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From NCAA Division I Track to 27 States — Why Lasting Wealth Is Built From the Inside Out | Ep. 67 Freddie Gladney · The Standard

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_03: Hey team, happy Friday, and welcome to the Standard Podcast where we raise the bar, rebuild the culture, and call out the lies.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_03: Nobody else will.
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  SPEAKER_03: This isn't motivation, this is a movement.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Thomas Rowe, and I'm joined with my co-host Aaron Sarles.
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  SPEAKER_03: And today we're sitting down with Freddie Gladney, founder and CEO of Gladney Family Enterprises, a leadership-driven business built on the conviction that lasting wealth is built from the inside out.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_03: Freddy's story is one of athletic excellence, entrepreneurial vision, and understanding the true success comes from character first.
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  SPEAKER_03: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_03: A former NCAA Division I track and field athlete at UC Irvine, go and beaters.
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  SPEAKER_03: Freddie knows firsthand the discipline, sacrifice, and indeed have the identity forged through elite competition.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: And what takes what it takes to channel the same drive into building something that outlasts your athletic career.
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  SPEAKER_03: For 12 years, Freddie has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs across 27 states and four countries pursue financial freedom, business ownership, and general legacy in their own terms.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: His work extends far beyond traditional business coaching and addresses the foundation, foundational elements that determine whether someone builds lasting wealth or just temporary success.
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  SPEAKER_03: What makes Freddie's approach so powerful is his understanding of athletic success.
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  SPEAKER_03: His athletic success translates to business success when you focus on character development rather than just skill acquisition.
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  SPEAKER_03: His mission through Gladdening Family Enterprises reflects that philosophy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Help people stop trading time for money and start building something that serves their family, their community, and their purpose.
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  SPEAKER_03: Freddie operates from a core belief that character is the foundation everything else is built on, and everything else will fall into place with strong character.
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  SPEAKER_03: This isn't just business philosophy.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a life philosophy that recognizes lasting wealth, meaningful relationships, and general impact, all that flows of the same source, who you are, not just what you achieve.
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  SPEAKER_03: As someone who has successfully transitioned from elite athletics to entrepreneurial leadership while helping hundreds of others do the same, Ferdi represents what it looks like to build a business and that serves something greater than just personal success.
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  SPEAKER_03: His approach to Gladning Family Enterprises demonstrates his true wealth, financial, relational, and spiritual.
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  SPEAKER_03: Comes from building the from the inside out rather than chasing external metrics of success.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're diving into the truth behind what it really takes to build identity, discipline, and legacy and sports in life.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Freddie, you rock, thank you so much for joining us today.
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  SPEAKER_03: We appreciate it.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some intro.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thomas, thank you so much for having me on.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's a blessing to be here.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I wish Blueprint to Blue Chip was around, you know, 10, 15, 20 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is incredible.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yep, so do we.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's one of the things I, you know, to build on that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Aaron and I were talking, you know, when the original inception of Blueprint, and I was just kind of sitting on the couch, and I was just had this distant stare, and she said, Is everything okay?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_03: And I just I said, I wish I had this when I was coming up.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, yes, we appreciate that, and we're doing everything we can to stay with in stride with entrepreneurs like yourself.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're a founder and CEO of Gladdening Family Enterprises, built on the conviction that lasting wealth is built from the inside out.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_03: What does raising the standard mean to you and the work you're doing with entrepreneurs and business owners?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd say raising the standard for me, it kind of means two things.
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  SPEAKER_01: One, that means lower raising the lower bar in our life.
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  SPEAKER_01: We kind of all have these two bars and heard this talk about a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's the higher bar is what most people think of raising.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: And the higher bar is what we're shooting for, what we're aiming for, our ambitions, our goals, our desires.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the times I want to hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the metrics I want to hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the stats I want to have as an athlete.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the higher bar.
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  SPEAKER_01: The lower bar is what you know you won't go below.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we all have those things in our life.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, this is my goal, but I know no matter what, I'm never gonna be like this.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm never gonna run this low, or I'm never gonna have this many interceptions.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm never, right?
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so I think what I've found is raising the standard to me means raising that lower bar.
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  SPEAKER_01: It could be in your family life, financials, you know, the standard that you have for how you carry yourself, your character.
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  SPEAKER_01: Raising the lower bar for me is something that has been powerful because it's one, I mean, it's easy to say, I want to, I wanna crush it, I want to do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't hit it, you didn't hit it.
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  unknown: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: But to raise the lower bar on no matter what, I will always make sure that I at least am here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Slowly raising that in my life has been a big difference.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've seen that, I've seen that impact a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then another part of racing the standard is showing people what's possible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just showing people what's possible holistically in their life, not just money, not just accolades, not just influence, but purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, are you happy with the person that you look you know at in the mirror?
