Is Motivation All You Need to Succeed?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Prompt Us is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
back to the prompt Us podcast. Hey today, we're super
excited to share with you episode one of the Lost Tapes.
You may have heard of us talked about these episodes
in previous episodes of the podcast. The Lost tapes are
episodes that we recorded before Lockdown, before we couldn't visit
each other, which makes these episodes almost two years old. Crazy.

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They're almost like our demo mix tape episodes. So, without
further ado, this is episode one of the Lost Tapes.
Welcome to the prompt Us Podcast. Where you start the conversations.
We'll be discussing topics focusing on personal, spiritual, and professional growth.
I'm Gabriel Conti, and to my left we have your boy,

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Zachary Stains, and to our rights we have someone who's
really right, Chad mask Oh I'm laughing as if that
was the first time you said that I practiced. Oh
my gosh. Okay, So welcome to the prompt ut Podcast. Everybody.
We are excited that you're here. A little background on
all of this, UM, I think we should all do

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that just once to three, get the nerves out. Podcast
one is happening right now. Okay, so not that long ago,
I put on my Instagram story a bunch up. Let
me let me like before that, we came up with
this podcast to discuss obviously personal, spiritual and professional growth

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like like I mentioned in the intro. But um, it
is all prompted. That's why it's called prompt us. So
we have one prompt on the table right now on
a card that we don't know about now. The story
behind that is what I was getting into before I
put on my Instagram story, just asking And I didn't
tell people that we were doing a podcast. I was
just like, we're asking, or I asked them to ask

(01:52):
us anything they'd like to hear me talk about in depth.
They didn't know. They didn't even know that I was
doing anything with Chad, with Zach whatever. It's just I
just sent it out there into the insta verse, into
the Spy Spider verse, and um, we got a bunch
of responses that none of us have seen, only our

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wives have seen them, picked them, and we have one
prompt for today's first episode sitting on the table right now.
Under this card is the text of what we will
be prompted by. Who went the d are you going
to read it? I think one of you I've talked.
I think I'm gonna read it. Are you guys reading
for this? Yeah? Do you just jump? We can't leave

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these people hanging this on this all right, jan, here
we go. Prompt number one. Chad knows what it is
how to stay motivated to execute the projects you're working on.
Oh my god, Yeah, I am actually really interested to

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hear some advice from this one, because I think you know,
above any of my other friends that I that I
tend to struggle on the execution side of things. I'm
I'm more of an idea man, and so I have
been actually like I struggle and like yes, yes and so.
But there have been some things I've been really working
on the past I would say maybe four months that

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I think of really helped. I think that's really I
think that's what's cool about our dynamic is that we
are in different stages in terms of our professional life
and how we stay motivated with different side hustles with
our main hustle, and how to create projects and pursue them.
We're all different stages. Do you want to talk about
that first? Even on the personal front as well, like
where we're at. So I would so like for myself
as far like on a personal level, almost three years

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married probably by the time people here, this will be
three years. Um. That's like in the personal state. Moved
out to l A, have lived here almost five years
or just over five years? Wow math anyway, um yeah,
and just like working in the influencer entertainment space, done

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music with my wife, acting, videography, YouTube flogging, started on vine,
that whole thing. That's like kind of my background and
where I come from, and then have developed the entrepreneur
leg of the things that I'm working on over the
past two years, I think. And now podcasting is you

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know the next big thing. Professional voice for the boys baby,
professional voice? Yeah, dude, that's good. I mean, I mean,
I guess if we're gonna is a good reason to
tell people like what we've been doing, right, So I'm
gonna jump in. So I've been doing I guess, yeah,
side hustle centuries, you know, like so like you always
joke a weight, We always joke about how Zac one
day is going to write a book called the Mass

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the side Hustle, and we know not and you are
the master. There's so many cool stories about Zach where
I remember whenever we were developing the whole theme for
the podcast, and Zach has obviously living in Australia and
Gave and I R N L A. But sometimes he's
in Florida and and and we would be facetiming with
Zach and he would be facetiming us from a bus.
He's taken the bus home from work and he has

(05:03):
his laptop open on his lap and he's working on
some type of prompt us poster for the for the
for the podcast. And he's definitely he's a hustler for sure.
Your your side hustles are like in the taxi, on
the bus, in the uber. You're just like always hustling
to get out of the nine to five to accomplish
your dream of yourself. Yeah, I mean, I guess my
big dream is music and entertainment in general, which is

(05:26):
why this podcast is like such a big exciting thing, right,
So yeah, my background would be just, um, just create
a media in general, having done like he's a film,
and then into photography and then into music, which is
where I still am and I still love, and then
design and technology. Yeah, I'm all over the show, but
definitely like the music world is what I'm loving right now.
So that's kind of my dude, you're freaking popping off.

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My guy, tell us about yourself. So as far as me,
I tell us, tell us what you do. I'm going
to people what they want. I'm gonna preface was saying
that I did go to college. I went to undergrad
and I studied business. But my last semester of undergrad
I got my heart wrecked. I became a Christian, and
then I felt a different calling in my life, sir,

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is the calling to be a male model is the
best way of putting up, which a lot of people
would never suspect that, but I promised you did that
come right after you became a Christian. So I actually
felt all supposed to be an actor. So I moved
from Florida to Los Angeles and I was a part
of an actor's Bible study called Artist in Action. And
then some of the guys knew that I was, like
I was a male nanny. You know, I took care

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of two kids and I was a private school tutor.
And they knew I didn't have any money, and they're like, hey,
have you thought out model? It was a part of
my Bible study. They said, hey, have you thought about
modeling to pay for acting? And I was like, no,
I'm not interested in that. Thanks. I actually said some
other words, but I'm not going to share that you
were a new Christian. I was a new Christian and
so uh. And then I looked into it and I
got submitted to a modeling competition very similar to America's

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Next Top Model, and I won, and modeling has actually
been my ministry. Many how many people were in that competition?
It was three guys and three girls for that one. Oh,
so it wasn't like five thousand people. Well no, I
don't know how many people submitted, but in terms of
how many people that got flown in to compete, like
for like a week straight, so you won, I did,

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so they were probably like hundreds or maybe thousands of submissions.
I'm going to say there's probably millions. I'm kidding, there
were billions around the globe. Honestly, there probably was just
a few hundred or so, but praise the Lord. And
that's that's how she started earning money. And that's how
that's what brings me to here right now, is I've
kind of pursued modeling and in Florida and Europe and

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then New York and now now I'm back home in
l A. And this is where I feel motivated to
execute on projects I'm working on because it's a place
that I can afford rent, but I can also afford
to invest in different projects that I want to execute on.
I see what you did, see the buzzwords and see
what you did that you wrote right background, Yeah, well
that I do want to hear because Chad already kind

