May 11, 2025 • 31 mins
On this episode of Jim Paris Live, I’m celebrating some major personal milestones—scoring well on the LSAT and officially getting accepted into law school! I take you behind the scenes of my application journey and share the key steps that helped me succeed. Next, I dive into details about my brand-new Credit Scoring Workshop, designed to help anyone improve their credit fast with practical, proven strategies. Finally, I reveal my upcoming one-week experiment driving for Uber, and introduce Gridwise, a powerful app that helps drivers maximize earnings across Rideshare and delivery platforms. It’s an episode packed with inspiration, practical tools, and opportunities to level up your life.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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listening to Jim Paris Live, your source for the latest
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the editor in chief of Christian money dot com and
the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
All Right, hello buddy, and welcome to the broadcast. I
am so excited to be with you. This is going
to be a little bit of a different program because
normally we get into i don't know, maybe fifteen or
twenty different topics related to the news. But we're not
going to do that. We're going to actually talk about
just some really cool stuff that's going on with me.
So I'm going to kind of break the show down
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into three pieces. So I'm going to tell you about
what happened with the law school admission test and my
law school prospects, So we're going to get into that.
We're also going to talk about a brand new credit
scoring training program that I've launched, and then we're going
to talk about ride share as a gig and some
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really neat things that I have learned about ride share
and kind of a little bit of an experiment that
I'm going to be doing with ride share. So we're
going to get into all that today. So let's get
into it. So the big exciting news is I have
been accepted into law school and I will be going
to Florida A and M University College of Law here
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in Orlando starting in August. That will be my home
for three years. Well I get the Juris Doctor degree
and then go on to take the Bar exam and
practice as a Florida lawyer. And there's so much I
could tell you about this. I mean, first of all,
I'm just so excited. I'm so excited, but there is
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so much to know, Like I could literally almost write
an entire book about what this experience has been like
getting into law school. And it's almost like I was
telling one of my friends yesterday, I said, you should
almost get a trophy or some kind of diploma or
recognition just for getting into law school because of all
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the things that you have to do. I mean, obviously
you have to have a bachelor's degree, but you also
have to have a decent enough grade point average for
them to look at you. You then have to take
this really weird test call the lsat the Law School
Admission test, which is really strange, and I've talked to
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you about it before, I think on one other episode.
It's not a test where you're given a list of
topics that you can study for, like a regular test
like whether you're getting a real estate license or something
like that, where you can get the body of information
and then study it and then go regurgitate it and
get a good score. This isn't a test like that,
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so you can't really study for it in a traditional way.
It is a test that really challenges two skill sets.
One is logical reasoning and the other is reading comprehension.
So although you can't really study and prepare for the
information that you're going to be asked about because the
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information is almost of no consequence, they will give you
these different scenarios that you are to analyze and make
sense of. So it's not really the information that you're
being tested on, it's your ability to understand that information
and make logical conclusions, draw logical conclusions from it. So,
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to make a long story short, I scored in the
upper thirty nine percentile of everyone that took the LSAT exam. Now,
I will tell you it was funny because I'm coming
down the elevator after taking the test, which I did.
Take it on April to tenth, and the only thing
I did to prepare for it was about three or
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four weeks before the test. Remember, I had just finished
my master's degree. I was awarded my master's degree the
first week of March, and so I said to myself, Okay,
once you get the master's degree, then immediately shift gears.
You're getting ready to take the April tenth LSAT. So
I had about three to three and a half weeks
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to prepare, and I I did not go buy any
of the expensive courses, or go to any seminars, or
do any of that stuff. I did not hire a tutor,
mostly because I thought, you know what, I've only got
three weeks. So if I spent one thousand dollars or
ten thousand dollars on one of these training systems, how
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much real value can I get out of it in
three weeks, probably not a lot. So what I did
was I strictly used free resources. That is the Law
School Admission Council, the LSAC, which is the organization that
you pay and sign up with to take the LSAT.
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They have a bunch of like a few hundred drill
questions and also some past exams that you can use
like for practice, you know, practice testing. And I basically
did that for about three weeks. I went in and
I took the test and I'm coming down the elevator.
I'm totally brain dead. I mean, this test was just
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totally draining. You see this little clock running in the
upper right hand corner of the screen. You have only
about maybe a minute or so to answer each question
or you'll run out of time if you don't answer
them at that pace. So I'm going down the elevator.
There's another young there's a young lady, maybe in her twenties,
and she's going down the elevator and I said to her, Hey,
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so how do you think you did? She said, well,
you know, the first time I took it, I did
really poorly a year ago. And so I hired a
guy in Australia out of Australia who took tutors me
on Zoom and she like was paying this guy thousands
of dollars. She said, what did you do to prepare?
That's kind of embarrassed. I said, well, for three weeks,
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I just used like the free resources that I could get.
That was it. And she was being nice, you know,
she was like, oh okay, and she said, so what
law school are you trying to get into? And I said, well,
I want to stay in Orlando because that's where my
mom is. So there's two law schools here. There's Barry
University and there's FAMU School of Law. So there's the
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two schools. And I said, I'm kind of leaving, leaning
towards FAMU Law. And she said, wow, you know they're
they're kind of selective. Good luck, kind of like good
luck as if like I really needed it, Like she
kind of thought, ugh, what's this guy thinking? But in
any case, so I got I got the great score,
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and praise God, I got the great score. And so
as soon as I got the score, I immediately went
into the LSAC, the Law School and Mission Council website
which I'm signed up for. I had uploaded all of
my college transcripts. I had written my so called personal statement,
gotten all my references, all those things. You have to do,
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so much thing, so many things, so much work to do,
and everything is held in there until you get the
l s AT score. So once I had the LSAT score,
I needed to immediately apply because, for example FAMU, their
deadline was the day I got my score. So had
I not actually submitted my application on April thirtieth, which
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is the day I got my score, I hadn't gotten
the score and pressed the button to send it in,
I would have been past the deadline, and there was
no way I could have then gone into law school
in twenty twenty five in the fall to that school.
