The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business

Starting point is 00:00:00 When I started talking about politics on PBD Podcasts, I was scared. You're like, whoa. And then all of a sudden, the level of people that came out because you had the brass to talk about things that matters to them. It's very important. Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump, these two guys from polar opposite ends of the spectrum get together, find this sliver and have agreement, this make America healthy again movement, highest rates of childhood cancer.

Starting point is 00:00:21 There's no such thing as democratic or Republican children. There's children. And you look at the state of our nation right now, where the sick is fat, it's most diseased, or a nation in the world. How is it that people are so myopic and not see the message that he's driving? You're gonna have people that want to have nothing to do with you if you choose a site. There are certain shifts that happen in business and in life. If you're not able to adjust with that shift and you're too afraid, you'll be left behind. We made a very, very conscious decision. We said

Starting point is 00:00:49 we're teaching people how to better their lives. If we're not doing that for ourselves, then how authentic is our message? As long as you talk about what you believe in and you do it enough times, the right people will find you and learn how to use you. For someone like me who actually wants to put tire power of my platform and my voice behind it, do you go all in because this is something that you believe in? It's a good question. By far, Gary, the most important thing is... Hey guys, welcome back to the ultimate human podcast. I'm your host human biologist Gary

Starting point is 00:01:31 Brekka where we go down the road of everything anti aging biohacking longevity and everything in between. And today, as you can tell, I'm in a different studio. I actually thought I was walking into an airplane hanger so I was like this dude's got an airplane he shoots the podcast in his hanger because we're right next to the private FBO here but this is a guest that I've wanted to have on for a long time I actually connected with him face to face for the first time at a UFC fight Dana Dana White introduced us backstage and we agreed to get together it It was a hard time

Starting point is 00:02:06 lining our schedules up, but now it's finally happened. I could not be more excited. Welcome to the podcast, Patrick Bitt, David. It's great to be here, man. Dude, it's great to be here. We just shot your podcast with me. Two and a half, which by the way was absolutely sick. Everybody in the back is just talking still about how to podcast. I drank hydrogen water for the first time. Yes you did. How do you feel? I feel great. Yeah, I told you. It gives your, it drops your inflammation. It gives your brain that break that it needs. It kind of wakes you up. It's almost like caffeine, but it's non-stimulatory. I'm a huge, huge fan of hydrogen gas, hydrogen tablets in your water. I'm gonna go 30 days. I'm committing to it. 30 days. All right, I'm

Starting point is 00:02:44 gonna send you 60-day supply. You go 30 days and you let me know honestly What you think after that? I definitely will I promise you it's such a game-changer There are so many directions that we could go on this podcast. I mean, I've actually been a fan of yours quite a while I love the authenticity in your message. I love how direct you are. You're an incredible interviewer I mean was one of the best podcasts that I've ever been on because I felt like you really drew out of me what the audience wanted to hear. One of the common themes that I find runs through all of my podcasts.

Starting point is 00:03:15 And I interview some of the brightest minds in longevity, aging, bio-optimization, whatever you want to call it, is that they solve some kind of major problem in their life. And because of that, they're so passionate, they're so driven, they sort of find God's purpose for them in some kind of event in their life. And there was a tipping point. A lot of times, it's, you know, they had Lyme disease and they couldn't get help from the modern medical system, they fixed it themselves. They overcame drug or alcohol addiction, and now they're one of the biggest proponents and biggest voices in drug and alcohol addiction.

Starting point is 00:03:50 In your case, you have this big booming business voice, and I'd like to know, for my audience that doesn't know you, what is your story, your message, your purpose, and how did you figure that out? So you know how comedians, sometimes when you read their story, whether it's Kevin Hart or Joe or Chappelle or any of these guys, they had a tough upbringing. The way they cope with it is through fun and laughter, right? Let's just laugh at everything.

Starting point is 00:04:18 Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey, a lot of these guys, right? And you're like, wow, no wonder. You have to laugh because pressures are so high there's nothing to look forward to for me when when you're asking about like a driver what moved me you know it wasn't drugs it wasn't any of that stuff it was we were poor we lived in a country that we couldn't say anything we were frightened of living in Iran I lived there for ten and a half years we escaped six weeks after Khomeini died.

Starting point is 00:04:45 He died June 3rd, 89. We left July 15th of 89. We went to Germany. I lived at a refugee camp. We're escaping control, right? We're escaping dictatorship. We're escaping tyranny. And they were in Germany.

Starting point is 00:04:57 And then we come to the States here. And it was a dream to come down here. So it's like, oh my God, finally we are free. So that feeling of freedom, I didn't experience it until we were on that Lufthansa flight leaving Iran and the pilot and the flight attendant says, you can officially order alcohol. That was the moment that I felt free

Starting point is 00:05:18 because we're past the board. How old were you then? I was 10 years and seven months, nine months. Wow. Yeah. When they said that, I'm like, oh my months, nine months. Wow. Yeah, when they said that I'm like, oh my God, what is this, we landed in Germany, first time in my life I had pineapple and I had banana because that was rich man's fruit.

Starting point is 00:05:31 If you had pineapple and bananas in Iran, you were rich. Wow. And then we came down here and I joined the army after high school, I was in the army for a few years, three years, I got out, I wanted to be a bodybuilder. I saw you were in the Airborne. I was, I was at Airborne, best decision I made by the way. For me, I really needed my military, to be a bodybuilder. I saw you were in the Airborne. I was, I was at Airborne. Best decision I made, by the way.

Starting point is 00:05:45 For me, I really needed my military. Droll sergeants put me in my place. Droll sergeant Green and Droll sergeant Pertle, I was able to find Pertle on Facebook, but not Green. They put me in my place. It was very, very good for me to be in the military. Then I got out, I said, I want to win Mr. Olympia. So I went to the Mr. Olympia and I started asking the guys, all these Aaron Baker, Cormier,

Starting point is 00:06:02 all these guys, what do I need to do to compete? What do I need to put in my body? And then after going, they were very honest about it with me. I'm like, dude, I'm 6'4 and a half. I'm tall. Most of these guys are 5'8, 5'9. In bodybuilding, you can't be too tall. If you are, you have to be 350, 400 off season.

Starting point is 00:06:21 That's too much weight on my heart. My dad had heart attacks. So I'm like, I'm not doing bodybuilding I got out of bodybuilding. I started working on Morgan Stanley Dean with her day before 9-11 went into financial services Eventually start a mountain insurance company grew it from 66 agents to 50,000 agents and I sold it two and a half years ago and Part-time I started a media company then consulting from it and now we have this whole playground here that we're building Yeah, I mean and you've got a true media platform, you know, it's some people think of it just as a podcast I actually just joined your Manect, which is pretty incredible

Starting point is 00:06:51 It's just a way for you to have more and deeper meaningful Connection with your audience because I'm always trying to amplify my message and I was really fascinated by this This this app that you've developed because it allows people to have direct connectivity to you and allows you to kind of scale your voice. So I appreciate that. So what is the impact, the direction, what is the meaning behind all of this? In a perfect world, is Patrick Beck-David going to train entrepreneurs, inspire entrepreneurs to build better businesses?

Starting point is 00:07:25 You know, what's the objective of what you're building here? That's a good question. So for me, you know, we've, I've made money and I've made money. I've had exits, I've had eight-figure exits, and then we had our multi-nine-figure exit, which was life-changing. So when you have a life-changing situation like that, I didn't buy a new car when I sold my business. I didn't buy a new house. I was already living in my house. There's nothing that I bought which was significant to change my lifestyle, right? Yes, you know, minority owner of the Yankees

Starting point is 00:07:58 had two rounds that I was able to buy into, great. So spring training right now, I'm talking to the CO4 of Yankees to see when I'm gonna be going to be there to see the games and the players and all this stuff. That happened, a few things that happened. But for me, I want to go on a 40-year run. When I watched the insurance industry and when I was in, I got four kids, I got a 13-year-old, 11-year-old, 8-year-old girl, 3-year-old girl, so two boys, two girls.

