145. Q&AF: The Dichotomy Of Critical Thinking And Vision, Opening First Business & Working With Family & Friends
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of critical thinking and how critical thinking has been systematically removed from our society. How do we improve our ability to see further ahead? What is critical thinking, and how can we improve critical thinking? In this episode of The Realist Perspective, Andy Priscilla and I discuss what critical thinking is and how to improve your ability to critically think.
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what is up guys it's andy priscilla and this is the show for the realest sake about it
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lies the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality
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you guys all thought i fucked it up didn't you i think you thought you fucked it up i did
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i'm not gonna lie it took me i had a little joe biden moment
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oh man the closest you've ever been though i picked it up though i picked it up and i closed
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hard i went hard in the tank oh shit so what do we got today we got q and af q and af baby all
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right so before we get started on the q and af i'd like to remind you guys uh to please pay the
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fee okay i really appreciate all the support you guys show the show uh we don't run ads for the show
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uh you support us if we don't do good don't support us and i'm totally cool with that so um
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what we got guys you guys know how this works i got three questions for andy um and as always guys
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email your questions in to ask andy at andy for seller.com um and the questions can be about
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anything as always we always appreciate your questions they're awesome so keep sending them
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in um so i'll ask andy three questions if you're uh ready we're gonna go fire for fire for fire
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i'm ready let's get it in so question number one all right so we've talked about this a lot critical
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thinking right it has been intentionally removed from our society right and people's ability to see ahead
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to think critically is at an all-time low how exactly do you improve the ability to see further
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ahead like how do you how have you worked and improve that skill of critical thinking and seeing
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you know two three years ahead like how do you do that well you're talking about two different things
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one you're critical thinking and you're talking about vision all right um both of them are very
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similar uh but they're also different as well so when it comes to critical thinking you know we are
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all used to and indoctrinated into uh you know here's the way it is and then take a test to make
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sure that our answer matches what they say is the answer and that's how we've all been raised one way
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or another whether it be uh you know true like it doesn't matter what your version of the truth is
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um it's still that way of thinking right remember this do this and that's why i struggled in school i
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always struggled in school because i thought for myself like it never made sense to me uh when i
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was in college that i'm taking an entrepreneurship class and here's this person teach me about how to
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be a successful entrepreneur who doesn't own a business when at the time i did own a business
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and then i see him driving away in a 19 fucking 81 shit box yeah like i can critically think my way to
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say hey this might not be the best person to fucking learn from yeah um so i think it's important
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important for people to question everything i think a big thing of critical thinking is to ask
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questions um for example like what's going on in the world right like you know a lot of people they
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look at one side or the other side but they refuse to look at both sides you know a lot of people feel
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better when they're when their biases are confirmed versus them being uncomfortable with new information
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it might conflict with those biases so i think it's important to be open to all sides of the story
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and to realize that you know there's not two sides to the coin there's three sides to the coin
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right there's the heads there's the tails and then there's the actual side right all right and that
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stands for the same idea you know there's their side there's their side and then there's somewhere
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in the middle is the truth right and i think it's important to remember that in in almost every
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situation but especially with what's going on in the world um you know in terms of seeing what's
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going to happen a lot of that comes from experience right like you're you kind of have to just think
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unemotionally completely not get upset about what's happening not get emotionally invested
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but but see things for what they are all right a realistic viewpoint of the truth and this is why we
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call the show real af you know this is about a realist perspective yeah separate your emotions
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pull your emotions and your personal beliefs about the way things should be and and pull that away
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and look at what is all right and then look at the actions of people versus what they say right that's
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a big thing too a lot of people want to believe everything that that people say whether it be in
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their business or business relationships or the government or the media or whatever we all want to trust
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people it's human nature so we have to admit to ourselves that the truth is uh not everybody's worth
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that trust yeah so it's very important that you watch people's actions um versus listening what
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they say but when it comes to seeing down the road and seeing what's happening i think having a very
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good knowledge of historical facts is a good place to start because the truth is history does repeat
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itself so um you know it's sort of like you know you you're sitting you're sitting on the beach right
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and you're watching someone and there's a hole in the beach and they're running and you know that
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they don't see the hole right and then they fall in the hole yeah okay and you see that happen 400