Make a long story short, I got great offers just
a few days ago. I got great offers from FAMU
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Law and from Barry University, both of the schools here
in Orlando. I have three other applications out. Although I
did make a decision. I made a final decision based
on the great scholarship. I was offered scholarship, substantial scholarships
for both schools. Praise God, and I went ahead and
went with FAMU Law. I I signed the paperwork Friday
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and I made a commitment to FAMU Law, which is
where I will be studying the law for the next
three years. So I will still be here with you
doing the show and writing books and doing all this
stuff I usually do, but I will be able to
do this thing that I've always wanted to do, my dream,
which is to go to law school and become an attorney,
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and looking forward to that, and it's just just surreal,
just really exciting. So if you are somebody that spires
to go to school and you want to email me,
you could, you can, and I'll to just tell you
what I know, how I how I would kind of
work the system. My email is James L. Paris at
gmail dot com. And there's a lot to know, there
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really is. And I've been reading and studying and researching,
like as far as even once you get accepted into
a law school, like what law school should you go to?
Like how do you figure that out? And there's so
many little new you know, for example, some schools will
give you a great scholarship in year one, but then
they won't give you that same scholarship in year two.
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And there's like a sort of a little bit of
a let's call it like a hidden loophole for them
to not renew you to the next year. And there's
just a lot to know like that, And so when
it all came down to it, I decided to go
with FAM You Law. I still have not heard back
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from some of the other law schools, but I did
promise that I would go to Fam You Law. And
that was because, honestly, if I did not make that
promise on Friday and sign everything, there was a chance
I could have lost my scholarship and they might have
given my seat to somebody else. So I did make
a promise, and I did do that on Friday, and
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I'm glad I did. I love FAM You Law. It's
just a beautiful, beautiful campus. It's in a high rise
building in downtown Orlando, and it's kind of a different campus.
It's not like an all spread out campus. It's like
a I think it's maybe six or seven floors. Maybe not,
maybe it's five or six floors. I don't remember. But
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it's a beautiful, beautiful building and I'm really really looking
forward to starting to study the law. All right, So
what else is going on? So I just launched this
program and you can check it out by going to
credit scorepro dot us creditscorepro dot us. Now a lot
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of you know that I wrote a book maybe fifteen
years ago. I originally wrote it. It's been updated a
little bit here and there called Credit Scoring Secrets, and
so Credit Scoring Secrets is on Amazon. It's available as
a kindle and also a print book, and it's a
really great like hands on like how to fix your credit.
(12:02):
But it's a little bit dated. I think the last
time we updated it might have been seven or eight
years ago. So what I decided to do was I
have so many people asking me for help on fixing
their credit and their credit score. Now, we did not
launch a credit repair company. I'm not really a believer
in credit repair companies for a lot of reasons. A
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lot of them are scams. Most of them charge way
way too much money. They charge hundreds and hundreds of dollars,
sometimes thousands of dollars. So I decided, hey, let me
put together a little Jim Parris hands on program training
on how to raise your credit score one hundred points
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and one hundred days. And so last Wednesday night I
did a zoom workshop where I talked all about this,
showed people examples of what I'm doing, and all of that.
That workshop is on the website. All the bullet points
are on the website of what I'm offering, including including
you have access to me in the training. There's also
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information on that as well. So it's gonna be in
the you know, normal style of my trainings where there
are videos and they're all going to be on demand,
and you're gonna have access to all of my great
letters to dispute inaccurate and damaging credit, learn how to
settle debts with collection agencies. It's gonna be a lot
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of great stuff in there, and there's a there's a
great video overview in there at the website, and then
there's also the workshop that we did where we kind
of gave people like a little bit more in depth
information about it. But you can look into this if
you're if you're looking to improve your credit score, maybe
because you're wanting to buy a house, or just get
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better interest rates when you borrow money. That's a big thing.
If you don't have the great score, you don't get
the great interest rate. So even people getting insurance to
look at your credit score. In a lot of states,
some states, I think don't allow that, but most do.
Depending on the kind of job that you apply for,
they might look at your credit score. And that's like
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the case in my job as a loan officer, they
do look at my credit score. So if you're working
we're a financial institution or a bank. But that is
a great course that I've put together. And let me
tell you where the knowledge comes from, because starting back
in like two thousand and two, when I first got
into the mortgage industry, I started making it my niche
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or helping on focusing on helping people that had been
through bankruptcy or foreclosure and being able to rebuild their
credit to be able to purchase a house. And so
I did that for many many years as my niche.
That's not necessarily my niche right now. I'm kind of
doing mortgages for a lot of different profiles, including people
that have credit issues. But I learned so much in
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that process of working with people helping them to raise
their credit score. It wasn't a theoretical thing. It was like, hey,
let's sit down, let's pull up your credit report, and
then let's do these things and then we will have
you come back in thirty days and we'll look at
how how much we've gained. And then these people went
on to get mortgages and buy homes and it was
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a real thing and it really worked. But you don't
want to hire a credit repair company where they promise
you to do things that honestly, a lot of the
promises are just unrealistic what they can claim they can do.