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  SPEAKER_01: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And what do you think is the biggest lie that you feel the culture of bit the business world has sold entrepreneurs and former athletes about wealth building, success, and what it really takes to create something that lasts?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think the biggest lie on earth to athletes for sure, entrepreneurs, people that own companies, people that are pursuing any kind of success, is that I'll be happy when.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the dull lie.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll be happy when I make it to the league, I'll be happy when I get a ring.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll be happy when I make millions, I'll be happy when I'm famous, I'll be happy when I make varsity, I'll be happy when I marry this person.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, you won't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'll be happy when, I'll be happy when, I'll be happy when.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's just choosing joy in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sounds corny, but I don't see pee I don't see many people making it that are purporting this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll be happy when.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not many people that say that kind of stuff are making it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So look around, look at the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think the choosing minding, the silver lining, so to speak, and then you use that elevator.
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  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, we want to, we're meant, we're we're designed this to grow, to pioneer, to to innovate, and I think human human where it's about who what what is your being.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh one of my greatest, one of my my favorite quotes about success is a man's greatest reward or a woman's greatest reward for their pursuit of success is not what they get from it, but who they become through it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So oh, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're a former D1 track and field athlete at from UC Irvine, and you understand that discipline and identity forged through elite competition.
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  SPEAKER_03: How did your athletic background shape your understanding that character is the foundation everything else is built on?
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I have phenomenal coaches.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, unbelievable coaches.
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  SPEAKER_01: My high school coach was then they're all very strong men.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're they're very tough.
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  SPEAKER_01: But my high school coach was phenomenal.
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  SPEAKER_01: My college coach, Jeff Perkins, who is uh the coach now, who's the head coach at UC Irvine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he's unbelievable.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: He's unbelievable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think he he made it clear that if athletes were highly, I mean, he valued talent and he valued, he valued hard work for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: He valued people that were good and people that were hard working.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if your grades weren't up, you know, this is in college, you mouth Malvinov in the sports medicine room to the trainers, uh, he was gonna talk to you about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and he cared so much about how we elevated as people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so seeing, and then also to the captains, like I almost every sport, the captain wasn't always the most talented basketball player, the fastest runner.
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  SPEAKER_01: The it was it was the man or the woman, or usually it was both.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had you know captains for both teams that carried themselves with professionalism and that represented the program with excellence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we have this statement that you know, a lot of men think that they're tough because they can deadlift 500 pounds, but they crumble under the weight of responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like you like, can you really carry the weight?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, not obviously if you're trash, if you're trash in your sport, uh you probably shouldn't be on the team.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you need to be good, you need to be good.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's part of excellence.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh seeing that in sports showed me that character matters, and um, because I've seen athletes that were good, not great, but good, inspire a team to win.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I see teams kill it when leadership comes from maybe not the most talented, but but somebody that really understands people, understands character, and and can speak to the heart of people, and they can get the really talented people to step up.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, well.
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  SPEAKER_03: Agreed.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, one of the things that we talk about often is, you know, especially on uh football teams where you have, you know, 80 plus athletes, just because you're not a captain doesn't mean you can't be a leader, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: So that you know, that's the same with the track team, same with the basketball team.
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  SPEAKER_03: With that, we're gonna turn it over to segment two, which is identity wealth building.
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  SPEAKER_03: Aaron, take it away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Freddie, so glad to have you here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for our audience, I want to start off with beyond all the accolades that Thomas shared to kick us off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is Freddie?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well beyond all of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, Aaron, thanks for having me and very excited to be here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who am I?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, first and foremost, I'm a Christian, and so that's just that's the foundation for everything that I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think identity, everything stems from identity.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just concept and success of be do have.
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  SPEAKER_01: You gotta be the person you need to be, to do the thing you need to do, to have what it is that you want to have.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if I don't know who I am, I can't, I can't be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so my foundation is is built on God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, I mean, I am I'm a 37-year-old, you know, black man in America who's married with uh and and has children.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a husband, I'm a father, I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a business owner.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I I think I'm a man that God is called to strengthen other men and help people build strong families.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe the family unit is the incubator for the American dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so helping people just build strong, strong families, strong units, and teaching people what it looks like to excel uh in every area of their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh, I mean, I grew up in a single parent home.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: My parents split up when I was eight years old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Both of them are phenomenal parents, amazing people.