Starting point is 00:08:20 I want to build something that later on, selfishly, I want my kids to want to be in business with me or They start a company that is within the holding company. They're working somewhere. I want the family to be close This has always been a dream of mine. I love that man. Same way Yeah, when I was watching you with your son doing a hundred you said how many miles did he run? 180 miles 184 miles. That's insane to me when I'm watching, you know 24 years old doing what he's doing and going around Antarctica, you're saying minus 48 degrees, and I'm watching a picture of you and him with arms next to each other.

Starting point is 00:08:51 That's the juice of life. Oh, dude, it's the best. That's the juice of life. So you know, business allows you to do that. So indirectly, my pastor talks about there's seven mountains to climb, Dudley Rutherford, in life, in business. He says one mountain is business, one mountain is family, one mountain is church, one mountain is military, one mountain is media.

Starting point is 00:09:10 He's breaking down these seven mountains. He says the most important and powerful mountain, yet the hardest one to climb is media. He says because if you want to make true impact and be able to go to the masses, you have to go through media because it's zero to a million. Church is zero to 20,000, zero to 3,000, zero to 200, right? But this is zero to a million with media. And I said, interesting. I never thought about it that way.

Starting point is 00:09:32 So I said, let me start creating content part time. I did. And later on in 2017, one of our viewers called Mario sent an email saying, I'd like to get into an engagement with Pat and we want to hire him as a consultant I'm like we don't run a consulting for me says but I said let's just go back and give him a dollar amount let them you know walk away because we don't even know how to take the payment right now he goes back he says five thousand dollars in hours it's great we like to book him for three hours really he said I said Mario what

Starting point is 00:10:02 do they want from me he says honestly I don't know but they, yes. I said, Mario, what do they want from me? He says, honestly, I don't know, but they want to come. I said, okay, let me find out what this comes in. Naturally, I like doing needs analysis. What's needs analysis? How long have you been married? How'd you guys meet? Who were you in high school? What sport did you play?

Starting point is 00:10:16 Were you the captain? Were you the 4.0 GPA? Were you better relationship with mom or dad? Dad wasn't there. What happened with mom? Did mom remarry? I'm curious. I'm doing needs analysis. So I start doing needs analysis

Starting point is 00:10:27 on him and his business and at the end I said okay this is mine, I got 30 minutes, I learn about your business, what questions you got for me? He starts asking questions and by the time it was done I said I think we made this guy ten million dollars today. Great, let's see what happens, follows up, boom, follows up again, boom, follows up again. Yeah, we're actually making direct impact. We don't need any equity, there is no commitment from you to us like, hey, give us 10%, we'll do this.

Starting point is 00:10:52 I don't want any of that stuff because that gets us in different kind of relationships. So eventually, that led into 10 people calling, 20 people calling. Then value taming started growing and we ended up getting, I don't know how many YouTube subscribers we got right now 10 plus Million subscribers between PBD podcasts and vitamin and then you guys are just absolutely killing and then I started talking and I took a few risks one of the risks was I

Starting point is 00:11:15 Started you know talking about politics four and a half years ago and everybody said big mistake Don't do it big mistake. Don't do it big mistake. Don't do it. I Said look I started talking politics at 42 years old. 41 and a half years old. I said, the reason why I did is because when I was creating content at 35, my audience was 20 to 35 years old. So they're now aging with me. If they're aging with me and you're 41, 42, what questions are you asking?

Starting point is 00:11:43 Where do I put my kids in school? How do I raise them? Taxes on pain? Who do I vote for? What's going on with you? You're asking the important questions in life. So I said, look, I have an opinion. Let's talk about it.

Starting point is 00:11:53 And the next thing you know, that grew. And so, and then that led to, you know, us building a business now, the holding company with Manect. You're talking about Manect earlier. To me, the biggest thing with Manect is when I think about my life, I think about the amount of times I networked and I met people. There was a guy that was the most incredible networker, Gary, I've never seen anybody work a room the way this guy worked a room.

Starting point is 00:12:19 We'd go into a room and he'd go boom and boom and boom and boom and boom and boom and then we're meeting the owner, we're in the private room in the back, and I'm like wait a minute We just how the hell did this guy get from this guy to this guy who do you know? So do you know this person's a said there's power in networking So I took some of the stuff that he had with networking and I started looking at tools back in the days You know a ol chat or beep or big brick phones And then it became email and social media and MySpace and Friendster and Facebook and YouTube and all this stuff.

Starting point is 00:12:48 And then you look at the response rate and I realized at one point when I'm talking to my lawyer, he charged me, I had a seven minute call with the guy, he built me for 30 minutes. And I said, listen, we had a seven minute call, it's not a 30 minute call, why are you charging me up? He says, because minutes roll up. I said, not to 30 minutes. Min minute call. It's not a 30 minute call. Why are you charging me up? He says, because minutes roll up. I said, not to 30 minutes.

Starting point is 00:13:06 Minutes roll up. Roll up to 30 minutes. Anyways, I said, what do you charge by the minute? He says, no lawyer charges by the minute. I said, I'm gonna build an app or a website where I get to pay people by the minute. So do you have a minute to connect? Let's Minect.

Starting point is 00:13:20 And that's how Minect started. Ah, that's how Minect started. So I get to pay you. Yeah, imagine I wanna ask you a question. They get to pay for it because they're respecting your time. You can't get back to all the emails. You can't get back to all the DMs. You can't get back to all the answers on Twitter.

Starting point is 00:13:33 You simply cannot. You have billions of eyeballs that you're getting right now. But on Minect, somebody can say, Gary, I value your time. I have this question. What do you think I ought to do? These are my levels. Here's what I'm thinking. Can we do a 15 minute call? And if the person wants to pay for it, they can't. But they're respecting your time, I have this question, what do you think I ought to do? These are my levels. Here's what I'm thinking, can we do a 15-minute call? And if the person wants to pay for it,

Starting point is 00:13:48 they can't, but they're respecting your time. So the speed of zero to getting in contact with somebody like you accelerated through my neck. So all of these things together, feeding each other, turned into the holding company that we have. Wow, because you know, I've always said that the information that I have doesn't belong to me. I've always felt that God revealed His purpose for me, to me. And that was to take the ultra complicated, make it simple, and communicate to the masses, and, you know, to really get a message to the masses, to really try to make an impact on humanity. And I've struggled with, you know, how do I scale this message? You know, initially, I thought you can't do it through one on just simple one on ones because there's so many

Starting point is 00:14:30 only so many so selfishly I'm going to I'm going to hijack my own podcast here for a second. Get some get some business advice. You know, you know, my wife and I we founded our little company about nine years ago. We took over a bankrupt vitamin shop in Strip Mall. And we had this dream of building a functional medicine clinic, which turned out came to fruition. And I also started the Ultimate Human, it's a podcast, you're on it right now. But I want to amplify my message to the masses.

Starting point is 00:15:03 And I don't really know anything about social media. I have a social media team. But you'll see when I post, I misspell things. I tag the wrong people. Like, I just don't get it. And so it's not my forte. But the message is my forte. What advice would you give to someone

Starting point is 00:15:20 like me that's continuing to try to amplify the message to build the community? I mean people tell me I should Start like a network marketing company I mean, I I don't want to take advantage of people to get the message, but I want to amplify it as much as possible Yeah, so I think the least important thing is The social media team and the how-to That's the least important.

