December 3, 2024 • 26 mins
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Today I'm joined by John Mendez, a serial entrepreneur, realtor, investor, and social media expert. John shares his insights on leveraging social media for personal and professional growth, while maintaining a healthy mental diet. He offers tips on wealth creation, including the significance of finding mentors, essential reading for financial education, and the importance of a supportive community. John also discusses the role of intermittent fasting in maintaining health and introduces his mission to help non-tech-savvy individuals enhance their online presence. Tune in to learn how to achieve financial freedom and live your dream life.
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Magic Barclay (00:42):
Welcome back to A Magical Life.
I'm your host, Magic Barclay.
And today, John Mendez joins us.
He's a serial entrepreneur, arealtor, investor, podcast and
social media expert, John isdeeply passionate about helping
other like minded individualsachieve a life of abundance.
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Through the power of the mindand social media, John Mendez is
empowering others to obtainfinancial freedom and build the
lives they've always dreamed ofliving.
Welcome, John.
John Mendez (01:18):
Hey, thank you so much for the opportunity.
I'm super excited to be here andjust super excited to, you know,
see where our conversation takesus.
Magic Barclay (01:25):
And I'm super excited that you're here also.
I guess something I want to justcome straight out of the box.
And ask you is in a world wheresocial media seems to tell us
what's right, what's wrong,what's acceptable in society and
what's not.
How can we keep it at arm'slength, but also benefit from
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it?
John Mendez (01:50):
Yeah.
So one of the things that I didthat anyone can easily do.
So one of the main that I'm onis Instagram.
Instagram has a nice featurethat I love called mute.
And so I literally mutedeveryone that's not in my dream
100.
And for anyone that doesn't knowwhat that is, it's just my list
of like top a hundred peoplethat I would love to eventually
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collaborate in the future witheveryone who's not in that dream
100 list or someone thatinspires me locally.
I just muted everybody because Idon't have time to be seeing
negativity.
Your mental diet is far moreimportant than whatever you
consume physically, because itall starts from the mind, from
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your head.
So for me, I was became veryconscious as to what I put in my
head and what gets access to mymind.
So I made sure to mute literallyanyone, even if they were not
posting negative stuff, but theywere just posting like selfies
or something.
You're getting muted too.
If it's not inspiring me oreducating me or impacting me,
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you're getting muted.
So that is the quick and easyway for anyone to start getting
more value from their socialmedia without being sucked into.
All the negativity and thewokeness and et cetera, et
cetera, that tends to go on.
Magic Barclay (03:07):
Oh my gosh.
When you were saying that Irealized I've done that
unintentionally.
My Instagram is full of peoplelike Sy Savage and Dr.
Joe Dispenza.
And then it's completely filledwith Siberian cats and bush
cabins.
Absolutely craziness.
John Mendez (03:26):
That's an interesting mix, but yeah,
whatever it is, as long as it'snot negative.
Magic Barclay (03:30):
Totally.
Okay.
And I love that you say gettingaway from the workness.
We don't really discuss politicshere, but I think.
You know, from a biologicalstandpoint, and I'm probably
going to get myself in sometrouble saying this, but I think
you have to really look atnature, you know, I, I say to
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people, look at nature for yourhealth, look at nature for your
guidance on society as well.
This craziness of all beingterrified of each other and how
to address each other.
You know, I just want to, Saythis right now, look at the
animal kingdom.
They don't have these societalflaws that we seem to have
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developed and certainly don'tlet your social media fill up
with those, you know, gooutside, make up your own mind
and live your own truth.
John Mendez (04:23):
Yeah, I would say something on the line.
I said, so I wouldn't dive toodeep just for, you know, out of
respect for your show.
But it's like one of thosethings where it's a lot of
people who believe that theyunderstand the world and they're
very naive and ignorant becausethis world is so complex.
And if you ask people why enoughtimes, most people don't know
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anything about anything.
And so for me, the only thing Iknow is that I don't know.
That's a quote from Socrates,just in case it went over
anyone's head.
That's the only thing that I'mcertain of is that I don't know,
but I am in search of moreinformation and knowledge.
And it's a journey.
So I always.
in mind that there's people outthere who know more than me in
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the grand scheme of things.
We're all just trying to makesense of this world and this
life that we got.
So I try not to judge.
Magic Barclay (05:12):
Totally.
