Order of Man - December 09, 2020


When to End Your Employment, How to Start Investing, and When to Look for a Coach | ASK ME ANYTHING


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 16 minutes

Words per Minute

192.56833

Word Count

14,673

Sentence Count

1,274

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this episode, Kiff talks about a recent injury he sustained in training and how he managed to get back up and keep going. He also talks about his training partner and training partner, Brody Cousineau.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:04.980 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
00:00:10.420 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.220 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.780 you can call yourself a man. Mr. Kiff Sorensen, what's up, brother? Good to see you again, man.
00:00:27.460 Good to see you, that beautiful face of yours.
00:00:32.680 It might sound a little nasally today. If it is the case, just deal with it.
00:00:39.180 I keep thinking your camera's bust, like you have a crack in your camera, and that's why
00:00:44.140 your nose looks crooked. It's because I hold my head like this, so I just got to compensate
00:00:49.420 and straighten my nose out by just turning it this way. You have a choice, keep your head straight
00:00:54.400 or your nose straight, but you can't do both. Yeah. I'll keep my head straight. My nose is
00:00:59.140 sitting. I mean, it's noticeable, right? Like it is crooked for sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's crooked.
00:01:06.260 Yeah. So I broke my nose. It's kind of going over or at least to your left. Yeah. It's going
00:01:11.080 this way. Yeah. I'm pretty confident I broke my nose today. Okay. So you got to tell like
00:01:16.880 how like a random leg to the face during a roll. Like how did this happen? I ate a, I ate a forearm
00:01:24.260 slash elbow and okay. So here, here's what was happening. So me and me and my training partner,
00:01:31.120 Brody Cousineau were rolling this morning because we do twice, twice a week in the morning. And then
00:01:35.740 I go in the evening a couple of times a week as well. But yeah, him and I were training and I mean,
00:01:41.340 we're both pretty new to the sport, so it isn't super like, it's not a whole lot of finesse. Let's
00:01:50.080 just be honest. All right. It's not a whole lot of finesse. We're both a little rough around the edges.
00:01:55.320 And would you say a little bit more aggression than necessary?
00:01:59.160 Oh dude, we go hard. Like we go hard on each other. I'm surprised that we haven't hurt each other
00:02:05.220 worse than we have. Like he doesn't like to lose. I don't like to lose. I'll, I'll, he'll,
00:02:11.980 he won't tap on something. He should tap a whole lot sooner too. I won't do the same thing. Like we
00:02:17.080 go hard, dude. We go really hard. Well, and that's the benefit of this, of, of these podcasts
00:02:22.100 being on YouTube as well. And by the way, join us on YouTube is we see how well your partnership is
00:02:28.560 working out on your face every, every week. Cause last week it was a scratch across the bridge of the
00:02:34.740 nose. This week it's a, it's a, it's a busted nose. So, yeah. So I was in his guard. I think
00:02:42.940 I was in his clothes guard. I broke, broke his clothes guard and opened it up and backed up a
00:02:48.060 little bit. Cause he wasn't holding like my arms or lapel. So I backed up and I grabbed his knees
00:02:52.500 and I went for an X pass. And so I shoved his, it would have been his right leg down. Cause I was
00:03:00.180 going for a pass on the left to tuck it. Right. Right. So I shove his leg down to cross and I,
00:03:06.700 and you know, on the X pass, like you crash onto him, right? Yeah. You drive your shoulder,
00:03:11.480 your shoulder. Yeah. So I'm going like this, but I think I must've gone like this instead of like this
00:03:17.260 because he framed as soon as I passed his leg, he framed and he went whack and he hit. And I heard
00:03:24.480 this little, and I was like, Oh, it hurts so bad, man. I got teary eyed real quick. And then he's
00:03:31.140 like, Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hit you in the chin? I'm like, no, bro. You got me in the nose and my
00:03:35.460 eyes are just watering. And I'm like, I'm good. Just keep rolling. And I was, I passed his, his,
00:03:40.900 his guard. So I was inside control and I finally just kind of like flopped on him. I'm like, just give
00:03:45.840 me a second, dude. And I rolled off him. I went into the bathroom and I'm like, yep, it's broken.
00:03:51.900 So then I get out. I'm like, it doesn't really, it actually doesn't hurt. It hurts now. It didn't
00:03:57.360 hurt then. And I was like, I'm pretty sure I broke it. And he's like, Oh, do you just want to work
00:04:03.220 technique? I'm like, no, man, let's just keep rolling. So I'm like, there's nothing I can do
00:04:07.520 about it. So we kept rolling and now it, it hurts, man. It, it hurts. I can feel it. So, and now it will
00:04:14.940 be like a magnet to all limbs when you train because it seems like whenever you have an injury, you're
00:04:20.520 like, Oh, okay. I'll just play it safe. And then everything comes to everything. You're
00:04:24.960 like, Oh yeah. I'm not going to stop training. Like we've got trained. I'm going to train
00:04:29.580 tomorrow night. Who needs to stop train. Yeah. It's just a nose. Like I can breathe out of
00:04:35.420 my mouth if this thing completely shuts off. So I don't know. It's not too bad. I mean,
00:04:41.260 it's, I mean, it's sore. I mean, maybe once the swelling goes down. Yeah.
00:04:44.900 Yeah. Yeah. Maybe next week it'll be black and blue. I don't know. We'll see, but you
00:04:49.960 know, it's part of the fun, man. It's part of the fun. Yeah. Oh man. I love it. And, and
00:04:56.860 that's, and I was joking around with someone just last week about this is like, yeah, cause
00:05:02.120 you'll hear this sometimes on YouTube. When you talk about, when you look up jujitsu, right?
00:05:06.880 You Google jujitsu and you'll hear things like the gentle art. And one of the benefits of jujitsu
00:05:12.940 is you can go a hundred percent and no one ever gets injured and you can train into your
00:05:17.560 nineties. Right. And I, and I was cracking the joke last week. I'm like, you know, it's
00:05:21.540 really not very gentle, right? Like with everyone that's like blown out knees, guys are injured,
00:05:27.200 ribs crack. Whoever wrote that is either has never, either never trained jujitsu or is way
00:05:35.300 better than I am. Yeah. Well, and I think, I think what really what they're saying is cause
00:05:41.520 we're not striking, you're not striking. We can't, we can go a hundred. We, we, because
00:05:46.200 there's not very many martial arts that you can actually go a hundred percent with someone.
00:05:50.240 Well, and you got to think about benefit, but yeah. And you got to think about if we were
00:05:54.860 boxing, my, my training session would have been done. Like, I'm like, I can't, I can't
00:06:00.400 hit me in the nose again, but instead I was like, no, we can keep going. So I get it for
00:06:05.880 sure. But it's, yeah, it's, but it's not as gentle as, uh, I like it though. That's good
00:06:12.160 because here's the other thing I've thought about too, is when else, what other realm of
00:06:18.660 life is a man going to be able to physically exert himself against another human being
00:06:24.400 outside of an emergency situation, some sort of violent encounter. There's no, even, even
00:06:30.840 if you play pickup basketball or flag football or softball or baseball, there's once you're
00:06:36.180 out of high school or college or maybe professional athletes for some of you guys, there's no other
00:06:41.380 situation in which martial arts that is where you won't be able to exert yourself physically
00:06:47.540 against another human being. That's trying to do the same thing to you. And there's just
00:06:52.360 something very satisfying about it, very fulfilling and rewarding, but also very translatable to the
00:06:57.980 rest of your life when you can't punch your boss in the nose or you can't, you know, strangle your
00:07:02.960 client that you'd like to. There's just something very good about that. And that confidence of,
00:07:08.140 of defending oneself. And I was even thinking about as I'm doing this, I'm sure guys are tired of hear
00:07:14.980 me saying this, but as I'm doing this EMT training with my wife, I'm learning like all these things that
00:07:21.260 we naturally do, our bodies naturally, all these processes are our bodies naturally do,
00:07:27.100 you're overcoming them in jujitsu, right? The feeling of giving up the, the respiration,
00:07:34.400 the breathing, you know what I mean? Like trying to calm it down. Like there's all these natural
00:07:39.180 tendencies that kind of show up in jujitsu and to be good at it and to last in it, you're fighting
00:07:44.480 against them. You are using your mind over your head constantly in so many different areas. And
00:07:49.960 it's, I think that is highly rewarding as well. Yeah. I was training with Pete last night and he
00:07:55.520 just put a ton of pressure on, on my chest. And I was like, my hand was here. I'm like, I'm like,
00:08:01.540 I'm not going to tap to him putting pressure on me. I'm not going to do that. So you wanted to,
00:08:07.200 I totally wanted to for sure. Cause it was uncomfortable. Of course. Yeah. Instead I was like,
00:08:12.600 okay, put your damn hand down and do what you need to do to get out of this place that you're in
00:08:19.360 until then just breathe, like just take a breath. Like, and so that respiratory response isn't so
00:08:28.720 because intuitively you're like, you're hyperventilating panic. Yeah. But if you think
00:08:34.620 about it in the context of immediate feedback, and I think that's one of the benefits of jujitsu,
00:08:38.580 it's immediate instantaneous feedback, right? That hurts. That doesn't work. Oh, don't try that
00:08:44.580 again. Cause that is going to go badly. So it's instantaneous feedback, which is very important.