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Starting point is 00:16:21 My social media team is standing in the room. They love you. And I'm telling you right now, that's the the least important thing and I know they're probably sitting there thinking come on what are you thinking about all this? Let me explain to you why and then this will make sense. So for example if you have a message the audience will find you and this is kind of how it works. Yesterday we have a 28 year old kid here, man here who he became known on social media when he was a 17 year old kid his name is Nicolas Ferreira, okay

Starting point is 00:16:50 He posted a video last week on Instagram in Portuguese I want to show you how many likes it got but before I do I want you to guess how many likes and how Many views this video got just take a while guess how many likes it got On Instagram. Okay. See you see Just take a walk. Yes. What do you think it is? How many likes it got this guy's he just posted a Video on Instagram video on Instagram. This guy's a congressman in Brazil. He's a congressman He's a congressman of Brazil the youngest congressman 28 years old Okay, andman, 28 years old. Okay. And he posted a message. How many likes you

Starting point is 00:17:27 think it got? I'm gonna show it to you right now. 150,000. Okay, I want you to see this. Look at my phone here. Look at my phone here over here. How many likes is that? 8.8 million? 8.8 million likes. Look how many comments. Can you show the comments, Rob? 880,000 comments. What? That video got, look at the number of views it got. 327 million views. Holy cow. By the way, it is the most viewed video on Instagram in 2025. What? This is the power. So watch this. And it's in Portuguese. I mean the Portuguese.

Starting point is 00:18:05 That's the point. It's a smaller distribution than what we have. I'm in Brazil with them, in Brasilia, the capital. We're walking around with them. You can't go anywhere without people stopping this guy. No one knows who this guy was, like this. Why has he exploded? Because today, if you have a message, the audience will find you.

Starting point is 00:18:25 Ron Paul told me maybe one of the most profound things when I interviewed him seven, eight years ago. I said, Ron, you're a person that delivers babies. How did you go from being this guy to now end the Fed, economy, libertarian, all? How did that happen? He says, when I'm delivering babies, one day there's a speaker about finance and friend invites me to go listen to him So I go listen to him when I listen to him speak I guess phenomenally starts recommending me books every single time he speaks I order all the books one by one by one I'm reading the books and I go back a month two months three months six months

Starting point is 00:18:55 He says eventually I am so obsessed. I cannot get this information out of my mind I said, so what did you do? He says so I went back to ask the guy a question. I said hey All this info. I'm a doctor. I'm a guy in a column. I said, so what did you do? He said, so I went back to ask the guy a question. I said, hey, all this info, I'm a doctor. I'm a gynecologist. I give birth to babies. But I can't stop thinking about all this stuff you do. What do I do with all this information? The guy gave him the most profound advice.

Starting point is 00:19:14 He said, let me tell you how the world works. As long as you talk about what you believe in and you do it enough times, the right people will find you and learn how to use you. Wow. What happened to Ron Paul? Doge, the department of government and governmental efficiencies, may be an idea that Ron Paul came up with many years ago. Think about it. Think about what his son does. Think about what happened to him writing a book and the Fed. He's one of the most influential politicians in the last 10-20 years. This guy ends up raising $6 million on MySpace in 24 hours, breaks the record for $6 million before he ran for president.

Starting point is 00:19:50 I think this is in 04, 03. Ron Paul is who we're talking about. Where am I going with this? You have a message, and the audience keeps finding you. And we're gonna come to you to find a message. Then the next part is, all right, the more you can monetize this message, the more you can reach others.

Starting point is 00:20:07 So how do you do that? Do I turn that into a business? Do I turn that into a show? Do I turn that into a consulting firm? Do I turn that into a product line? What do I turn that into? So now you said network marketing, right? For me, with insurance, when I was at Bally's, I watched what Bally's did.

Starting point is 00:20:25 Then I went to Morgan Stanley, I watched what Morgan Stanley did. Then I went to Transamerica World Financial, I watched what they did, I'm like, oh my God. I love this, the combination of all these different companies, what they're doing. Network marketing, the most basic thing about network marketing is that you get to take a product

Starting point is 00:20:41 and sell it for less and use a percentage of it to pay overwrite. That's one of the ways of getting to the consumer. Another way is ads, another way is social media, another way is direct sales. That business model is different, but by far, Gary, the most important thing is the message being a message that resonates with the world

Starting point is 00:21:00 and you have a way of delivering it and you know how to do it. Yeah, I appreciate that so much. I usually don't go into the business on my podcast, and you have a way of delivering it, and you know how to do it. Yeah, I appreciate that so much. I usually don't go into the business on my podcast, but I built this course, and I was like, should I just sell this course, or should I build a community and give it away? And I think that people, what I realize is that

Starting point is 00:21:18 if you're trying to make an impact on people's lives, you can't just educate them, And you can't just inspire them. You have to educate them and inspire them to take some kind of action, make a transformation. Like I talk about taking control of your morning routine and talk about sleep habits, bookending your sleep, all of these things that were practical advice that people can utilize for free.

Starting point is 00:21:41 And I think I've gotten known for that, you know, try sort of like the poor man's solution to optimal health. And it's really started to resonate. I built a VIP community that I charge $97 a month for it's exploding right now because I take large amounts of my time, and I pour it into this community. But as the community grows, it doesn't take more of my time, you know. And so that's the way that I've been trying to scale. And I know there's a lot of people that I respect in this industry that are on the same mission that I am to change the face of humanity that really need this kind of advice from you, because none of us, we're scientists and biohackers and longevity researchers and

Starting point is 00:22:22 what have you, but we don't have the skill set in the social media to really try to amplify our message I Normally don't go down the political bandwagon, but I want it because you're so on a bash at Lee not afraid of politics I've got to open up this door with you You know Bobby Kennedy and and Donald Trump maybe You know Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump maybe two of the most initially polar opposite human beings on the opposite political ends of the spectrum find this sliver where they overlap and have agreement this make America healthy again movement highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history where the sickest fattest most disease or adenation in the world

Starting point is 00:23:02 rank 66 in the world in life expectancy. These two guys from polar opposite ends of the spectrum get together, right? Bobby Kennedy's family basically disowns him. His entire party turns against him in his, when he was inaugurated, what was it, not a single Democrat even voted for him. I actually found that when I went to, I went to the inauguration and I also went to the maha ball and I was there with Bobby Kennedy, the day that I posted this picture, 47,000 people instantly stopped following me on Instagram.

Starting point is 00:23:37 I had 47,000 people delete. You're kidding me. It was like a straight cliff. I had 153,000 pick it up afterwards. But I had 43,000 people still follow me. And I was talking to the team. And I was like, what did I do wrong? You know, trust me, I'm not at the extreme ends

Starting point is 00:23:54 of the spectrum. I'm not pushing any specific agenda. I never get political online. But I was like, what is it that makes people so myopic that, like, what side of the fence are you on? He's trying to reduce the rates of childhood cancer, trying to clean up the food supplies, trying to get the corruption out of our nutritional research. How do you watch and listen to that man?

Starting point is 00:24:16 Now, if you want to talk about what he thinks about big oil and green energy, I get it. Transgender women in sports, these are like hot topics, you know, abortion. We're talking about the nation's children. He says things like, there's no such thing as Democratic or Republican children. There's children. And you look at the state of our nation right now, ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy, spending the most amount of money of any other civilized nation in the world. How is it that people are so myopic that they can actually hate this person

Starting point is 00:24:49 for being politically affiliated with somebody else and not see the message that he's driving? Yeah, so, I mean, a part of that is normal. You know, I remember when everybody, when I started talking about politics on PBD Podcasts, I'm like, look, I want to talk current events. I got some questions. I got some thoughts if you like it great You don't like it. Let's see what happens. You know what happened initially. I took a massive dip initially and was scary like whoa Yeah, which has happened

Starting point is 00:25:18 Weird and then all of a sudden Gary the level of people that came out because they felt that you had the brass to talk about things that matters to them, they're like, let me just tell you, I used to follow your business content, but the fact that you went over here, I'm like, what is he doing with this stuff? I respect the fact that you're talking about it because I'm going through it right now. It's very important. When people stop me now, they don't stop me for the business content, they don't stop me now for entrepreneurship, they don't stop me, they stop me purely for what we talk about on

Starting point is 00:25:47 PBD Podcasts. I can't even tell you how much that is right now. I'm not even kidding with you. It's a very different thing that happened. However, so let's go through it. So in life, you're either going to find people that are interested in wanting to improve and entertain other ideas. You know what? Let me see what he has to say. Let me see what he has to say. Let me see what he has to say. You're going to have people that want to have nothing to do with you if you choose a side,

Starting point is 00:26:15 okay? And you're going to have those that are going to be with you no matter what, your ride or dies. Your ride or die community is always going to be the smallest community, okay? The people that want to have nothing to do with you can change their mind years later. They may start off saying, man, I can't stand what he has to say. And then, you know what? He's grown on me.