And my course is going to empower you to do
your own credit repair. If you're a real estate agent,
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a mortgage person, or in any business where financing is
part of your sales process selling cars, banking, you probably
want to take my course also because think about it.
If you have to turn someone away because they can't
buy a car they don't have good enough credit, but
you know how to and maybe two or three months
rehabilitate their credit to be able to get them approved
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or get them approved for a mortgage, because you're a
real estate agent, all these different things. Check it out.
Credit score pro dot us, Credit scorepro dot us. Okay,
so I want to talk about ride share. I love
these side gigs. I do side gigs. I'm not too
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proud to tell you that I've done side gigs, especially
after when my thirty six year marriage ended, and things
happened to where I didn't have access to my money
and my savings and all of that. I had to
figure out quick ways to make money. And I have
tried a lot of different side gigs. So a lot
of you already know about reelpicks dot us and I've
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got a new sidegig to talk about with you today.
But real picks is still going. That's pics reelpicks dot us.
That's where you're taking pictures for the banks and the
mortgage companies and the property managers. That's a great little
side gig. But okay, Uber, everybody knows about Uber, right
driving for Uber, driving for Lyft, But did you know
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that there are a bunch of these other companies that
you can drive for. It's not just Uber and Lyft,
and it's not just driving people like, for example, Amazon
has a program called Amazon Flex where you actually, in
two hour blocks of time, use your own vehicle to
deliver packages for Amazon. And I want to tell you
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about this really cool app that I just got. I'm
going to reach over here and I'm gonna grab my
phone so that I can pull it up here. Tell
you the name of this app and then I'm going
to tell you what I'm doing with Uber. This is
gonna be a lot of fun and people are gonna
love watching me do this. All right, let's see here.
What are we looking at here? The name of this
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app that I want to tell you about is called
grid wise rid grid Wise grid Wise, and they have
a fourteen day free trial. And what it is. It's
kind of a companion app that you can use for
any of these other opportunities, these other so called ride
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share types of opportunity. So I'm going to pull up
a list here and mention some of these companies to you,
because honestly, you know, I don't even know. Let's see here,
We're gonna just do We'll do all categories. Okay, here
we go. I don't even know some of these. Okay,
I know about Uber, right, I know about Lift, I
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know about those two. Now we get into some other ones.
I don't know about Amazon Flex. What is that? Well,
it says here that you get paid to do deliveries
for Amazon in your own car in like two hour increments.
That's interesting to me. Then there's another one here called Roady,
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and I'm thinking, like, well, what is Roady? I don't
know what that is. Let me see if it'll tell us.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think Roady is a little bit longer distance driving.
But then there's another one called Spark Driver. Excuse me.
Spark is driving for Walmart, delivering stuff on behalf of Walmart.
Then there is Instacart, which I've heard of Instacart, grub
Hub I've heard of. Uber Eats is another one. Then
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there's one here called go Puff that says deliver every
day convenience items including grocery, snacks, tobacco, and household items. Okay,
so there's that one. So what this grid wise app
does is it helps you to optimize your involvement with
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these ride share opportunities. So I'll give you an example.
So I signed up two days ago to be an
Uber driver. The initial idea for this a couple of things.
I thought this would be a great article, like to
drive for Uber for a week and then report back
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what happened. You know, how much money did I make,
what were my expenses and all of that. And then
I ended up going down this rabbit hole that I
never imagined. I knew none of this. There are so
many cool things about driving for Uber. Did you know
that there's a way you can get like your college
for free by driving for Uber. You can also get
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health insurance as a part of driving for Uber, and
also that you can get really cool cars, like you
can get what would be like a brand new car
to drive and you just pay a fee each week,
and you can have like a Tesla electric car or
just a regular you know, you know, gas powered car
and get like a new car to drive. These are
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some really cool things inside of Uber. So I signed
up to drive for Uber, and I've done it because
I want to write about it and I want to
do some videos about it, and I want to talk
about it on the show. But I also did it
because here's the here's the other thing. So because I'm
going into law school starting in August, I'm going to
have to reduce my time that I'm working with mortgages
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in real estate. I'm going to try to keep doing
it some of my time. The problem is, though, that
that kind of work is work where it would be hard.
Like if I'm tied up for four hours in law
classes and then i have to deal with a problem
that comes up during a closing, I don't have that
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kind of freedom to like jump out of class and
deal with that. So I'm going to try to keep
my law my law school going and still keep a
part time you know, footprint in real estate mortgages. But
here's the here's what I was trying to figure out,
is like what else could I do? Maybe like one
day a week. If I'm let's say my class is
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only go four days a week, which I think might
be the case, maybe I could substitute teach one day
a week just to sort of have a little bit
of money coming in just from something else. Or Uber
popped into my mind, and then I started looking into
all of this with Uber and just the crazy stuff
like that you can get a free college education, and
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then if you don't want the college education for yourself,
you can actually gift that to a family member. So
you're driving for Uber and you do enough Uber rides
and now you give that to your kid and then
they get to go to college for free. Just some
crazy stuff that I didn't know about. So I thought
Uber might be a great option because while you're driving Uber,
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you still have access to your phone. I mean, you
probably shouldn't be on any client calls or anything like
that while you're driving somebody, which I wouldn't do. But
you know, in the part of the process where you're
heading to pick up your your pick up, you know
your ride, you're picking that person up, you could be
on a phone call, on a headset, you know, during
that part of it. But because I live in Orlando now,
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I'd always thought Orlando would be a place to drive
for Uber because it's crazy busy here with all the
tourism and Disney World and now Universal Studios and Lego
Land and just all the stuff that goes on here.
