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EP7 - Training for a 100 Miler While Running a $1.5M Company · GET ER DONE Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to another episode of the Get Or Done Podcast where I challenge myself but also challenge other people to reach their full potential in their faith and their fitness and in business or finances.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so Um Right now, I guess kind of where I'm at some with some different things.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um right now I'm currently training for I have been training for a 50-mile race for the past three to six months.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: And the race is supposed to be in Leadville, Colorado in the mountains, and it's 50 miles, and it's supposed to be this weekend.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then I am doing that as a training block because I have a hundred-mile race I'm training to run in October in Arkansas called the Arkansas Traveler Hundred Miler.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: And while training for those two, I also have a family that I have to be present for or need to be present for.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then I also am running day-to-day operations here at Texas Lile Running as the chief everything officer.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: People think CEO is chief executive officer, but when you're small business, it's chief everything officer.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's that's kind of where I'm at in life right now.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then obviously, like we're all we're trying to be very active in the church too and and do a lot of ministry.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so we've got a lot going on right now, and that's okay.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's I would rather have that.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'd rather be very busy in life and and have a lot of great things that I'm uh going after than than just same old same old cup of Joe, you know, which there ain't nothing wrong with the same old cup of Joe, but um I like I like to change up the Joe's sometimes.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: So uh let's talk about like a like a a week real quick, uh like what my life looks like as I'm pursuing after all these big goals.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um ultimately, like, big goal-wise, like I want to run a hundred-mile race, I want to build a company that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and um give a bunch of money away.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I want to um build a house on my land with my family and be tucked away in the woods, away from people from 5 to 10 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Monday through Friday.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um and yeah, living the American dream, pursuing the American dream while also serving the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so those are kind of some big goals I have, but like right now, typical weeks or months, they they typically um start off, and I I kind of shared my morning routine the last episode, but as of now, um I don't have a lot of time to train, and so I try to train as much as I can in the morning, and so I'll run typically around 60 to 90 minutes in the morning.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: It is very difficult to get out of bed and get up, but I do it anyways because I don't want to be a turd.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: So if you don't want to be a turd, get up and go run.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: So clip that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so I get up and I go run 60 to 90 minutes, and then I kind of get ready for work.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then on my lunch breaks, I'll go and work out the gym for 30 minutes and get my gym workout in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so on the weekends I do really long runs, like I'll I'll try to do a three to four hour run on the weekend where I'll run three hours straight to get that longer run in, and those have gotten really easy, which is nice because I can now run 20 miles or three hours and it feels pretty easy, which is a good position to be in going into a 50-mile race in the mountains.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so that's what that looks like.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, on the back ends, you know, when I get home from work, used to, I would go run again, but you know, when you got family, you gotta eat, you know, you need to talk to each other and actually spend time together and then uh hit the hay and then wake up the next day and do it all over again.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm also about to start doing or join I'm joining a prison ministry where we go every Monday for a few hours, we go to these prisons, and uh we walk.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm gonna be leading a 14-week long course where every week, once a day, I'll go in there and lead these guys who have been uh put in prison.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll lead a small group of them through this 14-week program that leads them through repentance and and uh understanding the true uh renewing of the mind and being born again in the gospel.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'll be doing that too.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: And on top of all that, we got a lot of big things going on in the business.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: So we got a lot going on right now.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but that's alright.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean that's what makes life exciting.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: I just actually uh there's a video that I posted on YouTube that I've done every year since I was 17 years old.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: But every year I do a video to my future self the next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have a 17-year-old, 18-year-old self-video, I have an 18-year-old to 19-year-old self-video, and I have that every single year.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I've been doing it for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so fun to look back because I'll talk about my current life and then what I think my future is gonna be, and it's so cool to see each year uh to see what what what my ideas for the future were gonna be and then what actually happened, and so it's super neat to see because I I'm just guessing in this video, like in the future, I think this, this, and this, and then the next year ends up being true, which is really cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um but so I just watched my 23 to 24 year old self-video, and that was super interesting um to see how far we've came in one year from where we were at the time to where we are now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a huge difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I I had literally just started hiring people on for the first time ever one year ago, and now I feel like I've been managing people for 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what it feels like, and um the the growth between that and and that in one year has been absolutely insane.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: And what I'm getting at with all this is um, and this is a topic I was gonna talk about with somebody on the next episode, but um the what I'm getting at is life is really boring and feels not as significant when you don't have things that you are pursuing or or bigger or better things that you're going after.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: It just feels stagnant, boring, not interesting, and it's kind of sad to be quite honest, because I know so many people where their life is the exact same every single year and there's no change, and genuinely that I d and in their life, like they just genuinely don't have that.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like they don't feel like they got anything special going on because they don't.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, you know, I'm I don't really have anything going on special in my life.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you got something cool going on, good for you.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, cool.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: I can never do that, or I'm not ever gonna do that.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: And they kind of live in this mentality of like they work their job nine to five, and then they live the same life for 20 years, and it's just sad, honestly.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: People just live in the same life over and over and over, and they don't there's not any like big they're not tapping into their potential that they could be tapping into, and to me it's just sad.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I was at 4th of July this past weekend, we were talking with family, and every time I ask people, hey, what are you up to?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: What what what kind of things you got going on?
