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Why Your Pursuit of Work-Life Balance is KILLING Your Success · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: I think it's important to really talk about balance and
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  Speaker 1: what does it really mean. So very rarely in life
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  Speaker 1: are you going to have balance. I think that the
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  Speaker 1: whole goal of life is to be unbalanced, so you
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  Speaker 1: can achieve balance, but you have to be unbalanced at
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  Speaker 1: a certain point to achieve balance, So this isn't theory.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, I was on the couch in my parents' house.
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  Speaker 1: Things wasn't going good for me, but that was an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for me to stay up to two o'clock three
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and really master social media.
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  Speaker 2: Taught myself how to edit a variety of different things.
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  Speaker 1: When I was just playing around with apps, Mike would
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  Speaker 1: give me a suggestion about this app, and then I
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  Speaker 1: would take three hours to learn the app and then
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  Speaker 1: make content and then do this. I had a career
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  Speaker 1: as a financial advisor that I had to do from
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  Speaker 1: nine to five or longer, and then from nine o'clock
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  Speaker 1: to two o'clock in the morning, when everybody with sleep
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  Speaker 1: and it was cemetery silence, I could close the blinds
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  Speaker 1: and I would work. That was extremely unbalanced and continued
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  Speaker 1: that even now. Right, But these are sacrifices that were
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  Speaker 1: made eight years ago to get me to the point
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  Speaker 1: where I am now. So I think that the idea
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  Speaker 1: or the fairy tale of a balanced life is something
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  Speaker 1: that is unrealistic for anybody that's trying to achieve greatness,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're an.
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  Speaker 2: Entrepreneur or you're a business owner.
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  Speaker 1: So it's your responsibility to be able to communicate this
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  Speaker 1: to your wife's significant other children, and they have to
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  Speaker 1: understand how to deal with disappointment because the sacrifices that
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  Speaker 1: you're making are luxuries that they're provided. So this is
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  Speaker 1: an unbalanced life that I've never seen anybody that has
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  Speaker 1: had any level of balance that have achieved the high
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  Speaker 1: level of success. When we met Robert Smith, it was
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock in the morning on a he was already
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  Speaker 1: working and he told us that he was flying out
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  Speaker 1: that next day. And he flies out all the time,
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  Speaker 1: de stout. Every single person, same story, flying there in
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  Speaker 1: different countries, different continents. That may seem like it's a
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  Speaker 1: lavish life that they're living, but their sacrifices that's made.
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  Speaker 1: They're not with their families all the time, they're not
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  Speaker 1: with their children all the time, they're not with their
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  Speaker 1: spouse all the time, they're not listening to music, they're
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  Speaker 1: not playing poker all the time. So it's something that
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  Speaker 1: we can't always sugarcoat something and.
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  Speaker 2: Make it okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, there is no level of successful balance, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning stages, that you have to make sacrifices. This
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  Speaker 1: is why everybody won't achieve success. This is why it's
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  Speaker 1: called a sacrifice. You have to sacrifice things like playing
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  Speaker 1: video games. You have to sacrifice things like going to
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  Speaker 1: the movies. You have to sacrifice things like random nonsense
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  Speaker 1: or on social media for hours at a time. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not willing to make those sacrifices, that's okay, But
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  Speaker 1: you're also probably will not be able to be a
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  Speaker 1: high level of success, and that's okay too. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that you know, at some point in time, we just.
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  Speaker 2: Have to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: You can't always sugarcoat things, and you can't always paint
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  Speaker 1: a fairy tale. This is things that I personally went
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  Speaker 1: through and have still going through, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: things that I've seen other people going through, and every
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  Speaker 1: single person has the same story. It's an extremely unbalanced
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  Speaker 1: life to hopefully one day achieve balance. So I just
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  Speaker 1: think that that's important to keep in mind because like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we live in a day and age where
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  Speaker 1: everybody has an opinion, but very few people have any
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  Speaker 1: level of expertise to speak on that opinion. If you haven't,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't become successful, how can you teach me
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  Speaker 1: about success? So when you're when you're on your journey
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  Speaker 1: to be successful, understand that there's going to be sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: that you have to make. And if you're not willing
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  Speaker 1: to make those sacrifices, then that's okay. But just understand
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  Speaker 1: your life will still be unbalanced because when you're at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom and you have all the time in the
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  Speaker 1: world to spend with your family, then they're going to
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  Speaker 1: complain because you don't have enough money to provide for them,
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  Speaker 1: or you a certain point, you're a certain point be
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  Speaker 1: unhappy because you can't provide a certain lifestyle for yourself
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  Speaker 1: or for your family. So they're still unbalanced even when
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  Speaker 1: you think that you haven't balanced.
