Don't Discount Yourself, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO248
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Summary
On this episode of the MSCEO Project, we discuss the life and career of local rapper Nelly Ice. We talk about his rise to stardom, how he got started in the music industry, and what it means to be a St. Louisan.
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I can stack them hunts to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon. Without
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me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
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What is up guys? You're listening to the MSCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host and I am
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the motherfucking CEO. Guys, today we've got a good podcast, but before we do that, I got
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some housekeeping issues. We don't charge here. I don't run ads. I don't run 20 fucking minutes of
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ads so that you have to, you know, I can get paid for that, blah, blah, blah. But I do have a fee
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from you. My fee is this. I ask that if you get value from this podcast, that you tell a friend.
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You don't have to tell a hundred friends. You don't have to tell a million friends. You don't
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have to tell 10 friends. Just tell one friend and do it in a meaningful way. We grow this podcast
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organically. And I feel like a lot of the people who have been longtime listeners, and while I do
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greatly, greatly appreciate you, I feel like that, you know, maybe we've gotten a little bit
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comfortable with just kind of going through and having our own little family here. And I'd like
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to remind you that the purpose of this podcast is to change the culture of an entire generation of
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people who have been brought up to believe in things that are idealistic. My goal here is to
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help you guys understand what it really means to be in control of your life, to be someone who doesn't
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get dictated to, to be someone who chooses their outcome and how to do that. Uh, and I feel like
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we've done a really good job at that. And I just asked that if you guys agree with me on that, that
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you please, uh, spread the word about the podcast. So with that being said, um, I'm joined as always
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by my co-host Vaughn, the impaler, the pastor of disaster, DJ, DJ, God Vaughn swoller.
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I'm getting there. Vaughn diesel. What am I missing? Jean-Claude Vaughn. Jean-Claude Vaughn
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Vaughn. The man of many names. Right. What's up, dude? Vaughn Nelly Ice. Vaughn Nelly Ice. Ooh, I like it.
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Yeah. Dude. Things are good. I feel like it's been like a century since the last time we were here.
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Guess who I have on the podcast. I've heard this. I'm pretty excited. Next week. Yeah. Nelly. Yep. Yep.
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Our hometown Nelly. Yep. I'm excited about that, dude. I'm excited about it too. And you know,
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I, with two Titanic rappers like Nelly and myself, you knew that it was only a matter of time before
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we met. Dude, I'm excited because people don't realize that St. Louis, how close and tight-knit
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it is. It's kind of weird that him and I have not really crossed paths. Yeah. Um, I'm excited to get
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to hang with him, but I'm excited more so because I feel like he brought, uh, a level of belief to
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this community. Uh, he was good for the community, man, for so many years and like really gave a whole
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generation, uh, from this town belief that like, dude, just cause you're from St. Louis doesn't mean
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that you can't do something big. Right. And, uh, dude, he's, you know, people not from this area
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don't understand that he's a fucking legend here, like a local legend because of that. Not because
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of his rap career, not because of, uh, who he is outside of St. Louis, but because the dude has
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literally empowered so many people here locally to, to, to be something. Um, I'm just excited to
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hear about that. Yeah, me too. No, I've heard a lot of good things about not just an amazing musician,
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but an entrepreneur. Oh yeah. Yeah. Hell of an entrepreneur. Well, and wasn't it, uh, Charlie that
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was telling us that most people don't know that St. Louis is a huge hip hop hub. Yeah. It's a hip hop
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hub. Yeah. That's a dude, by the way, Charlie's just now finishing his bike ride. 90 days on the
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bike across America. That's like, it's fucking awesome. It is. Oh, he's crazy. He's in a good
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way. Uh, if you don't know what we're talking about, we're talking about, uh, Charlie Jabbily
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was a, uh, a guest on our show. And I believe the name of that podcast is how to create the life
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you want. Dude, he just got the cover of runner's world magazine. Did you see that? I did see that.
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That's fucking awesome. Yeah, dude. He's, he's amazing. Yeah. He's awesome. But dude, I am
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super hyped about getting Nelly on the show. Yeah, that'll be great. Yeah. So, um, anyway, uh,
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dude, before we get into the topic of what we're going to talk about, do you like, have you noticed
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how many people fucking keep posting that stupid phrase? Know your worth. Yeah. Like know your worth,
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know your worth. Do you ever notice that the people who say that are the people who aren't
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doing shit? Like it's such a pet peeve of mine, that fucking phrase, know your worth. Yeah. Like,
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and it got me thinking about a lot of things, right? Cause like there's two types of people.
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There's the type of people who have an inflated ego who think they're more than, than what they
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are. Right. And those are the motherfuckers posted. Know your worth, right? Those are the people
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who constantly post that when in regards to relationships, their career, their job, um,
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all the things that they do. It's like always, you know, it's like whenever they feel like they
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were slighted. I was talking to my friend, Tony today, um, who's been a friend of mine for a decade
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at least. And we were talking about how, you know, how like people get, um, like they go to a party,
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right? And then they, the person that they wanted to talk to didn't go up to them and talk to them.
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So instead of like going up and talking to that person, they walk out and they, they get offended.
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They're like, Oh, that person didn't come talk to me. Well, who the fuck do you think you are?