Okay.
So John, I ask all of my gueststhe same three questions.
Everyone gives me reallydifferent answers.
So your first one is what canyour expertise do to accelerate
health, not just physical, butalso emotional and spiritual
health.
Thank you.
John Mendez (05:31):
The first one, so my podcast, I talk a lot about
wealth building concepts and notjust wealth in terms of
monetary, I talk about wealth interms of the holistic approach,
like wealth in all your areas oflife is what I love to tell
people.
And for me, I got to see veryearly on in life.
So I grew up in the projects.
It was nine of us in a twobedroom.
My mother, she suffered frommental health issues.
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My father was absent most of mylife.
Grandparents immigrated herefrom Dominican Republic.
So it's like we never had moneygrowing up.
We had section eight, which islike government subsidies.
And you know, we had foodstamps.
So it's like money was alwaysvery tight in our lives in the,
in our neighborhood.
Money was always tight.
Very tight as well.
We live in the projects.
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We lived in a poor part of theirneighborhood.
And so for us, We knew poverty,that's all we knew.
But going to public schools inthe city that I was in, you
would see some people that liveon the other side of town and
they have multi million dollarproperties.
And one of my friends, Iremember the opportunity he
gifted me to go to the Hamptons,which is a part of New York
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where they have like F.
U.
money, I like to say.
Where everyone over there justhas tons of money and they're
all loaded.
And I got an opportunity to seevery early on in life the
absence of wealth can do topeople and what an abundance of
wealth can do for people.
And so for me, I kept fastforward a little bit further on
in my journey.
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Then I finally read the book forsad, poor dad and shifted my
paradigm.
It made me realize that thesetopics about money and finance
and wealth, they weren't beingtaught in my school.
They weren't being taught in myenvironment, but more
importantly, they weren't beingtaught in my house.
And so when I started mypodcast, it was just like, man,
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I was very fortunate because Ipicked this up at what age 20
and age 19 is when I first readRich Dad Poor Dad.
And so for me, I still thinkthat if I've learned that stuff
sooner, it would have helped meout so much.
And almost, I don't know howit's like over in your parts of
the world, but in the States,almost two thirds of Americans
can't afford a 500 emergencyexpense.
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Eight out of 10 Americans areliving paycheck to paycheck.
That's like the wealth building,the personal finance,
entrepreneurship stuff.
It's like that can help you getfreedom back in your life, or at
least enough freedom for you'renot literally struggling to make
ends meet and you can actuallypay for, you know, 500.
It's not much money, butmajority of Americans are, would
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be screwed over if life can, youknow, threw him a curve ball.
So I think.
Money is good for the good thatmoney can do.
And it's definitely, if you wantto make a massive impact in your
life, you're going to needsomething to help fund it.
So learning how to understandmoney, not to be, you know, Bill
Gates or the richest man alive,but just learning the game of
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money and to understand money sothat you don't have to be
scrapping ends, you know, at theend of the month, just to make
it ends meet.
Magic Barclay (08:33):
It's very similar here in Australia and leading
into that.
So, you know, have.
The skills to make the money sothat if there's a health crisis,
you can pay for it.
What are some top three tips tocreating wealth that you have?
John Mendez (08:51):
So the first step is get around people that know
way more than you and be asponge.
Like for me, I never should comeoff as a guy that knows it all.
Cause for me and fulltransparency right now, I'm in
the red.
I'm starting up my businessright and it's like anyone who
started up their own business,man, when you're starting off a
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business from scratch, thosefirst few months or so, man, it
is gruesome.
It is brutal.
And you have to tough itthrough.
So the first step is gettingaround people that are smarter
than you because there's peoplethat already have arrows in
their back.
Meaning there's people who havealready went out to war already
and came back alive.
Find those people and figure outwhat they're doing.
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In whatever industry you're in,get around them, learn from
them, and follow their stepsbecause you don't have to be the
first one.
You don't have to reinvent thewheel.
Find the people who already didthe work.
And learn from them because asmart man learned from his
mistakes.
A wise man learned some of thestakes of others.
So get around people that aresmarter than you is step number
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one, step number two.
I'm not sponsored at all by thisbook, but this book helped me
out the most in my journey is abook called, I will teach you to
be rich.
That book taught me about how tostart building my credit again.