00:08:49.980 But when you, in this case, when you have that type of pressure and you're just like,
00:08:53.520 okay, you know, you take three deep breaths and then you make your move. I think that's very,
00:08:59.560 very translatable to you getting cut off on the road, on your way to work or getting in a fight with
00:09:05.760 your boss about the direction of control, whatever. Yes, for sure. Yeah. I love that. I,
00:09:11.440 I, with my two girls, I do at two of them every so often they're great now at first they didn't
00:09:16.560 like it, but I'll, I will grab one of my daughters and I'll just pin her. And, and at first you'd be
00:09:22.600 like, I'm like, calm down. You know what I mean? And she'll just like, I'm like, see, everything's
00:09:30.200 okay. You know what I mean? Uncomfortable. Right. She's like, totally. I don't like it. I'm like,
00:09:34.440 that's good. You know what I mean? And then I'll let her go. So then that way, when we do train,
00:09:38.680 she doesn't freak out. Right. And, and they're, they're great now. Like they'll totally, my,
00:09:42.700 my seven-year-old, she struggles a little bit still. She's like, and she'll try to like,
00:09:47.460 as I pin her 180 pounds. Yeah. And a seven-year-old, I just demolish her.
00:09:54.520 That is funny. A lot of guys actually have questions about getting their kids involved in
00:09:58.940 jujitsu. And you actually said something funny. You said, you know, I, I, I train with my daughters
00:10:03.940 or my daughter, my youngest daughter, she just doesn't know it. And, and I thought that was
00:10:09.780 really telling because my second son, my first son. So my oldest, he's all about it. Like he'll,
00:10:16.060 he'll train, he'll drill, he'll go through technique. Well, he'll go through the whole thing.
00:10:21.020 My second's like, no, I don't want to do that, but he's just, he's intense. And so I have to
00:10:26.400 disguise jujitsu with him. So for him, it's just like, we just play games and I'm like,
00:10:32.220 see if you can get past my feet. And I don't tell him it's jujitsu. I'm like, just see if you can get
00:10:36.960 past my feet. And he's like, like doing all this stuff. I'm like, he's doing jujitsu. He just
00:10:40.980 doesn't know it, you know? So you have to approach it different with each kid.
00:10:45.180 Yeah, totally. I have my, my hope is that my, it's funny what we learn as parents, right? Like
00:10:52.200 I have a two-year-old and I'm realizing like with my older kids, I didn't, I didn't prep them early
00:10:58.180 enough to do chores. I didn't prep them early enough to do jujitsu. My two-year-old does the
00:11:04.060 trash now with me. So I come home and I'm like, let's do the trash. And he's all excited. And he
00:11:09.560 empties trash cans in the bag. He thinks this is, and my hope is before he's even aware of it,
00:11:14.940 this is just status quo, right? Like he doesn't even know that there's an even option to take out the
00:11:20.640 trash, right? That this is just part of his duties of life. And, and, and it goes the same
00:11:25.480 thing with him. Like, um, he was, I, I'll, I'll send you this video, but I have this video of him
00:11:31.200 doing double leg takedowns on my daughters where, and he's two, he's just grabbing both legs and he's
00:11:36.660 like dumping them and he's like, and he thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. Like this is so
00:11:41.820 awesome. Yeah. Oh man. All right, man. Well, I think we're warmed up. Let's get to questions today.
00:11:47.800 Yeah. So our questions today, Facebook, uh, join us there. Facebook.com slash group slash order of
00:11:54.380 man. Uh, we got a bunch and yeah, some good questions actually from the Facebook group today.
00:11:59.820 Actually, actually, I mean, it's rare. Surprisingly, surprisingly, good questions.
00:12:06.560 Trust me guys. We still have faith in, in a, in a, in a large percentage of you in the Facebook group.
00:12:11.620 We still have faith in you. So we, we haven't given up totally guys. Come on. Yeah. You guys,
00:12:15.640 you guys are the heart of your first line of defense for the order of man movement.
00:12:21.080 Fair enough. All right. Joshua Hyman, when, or is there a right time to quit your job and start a
00:12:27.440 business? Should you start up while working at your current employer and then progress full-time
00:12:31.480 into your own business? Should you be debt-free or very close to it? I know we've answered this
00:12:37.380 question before, but maybe a quick response. I think if you wait until you're debt-free or
00:12:42.860 everything's just perfect, you're probably going to be waiting forever. So I think you need to take
00:12:47.540 the leap sooner than you think you do, because there's always going to be an element of risk
00:12:51.820 when it comes to starting a new business and then walking away from, well, in my case, I walked away
00:12:56.680 from six figures of residual income. So you're walking away from maybe residual income or a salary.
00:13:02.700 And so there's always a risk associated with that. And I think this is more applicable to men.
00:13:09.140 And we're usually more willing and capable of shouldering that risk relative to our female
00:13:14.900 counterparts. I think generally, I would say that's true. We're a little bit more, we're feel
00:13:20.220 more natural for it. To take a risk. Right. Yeah, for sure. But that said that, that, that doesn't
00:13:26.700 absolve the sort of risk or, or fear that comes along with that. So I think the greater likelihood is
00:13:34.020 that you're waiting too long, not going too early. Now there is the thought out there that says,
00:13:40.220 just jump, just burn the boats, burn the bridges. I think if you're young and you don't have a wife,
00:13:46.740 you don't have a kid, kids, you don't have a house, you don't have debt. I might say, yeah,
00:13:49.680 actually I would, I would actually recommend that. And the risk is minimal. Yeah. Yeah. I would say,
00:13:53.760 yeah, do that. In fact, people ask like, what, what advice do you have for young people? I'm like,
00:13:57.740 go on as many trips, tour the world, get as many experiences, try everything that comes to your
00:14:03.420 mind because it's not going to get any easier to do. And the risk is relatively low for you right
00:14:07.740 now. If things get bad, worst case scenario, you can put your tail between your legs and run on home.
00:14:12.900 I'm not suggesting you do that, but you could. Yeah. But as a 40 year old man, not happening.
00:14:18.140 Yeah. And just so you guys know, like this isn't, this isn't just advice that we'd give you that we
00:14:24.300 want to take advantage of. Right. Like my, my nine year old son right now, he's like,
00:14:28.440 yeah, I'm not sure. Like, he's like wavering in regards to like his next step. And I told him,
00:14:34.240 I'm like, dude, save up a few grand, go to Thailand. What for? Just to go, go there and
00:14:41.280 live there for like six months and like live on a boat, man. Like seriously, like do whatever it is
00:14:47.280 that you wanted to experience and try. Like, and that's honestly like my, my advice to him, not like,
00:14:52.700 you know, settle down. And I'm like, dude, figure out experience, like figure out what you want to
00:14:57.580 do, experience life, like run, go for it. As long as there's intentionality about it. Well,
00:15:03.960 yeah, because that goes back to what we were saying a minute ago. Of course she doesn't want him to do
00:15:08.100 that. That's risky. Yeah. So I wouldn't send my daughter to do that. I wouldn't encourage her to
00:15:13.640 do that. It's true. That's true. I wouldn't either. Right. So of course that's the power of having
00:15:20.300 a lovely woman in your life who brings a perspective that you don't typically consider
00:15:25.420 or isn't your strength on your own. That's the power of having a man and a woman in the relationship
00:15:30.460 to father and mother children. You guys don't. And people say, I don't understand women. No shit.
00:15:35.140 You're not supposed to. If you actually understood them, you would be more like them. And then that
00:15:41.940 wouldn't be any benefit to society. And women will say, well, we don't get men. Yeah, of course we
00:15:46.280 don't, you shouldn't be able to fully understand because then you would be like us and that doesn't
00:15:51.280 benefit. So it's good that we don't fully understand each other. We respect each other,
00:15:56.280 but we don't understand each other. Okay. So back to this guy's question. So it depends on what,
00:16:02.500 where you're at. So if you're young, you don't have a whole lot of responsibility or I don't want to say
00:16:06.120 responsibility necessarily, but you don't have obligations, wife, mortgage, kids, et cetera,
00:16:11.400 et cetera, then maybe, yeah, less risk. Then maybe you take a leap sooner. If you've got a kid and
00:16:17.740 you've got a wife and you've got a mortgage, you've got car payments and things like it's
00:16:20.640 going to take you a little bit longer. So here's what I would suggest just to put a tangible
00:16:24.160 date on it is sit down right now and figure out what your minimum monthly expenses are.
00:16:33.060 Your minimum monthly expenses like bare bones. We're going to skim the groceries. We're going to,
00:16:38.360 we're just going to pay the service, the debt, but we're not going to have a bunch of
00:16:41.900 unnecessary discretionary expenses. Like what it, okay. So it's $2,000 a month, whatever it is,
00:16:47.880 three, whatever, just pick your number, $3,000. Let's say, okay, well you need to be,
00:16:54.040 if we look at the math, let's just look at the math. You need to be making $3,000 a month with
00:16:59.740 your business to quit your job, not five, not seven, not 10, three, because that's what covers your
00:17:05.100 expenses. Or here's another way to look at this. You, you look at the trajectory of your business.
00:17:11.540 Let's say last month you did a thousand dollars in revenue and you did that for the last 90 days.
