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EP3 - $1.5M Business Starting From Nothing | The Real Origin Story (Part 2) · GET ER DONE Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: It was just me and Asher for a year.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I was doing events.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: He was doing events.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_01: I actually took a job uh to help supplement income because I couldn't when I hired Asher, I couldn't pay myself from the business um enough to live off of.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I I felt like God was calling me to go work this other job uh for a year, and I was still working in the business, still doing stuff in the business while working this other job.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so this is a very weird period in the business because I was still working in the business doing like admin task.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: I was ordering metals, shirts, and like overseeing Azure, making sure the races were going smooth while working another full-time job.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I I at the job I was also working on the business.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was probably working 60 hours a week, and I used that other job to pay for my income.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: And then um I I let the business kind of pay for Asher, and I was still doing some events um in addition to that.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I I kind of put myself in this hole, but, anyways, that's a whole side tender.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: We could do we could talk about that later.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I do this other job for a year.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: Asher's race directing with me, it gets to a point where I can't run the business and race direct and um work this job, so I stop working this job, and um I go back full-time to the business, and then that's when I start doing more events.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: So then it's me and Asher and my wife.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: And at the time I was like looking at all of our costs, and I was thinking, hey, one of the costs we can save money on is medals and awards.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like when we people finish races, they do medals and awards.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, let's do our own medals and awards.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I I bought this big engraving machine, and at the time I was literally living in a 20-foot camper with my wife.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: We had um two dogs and a baby.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: We were living in a 20-foot camper in Gladewater, Texas, in an RV park for a year while I was working the job, and we were living like broke people, like dirt poor, broke people, um, barely making any money and hoping this business thing's gonna take off one day.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I remember thinking, man, we can save$30,000 a year if we make our own medals.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, that's enough to like hire somebody.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, well, if we're gonna hire somebody, we have to have a place to work.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: So um God ended up leading us to this place uh in Longview, Texas.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was like this, like it's a crazy story.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: I might be able to share it another day, but basically, God kind of led us to this place that was a commercial space, it was 500 bucks a month, and it was a 1,000 square foot office space, and so we ended up moving into there, and that was our first ever um building that we moved into.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like we had an actual space now, so it was no longer you know me working in my 20-foot camper with my two dogs, my wife, and my baby, in a RV campground while working another job.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: It was no longer that it now moved to I was full-time back in the business.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: We were actually moved into an office space, and we had a part-time employee helping us make medals, and Asher was doing races.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I early on really struggled with hiring people because I was like looking at how much we were making per month, and I was like, I don't know if we can afford somebody.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: But the lot the knowledge that I learned later, and the knowledge I lacked at the time was when you hire somebody to do the work that you're doing, that then frees up time for you to then go and make more money in the business and grow the business.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so um early on, I struggled with hiring people.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: I would start people off at like$10 an hour,$12 an hour part-time, and they would slowly grow into like a full-time position.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so we were working in this office space.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: This is June of 2024 or five.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: We move into this new office space, and it's a weird space.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Garrett's been there.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was like in this post office.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: Move into there.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: We have a part-time employee working for us, Carly's working there, I'm working there, and Asher, he's doing race directing, and I'm adding races up for me to do, and then I'm like, well, I was like, if I hire another race director, they can bring in enough money that'll pay for their salary and we'll make a little bit of a profit.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I ended up hiring Haley, who works for us now.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: I hire Haley as a race director, and she was gonna be doing some trail races for us, and I hire her on.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: At the same time, I was hiring her on, I get this idea of um a business idea of how can we do trail races that we do, how can we do this everywhere and do it easily?