I don't know how it's like in,um, your parts of the world, but
building my credit.
You know, how to invest in indexfunds, how to start budgeting,
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things like that.
That book was so practical.
I read, I feel like after everychapter I've read, I could go
close the book and then goimplement something.
I changed the bank accounts thatI had.
I stopped banking with oneinstitution and moved to my
money to another institution.
I started using the online bank.
Like that book taught me so muchabout like practical personal
finance and money topics.
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That was never talked about ortaught in school or in my home
or in my environment.
So that was my step number two,I'd recommend for anyone.
And it's a brand in a way whereit's very, very like friendly to
people.
A lot of times when you hearpeople talk about money and
finances, they almost make youfeel ashamed for not
understanding it.
And that tends to draw a lot ofpeople away.
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That book didn't do that at all.
It was very easy to read, verypractical, very, you know,
welcoming.
And so.
That would be step number two,step number three, I would say
for anyone looking to startbuilding wealth is so the first
step I said to get around peoplethat are smarter than you, that
was like more for like a mentorfigure.
The second, the final step is Iget around people that are going
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on the journey with you.
It's so important to get arounda tribe of people for
accountability, for support, forlove, just for camaraderie, you
know, getting around like amastermind group of people who
may probably be a little bitfurther than you.
Some of them might be a littlebit behind you, but she's like a
group of people that are allkind of somewhere around the
same range and you're all headedto the same place.
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Right.
Or similar places, right.
And you're all taking a similarjourney and get around a
mastermind group because that'sgoing to give you these
confidence to support, you know,the days that you don't feel
like you want to push forward,you can rely on them to start
pushing you forward.
And when you, you're, you know,gas tank is emptied out, you can
tap into their gas tanks to helpyou keep on going.
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And there's an old Africanproverb is go something along
the lines of, if you want to gofast, go alone.
If you want to go far, gotogether.
So that'll be my three steps.
Find a mentor, read the bookcalled, I will teach you to be
rich or restart reading personalfinance books to start
understanding money.
And then you can find amastermind group or some type of
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like group that you cancollaborate with other people in
your community.
Magic Barclay (12:36):
And our final standard question is around
weight loss.
Many people battle with theirweight and we know that stress
is a key factor in that battle.
Have you ever battled yourweight?
If so, how did you win the war?
And what can you offer thelisteners who might be in the
situation?
John Mendez (12:54):
So for me, I've never had an issue where I
struggled with weight.
And part of it was because I'vealways been in sports, at least
for as long as I can remember,I've been very active.
One of the biggest things thathelped me, and I know a lot of
your listeners are women, andintermittent fasting.
Now make sure to consult, thisis not health advice at all, but
make sure to look into it.
I know intermittent fasting hassome different effects with
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women, just because like themenstrual cycle and things like
that.
So it affects you guys a littlebit differently.
But intermittent fasting for me,I feel like it's one of the
cheat codes to life.
There's so many health benefitsthat come with intermittent
fasting, and I think a lot ofpeople, when they think
intermittent fasting, some of mycommon misconceptions that I
tell people who are not reallyinformed about it, it's like,
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Oh, why are you skippingbreakfast?
It's, you know, why are youstarving yourself?
And it's like, most people don'tunderstand breakfast is two
words, right?
It's break fast.
Because any prolonged durationof time where you go without
eating is technically a fast.
So sleeping, It's technically afast.
So when you eat breakfast,you're breaking your fast with
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the first meal of the day.
So the time of the day that youeat.
Isn't the most important.
It's what you eat to break your,you know, your first meal of the
day.
That is important.
Whether that's that nine in themorning, seven in the morning,
whether it may be it's, youdon't break your fast till four
in the afternoon, whatever itis.
I just make sure that I get mycalories that I need to eat and
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consume within a day during myeating window.
Now, I used to be very strictwith it and I was like, I'm only
eating between 12 noon and 8 p.
m.
dinner, you know, Eastern time.
It's like, anything outside ofthat, I wouldn't even look at
food.
But now that I, you know, I'm inmaintenance mode now, and now I
can just like, one day if Idon't feel like fasting, I don't
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fast.
And one day if I am, then I'llgo push 24 hours.
Sometimes I'll push a little bitfurther than 24 hours.
I really go based off how Ifeel, but I didn't start doing
that until after, Well, maybefour years of almost like rock
solid discipline of intermittentfasting day in, day out.
