for people to attend,
but they get to come multiple times throughout the year
to here to Black Sight Ranch.
So, we have Wild Jungle, which is one side,
and we have Black Sight Ranch, which is the other side.
That's our nickname for it.
For what's called Operation Black Sight.
You guys can see that at OperationBlackSight.com.
You can get to come here.
It's two days at a time.
We threw them on the weekends every quarter
and you get to experience real life.
Like the guy that's gonna fight, kind of a grigger?
That's the guy you're gonna fight with.
The guy that's shot hundreds of people
to help protect our country
and he's traveled around the planet
for multiple military organizations.
That guy's gonna teach you how to shoot.
You've gone through it. Yeah.
Can you walk us through like this?
It's pretty intense to really think about, you know, I remember standing in front of
Michael Chandler a couple of weeks ago when he's demonstrating to the crew about like how
to throw a punch and how to turn your fist and how to pivot your feet, you know, and you
look at this guy like, dude, if you really want to punch me, there's nothing I could do
about it.
You know, it's just scary, you know. And then going up the top and we're shooting
his airsoft guns and we're doing like, you know,
hostage patrol or grabbing our friends
and we're running and we're shooting over our shoulder
and Tim Kenley's yelling in your ear,
how to, you know, aim a straight and keep your posture up.
Hold the gun like that, that's my gun.
Yeah.
I was like, it's burning my head.
He's like, that gun is mine.
Yeah.
But it's so cool to be around such different
alphas and different realms and be able to learn from them
because one, they're so sharp.
I'm really intricate in seeing what people say
and hearing what people say and seeing what they do.
And one, Tim talks about different guns
or how to position yourself or how to clear these rooms
and how to have that mental stability
in those hostage situations, those hostile situations.
It's so sick to be able to see how you paint
that picture in your head, how to stay calm and stay cool and to execute. Same with Michael Chandler, you know. It's
one thing to see this nice guy that's smiling, but dude, he just like, I walked in there
a couple of weeks ago, he had a shirt off and I'm like, bro, that guy will reddestroy you,
bro. You know, it's so cool, but he's so sweet, man. So it's really cool to see the two
different sides of the people, you know, hang's so cool, but he's so sweet man, you know, so it's a really cool to see the two different sides of the people
You know hang out with Tim Kenny hang out with Michael Chandler, but then see them hit that switching like being full on kill mode, you know
So in the upper area, there's also a wedding venue here
That came from a crew a group called wife of the party wife of the party worked with for many many years
They threw my wedding half a decade ago, which you were there there with alligators and everything at the wedding, which was amazing
Why for the party is helping us with production with events?
I've been throwing events for the last 10 years really and the last half a decade been throwing some big production ones
Let me walk you through them
First ones called elevator nights elevator nights is completely free
I've thrown that event 52 times for free.
No tickets, no sponsors, no sales on stage.
That event has around 200 to 1000 guests,
totally free, and only four hours,
but I still bring in big name speakers.
You're gonna hear, Tarzan, you're gonna hear Jake Paul,
Russell Simmons, like big name speakers
still come there for free for me
because they know I'm not charging anything.
That's kind of like my Robin Hood event
where I give back to the entrepreneur community,
they can meet people.
I then have Operation Black Site,
which I mentioned to you as $20,000 for the year.
So you guys can start to think about the huge jump.
I went from a free event, jumped all the way to 20K.
But wait, in between there, I also do online coaching.
Online coaching is actually the MoneyMundays.com.
The MoneyMundays.com is every Monday at 4 p.m.
it's 200 bucks a month.
And people can prepay for a big discount
if they want to prepay for the year.
Why do I do that?
Well, if you notice on the moneymundays,
we haven't taken ads.
We haven't done any commercials.
We've been approached by some household name companies
that want to pay for ads
because we've been the number one entrepreneur podcast
for 102 days in a row.
So a lot of brands have thrown money at us.
Financially, maybe we should take it, right?
20 grand, 50 grand, 30 grand for an episode,
when you're putting out an episode every Monday,
that could add up.
The goal for me was, I wanna do free entrepreneur training,
and then the moneymondays.com could ultimately become
something for us where we could keep this ad free
or ad little.
Meaning maybe we take on a brand that's like
powered by Shopify or powered by first form or some brands that we like, maybe meaning maybe we take on a brand that's like powered by Shopify
or powered by first form or some brands that we like, maybe then we would take on those.
But ultimately, I don't want to be reading ads.
Tarshan knows I want to read an ad for two minutes about some mobile app or some random
like subscription box.
Nothing, it's a bad idea.
They're not bad money or other podcasts shouldn't do it.
It's our goal.
Ultimately, it's make these 40 minute episodes really easy for you to listen to. So we have the moneymundays.com is 200 bucks a month every Monday at 4 p.m. PST. We are there
live doing live Q&A. And we're like doing speeches and talks, but then for half of it, we're
like doing live Q&A where you can get on and ask us real life business questions. It's very powerful,
it's very useful. I've done them for years within my masterminds. My next mastermind is called the 100 million mastermind experience. This is a hundred thousand dollars per person.
I repeat, it's a hundred thousand dollars per person and I've been sold out since 2019. Every year,
people pay a hundred K to go to three weekends per year. This year coming up for 2024, I've
increased to four weekends per year by adding a special
event. The special event is only two days when we go take over a celebrity's house for
a day and then their office for a day. So imagine going to like Arnold Schwarzenegger or
A. Raud or Mark Wahlberg or Rick Ross, we'll go to their house for a day and then their
office for a day with them and bring their celebrity friends over.
Why do I charge or how could I charge a hundred thousand dollars per person? Let's walk through
the real financials. Well, most masterminds can throw could I charge a hundred thousand dollars per person? Let's walk through the real financials.
Well, most masterminds can throw their weekends for a hundred K to 300 K.
And that's a nice mastermind.
Some of them throw it for less than that.
I spend one to two million dollars per weekend to put on a big show, bring on big celebrities,
big athletes, big surprises to make an experience.
That's why it's called 100 million mastermind experience.
The experience part is how people learn in network
and how they remember each other.
I still, if you notice earlier when I said Tarzan
and I said my wedding, the first thing I thought about
is him holding an alligator, right?
Because that's the visual I have for my own wedding.
That was a long day and night with hundreds of interactions
or maybe thousand of interactions in that day.
And I still visually remember that.
I can see which way he was facing,
what he was wearing, et cetera, from that moment,
because experiences cause memories.
And so I wanted to make the most high-end exclusive
mastermind in the planet, which we did.
And we bring in Mark Wahlberg, Chris Jenner, Floyd Maywear,
their Hulk Hogan, Tiger, performances by everyone
you could imagine every night as a surprise.
That's why it's always sold out.
Everybody wants to be a part of it
because of the relationships.
More importantly than myself or the instructors,
the 22 instructors that I have,
those instructors do 100 million or more in sales
or do 100 million or more in ads.
More important than all of that,
all the glitz and gallimor, the celebrities,
we rent out stadiums and ball parks
and all this crazy stuff is the other members.
So more important than me is the other members in the room
because they know that all the other 100 members
have done 5 million, 10 million, 20 million,
30 million, 40 million, 50 million dollars in sales
and they can build lifelong relationships with them.
So around 30 to 50% of our mastermind each year,
renews. So I don't get new members as people that are just sticking with me for one year of our mastermind each year, we're in news.
So I don't get new members as people that are just
sticking with me for one year, two year, three years.
Some of them have been with me all four years
since 2019.
So, elevator nights is free.
Operation Black Side is 20K.
In the middle there, the weekly coaching
is the moneymundays.com, 200 bucks a month.
And then on my high end is 100K.
Why do I have so many tiers of pricing?
I'm walking through it, not to pitch you or sell you because most of these things are already full anyways
It's I want you guys to think for yourselves. How can you monetize your expertise?
You might be really good at pickleball and pickleball super hot right now how to support in the world
You might be able to do pickleball coaching or pickleball mastermind or pickleball meetups or pickleball
XYZ you might be able to teach pick-a-bought on Zoom.
You can make money from pick-a-bought if you're really good at it by monetizing it.
Teaching online, I charged $200 a month.
I also do for $250 for 15-minute phone calls, like Zoom calls, on the hustler academy.com.
People can do 15-minute calls if they don't want to spend.
They want to do like one-on-one stuff.
I have $100,000 for a one-on-one coaching, but I donate a hundred percent of the maturity
You see all the different ways I can monetize it all started from free, right?
And I'm always gonna do the free one which is called Elevator nights by providing value
Over the course of time you can start to charge for different things whether it's 200 bucks a month
$100,000 or anything between just keep in mind your expertise
Is what can lead to revenue if right now? bucks a month, $100,000 or anything between, just keep in mind, your expertise is what
can lead to revenue.
If right now, Tarzan's like, you know what, guys, I'm going to put out an online course.
It's $500.
Now I'm going to teach you about how to deal with dogs or how to deal with cats or how
to deal with snakes, especially since he's at so much snake content.
He's like, hey, guys, I know you've been considering snakes.
I've got a $500 course for snakes.
He'd probably sell $1,200 to those this week.
You can see, right, that down.