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  SPEAKER_01: They didn't make it, but so seeing the single mom situation and you know, getting a lot of trouble when I was younger, I it just enforced a lot of my identity.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then some of that really helped me to excel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of that were wounds that I had to heal from.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I was born in Southern California.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think that me, you know, uh my identity wants it for me.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: I want my identity to be rooted in service and that I can serve people and please God, as opposed to trying to please people.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: I used to be a huge people pleaser, which which doesn't help anybody.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I don't want to please people and serve God.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: I want to I want to please God and serve people.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, that's who I am.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: That is so well said, that is spot on, and I think it's just such a beautiful testament to what we're called to do.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: And how do how do we help people find that?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Because you help people create stop trading their time for money and start building something that serves their family, their community, and their purpose, is all the things you just talked about.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: What does legacy beyond just financial success mean to you, especially as somebody helping others build generational wealth?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, to me, legacy, I heard this said once and I love it that legacy is not what you leave behind, but what you set in motion.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's great.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's not just what we leave for our kids.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh, you could compound that word, right?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, legacy, a part of it is financial, what we leave behind for our children.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: But if we leave them just a bunch of money and don't teach them how to think, don't teach them how to serve, how to be generous, how to cultivate a generous heart, then it'll it'll ruin them.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: So, but we want to do that.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: So we do want to leave them the money.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's you know, material wealth is is a part of it for sure.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: It absolutely is a part of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's also what we leave in them.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's really our legacy, right?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: And inheritance can be what you leave for them, maybe, but a legacy is what we're gonna leave in them.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's that's something that we're focused on.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then what we set in motion, our legacy is going to be, you know, the conversations that we're had at the table.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be because it's it's interesting.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: We think about these major moments with our children or even with athletes that we coach or friends or coworkers or colleagues or co-founders, and these big moments we have.
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  SPEAKER_01: This award we or teammates, this award you got, you guys just won the shit, you know, okay, we're going to the ship, we're going to the ship, we just won the championship, whatever.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: We think about these major moments, and that's not really what life is.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: Those are blips on the radar, which are phenomenal.
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  SPEAKER_01: We celebrate them, but life is the practice where you're struggling and your teammates right there with you.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: Life is the conversation you have with your kid at the table.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: Life is the conversation you have with your spouse, whatever it might be.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Those those make up so much more of the moments.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so a big part of our legacy is going to be stitching all those moments together and hopefully weaving a fabric and a story together for what our family is about, setting in motion, which is what I said earlier.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's serving people, right?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's serving people at the highest level and just achieve uh pursuing excellence and everything that we do so that our life can be a testament to what it looks like to be excellent.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: And a part of excellence is failure, it's messing up and um and that's okay, and moving through that.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so that is a big part of what we want our legacy to be.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the kind of thing, those are the kind of ideas that we want to be to be set in motion with with our children, and obviously don't have a foundation of faith.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we are here to be excellent, we're here to realize that.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's so important is to never fall short of that.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: So when you think about operating from the belief that lasting wealth is built from the inside out, what separates entrepreneurs who build sustainable generational wealth from those who achieve temporary financial success?
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, a handful of things.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: I think one of the things that separates people that build something that sustains, like it's gonna be around 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years, generations from now, like your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren versus people that it's just it's fleeting.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's all mindset for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be how you think.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like people think I was on the right team, you know, how to expect greatness.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't they don't because you're getting out of life with you, okay.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: And if I tell people you're living the life that you're living the story you tell yourself, you don't like the life you're living.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: We talked about that you're everything, everything out their mouth.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everything out their mouth is what's wrong.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay, okay, you know, whatever.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not being ignorant.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh is what's the last thing.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have time to get into all that right now.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: Probably got fast as time to that.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just how you think that you can help is getting people around you that think differently than you.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh something that like my coach in college, he thought differently of me than I did about excellence when it comes to your track and field specifically.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: I was a hurdler.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: So his thought process was so different.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: So if success and long-standing wealth, making money long-term, and not just wealth financially, but wealth and relationships and impact and love, your health, physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, is going to be based on how you think.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: You should get around people that think really well.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: How do you know that they think well?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: They have sustained uh success in their life.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: Success leaves clues, and so and so does failure.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: So looking at people that have achieved some things that you're looking to achieve, and then find out how they think.