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so I always had this idea of doing this flagship model event.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: So basically, what that means is how can I do an event where you can just copy and paste it and do it everywhere?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: And there was this event called Death by 5K where you run a 5k every three hours for 24 hours, I think.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I noticed it was selling out, and I was like, that's an opportunity because like people want to get into that, but it's selling out six months out, and I was like, how can I make a better version of that and not cap it to where like we could have six or angel people come out if they wanted to, and so I knew I had to do something that we could just do everywhere across the country, something that was cool that people wanted to do, but also something that a lot of people would want to do.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I knew this death by 5k thing was super popular, and I was like, I wanna I want to do something kind of like that, where like people can just run like a 5k and uh that would be easy to do nationwide because three it's easy to get find like a three-mile trail somewhere, and so I um I was with my wife in Tyler, Texas.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was like during the summer, and I was like, Carly, I was like, we need to figure out a flagship model event, meaning something that you can just copy and paste and do everywhere.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's like we need to figure something out.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: I remember we were supposed to go shopping that day with money that we didn't have, and I we don't shop that much, but we didn't even buy anything that day because I was too busy ranting about this business idea I had.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember I stopped Carly.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: We were in the middle of a store, we were in Bass Pro Shops in Tyler, Texas.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: I remember I stopped her and we were we were in the Bass Pro Shops, and I stopped her and I look at her and I'm like, hey, I was like, we we have to figure out an idea now.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like I felt this like pressure, this overarching pressure that I couldn't withstand that we have to do this thing because this is gonna be the next big thing in our business.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to explain it, but we had to do this thing, and we got in the car, and I hop on Chat GPT, and I tell ChatGPT, I'm like, hey, I need this flagship modeled event.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think we could do something with like a 5k, but I wanted it to be something to where it's like not 24 hours because not everybody can just dedicate 24 hours, but I was like, something that's like manageable, and I was kind of using ChatGPT, and it was like, hey, like it was running out all these ideas, and it was like, what if you did one 5k every hour for six hours?
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Yeah, I think that might work.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so I go home, and that night I create it, and I call it Outlast.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: And that night I uh the next day I call a venue and they're like, Yeah, you can come do the event.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: It was over in Tyler, and I created this event called Outlast Tyler, and I was like, we can do that everywhere, we can call it Outlast New York, out yeah, Outlast Houston.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, we can do this everywhere, and I was like, it's a 5k loop every hour for six hours.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I think people would like this, and so I created the event and then I posted the uh the race online, and I remember I posted it the night I posted it.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: I posted on Facebook everywhere, and I was like refreshing the page, and I saw we had two people signed up, and I was like, oh, I think this is working.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: The next day I checked it, five people signed up.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: The next day, eight people signed up.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: People were signing up for this thing every day.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I think people like this.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: And so I had Haley working for me at the time.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Haley, I think I'm gonna, I think I'm just gonna have you do outlast events.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I noticed a lot of people start signing up for the event, so I was like, hey, let's do um outlast events all over Texas.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: So we we plan Nacados and and uh we we plan Dallas and Fort Worth and and San Antonio, and we start doing all these cities in Texas.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember I was like, I hope this works, I hope this works, because if we don't get enough signups, we're screwed.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember I was like refreshing my phone and every day, and I was like anxious, like, is this gonna work?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um a month goes by, we got like five um races going for outlast, and they're getting a ton of signups.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I think we I think we're doing something big here.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: And we do um a few outlast events and they're huge.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like right off the bat, year one, they're huge.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, whoa, like this is big.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so I noticed the big cities do better than the smaller cities that we do these events in.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, hey, let's do this in all the big cities in the United States.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: And like when Haley came to work for us, she was just gonna be East Texas, like she had no plan of going nationwide.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: So I asked her, because she we had agreed on just kind of staying local.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, hey, do you want to go nationwide?
