Order of Man - March 19, 2021


Get Strong. Get Smart. Get Rich. ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


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662

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00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart
00:00:05.020 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
00:00:10.500 You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.240 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.820 you can call yourself a man. What's up you guys? This is Ryan Mickler. I am the host and founder
00:00:28.320 of the Order of Man podcast and movement. And guys, it is a movement. I had made a post
00:00:32.500 the other day on, I think, everywhere. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. We had just marked, as of
00:00:40.060 March 16th, the six-year anniversary of Order of Man. It's hard for me to believe that it's
00:00:47.020 been six years, but it has. We've done over 700 podcasts, over 35 million downloads. I
00:00:56.940 think there's 500,000 plus men who are following us on various social media platforms. And I could
00:01:06.200 not be more proud and honored regarding what we've been doing here. And more important than
00:01:10.900 the numbers, it's the individual. It's the father who wants to lead his children. It's the husband who
00:01:17.540 wants to connect with his wife. It's the business owner who wants to lead his employees. It's the
00:01:21.860 community leader who wants to serve young men and women in his community and lead effectively.
00:01:28.120 It's the individual that matters to me. And I feel like if we serve enough individuals,
00:01:33.300 then we will begin to make our dent in our communities, make our dent in the country,
00:01:38.940 make our dent in the world. And that's what we're doing. And we're just getting started.
00:01:42.620 We do that if you're just visiting us for the first time via this podcast and
00:01:46.800 our exclusive brotherhood, the iron council and merchandise and courses and live events and
00:01:53.260 everything else that we've got going on. You can figure that all out. You can find that all out.
00:01:57.760 The other thing that we're doing right now is we're on the big origin beard oil kick. By the way,
00:02:03.500 guys, I don't work with origin. I get messages every single day from you guys, men that are following
00:02:11.840 along with what we're doing, who think that I work for origin. And so sometimes you'll,
00:02:15.420 you'll send me your customer service questions. And while I'll, I'll do the best I can to answer
00:02:21.580 those questions. I am not an employee of origin. I just believe in these guys. I love these guys.
00:02:27.020 These are my neighbors, literally my neighbors. They're friends. We go to dinner together. We
00:02:32.780 train jujitsu together. So I believe in what they're doing, but we've got the origin beard oil
00:02:39.180 launch happening right now. So if you go onto Amazon and type in origin beard oil, and I think
00:02:44.480 Amazon's going to try to trick you into just showing you the post for original beard oil.
00:02:50.600 So be very wary of their little tricks. It's origin beard oil. So make sure you're looking for the
00:02:56.340 results for origin beard oil. And you'll find us support us there. A hundred percent made and
00:03:02.920 sourced in America. And we're going to give you a free bottle of beard oil if you pick up one on
00:03:09.300 Amazon. So check that out. All right, guys, with that said, I want to talk with you about
00:03:13.880 something that I didn't think would be polarizing, but has ended up being a polarizing subject.
00:03:20.940 The other day on, I think both Instagram and Twitter, I had made a post and I said three tips
00:03:27.640 for individual sovereignty or something along those lines. And the three tips were get strong,
00:03:33.580 get smart, get rich. That's it. The overwhelming majority of people who responded and commented
00:03:42.100 and engaged, believe that that was true, but I had some people push back on that a little bit.
00:03:47.380 So I wanted to, to, to, to explore that, to uncover that, to unpack that a little bit, because
00:03:52.800 that's a ridiculous idea in my mind to, to attempt to fight against the idea of getting strong and smart
00:04:00.360 and wealthy. That's how we create sovereignty in our lives. So what is sovereignty? Well, sovereignty
00:04:10.840 in my own words would be not having to be at the mercy of anyone or anything. You're self-reliant,
00:04:22.040 you're independent. You're able to make decisions based on your conscience, not your financial
00:04:30.620 situation or your health situation. And I see a lot of people who are jeopardized.
