On this episode of the Fresh Up Podcast, we have our first guest on the show, Brandon Carter! We talk about how he got to where he is today, how he is doing, and what he is looking forward to for the rest of his life.
00:17:17.000He's in good shape and stuff like that and all the girls.
00:17:19.000It's interesting because with Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, a bunch of these serial killers, the girls would show up in droves to their trials.
00:17:47.000Oh, and then I want to ask you this, Brandon.
00:17:49.000I know it's a little off topic, but you saw what they said about Jay-Z, man?
00:17:52.000Yeah, I saw what they said about it, man.
00:17:56.000People in the chat got angry at me when I said, well, you guys can say what you want to say about Jay-Z, but at the end of the day, it's going to go down as a top 10 rapper of all time.
00:20:25.000I'll say this real quick and then we'll go into the thing because I didn't mean to detract, but I just kind of wanted to take your take because obviously Jay-Z is like from...
00:20:34.000When you were growing up, he was coming up, and then obviously for me as well.
00:20:38.000I came later on because I'm a little bit younger than you, but...
00:20:43.000What I will say is, I think that, and I tweeted about this earlier today, I think this is a big break for Diddy, because if this is true, and Diddy was actually there, and we know that he records stuff for his little freak-offs or whatever, if this is actually true, this is probably the godsend that he needs, because what he could do is, his defense team can use that and say, look, I got the video.
00:21:05.000I was there, or I know witnesses that were there.
00:22:20.000R. Kelly got 30. It was very similar charges.
00:22:23.000But this is like a RICO case as well, because they're saying he ran a criminal enterprise.
00:22:27.000They used the RICO statute just to bring in all the crimes past the statute of limitations, but it's almost nearly identical to the R. Kelly charges, is what it is.
00:22:36.000I mean, granted, if he goes to trial...
00:23:32.000And then now you have someone that could potentially be a witness against you in a criminal case that also has a civil case against you and has a vested interest in putting you down.
00:23:42.000So apparently he was trying to talk to them behind the scenes apparently with his people outside.
00:24:01.000But as soon as I saw that, I was like, wow.
00:24:04.000If this is true, and Diddy was actually there, like they claimed, and he had recorded it like, we know the freak off crap, this can actually save him.
00:26:56.000Y'all had a contest because I was telling all the trainers that I trained, right?
00:27:00.000I teach them how to be online trainers, right?
00:27:02.000And I was telling everybody, listen, you got to get as fucking ripped as possible.
00:27:06.000Before New Year's, because when everybody comes with those New Year's resolutions, they're not going to want the trainer who's trying to get in shape, right?
00:29:18.000It's the opposite in the fitness industry, right?
00:29:21.000So I remember When I was really training people online, you know what I'm saying, like going super hard with that shit, I would treat the last three months of the year like contest prep.
00:29:33.000Like I was getting ready for a contest, man.
00:33:45.000If you try to do it the other way, then it's like a long time before you start seeing some real progress.
00:33:51.000And if you, let's say you put on, I mean, you train people, right?
00:33:54.000You know, you was in HTT, so you know what's up.
00:33:57.000If a motherfucker is lean and he puts on five pounds, he's going to look way better than somebody who put on five pounds of muscle who already had a bunch of body fat.
00:34:14.000I mean, being lean will always create a sense of size.
00:34:19.000I mean, you look at a bodybuilder like Frank Zane, guys, who was always significantly smaller than his counterparts that he competed against.
00:34:26.000But the reason why he was able to compete was because of the shape and he was extremely lean.
00:34:30.000So being lean does create the illusion of size, especially with the shoulders and the waist ratio.
00:37:34.000I can't watch a video without seeing your face on the ads.
00:37:37.000I run a digital marketing agency and have a client that is a fitness trainer, but I believe that your program will also be beneficial for them.
00:37:42.000How should I get them on your program?
00:40:29.000I had a video, I did a video where I predicted, you know what I'm saying, that he was gonna win.
00:40:33.000I had this theory that, and it's proven, if you go through every, ever since Kennedy and Nixon, look at every candidate, the one who looks like they would win in a fight always wins the president.
00:42:00.000As soon as he won the election, shot up to, you know, 90, and then it went up, now it's over, it hit 100. Yeah, I was naming the stocks and the ETFs and cryptos on my podcast.
00:42:10.000I was talking about, listen, I think he's going to win.