Starting point is 00:26:33 You know what? I like the guy. I like the guy. That's kind of what happens, right? I don't go away. I have the same message over and over again. Yeah. So the part with the audience is that's their choice what they're going through.

Starting point is 00:26:41 Also, sometimes as we're living our lives and certain things happen, there are certain shifts that happen in business and in life. If you're not able to adjust with that shift and you're too afraid, you'll be left behind. For example, look at Bobby Kennedy. What's he doing now? He's got probably one of the top three biggest jobs

Starting point is 00:27:04 in the world, I think it's fair to say, in our administration. And he's got probably one of the top three biggest jobs in the world. I think it's fair to say in our administration. And he's up against some of the biggest well-funded... Enemies. Big Pharma. All these other guys. Media. They're not going to like what he has to do. You know, if he decides to not allow Big Pharma to advertise on media companies and we become like the other company, countries except for New Zealand, they're going to be like, what are you doing? He has a lot of solid enemies and he knows, he lost his family that no longer want to talk to him.

Starting point is 00:27:29 But what happens if he ends up- Party kind of abandoned him. Abandoned him already, but watch who we won though. He won a big portion of the country that's sitting there saying, you know what? When I took that shot, I also kind of feel weird right now. Yeah. I don't, because the level of intensity and criticism was very high when he first

Starting point is 00:27:48 wrote that book about Fauci. Who is this guy? Who do you think you are? You're an environmental lawyer. Stay in your lane. You're not a doctor. He's a doctor. We have to listen to him.

Starting point is 00:27:58 We're like, yeah, maybe they're right. Maybe you have to listen to him. And then you read the book, you're like, whoa, what did he do? And who used to take this LZT? You know, is it LZT? I think it's LZT drug for eight. And then Magic Johnson used to take it. And what else? He's the reason why they couldn't sell it at a discount.

Starting point is 00:28:16 Like even a couple of days ago when Trump was talking, what did Trump say a couple of days ago? He says, why is Ozempig, you know, $88 in UK, but it's $1,200 here in the States? He's asking those questions. So now Trump's not a guy that wakes up in the morning studying the health and supplements and vitamins. That's not his space.

Starting point is 00:28:34 He's real estate. He's media, right? But now he's sitting there and asking a basic question. So a basic question like that carries a lot of weight because the average person can understand. Wait, how much is Ozempic in Europe? $88. Why is it $1,200 here? I don't know. I want to know. Wait, how much is Ozempic in Europe? $88. Why is it $1,200? I don't know, I wanna know.

Starting point is 00:28:47 Great, let's go pursue it, right? So Bobby took the risk of asking the question that a lot of people were willing to ask and because of that, he gained a lot of loyal followers that are with him now. What did that influence do to him? It got him in the White House with the second or the third biggest job we have.

Starting point is 00:29:02 Yeah, I noticed that he's actually surrounding himself with a really solid team. You know, none of us in this space have an official role in the government. But what I appreciate about him is that he's asking the questions and also from the opponents, right? The pro vaccine, the anti vaccine, he's asking from, you know, pharmaceutical companies to chemical manufacturers, to grain suppliers, to farmers, and he's sitting them down and he's asking from, you know, pharmaceutical companies to chemical manufacturers to grain suppliers to farmers, and he's sitting them down and he's saying, you know, what we're doing is not working. How do we fix this? And when people cannot defend their position, very often they'll use tonality or threats or they'll just, you know, you find that when you back somebody into a corner on facts or on the science,

Starting point is 00:29:43 that's non-defensible. You know, one of the things I've watched him do is slowly expose the lack of scientific research, rigorous scientific research that the vaccines should go through, just like every other pharmaceutical intervention. And then when you start to put the pieces of the puzzle together, wow, if you get on the vaccine schedule, that is a multi-hundred billion dollar win. And if you get physicians like pediatricians to insist that the children stick to this vaccinated schedule, even though most of the time,

Starting point is 00:30:15 they're not looking at the research and saying, well, I wonder, you know, this hepatitis B vaccine, what's the chance of hepatitis B? Oh, it's sexually transmitted, it's by IV drug use. We're just gonna give it to the babies in the first few days, weeks of life. What's their risk of having a sexually transmitted disease or or engaging in intravenous drug use? Zero. Right.

Starting point is 00:30:35 We're still we're vaccinating very often against zero risk. It's insane. He's exposing that. And for someone like me, who actually wants to put the entire power of my platform and my voice behind it, if you were in my shoes, do you go all in because this is something that you believe in? It's a good question. That's a personal decision. But I'll tell you, and I'll break it down for you, why I think it's a personal decision. For me, the greatest experiences in life

Starting point is 00:31:10 come with very high level of risk. So what are the most riskiest decisions we'll ever make in life? Marriage, very risky, especially in America. Very risky, right? Some of us got lucky, some don't. Some can do everything right. You marry a girl that you met at church,

Starting point is 00:31:27 and you've known her for seven years at church and everything, and it still doesn't work out, and you're miserable, and you're not happy, and it's not working out. But what's the alternative risk? Staying single. That's a bigger risk. Why is staying single a bigger risk? Who are you going to come and talk to about your victories, about your challenges, about your issues? What are you building?

Starting point is 00:31:45 You're building nothing. It's a solo team. The high of life being solo is not a high life of building something with a unit. Second risk, kids. How risky is it? Very. You're sending them to school. What they're going to be fed, what they're going to be brainwashed, what they could potentially

Starting point is 00:32:04 happen. At any time, you're always thinking what they're doing. They're traveling. Are they good? Are they safe? For every kid that you have, you're always in two different places at the same time. So I'm either here and I got a kid, I'm at another place. You got four kids, you have five places at any given time. What is she doing? What is he doing? How are they taking care of them?

Starting point is 00:32:20 What's going on with this? That's a risk, but flip it. I can't imagine, like my wife and I had three kids and at one point she's like, I wanna have a Ford, and we ended up having Brooklyn, or Ford does Brooklyn. I can't imagine life without Brooklyn. I'm telling you, I can't imagine life never meeting, having met Brooklyn, I can't imagine what life would look like without her, right?

Starting point is 00:32:38 So kids is risky, running a business, super risky, creating a podcast, having an opinion, super risky. Every one of these things are extremely risky, right? But what is the flip side? If you start kind of talking about what you believe in and you ask the question in a respectful way, what ends up happening? See, when I think about guys who continuously won, there's a lot of people that will go viral for one year and everybody that year is thinking, this guy's gonna go viral for the rest of his life.

Starting point is 00:33:11 No, that's not how this works. Then some will go viral for five years and after five years they flatline. It's a lot of social media influencers, they flatlined. Some may go a decade and then they flatline, right? I think there's only three performers that have a number one hit in four different decades. I think it's Ray Charles, I think it's Sting, and maybe one other person that has a number one hit in four different, you know how hard that is to do?

Starting point is 00:33:35 Four decades? Four decades of a number one hit. Like you have to find a way to entertain a new generation. Your music is only good for that generation. Now you're doing it to this guy, holy shit. So what is the hardest thing that artists have to do? Recreating yourself. Dude, that is not easy to do.

Starting point is 00:33:51 You want me to recreate yourself? Yeah. What does recreation mean? Recreation means the old you is not good enough for this next level. Are you willing to go through that pain? It's not easy. It's a very difficult thing to go through,

Starting point is 00:34:02 to say I was good for that level, but I am not good for this next level. and then you recreate that you're going through the grind of not being that good And you're getting was on my god job is on the boom and then you're like boom I'm good enough for this level and not only I'm great for this level now. Do you want to go to the next level? Oh, here we go again. So this concept of recreating ourselves is a very difficult thing to go through and of recreating ourselves is a very difficult thing to go through and when I went through it four years ago, trust me, everybody was, because I hadn't sold my insurance company yet.