00:17:16.480 And now you're at 2000 and you see that for 60 to 90 days. And so you can figure in maybe another 90
00:17:22.700 days, maybe you'll be at that 3000 mark. So that means that you need to have $9,000 in savings
00:17:31.640 to be able to cover and float. Actually, it's not even that much. It's the difference between two
00:17:37.860 and three. So it's $1,000 a month. So you need to have $3,000 in savings to float you until you get
00:17:45.480 to that, that $3,000 a month salary. So I think this is a combination of logic and reason
00:17:55.140 and assuming a little bit more risk and stepping outside of your comfort zone than you would feel
00:18:01.080 comfortable with. Cause if you're comfortable with it, you'll never do it. So you have to be
00:18:05.180 uncomfortable with it to some degree. Does that quantify it a little bit? Okay. Yeah. That's what
00:18:10.120 I would suggest. And what I like about what you said, Ryan is, is I think far too often people say
00:18:15.360 they want something, but they're never clear on the price that they're willing to pay for it.
00:18:19.880 They're not clear on what they're willing to do or what they're not willing to do.
00:18:24.240 And, and by doing what you just said is by looking at your budget and saying, okay,
00:18:28.440 what is our absolute necessary income? That's kind of me looking at the grand scheme of things and
00:18:34.540 going, you know, what am I willing to go without? What am I willing to sacrifice to make this happen?
00:18:39.700 And that's really, that's really great to do because some guys may come to the table and go,
00:18:44.340 um, actually, no, I'm not willing to sacrifice those things, but then awesome. Don't do it then.
00:18:49.140 Right. But to act on something and not, not be clear on the cost of it is just a waste of your
00:18:55.500 time. I actually can appreciate somebody who says, yeah, I'm not willing to pay that price.
00:19:01.080 I appreciate and respect that individual more than the guy who says, I'm willing to do anything.
00:19:04.980 And you tell him what to do. He's like, except that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this is like,
00:19:10.040 and this goes for everybody. Yeah. And this goes for everyone that says, I want to be rich. Right.
00:19:14.520 It's like, Oh, I would love to be rich. Are you willing to pay the price? Oh, what does that look like?
00:19:19.380 Lay it on the table? Uh, no, I'm not willing to. And they don't ever say that. Right. They,
00:19:25.900 of course, they're not going to say that, but they are, I mean, that is what they're saying to
00:19:29.320 themselves is I'm not going to do that. Yeah. Yeah. So, so, or they're being delusional to
00:19:35.380 themselves and saying, no, I'm doing it all. I am. I'm trying my hardest. Yeah. Are you?
00:19:42.080 Totally. So I think this would be beneficial for Josh. So, or Joshua, you, for you, what this looked
00:19:52.640 like for you specifically is, is you double down, right? You, you kept working your day, your day
00:19:59.180 job, you started order of man, and you kind of ran parallel for a period of time before you were
00:20:05.280 transitioned. And I know every industry is going to be different. What did that parallel timeline look
00:20:10.800 for you? How long did you put in the extra effort and kind of run two things at the same time before
00:20:16.660 you were able to switch? So I'm not a great example. Then, and I say that because I'm not an
00:20:23.160 Instagram internet sales guru guy. Who's going to like lie to you and tell you do it this way.
00:20:29.600 Cause this is what you do. And it's not sexy. What I'm going to tell you is not sexy. And also
00:20:34.800 I acknowledge it doesn't apply to everybody. Okay. I spent almost 10 years building up a residual
00:20:40.900 income and I owned my business too. So I worked for about seven or eight months with order of man
00:20:49.540 before I even took in any sort of income. We made it about a thousand dollars, $1,200.
00:20:53.940 That first month we actually tried to turn something on. It was like $1,200.
00:20:58.860 Got it.
00:21:00.220 And then it took, so that was like seven, eight months. And then it took a year and a half before
00:21:04.700 I was making some pretty good income two years before I was like, okay, I think I could probably
00:21:10.680 do this. Okay. But also I had residual income coming in. Yeah. You were already established.
00:21:17.400 You were kind of in a position to allow that.
00:21:19.040 I didn't even need to show up to work and six figures would have continued to come in.
00:21:25.000 So I had the residual income coming in. And then when I finally decided to like totally pull the
00:21:32.740 trigger and leave, I sold my business and I got a big payout when I sold my business.
00:21:40.180 Yeah.
00:21:40.620 That's not everybody's situation. So I'm, I'm re I really don't want to be disingenuous. I'm giving
00:21:46.200 you the advice that I would give if I was in your shoes, but my scenario was probably a little
00:21:52.220 different than 90% of the people out there who want to go on and do their own thing.
00:21:55.940 Copy. Copy. And, and maybe it's valuable. I'll share how this worked for me. So I was working
00:22:02.100 for Intel and Micron and I got outsourced to India. That's, that's a nice way of saying I got fired.
00:22:09.060 It was kind of funny because I told my kids, I'm like, I got outsourced. And they're like,
00:22:12.540 did you get fired? I'm like, no, no, no, no. I got outsourced. Did you not hear me?
00:22:17.700 Even kids see right there, right? I got laid off and, uh, but I had a good severance package.
00:22:26.500 I had six months and, and kind of my thought process in the back of my mind was I have six
00:22:32.860 months to try anything. And if it fails, I'll, I'll go find a job, you know? And 15 years later,
00:22:41.740 I never had to go find another job. Right. So it, it took me six months to just double down,
00:22:48.240 but I wasn't going in parallel. Right. I was like all in within six months. I was making to be,
00:22:54.520 to be frank within a month or two, I was making the equivalent of the same income,
00:22:59.060 if not more than I was already making, um, you know, and then I was able to ramp up. So
00:23:04.620 for me, I think if I had that savings, you know what I mean? Of six months,
00:23:09.140 then I could have done the same exact thing. Um, but luckily it was, it was the severance
00:23:13.980 package. That was my, to be frank. So for sure. But let's, let's not overlook something that's
00:23:19.940 very important here too, Kip, that I think would be easier to overlook. Most, what most people will
00:23:24.820 do. Okay. Let's, let's just say they got a six month severance package and I'm going to throw out
00:23:29.440 numbers here. Could be completely right or wrong. It doesn't matter, but let's say they've got
00:23:32.660 $80,000. Okay. Let's just say we got $80,000 and, and they've got six months of income coming in.
00:23:42.580 What will most people do? I got time. I'm good. I got time. And then a month passes. Oh no, no. I
00:23:51.100 still got five months. It's like almost half a year. I'm good, man. And then three months and then
00:23:56.120 two months. And then they get into the last like 30 days. They're like, Oh shit, I got to get a job.
00:24:02.140 That's what most people will do. But you didn't do that. No. Right. That's why you're where you
00:24:07.780 are right now because you didn't do that. Yeah. I had a month notice before I was officially laid
00:24:14.400 off. I had contracts lined up already before I was even quote unquote laid off. So I was double
00:24:21.560 dipping income for six months instead. So you're not playing any bullshit games that most people do
00:24:27.480 with procrastination because that's what most people do. So guys hear us. That's not what
00:24:32.640 Kip did. He didn't say, Oh, six months. Yeah. I got six months to dink around and have fun and tour
00:24:36.280 the world and do all the things. No, it's like, I got to get to work and you did. And here's where
00:24:40.680 you are right now. Yeah. All right. Let's drive on. All right. Michael Doreen, what is the best way to
00:24:46.860 get investing money? I kind of like this question. My apologies. If, if you felt like we've
00:24:51.420 already answered this one too much, but he says not trying to get rich quick, but wanting to put
00:24:55.860 money to work. So maybe some strategies around putting money to work quickly with not much more
00:25:02.120 detail from Michael other than that. Yeah. I mean, it's hard because there's not a whole lot of
00:25:05.580 detail here, but what you do when you're looking at finances is you look at tiers and there's four
00:25:10.100 characteristics when you look at money. So you look at potential rate of return. This is broad. Okay.
00:25:15.200 But just, you guys will get it. Potential rate of return, uh, risk level of risk. That's another
00:25:21.540 factor. Taxation is another factor. And, uh, liquidity is another factor. So those are the
00:25:28.860 four factors that you're looking at. And what, what typically happens is based on those four factors,
00:25:34.920 you're going to sacrifice another factor to get, to get high on one. So for example, if you said, uh,
00:25:40.820 I really need a lot of liquidity. Okay. You're going to sacrifice rate of return if you do that
00:25:46.200 and probably taxation as well. If you said, no, I want the highest rate of return. You're probably
00:25:52.040 going to sacrifice again, just generally speaking, you're probably going to sacrifice some liquidity
00:25:56.140 and you're going to sacrifice certainly some level of safety. Yeah. So when we look at the way that we
00:26:03.140 invest money, when you're just starting out, so I'm going to assume Michael's just starting out
00:26:06.900 because he's asking this question, the, the, the, the tier or the, the factor that you want to look
00:26:12.680 at most is, uh, safety and liquidity when you're just starting out. So if you have no money to your
00:26:20.340 name whatsoever, you need liquidity and you need safety. Now, if you're beyond that, well beyond that,
00:26:27.020 then you can go for high rate of return. You don't need the liquidity because you've got another
00:26:30.100 bucket over here, which is liquid. And you don't need safety because you got this money over here,
00:26:34.340 that's stable and secure. So you can afford to take greater risks. So when you're just starting
00:26:39.020 out, it's those factors, it's liquidity and safety. And then you build from there and all of
00:26:44.140 your little pockets of money are all going to have different factors and they're going to complement
00:26:49.140 each other nicely. So if I have a nice nest egg, let's say I've got three to six to nine months of
00:26:53.900 savings in a savings account, then you need to create another bucket over here that, that poses some,
00:27:00.000 some higher potential gains. Yes. You're going to sacrifice some risk, but it's okay. Cause you got
00:27:05.300 your three to six to nine months over here. So if you're just starting out, I would say you do a
00:27:10.820 savings account. That's not investing. That's saving. That's like, you might as well just put it under
00:27:14.400 your mattress. Okay. Then you start looking at a low risk, highly diversified, low turnover mutual funds.
