Latest / The Inner Wealth Podcast / Ep156. From Survival to Grateful: Blake Elsner's Journey to Personal and Professional Transformation.
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- 0:00Speaker 1: A few months ago I met a guy named Blake Elsner.
- 0:02Speaker 1: Now Blake is a local St Louis guy just like me, and I invited him to our Destination Millionaire Mindset workshop intensive workshop in New Orleans, louisiana, and he came down to Louisiana with us and during the course of that workshop his life changed.
- 0:19Speaker 1: He is currently more present, he's more grateful, he's more loving, he's more inspirational than the Blake that walked into that workshop.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Now Blake is a third generation real estate broker in the St Louis area.
- 0:34Speaker 1: His business, elsner Real Estate, has been around for 75 years.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Not only is he thriving in his real estate business and not not only is he running an awesome real estate brokerage, but he's also starting to make big changes and big impacts.
- 0:50Speaker 1: He's getting ready to launch a podcast and he's really stepping into the world in a in a way to empower, to inspire and to encourage others to rise above survival mode and to get into creation mode and create design and create a life that you get excited to wake up to each day.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Settle in, focus in and listen as Blake, you hear Blake and you see why Blake is going to change this world.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something missing in your life.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Do you ever feel the need to escape your business?
- 1:27Speaker 1: Are you running your life or is your life running you?
- 1:29Speaker 1: I'm Mike Kitko and I'll help you design and create a life so authentic and aligned with who you really are.
- 1:34Speaker 1: You'll get excited just to wake up.
- 1:36Speaker 1: I'll help you create real wealth, success and freedom from the inside out.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Today I have an awesome, awesome guest.
- 1:57Speaker 1: We haven't known each other a whole long time but, holy shit, has our relationship evolved and deepened really, really quickly.
- 2:06Speaker 1: This guy came down with me.
- 2:10Speaker 1: We just had a workshop in New Orleans, the Destination Millionaire Mindset Workshop, and Blake came down to hang out with us for a couple of days and during the course of this workshop I saw his eyes open up and I saw his life and his world change and in that workshop it seemed like everything fricking, connected and clicked for him.
- 2:33Speaker 1: And ever since then we've been in fricking lockstep and this guy has become like near and dear to me and uh and I know I've you know, I know I'm near and dear to him that that goes unspoken, but today I want, I want everybody, everybody to understand and get to know my man, blake Elsner.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Blake, welcome to the show.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Thanks, mike, I really appreciate you having me.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Obviously, this is this is new to me and and, like you say, we haven't known each other for a while, but, man, I feel like I've known you my whole life.
- 3:02Speaker 2: The impact you've made on my life in such a short period has been tremendous and I just wanted to get that out before I start talking farther into this, because the thing that got me was how you carry yourself through Facebook, through your self-confidence.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Everything that drives you got my attention and I saw somebody that really knew what he was doing.
- 3:33Speaker 2: He was in this mode like, wow, I want to be that guy, I want to be Mike Kitko, I want to know what he's doing and that's what led me to you.
- 3:43Speaker 2: But anyway, I am a third.
- 3:47Speaker 2: What he's doing and that's what led me to you, and but anyway, I am a third generation realtor.
- 3:49Speaker 2: I've been doing this for about seven years.
- 3:51Speaker 2: I started in college and I graduated with a criminal justice degree Did not want to do that.
- 4:00Speaker 2: I there was a cap in that, clearly, and what I could make and sales.
- 4:04Speaker 2: There's no cap.
- 4:05Speaker 2: As you know, you've become an incredible entrepreneur and there's no cap in what you do in terms of passion profit everything, and you've figured it out, and so that's why I'm here.
- 4:21Speaker 2: The only reason why I'm here is because of you.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Well, we're figuring out together, man, and, like, entrepreneurism is the greatest personal development opportunity on the face of the planet, because there's nowhere to hide, right when it's eat what you kill.
- 4:36Speaker 1: You got nowhere to hide and nothing to hide behind.
- 4:39Speaker 1: So you understand that You've been at this for seven years and I just heard the other day people get to know you a little bit, but you closed four deals.
- 4:54Speaker 1: You said you closed four deals without even doing anything.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Tell us about that.
- 4:58Speaker 2: I'm a big travel guy.
- 5:00Speaker 2: I love traveling.
- 5:01Speaker 2: I know you love traveling.
- 5:03Speaker 2: That's one thing we've connected over real fast.
- 5:07Speaker 2: But what I did was I aligned myself, without even realizing it, in a way I structured my work that I had to do in order to leave town and from there everything just fell into place.
- 5:22Speaker 2: While I was out of town, I was still working, because that work-life balance is complete BS.
- 5:28Speaker 2: It'll never be a thing.
- 5:29Speaker 2: You got to bring your work with you like you do.
- 5:32Speaker 2: You travel, you pick your work up and you go to Mexico and do the same thing.
- 5:38Speaker 2: You pick your work up.
- 5:39Speaker 2: You go to New Orleans, you do the same thing.
- 5:41Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where you're at.
- 5:43Speaker 1: It's work-life integration.
- 5:44Speaker 1: There's no work-life balance.
- 5:49Speaker 2: I never need to escape my business, and it sounds like you don't either.
- 5:51Speaker 2: No, and that's the thing.
- 5:52Speaker 2: So those deals fell right into place.
- 5:53Speaker 2: And next thing, you know, I'm checking out of our Airbnb and I'm going wow, we just sold four houses, we had two closings and that stuff just fell into place.
- 6:05Speaker 2: While we're having a blast with, you know, my family, while I'm not just one foot in anymore, I'm two feet in and I'm all in, like I'm with my family, I'm working, and stuff is just falling into place.
- 6:19Speaker 2: And that's solely because of what you did up here, right here.
