REAL AF with Andy Frisella - A Young Entrepreneur In The House, with Andy Frisella

00:00:00.160 What's up, guys? This is Vaughn Kohler, and you're listening to the MFCEO Project.

00:00:04.260 Hey, guys, if you have listened to the project for any length of time, you know that Andy has a real desire to help all entrepreneurs,

00:00:11.440 but he also especially has a special place in his heart for young entrepreneurs.

00:00:16.900 And today, we're joined by Nehemiah Davis, who you will learn more about in just a moment.

00:00:21.400 But get ready for a great podcast.

00:00:30.000 What is up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project.

00:00:48.200 I'm Andy, and I am the motherfucking CEO.

00:00:52.300 Guys, today, we are going to do something cool. We're going to do something special.

00:00:55.740 We've got a very, very special guest. Before we get to him,

00:01:00.000 I've got to say hi to my co-host, the pastor of Disaster.

00:01:05.560 What's up, my man?

00:01:07.480 I'm getting my Ph.D. in Andy Frisella.

00:01:11.080 You are?

00:01:11.460 I've got to tell you.

00:01:13.240 Do you have any idea?

00:01:15.520 Why are you talking about my D?

00:01:19.440 I swear, you leave me speechless sometimes.

00:01:22.060 I know.

00:01:22.260 Yeah, so do you have any idea how much stuff you've posted on the Internet?

00:01:28.360 You know what?

00:01:30.480 Probably a lot more than I realize.

00:01:31.880 A lot.

00:01:32.400 Yeah.

00:01:32.760 Like, I've literally, with some help, I've literally pulled off everything you've ever posted on Facebook, Instagram, whatever.

00:01:39.560 It is a single-spaced, well, right now, it's almost a 300-page document.

00:01:44.520 Holy cow.

00:01:45.160 Word document.

00:01:47.300 Wow.

00:01:47.680 So it's kind of crazy.

00:01:48.820 Yeah, man.

00:01:49.260 So I've got quite a bit of editing to do.

00:01:51.300 You know, people don't realize that either because a lot of people come up and they're like, dude, you came out of nowhere and you got all these followers and you got all this momentum going.

00:02:00.460 It's great.

00:02:01.040 And I'm like, yeah, man, I've been working on it for seven years.

00:02:03.380 Right.

00:02:03.620 You know, every day.

00:02:05.320 It's just like, you know, we talk about starting a business here.

00:02:08.380 If you want to build a brand on social media, you know, you're going to post a long time with getting one, two, or three likes.

00:02:15.220 Right.

00:02:15.420 You know, I can remember that.

00:02:16.720 And I remember just like when we started a business, when I started posting, people would DM me or call me or text me and be like, dude, what are you doing?

00:02:25.480 Right.

00:02:25.720 You sound goofy.

00:02:26.700 Right.

00:02:26.960 You know, and we talk about social media and importance of it and branding and all these things all the time on the show.

00:02:34.420 And the biggest thing that I get back from people is, man, you know, I say what I want to say, but it doesn't seem like it's well-received.

00:02:41.140 But you've got to give that message time to find the right audience, because what's going to happen is you're going to find, you're going to come across one person who really digs what you're saying.

00:02:50.300 And they're going to have their circle of people who also dig that info.

00:02:54.060 So if you're a young buck and you're trying to get started on your social media, you know, remember, man, in the beginning, it's going to be slow.

00:03:00.540 You're going to have, you know, you're not going to have the attention of a, of a, you know, somebody that's got four or five or a million followers, four or 500,000 or a million followers.

00:03:10.460 You're going to have the attention of somebody who's got three or 400 followers, but they're going to grow.

00:03:15.620 Right.

00:03:16.020 You know, and we can cover how to grow this more organically in a different episode, but it's just a good point to make while you bring that up.

00:03:24.040 Well, and another good point, too, is that, you know, you're not just talking the talk, you're walking the walk.

00:03:28.260 And as I've been pouring through all this stuff to edit it and do it, you know, do different things with it.

00:03:33.800 Tell people why you're doing it.

00:03:35.120 I mean, you're not just doing it for fun.

00:03:36.240 Well, right.

00:03:36.700 I mean, we're doing it for the book.

00:03:37.740 We're doing it for the book, and frankly, we're doing it for multiple books because there's no way this is all going to fit into one book.

00:03:44.500 But the thing that really just hit me as I was doing this is I was like, wow, you really are doing what you say to do because you have provided all of this stuff on the internet in different forms,

00:03:56.840 whether it's, you know, podcasts or Facebook posts or Instagram posts for free.

00:04:01.800 OK, and I think people need to remember, keep the faith, focus on providing value, because now, you know, you are you are getting invites to come speak.

00:04:11.880 You are getting paid very well to come speak.

00:04:13.760 And I think when people are in the thick of it, they're like, man, I can't believe I'm giving out.

00:04:17.260 Let's stop right there.

00:04:18.320 First of all, speaking to is a skill.

00:04:21.240 All right.

00:04:21.600 When you first start, you're going to suck.

00:04:23.520 You're not going to deserve to be paid.

00:04:24.780 You know, when I first started speaking, you know, and it was around 2006, 2007, when I first really started speaking, I was terrible, terrible.

00:04:34.900 And a lot of people are like, Andy, you've got this gift.

00:04:37.120 No, I don't have a gift for speaking.

00:04:38.760 I failed my public speaking class in college.

00:04:41.340 I do not have a gift for speaking.

00:04:42.900 Yeah.

00:04:43.160 I've got a skill for speaking that I've developed.

00:04:45.180 There you go.

00:04:45.840 There you go.

00:04:46.260 You know what I mean?

00:04:46.700 I hear what you're saying.

00:04:48.000 No, no, no.

00:04:48.420 It's not a gift, dude.

00:04:49.540 I've just been really bad for a long time to know how to do it decent now.

00:04:53.900 No, I hear what you're saying.

00:04:54.780 Yeah.

00:04:55.100 When you first started talking, I was like, eh, okay, but I see what you're saying.

00:04:58.140 Dude, I would have failed your public speaking class.

00:05:00.020 You probably would have.

00:05:00.740 No, I would have cursed at least every other line.

00:05:03.560 You know what I'm saying?

00:05:05.100 Well, you might have.

00:05:06.240 Probably would have gave me a big F for multiple reasons.

00:05:09.440 Vulgarity.

00:05:09.840 Yeah.

00:05:10.200 Yeah.

00:05:10.820 Yeah.

00:05:10.980 So, guys, today we're going to have a really cool show.

00:05:13.880 We're going to talk about specifically to you young bucks, all right?

00:05:18.720 And when I say young bucks, that means young entrepreneurs.

00:05:22.040 And young entrepreneurs doesn't necessarily mean physical age young.

00:05:26.660 It means you could be 40 and in your first day of business, all right?

00:05:30.560 So, when I say young buck, realize I'm not talking about your age.

00:05:34.500 I'm talking about your entrepreneur age.

00:05:36.220 And that's what we're going to talk about today.

00:05:38.320 And bucks could also be does.

00:05:40.180 Yeah.

00:05:40.640 But we've got tough listeners.

00:05:42.920 We've got badass listeners.

00:05:44.140 I would even say all our females, they're bucks, too.

00:05:47.020 Yeah.

00:05:47.340 You know, they're badasses.

00:05:48.620 So, guys, we've got a real special guest here, a guy who I've been on his show, on his call.

00:05:56.400 I look up to him, even though he's younger than me.

00:05:58.700 He's hustling.

00:06:00.180 He's doing a lot of really cool things.

00:06:01.860 And I think you guys are going to really like hearing from this gentleman.

00:06:03.760 We've got Nehemiah Davison in here.

00:06:06.480 He's the author of Step Into Greatness, Journal, Speaker.

00:06:11.100 I mean, what else do you do, man?

00:06:12.460 You're doing all kinds of stuff.

00:06:14.140 Philanthropist.

00:06:14.680 Yeah.

00:06:15.400 Understand, I listen to Andy a lot.

00:06:17.180 I was just listening to the podcast.

00:06:18.620 And he's always talked about adding value to people's life.

00:06:21.440 And I realize as I continue to add value to others, so many people add value to me.

00:06:25.900 And that's probably why I'm on this show.

00:06:27.080 I could tell just from what I know of you, and you could notice this from watching you

00:06:33.540 from the outside, even if we had never spoke before, but you're big on karma, man, and doing

00:06:38.240 the right thing.

00:06:39.100 Tell the people what you just did for Flint.

00:06:40.880 Wow.

00:06:41.240 Well, so I have a group called Boardroom Bosses where I sit down with a group of people and

00:06:45.320 help them with their business, whether it's young entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, and just

00:06:49.280 people who want to develop personally, mentally, and as an entrepreneur.

00:06:52.540 So this group of people reached out to me like, hey, Neil, we need to do something for Flint.

00:06:57.200 As they know, I'm a go-getter, and I'm one who just want to get it done.

00:07:00.380 Andy always talks about just go do it.

00:07:02.140 Like, so many people talk about doing it, but I'm that guy.

00:07:05.040 You call me.

00:07:05.480 I'm going to make it my business to get it done.

00:07:08.420 So we got a call about Flint, and I said, hey, what should we do?

00:07:11.040 They said, we need to take waters down.

00:07:12.680 If you're not aware with Flint, Flint's water system is poisoned, and thousands and thousands

00:07:17.340 of residents have been poisoned with lead water.

00:07:19.460 So our goal was to take 10,000 bottles down to Flint, and what we was able to do, not

00:07:24.240 only 10,000, we took 50,000 bottles of water to Flint within the biggest storm that Philadelphia

00:07:30.380 has seen this year, and was able to help so many people.

00:07:33.780 We was able to help our people in the projects, people in nursing homes, children, and schools,

00:07:39.240 and this is what we do, giving back, which adds value to other people.

00:07:42.360 That's why I feel as though I constantly keep getting recognized for what we do.

00:07:45.660 Yeah, man.

00:07:46.400 I think there's so much to doing the right thing.

00:07:50.940 I have yet to talk to an entrepreneur at any level who's had any level of success that doesn't

00:07:55.640 believe that.

00:07:56.200 Even remember when we went to New York and talked to Gary?

00:07:58.680 Remember what he said about doing the right thing will always be the right thing?

00:08:03.800 And I haven't yet to meet an entrepreneur who's successful at any level, whether it's a top

00:08:10.820 level guy at the billion plus dollar mark, or somebody who's making great strides like

00:08:17.680 you are, coming up through with what you're doing, that doesn't believe in that principle.

00:08:23.860 I just feel like when you do good, and a lot of people argue this, they get really like,

00:08:28.440 oh, that just sounds like, that sounds anti-Andy Frisella, that sounds like too fluffy.

00:08:33.320 Man, I've seen it too much, man.

00:08:35.080 You do the good shit, and the good shit happens.

00:08:37.140 Absolutely.

00:08:37.660 You know?

00:08:38.040 Yeah.

00:08:38.680 For the sake of our readers, and I, because I know, or excuse me, listeners, some of you

00:08:42.680 might not know how to spell Nehemiah's name and want to look you up, so I'm going to actually

00:08:48.480 spell it.

00:08:48.980 It's N-E-H-E-M-I-A-H-Davis, D-A-V-I-S dot com, and I know you're going to tell us your

00:08:56.780 story, I know you're going to elaborate on what you do, but I'm sitting here reading

00:09:00.060 the about you on your website, and I'm just going to give quick cliff notes, if that's

00:09:04.800 all right.

00:09:05.120 So in 2007, you founded the Nehemiah Davis Foundation, non-profit organization, N-Dent

00:09:13.100 Worldwide Group, LLC, and you've got all sorts of businesses from junk removal to, I'm

00:09:18.200 not sure what the Neo Daviso group is, but it might be a t-shirt line, and then you've

00:09:22.660 got vitamins and wellness, so you're overlapping with Andy's stuff, but you've got a lot going

00:09:28.300 on, man.

00:09:28.880 And you're from Philly, did I?

00:09:30.220 You might have said that, and I didn't catch it, but yeah, that's awesome.

00:09:34.240 What side of Philly?

00:09:35.300 West Philadelphia, born and raised, you know, on a playground where you spend most of the

00:09:38.860 days.

00:09:39.440 Oh, dude, little Fresh Prince.

00:09:41.020 Right, right.

00:09:41.600 Yeah.

00:09:41.780 So college hoops-wise, who are most people die hard about with Philly people?

00:09:48.960 Because I know that whole area is big-time hoops, you know?

00:09:52.900 I'm going to go with Villanova.

00:09:54.160 Villanova?

00:09:54.500 And I believe they're number one.

00:09:55.600 They are number one.

00:09:56.400 Or they're top-ranked right now.

00:09:57.220 Then maybe Temple, but Villanova's pretty huge.

00:09:59.820 Yeah.

00:10:00.320 Yeah, definitely.

00:10:00.940 That's a good point.

00:10:01.700 Vaughn is a huge college basketball guy.

00:10:03.520 Yeah.

00:10:03.740 What's your favorite team?

00:10:06.220 I'm going to get in trouble for saying this.

00:10:07.620 Okay, so I'm waffling right now.

00:10:10.260 I grew up a KU fan.

00:10:11.520 Okay.

00:10:11.760 Okay.

00:10:12.380 I'm a Jayhawk.

00:10:13.320 Okay.

00:10:13.520 How do you waffle between teams?

00:10:15.160 Well, because I lived in Manhattan, Kansas.

00:10:17.620 You're not one of those guys, are you?

00:10:18.000 I lived in Manhattan, Kansas, which is where Kansas State University is, you know?

00:10:21.080 And they were good for a couple years when I was there.

00:10:24.520 But they're not so much good anymore.

00:10:26.720 So I'm back to the Jayhawks.

00:10:28.120 So you liked them when they were good?

00:10:29.320 Yeah.

00:10:29.740 You're one of those guys.

00:10:30.460 Yeah, I'm a front-runner.

00:10:31.340 Yeah.

00:10:31.640 All right.

00:10:32.140 Yeah.

00:10:32.600 You know, at least you like winning.

00:10:34.480 Yeah.