00:04:41.420 They don't want to be jeopardized, but they are. And they're jeopardized because they aren't strong
00:04:46.820 or they aren't smart or they aren't rich or a combination of those three. And so they jeopardize
00:04:54.860 their morals and their values and their integrity because they got to put food on the table because
00:05:01.300 they got to buy that pill or that vaccine because they haven't handled their business to the degree
00:05:07.000 that they should. Now, look, we don't know what's going to happen in life. And although a lot of life
00:05:13.560 is within our control, there's a lot of life that is not in our control. And I can't tell you with
00:05:18.140 100% certainty that if you do all of the things I'm going to share with you today, that you will
00:05:22.320 always find yourself in the best position. The truth of the matter is you won't. You will be
00:05:27.300 compromised. There will be challenging times ahead. And I'm not saying that there won't. I'm just
00:05:33.560 suggesting that if you're strong, smart, and wealthy, the odds of you having to deal with negative
00:05:39.780 circumstances or being asked to jeopardize your standards or morals will be significantly diminished
00:05:45.520 and reduced. And isn't that what we want? In my past life, I was a financial advisor and my job was
00:05:51.720 to anticipate situations that could potentially arise that would pose a risk or a threat to your
00:05:58.500 financial wellbeing. That could be a medical condition, a loss of a job, a lawsuit, losing a car,
00:06:05.700 plant obsolescence, which is just basically the fact that things wear out, computers, cars,
00:06:11.440 et cetera, et cetera. And you don't have to buy the new thing. And it's usually more expensive
00:06:15.140 than the old thing was. And then we had to manage risk in the markets and everything else. And so my
00:06:21.840 job was to reduce, not eliminate, because how can you eliminate? My job was to reduce as much risk as
00:06:28.560 possible for my clients. It's funny. A lot of you guys know about the canoe. I know a lot of you are
00:06:32.780 sick of hearing about it at this point, but a guy the other day, I had posted something about the
00:06:36.920 canoe that we're building, my son and I, my oldest son and I, and a guy had posted, you know, not to
00:06:41.200 be a downer, but are we a hundred percent sure this thing will float? Well, hell no. Of course,
00:06:45.280 we're not a hundred percent sure. Like how could we be a hundred percent sure until I put the dang thing
00:06:51.160 in the water and attempt to float that and paddle that across, across the lake? Nothing's a hundred
00:06:58.220 percent sure. Is that a reason not to do it? No, of course not. No, we should be aware of it,
00:07:05.400 right? We should, we should look for the holes in the canoe or the holes in our life.
00:07:10.920 We should make sure there are no holes. We should make sure we build the thing right.
00:07:16.240 And if we do, then the odds are that, you know, we're going to be okay. And maybe there's a leak
00:07:20.040 here or two there, but odds are, we're going to be okay. We're going to get across the lake.
00:07:25.020 And that's a metaphor for life. You're going to have a little bit of leaking here and there.
00:07:31.420 It isn't going to be perfect, but you know what? You make the best that you can. And just because
00:07:37.020 it isn't a hundred percent perfect doesn't mean you don't get to go on the path. It means that you
00:07:40.320 try to shore those areas up and that's what risk is all about. And so as I'm talking about sovereignty
00:07:45.500 and I wrote the book on it, sovereignty, the battle for the hearts of minds and men. I think that
00:07:50.020 was in 2017 or 18. I can't remember at this point. That was my goal to equip you with the tools and
00:07:58.100 skill sets and the knowledge that you needed to be sovereign, to not have to rely on the state or
00:08:03.500 the government or other people or your family or your friends, but to be self-reliant. And by the way,
00:08:08.480 that doesn't mean you can't accept help as, as it's offered. I have people in my life who helped me
00:08:15.160 and I gladly accept that help. A hand, a hand up, not a hand out. So sovereignty isn't about
00:08:22.440 living on an Island where nobody can help you. Nobody can serve you. You're not banded with
00:08:29.020 anybody. We've talked about the importance of having people around you. Sovereignty is about
00:08:33.440 not needing it to survive. So let's break this down. All right. Number one, again, the three are get
00:08:38.220 strong, get smart, get rich. I think people had a hard time with it because the third get rich.
00:08:45.240 Most people have a negative connotation of the word rich. They think the wealthy, the rich,
00:08:51.100 and this is an increasing trend. It's disturbing. Actually, it's very destructive. I'll get into it
00:08:56.440 in a minute, but, but most people have a negative connotation of rich. We'll get to that in a minute,
00:08:59.980 but let's talk about getting strong. Guys, get off the couch. Stop shoving your face full of like junk
00:09:09.920 food. It's not even food. It's food. Like I would call it. Stop filling your face with that stuff.
00:09:20.240 Eat real food, vegetables, fruits, meat. Like if you can't acknowledge and recognize it in its real form,
00:09:28.320 it's probably not that great for you. I think about this because I like to get some beef jerky,
00:09:32.780 for example, at the, at the convenience store. Okay. Well, that's not its real form. So I should
00:09:38.880 be a little wary of that. Same thing with my kids. They like fruit snacks. Okay. Fruit snacks,
00:09:45.400 like the little gelatin fruit snacks are not in food form. It's food like, but instead you should
00:09:54.620 probably eat an apple or a peach or a pear or whatever. My wife gets these little,
00:10:01.140 I think they're, I don't even know what they are. They're little dehydrated vegetable, crispy things.
00:10:10.240 And so you see vegetable on the thing and you're thinking, Oh, vegetable. Yeah, that's good.
00:10:13.920 No, it's food. Like you should just actually eat some peas or eat some green beans or eat some carrots.
00:10:19.320 That's what you should be eating. All right. So eat real food, eat food that you can recognize,
00:10:25.360 go into the gym, train your body, exercise every day. And even as I say that, some of you guys are
00:10:31.600 thinking, well, you know, technically you should work out three to five days a week and then recover
00:10:36.260 two days a week. Exercise your body every damn day. All right. Move your body, go out and get your
00:10:42.420 steps, get a walk in, train jujitsu, go do some, some strength lifting, do some CrossFit, go outside
00:10:52.080 and flip tires, go ride a bike, go for a run, go for a walk, play with your kids at the park. This is
00:10:58.320 what I'm talking about. All right. I'm not telling you to go a hundred percent every day, go a hundred
00:11:03.080 percent five days a week and go 70 to 80% two days a week. And you can determine what that is.
