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Lessons - The Wealth System That Transformed My Side Hustle Into a 7-Figure Empire | Adrian Brambila - Financial Freedom Expert · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  In this lessons episode, you'll dive into the deeper meaning of what it truly means to think
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  rich, far beyond just financial wealth. You'll learn how adopting a rich mindset rooted in
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  abundance, ownership, and internal control can transform how you approach business,
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  relationships, and personal growth. It also challenges limiting beliefs and offers a powerful
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  framework for building lasting success.
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  I want to talk about just some of the lessons that are coming from the book. So when you say
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  start thinking rich, we've gone in and out of some of those lessons already. But what does that
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  mean to somebody who wants to read this book? What does start thinking rich mean and how they invest
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  and how they live and how they build a business? Just as like a theme. I'm just going to say
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  something that might be controversial. So I want to be super clear. We talk about poor people
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  and rich people and actually has nothing to do with money. So I'm going to say poor people rich
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  people. Poor is a way of thinking. Rich is a way of thinking. Broke is having no money. I've
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  been broke. And why I didn't stay broke is going to start to think rich. Rich people do things
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  differently. Successful entrepreneurs do things differently. But we can just put this in
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  broad term that rich, a rich is something that you want to be. It's a way of thinking. There's
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  different rules that rich people operate in that poor people don't that they don't know about.
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  And people that are poor, like one terrible poor mindset that people have is rich people in order
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  to accumulate grow company, you have to take advantage of other people. Or in order to make a lot
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  of money, you have to be greedy. Or this one bothers me so much. When you hear of Warren Buffett
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  or someone, a billionaire that donates millions and millions of dollars should an amazing cause,
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  like a poor mindset would say, well, it's for tax purposes. Like they didn't really want it.
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  So they're dismissing like everything it takes like like operating from rich standpoint. If you
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  have these nasty thoughts about rich people and how you run your company, this is what you think,
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  it's going to always on a subconscious level prevent you from growth and success. So rich is a
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  mindset that you need to adopt. You need to think like this. And it's really switching from
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  scarcity to a bunch. I know we talked about that a bunch already, but it's a way of thinking.
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  And it applies to like, I think also relationships and health and business. And it's something you
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  want to adopt. And a lot of the times the reason why we like most people aren't born rich, I wasn't
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  born rich. And so we get these scripts on how the world works, how money works, how business works
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  from our parents, more things we can blame our parents for. And most people don't have great
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  examples of how to use money and what money means. Even if you are born rich on paper, you go
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  out into the real world and you just saw your parents just you always had stuff and money just
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  comes and goes. And then when it comes to managing your own money or your company's money,
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  you're almost irresponsible. Like you spend money because you don't assume responsibility. So
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  everyone has to work through their money scripts. But how you think like how I run my business,
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  how I also run my personal finance the same. I'm conservative in this as a entrepreneur I think.
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  It's wild to me that I have, you know, understanding rich, I think just put a button on it.
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  There's a difference between like a rich skill set and there's also like a well skill set.
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  Entrepreneurs are really great. Typically those success ones on a rich skill set, their ability to
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  earn, create. But then when it comes to having that money stay and then also having that money
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  make money, they're terrible at it. They're terrible at it because as an entrepreneur, we make money
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  in the riskiest way. But also we have to we have to like get stomach muscles where that risk becomes
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  normal. And then we lose. We forget that actually what we're doing is very risky. It just is our
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  baseline. So then when it comes to like investing that money, like like money into wealth. Yeah,
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  wild. Yeah. But tip like I'm always very surprised when I meet entrepreneurs and they tell me
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  what they're investing in. And it's it's so risky. Like they and they lose it all. But it's because
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  their baseline is so much higher. And again, a rich, a rich person, their thought is like diversification.
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  Like how how they preserve their money and how it become legacy money. So again, rich way of
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  thinking is totally different from I would say poor way of thinking. I actually, you know, you can
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  make a lot of money and still have a poor mindset. You can make a lot of money and still be fearful
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  that you're going to lose it all or take high risk or or be greedy or hate other people that made money.