- 6:23Speaker 2: All, all changed.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can't see it on camera, if you're listening to this, blake.
- 6:29Speaker 1: He puts his hand in the middle, like right in front of his nose, and then moves his hand from his nose to his heart and he says it's all right here, it's all in the center, it's all within your mind and within your heart.
- 6:44Speaker 1: All right here, it's all in the center, it's all within your mind and within your heart.
- 6:47Speaker 1: And, blake, listen, certainly I'm a support mechanism for you, but I want to make sure everyone understands that the mentor, the coach, doesn't do the work.
- 6:58Speaker 1: The coach, the mentor, doesn't get credit for the outcomes, because I've coached a lot of people who weren't open to the lessons and the guidance that I have to provide, and the people that are open are the ones who get the results.
- 7:14Speaker 1: The coach, the mentor, doesn't get.
- 7:16Speaker 1: It doesn't get the results.
- 7:17Speaker 1: You got the results.
- 7:19Speaker 1: You are the reason.
- 7:20Speaker 1: You are to blame, blake Elsner.
- 7:23Speaker 1: You get the credit, you get the blame.
- 7:25Speaker 1: You are the villain, you are the victim, you are the hero in your own story.
- 7:30Speaker 1: And thank you for thank you for shining light on me.
- 7:33Speaker 1: But, brother, you didn't have to do the work but you did, and that's why you get the credit, and that's why you get the blame.
- 7:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I, I mean I did do the work and I, blake, did it.
- 7:43Speaker 2: That's right.
- 7:44Speaker 2: With the support system, though, that's key.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Like I had, you know, my Kitco, I had Interwealth Global.
- 8:09Speaker 1: I had an amazing support group to where I could walk into this room immediately down in New Orleans and just feel like I was in the most trusted box of air I've ever been in.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Let's back it up.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Let's talk about Blake before that workshop.
- 8:14Speaker 1: I want to hear about you know, blake's marriage.
- 8:16Speaker 1: I want to hear about Blake's family.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I want to hear about Blake's business.
- 8:21Speaker 1: I want to give us a snapshot of what it was like to wake up as Blake Elsner.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Prior to running into yourself, I was waking up, basically surviving the day.
- 8:38Speaker 2: I was living to die.
- 8:39Speaker 2: And it's hard to say that because for basically I just turned 32, basically 31 years I was in survival mode.
- 8:50Speaker 2: I was running, just running from problems, one foot in in the family.
- 8:56Speaker 2: You know, I just I wasn't clear about what I wanted, I wasn't committed to what I wanted and the clarity wasn't there.
- 9:07Speaker 2: And those three things, the clarity, the certainty, the commitment that's what you taught me and that's what has really opened another layer of my brain and I didn't ever even realized it was in there.
- 9:25Speaker 2: It is so full of knowledge and it's like you were the guy, the sponge, the hand, that went in there and started squeezing that out, squeezing it.
- 9:34Speaker 2: It was like it was like orange juice or it's like the fruit thing you say you know, eat the fruit spit out the seeds.
- 9:42Speaker 1: There you go and you did it and I want so.
- 9:47Speaker 1: You woke up every day in survival mode and I remember seeing messages from you.
- 9:51Speaker 1: You're like, wow, for the first time in my life I'm waking up and I'm excited and I'm like you see the world as your palette, as your opportunity.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Right and again.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Go back to I remember when we were in that workshop room and coming out of one of the meditations because I lead active guided meditations during and you woke up or you came out of a meditation and it's like your eyes were wide open, right For the first time, you really saw who you are, who you were, and you saw who you could become.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Who is Blake becoming, saw who you could become, who is blake becoming.
- 10:28Speaker 1: Tell us about the future.
- 10:29Speaker 1: You that, that you planned and you have.
- 10:29Speaker 1: You know, you have documented in your vision.
- 10:31Speaker 2: oh, the future, blake has, you know, endless goals.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Obviously we're never gonna make it.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Um, there's no there, there's no there.
- 10:38Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what.
- 10:39Speaker 2: The journey I am enjoying.
- 10:42Speaker 2: It, man.
- 10:42Speaker 2: Mean, our, our plane yesterday was delayed.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Usually old Blake would have freaked out.
- 10:49Speaker 2: New Blake goes.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Awesome.
- 10:51Speaker 2: More time I get to hang with my family, that's right.
- 10:54Speaker 2: Guess what we got on the plane?
- 10:56Speaker 2: Everything was fine, made it home safely.
- 11:00Speaker 2: There's just those certain things that used to bother me that no longer do, and it's a mindset thing.
- 11:08Speaker 2: And going forward, the new Blake is confident.
- 11:12Speaker 2: I have a lot of talent, I have a lot of wisdom.
- 11:15Speaker 2: I just needed to somehow to extract it and you came to me just simply through social media.
- 11:26Speaker 2: You saw my post and you said hey, blake, want to go to a workshop in New Orleans.
- 11:34Speaker 2: And I'm like New Orleans.
- 11:38Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, the workshop's in St Louis, right?
- 11:41Speaker 2: Well, no, that's a different workshop, the one in New Orleans you're going to come to.
- 11:47Speaker 2: You're right, that's the one I have to go to.
- 11:52Speaker 2: I have to go to New Orleans because that's the only way I'll show up.
- 11:57Speaker 1: We had a good time down there too, man.
- 11:59Speaker 1: We had a good time down there.
- 12:00Speaker 1: So you came to the workshop.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Your eyes are open.
- 12:04Speaker 1: You're seeing life differently.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Tell us about, and you're opening up.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Your eyes are opening every day.
- 12:11Speaker 1: Tell us about a little bit, about how you serve people, what you do, you're kind of the purpose work that you do in your business.