And I just love I love this idea of just
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my idea was for a week to get up every
morning at four point thirty, have some coffee and breakfast,
do a shift from say five until nine every morning,
and just see how much money I could make over
the course of a week. Now, I couldn't do that
while I was in law school, to do that every morning,
I'd be too tired to you know, go into law school.
But I thought, you know, that would be like a fun,
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interesting thing to do maybe one morning a week or
a couple of mornings a week. And I love meeting people.
I love talking to people. And I got a great
car that would be perfect to do this, So call
me crazy. I am going to be doing Uber here
and I will let you know how it goes. I'm
really really excited about it and just so interested in
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so grid wise getting back to Gridwise the app. What
grid Wise is doing for me as far as Uber
goes is it's showing me like what is the most
profitable time of the day to drive for Uber? And
then it's breaking down my city of Orlando, which is
kind of a sprawling area. You've got everything from like
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south of Disney to you know, north of Sanford, which
is you know, the northernmost section of the Orlando metro area.
And it's breaking it down like where do you make
the most money, which zones and what time of day
and what days of the week to be doing it.
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So it's almost like if you were looking that your
time in the car doing Uber as like you were
investing in the stock market, and this is like your analysis,
like your technical analysis of hey, you're four hours in
the car. You know, here's where you can make in
four hours, like one hundred and fifty bucks or two
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hundred bucks if you do if you work in this
one zone and you do it on this particular day,
and then of course, you know there's a lot in
there about working at the airport, picking people up and
driving them. So you know, I just went down this
rabbit hole. And this is just how crazy my mind is,
you know, being a financial guy, a math guy that
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I'm like, wow. And then I'm like running all these analyzes,
like hey, I could get a Tesla and then I
could make enough money to pay for the rental of
the Tesla and then still have all this money left
over and have a Tesla that I'm driving. And I'm
like running all these scenarios and thinking, man, do people
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know about this? I was just trying. I'm thinking my followers,
my readers, my listeners, they need to know about this.
It is just really interesting. I love these kind of things.
And I'm the kind of guy where, let's say, over
the course of maybe doing this for five or six days,
maybe I make a thousand bucks. Okay, I will be
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more excited just about the experience of figuring out how
to get a thousand dollars doing it, then I will
be about having a thousand dollars. That's just kind of
the weird thing about it. But I'm just loving my
life right now, and I'm looking forward to the next
three years of law school. It's been a long journey,
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it really has been, since the divorce and my wife
divorcing me and kind of having to rebuild my life.
I was looking at the calendar and my wife left
me in October of twenty twenty one. So we're approaching
four years and I've been through a lot. And so
I finished my teaching credential for Florida so I can
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teach in the public schools. I can get a regular
teacher gig if I wanted to. Then I finished my masters,
and then I took the LSAT and did well enough.
Now I'm accepted into law school, and I'm also applying
for some adjunct professor positions where I could maybe teach
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for my alma mater, evangel University or Southeastern University, or
a number of different online schools where I could maybe
be teaching business, maybe doing that a little bit with
my time. I've got an idea for a book I
want to write, so I've got that going and people
just say, how do you do all this? Well? For me,
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the work is fun. All this stuff I'm doing, I
love doing it, so like none of it is work.
None of it is work. So it's just like having
fun writing articles, writing books, going to law school, doing
these classes to get my teaching credential and my master's
degree and the LSAT. It's all just a challenge, and
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I love a challenge, a mental challenge. So to me,
it's just been one of those examples where you just
you love the journey. You're going to also love the destination,
but you also love the journey. And I've got this other,
like great idea of something I'm thinking about doing, which
is something I've always wanted to do. And so this
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summer before law school starts, I have this idea that
I am going to get on a train here in Florida.
I'm going to take that train all the way to
New York City. I'm going to maybe spend a day
in New York City. Then I'm going to take that
train to Chicago and maybe spend a day in Chicago.
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Then I'm going to take that train all the way
across the United States to the West coast, and maybe
I'll go south and hit some hearts of California or whatever.
Just the idea of a nationwide train trip, and I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna go for it and get the cabin.
I'm gonna get to cabin so I have a sleeping
cabin so I can sleep and have my own private
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bathroom and shower and all that great stuff. And that's
gonna be like my big splurge before law school starts.
So it's amazing. Not only did I get into law school,
I got a great scholarship and it's not really going
to cost very much money, which I mean law school
can cost a lot of money. I mean you can
spend fifty thousand a year, eighty thousand a year, and
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I'm hardly gonna have to spend anything because of the
great scholarship that I got. And then I'm going to
a state school. So a lot of great things have happened,
and I'm excited to share this with you, my listeners.
Then just leave you with this word of encouragement that
I know a lot of you are going through tough things.
You lost your job, you're struggling with your health, You've
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got someone in your family that's struck and with their health,
and maybe you're dealing with relationship issues, divorce, those kinds
of things. We all have these seasons. We have these seasons.
No one can avoid it. We have these dark seasons,
and we all go through those things. But I'm here
as a living testament to tell you that the seasons
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change and now for me, a new season starts, and
I wanted to share all the great news with you.
So from today, you know, check check out the new
credit scoring I'd love to have you in that credit
scoringpro dot us love to have you in that. And
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also just stay tuned to see what's gonna happen here
with Uber and this app that I'm trying out grid
Wise and just a lot of fun things going on.
God blessed. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk to you
next time. So long, everybody. St
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the author of more than thirty books. Jim Paris.
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All Right, hello buddy, and welcome to the broadcast. I
am so excited to be with you. This is going
to be a little bit of a different program because
normally we get into i don't know, maybe fifteen or
twenty different topics related to the news. But we're not
going to do that. We're going to actually talk about
just some really cool stuff that's going on with me.