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times well eventually when you see this person start running 400 yards away you already know what's
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going to happen at the end you know what i'm saying so there's an there is a there's aspects to being
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able to see what's happening and and one of them is experience one of them is uh non-emotional
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critical thinking one of them is finding the facts and making decisions based on the facts not based
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on how you feel about the facts um which is really the biggest problem that's going on in the world
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right now in my opinion uh but yeah i mean thinking critically guys is a very important skill to
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practice you know and a good way to to see if you're thinking critically is to ask yourself am i
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thinking emotionally or am i thinking logically is this a fact or is this something that i'm making up in
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my head is this feeling yeah is it a feeling is it a story i'm telling myself and you could save
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yourself a lot of hardship emotionally by becoming a critical thinker because when you're a critical
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thinker you you don't let yourself get sucked into other situations that would get you into a highly
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emotional state and by the way um this this is not something that you master in one day this is a
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lifetime mastery program on this i mean there are still things that i see on a daily basis
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that make me fucking angry and i think it's important that we you know we all do our best
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to not to contribute to the division you know so that's critical thinking you know like i'm thinking
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okay i have a voice people are watching what do i show everybody's seeing this anyway do i really
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want to pour gas on this fire or do i want to uh let people see for themselves on their own and then
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me be a voice to help guide them towards unity instead of more division so so there's a lot of ways to
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think about it and and you know however you think about it in those situations and however you want
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to represent yourself is your decision but i think it's important for you to consider
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the impacts of your actions right like are we just hyping people up causing more division or are we
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you know because like there's a balance there right like no it has to be yeah like people do need to see
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these things for sure but does it need to be jammed down their throat so hard that we that we create a
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backlash towards i don't i don't think shot is doing this like oh look look at this yeah that
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makes the other sounds like yeah yeah right and so so i think thinking critically about and taking a
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step back and taking a pause about what's going on um really could serve the world right now yeah you
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know and i think everybody needs to uh get away from the emotional thinking and we do we're seeing
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it right now right like let's just be fucking honest um a lot of people didn't like trump because
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they didn't like the way he behaved or because somebody else told them okay that's right and
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that's not critical thinking no critical now you have a president who is legitimately hurting you
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your fucking income your fucking future your kid's future and putting us in danger by some of the shit
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that he's doing and so what would you rather have would you rather have a little bit of discomfort
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on your emotional state or would you rather have real pain in real life because that's the decision
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that you made right um and that's the importance of critical thinking you have to be able to look
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at someone and say you know what i don't like everything this person's about but at the end of
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the day uh i'm not here to like this person i'm here to get them to do a fucking job right and like
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them or not we were doing pretty fucking good no we weren't doing pretty good we were doing
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fucking amazing yeah it's the best the country had ever done for sure so that's an that's a non-arguable
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fact it's a fact not a feeling so it is what it is but yeah critical thinking long time
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investment that you need to make uh being able to see down the road that comes with experience as
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well as your skill development on critical thinking awesome that's fucking fire all right
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question number two so you you and chris right in 1999 you were 19 years old right what made you
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guys start s2 like like what that's the question yeah that's the question like like i mean there's
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many other businesses that you guys could have gotten into maybe right like what led you into s2 like
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what made you and chris say okay let's do this well first and foremost we wanted to be entrepreneurs
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yeah okay um i knew that i was not the kind of person who could uh quite honestly just being
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honest like take direction at that time in my life i couldn't i was not coachable yeah okay i was
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stubborn as fuck and that's a good quality to have as an entrepreneur by the way it's not a negative
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especially in the beginning you have to be stubborn and you have to be fucking rigid uh so i didn't
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want to go get a job i actually thought all my professors were fucking idiots and you know for the
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reasons i described in the last question like i've always qualified who i want to learn from
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and i've always looked deeper into their lives like to to qualify them yeah you know i don't just
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listen to someone uh like a lot of people do now because they post on their story one time you know
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they booked a private jet like i yeah right like i'm looking for the motherfuckers that haven't flown
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private in fucking a decade or haven't flown commercial in a decade i'm looking for motherfuckers
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that have the real juice behind them to do whatever they want to learn from right i'm not looking for
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guys who are just getting it going trying to flex their shit um so i look harder and deeper and i
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always have into who the fuck i learned from and um i knew because of that like i'm gonna have to