- 12:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 12:21Speaker 2: So for the longest time I loved helping people.
- 12:26Speaker 2: I see great return on investments all the time, but I didn't feel a return on my purpose in that sense of you know, I was seeing it in a paycheck way, but the purpose work.
- 12:40Speaker 2: And so I met a guy, awesome individual, billy Mayhall.
- 12:47Speaker 2: He runs St Louis Youth Sports Outreach sports outreach and I decided that, you know, going forward, we were going to donate a portion of each transaction to these kids that they're kids that don't have the ability to have sports equipment, to have certain you know things that I grew up with, that I didn't even think about A pair of cleats, a pair of batting gloves, a football.
- 13:14Speaker 2: This is simple, simple stuff that these kids never even get a chance to get their hands on.
- 13:20Speaker 2: And this guy, he does everything in his power to make sure they do and it's awesome to be a part of this.
- 13:27Speaker 2: I don't want anything in return besides a picture of a smile from these kids.
- 13:32Speaker 2: That's all I want.
- 13:33Speaker 2: There's nothing else.
- 13:34Speaker 2: He knows that too.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I don't need any business.
- 13:38Speaker 2: There's nothing I need out of those donations.
- 13:41Speaker 2: I just do that out of the kindness of basically my heart and it makes me fulfilled inside.
- 13:50Speaker 2: That's kind of what it does.
- 13:53Speaker 1: And so you just want to see a kid smile.
- 13:56Speaker 2: That's it.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:58Speaker 1: And it's so fascinating, you know, I mean, I grew up in a lower middle class, you know blue collar household, and we had enough, we had what we needed and we always had cleats and we always had batting gloves and we always had bats and balls.
- 14:11Speaker 1: But it's amazing, and you're right, there are kids who don't have those blessings and they miss out on some of the simple basics of being a kid playing some team sports, learning how to be a team player, learning how to be coached.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I think that's important because if you're uncoachable, then you're not going to learn for the rest of your life.
- 14:31Speaker 1: And you figured this out.
- 14:33Speaker 1: You're 32 years old 32.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Just turned 32.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Just turned 32.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
- 14:40Speaker 1: At 32 years old, you're already selfless, in a way that you're looking to make a difference in the world.
- 14:48Speaker 1: And look, Blake, it took me until I was 43 years old probably 45, before I looked at the world as an opportunity for something besides myself.
- 15:00Speaker 1: At 32, the young, ripe old age of 32, you figured out something that some people don't figure out in a lifetime that there's more to life than just my own bank account and my own needs.
- 15:21Speaker 1: So I just want to make sure you understand how important and how valuable that is.
- 15:25Speaker 1: And, from this point going forward, as your eyes open and now you've got this, you know, you, you, you already have this anchor in service and and in servitude to these kids.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Now you're going to take this new awareness that the world's a palette and you can have whatever you want.
- 15:42Speaker 1: You're going to bring it to these kids.
- 15:44Speaker 1: You're going to make a big difference in the world.
- 15:45Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we anchor that.
- 15:48Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, I, I, that's what I plan to do, and and because of, because of you, having seen this in me, I was able to now do this.
- 16:00Speaker 2: And and without you know, without your guidance, I swear like I'm not here to to plug you.
- 16:07Speaker 2: I'm, I'm, I'm really here to tell people from the bottom of my heart, to tell people from the bottom of my heart like this happened for a reason and I was able to then put it all together through your support system and not just yourself, like the community of people has helped me tremendously, do all this stuff, and I, I, I thank so many people for the, you know, for this opportunity to be even be able to do this stuff.
- 16:35Speaker 2: But, but no, I really, I really, you know, I got clear about really what I wanted and as long as I could, you know, satisfy, satisfy myself first, and my family, then I'm, then I'm free, you know, and I can, then I can satisfy other people.
- 16:56Speaker 1: So you're following you on social media.
- 16:59Speaker 1: I've seen the clarity, the message, the tone from you change and it's shift incredibly.
- 17:08Speaker 1: What, what are you?
- 17:09Speaker 1: What kind of messages are on like?
- 17:12Speaker 1: What, what, what's your number one message that you want to share with the world?
- 17:17Speaker 2: Man, it's one of those things.
- 17:18Speaker 2: It's self-confidence and platform, and we all have a voice and, like you said, there's 8 billion people on this planet.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Why do we have to impress everybody?
- 17:30Speaker 2: We don't.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Or anybody, yeah, or anybody.
- 17:33Speaker 2: We don't need validation from anybody, we're doing it for our own good.
- 17:38Speaker 2: It's kind of like when you say, to forgive somebody, right, we're forgiving people for our own self, absolutely Not for them, we're forgiving for our own self.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Those actions still remain right.
- 17:50Speaker 2: That's exactly what you taught me, and so I've learned to forgive people, even though I really never really hated people, because I was always kind of a people pleaser, or recovering people pleaser.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Um, but yeah, that, that, that mentality of being able to let go of, hey, I'm gonna forgive that person because it's for my good, yeah for.
- 18:13Speaker 1: So what Blake's pointing to is when we were in the workshop I do some direct coaching, you know, not one-to-one because we're in a room, but I do some direct coaching and I was going around the room and there was this one gal that when I was doing direct coaching there was some resentment that popped up with somebody in her life and I said are you willing to forgive that person?
- 18:33Speaker 1: And she literally said no and basically the whole room came to, you know, came, came to, uh, not call her out, but just remind her that she's holding onto this resentment and it's only hurting her.
- 18:44Speaker 1: It's not hurting the other person, right?
- 18:46Speaker 1: So resentment, anger, holding a grudge, it's like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to get hurt or the other person to die, right, and that's what Blake's pointing to.
- 18:55Speaker 1: You know, forgiving is, is self-fulfilling, it's, it's, it's beneficial to yourself.