1,200 times 500 bucks is 60 grand.
He'd literally probably sell 1,200 this week.
And then he could run an affiliate model to sell more.
What does that mean?
An affiliate model is where other people will sell
your snake course, right?
On how to handle snakes or how to more importantly,
how to get over the fear of snakes. Not that many people have to actually handle snakes but most of society as 8 billion humans are
scared of snakes. So if you made something that's like hey I'm gonna teach you how to get over the
fear of snakes and it's gonna be 297 or 497 all right three to 500 bucks at affordable price.
He would sell thousands of those recurring all the the time for many, many years, and he
only has to film it once.
So if you're really good at something like pickleball or how to get over the fear of snakes,
you can record something one time and it could be a couple of hours course and then sell
that for many, many years.
Half a decade ago, I created LearnPersonalBranding.com.
It's 500 bucks.
I still see sales happen all the time.
I haven't posted about or talked about in years.
My book is from 2016,
how to set up your personal brand for $100,000.
How to set up your business for $100,000.
I barely repost about them in every month.
I see sales on Amazon.
Every month, I see sales directly from a distributor
all the time.
I'm walking you through all the real life things
because think about it, I'm selling $20 bucks. I sell on sell an audible for five bucks like the audio version of my books for five bucks
He could he could sell a snake how to get over snake fear today
You guys can make these things if you just think about what you're really good at and get even better at it
So if you're good at pick up all get great at it. You're good at chess. You're gonna poker get great at it
And you can monetize those things
Okay, so that's the monetized version. Now let's talk about some fun things.
We also threw the world's largest pizza festival.
So I did one six years ago and I did one last year. The first one I had Tiger,
Whiskeliva, two chains and all these different performers come there and it was a thousand
entrepreneur or sorry, not thousand entrepreneurs, 900 models and a hundred of my
friends and entrepreneurs that were there.
So create this largest piece festival for my birthday party.
There's nothing monetized there at all, but personal brand wise, it helps.
Right.
I spent 600,000ish on that party, but the amount of exposure we got was like one or two billion views
because every TMZ, everything like Tiger was there at the same time
as Kylie and everybody was talking about,
you know, all these articles were happening
because of that party.
Last year I did it again, that one cost me $970,000,
30K short of $1 million.
There's no investors, there's no sponsors,
it's just my birthday party.
So it sounds silly saying that out loud.
However, 900 influencers and models there there a hundred of my business friends
So all of these girls and influencers are posting about me and my birthday and I've got Steve aoki
Throwing me in a pool which that goes to Proviro and I still mad at him for it and then little Wayne putting on a
17 song performance when you're supposed to do three songs and so everyone's posting about little Wayne dance birthday little Wayne dance birthday
So sometimes you guys could consider throwing live events can lead to personal branding. Everyone
always wants to monetize every single event. What if you throw a real estate event or you throw
a car meetup and get all your not even your friends, people you don't even know to show up and
bring for our ease and report shows or Lamborghinis and you don't even own a Ferrari or Porsche Lamborghini,
but you invite 46 people to do that.
What are they gonna do?
Post about you.
Your car meetup for Lamborghini's Porsche's or Ferrari's
and you don't even own one.
You can throw these type of events that we're talking about,
whether it's for food, for cars, for sports,
for our snakes and animals, a dog puppy meetup.
You might have 30 people shop for a dog puppy meetup.
Everyone's posting and it's your dogs and puppy meet up.
And all of a sudden, you gain 4,000 followers on a Sunday morning,
and you like dogs and puppies.
And it's fun. Anyways, it's cute.
So I want you to think about everything from pizza festivals to masterminds,
to businesses, to snakes.
There are ways for you to monetize a build person, a brand and some of them take no money at all.
You can throw local meetups like a dog meet up or a car meet up, cost you $0. Just meet up in a parking lot or meet up in a brand and some of them take no money at all. You can throw local meetups like a dog meetup
or a car meetup cost you $0.00. Just meet up in a parking lot or meet up in a park. Okay, the last
one on the event side is we threw what's called the world's largest toy drive. This is our ninth year.
This will be our 10th year coming up this December. The world's largest toy drive we did together
last year. We filled up a whole stadium with 165,000 toys
covering the floor.
And then we did it again, and saw like city the next day.
Why did we do that?
The toy drive leads to, I don't care about the person
of brand of that, I care about people replicating us.
People started doing their own toy drives at scale,
and dozens and dozens of cities that we know about.
Hopefully, hundreds of cities that we don't even know about.
Incorporating charity into your life, whether you're throwing a toy drive,
throwing a Thanksgiving food drive, raising money for the homeless,
raising money for cancer, leukemia, whatever passionate thing you care about,
or that's affected your family or friends.
Having a charity element to your life will change everything.
It will change the culture with your staff, your friends, your family,
your relationships, your neighbors, the strangers. We'll look at you and feel like they interact
with you in a whole different light simply because you are part of a charity event or you throw a
charity event. All right guys. That was the event side of things. Well more question about your
events. Sure. You have event coming up in September. Oh my god. You always talk about the
million dollar mash of mine and this and that, but I
feel like this is your billion dollar message. It's got to be your biggest event you've ever had ever
coming up on. So we're literally filling up an arena. So there's a guy in Salt Lake City named
the Muscle. Okay. The Muscle flew here in a helicopter all the way from Utah to our ranch in
Temecula. And he was like, I throw these events at like eight or nine hundred people all the time.
I got a really good group. I want to throw the biggest event that Salt Lake City's ever happened. And he was like, I throw these events at like eight or 900 people at a time.
I got a really good group.
I want to throw the biggest event that Salt Lake City's ever happened.
I was like, Oh, that sounds cool.
I'll speak at it or I'll come by.
He's like, No, I want to throw it with you.
This guy's really big.
I'm gonna call the muscle, right?
That's an Instagram name.
And so I was like, Well, I'm already throwing events all the time.
He's like, No, I want to fill up an arena.
Oh, okay.
Well, I've been wanting to fill up an arena too,
but I was waiting, like, I was gonna do it next year, 2024.
I was gonna try to get like,
Andy for selling, Ed Mylett, like,
the two biggest business guys there is,
and then combine them with some people
and throw a big arena event.
I had a whole business plan for it.
I've been thinking about it for two years,
but I just wasn't gonna do it anytime soon, maybe next year.
Then I thought about, there's a very famous friend of ours.
He's got a humongous tour all over the planet,
sells out arenas himself, I was like, hey, one day,
let's do events together,
and I made a whole business plan for him too,
but I wasn't gonna do it yet.
And when the muscle said, hey, let's pick a date,
and let's do it.
And that's my favorite thing.
When someone says, we're gonna actually pick a date
and do it like a toy drive or a pizza festival or freaking the biggest event Utah's ever seen.
I'm in.
So September 23rd, it's the limitless arena.com.
The limitless arena.com.
We have Gary Vaynerchuk, Andy Fercela, Ed Mylett, Eric Thomas, Russell Brunson, Tim Grover. I'm going to have to look at
the flyer because we have 15 speakers combined into a one day conference. But Andy for
Stella and Ed Mylett and Gary Vee in the same stage with Russell Brunson, these are
zillionaires that don't need to speak anymore. They speak a couple of times a year, if at
all, because they just don't need to, right? Ed Mylett speaks a lot because he's so
passionate about speaking and he wants to help touch
the world.
But Andy Fercelis spoke at two events this year because he doesn't need to.
He's got a multi-billion dollar company called First Form.
Gary Vee is like rich rich, right?
I don't even know.
It's Gary Vee.
It's Gary Vee, you know, whatever.
You know, like it's a whole different planet.
Like Russell Brunson, clickfunnels is worth billions of dollars now.
All of these guys are speaking.
All of them.
And we have some household name surprises.
I can't say yet.
We have one of the biggest names in the world that's coming to speak.
I'm negotiating with a household name performer to come perform.
Like so people see this humongous list of names that are on this.
And I'm actually going to look at the flyer to make sure I say some more of these names.
For the limitlesserina.com events, September 23rd, Salt Lake City, definitely,
definitely, definitely want to go to that. So one day of end, we will be raising money during that
event for the world's largest toy drive. See how we tie it all in. We can tie in our brands,
we tie in our friends, we tie in entrepreneurs, we bring everybody together to throw big events,
and then tie it all together to do for charity
We also have a charity panel during that time with MD motivator who gets hundreds of millions of views doing charity work at Charlie
We keep helping hundreds of millions of people like it's like we're doing business. We're bringing in celebrities. We're bringing
influencers. We're bringing in talent. We're bringing surprises for a one-day mega conference. Thank you for reminding me about the limitlessarena.com September 23rd.
Boom. I will be there.
Yes.
Let me look at the flyer.
You talk very, very cool.
It's so cool to be able to see Dan do so many different things and work all day.
You know, there's always the same people say like, um, you know, I don't want to work
at my nine to five anymore.
So okay, we'll quit your job and work 24 seven.
Right.
And that's exactly what you do, man.
I see you working 24, you text me three o'clock
in the morning, call that night, 6 a.m.
I'm like, bro, when did this guy go to sleep?