Starting point is 00:34:30 So everybody's like, listen, you go through this route and all of a sudden half your company agents leave, they're all 10.99, they don't have to stay here selling insurance, they can go to any other company. But we took the risk and all of a sudden, millions showed up that were interested. And when we had to talk, we were like, whoa, where did you guys show up out of nowhere?

Starting point is 00:34:48 Yeah, we're interested. Really? Yeah, why? We're just interested. I didn't go to school for this. I don't have a 40 degree for this. But we relate to it because we're like you as well. Okay, and we kind of feel that you're fair

Starting point is 00:35:01 with your ability to reason and you're delivering your message. Okay, cool. Okay, sounds good. Well, good to meet you. Boom. And then there's a relationship. Yeah. And then you got to do it again, and again, and again. And sometimes we think the success that got us here, you know, it's always going to be there. It's not man. This thing like this goes if you get too comfortable.

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Starting point is 00:36:03 Head to theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP. That's theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP right now to become one of my ultimate human VIPs. This is your fast pass to better health, so don't miss it. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human podcast. You know what I found that wasn't widely available when we started our business, you know, my wife and I, who was actually just my girlfriend at the time when we started our business, I left the insurance industry and I wanted to start this wellness practice. I remember

Starting point is 00:36:34 I went home and I talked to my girlfriend, said she actually just moved in with me. And I told her I quit my job and I wanted to start a functional wellness practice and much to my surprise She was all in right? And she was a real estate agent. I was human biologist neither of us had had opened a wellness clinic We still needed to get a doctor. We had to build this business but we actually were on board at the deck of the ship together. And I wish that I had a mentor that was giving me advice on going into business as a couple. I mean, there's a couple in the other room

Starting point is 00:37:14 that's going through it right now. And I feel like I've become sort of a side marriage counselor because I'm like, we literally went through everything that was supposed to tear you apart and somehow made out the other side. But I'd be really curious to do your advice to because I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs are the solo entrepreneur, right? Either the men, man or the woman, but they're the solo entrepreneur, meaning they don't

Starting point is 00:37:40 have their partners, not their spouse, their partners or other men and women and they're on this trajectory. And I think some ways, this is my myopic view of it, and that's actually more destructive to the relationship than trying to do something together. And what are your thoughts? What would be your advice to couples starting out in business together? Yeah, I mean, listen, it's, first of all, to couples starting out in business together?

Starting point is 00:38:05 I mean, listen, it's first of all, if it's by choice is the most important. It can't be by force. Meaning, do you want to be in business with us? Do you want to do this together? I do. Great. Versus, I need your help. How come you never helped me?

Starting point is 00:38:21 That's not going to work. So if it's by choice, that's not gonna work. Okay? So if it's by choice that's filter number one. Number two, then there's got to be parameters created on what the relationships like at work and then what we do at home. There's got to be respect. If we disagree with something we call each other up privately not publicly. Don't disagree with me publicly. Do it privately. You undermine me every time you do. Don't disrespect me and treat me like another person because you're not happy about the performance.

Starting point is 00:38:52 Please do that to me privately. No problem. So those things are things to kind of understand that you have to go through individually where you create a certain guideline. Next, if it's project driven and you can find a way that the level of accountability is coming from a vision that we're in pursuit of, that is a better way of going because hey babe, we're doing this for this,

Starting point is 00:39:16 we're doing this for this, we're doing this for this, we're doing this for this. At first, it normally starts off being an emotional partnership, excitement, we're gonna change the world, we're gonna work together babe, it, it's going to be great, it's going to be awesome. And then when money comes in, and then it gets logical, accounting, IRS, taxes, technology, logic, logic, logic, logic, then it's like, it's just a business and you lose the sizzle and it's just a business partner that you go to sleep with.

Starting point is 00:39:43 You know, when Trump talks about his first marriage, he says, you know, Melania used to have a man, if I can find this clip, Trump explained it in a very, very good way. Really? Oh my God. Was he in business with his first wife? Oh, first wife? You have to see how he explained this. The way he explained it about his first marriage, he says, Melania used to have a very gentle

Starting point is 00:40:02 side about herself. And he says, I gradually watched her lose it. You have to see this, by the way. If I can find this clip, Rob, and I text it to you, maybe I've texted it to you before. I think I just found it. Is this the one? Oh, man, you have to see this.

Starting point is 00:40:18 Because he explains saying she used to be tender, she used to be easy going, she used to be soft. And she lost it the moment she started doing business with me. She would tell me what to do, she would tell me this, and she would tell me that, and she would tell me this. And it was very important for us to not go through that, and I missed it. So the first marriage didn't work out. So a part of that, I mean if I can find this, if I don't find it, it is what it is. I'll show it to you another time. Yeah, we'll find it and I'll link it in the show notes if we can't find it.

Starting point is 00:40:47 So you know, he explains that part, but I think in marriage, if you can create those guidelines and you buy into a vision together and a dream together and then you still find a way to have your date night, you still find a way to get away and you still find a system. Like we have a system, if we're at dinner, these things are a way. Everybody, even our crew here, if we go to dinner together, we were where yesterday or two days ago, I don't know where we were. Do you really?

Starting point is 00:41:11 We were in DC. If we're in DC, everybody at dinner sets their phone aside and we talk, we look at each other. We don't look at our phones, nothing. Everybody sets their phones aside. So creating certain systems where the connection is there, I think that's the fighting chance. Because me I enjoy being a business my wife's office is right next to mine She's in the office every day. She's in the office today

Starting point is 00:41:32 If you come to my house after we're done here We go to the other building and I'll show you the hangar that the other property is a real office Yeah, and you'll see where it's at. I saw the logo right in the lobby. Yeah, it's very very hard But ten out of ten times I would prefer it this way than a way where the wife stays home, she goes to the spa all day, tennis classes and all this other stuff and I see her at night. I couldn't do that.

Starting point is 00:41:53 Yeah. I couldn't do that. Some people can do it. I like this. I like us working together. I enjoy it. You know, I know that, you know, what was interesting was we felt like we were actually starting to age while

Starting point is 00:42:05 we were building an anti aging clinic, because just like exactly what you said, you know, they, it was all about the mission and the vision and it still is. And, and then there's bills and there's payroll and there's inventory and there's vendors and there's a lease and there's responsibilities and you have to keep your credit up and your bank accounts going down and the expenses are going up and you've got employees that are relying on you and you don't really understand all of the answers like how do I make people walk through the door? How do I get the phone to ring? And if you have a bad day at the office, you have a bad day at home. If you have a good day at the office, you have a good day

Starting point is 00:42:37 at home. I think the two are interconnected. I think people that say you can separate business from pleasure, especially if you're in business with your spouse or your private life from your business life. I think they're lying to you. I think you're probably going down the wrong path. But one of the things that we did was we made a very, very conscious decision. We said, this is the industry that we're gonna serve,

Starting point is 00:43:02 and we're teaching people how to better their lives and live healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives. If we're not doing that for ourselves, then how authentic is our message? And we made a conscious decision to begin to put ourselves first. I mean, militant about our diet, militant about our sleep. We actually started taking time for date nights. We started taking time for, you know, we started scheduling travel into

Starting point is 00:43:28 into the calendar. What, if anything, have you done during your career to care for yourself? Do you have any biohacking trips? Do you have tips? Do you have any particular wellness habits that you do to keep your mind sharp your body sharp? Yeah, so such a good so for me I think when I broke down the basic systems everything in my brain needs to be very simple for me to understand it I need to simplify everything so to me. There's four keys to success You got to outwork your peers, but that's not enough you got to out improve, but that's not enough You've got to out strategize, but that's not enough. You got to out-improve, but that's not enough. You got to out-strategize, but that's not enough.

Starting point is 00:44:07 And the last one, which is the most important one, is you got to outlast. Most people are not going to last. Most people will burn out. Most people get tired. Most people will give up. Most people... Trump's being interviewed by Lex Friedman. And he's asked him a question.