And what I would recommend toeveryone else is find something
that you can fit around yourlifestyle.
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I hate dieting.
I hate people telling me what Ican and cannot do.
So, but waiting for something issomething that I don't mind.
That's just me.
That's just my naturalpersonality.
So I was like the idea offasting is like, okay, what
you're telling me is I can eatthe cookie, but I have to wait
till four in the afternoon toeat the cookie.
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I could do that.
But if someone were to tell me Ican't eat cookies, I would feel
upset because I see a goodcookie.
I'm going to want to eat it.
Right.
So it's like knowing yourselfand knowing something that you
could apply.
I argue with nutritionists backwhen I was in college, I argued
this nutritionist major.
And it's like, they're tellingme how you got to eat six meals
and every, you know, hour and ahalf, you got to eat a small
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meal and break it up intoportions throughout the day and
drink wine.
It's like, We have jobs, we havebusinesses we're trying to run,
we have families that we'retrying to look after, we have
hobbies, we have a personallife, we have date nights, we
have all these different things.
Who on earth has time to eat sixmeals a day, at certain points
in time in the day, every singleday?
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I don't personally don't knowanyone whose life is that
routine where it's like theyevery single day can
consistently eat.
So for me, I was like, what'smore realistic?
I can't control what life throwsat me.
So with intermittent fasting, Iwas able to really start getting
a lot of health benefits, but Iwas also able to still bulk up
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and build muscle because I madesure to get my calories in.
I made sure to eat my proteinand get my macros in.
And so it became very easy forme to get lean because I wasn't
focusing on starving myself, Iwas focusing on how do I boost
my metabolism, which is a wholenother thing because you can go
on a caloric deficit but ifyou're, if your metabolism is
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slow.
It's not going to really domuch.
So find ways to boost yourmetabolism.
Naturally, of course, exercisingis one of them.
I would start there.
And then from there, I said, Iknow health from YouTube
university.
I do not have a degree in any ofthis.
I just know what worked for me.
So this is not my advice towardsanyone.
This is just me sharing whatworked for me.
Magic Barclay (17:16):
And thanks for sharing.
Okay.
We've covered a fair bit, butlet's get onto what it is that
you do.
Tell us about your work andmaybe some things that the
listeners need to know aboutworking with John Mendes.
John Mendez (17:33):
Yeah, so thank you for the opportunity, Juan.
Uh, so the main two things is,I'll share with you guys a
little bit about my vision.
So, ideally, where I plan ontaking all this giant John
Mendes brand forward, is I wantto get into public speaking.
I want to start helping people'slives.
Like, walk to wealth.
Like, that's where I feel mycalling, my vision.
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Like, I feel like God has placedin my heart, personally, to do
something with that and to justtake that to the next level.
I haven't monetized that yetthough.
So I have a marketing companythat I started and the quick
backstory behind that is I wasin a real estate group.
So like I told you guys earlier,find your group, find your
tribe, find your community.
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I was in that group and.
I was always on this like 630 to7am call.
And I'm normally at the gym atthose times.
And one of the days they weretalking about social media.
So me, as I said, I'm 21 todayto date myself.
By the time this comes out nextyear, I'll be 22.
Nevertheless, I'm stillrelatively extremely young
compared to most real estateagents in my area.
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So for me, I was easily theyoungest person in the group.
I'm still I think I still mightbe the youngest person in the
group or close to the youngestactive person in that group.
And.
I was, I just knew social mediafrom growing up with it.
It's not like I had a master'sdegree in it.
I had, um, I was going to schoolfor marketing before I dropped
out my sophomore year, but mysecond year of university, I
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left school in the middle of thepandemic, so I didn't even get
to my actual marketing classes.
So.
I didn't know social media asidefrom the fact that I grew up
with it and posted a couplephotos, like once a year, um,
throughout my years in highschool and college.
And then I made a quick Facebookpost.
And then from there, one of thehosts of the group was like,
John, would you mind teaching aclass on this?
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And I was like, I never taught aclass before.
She said, John, tell us when youwant it scheduled.
I said, Oh, okay.
I can't say no to a top agenttwice.
So, I just figured it out, andfrom there, I had over 440
Realtors sign up, and I prettymuch had to spend more time
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inviting people manually,because I didn't know how to
host a class.