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's always the same, oh I'm just working.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: You ever get that?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you you ask somebody like hey, what's going on?
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, just working.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like working doing what?
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, just clicking the same buttons.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then that's that's why the question of how are you or like what are you up to is I feel like sparsely used nowadays because everybody most people will reply with the same answer of like, oh, just working, just feeding the family.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: And um it's just interesting to see that cycle and pattern amongst most people.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, I'm I'm thinking in my head, that could never be me, man.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: As far as like the same answer, same thing, not going after something greater, bigger, grand.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I that could not be me.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can't do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just not who I am.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I wish other people could see their potential so that way they could tap into it.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because all these people that I talked to were they have the same thing going on in their life, nothing's really changing.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: They seem to um not believe that they could be where they want to be.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um like they're so used to the same similar lifestyle and comfort of the this is my flow of life now, that for that flow of life to change there's something going on there where where they won't let that lifestyle change, and they don't believe it can change.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's just odd.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like it almost feels like we're in like a I literally feel like I'm in a Sims world.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like this legit feels like a simulation.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's so freaking weird, dude.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: It feels like we're in a simulation.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is like a I need like a co-host here now.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna talk to you though, because you're right here, Garrett.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: But legit, like like people are living their lives like they're a sim, dude.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, what's more fun?
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Living a life as a sim or living a life as like you're doing all this, like you're you're going after this big stuff, man.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're doing these big things.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: I got a question then.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: What's your question?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: What um okay, hi, it's me, it's Gary.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: Gary behind the camera.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, what was it in your mindset that you believe like really put you um I guess separated you from the other people you see, like saying, you know, I'm at work, whatever, I've been working.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: What what separates you from them?
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the work the work that I'm doing, like the things I'm going after, are all for a bigger purpose.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: And so, like, I'm at work, but when I'm working, I'm building something that's gonna be here for a very long time and have generational impact.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for somebody else, like when they go to work and they just go and watch TV, but like let's say they go to work and they're doing whatever their job is, and it's the same job every day.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: But they're not doing it for like a bigger purpose, they're just doing it to get a paycheck, and then they go home and they watch TV and eat whatever food, and then they they just repeat that same life.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're living a life of like exchange to where it's like I go to work, you give me money, and then I take that money, I go on one week of vacation a year, I I sit home and watch TV every day, and I live this lifestyle of just like comfort and like the same life every day, and like there's no significance going on.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: And on my end, I'm trying to produce significance for the ultimate achievement of the kingdom of God, but like every day when I do something, it's it's for a bigger purpose or a bigger goal, or to achieve something bigger than than myself.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I I don't want this to come off either, like, oh I'm better than you because I'm not.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: But what I'm trying to get across is like people leave the live these like so many people I know, I'm sure you know people like this.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it seems like almost everyone I talk to, almost every 99% of people I talk to, it's they work and they watch TV and they eat food, they might work out, they might not, but that's it.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then they take one or two vacations a year.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Is that most people?
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it seems like it to me.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it's like to me, it's almost being selfish because it's like you could be doing something that can be that can you can be doing something that can create a positive and benefit to this world, but you're not because they could replace people can replace that time of watching TV or that time in the morning of sleeping in an extra two hours or that time at night when they're scrolling on TikTok.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: They can use that time to to improve upon their own skills or their own things to then make the world a better place, and that's what bothers me the most is that people are sitting there wasting away their lives, their potential when they can be doing great things in the world.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, does that make sense?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: So um, so coming from personal experience, how do you how do you make uh what would you say to the person maybe stuck in a comfort cycle where everything feeds them?