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: And she was like, Yeah, I can do that.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, all right, we're gonna do this nationwide, and we're gonna go to all the big cities.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, we're going to Chicago, Cleveland, Miami, Houston, Seattle.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, we're gonna do this everywhere.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: So we get a list out of all the big cities, and I'm like, all right, let's go ahead and start getting permits and let's do this everywhere.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so we start opening everything up, and signups start pouring in, and I'm like, this is big.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: And Haley starts doing them, she gets really good at them, we're fixing everything, and we got to where we could put on a really good outlast event, good merch, good swag, good course marking, good timing, all that stuff.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: And um we get about eight months in, and things are just getting bigger than we could ever imagine.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: So that leads us to kind of um where we are now.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: So these outlast events took us by storm, and we've grown fairly fat fairly fast in the past year and a half.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um so now, right now, we're doing about seven events this year.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: We have seven full-time team members.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um we've done six hundred thirty-eight thousand dollars in five months.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we've already made more net profit than all of 2025.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: And again, I pay myself a regular salary, and all that money goes straight back into the business to keep growing it.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: So don't think I'm this rich dude.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm rich in spirit because I got Jesus, but uh yeah.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: So um, but this is all a result because 15-year-old me said, hey, let's try to go run in college.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Everything that's happened in the past six years was a result of saying, hey, let's try to run in college, and to do that, I have to run every day, even on the days I don't want to.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: And this is all a result of discipline.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: And discipline is what's led to this, and I can't discount God as well.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people say, I don't like what people do it.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people are like, oh yeah, God bless my business, and like, yes, God did bless your business, but like I can truly say that it is out of my control, and it is supernatural that the amount of people that are signing up for events are the amount of people that are signing up for our events.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: It is not in my control that we have 15,000 people a year that sign up for our events.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: I can't control that.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: I can't control that people like our events.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I can control that people like our events, but like I can't control that people sign up for an event.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: I can't control that.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I I do believe that God, the God of the Bible, Jesus Christ, can put seeds in people to buy or do something for a certain business, to want to sign up for an event or to buy a certain product for a business, or even inspire a business owner to come up with a new idea that people would like.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: And when I look back at that moment of the idea of outlast, because outlast is our biggest thing.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's that that's what's I mean that that's what's absolutely grown beyond our means.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I think back to like when I was trying to come up with the idea, and I was standing in that store with my wife, and I stared at her, and I was like, I have to figure out this business idea.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I had this pressure on me, and I look back at that and I was like, I think that was God.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like I think that was Jesus.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I look back at that and I was like, man, like I think that was God, like that pressure I felt.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to explain it.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: It felt like I had all these walls pushing against my chest.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like I had this, I had this feeling in my chest that I was like, you have to, you have to like, you have to figure this out.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to explain it.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I had this pressure in my chest of like you have to figure this out today.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I will not, and it was like this pressure that was like, I will not leave your chest and this pressure you're feeling in your chest until you figure out this idea.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: And that idea ended up leading to the biggest thing that's ever happened in our business that's allowed us to grow to the point where we are.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I look back at that and I was like, that like I don't serve the devil anymore, so that had to be God.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: That couldn't have been me.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like I can't like I I wasn't I wasn't putting that pressure in my chest.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I also am a servant of God, so that wasn't that wasn't the devil influencing me.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, that felt like the pressure that I feel from the Holy Spirit when I have to go tell somebody a word or like go preach to somebody.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like if you filled with the Holy Spirit and you're a Christian, you know what I'm talking about.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: You get this feeling in your chest that you have to say or do something, and you know it's God.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: And it felt like that.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: So I can't say 100%, hey, that day that was that was God, that was the Holy Spirit that came up with that, that pressured me to come up with that idea, but I can't say that it wasn't either.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I look back at that, and then I know that I know that God can like influence people, and it's like I can't control that people sign up for something.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: I have no control over that.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like I can put anything out there in the world, and I have no ability to control if people spend their money on it.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: I can't force them to, I can't convince them enough.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not in sales, like I am, but I'm not.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm not out here selling, calling people trying to get them to buy.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't do that, I just put the stuff out there, and people are like, oh, I want to do that, so they do it.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like that desire that people have to do the thing.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I have to think, like, that's gotta be God.