So I'm going to kind of break the show down
(01:20):
into three pieces. So I'm going to tell you about
what happened with the law school admission test and my
law school prospects, So we're going to get into that.
We're also going to talk about a brand new credit
scoring training program that I've launched, and then we're going
to talk about ride share as a gig and some
(01:41):
really neat things that I have learned about ride share
and kind of a little bit of an experiment that
I'm going to be doing with ride share. So we're
going to get into all that today. So let's get
into it. So the big exciting news is I have
been accepted into law school and I will be going
to Florida A and M University College of Law here
(02:04):
in Orlando starting in August. That will be my home
for three years. Well I get the Juris Doctor degree
and then go on to take the Bar exam and
practice as a Florida lawyer. And there's so much I
could tell you about this. I mean, first of all,
I'm just so excited. I'm so excited, but there is
(02:25):
so much to know, Like I could literally almost write
an entire book about what this experience has been like
getting into law school. And it's almost like I was
telling one of my friends yesterday, I said, you should
almost get a trophy or some kind of diploma or
recognition just for getting into law school because of all
(02:47):
the things that you have to do. I mean, obviously
you have to have a bachelor's degree, but you also
have to have a decent enough grade point average for
them to look at you. You then have to take
this really weird test call the lsat the Law School
Admission test, which is really strange, and I've talked to
(03:08):
you about it before, I think on one other episode.
It's not a test where you're given a list of
topics that you can study for, like a regular test
like whether you're getting a real estate license or something
like that, where you can get the body of information
and then study it and then go regurgitate it and
get a good score. This isn't a test like that,
(03:29):
so you can't really study for it in a traditional way.
It is a test that really challenges two skill sets.
One is logical reasoning and the other is reading comprehension.
So although you can't really study and prepare for the
information that you're going to be asked about because the
(03:50):
information is almost of no consequence, they will give you
these different scenarios that you are to analyze and make
sense of. So it's not really the information that you're
being tested on, it's your ability to understand that information
and make logical conclusions, draw logical conclusions from it. So,
(04:13):
to make a long story short, I scored in the
upper thirty nine percentile of everyone that took the LSAT exam. Now,
I will tell you it was funny because I'm coming
down the elevator after taking the test, which I did.
Take it on April to tenth, and the only thing
I did to prepare for it was about three or
(04:35):
four weeks before the test. Remember, I had just finished
my master's degree. I was awarded my master's degree the
first week of March, and so I said to myself, Okay,
once you get the master's degree, then immediately shift gears.
You're getting ready to take the April tenth LSAT. So
I had about three to three and a half weeks
(04:57):
to prepare, and I I did not go buy any
of the expensive courses, or go to any seminars, or
do any of that stuff. I did not hire a tutor,
mostly because I thought, you know what, I've only got
three weeks. So if I spent one thousand dollars or
ten thousand dollars on one of these training systems, how
(05:17):
much real value can I get out of it in
three weeks, probably not a lot. So what I did
was I strictly used free resources. That is the Law
School Admission Council, the LSAC, which is the organization that
you pay and sign up with to take the LSAT.
(05:38):
They have a bunch of like a few hundred drill
questions and also some past exams that you can use
like for practice, you know, practice testing. And I basically
did that for about three weeks. I went in and
I took the test and I'm coming down the elevator.
I'm totally brain dead. I mean, this test was just
(06:01):
totally draining. You see this little clock running in the
upper right hand corner of the screen. You have only
about maybe a minute or so to answer each question
or you'll run out of time if you don't answer
them at that pace. So I'm going down the elevator.
There's another young there's a young lady, maybe in her twenties,
and she's going down the elevator and I said to her, Hey,
(06:23):
so how do you think you did? She said, well,
you know, the first time I took it, I did
really poorly a year ago. And so I hired a
guy in Australia out of Australia who took tutors me
on Zoom and she like was paying this guy thousands
of dollars. She said, what did you do to prepare?
That's kind of embarrassed. I said, well, for three weeks,
(06:44):
I just used like the free resources that I could get.
That was it. And she was being nice, you know,
she was like, oh okay, and she said, so what
law school are you trying to get into? And I said, well,
I want to stay in Orlando because that's where my
mom is. So there's two law schools here. There's Barry
University and there's FAMU School of Law. So there's the
(07:08):
two schools. And I said, I'm kind of leaving, leaning
towards FAMU Law. And she said, wow, you know they're
they're kind of selective. Good luck, kind of like good
luck as if like I really needed it, Like she
kind of thought, ugh, what's this guy thinking? But in
any case, so I got I got the great score,
(07:30):
and praise God, I got the great score. And so
as soon as I got the score, I immediately went
into the LSAC, the Law School and Mission Council website
which I'm signed up for. I had uploaded all of
my college transcripts. I had written my so called personal statement,
gotten all my references, all those things. You have to do,
(07:52):
so much thing, so many things, so much work to do,
and everything is held in there until you get the
l s AT score. So once I had the LSAT score,
I needed to immediately apply because, for example FAMU, their
deadline was the day I got my score. So had
I not actually submitted my application on April thirtieth, which
(08:16):
is the day I got my score, I hadn't gotten
the score and pressed the button to send it in,
I would have been past the deadline, and there was
no way I could have then gone into law school
in twenty twenty five in the fall to that school.