00:11:08.800 But if you're not strong, how are you going to, how are you going to live your life?
00:11:14.600 Next month, I turn 40. I'm in the best shape of my life. I'm the fittest. I'm the strongest. I'm
00:11:22.080 the most capable. I'm attempting to turn my body into a tool and a weapon at age 40. I could kick
00:11:29.420 the shit out of the 18 year old version of myself. And that's how it should be.
00:11:35.400 Many of us give ourselves excuses and justifications and all sorts of reasons. And we get out of bed
00:11:44.900 and we're like, I'm so old. And if you say that you are, and it's likely that you're doing what old
00:11:50.320 people do, which is going to bed at seven o'clock and watching soap operas. And I remember my
00:11:58.040 grandparents used to give us this little dish of like these little strawberry, like hard candy. I
00:12:04.100 think you guys know what I'm talking about. If you had grandparents that did like mine did,
00:12:07.540 I don't even know if they have those available anymore. And they watched their soap operas
00:12:11.380 and they made us, you know, lunch and they went to bed at seven o'clock and they had a little poodle.
00:12:17.700 And that's what old people do. Don't be an old person. All right. Go out and play with your kids,
00:12:24.100 flip tires, ride bikes, go to the park, play on the swings, wrestle, do all the things that you should
00:12:29.040 be doing. And by the way, this is crucial. I saw a study the other day and I can't quote what study
00:12:34.980 it came from. So you guys will have to look it up, but it said something like, don't quote me,
00:12:40.980 but it was something like 78% of people who experienced hardship conditions and hospitalizations
00:12:48.580 for COVID were obese. No shit. Do we really need a study for this? Apparently we do. You don't need
00:13:00.340 to study. You know, if you're fat and you're weak and you're overweight and you're out of shape
00:13:07.580 that you are going to experience hardship. And by the way, the pharmaceutical companies,
00:13:16.520 they're relying on that. They're relying upon you eating the junk food and not working out and
00:13:22.260 not training your body and being an old guy. They're relying on that. I saw another report that
00:13:28.600 I think, I think it was the Pfizer vaccine. The executives and the spokespersons for Pfizer came
00:13:38.120 out and said that, uh, you know, it may be a good idea to get a third shot for the vaccine and then
00:13:43.660 you'll get your annual booster. Hmm. So we go from this, this, uh, virus that, that impacts very few
00:13:56.340 people, frankly, overweight people, almost 80% of the people are overweight. So that's who it impacts
00:14:02.960 to let's roll out the vaccine to, you're only going to need a shot to now you need two shots.
00:14:11.460 And now Pfizer saying, no, now you need three shots and you need a booster every year.
00:14:15.960 Well, you just relinquish some of your sovereignty. And by the way, I'm not going to tell you whether
00:14:20.720 or not you should take your vaccine or not. That's up to you to decide. The Michlers are not going to
00:14:25.660 be taking that vaccine currently because it's unnecessary at this point. Oh, that was for the,
00:14:34.520 it's the better, the better good of society. Well, look, if your vaccine works, it doesn't matter
00:14:39.520 if I took my vaccine or not. Right. If you're listening to this and you're like, well, I'm,
00:14:45.720 I'm, I'm somebody who's going to take the vaccine that I do it. Fine. Cool. Take the vaccine. And if
00:14:50.880 yours works as well as you think it does, then it actually doesn't matter if I take the vaccine or not.
00:14:56.880 But I'll tell you what I'm going to be focusing on getting strong, getting fit, getting sleep,
00:15:06.880 getting the right nutrients in my body. And that's a lower hanging fruit. Like it's easy to go get
00:15:13.120 yourself punched in the arm with a little shot. You can make that decision. Somebody said, I don't,
00:15:19.640 I posted this on Twitter about getting the shot. And somebody said, well, I don't know, Ryan,
00:15:24.200 it seems like it's easier to go get a shot. Yeah, of course it's easier because you don't have to do
00:15:27.800 any work. Of course that's easier. Is that the goal of life for it to be easy? Let me just do the easy
00:15:37.720 shit. Again, I'm not saying you should or shouldn't. I'm just saying like, you don't, you don't base
00:15:43.820 prudent decisions on what's easy. You base it on what's prudent, what's wise, what's smart,
00:15:51.320 what's healthy, what's intelligent, not what's easy. Like if, if all of your decisions were based
00:15:58.400 on what was easy, like you just be, you know, bonbons and, and watching, watching TV all day and
00:16:05.800 I don't know, doing whatever it is I'm always tempted to do, but I resist that.