00:42:12.000This is what I'm predicting y'all should buy.
00:42:39.000Better tax rates, different regulations.
00:42:42.000But, yo, if you can put your money in the markets during this four years, I think the markets will beat probably most of what most people can make if they're just starting a business.
00:44:12.000Now, the number one thing, the number one asset you have in your war against poverty so you can stop being a broke motherfucker once and for all is time, right?
00:44:24.000So we got to get real serious about time management.
00:44:27.000Time management because, you know, the homie Bruce Lee said, if you love time, I'm sorry, if you love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of.
00:44:48.000And the way you're going to need to do that is the first thing you need to do is you got to start using Google Calendar and planning out every hour of every day.
00:52:51.000And on the weekends, I woke up, trained people in the morning, and I managed a barbecue restaurant in Queens.
00:52:56.000I was the weekend manager of a barbecue restaurant in Queens on Steinway.
00:52:59.000And I did that for like two years in a row.
00:53:02.000These are like seven days a week, 12, 14-hour days.
00:53:05.000And I want to be real, to clarify to the audience here, you were never actually poor or broke.
00:53:12.000You always were making, and during this period of your time, obviously it's grueling work, but you were making well over $100,000 a year, right?
00:53:18.000I made over $100,000, around $100,000 both of those years.
00:53:28.000And that's important for the, and the reason why I wanted to say that to the audience is like, you know, you found there was a will, there was a way.
00:53:33.000You made $100,000 living in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
00:55:04.000Actually, I'm really glad that that's playing right now while we're live on air so people can see real time how dedicated this man is to it.
00:55:11.000It has a food scale, Google Calendar, the phone is going off in the middle of the show saying go to sleep, right?
00:58:14.000We're talking about making money 2025. Time management, 80 hours a week, 168 hours in a week, 56 hours sleeping.
00:58:19.000Which basketball player do you like to boast?
00:58:25.000So you mentioned you made a choice to actively do multiple jobs, not waste time, and even though your father left earth voluntarily, it didn't stop you from moving forward.
00:58:35.000Yeah, you can't let it stop you, no matter what it is.
00:58:39.000And the reason I want y'all working 80 hours a week, I do this shit now, even still.
00:59:56.000And the three things you're going to invest in, either in your own business, the market, whether that's crypto, stock market, or real estate.
01:00:09.000One of those three, or all of them, if you want to have some diversification.
01:01:25.000If you don't plan it, people don't plan to waste time, they fail to plan their time.
01:01:30.000That's why I started this off as really learning Google Calendar and just planning out your days in advance so that way you have your days choreographed.
01:01:37.000And obviously shit is going to fucking, won't go according to plan, right?
01:01:41.000You gotta think when you was on them motherfucking missions kicking in doors and shit, it didn't go exactly to plan, but having a plan was better than, hey yo, let's just go freestyle, man.
01:01:52.000To add to what you're saying, before every operation, whether you're doing a search one or a rest one, whatever, you have to do something called an operation plan.
01:01:59.000Where you put the people that are involved in operation, people's roles, etc.
01:02:03.000Obviously things can change while you're there, but you have some type of at least semblance of organization so that you can adapt from there.
01:02:10.000And it's not rigid, so sometimes my shit will change a little bit.
01:02:13.000For example, Myron was like, I didn't think he was doing after hours, because you weren't doing it on Mondays.
01:02:34.000I'm just saying if you get in the habit now, let's say you become successful and you start getting employees and you start having other people, you would want to give them access to your calendar so they can Put stuff in there and or see what your availability is when they have to set up meetings with you and other people, right?
01:02:50.000So like Amber, you know, my chief operating officer, like she'll, I just wake up sometimes and shit will be in my calendar, but she knows some shit that I told her to.
01:03:00.000And like find a time for me and this person to meet and she'll go and like book that shit in my calendar.
01:03:33.000It's like the first time, remember when you were training people, and when they first started tracking their macros, and they couldn't fucking believe how fucking off they were?
01:03:43.000They estimate they consumed this much, but it was really this much?
01:04:21.000You're going to eat more than you think you do.
01:04:23.000It's funny that you say that because Manhattan is in this weird area where you don't want to drive because the traffic is going to take you longer.
01:04:29.000You don't want to take a taxi because that's stupid.