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  Speaker 3: Today's monologue was brought to you by Assets of Reliabilities
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  Speaker 3: and Red Panda Stock Club. Now I agree balance is
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  Speaker 3: an illusion, but when I'm with my child, I'm fully
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  Speaker 3: with him. But he I've also began to teach him
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  Speaker 3: since he was young. And it's not like you're all
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  Speaker 3: working all the time and you never see your family.
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  Speaker 3: Like losing your family is not something that we're aiming for,
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  Speaker 3: but to be done at three. And I've always said it.
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  Speaker 3: If you think that, like every time I leave and
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  Speaker 3: I'm at a tropical place, if you think I'm just
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  Speaker 3: laying on the beach and getting grapes fed to me,
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  Speaker 3: that's not it. Like even the shows and travel are work.
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  Speaker 3: But the goal is to get to a place of
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  Speaker 3: financial freedom so that you're able to help yourself your family.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be very honest, like you said, like
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  Speaker 3: if you don't have if you have a preponderance of
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  Speaker 3: time available for your family, at some point they're going
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  Speaker 3: to get bored or they're going to be disappointed that
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  Speaker 3: you didn't work hard enough to get to where you
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  Speaker 3: want it to be. So I know it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: books like the four hour work Week and all these
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  Speaker 3: life hacks, but none of the people that are at
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  Speaker 3: the top of the food chain captives of industry are
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  Speaker 3: doing any of those things. Please be mindful about the
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  Speaker 3: information that is given to you for clicks versus the
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  Speaker 3: information that actually works.
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  Speaker 4: It's real spill. It's real spill. And that sacrifice part.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you said it because it happens to us
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  Speaker 4: every day. Like I posted something yesterday my son scored
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  Speaker 4: his first touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what was appsent from the video me.
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  Speaker 4: I had to get a clip from somebody that taped
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  Speaker 4: it and that you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Does it hurt? Yeah? It hurts.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we spent hours in the front yard playing
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  Speaker 4: catch for him to get to that point where he
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  Speaker 4: could catch the ball and run with the ball. All
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  Speaker 4: these things that we worked on to see all accumulate
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  Speaker 4: to him actually scoring a touchdown and you not being
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  Speaker 4: there to see it. Nobody worries about that part. But
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  Speaker 4: the explanation when I get home is like, Yo, I'm
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  Speaker 4: so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. I
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  Speaker 4: missed it. But he gets it. He understands that that
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  Speaker 4: I have to do work. He understands as the benefits
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  Speaker 4: that come with it. That's why I said, even in
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  Speaker 4: relationships with your spouse, like communication is portant, communication with
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  Speaker 4: your children is important as well.
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  Speaker 5: So they can understand it. Then they get to watch it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why we always say, like we're going to
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  Speaker 4: leave by demonstration, first and foremost right, how we conduct
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  Speaker 4: ourselves as men, how we conduct ourselves as fathers, how
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  Speaker 4: we conduct ourselves as sons, right because our mothers, we're
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  Speaker 4: fortunate to have our parents. All these things are being
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  Speaker 4: taken in and they're going to shape the next generation
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  Speaker 4: that we're provided for and that we're upbringing right now.
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  Speaker 5: But that gets overlooked all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, even at Troy's birthday party here about, like y'all
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  Speaker 3: were about to go out, got to show the next day.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I want to go out. I got to
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  Speaker 3: prepare for the show, disinvest fast. This is the first
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  Speaker 3: she I was out, and even the promoter was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I know you ain't gonna show up, but if you
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  Speaker 3: can just see your people, I'm like, no, you're paying
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  Speaker 3: me to come. I'm gonna come. I'm not gonna just
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  Speaker 3: flake out on you. I think we have to put
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  Speaker 3: Even when I make the comment on Zoe Show, hey
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  Speaker 3: stay in the house five years, I made no way
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  Speaker 3: in hell I can do that. The choices you can
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  Speaker 3: either sacrifice, I ask them all the time whenever we out, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know how you do this because a
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  Speaker 3: lot of times you get to see the end products.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get to see the build up that it takes.