00:10:34.720 That's a good sign, huh?

00:10:35.460 Yeah.

00:10:35.500 But historically, I'm a Jayhawk.

00:10:37.160 Yeah.

00:10:37.380 All right.

00:10:37.600 Everybody email in and give Vaughn shit about being a waffler with his favorite team.

00:10:43.600 So, Neal, man, let's talk about your mission, dude, because I think you're a pretty unique

00:10:47.940 dude.

00:10:48.360 I did your call.

00:10:49.420 Tell everybody about your call and what your mission is and what you're trying to accomplish.

00:10:52.720 Well, the power hour for me is like, it's shortening up the divide.

00:10:56.840 You know, a lot of people aren't going to get to the Andy Frizzellas who company makes

00:10:59.940 in the excess of $100 million.

00:11:01.460 A lot of people are not even going to get to someone who makes a million.

00:11:03.900 So, my goal is to bring this information back to the people I can help.

00:11:08.280 A lot of these people are one-trepreneurs.

00:11:10.240 A lot of these people are just starting out.

00:11:12.160 So, I'm that guy in the center who can get on the call with Agent Steven, who can get to

00:11:16.900 Andy.

00:11:17.300 And I will be persistent until I'm going to get to them so they can help our people.

00:11:21.040 And in turn, we're helping develop entrepreneurs and leaders around the world.

00:11:24.420 Right.

00:11:24.780 So, I think it's just important that I create the power hour call.

00:11:28.100 The power hour call is ran by Jamila and I.

00:11:30.080 It's every other Tuesday where we bring on a different entrepreneur to just give their

00:11:35.020 expertise in their field and in turn, encourage people and still get awareness about their

00:11:39.800 brand to our people.

00:11:41.040 I loved it when I did it.

00:11:42.480 It was really cool.

00:11:43.460 It's one of the best calls.

00:11:44.500 It's the best one I've done.

00:11:47.080 If you guys want to call in on this call, how do they call in?

00:11:50.000 Well, you can call in.

00:11:50.940 I think the next call is actually tomorrow.

00:11:53.440 Well, the next call is Tuesday.

00:11:54.900 I'm not sure if the podcast will be airing by then.

00:11:57.020 But on Instagram, check out thepowerhour or go to thepowerhour.com and you'll get the

00:12:02.640 call-in number.

00:12:03.360 You can call right in and tune in.

00:12:04.500 Yeah, it's cool because you get to ask questions.

00:12:06.420 We answered a lot of questions.

00:12:08.060 It was only an hour, man.

00:12:09.180 I wish I would have went on like three hours.

00:12:11.300 As a matter of fact, this particular episode will air next Tuesday.

00:12:14.820 So, this will be time.

00:12:15.920 We'll have another call on Tuesday.

00:12:17.460 So, guys, thepowerhour, T-H-E-R, powerhour, H-R.com and you can tune in Tuesday to hear who

00:12:25.060 we have.

00:12:25.380 I should clarify, guys, that we're saying next Tuesday, if you're listening to this

00:12:29.040 on Tuesday, that would be February, what would it be, 28th or something like that.

00:12:35.820 Anyway, that's what we're talking about.

00:12:38.080 Yeah, it'd be the 29th, I think.

00:12:39.580 Yeah, 29th.

00:12:40.220 Yeah.

00:12:40.520 Actually, it'd be the 1st.

00:12:41.780 Oh, yeah.

00:12:42.120 March 1st.

00:12:43.000 March 1st.

00:12:43.720 So, if you're listening to this on March 1st, there's a power hour going on.

00:12:47.200 Yep.

00:12:47.560 All right.

00:12:47.880 Every Tuesday.

00:12:48.780 Every Tuesday.

00:12:49.160 But anyway, guys, it's worth a call in because I called in.

00:12:52.200 I mean, I was in as somebody that was answering questions and being featured on it, but I

00:12:57.360 mean, I spoke to a number of people who were on the call, and it's one of those cool opportunities

00:13:03.120 to actually get to talk to some of these people directly.

00:13:06.600 Like, I was talking to all your listeners, answering questions.

00:13:09.360 It was fun, man.

00:13:10.840 I mean, I had a really good time.

00:13:11.980 It's one of the more fun things I've done in the last, you know, six months or so.

00:13:16.200 So, dude, thanks for having me on that.

00:13:18.160 No, thanks for having me.

00:13:19.200 Okay, so the geek in me wants to know what technology you use to do that.

00:13:22.140 Is it Zoom?

00:13:22.980 No, we actually use freeconferenceandcall.com.

00:13:27.000 Freeconferenceandcall.com.

00:13:27.600 It's real simple.

00:13:28.680 And again, quick shout out.

00:13:29.720 I do want to just thank Agent Steven for actually setting me up with Andy.

00:13:33.080 Yeah, Steve Mayer, good buddy of mine.

00:13:34.960 I understand that becoming successful is a result of who you surround yourself with.

00:13:39.300 So, I went to lunch with Steve.

00:13:40.600 We built a friendship.

00:13:41.920 He said, hey, you got to get with my buddy Andy.

00:13:43.820 But again, if that relationship wasn't built, it wouldn't be possible.

00:13:47.080 So, thanks a lot, Steve.

00:13:48.380 So, let's say, man, you're a young entrepreneur.

00:13:51.320 You're a young entrepreneur, okay?

00:13:53.320 And let's clarify this.

00:13:54.960 You know, entrepreneurship isn't for everybody.

00:13:57.060 You know, everybody right now, it is a popular thing.

00:14:00.660 People are looking at it as an option, as they should.

00:14:03.340 But it might not be for you.

00:14:05.600 And when I talk about the sacrifice and the hours put in and the time put in,

00:14:10.260 some people, they, you know, I've gotten a couple comments in the last week or so

00:14:15.000 where they're like, man, the average guy is never going to be able to do that.

00:14:17.780 Well, this, being an entrepreneur is not for the average guy, okay?

00:14:22.100 A lot of people have misconceptions, especially when they're starting out,

00:14:25.240 that, you know, things like, in three years, I'm going to be a millionaire.

00:14:29.040 And you very well could be, but it's unlikely, all right?

00:14:32.660 You know, I'm going to have much more free time.

00:14:34.800 I'm going to be my own boss.

00:14:36.100 Those things are all myths, okay?

00:14:38.400 And you guys have to understand those things as a young man or woman

00:14:42.580 considering entrepreneurship because you don't get to make your own hours.

00:14:46.880 You have far less freedom.

00:14:48.640 And you don't get to be your own boss because ultimately the customers are your boss.

00:14:53.260 And you have to understand that concept.

00:14:55.600 So if you're a young dude, you know, and you can hop in here, you know,

00:15:00.320 as a young man trying to build a business and build a brand for yourself,

00:15:04.560 I mean, what have you found to be the most challenging aspects?

00:15:09.060 Because I feel like you're in your past, like the beginner stage,

00:15:12.620 and you're in that, like, middle stage where it's really fun.

00:15:15.780 And, like, I can see you growing by the day.

00:15:18.880 Your message is growing by the day.

00:15:21.780 It's gathering momentum by the day.

00:15:24.060 And, you know, I feel like you're in a really good place.

00:15:27.040 I mean, what are your thoughts for the guy who's maybe thinking, like,

00:15:32.780 hey, this is the path for me but not sure exactly what it's going to take

00:15:36.580 or how he's going to do it?

00:15:38.080 Well, first thing, whatever you're going to do, whether it's entrepreneurship, job,

00:15:41.420 you've got to be consistent.

00:15:42.920 A lot of these people want to hop in the game of entrepreneurship.

00:15:45.400 They get punched one time in the face.

00:15:46.940 They out the game forever.

00:15:48.600 That's right.

00:15:48.960 You have to get in this game and give it everything you've got every single day

00:15:52.620 or you're not going to make it, and that's across any business similar to yourself.

00:15:56.900 It took you seven years, I think, to make profit.

00:15:59.280 That's right.

00:15:59.680 But most people would have quit after that day of making seven bucks.

00:16:02.640 I'm done.

00:16:03.140 Right.

00:16:03.400 So first thing is find out what you do and make sure you love it.

00:16:08.100 I feel like people get into something because such and such.

00:16:10.800 They think there's money in it.

00:16:11.580 There's money in it because Tyler's doing it.

00:16:14.300 So I want to go get in it because Tyler's making money.

00:16:16.500 That's his passion.

00:16:17.320 That's his dream.

00:16:18.020 Right.

00:16:18.260 Find out what you're passionate about.

00:16:19.640 I think that's the number one key to becoming successful.

00:16:21.920 Do something you love because it doesn't feel like work.

00:16:24.500 Right.

00:16:24.700 Every day we wake up and do what we love.

00:16:26.800 It's not work when I'm helping people.

00:16:28.460 It's not work when I'm selling books or signing books.

00:16:30.720 I love it.

00:16:31.380 So my first rule was find your passion.

00:16:33.840 Secondly, stay consistent and stay passionate after it runs out.

00:16:39.320 Right.

00:16:39.480 Like you said, endure the test days.

00:16:41.020 You talked about test days.

00:16:42.280 Right.

00:16:42.440 I feel as though you've got to endure them and you've got to go fight.

00:16:44.700 When you don't want to go to the gym, you know your butt still needs to do it.

00:16:47.820 Right.

00:16:48.280 Endure the test days.

00:16:49.340 Yeah, man.

00:16:49.880 There's so much truth to that.

00:16:51.280 You know, and a lot of people, when you hear the term or the phrase, do what you're passionate

00:16:56.700 about, they hear like they, they hear the wrong message.

00:17:01.600 They hear like, well, I like to play call of duty, you know?

00:17:05.940 Well, I mean, shit, man.

00:17:07.520 You know, I guess there's some people that probably get paid to play call of duty, but

00:17:10.380 the reality is, you know, you, you have to find what you enjoy doing.

00:17:15.400 And it might not, you're not going to, even no matter if you enjoy it a million percent

00:17:19.320 right now, there's going to be days when you don't enjoy it.

00:17:22.760 There's going to be.

00:17:23.420 And that's why it's important to follow that because the natural, your natural propensity

00:17:29.560 to like that thing or enjoy doing that will carry you through those days.

00:17:33.280 You don't feel like doing it.

00:17:34.240 It'll carry you through that time when you are not getting paid.

00:17:38.100 It'll carry you through the time when everybody tells you that you're crazy for following

00:17:42.580 what it is that you want to do.

00:17:43.820 And so, you know, following your passion, not only is important in the beginning, it's

00:17:50.080 important because for you to become a real expert at something, it's going to take that

00:17:55.900 sort of interest to, to develop that, that talent, you know, or that skill.

00:18:00.520 10,000 hours.

00:18:01.500 Right, exactly.

00:18:02.320 And dude, 8,000 of those hours are going to, are going to be hard, you know, and you're

00:18:06.880 going to have to have something that carries you through besides money.

00:18:09.720 And a lot of people will pick, like you said, something that Tyler wants to do or what Vaughn's

00:18:15.040 good at because they see them successful.

00:18:16.880 But what you don't realize is, is that that person is probably very passionate about that

00:18:22.540 at some level that you may not be.

00:18:24.240 And that means that gives them a tremendous advantage.

00:18:26.440 So a lot of people will disagree with the passion thing and they'll say, well, my passion

00:18:31.000 is money.

00:18:31.920 No, you've got to be passionate, providing a skill at providing a service.

00:18:36.880 That's solving a problem.

00:18:38.700 You know, I always use the butterflies, like somebody who's passionate about butterflies,

00:18:42.320 right?

00:18:42.600 Right.

00:18:42.900 All right.

00:18:43.340 Let's talk about this.

00:18:44.360 How do you turn a business out of butterflies?

00:18:46.180 Well, let's see you, you, you start researching butterflies.

00:18:50.640 You, uh, you come out with a butterfly sleeping bag, a butterfly, um, snuggie.

00:18:56.780 You come out with the butterfly water bottle and you find these other groups of people who,

00:19:00.380 who are passionate about butterflies.

00:19:02.320 Right.

00:19:02.740 And then all of a sudden you go from like this dude who's weird, who likes butterflies

00:19:06.800 to this dude who's got a website that's selling butterfly snuggies and butterfly cup holders

00:19:11.680 and, and butterfly books.

00:19:13.440 Right.

00:19:13.980 And then all of a sudden you start making money.

00:19:16.540 And then all of a sudden, uh, there's some kind of outbreak that happens with these endangered

00:19:22.000 butterflies.

00:19:22.500 And who do they call?

00:19:23.300 They call the motherfucking butterfly boss, which is you because you followed your passion

00:19:27.780 and develop something around this.

00:19:29.220 And then all of a sudden your sales go crazy.

00:19:31.340 You come out with 20 other products, boom, boom, boom.

00:19:33.600 And I know that sounds like people are like, dude, you're just making this shit up.

00:19:36.500 And I am, but that is how it works.

00:19:39.060 That's a very simple way of how you could take something that is not really business oriented

00:19:44.240 and turn it into something.

00:19:45.600 Right.

00:19:45.760 So you guys have both, both been talking about, obviously Andy, you just got finished up talking

00:19:50.020 about passion, but, but Nehemiah, you talked about being consistent, actually doing the

00:19:54.520 work.

00:19:54.780 But one of the things Andy says a lot, and I, you know, I'm fairly convinced that you would

00:19:58.480 agree with this is that for true entrepreneurs, it's in their DNA.

00:20:03.080 Like they're born that way.

00:20:04.380 And yeah, they're, they're, they're responsible for developing it and nurturing it and cultivating

00:20:09.080 the skill, but it's in their DNA.

00:20:10.880 So I'm, I'm curious, rewind for a little bit and just tell us like, how did you get started

00:20:17.820 in life?

00:20:18.200 What's your story?

00:20:18.880 Like what, what were the first signs where, that, you know, you were going to kill it

00:20:23.400 in business?

00:20:24.320 Well, again, name Nehemiah Davis.

00:20:26.420 Now I'm a 28 year old entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, but again, it didn't start like

00:20:30.180 this.

00:20:30.600 You got to understand guys, I'm from the hood.