Make a long story short, I got great offers just
a few days ago. I got great offers from FAMU
(08:39):
Law and from Barry University, both of the schools here
in Orlando. I have three other applications out. Although I
did make a decision. I made a final decision based
on the great scholarship. I was offered scholarship, substantial scholarships
for both schools. Praise God, and I went ahead and
went with FAMU Law. I I signed the paperwork Friday
(09:02):
and I made a commitment to FAMU Law, which is
where I will be studying the law for the next
three years. So I will still be here with you
doing the show and writing books and doing all this
stuff I usually do, but I will be able to
do this thing that I've always wanted to do, my dream,
which is to go to law school and become an attorney,
(09:24):
and looking forward to that, and it's just just surreal,
just really exciting. So if you are somebody that spires
to go to school and you want to email me,
you could, you can, and I'll to just tell you
what I know, how I how I would kind of
work the system. My email is James L. Paris at
gmail dot com. And there's a lot to know, there
(09:46):
really is. And I've been reading and studying and researching,
like as far as even once you get accepted into
a law school, like what law school should you go to?
Like how do you figure that out? And there's so
many little new you know, for example, some schools will
give you a great scholarship in year one, but then
they won't give you that same scholarship in year two.
(10:09):
And there's like a sort of a little bit of
a let's call it like a hidden loophole for them
to not renew you to the next year. And there's
just a lot to know like that, And so when
it all came down to it, I decided to go
with FAM You Law. I still have not heard back
(10:29):
from some of the other law schools, but I did
promise that I would go to Fam You Law. And
that was because, honestly, if I did not make that
promise on Friday and sign everything, there was a chance
I could have lost my scholarship and they might have
given my seat to somebody else. So I did make
a promise, and I did do that on Friday, and
(10:52):
I'm glad I did. I love FAM You Law. It's
just a beautiful, beautiful campus. It's in a high rise
building in downtown Orlando, and it's kind of a different campus.
It's not like an all spread out campus. It's like
a I think it's maybe six or seven floors. Maybe not,
maybe it's five or six floors. I don't remember. But
(11:14):
it's a beautiful, beautiful building and I'm really really looking
forward to starting to study the law. All right, So
what else is going on? So I just launched this
program and you can check it out by going to
credit scorepro dot us creditscorepro dot us. Now a lot
(11:38):
of you know that I wrote a book maybe fifteen
years ago. I originally wrote it. It's been updated a
little bit here and there called Credit Scoring Secrets, and
so Credit Scoring Secrets is on Amazon. It's available as
a kindle and also a print book, and it's a
really great like hands on like how to fix your credit.
(12:02):
But it's a little bit dated. I think the last
time we updated it might have been seven or eight
years ago. So what I decided to do was I
have so many people asking me for help on fixing
their credit and their credit score. Now, we did not
launch a credit repair company. I'm not really a believer
in credit repair companies for a lot of reasons. A
(12:24):
lot of them are scams. Most of them charge way
way too much money. They charge hundreds and hundreds of dollars,
sometimes thousands of dollars. So I decided, hey, let me
put together a little Jim Parris hands on program training
on how to raise your credit score one hundred points
(12:45):
and one hundred days. And so last Wednesday night I
did a zoom workshop where I talked all about this,
showed people examples of what I'm doing, and all of that.
That workshop is on the website. All the bullet points
are on the website of what I'm offering, including including
you have access to me in the training. There's also
(13:07):
information on that as well. So it's gonna be in
the you know, normal style of my trainings where there
are videos and they're all going to be on demand,
and you're gonna have access to all of my great
letters to dispute inaccurate and damaging credit, learn how to
settle debts with collection agencies. It's gonna be a lot
(13:27):
of great stuff in there, and there's a there's a
great video overview in there at the website, and then
there's also the workshop that we did where we kind
of gave people like a little bit more in depth
information about it. But you can look into this if
you're if you're looking to improve your credit score, maybe
because you're wanting to buy a house, or just get
(13:49):
better interest rates when you borrow money. That's a big thing.
If you don't have the great score, you don't get
the great interest rate. So even people getting insurance to
look at your credit score. In a lot of states,
some states, I think don't allow that, but most do.
Depending on the kind of job that you apply for,
they might look at your credit score. And that's like
(14:11):
the case in my job as a loan officer, they
do look at my credit score. So if you're working
we're a financial institution or a bank. But that is
a great course that I've put together. And let me
tell you where the knowledge comes from, because starting back
in like two thousand and two, when I first got
into the mortgage industry, I started making it my niche
(14:32):
or helping on focusing on helping people that had been
through bankruptcy or foreclosure and being able to rebuild their
credit to be able to purchase a house. And so
I did that for many many years as my niche.
That's not necessarily my niche right now. I'm kind of
doing mortgages for a lot of different profiles, including people
that have credit issues. But I learned so much in
(14:57):
that process of working with people helping them to raise
their credit score. It wasn't a theoretical thing. It was like, hey,
let's sit down, let's pull up your credit report, and
then let's do these things and then we will have
you come back in thirty days and we'll look at
how how much we've gained. And then these people went
on to get mortgages and buy homes and it was
(15:20):
a real thing and it really worked. But you don't
want to hire a credit repair company where they promise
you to do things that honestly, a lot of the
promises are just unrealistic what they can claim they can do.
And my course is going to empower you to do
your own credit repair. If you're a real estate agent,
(15:41):
a mortgage person, or in any business where financing is
part of your sales process selling cars, banking, you probably
want to take my course also because think about it.
If you have to turn someone away because they can't
buy a car they don't have good enough credit, but
you know how to and maybe two or three months
rehabilitate their credit to be able to get them approved
(16:05):
or get them approved for a mortgage, because you're a
real estate agent, all these different things. Check it out.