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That somebody's supposed to go out of their way to kiss your ass and say, hi, how about this? How
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about if you wanted to talk to someone, you walk your little fucking butt over there and you talk to
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them. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just, it's just mind blowing to me how many,
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how much of society's ego is just totally out of fucking whack. Right. Like they think that
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they're other people are supposed to come talk to them or, um, you know, other people are sliding
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them because their worth isn't what they think it is. It's like, dude, how fucking arrogant and
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egotistical are you? Like, dude, they think they're the center of the universe. Yeah. Because the truth
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is, is that, and we have a whole generation that thinks that, by the way, the truth of
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the matter is, is that dude, your worth is your fucking worth. And we have a whole nother
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podcast that we talk about this on, but the world is very accurate at rewarding you for
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exactly what you're worth. So when these people are posting, no, you're worth, no, you're worth,
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no, you're worth. It just makes me roll my eyes. Like, how about this? How about humble
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yourself, motherfucker? Right. You know what I mean? But dude, this is what's, this is the
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point I'm trying to make. Like it got me, it got me thinking, right? Because we talked about
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this earlier today. And this is kind of like weird that this came up as, as a, as something
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that we talked about earlier today. But, you know, I feel like a lot of people who listen to
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our delivery on the show, specifically my delivery and the message when they hear me and they hear
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my tone the first couple of times are like, fuck, this guy's a dick. He's yelling at me, you know,
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he's mean. But then when they really listen to the words, it's not that I'm being mean or that
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I'm yelling at someone. It's that I know that you have what it takes. You have the ability
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and the resources and the tools to be successful. And the reason that I get excited and passionate
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about it isn't because I'm mad at you because I think you're a piece of shit. It's because
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I'm mad at you because I know you're not a piece of shit and you need to get up and go
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do it. And it's, it comes from a place of love and from belief. And so what it got me thinking
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about was this phrase, know your worth, because just like there's so many people out there that
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quote unquote have these entitlement issues, right? There's an equal amount of people out there that
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don't believe in themselves and they don't know their worth. You know what I mean? And that,
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that part, I think we might miss some of those people. You know what I mean? I like the P it's,
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it's like the people that should, uh, like get on or buy, buy books about how to be a better
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dater or something. They're not the people that actually buy those books. It's the people that
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really don't need it that are the ones that get the resources. Same thing with, you know, just
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all the, dude, it's the same thing with success, man. Like the most successful people I know are the
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biggest students of success. Right. You know what I mean? Like when I talked to Dean Graziosi or
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when I talked to fucking Ed Milet and I'm talking, I'm talking to these dudes, I'm not, and these
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guys are wealthy. I mean, very, very wealthy. Um, you know, I'm not, they're, they're talking to me
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about what they're learning. Like I learned this, I learned that I learned this, I learned that
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they're very, very humble at, at, at what, you know, it is that they're trying to do. And because of
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that is why they succeed. Right. They're not up there saying, Oh, I'm, I'm making $50 million.
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I should be making a hundred know my worth. They're fucking saying, Hey, I'm making 50. I want to make
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a hundred. What skills do I need to learn to make a hundred? Right. Right. And I feel you're basically
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addressing the people that, uh, don't know their worth, but should. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Exactly. And
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like, so I feel like there's a lot of you guys listening right now who are, um, you know,
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you don't believe in yourselves the way that you should. And, and you people should know your worth.
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Right. And we run into this issue a lot when it comes to specifically business, because one of the
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most frequently asked questions that we get on the show is people. And I remember this dude. I remember
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when we first started in business, I felt this exact same way. People feel like they're afraid to charge
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money for something. Like it feels weird the first time you charge money for something. Like when
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you're selling a product or like, dude, when you were ghost writing books for people and shit like
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that, like, dude, I mean, you remember what it felt like. It's funny. You should say that. Cause I
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literally was just thinking that like the very first time I ever presented a proposal like to Don,
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you were scared to fucking, I was scared. And I had done all my research and really at the end of the
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day, what it came down, well, I won't get into it too much, but I thought, you know what?
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I'm a good writer and I, and I, and I know I'm going to deliver it. I'm going to, I'm going to
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make sure that he's satisfied. So I dropped a number that, that frankly, to me was kind of in
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my mind, it was like, wow, that's the biggest number that I personally have ever. And he didn't
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even blink. I was like, sure. Right. What'd you learn from that? Oh, I learned that, that you need
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to, you need to trust that. Well, you need to do your homework for one thing. You need to, you need to
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consider all the relevant factors, like a sober assessment of your ability. Uh, sober, honest,
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flatline, realist assessment of your abilities. Yeah. Right. And people, for some reason,
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this is what we're talking about with this know your worth phrase. They either overestimate it
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greatly or they underestimate it greatly. Right. Right. And, and it's funny because like,
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you know, as someone who deals with a lot of people who propose things to me and want to do
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business with me, I, I can see right through which is which instantly. Like I know when someone's
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greatly underestimating their worth and when someone's greatly overestimating what they can do,
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you know what I mean? Right. And, uh, just so you guys know, um, the people who greatly
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underestimate it are the ones that I always want to do business with. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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So how do you feel about that whole under promise and over deliver? I feel like if you don't over
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deliver, you're not even delivering what you should. Okay. You know what I mean? Do you believe
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in the concept of like actually under like, does that, if you actually under promise, I think you
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should over promise and over deliver. Okay. There you go. Like I think you should fucking tell people
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what you're going to do and then make sure you do 10 times as much. You know what I mean? Because
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the problem is, is whenever you under promise, if you got someone who knows how to present properly
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and they're even halfway confident, you're, you're going to lose to that guy on the presentation.
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You see what I'm saying? So you have to figure out how to propose and present properly,
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confidently, and honestly, and then go out and still over deliver on it. Right. You know,
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um, because dude, unfortunately a modest presentation doesn't get people very excited
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about doing business with you. Right. You know what I mean? Right. So you've got to be good at that
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and you've got to understand that. But so we're talking about just to, let me reframe this just to make
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sure I, so we're talking about when, when, when people are out there, they're selling stuff,
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they're selling themselves on some level. We're giving them the tips of how not to, how to,
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how to properly evaluate what you're worth and, and not to not sell yourself short. So the first
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thing I would say that what, what we're, this really wasn't even going to be the, the, the discussion
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we were going to have, but it's relevant. It's a good discussion. It's relevant. It's deserving of
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its own topic. Right. So I think that what we're talking about here truly, um, can apply to both
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those categories. It can apply to the people who are overestimating and the people who are
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underestimating. I think it's more relevant to the people who are nervous and afraid and scared and
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underestimating their value, but they don't think they're underestimating. They just think they're
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not any good. So you have to fucking look at what you really do, right? If you're going to be in
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business, guess what part of business is part of business is exchanging goods for money. And I can
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remember when I first started, when I was, when we first started in business, dude, every time,
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and like, think how weird this sounds, but every time someone brought an item to the cash register,
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I felt weird about taking their money. And what I would do like every time, like every fucking time
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I would do this, they will come up and they would say, they would say, how much is this? And I would,
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they would say, I would be like 40 bucks. It's 39.99. And then before they fucking said anything,
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I would go, but I'll give it to you for 37.99. Right. Okay. And that's because I wasn't confident
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in what I was doing. I was inexperienced. I, I didn't believe I was worthy, even though then all
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the number, I was charging them a fair price. You know what I mean? Right. Like it was just a,
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and, and so many, I struggle, like you guys who are beginning to struggle with that.
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I struggle with that. Okay. That's where I started every fucking time I discount. And you
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know what ended up happening? Couldn't pay my fucking bills. Right. You know what I mean?