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  Speaker 3: It just even do this show. Every time I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: out of the uber, like what do you having here? Body,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta take the equipment just in case something happens,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like, hey, got to record on my Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: or schedule change.
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  Speaker 5: You never know.
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  Speaker 3: Always be prepared. But I noticed the people that are
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  Speaker 3: most prepared are the ones that end up taking advantage.
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  Speaker 3: We're you're about to be in twenty twenty four. Technically
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  Speaker 3: the market has been down since twenty nineteen. I ask
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  Speaker 3: them every week how many people started the show, and
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  Speaker 3: they show fell off just because they wouldn't be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: And then also it's like one of these things where
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  Speaker 1: like I said, your goal might not be to be
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  Speaker 1: a millionaire or to have financial freedom. That's okay, but
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  Speaker 1: just understand that you're still it's not a balance. I
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  Speaker 1: don't I never you can't say well, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to I'm just providing for my family, like somebody, at
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  Speaker 1: some point in time, somebody's gonna argue.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's not gonna be happy, because I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Financial hardship causes issues This.
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  Speaker 2: Is not a debatable fact.
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  Speaker 1: It causes resentment, it causes issues, It causes internal problems.
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  Speaker 1: So just understand that you're choosing a certain level of imbalance.
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  Speaker 1: You might have all the time in the world, you
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  Speaker 1: might have all of the you're playing, all the video games,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to every game, you're going all the soccer
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  Speaker 1: games you're coaching. That's a blessing. It's going to come
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  Speaker 1: a time money is going to be an issue. Money
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  Speaker 1: is going to be an issue.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the test.
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  Speaker 3: Tell your girl right now, I lost all my money
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  Speaker 3: listening to the end, and you to pay all the
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  Speaker 3: bills for the next eight months and see what the response.
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  Speaker 1: Is and she and she'll do it. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of women that are paying bills. That's
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  Speaker 1: the head of the household, and they'll do it. Watch
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  Speaker 1: how they talk to the man to watch how you
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  Speaker 1: talk to you. No, I'm not this is this is real,
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  Speaker 1: this is fact, this is factual. Watch how they talk
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  Speaker 1: to you, and watch how the roles were reversed as
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  Speaker 1: far as watch how they talk to a man that
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  Speaker 1: is providing everything for them. I'm not saying that you
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  Speaker 1: have to provide everything. I'm just saying I'm just using
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  Speaker 1: this as a case study because I've seen both sides
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  Speaker 1: of it. I've seen how men get talked to that
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  Speaker 1: provide everything. I see how men get talked to that
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  Speaker 1: provide nothing. I see it. There's always exceptions to the rules.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. But I'm telling you, this is a one.
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  Speaker 3: Fact.
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  Speaker 1: So so it just gives them what it is and SEK,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want me?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of you.
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  Speaker 1: I tied up what I'm saying. At some point in time,
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  Speaker 1: we just we just hurt Magge. John shotut to Magic.
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  Speaker 1: He's sixty five years old, damn there, probably on his
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  Speaker 1: way to become a billionaire.
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  Speaker 2: He took him.
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  Speaker 1: He wakes up at four o'clock in the morning, now
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  Speaker 1: to four o'clock in the morning, goes to better ten o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: the hour of lifting way to our cardio, takes a shower,
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  Speaker 1: eat breakfast. Then he's in the office day segment and
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  Speaker 1: he said, you know, my wife understands I'm not home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm on the road. I'm doing This is
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is one of the greatest basketball players of
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  Speaker 1: all time, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely also from our culture has done tremendous things. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, probably up around five hundred million dollars something
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, keep going, and.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is the This is the level of
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  Speaker 1: discipline that he is displaying. This is the work ethic
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  Speaker 1: that he's displaying. Michael Jordan. I tell this story all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I met a guy. He was like, when
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan was on the Wizards. Mind you, this is
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  Speaker 1: the end of Michael Jordan's career, after he's already been
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  Speaker 1: established as the greatest of all time and all of
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  Speaker 1: these different things. And there was a rumor that the
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  Speaker 1: building that the guy was staying in, Michael Jordan will
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  Speaker 1: go there to train in the morning. So the guy
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  Speaker 1: comes at seven o'clock in the morning with his son
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  Speaker 1: because he was like, I want to just I want
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  Speaker 1: to see Michael Jordan. And he waited for fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't see Michael. So he asked the guys that
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  Speaker 1: I heard Michael Jordan comes trains here and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to come early with my son, like, you know, do
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  Speaker 1: you know what time he'll be coming?