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: And like the people that God's brought into the business and led to the business, like Asher, Haley, Garrett, um, all these people that work for us right now, like, we have an amazing team of people.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like I didn't force those people to come work for me.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't seek out to find those people, like they found us and wanted to come work for us.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like God could have put that seed in them to want to come work for us and then use them.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I in 2020, when I gave my life over to Christ, um I I I truly believe that ever since then, God's had a plan for all of this.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll also say this this is really cool.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Right before our business took off, and we started making you know really good money in the business, and we started, you know, having a crazy amount of people right before the business took off, right before, right when I was living in the camper, I remember I went to this um business meeting uh at my church uh for business owners, and I remember the first meeting they talked about giving your business to God, making God the owner of your business.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember I had never done that, but when I did that, because I remember that night, I was like, God, I give you this.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: When I did that, that's when stuff started happening.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Also, before that, too, I remember there was this really great cause or something the church was doing, and I remember I felt this pressure to inside from like the Holy Spirit to want to give to this ministry, and I remember it was like a lot of money, and it was like a significant amount, and I gave it anyways because I felt like God was leading me to give, and so I gave all this money to this ministry thing at our church, and I remember for two or three months I was like struggling because we gave that money away.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I didn't have enough money to pay for taxes, um, but I was just being obedient.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: But like six months later, like God gave that back and more.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: And when I say God gave that back, like God used the business ideas, the event ideas, the seeds that he plants in people to sign up for these events.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to explain it.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's a mystery, it's like this other realm that I can't see, right?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: But like God used ideas and people and stuff like that to pay me back, plus some.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: A lot more, actually.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Not not some, like a lot.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so like me being being obedient, giving, and then also choosing to give God the business and humbling myself before God, I think was a huge attribute to where we are now.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Because this is all out of my control.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: I like I'm not in control of people signing up for races, I'm not in control of who comes and works here.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like I am, like I choose who to hire and to fire, but like the people that come and apply, like, I have no control over that.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: I have no control.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I recognize that, and I'm like, I understand this can be all taken away in a second.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but with that though, like there took a lot of discipline and action on my end.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I I this didn't like I didn't just sit there one day and this all came to me, like, oh, I'm just gonna sit here and play video games, and maybe one day I'll win the lottery, right?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna sit here and watch TV, hit my scratch off.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like, maybe God will bless me one day.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like, no, I took action, but with faith in God, right?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the big thing.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so, um, I guess to bring it all the way back, that's how this all came to be.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: And the biggest thing people struggle with when they're starting a business is getting customers, and that was always the biggest hurdle when I first started.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: I I started a lot of businesses in high school, and I could never get enough customers to keep it going.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I bring all that down to say a lot of people will think, oh, I could start this business, and then they start it, but they're not selling anything or making any money because they Don't know how to do marketing or advertising.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so with that all being said, it takes discipline, it takes God, but it also takes learning how to get good at marketing and advertising, and then using that discipline to then take action, and then using God to rely on for faith.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: So um so with that being said, um let me kind of give you this if you're whoever's listening or watching.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone has the ability to be extremely, extremely successful and do big things with patience, with discipline, with true obedience and repentance and submission and humble humbleness towards God.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: And someone who's eagle eager to learn and fix every mistake.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: One day I'll have a really good formula people can use.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: But I just know like if you do the discipline thing where you're like consistent and do all the like the hard stuff, right?
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: I know if you do that, that's gonna get you pretty far.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: I know that if you learn to improve upon every error, which I talked about in the last episode.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Let's say your marketing sucks, so you improve your marketing.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Let's say your product or your service sucks, so you improve your service or your product.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Let's say your social media sucks, so you improve your social media, right?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: You do all these things.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: You improve them, but you're also disciplined in doing them consistently.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um if you do those two things, you'll get pretty far.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: And there's plenty of successful people out there that make a lot of money without God.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: But um it's uh it's a lot better when God's in it.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: And if you just kind of make God kind of the the controller of all, um, you let him control everything, your life, everything, uh you're gonna have a lot better outcome in the end.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so my question for anyone listening, watching is like, why are you not doing the thing?
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why are you not working out?
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you not eating clean?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you not um why are you not reading your word every day?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you not praying every day?
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you not um chasing after the dreams that that God has for you?