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And that's not fair to me. It's not fair to my business partner. It's not fair to the people
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who work there, which nobody worked there at the time, but the people, I learned this lesson on a
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very small scale when it was just me and Chris, some people don't learn this lesson until they're
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fucking employing a hundred people and they're cutting their margins so short, they can't afford to pay
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people what they're fucking worth. Right. What they're truly worth and what they deserve.
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And dude, you know, that's not right. Well, and I think too, what people need to understand is that
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it's kind of human nature. You start discounting for people. And even if they're good people,
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people are sharks. Even if they're good people, they'll be like, Hey, if I'm going to get a discount,
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I'm going to expect it. Yeah. And if you're going to get me an inch, I'm going to take a yard.
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You're training your customers to expect certain things. You're doing a lot of negative things. One,
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you're cutting your margins out to you're training your customers to readjust their perception of the
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value of the service or product that you provide. So let's say you're a brick layer, right? And you
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build these beautiful brick houses and these beautiful brick houses cost a million dollars,
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but you're giving them everybody for 600 grand because you, you can still walk away with 40 grand
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or 50 grand from the job and you're doing okay. Well, the problem with that is, is you're discounting
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the perceived value of your product. So no longer are you a million dollar brick builder. Now you're
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a $600,000 brick builder, which places you below in their mind than the other million dollar brick
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builders, which means your work is not as good as theirs, even if it's better. Right. And it's all
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perception. So the, so the, so I guess the first step in making sure you're actually valuing yourself
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and valuing your worth is number one, very clearly understand, am I really good? Am I good? Am I good?
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Am I good at what I do? Or is what I'm selling good? And a lot, yes. And do I believe in it?
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And does it solve a real problem? Am I really a million dollar brick builder or am I really a
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$600,000 brick builder that's looking to get to a million dollars? What are you, where do you stand
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in the marketplace? And the other thing about this too, dude, is that, you know, there's consumer
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trust that comes into play here. If you price yourself as a million dollar brick builder and you're a
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600,000 brick builder, what's going to happen? You're going to lose the customer's trust quickly after the
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first few jobs and dude, your reputation is ruined. Right. All right. And then the other
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thing too, is a lot of people mistake experience for skill. Right. All right. Just because you did
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something for five years does not mean you're fucking good at it. Right. You could have sucked
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for five years. You could have been doing all the wrong shit for five fucking years and you could
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actually not be any good. Yeah. One of the things that I can't stand when people come and present to
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me on any kind of businesses. I've been doing this for X amount of years. I don't give a fuck.
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Right. I don't care how long you've been doing it. I don't, I want to see your work. I want to see
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the price and I want to see it against everybody else's work. And I want it to be better than
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everybody else's. Right. The first thing I thought of was, uh, how long has Natty Light been around
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as a company? Yeah. No shit. Yeah. No shit. Although it does have its, it does have its purposes,
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but you know what, but it doesn't mean it's good. Right. It doesn't mean it's good. Right. Yeah. We're
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talking about trying to be good here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, is there a market for cheap?
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Absolutely. But guess what? That ain't my market. I don't play in that fucking pool
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and anything that I do, I play in the best pool. I'm not playing in the cheap pool. Right. Right.
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And I would suggest that you think about that because when you play in the cheap pool,
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you really have no competitive advantage over anybody. You're just, you have no customer loyalty.
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You have no way to build culture around your brand. You have no way to fucking, um, adjust anything.
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And you're always playing the price point. So the minute someone comes in five cents cheaper than
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you, you fucking, you lose them. Right. And that's it. I'm like, dude, that's, that means
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that you're always going to be chasing a paycheck. Dude, one time I had, I learned this lesson back
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when I was working in our first store, I had a lady come in and, uh, she was going to buy a product
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and it was, I remember this fucking specifically. And this is how I cured myself of the problem. I just
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said, I, where I was discounting everybody, dude, it wore me the fuck out. Right. Cause like, I'm
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always having to play this price game. We had this other store down the street that was, uh,
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you know, he was just more established than us and he could price things cheaper than us. No matter
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what, it was just the way it was. He had more buying power. He had more money. He had more everything.
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And, um, he, this lady came in and the name of the store was exercise and rehab. It was in
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Springfield, Missouri. And it was owned by a guy named Cliff. Um, and he, uh, he would always
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undercut us by like 10 cents. Right. It was like 10 cents cheaper. So, uh, this lady came in and she
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wanted to buy, I remember the product, dude. It was a Myoplex light 20 pack. All right. They didn't
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make this fucking EAS ain't even a company. They just went out of business. So, but if you've been
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in the fitness game for a while, you know what the fucking EAS Myoplex light is, it's old school
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shit. And it was 20 pack and it was the tropical pack. And I remember this, dude, I remember what
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the lady looked like. I remember what she said to me. And she's like, she comes in and she's like,
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what's the price on your Myoplex 20 pack? And I says, 29 99. And she goes, Oh, well,
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Cliff has it for 29 80. Well, Cliff's store is five, six miles down the road, dude. I don't know what
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snapped at me. And I just looked at her and I said, well, if Cliff's got it for 29 80,
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maybe you should go buy it from Cliff. And I just fucking said that. And you know what she did?
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She left. You know what? And it didn't, it wasn't that bad. I didn't, it was just, I was just like
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so fucking tired of dealing with that shit. And from that point forward, I have never fucking ran a
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sale ever again in my life. I've never played the price game. I've always played in the quality game.
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I've always worked to be the best. So I don't have to deal with that shit. If you want to buy
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someone else's shit, that's cheaper, go ahead. I don't give a fuck. I'm not the cheapest.
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We're the fucking best. And that's it. Right. And that's how I would brand myself. If I were you
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right now, I will be trying to figure out how to be the best. There's always room for the best.
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There's always room to grow as the best. And you're not going to be slave to price fluctuations or
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getting in petty arguments with your customers about, about literally 20 fucking cents. Right.
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Well, two things on that point. Um, when, when I said, you know, I took a sober evaluation of what
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I was capable of. I mean, this has to be more than just in our mind. You have to have, you have to
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have some, some objective evidence. And like, for me it was, okay, I am formally trained. I got some
00:21:14.220
awards. I, I was, at that point I was published in some, some, you know, periodicals and magazines and
00:21:19.840
different things. So, so I know objectively that there were other people that recognized that I was a,
00:21:24.100
you know, decent writer. Right. I think it's got to be more than that real validation.