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of pushed towards before game about what you do and
what you kind of focus on or how do you
stay focused essentially, Dude. It's actually it's weird because I
haven't figured out like an articulate way of saying it.
But for me personally, I've realized that when I find

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something i'm inspired by or that I want to tackle creatively,
I can set my mind to it for a period
of time, and which is like very weird. And I'll explain.
So say, say, it's um this this series that I
developed on my channel with Jake about the podcast that

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I knew I was going to tackle and it wasn't
because I got really burnt out from the YouTube muscle
and the YouTube puscle is post consistently until the end
of time or until your channel dies or do you
know what I mean. It's just like structure. Yeah, it's nuts.
Excuse me, it's basically hearing everyone. Um so it's it's

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basically do it until you burn out. And I burnt
out and I just had to take a break for
a few months and I didn't know what I was doing.
I got so depressed and I was just like, I
need to figure out what the heck I want to do,
Like why am I so unmotivated? And over basically the
whole course of I just developed this kind of method

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for myself of like tackling a project at a time
and knowing what the goal was and what the end
result was and when the end result was, so I
knew going into it. So take them. Take the series
that I made in the summer of ten for Jesse's family.
What it's not for just a family, For when when

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Jess got a residency and we traveled to Australian surprise
for family that I knew when I started was a
month before we left to Australia, and it would end
once we surprised her family in Australia and then I
knew for about two to three weeks after that I'd
be editing and that was the end of the project.
And that's when I knew I can focus. Like hyper
focus worked like crazy Heart on something for a long

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period of time or for a shorter like season, but
like long periods of time per day, Like I couldn't
keep up the hustle that I kept up while shooting
that series for just like indefinitely, you know what I mean,
Like indefinitely. It's just that that there's no end to it.
There's no like end goal. The end goal was to
finish the series, come out with three or four episodes,

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and then like put it out for people. So do
you think that's what burnt you out? Is you know
previously when you're just on the YouTube grind, do you
think that burnout was just caused by they're not being
any end to it. Yeah, and I the goals were
not really there, Like essentially the goal before was to

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be able to make a living in a career off
of social media and entertainment. Then I got that and
I have to keep up with everything. I was like, wait, wait,
now what am I doing it for? You? Know what
I mean, And it's like, wow, dude, actually that's super interesting.
It makes me think of that piece of scripture Colossians
three three, which says work is work hard, and work
is for the Lord and not for man. And I
used to read that verse and think, okay, wow, like

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this person is not my boss. God's my boss. I
need to please him. But then it makes me think
of like the Sabbath, right, it makes me think of
what if the verse? So, what if the context of
that verse is actually the opposite, which means that if
you work for man, you're gonna get burnt out, you're
gonna feel depressed, you're gonna feel anxious, you're gonna feel
let down. And but you know, and he's actually given
us like a heads up, by the way, work for me,

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not for man, because it's gonna be better for you
that way. That way you don't get damaged. And how
are you how do you apply that? Well? I don't, no, No,
I mean I'm learning all this stuff in real time,
and as far as me applying that, I think that's
something that I'm really moving into, probably in the last
four months. So I I'm a newly wed. I I

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got married nine months ago in a in a week, right,
And so I love my wife and who's who's counting.
I'm definitely counting. I'm not going to miss that one year.
Are you kidding me? It's why we got married near
Valentine's Day. I'll never forget, you know what I mean.
It's smart, but it's I don't look smart, but here
we are. No, but that's saying me with Christmas, it's

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the week before. Yeah, it's a gift that keeps on giving.
And so as far as me and staying motivated, I
love Zach. I was like smiling at each other, like, oh,
we're doing the podcast. It's actually happening. I know. I
just want to take a break and hug. But no,
we're good. So that'd be really awkward because there would
be a big break anyway. So, you know, the previous

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four months have been really interesting because right after we
got married, my wife and I fell into debt, and
we fell into a rut and we were you know,
I almost felt like I needed to work for man
because who else is going to pay our rent? You know?
And I think what was hard is that once we
got out of debt, I kept that hustle kept the
hustle of working for Man, and I think I'm I'm
just right now trying to discover, Okay, how do I

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protect myself by not working for Man? Because I see
it in the way I get stressed. I see it
in the way that I don't pursue my wife. Seven.
I can see it in the way I interact with
my friends or I don't interact with my friends. I
can always tell if I'm not interact with my friends,
I'm in a bad place, you know. And so I
actually I'm in a place where I'm seeing manifest in
in like really negative ways, and I'm starting to see it.

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And so now I'm like, Okay, how how can I
stay motivated to extually on these projects but for the Lord?
And I think that I think that's what makes it
actually a little easier is when you really put the
pressure on him. I mean, I think he even said
it in the sermon today, didn't he He was talking
about how you know, Josh pastors shout out pastor Josh.
And so I just want to like, we need to

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like a context. No, no, no, You're good. If there's
ever any contacts, I'm gonna butt in. What when was that.
I honestly, I didn't know if we're trying to keep
his probably I don't know if that well not anymore,
you know, I really didn't know. But so he was
actually saying us, and he was saying to us and
Genesis thirty one that talks about how how he says, um,

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the only way I was successfulness is that God was
with me. And now if we continue to go back
to that Colossian when you're talking about Jacob and how
he worked for twenty years for Laban for his uncle
and then eventually left and the only way he said,
I like misquoting it, but no, you're good, just go

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just like it was like it's because God was with me?
Like absolutely, what was it? Like, I've done this because
God was with him? But all right, I was looking
forward to you were really looking forward to? Man, I
was hungry anyway. But no, no, I get what you're saying.
I mean you're like, yeah, I definitely taste off at
that part which part No, No, no, I mean, can

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I then recap Chad for like that into the question
like I used for you staying motive? I mean, what
are we saying that? The question is how do they
motivated to execute on the projects you're working on. So
if you making sure that they got driven, that's how
you stay motivated. Yeah, yeah, I would. I would say that.
And another small piece of it's actually not small, it's
a big one, but I'll say it quickly is practicing
the Sabbath. I remember when Gabe started practicing the Sabbath.