00:20:32.400 So he's like, I came bottom basement, dad been in jail since I was two because he got

00:20:37.120 murdered.

00:20:37.700 So I was raised by my mom and grandma.

00:20:39.660 And typically when you're from the hood, you don't make it out.

00:20:42.820 That's number one.

00:20:43.640 You either get, you die or go to jail or live a life that's normal.

00:20:46.900 So when I say average, I don't want to say normal, but I feel as though you're a direct

00:20:52.200 result of who you hang around as well as what you see.

00:20:54.960 You become what you were brought up in.

00:20:56.520 Yep.

00:20:56.840 Right.

00:20:57.040 So me growing up, my mom's objective was, yo, I'm going to expose my son to as much stuff

00:21:02.500 as possible.

00:21:03.060 Like if some of the other kids could go skiing, I want to make sure my son could go skiing.

00:21:07.060 If the other kids can go to good schools, I'm going to make sure he could go to good

00:21:10.240 schools.

00:21:10.680 So growing up, my mom put me in the best high school.

00:21:13.740 And at this time, I'm getting, I'm from the hood.

00:21:16.060 I had the opportunity to go to, I was the minority at this school.

00:21:19.400 Got to go to my friend's house.

00:21:20.500 They got pool houses, horses, four wheelers.

00:21:22.620 So one of my favorite quotes is from Oliver Wendell Holmes.

00:21:25.800 Once your mind is expanded to a new idea or concept, it can never go back to his original

00:21:29.900 way of thinking.

00:21:30.900 So at that time to me, I can't go back.

00:21:33.860 I seen his lifestyle.

00:21:35.100 Like, Hey, I can have a mansion.

00:21:36.360 I can have these cars.

00:21:37.480 I could have businesses.

00:21:39.000 But at that time I was still young in my mindset.

00:21:41.240 So I continued on, got kicked out of that school, was, went to a new school, which was better

00:21:46.460 for me.

00:21:46.900 Met my mentor, who to this day still assists me with everything I do.

00:21:51.140 From that point on, I went to college.

00:21:53.160 I guess you could guess what happened to me there.

00:21:54.960 I got kicked out of there as well.

00:21:56.900 But from all that time, I always like to tell people, like, your current situation is not

00:22:01.720 your final destination.

00:22:02.720 I don't care what happened in your past.

00:22:04.040 You could get better.

00:22:05.020 Me, case in point.

00:22:06.140 So I went to college, got kicked out.

00:22:07.940 And at this time, I decided to work my very last job.

00:22:11.000 Mind you guys, I've been fired from nine jobs to that point.

00:22:13.480 This became my 10th, which was the Atlantic Aviation.

00:22:16.140 And I was just talking with Tyler about flying private jets.

00:22:19.000 And this job was my best, because it really brought me back to my favorite quote, once

00:22:23.860 your mind is expanded.

00:22:25.140 So I had the opportunity to get on Donald Trump plane, got on this plane, all white carpet,

00:22:29.280 14 karat gold around the whole thing.

00:22:31.500 I think it was a 737 converted for just him and his family.

00:22:35.720 Seeing Bill Gates get off his plane, just him.

00:22:40.880 232 passenger plane, just him.

00:22:42.760 Been on the owner of the Cowboys planes, TD Jakes.

00:22:45.480 But some of these people came from nothing.

00:22:47.540 They came from how I grew up.

00:22:49.140 So in my mind, still to this day, I'm getting a jet.

00:22:51.440 I study jets.

00:22:52.260 I study these things that I want, because I know one day I'm going to have it.

00:22:56.200 So fast forward, after I got fired from that job, I started my first business, which was

00:23:00.200 a fruit truck.

00:23:01.220 A lot of people make fun of me.

00:23:02.440 Yep, I used to sell fresh fruit and produce on the side of the road.

00:23:05.740 But again, I told my mom, always used to tell me, don't just buy small beginnings.

00:23:09.500 It's an ultimate hustle.

00:23:11.080 If you've ever seen somebody sell fruit on the side of the road, they are hustling.

00:23:15.160 They are hustling.

00:23:17.000 And my mom always used to say, don't despise small beginnings.

00:23:19.820 Because like you said, you started $7 on the first day and didn't make it for seven years.

00:23:24.500 That's after I failed six other businesses.

00:23:26.500 Right.

00:23:27.440 So case in point, that business did eventually get shut down.

00:23:30.720 But that gave me my entrepreneur tick.

00:23:32.720 Like, yo, I could go out here and make it.

00:23:34.500 And I haven't looked back then.

00:23:35.760 Eight years later, I'm still running businesses.

00:23:38.520 A lot of them have, not a lot, but a couple of them have failed.

00:23:42.040 But the thing is, I'm still learning.

00:23:43.720 Now I'm an author, entrepreneur.

00:23:44.820 I have a vitamin store.

00:23:45.960 So it's kind of, it's not necessarily supplements, but holistic supplements for senior citizens

00:23:51.520 and people who care about holistic health.

00:23:53.980 I got that from my mom.

00:23:55.020 So I was able to retire my mom and give her the opportunity to do what she loves, as well

00:23:59.540 as now I get to travel around the world, speak, be an author, and try to start businesses

00:24:03.720 and see what's going to actually, they're just going to take off.

00:24:06.100 There seems to be a little theme here, though.

00:24:07.720 You're getting fired from jobs.

00:24:09.160 You're getting kicked out of school.

00:24:10.680 So would you say in order for you to have any success whatsoever, you would have to work

00:24:14.560 for yourself?

00:24:15.980 No, I think you can have success.

00:24:18.240 No, I'm talking about your situation.

00:24:20.220 For me, yeah, I have to work for myself.

00:24:21.860 It just wasn't, I don't mind listening to people, but all that time I was rebellious.

00:24:26.540 I mean, I grew up, I didn't have a father.

00:24:27.880 I'm not using that for an excuse, but I never had somebody to tell me, you need to do this,

00:24:31.560 you need to do that.

00:24:32.380 So I commend people with that.

00:24:34.080 I always wish I had that.

00:24:34.940 You took something that a lot of people will hide behind as an excuse and use it to your

00:24:39.580 advantage.

00:24:40.020 Exactly.

00:24:40.400 And that's a key for entrepreneurs.

00:24:42.920 That's something you will find that is a character of all entrepreneurs.

00:24:46.660 They are excellent, excellent, excellent at taking things that normal people would see

00:24:51.140 as a negative that they would hide behind as an excuse and taking that and making it an

00:24:57.280 advantage, which is exactly what you've done.

00:24:58.940 And on one of your podcasts, you say, learn from your setbacks and use them for your advantage.

00:25:03.500 Right.

00:25:03.880 As well as every blessing sometimes is given to you in a lesson.

00:25:07.440 My dad been out my life, but if he was here, I might've been doing criminal activities like

00:25:11.980 he was doing.

00:25:12.500 Right.

00:25:12.640 So he don't supposed to be here for me to be who, for me to become who I'm supposed to

00:25:17.100 be.

00:25:17.260 Right.

00:25:17.700 So.

00:25:18.240 Right, man.

00:25:19.360 Dude, I love it.

00:25:20.860 I'm in awe.

00:25:21.600 Yeah.

00:25:21.840 I love it.

00:25:22.460 Honestly, like, well, here's the cool thing.

00:25:25.700 And, and this is what I really like about Neo man is that he's, he's bridging the gap

00:25:32.240 between people and, and almost between, uh, people like his upbringing, you're committed

00:25:42.620 to bridging that gap between that socioeconomic class and, and, and the successful class.

00:25:50.100 I feel like you're really committed to that.

00:25:52.220 Um, I really noticed that when I was on the call, I thought that was really cool because,

00:25:56.020 uh, you know, I don't think anybody else is really doing that.

00:25:59.380 Um, you know, you're trying to take the lessons you've learned and the, and the expansions that

00:26:04.840 you've seen, and you're committed to bringing that value back to other people.

00:26:08.560 And what, you know, let's turn this into a business adding value lesson, right?

00:26:13.980 Cause I know you get the adding value thing, but for you guys listening.

00:26:16.660 So he's bringing value to these people and are eventually end up following him and whatever

00:26:22.540 business he ends up in, guess who's going to be spreading the good word of Nehemiah

00:26:26.900 Davis and be supporting Nehemiah Davis when he's doing these things and putting these

00:26:31.180 things in their minds for free, because, and I don't think he's intentionally saying it's

00:26:36.240 not a manipulation.

00:26:36.920 Like, Hey, I'm doing this just to make money on the longterm, but that's what will end

00:26:40.720 up happening.

00:26:41.540 And, and dude, as far as like you having a private jet, man, I don't have any doubts about

00:26:44.920 it.

00:26:46.920 I recognize the hustle when I see it.

00:26:47.920 I appreciate it.

00:26:48.920 Yeah, man.

00:26:49.920 I'm going to be flying with you one day, man.

00:26:50.920 That's my goal too, man.

00:26:51.920 G650.

00:26:52.920 So yeah.

00:26:53.920 That's my, I want a G650, man.

00:26:55.920 It's crazy.

00:26:56.920 I got on Mark Cuban G650 boy had the PlayStation in the bathroom.

00:27:00.920 Yeah.

00:27:01.920 There you go.

00:27:02.920 Six years ago.

00:27:03.920 This one G650 just came out.

00:27:04.920 Right.

00:27:05.920 So yeah.

00:27:06.920 You know, what's cool about those jets is that they're, they actually appreciate.

00:27:10.920 Okay.

00:27:11.920 So when you buy that, when you buy one new, they're like $15 million cheaper.

00:27:14.920 If you buy it new than if you bought because of demand so high for them.

00:27:17.920 Wow.

00:27:18.920 All right.

00:27:19.920 Let me ask you a question.

00:27:20.920 So you said that most people who grew up in the hood don't get out.

00:27:22.920 Okay.

00:27:23.920 So let me see if I can phrase this question right.

00:27:25.920 What are, what are some of the obstacles to getting out of that situation that you actually

00:27:31.920 think mirror the same obstacles that the starting entrepreneur endures or experiences?

00:27:39.920 Does that make sense?

00:27:40.920 Yeah, it does.

00:27:41.920 I really think exposure.

00:27:43.920 I mean, you know, I think mentorship is huge, even with business.

00:27:48.920 Like if you want to be the best in supplements, I'm going to come to him and I'm going to

00:27:52.920 come to Andy and try to learn what he knows to try to assist what I'm doing.

00:27:56.920 Right.

00:27:57.920 Same thing with getting out of the hood.

00:27:59.920 You have to see something else.

00:28:00.920 You got to see it's more.

00:28:02.920 Most kids don't see it's more.

00:28:03.920 They only see what's on TV or they only see what's on their next door neighbor.

00:28:07.920 Like I'm in West Philly.

00:28:08.920 Just say I made some kids never go to North Philly.

00:28:11.920 They never go downtown.

00:28:12.920 So their whole life is shelter, but not being exposed.

00:28:16.920 That's why my goal is to expose kids.

00:28:18.920 That's why my goal is to build that bridge for the entrepreneur entrepreneur to people

00:28:22.920 like Andy, people like Steve, because they got to know is really people out here that's

00:28:26.920 doing it and it's tangible for us to touch them.

00:28:28.920 Like you, they were able to ask Andy a question.

00:28:30.920 How often are you going to be able to ask someone who runs a company worth a hundred

00:28:34.920 million?

00:28:35.920 You're not.

00:28:36.920 Most people can't, but we're trying to make that possible to encourage them to start

00:28:40.920 their business and follow their own dream.

00:28:42.920 There's a good book on what you're asking and what you guys are talking about.

00:28:46.920 Called the third circle theory.

00:28:47.920 You guys have heard me talk about it, but it's good at understanding, helping people

00:28:52.920 understand why they are where they are and how they got there.

00:28:56.920 Because I agree with you a hundred percent.

00:28:58.920 If you don't see it and you're not around, if you had not gone to that school and seeing

00:29:02.920 all the other kids with four wheelers and big houses and shit, you wouldn't be doing what

00:29:06.920 you're doing.

00:29:07.920 No way.

00:29:08.920 Most people.

00:29:09.920 That's why that's saying success breeds success.

00:29:11.920 It's not about the money flowing from one generation to another, to another, which I always thought

00:29:16.920 what it is, is that your, your attitude and your limits and your exposure and what you

00:29:22.920 believe is possible is taught to these kids by generation to generation.

00:29:27.920 And I think, you know, and if you disagree, tell me, but I think that, you know, a lot

00:29:32.920 of the people who are growing up in poor situations or in the ghetto or in, you know, the hood,

00:29:38.920 whatever you want to call it, they're broke.

00:29:40.920 They don't have any fucking thing to look forward to.

00:29:42.920 They're going to look around and they're going to say, well, look, my dad's in jail.

00:29:47.920 My uncle's a piece of shit.

00:29:49.920 You know, my, my aunt, she's on drugs.

00:29:52.920 Everybody's poor that I'm supposed to be poor.

00:29:55.920 And, and then what they see on TV, they see, you know, Nelly or they see whatever.

00:30:01.920 And they say, okay, the only way I could do this is to become this, or that's for other people or celebrities.

00:30:07.920 It's not for me.

00:30:08.920 Right.

00:30:09.920 And, you know, it's just, you can't expect people that are at that level.

00:30:16.920 And, and I'm guilty of saying, Hey, anybody can achieve this.

00:30:19.920 I believe that, but first the exposure has to happen.

00:30:23.920 And you have to understand that it's a reality.

00:30:26.920 And for that to happen with someone, they have to first expand their mind to see limits outside

00:30:31.920 of what they necessarily might've been brought up in.

00:30:34.920 You know, I agree with you a hundred percent, man.

00:30:38.920 And I, I really truly admire the mission you're on in that regard.

00:30:43.920 Cause I think it's a noble mission, man.

00:30:45.920 No, I appreciate the opportunity.

00:30:47.920 Just you even taking our calls and giving us the opportunity to kick it and learn.

00:30:51.920 Yeah.

00:30:52.920 I, I would love to get more involved cause I think it's important.

00:30:55.920 Appreciate it.