I'm on the other side of the, like literally,
other than the plan, and he's like, bro,
I'm doing this, I'm, I'm, I'm,
my, my, my thumbs are bleeding because I've talked
400 and 30, it's like, bro, my man's is moving.
And I love to see it, man.
I still motivate and to see you go from different branch
different branch on your money tree.
You know, and you're always harvesting your fruit.
You're always watering your tree back and planting the seeds.
And it's cool to see it all grow from the ever bowls
to the mastermind events, to the energy
and sports card stores.
I mean, you have a actual spider web full of real good businesses
that are doing great.
So, Everbull, let's walk through Everbull.
Yes.
Usman was on, like two days ago over there.
So sick.
All right, so Everbull is an Asaibo location.
Asaibo's are from Brazil.
And there's a gentleman named Jeff Fenster. Okay, Jeff Fenster is the founder of this brand and I was introduced by Dave Meltzer.
A lot of you guys know Dave Meltzer. He has a huge podcast on entrepreneur working with Entrepreneur magazine.
Dave Meltzer's like, Hey, I've been raising this kid Jeff Fenster for like decades. He's one of my
nephew basically like you should talk to him. I meet Jeff Fenster. I'm so impressed. I ended up
putting in half a million dollars and getting some of my friends to put in 500k each also that were interesting big business guys
Some time goes by and through our mastermind we raised them another $5 million for everball. I think I got some money
Oh, right. So they have like
17 18 19 20 locations of time my friends and mastermind members put in 5 million bucks
to help grow the business.
And then all of a sudden, the whole world shuts down.
Pfft.
Restaurants are in a sad place, right?
Can't go outside, the country is shut down.
We don't know what's gonna happen.
This founder, Jeff Fenster,
instead of sitting on the floor and crying about it,
he's like, hey, I've got 90,000 frozen SIE packs.
Let's sell them online.
And I was like, oh, you should meet Todd Abrams
from iconmeals, iconmeals.com.
Me and my Sindicate group, it's called Elevator Syndicate.
You can look at ElevatorSindicate.com.
We invested $3 million into iconmeals, iconmeals.com.
And like, hey, Todd Abrams, my iconmeals,
you do frozen meals.
Jeff,
Esther, you've got 90,000 frozen
essay packs.
You should figure out what Todd,
how the heck to sell frozen
essay packs.
Todd is like, you know how you
to do it.
Go on QBC.
Oh, yeah, that sounds easy,
buddy.
What are you talking about?
Todd's like, no, I'm going to
introduce you to the people at QBC.
A few weeks later, I see Jeff
Esther on TV on QBC,
selling out $150,000 of ASEE in 11 minutes.
What a web dog.
The whole world shut down.
In a random group chat, which was supposed to be about how do you ship out frozen ASEE with icon meals.com,
turns into Jeff Fencer who ended up going on dozens of episodes, 150 grand an episode.
Jeff Fenster pointed up going on dozens of episodes, 150 grand an episode.
What?
And but wait, there's more.
While all the other restaurants are shutting down
and scared and nervous, which they should be,
we're like, hey, we're gonna bet on America.
America's gonna come back.
Let's go talk to all the landlords,
all over this country and sign leases.
Jeff goes and signs 297 leases.
Well, everyone else is backing away. Why does he do that?
Because he was negotiating six to 12 months of free rents,
not just six to 12 months of free rent,
but six to 12 months of free rent
from the time of when the country reopens.
He's also getting what's called TI,
10 in improvements, 50K, 30K, 100K and TI.
So we're getting to build out some of these places for free or cheap, like a big discount,
because they're giving us TI tenant improvements.
They're giving us six to 12 months of free rent.
And at the same time, we're signing up franchisees all over the country.
Drew breeze comes in and invest a couple million bucks.
He buys a ton of locations, the football superstar, and he helps with us the direction of company. So we're like, oh my god, Drew Breese is part of it. He comes in,
now a bunch of other guys want to invest because, whoa, there's Drew Breese, right? And so just all
of a sudden, you go from me and some of my friends bought a bunch of the locations and said, hey guys,
here's a couple of million bucks. We're going to buy these locations. You focus on franchising now.
Don't run stores anymore. You become a franchise company. Fantastic. So they had five million bucks, a couple of million bucks from us. Drew
Breeze invests a couple of million bucks by the bank by the boom. We raised like another $15
million last year. Holy smokes. It's up in the midst of chaos when all the other restaurants are
backing down. Jeff Fenster, full steam ahead is going to bed on the country. Now, fast four and two years, we have 68 locations that are open.
One new location opened every six days in a war chest of capital because of, we've now sold almost 400 franchises.
And we're building restaurants for everyone else. We're building restaurants for Shaq, for Shaqilonio.
We're building restaurants. We're building brands for other household names,
we're building small gyms,
like we're building for other people
because Jeff Fenster got really good
at just building and scaling.
All this stems from chaos.
This is the important part of this.
When there is chaos, if you can stay calm,
there are opportunities.
Yes.
It gets real quiet. Well,
everyone else is screaming and yelling and shouting and freaking out and crying
and jumping on the media, etc. If you stay calm and focused on your path,
you can go from having 17, 18, 19 locations to 68 and selling 400 locations
having a war chest of capital. Love it. All right, we only have a few minutes
left. We got to talk about cars and coffee. Cars and coffee is our sports card store chain.
Cars and coffee was an idea by Gary V.
Gary Vaynerchuk, we had some group chats
talking about sports cards.
First group chat filled up.
I think you can have like 36 people in an iPhone chat filled up.
Louis Howe, Steve Aoki, all these fun characters,
Logan Paul, around this group chat sold out.
Okay, let's do another group chat.
So business guys, real estate guys, cannabis guys, full.
Let's do a third group chat.
This one will be focused on Pokemon, full.
All right, let's make one on WhatsApp, because these are getting full too fast.
Right?
And so, all of a sudden Gary Vee and I have four group chats talking about sports cards
in Pokemon.
And one day, while the country shut down, the summer of 2020 is like, I've always had this fun idea called cards and coffee,
which is like the better version of all these,
most of these stores are, you know, 30 years old,
40 years old.
They don't have social media,
they don't do video content,
they don't have any cool factor.
Like modernizing essentially the sports card store experience.
And I was like, well, I'll do it, right?
I've got Elevator Studio, which is my social media agency, but my CEO, Joey Carson, he runs elevator studio and elevator syndicate. So I got a
household name CEO 30 years in the TV game running my business, my main business. I'm like,
I'm at home. I can't fly around. Right. Like I'm home stuck. It's like, man, I'm bored at home. I'm
trying to do as much as I can on social media
But I want to be out there. I want to get outside, right? So I was like, you know what? I'll open a sports card store
I don't even bring it up again seven weeks later. I hope I send a photo to the group chats of me in front of cards and coffee open
At dash radio with DJ ski on a Hollywoodvard, while all of Hollywood Boulevard shut down
with it's boarded up.
You're open.
It's boarded up, we're in the middle of COVID
and a race war combined, riots in the streets
on Hollywood Boulevard, like word.
We opened up at 63, 63 Hollywood Boulevard,
two blocks from the W Hotel and the stick of it with everyone else boarded up.
Why?
Because I believe our country is gonna fix it. We're gonna get through this. We've gone through tough stuff before.
Now, do I trust the politicians? Do I trust the media? Do I trust this and that?
Not so much, but I trust the people and then we're gonna fight through it and we're gonna get through it.
And eventually they're gonna have to get it right to
the politicians, the media, they're gonna have to figure
the stuff out soon.
They're gonna have to fix themselves because now
there's a lot of accountability.
We're all watching and we're all fast, right?
There's new apps all the time.
We got Threads app, which I can't wait to go look at
since this podcast is over.
But by opening this store in the midst of the chaos,
well, I still financed it. So I put up $.6 million dollars worth of sports cards and inventory capital open the store
I didn't want to raise any capital because
Sounds crazy to open a retail store when the whole world shut down October 2020
Eight weeks later we had a one million dollars in sales
Eight months later we had 10 million dollars in sales,
and we only had two stores.
LA, Salt Lake City.
So they're like, okay, this is not a hobby anymore.
This is actually going to happen.
There's a big sports agent, celebrity agent,
does a bunch of big endorsement deals,
named Ryan Shindman, he's like,
hey, I want to invest in your company.
I was like, I don't really need the capital.
We're doing 10 million bucks in sales now.
Like we got this, he's like, no,
I know a lot of strategic investors I can bring in
Big sports people celebrities house-sol-name musicians, etc
I said okay, well if we're gonna bring in a bunch of interesting people. Let's go for it
So he helped us raise the round for cards and coffee and we're from two stores to nine stores like that
So now it's been two and a half years. We've done 27 million dollars in sales.
We have nine stores now and we're the first one that's going to be a true national change stores
that's opening up sports card stores all over the country and maybe overseas also.
We're also crazy enough to be 24 hours a day online. That's at the coffee breakers. So if you go
on Instagram and it's at the coffee breakers, you can see all this. So sports card stores, assayable restaurants, live events, masterminds, social media, and the
one that I keep saying for the last two months, you've heard me say this a bunch of bunch.
Wild jungle will be the biggest brand I've ever done.