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  It's it's tough to get out. It's tough to move from scarcity to to abundance. I like it's it's
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  tough to talk about because it seems like such like non-conquery terms like scarcity. Like what does
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  that mean? Like how do you like this people want to I think when you say scarcity mindset,
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  people like yes, I didn't I didn't have a lot growing up and now I'm making some money,
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  but I still can't shake those beliefs in my that my parents had that probably are sort of things
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  that have been instilled in me. And I think that it's tough to talk about those two terms because
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  people don't have a very clear way of changing their mindset from scarcity to abundance. Like what's
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  the point? And I don't think if you don't have a maybe you do have a idea or or advice for people,
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  but I don't know how or why some people are always so angry with money and the concept of money
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  and making money and people will look at somebody like they're almost like just the look at the
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  world through this pessimistic lens. I don't know why they do I don't know why that is, but say
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  somebody doesn't want to look at the world that way or they want to have a healthy relationship
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  with money. What's the what's the what's the way they achieve that? What's the the path they can go
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  on the tactics, the framework because I couldn't tell someone hey just switch from scarcity to
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  abundance and you know you do these five things a day and don't worry you're going to have a
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  healthier relationship with money. I don't have that that path, but I do know that there's people
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  that are definitely in camp one and camp two. Yeah, I there is a framework that it's in psychology,
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  we successful people, they have an internal locus of control. And what that means is this is
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  something you could put on literally right now as a framework and how you operate and think about
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  the world. Do you believe right now that most of what's happening to you is because of you and
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  do you also feel or believe that you have the ability and control to change it, change your
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  circumstance for better for worse. That is what we define as internal locus control. I can change,
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  I have the ability to make change. So if you are operating in a world where you have an external
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  locus of control, then then everything else is happening to you. You can't be you can't create
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  success because whoever is who whoever is the president. Or if you're at a nine to five,
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  like, I can't make six figures because my boss, you're you're always pointing externally. So I
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  think how you view the world is it is the first step into making sure all the tactics are executed
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  and and and you're consistent. You have discipline all that stuff. To me, the tactics like I assume
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  most people actually know the tactics, but this internal psychology is what prevents them from
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  consistently executing them or or giving up when they get started is because of first how they
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  view the world. Do you have an internal or external locus of control when you look at your own journey.
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  What was the what was the moment when that pivoted for you when you felt like okay,
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  the world is not something that happens to me. It's something that did something I can influence.
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  I by the way, I love that concept. That's actually so one of the first interviews that I ever did
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  when I did not know this concept and I and I didn't really understand the difference between
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  internal and external locus of control was with Anthony Scaremucci who was ironically Trump's
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  like director of communications for like 12 days, something like that. And then they got into
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  like a fight when his first presidency. And then he quit. Many ways, he's a big he's a big finance guy.
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  And and I think I asked him again, this was like very early on. So these were not like for
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  find questions. And I was like, what makes you so confident in your day to day something long or
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  what or what makes you so sure that you was there ever a point when you were sure you could be
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  successful. And he's like, well, there wasn't like one point. But if I go back to if I if I lost
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  everything and all I had was my apartment in Brooklyn and like the shirt on my back and no
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  relationships, no money, he's like, I with a hundred cents or any could do it again. And he was
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  describing that concept like exploit like that was what he was describing. He didn't say it. He
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  didn't say locus of control, but he was describing that concept. And that was one of the most
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  that was a very eye opening lesson for him. Like yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Like you can't
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  impact the things you can impact your outcome. You can have agency. You can have like extreme
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  ownership. Was there was there a moment in your career when you felt that switch or in your life,
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  so this is I think a blessing of growing up in my with my my parents. So my dad immigrated here
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  when he was 13, which really means my grandma is the one that brought us here. My dad my dad's dad
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  was murdered when he was like five years old. So my parent my dad and my grandma they they face
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  like tragedy and adversity that I'll never face and they face the worst kinds. But when I was raised,
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  I had I was raised with the belief that we left the bad place. It was Mexico like like dangerous
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  Mexico. And we came to the good place, which was the USA. Now, whether you agree or disagree with
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  this, this is a mindset shift. And the belief that I was that I was given was like here in this
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  country, we can make change. We left the place where we could not. And so now it's up to us. And
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  that's something like my parents always instills me. If I want to I can actually make it happen. I
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  can work hard again, work hard and sacrifice. These are these are things I had to work through.