00:16:10.340 So guys go get yourself strong, lose weight, eat the right foods, eat real foods, get sleep, rest,
00:16:21.360 recover, get strong, put yourself in difficult situations, physically and mentally.
00:16:29.240 Go do some public speaking, go ask for a raise.
00:16:32.520 Just do something because it's hard. If it's snowing outside, just go outside and do a walk
00:16:38.740 because it's snowing, because it's harder. Go take an ice bath or a cold shower.
00:16:45.560 Somebody else can talk to you about the positive benefits of that more than I can, but I'll tell
00:16:49.760 you what, just do it because it's hard. Just because it's hard, you're going to do it. Make
00:16:53.840 that the reason, not because it's easy. All right. Enough of that. You guys get it. Get smart.
00:16:59.620 Get smart. Dumb people are subject to the powers that would be, period. Bottom line. If you're dumb,
00:17:12.320 look, dumb relates to intelligence. Let's say you're dumb or you're ignorant. And ignorant,
00:17:18.320 I don't think relates to intelligence. Ignorant is more an indicator of potentially laziness.
00:17:24.760 Ignorance. Ignorance doesn't mean you're dumb. It just means you don't know.
00:17:30.320 And there's no reason to be ignorant in this day and age. You've got access to tools and books and
00:17:37.160 podcasts and information and resources and conferences and courses. And if you're ignorant,
00:17:42.240 that's on you. So being dumb and being ignorant are two different things. And both are unexcusable.
00:17:51.980 Go get smart, guys. Read books. Listen to podcasts. Go to conferences. Talk with people
00:17:59.940 who are smarter than you. Surround yourself. Ask good questions. How is it that there isn't things
00:18:10.060 you could know about? I mean, look, go on YouTube. You can learn about anything. And this is actually
00:18:16.100 one of the practices I do because I come across things that I'm not familiar with. Years ago,
00:18:20.280 I came across Bitcoin, for example, cryptocurrency. Like, what the hell is this? Well, you know what?
00:18:26.080 Like I could have sat by and just waited or just not informed myself. And instead, I'm like,
00:18:32.780 I'm going to dive into this. I'm going to do some research. And I jumped online and I typed in
00:18:36.560 cryptocurrency and I typed in Bitcoin. And I had a friend the other day who asked me, we were out to
00:18:41.800 dinner the other night and he said, hey, do you own any cryptocurrency? And I said, yeah. And he talked
00:18:46.080 about Bitcoin. And he's like, have you bought any Bitcoin recently? I'm like, yeah, I bought Bitcoin
00:18:50.980 recently. And I bought it years ago. And he's like, what? Years ago? Like, what did you buy it at?
00:18:56.900 So I pulled up my account the other day and I bought crypto, a lot of crypto or Bitcoin specifically
00:19:04.440 at 13,000. I think it's, I don't know, 50. I don't know what it is right now. 54, 56,
00:19:12.100 somewhere right in there. Why? I bought a lot of crypto Bitcoin specifically again at 13,000.
00:19:19.040 That's pretty awesome. If you look at the portfolio today, because I took some time to get educated and
00:19:24.420 get smart on it and expose myself to the information. You know, it's the same thing with
00:19:30.480 this business where people say, oh, Ryan, you got so lucky with this bill. You just hit the right
00:19:34.280 thing. And then maybe, I mean, maybe we hit the right time, but also I thrust myself into the
00:19:41.560 environment. The very first thing I did in March of 2015, again, I told you earlier, we're on our
00:19:46.920 six-year anniversary. So the very first thing I did in March of 2015 is I typed in on my computer,
00:19:55.220 Google, Bing, whatever. I typed in men's conferences because I didn't know what they
00:20:05.280 were and I didn't know where they were and who was hosting them and whatever else. Like I didn't
00:20:08.720 know any of that, but we've got Google. So I typed it in men's conferences and I found this one. It
00:20:14.040 was called Menfluential. I think it was actually called StyleCon originally by my friends, Aaron
00:20:20.620 Marino and Antonio Centeno. And I looked through the guest list and the speakers and I saw Tanner
00:20:26.540 Guzzi and Eric Bandholz and of course, Aaron and Antonio were speaking. And then I saw Brett McKay
00:20:31.680 with Art of Manliness. A lot of you guys are familiar with Art of Manliness. And I thought,
00:20:37.440 I want to meet Brett. I admire him. I respect him. He's doing great things in the space. I want to
00:20:42.400 meet this guy. So I call up Antonio Centeno and I say, hey, Antonio, my name is Ryan Michler. I'm
00:20:48.440 starting the Order of Man podcast and movement and blog. And I would like to come speak at your
00:20:55.180 event. I had no right to ask him that actually, because who was I? And that's what he said. Who
00:21:01.000 are you? He's like, I'll tell you what, come to the event, introduce yourself and then we'll talk.
00:21:06.920 And that's what I did. I invested in myself. I got educated. I get smart. I went to the course.
00:21:14.460 I went to the conference and I met him and Aaron and Brett and Tanner and Ryan McGinn and Eric
00:21:21.240 Bandholz and with Beardbrand and all these other guys. I met all these other guys.