Because it's the first time I can see a brand so clearly and it's for pets and
children combined. These are the two of the biggest categories where we don't care
what we spend our money on, right? People always say it's weddings and funeral
people don't care. No pets and children people will spend any amount. Kid wants an
ice cream and it's $4 and you make $4 an hour, you're getting the kid an ice cream.
You know why I know?
Because when we traveled my first moved here,
my dad sold his watch so you could buy me milk and ice cream.
Just because I was a little kid, I was a little baby, right?
And you're gonna spend whatever you have to,
you'd have to sell the thing up your wrist for your child.
Your child wants something.
And what if your child wants a dog or a cat? That's double trouble, right?
They're going to spend whatever they have to.
And especially with wild jungle products, where you're talking about a clean cup brand with
the real tarzan, where people can see we've got 150 plus animals here and they can see
real life video content.
We're taking eight of the animals and making them like our famous stars.
And eventually there'll be 9, 10, 11 as we add a giraffe and a kangaroo.
Once we get our permits for other other animals, we're taking our core animals,
making them famous.
People are going to eat it up.
Right?
That's why you get 84 million views on a video with an ostrich, right?
On a Wednesday.
People are going to eat it up.
And so if you guys noticed from what you heard today,
as I walk through real life numbers, real life situations,
real life behind the scenes, personal things that most people
won't talk about, I wanna walk you through,
how do we do it, why do we do it, the thought process behind us,
you guys can consider for yourself, what did you like?
Oh, I like to talk about events.
Oh, maybe I want to become an influencer and get paid
500 bucks for a poster, 1000 bucks for a post.
I could actually teach people how to play guitar or chest or pick a ball or how to get over their
few of snakes. You guys can make money by utilizing your skills. And the most important part is
getting started because we think about it and we won't do it. And we think about it and we're
like, we'll do it in three months. We'll do it when we're ready. We're just get started.
Love it. One thing I love about you. We'll do it when we're ready. We're just get started. Love it.
One thing I love about you, we talked about this couple days ago.
We had drove by a farmer's market like a little set up for the weekend.
And we've seen all these people bringing their cars and their tables and their tents
and you're like, man, you know, back in the day when I was like 10 years old,
I used to be at the same farmer's market selling baseball cards.
You know, and look at you now, you know, one of your biggest business,
if not your biggest business,
it's cards and coffee,
and you're doing the same thing you've done a long time ago.
You're still adamant about it every single day.
I think that's where we also connect with the wild jungle.
You've seen me on old photos of me with animals
since I was a kid,
and every day we're at the filming vlogs
or traveling the world,
or taking care animals out here,
we got that same energy, you know,
to make our dreams come true.
That's how I describe you.
I tell people I'm like, oh yeah,
I'll go get 130 million views on a video
and they go clean up poop for two hours.
And then go right back and get another 80 million views
on a different video and then go,
oh man, I gotta go fix the water bowl
for a freaking ostrich or a zebra.
Yeah.
And not blink about it, right? Just like go with it and want to do it and do it because you love it ostrich or zebra. And not blink about it, right?
Just like go with it and want to do it
and do it because you love it and you have to.
And so that's a rare situation.
When you find entrepreneurs like that,
when you find people in your life that like that,
keep them close.
Those are rare people in your lives.
And for a lot of you guys listening,
you know who those people are.
Those people that have passion behind them.
So if you hadn't argued with them,
fix it, have a real talk with them
There aren't that many people that are gonna come and go in your life that are actually right or die right like this
Like if he he tells me I I got a situation in Dallas, Texas. I'll walk
I'm gonna get there if every car and every airport doesn't work. I'll walk. I'm gonna get there if I have to I'll run whatever
I can't run the whole time
but I'll run
The point is, when you find people that you know are right or die, and you know that you've
worked within your life, that you know are willing to work with you at two in the morning
to help a goat, or you know that they're willing to fix a plumbing situation at your local
business, that you guys own or that you're listening, those people you keep close.
And a lot of times, we don't have these hard discussions.
You're not going to have a lot of those people that are willing to be right or die.
You don't have a lot of people that are going to get up
at two in the morning and help you clean up
the plumbing situation or help you fix the convention booth
or help you deal with a goat in the middle of the night.
You need to find those people
and keep them close for you guys.
All right, so we talked about
us side bowls with everball, sports cards, live events,
the wild jungle, investments.
What else do we have?
We have like two minutes left.
No, we don't.
The reason our episodes are 40 minutes long, this might be off by a few minutes. The reason
that they're 40 minutes long is because the average workout is 45 minutes and the average commute
to work is 45 minutes. So we try to keep these episodes so it's the 40 minutes. That way, you
guys have a little five minute cushion to get it in and out of your cars in between while you're
listening to me and the real tires in. Today we were so hyped up because of the Threads app.
Make sure you download the Threads app now.
We're gonna leave you with this.
So many apps come and go,
and I always talk about Facebook and Instagram
can just crush them.
They're gonna buy them or crush them
because they have gazillions of dollars, not billions,
gazillions of dollars,
that's the actual number that Facebook and Instagram have
to fight off anybody or suppress them if they ever get big
However, they are fighting against Twitter. Twitter's doing really well since Elon Musk took it over their numbers are through the roof
Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp
He also owns threads and so because of the fact he's not gonna try to shut it down
He owns it. He's gonna try to make threads as big as possible
So go on there and get your name even if you don't feel like using it or like, oh, I don't
need another platform, go secure your name. It's called digital real estate. Own your screen name.
Do this with your kids, your family, your businesses, and everybody between. Make sure they have a
threads account so that you can know that the digital real estate is yours. It costs you nothing.
Then go make sure you've got all your other platforms
to build what's called Omni Presence.
Omni Presence is where you pop up on Instagram, Facebook,
YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, et cetera,
that all the major platforms are free, they're free,
they're free, they're free, they're free,
and now threads is free, so go get that.
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We're going to have a special twist today
because Jim is also going to talk about how you can invest
into yourself and especially invest into your brain.
So what we're going to do is give a quick two-minute bio
so we can get straight to the money.
Let's do it.
So my name is Jim Quick, a quick learning,
and I help people to learn quickly.
Quick release, my last name, I didn't change it to do
what I do.
My destiny is pretty much planned out.
I had to be a runner back in school,
which is a lot of pressure when it says,
quick write an insured.
I have to be careful when I'm driving
because the worst name to having a drive license is quick
because you're not gonna talk your way
about that speeding ticket, and I get to do my mission life
which is teaching people to learn quicker.
I think the number one skill to master in the 21st century
for success is our ability to learn quickly.
Your ability to learn rapidly and translate
that learning in action is the ultimate competitive advantage
in an age of information.
The faster you can learn, the faster you can earn,
because knowledge today is not only power,
knowledge is profit.
And so I believe two of the most costly words
of business are I forgot.
I forgot to do it.
I forgot to bring it.
I forgot that meaning.
I forgot that conversation.
I forgot that person's name.
But on the other side, memory can make you money.
When you can remember client information,
product information, give speeches without notes.
Remember what you read, facts and figures.
You could give sales present.
You could do so much.
And it's a real force multiplier in your life so yeah I believe it not just financially that's
obvious but I all the treasure your life when I speak at your events and I do
these demonstrations where maybe I'll memorize a room full of people's names or
those bit of numbers or you know hundred digit numbers or words and I'll
recall them for as a backwards I would tell people I don't do it to impress you.
I do it to express you what's possible because the truth is every single person listening
to this regardless of your age or background, your career, education level, your financial
situation, your gender, history, IQ, we could all do this.
We just weren't taught.
You know, I believe there's no such thing as a good or bad brain.
There's a train brain and an untrained brain.
There's no such thing as a good or bad memory.
There's a train memory and untrained memory.
But unfortunately, in the school system,
much like financial independence,
financial literacy, they don't teach these things in school.
And I think one of the most important things
that should have been taught in school
is learning how to learn.
There's no class called focus concentration.
But do you know if your listeners,
if they're entrepreneurial, they're their traders,
what are they having to do?
You need to be able to think rapidly, right?
Maintain your focus, your concentration.
Be able to solve problems as an entrepreneur,
which is really why we do what we do.
But your mind is your number one wealth building asset.
The challenge is it doesn't come with an orders manual.
It's not user friendly.
So we talk about upgrading our technology or apps
or computers or phones.
But one side, that's the time we had a conversation
about upgrading the most important technology.
That has created all technology, which is the human brain.
So that's why I write the books, the podcasts, you know, I speak, I'm on a mission.
I grew up with learning difficulties.
You guys know this.
I had a traumatic brain injury, it was five years old, and because of it I had learning
difficulties, I had processing issues.
I couldn't read.
It took me three, four years to learn how to read compared to other kids, and it was hard
on your identity, you know, in terms of how you saw yourself.
I saw myself.
I was nine years old.
I was slowing down the class.
A teacher came to my defense because I was being teased.
And the point to me from the whole class and said, that leave the kid alone.
That's the boy with the broken brain.
And I was like, wow, I didn't know I had a broken brain.
And so I've dedicated my life on how to be able to upgrade my brain.
And then once I had these skills around age 18,
I started to turn into my career.