And so I had this Excel sheet,and I was copying and pasting
emails, and then copying andpasting the links to send it out
to everyone.
So it was a nightmare, but Iended up getting over 200 people
live.
And I call, I ended up goingamazing.
And that's how I cut mymarketing thing got started.
So now I'm really passionateabout helping non tech savvy,
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real estate agents, boosteronline presence so that they
don't have to pay for mediacompanies, and eventually I'll
be branching out to helping, youknow, entrepreneurs and small
business owners.
I not, I'm not the person to docontent for people.
I'm the person that teaches youhow to do it.
For yourself or teaches your VAor your admin or your assistant,
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how to do it so that you cankeep your marketing in house
because a lot of the stuff thatthese media companies do, man,
they're just posting the sameCanva images and I can't speak
for every industry.
I can only speak for theindustry industry just because
that's when I want to have themost experience experience in,
but like there was this onerealtor and she ended up
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becoming, she's a student ofmine now and she was in, she's
in my course.
Before we hopped on a quicksales call.
To see if it'll be a good fitfor her or not And she was
showing me her facebook pagethat she's paying 500 bucks a
month for a media companyLiterally, you look on her
facebook page.
You look like through 20 quickposts.
We just scroll through Sheprobably got maybe like six
likes across all 20.
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I'm just like you're paying 500bucks a month for this And on
top of that, there was one post.
It was like, here's three easyto bake recipes to cook while
you're at home.
Like what on earth does thathave to do with anything related
to her business?
And they're probably postingthose same exact posts to all
their other clients.
And there's like, man, we'redoing them a great service.
You're doing a good job.
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We're posting for them on theirbehalf.
so many more seasoned people,they don't understand social
media as well as the youngergenerations, because of course,
you guys haven't grown up withit.
But it's like, nevertheless, youstill shouldn't be getting
robbed of your hard earnedmoney, just because you don't
understand it or just becauseyou don't have the time to
understand it.
And a lot of these people thatare more seasoned to have more
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established businesses.
It's like they hire out becausethey know they don't understand
it.
They know they don't have thetime to understand it.
And so it's like, they'd ratherhave someone do it for them.
So the people that are, havethese media companies, they do
it for them.
But they don't get any returns,but they're still posting every
day.
So it looks like they're doingsomething for them on their
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behalf that actually benefitsthem.
So that's really my main missionreally is just, as I said, the
walk 12, I, and that's where Ireally want to scale and take
that to the moon.
But for the time being, as Imean, I'm doing both
simultaneously, the marketingcompany is what's going to help
fund my mission.
So I'm using my expertise tomonetize.
And then my purpose right now,Is not being monetized.
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So I'm using my expertise tohelp fund my purpose.
So I can continue living at thepodcast and to continue pushing
that out to more people rightnow.
I'm specifically targeting realestate agents just because I'm
getting off the ground now, butas I continue to scale and grow
and start getting more socialproof, I said, all these things
are just battle tested thingsthat I've learned myself from
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posting tons of videos andgetting burnt out and trying to
keep up with all the algorithms.
It's like, all right, how can Idumb this down to only the stuff
that matters?
Because a lot of stuff is justgibberish.
Like for example, Oh, what's thebest time to post?
Who cares?
Get the content out there.
Like so many people are stuck onthings that don't matter.
So just get it out there, figureout the rest later, figured out
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how to edit it later, figure outhow to make it look nice and
fancy later.
You're not getting nothing outthere.
You're not going to get anyreturn.
So there's a quote I love that Ilearned on this.
It's.
You have to become a disaster inorder for you to become a
master.
And so now I'm pretty muchhelping people become masters of
this content creation andartificial intelligence and how
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to use AI so that they can keeptheir marketing in house.
Save thousands of dollars permonth and save tens of hours,
you know, of their own time.
Magic Barclay (23:49):
I love it.
You have to become a disaster tobecome a master.
That is terrific.
John, how can people get hold ofyou?
John Mendez (24:00):
So the best way to get a hold of me would be to go
to If you need marketing helpspecifically, go to
stopandstare.
media.
Stopandstare.
media forward slash learn.
There I have tons of freemarketing material.
You can catch the replays to myclasses that I teach.
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All the classes and stuff that Ido is for free.