00:21:28.240 And I got smart. And then I started reading books. Look, when I was struggling in my financial
00:21:33.560 planning practice and when my wife left me with my one-year-old son,
00:21:36.860 I didn't sit on the couch and mope around and bitch and moan and complain and talk about how
00:21:43.360 woe is. Actually, I did do that for a little bit. I'm not going to lie about that. I did do that for
00:21:49.140 a little bit. And then I was like, okay, enough with the pity party. I got to get to work. I got
00:21:54.160 to figure some of this stuff out. And so I started listening to Ed Milet. And there was no podcast.
00:22:01.440 Podcasting wasn't a thing. There was very few people podcasting at the time. I bought CDs from
00:22:07.340 Ed Milet and I would pop them in my truck. And on my way to and from appointments, I would listen to
00:22:13.760 Mr. Milet talk about how to hold successful sales calls and how to build your financial planning
00:22:19.780 practice and how to communicate effectively with people. And I would listen to Dale Carnegie and all
00:22:26.120 of these classic books and CDs on tape at the point. And I would just listen. And I would just
00:22:32.200 consume, consume, consume, consume. And it's not a surprise to me now. It was then. It would have been
00:22:37.540 then. But not a surprise to me now, looking back over six years that I am where I am today. It's not a
00:22:43.840 surprise to me. I'm not surprised that this is successful. I'm not surprised that I sound like
00:22:50.500 these individuals. I'm not surprised that what they taught me indirectly, by the way, these were
00:22:56.120 indirect mentors, that what they taught me has rubbed off on me. That is not a surprise to me.
00:23:03.840 And as I was thinking about what I wanted to share with you today, I wrote down five books that I think
00:23:07.880 you should read. Because I don't want to leave you without any resources here. So let me give you five
00:23:14.580 books that I think every single man should read. And there's more, just like there's more to
00:23:19.820 sovereignty than getting strong, smart, and rich. There's more books. But these are five, not the
00:23:24.460 five, but five. Okay, here we go. Number one, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. The information that
00:23:30.980 you put into your mind and the way you think about life and the way you perceive experiences and the
00:23:35.960 meaning and the stories you craft around not only this podcast, but your job and your relationship and
00:23:42.740 other people, you're creating all of that stuff. You're filling in the blanks. You don't know you are,
00:23:48.400 but you are. You're filling in the blanks. You're making shit up. We're all doing it. I'm making stuff up
00:23:56.520 as I'm doing this podcast. When I would listen to Ed Milet, I was making things up in my mind. I'm like,
00:24:03.520 oh, he's saying this. I don't know if he was saying that. I was making it up in my mind. That's how powerful
00:24:09.240 the mind is. And the people who are unsuccessful have made up stories in their mind that are wrong,
00:24:14.680 that aren't serving them. And the people who are successful have also made things up in their
00:24:21.040 mind. This is just like an imagination factory. And what they've made up in their mind is serving
00:24:27.260 them well, but we're all making it up. Every conversation, every experience, every story,
00:24:35.300 every encounter, every thing that you listen to, you are filling in the blanks. And if you fill in the
00:24:40.580 blanks with the right things, you'll win. If you fill in the blanks with the wrong things, you'll lose.
00:24:46.820 As a man thinketh is valuable by James Allen. Number two, Wild at Heart, John Eldredge.
00:24:51.960 It changed my life. That is not hyperbole. That book transformed my life. The way that I look at
00:25:00.460 masculinity, the way I view what my role and responsibility as a man, and not just a man,
00:25:05.440 but a child of God, it changed my life. John Eldredge is actually coming back on the podcast.
00:25:10.780 He's been on once. He's coming back for round two. Wild at Heart by John Eldredge. And by the way,
00:25:15.460 if you're not Christian, there is Christian undertones in the book. If you're not Christian,
00:25:19.880 I don't care. Go read the book. Because there's truth everywhere. Number three, extreme ownership,
00:25:29.320 Jocko Willink. I believe, I believe that Jocko is the individual we've had on the podcast the most.
00:25:41.140 In fact, I'm fairly certain of that. I think he's come on four times at this point.
00:25:45.760 Jocko Willink, Leif Babin. These are men that I get to call friends. We've had conversations outside
00:25:51.520 and above and beyond the podcast. These are incredible men. Extreme ownership, taking responsibility
00:25:56.360 for your life. Number four, endurance. A little bit different than a self-help book. It's up here
00:26:02.600 somewhere. I read that book every year. It's about a gentleman by the name of Ernest Shackleton and his
00:26:07.820 ill-fated attempt to cross the Antarctic on foot and what they experienced and the hardship they dealt
00:26:14.160 with. Brutal, tragic, horrific, unimaginable circumstances. And yet, well, I won't say
00:26:22.060 anymore. Unimaginable circumstances. Go read it. Endurance. I think there's a couple iterations. I
00:26:29.860 like the book by Alfred Lansing. Endurance by Alfred Lansing. And the last one, sovereignty. Now,
00:26:37.320 look, I know I'm a bit biased, but sovereignty, the battle for the hearts and minds of men written by
00:26:41.220 yours truly. That's what we're talking about today. Get smart. Get strong. Get rich. Be sovereign.