I started to make money.
I took my mess.
I turned it into my message.
Because the universe has a sense of humor.
My two biggest challenges were learning and public speaking.
Because I never knew the answers.
Never wanted to spotlight.
But now what I do every day, I public speak on this thing called learning.
I'm so passionate about it. I think it's the number one way people can transform their life, their finances, their health, their relationships, and so much more.
I do believe that everything is figure outable.
If you lean into the power of your own mind, it's not how smart you are. It's how are you smart. And we all have these gifts of genius that we could translate into prosperity.
So when people hear their name, some type of either serotoner, some type of feeling that
comes about when someone remembers their name or says their name out loud, why is it important
for people to remember other people's names?
In life and especially in business, because how are you going to show somebody, I mean,
we all are really just with human beings and influence and persuasion.
So very important if you want to sell something, an idea, you know, to be an ambassador for
an advocate for something, if you want to sell your product or service, if you want to
get investor funds.
And so how are you going to show somebody you're going to care for their finances, their
future, their health, their family, whatever you have to offer them,
if you don't care enough, just remember their name.
They say a name is the sweetest sound to person's ears
that people don't care how much you know
until they know how much you care.
What's the message we send to somebody
when we forget their name, that they're not important
or that we don't care about them?
So it doesn't matter what you say after that.
And so yeah, I think it's
the number one business etiquette, certainly networking skill that there is. And there's
simple things that people could do to remember people's names. You know, I was, remind
people, remember your mom, M-O-M, and just kind of just a simple nimonic. The M will actually
I will say this. Let's say say I imagine a lot of your listeners
Forget people's names you meet somebody you get their name second slayer name just disappears out your mind Or you're at an event somebody tapped you on your shoulder turn around you see someone you recognize
Hey you yeah, and then you did that right and you started like you know
You started giving them nicknames or or you're in a position. You have to introduce these people right
You know in spirit John meat. Yeah
You come up with all these little little you know hacks to be able to do it these people. It's a pair. It's a pair. John meat. Yeah.
And you come up with all these little hacks to be able to do it.
And what makes it worse is when that person has the audacity to remember your name.
Oh yeah.
And especially the two of you, because people know who you are, right?
They follow you on social media, and you don't know if you met them.
And so something simple is like, imagine there was a suitcase of a million dollars cash.
If you just remember the name of the
next stranger you meet, now I'm talking to all the listeners here, the viewers who are watching this
on video, who's going to remember that name if they get all that money? Everybody.
Everybody. Right?
Everybody.
You know, and so it has nothing to do with their capabilities. It had everything to do with whether
they wanted to or not. So the first M in mom, sans-verbal motivation, really do a motivation check.
Ask yourself on a scale of zero to 10,
how much do I want to remember the person's name?
Or why do I want to remember the first name?
Maybe show the person some respect.
Maybe it's to do a deal, get a referral,
practice these things I learned on the money Monday podcast.
And if you just come up with one reason,
you're more likely to remember it,
because you don't remember all names, but you sure, don't forget all names. I mean, you remember
names that you're motivated. Some people you're attracted to, you're going to remember them, right?
People that could be good for your business, you're going to remember them because they stand out.
So again, reasons, reap results. Things have to go from your, I realize when it comes to money or
any kind of wealth, things have to go from your head to your heart to your hands. I mean, you could visualize have goals in your
head for what you want to achieve in your life financially and otherwise, but if you're
not acting consistently with your hands, you're not going to get it, right? Usually, what
we have to check in with this is the second age, which is the heart, right? The, what's the
heart? The emotions, because we're not logical, right? People don't biologically, they buy
what? Emotionally. Emotionally, and they justify logically, because we are not logical, right? People don't biologically, they buy what? Emotionally. Emotionally, and they justify logically,
because we are not logical, but we are biological.
You mentioned like, you know, serotonin, dopamine,
oxytocin, endorphins.
We are this feeling chemical soup.
And so how do we tap into more of those feelings?
We remember things that make us feel a certain way.
You know, even at events, you know,
to be able to stand out, it's not just what you know.
That's why we teach people accelerate learning
and speed reading and memory, but it's also who you know. But it's not even know, to be able to stand out. It's not just what you know, that's why we teach people accelerated learning and speed reading and memory,
but it's also who you know.
But it's not even that, it's also who knows you, right?
And who remembers you?
And how do you stand out, you know,
and Maya Angelou, one of my favorite people that, you know,
I just, I love their, you know, her work.
And just said, people,
she said, people won't remember what you say,
they won't remember what you did, they won't remember what you did,
but they'll always remember how you made them feel.
The key to a long-term memory is information
by itself is forgettable,
but the information tied with emotions become
absolutely unforgettable.
Because you have part of your middle brain
and what's connected in there is your amygdala
and your hippocampus, hippocampus stores a memory, right?
And the amygdala is a switching station for emotions,
but it's interesting how your emotions and memory are connected in your brain.
And so, you know, we remember things that stand out in our minds that touch us emotionally.
I mean, many of you listeners could, you know, there's a song that takes you back to when you're a teenager.
You could just hear one or two notes or maybe a fragrance or a food that takes you back to when you're a kid.
So the first thing to remember names, tap into your emotions, tap into your motivation,
your motive for action.
The O and Mom, very simple observation.
Most people, they think they forget things,
they forget a name because they blame their retention.
It's not your retention, usually it's your attention.
So the O is observing the name.
I, one of the stories I share in the book is,
the second time I met President Bill Clinton,
I was at a charity event.
It was like 2,000 people.
And I got to go to my sign seating.
I was the first one there.
And after I sat down, force Whitaker sits right next to me.
A big force Whitaker fan.
Right next to him, Richard Branson.
And then Ashton Kutcher. And then Ashton Kutcher's twin brother. And then about 20
minutes into it, uh, present clinses right next to me. And, uh, and we had met
years before very, very briefly. And, uh, when he sat down, he remembered, he
called me by name, and he said, hello to me by name. And I was just like, wait,
and then I was like, okay, of course he knew who's sitting at his table. And
then he picks up a conversation that we had a couple years earlier. And I was like, nobody was privy to that
conversation. And I was like, dude, I'm the memory guy. I need to know how you're doing this.
And he tells me the story in Arkansas with his grandfather in the living room would tell stories
and to all the kids. And but afterwards, he's a very smart man.
He would quiz each of the children to see
if they were paying attention.
And so he learned very early on to really listen
and be present.
And I realized when he's explained this to me,
I felt this eerie feeling, you're with somebody,
and they're just like really focused on you.
Like even though there's many more people in that room
that are more important than me,
certainly have that table more important than me. But I felt like I was like the only one.
And I get goosebumps even just saying that.
I call them truth bumps, but I, you know, that's, I think his incredible memory and his powerful presence with people is,
the secret is he's powerfully present with people.
He has this powerful presence, but his powerful presence and his memory comes from being powerfully present. And who could do that? We could all do that, right? But most
of times, when we're at events, right, you know, at elevator night or whatever, you mean,
but sometimes we have the habit of looking over people's shoulders, or maybe you've been at the,
you know, at the, at the receiving end of this, where people, you know, they're not listening,
they're looking around seeing who's more important. And they're not listening, they're thinking
about how they're going to respond. Are Are they waiting for their turn to speak?
So I would say the O is observation,
just really observe pay attention.
And finally, the final M and Mom, those are the methods.
Those are the methods in the books,
the podcasts and online courses.
We built an online academy.
We have students at 195 Nation teaching
and accelerated learning.
Because I think if there was a genic
who could grant you anyone wish,
but only one wish, what would you wish for?
You limitless wishes right you ask for more wishes but if I was your
learning genie and I could help you become an expert and I think we are in this
expert economy where everyone who's listening to us none of you are paid
mostly for your muscle power like it was a hundred years ago it's your
mind power it's no longer your brute strength today it's your brain strength
right but how are we investing in our own animal mind when we're talking about, you know, earning
a living and building a legacy?
And so we really focus on these aspects.
The methods are out there.
We build this academy of students in every country in the world teaching the art of accelerated
learning because if I was your learning genie and I can help you become an expert in anyone's
subject or skill, what would the equivalent be of asking for limitless wishes?
What would you want to learn? Here you'd be an expert in money, be an expert in martial arts, or if
you're an expert, I think, in learning how to learn, what can you apply that to? Money,
martial arts, marketing, management, Mandarin, everything gets so much easier when you
can focus and concentrate and understand and read faster and remember and mostly apply,
which is the big thing. So many people listen to podcasts, so they go to your events or they read a book and
nothing changes.
People buy books and they sit on their shelf and it becomes shelf help, not real self help,
because people don't actually take the action, which is the other power thing.
Knowledge not alone is not power, knowledge times action equals a lot of power without
a doubt.
What is the website for that for the training?
So we, it's quickbrain.com, kwi.kbrain.com.
We offer a suite of programs on quick focus, quick confidence, quick reading, quick recall.
And there are all skills that we, I think we should have been taught back in school.
You know, that makes everything else easier.
Like they teach you three hours in school, reading, writing, arithmetic, obviously spelling wasn't one of
them. But what about recall? What about retention? Socrates said there is no
learning without remembering. So it's so, so, so very important.