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pave my own way because there's no way i can make enough money working for someone else to live the
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life that i want to live and i knew that very young when i was fucking eight nine ten years old my dad
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sort of beat that into me uh so that contributed right i wanted to be an entrepreneur um and we didn't
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really know what we wanted to be an entrepreneur in so our first our first line of thinking was we knew a
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guy uh who who ended up becoming my friend uh later on in life who owns some tanning salons and
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uh we said well hey he's fucking killing it let's just open some tanning salons you know that's like
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a lot what a lot of entrepreneurs do and this is very dangerous and i'm gonna explain why in a second
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but we didn't know what it took we didn't know anything about the business we just want to make
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money yeah right so we didn't care what we had to do so we went and we tried to uh look into tanning
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beds and you know the first tanning the tanning bed at that time was 30 grand we only had 12 grand
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so we only had twelve thousand dollars that we had saved up from painting the stripes on parking
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lots uh we both worked at that job together so then uh you know we we got the idea from a
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supplement store from this this guy who had made an independent supplement brand which at the time
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was very rare it was only this gnc and vitamin shop and like those kind of places there was no
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independence wasn't a thing so we decided to do that and the reason we decided to do that was
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honestly out of ignorance and passion for us we like to train like we like to train we knew a little
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bit about nutrition we knew a little bit about training it was something we were interested in
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and passionate about so we just said fuck it let's do that and honestly um looking back that was a
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terrible way like because dude now i've spent the last 25 years trying to sell shit that people don't
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really fucking want you know what i'm saying yeah and and it's weird because everybody and their
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brother sees what we do and they're like i want to start a supplement brand bro listen i'm not saying
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this because because the chances of you catching me at this point are almost zero okay uh just
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logistically it's probably you're 25 years ahead not only that uh it would take you a hundred million
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dollar capital investment to even fucking be on the and then the cost i mean it's it's it's a bad
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thing to chase okay like you should be focusing on your own shit um but i have all these people
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every day reach out and they're like dude i want to start a supplement brand i want to start a
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supplement brand i want to start a supplement brand you know they think that you put powder in a
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fucking bottle it's two bucks and you make 50 bucks that's not how it works like dude the margins
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are very slim they're not high uh it there's there's a whole lot of shit that goes in it if you want
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to be successful very very tough business uh but and anybody who's in the business is shaking
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their head right now like holy fuck dude i know what you're talking about because it's hard as
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fuck and so uh you know but we made them we made that decision you know we were kids we weren't we
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were stubborn we thought we could do it uh turns out we were right but it wasn't without a long time
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struggle you know what i'm saying our first store um we opened we had to go around springfield missouri
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and try to get someone to lease to us uh which was a challenge in itself because we were just kids
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and we didn't have any credit and we didn't have any money and you know nobody was backing us nobody
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was co-signing or anything like that so we had to go out and convince people like you know hey man
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believe in us type shit you know what i mean and we found one guy who was willing to um allow us to
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rent the space uh it was a thousand dollars a month and he wanted to hit the first year he wanted up
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front in cash because he was certain that he wasn't going to get the lease followed through on
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and uh well fuck that's everything you guys had it was yeah it was every dollar we had so so we got
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the space then we had to come up with the money for the product and the build out and so what we did
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there was we went and got credit cards and we financed the the build out and the first round of
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product our first order and stock of the store was only ten thousand dollars um and it's funny because
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now i get it like people used to come in the store right when we opened they'd be like fuck are you
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guys going out of business yeah i'm like no man we just started starting yeah and like i would get
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insulted but now i like look back at the photos of what our store looked like yeah and i'm like
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well fuck no shit they thought that like i truly didn't get it like i i didn't understand why they
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were asking me um so you know our first day we sold seven bucks uh the second day we sold zero the
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third day we sold like 23 bucks and took us eight months to have a day over 200 bucks it took us five
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and a half years six years to get our second store open our first three years we made zero dollars
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the next seven years the most we made was 695 per month i made a total of 58 000 my first 10 years
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in business and it was a fucking grind you know and um i learned almost everything valuable about
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running a company like this size uh then and you know i learned what it meant to sacrifice i learned
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what it meant to grind i learned what it meant to be fucked over and looked over and talk shit on and
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and and i learned what it meant to just execute and and not listen to anything and that's really what
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it came down to um and so you know we got 10 years in and we weren't really making money and we started