00:21:28.480
Yeah. It's got to be more than just, I believe in myself. And I, I always think of this thing that
00:21:32.560
our, uh, my, one of my seminary professors taught us or told us a story. He said that there was a guy
00:21:37.620
in one of his classes, he told everybody, Oh yeah, I have the spiritual gift of preaching.
00:21:42.100
And apparently he was just horrible. Like literally, literally could not put one,
00:21:46.220
one point in front of the next. And, uh, and people would say like, I think you might consider
00:21:51.200
being something else, like maybe a chaplain or something like that, but not a preacher. Cause
00:21:54.480
you're not very good. And you say, no, no, no, my mom, my mom says I'm an amazing, amazing
00:21:59.260
preacher. And so, all right, let's stop right there. What your mom and your fucking dad say
00:22:03.120
about you don't fucking count. Right. Exactly. Or your wife to some extent, because she's your
00:22:07.040
wife. Yeah. Whatever the people immediately around you say about you, throw that shit out
00:22:11.340
the window. Right. This is like, this is like the fucking bell curve. But this guy literally
00:22:14.940
like persisted. He's like, no, no, no. My mom, I know I have, I know I believe in myself.
00:22:19.000
I know I have the spiritual gift of preaching. And they literally, he's like, all right, well,
00:22:22.420
so the professor's like, well, all right, I'll try to work with him. So he worked with him for
00:22:25.540
the three years that he was in seminary. At the end of the three years, he was still horrible.
00:22:29.280
So he sat him down. He said, I'm telling you, you're not cut out to be a preacher. And he goes,
00:22:32.920
no, no, no. I'm absolutely convinced I have, I know I have the gift of preaching. And so my
00:22:38.100
seminary professor says, okay, well, let me put it this way. No one I know has the gift of being
00:22:43.440
able to listen to you. So, so it just, it has to be more than just some sort of internal
00:22:49.640
commitment to yourself or the people in your life that are already supposed to love you.
00:22:54.200
It's got to be a realist. It's got to be objective evidence.
00:22:56.720
Yes. So a hundred percent. And so many people believe their moms and their dads and their
00:23:01.900
sisters and dude, those motherfuckers just want you to feel good in the moment. Right.
00:23:05.300
That's it. I mean, dude, they love you. You love them. Their opinions don't fucking count.
00:23:10.580
Unless it's your dad. Right. In which, well, my dad's different because my dad will tell
00:23:14.960
you you're a piece of shit. And that's what I love about my dad. Like if I suck at something,
00:23:18.800
he'd be like, Hey, here's what you got to do to get better. You currently suck, but here's
00:23:22.900
what you got to do to get better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude. I remember one time I was
00:23:25.540
wrestling, dude. I had to wrestle this motherfucker who was literally undefeated for four years in
00:23:30.400
high school. And, uh, dude, I remember him being like me getting off the mat and I lost and I
00:23:39.000
I didn't lose very much. And I lost that match. And I remember getting off the mat and I expected
00:23:42.880
it to be like, I expected him to be like, you know, you fucked up here. He did this, that, this,
00:23:48.160
that. Well, this dude, this dude ended up playing NFL. He was a fucking freak. Yeah. And he looked
00:23:52.760
like he was 60 years old when he was fucking 15 and, uh, 240 pounds, just fucking Jack. I came
00:24:00.520
off the mouth pissed, dude. I expect to fucking win, dude. Right. Right. You know, I, even though this
00:24:04.180
guy was literally built like a 30 year old man, you know what I mean? Wow. So I come
00:24:08.500
off the fucking mat and my dad looks at me and he goes, I wouldn't have got on the mat
00:24:12.480
with that guy. I'm like, I'm like, fuck you, man. Like I was so pissed off cause I didn't
00:24:18.800
want to get on the mat with him either. That's awesome. Side note, uh, hearkening back to what
00:24:23.520
you were saying earlier about, about people thinking you're a dick or something. Uh, I have
00:24:27.360
to admit that it took me about a year before I understood that pay attention, you motherfucker
00:24:32.340
was actually your way of saying, listen, buddy. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And people, I think
00:24:37.280
when, when, once people understand that truth, uh, is truth and, and you can't do that shit
00:24:43.680
whenever I go speak live, like, cause when I speak live, I refer to the audience is listen
00:24:47.420
or I'll say you motherfuckers don't blah, blah, blah. Right. And they think I'm like, like half
00:24:52.140
of them are like, Holy shit. Right. Right. The other half are like, Oh, that's Andy. Yeah.
00:24:55.340
Right. Right. Yeah. No, it's great. I just thought of that. But any case. So, okay. So
00:24:58.760
number one, you gotta know if you're fucking good or not. And if you're not good, guess
00:25:02.780
what? You can get better, right? There's very few cases in life that you can't drastically
00:25:08.600
improve your skillset. And like we talked about, uh, in the last podcast, you can't expect
00:25:14.340
to be good at what you want to do the first day. Right. I was fucking terrible. I just told
00:25:18.500
you how I was when I started an entrepreneurship, I was giving shit away for fucking free just so
00:25:22.800
people wouldn't be mad at me. Right. I was the biggest pussy on the face of the earth. So if
00:25:27.560
you don't think that you could become something and I became what I'm doing, you know, which
00:25:31.140
isn't a ton of shit right now, I'm doing something you, you fucking could do it. You know what
00:25:35.980
I mean? And, and so you have to put, you have to put in the work. And I think that's the second
00:25:39.660
point, right? And everybody talks about this shit. You got to fucking work hard. You just
00:25:44.160
got to work hard. Like you've got to fucking work hard because even if you're really good,
00:25:49.000
even if you have, it's just like these guys that play in NFL who have all sorts of fucking
00:25:52.840
talent, but zero work ethic. Yeah. They make it to the NFL, but what happens to them? They
00:25:58.940
end up getting beat out by some rookie or they end up pissing away a hall of fame career,
00:26:03.140
or they end up, you know, turning into something that, you know, is far less than everybody knows
00:26:08.420
they could have been all because they don't have the work ethic. And I mean, dude, we see
00:26:12.280
it in everything. And like, I would personally rather be someone with less skills that has to
00:26:18.320
work harder than someone with super talent because the guys with talent, they start relying
00:26:25.640
on the talent so hard that they don't develop the work ethic. And, and dude, the work ethic
00:26:30.000
is what's going to carry you for the next 70 fucking years of your life, right? The work
00:26:34.560
ethics, what's going to get you what you want, not now, but forever. And like, dude, developing
00:26:41.020
that skill is, is, is a super important part of the, of the deal. And like, dude, everybody
00:26:47.460
likes to claim that they work hard, but do you really work hard? Do you really work
00:26:51.740
hard? Or do you pretend to work hard? Because right now, dude, everybody on the fucking internet
00:26:56.720
works hard, right? Right. Everybody hustles, everybody grinds, everybody does all this.