Starting point is 00:44:19 He says, what does it take to run for president? What does it take to do this? He says, look, I have a lot of friends that are richer than me, but they don't know how to speak from stage. I have a lot of friends that are richer than me But they don't know how to speak from stage I have a lot of friends that are you know more successful than me in this but they they can't handle the you know Negativity from the media I have a lot of friends He said but they got tired a lot of friends and he's just kind of breaking it down I have 78 years old just campaign one of the most complicated

Starting point is 00:44:41 Time facing 900 years in prison And the guy is working tirelessly. The average 25 year old watches this and says, how the hell are you able to do something like this? So that's the outlasting part. And he McDonald's and drink Diet Coke. And he eats McDonald's. That defies my logic. So that's his biohacking, but that's his biohacking.

Starting point is 00:44:58 His biohacking is- Don't take biohacking advice from him. The best picture is with him and Bobby Kennedy on the plane. Oh dude, it killed me. And they're eating McDonald's, Big Mac, and Bobby's got this face like, he's looking like this like, I can't believe I'm doing this right. Yeah, yeah. I was like, who was the aide that posted that?

Starting point is 00:45:12 That dude needs to be fired. Actually, that was the best because it's showing the fact because Trump's got the biggest smile on his face. Can we see that? Can you zoom in? Look at the smile on his face. He's saying, Bobby's like, I cannot believe I'm Look at this man. It's face. And Bobby's like, I cannot believe I'm doing this, right? It's funny. It's hilarious, right? But the point when you're asking him

Starting point is 00:45:32 about... Oh, he's got a full soda there too? Yeah, he's got the whole thing. I mean, listen, he got caught. They're seeing him there. But you're asking about biohacking. This is my basic rule. Since I was 14 years old, I've trained three times a week. Simple. I go to the gym three times a week. I'm going to move my body and exercise three times a week

Starting point is 00:45:51 since I was 14 years old. Now, from 14 to 25, it was six days a week because I was trying to compete to beat Mr. Olympia. Now, it's three days a week. Now, I do four or five. But my goal, no matter what, I'm doing my three. Systems. Basic stuff I don't touch, I'm doing my three. Systems. Basic stuff I don't touch.

Starting point is 00:46:07 I don't touch anything with cigarettes. I don't do any drugs. I'll smoke a cigar a month. When it comes down to drinking, I'll have a glass of wine or old fashioned per month is what I'll do. I don't drink any soda. I stay away from food late at night that's gonna get my belly to you know blow up. I Move my body regularly. I don't do energy drinks

Starting point is 00:46:29 Like you know, what do you call it monster and I don't drink any coffee the last time had coffee I was 25 years old haven't drank coffee since then we hired a chef that came and opened up our Pantry and went through all Food that we didn't need about two two years ago, it was the last time any one of our kids had cereal. We got rid of all the cereal. We got rid of so many different things with the kids. And my wife gets credit for this

Starting point is 00:46:53 because my wife will go read the books to say, hey, we can't do this, we can't eat this, we can't do that. And so we made a commitment to that. So if you look at my vitamins wise, I'm actually not good at taking vitamins. Sincerely, I'm terrible at it because I got 19 of them, 18 of them. Take this, take that.

Starting point is 00:47:07 I'm like, dude, so many different things. I'm like, I'm not even interested in taking so many. So I'll take it one day. I'll miss it three days. But it's probiotics, basic, basic stuff. That's been the story of my life to get to where I'm at today. And sleep wise, I'm probably not going to be the guy that's going to, you're going to sit there and say, well, pack gets all the sleep on this

Starting point is 00:47:25 I'll go how many nights where I'm getting four to six hours of sleep when I'm driving and you know Hard charging going through it, but once a week. I got to fill up the gas tank So once a week, I'll get my eighth if I'm able to because my kids don't wake me up But that's what's worked for me. I am NOT at the levels of some other guys. You see what they're doing That's not me, but the most basic Principles for me has worked for me since I was 14 years old three days a week You know I love the fact that you're you you're constantly talking about your wife and your kids and and how your greatest success in life is

Starting point is 00:47:58 Actually having your family around you actually building the business with the family legacy in mind at the inception not figuring out how to building the business with the family legacy in mind at the inception, not figuring out how to create a legacy after you've already built the enterprise. I've also heard you talk a lot about the impact of social media on your kids, most of the time referring to your daughters. What are some of the things that you do to kind of limit their exposure to social media

Starting point is 00:48:21 or kind of curtail what they're going on without being the bad dad You know that the big the big Grinch it is it is tough and I've talked to my My wife my nanny and my dad and I tell him and I'll have serious conversations with them I said guys, please do me a favor. I don't mind being the bad guy Just prevent me for always being a bad guy. Don't always call me to be the bad guy. They're not going to take a shower. They're not getting up. They're not doing this. Once you find a better way to do it, your father comes home. That's it. I don't want to say that my whole life growing up. I hated it. And I don't want to be that all the time. I'm very comfortable

Starting point is 00:48:59 being it, but I don't want to be that all the time. So what is it? What does it mean to do our kids? You know, I have a 11-year-old son, eight, three-year-old daughter, right? Every one of my 13-year-old sons all have cell phones, smartphones. Every one of my 11-year-old all have cell phones except for one. The eight-year-old, most of them have cell phones

Starting point is 00:49:18 except for two or three. And then obviously three-year-old is a three-year-old. None of my kids have a cell phone. And the oldest is 13. They don't have a single cell phone. None of my kids have a cell phone and all this is 13. They don't have a single cell phone, not a smartphone, not a cell phone, nothing. They don't have anything, okay? And so they're not accustomed to what it is

Starting point is 00:49:33 to have a cell phone. It's very intentional. I read a book called, what is the name of the book, Rob? The one, what is the name of the book that has to do with cell phones and women and kids and girls that I always talk about? What is the name of that book? It was written by Jonathan Hyde.

Starting point is 00:49:53 The moment you see it, you're going to be like, I can't believe it. Anxious generation. Anxious generation. Have you ever read that? No. Oh, Gary. But I believe just in the title, I'm going to love it. Let me tell you, you will not be able to put this book down.

Starting point is 00:50:05 I can't tell you how many times I've driven parents to read this book. He breaks down all these systems. What's the overview of it say right there? Goal of Law Rap? Yeah. The anxious generation how they. No, go to the right, cause he's trying to read it.

Starting point is 00:50:17 There you go. The anxious generation how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. I absolutely agree with that. You're gonna love this book. Argues that the spread of smartphone social media and overprotective parenting have led to rewiring of childhood. Man, I believe in that so much.

Starting point is 00:50:34 You know what's so crazy is when I was growing up, it was funny, like we were actually allowed in the house. My parents wanted me to leave in the morning and come home in the afternoon or the evening. I mean, I had to be home by sundown. I mean, I lived on a farm. My parents owned 12 acres in the middle of a 300 acre tobacco farm. So it was woods, farm, streams. You couldn't get it. What city were at? Yeah. South of Annapolis, Maryland, in southern Maryland. It was in upper Marlboro, which is where Marlboro cigarettes came from and all these, there

Starting point is 00:51:09 were just thousands of acres of tobacco. I actually grew up cutting tobacco, which is the hardest labor you'll ever do in your life. And, but Maryland was one of the only flammable forms of tobacco. Now I never smoked tobacco, never chewed tobacco, but I cut it as a crop when I was a kid growing up, which by the way, if you ever cut tobacco, you will know one thing about the rest of your life. You do not want to cut tobacco. I don't give rats behind how much money you can make doing this.

Starting point is 00:51:39 I mean, you cut it in August, you walk through these hundred acre fields from one end to the other with a machete chopping these plants, right? Pushing it over, chopping it, pushing it over, chopping it, pushing it over, chopping it. You plant the plants by hand, putting them single-handedly into this wheel that spins them around and sticks them into the ground. In August, you then have to take this tobacco, these sticks of tobacco plants, which will be about 60 or 65 pounds, you put four or five plants on there, and you put them on a wagon, you drive it into the barn, and then you climb up in the barn rafters, and you straddle these barn rafters. Now mind you, they're like four or five stories, six stories off the ground. These were not built by certified OSHA engineers, right? There was no one with an engineering degree.