00:30:56.920 I think those points for success are be consistent, be exposed to somebody who is already.

00:31:01.920 You're going to have to work to expose yourself.

00:31:03.920 Right.

00:31:04.920 You're going to have to work.

00:31:05.920 I talked to, I talked to people all the time and they think I'm full of shit, but I sit

00:31:08.920 on DuPont registry and eBay every night looking at it.

00:31:11.920 And, and, and, uh, I got this little app called a, um, hold on.

00:31:15.920 I got what it's called.

00:31:16.920 I got to look it up because I'm into, I want a jet, right?

00:31:20.920 Do you have the controller app?

00:31:22.920 No, I do controller app.

00:31:23.920 This is like, this is like, this is like pornography for jet airplanes.

00:31:27.920 All right.

00:31:28.920 You're going to look in here and it lets you look at all the shit for sale.

00:31:30.920 Right?

00:31:31.920 So here we're going to look at Gulf stream, uh, you know, G six 50 extended range, 62 and a

00:31:38.920 half million, you know, like, but I do that.

00:31:41.920 Okay.

00:31:42.920 And the reason I do that is to expand.

00:31:44.920 I can't afford that right now, but one day I'm going to afford it.

00:31:47.920 Right.

00:31:48.920 You know, and you have to force yourself and create a habit of expanding your limitations

00:31:53.920 of what you look at financially as you could afford.

00:31:58.920 I've done it my whole life, man.

00:31:59.920 And it's worked out all right.

00:32:00.920 I believe in it, you know, and it, and nobody's going to come to you.

00:32:03.920 If you're a young man or young woman trying to get started and you're thinking with, with limitation

00:32:08.920 right now and, and break those limits.

00:32:10.920 That's for you to do.

00:32:11.920 And you're going to have to work to expand those things.

00:32:13.920 And that's why people say, Oh, you are the sum of the five people you hang around.

00:32:17.920 That's why it's important to be purposeful with selecting who those five people are and

00:32:22.920 who you let in your circle and who you look up to.

00:32:25.920 Because if you just go with the flow, you're going to end up like the flow, you know?

00:32:29.920 So it is amazing though, when you start exposing yourself to, you know, those goals

00:32:33.920 that you want, how quickly you start changing even the tiniest little habit law of attraction.

00:32:38.920 Yeah, man, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a lot of things that come together.

00:32:43.920 Um, you know, when you, I've heard of a lot of companies are now actually employing a person

00:32:51.920 to help people set their goals.

00:32:54.920 And we're getting ready to do this too, to actually work with the individual employees

00:32:59.920 to help them define what their future is.

00:33:01.920 Because if you ask people what their goals are, a lot of them will say this.

00:33:06.920 They'll say things like this.

00:33:07.920 My goal is a nicer car.

00:33:09.920 And, you know, maybe, maybe a, not a little bit nicer house.

00:33:12.920 And those aren't really goals.

00:33:13.920 That's not specific enough.

00:33:14.920 And that's not inspiring enough to actually create more action so that you move forward towards that.

00:33:20.920 So a lot of companies are starting to employ like a goal director for their, which I think

00:33:24.920 is genius for their employees to help them to define a picture for themselves.

00:33:31.920 Cause most people just don't do it.

00:33:32.920 You know, they think about what I'm going to be doing this weekend.

00:33:35.920 Now, what am I going to be doing 10 years from now?

00:33:37.920 Yeah.

00:33:38.920 Well, while you're on that topic, it seems like a good time to reference your book.

00:33:42.920 Yeah.

00:33:43.920 Which is the Step Into Greatness Journal.

00:33:44.920 You guys have been talking about expanding or, you know, knocking out your limitations.

00:33:48.920 And you've been quoting things.

00:33:50.920 And obviously, it's clear to me that you believe that a huge part of success is changing the way you think

00:33:55.920 and, you know, overhauling your mental toughness.

00:33:59.920 So, tell us about your book.

00:34:00.920 Yeah.

00:34:01.920 Changing the way you think, Ron.

00:34:02.920 Like I said, it's imperative to growing and becoming who you want to be.

00:34:05.920 We created the Step Into Greatness Journal about seven years ago, literally, through all the books I wrote in.

00:34:11.920 Like, I'm big on affirmations.

00:34:12.920 I'm big on writing your goals down.

00:34:14.920 I always tell people, if you don't write your goals down, they're not real.

00:34:17.920 And I'm not going to say they're not real, but I look at goals like having a GPS.

00:34:21.920 If you don't plug them in, how will you ever get there?

00:34:23.920 So, we created this book to help people with affirmations, effective goal setting.

00:34:28.920 We have something called Fade Five.

00:34:29.920 Who are the five people you hang around the most?

00:34:31.920 Yeah.

00:34:32.920 Are you saying things like, I will win, I will get that G6?

00:34:36.920 Are you encouraging yourself?

00:34:38.920 Because in this day and age, man, the world will have you looking crazy or thinking you're crazy for thinking this way.

00:34:44.920 But most people don't think this way.

00:34:46.920 So, I know it's important.

00:34:47.920 So, we created this book really to help people.

00:34:49.920 We created this book to help people become the best that they can be through effective goal setting affirmations

00:34:55.920 and realizing who you're hanging around.

00:34:57.920 Yeah.

00:34:58.920 And guys, we'll put a link on the episode page website.

00:35:03.920 So, it's a manual.

00:35:04.920 It's a manual.

00:35:05.920 Yeah, it's a manual.

00:35:06.920 It's a manual to help people get on track.

00:35:08.920 Yeah, period.

00:35:09.920 Yeah.

00:35:10.920 I think that's cool because there's a lot of things out there that are like preachy and that's how I do it.

00:35:17.920 You know, I'm like, hey, you should be doing this, this, this, but there's not a lot of things out there that give somebody a practical guideline.

00:35:21.920 Yep.

00:35:22.920 And that's what you've done.

00:35:23.920 Exactly.

00:35:24.920 Precisely.

00:35:25.920 Like, we created, hey, write down 100 goals.

00:35:27.920 It seems big, but even Andy, he got new goals.

00:35:30.920 I want a jet.

00:35:31.920 I want this.

00:35:32.920 I want that.

00:35:33.920 Like, you can never reach all your goals.

00:35:34.920 I don't care who you are if you're ambitious.

00:35:36.920 I heard you say three people in the world.

00:35:38.920 We got Bill Gates, I think, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs.

00:35:42.920 Steve Jobs isn't here, but these guys still have goals.

00:35:45.920 Yeah.

00:35:46.920 They changed the world, so they're still writing their goals.

00:35:48.920 Yeah.

00:35:49.920 They're still trying to achieve them.

00:35:50.920 Yeah.

00:35:51.920 So goals are something that everyone must write down and go after them.

00:35:53.920 That's the only way you want to get it done.

00:35:54.920 I always define goals, success as fulfillment of your potential.

00:35:59.920 You know, and guess what happens?

00:36:01.920 Your potential is always expanding when you learn more and you achieve your goals, which ultimately means that you cannot ever truly become successful, quote unquote.

00:36:12.920 But if you think about, and a lot of people get mad about that.

00:36:14.920 They're like, well, Andy, well, if you could never become successful, then what's the point?

00:36:19.920 Well, the point is, is that if you adopt the mindset of always contributing and expanding and being consistent and committed to fulfilling your potential, you're going to lead a fucking awesome life.

00:36:33.920 You're going to achieve tremendous financial goals, tremendous interpersonal goals, tremendous, you know, family goals.

00:36:41.920 All those goals are going to be just so far past what anybody else was.

00:36:45.920 And as long as you could pull back and appreciate as you go the journey, that's, I mean, what more do you want?

00:36:52.920 You know what I mean?

00:36:53.920 And success isn't, I don't think, I don't, I think people develop this thing of this target of success, right?

00:37:02.920 And, and, and they think like, it's this place.

00:37:04.920 And once they get there, everything's going to be cool.

00:37:06.920 And I kick my feet up and just chill.

00:37:07.920 But that's not that you're missing the point.

00:37:09.920 The success is in the process.

00:37:11.920 The success is in the growth.

00:37:13.920 The success is in the relationships that you make along the way.

00:37:17.920 Just like you and I getting to become friends or, or, or anybody that we meet and, and developing and growing in that way.

00:37:23.920 And, and you know, you tell, you talk to people about this.

00:37:26.920 They're like, yeah, that's easy for you to say.

00:37:28.920 Cause you drive a fucking Rolls Royce.

00:37:29.920 Well, you know, I didn't always try a Rolls Royce.

00:37:32.920 You know what I'm saying?

00:37:33.920 I've been following this plan of what I'm talking about.

00:37:35.920 And, and what the, and the cool thing about this is, is that, you know, the further along you get down that path, the further you realize shit like that doesn't matter anyway.

00:37:43.920 You know what I mean?

00:37:44.920 And it is about the handshakes and the relationships and the fun shit, the dinners that you get to meet, you know, like you dinner with Steve or whatever, you know, those kinds of things.

00:37:52.920 Or become the things, you know, and, and then because you've built financial success, you get to help all kinds of people and do kinds of cool shit.

00:38:01.920 You know, it's just so, it's such a deep thought and it's so hard for people to wrap their brain around as, as to what it is when you're in the beginning, you know, when you're at the bottom of Mount Everest and you're looking up and you're like, I just want to get to the top.

00:38:18.920 I'm at the top.

00:38:19.920 And once I'm at the top, I'm at the top, but you, there's no top.

00:38:23.920 Yeah, there is no top.

00:38:24.920 That's the thing.

00:38:25.920 There's no top.

00:38:26.920 I love the fact that you've, you've said so many good things over the last year that you've probably forgotten that you said this.

00:38:30.920 But at one point, Andy, you said that you really need to think of success as always in the present tense.

00:38:36.920 So you might've been successful, but if you're not doing anything active today, you are not successful.

00:38:43.920 That's it.

00:38:44.920 Every day is a win.

00:38:45.920 It's, it's a, it's always a present tense thing.

00:38:47.920 You stack enough wins together and not like all the shit that you think is success just happens.

00:38:51.920 Right.

00:38:52.920 You know what I mean?

00:38:53.920 So success is not a thing.

00:38:55.920 It's, it's today.

00:38:56.920 It's, did you win today?

00:38:58.920 You know, that's how I, that's how I think of it for myself.

00:39:01.920 I agree.

00:39:02.920 Right.

00:39:03.920 I mean, did you go to the gym?

00:39:05.920 Did you do your homework?

00:39:06.920 You know, and your homework might be, you know, like you're sitting here taking notes, you know, your homework might be taking notes and learning and expanding.

00:39:14.920 Did you read, you know, it might be reading 20 pages of a new book or a chapter of a new book.

00:39:19.920 You know, did you do something to expand?

00:39:21.920 Did you spend your hour on eBay looking at nice shit?

00:39:23.920 You know, that's an important part that people don't do.

00:39:26.920 They say, do you really do that?

00:39:27.920 Yeah.

00:39:28.920 Yeah.

00:39:29.920 Ask my wife.

00:39:30.920 It annoys the shit out of her.

00:39:31.920 Cause like I'm in a zone.

00:39:32.920 I can't hear anything.

00:39:33.920 Yeah.

00:39:34.920 You totally stole my thunder though.

00:39:35.920 Because what I was going to say is when I walked in here, the very first indication

00:39:37.920 to me that, oh man, this guy, he's got it together.

00:39:40.920 Is that you brought a, you brought a notebook.

00:39:42.920 And I knew, I knew the minute I saw you've been, you've been taking notes the whole time,

00:39:46.920 which goes back to what you say, Andy, about being a learner.

00:39:49.920 I've never sat in a podcast.

00:39:50.920 Constantly wanting to improve.

00:39:51.920 I've never done a podcast with someone where they're actually taking notes as we do the podcast.

00:39:54.920 Right.

00:39:55.920 Like you literally, and we've had some heavy hitters.

00:39:56.920 Yeah.

00:39:57.920 But you literally are the first person.

00:39:58.920 So that's, that speaks volumes.

00:39:59.920 And yeah.

00:40:00.920 I'm about learning.

00:40:01.920 And the funny thing y'all said, a lot of people want to win, but they set these big

00:40:05.920 goals.

00:40:06.920 Like I want to get a Bentley right away.

00:40:07.920 I understand it might take me three, four cars before I get to that Bentley, but we

00:40:11.920 got to celebrate the small wins.

00:40:12.920 Like me coming here today, this is a win for me.

00:40:14.920 Me hanging with my mentor ET, that's a win.

00:40:16.920 And eventually these things continue to build up.

00:40:18.920 Like Andy said, and they become a big win.

00:40:20.920 But I think for the listeners, man, focus on a small win.

00:40:23.920 Stop trying to just hit everything out of the ballpark.

00:40:26.920 Right.

00:40:27.920 Some things you got to do one at a time.

00:40:28.920 Right.

00:40:29.920 There's levels.

00:40:30.920 Like my mentor would tell me one level at a time.

00:40:31.920 That's right.

00:40:32.920 There is levels.

00:40:33.920 So tell us just in practical terms.

00:40:35.920 I mean, what were some of the obstacles that, that you overcame in terms of your businesses?

00:40:40.920 Like, or even to go more fundamental than that, how'd you determine you wanted to do

00:40:44.920 a fruit stand or, you know, waste removal or, you know, whatever?

00:40:48.920 Well, for me, fruit truck, I used to always take, Funny Star used to take my grandma all

00:40:52.920 the time to get a fruit truck.

00:40:53.920 And this guy was like, he was talking about how well he did in the fruit truck.

00:40:57.920 I'm like, how hard is it to do this?

00:40:59.920 And I just wanted to have a business.

00:41:01.920 So I started that.

00:41:02.920 He told me you need X, Y, Z to get started.

00:41:04.920 One of my first struggles was I was like, Mom, I need you to go down here and get all

00:41:08.920 my paperwork.

00:41:09.920 And my mom told me no, but that no might've been the best thing I ever got because I was

00:41:13.920 able to go down there and get it all on my own.

00:41:15.920 Now I could implement that.

00:41:16.920 Now you don't want to do it.