00:27:02.540
And like, dude, you know, it's bullshit. Right. Okay. It's just bullshit. That's such a good
00:27:08.780
point though. I mean, you know, you, you and I both, but like, dude, you could trick yourself
00:27:12.120
into believing it. Like people, people will post about how hard they work. And then when you
00:27:16.820
ask them if they really work hard, they'll say yes. But then when you ask them what their
00:27:19.940
day's like, they don't do shit. Right. You know what I mean? So like, do you really work
00:27:23.980
hard? Like, are you really doing it? You know? Right. Uh, you know, you and I both like to
00:27:29.900
read a lot and, uh, we both like to read biographies about like these, you know, outliers
00:27:34.020
and overachievers and that stuff like that. And dude, I, I gotta be honest with you. More
00:27:38.220
and more, I mean, it's all over the place. Every time I read about somebody great, who's really
00:27:42.060
made an impact, they really don't. Another phrase that everybody uses is I believe in
00:27:46.340
myself, but I don't feel like, um, the people who are really out making the greatest impact
00:27:52.060
are saying, I believe in myself. What they're saying is I believe that I will do the work
00:27:56.880
and that's where my confidence is. I believe I can get there. Right. I can't like, like,
00:28:03.320
well, what I'm saying is they're not putting there. What I'm saying is they're putting,
00:28:07.640
they're putting their faith in their ability to outwork, not to be like intrinsically smarter or
00:28:14.080
better. But real successful people also, you have to like, you have to like, you have to baseline
00:28:22.100
understand before that statement that they're truly successful people understand that it is a cause
00:28:29.640
and effect relationship. They don't believe in the magic. They're not out there saying, Oh, I got
00:28:34.500
lucky or I fuck. They might say that shit. So you fucking buy their programs, but dude, the successful
00:28:40.500
people I know understand that if they do this, this will happen as a result of that. And you know,
00:28:48.520
they put the faith in the work, right? So they understand that if they do the work, the result
00:28:54.720
will be there and they believe in their work ethic and their ability to do that work. Therefore,
00:28:59.760
they believe it, the result will happen. Right. Right. So you, you know, that's something that
00:29:05.020
people have a hard time grasping because they don't, and their heart truly believe that if they
00:29:11.560
do the work, the result will happen because they haven't had enough experience to see that's what
00:29:16.540
it is. When I was young in entrepreneurship and I'm still young, but when I was young in entrepreneurship,
00:29:21.100
I was 20 fucking years old, 19 years old, you know, even until I was probably like 27, 28 years old,
00:29:27.720
I truly believe that there was a mystical force and how I fucking saw it in my mind. And everybody
00:29:34.140
sees it differently was I used to look at it and I look at a group of people and I would think about
00:29:40.420
it like this. And like, I don't know if everybody thinks about it like this is how I thought about
00:29:43.940
it. I would be like, man, I wonder out of these hundred people who, who, who are the three that
00:29:49.260
are going to be the millionaires? And I'd like, and I would think of it. And the reason people I say
00:29:53.360
success fairy so much is because I envisioned it in my brain as like a little Tinkerbell success
00:29:58.400
fairy that like went around and tapped somebody on the fucking head. And then the universe somehow
00:30:03.760
put the stars in alignment for them to become successful. And that's what I fucking believed.
00:30:10.160
So I, I was doing all this work, but I didn't believe that if I did it, I would still get there.
00:30:16.020
I believe that, you know, if I did the work, um, maybe like, I guess I fully didn't believe in
00:30:22.880
it. You know what I'm saying? I fully didn't believe in the work. Yeah. All right. And until
00:30:27.780
I truly fully believed in the work, um, I struggled, you know, I had a hard time because I was putting
00:30:35.980
some of the responsibility that should have been on my shoulders onto this mystical, unforeseen
00:30:41.140
success fairy force. Right. So like when I say this shit to people, like they think I'm just like
00:30:46.500
yelling at them, dude, I'm really like yelling at all the people who were just like me. Like,
00:30:50.800
dude, don't believe that shit. Cause it's not true. Because once I started having the faith in the work
00:30:54.540
and I started becoming a student of effective work, meaning I didn't work a hundred hours a day.
00:31:02.060
I worked to get shit done. And that might take four hours a day. It didn't matter. I just knew that
00:31:07.520
shit had to get done. And when I, when I realized that work wasn't a badge of honor, it was a process
00:31:12.800
to get what I wanted. And I just dedicated myself becoming effective. A, I had more free time B
00:31:18.940
shit started happening to me in my life. Like the shit just started happening. Like the shit that I
00:31:24.580
wanted to happen, happened. So now I don't have any doubts about it. Like when, you know, Ed and I are
00:31:30.400
talking about the RTA syndicate and we're talking about building a community for the next fucking hundred
00:31:34.240
years or 200 or 300 years. I, I don't, I don't doubt that. Like I don't sit there and think,
00:31:41.320
oh man, we'd have to get really lucky for that to happen. I, I, I look at it like this. Okay. For
00:31:45.100
that to happen, we got to do step one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 to a hundred.
00:31:48.920
And I do that shit and that's it. You know what I mean? So absolutely for, I mean, I think what I've
00:31:54.640
learned the last couple of years is, is when it comes to confidence and believing in yourself,
00:31:58.120
no affirmation on the planet is worth anything compared to execution.
00:32:05.320
It's not even, it's not even comparable. It's like, it's, it's not even the same fucking game.
00:32:09.120
Yeah. Like, and that's what I get so frustrated with all these self-help, you know, and like,
00:32:13.580
dude, people, you, if you listen to the podcast, you know, I go through phases where like I get
00:32:17.660
sick of this shit and that's just the way it is. And the reason I get sick of this shit is because
00:32:22.420
we are a personal development podcast and we are, we do have quote unquote motivation
00:32:29.180
shit, but the field is so fucking polluted with dumb fuck losers who are so full of shit
00:32:35.740
that it makes me disgusted to be a part of it. And then I withdraw into my fucking, I just
00:32:40.260
don't want to do it. Cause I'm like, dude, I don't want to be associated with it. So like,
00:32:43.340
I have this weird balance of like, I feel like I have a duty to fucking do this because no,
00:32:48.100
not many others are doing it the right way. And then I have this balance of like,
00:32:52.420
dude, I don't want to be associated with these fucking people. So I just fucking quit.