- 19:00Speaker 1: It has nothing, really has nothing, to do with the other person.
- 19:03Speaker 1: You and I talked about um before we came on here, when, when we were just jamming a little bit, and you said you know, when I said, well, what, what's, what's the thing that you want to share with the world, you said that you know, we don't need anybody's approval.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Like I'm a recovered people, pleaser the book that you know, one of my favorite books.
- 19:22Speaker 1: No More, mr Nice Guy.
- 19:23Speaker 1: I've done a podcast about it.
- 19:27Speaker 1: I've done an episode about it.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Tell us about Blake that needed approval versus Blake that doesn't.
- 19:31Speaker 2: Yeah, the Blake that needed approval, everything I would do everything prior to even doing it.
- 19:38Speaker 2: I would run a series of filters through my mind and if there was one filter that that idea got caught up on didn't make it through, that filter, it was done.
- 19:51Speaker 2: My self-confidence immediately threw it out.
- 19:54Speaker 2: And I had so many filters, nothing made it through that filter, it was done.
- 19:57Speaker 2: My self-confidence immediately threw it out.
- 19:58Speaker 2: And I had so many filters, nothing made it through.
- 20:02Speaker 2: It's, it's, you know, it's like.
- 20:03Speaker 2: It's like when you're sanding, like for rocks or, and you know, you have the little scooper and you got the, the rocks in the sand, like nothing, all it, mine was just all sand, it are all rocks.
- 20:10Speaker 2: It was just nothing was going through, like I, I couldn't, I couldn't get it out and and so going forward, you know the, the new blake, um is kind of he, he's open, he's um, willing to share, he's willing to have a purpose, he's, you know, like you're saying.
- 20:36Speaker 2: I still go back to the clarity thing.
- 20:41Speaker 2: I'm it's hard for me to get away from that clarity part because I had to get clear about what I wanted.
- 20:47Speaker 1: It's important.
- 20:48Speaker 1: Clarity is important, so go ahead and anchor that and tell.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Tell what are you clear about.
- 20:53Speaker 2: So getting clear about.
- 20:55Speaker 2: There was three things.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Well, the hardest was going to be the podcast.
- 21:00Speaker 2: I started the podcast.
- 21:02Speaker 2: I jumped into that with Sebastian.
- 21:04Speaker 2: That's one of the hardest things I just did.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Obviously, the mastermind, adam McChesney awesome dude.
- 21:12Speaker 2: Known him my whole life.
- 21:13Speaker 2: My homeboy, yep.
- 21:15Speaker 2: You know him.
- 21:15Speaker 2: You're part of his group as well.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Great dude in his group Also.
- 21:21Speaker 2: My main thing, too, was being in this inner wealth, and all these things cost right.
- 21:27Speaker 2: All these things are uncomfortable.
- 21:30Speaker 2: I hated coaching.
- 21:32Speaker 2: I despised people that did this stuff, because I wanted to do it, I wanted to be a part of this.
- 21:42Speaker 2: That's why I hated it.
- 21:43Speaker 2: It's simple.
- 21:44Speaker 2: It's right here, as I say, right there.
- 21:48Speaker 2: And if you don't understand that or change your mindset, if you don't understand that or change your mindset, you just continue to live to die.
- 21:54Speaker 2: So I changed that and got that clear vision.
- 21:59Speaker 2: I got the podcast.
- 22:01Speaker 2: I'm in Adam's group.
- 22:02Speaker 2: I'm in your group.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Here I am talking with you.
- 22:07Speaker 2: I'm going to talk with Adam.
- 22:08Speaker 2: I'm launching my own podcast.
- 22:10Speaker 2: I have high level individuals that are willing to come on, like yourself, like the fact that I can call you at any time is incredible.
- 22:19Speaker 2: Your background, your expertise in not only just business more.
- 22:25Speaker 2: So, right here, sure man, what has made you so successful and made you so happy?
- 22:33Speaker 1: The quality of your life.
- 22:34Speaker 1: If you look to the people in your life, you're going to see the quality of your life right.
- 22:39Speaker 1: And if you look at the quality of your circle and we have we have a men's we call it the men's health Alliance in in our, in our group, and every day when I go out for a run or when I'm lifting, I'm I've got my AirPods in and I can hear the boys you know, sharing their wins and sharing.
- 22:54Speaker 1: You know their, their lifting and their running and their.
- 22:57Speaker 1: You know their results and their health and metrics.
- 23:00Speaker 1: We're talking about you know waist size and we're talking about freaking.
- 23:03Speaker 1: You know the metrics.
- 23:04Speaker 1: There's one guy in there and says he met, he manages his, his uh health like he manages his business know your numbers.
- 23:10Speaker 1: So he's always sharing his numbers and it's really really cool that together we all have a separate plan for our health and what we're doing to maintain our health, but we're all doing this together and the quality of your circle equals the quality of your life, right.
- 23:23Speaker 1: So to who you're doing life with.
- 23:26Speaker 2: That's totally, totally true and that that health you know health wealth group, that we're in it makes you want to get better, like you're like, oh man, you're like, okay, I gotta do.
- 23:39Speaker 2: You know, I'm out running yesterday because you know scott winkelman, he's posting there, you know all this other stuff and david's posting stuff and I'm like my stuff's packed cast to my wife I'm like, can, can you unpack?
- 23:55Speaker 2: No, I'm not even going to go that route.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Let's just take a run in these khakis and a bell, yeah, at a boy.
- 24:01Speaker 2: Where's a pool?
- 24:02Speaker 2: I'm like what you know, what I got.
- 24:05Speaker 2: One outfit left you know for the airplane is that, as my wife says, your airplane outfit and I'm like this is so uncomfortable but I loved every second of it because it was so uncomfortable.