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talking about uh you know moving to a different business or selling the company or closing it
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and because we still weren't making any money and i remember we both started looking at other things i
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started looking at uh this carpet cleaning situation which didn't that's a whole nother that's a whole
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that's a whole podcast honestly because i was about an inch away from being andy the motherfucking
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carpet cleaner for real and uh you know we went around and looked at these alternative careers
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because we weren't really getting it done and we both came back together and we're like dude you know
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like this shit this all this other shit sucks like you make a little bit more money which you know
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we make a lot more money but because we weren't making any but uh you know we we were both like dude
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maybe maybe being rich isn't what we're meant for maybe we're just meant for helping people
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and we had the conversation about you know the customers over that 10 years that first 10 years
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in business who would come in you know and they'd sit with us and we'd talk to them and they would buy
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product and you know we would give them information and help them and they would leave and then they
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would come in you know uh a couple months later or six months later and because we had a little hourly
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employees right you don't always see the same person when they come in but but you would maybe
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not see them for six months right and then they would see you and they're fucking a different person
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like they've lost like 100 pounds yeah they're they're giving you a big hug they got tears in their
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eyes and i chris and i had a conversation we're like dude you know we should just try to replicate
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that as much as possible and when we switched our mindset from trying to make the business grow
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to trying to provide uh an amazing experience and result for our customers you know that's when
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the magic started happening and it just never stopped because we we reinvest and we recommit to
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that every single day and so our mission here in our companies whether it's any of my companies
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whether it's that's our tequila brand that we that i'm investor in or anything i'm involved in
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um my superpower is that i can stay super focused on what the customer is there for and do that better
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than anybody else and that's that's the thing that i think people should hear when it comes to
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business so whatever you choose whatever you pick whatever you decide you want to be in on make sure
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that your focus isn't on yourself uh it's on your customer all right and if you can focus on your
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customer uh or your patron or whoever you know is coming in your restaurant or whatever it is you
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decide to do to provide the very best possible solution for them uh so that you know and that
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starts with asking them why why are they here right what are they what are they expecting you know if you
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own a restaurant that's a different thing than if you own a supplement brand or you own a gym or you own
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a finance company but at the point the point of the matter is the best companies are very clear on why
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the customer is there and then they pour as much into that as they possibly can and allow
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the customer to go out and do the marketing for you because you've done such a great job it's no
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different than me talking about the fee at the beginning of the show where i say hey if we do
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good share it if we don't don't share it because i don't deserve it right and that's how i look at
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business as a whole you know so it really doesn't matter what you pick uh as long as you pick something
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i think that you're passionate about that you're interested in and even if you're passionate and even if
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you're interested you are going to have multiple days a month where you're like fuck this really
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sucks what did i get myself into how like dude even today like even even this at this point in my
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life i still have days where i'm like fuck dude this is so complicated this is so i can't even unwind
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this if i want to you know like it's overwhelming to be an entrepreneur and to have people depend on you
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and and so it's important to have passion for what you do and my passion nowadays is really simple
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like i want my customers to to change their lives i want people who do 75 hard to get control of
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themselves like i have um i want my my people here to build careers as best as we can and so when i
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take my focus and pour it into everything else all the rest of the shit just takes care of itself
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you know what i'm saying so that would be the main lesson that i would tell anyone who is just
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thinking about starting a business understand that if you make it about you it'll never be about you
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if you make it about everybody else it'll be about you that's fucking fire yeah that's fire
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geez two for two right there guys okay so question number three so what what are your thoughts on
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working with family members right so like you know the the person that submitted this question they
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own a business they're thinking about hiring their father is one of the managers for that business
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what are your what are your thoughts on hiring your close family members um i think most people
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have to be careful uh because most families are pretty petty from my observation uh in my family
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we settle things so we beat the fuck out of each other physically and then it settles yeah and that's how
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we do things we're very old school like sal and i get in a fight probably once every 12 months
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legitimate fist fight um chris and i get in arguments we don't get in fights but uh you know
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five minutes later we squash it and we say all right good we're moving forward yeah and that's