00:41:17.920 Yeah.

00:41:18.920 Now to do it.

00:41:19.920 And I could teach someone else how to do it.

00:41:20.920 So one of my first things was just going and go get it done.

00:41:24.920 Like most people, we keep talking about getting it done.

00:41:26.920 Go get it done.

00:41:27.920 Like nothing worked, but work.

00:41:29.920 Like it ain't going to work itself.

00:41:31.920 So that's one thing I would say.

00:41:33.920 Just out of curiosity, was this in West Philly?

00:41:34.920 West Philly.

00:41:35.920 Yeah.

00:41:36.920 Okay.

00:41:37.920 Were you, were you mocked?

00:41:38.920 Were you mocked?

00:41:39.920 Did people laugh at you?

00:41:40.920 Did you?

00:41:41.920 Yeah.

00:41:42.920 I think some people laughed at me.

00:41:43.920 Funny.

00:41:44.920 I get friends now call a knee.

00:41:45.920 I want to sit down and talk about my business.

00:41:46.920 I've been trying to tell you to get in this game this seven years ago.

00:41:50.920 Like when I started, it's all fun and games.

00:41:52.920 Like you're a goofball.

00:41:53.920 You're selling fruit, but now I'm doing a little better.

00:41:56.920 Now you want to sit down with me.

00:41:57.920 Now I don't necessarily, I don't have the time to sit down with everyone because I've

00:42:01.920 been trying to give you these tools.

00:42:03.920 Right.

00:42:04.920 But you don't want to listen to them.

00:42:05.920 I interrupted you, but go, go ahead.

00:42:06.920 And you, you started to say about developing the fruit truck business.

00:42:09.920 Oh yeah.

00:42:10.920 Yeah.

00:42:11.920 Which you had no experience in, correct?

00:42:12.920 You just, you just fucking did it.

00:42:13.920 I had no experience in nothing.

00:42:14.920 Right.

00:42:15.920 So, and that's the thing, which again, I don't like to call myself special or anything,

00:42:18.920 but I never had anyone positive to look up to.

00:42:20.920 I never had a mentor until I turned 21.

00:42:23.920 So I never knew.

00:42:24.920 I just went out there and tried it and just did it.

00:42:27.920 So I feel as though like social media, I think Andy said, yo, our business would have

00:42:31.920 been a lot further if social media was created in 2001.

00:42:34.920 If I had a mentor since I was 15, I probably would be a millionaire right now, but I didn't

00:42:40.920 have that.

00:42:41.920 So I had to learn on my own and now I'm developing friendships and more mentors.

00:42:44.920 So find yourself a mentor.

00:42:46.920 That's an obstacle.

00:42:47.920 That'll save you tons of time, tons of money.

00:42:50.920 And it's the quickest way for you to learn.

00:42:52.920 Get yourself a mentor and not just see how you can be of assistance to them.

00:42:57.920 It's not just a take thing.

00:42:58.920 Like, let me pick your brain.

00:42:59.920 No.

00:43:00.920 How can I assist you?

00:43:01.920 Yeah.

00:43:02.920 Can I serve you?

00:43:03.920 Like I'm big on service.

00:43:04.920 I understand the importance of serving people.

00:43:06.920 So one of my problems was not having a mentor.

00:43:11.920 So get yourself a mentor and go out there and make it happen on your own.

00:43:14.920 Stop waiting for people.

00:43:15.920 Start now.

00:43:16.920 Yeah.

00:43:17.920 I love it.

00:43:18.920 Like I said, I'm overwhelmed.

00:43:20.920 This is awesome.

00:43:21.920 Well, I mean, you went from the fruit truck to dump removal or junk removal.

00:43:27.920 Junk removal.

00:43:28.920 Went to regular commercial cleaning.

00:43:30.920 Yeah.

00:43:31.920 And I kind of, I was talking to Tyler about passion.

00:43:33.920 When I stopped feeling passionate about something, passionate, I got to stop doing it.

00:43:37.920 So we transferred from cleaning toilets to actually doing junk removal slash demolition.

00:43:44.920 So we was able to do okay with demolition and junk removal where I go in people homes, remove their trash.

00:43:50.920 I'm like, you get to tell me you're going to pay me to get rid of this stuff.

00:43:53.920 And once I take their trash, I go sell it at our other spot.

00:43:56.920 Right.

00:43:57.920 I got the opportunity to do that as well as now I'm just in multiple different fields, such as having a vitamin store.

00:44:03.920 I'm a co-inventor or something that will be releasing later this year.

00:44:06.920 That's awesome.

00:44:07.920 Honestly, I'm just up, I'm up at bat trying to hit it off the thing.

00:44:11.920 Period.

00:44:12.920 You know, we talk about the people today, everybody's talking about hustle.

00:44:15.920 I'm a hustler.

00:44:16.920 Right.

00:44:17.920 This dude's a hustler.

00:44:18.920 Hustle is not you work 41.7 hours a week.

00:44:22.920 Hustle is you work from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep.

00:44:27.920 And you're committed at all times.

00:44:29.920 When I say work, I don't mean dig a ditch for 20 hours a day.

00:44:32.920 I mean, you do your work, your regular work, your income work.

00:44:36.920 And then after you're done making the work that you need to survive, you start working on what it is that you're going to do later.

00:44:41.920 And that could be an investment in reading.

00:44:43.920 It could be a phone call.

00:44:44.920 It could be emails.

00:44:45.920 But this dude's a hustler.

00:44:47.920 All right.

00:44:48.920 So everybody out there who said, oh, I'm hustling because I worked fucking Saturday.

00:44:51.920 Fuck you.

00:44:52.920 You're not hustling.

00:44:53.920 Hustle is a seven day a week, 52 fucking weeks a year deal.

00:44:59.920 That's what's going on.

00:45:00.920 That's why this dude is going to have a G650.

00:45:03.920 You know what I mean?

00:45:04.920 We're apart next to each other.

00:45:05.920 Isn't that right?

00:45:06.920 Yeah.

00:45:07.920 Good.

00:45:08.920 And again, another thing I always tell people, you know, a lot of my mentors, people, you should only do one thing.

00:45:14.920 I get that.

00:45:15.920 But since I got fired, I had to do multiple things to survive.

00:45:18.920 So, but as you're getting started, I would say focus on that one thing for the people who are just starting.

00:45:22.920 I know most callers on here are advanced, but focus on that one thing, then expand and just keep trying to go.

00:45:27.920 Tell you figure out what's going to take you to the next level.

00:45:30.920 Like Andy said, he failed six businesses.

00:45:32.920 I failed several.

00:45:33.920 Yeah.

00:45:34.920 Did you have to come up with capital to like buy the truck?

00:45:37.920 And yeah, I did.

00:45:38.920 I had the job.

00:45:39.920 So I was saving money.

00:45:40.920 I was saving money while I worked at the private airport.

00:45:43.920 So I was saving money.

00:45:44.920 And I guess maybe for that reason, I didn't even know I was saving it for a business.

00:45:48.920 But I started doing the research and the paperwork while I still had my job.

00:45:52.920 So once he fired me, I'm like, cool.

00:45:54.920 That was my thing to get started.

00:45:56.920 Most people never go full time entrepreneur because they're that crutch of their job.

00:46:00.920 Yeah.

00:46:01.920 I said in my mind, like I'm never going back to corporate America or going to go work for somebody.

00:46:05.920 Right.

00:46:06.920 And I haven't turned back since.

00:46:07.920 So Nehemiah, I think you're wise beyond your years.

00:46:09.920 And there's there's always like a it cuts both ways sometimes when people listen to other people who are really killing it.

00:46:17.920 So on the one hand, I'm sure there are people who are listening to this going, man, that's that's awesome.

00:46:21.920 That's really inspiring.

00:46:22.920 I know I can do this, too.

00:46:23.920 But, you know, I'm thinking about the older guys, guys my age, like in their 40s.

00:46:28.920 OK, and they're listening to you and they're going, man, I wish I would have been like that when I was 21 or even 28.

00:46:36.920 What do you say to those guys?

00:46:39.920 I'll say it's not too late.

00:46:40.920 First off, start now.

00:46:42.920 Like our next book working on is called Start Now.

00:46:45.920 Like wherever you are in your life, get started.

00:46:47.920 It's never too late because you don't want to live in regret.

00:46:50.920 You don't want to have to say my biggest fear growing.

00:46:53.920 My biggest fear to this day is I don't want to look back 20 years and be like, you know, back in the day, I was the man.

00:46:58.920 Like, no, I want to still be that man.

00:47:00.920 Like back in the day, I was doing well at 28.

00:47:02.920 But now I'm 35.

00:47:03.920 I'm a multimillionaire doing X, Y, Z.

00:47:06.920 So I want to keep progressing.

00:47:08.920 So I would say, you know, don't focus.

00:47:10.920 Don't beat yourself up too much on the years you missed.

00:47:13.920 Get started right now because it's never too late.

00:47:15.920 Colonel Sanders, I don't think he started KFC till he was 65.

00:47:19.920 Don't quote me.

00:47:20.920 But it's never too late to get started where you are.

00:47:23.920 That's a good word.

00:47:24.920 So this is a very weird analogy.

00:47:27.920 But, you know, we all know people who have who have been like addicted to alcohol and stuff.

00:47:31.920 And one of the things that they always say is they always say that one day in recovery is still or the worst day in recovery is still better than the best day in addiction.

00:47:41.920 And I think what I after hearing you speak, what I would say is the worst day of killing it is still better than a lifetime of not doing anything.

00:47:48.920 Oh, you know, I mean, it's it's so I that's what I just tell people just like I like what you're saying is start and the moment you start killing it, it's going to make up for it.

00:47:59.920 Yeah. Well, in that momentum, man, I think momentum once momentum kick in, you just don't want to knock down walls like you get them small wins that that's going to be once you to get that big one is going to keep propelling you to move forward.

00:48:11.920 So every day I operate off of small wins.

00:48:14.920 Like I said, this is a win to me.

00:48:16.920 Like I'm here learning, growing on a podcast with you, too.

00:48:19.920 I mean, with Tyler, all three of you guys, and I'm just learning and growing.

00:48:22.920 So this is a win.

00:48:23.920 I'm going to go home tomorrow.

00:48:24.920 Focus on more, more, more, more.

00:48:26.920 So wherever you are, start now and just focus and just grind and kick butt every single day because there's no excuses to not becoming who you want to be.

00:48:34.920 Right.

00:48:35.920 You're the only person in your way.

00:48:36.920 Right.

00:48:37.920 OK, so the only one that's got to pay that price if you don't.

00:48:39.920 Yeah.

00:48:40.920 You know, no one else going to shed a tear for you.

00:48:42.920 Yeah.

00:48:43.920 You know, oh, I could have been this.

00:48:44.920 No one cares, man.

00:48:45.920 You're the only ones got to pay that price.

00:48:47.920 And, you know, if you're if you're if you're 40 years old, you're 50 years old and you're like, man, I'm not where I wanted to be.

00:48:52.920 This isn't worked out how I thought it wanted to be.

00:48:55.920 Dude, you're a young buck entrepreneur.

00:48:56.920 Let's fucking get it.

00:48:57.920 You know, they said, when's the best time to plant a tree, Vaughn?

00:49:01.920 Yesterday.

00:49:02.920 20 years ago.

00:49:03.920 20 years ago.

00:49:04.920 Second best time.

00:49:05.920 Now.

00:49:06.920 Yeah.

00:49:07.920 That's a good.

00:49:08.920 So let's just take a second.

00:49:10.920 Why don't you share your social media contacts, all your all your relevant information so that people can get a hold of you.

00:49:16.920 Social media is Neodaviso, which is N-E-O-D-A-V-I-S-O.

00:49:21.920 And that's on Instagram.

00:49:22.920 I'm trying to change that to my name, which is Nehemiah Davis.

00:49:25.920 It's kind of long, but I just got on Snapchat, guys.

00:49:28.920 So follow me on there.

00:49:29.920 That's Nehemiah Davis.

00:49:31.920 N-E-H-E-M-I-A-H Davis.

00:49:35.920 D-A-V-I-S.

00:49:36.920 As well as please support my book, NehemiahDavis.com.

00:49:40.920 And, you know, stay tuned for up and coming conferences we have around the country.

00:49:44.920 Dude.

00:49:45.920 Listen, man.

00:49:46.920 I.

00:49:47.920 I'm good with people.

00:49:49.920 You know, Vaughn, you know, I am like I meet people.

00:49:51.920 I can see where they're going.

00:49:52.920 I see what they're doing.

00:49:53.920 And you guys need to be following this guy now because 10 years from now, 15 years from now, he's going to be the Tony Robbins type of dude out there.

00:50:02.920 You know what I mean?

00:50:03.920 This is the next generation of that.

00:50:05.920 And, of course, I want to be right there with you.

00:50:08.920 But the point is, dude, this guy's got it.

00:50:10.920 He's got he's got the skills.

00:50:11.920 He's got the hustle.

00:50:12.920 And if you guys aren't following, you're one of my favorite follows.

00:50:16.920 If that says anything.

00:50:17.920 I mean, it's a great deal.

00:50:18.920 And I post a lot.

00:50:19.920 So I know the positivity, you know, I'm not always positive.

00:50:23.920 You know, I'm and I think that's the appeal.

00:50:25.920 Like people are like, dude, you're real.

00:50:27.920 You know, and I'm not always my messages are positive.

00:50:30.920 But my way of going about it is sometimes a little bit, you know, it comes from a dark place.

00:50:34.920 And I'm not afraid to admit that I've got that dark place inside me that brings that fucking fire and brings that fury and intensity that people people are attracted to it because I think a lot of people have it and they try to suppress it.

00:50:46.920 But do what I like about your message is that it can help bring it can help bring that light when when you're kind of in that place.

00:50:54.920 You know what I mean? It brings a good perspective.

00:50:56.920 So I really enjoy it because it's so much it's complimentary in a different way to the same sort of messages that a lot of guys are putting out.

00:51:04.920 But, you know, it just helps you see that the good side.

00:51:07.920 I like that.

00:51:08.920 I appreciate it.