Limitless. Limitless.
Limitless. Yeah, this is a book all about metal learning. Metal learning is the
art and science of learning how to learn.
And so there are chapters in there on focus on achieving flow, like the flow states.
When you're in the zone, I'm sure when you're with wild animals and creatures, you have
to be, you lose your sense of self, you lose your sense of time, you lose things almost
effortless, like somebody on the field, some of your guests that you've had sense of time, you lose things almost effortless, you know, like somebody on the field,
some of your guests that you've had in the past,
like Chandler and others that have to, you know,
be in their best.
So I'm getting in the zone,
how to study technical information
and learn it in half the time, how to read faster.
And really, I really think the key,
limitless is not about being perfect.
It's about advancing and progressing beyond
what you believe is possible.
And there's three keys to becoming limitless for everyone that's listening.
And these are the three, and I really think they're the only three.
It's your mindset, your motivation, and the methods.
If you aren't advancing, you feel limited in some area.
Maybe it's your wealth, your income, your impact.
You feel like you're in a box.
That box is three-dimensional.
So by the nature, the three forces that continue
are also the same three forces that will liberate you
and get you unstuck.
I believe those three forces are the three-ams
of the limitless model, which is your mindset,
your motivation, and your methods.
Meaning your mindset are the set of assumptions
and attitudes you have about something.
Your attitude assumptions about money
is gonna affect how much money you're gonna have.
If you believe you're only worth a certain amount, then it's kind of like your thermoset set
for that.
Anything above that, you're going to self-sabotage to be able to get to that place, right?
Your mindset about not only money, but yourself.
What you believe is possible.
Do you believe it's possible for you to have a big business or have a million followers
on social media?
Do you believe it's possible to be able to be a good
public speaker or an investor?
It's not only what you believe is possible,
it's also what you believe you're capable of.
It's also what you believe you deserve.
Also as well, set your mindset.
Even when it comes to remembering names,
your brain is this incredible supercomputer
and your self-talk is a program that will run.
So if you tell yourself,
I'm not good at remembering names.
You will now remember the name
and the next person you meet because you program your super computer
not to. So that's the mindset, but somebody can have a limitless mindset, believe they're
capable of it, they deserve it, and still be stuck in that box for making money or learning
or whatever because they're not motivated to get out of that box. And I'll give everybody
right now a three part secret, three part elements for a formula for limitless motivation.
For those of you who have self sabotage issue, that's a mindset thing.
If you procrastinate, that's a motivation issue.
You need P times E times S3.
Purpose times energy times small, simple steps will give you limitless motivation, meaning
the P is purpose.
So let's say you want somebody to read, right?
If people see pictures of me on social media with Oprah or Elon or Richard Branson, whoever.
People ask how we bonded and we most of them we bonded over books like you read to succeed leaders are readers.
Somebody has decades of experience. They put into a book and you can sit down and read that book in a few days. You could download decades in the days.
You can have an MBA PhD. You could you could, you could, you could,
you could, most people read two books a year, but what if you could read one book a week
even?
That's 52 books a year.
That will make you an expert in any kind of area.
So we actually put a free today, a master class on speed reading, everyone's for free.
It'll, it'll show you how to double your reading speed everybody.
And this is important for business because most of us spend about four hours a day reading.
You think about proposals, business plans, emails, books,
whatever, and meet news media, social media.
If you could just double your reading speed,
you save two hours a day.
What's two hours a day of a course of a year?
So, 100 hours.
Yeah, exactly.
Even if somebody saves one hour a day over the course
of a year, that's 365 hours.
How many 40, I know most people work more than 40 hour work weeks?
That's nine 40 hour work.
That's two months of productivity.
You get back something doing ubiquitous like reading.
What reason I do so much training at places like Facebook, Nike, Google, Virgin Galactic,
what have you is because four hours of spend reading, that means their employees, that
means half their salary is being paid to read. Human capital is most underutilized asset that a team has, a company organization
has, you know, because they aren't shown how to learn.
But if you could raise the collective intelligence, but the largest line item is payroll, you know?
And so, like, you know, are you getting the most out of your team in terms of what's
their capable, their potential and their power?
What is the second book?
You have another book coming out?
Yeah, so this is about something called Brain Types, and I'm really excited about this.
I call it the Brain Code, CODE, and everything is always in demonic.
And I've realized that when people have questions, they submit it, they text us, they email us,
social media, whatever.
They're always the same.
People want to know what, how to learn faster, right?
They want to read faster.
They want to be able to study better, achieve more in their career, start a business because
they, you know, they need to learn AI, like how do they learn this, right?
And I realized that everyone's a little different.
That it's not how smart you are, it's how are you smart.
And we're all smart in different ways.
And so I pulled from the sciences and the psychology of multiple intelligence theory, left brain,
right brain dominance, introvert, extrovert, Myers-Briggs, and so many inspiring different
theories out there.
And I created for everybody who's listening a brain assessment that only takes five minutes.
But when you do and go through it, it'll reveal something about yourself because I really
think success is having the curiosity to know yourself and then the courage to be yourself.
You need to know yourself, you know, your own beliefs, your values, what makes you unique,
your strengths, your weaknesses, and embrace those things.
So that's what makes you, you know, that's what's your superpowers.
So I've delineated these four cognitive types on how people learn and live and I created animals.
I just got an amazing tour of your ranch,
with the two of you and looking at all the amazing animals.
And I just, I still, it's just mind blowing
what you're creating from the power of your vision.
And so the animals we chose are CODE, the code.
The C is the Cheetah.
And these are the learners that they're fast-acting.
They're Cheetahs, right?
They're fast, they're intuitive.
They thrive in fast-paced work environments
and markets, right, even in what they're investing.
And so they operate differently than the O's.
The O's are your owls, and the owls are very logical.
They love data.
Facts, figures, formulas.
They lean into logic, and so they invest differently.
They buy differently.
They market differently.
They learn differently.
The D in code are your dolphins, and these are your creative visionaries.
These are people of really great visual, spatial intelligence.
They pattern recognition.
They see patterns.
I think patterns of genius, if you will.
And then finally, the E are your elephants.
And these are your collaborators.
They have high empathy, right?
And they like working with teams also.
And so you take this quiz and you could do,
you go to mybrainanimal.com.
Mybrainanimal.com, tens of thousands of people have gone through it.
We just released it, literally, this month.
And when you're done in a few minutes,
you'll get a detailed report based on your specific animal brain type
and how you can apply it towards learning,
towards remembering, towards studying, towards living, towards work.
And even I give you careers that you will excel at based on your brain type.
I give you historical references and famous people who also share that brain type.
And then we tell stories on how you could create teams using creating teams with these
four different archetypes.
So that way you could be absolutely unstoppable.
So Tarzan's in Australia is in the jungle, and there's a humongous snake staring at him.
And he only has a few seconds to decide, is this an anaconda, this rattlesnake, this big small poisonous or not. What are some tricks that he could utilize to remember in that
moment quickly? What type of snake is that that's facing him? What are some tricks that he could utilize to remember in that moment? Quickly
Yeah, what type of snake is that that's facing him?
It's funny. Have you been in a situation all the time?
Two weeks ago. Yeah, it was about almost 4,000 species of snakes out there
Yeah, some of them are venomous some aren't depending on where you go
Yeah, you see some animals. You like I don't know what that is. Yeah, I'm gonna catch it
Dude, have you you haven't taken the brain quiz yet? Yeah, yeah
First I would start by going to my brain animal calm and it'll spit out a recipe on how you learn your best depending on what your animal type that you are
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm an owl. I took it. Oh, good good good good. Yeah, yeah for me people ask
Yeah, you have a primary and a secondary also as well.
You tend to be very intuitive and instinctive.
It's interesting.
When you think about how people could remember something, and I believe that again, there's
no such thing as a good or bad brain, there's a train brain and an untrained brain.
When my approach towards it is, I look at the hardware and the software.
So the software are the processes, how to remember names.
Some people could use a memory palace
or they could use some kind of pneumatic device,
a visualization technique, some kind of story method.
But you also want to make sure you keep your hardware
intact also as well.
Just taking care of your hardware
will help you to be able to react faster.
Because if you're not sleeping, you're not going to react
your best.
If you had a big process meal before you went out to explore you're not going to end you're in a
food coma you're not going to react at your best. If you're stressed out your mind and preoccupied
and distracted you're not going to react at your best also as well. So some of the things that I
would lean into when it comes to your hardware when we talk about how entrepreneurs and
investors could upgrade your brain or anybody really at any at any age of stage. Few things that I would say lifestyle-wise, that lead up to that moment, because I really
do believe you just, you want to be prepared all the time, right?
So a good brain diet, which we talk about, certain foods are just really good in nursing
for the brain.
Some of my favorites that have been researched, avocados, blueberries, I like to call them
brain berries, broccoli's good for your your brain olive oil is good for brain now everyone's a little
bio individual right so functional medicine you know like go do the food sensitivity test eggs
if you read eggs calling eggs good for your cognitive health really if you vegetables like
kale and spinach wild salmon if your diet allows and sardines your brain is mostly fat so you
hear about those fish oils turmeric cooking, cooking with turmeric, lower inflammation,
that golden powder.