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Don't just ask them what they did.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: We live in the information age.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: You can find you can find out a lot of things to do.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: You can go Google, you can go chat GPT, a million things to do.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: But people need to learn how to think.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's what I have found is the difference.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: I think Angela Duckworth talks about this in her book, Grit.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Carol Dweck kills it talking about this in her book Mindset.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: Fixed mindset, you're you're not, you're just gonna stay stuck.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: But the beautiful thing is that's not that's not as a concrete trait.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's static, it's not static.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you can change and you can develop a growth mindset.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: So that's one of my favorite books.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: I love that book.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what's one truth you wish every entrepreneur, former athlete, or business owner understood about character-based wealth building that most people are not hearing?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, it's out there, but it's very rare.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think you gotta you gotta give up to go up.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody wants you're always gonna leave something on the table.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's one thing that I think athletes, especially business owners, if people want to make money, especially with NIL and it's just everything going on.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: If people want to make money, you're gonna leave something on the table.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: So there's some opportunities out there where you can make a ton of money, but your character's gonna be left on the table.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: There's some opportunities where you can make a lot of money and your character's intact.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome, but you're gonna have no life.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're just gonna be like living 90 hours a week in this place.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, so there's always there's just always something gonna be left on the table.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: And that's up to you, you know, world out there, viewer, to decide what that what you're okay with leaving on the table.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: But you gotta give up the go-up.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then I think, and so so just being aware of that.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I also wish that I would have understood uh this is so applicable to sports and business, which is why a lot of athletes make great entrepreneurs, I think, is is that you like by the more you serve, it's the old adage, Jim Rohn or Zig Ziggler, somebody's, I don't know if somebody said it.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to get, you know, if you help enough other people get what they want, you'll have everything you want.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I just don't think people understand how when you stop thinking about you all the time, it's not even about you, then you'll have it's almost like the funny thing, it's almost kind of funny.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: The most selfless thing you can do, or the most selfish thing you can do sometimes is be self.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's like if you actually just stop thinking about you, then you actually will get a lot of what you want for you.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's here.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's like most people want to win championships, most athletes want to win championships.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: So if you actually served the team, you would get the ring, you would get the trophy.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: But everybody's so worried about their shine and their whatever, or getting rich or making money, or people buying stuff from them and their business that they struggle.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Leila Ramosy said that like most people struggle to make money because they're so obsessed with trying to figure out how to make money as opposed to solve problems.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: And you guys are solving a huge problem.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Solve big problems, and you get you get you make big money, but you focus on the problem, not the money.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I just don't think most people understand that it's not being taught, it's definitely not taught in school.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: So that is so profound, it's so powerful.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: And with that, I'm gonna kick it back over to Thomas.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks, Aaron.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: Freddie, you're absolutely right to be of service and you know, put everything above yourself, including your faith, in my opinion, like you, Christian, and I love that.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's a it's a recent walk for me, but you know, your life changes exponentially when you put other people first, or and you nailed it.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_03: Solve the problem, don't focus on the money.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: And this next segment is if you knew then what you know now, if you could sit down with yourself as a D1 athlete at UCR Vine before you understood the principles of character-based wealth building, what would you tell that version of Freddie about preparing for life after athletics?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Well, one thing I would tell myself to prepare for life after athletics was master my athletics because the lessons that you'll learn during your high school, collegiate, semi-pro, amateur, professional career will carry you outside of that.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just so interesting.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like I would one thing I tell myself is shut up and listen to Jeff.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Everything he tells you to do, for the most part, everything he tells you to do, hydration, nutrition, sleep, weightlifting, strength, can strength and conditioning, you know, what you're doing in preseason, post-season, right after you finish your season to get ready for the next season.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Everything he says to do, do it.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Getting the ice bath, you know, whatever it might be.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the reason why is one, it teaches you how to how to come to the leadership of somebody that knows something you don't, which is going to benefit you after you're done with athletics.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: It could be a boss as you're trying to climb the corporate ladder in your career.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: It could be other entrepreneurs that are coaching you or mentoring you, a mastermind you're a part of, but whatever.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: But learning how to people think like they're gonna just like like buck all these lessons when they're young and somehow be all receptive when they're older.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: And then you're developing, you're developing your your your patterns, right?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Your habits, like James Clare talks about.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I I think that's one thing I would tell myself is listen to him because it just develops the muscle of humility and shutting up and listening to somebody.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: And then if you have questions, you ask questions, then you're not a robot.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so I just would have that's one thing I would have told myself to prepare for life after the game, life after the track, life when the spikes get hung up, is is listening and developing that.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's so many things I think that I would have I would have told myself as well, but learning how to how to how to cultivate discipline and hard work, facing rejection, and not going with the crowd if you want something that most people don't have, you're gonna do what they don't do.