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He didn't actually kind of say to me, Chad, you
should do this, but he described it in a way
where it sounded actually good for me. And and the
reasons that Sabbath was good for me is because number
one is going to challenge me to get all my
work done in six days and so yeah, which creates
a productivity. You know, it's almost like the article I
think I've I shared with both you guys. It was
on Business Insider, and the article said that why other

(15:40):
fast food chains should take a note at a Chick
fil A's playbook, and you know why Chick fil a
is the second most profitable fast food chain and in
the nation. And it's closed on one day. You know,
they're eliminating a day of business, but you know the
two less days. Yeah, and it's it's really impressive. And
but I think that it creates an urgency and an

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excitement around me because you know, on Saturday, guess what, guys,
I'm going to get Chick fil A. I'm gonna stock
up because if I want sweet tea out here in
Los Angeles, I gotta go buy it on Saturday so
I can have it on Sunday, because dude. Also, but
speaking of the Sabbath, is that in in and of itself,
is its own goal. Like I've noticed that that, like

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by Friday evening m I need to finish my work
for that week, and that's the goal. Saturday's off and
if I'm behind, I don't want to be stressed on
my Saturday. Yeah, I want to be able to have
that time to spend with my wife and just like
have a peaceful day no work, you know what I mean.
So that in and of itself is a goal, which

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is kind of goes back to what I was talking
about before, is having these like mini goals set of
like this is what I need to reach here, and
this is the point that I need to reach with
this project, you know what I mean. And I think
I think the completely other side of that too. So
there's two benefits from the Sabbath. In my opinion, there's
the benefit you just talked about, but the other side
of it is really helpful too, is you've taken that
day off when you could be working. You know, there's

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there's quite a few work hours on Saturday, you know,
and you it's just saying to God, I know I
could work more right now, but I'm not going to
I'm not going to work more because I trust you
with what you want to do in my life. And
you get into a position of surrender, you get into
a posture of saying, work is not my life. Work
is not all there is. It's good because it's good
to work in the garden. It's it's a good, but

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it's not everything, dude, especially out here in l A.
It's just everyone is just on let we joke about it,
like the hustle, the grind well, but like literally everyone
is on it and everyone is moving hard and it
it's it can so easily become your identity, which is
so dangerous because if your identity is in your work,
you're just it's dude, Like, can I add to that,

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because like I think the dangerous pot is that a
lot of people who are like, oh, I'm on the hustle. Oh,
I have to stay up. I think I will watch
a lot of Gary V. And he just posted a
video He's crazy man loving is a crazy man. And um,
he just posted a video about how people aren't sleeping
and so they're becoming unhealthy because of the hustle, because
of the grind, which, dude, that was me. That was me, Dude,

(18:09):
the amount of weight I lost in just likeeen just
I wasn't able to work out. I wasn't like eating properly.
I wasn't I was sleeping like maybe five hours a night.
Like it was just so unhealthy. My body was being
destroyed and I was operating at such a low capacity

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that's compared to what I could. So now I make sure,
like the benefits of sleeping, the amount that you should
is insane, like the way you operate the next day
long term, as far as like you could get Alzheimer's
from not sleeping enough, you know what I mean, Like
your brain needs time to flush out like all the
signs mind it, but like basically clean your brain needs

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time to clean itself when you're sleeping and stuff like that.
And just seeing how important that was in the lack
that I had in my life in earlier season was
like no wonder, like I wish I needed this stuff
back then, you know what I mean totally And I
think that's where I guess a lot of people. I
don't live in l A. I live in Australia and
there's its own kind of hustle. But the hustle still
still exists. But you know when I come into l

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A and I see people working like that, They're up
until four in the morning, then they wake up at
ten and then they keep going and again, and it's
just like the reason you're doing that is because you're
probably out party or you're probably distracting yourself, and but
you're still going to call it hustle. And I think
that's what I had to learn that. That's probably why
I seemed to add to this, is like what keeps
you motivated is actually just focusing on the things that

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matter and not going well, I I need to go
flip and do this every day because I need to
watch three hours of Netflix. Yeah. Well on that as
far as like focusing on the things that matter, that
brings that like reminded me of what I have learned
to do recently is when I'm like scheduling up my
week in my days, I learned that first I need
to prioritize my personal things. Yeah, that's good, you told

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me that in because my natural nature is to just
work as hard as possible on whatever it is I'm
motivated for. But that's going to burn me out. And
then I'm going to once I start that, like on
a like whatever, you know, Like so you wake up
and you start working right away. I'm not going to
take time to go to the gym. I'm not gonna

(20:20):
take time to read my Bible. I'm not going to
take time to just like sit and read a book
in the morning, you know what I mean. Like I
usually every day I'm trying I try to wake up
pretty early, around like six o'clock, sometimes earlier, sometimes later,
depending on the day or the week or whatever. But
excuse me, um, but I try and give myself like
three ish hours in the morning of just like jimming, reading,

(20:46):
focusing on me all stuff, making my breakfast, talking with
my wife as we're eating breakfast, whatever, you know, like
that kind of stuff. And then I'm still starting work
at a normal time. But I've I've given myself time
to just like I have my personally yeah yeah, And
then like when I'm focusing like ahead on like scheduling
things out throughout the week, it's like, oh, this day,
I can I can put put this. I don't know,

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I'm just using it as an example, but like I'm
getting lunch with a friend Thursday this day, where if
I didn't like schedule that in like foreign advance, I
wouldn't have made the time to go to lunch with
that person. And like, have you know what I mean,
I'm just wondering why you canceled on me? Sorry, dude.
I actually think that's a great mindset. I don't know
if you got it from the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad,

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but he has It's It's one of his biggest principles
in the book is that you should pay yourself first.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you of how it relates
from financially to personally. But one of the biggest things
in the book is is called pay yourself first. And
he basically he uh, he opens the whole premise with
whose happiness matters more? Your happiness or your bill collectors happiness?

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So typically whenever someone gets paid a check, they pay
their mortgage or rent, they pay your you know, so,
they pay their utilities, they pay for their car, their gas,
their groceries, their gym bership, everything out. And then and
then what do they do what's what's so? What do
they do with what's left? They either invest it or
they have fun with it, or they don't have any left.
And so what Robert Kiyosaki teaches is that financially, you

(22:11):
should pay yourself first, which means that if you have
a goal starting a podcast, you need to write yourself
a check each each month. It's a bill called Gabriel's Podcast, right,
and then and essentially make yourself bill on your your
like because your goals matter more than your collector. Yeah yeah,
And it's because your goals matter more than your bill
collectors goals. And then what happens is is at the

(22:33):
end of the month, if you don't have enough money,
you either a find out how to make more money
or you be start cutting fat. You cancel Disney Plus,
you cancel Netflix, you cancel absolutely not. But then I'm
watching the Mandalorian. I seriously need I need to get
your account log and info. After this, we don't do that,
we are we are we are trustworthy Christian? Then you

(22:54):
should like, now, I'll just make an extra account on
my account. How you can like no, no, But but
if you take just jokes, come on, guys, if you
take that into a personal note, you're paying yourself first
spiritually and emotionally and mentally. You're taking the first first
of the day, which is so cool because that's what
God calls us to in scriptures. In Proverbs, he says,

(23:16):
give me your first fruits. Don't pay me a tithe
after you've got everything. He said, pay me first. And
I love that you're doing that because you're taking a
great principle and just turn it into something so much
bigger even but it's cool. Listen, I'll take it, bro listen,
dat me out man. Yeah, that's good man, that's good.