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how we do it and most people just aren't willing to do those kind of things yeah uh so they argue and
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they hold grudges and they and they fucking act like little bitches and and and create cancer inside
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the office so i think it's important uh to really evaluate your communication level and your
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communication comfort level when working with your family like dude i don't care who you are if you're
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related to me or not you're gonna get the fucking bear once in a while yeah you know i'm saying like
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when you fuck up i'm gonna fucking let you know and that's it and i'm also gonna put my arm around
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you afterwards and say hey you understand why i did that right and a lot of people can't do that you
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know they do this passive aggressive shit where they like try to freeze you out or they try to not
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talk to you and they think they're like being real you know like oh i'm showing you bro you're just
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taking money out of your own pocket you know like if you're gonna work with family members this is my
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advice make sure they bring something to the table that you don't have this goes for any partner a lot
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of people want to build a business with a partner because it's like right yeah oh dude me and you
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we're gonna be rich we're gonna be friends it happened to work out for me and chris uh but now
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without a lot of fucking work and a lot of challenges and a lot of understanding and a lot of like
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understanding where the fucking line is like him and i know the line like i know when he's had enough
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of me yeah and he and he knows vice versa and you know what we might not talk for a day but but then
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we might come back in the next day and act like everything's cool now sal and i are a little
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different because we grew up beating the shit out of each other and neither one of us are intimidated
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by each other yeah which is pretty stupid because we're both pretty imposing dudes and every time we
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fight we both get hurt yeah but uh you know it's it is what it is it's how and we made a pledge last
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time that we weren't gonna do this anymore but i mean we still had a couple moments where it's like
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it almost went there and i'm sure it will maybe one time again you know some other time i hope not
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because i definitely don't want to get hurt again yeah but the the point is is you've got to be
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really comfortable having direct conversations you know uh ed my let's a business partner of mine we've
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had some very direct conversations with each other uh at the end of the conversation you know
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and and dude those are hard right like ed's one of my very very best friends in life like
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sometimes he's got to tell me some shit that i don't like to hear sometimes vice versa and guess
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what when you know it's within the interests of the common goal it's okay but a lot of people in
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business man they forget that they forget that there's a mission they forget that there's something
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bigger than both of you and a lot of people are in business for the wrong reasons they're in business
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because they want to be the ceo or they want to be the boss or they want to flex on instagram look
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dude most people ain't built for that like they're just not it's hard as fuck to be in charge of of
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of that much shit yeah it just is and like anybody out there who's doing it successfully you have my
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respect dude because it's hard it is hard and most and the average person cannot understand that
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unless they are that so that's one of the reasons i like arate so much because uh in our group everybody's
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an entrepreneur so like i was on the phone with one of my guys uh adam uh who run who does all my jet
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charters you know what i'm saying who's by the way the best guy i've ever used good dude for fucking
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anything yeah everything's always fucking uh that the i's are dotted and t's are crossed uh what's his
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instagram anyway i want to give him a plug it's uh adam the jet guy i think adam private jet adam private
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jets on instagram dude you guys you guys who are in that situation where you're getting to uh
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want to have someone who can arrange your travel this guy does it all he takes care of every
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fucking detail it's it's painless uh and you know it's expensive but it is that it's an expensive
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thing yeah but i just want to give credit because like i was on the phone with him earlier today and
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we're having talks just as like buddies like yeah fuck this is hard i'm like i know bro it's fucking
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hard and like you know so it's important to surround yourself with people who understand because when
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you vent you don't want to be misunderstood yeah you know so uh i don't have an opinion plus or minus
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on the partner thing with family i think most people fuck it up because they try to take all
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the credit and they want all the fucking glory and they want all the money and they want all of it
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and you have to realize that being in charge of a company is not where you get all of it it's where
00:25:23.300
you get the leftovers you know i'm saying like so you better build a company that's strong enough
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and and hardy enough and and successful enough uh that the leftovers are substantial you know and
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so think about that like it's just the reality of being in business so uh for those of you out there
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thinking about partnering with your friends or your family because you think it's going to be this
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really fun thing um understand that unless they bring a special skill okay or a complementary skill
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it's probably not a good idea because you can do it on your own uh you know one of the things about
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chris and i that makes it work we just so happen to have different sort of skills right um he likes to
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run the back end i like to run the front end uh i'm capable of running the front end i'm not capable