01:05:36.000And every once in a while, man, I see fresh fucking driving down Biscayne, man, with a dog hanging out the window, man, of a Lambo or some shit.
01:05:46.000I was like, yeah, man, that would be distracting anyone.
01:05:51.000First you got this motherfucking dog hanging out the window.
01:07:57.000I'm really trying to give you the real shit on how you can get come up.
01:08:00.000See, with your setup itself and the schedule and the actual consistency of what you're seeing, you're creating a lifestyle versus just a quick fix.
01:08:40.000What you said is super true because what people don't tell you is the more The successful you become, the more disciplined you should be.
01:08:50.000Because, for example, if you're driving, you're driving slow, you might have one hand out the window, one arm out the window, motherfucking, driving with your finger, smoking, you can smoke a blunt, eat fucking, eat food, drink, you can do all types of shit if you're driving slow.
01:09:08.000But you fucking start driving like a hundred miles an hour, you gotta focus.
01:09:12.000Motherfuckers might turn the radio down.
01:09:35.000If he just woke up one day and he was a fucking multi-millionaire living in downtown Manhattan, you know, let's say he was like 6'2", you know, single digit body fast, super ripped, you know, millions of followers on it, you know, million Instagram followers and shit.
01:09:51.000Do you think that motherfucker would have an alarm for him to go to sleep at 9, 930?
01:10:54.000Or a motherfucker might get famous off a podcast and then some Asian chick is trying to say she got you a baby and we all think you about to have a kung fu baby.
01:11:02.000I'm over here thinking that I'm about to have a little nephew.
01:14:19.000If you want to make $10K a month passively, you're going to need to control...
01:14:24.000Depending on, and this is a very wide variance, but somewhere between 3 to 10 million, probably closer to the 3 to 5 million range of real estate.
01:14:34.000Yeah, you need to control it, which means maybe you have a loan on it, whatever it may be, but to make 10,000 a month, Passively, through real estate, you need to control that much value of real estate, which, that's a lot, guys.
01:14:45.000You're gonna have to work a lot to make that money, but then, now, if you work really hard now, put that money in, control the asset, then you can get that dividend back, and then you don't have to work as hard.
01:14:55.000And to control $10 million, you said $10 million real estate, that'll fucking run you, what, fucking $200K? Yeah.
01:15:12.000That's why it's so wide, because people are like, Myron, $3 to $10 million is a big range.
01:15:15.000That is true, but I'm giving you guys the range of, this is the amount of real estate you need to control, typically, to make that $10 million.
01:15:22.000You need a few hundred thousand dollars to control that much though, right?
01:16:46.000So the fastest way to make money is always your...
01:16:49.000Own business if it works, but it's the risk it is.
01:16:51.000So you've got to really make sure you know what you're doing if you're going to do your own business.
01:16:55.000And I also want to bring to people's attention that you don't have to be an entrepreneur, guys.
01:17:00.000People sell this whole laptop lifestyle.
01:17:04.000If you've got a high-income skill, you're making $100,000 plus a year, You could, it'll take longer, but you could take that money and put it into assets.
01:17:12.000You might not be able to aggressively invest like someone that makes more money out of their own business, but you can absolutely become financially free from working a nine-to-five, too.
01:17:19.000And have a good lifestyle, by the way.
01:17:20.000And have a good lifestyle, because everyone thinks that, oh, I need an entrepreneur.
01:18:18.000That's why so many people that become rich young end up having drug problems and alcohol problems.
01:18:22.000It's because they didn't build the prerequisite discipline You know, early on in life to be able to say no and abstain from this crap.
01:18:29.000So then when they do get the money, they don't have that back set to be like, no, I'm not going to just drink, you know, booze or whatever.
01:18:35.000Also, to your point about gym, if you go to the gym, you kind of say no by default.
01:18:39.000You're tired, you worked out, you're like already fatigued.
01:18:41.000You don't want your results to go out the window.
01:19:02.000For example, anything you want to abstain from It's better to, for example, when I used to, before I went keto, one of my favorite foods was ice cream.
01:19:14.000I was like, if I got some ice cream, I eat all that shit, right?
01:19:16.000So, you know, I just don't have ice cream in the crib.
01:19:18.000I can still get it, but what I've done is I've added friction.
01:21:28.000It's like, all I gotta do is, like, paddle on that motherfucker.