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I mean, that's funny that that concluded naturally. But I
think there's other things within this question that maybe I guess, well,
we can even talk more about, like what we're doing,
like what projects are we working on right now and
how are we allocating times to that? Well, I mean
that like as far as the podcast, like how do
we stay motivated? We that's why on on you know,

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the podcast we're doing it in seasons, so we're not
on the constant. Eventually we burn out because we just
have to keep up every week until the end of
time or until we burn out or the podcast ties,
you know what I mean. Like it's seasons. It's like, Okay,
season one will end after x amount of episodes. We
can take some time off if we need to. We're
not going to burn out. Then we go into season

(24:20):
two and that's our next season of work, next season
of recording podcasts. Then they release and that's the time
and then we have our break and doing that as
a much healthier approach, I think, then just trying to
be like we need to keep content rolling out every
single week. People are gonna get bored of us if
we aren't putting out podcasts every single you know what
I mean, Like if if it's like if that's the
YouTube mindset of like the vlogging mindset of, like you

(24:43):
have to post all the time every week or two
times a week or however Munchy post speak and do that.
We all smile for this real quick. Chad just pulled
out his came but I mean, and the other thing
on top of that, just continue what you're saying, is
that having a break, And this is kind of further
on from being motivated, but it's part of the same thing.

(25:05):
Having a break gives you the opportunity to see what
you're working on from a different angle. And so if
we after we've done the podcast and we're like, let's
have a month off, we might update graphics, we might
update format, and those things will actually motivate us to
again execute the next step of the project. Dude, that
is so brilliant that you mentioned that, because I realized

(25:26):
that as a creative person, I was feeling so uncreatively
fulfilled because I had no time to think to actually
look at it and go, what the heck am I making? Yeah,
I needed some time off of working on whatever it was.
I just needed time to just be free, and it
gave my brain space to actually let creative thoughts flow
back in which sounds like kind of no no, like,

(25:48):
but it's I'm a creative artist or whatever, but it's
like so so true. And I didn't realize it until
I was like, oh, I'm always creative, I can always think,
you know, just kind of like had that chip on
my shoulder of like I can do it. Just because
technically you could. Technically you could, and even technically to
a level that would still be acceptable, but for you,
it loses all value. And that's like the last thing,

(26:10):
Like I couldn't imagine losing value for this podcast already.
I know we're in the number one and we're like, yeah,
probably over next week. No, no, but you know what
I'm saying, Like it's number one on iTunes right now
as far as I'm concerned, right, so number one in
Jesus's eyes, right, And I don't know if he has favorites,
but if you did, it'd be the um. But you know, yeah,
I think definitely having that break. And I know for me,
like music, UM. The first year I did music, which

(26:33):
was about a year and a half ago, two years
ago actually almost, which is crazy that I was every
month I was like, if I don't release the song,
I'm missing out on the hustle of Spotify. And then
I started releasing songs I didn't like, and I was like, Zack,
why are you making crab songs dude? Or why aren't
you like putting enough energy into this. I'm like, oh,
probably because I'm burnt out, you know, And and so
literally the break that I had from doing that first

(26:54):
body of work to this next one. I've only done
five songs this year, but I love all of them.
I'm so proud of them, so proud of the other
songs that. Don't get me wrong, but I think I
got to experience the process more. And I think when
you are trying to stay motivated on a project, if
you don't love, then I feel like we've got five
points now. But if you don't love the process of
that project, it's probably not the right project. You know,

(27:17):
if what you're working on isn't if you're not like man,
I love mixing music, but you can't afford to pay
someone else, like you know, if if you're trying to
just get a song done but you don't enjoy it,
that's probably not the right thing to be doing. Yeah, yeah, no,
I agree with that completely well. And I think something
else that's important to know, because not all of us
are creatives like I think you guys are traditional creatives.

(27:38):
I'm not. I'm more definitely more of a quantifying type
of persons when my brain works, and so actually a
way that I stay made away, I stay motivated, like
on a worldly level, is I like to quantify my efforts.
I like to put a number to it so I
can actually see that you know, the day and dan
that the day and day out grind where you're just like,
am I even having a change, because sometimes you're too

(28:00):
close to the trees that you don't see the forest
that you're that you're in. And so one thing I
like to do is, um, you know, there's a great
book before you. Before you get into that, when you
say quantify, what number are you referring to, like time, money, everything,
I'll tell you about that. So yeah, So basically there's
this book that really impacted me. It's a short book.
You could read it Why your Car is Getting Washed.

(28:21):
I definitely recommend it. It's called two D and twelve
the extra at the extra degree, and the premise of
it is is that at two d and in eleven
degreas temperature fahrenheit, water is hot. At two hundred twelve
degrees fahrenheit, water is boiling. So the difference between one
degree of temperature fahrenheit is a difference between having hot
water and having bowling water. But what's cool about boiling water?

(28:43):
It can power a train. Steam can power a train,
and so you can have hot water or boiling water.
Of course that creates steam that can power a train.
And so I tried to look in my life, it's like, Okay,
how can I quantify my efforts to hit that boiling
point to push me over the next edge? And just say,
for example, if you it out thirty minutes of television
a day, at the end of the year, you got

(29:03):
a hundred and eighty hours back. That's that's a lot
of hours dogs. You know. You know, if you if
your goal is to help people, and say you don't
have a traditional job, to say that actually helps people.
If you open the door for two people the day
at the end of the year, you've helped over seven
hundred people, you know, you put a number to it,
and then you can actually see those day and day.