00:27:24.340 So now at least you're investing in the market. So you have the potential of upward gains,
00:27:29.280 but it's so broadly diversified. It's not turned over very often. So you're saving on fees and taxation
00:27:35.820 that, that at least you open yourself up to some potential gains. So that's where you move from there
00:27:42.940 from there. And that might be a mutual fund from there. You could probably get into a Roth IRA or some
00:27:50.100 sort of employer sponsored program, like a 401k simplified employee pension, all of these programs.
00:27:56.940 And really what those are guys, just a crash course in this. That's just tax code. 401k, for example,
00:28:04.180 is just tax code Roth IRA. It's just tax code. Basically what they're doing is they're saying,
00:28:10.620 we're going to take this bucket of money, this investment right here, and we're going to put it
00:28:16.420 under the umbrella of the Roth IRA, which is just how we're going to treat it from a tax perspective.
00:28:22.760 Yeah. So you can tax that money. Yeah. So if you think about it, it's kind of like,
00:28:27.180 it's kind of like a vehicle. So the outside of the vehicle is the way that it looks right. Here's
00:28:33.600 the body shape. Here's the color. Here's what it is. Then you have the engine underneath the hood of
00:28:38.960 the car and the engine is the investment. So it could be mutual funds. It could be real estate. It could
00:28:43.980 be gold. It could be artwork. I mean, it could be anything really. Yeah. Property. Yeah. Property.
00:28:51.600 Yes. And then it's treated this way from a tax perspective. So again, you go savings, you go low
00:28:58.360 turnover, low risk, highly diversified mutual funds, employer sponsored programs. And from there,
00:29:04.960 I would start really considering investing in businesses, individual businesses. And I'm not
00:29:10.960 necessarily saying individual stocks, although you could get into that a little bit. I'm more
00:29:16.020 suggesting that maybe you want to start a business and you want to throw 50 grand at it or, or a KIP,
00:29:23.080 you know, you have this, this business venture and you're doing this incredible thing with new
00:29:28.280 technology and it's groundbreaking. And I'm like, that actually sounds pretty interesting. I would
00:29:33.020 like to invest $20,000 with you to help you get that started, but that doesn't come immediately.
00:29:38.300 That's up here. Once I have the foundation built and just like a building, the, the, the more solid,
00:29:43.900 the, the foundation that you build wide and deep, the taller the building can be, the more stable it
00:29:50.320 will be. So build that foundation out strong. And then you start growing it from there.
00:29:55.280 Yeah. And would you say some of those business investments could be focused on maybe not even
00:30:00.380 long-term gains, but even just cashflow, like immediate cashflow ideas, just to get cash,
00:30:05.940 more cash coming into the door as well. Right. Give me an example.
00:30:09.960 Well, I, yeah, I'm thinking about this, like on my own. It's like, you know, I don't, I think it was,
00:30:15.500 was it Sean Whelan that made this post? Someone made a post, which I completely loved, which was
00:30:19.500 like, you want to become a millionaire, sell like 10,000 items that, that at $200 each. And when you
00:30:27.220 look at it that way, you're like, could I come up with something that's worth 200, $200? Oh, sure.
00:30:32.180 Yeah, it could. You know? And so, so I just think about those kinds of scenarios all the time. Like
00:30:37.580 it's even crossed my mind of like, oh man, I, I should start a business cleaning garbage cans,
00:30:43.700 hire some local kids in the neighborhood, clean garbage cans, generate some cashflow. Like I'm
00:30:48.020 always thinking about those quick little business ideas to just bring more income or cashflow in.
00:30:53.800 Yeah. You know, I don't know if I'd ever make money long-term from it, but it would be a good,
00:30:57.500 just residual cashflow. Totally. I'll give you an example. I won't name any names here
00:31:02.500 necessarily, but, uh, I've got a friend who had a connection. This was years ago. This was probably
00:31:08.660 six, seven, eight years ago who had a connection in China and he ended up buying a bunch of, uh,
00:31:14.620 electronic toys, like remote control helicopters and remote RC type cars, things like that. So he bought
00:31:20.720 them in China for, for the price at wholesale. And then he sold them and he marked it up to 300%
00:31:26.760 and he sold them here and he made a lot of money doing it in a very short period of time.
00:31:31.780 And now he owns his own, uh, his own company. Again, I'm not going to say the company just,
00:31:36.900 just cause I, I want to respect this person, but now he owns his own company and he manufactures his
00:31:43.960 own, uh, merchandise and he's doing very, very well with it. But the launching point was buying cheap
00:31:48.860 shit from China and then marketing to 300% selling it. And now here's where he is now. So yeah,
00:31:55.640 there's so many options. I mean, even Sean Whalen, he, he talks about going to yard sales
00:32:00.680 and, and finding, you know, a, an old elliptical or an old treadmill or an old this or that. And
00:32:06.440 then he marks it up 200% and he sells it on Facebook for free. Yeah. So the opportunities
00:32:11.260 are there and people say, Oh, I can't believe we would do that. Why? Like you could do that.
00:32:16.220 There's nothing wrong with that. There's a demand. And as long as it's a voluntary transaction,
00:32:20.460 transaction, this individual sold it for this price and they agreed upon it. And this other
00:32:24.360 individual is willing to pay two times more. Who are you to say, well, it's only worth this much.
00:32:28.340 It's worth whatever somebody will pay for it. That's it. Period. Yeah. So yeah, I knew a guy
00:32:33.120 that was buying old, like classic sneakers, like old Jordans from the nineties. And he would just find
00:32:38.320 all these old shoes in great condition and then resell them at a huge marked up price. And that's all
00:32:44.460 he did. Good for him. Yeah. That's the power of capital. Oh, it's greedy. Well, no, it's just,
00:32:49.980 it's creative. Yeah. It's using a little initiative. Yeah. And like you always say,
00:32:56.100 it's like, that's the beautiful capitalism is like, if there wasn't a demand, then there would
00:33:01.640 be no transaction. Right. So you're providing a service that someone's willing to pay, you know,
00:33:06.840 this is the thing. This is the thing I get so upset. We'll use actors and, and athletes. People
00:33:12.600 say, Oh, they get paid too much. Really? Did you buy a ticket to the game? Did you pay for the pay
00:33:18.840 per view for UFC? Yes. Then shut up. Yeah. Apparently not. Because you actually are too
00:33:26.140 much. Right. Cause you actually voted. You said, I think this person should get some of my money.
00:33:31.740 If you think they get paid too much, then just don't support them. And if enough people do that
00:33:36.420 because they believe like you, then their pay will go down. This is the whole concept. Remember a year or
00:33:42.100 two ago, I think it was the women's soccer team. They wanted to make more money. Yeah. They wanted to
00:33:47.100 make as much as the men. And it's like, well, but not as many people want to come see you as the men.
00:33:52.160 So why would we pay you more? And guess what their response was? Their response was, Oh, well, you
00:33:56.940 just, just come to more of our games. Like that's how you can support us. Come to more of our games.
00:34:01.960 Yes. That's right. That's the answer. That's the answer. Not just gift you more money. It's like,
00:34:08.400 no, have people actually more people come to your games. And if they don't, then, you know,
00:34:12.620 you're not worth as much. I'm not talking about human worth. I'm talking about your salary.
00:34:17.740 Yeah. Your service, the service in which you're providing valuable. That's it. Totally. And have
00:34:23.360 you seen that interview with Rhonda Rousey where she was, it was, um, it was a media, a press conference
00:34:29.200 when she was getting ready for, I think her fight with Misha Tate and, and a journalist asked her
00:34:35.540 about gender equality and pay. Have you seen this? I haven't seen it. It's great. Oh yeah. You got to
00:34:41.820 watch it. But, but ultimately she was like, um, I get paid more than most male fighters. There's
00:34:48.080 actually only a few male fighters that need more money than me and has nothing to do with my sex,
00:34:52.260 my gender or anything else. It, it comes down to your people want to see me fight.
00:34:57.460 That's right. I'm an entertaining fighter. So thus I get paid more.
00:35:00.940 Right. I mean, Connor McGregor is a master at this. I mean, he's, let's be real. He's a good fighter.
00:35:08.460 He's not the best fighter in the world or ever. Like we know that, right? Yeah. We know that
00:35:13.120 objectively. We know that. And yet he is one of the highest paid fighters of all time.
00:35:19.480 Yeah. Because he realized it goes well beyond just what he does in the cage. It's what he does
00:35:25.700 outside of it. And he learned how to market himself and make himself more valuable. Totally. And part of
00:35:29.640 that market is people hating him because even the guys that hate Connor McGregor want to see him fight
00:35:34.980 in hopes that he gets his face punched. Right. And the guys, the guys who love him want to see him
00:35:40.840 fight because they want to see him win. So we all want to see him. We all want to see him fight.
00:35:45.060 Right. And the benefits from it all, even though, even though we may not like him.
00:35:49.520 As you said that, I don't, I don't know if you heard me, but I almost snorted as I was laughing.
00:35:54.720 I think it has something to do with what's going on in here.