00:32:55.980
And I think the fundamental difference in it, I mean, there's so many fundamental differences,
00:32:59.140
but a huge fundamental difference between you and the rest of the guys is that I feel like the,
00:33:03.660
dude, we're the only motherfuckers out there that our main business is, let's just be fucking
00:33:07.120
Frank. Oh, we're, I am the only motherfucker out there that my main business isn't to sell
00:33:12.360
you information about being successful. That's not my business. I've made my millions selling
00:33:17.520
courses about how to make millions. Yes. Something not right with that. And that's the internet
00:33:21.620
right now. Right. And like, dude, I'm sitting here looking at my fucking warehouse. I just went
00:33:25.840
to a meeting this morning where we're building our new fucking headquarters, which is, uh, eight
00:33:31.280
times the size of this building. You know what I mean? Like we're doing real shit here. We're
00:33:35.660
helping real people. We're solving real fucking problems. We're adding years to lives. We're
00:33:40.020
adding quality to lives. I feel good about what I do and I'm proud of what I do. And I love
00:33:45.820
my team. I love what I do. I love the people here and I love helping people be successful.
00:33:52.160
But what I can't stand is being associated with these, this other thing that's going,
00:33:57.160
this, this thing in the internet. I totally agree. That's why I don't post as much anymore.
00:34:01.200
It's just like, I think, I think the other guys out there in the space, they like to harp
00:34:05.860
on it. Cause I'm, I'm sure there's people that say, well, wait a minute, guys, are you saying
00:34:09.000
the affirmations aren't worthwhile? No, we do. Obviously how you use your words is important,
00:34:13.660
but I feel like all the gurus out there are camping out on those things.
00:34:18.000
That's cause that's all they got. Yeah. That's all they got. And it's all there. It's,
00:34:20.680
it's kind of the sexy thing. Oh, do all these affirmations. Fine. Do that. But that's not
00:34:24.680
the potatoes. That's because they're selling products to people who are in love with the
00:34:30.840
idea of success being easy. That's what they're targeting people with. They are telling people
00:34:40.420
that if you just tell yourself you're beautiful, if you tell yourself you're special, if you tell
00:34:44.980
your every day, tell yourself these great things and these things will happen. Bullshit.
00:34:50.320
Right. That's not how it works. Right. You know, and still have to act, but, but do that message
00:34:56.260
is appealing to people who don't really want to do the work. You see what I'm saying? Oh yeah.
00:34:59.840
And that's why, that's why it is what it is right now. Right. Like it's appealing. Like,
00:35:03.960
dude, people truly think right now that being an entrepreneur is posting motivational memes
00:35:08.260
on their fucking Instagram. Right. That's what entrepreneurship has become. I'm an entrepreneur
00:35:13.580
because I post motivational quotes on my fucking internet. Get the fuck out of here. Let me see
00:35:18.680
your headquarters. Let me see your business. Let me see what you do that isn't selling other people
00:35:24.020
information about how to be successful when you never had it. You know what I'm saying? Like,
00:35:29.780
like dude, whatever. I don't know. I hear you. So, so in terms of learning not to discount yourself,
00:35:35.180
number one, are you good at what you do? Is your product good? Number two, are you going to work
00:35:39.360
hard? Are you going to outwork everybody else? What are, what are some other, I think, I think the
00:35:43.340
third one is, is dude, like I said, always over deliver always, always do more than what you think
00:35:50.540
the customer expects. If you just do what the customer expects, you're not going to be, um,
00:35:57.960
remembered. You're not going to be remarked about do Seth Godin has an, Seth Godin, by the way,
00:36:03.360
is my entrepreneur hero. The guy's a fucking genius by the way. He gets far less credit than
00:36:09.040
what he deserves because he doesn't do social, which I actually think he's a genius for not
00:36:12.320
doing social because he's not ruining his life, commenting and posting 30 times a fucking day.
00:36:17.680
Yeah. You know, I respect him, dude. He said, you know what? It's not worth it to me. And he
00:36:20.720
doesn't fucking do it. It's kind of true. He's kind of above the fray. Yeah. He kind of
00:36:24.400
transcends everything. But he's a fucking genius, man. Yeah. But anyway, his book,
00:36:27.520
the purple cow, every single one of you should go on Amazon right now and order the purple cow.
00:36:32.720
The whole book is based around the concept of being remarkable, which means literally remarkable.
00:36:39.040
That means that you do something that makes people say, wow, whoa, that's cool. I like them. Hey,
00:36:46.200
buddy, let me tell you about these guys I did business with. You can't do that. If you only
00:36:50.300
deliver what the customer expects, you can only do that when you over deliver. So over,
00:36:54.580
delivering way above what you promise and whatever creative way that you have to fucking do. It
00:37:01.360
doesn't mean give it to him for cheaper, by the way. That's not what I'm saying. Right. I'm saying
00:37:05.100
make them say fucking wow. All right. Read that book, the purple cow. It'll, it'll clarify that
00:37:10.580
concept. I read that a long time ago. I should reread it. It's one of the best books I ever read.
00:37:14.000
That book changed my life. No bullshit. Um, you would rank that up with selling happiness. Is that what
00:37:19.420
it is? Delivering happiness. Delivering happiness. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I purple cow is definitely,
00:37:23.620
I think the number one most influential book I read. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it made me understand
00:37:27.620
shit instantly. Uh, it was Seth Godin. That's why he's so good because he's, he's so good at making
00:37:32.940
simple concepts be impactful for you to understand. Uh, dude, if I was you right now and you want to
00:37:38.620
improve your, your skillset, I would order every single Seth Godin book and read each one. And I'm not
00:37:44.060
kidding. Five times. That's it. Every single book. He's got like 10 books anyway. Um, you know,
00:37:52.040
and I think, uh, we're talking, you know, we're talking about, you know, are you good at what you
00:37:57.920
do? Realistic. Uh, do you work hard to over deliver on what you promise? And I think the
00:38:03.260
other thing that you, that you have to do, and people, people say this shit all the time.