(29:25):
There's day and grind. Dude, you're making me a question everything.
I'm like, I'm canceling my Disney Plus ship. But you
can actually quantify. And so for some people who are
a little bit more I don't want to say I'm
more logic brain than you guys, because I'm sure you're
way more logic brain, but I'm not as creative as
you are. It does help for me to put a
number to it so I can actually see the impact
I'm having, because it helps me be like, Okay, great,

(29:47):
I'm actually creating a change. I'm doing something good. I
can keep doing this day. You just drop them, like, dude, facts,
I'm sweating so much right now. I just sent chat
chat just sent us a fact through the freaking facts machine.
I knew you were going to take that. I only
took about half an hour, but we got there. It

(30:08):
only took half an hour, dude. I was going to
say it at some point, you know, But yeah, I
can love it. Yeah, that's good man, that's so good.
And I mean actually, also, you know how you said
about paying yourself first, I think that comes with quantifying
as well, you know, like I didn't a lot of
and we'll get into it over the podcast and stuff,
and a lot of what I my my struggle at
the moment, or not even at the moment. Previously, my

(30:28):
struggle has been the financial side of it. Creatively, I'm like, heck, yeah,
let's do this song. Will make as much music as
we can. That's not the problem. The problem is actually
finding the in between, the in between the creativity or
the in between the product, which was living right. And
so adding I guess a number to a project because
this could help for like staying motivated. Like you said,

(30:49):
adding that number is how I've stayed motivated because I'm like, well,
I can actually now invest it into a ring and
propose newly engaged. It's something I learned one of my
Bible studies. It's called the humble steps and learning to
appreciate like the process. You know, that's something I really
needed to learn to do because I'm sure just like
most of the people listening, we you know, it's nice

(31:12):
to get to angle faster. You know, it's what we want.
We we we don't want to have to go through the
hard times of wondering. Okay, where am I? Because I
remember when I first lived it, when I first moved
to Los Angeles. You know, I was eating Chipotle twice
a day. And it's not that I was paying for
Chipotle twice a day. I would buy it for lunch.
And I'll walk you all through the whole thing real quick.
You just walk into Chipotle around lunchtime. Chipotle, Chipotle. No,

(31:36):
I'm not. I'm for anybody who was who was wondering,
and so I, um so basically I would walk into
that that place to get food. Again I'm nervous to
say the name that restaurant, that restaurant, and I would
get a burrito bowl to go with the tortilla on
the side, and then I would ask immediately for extra

(31:56):
rice because these people are artists, all right. These people
they want everything to be proportional. So then they put
extra beans, and they put extra veggies, and they put
extra chicken, and they put extra everything because they wanted
to be proportionately right. And then of course you get
your free tortia on the side. And then I basically
take half that breedable and put it in my tortilla
and that would be my lunch. Then I would have
the other half the breedable for dinner. And that's when

(32:17):
I my my food costs seven dollars a day to
be fully sustained. Hustle, the hustle, and I didn't want
to go through that. It helped me grow. Did you
develop that yourself? Well, yeah, dude, that's insane. I'm gonna
start using it. I want to Intralia. I'm just saying
that sometimes those humble steps really build your character. But

(32:38):
none of us I don't think we really want to
go through those. But it's nice whenever you're saying what
you're doing, if you're actually quantifying it and you're looking
at it and you're just like, oh wow, like okay,
this is good, this is good for me to go
through this, or this is I'm growing out of this.
And I mean and and I like how you say
that when none of us really want to go through it,
but we have to go, Like you have to go
through it. You know, there's no to even be sitting here.

(33:01):
There was a flight to l a that and no accommodation,
you know, and that's how I gave and I started
being friends, you know, Like there's just just weird stuff
like that that is crazy. I didn't literally flew out
here and didn't have a hotel. Stat I wish you
would have known you thing, because you could you could
trash we've had for like every day. But like I
just I think you do have to. I think it's

(33:21):
almost a superpower in a weird way if you know that, Okay,
I'm going to take a risk that no one's willing
to take, which might be eat totally every day because
I can save this much money otherwise or I can
still be in l A And I think, um, even
though no one really wants to go through it, you
still have to. Yeah. It's a funny balance though, because
like what we were talking with with sleep is you

(33:42):
want to be able to get things done the right way.
You need to not the right way, just to be
effective and efficient and work out your bust capacity. You
need to fuel your body right with the right sleep
and food that your body needs and stuff like that.
I think. But it's like it's like an interesting balance
that when you're younger too, like you can kind of
just what ever you want when you're younger. I turned

(34:03):
and I'm like, what younger I was gonna say, I
can see a gray right now, I have like one
on the right side of my head. I was calling out.
I was actually going to ask your opinion on that,
because I think you read the four hour work Week right, yes,
Timothy Ferris, and then and change a lot of things
about the way I did. And I just wanted to
know what you thought The main difference was is between

(34:26):
efficiency and effectiveness, because they're not the same thing. Yeah,
I mean, efficiency is just being more effective in a
small amount of time and what about effectiveness. Effectiveness is
like basically basically the effect of what you're doing. So,

(34:47):
like you can have the same effect on something, whether
it's say your effectiveness is getting a hundred thousand views
on YouTube on your YouTube channel. That is the effect
of what you're doing by making videos and all that stuff.
But people can do it more efficiently by doing it
with only a hundred hours of their time or by

(35:07):
doing it with a thousand hours of their time, you
know what I mean. So the the effect is what
you It's like kind of like the end result, I guess,
the goal that you hit, and then efficiency is the
way you operate in the process of getting it done. Yeah,
because I think the reason why that came to mind
is because you were talking about where you are, especially
when it comes to um you know, eating or sleeping,

(35:30):
and you want to be effective with your sleep. It's
not that you want to be efficient, but you want
to bet you want your sleep to be effective. Yeah. So,
like I I have which goes goes off every night
and it's really annoying because Zach is gonna used to it.
My alarm goes off my phone at a p m.
A p m a p m. And that says, no
more phone. Sometimes I break it if I need to
check something or whatever, but I lead it to the
side and I don't check it for the rest of

(35:52):
the night. And that causes me just to like be
off screens, which allows my melotonin to work better in
my body, which allows me to get more tired, get
better sleep when I actually do fall asleep, and then
when I wake up, I'm not on my phone right away.
And then but then that goes into the more personal
stuff of like I'm reading before I check my phone,

(36:13):
I'm having my coffee, drinking water, and then I'll like
pick it up when I go to the gym and
stuff like that. But then I'm not like responding to
text or emailing people are checking anything until I've done
all my personal stuff in the morning. So just like
being effective with my sleep and my personal time, prepping
myself to be fully fully working at like best capacity,

(36:35):
fully recharged once I get into my day, exactly. And
I think that's I think that's interesting that people can
be in such different places. For example, whenever I was
on that Chipotle grind or I mean, I mean, and
I'm still in a lot of ways on that grind.
But I cared more about efficiency than I did effectiveness,
because say if I were working out and I wanted
to get enough protein, well maybe Chipotle is not the

(36:57):
best version or the most effective protein for me. It
would have been great for me to have approaching shakes,
but guess what, I couldn't afford it, and so I
had to go what was I had to go with
what was more efficient in my bank account. But when
you get to a place where and it can be
regarding your talents, your times, or your treasures, no matter
what it is, but there's a time when you want
to transition out of just being efficient and being effective.