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: What would you say to them to um kind of ignite that spark within them?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um maybe to chase something that they uh are passionate about or even to find something that they're passionate about because there's some people out out there that aren't passionate about anything and they kind of just sit and they um they live for I guess pleasure um even if they don't know that they are.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um so I used to be there, so like I've been in the position where these people are where it's you're just kind of going through the ABCs of life and you're just going with the flow.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was there, I was there, I've been there since my freshman year of high school.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: So when I was 15 or 14 years old, that was me.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: I would wake up, eat breakfast, go to school, come home, play video games, or watch TV or whatever.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like I lived that life.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I was young, younger, I was 14 or 15 years old.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like I lived that life, and I remember I would try to do life's changing things.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like I remember I was a skinny kid and I was like, I'm gonna get shredded and I'm gonna do push-ups every day.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I started doing push-ups every day, and I would sit there in my room and I would do push-ups, and uh I remember that I would just be like, I would do it, but I'd be like, Oh, I feel like this isn't enough.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then I would go a few days without doing it, and then like I would just like forget about it almost, like I wouldn't keep doing it, and then I was like, I want a six-pack, so then I did this ab workout like every day for like a few months, but then I wasn't really getting the six pack, and I was I was still kind of living the same lifestyle.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think the reason people are limited is because their perspective's limited.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because at that time in my life, I remember too, I was like, man, I want to do something great in this world, but I looked around me and my current circumstances, my current environment, and I remember I looked around and I was like, well, there's not many options here.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what am I gonna go do?
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: I lived in a small town, so I I couldn't really see the the big picture of the world.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: But I remember, you know, even when I did want to start a business when I was 15, a year later, I remember um I looked around at my town and I was like there was just like no innovative ideas, like my environment limited me.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: And when I made the decision to go all in on running, I was taking with what I had in my environment, and I knew as a kid I would watch these seniors have signing days for college sports, and that was a big deal.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so to me, when I was in school living in a small town and I wanted to do something significant with my life, the only thing I could think of was like I could start a business because I saw these guys online talking about starting businesses, and and the online internet had opened up my perspective more, and so I knew I could do something there, but then I also looked at my current environment, which was a small town, Texas High School, and the only time I saw people praise significantly was when they were signing for a sport.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so when I looked at that, I was like, well, that's that's significant, people praise that, and that's something I could do if I'm consistent enough, and so that's why I was able to get disciplined in high school to then go to college and run and achieve that dream that I had seen all these other kids do.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: And so to answer your question, I think for someone to escape the lifestyle life cycle of the same stuff, they need to open up their view and their perspective outside of their current environment and look at the outside nation national environment rather than just a small town environment or like a like this is my environment, this is what's working, this is what's praised, this is this doesn't work, so let's do the stuff that works and is praised.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: And people never try to think outside the box.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so I would suggest to definitely hit the internet um and find and see what opportunity is happening out there in the world, in the nation, outside of your small town.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, the internet is where I first found trail running.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I didn't know about trail running until you I watched a YouTube video of this guy running through the mountains.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: When he was running through the mountains, I was like, dude, that's sick.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: I want to run through the mountains.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: And so I watched all these videos of these guys running in the mountains, and I was like, that is so sick.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I want to do that.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I signed up for my first trail race.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: Little did I know that would inspire me to build my own trail running company one day, but I I was exposed to this new thing that was not normal in my current community or lifestyle, and I found this thing on the internet that I didn't know existed that was absolutely sick, and I was like, let's do that.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I became a trail runner, and then after that, I then started the trail running company, right?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: But that's that came from looking outside of my current local community and going online and finding things that interest me and then pursuing the things that stood out the most.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so like trail running stood out to me on on YouTube.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, this is cool, I want to do that.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I that's what I did.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and when it comes to like finding that passion or that thing that you really want to do, um you just when you find it, you know it.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so like when I first started doing trail and ultra marathon running, um, I was like, this is the freaking jam, dude.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is it, this is cool.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is this is a cool thing.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna I'm gonna do this.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: And that was back that was back in like 2017, 2018.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: It was 2017 and 2018 when I found out about troll running.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: I did my first troll race, I think, in 2018.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: And so um, but I had to look outside of my what I was currently being handed because in my small town, if I didn't have access to the internet, I would probably still be living in my small town, probably working some job somewhere, or I might own like some small business there, but like I wouldn't have have or be where I am without the internet showing me all this other thing, all these other things that are out there, and so that's how I found my passion, and it just clicked in me.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, outdoors, running, trails.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I love that, let me do that.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and that's what we're doing.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: We're outdoors, trails, running.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: I remember in high school when I was like 17 or 18, I was looking at jobs, and I remember like looking up what are some jobs where I can work outdoors and on trails.