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  Speaker 2: He said, he left.
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  Speaker 1: He was here for three hours and he left. This
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  Speaker 1: is the level of discipline, dedication, determination, and unbalanced. When
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  Speaker 1: I saw Floyd Mayweather running at twelve o'clock at night,
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  Speaker 1: this isoud not balanced, it's not normal. Yeah, so this
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm saying, Like, this is a certain this
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  Speaker 1: is a real conversation that we got to have because
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  Speaker 1: people have false expectations of success. Oh I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: work the weekend and be successful. Oh I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: this or I want to. I want to have balance.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to every single concert I can.
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  Speaker 1: I want to play every single video game I can.
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  Speaker 1: Because life is about balance. Okay, well you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be successful, and that's okay, but don't expect to
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  Speaker 1: reach the highest levels of success and not be unbalanced.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be an extremely unbalanced person to reach
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  Speaker 1: this level of success. You think that Elon Musk got
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  Speaker 1: this from being balanced, or Mark Zuckerberg got this from
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  Speaker 1: being balanced, or Jay Z got that level from being balanced.
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  Speaker 1: Like this, this is the harsh reality. This is the
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  Speaker 1: harsh reality of business and entrepreneurship. It's not fun. Like
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  Speaker 1: you got to be out of your mind to want
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  Speaker 1: to work all the time. Yeah, you can't be a
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  Speaker 1: normal person, can't be like your brain can't be normal
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  Speaker 1: to never want to stop working. This is really why
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  Speaker 1: there's very few people that have ever achieved that level
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  Speaker 1: of success.
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  Speaker 3: And for everyone who says I'm gonna work smart, all
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  Speaker 3: the smartest people on earth. Sam Autman of open Ai,
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  Speaker 3: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Neil Tyson, Nia Grass Tyson, Charlotte Man.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's up at three, four, five, and six o'clock in
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  Speaker 3: the morning, getting seven days a week with automation. You
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  Speaker 3: notice every billionaire that you got and I love Tim
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  Speaker 3: Ferris dearly. You notice every billionaire that we've ever talked to,
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  Speaker 3: no one's ever mentioned before hour work week. They would
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  Speaker 3: have bought every company associated in that book to free
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  Speaker 3: up all the time. It's not possible. I know he's
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  Speaker 3: going up to tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: They's a HQ.
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  Speaker 3: Zuckerberg being at four o'clock in the morning. He's mega rich,
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  Speaker 3: so much so him and his wife said, hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: let's let's put a database for all the diseases together.
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  Speaker 2: And even if you get that, make it look cool.
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  Speaker 2: You know who? Everybody?
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  Speaker 1: I heard this from a variety of different people. The
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  Speaker 1: hardest working person in music future, he said, the future
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop working. This is somebody who you probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: think you look at future, you're not thinking that he's
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  Speaker 1: a workaholic.
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  Speaker 2: Like they said, the guy stays.
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  Speaker 1: In the studio for ten hours non his birthday. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: Lil Wayne. Another one, This guy was staying in the
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  Speaker 1: studio since he was twelve years old, had had no
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  Speaker 1: life like literally in the studio every single night.
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  Speaker 2: These are the things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you wouldn't expect these type of people to
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  Speaker 1: have that level of work ethic, but once again, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody reaches this level of success by accident. Doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't. That's what I want everybody to understand.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like the pushback of jo we gotta have
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  Speaker 1: a balanced life, is you are perpetrating ideas that have
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  Speaker 1: never been said by anybody at the level you never
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  Speaker 1: heard Like you said, I read Steve jobs book. This
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  Speaker 1: guy wasn't even that'd be to his own kid. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not advocating for that, but I'm just saying I've never
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  Speaker 1: I read a lot of these autobiographies Ted Turner, I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard any person at that level of success that's
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  Speaker 1: that they got there by working five hours a.
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  Speaker 3: Day that does not work.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't heard it. Yeah, just haven't heard it.
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  Speaker 3: I wish it did. It does It doesn't work on
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  Speaker 3: any level.
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  Speaker 5: I wish you well, I wish you were in.