(37:18):
And I think that's where I am, uh spiritually and
emotionally and professionally. Is I'm transitioning from a place where
I'm just trying to do enough to get by, where
I'm not overspending on any level of my life, whether
it's spiritual or whatever. Now I'm trying to find a
place where how can I be most effective and loving
my wife? How can I be most effective and being
there for my friends? And so it's no longer a

(37:39):
game of hours. Now it's a game of how can
I You know, I don't want to manage time as
much as I want to manage the project. For example,
I want to like complete a project versus completely like oh,
I'm just gonna work for six hours. Yeah, oh yeah.
That's why I'm really big on the project thing, especially now,
And that's why everything I'm kind of tackling now in
my work and a lot of it, like I'm you

(38:01):
guys know a lot of the things that I'm working on,
but I can't like just say it publicly yet, so um,
but yeah, with those things that are like project based,
there's an end to them, Like there's an end goal
on all those things, and then I knew based off
the end goal, say it's like a year down the line,

(38:23):
this is what I want to have done, or say
it's a month or six months, whatever the timeline is.
Then you work backwards from there and be like if
I want that done, let me let's just say, uh,
let's just say with the podcast in the series, like
timeline Okay, it's like probably around the beginning of February

(38:43):
is roughly now when we're recording. This is when these
episodes are gonna start airing, So work backwards from there.
We'll probably want the series talking about the podcast to
start running episodes at the top of the year January,
So I need to have editing done on the first
few episodes by the beginning of January, which means during December,

(39:06):
I need to be editing at around and episode every
week and a half, probably getting an episode on every
week and a half. And that is and that's like
where we're getting to now, you know what I mean,
Like the series is effectively done because we're recording the
first podcast, you know, which really weird we've been We've
been filming this series for literally three weeks. Yeah, all

(39:28):
of a month already. Um so, so wrapping all that up,
how can we how can we just package that in
a really pretty bow in terms of I think one
thing that you really were incourasion is resting well to
they motivated. Yeah, so like I've just been really good
about I've realized that I'm way more motivated when I'm

(39:51):
planning out what I'm doing as well. So I take
those projects, take those timelines, and then I have to
package it out like on a day to day level,
you know what I mean. So it's like today, these
are like the things that I need to get done,
and I will set out like at this time, like
waking up at six, maybe I start working at nine.
At nine, I start like kicking through some emails. Then

(40:14):
by ten I need to be done with emails, done,
emailing people back, and then I'm going to start, say,
Jake comes over and I need to start filming for
the series, and that's going to go from ten to one.
At one, I take an hour for lunch because I'm
making sure I have my time for lunch and I'm
not working during that time so I could rest up
and then not too I don't know another thing, whatever

(40:36):
it is, Jess and I have to start vlogging at two,
and that ends out, you know what I mean, like
planning those things out, and that makes it really like
you're just like every every chunk of time, you're just
like tackling another piece of the puzzle that over time
we'll build out. Like no movie gets done overnight. What's

(40:57):
being like, I want to make a movie and then
they just start working with no plane, So like it's
years of day to day a piece of the puzzle
getting put into place. So I have a question for you,
and I think Zach and piping on this too, because
I would love to hear your insight. But did you
just wake up one day and know that, Okay, maybe
a good strategy is best, or maybe I need to
sleep better, or maybe I need to eat better or

(41:18):
this this is that? Like, how did you develop the
ways that you would stay motivated? Text you these projects?
It's just literally like failing and then fixing and fixing.
I like fixing, like I didn't even plan. It's like
a good title, you know what I mean? Failing and fixing. Um. Yeah,
So basically, like I was burnt out, I knew I

(41:41):
just needed to sleep, you know what I mean? And
then I was getting enough sleep. But then I was
getting sick all the time, so I knew I knew
I needed to change my diet. And then once that was,
you know, things were good, then I started adding projects
back on because then that was kind of the period
of time where I took a break from everything. Then
I started adding projects back on, and I was like, wait,

(42:03):
I don't want to fall back into what I was
in before. I don't want to get the pressed again.
I don't want to get burned out. I need to
find a ways. Like what I was working on was
kind of like already effective in a way. I knew
that what I was working on was worth my time,
but I just needed to do it in a less
amount of time. So that's when I started developing like
the efficiency and reading like books like the four hour
work Week and stuff, which like, I'm not working four

(42:24):
hours a week, but I'm taking the techniques to be
able to work in a much shorter time span and
get the same thing done because I have so many
different pieces in my life that I'm just like working on,
and so that makes different projects. I would say, Yeah,
I was just gonna say I really liked failing and
and fixing. Before I came on this trip, I was

(42:45):
talking to my youth pasta Ryan and UM, and I
didn't like saying fixing. I was just talking to him
about where life is at. And I was like, look,
I'm just in a space where I know what I
want to fix. And he's like, well, it's not really fixing,
it's like growing, it's developed it. Yeah. Yeah, but like
it's really easy to be like, oh no, I just
need to fix it, and I think, um, just watching

(43:05):
the people around me and and UM and watching what
they're doing, like watching you guys, and just going oh man,
that is something that I get excited about. Why am
I not working towards that? And that it might be
because my diet needs to be fixed. What you're saying,
just kind of analyzing what you're in rather than ignoring
what you're in is actually the way to keep motivated

(43:27):
and fixing those things. Yeah, exactly, But that I would
say that the development, like what you said about developing,
is the single word version of failing and fixing, because
you're going to continue to fail and it's your decision
to fix or not, and it's just fine tuning. And
then you go back then you fail again, you fix
whatever problem that made you fail when you go back
again after you fail again. And no one who ever

(43:49):
gets anything big done in their life has not failed before,
you know what I mean, Like anyone who's done anything
big or remotely successful or is whatever, you know, you
know what I'm trying to say, Like they have all
failed along the way. Yeah, like more than anyone else.
But it shows perseverance and that yeah exactly exactly, perseverance.

(44:12):
And then where they're at it is so much farther
along then where they were and where other people are
who don't decide to persevere through their through their failures. Yeah,
and it's a very it's a I definitely think it's
part of that self awareness thing of you have to
be self aware enough to take responsibility for what you're doing,
otherwise you do end up just repeating yourself, you know.