00:51:09.920 You know, and it's not just it's not fucking words either.

00:51:11.920 It's his actions.

00:51:12.920 You know, him look getting a truck loaded to go to a lot of people talk about stuff.

00:51:17.920 They talk.

00:51:18.920 I'm going to do good.

00:51:19.920 This dude does good.

00:51:20.920 You know, what's the thing you're doing now?

00:51:22.920 Tell them about the ski trip.

00:51:24.920 We're about to take a hundred inner city youth kids skiing.

00:51:26.920 Like I said, exposure is key.

00:51:28.920 Like they don't know skins a sport.

00:51:30.920 Like one of these kids might be sponsors for that.

00:51:33.920 We're looking for sponsors.

00:51:34.920 What's the sponsor?

00:51:35.920 It's $80 a kid or 75 at the lowest kid.

00:51:38.920 And we're trying to take a hundred kids fully paid for a luxury bus, free food, free skiing lessons.

00:51:44.920 So what's the whole trip cost?

00:51:45.920 It's 7,500.

00:51:46.920 How much do you have covered so far?

00:51:48.920 We got about I would say we probably got 20 sponsors so far.

00:51:53.920 The trip is three six.

00:51:54.920 So we take them March, which I'm called.

00:51:56.920 We still got some ways to go.

00:51:57.920 Yeah, I'll do this for you.

00:51:59.920 I'll do this for you.

00:52:00.920 I'll cover the rest of the trip for you.

00:52:01.920 Wow.

00:52:02.920 Yeah.

00:52:03.920 Wow.

00:52:04.920 So, I mean, dude, that.

00:52:05.920 Dang.

00:52:06.920 Yeah, man.

00:52:07.920 I mean, dude, it's the right thing to do.

00:52:08.920 Wow.

00:52:09.920 Like you, you go, you do your thing, you know.

00:52:10.920 I don't want you to worry about it.

00:52:11.920 These kids aren't going to be able to go.

00:52:12.920 You know, I'm in a place where I can do that.

00:52:14.920 Wow.

00:52:15.920 And you're going to go do it.

00:52:16.920 So I'll do that for you.

00:52:18.920 Small win.

00:52:19.920 That's a big win.

00:52:20.920 You know what I mean?

00:52:21.920 Wow, man.

00:52:22.920 Shout out to Andy, man.

00:52:23.920 Wow.

00:52:24.920 Look, man, it's the right thing to do.

00:52:25.920 But it was earned.

00:52:26.920 Yeah.

00:52:27.920 Your hustle earned that.

00:52:28.920 I mean, not to take away from your generosity.

00:52:29.920 No, no, no.

00:52:30.920 No, it was earned.

00:52:31.920 But it was earned.

00:52:32.920 Your hustle earned that.

00:52:33.920 So, I mean, I really want to direct people as often as I can to your website.

00:52:37.920 So if in the future they want to do something to support your foundation.

00:52:41.920 It's nehemiadavisfoundation.org.

00:52:44.920 Same as my regular website, nehemiadavis.com.

00:52:46.920 But my regular org is nehemiadavisfoundation.org.

00:52:49.920 You can see all the work we do.

00:52:51.920 Currently, to this day, we have four free programs every Saturday.

00:52:55.920 Martial arts.

00:52:56.920 Martial arts.

00:52:57.920 We teach kids how to play guitar.

00:52:59.920 Spanish lessons in the art class.

00:53:01.920 And we do all these things to expose them and show them, yo, this is possible.

00:53:05.920 Later in the year, we want to take 10 to 15 kids abroad and just expose them and immerse

00:53:10.920 them into what's possible for their life.

00:53:12.920 So nehemiadavisfoundation.org and everything counts.

00:53:16.920 Thank you so much, Andy, for that donation.

00:53:18.920 Oh, man.

00:53:19.920 No, thank you, dude.

00:53:20.920 There should be, if there was more, if there was, if there was more people like you, the

00:53:24.920 world would be a better place, man.

00:53:25.920 Absolutely.

00:53:26.920 Yeah.

00:53:27.920 So.

00:53:28.920 Well.

00:53:29.920 So let's, I mean, we still got some ways to go though for these young guys.

00:53:31.920 We've covered a lot of shit.

00:53:32.920 A lot of these young guys right now, they're probably like, well, you guys talk about all

00:53:34.920 kinds of shit, you know?

00:53:35.920 So what have we covered so far, Vaughn?

00:53:37.920 We've talked about being consistent.

00:53:38.920 Yeah.

00:53:39.920 We talked about being consistent.

00:53:40.920 Being committed to the plan.

00:53:41.920 Passionate.

00:53:42.920 Yeah.

00:53:43.920 We talked about being a learner.

00:53:44.920 We talked about, you said, exposure.

00:53:46.920 I think for me, that's the biggest takeaway of what you said so far.

00:53:49.920 Dude, I think that's the biggest thing.

00:53:50.920 Yeah.

00:53:51.920 No matter who you are listening right now, you have to actively expose yourself to bigger

00:53:57.920 things.

00:53:58.920 If you never do that, you will never, you'll never win on a big scale.

00:54:02.920 It's just, there's no way you can.

00:54:03.920 Yeah.

00:54:04.920 And I would greatly recommend that Third Circle Theory book.

00:54:07.920 A lot of people see this book advertised on Instagram and they don't really know what

00:54:11.920 it is.

00:54:12.920 It's a, it's a self-awareness book.

00:54:14.920 Okay.

00:54:15.920 It's a book that teaches you to recognize why you are where you are and why things haven't

00:54:21.920 gone the way you wanted and how you get things to go the way you want by changing the way

00:54:26.920 you think and changing the way that you expand and changing the way that you look at the world

00:54:30.920 around you.

00:54:31.920 I have not read a book that helps bring more self-awareness than that book.

00:54:37.920 So, and I think it's right on par with what we're talking about.

00:54:41.920 And, and I'm, you know, it's one of my favorite books.

00:54:44.920 It really is.

00:54:45.920 Mm-hmm.

00:54:46.920 What are your favorite books?

00:54:47.920 Yeah.

00:54:48.920 My favorite books right now?

00:54:49.920 Of course, my book, StepIntoGreatness.com.

00:54:51.920 Of course, yeah.

00:54:52.920 Big shout out to you guys.

00:54:53.920 Just blessed me with the magic of thinking big.

00:54:55.920 This is one of my favorites.

00:54:56.920 I have the, I don't have the physical copy now I do, but the audio.

00:55:00.920 So guys, you need to be tuned into the magic of thinking big.

00:55:03.920 I agree.

00:55:04.920 What you're feeding your mind every day is important.

00:55:05.920 Like every day.

00:55:06.920 It's my number one book.

00:55:07.920 Yeah.

00:55:08.920 One of my friend's quotes is every day going to work, you need to be listening to something

00:55:11.920 that's going to get you out of work in terms of if you want to be an entrepreneur.

00:55:14.920 I like that.

00:55:15.920 Like you need to be investing in your mind.

00:55:17.920 Don't ride idle.

00:55:18.920 Don't ride listening to junk.

00:55:19.920 Listen to your music, but listen to something that's going to help you.

00:55:22.920 I like Who Moved My Cheese because it teaches you about that.

00:55:25.920 The book is called Who Moved My Cheese, I think by Spencer.

00:55:28.920 It teaches you how to adapt, you know, once you get in this world.

00:55:31.920 Yeah.

00:55:32.920 A lot of people get stuck and get complacent.

00:55:33.920 So Who Moved My Cheese is big.

00:55:35.920 And of course, Think and Grow Rich.

00:55:36.920 I like that one.

00:55:37.920 Yeah.

00:55:38.920 And one of my favorites, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.

00:55:41.920 Huh.

00:55:42.920 Yeah.

00:55:43.920 By Rob Shamara, I believe.

00:55:44.920 I haven't heard of that one.

00:55:45.920 Oh, that's a good book.

00:55:46.920 I have.

00:55:47.920 I'd have a number of people recommend that.

00:55:48.920 Yeah, that's a good one.

00:55:49.920 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.

00:55:51.920 The point he brought up a second ago about adapting, you know, Who Moved My Cheese.

00:55:56.920 That's another key thing for you young guys, all right?

00:55:59.920 You have to understand that you're going to create this plan to the best of your ability.

00:56:03.920 And that plan is not going to go the way you want.

00:56:05.920 I don't care how good it is.

00:56:06.920 It's just not going to happen.

00:56:07.920 And the guys who win in entrepreneurship are going to be the guys and girls who can adapt

00:56:11.920 to things that happen.

00:56:13.920 You know, you're going to step out and go two or three weeks and something unexpected

00:56:17.920 will happen.

00:56:18.920 You know, for us, we got broken into.

00:56:20.920 Okay.

00:56:21.920 Our store got broken into.

00:56:22.920 It got vandalized.

00:56:23.920 All of our protein powders.

00:56:24.920 This is when the first month we opened our store and everything got vandalized and dumped

00:56:29.920 on the floor.

00:56:30.920 Guess what?

00:56:31.920 That wasn't in our plan.

00:56:32.920 We had to figure out what we were going to do to stay going.

00:56:34.920 Um, you know, I could think of a million things that happened, you know, um, that, that,

00:56:40.920 that caused us to freak out for a minute and then readjust our plan, you know, whether

00:56:47.920 it be an employee or, you know, I've had employees steal from us, you know, I had, we had these

00:56:52.920 three dudes steal almost $20,000 worth of product from us when, when $20,000 was like 20 million.

00:56:58.920 You know what I mean?

00:56:59.920 Um, you got to figure those things out.

00:57:02.920 And, and so I think being able to pivot and adapt is also one of those key traits that

00:57:06.920 you guys need to understand is just part of the game.

00:57:08.920 Cause I get a lot of emails from people who are like, Oh my God, I started my business

00:57:12.920 and this happened.

00:57:13.920 I'm like, so I'm like, that's part of the deal.

00:57:16.920 You need to learn to look at the lesson that you're going to learn from that thing happening,

00:57:19.920 you know?

00:57:20.920 And, and the perspective, the ability to see, just like we mentioned about your father,

00:57:25.920 not being around, you know, the ability to take that and see that as a benefit and use

00:57:30.920 the things that you learn as a strength, as opposed to hiding behind that as an excuse,

00:57:35.920 you know?

00:57:36.920 Um, and that's a sensitive subject for people.

00:57:38.920 Cause when you, when you call somebody on, on using something like that as an excuse, they

00:57:42.920 can very easily make you look like a dick.

00:57:44.920 You know, they'd be like, Oh, you're an asshole.

00:57:46.920 Right.

00:57:47.920 Look, man, I'm just telling you the way it is.

00:57:49.920 You know, you, you've got to eliminate the things that you think are bad and figure out

00:57:52.920 how, why those things are good.

00:57:54.920 And I've yet in my lifetime found something that happened to me that I can't find some

00:58:00.920 good out of, you know?

00:58:02.920 And dude, I've been stabbed in the face, you know what I'm saying?

00:58:06.920 And I, there's a lot of good things that happened because of that, you know, one, I calmed

00:58:10.920 down, you know, on my little, on my, on my, uh, my, my, uh, you know, willingness to

00:58:16.920 get into scuffles.

00:58:17.920 You know, I used to like that.

00:58:18.920 Yeah.

00:58:19.920 You know, uh, two, um, I became recognizable three.

00:58:23.920 I recognize the perspective of somebody who doesn't have, you know, who has a handicap

00:58:31.920 or who has a disfigurement, you know, uh, I mean, there's all kinds of things, you know,

00:58:37.920 I can look at and say, Hey dude, this is a good thing to happen, right?

00:58:40.920 You know, your story now, dude, it's part of my identity.

00:58:43.920 It's my, it's my trademark.

00:58:44.920 Yeah.

00:58:45.920 Hey, you know, Andy, you mean the dude with the, the dude with the scars?

00:58:47.920 Oh yeah.

00:58:48.920 I know that dude.

00:58:49.920 You know what I'm saying?

00:58:50.920 And I don't take offense to it because, and like on Instagram and stuff, you can't see,

00:58:53.920 they don't show up as well in pictures.

00:58:55.920 But I mean, if you're in person, you can see him.

00:58:57.920 Uh, you know, there's all kinds of things, man.

00:58:59.920 You know, Derek, Derek Wida, you know, lost his leg, uh, in Iraq.

00:59:04.920 Good buddy of ours sponsored athlete by first form, got his leg shot off in Iraq.

00:59:08.920 Um, the dude has become not only an inspiration to millions of people, but his, he'll tell

00:59:17.920 you, man, his perspective is better now about life than it was then, you know, um, is there

00:59:23.920 negatives?

00:59:24.920 He can't go be a soldier anymore, but the positives and he'll tell you will out.

00:59:28.920 They outweigh the negatives, you know, and this dude lost his leg.

00:59:31.920 And it's, so I think, you know, being, and that's a dad, that's adapting.

00:59:34.920 That's perspective.

00:59:35.920 That's just a lot of these same things that we're talking about.

00:59:38.920 Right.

00:59:39.920 You know what I mean?

00:59:40.920 Cause I'm going to tell you, if you pick the entrepreneur path, you're going to get your

00:59:42.920 head beat in hard.

00:59:43.920 It's just the way it is.

00:59:44.920 You're going to get beat on and you have to be able to figure out a, how to stop those beatings

00:59:49.920 and start doing the beating and be how to take that power.

00:59:53.920 And instead of like fighting it, you're, you're, you're, you're redirecting it to power.

00:59:58.920 And it's a purpose.

00:59:59.920 Exactly.

01:00:00.920 And so you take those hard lessons and you, you, you know, and it's hard to, for somebody

01:00:04.920 who's not, not started in business, this is something that might even be a few steps down

01:00:08.920 the road for you.

01:00:09.920 But I like to let people know the truth before they get going because dude, it's not an easy

01:00:13.920 thing.

01:00:14.920 It's far easier to go out and just be a normal dude and work your 40, 50 hours a week and,

01:00:19.920 and live your life.

01:00:20.920 It's just easier.

01:00:21.920 It's really easy.

01:00:22.920 Yeah, man.