Credit score pro dot us, Credit scorepro dot us. Okay,
so I want to talk about ride share. I love
these side gigs. I do side gigs. I'm not too
(16:26):
proud to tell you that I've done side gigs, especially
after when my thirty six year marriage ended, and things
happened to where I didn't have access to my money
and my savings and all of that. I had to
figure out quick ways to make money. And I have
tried a lot of different side gigs. So a lot
of you already know about reelpicks dot us and I've
(16:50):
got a new sidegig to talk about with you today.
But real picks is still going. That's pics reelpicks dot us.
That's where you're taking pictures for the banks and the
mortgage companies and the property managers. That's a great little
side gig. But okay, Uber, everybody knows about Uber, right
driving for Uber, driving for Lyft, But did you know
(17:10):
that there are a bunch of these other companies that
you can drive for. It's not just Uber and Lyft,
and it's not just driving people like, for example, Amazon
has a program called Amazon Flex where you actually, in
two hour blocks of time, use your own vehicle to
deliver packages for Amazon. And I want to tell you
(17:34):
about this really cool app that I just got. I'm
going to reach over here and I'm gonna grab my
phone so that I can pull it up here. Tell
you the name of this app and then I'm going
to tell you what I'm doing with Uber. This is
gonna be a lot of fun and people are gonna
love watching me do this. All right, let's see here.
What are we looking at here? The name of this
(17:55):
app that I want to tell you about is called
grid wise rid grid Wise grid Wise, and they have
a fourteen day free trial. And what it is. It's
kind of a companion app that you can use for
any of these other opportunities, these other so called ride
(18:16):
share types of opportunity. So I'm going to pull up
a list here and mention some of these companies to you,
because honestly, you know, I don't even know. Let's see here,
We're gonna just do We'll do all categories. Okay, here
we go. I don't even know some of these. Okay,
I know about Uber, right, I know about Lift, I
(18:37):
know about those two. Now we get into some other ones.
I don't know about Amazon Flex. What is that? Well,
it says here that you get paid to do deliveries
for Amazon in your own car in like two hour increments.
That's interesting to me. Then there's another one here called Roady,
(18:58):
and I'm thinking, like, well, what is Roady? I don't
know what that is. Let me see if it'll tell us.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think Roady is a little bit longer distance driving.
But then there's another one called Spark Driver. Excuse me.
Spark is driving for Walmart, delivering stuff on behalf of Walmart.
Then there is Instacart, which I've heard of Instacart, grub
Hub I've heard of. Uber Eats is another one. Then
(19:27):
there's one here called go Puff that says deliver every
day convenience items including grocery, snacks, tobacco, and household items. Okay,
so there's that one. So what this grid wise app
does is it helps you to optimize your involvement with
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these ride share opportunities. So I'll give you an example.
So I signed up two days ago to be an
Uber driver. The initial idea for this a couple of things.
I thought this would be a great article, like to
drive for Uber for a week and then report back
(20:09):
what happened. You know, how much money did I make,
what were my expenses and all of that. And then
I ended up going down this rabbit hole that I
never imagined. I knew none of this. There are so
many cool things about driving for Uber. Did you know
that there's a way you can get like your college
for free by driving for Uber. You can also get
(20:31):
health insurance as a part of driving for Uber, and
also that you can get really cool cars, like you
can get what would be like a brand new car
to drive and you just pay a fee each week,
and you can have like a Tesla electric car or
just a regular you know, you know, gas powered car
and get like a new car to drive. These are
(20:53):
some really cool things inside of Uber. So I signed
up to drive for Uber, and I've done it because
I want to write about it and I want to
do some videos about it, and I want to talk
about it on the show. But I also did it
because here's the here's the other thing. So because I'm
going into law school starting in August, I'm going to
have to reduce my time that I'm working with mortgages
(21:16):
in real estate. I'm going to try to keep doing
it some of my time. The problem is, though, that
that kind of work is work where it would be hard.
Like if I'm tied up for four hours in law
classes and then i have to deal with a problem
that comes up during a closing, I don't have that
(21:38):
kind of freedom to like jump out of class and
deal with that. So I'm going to try to keep
my law my law school going and still keep a
part time you know, footprint in real estate mortgages. But
here's the here's what I was trying to figure out,
is like what else could I do? Maybe like one
day a week. If I'm let's say my class is
(21:59):
only go four days a week, which I think might
be the case, maybe I could substitute teach one day
a week just to sort of have a little bit
of money coming in just from something else. Or Uber
popped into my mind, and then I started looking into
all of this with Uber and just the crazy stuff
like that you can get a free college education, and
(22:22):
then if you don't want the college education for yourself,
you can actually gift that to a family member. So
you're driving for Uber and you do enough Uber rides
and now you give that to your kid and then
they get to go to college for free. Just some
crazy stuff that I didn't know about. So I thought
Uber might be a great option because while you're driving Uber,
(22:43):
you still have access to your phone. I mean, you
probably shouldn't be on any client calls or anything like
that while you're driving somebody, which I wouldn't do. But
you know, in the part of the process where you're
heading to pick up your your pick up, you know
your ride, you're picking that person up, you could be
on a phone call, on a headset, you know, during
that part of it. But because I live in Orlando now,
(23:05):
I'd always thought Orlando would be a place to drive
for Uber because it's crazy busy here with all the
tourism and Disney World and now Universal Studios and Lego
Land and just all the stuff that goes on here.
And I just love I love this idea of just
(23:28):
my idea was for a week to get up every
morning at four point thirty, have some coffee and breakfast,
do a shift from say five until nine every morning,
and just see how much money I could make over
the course of a week. Now, I couldn't do that
while I was in law school, to do that every morning,
I'd be too tired to you know, go into law school.