(44:35):
And so that just mean, like I said, I'll talk
about finances a lot, but just because of where my
head's at right now. But that's very I had to
be like, yeah, it's my responsibility to pay my debt off.
It's not the world's responsibility. God is not just going
to give me a million bucks. It's my responsibility to
use the gifts that he's He's given me. That terrible
of the talents, you know what I mean, the people

(44:55):
who were responsible and effective with what the man serving
God gave to them, we're then given more. And the
ones who failed and we're scared and dug their talents
and buried him in the ground then cast away. So well,
I'll tell you something super fun about that is that

(45:15):
break it down for us so so so so whenever
the Master sent them away is so that they have
nashin of the teeth. You know what that is? Have
you ever done even like stubbed your tone. You do this,
you know what I mean? You grit your teeth. I
can't do the sound for for the audience. Sorry, I'm
like gritting my teeth hardcore from my I think I
chipped to you. Have you ever done this? But have you,

(45:36):
guys ever done have you ever like, you know, hit
your door like on a jam of a door, have
you hit your toe on the door jam or like
underneath the bed or whatever? That that face you make
is what people experience and nashin of the teeth, and
so what the it's a it's a it's a it's
a face of strife and a faith. It's a face
of of pain that just makes you like that it's
just annoying. And so what is saying is that, of

(45:58):
course you weren't physically end or whenever the Master sent
you away for not investing the talents he gave you,
But there's something spiritually you're personally or emotionally it's happened
inside of you that's making you upset. It'll genuinely like
make you sick where you're just like and it's funny
because it's not a physical pain, but it'll make you
do that super weird. Do you think that long term

(46:19):
is just a lack of fulfillment, You know, when people
just don't feel fulfilled, they've just done what they've needed
to do to get by, but not actually persevered to
do something bigger or for themselves. Is that what that is?
Do you think of a time that's interesting to think
that's a good question. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't
know what I'm about to say. I don't want it

(46:39):
to come across as like arrogant in any way, but
I I haven't experienced that nash of the teeth in
the sense of like what I what I feel responsible
for and working my hardest, because that's a huge thing
in my life that I I mean, I've talked about
you guys about it. Of like God has given me

(47:01):
responsibilities in my life, marriage, family, friends, career, finances where
all those things, and I need to do my very
best in all of those areas because it is my responsibility.
And I feel like I'm doing okay or I feel
like I'm doing pretty well with them actually, but the
ones that I sometimes fail at, I'm purposefully going back

(47:25):
and correcting. And that is the responsibility in and of
itself that I think God sees and goes, Okay, I
see your working very hard and doing well with the
responsibility that I've given you. Here's a little bit more,
and then here's a little bit more, and it's basically
compounding interest. But what I mean on the whole topic
of this podcast is about how do you have that mindset?

(47:46):
You know? So so is it something no, no offense,
but is it? Is it a home school mindset where
you just fully believe in yourself school bro, you know,
but genuinely, how how can you is it? I I
just I think people want to know where does that
come from? And if someone does doesn't have it because
not everyone has that maybe that alpha personality of the
oh I'm gonna I'm gonna tackle this, I'm gonna do well,

(48:06):
because some people take elves really personally. Yeah, No, I
know it's tough. I think it's dude. I mean, people
are gifted in different areas, you know what I mean? Um,
and I have Oh my god, I don't me a
little bit. Cha looks at looks at the camera that

(48:29):
if you're watching on YouTube, you saw it. But Chad
looked at the camera and stroked his chin, and they're
a little blue steel. Oh my god, I totally forgot
what I was No, but I get what you're saying about,
um about different gifts. So do you think that maybe
something that you found yourself in is the ability to
just keep moving on it and to not get stuck
in things when they didn't work out or because I know,

(48:51):
for me, my gifts were not in just dealing with
or not just dealing with my My gift wasn't taking
responsibility for example, you know, like in certain areas. I
think that's a realization you have. I don't know as
a Christian, it's breaking down those verses a lot that
a lot of people like skim over and stuff like that,
and like really being like wait, wait, what is God

(49:12):
saying here? You know what I mean? And um, just
I'm very practical when I read scripture and I always
try and see, like how does that practically apply? Because
you know, it's like all great, like the very spiritual
aspect of things and talking about like Christians know what
I mean when I when I say that it's a

(49:32):
kind of hard to explain. But taking those things like
the parable of the talents, well, what is a talent?
A talent is that time that period of times equivalent
of like I think it was over a million dollars
or something like that. One talent, the guy got ten,
one guy got five, and one guy got one, you
know what I mean, And the guy with ten doubled
it and then was given the guys the guy who

(49:52):
got one master took the guys one because he didn't
do anything with it and gave it to the guy
with the most because he was responsible. And in today's
world that seems so like counterintuitive with like all the
political correctness and like everyone needs to you know, like
equal pay and all that stuff, and like yeah, there's

(50:13):
you know, like you need to have fair minimum wage
and all those things. Like there's there's those aspects, but
people who are more responsible, Like if there's someone with
minimum wage, that two people with minimum wage, and one
person decides to live off of that and starts taking
the other and investing the rest, where do you think
they're going to be in five years compared to the
other guy who takes their minimum wage and just let's

(50:34):
paycheck to paycheck every week. Yeah, you know what I mean?
Like the aware self, like you were saying self awareness
with being responsible with that and knowing that it's no
one else's responsibility, it's fully yours. Yeah, and then people
throw it on the government to be like that I
need more. I don't know, like taxes need to be hired,
tacks the wealthy more and stuff like that, and it's

(50:55):
just like pretty controversial in today's I finally think I
know what your mindset is. I think I know what
makes you different than us. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. No,
I so I love not different than you, know. I
I think that. So in that scripture you keep mentioning,
I believe it's Matthew. Okay, he hit the reference, don't

(51:17):
fact check me. But I think what's interesting, Um molda,
I really want you to I'm pretty sure it's Matthew.
Hold on, hold on, let me just I have the
Bible app pulled up here. Okay, keep talking. So, so basically,
what I think can actually make you different than than
than me in that regard is that you are not

(51:40):
accepting ownership of of of what you have. Where if
you look at his steward, A traditional definition of a
steward is someone who manages the household finances or estate.
So you're just managing what God has given you. You don't.
You don't have more skin in the game other than
God has blessing you with something for you to to
investor him. And the reason why I'm making that I'm

(52:02):
making that differentiation is that a word differentiation, the parable
of the bags of I broke out in a sweat
when I was trying to say that word. But so
it's here parable the bags of gold. You know, if
you see what it said you and memorizing scripture, is
you forgot to mention this before You're getting your master's
degree in theology. I'm getting an M A T. I'm

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getting a mat a master Chad master's getting his masters.
But I'm actually gonna point to this because I really
wanted to show you this, and so so the man
who had one talent and he said, so he responded
to the master, and he said, I know that you
are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown,
and gavin where you've not scattered sees. So I was
afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground.