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: So that's I would have I would have locked in to those lessons because something that that I do sometimes, like a boutique service for a lot of men, this is separate from Glady Family Enterprises, but is like this transition coaching with helping men understand you like you need to what baggage from your past needs to die in the past, but what experiences, skill sets, and battle scars that you've earned you bring with you to make your future better.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so I would have probably gone and told myself back then there's some things that you're doing now, and I mean I'm in college, hello in America, but there's some things you're doing right now that you need to like start to let those things die because you do not want those things coming into your future.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: There's also some things that you're doing right now that that are going to be some hard thought lessons and some hard-won lessons, and you will bring those with you.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so taking some some peace and uh comfort in that, but um, but anyways, yeah.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: You're spot on.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, what one of my favorite quotes is one from Lou Holtz, and he said, uh, I never learned anything by talking, right?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, especially in an athletic endeavor, listen to your coaches.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: They're not there to set you astray.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: So, what about current entrepreneurs and former athletes who are trying to build wealth but still stuck in training time for money?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_03: What do they need to understand about building from the inside out?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: I think they need to take stock of what really matters to them first.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like what really matters to them.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, you're never too late to get started.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: Even tacking onto the last question you asked me, another thing I would have told myself, which is so Relevant to this question as well, is don't confuse you only live once, enjoy your youth with completely destroy and screw up your future.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so some people think you only you only want, you know, if high school is the good old days, then you're that's we have a problem.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, I would pray to God your life will get better.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like high school, I was broke.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I mean, everybody's judging each other.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, obviously, I had fun, a lot of top fun in high school, but your life's so supposed to get better.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: So as you grow, I think people just ask themselves, first of all, what matters?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, leaving something on the table, what really matters to you?
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and I think that's something that that people that want to step into entrepreneurship, you know, going from the inside out, that that's the inside is you, your character.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Who are you?
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's something Aaron asked me in the beginning.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been doing this for you know well over a decade, and I'm still like, okay, just solidifying that.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Who am I not really knowing who I am?
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's so important.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: So I just know most people, you know, don't know that.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Ask them to ask them about pop culture, ask them about their favorite athlete, rapper, singer, actor, ask them who are you.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, they can tell you the stats, they can tell you the the defensive.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: I know people that can tell you the defensive coordinator for every NFL team.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: Ask them anything about their vision for their future, they don't know.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: And so, which is like if you're more excited about Ohio State than your own future, you are we have a problem.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: So just helping people start to think maybe a little bit differently about that.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Who what what do you want?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: And just start basic.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, another thing is is don't let what you can't do, keep you from what you can't do.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: So many people are so in tune with who they're not.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I can't sell, I can't, I and and it's all these like I can't say, I can't say, I can't say they're so in tune with who they're not.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so just don't know what you can't do, keep what you can't do.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you've told me for about an hour now who who what you what you suck at.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: What do you get at?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, there's obviously some things in there that you're and so just think about about about that.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: And then you gotta get people have got to get around other sharp people.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know Tony Robbins.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Some people say, I don't know a millionaire.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, well, find the most successful person that you do know and start there and then grow from there.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know an Aaron Charles, you know Thomas Rowe, get around them.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you need to find people that are obviously more successful than you, and so get around them.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: They've walked the walk, they don't just talk, most people walk top right and walk left.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, so people need to get around people like you guys and other people in their life that I clearly have created success, a legacy, and and start asking questions.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: I what you just said was so far.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: I never learned anything by it was Lou Holtz, I never learned anything by talking.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I'm even like, let me I almost want to show up and just listen to you guys, but but that I mean that's that's that's key.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: If somebody wants to transform athletics, you need to start somewhere and say that you know or that you can get one and glean from tons of information, find a local chamber of commerce, get YouTube university, spending around people that you can at least pick their brain and ask questions and be willing to invest in yourself.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: I know guys, especially from where I grew up in my neighborhood, they'll spend$300 on a pair of Jays, on a pair of Jordans, but they won't spend$150 to take, you know, or$20 to take somebody to coffee to pick their brain.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just insane.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: So be willing to invest in yourself because that is the that is the gift that's gonna continue to keep to keep on giving.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because there's there's a lot of resources out there, but people need to get educated and and that all starts with knowing what they want.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you don't know what you want, then there's a lot of people out there that'll that'll tell you what you should want.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: And and you want it, you want to get rooted in, you know, I could take that so many different paths, but but that is a that is a great a great place to start.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: What kind of value do they want to add to the world?
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, do they want to make a lot of money?
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: There's certain businesses that you should just should never get in if you want to make a lot of money, because they're not.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, do you want to have a lot of money and a lot of free time?