If you snack on things like walnuts,
high in vitamin E, they look like a brain,
good for your brain.
Dark chocolate, really good for your brain.
Also, it's good for your mood, it's good for your mind.
The color of the thing I think is really important
is movement.
Now, I'm preaching to the choir here,
but as your body moves, your brain grooves.
When you move, and I don't just mean doing like crossfit
three times a week, throughout the day,
you create brain-derived neurotropic factors,
BDNF, which is like fertilizer for neuroplasticity.
And sometimes we're on screens all day,
and they say, sitting is a new smoking.
So when are we taking these little brain breaks
to, it was nice to walk around your property here.
I mean, not all many, that doesn't make or is that are here, but, you know, just to get fresh air and get sunlight and to move our bodies.
Even when you're listening to this podcast or maybe my audiobook or something and you're doing something rhythmic, you're going to learn it and retain it better.
It'll actually boost your retention.
Another thing to think about is your positive peer group.
You know, we are not just, it's not just our neurological network
that taps our potential, it's our social networks.
You two know this so well.
Who you spend time with is who you become.
You hear this all the time, right?
You're the average of the five people.
You spend most time with.
You spend time with nine broke people.
You're gonna be number 10.
Because we have something in our nervous system
called marijuana neurons.
And so we're constantly imitating people
around us unconsciously.
And what are we imitating?
Watch, w-a-t-c-h.
We're imitating their words.
We tend to use the same words that people we spend time with,
and those words affect our nervous system.
A, actions.
We started modeling unconsciously, imitating
the behaviors.
If your friends smoke, you're more likely to smoke,
because we're imitating what we see around us, like children.
The T and Watch thoughts, we tend to have the same thinking patterns and thoughts that the people around us also as well.
And we know those thoughts are things, you know, they affect our beliefs and our interactions.
And then finally, the C and the H, the C are character.
Who we spend time with, we tend to model their integrity, the level of honesty, their level of impeccability, right?
And then I read this quote, I don't know who to attribute to, they say integrity is measured
by the distance between someone's lips and their life.
And you talk about this in terms of showing up on time, right?
And even when you do elevator night and when people go on and when they go off, because
it's a matter of integrity,
not only to yourself, but to others, right?
And then finally, H habits.
We tend to model the habits that people around us
have similar routines.
And first we create our habits that are habits create you.
You create your habits of meditation or sleep,
priorization or eating well or exercising.
And those habits become us again.
I think it's so very important.
Duke University says 40% of our daily activity upwards of is habitual.
We're not even thinking about it.
One of the videos we have as millions of millions of views is just like morning routines.
What do you guys do in your morning to kick off your day?
It jumps start your mind. What do you do in the evening in your morning to kick off your day, jumpstart your
mind? What do you do in the evening to be able to wind out your day? For me, it's actually
really simple. And most of the stuff you can do is free. People don't realize it. There's
a quote in limitless from a French philosopher. And it says this, life is the letter B, as
a letter C between letters B and D. Life is C between B and D. What does that mean?
B is birth, D is death. What do you think life is? What does C stand for? Choice.
Like I truly believe it's the choices. Like people chose to watch or listen to this right now.
And their life is going to be different because they did, right? Like what are you choosing?
Is to feed your mind, to feed your body, who you're spending time with, where you're going to live,
you know, your careers.
All those little choices out of the big choices.
And I do believe that these difficult times,
if you perceive it that way, can distract you,
these difficult times can diminish you,
or these difficult times can develop you.
We decide, we always have the choice every single day.
And that's what comes back to personal responsibility.
And I've had this conversation with both of you guys
in terms of having agency, not putting,
because you know, there's this,
I heard Alex talk about this,
talk about where the blame goes, the power,
I say to a little different,
where the blame goes, the power flows, right?
You're putting your responsibility.
I got to introduce, I'm gonna drop a couple of names here,
the two of my favorites, they wanted to meet each other, coincidentally, it was a synergy of names here, the two of my favorites.
They wanted to meet each other.
It coincidentally, it was a synergy, and they both happened to be in town.
It was Stanley and Richard Branson.
And so I said, you know, go to dinner, and I pick up Stan, and everyone knows who Stan Lee is, right?
And I'm a big comic book fan.
I grew up a traumatic brain injury.
I couldn't read.
I taught myself how to read by reading comic books, but in the car, I was like, oh man, should I ask him, I got to know Lil' Nervus. I asked him, I was like, I got them nervous.
I stood there, I was like, a sand, you create all of my favorites, who's your favorite?
And he said Iron Man, right? And said Jim, who's your favorite? And I asked like, oh my god, there's some shit.
But he had this Spider-Man tie on that I post on Instagram, I was like, Spider-Man.
And without a pause, and as iconic voice, it goes, with great power comes great responsibility,
right?
And we all know that.
And I tend, when people don't know, I tend to reverse words when I read sometimes
when I hear maybe because I had three head injuries before age 12 or something.
And I hear something different.
I was like, it's true, Sam, with great power comes with great responsibility.
And the opposite is also true.
With great responsibility comes great power. When we take is also true. With great responsibility comes great power.
When we take responsibility for where we are,
we have great power to make things better.
So instead of blaming and complaining, right?
When we make excuses, we waste time,
we waste energy, and nobody really cares, right?
But we can't be upset by the results we didn't get
from the work we didn't do.
And so taking responsibility for what happens,
allows us to have agency and power to
make things better. And so I feel like the most important thing to take agency over is
what to focus on, what things mean, how we feel as opposed to politics or the economy,
or how people treat us. And I think people who do that don't have to waste a whole lot
of energy and they put that energy towards something like building their intelligence, their income, their impact.
Why is it important for people to invest into their minds, their events, masterminds, books,
coaching, listening to podcasts? Why is it important to invest into their brains?
Your brain is your number one wealth building asset, bar None. We live in the age of intelligence and attention.
And those people who are at the top of their game, they have mastered their mind.
And here's the thing.
When I said life is the sea between B&D and see his choice, our lives, our reflection
of all decisions we made up at this point.
Where do we invest?
We know what to do for a career, how to work, what to eat, all those things.
But you could only make good decisions based on the information you know at any given time.
And so there's not this gap certainly of those who have and those who have not, certainly.
But there's also this gap of those who know and those who just don't know.
And what I love about your podcast and the work that you guys do on social media and
different platforms is you can give people some insight and some instruction
and they know something different
so they could inform their decisions moving forward.
Right?
And I do these programs at Google
and they'll say like, well, Jim,
why do I need to remember all this?
We have, I don't know if you heard,
we created the search engine.
But it's true, while that's true,
at any given time, you can only make a decision
based on information you know. And if you don't remember that information, you can make a quality decision, right?
And the other part of it is asking better questions.
You know, this is the thing, like, I talk about in limitless that there's this idea of a
dominant question where you have about 60,000 thoughts a day, and those thoughts equal things,
right?
The problem is 95% of those thoughts are the same thoughts
we had yesterday, and then they before that.
So we wonder why we can't make more money,
but we constantly run the same thoughts, right?
And those thoughts lead to experiences,
that lead to actions, and behaviors, and feelings,
and we're just repeating the cycle.
And so that's why it's so hard to change.
But a lot of those thoughts come in the form of questions,
and I do believe questions are the answer.
You have part of your brain called a reticular
activating system, RAS for short, that dictates where do you put the spotlight
to be your attention. Meaning your brain primarily is a deletion device, is trying to keep
information out. If you let everything in, you would go insane. It would be totally overloaded.
What you let in are the things that you care about, like your name. It doesn't matter.
It is hardwired in your nervous system, your RIS. If you ever hear your name, someone
is shout out your name, even in a crowd,
even if you know you don't know that person,
you're still instinctively gonna look,
because it's hardwired in your RIS.
One of ways of influencing RIS is asking questions
and asking you shall receive.
And so, with Peter Teele, zero to one,
if he has a question, how do I hit my 10 year goal
in six months, you're to get different quality answers than somebody
who just says, why am I broke?
Or why can't I never make money?
Or why can't I do this?
You're going to get different answers.
So I would say we have a dominant question.
My dominant question growing up was, why am I broken?
But that wasn't very useful.
Then I was like, how do I fix this?
And then my question became, how do I make this better?
I know somebody else who has a question that we did this exercise in this book and they're
like, their predominant question is, how do I get people to like me?
And that's what all she thinks about all the time.
And you don't know anything about her, but you probably know a lot about her.
How's her personality?
She's a martyr.
Her personality changes depending who she spends time with.
She's a people pleaser, right?
And she's a sickle fan.
And you know a lot about her and you know one question.
My question for all of you, listening,
what's your dominant question?
And how can you use it to create more wealth, right?
Like I think gratitude is the foundation for good wealth.
That's my personal opinion.
Like I think gratitude is rich as complaint is poverty.
You know, I really think that life is a lottery
we want every single day. You know, and life, you know, I've heard, you know, I really think that life is a lottery we want every single day.
You know, and life, you know, I've heard,
you know, I'm knowing you a long time and you know
that life is, tomorrow is not guaranteed.
With either of you, especially when you are around,
you know, exactly.