But I thought, you know, that would be like a fun,
(23:51):
interesting thing to do maybe one morning a week or
a couple of mornings a week. And I love meeting people.
I love talking to people. And I got a great
car that would be perfect to do this, So call
me crazy. I am going to be doing Uber here
and I will let you know how it goes. I'm
really really excited about it and just so interested in
(24:12):
so grid wise getting back to Gridwise the app. What
grid Wise is doing for me as far as Uber
goes is it's showing me like what is the most
profitable time of the day to drive for Uber? And
then it's breaking down my city of Orlando, which is
kind of a sprawling area. You've got everything from like
(24:35):
south of Disney to you know, north of Sanford, which
is you know, the northernmost section of the Orlando metro area.
And it's breaking it down like where do you make
the most money, which zones and what time of day
and what days of the week to be doing it.
(24:56):
So it's almost like if you were looking that your
time in the car doing Uber as like you were
investing in the stock market, and this is like your analysis,
like your technical analysis of hey, you're four hours in
the car. You know, here's where you can make in
four hours, like one hundred and fifty bucks or two
(25:17):
hundred bucks if you do if you work in this
one zone and you do it on this particular day,
and then of course, you know there's a lot in
there about working at the airport, picking people up and
driving them. So you know, I just went down this
rabbit hole. And this is just how crazy my mind is,
you know, being a financial guy, a math guy that
(25:39):
I'm like, wow. And then I'm like running all these analyzes,
like hey, I could get a Tesla and then I
could make enough money to pay for the rental of
the Tesla and then still have all this money left
over and have a Tesla that I'm driving. And I'm
like running all these scenarios and thinking, man, do people
(25:59):
know about this? I was just trying. I'm thinking my followers,
my readers, my listeners, they need to know about this.
It is just really interesting. I love these kind of things.
And I'm the kind of guy where, let's say, over
the course of maybe doing this for five or six days,
maybe I make a thousand bucks. Okay, I will be
(26:22):
more excited just about the experience of figuring out how
to get a thousand dollars doing it, then I will
be about having a thousand dollars. That's just kind of
the weird thing about it. But I'm just loving my
life right now, and I'm looking forward to the next
three years of law school. It's been a long journey,
(26:43):
it really has been, since the divorce and my wife
divorcing me and kind of having to rebuild my life.
I was looking at the calendar and my wife left
me in October of twenty twenty one. So we're approaching
four years and I've been through a lot. And so
I finished my teaching credential for Florida so I can
(27:08):
teach in the public schools. I can get a regular
teacher gig if I wanted to. Then I finished my masters,
and then I took the LSAT and did well enough.
Now I'm accepted into law school, and I'm also applying
for some adjunct professor positions where I could maybe teach
(27:29):
for my alma mater, evangel University or Southeastern University, or
a number of different online schools where I could maybe
be teaching business, maybe doing that a little bit with
my time. I've got an idea for a book I
want to write, so I've got that going and people
just say, how do you do all this? Well? For me,
(27:52):
the work is fun. All this stuff I'm doing, I
love doing it, so like none of it is work.
None of it is work. So it's just like having
fun writing articles, writing books, going to law school, doing
these classes to get my teaching credential and my master's
degree and the LSAT. It's all just a challenge, and
(28:12):
I love a challenge, a mental challenge. So to me,
it's just been one of those examples where you just
you love the journey. You're going to also love the destination,
but you also love the journey. And I've got this other,
like great idea of something I'm thinking about doing, which
is something I've always wanted to do. And so this
(28:32):
summer before law school starts, I have this idea that
I am going to get on a train here in Florida.
I'm going to take that train all the way to
New York City. I'm going to maybe spend a day
in New York City. Then I'm going to take that
train to Chicago and maybe spend a day in Chicago.
(28:52):
Then I'm going to take that train all the way
across the United States to the West coast, and maybe
I'll go south and hit some hearts of California or whatever.
Just the idea of a nationwide train trip, and I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna go for it and get the cabin.
I'm gonna get to cabin so I have a sleeping
cabin so I can sleep and have my own private
(29:12):
bathroom and shower and all that great stuff. And that's
gonna be like my big splurge before law school starts.
So it's amazing. Not only did I get into law school,
I got a great scholarship and it's not really going
to cost very much money, which I mean law school
can cost a lot of money. I mean you can
spend fifty thousand a year, eighty thousand a year, and
(29:37):
I'm hardly gonna have to spend anything because of the
great scholarship that I got. And then I'm going to
a state school. So a lot of great things have happened,
and I'm excited to share this with you, my listeners.
Then just leave you with this word of encouragement that
I know a lot of you are going through tough things.
You lost your job, you're struggling with your health, You've
(29:58):
got someone in your family that's struck and with their health,
and maybe you're dealing with relationship issues, divorce, those kinds
of things. We all have these seasons. We have these seasons.
No one can avoid it. We have these dark seasons,
and we all go through those things. But I'm here
as a living testament to tell you that the seasons
(30:20):
change and now for me, a new season starts, and
I wanted to share all the great news with you.
So from today, you know, check check out the new
credit scoring I'd love to have you in that credit
scoringpro dot us love to have you in that. And
(30:41):
also just stay tuned to see what's gonna happen here
with Uber and this app that I'm trying out grid
Wise and just a lot of fun things going on.
God blessed. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk to you
next time. So long, everybody. St
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The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a thought-provoking, opinionated, and topic-driven journey through the top sports stories of the day.