00:35:57.060 I actually sneezed this morning and I was like, Oh, don't sneeze anymore. That
00:36:05.040 what you should do is get a COVID-19 test. Yeah. That's what you need to do.
00:36:10.800 It is. It's COVID. That's the reason my nose is crooked. It's COVID.
00:36:14.360 It's COVID. It makes people's nose. All right.
00:36:18.800 Savrio Petrini. Sorry, man. Writing from Italy. We are all following the chaos happening in your
00:36:25.660 country. Apart from trying to give an alternative point of view to the MSM propaganda, how can we
00:36:31.880 help from abroad? You can't imagine how many of us want to help. It's kind of cool.
00:36:38.980 Yeah, it is cool. It's, it's nice. It's a nice gesture, but help with what? I'm not quite sure.
00:36:43.980 You know, like what would you, what would you just the chaos, the misinformation probably. I mean,
00:36:49.200 since he brought up the alternative view of MSM, you know? Yeah. Look, I don't know. Look,
00:36:54.760 I don't know about Italy and how the country is run. This is not my, my purview. This is not
00:37:00.040 something I focus on. So I might just be sticking my foot in my mouth, which I'm more than happy to do
00:37:04.280 always. The only thing I would say is just share the truth of, of your current situation. You know,
00:37:12.760 what's working well, what isn't working well, you know, cause I think, I think the country,
00:37:17.180 our country, America is going down a path that we're very ignorant generally
00:37:22.000 and collectively about the path that we're taking, which, which appears to be a trend towards
00:37:28.060 more socialism, Marxism, that sort of thing, an ultimate, some sort of just hate and vitriol
00:37:36.400 towards the concept of individual Liberty and capitalism. And it's very nice and easy to be able
00:37:42.600 to yap about that when you don't have to deal with and never have dealt with the ramifications of
00:37:48.040 a communist or socialist society. So I think the best thing that any person outside of the U S can do
00:37:57.560 is to say, look, this is the path that we took and this is why it didn't work. Or this is why it did
00:38:03.440 work and, and share that perspective. Um, you know, but outside of that, I don't know. I don't,
00:38:11.480 I don't know. I really don't. I'm kind of at a loss on what you might be able to do to help,
00:38:15.300 but just keep sharing your perspective. I think that's valuable. Um, and that's it.
00:38:24.520 I don't know. I'm kind of at a loss on that. That's a good question. I just kind of at a loss.
00:38:27.640 I think it's a bit, and it's almost the same response that we'd give every guy, right? Like,
00:38:31.300 how do you help? Right. We, we stand for truth and righteousness. We, you know what I mean? Stand
00:38:36.840 for things that are correct. We share. Well, and here's another, here's another thought on that.
00:38:40.440 Good examples. Right. And, and get involved with the, the things that you feel are valuable. So if
00:38:47.500 there's companies that you really support, for example, I believe the, in the power of American
00:38:53.680 manufacturing. So if he's like, how can we help? Well, maybe you support America by buying American.
00:39:00.820 You know, if you really do want to help, like origin's a great company. There's plenty of great
00:39:04.940 companies out there that are, that are a hundred percent made and sourced in America. Um, I just
00:39:10.600 bought some boots, crispy boots. I think they're from, I think they're made in Italy, in fact,
00:39:15.100 but that's a great thing. The point I'm making is that if there's organizations or businesses that
00:39:20.480 you support and you believe in what they're doing, then, then that's good to vote with your dollars,
00:39:26.280 vote with your dollars. And that's a great way to support. Even if it's just charity, you know,
00:39:30.040 you find a charity that's here in the U S and you think this is a valuable cause,
00:39:33.900 whatever that cause may be, then consider donating and sending some of your hard earned
00:39:37.980 money to that charity or that organization or that business. And that goes a long way for sure.
00:39:43.600 Yeah. All right. Nathan Hansler, since about, since about month 11 of my marriage, my wife
00:39:52.080 has taken over our budget. She is much better at numbers than I am. And she is a real,
00:39:57.520 she has a real knack and a love for it. When I took care of the budget, she would always get anxiety
00:40:02.840 and fret over. It was done correctly. And it was a constant argument in our marriage. I decided to
00:40:08.180 delegate and let her do the thing as she desired to do. Even if it was, uh, even if it was being in
00:40:15.320 charge of the finances and now we're in a better place in our, in relationship wise because of less
00:40:20.060 money arguments. My question is, does giving up my sovereignty to my, to my wife over our finances
00:40:25.540 truly make me lose my sovereignty and make me less of a man? Or am I taking my role as leader of the
00:40:32.340 house by delegating the job to my wife and maintaining my sovereignty? Okay. So let's just
00:40:37.140 get this out of the way. There's a real misconception about what sovereignty is. Okay. Sovereignty doesn't
00:40:44.240 mean that you can't have other people around you doing things in your life and helping. You're not
00:40:50.780 relinquishing sovereignty by doing that. Cause if you were, if that were true, then Kip, I would be
00:40:56.140 relinquishing some of my sovereignty by having you in this podcast with me. Yeah. But am I, and we
00:41:01.900 would never get anything done because we don't have enough time to write. Or am I relinquishing my
00:41:06.700 sovereignty because Cody edits the podcast and he does a wonderful job and does a better job than me,
00:41:13.180 but because I'm not doing it. So I'm relinquishing my sovereignty. No, of course not. So guys,
00:41:20.220 we need sovereignty is a really cool word, but it's very often misunderstood. It's in fact,
00:41:27.660 a lot of people talk about this in the concept of the gospel, like how can you be a sovereign man,
00:41:31.820 but believe in God and give your life to Jesus because you voluntarily did that. And it helps you
00:41:36.940 to have the type of life that you want to have. So you're not relinquishing sovereignty. Sovereignty
00:41:44.060 is losing control. It's blindly following it's, it's being subjected to or enslaved in an extreme
00:41:52.780 circumstance to another person or party or organization. That's, that's what I'm talking
00:41:57.980 about. So for example, if you go into your debt up to your eyeballs and you can never get out from
00:42:03.580 under this debt, yes, you've relinquished some of your sovereignty, but who services the debt and who
00:42:09.260 decides like how much we're going to put towards this and this. And that's like, this is delegation.
00:42:16.060 Like what, if you thought that was the case, why in the world would any guy get married?
00:42:20.700 Like my experience being married has actually, that's been one of the greatest blessings of my
00:42:28.540 life. It's magnified my abilities to perform, not subjected me to her desires. Like it's actually
00:42:37.660 helped and magnified what I want to do. What were you going to say?
00:42:40.380 Yeah. Well, I was just going to ask in Nathan's example, how would you reword or not reword,
00:42:47.180 but how would you change his circumstance to represent him losing sovereignty?
00:42:53.260 In what way would it? Yeah. Like for instance, well, maybe I'll just try and you can tell me if
00:42:58.700 I'm on, on target here. So in Nathan's example of his wife doing budget, him, uh, not having
00:43:05.180 sovereignty would be blinders on his wife's doing the budget. He's completely unaware of anything.
00:43:11.980 He probably demonizes her, complains that it's done incorrectly, whatever it, but yet has no part
00:43:19.020 in what's going on and is a victim of her paying the bills and washed his hands of it. Would you say
00:43:25.100 in that example? Sure. Here's an even more tangible example. If you have to go to your wife and you have
00:43:32.620 to say, Hey hon, uh, I'd like to go out to the, to the game with the guys. And, um, can I get $50 to do
00:43:40.860 that? And she says, no, we're doing this and this and this. Okay. And then you leave with your tail
00:43:46.380 tucked between your legs. Okay. Yeah. You relinquish some of your sovereignty. Okay. Now
00:43:54.060 counter to that, I'm not saying that you can just go spend reckless. My wife doesn't have to call me if
00:43:59.020 she wants to make a hundred dollar purchase. Like she doesn't have to call me for that. Cause I trust
00:44:04.540 her. I don't have to call her. Now, if I'm going to make a $500 purchase, just out of respect,
00:44:10.620 I might say, Hey hon, um, you know, here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about purchasing this
00:44:15.340 thing. Are you, are you good with that? Is there any things I need to be aware of or whatever?
00:44:19.260 And I'm not even asking for permission. I'm just kind of telling her, this is what I'm going to do.
00:44:23.740 And so like, get on board with it. And, and she would have to do the same thing. Like if she was going to
00:44:28.940 make a thousand dollar purchase, she would call me not because I've told her to, but she would call
00:44:33.900 me and say, Hey, uh, you know, I really need some new clothes for me and the kids. And, uh,
00:44:38.460 we're going to spend a thousand dollars, like anything I need to be aware of. Is that okay?
00:44:42.780 Are we all we're good. And I would say yes or no, depending on the situation that's out of respect.
00:44:48.460 Yeah. Yes. It's just a level of respect, but she's not asking me for my permission. I'm not asking
00:44:53.820 her for her permission. So yeah, if, and I'll hear this guy in the concept of guys going,
00:45:00.780 you know, like, Hey, uh, yeah, I'd really like to come hang out with you guys,
00:45:03.580 but my wife won't let me tonight because dot, that, that sovereignty issue.
00:45:08.860 Yeah. Now, if, if I said, Hey guys, I'd really like to come tonight, but my wife's been planning
00:45:13.580 this vacation for two weeks and she left. So I'm with the kids. I won't be able to make it tonight.
00:45:17.900 Not a sovereignty issue. You guys made that choice together. You you're staying with the kids.