01:21:31.000We're at a low intensity, but over, you know, the course of a day, I look at my fucking oar ring, I'm tracking my car, I'm like, fuck, I burned, like, 3,500, 4,000 calories.
01:21:39.000Also, you play video games only when you're on the bike.
01:22:07.000You just need a dyke to solve all your problems.
01:22:14.000Anyway, you increase the friction on the things you're trying to abstain from and decrease the friction on the things that you want to do more of.
01:22:48.000It doesn't get stronger the more you use it.
01:22:49.000But you want to think of it like, oh, you got this much discipline throughout the day.
01:22:53.000And then it wanes and wanes and wanes.
01:22:55.000And this is why one of the analogies the author gave was people would use their discipline not to spaz out on people at work all day, right, but they'd come home and fucking spaz out on their partners, you know, or their kids, you know, because it's at night, right?
01:23:11.000Or that's why, like, a lot of bad shit happens, a lot of people get in trouble at night when there's more temptation, and they've been using their discipline all day.
01:23:27.000So right now I got time management, working the 80 hours a week, calculating the hours wasted, investing in your business, real estate, and or asset class crypto stocks.
01:23:40.000The average person makes about 50k, working only 38 hours per week, so theoretically doubling that would double your income and get all of you guys to 100k per year.
01:23:48.000Seriously, and you can do it, you can work more with your own business, or you can work more just fucking turn on the fucking Uber app.
01:24:10.000But Dan Myron, you don't miss, I opened Instagram and academics posted the healthcare killer and the girls in the comments section going crazy, saying stuff like, what's his IG? They're going to be piled up a trial.
01:34:01.000You can do whatever you want if you make enough money, if your assets make enough money to cover your living expenses and pay for your lifestyle.
01:38:19.000Only one person in the last, like, fucking five, six years has ever tried to get me to drink when I said I don't drink, and that's Tristan Tate.
01:40:59.000To accomplish any goal, any series goal, you have to be consistent over a certain amount of time, whether it's a fitness goal, an income goal.
01:41:06.000When you build this podcast, imagine if you were inconsistent when you first started, right?
01:41:10.000It wouldn't have got to where it is, right?
01:41:12.000But if you said, oh man, something's better than nothing, that kind of shit, then you...
01:41:20.000It gives you the impression that you're actually doing something when you would have been better off just doing nothing.
01:41:26.000It's almost like you're moving forward, but it's not something that's better than nothing.
01:41:31.000Nothing is better than doing something half-ass.
01:41:34.000Yeah, because at least when you do nothing, you'll feel the pain for it, which might stimulate something in your head to say, damn, what am I doing?
01:41:41.000You're just like, hey, man, okay, you can just accept, hey, I'm going to be fat, or hey, I'm going to be broke, and you can make peace with that shit.
01:41:49.000But when you do a little bit, you do just enough to get no results.
01:42:19.000The results you're going to get are nothing.
01:42:21.000That's why the phrase go big or go home is such a thing.
01:42:24.000It's a thing because they realize that if you don't put a concentrated effort into something and you're really going hard, you're probably not going to bear the fruits of that labor to any significant degree.
01:42:35.000If anything, you're going to get frustrated and be like, damn, I'm not getting no results.
01:44:48.000But, like, we live in this world where it's like people think, oh, you deserve to be happy all the time, and it's like, no, dude, you gotta earn your happiness.
01:44:54.000Listen, I mean, it's funny when people say, I just want to be happy, because it's like...
01:44:59.000I hope they don't mean that they want to be happy 24 hours a day, right?
01:45:03.000Because every human being is going to experience a full range of emotions, right?
01:45:06.000So to be happy, your life is not going to be an unbroken boulevard of green lights.
01:45:11.000You're going to have setbacks, tragedies, bad things are going to happen.
01:45:49.000The only way you can do that is to do things that make you proud of yourself, man.
01:45:53.000Seriously, you got to give yourself a reason to be proud of yourself.
01:45:56.000And if you're fucking not doing what you know you're supposed to do, if you're not keeping the promises you make of yourself, if you're falling off of your tomb, if you're being inconsistent, if you're not doing what you say you're going to do, why should you be proud of yourself?
01:46:12.000You can bullshit other people, but you can't bullshit yourself.
01:46:50.000And I think for men, if you're in a depressed state in your life, very rarely do I see a guy that's depressed that goes to the gym, is helping out people, making money, people respect them, people admire them.