00:26:45.900 Be responsible for yourself. Don't be at the mercy of other people. So, go read Sovereignty,
00:26:53.060 the battle for the hearts and minds of men. It's best to pick it up on Amazon right now or Barnes
00:26:57.020 and Noble. There's probably a dozen other bookstores online that you can pick it up at if you don't want
00:27:01.720 to get it on Amazon. And I get that. Every once in a while, we do a small limited run of signed copies
00:27:06.900 in the store. We don't have any available now. We will in the next two to three weeks. But for now,
00:27:11.460 go pick it up on Amazon. You'll get it in two days. There's an audiobook version.
00:27:15.580 If you want to listen to me, for whatever reason, you can do that too. If that's easier,
00:27:19.880 sovereignty, the battle for the hearts and minds of men. And I break this down even further.
00:27:23.500 And I get into the strategies of how to do it. But guys, number one, get strong. We talked about
00:27:29.060 it. Number two, get smart. We're talking about that now. Don't be dumb. Don't be ignorant. The
00:27:33.360 information is there. And if you don't tap into it, that's on you, nobody else. It's your fault.
00:27:39.120 All right. And number three, get rich. Now, this is where everybody gets hung up because we have this
00:27:44.660 negative connotation of the word rich, right? If I were to ask you, be truthful about this.
00:27:49.840 Okay. I'm going to give you a fill in the blank. And I want you to think of the first word that pops
00:27:55.020 into your mind. I'm going to give you a fill in the blank. And I want you to think of the first word
00:28:00.840 that pops into your mind. I'm not going to grade this. You're not going to turn this in. It's just a
00:28:06.640 little self-reflective exercise for you to consider. Again, to fill in the blank, think of the first
00:28:13.200 word that pops into your mind. Here we go. Rich people are blank. Rich people are blank.
00:28:25.740 blank. What word did you fill in? What was the first word that popped in your mind? Not the answer
00:28:35.320 you thought I wanted to hear. Not the answer that you thought was quote unquote, right. What was the
00:28:41.340 first word that popped into your mind? Rich people are blank. I'd be willing to bet that for the majority
00:28:50.000 of people who are listening, they would say selfish, greedy, corrupt, evil. And I would bet that for the
00:29:06.200 minority, you would say industrious, creative, generous. Most of you, and I would too, I'm not
00:29:22.420 pointing fingers. When, when I went through this exercise, I said it's something negative. I don't
00:29:26.440 remember exactly what it was, but it wasn't positive because we have this negative connotation of the word
00:29:32.000 rich. Rich people are greedy. Rich people are assholes. Rich people are self-centered. They're
00:29:36.820 selfish. Oh, they, they, they rob from everybody else at their own, you know, other people's expense to
00:29:41.240 get ahead. That's what we think. Remember how I talked about making shit up? That's what you're doing. You're
00:29:46.740 making shit up. You don't know that. Look, I know just as many successful rich people, like positive,
00:29:57.580 encouraging, uplifting, helpful, creative, rich people. And I know a bunch of assholes who are poor
00:30:08.480 and broke. I know both. I know poor, poor, excuse me, assholes who are poor, assholes who are rich.
00:30:20.620 I know great people who are poor, great people who are rich has nothing to do with your wealth. Wealth is
00:30:26.180 just a magnifier. So I'm telling you what, what we need is we need more noble, positive, creative,
00:30:35.940 caring, kind, strong, empathetic men who are rich.
00:30:45.160 Cause I've been broke and I've been relatively wealthy and wealthy is better.
00:30:50.960 Well, wealthy is better. Not just for me, but I get to, I get to spend time. Look, I spent
00:30:57.960 three hours, three, four hours this afternoon with my children.
00:31:04.360 I didn't punch in to, to some time clock. I wasn't at the mercy or beholden to anybody else to tell me
00:31:11.000 what to do. I went to, I took my kids to CrossFit this morning. We trained for about an hour and a
00:31:16.300 half. We came home. We ate lunch together. We went outside, we rode bikes and we played and we
00:31:22.740 shoveled snow and we spent time together. I took my daughter's training wheels off. She's riding
00:31:28.020 around now without training wheels because I have money guys. That's why. Cause if I didn't have the
00:31:37.200 financial resources and means to be able to do that, I'd be punched in at some company doing
00:31:43.180 something that I likely didn't want to do. And I would be miserable because my kids are doing their
00:31:48.420 thing with maybe, maybe my wife, or maybe even in at school, they're not even here with us because I
00:31:55.200 don't have the financial resources to do it. So don't tell me that being rich is bad.
00:32:01.820 Being wealthy has served me well. And other people, my kids, the people that I can, I can donate to
00:32:09.000 the organizations and causes that I believe in because I have money. There's another reason.