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: There's certain businesses that you can make so much money, but you're not gonna have a lot of free time.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: So you start to design a life a little bit and just start somewhere.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to, you know, just start to design what you want.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: Do you want to do something that adds value to people?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you want us to do something that might add value, might not, but you get paid regardless.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what do you want?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: What do you, what matters to you?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: And let's start piecing that together.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: There's options out there because some people are like, well, I can't have it all.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you're gonna leave something on the table, but that doesn't mean that that something on the table has to be money and character.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you can make a lot of money and do things that benefit and add value and and doesn't have to suck up your entire life.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: You to have some freedom to spend time with family or do whatever you want to do.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: There's there's an abundance of options out there.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: So start to design a little bit of the lifestyle and then work backwards.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: My wife and I call that being outcome focused.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: People are taught to, it's like we're asking kids, where do you want, how do you want to get there when they're in high school?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: How do you want to get there?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Which is like asking a young child, what do you want to do?
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: And instead of asking kids, how do you want to get there?
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: Because they're going, get where.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it's almost like we're saying, Don't worry about that.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: I just said, How do you want to get there?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: And the kids are gonna like, okay, get where.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about that.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: How do you want to get there?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't know where, get where, if they don't know where they want to get to, then they couldn't possibly answer the question of how do you want to get there?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: So, first you need to ask, where do you want to go in life?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then let's reverse engineer it.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: Then let's, okay, if you want to go to Hawaii, you can't take a scooter, you can't take a car.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: There's not many options.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: You want to go across the street, don't take a plane.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, so we need to figure out where you start to just think about that.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: What do I want my life to look like in five years, 10 years, 15 years?
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: And let's start to architect and design either a business model or a path or a career, a job, maybe, if that's what somebody wants to do, that that helps get them in alignment.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_03: Spot on.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you said something at the top of the big conversation, or the top of the question was YOLO or you only live once.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_03: I had a mentor of mine, actually, it was my father, that said, Thomas, you don't live once, you only die once.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_03: Every day is a new opportunity to make a change.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_03: So and you said something else, it's never too late to start.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you just gotta take action.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_03: You just gotta take that first step.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_03: But you're right, how do you want to get there?
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_03: What you know, what how are you gonna get there?
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_03: You and you got to take that first step.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: With that one, I'm gonna turn it back over to Aaron, which is the rapid fire round.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: I know that this is her favorite one.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_03: Put your seatbelt on, uh, Freddie.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_03: She's coming.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_03: I'm nervous.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: No, get nervous.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: This one's this is the fun part of the podcast.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna start a sentence and you're gonna finish it.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm nervous.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: Discipline equals, freedom, leadership equals, sacrifice and influence.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: Character equals, identity and foundation.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, foundation for character.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: Legacy equals.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: What should you set in motion?
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: What's one thing that you would never compromise on?
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: Devotion to Captain my wife and our kids.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: And what is one message?
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you could put it on the billboard for the next generation of athletes, what would your billboard say?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Be authentic and live a life of service.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good one.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: That is awesome.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_03: Spot on.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_03: That's great.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Thomas.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Back to you.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so fast.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_03: Look at each place.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_03: Freddie, what we'd like to do in our closing segment here, and before we wrap up, this is kind of like a free flow for our for our clients or for our guests.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_03: If there's something, is there something we didn't touch on today that you feel entrepreneurs, former athletes, or business owners need to hear about building lasting wealth from the inside out or from the ground up?
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think that one of the things I would add in our time here is to not like dim their light.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: There's no nobility in like settling.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's, you know, I think we can have a false humility, and I don't need much.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: And and I just would tell people, don't settle, pursue excellence in everything.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're fed this bill of goods in society.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: It could be pop culture, mainstream media, or Hollywood, whatever people want to call it, which there could be some good, but there's there's a lot of garbage.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: We all know everyone innately knows that.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: There's just a lot of garbage that comes out.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: And and and so just encourage people not to settle, live a life of excellence.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: There was a viral clip of Timothy Chalamet, I think his name is his actor, who when he won some awards like a year or two year ago, whatever.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: And he just felt like, you know, I want to be great.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: I want to be great.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: I think we should want to pursue greatness.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: And great doesn't mean egotistical, arrogant, pompous, vain.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's not what great means.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: But wanting to do something great, I think is phenomenal.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, when it comes to entrepreneurship and business, I hope people should want to make a lot of money.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: There's this goofy thing out there.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to make that much money.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: And people say stuff like, I don't want and and to each his own, but I want to challenge conventional thinking and be a little bit contrarian, right?
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if people say, I don't need I don't want to make too much money, just enough to be comfortable.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: But we don't say that about anything else.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: You don't say I don't want to be too healthy, just healthy enough to be comfortable.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like score too touchdowns, just enough touchdowns to be comfortable.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want my kids to be that successful, just successful enough to be comfortable, right?