01:47:02.000Very rarely do you see that guy be depressed.
01:49:35.000So what I was going to say was we do got a little bit of time.
01:49:38.000What I'm thinking is we do a Zoom call.
01:49:39.000We'll stay on air a little bit longer, and then we'll do a Zoom call with Brandon so you guys can kind of pick his brain, open Q&A with our people.
01:49:47.000So we'll put the Zoom link out for Cals Club members.
01:49:50.000If you're not a Casco member, join, because you're going to get a chance to speak to Brandon.
01:49:53.000This Zoom call is going to be centered more on mindset, getting yourself ready for 2025. A lot of you guys I know probably have questions or might want to go ahead and pick someone's brain like Brandon, who's successful in many different endeavors.
01:50:04.000And tell us what you're going through.
01:50:05.000Do you have a bad time in your family?
01:50:50.000And then invest in the money that you make.
01:50:53.000Really got to focus on investing into three things.
01:50:55.000Either your business, market, crypto stocks, or real estate.
01:51:00.000You know, invest because the markets are doing well, which is true when we talk about how Trump coming and taking office, to give you guys a number to this.
01:51:07.000November 1st, crypto, Bitcoin was around $69,000, $70,000.
01:51:11.000He comes into office, shoots up to $90,000, past $100,000 within a month.
01:51:17.000Next, the average person makes about $50,000 per year and works about 38 hours roughly a week.
01:51:23.000So that means a lot of you guys can earn six figures just by doubling your workload.
01:51:28.000And then now we also got Uber and all these other things, whereas you were making 100k with four different jobs before the advent of the internet.
01:51:35.000And then also, very good pro tip here, increase friction on vices while simultaneously removing friction on things that are positive and work.
01:51:55.000And then we talked about delayed gratification, the importance of that, where sacrifice now so you don't have to sacrifice later and understand that, you know, yeah, you might be able to have this great weed session now with your friends, but if you work hard and become successful, then you could be like a Joe Rogan where you're smoking top tier weed with fucking Elon Musk.
01:52:11.000And that's another thing, too, I want to say, because I hate weed.
01:52:47.000What if I remove this roadblock to success?
01:52:50.000So is there another, because we're up to seven now, do you want to give him one more tip before he cuts the Zoom call as far as getting ready for 2025?
01:52:57.000I see we ask questions for people now on Council Club.
01:54:36.000To your point, even getting real estate or, for example, an investment you want investing, if you know what to do before you get the money, when you get the money, it's like, all right, I know what to do.
01:54:45.000Yeah, you definitely want to keep studying, no matter what that looks like, you know?
01:54:49.000You know, I want to really show people how important that is, because people might think, oh, just studying, yeah, that's like a fucking no-brainer.
01:54:57.000No, let me tell you how fucking important this is.
01:55:01.000TikTok comes on the scene, roughly 2020. You make 10, 20 second videos.
01:55:06.000Everyone's like, wow, this is the way to grow on TikTok.
01:55:09.000But now, TikTok to grow, you got to be making longer videos.
01:55:14.000Only four years later, everything changed.
01:55:17.000Then Instagram made it where reels get pushed way more than regular posts to compete with said TikTok on the videos.
01:55:26.000X right now is trying to become a video platform as well.
01:55:29.000This is why someone like a Tucker Carlson posts all of his stuff on X first and it's getting hundreds of millions of views and getting pushed because X is really trying to make a concerted effort to switch over to video content as well as just tweeting, right?
01:56:12.000Apparently, long story short, FBI fucked up, put a tracker on a car at fucking Walmart.
01:56:16.000They followed it very aggressively and the guy found out, sued, and then it created a landmark case where now trackers need search warrants.
01:56:24.000If you were not aware of that, or you're not knowing what the hell you're doing, you could put yourself in a fucking pickle.
01:56:30.000Because you didn't understand that the laws changed, you can't put a tracker on a fucking car, and you can get in trouble now.
01:56:44.000So, this is the importance, guys, of staying abreast in your profession, knowing what you're doing, and kind of staying up to date with things, because things do change, and if you want to continue to stay relevant or be good at what you do, you have to adapt with the times, and that requires you to stay up with current events.
01:57:01.000I spent all Sunday going through, like, reading and going through courses because it's something I'm trying to learn.