00:32:16.780 I had a gentleman reach out the other day, and this is actually kind of what spurred this whole
00:32:20.940 conversation. And I'm not going to name any names just out of respect for this individual, but he
00:32:25.840 reached out and he said, you know, Ryan, I I'm at the point where I feel like in the very near future,
00:32:31.900 I may be asked to jeopardize my principles and morals in my job. What should I do?
00:32:40.740 And I said, you need to get rich.
00:32:45.560 You need to invest. You need to pay off your debt. You need to start setting money aside.
00:32:51.780 You need to tighten up your budget. You need to create a side income.
00:32:57.280 Because when that day comes and it sounds like you believe it will come when that day comes,
00:33:04.280 I don't want you to sacrifice or jeopardize your morals and principles because you have to put food
00:33:10.340 on the table and you've got a wife and children to worry about. And you know what? The odds are,
00:33:16.360 if you had to take care of your family and that meant you had to sacrifice or jeopardize your morals
00:33:22.600 and principles, you would do that, right? Who wouldn't do that? If I had to put food on my
00:33:28.540 table and the only way I could do it was to steal, to make it happen, I would do that.
00:33:36.020 I don't want to be in that position, guys. I don't want you to be in that position.
00:33:43.600 So I've set myself up to not be in that position. We've got investments. We've got money set aside.
00:33:49.680 We've got food storage. We've got the provisions. I mean, there was a time in my life. I just had a
00:33:53.780 conversation with a friend this morning. There was a time in my life where my wife and I ate off
00:33:58.200 of food storage, literally canned green beans and other things that she had prepared
00:34:03.540 because I was broke. I was worried about making the mortgage payment, the car payment.
00:34:10.260 And so we couldn't buy groceries. She would say, hey, I'm going to go grocery shopping. How much
00:34:14.860 could I spend? Can I spend a hundred dollars? And I'd say, no, you really, you can only spend 60.
00:34:19.680 That's not sovereign. I'm beholden
00:34:23.900 to the financial institutions that love to collect interest from you, that love to see you poor and
00:34:33.180 destitute, to the government who wants to continue to give you the little handouts, right? Oh, $1,400
00:34:39.940 in stimulus check. Here, here you go. Here you go, little peasants. Yeah, you've paid tens of thousands
00:34:45.480 of dollars or more into the system. Here, here, just be quiet. Let me give you $1,400 back. And
00:34:51.320 all you freaking assholes are listening because you have no choice, right? Like $1,400 is a big deal
00:35:02.140 deal to you. It shouldn't be a big deal. I'm not going to say it's not nice. I'm not talking about
00:35:09.220 balking at money or being arrogant about it. I'm just saying if $1,400 changes your life,
00:35:15.420 you're wrong. You got to fix something. That shouldn't change your life.
00:35:21.800 And if it does, then correct it now. Correct the behavior now.
00:35:31.840 I'll give you one more little anecdote on this that I've shared in the past. Years ago,
00:35:37.920 I considered hiring a coach for my financial planning practice. And I think it cost,
00:35:43.780 I think there was a $1,500 initial investment to go out and meet this individual. And I went out
00:35:51.780 there and the total investment ended up being, it was right around, if I remember correctly, $6,000.
00:35:58.720 And I didn't have $6,000 at the time. I wasn't in the position to invest in that,
00:36:02.940 but I got done with this presentation. I thought, you know what? I am going to go do this.
00:36:07.540 I'm going to invest in this coaching. I think this will help me. And I did. And it did. It radically
00:36:11.080 transformed my life because I invested in it. But the gentleman who was coaching me told us a
00:36:17.720 story. And he said, you know, when he was building his financial planning practice at the time or
00:36:22.040 wanted to, he went to his company, his employer, who was the financial planner. And he went into his
00:36:29.100 office and he said, Hey, you know, I'm really thinking about breaking out on my own and starting
00:36:33.420 my own financial planning practice. And that's the first mistake. Never ask for advice from someone who
00:36:37.960 has a vested interest in ensuring you stay exactly where you are. Let me say that again.
00:36:44.660 Never ask for advice from somebody who has a vested interest in you staying right where you are,
00:36:50.380 the status quo. But he did because he didn't know any better and he taught us. So that's good.
00:36:55.140 But he went in and asked his employer and his employer said, you'll never make it.
00:36:58.800 You're going to struggle. You can't do it. Why would he say that? Because he had a vested
00:37:02.420 interest in keeping this guy on the hook. That's not sovereignty. And I'll never remember what my
00:37:11.060 coach said. He said, you know what? I'd rather live in a cardboard box than be your bitch for the rest
00:37:17.500 of my life. And he marched out that door and now he's making hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
00:37:24.420 And he's sovereign. He has control over his life. He doesn't have to jeopardize his morals. He can
00:37:37.160 contribute to the places that he wants to contribute. He can volunteer. He can be available
00:37:42.480 for family and friends. He can go on adventures and have experiences and teach people things and coach
00:37:48.760 when and where he wants to. And there's not a soul on earth who can make him do otherwise while dangling
00:37:54.900 the little carrot of financial freedom over his head because he created it. He created it for himself.