Starting point is 00:52:25 It was just your neighbor with a hammer. And you're up against these tin roofs, and you literally have to pull these 65-pound sticks up and hang them. Pull it up, hang it, pull it up, and hang it. You hang one row, then you hang the next row until you get down to the base of the barn. And then it sits in there and dries, you know, because it's green when it starts and it's brown brown and they tie it up and all the stuff I don't know how we got on that subject but hardest labor I would ever do no you anxious generation your parents asked you to go out and play and come back but go out don't come until sundown yeah that's what he talks about

Starting point is 00:52:56 in the book yeah I'll come home tonight I mean but we're the last generation you and I that are even gonna remember what it was like to grow up without cell phones and without iPads. I remember being overseas and just putting random coins of different sizes into a payphone listening for that funny little tone and then you know some French voice I was in Paris some French voice to tell me I had a dial tone and I didn't know how much time I had on the phone with my parents because it would just shut off right if you didn't put enough Remember that as well. Yeah, no, but the book breaks it down and one of the things he says is he says don't drop off your Kids by school. He says drop them off ten minutes away and let him walk

Starting point is 00:53:35 Yeah, he says when your kids are 16 17 years old and you've given him cell phones Guess what at 8 o'clock at night get a safe like a gun safe and everybody at 8 o'clock go put your phones a safe, like a gun safe, and everybody at eight o'clock, go put your phones in that safe. That's great. The systems, he explains systems. So to me, on the parenting side, and our kids are required to read 10 pages every day. They read every day, at six years old, you're required to read 10 pages.

Starting point is 00:53:57 Now, of course, it starts up with basic books, and it works your way up. This is the David House. This is like, okay, this is cool. This is the David House, so reading is, the currency in our house is reading. That's the currency. You want to make money? Great. The currency in our house is reading. And that became a culture. Now they all do it. If you can do it right with the first one, the other three is going to be easy. The challenge is starting strong with the first one. And it's,

Starting point is 00:54:19 look, I mean, I don't know how much of this is going to work in the next 40 years. We'll find out. But my oldest is obsessed with politics and Muay Thai. He loves kickboxing. He loves kickboxing. It's actually good that he can defend his political position. Yeah, it's great. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:54:32 It's great. What did you say? He'll kick you in the head. He's gonna kick you in the, the 11 year old does sports and the eight year old loves baking and stuff like that. And the three year old, she can do whatever she wants to do at this point, but it's important. Family parenting is exciting.

Starting point is 00:54:48 It's fun to do, but we'll see if we'll get it right in 30, 40 years. Okay, I'll have you back on the podcast in 30, 40 years. I look forward to it. I will follow up on this. I know you'll be around. What are the top three reasons why I prefer a vertical cold plunge versus a lay down tub?

Starting point is 00:55:00 Well, I've used both. When you're in a vertical position, your body naturally regulates your breathing better. So if you're holding on to both. When you're in a vertical position, your body naturally regulates your breathing better. So if you're holding on to the sides and you're in a vertical position, you can just focus on your breath work and you can stay calm. A lot of people feel more calm

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Starting point is 00:55:50 Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human podcast. You know, I find myself involved in the journey of so many entrepreneurs. I mean, there's sort of two times that they plead for me to come into their life. One is, you know, they're on their journey and something about their current state of health as is interrupting their business journey. And they're usually not paying attention to it beforehand. They're paying attention once something comes become serious. You know, they went and got a cardiac exam, they found they had a blockage or they could

Starting point is 00:56:20 diagnose with an autoimmune condition or they just look in the mirror one day and they're like, Holy cow, I 48, 50 pounds overweight. I don't even know how I slowly got here. And they'll solicit my help and we'll go on this journey together. But interestingly as my message has grown and the caliber of people I interact with has grown, a lot of the entrepreneurs that I'm starting to find in my sphere are people that have actually had a big exit and now struggle with finding a purpose. And so I wonder if you might talk about that.

Starting point is 00:56:56 Like everybody talks about the journey. Nobody actually talks about the post journey, right? It's like, how do you find validity and how do you find it's two years ago I'm hosting my vault conference it's a conference we host every year we had the rock at the event this last year at Palm Beach Convention Center we had Tom Brady at the previous one and then we'll do next one at gay Lord I think I saw Tom's talk at your right and then we're doing gay Lord Orlando this September we'll have 12,000 people there in September, but two years ago

Starting point is 00:57:25 I won the events. I'm walking around everybody gets this hand, you know This 200 page playbook that everybody fills in it's it's very intense So I see one guy is not filling nothing out. I walk I said, what are you doing? Brassie you spin you bought a pretty expensive ticket here. What are you doing here? I said fill out the stuff He says look I just I really need to talk to you. I said go ahead. Tell me what's going on I said, fill out the stuff. He says, look, I just, I really need to talk to you. I said, go ahead, tell me what's going on. He says, Pat, I sold my business a year and a half ago

Starting point is 00:57:48 for a hundred million dollars. Never made this kind of money before. I'd been married to my wife for 25 years. I said, where are you going with this? He says, I've gone addicted to cocaine and I've been with a lot of girls while I've been married to my wife. And she has no clue.

Starting point is 00:58:03 I said, trust me, she knows. I said, I'm telling you, she has no clue. I said trust me. She knows I said I'm telling you she doesn't know I said I'm telling you she knows okay, because if it's a lot and you're doing drugs she's gonna see the you know the Behavior when I've always seen you like this and you're calibrating around here and all of a sudden you're here There's something that's going on that I'm not coming home on Friday night. Yeah, you're gonna be like something's going on This is not the pattern that you've always had I said, how'd you get here? so my tire MO was to become rich and I finally did it and I just Afterwards I was lost. I was like, what do I do? I said, how did you get into the cocaine and all this other stuff?

Starting point is 00:58:36 This is well, I started making the kind of money So we bought a house and then this guy invites me over to his house They got late poker night when I'm going to this late poker night stuff The guy starts snorting cocaine after 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock. They just say, try one bump. I did and I just got so caught up and they would bring girls that night because the wives would be out and I'm like, whoa, what is going on?

Starting point is 00:58:53 And then it turned into a thing and I just, I can't stop. I said, okay. When I was 27, 28 years old, every year I had three goals in place that I wanted to hit and I would hit it. First one was paying off $49,000 of debt, sending my sister on a nice honeymoon, and getting my dad to go to Hawaii. Next one, three, next one, three.

Starting point is 00:59:14 When I had a quarter million dollar income, I didn't have the next three. And it was a flat year for me. I barely grew my income a little bit that year, but it was flat, nothing exponentially grew. So I'm like, huh huh what is your next three you didn't have any so then I realized by far one of the most important thing for me is to make sure I'm always identifying my next so a lot of times when people reach a milestone this is why most

Starting point is 00:59:44 Mr. Olympia champions, after they stop bodybuilding, they get divorces. Most professional athletes, after they stop playing, they get divorces. This is a very common pattern because you've been in the hunt, you've been fighting, you've been a warrior, you've been this, you've been that, and all of a sudden you're home.

Starting point is 01:00:01 You got money in the bank, you got the cars, and you're home. Now who's your enemy? Your wife's the enemy. You haven't had an enemy, you got the cars, and you're home. Now who's your enemy? Your wife's the enemy. You haven't had an enemy, so now you're picking on your wife. Dude, that's not your enemy. Get out there and do something. This whole concept of, I want to get rich and I want to stay home and I want to spend

Starting point is 01:00:15 time with my wife and kids, God didn't create you and I that way. Never. This is a new 50-year-old thing about, I want to stay home and I want to raise my kids. God didn't expect that from men. What are you doing? Go out there and fight. I had a guy that came up and said, well, you know, I'm just a great coach and that's what I want to do.