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was and literally that three years later, or really five years later, that ended up being my job.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and like so I just found some things that really interested me and then kind of went with that.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I think in um a lot of American culture, I do think that there's this pressure to try to fit in with what you see around you.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so like for me, I had this pressure from my family, my friends of go to high school, go to college, get a degree, get a job.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just because that's what ever what that's what everyone else around me was doing.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I had this like pressure on me to do that.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't a spoken pressure.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: No one ever said you have to do this, but it was like everybody else did it did it, so you're expected to do it without that actually being said.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I did at first.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then I figured out, you know what, I think I can go outside the norm here and do this other thing.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so you to answer your question, if someone wants to get out of the day-to-day, they need to change their environment.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: So they need to immerse themselves in whatever it is that they're trying to pursue or or find something that they're willing to pursue.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because like there's a guy I was talking to, and he he works at a local gym I go to, and he wanted to own his own gym one day.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I got to talking to him about it.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I got him to do some research on owning a gym.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: He came back to me a week later, he said, Hey, I turns out I don't want to I don't want to own a gym after looking into it.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I'm not passionate about that.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: And so that was cool because it was like he actually looked into it, it just didn't click to him.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: And so he was like, I'm not doing that.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, but I I say all that to say um that um it's it whenever I was watch when I've watched these videos of me talking to my future self, tying it back to the the videos where I talked to my next year self, it was cool to see that every year there's exciting things that I'm looking forward to and then that are happening.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: But like every year is exciting.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like when somebody asks, hey, what are you doing this week, or like what are you doing, or or if I haven't talked to them in a year, what do you and they say, what have you been up to?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: I have so much to fill them in on.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude, we we got we just moved into a new office space, we're hiring, we just hired five people, we're going nationwide, we're I'm training for a hundred mile rate.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I have all this exciting stuff I can tell them about.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I talked to some other people, or a lot of people really, and it's hey, what do you do in this or that I haven't seen in a year?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, what have you been up to?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, Oh, same old, same old.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I'm like, uh, like, like, uh, dude.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Just man.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: Live for something.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, live for something, man.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Have purpose with your life, man.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: And like, yes, you can have some purpose in doing the same things every day, like providing for a family and raising a family on good Christian values, like that's extremely valuable, but I think you can do more.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I think I know I can do more, and I know other people can do more, and it just sucks talking to people on a daily basis and not being able to relate.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it it sucks.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: I I wish I had more people in my life, in my family or in my friendships that I could talk to, and they got a ton of cool stuff going on, I've got a ton of cool stuff going on.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: We can talk about those things, and then we can offer, be like, hey, this is something that worked for me, maybe you can try this, and then we could just bounce off of each other and we can talk about all these things all day, about all this cool stuff that's going on, and I don't really have people like that, yeah.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just and then whenever I do try to talk to people about uh you know about a bunch of cool stuff going on in our lives, it's like they they just can't relate, and I can't relate to them, yeah.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so I feel kind of outcasted in a way, and um I find it really easy to relate to people that are doing big impact things in their lives, like like pastors, evangelists, entrepreneurs, um high-ranking uh government officials, um people doing things that are hard to do.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like I can relate and talk to those people all day long.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: And um, yeah, so this this episode was supposed to be me talking about how I'm training for a uh hundred-mile race and then off also managing a million-dollar company, but ended up being uh kind of a guess a question and a thought process on like why other people aren't pursuing bigger and more impactful things, and then uh kind of going down that rabbit hole, which is okay, that's fine.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you have any other thoughts or anything?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: And it you know what's kind kind of so messed up, man, is like this can come off so like people treating it as like prideful, right, prideful or like they feel like they're they're being attacked, like their character or something's being attacked.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um but like really what it is is it's exposing insecurities, and those feelings come off as I'm feeling exposed because I have some insecurities, and so therefore you're doing something wrong by talking about this stuff.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's that's what's really happening psychologically and emotionally, and then on my end, I'm coming at it from a perspective of almost like a challenge, like why are you not doing more out of a perspective I see of a whole lot of people not doing more, and it's hard for me to relate to people, genuinely.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I would I think the world would be a better place if people would actually uh do more impactful long-term things with their life rather than just live the same cycle of nine to five entertainment, eat, sleep, and just live that for eighty, hundred years.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: Which to be fair, the American economic system has set it up to where they want most people to do that because then they get employees, and then the employees then spend money on their s on their entertainment and food and all these things, all these pleasures of life, and then it's a cycle.
• 28:26
  unknown: Yeah.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so it's really a uh a self-inflicted thing that that the American capitalism has done on our own society.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: So it's pretty interesting, yeah, man.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: So anyways, I'm trending for a hundred mile race, managing a a large uh a large but small business, and um I'm tired of people not doing more than what they really can do.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're sitting here and you're listening to this and you're one of those people, you can do more.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Find something, do stuff, get her done.