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  Speaker 3: Order to get to the freedom you want, got to
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  Speaker 3: be in balanced for a few years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna touch on the Magic thing because
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  Speaker 4: I had this conversation after we heard him speak, and
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  Speaker 4: it goes it kind of goes into that theory of like,
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  Speaker 4: why do we keep putting a cap on how successful
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  Speaker 4: are the elite in our community? Yard So like Magic
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  Speaker 4: has been at the five hundred six hundred million dollar
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  Speaker 4: mark for the past five to ten years, and all
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  Speaker 4: he's done is added more acquisitions to his portfolio, whether
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  Speaker 4: it was the Quaritia, whether it was now.
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  Speaker 5: With the Washington Commanders.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Magic has to be a a billionaire at this point, right.
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  Speaker 4: He's quire ownership and the I don't care if he
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  Speaker 4: has one percent. He's acquired ownership in the Dodgers, he
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  Speaker 4: has the MLS team. Yeah, he's and there's there's things
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  Speaker 4: that we don't even know about that he's working on.
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  Speaker 4: To say that he's been at the same spot. He's
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: the largest owner of Starbucks outside of Starbucks, he has
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: one hundred, but then he also keeps going.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: That's not he's not stopping.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I put a clip up from Rich Paul today, and
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: that's the last thing I'll say about this. And like
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I said, I routinely still sleep on the couch, either
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: my parents' place or I stok on couch in.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: My own place.
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  Speaker 5: You need it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I never want to get comfortable. You never you never
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: make it. You never make it because there's always a
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: different level to go to. And it's like once you
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: start to feel comfortable, you start to be complacent, and
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: once you get complacent, things start to fall. This is
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: how empires fall. Empires fall because what now, I say,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Kings get dethrowned because of their negligence. Once you start
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: to feel like you made it and you could just
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: go on a holiday every single week and you can
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: sleep in and you got such a nice mattress. They said,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: hard times, hard time. I forget what hard times lead
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: to great man. Soft times lead to soft Like. It's
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: not meant you have to.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Keep that edge.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Everybody keeps edged differently. But I just want to just
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: encourage that to entrepreneurs. When you get to the point
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: where you can buy a rolex. When you get to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the point where you can have a luxury car, don't
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: let your foot off the gas. Once you let your
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: foot off the gas, you might you might not get
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: an opportunity again.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Again, it's a step one step.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Malready said that, He's like, it's the second that I'm
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: not working on my craft, somebody is watching me and
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: trying to take my spot.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: So you got to wake up with that.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Right, every day that I'm not working, somebody else is
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Because that's the truth. Somebody right now is watching I
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: can I can do this better than them. In fact,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: they did the first hairs. How I can make it better?
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: That is the mentality of the people that are watching you.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: So you have to wake up with that, that type
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: of mindset with if I'm not working, somebody's trying to
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: get better.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: I got to get better.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I got dropping margin on everybody copying not going that
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: world though, well we.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Know that, but I get better. How do I get
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: better today?
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Right? Like I used to We used to wake up
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: every day, I would walking to school and like, good morning,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Today's gonna be a great day. How do you know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Because we have the opportunity to be better than we
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: were yesterday. Yeah, that's how I know we're here. Ah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: your what we should be.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: We're alive.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: We got a chance.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like even with this show like that Rustling. So
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: for my granddad, I remember my Granddad's like, hey, you
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: get to play on a computer and make money like
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I worked in a factory. You have no bad days
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: as a black person. Some black people couldn't talk in
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: nineteen fifty. So we get to talk and be on
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: a computer inside of our house like we had. Like
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: you said, we have to go create harsh environments to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: keep that edge. But like you said, a lot of times,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: when people get comfortable, and we saw with Meta last year,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: you can see the fervor and excitement that he has
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: and he's pouring that back into the products. For all
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: of my entrepreneurs, all of my creatives, find your edge
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: in your market. For me reading second book, my baby
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: was reading this book last night. So XANDERD does a
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: book report on this book. Bold by Pio Demands. Third book, Narconomics,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: How to Run a Drug Cartel. It's a great book
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to understand how pharmaceutical company skill.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: What doesnaronomic what do they use a specific cartel as
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: an example?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, kudos to all of those that I gotta go
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: to Mexico, so shout to all of them, thank you
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: for letting me be safe.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Definitely can't shouting out of them about no trouble.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It's Notckonomicus. I'm interested in that.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: So it's a great book.