The only thing I have that'scost money is the course.
So all my content is on therefor free.
So go stop and stare.
media forward slash learn andjust eat up all the marketing
company, start saving yourmoney, stop paying for these
terrible media companies andstart building your presence so
that you can reach more people,impact more lives.
Magic Barclay (24:44):
And before we let you go, John, we love freebies.
What can you offer the listenersand where can they find it?
John Mendez (24:50):
Yeah.
So right now, for anyone that islooking to start their first
business, if you go to bit bit.
ly bit.
ly forward slash walk number twowealth gift forward slash walk
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to wealth gift You can get mybeginner's guide to
entrepreneurship, the fourbusinesses you must start in
order to start your dreambusiness.
So that is my free gift to youguys.
It's a free training that Ipretty much collaborated with,
with a guy that I know namedDrew.
He is a business strategist andhe really helped break it down.
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And so that anyone, no matterwhere you are, can help.
Start their entrepreneurshipjourney and break into the
working for yourself instead ofworking for the
Magic Barclay (25:46):
man.
John, thank you so much for yourtime today.
John Mendez (25:50):
Thank you so much for the opportunity
Magic Barclay (25:52):
and listeners.
Thank you for your time.
Please go ahead to like review,share, and subscribe to this
podcast.
We appreciate every time that wesee a new listener subscribed
and for now go forth and createyour magical life.
Welcome back to A Magical Life.
I'm your host, Magic Barclay.
And today, John Mendez joins us.
He's a serial entrepreneur, arealtor, investor, podcast and
social media expert, John isdeeply passionate about helping
other like minded individualsachieve a life of abundance.
(01:05):
Through the power of the mindand social media, John Mendez is
empowering others to obtainfinancial freedom and build the
lives they've always dreamed ofliving.
Welcome, John.
John Mendez (01:18):
Hey, thank you so much for the opportunity.
I'm super excited to be here andjust super excited to, you know,
see where our conversation takesus.
Magic Barclay (01:25):
And I'm super excited that you're here also.
I guess something I want to justcome straight out of the box.
And ask you is in a world wheresocial media seems to tell us
what's right, what's wrong,what's acceptable in society and
what's not.
How can we keep it at arm'slength, but also benefit from
(01:48):
it?
John Mendez (01:50):
Yeah.
So one of the things that I didthat anyone can easily do.
So one of the main that I'm onis Instagram.
Instagram has a nice featurethat I love called mute.
And so I literally mutedeveryone that's not in my dream
100.
And for anyone that doesn't knowwhat that is, it's just my list
of like top a hundred peoplethat I would love to eventually
(02:10):
collaborate in the future witheveryone who's not in that dream
100 list or someone thatinspires me locally.
I just muted everybody because Idon't have time to be seeing
negativity.
Your mental diet is far moreimportant than whatever you
consume physically, because itall starts from the mind, from
(02:32):
your head.
So for me, I was became veryconscious as to what I put in my
head and what gets access to mymind.
So I made sure to mute literallyanyone, even if they were not
posting negative stuff, but theywere just posting like selfies
or something.
You're getting muted too.
If it's not inspiring me oreducating me or impacting me,
(02:52):
you're getting muted.
So that is the quick and easyway for anyone to start getting
more value from their socialmedia without being sucked into.
All the negativity and thewokeness and et cetera, et
cetera, that tends to go on.
Magic Barclay (03:07):
Oh my gosh.
When you were saying that Irealized I've done that
unintentionally.
My Instagram is full of peoplelike Sy Savage and Dr.
Joe Dispenza.
And then it's completely filledwith Siberian cats and bush
cabins.
Absolutely craziness.
John Mendez (03:26):
That's an interesting mix, but yeah,
whatever it is, as long as it'snot negative.
Magic Barclay (03:30):
Totally.
Okay.
And I love that you say gettingaway from the workness.
We don't really discuss politicshere, but I think.
You know, from a biologicalstandpoint, and I'm probably
going to get myself in sometrouble saying this, but I think
you have to really look atnature, you know, I, I say to
(03:52):
people, look at nature for yourhealth, look at nature for your
guidance on society as well.
This craziness of all beingterrified of each other and how
to address each other.
You know, I just want to, Saythis right now, look at the
animal kingdom.