- 24:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I remember the first time I walked into a mastermind.
- 24:23Speaker 1: It wasn't it was a mastermind, but it was.
- 24:25Speaker 1: It was more a group of entrepreneurs and they were all healthy and they were all rich and they all had great marriages and they were all loving people Right, and I was.
- 24:35Speaker 1: I was looking at these, this group of people saying marriages, and they were all loving people right, and I was looking at this group of people saying, holy shit, I didn't know these kind of people existed where they had well-rounded wealth and they were kind people and they were awesome people and they would pour into you.
- 24:45Speaker 1: And I liked that group of people.
- 24:48Speaker 1: I became one of those people and now I'm creating them in my life too.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Right, and that's we're not perfect and we're not perfect, no, and we share our imperfections too right, and and that's not perfect and we're not perfect, no, and we, we share our imperfections right, and that's what makes it even better, because people love you just as hard that's, and that's the biggest thing, when you can share your imperfections and people support and bring them up or twist them or or try, try, to, you know, realign them.
- 25:16Speaker 2: That's the stuff that keeps you going.
- 25:20Speaker 2: You wake up, you're excited to open that group.
- 25:22Speaker 2: I'm like let's what's going on my home, I and there's there's a lot of stuff going on today, like I got to get to work.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Let's like people's asses are in motion.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Yeah, we get to be part of that Awesome.
- 25:33Speaker 1: So and I know I know your your fitness is coming back into play.
- 25:37Speaker 1: Man, you're closing some deals.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Tell us about your real estate agency.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about what you do in your business and how Elsinore Real Estate's going.
- 25:47Speaker 2: So yeah, elsinore Real Estate, we've been selling real estate for over 75 years.
- 25:54Speaker 2: We're pretty much transaction oriented.
- 25:57Speaker 2: We have our own brokerage.
- 25:58Speaker 2: I'm sitting in our office.
- 25:59Speaker 2: We're here in Kirkwood kind of by ice and fuel, if anybody's familiar with Kirkwood.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Exactly where it is 63119, 63126, all these zip codes.
- 26:16Speaker 2: Nobody sold more houses in that corridor than our family, mostly my father.
- 26:23Speaker 2: He built a dynasty, but we also had to figure out how to continue our business and pivot in an industry that's constantly changing.
- 26:36Speaker 2: I mean, our forms are about to change right now, practically in like less than a month.
- 26:42Speaker 2: There's about like almost 100 new forms that we have to learn and it's all new stuff.
- 26:48Speaker 2: So we're constantly having to learn and it's getting challenging.
- 26:51Speaker 2: But I love to constantly learn, so I thrive when the forms change.
- 26:57Speaker 2: That's how I get better, because then I learn the forms even more so than that other person and I can bring value to a transaction.
- 27:06Speaker 2: And we do so much volume at such a normal price.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Like our average sale is about three hundred and twenty five thousand and it's been between about two hundred and seventy thousand and three hundred twenty five thousand since like 2010.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Like it's kind of interesting to see the sphere of people we run with, but it's all individuals that work hard.
- 27:30Speaker 2: They work hard for their money and at the same time, we don't pay for any of our referrals, our leads.
- 27:39Speaker 2: All of our stuff is generated through our sphere, through word of mouth through people pleasing as I say no, sorry, siri just came on right there, but yeah, no.
- 27:52Speaker 2: So yeah, I think going forward our business, we have a lot of value in terms of our expertise creating return on investments.
- 28:04Speaker 2: I joke, I secure people's futures because I have a lot of buddies I find stuff for them or investors.
- 28:11Speaker 2: People are like why don't you buy property?
- 28:15Speaker 2: I'm like that's not my passion.
- 28:16Speaker 2: My passion is to help other people buy property while I get the profit still Like I'm not over here, not making money.
- 28:24Speaker 2: People are like well, you know, why aren't you making money?
- 28:27Speaker 2: People think it's always about real estate investing and wholesaling.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Honestly, wholesaling I can't stand that word.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Honestly wholesaling I can't stand that word.
- 28:41Speaker 2: It's one of the words that has so much false information out there.
- 28:44Speaker 2: To it you can become a wholesaler overnight.
- 28:46Speaker 2: That's just simply not true.
- 28:47Speaker 2: All that is created from COVID to be honest and you have to align yourself with the proper person to actually secure your future through a proper investment.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Like I see people in two, three, four years now it's getting a little longer you could have a short term to your investment and make money.
- 29:09Speaker 2: Now you're kind of at the four or five years with higher interest rates, but you're still making money.
- 29:14Speaker 2: I'm seeing these closing statements come through all the time and they're, they're nice, like that's what I live for.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Awesome, yeah, and we've got a lot of in our mastermind.
- 29:24Speaker 1: We've got a lot of wholesalers.
- 29:25Speaker 1: And the one thing that I'll say you know, in terms of wholesaling, these people are out there looking the people, the effective wholesalers, not the, not the.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Anybody can call themselves a coach.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Right, when I was launching my coaching business, there was about five or six people that we were all launching our business at the same time and they're all employed now and I'm the only one that really was successful, because anybody can call themselves a coach, but very few can honestly really just get results with people.
- 29:56Speaker 1: The point is, is effective wholesalers are out looking to help other people solve problems, not just profit.
- 30:02Speaker 1: They're looking to help people solve their real estate problems that they don't have a different path for.
- 30:08Speaker 1: They're looking for a creative solution.
- 30:10Speaker 1: So real wholesalers, it's not just a hang your sign and freaking make money.
- 30:16Speaker 1: You got to understand the product and you got to understand how to disposition things that typically aren't dispositionable just because they're out of solutions for the problem.
- 30:29Speaker 1: But when you talk about Ellsner Real Estate 75 years, your grandfather, father and you is this true?