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of running the back end and vice versa yes 100 yeah so like i couldn't sit there and do all the shit
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that he does every day i would go fucking insane yeah you know but he also doesn't want to get up and
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and do all the shit i gotta do right you know and uh so it works and that's what i would look for in
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a partner i would look for someone who brings something to you to the table of the greater good
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of the project that you don't have and you know if it's not natural maybe it's time to have a
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conversation with that person like here's how i see the roles because not having a clearly defined
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role is really what gets people in trouble like when you got two guys who are both trying to be the ceo
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both trying to wear the pants yeah bro that's going to cause big problems um and usually they
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both want to be the ceo because they both want the credit for being the ceo i'm going to tell you right
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now being the ceo fucking sucks okay you got to make all the hard decisions you got to do all the
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shit nobody wants to do you got to eat all the shit for other people's mistakes you know i can't tell
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you how many times people fucked up shit here in the company and i gotta eat it you don't say
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personally that's my name and like dude there's a whole lot of things people never really think about
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uh so you know that's most people i'm going to say this and it's going to make people mad but it's
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the truth most people that think they're entrepreneurs are actually great intrapreneurs
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meaning they would be a fucking superstar executive they would be a killer fucking right hand man
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a woman you know what i'm saying yeah and there's nothing wrong with that because those people get
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fucking paid yeah but like that the difference between that and that next level is massive and
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it's none of it's really that great that's just the truth um it's not what these fuckers on instagram
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make it seem like where they're like oh dude here i am you know they they fucking charter their jet
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one time a year and they're you know like it's just like dude why are you telling people this shit
00:28:07.760
this shit is a fucking grind i've been at this for 23 years people should be told the truth
00:28:12.160
so they understand what the fuck they're in for because there's a whole bunch of motherfuckers out
00:28:15.940
there listening right now uh who think that there's something wrong with them as an entrepreneur
00:28:20.740
a business owner because it's hard like they think oh dude i suck at this or oh dude i'm no dude
00:28:26.020
everybody sucks at it it's just a whole bunch of people on the internet pretend like they don't
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okay so do some research in them what what company do they actually build what how much revenue
00:28:37.380
do they actually do what how many people do they employ is their brand recognizable do you see it
00:28:42.900
everywhere you know are they doing real things like because there's a lot of people who aren't doing
00:28:47.540
anything other than just fucking uh pretending to be wealthy and then taking your money to pay them
00:28:54.800
to teach you how to be wealthy there's a whole bunch of those fuckers so you know unless they're
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building something real or they built something real i wouldn't fucking listen to those people at all
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like at all yeah like a professional coach like a person who's a professional coach and that's all
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they do yeah fuck that guy you shouldn't be listening to him you should be learning from people who run
00:29:15.300
actual companies who are in the fight who are in the battle who are in the mix at the right at this time
00:29:20.920
so that you can learn what's actually happening because we live in a
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um in a environment that is changing at such a rapid rate that if you're not learning from
00:29:34.380
someone who's in the fight the same fight you're in uh you're you're not going to be able to adjust
00:29:40.000
and adapt and learn the skills properly because it's too fast so it's very important that you guys
00:29:44.760
are like you know learning from people who have actually done shit and are continuing to do shit
00:29:49.940
in this time frame and i know that's a little off topic but it's a perfect fucking point yeah i think
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it's a very important part because our point important point because um you know the fake shit to me i i see
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it becoming more and more prevalent like not less so you know be smart enough to look into those
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things if you see me with someone if you see me with a picture with a picture with them i can
00:30:11.960
promise you they're doing something uh you don't i don't go to bullshit i don't fucking associate with
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bullshit if that's your litmus litmus test if you see me with someone i promise you they're doing
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something okay and you can learn some shit from them so um yeah that's awesome yeah just think about
00:30:30.080
it man think about it like instead it's just the same thing we talk about critical thinking
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take the emotion out take the emotion out is that person still a good business partner
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do they bring things you don't have do they bring capital do they bring experience do they bring
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skills are they willing to play a different role than you want to play those are questions to ask and
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think about that's awesome man that's three for fucking three yeah well we're balling hey man you
00:30:52.220
know what you get your balls kicked in for quarter century you're gonna know some shit
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so uh you know i hope that helps you guys so is that it that's it man all right guys well if you
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like to show if you learn something if it gave you perspective uh please share the show uh i really
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appreciate all the love you guys have been showing especially with the pro america shows um as you
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know i'm passionate about that something that really matters to me it should matter to you too
00:31:18.880
because without freedom and without our personal autonomy we don't have anything we don't have the
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ability to build we don't have the ability to create we don't have the ability to become wealthy
00:31:28.300
and successful and provide for our families and our friends and our employees so if you're an
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entrepreneur and you're not in this fight for freedom uh get in it went from sleeping on the
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floor now my jewelry box froze fuck a bowl fuck a stove counted millions in the cold bad bitch
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booted slow got her on bankroll can't fold doesn't know headshot case closed