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, I don't, I don't want my career to do that well.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: I just well enough to be, I just want to do well enough to be comfortable, right?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want my family to be that healthy, just healthy enough to be comfortable.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we don't say that about anything else but money.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so just encouraging people, it just doesn't make any sense.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so I just would encourage people to to live a life of of service and abundance and realize that the more you have, the more you can give.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you make a million dollars a year, you make$30 million a year.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody said you had to people go, well, I just don't need all that.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: Who said it was all going to be spent on you?
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: So when you think differently, like you can make a ton of money and maybe 80% of your income you give away at, but just encouraging people, like you don't serve anybody by playing smaller.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: You don't serve the team by playing smaller, you don't serve your the job, your the company you work for, you don't serve your own company if you own your own company, you don't serve your family.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like I fear for my wife and children if I'm playing small, they need me to be the best that I can be for them.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm speaking holistically, it doesn't just mean play small financially, but be great in service, be great in love, go make as much money as you can, go add as much value, be humble.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: You should also be extremely generous.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and I just think people are nervous sometimes to to to go big.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Or they're they're afraid they're okay with going big on the court, and they can they're they're not afraid to tomahawk, dunk, and make the crowd go wild.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: But but be just as as ambitious in your pursuit of of influence, impact, income, serving generosity, giving a lot away, and and and don't shy away from away from that because once again, like I said earlier, you're living the story you tell yourself.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: If a part of you thinks that there's something wrong with making more money, you're not going to make a lot more money.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: If a part of you thinks there's something wrong with with excelling, you will not run your fastest.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: You will not try your hardest to to receive that catch or to pick the quarterback or to whatever and and get an interception.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're just gonna struggle because a part of you isn't in alignment with, and so I think people really need to to go for gold in every area though.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: Financially, yes, but also with character, with your loved ones, service, your health physically, and and I think that people will be will be extremely, extremely blessed by that because that's what we need in the world are people that are really going all out in service and love and ambition and drive.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: So that is something that I would want to leave, that I would want to leave with people.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to be a bot, right?
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you want to be a main character.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, your life is your life.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I think in your own life, you'd want to be, you know, you'd you'd want to be one of the main characters.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm excited for for the athletes that are impacted by you guys with with blueprint and blue chip and and how they learn things that a lot of us did not learn, or at least it was not systematized like this when we were younger.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_03: Freddie, once an athlete, always an athlete.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_03: You're a father, you're a husband, you're an incredible Christian.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_03: But let's loosen up the tie and share with the audience about your entertainment background because you are an entertainer.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: Bring us, uh, bring us, pull back the curtain.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_03: Tell us a little bit about that past life.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I grew up in a very musical family.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like Earth, Wind and Fire played at my parents' wedding.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: They they were close with them.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: There, I mean, I I won't name drop, but there's there's a lot of different entertainers from way back in the day to even people that are very big right now.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: That I just kind of grew up around my family, my aunt, uncle, just a lot of different people that I was around.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I kind of had that bug.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I grew up very musical family.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_01: I play saxophone, I play alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, guitar, piano.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a vocalist.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: And so, so, anyways, that I just knew that was going to be a part of my of my world after I graduated from UC Urvana.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: I sold everything to my name.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: I moved to Australia to go to Hillsong International Leadership College, is a is like a Bible college.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: But they have an unbelievable music program at some of the most talented musicians I've remembered in my life out there, some unbelievable singers that a lot of them have ridiculous.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, like, I mean, like like a couple of them have one Grammys since we went to that college together.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: Some of we were literally broke in these dorms in Australia together, and some of them have one Grammys that have been on stage.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: Some of them have co-rotons, co-written songs with artists like Brandon Lake and I'm I mean, it's just incredible.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: So, so that was kind of like my world for a while.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Moved back to LA, started songwriting, like the secular industry, started doing a bunch of different stuff, just for regular music, church music, regular music, all these different things.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: And and loved it.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: Loved it had a blast stuff.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: My wife and I both have a dance background for her.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's more ballet and jazz, and then for me, hip hop.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so I just I was I was doing a lot of different things.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: Did some stuff in filming TV for a while, did some PSAs, a bunch of couple commercials.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: I was able to do some some print work with a Nike, but it was just my legs and my feet for like some track stuff.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: So just I was just scrambling across LA and I was blessed to actually be able to make enough money to pay my bills just through some entertainment stuff, music primarily, and and some print work and and a little bit of like commercial.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: I did some commercials and stuff like that.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: So it was a blast.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: I would say I love entertainment.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: I just kind of started hating Hollywood, but I love entertainment, and there's very good people in Hollywood, there's amazing people in Hollywood, but there was a lot of egotistical, like like ridiculousness.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's just out of control.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: So so yeah, so I started to transition out of that.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: Music will always be a part of my life, though.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: I will write more in the future.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, my wife and I want to build out kind of an elite student, like a really high-caliber music studio in our in our home, and have artists and different people that can just come record and we can collaborate.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it'll always be a part of my life.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's just not front and center, it's not my life, but it's a part of my life and I love it.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_03: So, according to Freddie, who are the top three entertainers or vocalists of all time?