Or the jungle, or the economic jungle.
Or the concrete jungle.
Or the concrete jungle.
Right, people are coming after you,
actually doing these big deals
and everything else, you become a target.
And what, you know, I'm here, you know'm here in homework where I'm in this conversation about this, I think gratitude
is a foundation because what you appreciate appreciates, what you appreciate tends to appreciate
in life, meaning it grows.
And that's the thing.
If you want to feel truly wealthy, just count all the things you have in your life that
money can't buy.
I mean, all the things that you want trade for a dollar, you know, like you don't want
to be on a beach for even for all the money in the world, because you want to be in the
game, right?
Because it's an infinite game.
It doesn't stop, right?
There's no winning, you know, your career, right?
It's just like Simon Sinek talks about, you know, just like there's no winning marriage,
right?
So it's never, never stops, you know, in terms of game.
There's no winning health.
You never get to a point where you just have it.
Same thing with wealth.
And so in my mind, in terms of game theory, when I'm thinking about is have a foundation
of gratitude, like what if the, here's a thought experiment?
And if you want to feel grateful and knowing everything comes from gratitude,
because if you, how are you going to have more if you don't appreciate what you have?
Right? What if you did this thought experiment?
What if the only things you had in your life tomorrow were the things you
Express gratitude for today?
Express it, not just thought about it, but express it. The people, if you didn't express your gratitude, those people are the your home or the food that you're eating or you're in the
animals at this beautiful rent, like, you won't have them tomorrow. And you would come from a different place, right? Because you'd be super charged with it
Most and you know, you're not separate from that.
And you train your nervous system that there's enough.
And that's why I believe like we're so aligned
with the philanthropy, like we donated the proceeds
of limitless security to Alzheimer's research for women,
women are twice as likely to experience Alzheimer's
than men and memory of my grandmother
who passed the Alzheimer's.
And also we built schools in Guatemala and Kenya
in Ghana, fully built a school healthcare clean water
I mean, I'll talk a lot a lot
But I think the formula is you learn to earn to return
Right, you learn so you could earn fast. You can learn more you can earn certainly in this economy
And then you could get more to be able to return and to be able to give you know
And I'm preaching to the choir here
But you also when you're doing it itself's selfish because when you're giving back,
you're training your mind, body, and spirit
that there's enough, that you don't have lack.
Like my parents immigrated here.
My dad was 13, lost both of his parents.
We didn't come from a whole lot,
living them back with laundry mat that my mom worked at.
So we weren't, they weren't the most connected, certainly.
They had the most wealth or education or anything.
They're just really good, salty, they're people.
They're very kind, they're what they say, hard working.
And I realized that at the beginning, I wanted to make my parents proud.
I had these learning difficulties, I struggled for a decade and a half, and it was really
hard, because I worked three times harder as everybody, and I would do worse in school.
But I realized that now that the things that I really was embarrassed about are the things
I'm most proud of.
Coming from a family, doing the things and not having things, but just building
my head injury I was so ashamed of. I thought I was broken and different, but I
realized that I don't want to make proud today. The two people are my parents.
I'm gonna bless them. I want to make that nine-year-old boy who is
label broken. I want to make him proud every day.
And I also want to fast forward,
God willing, if I live to 90,
I want to make that guy proud also as well.
And I think that these little shifts of frame of mind
and frameworks help us to keep us on point
in terms of get us to do the things that we need to do,
because sometimes we need to do difficult things.
Like if you just do easy things in life,
you guys know this, because life gets very hard. If you just easy things, binge watch things,
and don't show up for yourself,
and eat whatever you want,
then life gets very hard, right?
We know this.
You hear this, you see this on social media.
You know, being sick is hard,
and exercising eating right,
and it is hard, you just choose your heart, right?
Being broke is hard, you know,
and working smart and building a business,
investing is hard,
but you choose your heart.
And I think it's important that we train ourselves to do difficult things, you know, and working smart and building a business, investing is hard, but you choose your hard. And I think it's important that we train ourselves to do difficult things,
you know, because I think how we do anything is how we do everything. And if we get ourselves
to do difficult things, we could become more resilient, which is more important now in
today's world than ever.
So my grandma was in her early 90s and every single day she would go swimming. The swimming was very short.
It was like a lap pool at a senior citizen home called Leisure World.
And she'd go back and forth and they'd go on a walk or a bike ride but like the three
wheel bikes.
And then she'd hurt her leg so she couldn't go swimming.
Two weeks goes by and she has full-fledged Alzheimer's and then shortly after passed away.
So I say that because senior citizens,
and we hear about it more and more,
we're learning that movement and exercise
is what's keeping them active.
And we wash it happen,
and we like force my grandfather from years afterwards,
just be active.
And we got to have extra years with him
because he was a very active guy.
And he was teaching Yiddish until he was 93.
And well, literally teaching, anyways, the concept I want to ask you about is
movement, physical movement and how that relates to the brand.
I love that you guys are very physically active. You know, I think things like
reading, you know, reading to your minds what exercises your body and the
people that succeed, they're always moving their mind and and their body.
But you reach and then you rest and then you repeat, right? You can't be stretching all the time you go to the gym and you can't be breaking down your muscles in your body all the time
You need time to recuperate also as well
But I think most people suffer from not moving enough and doing doing the hard work
There was a study done on longevity with the two biggest declines in
People's cognitive performance is when people retire
Work because they often retire their mind, you know, and they stop you know being active in people's cognitive performance is when people retire work,
because they often retire their mind,
and they stop being active,
and also when they graduate school,
because they feel like education learning or linked,
and when you get done with your education,
your learning stop will also as well.
But in school it's interesting,
because when they cut things,
they usually cut things like playtime and physical activities.
And some people learn differently in school.
A lot of people learn kinesthetically
and they need to move around in order to understand
what a teacher is teaching.
So it's not just learning disabilities,
they're teaching disabilities also.
And it's funny, we punish those kids that are rowdy
and everything by not letting them go out to play
during recess and making them sit and punch them that way,
which is the exact opposite of what they need.
So we know that as your body, as you play, you see people say, like, oh, I stopped, I stopped playing because I grew older.
Because remember, like, you got kids you wanted to play. And later on, you're like, oh, you don't use word play. You're like, let's hang out.
And you don't really play. And you're like, you know, some people say that in our events we get people very playful, right? We do these things. But people say, well, I stopped playing because I grew older. I was like, no, you grew older because you stopped playing. So I think that movement and that playfulness
is so very important for our brain. And that's how it develops. Even children, I had a boy recently,
it's our first, it's our first baby. Thank you. But when he's, but you know, when he's starting to
crawl, you know, that's how he develops his brain
And the primary reason you have a brain the number one reason is control your movement
And there is a brain body connection, but there's also a body brain connection that as your body
Moves your brain actually grooves more like even little things like learning how to juggle
It's using your body in different ways. There's a study done in Oxford University saying jugglers actually have bigger brains.
They actually develop more white matter, and just by using their body in unique ways.
I definitely think it's so important when you exercise, you create brain-derived neurotropic factors,
you create this flood of dopamine and endorphins, which is good for your mood,
and it's certainly good for your mind.
But the study done on longevity, it was on the cover of Time Magazine, it was interesting,
it was also about mental movement, saying these nuns were living 80, 90, and above.
And the study was called aging with grace, what a beautiful name for, you know, for this
study.
And they found out half of their longevity was their emotional faith and gratitude, but
the other half, they were lifelong learners.
And because of it, it had years to her life. But not only that, life to their years. Because not just about growing older,
and having more years, it's also having a quality of life. And once you lose your physical
ability to be able to move, you know, it's a big challenge, you know, when, you know,
when, I spent a lot of time in senior centers, because I lost my grandmother's such early
age and helping them polish off their memories. But sometimes when they fall, you know, and
they have, they fracture their hip or something,
then it becomes very debilitating when they can move
because their brain can't get as easily engaged.
One other lesson I learned from spending time
in senior centers though, helping them polish off
their memories, I hear a lot of stories.
I hear a lot of great experience in wisdom,
which is very important in my culture in terms of elders
and the wisdom that they pass on.
Because we all stand on
shoulders of people, right? And it takes a village is I hear a lot of regret, unfortunately,
because when you're taking our final breaths, you know, so many people have mitigated their life,
they didn't date that person because what other people would think, or they pursued a career
because their parents expected them to. And I would just say to anyone facing that,
that I wouldn't take
advice from someone I wouldn't take it criticism for someone I didn't take it, I wouldn't take advice
from that if you fuel your life on other people's opinions and expectations, you're going to run
out of gas. That when you're taking your final breaths in life and it's not a positive conversation,
none of other people's opinions and expectations are going to matter.
None of your fears are going to get a matter.
What's going to matter?
I could do this a lot in terms of reframing.
What's going to matter is how you lived, how you laughed, how you loved, how you learned.
And so why not come from that place?
It's not even about time management.
It's about mind management.
It's about managing, it's about priority management.
And I think the principle here is this. The most important thing is to keep the most important things,
the most important things.
You know, the most important things,
keep the most important things, the most important things.
You know, and you manage the things
that are valuable to you, and you begin with the end in mind.
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