00:45:23.660 It's not a sovereignty issue, but if you're begging and asking to do things from your wife,
00:45:27.740 yeah, you got issues that you need to work on. Yeah. Yeah. Now, how would you relate
00:45:34.220 this same exact conversation to presiding?
00:45:40.060 Can you be more specific with that question?
00:45:43.100 Yeah. I think there's a correlation between sovereignty and presiding in some way, right?
00:45:48.700 So if, if Nathan is in a, in a position where he's presiding, what does that budget now look like?
00:45:54.540 What does that managing the budget and the finances look like from the position of presiding,
00:45:59.740 not necessarily doing the work though? Yeah. So I'm, I'm a believer in the whole
00:46:04.940 idea and the concept of the buck stops here. So let's just hypothetically assume, and it doesn't
00:46:12.540 sound like this is the case, but let's assume that your wife is doing a horrible job. Yeah.
00:46:18.220 The bills aren't getting paid. The debt isn't being managed. You're going in the hole. No idea
00:46:24.300 where the money is and where it's going. None, none, no, no idea what's happening here.
00:46:29.340 That's a leadership issue. So you need to dial it in because the buck stops here. Who does it stop with?
00:46:35.900 The man. Yeah. Yep. You're the patriarch. You're the leader of the home.
00:46:41.500 And I know there's a lot of women listening. I know there's a lot of men listening. Some of you
00:46:44.860 are agreeing. Some of you are not. The deal is you're the man in the home because look,
00:46:48.940 when shit hits the fan, nobody ever turns to the woman. No one. Like when's the last time
00:46:56.940 somebody turned to a woman when things were dire? And it's not to be demeaning towards women. I'm just
00:47:04.220 saying we look to the man. And so if the financial house is out of order, it's your fault.
00:47:12.460 Well, but she does the thing. Yes. But it's also your responsibility. I wrote a couple of things here
00:47:17.740 as I was listening to your question. There's a couple of things that can't be outsourced.
00:47:22.620 Finances is one of them. Now that doesn't mean people can't help you. I don't do my own taxes.
00:47:29.500 I have an accountant, a CPA who does a wonderful job. He helps me with my taxes.
00:47:34.940 But if he gets it wrong, who has to pay? Not him, me. So if he's doing a crappy job,
00:47:40.860 guess whose fault that is? Mine. Cause I hired him and I need to probably fire him or get on the
00:47:46.700 same page and figure out what's going on. It's still my, my responsibility. The buck stops here.
00:47:52.540 Finance is one of them. Health. I can't have somebody else go do my pushups for me.
00:47:57.420 Like I can't eat like shit and then have somebody else eat all the celery and carrots and
00:48:03.900 salads and healthy food. And then I'll be healthy. Like you can't outsource that.
00:48:08.140 Yeah. But you can hire a coach.
00:48:10.140 Yeah. Or expect your coach to make you healthy, even though you're unwilling to follow the diet.
00:48:14.860 Right. Then that's what I'm saying. You hire a coach.
00:48:18.780 You buy a program, you buy a course that doesn't relinquish your sovereignty. It's just like,
00:48:23.180 no, I need some help in this. And actually it magnifies your sovereignty because you'll be in
00:48:27.180 more control of your life. If you're healthy, if you're financially successful, another one,
00:48:31.580 relationships. I can't outsource my relationships. Like I can't have somebody else call you Kip and
00:48:37.420 say, Hey, Ryan really misses you. And he hopes everything's going well for you. And he just
00:48:41.820 wants to be a good friend. That felt genuine for sure.
00:48:46.220 It's like you can't outsource, but I could have somebody help me manage it. I could have a program,
00:48:51.180 for example, that says, Hey, it's been a little while, uh, since you talked to Kip,
00:48:55.420 you might want to reach out to him. And then I, I have a good friend who does this in fact,
00:49:00.780 and I don't feel slighted in the least. In fact, I feel important. Jordan Harbinger,
00:49:04.540 the Jordan Harbinger podcast without fail, every, I would say, I don't know his schedule.
00:49:10.860 He's got it on a program or a calendar somewhere, obviously, but every two to three months I get a
00:49:15.260 message if I hadn't heard from her, or we haven't chatted beforehand. And he'll just say, Hey, Ryan,
00:49:19.420 I was just thinking about you. I hope all's going well. I ran across this cool thing. And it sounds
00:49:23.100 like something you'd be interested in or something that you would like. And it's like very simple.
00:49:26.860 I know for a fact that he's got a program or a software or a, or something in some database
00:49:35.340 where it's like, follow up with Ryan. Maybe it's even a person that says you haven't talked to Ryan
00:49:39.500 for a while. Follow up. I know that for a fact. Cause he's told me I don't feel slighted. I'm in
00:49:45.100 his program. I'm in his system. He makes the effort to go do it. You can't outsource it, but you can have
00:49:50.540 help. And that's what we're talking about here. You can't outside source your finances, but you can have
00:49:56.460 help managing it. In this case, your wife does a better job than you. That shouldn't,
00:50:00.620 that shouldn't make you feel like less of a man. In fact, you should feel more manly
00:50:04.540 because shit's getting done and you're not having to do it. So you've managed your resources
00:50:08.940 very, very well. I know it sounds cold to talk about your wife in the context of a resource,
00:50:15.340 how I'm saying it, but, but it is it's you're managing your resources very well to ensure that
00:50:21.180 the family is being managed correctly. And so you shouldn't feel like less of a man.
00:50:26.060 If it's getting done and it's getting done, right. You should feel more of a man because
00:50:31.420 the buck stops with you and it's getting done. Yeah. Just don't give up the ownership of yes,
00:50:38.780 it goes south. You continue to own it. Yeah. If it goes south and you're like, well, you,
00:50:43.900 you, you, your fault, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, you managed your resources incorrectly.
00:50:49.500 You had somebody do it. Like I would, let's be frank here. I'm not going to give the finances
00:50:55.100 over to my wife because it wouldn't go as well as if I did it. That's our dining.
00:51:02.140 She probably knows that. She knows that. Of course she knows. She doesn't want to do it.
00:51:05.740 Why would she want to do that? She hates it. Okay. So I managed my resources correctly.
00:51:10.940 Now the cooking, I hate cooking. I don't want to cook. I don't want to think about it. I don't
00:51:15.420 want to read cookbooks. I don't want to spend time. I don't want to do any of that. I don't want to,
00:51:19.260 but everybody in the house needs to get fed. So here's what the deal is. I'll provide the food.
00:51:25.420 Either we'll go kill it or I'll pay for it. And then you prepare it for us. How's that sound?
00:51:31.260 Perfect. Good. Everybody wins sovereignty maintained masculinity intact. All is good.
00:51:41.260 Copy. All right. Jeremy Hall, one lesson you learned in 2020 that you want to carry into 2021,
00:51:46.940 professionally or personally?
00:51:50.700 One lesson that I want to learn.
00:51:52.940 Yeah. Or that I learned.
00:51:54.140 Anything stand out?
00:51:56.620 Um, 2020 was a very good year for us. So it's, I know it's been hard for a lot of people,
00:52:06.380 but I feel like, okay, here, here's, here's, here's a lesson. I hadn't even thought about it.
00:52:11.900 So you just said it. So we moved here about a year and a half, almost two years ago now,
00:52:18.220 about a year and a half.
00:52:19.020 Time flies, man. Time flies before COVID, before COVID was a thing or a consideration about six
00:52:25.740 to eight months before it was a thing. And we decided at the time that we're going to move to
00:52:30.700 Maine away from our house and our friends. And really the only thing that we've ever known for
00:52:36.300 20, 30 years, we're going to pull our kids out of the school system. We're going to start
00:52:41.740 homeschooling them. Like everything that we did, we had no idea why we did other than we wanted to
00:52:50.300 try something new. We wanted to do an adventure. We wanted all these things.
00:52:53.580 And that's a lot, all the same.
00:52:55.180 That's a lot. It was a big, audacious, crazy thing to do. And then COVID hits. And I just told
00:53:04.460 you 2020 was a very good year for us. It would not be the same if we were in Utah.
00:53:10.060 It would not be the same if I didn't take a few more intuitive risks. I say intuitive. I,
00:53:20.940 I say that deliberately the word choice that I would use just for my own personal
00:53:26.780 explanation of it would be divinely inspired
00:53:32.620 risks that my wife and I took in order to lead our family and do what we thought was in their best
00:53:36.700 interest. And because we took those made those choices and they weren't always rational,
00:53:43.580 they weren't always saying they weren't always well calculated or well thought out,
00:53:47.500 but they were divinely inspired set us up very, very nicely for 2020. And I have a sinking suspicion
00:53:57.100 that in 2021, they will continue to be the same. That's not to say we're not going to go without our
00:54:01.500 challenges. We will. But the lesson is this, there is a, there's a factor that's hard to quantify.
00:54:10.380 And for men who tend to be more analytical in nature, scientific, a lot of engineer types numbers,
00:54:16.380 guys, prove it, prove it to me, prove, show me, show me, show me the data. Show me where it is. Show me
00:54:21.980 prove that that's going to work. There's other factors at work guys. And you ignore those at your
00:54:31.100 own peril. If you can't take in all of the factors, the tangible ones and the intangible ones, and then
00:54:40.620 make your decisions based on everything, then you're leaving some important considerations
00:54:48.300 off the table that could actually lead you to a better place. And sometimes you won't always be
00:54:54.540 able to explain why. And you know what? It's okay. It's okay. Who do I need to explain it to?