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  Not everything was amazing. But I I I never had the belief that that the world or the system
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  was rigged and I we weren't going to make it. We immigrated here. So we could make it. And so
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  this is I think I'm not an immigrant. I was born here, but I have an immigrant mindset that I can
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  make it make it here. And you don't have to be an immigrant to adopt an immigrant mindset. Why
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  do people come to the USA to try to make it happen? The American dream is still alive. Like my
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  parents are example. I'm an example. And it's a belief set that you have is the is the system
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  perfect in America? No. But again, where where's your focus of control? Am I going to I'm not a
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  politician? So I don't try to focus on changing the system. And right now is is an election, you
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  know, it was election year and like politics are super hot. And I think a lot of people waste time.
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  If you're a politician, it makes sense to spend hours and hours each day keeping up on all the
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  policy changes and stuff like that. But if you're if you're not again, are you happy with your
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  circumstance? Do you believe you can make it happen? And and here in this country, we can make
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  it happen. And that's why, you know, people are here and my family tree is like we we now are
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  the most successful we ever been since moving here. You know, it's something that I've thought about a
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  lot because obviously it's on Canadian. And I'm living through like a US elections, right? And a
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  lot of a lot of animosity and anger and anxiety. And I think that a lot of that is people focusing
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  on the wrong thing like you mentioned, right? I would hope that everybody in this audience
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  because I fully believe this. It doesn't matter who is in office. You have the ability to figure out
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  how you want your life to end up. And yeah, maybe there's there's and it's so interesting because
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  even growing up, I think Canadians look at politics a lot differently than Americans. So Canadians,
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  I remember growing up, my parents would vote for who was best for the municipal government. And
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  then I guess state would be would be provincial and then federal and they weren't always politically
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  aligned. So you could have like a left leaning municipal leader who was, you know, committing to
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  putting X amount of dollars into fixing roads and infrastructure. And then you could have a
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  right leaning maybe federal like at a federal level. And it was really about it was really about
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  who's going to be best for our day to day life. And I think that what I've seen is I see that
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  people skew all the way one way or all the all the way the other way. And they just all the way
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  down. They vote one way or the other way, which I don't actually think is the right way to vote.
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  I think you should actually vote for the people that are going to best serve you. But
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  regardless of that, I think that I think that most people in this in this audience, I would hope
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  understand that no one's going to serve you as well as you're going to serve yourself and your
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  own family. It doesn't matter how aligned people are, you do have to take responsibility for
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  for your own happiness while you're on this earth. And I think that it's a great and empowering
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  and scary fundamental shift all at the same time. But when you lean into it, it's so freeing.
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  It's so freeing because it doesn't matter who's in the White House. I'm going to figure out my
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  business. Okay. Fine. You know what? Taxes are not as great or taxes are better or whatever.
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  I want to move to this state or that state or red state or blue state. But at the end of the day,
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  I'm going to take accountability for and you know what? There's a lot of there's a lot of people
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  that are struggling in red states. A lot of people that are struggling in blue state. A lot of people
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  that are rich as hell in red and blue state. So I mean, at the end of the day, you can you can have
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  your politics and you can have your preference one part or the other. But your day to day
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  life is going to be entirely dictated. Maybe 99% of it is going to be dictated by your own actions,
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  not by the actions of a government. And I mean, it's a very empowering idea. Anyway, so it's true.
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  I believe it. One of the chapters of her book is actually your political party doesn't give a
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  shit about you. Oh, is that it's it's it's worth it. It's solely aligned. It's solely aligned. Like
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  it doesn't matter who's in office. If they actually did have the power to control our life in full
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  and some governments have in our history, their idea of what what how our lives should be is never
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  what you would want. It's scary. So you like we live in a world today where you you have the ability
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  to change. And again, it comes down to internal versus external locks control, whatever the government
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  does, it's not going to affect me. That's again, I'm saying that as a mindset, not like if they
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  if they can at least in this free world. Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable,
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