01:00:23.920 And, and, and, and, you know, there's, there's a lot of things about that sort of lifestyle

01:00:28.920 that I'll be completely honest.

01:00:31.920 You know, I'm envious of the fact of coming home at four 30 in the afternoon and not having

01:00:37.920 to think about work at all until you get up at five o'clock in the morning the next day.

01:00:42.920 I, I've not been able to do that for 17 years.

01:00:46.920 Yeah.

01:00:47.920 You know what I mean?

01:00:48.920 And I don't, it would be nice to be able to do that, you know, to have two or three

01:00:53.920 days off where I'm not thinking about whatever's going on here.

01:00:56.920 It's just not, but that's not who I am.

01:00:58.920 You know what I mean?

01:00:59.920 It's not what my, I would go fucking crazy.

01:01:02.920 Right.

01:01:03.920 You know, but if that's somebody that, that might, a lot of people are getting sucked into

01:01:08.920 entrepreneurship right now because it's cool and it's hot and it's the thing.

01:01:12.920 You know, when I started an entrepreneur, you know, being an entrepreneur is going to start

01:01:16.920 my own thing.

01:01:17.920 It used to be like, dude, you're going to be a loser.

01:01:18.920 You know, Gary Vee has said the same thing, you know, and we're about the same age.

01:01:22.920 He's just a little bit older than me.

01:01:23.920 Uh, you know, when, when him and I started in business, it wasn't like, Oh, cool.

01:01:26.920 You're a business owner.

01:01:27.920 It was like, dude, you're a fucking idiot.

01:01:29.920 Get a real job, you know?

01:01:31.920 Right.

01:01:32.920 And now it's become the opposite.

01:01:34.920 We're like being an entrepreneur is cool, but you got to be careful because not everybody can

01:01:38.920 do it.

01:01:39.920 I can't, can't everybody do it?

01:01:41.920 Yes.

01:01:42.920 Could everybody do it?

01:01:43.920 Yes.

01:01:44.920 And I want to be careful when I say this because I don't want to say it the wrong way and discourage

01:01:48.920 people.

01:01:49.920 It's just a lot harder than what people think.

01:01:51.920 And it's not, it doesn't take the same level of commitment as working somewhere else

01:01:58.920 or, you know, it's just different.

01:02:00.920 And when people, you know, when I say I'm literally working from the time that I wake

01:02:05.920 up or, or, or Nehemiah says that to the time we go to sleep, that's not an exaggeration.

01:02:11.920 That's reality.

01:02:12.920 You know?

01:02:13.920 I mean, it's something that you have to commit to for years.

01:02:17.920 It's a lifestyle.

01:02:18.920 Yeah, it's a lifestyle.

01:02:19.920 That's the way to tease out what you were saying about the need for adjustment.

01:02:23.920 And, and you've also said that there are certain things that if you don't love, you're not

01:02:27.920 an entrepreneur.

01:02:28.920 And one of the things that I would say is if you don't on some level love change and love

01:02:34.920 it when things are up in the air and not set in stone, then you're not going to be very,

01:02:38.920 very successful in entrepreneurialism because I think most people look at, and I think,

01:02:43.920 Dude, my most fun at moments is being an entrepreneur and not whenever I'm just killing

01:02:47.920 it and I'm making the most money.

01:02:48.920 It's when I'm trying to figure out how to kill it.

01:02:50.920 Right.

01:02:51.920 Right.

01:02:52.920 And I mean, I think, I think, I think the, I think the vast majority of human beings on

01:02:55.920 this planet, they look at change as tough transition that they have to negotiate.

01:03:00.920 But I think entrepreneurs and people who really are born for that, they don't, they don't think

01:03:05.920 of something.

01:03:06.920 Dude, it's like an algebra class, like an algebra.

01:03:09.920 Right.

01:03:10.920 And you're like working on a group problem.

01:03:11.920 Okay.

01:03:12.920 And it's, let's say it's a really fucking hard problem and you're looking at it and we're

01:03:15.920 all on the same team, all four of us.

01:03:17.920 And we're all looking at it and we're like, man, I don't know.

01:03:19.920 And then one of us like clicks it.

01:03:21.920 Right.

01:03:22.920 And we're like, Whoa, dude, wait, if you put this here, you put this.

01:03:24.920 And then all of a sudden we all see it.

01:03:25.920 Right.

01:03:26.920 Right.

01:03:27.920 And everybody.

01:03:28.920 And then all of a sudden you, you solve the problem and you're all, we're all like high

01:03:30.920 five and like, dude, yeah.

01:03:31.920 Like about math.

01:03:32.920 Has that ever happened?

01:03:33.920 Everybody knows what that's like, you know, that's what entrepreneurship is like.

01:03:36.920 Exactly.

01:03:37.920 That's what it's like.

01:03:38.920 It's like being frustrated out of your mind.

01:03:39.920 And then you have these moments of like super high, but most of it is during the time where

01:03:44.920 you don't know what the fuck you're doing.

01:03:45.920 Right.

01:03:46.920 You know, you're trying to figure it out.

01:03:47.920 Another thing is funny.

01:03:48.920 You say that frustration, which makes most millionaires.

01:03:51.920 I think Richard Branson started Virgin because he was stuck in Puerto Rico.

01:03:55.920 And he said, Hey, I got to get home.

01:03:57.920 Hey, well, everybody that's stuck, would y'all put some money up so we could charter a jet?

01:04:01.920 Right.

01:04:02.920 The rest is history.

01:04:03.920 That's a billion dollar company, Virgin Airlines.

01:04:05.920 Right.

01:04:06.920 So frustration creates a lot of millionaires.

01:04:08.920 You're right about that.

01:04:09.920 And your hardships right now, look for-

01:04:11.920 The solution.

01:04:12.920 Solution.

01:04:13.920 Right.

01:04:14.920 And serve people.

01:04:15.920 Right.

01:04:16.920 As Andy said, that's what's going to make it for you.

01:04:17.920 Right.

01:04:18.920 You know what I mean?

01:04:19.920 Yeah, man.

01:04:20.920 That's a great point.

01:04:21.920 You know, looking for, I'll tell you one thing.

01:04:22.920 This is, this is, all right.

01:04:25.920 So when I was like 17, 18, I had this girlfriend and we were out to dinner.

01:04:30.920 And this is how, this is how entrepreneurs think.

01:04:35.920 I mean, even though you guys will laugh at this because it's so bad, but I'm like, this

01:04:41.920 is how you have to think.

01:04:42.920 You have to always look for the problem, look for a solution to the problem.

01:04:45.920 So I'm like, this is, this is how much entrepreneur DNA is in my blood.

01:04:51.920 All right.

01:04:52.920 I'm sitting there eating dinner and you know how, like, when you get like a piece of

01:04:56.920 chicken, if it's real soft or a steak, if it's real soft, you could like just cut it with

01:05:00.920 the edge of your fork.

01:05:01.920 All right.

01:05:02.920 So like, I was like cutting with the edge of the fork and I'm like, I got the greatest

01:05:07.920 idea of her.

01:05:08.920 And she's like, what?

01:05:09.920 I'm like, it could be a fork with a knife on the edge of the fork.

01:05:14.920 And I'm like, this is the greatest.

01:05:15.920 I'm going to be rich.

01:05:16.920 And then I thought about it.

01:05:17.920 I'm like, I'm going to cut my mouth.

01:05:20.920 I put the thing in my mouth.

01:05:21.920 And then I was like, Oh dude, I thought that was going to be great.

01:05:24.920 All within like two minutes.

01:05:26.920 Cause she was like, you'll cut your mouth.

01:05:27.920 And I'm like, I thought I had like the greatest invention ever.

01:05:31.920 Everybody needs a fork that can cut shit.

01:05:33.920 You know?

01:05:34.920 And it will probably still work.

01:05:35.920 So there's your free idea.

01:05:36.920 But Hey man, sport works.

01:05:38.920 Yeah.

01:05:39.920 Sports.

01:05:40.920 Dude, whoever invented the sports doing all right.

01:05:42.920 You know?

01:05:43.920 But anyway, you know, it's a million things like that.

01:05:45.920 Like you're going to come up with a million ideas that are stupid.

01:05:49.920 And then you're going to come up with like, like a few that are decent.

01:05:52.920 Right.

01:05:53.920 And then you're going to come up with some that are, that are good.

01:05:55.920 And they're, they're more sustainable.

01:05:57.920 And those are the ones over a long period of time that end up making the money.

01:06:00.920 And let me say, Andy, the one good thing about ideas is when most people come up,

01:06:04.920 you come up with any and every idea in the world is only good if it's executed.

01:06:08.920 That's right.

01:06:09.920 Most people come tell me about all these ideas, but I say, are you doing it?

01:06:12.920 So your idea is only going to get off the ground if you put the work and action behind

01:06:16.920 it.

01:06:17.920 So guys work your ideas.

01:06:19.920 Don't just talk about it.

01:06:20.920 Be about it.

01:06:21.920 That's the thing too, is that, you know, I think every single person on earth has one

01:06:26.920 or two or three multimillion dollars ideas, you know, by the time they're 30 years old,

01:06:32.920 but very few of them just do it, you know, and that's the difference.

01:06:35.920 And they say the richest place, I think Les Brown says, I'm not sure, but the richest

01:06:38.920 place in the world is the cemetery.

01:06:40.920 So many people take their goals and dreams there.

01:06:42.920 Yeah.

01:06:43.920 Because they're not, people dying at 25 and stop actually living because life hit them

01:06:48.920 one time, knock them down.

01:06:49.920 I actually just came across your post where you quoted that exact Les Brown quote.

01:06:54.920 I rarely ever quote other people, but that is just an awesome quote.

01:06:57.920 Yeah.

01:06:58.920 Yeah.

01:06:59.920 What are we doing on time?

01:07:02.920 Hour.

01:07:03.920 Oh, okay.

01:07:04.920 Good.

01:07:05.920 Yeah.

01:07:06.920 So.

01:07:07.920 I'm sorry.

01:07:08.920 I lost my train of thought.

01:07:11.920 Thank you.

01:07:12.920 I feel like I want to hear more about your story.

01:07:18.920 I don't know.

01:07:20.920 What haven't you told us?

01:07:22.920 Well.

01:07:23.920 I'm curious what you got kicked out for.

01:07:25.920 Oh, at the time when I got, I just got kicked out for being a knucklehead.

01:07:28.920 Again, I was at the minority at the school.

01:07:30.920 I thought it was cool to be cheating on tests.

01:07:32.920 I thought it was cool to talk back.

01:07:34.920 I just thought that was cool.

01:07:35.920 Not knowing it wasn't cool.

01:07:37.920 Yeah.

01:07:38.920 So if I had to replay it, I wouldn't be a knucklehead anymore.

01:07:40.920 I would actually be listening and trying to learn.

01:07:42.920 Yeah.

01:07:43.920 I'm a little further now than I am.

01:07:45.920 Yeah.

01:07:46.920 So that's what I got kicked out of for college.

01:07:48.920 I was hanging around the wrong people.

01:07:49.920 And again, it's a result that they kept seeing me with my friend, but he went and choked some

01:07:54.920 kids up.

01:07:55.920 Neil was with them.

01:07:56.920 I was in my room, but that's why it's important.

01:07:58.920 I take that with success or just like you have to hang around people who are going in

01:08:03.920 the direction that you're going if you want to go there.

01:08:05.920 Right.

01:08:06.920 You're hanging around nine broke people.

01:08:07.920 I'm sure you're probably going to become the 10th.

01:08:09.920 If you're hanging around 10 millionaires and nine of them, you might eventually become

01:08:13.920 one.

01:08:14.920 You're immersing yourself in that.

01:08:16.920 Well, it becomes the norm.

01:08:18.920 Norm, yeah.

01:08:19.920 You know what I'm saying?

01:08:20.920 It's not this unobtainable thing.

01:08:22.920 It goes back to what we talked about expanding.

01:08:25.920 You know, my normal day is most people's like dream.

01:08:31.920 You know what I mean?

01:08:32.920 It's normal for me now.

01:08:33.920 And, you know, when Bill Gates gets on his, you know, on his jet, you know, that's normal

01:08:41.920 shit.

01:08:42.920 You know what I mean?

01:08:43.920 And it was normal for him before he had it in his mind.

01:08:47.920 You know, and that's the part of, and a lot of people just think that's hocus pocus,

01:08:52.920 man.

01:08:53.920 I know you believe in the law of attraction, as do I, as does every other single multimillionaire

01:08:58.920 billionaire that I know.

01:09:00.920 Okay.

01:09:01.920 Um, I, I just think it's something that people just overlook.

01:09:05.920 You know, it's so easy to do, but people think that it's like they'd rather play a video

01:09:10.920 game.

01:09:11.920 Yeah.

01:09:12.920 Right, right, right.

01:09:13.920 Like I'm, I feel weird, like, you know, kind of investing in my spirituality or my mental,

01:09:19.920 my mental game like that.

01:09:20.920 You know, they don't, cause that's what it is, man.

01:09:22.920 It's spirituality.

01:09:23.920 Um, and it makes people feel weird.

01:09:26.920 So I don't know, man.

01:09:27.920 I, I think, uh, you know, one day they're going to find it like a direct, like physical

01:09:34.920 link between those two things.

01:09:35.920 Right.

01:09:36.920 There's, cause it's, dude, it's so true.

01:09:38.920 And once you train your mind to become focused on these things that you want to become or

01:09:43.920 things that you want, it just happens.

01:09:47.920 And you can't feel stupid.

01:09:48.920 I mean, like I'm going to be in the, I'm going to be riding my jet, parking my Bentley

01:09:52.920 in front of there.

01:09:53.920 I believe that.

01:09:54.920 Yeah.

01:09:55.920 Yeah.

01:09:56.920 You can't feel like, yo, this is stupid.

01:09:57.920 Yeah.

01:09:58.920 You can't tell it to everyone.

01:09:59.920 Cause everyone, I can talk about this to Andy.

01:10:01.920 I can talk about this to you guys in this room.

01:10:03.920 Cause you understand that, but I can't go back to the hood.