- 30:37Speaker 1: So what do you love about real estate, blake?
- 30:44Speaker 2: Oh, I love people, man, and the whole criminal justice background.
- 30:48Speaker 2: When I want to be a police officer, that was my passion, because I like helping people.
- 30:54Speaker 2: So I'm like well, how can I help people?
- 30:56Speaker 2: Well, shoot, I can help people with their futures, securing investments.
- 31:01Speaker 2: So that's what I do.
- 31:02Speaker 2: And real estate is one of the most powerful investments.
- 31:07Speaker 2: And once again people go why don't you have a bunch?
- 31:11Speaker 2: And I say that's not my passion, that's not my niche.
- 31:14Speaker 2: My niche is to go out and find investments for you.
- 31:17Speaker 1: I'm right there with you.
- 31:18Speaker 1: I'm right there with you.
- 31:20Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by real estate investors and there's no way for me not to be successful if I jumped into the game.
- 31:25Speaker 1: It's just not a passion of mine.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Angie's starting to do a little bit in the real estate investment space, but that's just not my jam, and I mean, even though it could be an easy buck or it could be an easy wealth mechanism.
- 31:37Speaker 1: If I jumped into real estate investing, it would be because of insecurity.
- 31:41Speaker 1: I'm scared of the future and scared that I'm going to lose it all if I don't jump into real estate.
- 31:45Speaker 1: So yeah, there's no passion for me.
- 31:48Speaker 1: It sounds like the same for you, but you do love helping people live their dream right, Find their dream home.
- 31:55Speaker 2: I do, yeah, people like live their dream right, find their dream home.
- 31:58Speaker 2: I do, yeah, that's I mean every day.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Whether you know it's a, they want a pool or they want to be in Kirkwood or they want to be in Crestwood or they want to be in St Peter's O'Fallon Imperial, I mean we go all over, I know.
- 32:09Speaker 2: I mean there's over 92 municipalities in St Louis and you know.
- 32:17Speaker 2: Then you have St Charles County and then you have Jefferson County.
- 32:20Speaker 2: Like we go all over.
- 32:20Speaker 2: You know pretty much the area.
- 32:22Speaker 2: We don't go over to Illinois.
- 32:23Speaker 2: We have some good agents that we refer over to Illinois.
- 32:26Speaker 2: I say that state's a little funny, they're a little backwards over there.
- 32:30Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it's totally, totally different process.
- 32:33Speaker 2: But yeah, no, we spread our wings because we love helping people.
- 32:39Speaker 2: It's not.
- 32:40Speaker 2: It just we happen to brand ourselves in kirkwood.
- 32:43Speaker 2: That's where we do our branding, that's where our build billboard is, that's where our bus benches are.
- 32:46Speaker 2: People laugh, we have you know.
- 32:48Speaker 2: They're like you have a bus bench, I just saw it.
- 32:50Speaker 2: I go, yeah, you just saw it and you just told me about it.
- 32:53Speaker 2: But you then you laughed about it.
- 32:55Speaker 2: Right, but you saw it.
- 32:57Speaker 2: I'm like thank you, that's awesome.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Just don't sit on me.
- 32:59Speaker 2: So, yeah, so I'm like that stuff and same with the billboard, like I'm.
- 33:04Speaker 2: We're constantly changing the picture and people see that another day I'm sitting at the stoplight going, you know, I pass that billboard all the time and I'm just it's myself usually, and right now it's my two kids up there, my four year old and my four month old and or three month old, and basically I'm sitting at a stoplight and I look up to my left and I'm staring at them.
- 33:28Speaker 2: I'm going, wow, this is awesome.
- 33:32Speaker 2: How have I never thought to myself to just look up and go look, your children are on a billboard staring at you.
- 33:41Speaker 2: You created that Right.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Awesome, what a blessing, what a blessing this life is.
- 33:46Speaker 2: So you help me with this.
- 33:48Speaker 2: You got to realize, like I didn't just look up at that billboard because I decided to, like you knew I had to be invited.
- 33:58Speaker 2: I have a inner portion of me that it's part of my human design to where you knew I have to be approached and I knew I had to change that.
- 34:12Speaker 2: And if I wouldn't, if you didn't approach me, I don't, I don't know if I ever would have been approached Like if I wouldn't, if you didn't approach me.
- 34:17Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know if I ever would have been approached Like I would have.
- 34:19Speaker 2: Just I would never, would have moved, like I would have been stuck if you didn't approach me.
- 34:24Speaker 2: Like, so you approaching me, you knew you that I was like, oh my gosh, this guy sees my worth, like this is the first time ever.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Like, where do I sign up?
- 34:35Speaker 2: How fast can I get to New Orleans?
- 34:37Speaker 2: Like, let me book a flight.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Like this guy.
- 34:39Speaker 2: I mean, I couldn't get in the room fast enough and I couldn't spill, like you know what's been holding me back, what's been like fast enough.
- 34:48Speaker 2: I just knew, like it was all perfectly aligned in New Orleans, that I knew my life was changing.
- 34:56Speaker 2: I just couldn't figure out how to do it and I needed that.
- 35:00Speaker 2: Thank God you came.
- 35:03Speaker 2: I don't, like we're not big into religion, but thank goodness you came and invited me to this, or else I'd still be waking up this morning living to die Instead.
- 35:17Speaker 1: I'm loving life.
- 35:18Speaker 1: That's a big statement and you're sitting.
- 35:20Speaker 1: That was a ping.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Not everybody's going to be watching this on video, but Blake is sitting in front of a podcast, mike, and Blake's ready to rock, so just signed up for a program to launch his podcast.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about this podcast you're launching, blake, and what do you intend to do with this thing?