They don't have these societalflaws that we seem to have
(04:13):
developed and certainly don'tlet your social media fill up
with those, you know, gooutside, make up your own mind
and live your own truth.
John Mendez (04:23):
Yeah, I would say something on the line.
I said, so I wouldn't dive toodeep just for, you know, out of
respect for your show.
But it's like one of thosethings where it's a lot of
people who believe that theyunderstand the world and they're
very naive and ignorant becausethis world is so complex.
And if you ask people why enoughtimes, most people don't know
(04:45):
anything about anything.
And so for me, the only thing Iknow is that I don't know.
That's a quote from Socrates,just in case it went over
anyone's head.
That's the only thing that I'mcertain of is that I don't know,
but I am in search of moreinformation and knowledge.
And it's a journey.
So I always.
in mind that there's people outthere who know more than me in
(05:05):
the grand scheme of things.
We're all just trying to makesense of this world and this
life that we got.
So I try not to judge.
Magic Barclay (05:12):
Totally.
Okay.
So John, I ask all of my gueststhe same three questions.
Everyone gives me reallydifferent answers.
So your first one is what canyour expertise do to accelerate
health, not just physical, butalso emotional and spiritual
health.
Thank you.
John Mendez (05:31):
The first one, so my podcast, I talk a lot about
wealth building concepts and notjust wealth in terms of
monetary, I talk about wealth interms of the holistic approach,
like wealth in all your areas oflife is what I love to tell
people.
And for me, I got to see veryearly on in life.
So I grew up in the projects.
It was nine of us in a twobedroom.
My mother, she suffered frommental health issues.
(05:53):
My father was absent most of mylife.
Grandparents immigrated herefrom Dominican Republic.
So it's like we never had moneygrowing up.
We had section eight, which islike government subsidies.
And you know, we had foodstamps.
So it's like money was alwaysvery tight in our lives in the,
in our neighborhood.
Money was always tight.
Very tight as well.
We live in the projects.
(06:13):
We lived in a poor part of theirneighborhood.
And so for us, We knew poverty,that's all we knew.
But going to public schools inthe city that I was in, you
would see some people that liveon the other side of town and
they have multi million dollarproperties.
And one of my friends, Iremember the opportunity he
gifted me to go to the Hamptons,which is a part of New York
(06:35):
where they have like F.
U.
money, I like to say.
Where everyone over there justhas tons of money and they're
all loaded.
And I got an opportunity to seevery early on in life the
absence of wealth can do topeople and what an abundance of
wealth can do for people.
And so for me, I kept fastforward a little bit further on
in my journey.
(06:56):
Then I finally read the book forsad, poor dad and shifted my
paradigm.
It made me realize that thesetopics about money and finance
and wealth, they weren't beingtaught in my school.
They weren't being taught in myenvironment, but more
importantly, they weren't beingtaught in my house.
And so when I started mypodcast, it was just like, man,
(07:18):
I was very fortunate because Ipicked this up at what age 20
and age 19 is when I first readRich Dad Poor Dad.
And so for me, I still thinkthat if I've learned that stuff
sooner, it would have helped meout so much.
And almost, I don't know howit's like over in your parts of
the world, but in the States,almost two thirds of Americans
can't afford a 500 emergencyexpense.
(07:41):
Eight out of 10 Americans areliving paycheck to paycheck.
That's like the wealth building,the personal finance,
entrepreneurship stuff.
It's like that can help you getfreedom back in your life, or at
least enough freedom for you'renot literally struggling to make
ends meet and you can actuallypay for, you know, 500.
It's not much money, butmajority of Americans are, would
(08:02):
be screwed over if life can, youknow, threw him a curve ball.
So I think.
Money is good for the good thatmoney can do.
And it's definitely, if you wantto make a massive impact in your
life, you're going to needsomething to help fund it.
So learning how to understandmoney, not to be, you know, Bill
Gates or the richest man alive,but just learning the game of
(08:23):
money and to understand money sothat you don't have to be
scrapping ends, you know, at theend of the month, just to make
it ends meet.
Magic Barclay (08:33):
It's very similar here in Australia and leading
into that.
So, you know, have.
The skills to make the money sothat if there's a health crisis,
you can pay for it.
What are some top three tips tocreating wealth that you have?
John Mendez (08:51):
So the first step is get around people that know
way more than you and be asponge.