00:38:04.060 Guys, you got to build wealth. And I know some of you are thinking right now,
00:38:08.180 money's the root of all evil, which I think it actually says the love of money.
00:38:12.900 And you're thinking rich people are greedy, rich people are assholes,
00:38:16.520 that rich people are criminal or crooks. It ain't true. That's a story that you're making up.
00:38:22.540 I know plenty of wealthy people and I've had the great fortune of being able to meet
00:38:26.420 extremely, extremely financially successful individuals. And I can tell you some of them
00:38:31.460 are assholes, sure. But I can tell you the overwhelming majority of them are not.
00:38:37.180 They know how to create value. They know how to serve. They know how to lead. They have skill sets
00:38:42.540 that are applicable and valuable to other people. And generally, they're good human beings.
00:38:48.820 It isn't the wealth. Wealth is just a magnifying glass. If you're an asshole with money, you're going
00:38:54.220 to be a bigger asshole. You're going to buy the strippers and the Coke and everything else.
00:38:58.240 And you're just going to turn into a bigger asshole. But if you're a good and decent man,
00:39:02.680 and you start to build wealth, then you're going to donate to charity. You're going to go on
00:39:06.960 experiences. You're going to serve other people. You're going to give back. You're going to pour
00:39:11.440 money back into your business to create new value and services and products that you can offer other
00:39:16.040 people. It's only a magnifying glass. And I want the biggest damn magnifying glass that I can find,
00:39:21.940 not at the expense of other people, but for other people. For my kids who I get to homeschool.
00:39:28.400 For my wife who doesn't have to leave every single day and go into a job that she hates. She gets to
00:39:35.380 can and she gets to grow her garden and she gets to build this house into a home and she gets to teach
00:39:40.580 her children because I have money to be able to do it. If I want to take a week off, I take a week
00:39:48.980 off. If I want to take the afternoon off because I want to play with my kids, you're damn right.
00:39:52.800 That's what I do because I built wealth.
00:39:59.360 Money is amoral guys. It's literally, well, here's a check on my desk. It's a piece of paper.
00:40:08.580 That's all it is. It's a piece of paper. It's not moral. It's not good. It's not bad.
00:40:17.160 I got a hammer and some axes over here on the wall. I don't think those are good or bad. I just think
00:40:21.960 they're hunks of, of, of wood handles and metal heads. And then how I use it matters.
00:40:29.360 If I use it to go butcher somebody, then yeah, I use that incorrectly. If I use it to chop down a
00:40:34.540 tree and build a canoe or build a log cabin up into the wilderness, then you're damn right. That
00:40:39.480 thing's a pretty good tool. It's a moral money is a moral. It's how you use it. Guys, we need to get
00:40:49.960 sovereign now more than ever. The government wants to control you. Your boss wants you to, to,
00:40:59.360 to be on the line forever. Your, your creditors want you to be broke. The pharmaceutical companies
00:41:07.700 want you to be unhealthy. Everybody wants you to be not sovereign, to be a slave.
00:41:13.360 And it's your job not to be. It's not my job to do that for you. It's not the government's job.
00:41:23.700 Cause look, the government's, the government is at odds with your own sovereignty. Okay. You need
00:41:28.220 to understand that. Oh, what do you, the government's here to help us. No, they're not here to help you.
00:41:34.060 They're here to hinder you and make you a little cog in their wheel. They don't care about you.
00:41:38.720 They hate you. They despise you. Maybe not even that bad, but I remember when I was little, I had
00:41:46.620 this ant farm and it was very entertaining to watch the ants build the tunnels. I didn't care about the
00:41:54.120 ants. And the only time I added value to their life, like gave them a little food was so they
00:42:00.320 could build tunnels to entertain me. That's the government. They don't care about you.
00:42:08.720 They give you little crumbs so that you'll keep doing what's entertaining to them, which is their
00:42:14.000 quest for power. The pharmaceutical companies, they don't care about you. It's actually better for
00:42:21.320 them. If you're fat and unhealthy, it's better for them. They don't care about you. You got to care
00:42:33.400 about yourself and you got to care about the people under your care. We do that by being sovereign.
00:42:44.460 Get strong guys, get smart, get educated, get rich, build wealth, and then use it as a force for good
00:42:53.820 in your life and the people that you care about. The people that you love. Because everybody else
00:42:59.280 isn't. They aren't.
00:43:07.000 Do it for yourself. That's your job. That's our job as men. Protect, provide, preside. We've talked
00:43:13.960 about it today. Protect, provide, preside. That's your job. That's your role. That's your responsibility
00:43:20.820 and getting smart and getting strong and getting rich will help you do it.
00:43:28.440 All right, guys. With that, I'll sign out. We'll be back next week. Get to work. Until then,
00:43:33.600 go out there, take action, and become the man you are meant to be.
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