00:38:07.920
Don't worry about your competition. I agree. Don't worry about your competition, but it is smart
00:38:12.220
to compare yourself financially and skillfully where you rank. Does your product, where does it rank? Is it,
00:38:18.280
is it an A plus product? Is it a B product? Is it a C product? Now there's markets for all of those
00:38:23.160
just because I don't like to play in anything other than a plus space. And I don't think you
00:38:28.300
should either. Doesn't mean there's not a market for all these products. There is, it's just not my
00:38:31.960
game. Um, but where do you want to play? All right. And how much is the price going to correlate to
00:38:36.840
that? And whatever that is, whatever you think that is, and whatever you find that, uh, whatever that
00:38:42.400
is, you shouldn't be proud to fucking charge that price. Right. You know what I mean? Um,
00:38:46.900
but would you say there's also a limit to, like you, you've always said, you know, first form,
00:38:51.340
uh, products, they're more expensive because they're worth it. Right. But I always tell people,
00:38:56.180
dude, you fucking pay 10% more for a hundred percent better results. Right. And that's it.
00:38:59.700
But, but obviously there is a limit to that in the sense of, you know, if the market, if,
00:39:04.120
if the average price of something in a market is $10 and, and your product is a hundred dollars,
00:39:09.740
well, that's going a little overboard, obviously. So what would you say about that?
00:39:13.940
In regards to what should people do that? Like, like if, well, I mean, bro, I don't fucking know
00:39:19.120
if that's true or not, because like I see iPhone cases out there that are a hundred grand.
00:39:23.320
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I mean, I don't know how much they sell. I mean, dude,
00:39:26.740
you got to remember like every motherfucker you see wearing a G shock down, you know, like just for
00:39:33.540
comparison. Cause I know you don't know this. So everybody in this office and everybody you walk
00:39:38.180
around, where's fucking G shot, what's a G shot cost? A couple hundred bucks, a hundred bucks. I guess.
00:39:41.920
I don't fucking know. I don't know. Right. But everybody's wearing them. I don't even know
00:39:44.700
what a G shot is. It's that fucking watch that everybody wears. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Or the
00:39:50.160
Apple watch. What's the Apple watch cost? Yeah. Oh, uh, what? 600? I don't know. I don't know.
00:39:54.500
I don't fucking wear one. Yeah. You know why? I know why. Why? Cause you wear one that's a lot
00:39:59.420
more expensive. That's fucking right. That's right. A lot more expensive. And you know what?
00:40:02.380
There's a big market for that shit. There's such a market for that shit that one of the watches
00:40:05.760
that I'm, that I've been trying to find right now is a hundred grand that I cannot fucking get
00:40:10.240
anywhere. Cannot even get it because they're all sold out. Okay. So just remember it all
00:40:15.780
depends on where you're going to play. All depends on where you're going to play. That's
00:40:18.380
a good point. Yeah. See what you're, what you just said is reflection of your mindset,
00:40:22.340
not the market's mindset. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, I get it. Cause you're not in
00:40:26.160
the market for a hundred thousand dollar watch. Right. Now one day you're going to be, cause
00:40:29.780
we're going to make it that way. Yeah. But I'm, well, you probably would never do that
00:40:32.140
anyway, but I'm just saying, I'm just saying most people just aren't aware. No, they live
00:40:38.460
in their own brains about what you have to understand. There's all different kinds of
00:40:42.040
consumers. There's consumers that shop for the cheapest. My dad shops for the cheapest
00:40:45.780
fucking shit. It's the most annoying thing ever. When he goes in the store and he looks
00:40:52.060
at a can of beans and there's one can of beans and there's another can of beans and one can
00:40:55.820
of beans is fucking 37 cents and the other one's 38. He's buying a 37 cents every fucking
00:41:00.980
time. Right. Okay. His mindset is I look at the can of beans and say it's just fucking
00:41:07.020
beans. So what difference does it make? Right. Right. Me when I, and this is my, this is
00:41:11.560
how I am. When I go to the store and I see fucking can of beans, 37 cents and I, and I
00:41:16.100
see a can of beans that's 38 cents and I see a can of beans that's 50 cents. And then I
00:41:19.860
see one that's a dollar. Which one do you think I buy? A dollar. I buy the dollar one. You
00:41:23.920
know why? Because it's quality. I assume it might be. Yeah. I'm just saying I, I, well, I'm
00:41:30.360
definitely the same way with food. All right. Well, it depends on the item, but I'm like
00:41:34.020
that with everything. So like, I assume that whatever the most expensive one is, is the
00:41:39.320
best. Cause I don't want to fuck around with it more than once. Right. Or like if I want
00:41:41.980
to eat fucking chili and I want my chili to be great and there's a, the beans are going
00:41:45.140
to be a fucking dollar, not 37. I assume, and it might not be true that the chili is
00:41:49.820
going to be better with the dollar beans, but I'm just using this as a example of different
00:41:54.100
consumer mindsets. So you have to decide where you're going to play. Right. Where are you
00:41:58.940
going to play? If I were you and I was a young entrepreneur trying to start a business, I would
00:42:03.860
try to play in the A plus category and be the best and the most expensive because there's
00:42:11.360
more opportunity for you to create customer loyalty in that situation because you're not
00:42:17.240
having to fight with all the riffraff. Now there are limits to that. Like I could not sell
00:42:23.780
a protein bottle, a bottle of level one for fucking 250 bucks. Right. Right. Like I think
00:42:28.960
that's the point you're trying to make. Yeah. Okay. But you have to be very aware that just
00:42:37.120
because, and I think this is a mistake a lot of people make when they're pricing their products
00:42:39.880
is they think like them, like the market instead of the, what the market they're trying to be
00:42:45.160
in. Right. You see what I'm saying? Well, and I actually, I mean, just to reinforce what
00:42:49.500
you're saying, it's not just you that perceives higher quality on higher price. That's,
00:42:53.520
that's just a established sociological principle. You've probably, that's, that's a whole entire
00:42:59.000
market. Yeah. I'm just an example. Yeah. But I mean, I mean, just, you've probably read
00:43:03.460
the book by Robert Cialdini, The Yes, he, his, he's got all these books on persuasion and
00:43:07.860
he talks about the story about the lady who sold, she had this jewelry shop somewhere in
00:43:12.320
Arizona and she had this, this particular piece that wasn't selling very, very well. And
00:43:17.740
as she was leaving for vacation, she told her assistant, Hey, just mark everything down
00:43:22.920
by 75%. We'll get rid of it over the weekend. She came back, all of it was sold, but her
00:43:29.600
miss, but her, but her assistant had made a mistake. She marked everything up by 75% and
00:43:35.860
it's sold. So there is definitely a perception of price equals quality.