01:10:05.920 Like I'm going to get a jet.

01:10:06.920 Yeah.

01:10:07.920 Are you sure you go?

01:10:08.920 Yeah, I am.

01:10:09.920 Like I can't even talk to you cause you don't understand it.

01:10:12.920 Like on one of your podcasts, I heard you say every day I'm on the phone or I know multi-millionaires

01:10:16.920 like all my friends.

01:10:18.920 This is all.

01:10:19.920 I don't have time to talk.

01:10:20.920 Not saying you don't have time, but this is what I feel my time with those, those connections.

01:10:25.920 Exactly.

01:10:26.920 So I think that's important.

01:10:27.920 That's why, yes, I didn't get there yet, but I'm making sure I surround myself with those

01:10:30.920 people because I'm going to get there.

01:10:32.920 Guaranteed.

01:10:33.920 Yeah, man.

01:10:34.920 I mean, dude, I can go through my phone right now.

01:10:35.920 I can go through my phone right now.

01:10:37.920 Okay.

01:10:38.920 Millionaire.

01:10:39.920 First guy, millionaire.

01:10:40.920 Second, my wife.

01:10:41.920 Right.

01:10:42.920 Okay.

01:10:43.920 Third, fourth, fifth guy, millionaire.

01:10:45.920 Sixth guy, millionaire.

01:10:47.920 Sixth guy, millionaire.

01:10:48.920 Seventh guy, millionaire.

01:10:49.920 I mean, you know.

01:10:50.920 It's important.

01:10:51.920 Yeah.

01:10:52.920 It's just, that's what it is.

01:10:53.920 Yeah.

01:10:54.920 You know, and.

01:10:55.920 You are who you hang with, man.

01:10:56.920 It's a big deal.

01:10:57.920 Which is easier said than done where you came from.

01:10:59.920 I mean, I hope that's not insensitive on my part to say, but no.

01:11:04.920 Dude, it's a fact.

01:11:05.920 Yeah, so.

01:11:06.920 Facts aren't insensitive.

01:11:07.920 Well, no.

01:11:08.920 So here's my, I would love to know this.

01:11:10.920 So Andy talks a lot about how everybody makes excuses.

01:11:13.920 Okay.

01:11:14.920 It's, it's no respecter of color.

01:11:15.920 It's no respecter of age.

01:11:17.920 Everybody's making excuses.

01:11:19.920 You've come from a background where a lot of people might say, well, you know what?

01:11:22.920 If you wanted to make excuses, you probably could have, but you didn't.

01:11:25.920 Right.

01:11:26.920 Okay.

01:11:27.920 I have a question for you since you have, you have essentially made the transition into

01:11:31.920 this life of success.

01:11:33.920 What would you say to other people, specifically to other people who are tempted to make excuses?

01:11:38.920 Um, what would you say to them?

01:11:41.920 And what would you also say to the people who have no idea what you faced that might

01:11:45.920 help them be a little bit more understanding?

01:11:47.920 Well, first I will say, man, you gotta just stop making excuses.

01:11:50.920 You gotta find some sort of time that, yo, excuses aren't valid.

01:11:54.920 And the reason why I can't keep making excuses.

01:11:57.920 Even when society will accept your excuse.

01:11:59.920 Yeah.

01:12:00.920 Most people going to accept your excuse cause most people are making them.

01:12:03.920 But when I realized I made entrepreneurship is plan A, I can't make an excuse cause that

01:12:08.920 A-Max bill won't get paid at the end of the month.

01:12:10.920 The Cardinal won't get paid.

01:12:11.920 My family won't eat.

01:12:12.920 So you have to remove excuses.

01:12:14.920 So I would just say, get out of your own way.

01:12:17.920 And that's another thing, get out your own way and believe in your mental abilities

01:12:21.920 that you could become whoever you want to be.

01:12:23.920 Like I feel as though what stopped most of us, what stopped most of us is ourselves

01:12:28.920 telling ourselves why it won't work, why this won't happen.

01:12:31.920 It's not going to happen cause you just said it ain't going to happen.

01:12:34.920 It's that simple.

01:12:35.920 Like Andy said, we overcomplicate what it takes to become successful.

01:12:38.920 Remove the excuses and I assure you, you're going to go some places.

01:12:42.920 And my life is, I don't even look at what I went through as hard cause I grew up

01:12:46.920 and it was normal.

01:12:47.920 Right.

01:12:48.920 Everybody grew up in those situations.

01:12:49.920 Right.

01:12:50.920 I grew up without a dad.

01:12:51.920 So it's normal to me.

01:12:52.920 So I just, my mental toughness said, I'm going to become more than my dad and I'm going to

01:12:56.920 make it happen.

01:12:57.920 I'm going to come from West Philly and be somebody.

01:12:59.920 So that's why I'm doing what I do now.

01:13:02.920 You know what's funny about what you're saying is about it being normal is it's always normal

01:13:07.920 until you start seeing everybody else.

01:13:10.920 And then you compare your shit that was normal to somebody else's shit who was maybe on a

01:13:15.920 little easier path.

01:13:16.920 And then all of a sudden you're like, well, that's why I'm not there because I was actually

01:13:21.920 really hard for me when you, in reality, when you're in it, you're like, dude, this is just

01:13:25.920 the way it is.

01:13:26.920 You know?

01:13:27.920 So it's not hard until you start comparing it to somebody else who had it quote unquote

01:13:30.920 easier.

01:13:31.920 Right.

01:13:32.920 And then you start looking for that excuse, you know?

01:13:35.920 Um, dude, society will accept a lot of excuses, right?

01:13:39.920 Like they'll accept an excuse of, Hey, I grew up, you know, with no dad and on an income

01:13:45.920 of $18,000 a year.

01:13:47.920 And I never saw any success and I was never around people successful.

01:13:50.920 So how am I going to be successful?

01:13:52.920 You know?

01:13:53.920 Uh, I had to go to public school.

01:13:55.920 Uh, we were on.

01:13:56.920 I mean, you could say all this shit and eventually people are gonna be like, oh yeah, well, I can

01:13:59.920 say you're not.

01:14:00.920 But the point is, is that you can't make those excuses for yourself.

01:14:02.920 You know?

01:14:03.920 Right.

01:14:04.920 No matter how bad it is, no matter how bad it is, you know?

01:14:07.920 And there's, there's things that, that I've heard before and I'm like, man, that's pretty

01:14:10.920 fucking bad, but you got to get over it if you want to get past it.

01:14:14.920 You know?

01:14:15.920 Yeah.

01:14:16.920 I don't know.

01:14:17.920 I've seen people that post on your Instagram and a number of different people.

01:14:21.920 And I, I'm thinking of one woman in particular who basically saying you had all these privileges.

01:14:27.920 Yes.

01:14:28.920 You worked.

01:14:29.920 Yes.

01:14:30.920 You did this, but you had all these privileges and, and X number of students that she works

01:14:34.920 with or young people that she works with.

01:14:36.920 They simply don't have those opportunities.

01:14:37.920 That's why I wanted to hear what you had to say.

01:14:39.920 Um, Nehemiah, just because there are people that think, you know.

01:14:43.920 Well, dude, the thing is, is yes, there's all people that are going to have a harder

01:14:47.920 situation than I had.

01:14:48.920 Do I have it easy?

01:14:49.920 No, but there's people are going to have a harder.

01:14:51.920 And there's people, guess what?

01:14:52.920 They're going to have a harder than you too.

01:14:53.920 And they're still going to make it.

01:14:54.920 Guaranteed.

01:14:55.920 Yeah.

01:14:56.920 And there's still, and they're still going to make it.

01:14:57.920 Yeah.

01:14:58.920 Yeah.

01:14:59.920 You know what I mean?

01:15:00.920 Yeah.

01:15:01.920 So it's, it's, it's, it's irrelevant.

01:15:02.920 Honestly.

01:15:03.920 Yeah.

01:15:04.920 It's irrelevant.

01:15:05.920 If you want to make it, you'll make it.

01:15:06.920 If you don't, you don't.

01:15:07.920 That's why sometimes I get real irritated with like even posting motivational shit because I feel like I'm,

01:15:12.920 I'm speaking to who, who am I speaking to?

01:15:14.920 Because the people that are going to make it are going to fucking make it anyway.

01:15:17.920 Yeah.

01:15:18.920 But then the excuse becomes, oh, well, they're the exception.

01:15:21.920 Of course.

01:15:22.920 But the, but, but that's what I'm saying.

01:15:23.920 You know, like I spent all this time writing these posts and doing this podcast, all this shit.

01:15:27.920 And I'm like, man, you know, is it all for nothing?

01:15:29.920 Because the people are going to make it or fucking make it.

01:15:31.920 Right.

01:15:32.920 You know, maybe I'm just putting a little fire to them or something.

01:15:34.920 I think you help.

01:15:35.920 I know you're helping people, man.

01:15:37.920 Like you're motivating people to start businesses.

01:15:39.920 You're motivating people to become the best that they can be.

01:15:42.920 Yeah.

01:15:43.920 I just want to make sure I'm moving the right people to start businesses because I don't

01:15:44.920 want to motivate the wrong people to start and let them go ruin their lives because it

01:15:48.920 wasn't for them.

01:15:49.920 True.

01:15:50.920 You know?

01:15:51.920 So I don't know, man.

01:15:52.920 Like, but you know what I mean?

01:15:53.920 Like sometimes I feel like, do you ever feel like that?

01:15:54.920 Like you're talking, like who are you talking to?

01:15:55.920 Because the people, you know, the people that make it, they're going to make it because

01:15:57.920 they want to make it.

01:15:58.920 That's true.

01:15:59.920 So like, what are we, so the way I try to look at it is like, I'm just like pouring a

01:16:01.920 little gas on it.

01:16:02.920 Yeah.

01:16:03.920 No, I mean, there's a great, there's actually a great, I'm going to be Mr. Preacher here,

01:16:06.920 but there's a great statement in the Bible by one of the writers.

01:16:08.920 He says, I'm going to remind you of what you already know.

01:16:11.920 And I think that's what you do with when you motivate people is that you put a guy

01:16:15.920 yesterday or the day before.

01:16:16.920 Tell me, you know, you're, you're, you're not wait.

01:16:19.920 You know, these average people, I said, look, my job isn't to wake up these average

01:16:22.920 people.

01:16:23.920 My job is to keep the fucking above average people on track.

01:16:25.920 Right.

01:16:26.920 Right.

01:16:27.920 You don't remind them of what they already know.

01:16:28.920 They just need, they just need a refresher.

01:16:30.920 We all need it.

01:16:31.920 We all need it.

01:16:32.920 Let's shift for myself.

01:16:33.920 Let's be real.

01:16:34.920 Yeah.

01:16:35.920 I'm like, look, dude, be patient.

01:16:36.920 You know, that's my biggest problem is like, I want, I want everything today.

01:16:39.920 Right.

01:16:40.920 So, right.

01:16:41.920 Anyway, I think we're getting long on time here, man.

01:16:43.920 I want to, I want to, first of all, tell you guys, Hey, you guys need to be following

01:16:48.920 this man.

01:16:49.920 You need to be following what he's doing and keeping up on him because he's going to do

01:16:52.920 some big things.

01:16:53.920 Uh, Nehemiah dude, I appreciate you coming by.

01:16:55.920 It's been awesome to talk to you.

01:16:57.920 Awesome to hear your story.

01:16:58.920 Uh, appreciate what you're doing with, with everything you're giving back.

01:17:01.920 Um, I think that's, I think it's tremendous, man.

01:17:04.920 I just really appreciate, appreciate you.

01:17:06.920 And thank you so much.

01:17:08.920 Yeah.

01:17:09.920 So yeah, it's been great, man.

01:17:10.920 I'm, I'm, I'm, we've had some really impressive guests on this show and I'm, I'm speechless.

01:17:16.920 I'm pretty overwhelmed.

01:17:17.920 It means a great day.

01:17:18.920 And it's a, it's an inspiration to me too, man.

01:17:20.920 You motivate, motivate me a lot.

01:17:22.920 So good stuff.

01:17:23.920 So guys, make sure you're checking out his book.

01:17:25.920 Um, the step into greatness journal.

01:17:27.920 Make sure you're following on social, hit them up with your social.

01:17:30.920 One more time.

01:17:31.920 Neil DeViso on Instagram.

01:17:33.920 N E O D A V I S O Snapchat is my full name.

01:17:37.920 Nehemiah Davis.

01:17:38.920 I'm trying to make them uniform though.

01:17:40.920 Real soon.

01:17:41.920 Yeah.

01:17:42.920 Yeah.

01:17:43.920 So, uh, make sure you're following him.

01:17:44.920 Uh, make sure you're giving him some love.

01:17:46.920 Check out his book.

01:17:47.920 Um, and, uh, we'll have you back sometime soon, man.

01:17:50.920 I've enjoyed, I've enjoyed the time.

01:17:51.920 Thank you so much.

01:17:52.920 I, it was tremendous for me.

01:17:53.920 I only wish you guys the best.

01:17:55.920 So billion dollar company.

01:17:56.920 I'll let you for you.

01:17:57.920 Yeah, there you go.

01:17:58.920 I'll let you, I'll let you close it out, man.

01:17:59.920 What, what's what speaking to a young, a young person right now.

01:18:03.920 What's the, what's the, what's the one thing that you want to tell them?

01:18:06.920 Don't give up.

01:18:07.920 I'm telling you, I believe in you and I don't even know you.

01:18:11.920 I know you have the willpower to succeed and become anything you want.

01:18:15.920 But first it starts with believing in yourself.

01:18:17.920 Second, being persistent.

01:18:18.920 Third, finding something you're passionate about.

01:18:20.920 And fourth, getting up every day and kicking butt.

01:18:23.920 That's all I can say.

01:18:24.920 And you going to become what you want to be.

01:18:25.920 I do is work, work, work.

01:18:27.920 We're on the sidelines.

01:18:28.920 I only hustle.

01:18:29.920 I don't ever take your day off.

01:18:31.920 I only work, work, work, work.

REAL AF with Andy Frisella - March 01, 2016

A Young Entrepreneur In The House, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO51

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