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: The world will say chase after your dreams, but like God will can plant things inside of you.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: And be careful not to call things that you want of God.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people are like, oh, like I know God put this in me to do this thing, but it's like no, like, did you even ask God, you know?
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um but like seriously, like genuine question, like why anyone listening or watching, like, why are you not doing the thing that you know you're supposed to do?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it's because maybe like myself, I didn't do the thing I was supposed to do earlier, like when I was in high school.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why did I not start my freshman year?
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I could answer because I knew my freshman year, if I wanted to be good and go to college and run or be good at sports, I needed to do it every day.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: The reason I didn't is because I was comfortable every day and I enjoyed the comfort.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: And when you look out in the world, people who just seek comfort, there's very minimal significance in their life.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: And you have to have some reward that outweighs the pain that you go through to achieve it.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: And like the reward has to be big enough.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: So, like when I first started, my reward was like running in college and signing day.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, man, how cool would that be to go from this kid that everyone made fun of to a kid that's signing to go to college and run because I put in the work.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, that's that's cool.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: And then after that, I was like, man, how cool would it be to have a job that I enjoyed um that was in a that was in something that I loved, which was running at the time, right?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: I still enjoy running, but like I was like, how cool would that be?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then I and then I got to the point I was like, man, all right, we're doing this thing.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: How cool would it be if we grew this to be like the biggest in the world?
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then now I'm like pursuing that, right?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I will say, growing up in a relatively small town, Gainesville, Texas, I went back last weekend to Gainesville and I um I remember being there and looking around and being like, man, it's hard to dream big in a small town.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like when you grow if you were to grow up in a small town and that's all you knew was a small town, it's like it's hard to see outside of town.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to see opportunity outside of that everything you know.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like if all you know is a sm is a small town of 10,000 people, it's like it's hard to dream big.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to like do bigger stuff, I guess.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um it does definitely take a seat of optimism.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: So this I say all that to say I'm not like super hyper successful or anything right now.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, we got some cool stuff going on.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: We got some good cool numbers on our profit and loss sheets or whatever, right?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: But like I haven't made it yet.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like I have made it, like I have everything I need with Jesus Christ, and like he's all that I need, and I have that, so I've made it there, and but from the like the worldly perspective, like I'm still I still haven't done something extremely hyper successful yet.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: And but I'm trying to and I'm pursuing that every day, and so like my question for you, if you're listening or watching, is like, what is it gonna take for you?
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what is it gonna take for you to do the thing?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: And like, why do you quit so easily?
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you give up so easily?
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: And the reason is it's because you enjoyed the comfort more than the reward.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: But are you willing to sacrifice for a few years so that way in a few years you can win?
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: So uh my encouragement today is get up, quit being a turd, and get it done.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: The name of the podcast, get her done.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you just get her done, then uh you have to do whatever it is that you're doing.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: So this podcast is a story of how I started with nothing and the origin story.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's a lot of big details that I probably missed, a lot of big things, but that's a big general overview of the past eight years of what's led to now.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: And um, we'll see what's in in store for next year um in the years to come.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm just documenting everything on here, um, and kind of documenting the process of everything.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: So go out and start with one thing, like make a goal for one thing to train for a marathon, to um preach, or to start a ministry, or to start a business, or even um just have like some sort of big goal.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and make a goal and then work every day towards that goal.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: And then when you achieve that goal and you taste that first bit of success, it only takes one time.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: And once you get that first win, then those wins can compound over many areas of your life.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: So um, I'm not saying this from a guy like, oh, I know it all because I don't, but like I'm saying this from the little bit of wins that I've had in my life.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I've learned, and that's what's enabling me to continue to try and keep winning at different things.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: So um with that being said, I'll see y'all on the next episode.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: And um be ready.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking about things on how to reach your full potential spiritually as a Christian, um, financially or in business, and then physically, um, whether it's strength training, uh, running events, stuff like that.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so um keep tuned in.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to get better, I want to I want you to do better.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: I want everybody to win.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: So uh see you on the next episode.