00:43:40.600
Yeah. And most of the time it's fucking true too. Yeah. I mean, most of the time it is true.
00:43:44.620
Yeah. Are there situations like people and see, this is the argument you'll get in with
00:43:48.340
somebody like my dad. My dad will argue that it's never true. It's never true. It's all
00:43:52.060
the same. Yeah. Right. Cause he's a price shopper. I'm a quality shopper. Right. I totally disagree
00:43:57.220
with him. The shit, the shit that I've picked and paid more for. First of all, I appreciate
00:44:01.540
it more. Second of all, I feel better about it. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot to
00:44:05.120
it, man. There's a, there's a whole psychological, which I'm not going to get into cause it would
00:44:08.920
be a whole nother podcast. But the point is, is that you've got to decide where the fuck you're
00:44:14.820
going to be. And by, and to do that, you've got to evaluate, you know, the market, you've got to
00:44:20.480
evaluate, evaluate your competitors and you've got to see, um, and, and whatever place, whether it be
00:44:26.100
the ABCD place that you want to place yourself, um, you've got to be better than the other guys in
00:44:31.820
that category. So you want to be at the top of that. See what I'm saying? Yeah. A hundred percent.
00:44:35.720
Good stuff. So what else? Yeah, man. Um, I think we're running up on like an hour here,
00:44:40.960
but. Oh, that's all right. Basically the thing is, well, I got to call. I got to do an interview
00:44:46.220
for Forbes actually. Okay. Yeah. I'm just bragging about it a little bit. No, that's okay. I have
00:44:50.660
an interview for Playboy. Yeah. Yeah. Play, Playboy or Playgirl? Uh, I, I don't even know. I didn't
00:44:58.160
know, know the other one existed. Yeah. Right. You probably got a subscription. Right. But yeah,
00:45:03.080
I mean, I think we got way off track here, but I think the main thing is, is like, dude,
00:45:07.540
let's start out here. If you're the, know your worth, right? Right. Don't be the guy who thinks
00:45:14.940
he's worth way more than he is, but also don't be the guy that's, that lets people walk all over
00:45:19.400
him and be worth less than what you are. I was that guy. In fact, I've always been that guy. I always,
00:45:25.100
I still, and I think if you're going to be one, be that guy, because at least there's humility there
00:45:29.140
and there's a sense of realism, but you've got to, you've got to self-assure, um, and make sure
00:45:37.080
that, you know, you understand that you are worth something. So what is that? All right. And the way
00:45:43.080
you get worth more is by being better. And your skills, work on your work ethic. Yeah. And be
00:45:48.540
better than your competitors, man. Yeah. But I, I would, I would encourage you guys to think about
00:45:54.420
this concept that we've talked about here in all areas of your life. You know, there's a lot of
00:45:58.820
people who let people walk all over them in their personal relationships because they don't know
00:46:04.040
their worth. Right. And there's a lot of people that do the walking on out everybody in relationships
00:46:08.120
because they're the ones posting that meme, know your worth. Right. Right. So, you know,
00:46:13.580
think about this in every area because you do have a real worth and the world usually is pretty good,
00:46:19.380
especially in business of rewarding your real worth. But you're the person that's going to have
00:46:26.940
to pull the trigger on making that happen. Right. And, and, and, and that's why you see guys who are
00:46:32.380
very underskilled, who are not very good at what they fucking do, getting a lot more out of life
00:46:38.360
than what they should, because at least they're not afraid to fucking ask for it. You see what I'm
00:46:43.240
saying? Yeah, a hundred percent. Right. And there's a lot of great people out there listening right now
00:46:47.900
that, that are getting, that are getting far less than what they should be getting because simply
00:46:53.580
they're just like me, like I was there. You're the guy who's discounting your product before there's
00:46:58.060
even an objection. You see what I mean? And it's just an experience. So guys, you know, follow these
00:47:04.540
steps in all areas of your life, you know, evaluate, you know, where your strengths are, where your
00:47:09.020
weaknesses are, you know, develop a great work, work ethic, uh, work on over delivering, even in your
00:47:14.560
personal relationships, work on over delivering in your friendships, work on over delivering in your
00:47:20.000
community. And guess what's going to happen? You're going to be over delivered back when it comes to
00:47:24.960
business opportunities or it comes to your actual pay, or it comes to your relationships, you'll get
00:47:30.420
that over delivery back. And, and I think the biggest theme here, guys, um, that I'd like to close
00:47:35.180
with is just remember, dude, I was like that too. You know, I was just the same person. I was the guy
00:47:40.000
who, who didn't believe in himself really that much, um, was afraid to ask for, for the sale.
00:47:46.900
Um, and, and, and the guy who didn't believe that the work would produce the result. I was that guy.
00:47:53.180
I was many of you right now. I've just grown out of it. And, uh, I think if anything, if you take
00:47:59.440
anything from this message today is that, you know, I was the worst one, you know, and wherever you guys
00:48:06.780
are on this, on this mission, on this journey, um, there's no reason you can't get exactly what
00:48:12.920
you want. You've just got to understand where you are and, and be willing to put your faith in the
00:48:18.260
work and accept the result that it's going to provide. And I think that was the biggest thing
00:48:22.040
that changed my life, uh, for me was, was understanding a hundred percent belief in the
00:48:28.860
work and stop worrying about the fucking magic shit, you know? Absolutely. So, so guys, that's the
00:48:34.900
show for today. Um, we got, like I said, we got Nelly coming on here. Uh, he's coming in next week.
00:48:40.060
So there'll probably be the next week after that that's on, but that's going to be a cool episode.
00:48:43.800
I'm really looking forward to that. Um, guys, again, thank you for all your support. Thank you
00:48:48.800
for all, all the things that we do and growing this movement, but, but keep in mind, this is a
00:48:53.260
movement. Um, this isn't something that I'm trying to make money off of or monetize or sell a bunch of
00:48:57.820
ads and shit like that. We're trying to make a fucking difference. So if you got value, if you got one
00:49:02.400
sentence, you know, out of this podcast that changed your perspective or is going to help you
00:49:07.000
do me a favor and tell somebody about it, we appreciate it. All right. Talk to you guys next time.