Starting point is 01:00:34 And I'm like, dude, your kid is a couple months old. But you know, when you're in it, you're trying to be a good father, you're trying to be a good husband. You don't know if you're making a right decision or not. Men were created to be on the front lines, battle, building something, fighting for something. That's what we were created to do. The moment, I don't care how much money you got, the moment you stop doing that, you're going to break some shit. Normally the first thing you break is your family.

Starting point is 01:00:59 So first thing you break. We have to be in the arena Yeah, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how much money cars fame everything you got Nothing if you're still able to bring value to a certain community society company keep doing it It'll be one of the worst things you can do to stop Wow that is Incredible advice so I know you incredible advice. So I know you, this is a lot of what you talk about your sales training at Mar-a-Lago when you have this big sales training. What do you think, I mean because you've been doing this so long, I mean what do you think creates true sales leadership? I know that you try to build sales leaders

Starting point is 01:01:40 but I think a lot of what emerges in in businesses there are certain characteristics that are inherent in a person and and and what I found is that businesses draws those out right I mean they sort of amplify so like they say you know money you know draws out the person I was if there I saw the bill Cosby years ago had a funny little stand-up thing and he talked about his buddy was like, yeah, you should smoke weed. And he goes, why should I smoke weed?

Starting point is 01:02:11 And he goes, because it enhances your personality. And so Cosby goes, what if you're an asshole? Just kind of funny because it's so true. You don't want to enhance that. So, I feel like there's, it's certainly drawn out things in me like it's reeled my purpose to me and I'm so passionate about what I do and I really feel fulfilled and I've seen the same come out my wife but what

Starting point is 01:02:33 draws out sales leadership like what what creates true sales leaders? Good question. So for me when it comes down to this, great sales leaders, there's three skills. There is the one-on-one skills, guys who are very good one-on-one, where you can sit down with one of your guys and talk to them and get the best out of them. What are you going through? I notice your activity is down. What are you driving for? What are you going after? How are you doing with calls? Let's role play. Tell me how you ask this question. How do you ask for referrals? How do you overcome that objection? One on one and you're able to tug their heart when you're talking to them.

Starting point is 01:03:08 But it's a one on one, nobody else is in the room. It's a very special, it's by far the most important skill set, the one on one skill set. Then you have the one to few. So one to five, one to ten, one to twenty. That's one to few. And then you have one to many, one to 100, 1 to 1,000. That's a different skill set.

Starting point is 01:03:28 Most people think the skill set that matters the most is the 1 to many. It's not. The most important skill set of a great sales leader is 1 to 1. By the way, it is not even close. Because if you're not good at 1 to 1, you won't be good at-few and you will never get a chance to get be good at one-to-many. You have to get very good at the one-to-one where you can sit down nobody is around and you're able to look at the person eyeball to eyeball, kneecap to kneecap and they can sit there and say I think this guy cares about me, he's asking the right questions, he's triggering certain behaviors that I'm not doing,

Starting point is 01:04:03 he is challenging me but I feel like it's coming from a good place. I'm wanting to go out there and improve. This sounds good to me. So then knowing the drivers, knowing the markers, knowing what moves this type of personality versus that type of a personality, understanding that some people are driven by madness. They want to compete. They want to break records. Some people are driven by checklists.

Starting point is 01:04:22 What is the next thing I need to do? So you always have to give them a checklist. Some people are driven by checklists. What is the next thing I need to do? So you always have to give them a checklist. Some people are driven by lifestyle, cars, dreams. Some people are driven by purpose. We're correcting an injustice. We're going to save people. We're going to change people's lives. Those things is knowing how to poke.

Starting point is 01:04:37 And some of the best leaders know how to poke better than others. And so the one-on-one skill set, I mean, is that like something that people inherently have? How do you develop it and how do you raise their level of confidence? Or, you know, I'll tell you, for example, my son and I launched this company, Hydrogen tablets, and we actually are going on stage this week in front of 5,500 people. For me, it's not an issue at all. I'm actually looking forward to seeing the crowd. I'm really looking forward to engaging with them.

Starting point is 01:05:09 I'm really looking forward to adding value to them. He is crippled with fear about walking on that stage and addressing the crowd. Yes. Now, he is an unbelievable communicator. He is incredibly intelligent. He's physically fit. You know, he's an athlete.

Starting point is 01:05:30 He's well-spoken, super articulate, and he's good at the one-on-one. In fact, I actually take a lot of business advice from him and he's a middle child. Let me tell you, the best speakers in the world are the ones who they can get on stage and talk to a thousand people, but they're able to talk to them as if they're one person. If you really want to persuade and influence people, talk to a massive audience as if there's

Starting point is 01:05:57 only one person in the room. Don't say, you guys, you. Talk to one person. Make it seem like you're having a cup of coffee with the person. If you can do that, you'll persuade, you'll connect. If you go up there trying to think you're speaking to a massive audience, they're not paying attention to you. Just go talk as if you're talking to one person. The best speakers on stage are the ones that you all of a sudden you're like, you know what happens like it's in a movie where everybody disappears.

Starting point is 01:06:29 It's just you and the other person in the room. Now there's 5,000 people in the room, but there's not 5,000 people in the room the way you see it. No one is there. It's just locked in. Wow. Because that person is speaking to me. What's the biggest thing in debates they say? The best guys that were the best debates were the ones that understood, go like this. What do you mean?

Starting point is 01:06:48 Talk to the camera, the people at the house that are sitting there, go straight to the camera. Don't think always with the audience that's in their debate. Go straight to the one-on-one, okay? Go straight to the audience that you're talking one-on-one. If you can do that, the voter will say, yeah, that's the best debaters. I'm sitting at home, I'm having dinner with my wife and kids

Starting point is 01:07:07 and all of a sudden I see you're making eye contact. Baby's talking to us, look at him. So if your son can just focus on one person, you're talking to one person at that place. And if you can speak as if you're talking to one, you'll talk to everybody. Love that, man. I'm actually gonna hopefully get this video to him in time,

Starting point is 01:07:27 because I think the world, him and his fiance, they've really built this business together, and they deserve that time to be recognized for it. You know, my daughter, his older sister, has no fear of public speaking, and, you know, my youngest hasn't had a chance to do it yet either, but I would really want to see my son, you know, step into that role, conquer that fear, because it's right up there with deep water and sharks and fear of heights and everything else.

Starting point is 01:07:52 I guarantee you, none of the people in the audience have ran 185 miles in five days. So whatever he's going to tell, he's got moral authority to talk about it. Patrick, I could go on and on and on, man, with you for hours and hours and hours. I super appreciate you coming on the podcast today. I wind down all of my pod. This is like a new angle for my audience, too. Normally, we're just hardcore into the biohacking, anti-aging, longevity.

Starting point is 01:08:15 I think this is going to really resonate incredibly well with my audience, because everybody has the same fears and aspirations. But I end every podcast by asking my guests the same question. There's no right or wrong answer to this question. But what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human? What does it mean to be an ultimate human?

Starting point is 01:08:37 Straight mark. So if a straight mark. I was about to say something that we talked about on my podcast. I'm just going to keep it civil here. No, what I would say is the following. If to me, I'm 75 years old and I have all the success and everything, I don't care what I have, if my kids still want to be around me, if their kids want to be around me, I am an ultimate human.

Starting point is 01:09:05 If I'm able to use my God given abilities to make anywhere I go a better place, whether it's city, company, country, church, directly or indirect impact, I'm an ultimate human. If I'm able to make my parents proud, whether they're here with me or not, just to be able to amplify the last name, the heritage where I come from, I'm an ultimate human.

Starting point is 01:09:35 Wow. That's how I view that. That's amazing. So I think all the other stuff is, you know, Perfless. It's secondary. Those three is what matters to me that's amazing Patrick appreciate you brother where can my audience find you

Starting point is 01:09:49 if they want to find out more about you I mean we're all you can go to PBT podcast value-tainment or you can download the app Manect and ask any questions for me or Gary on Manect M-I-N-N-E-C-T Manect you got it brother until next time guys that's just science

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business

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