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And so here's what belongs to you. He was afraid
of losing it, is what he was basically saying. And
I think what makes it hard For me, what keeps
me from being motivated to execute and the projects I
want is I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of losing
it and where I'm taking too much ownership from God.
And I think that is a pretty big difference between
you and me. And some mean I obviously need to

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do better, it's it's not it's funny that you say that,
because I think this time in my life, where I've
been arguably the most motivated to do things is where
I've been most frightened of failing. Yeah, dude, every day
I'm like, dude, the series is gonna flop. Bro, Like

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I haven't posted on my YouTube channel two years, this
series decides to start going. Yeah, but like, I haven't
posted on my YouTube channel in two years, maybe a
little over two years, and I'm coming back with a
full series based around a podcast that who knows if
it's going to do well Because in the past three
years of being married, I haven't really pulled myself workwise,

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haven't really separated myself from doing things with Jess. So
now I'm questioning myself with is what I'm doing on
my own actually going to work if my wife isn't
involved because people want to see us as a couple
and people want to see us doing things together, where

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people have rather me done a podcast with Jess than
with YouTube Zach, We're out. This is the first podcast,
you know what I mean, Like that has been I mean,
he's getting really like personal. But I remember the first
time shout out to Jess's mom. No, but like I
remember we were in Australia one time and background I

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was like doing the whole vine thing. I had a
few million followers across the board, like before Jess and
I even started dating. Then she came along and then
we started growing together. But I was always like quote
unquote bigger numbers wise, like you know, getting more legs whatever.
And then there came a time through our relationship where

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because our relationship was attracting a female audience and females
loved Jess and looking up to her as a figure,
where then Jess started passing me like likes on Instagram
and more followers and stuff like that on different platforms.
And I remember Jessic's bomb was like, oh, look at
just Jess as getting more like than you are now,
Like totally innocent, she said that, but I was. It

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was like what I was thinking and what I was
questioning myself about is real, and other people were noticing it,
and it was like one of those things like oh yeah,
like everything that I did is fully contingent on my
wife and what I do with her, and if I
try to do anything by myself, it's probably been thea fani. Well,

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I mean, but if I can encourage you real quick,
you're not burying in the talent right now. The fact
that there's all these cameras and these microphones and Zack's
here from Australia, you know, it shows that you're not
burying it. Yeah. I get the nervous energy and I
get you being frightened about it, but you are not
that person who's burying it. Well, and that's where I
I mean, Well, now I will say other than different acting,

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because that I did over time, that was the one
thing I did outside of doing stuff with Jess. But
um and then like my YouTube videos, but those like
slowly fizzled off just because I was getting more and
more burnt out. But I think it's because of my
knowledge of this passage of scripture and knowing that even

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though my emotions and my thoughts were telling me otherwise
this is what I had to do, you know what
I mean? And it's Um. I think that's what's like
because almost every day I have some sort of thought
that's like it's a quick little job, like I think
the devil just like here's some doubt, you know what
I mean? Is the series even gonna do good? And

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it's just like it's fine, No, I need to approach
it with the series is gonna be great, It's gonna
be phenomenal. I know it's going to do well, and
that gives me motivation too. Then approach it with the
motivation in in energy and creativity and like the feeling
of it's just going to blow up and be incredible.

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People are gonna love it. And if it doesn't, I
still did my best, you know what I mean? Um,
And I I think the motivation all starts from, like
going back to the initial question, how to stay motivated
to execute the projects you're working on. It all comes
from like my faith and the responsibility that I know

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I have as a child of God, you know what
I mean, And and being a good start of what
He's placed in my life. Like Chad saying, if if
it counts to anything, dude. The fact that we're all
sitting here and we're all just good friends that are
trying to make something valuable and worth watching. That's, um,
that's crazy in itself. It's not just you know, regardless

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of what happens, I know that I'm going to get
so much out of these podcasts coming up and the
series ending out of c Chelsea, and I has experienced
through that, you know, Like, I think that's another valuable
thing I've learned from you is that you know, if
you're going to do one thing, make sure you can
encapsulate a butt is that he and capt capsulate capsule
l that's Australia, Yeah, and caps capsule light. You just

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make sure capsule light. Um, like a bunch of different things,
you know. Like, and I know, deep down view if
if the series were to not work, you know that
you've got to capture your friends engagement. And that's still
like you know what that was worth the trip, dude.
And it's so funny, Like even remember last year at
this time, we filmed the music video for the first

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I'll Be Home Yeah cover album that we did, Yeah
that justin I did. We filmed a music video for
one of them and like the amount of effort that
we put into that music video probably wasn't worth the
time that we make coming out the three or four
days we hustled to get it ready yet Yeah, yeah
all that, Like it was crazy how much effort we
put into it, and like I would approach it differently now,
but the experience was incredible. Yeah what we got, Yeah,

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so much all the time. It's so good and like
like it is what it is like, but the experience
is what really mattered. And looking back at that season
and you being here and just like totally just and
and then going to Chad the times that we go
to the gym every morning, like half of it is

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that you know, we're working out and trying to stay
as consistent as possible with it. But then also like
the conversations we have there and catching up with each
other and just like the fellowship that we have an
accountability that we have with each other just by showing
up at the gym together, you know what I mean,
Like doing those things, putting, placing those things in your
life that you know you're going to get fulfillment out of.

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And like this podcast is like, oh yeah, it's another
project that we're working on. It's a work venture and
it's going to be something that hopefully is successful and
on a level outside of like the monetary value that
you know, we hope to get from it. We hope
it reaches people, and I hope it touches people. And
in the process we have had so much fun developing it.

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In the conversations we're going to have for however many
years we decided to do this podcast for are going
to be incredible. You know what I mean. If there's
one last thing I can say to encourage you guys
and encourage the audience, that would encourage So I would
just I just want to take a minute to encourage
you all to as you're as you're going out in
these great endeavors that are huge projects, small side hustles,

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whatever they may be, I want you to ask yourselves
this question. And by the way, this is I want
to I want to say, under the pretense of you
being a person of faith, you've being a Christian, Okay,
is this project or sye hussel whatever, Maybe is it
to build your kingdom? Or is it to build God's kingdom?
Because in Isaiah fifty five it says I send my
word out and it never returns to me void. It

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always accomplishes what I sent it for. And it's the
same way and that the rainfalls from the sky and
then it lands on the ground and it waters the plants,
which produce vegetation, which produce food, you know, and all
these different things. It serves a purpose. And so I
just want you to really think about am I trying
to build my kingdom? Or am I trying to build
God's kingdom? Because if you're trying to build God's kingdom,

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then your trust, in your expectancy on his resources are
just make it so much easier for you. You can
just totally rely on him. Yo, what's up? Guys? Thank
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