00:55:03.340 I don't need to explain to you why I moved to Maine. I don't need to explain to you why we decided
00:55:07.660 to homeschool our children a year and a half ago. I don't need to explain anything to anybody,
00:55:12.700 except for maybe my wife and my children. So they understand what we're doing.
00:55:17.420 And then my creator, when I meet them in heaven someday, hopefully in heaven,
00:55:23.020 those are the only people I need to explain things to everybody else doesn't matter.
00:55:27.900 Really doesn't matter.
00:55:28.620 Which is interesting that we do that though. Like that's a human behavior to go like,
00:55:32.300 well, how do I explain this? Like it's almost innate for us to, I know, but it's, it's interesting
00:55:37.980 how we, I don't know how that's just kind of a standard.
00:55:41.260 We don't want to feel bad. We don't want to make people feel bad. Like Kip, for example,
00:55:44.700 if you called me up and you're like, and I was in your area and you said, Hey, will you help me
00:55:48.940 move this weekend? I'd be like, Oh no, I can't because right. Like, why do we need to say that?
00:55:54.300 Why can't you just say, I can't, no, I can't this weekend, Kip. Thanks.
00:55:56.780 I don't want you. Good luck. No, that sounds miserable. Good luck. But you motor my truck.
00:56:01.580 You can have a truck if you want for the weekend. That's not fun. Why would I help you?
00:56:12.780 I mean, it's good to be charitable of course, but, uh, but you get the point is like,
00:56:17.740 actually this ties in nicely. I know you're the master of segues on this, uh, this podcast,
00:56:22.300 but I'm gonna throw one out here in the iron council. We're talking about being, uh, being a
00:56:28.060 nice guy. And we're using the book, Robert Glover's book, no more, Mr. Nice guy. So nice
00:56:32.060 guys will have a tendency to try to over explain and justify everything. And somebody who's not a
00:56:38.140 nice guy, I'm not saying they aren't nice or kind. I'm saying they're not a nice guy. Understand
00:56:43.340 the difference. There is a difference. We all know what it is. So don't pretend you don't.
00:56:47.340 Uh, a nice guy wouldn't feel the need to justify every decision he makes.
00:56:52.140 Yeah. Cause he's not trying to appease everybody all the time. Yeah. Yes. Because he doesn't,
00:56:59.180 it doesn't matter. It's not a factor. Now there's certain people I would want to explain myself a
00:57:03.820 little bit more to, but for the most part, it's like, I don't, I don't have to justify or rationalize
00:57:08.460 what I do to you, a stranger. I don't, I don't have any need to do that or to, or to appease your
00:57:14.060 own ego or your own sense of worth. That's on you, not on me. Yeah. I like it. All right.
00:57:20.620 Stephen Hunt, kids and adults have a negative connotation around being a try hard. By the way,
00:57:26.060 I've, I've never heard this term before, so you may want to explain it for those centers.
00:57:29.500 Try hard. Two examples. Yeah. Being a try hard. He says two examples. I coach you sports and have
00:57:35.420 had teammates make fun of other players for being a try hard as a coach. I wish all my players would
00:57:40.540 try to do the best all the time. Secondly, compared that to a guy trying to talk to a girl or building
00:57:47.100 a friendship, can you try too hard to gain others approval? What's the difference between
00:57:52.380 being a try hard and trying your hardest at something, whether relationships or skill related
00:57:57.420 activities? Is it just a cultural problem or is there such a thing as trying too hard?
00:58:04.140 Yeah. I mean, we might get into semantics a little bit here. I I've heard the term try hard
00:58:07.980 and a try hard is somebody who might be just to look good.
00:58:10.700 Yeah. Or like a brown noser, maybe a little bit. Okay. You know, I think that when somebody says
00:58:16.380 that, I think that's what they're doing. So the really, the only distinguishing factor here,
00:58:20.140 and it doesn't really matter what you word you use, pick your word, but let's words are important,
00:58:24.540 but the meanings of the words are actually more important and the context in which they're shared.
00:58:29.100 So if I, cause look, you guys could take all sorts of things out of context in this podcast.
00:58:33.660 I might've said something about women earlier about the relationship I have with my wife. And if you took
00:58:38.620 it out of context, it might make me sound like a misogynist or a horrible human being. But if you
00:58:44.460 use it in the context of what I was saying, then it's not as bad. Same thing with, uh, our founders,
00:58:50.860 you know, this happens a lot. Oh, our founders were racist and yes. And I'm not saying it's right.
00:58:56.300 I'm just saying that everybody was a racist 250. Everybody was a racist 250 years ago. It doesn't make it
00:59:03.820 right. It's just the context. And we've moved a long way from where we were 250 years ago.
00:59:10.380 Right? So I say that as a, as a, as a, uh, just a bit of a forewarning for what I'm going to share
00:59:18.700 with you here is that with, with being a try hard, it's really about your motive.
00:59:23.500 The motive is important. So when you say, Steven says, can you try too hard?
00:59:32.540 It depends on what you mean by try hard. Are you saying try hard for yourself? Like I want to be
00:59:38.540 the best podcaster. I want to be the best husband, or I want to do this and I want to excel. Can you
00:59:44.060 try too hard? No, I don't. I don't think so. But if you're saying, can I try too hard to gain the
00:59:54.220 acceptance and approval of others and make sure that they like me and get them to notice and
00:59:59.500 acknowledge me, then absolutely. You can try too hard and compromise my values and who I am as a
01:00:05.500 person and lose my identity in the attempt of being liked by someone. Of course. Yeah.
01:00:11.820 So I think you ought to go to your motives, but look, I mean, the reason that somebody would call
01:00:16.300 somebody a try hard, if their motives appear, it's the crab in the bucket mentality. And you
01:00:22.220 just hit on it right now. Everybody's heard the analogy. It's like, if one crab starts to crawl out
01:00:27.100 of the bucket, the other crabs will literally grab it and pull it down out of the bucket because it
01:00:32.060 doesn't want it to escape. That's what you might be running into. If you have one kid on your team
01:00:38.140 or a handful that are excelling, the ones who aren't excelling rather than trying to excel
01:00:44.700 and exert themselves, they'll mock and they'll poke and they'll ridicule and they'll make fun of
01:00:50.700 the one who's excelling. So it's your job as a coach to inoculate a young man or woman against
01:00:57.660 that mentality by saying, Hey, you know what, Timmy, I see you. I see you every day. You get here early.
01:01:07.420 You're the last one to leave. Every time you get on the field, you're running, you're cheering for
01:01:12.700 other people. You're trying as hard as you can. And I want you to know, I acknowledge that and that
01:01:18.060 will serve you for the rest of your life. I also know a little Timmy that people don't like you
01:01:25.260 because of that. And they poke at you and they mock you and they ridicule. And I want you to know
01:01:30.860 that that too is a sign that you're doing the right thing. So you could use that as an excuse to
01:01:40.540 be less than you're capable of, or you could acknowledge it for a little bit of feedback
01:01:45.420 that says you're on the right path. We don't place ourselves above other people.
01:01:50.460 You're not doing it to boost up your own pride, but you know, you're capable of something more.
01:01:55.500 And that's why you try so hard. And when these guys give you a hard time,
01:01:58.700 it's because they have inadequacies in themselves, not in you. It's your job to explain that because
01:02:05.500 kids don't know that kids are dickheads. And the other ones who aren't are a little bit ignorant
01:02:11.660 and naive and tender. And it's our job as men to, I don't want to use the word harden.
01:02:19.180 That's why I like the word inoculate. We want to inoculate them against
01:02:24.060 the tendencies of human beings to be miserable to each other.
01:02:28.220 Yeah. And what a beautiful lesson, right? Like the example you just gave, if you can get a kid to
01:02:33.340 realize that and they can latch onto that and make that a way of being as they get older,
01:02:40.140 oh my goodness. Like what's possible, you know, anything.
01:02:44.860 And also, you know, that you have an opportunity to teach your other kids who aren't excelling to
01:02:48.940 that level, the same thing. Now you got to be careful because you could actually throw a little
01:02:53.020 Timmy under the bus by saying, why can't you be all like little Timmy? Yeah. Yeah. Now you just
01:02:58.860 teed them up. Yeah. But you can acknowledge not just Timmy, but even look, if you can find something
01:03:06.460 good, something right, some, some behavior, even if it's just a little glimpse in the guy who's got
01:03:13.740 an attitude and you acknowledge it, what do you think that kid with the attitude is going to do
01:03:17.340 next time? He's going to do it even better next time. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. One of my favorite,
01:03:22.700 I don't even know who the quote was. I think it's Stephen Covey. He says that, you know,
01:03:25.500 you want to change the behavior of a person, change their role. And I mean, I think there's a little bit
01:03:30.060 of that is it's, it's giving trust to someone. It's, it's letting them know that you believe in
01:03:35.500 them in a unique way. And a lot of people will shift and they'll kind of rise to the occasion.