- 35:47Speaker 2: So this podcast is?
- 35:49Speaker 2: I just want to provide value and a lot of it's value for myself.
- 35:55Speaker 2: I love to get it out.
- 35:57Speaker 2: I love to talk to people.
- 35:58Speaker 2: I love to my own self-satisfaction, but I'm going to allow it to grow.
- 36:04Speaker 2: If it wants to grow, I'm going to.
- 36:06Speaker 2: You know, these people want to sponsor it, absolutely, like you know.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Options financial options are awesome, like you say.
- 36:12Speaker 2: Financial options are awesome, like you say, but the main part is that I get satisfaction out of this.
- 36:20Speaker 2: I'm going to have so much fun getting to say hey Tom Bomarito, hey Coach Weber, hey Mike Kitko, hey Adam McChesney, can you come on my podcast?
- 36:33Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 36:34Speaker 2: Can you say that?
- 36:35Speaker 2: Would I Like?
- 36:35Speaker 2: Can you say that?
- 36:36Speaker 2: Like, would I know?
- 36:38Speaker 2: And I could say that, absolutely not, but I've made a leap because you saw it in me, yeah, and then Adam saw it in me.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Do you have a name for this thing yet?
- 36:50Speaker 2: We're working on it, but it's going to be Elevate with Elzner is kind of how we're doing it, yeah.
- 36:56Speaker 1: There you go going to be elevate with elsner is kind of how we're doing it, yeah, and, and I remember sebastian said, don't put the name pot, don't put the word podcast in your, in your podcast name, and this is the interwealth podcast.
- 37:04Speaker 1: So I'm sitting in the audience when he said that I'm like, well, I think I've done pretty well with having the name in there, so so I'll take it grandfathered in, yeah there you go so so yeah, it was amazing hearing that.
- 37:16Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you know it's too late now, but what your podcast provides so much value.
- 37:24Speaker 2: I've listened to your podcast and you know, just like listening just the opening, like the opening to your podcast is powerful, to your podcast is powerful If you just I mean, you don't even have to listen to the podcast just listen to your opener and you'll take something out of it, Like what what it does is it pulls you in.
- 37:45Speaker 2: And then I don't stop listening Like you're, just like.
- 37:48Speaker 2: It's just kind of like when you talk, like I could sit and listen to you talk all day long.
- 37:54Speaker 2: There's very few people where I could sit and listen to them and not get bored Like but there's, there's a, there's a vibe about you that you carry and a confidence and and a care in people that you want to actually bring it out in them.
- 38:12Speaker 2: I'm it's kind of like I I tell people, I'm like mike kitko does not have to do this, this is this.
- 38:18Speaker 2: He can.
- 38:18Speaker 2: Just he could go to the cayman islands and be perfectly fine, just hang out, he cares, I do, he cares.
- 38:25Speaker 1: that's that's why like that's so, let me.
- 38:28Speaker 1: Let me go back to for for me, and I'm going to tell a personal story and then I'm going to, then I'm going to send it over to you.
- 38:34Speaker 1: There was a time where I wouldn't read tony robbins books.
- 38:37Speaker 1: There was a time where I wouldn't, uh, pay attention to tony robbins and it was almost like I thought I was too cool for tony robbins.
- 38:46Speaker 1: Right, there was nothing to learn and really what it was is I was jealous as fuck of him and I didn't want to be reminded of how small I was playing in the world.
- 38:55Speaker 1: So, when you talked about coaching and not wanting to be coached and being resentful of coaches, there's a coach in you, blake, and you're launching this podcast as an opportunity to coach, to inspire, to empower people.
- 39:14Speaker 1: What is the empower?
- 39:17Speaker 1: What is it?
- 39:19Speaker 1: Empower with Elzner Is that what it was?
- 39:20Speaker 1: Elevate, we're going to elevate?
- 39:22Speaker 1: Elevate with Elzner what do you want most of all to elevate in people?
- 39:28Speaker 2: Their self-confidence.
- 39:31Speaker 2: I've had such a struggle with my internal self, like I've struggled with my weight.
- 39:37Speaker 2: I'm down from 268.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Now I'm down to 235 just since March.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Yeah, like I've.
- 39:44Speaker 2: I've struggled.
- 39:45Speaker 2: So like I want people not just to learn, like business stuff, because I want people to understand.
- 39:52Speaker 2: Like, hey, my great, great family friend, one of the number one lenders in in the Midwest, tom Sinek, I want to know how he was about to be drafted as a D one athlete in baseball at the university of Illinois to now being the best, one of the best lenders in the country.
- 40:13Speaker 2: So he got hurt, he had to.
- 40:15Speaker 2: He had to basically audible through all that and figure out in his life hey, how do I become an entrepreneur?
- 40:21Speaker 2: After getting hurt, realizing, hey, I was about to get drafted and go to the MLB, that's a pivot, that's a serious pivot.
- 40:29Speaker 1: And if you can learn from that not just from his business, but learn how he pivoted, that's powerful stuff that is that is powerful and and I love you know when, when I have I don't have a whole lot of guests on this podcast, but it's typically somebody who has a transformation story right, and I call them like a from two story.
- 40:50Speaker 1: At one point you were this and now you're this, and I want to hear that transformation, I want to hear that pivot point, and it sounds like that's what.
- 40:56Speaker 1: That's what you're about to embark on too, and these, these transformation stories are awesome.
- 41:00Speaker 1: When can we expect your podcast to go live?
- 41:05Speaker 2: So it'll be no more than 90 days from Monday.
- 41:09Speaker 2: So you'll, you'll see it come pretty fast.
- 41:13Speaker 2: Like we're you know, sebastian and his team, they're already, they're already going to work.
- 41:18Speaker 2: I I kind of sent them what I wanted and he's like this is awesome, we're going to, we're going to tune this thing up and, and you know, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to crush it.