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_03: Top top three entertainers for what?
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_03: Top entertainers or vocalists, whether it's dance or whether it's a lead singer or solo artist.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, one of the top entertainers to me, I just I can't get behind like 97% of his music.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_01: But I've met him, written songs for him, been around him is is Chris Brown.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he I've I've been around, I was able to spend quite a bit of time around him.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, his music is just is just so ungodly.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a bit funny, it's out of control.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: Good lord.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: But but as an entertainer, he is he is he is gifted.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I wish I wish the content of some of his music went a slightly different direction.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: But he is he is it is he's undeniably one of the greatest entertainers, I think, of our generation.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_01: If you look from a pop RB standpoint, singing, dancing, all that kind of stuff, he's unbelievable.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he that's where Chris Brown got a lot of his Michael Jackson is I mean the king of pop.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, so when you think about entertainment, I'm talking about putting it together.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: Singing, dancing is so, you know, I mean, uh that's such a hard question.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: Vocalists, I mean you go on and on and on.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: Whitney Houston, you know, Adele.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's that it's just kind of ridiculous.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think Tori Kelly right now is kind of a modern, she's she's she's out of control as a vocalist.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: There's so many un undeveloped people though that are amazing.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so, I mean, a lot of people I think are phenomenal entertainers are people I don't really listen to anymore that often, but that from an entertainment perspective, they're very, very, very good.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, Beyonce's great.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't really listen to her anymore, but she, I mean, there's there's a lot of there's a lot of great great entertainers out there.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so I this is good, this is random, random, but I actually really like Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Lindsay Buckingham is out of control in terms of singing guitar and you know, Stevie Nicks classic.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's so there's so many, there's so many good uh performers.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: I took you from Chris Brown and Michael Jackson and Beyoncé to Lindsay but to Fleetwood Mac.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: But anyways, you know, so that I'll leave it at that.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_01: I could go, I could, I mean, I left out some of the greatest of all time, but whatever.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, no question.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_03: That's always a question.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_03: I like to you know bring it back to something and just make it a little more personal to our guests.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_03: And and for me, I never realized how exceptional he was, and that was Prince, right?
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we yeah, I I mean, so just for you to say that about Chris Brown, that really says a lot, which is gonna force me to kind of dig into a little bit about who he is, because I I would have never guessed, and I take your your word for it.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_03: Fred, where can people get a hold of you?
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_03: Whether that's your social media or a website or your email, where can people reach out to you?
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I I'm not really too robust on a ton of social media platforms.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: Instagram and LinkedIn are kind of two of the top platforms that I engage in and stuff like that.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: And it's more recent.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: I took a six-year, took like a five-year sabbatical from a lot of social media, but at Freddie Gladney Official is Instagram.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_01: And on LinkedIn, just Freddie Gladney.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's clearly my profile if you go there.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: Freddie Gladney on LinkedIn and my email, you know, kind of the the major email where a lot of people can engage with me is FreddieGladney at gmail.com.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, gladneyfamilyenterprises uh com is one of our websites where we're able to connect with people and they can learn a little bit more about what we do.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, but it's been it's been an honor to to be here with you guys and very, very excited where all of us are headed.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_03: No doubt.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: No doubt.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: Freddie, thank you so much for sharing your story and your truth.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_03: Team, if this conversation challenged you, inspired you, or made you think differently, share it.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_03: Send it to an entrepreneur trading time for money, a former athlete building their next chapter, or anyone who wants to understand the character-based world building really looks like and it starts from within.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_03: This is the standard podcast, and this movement only grows when we raise the standard together.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_03: And if this if you feel compelled, do two things for us go to Apple or Spotify and leave us a five-star review.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_03: This helps get out to more people so they can hear what Freddie has to say.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_03: And again, reach out to Freddie.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have his contact information in the show notes.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_03: Definitely reach out to Freddie if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, or just about building wealth from the inside out.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: Talent fades, but truth endures.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_03: Let's raise the bar, rebuild the culture, and become the standard.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see you next time, Freddie.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_03: Aaron, thank you so much, team.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_03: Have a fantastic weekend.