01:03:39.900 I think that actually happens in, in belt promotions and jujitsu where I really, you guys get promoted
01:03:46.860 and they're like, all right, like somebody believes, switch turns. I'm now blue. I got to act like one,
01:03:53.980 you know, and then they rise to the occasion. So, yeah, I, I have a, I, there's a soft spot in my
01:03:59.740 heart and there aren't many, but there's a soft spot in my heart for, I'm telling you, man, for
01:04:04.460 coaches, no, seriously for youth coaches, man. I mean, what do you say about these people? Like
01:04:13.980 they give up time away from their own families, from their own activities. And they engage with other
01:04:19.360 kids who aren't their own, who are going through the, there might be something you say,
01:04:23.720 you get in a little kid's face, not in a, not in a bad way, but you get in a little kid's face
01:04:27.320 and you say something to him and just use just the right word or just the right inflection,
01:04:33.780 or, or you give them just the right look. And he's never experienced that before. Not at home,
01:04:39.800 not at school. Everybody else thinks he's a loser. His parents are losers. His dad's not around his
01:04:45.800 mom's, you know, an alcohol, whatever, whatever the things he's dealing with. You don't know what he's
01:04:50.260 dealing with. And you might just say one little thing. How do I know? Because somebody did it for
01:04:55.780 me. One little thing. And it completely changes their life because you were around. That's an
01:05:03.780 incredible power. And I think we, as men ought to utilize it a little bit more than we currently do.
01:05:10.340 We get so wrapped up in our own things. And man, that's one area that I really,
01:05:15.320 really enjoy turning outwards. It's very powerful. Yeah. And you saying that reminds me why it's so
01:05:22.180 important for coaches to keep, to keep kids in sports. You know, I I'm thinking about the,
01:05:29.300 that same young kid that might be playing football and he's learning this stuff from his coaches.
01:05:34.120 And then he, he stops playing because, you know, it wasn't enjoyable or you know what I mean? He
01:05:42.020 wasn't getting the feedback. And so as important as that coaching is, it's also important that these
01:05:46.900 boys kind of stay in too. And that's one of the, the, the challenges of a coaches making it
01:05:54.000 rewarding enough that they want to come back, you know, that we don't drive them so hard that they
01:05:59.600 just want to quit either. Right. And so I, I at least struggled with that in the past of how do I
01:06:04.420 push these kids in a way to get better, but also so they enjoy the sport. They, they feel fulfilled by
01:06:11.120 playing the game at the same time. Yeah. And I think every little, every little athlete you have
01:06:16.760 is a little bit different. You know, I've had in the years that I've coached football and baseball
01:06:21.320 is I've had some tremendous athletes who I feel like I can push a little bit harder because their
01:06:26.960 resolve to win and compete and strive is a little bit more strengthened than another. So I feel like I
01:06:33.920 can push on that individual a little bit more. And then I might have somebody who, in fact, I know
01:06:38.460 I've had kids come out and the, the, the moms have approached me and said, he's never played
01:06:45.160 baseball before. He only plays video games. His dad's not around. He doesn't have very many friends
01:06:51.460 and I'm not going to ride that kid. Like I would the all-star athlete. Yeah. And in fact, I'm going
01:06:56.640 to encourage the all-star athletes to put my, put his arm around that kid and say, Hey, let me show
01:07:01.580 you a couple of things, you know, cause it's sometimes more powerful coming from his peer than coming
01:07:06.200 from me, but you have to know your people, right? You have to know this guy I can push
01:07:10.580 in this particular way. And this guy, I just need to make sure he has a good time and he connects
01:07:16.340 discomfort with confidence and overcoming and being proud of himself. He, I have to make that
01:07:22.360 part of a team is, is, is his goal. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. All right. One more question.
01:07:28.980 You go, let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. All right. Joshua King in a sales role. Would you,
01:07:33.220 would hiring a personal coach be a smart decision at what point in your career? If so,
01:07:38.360 I hear as I hear on many podcasts, how valuable they can be to help improve the conversation rate
01:07:43.960 and other goal areas, but would you, but would like to hear both of your thoughts. Thank you guys.
01:07:49.140 Love the podcast movement. Sorry. I, I'm not sure if I slaughtered it or if it was odd to read there.
01:07:53.420 So no, I think, I think I got it. Um, he, he was talking about just when is the best time to get a
01:07:58.380 sales coach? Look, here's the thing. You're going to have situations where you might have a formal coach,
01:08:03.120 and other, excuse me, situations where it might just be informal. Like you're listening to a
01:08:08.360 particular podcast. Maybe it's Andy Frisilla's podcast or Ed Milet or any number of podcasts on
01:08:13.260 business and sales, Grant Cardone, that sort of thing. Uh, and that's an indirect coach. You might
01:08:18.080 read a book, you might buy a course, you might subscribe to emails and you should always be
01:08:22.260 doing that. Always be doing that. There isn't a time where you shouldn't be doing that. Um, and then
01:08:26.840 there comes a time where it's time to step it up and to ramp it up a little bit and invest a little
01:08:31.220 bit of money. I wouldn't say so much money that it breaks you, but you have to be uncomfortable.
01:08:36.660 Again, this is about discomfort. You're never going to improve. When I hired my first coaches
01:08:41.260 in my financial planning practice. In fact, I was very, very uncomfortable.
01:08:46.760 And uncomfortable, meaning you were investing a lot of money and it caused a lot of, uh, not stress
01:08:53.900 stress and action. And you want to take more action than normal probably because of, because I invested
01:09:00.580 all this money. Yeah. I mean, I didn't have, I think it was $10,000 or maybe it was six. I can't
01:09:06.540 exactly remember at this point, but I invested thousands of dollars just to go and to be like,
01:09:11.960 to have a ticket to this particular event. I didn't have that money. And I did it anyways,
01:09:17.460 because it was a little bit outside of my comfort zone. I felt like it was a good thing. He,
01:09:22.160 the guy that I went to, he came highly recommended from a trusted source. So I said, okay, well,
01:09:27.520 like, let's give this a try. And worst case scenario, I'm out $2,000 and that's not a great
01:09:31.620 place to be, but I can make that up. And, and it ended up working out very, very well for me.
01:09:36.860 And then I continually invest from that point forward. That was probably my real first large
01:09:43.100 investment into coaching and mentoring. Uh, and every time I do it, it's just a little bit more and a
01:09:49.720 little bit more and a little bit more. And then I go back and evaluate and without fail,
01:09:53.440 everything that I've honestly invested in, and I've given it my sincere effort towards
01:09:59.880 implementing the things that have been advised. It always pays huge dividends for me. So I can't
01:10:07.160 give you a number. I can't say when you're making a hundred thousand dollars, you should be doing this
01:10:11.160 much, but once your basic needs are met, I mean, I would, I would legitimately consider investing
01:10:17.480 10 to 20% of your revenue into coaching. That's just a business expense for me at this point. It's
01:10:25.440 like, no, it's, it's that important that I spend 10 to 20% of the revenue back into the business,
01:10:32.660 not via Facebook and ads and all that, no, into investing in myself to run the business correctly.
01:10:39.780 This is not the day-to-day operations like hiring an accountant or hiring that no in myself. How do I
01:10:45.520 market? How do I do public speaking? How do I build up sales? How do I book better guests? That sort of
01:10:51.520 thing. Yeah, totally. When it's, and we've talked about this in the past, but it's, it's interesting
01:10:58.120 how the, the value and the commitment that we put on something based upon how much we're willing to
01:11:04.360 sacrifice for it. Right. It's like, you know, I I'm, I'm assuming that if in the examples that
01:11:09.680 you gave, if that coaching was kind of cheap and it was like, nah, not a big deal, you probably
01:11:14.780 wouldn't have done all the things that they told you to do. And then you'd walk away going, yeah,
01:11:18.520 that didn't really help. Yeah. Right. Because you weren't, you weren't invested. Like you weren't,
01:11:22.720 you weren't putting some skin in the game enough to drive action on your part. Right. It's also,
01:11:28.840 and, and you said it was cheap. So cheap, expensive, those are all subjective and relative terms.
01:11:35.420 So you're, you're cheap is different than somebody else's cheap. So like, I never wanted to come
01:11:42.120 across as like, you should be spending $10,000 a month on this thing. I don't know if you can spend
01:11:46.020 $10,000 a month or a thousand or a hundred. I don't know. Maybe $10 is a lot to you. Who am I to say
01:11:51.600 it isn't? I don't know. Yeah, totally. All I'm saying is that it's a little bit of a cart before the
01:11:56.960 horse mentality. Like you think, oh, once I get sales, then I can hire a coach. That's backwards.
01:12:03.920 Once you get the instruction again, whether it's directly or indirectly, that will increase your
01:12:10.220 sales. So make sure you get it right in the right order. You have to, you have to learn the
01:12:16.200 information before you apply it. If you apply it, you actually might get lucky. And I have at times,
01:12:23.260 and that's nice. There is a danger in getting lucky though. The danger in getting lucky is that
01:12:30.380 you believe you're good at it. Yeah. It has nothing to do with that. It just means you got
01:12:36.860 lucky. Yeah. If we were to go back to jujitsu, for example, if, if I were to catch a brown belt
01:12:42.620 in some like weird move that maybe he's never seen. And I saw it this one time on YouTube and I tried it
01:12:49.160 and it was this really obscure thing that nobody has seen. And I just like caught him. I'd be like,
01:12:53.460 hell yeah, I'm good at this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't confuse. You're, you're not,
01:12:59.480 you got lucky. You need to be able to remove yourself from the results. It's not that you're
01:13:04.900 good at it. It just means you're lucky. Get the right coaching, get the right information. So you
01:13:10.060 don't have to rely upon luck. You rely on years and years, potentially even thousands of years.
01:13:15.740 Cause that's how old books are thousands of years of information of getting it right and trying and,
01:13:21.240 and failing and learning and growing and get it right. And then go perform and evolve from there.
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