- 41:30Speaker 2: And it's not like I said, it's not for the validation.
- 41:34Speaker 2: I don't want Susie, billy, joey to go.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Oh, pat me on the back.
- 41:39Speaker 2: Way to go, blake.
- 41:40Speaker 2: You start a podcast.
- 41:41Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm patting myself on the back.
- 41:43Speaker 2: I don't care about you, billy, but if you want to listen, go for it.
- 41:48Speaker 2: I will provide value for you.
- 41:50Speaker 1: No, you're going to provide massive, massive value, man, and then you're going to have people in your podcast like talking to you, like you're talking to me, and that's certainly not why I had you on here, so you could just constantly lift me up.
- 42:03Speaker 1: This is what I wanted First.
- 42:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I do want both of us to get our voice out in the world, but I want them to know you the way I've.
- 42:11Speaker 1: I've come to know you and you've got a lot, of, a lot of love in your heart, man, and you've got a lot of inspiration and you're you're looking to, you're looking to make a big, valuable impact in this world, and I think your, your podcast and your future coaching endeavors because I'll say that your future, future coaching endeavors are going to change the face of this world man I love I you know, I love hearing that and coming from an individual like yourself who was in corporate world for so long, led I mean, what'd you lead massive, massive teams at?
- 42:46Speaker 2: uh, was it stanley, black and decker?
- 42:49Speaker 2: um and energy companies and like this is stuff that, like you know, like you've been down this road and you know I'm, I don't have to explain myself like hey, yeah, real, like I don't have to talk about that.
- 43:06Speaker 2: It's kind of like you, you don't talk about really that much of your old number jobs, because people already you've already proven yourself, so you don't have to waste time on proving yourself because people already know you've you've done it.
- 43:26Speaker 2: You're in that creation mode.
- 43:28Speaker 2: You're past the, you're past the survival.
- 43:32Speaker 2: You could be in the free mode if you want, but you like that creation mode, You're just hanging out.
- 43:38Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun.
- 43:38Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun being here and you are about to embark.
- 43:42Speaker 1: It's obvious that you made that switch from survival mode into creation mode, and this podcast, as we bring this thing to a conclusion, this podcast you're getting ready to launch, is going to be a game changer for you and for a lot of people in this world.
- 43:56Speaker 1: All right, elevate with Elzner, we'll look for that in 90 days.
- 44:01Speaker 1: Where can they find you right now, blake?
- 44:04Speaker 2: So find me.
- 44:05Speaker 2: I'm big on Facebook.
- 44:07Speaker 2: I love Facebook.
- 44:09Speaker 2: Blake Elzner, that's all you got to search.
- 44:12Speaker 2: Search my name.
- 44:13Speaker 2: We also have an Elzner real estate page.
- 44:15Speaker 2: You can follow that.
- 44:17Speaker 2: That's got a lot of followers.
- 44:18Speaker 2: But I'm real strong on my personal brand right now because, like I said, everything falls into place once you get clear about what you want, you have certainty and you have commitment.
- 44:32Speaker 2: Can't go wrong.
- 44:35Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'll put the links to Elsner Real Estate to the Facebook page, to Blake's personal Facebook page.
- 44:44Speaker 1: We'll get all of his personal branding stuff in there.
- 44:47Speaker 1: Connect with this guy.
- 44:48Speaker 1: Listen, keep an eye out for Blake.
- 44:50Speaker 1: All right, blake, first of all, 32 years, so he's got a couple of decades under his belt, but over the last few months his eyes have really started opening up.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Watch out for this guy, because in a few months, when that podcast comes out and as he steps into the coaching world and he will he's got too much inspiration to keep it all to himself.
- 45:08Speaker 1: As he steps into the coaching world, he's going to make some waves and, blake, I'm going to be with you on the ride.
- 45:13Speaker 1: Brother, we're going to go shoulder to shoulder and we're going to change this world, man we're going to.
- 45:18Speaker 1: The mission of Interwealth Global is to make the world a more loving place, and that's what we are doing on a daily basis.
- 45:25Speaker 1: And you're about to your life's about to get really, really fun.
- 45:29Speaker 2: I love that and thanks to you because you brought me shoulder to shoulder to you.
- 45:33Speaker 2: I'm shoulder to shoulder to you.
- 45:36Speaker 2: You're not in front of me or behind me.
- 45:39Speaker 1: I don't want anybody behind me.
- 45:40Speaker 1: I want I want everybody, everybody beside me.
- 45:42Speaker 1: Don't don't get behind me.
- 45:44Speaker 1: You're not less than don't get in front of me, I just just get.
- 45:46Speaker 1: Stand beside me.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Let's let's freaking go.
- 45:48Speaker 1: Well, listen, I'm going to.
- 45:50Speaker 1: I'm going to.
- 45:51Speaker 1: We'll end it here.
- 45:52Speaker 1: Look out for Blake.
- 45:53Speaker 1: Connect with him in the show notes, connect with his links and look out for Elevate with Elzner over the coming months.
- 46:03Speaker 1: Watch on Blake's social media posts.
- 46:05Speaker 1: He does a lot of social media stuff and gives updates about his family and his personal life and his business, so he's going to be doing a lot of promotion about his podcast and about his, his coming ventures.
- 46:15Speaker 1: Look out for him.
- 46:17Speaker 1: And we're going to end it here, blake.
- 46:19Speaker 1: It was great having you on here, brother.
- 46:20Speaker 1: You're just getting started and I can't wait to see where you go.
- 46:23Speaker 2: Thanks, mike, appreciate for having me and can't wait to see let's change some lives.
- 46:33Speaker 1: If you enjoyed what you heard and you want to learn more, go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcom for more tools and resources.