Like for me, I never should comeoff as a guy that knows it all.
Cause for me and fulltransparency right now, I'm in
the red.
I'm starting up my businessright and it's like anyone who
started up their own business,man, when you're starting off a
(09:13):
business from scratch, thosefirst few months or so, man, it
is gruesome.
It is brutal.
And you have to tough itthrough.
So the first step is gettingaround people that are smarter
than you because there's peoplethat already have arrows in
their back.
Meaning there's people who havealready went out to war already
and came back alive.
Find those people and figure outwhat they're doing.
(09:37):
In whatever industry you're in,get around them, learn from
them, and follow their stepsbecause you don't have to be the
first one.
You don't have to reinvent thewheel.
Find the people who already didthe work.
And learn from them because asmart man learned from his
mistakes.
A wise man learned some of thestakes of others.
So get around people that aresmarter than you is step number
(09:59):
one, step number two.
I'm not sponsored at all by thisbook, but this book helped me
out the most in my journey is abook called, I will teach you to
be rich.
That book taught me about how tostart building my credit again.
I don't know how it's like in,um, your parts of the world, but
building my credit.
You know, how to invest in indexfunds, how to start budgeting,
(10:22):
things like that.
That book was so practical.
I read, I feel like after everychapter I've read, I could go
close the book and then goimplement something.
I changed the bank accounts thatI had.
I stopped banking with oneinstitution and moved to my
money to another institution.
I started using the online bank.
Like that book taught me so muchabout like practical personal
finance and money topics.
(10:42):
That was never talked about ortaught in school or in my home
or in my environment.
So that was my step number two,I'd recommend for anyone.
And it's a brand in a way whereit's very, very like friendly to
people.
A lot of times when you hearpeople talk about money and
finances, they almost make youfeel ashamed for not
understanding it.
And that tends to draw a lot ofpeople away.
(11:03):
That book didn't do that at all.
It was very easy to read, verypractical, very, you know,
welcoming.
And so.
That would be step number two,step number three, I would say
for anyone looking to startbuilding wealth is so the first
step I said to get around peoplethat are smarter than you, that
was like more for like a mentorfigure.
The second, the final step is Iget around people that are going
(11:24):
on the journey with you.
It's so important to get arounda tribe of people for
accountability, for support, forlove, just for camaraderie, you
know, getting around like amastermind group of people who
may probably be a little bitfurther than you.
Some of them might be a littlebit behind you, but she's like a
group of people that are allkind of somewhere around the
same range and you're all headedto the same place.
(11:47):
Right.
Or similar places, right.
And you're all taking a similarjourney and get around a
mastermind group because that'sgoing to give you these
confidence to support, you know,the days that you don't feel
like you want to push forward,you can rely on them to start
pushing you forward.
And when you, you're, you know,gas tank is emptied out, you can
tap into their gas tanks to helpyou keep on going.
(12:09):
And there's an old Africanproverb is go something along
the lines of, if you want to gofast, go alone.
If you want to go far, gotogether.
So that'll be my three steps.
Find a mentor, read the bookcalled, I will teach you to be
rich or restart reading personalfinance books to start
understanding money.
And then you can find amastermind group or some type of
(12:31):
like group that you cancollaborate with other people in
your community.
Magic Barclay (12:36):
And our final standard question is around
weight loss.
Many people battle with theirweight and we know that stress
is a key factor in that battle.
Have you ever battled yourweight?
If so, how did you win the war?
And what can you offer thelisteners who might be in the
situation?
John Mendez (12:54):
So for me, I've never had an issue where I
struggled with weight.
And part of it was because I'vealways been in sports, at least
for as long as I can remember,I've been very active.
One of the biggest things thathelped me, and I know a lot of
your listeners are women, andintermittent fasting.
Now make sure to consult, thisis not health advice at all, but
make sure to look into it.
I know intermittent fasting hassome different effects with
(13:16):
women, just because like themenstrual cycle and things like
that.
So it affects you guys a littlebit differently.
But intermittent fasting for me,I feel like it's one of the
cheat codes to life.
There's so many health benefitsthat come with intermittent
fasting, and I think a lot ofpeople, when they think
intermittent fasting, some of mycommon misconceptions that I
tell people who are not reallyinformed about it, it's like,
(13:37):
Oh, why are you skippingbreakfast?
It's, you know, why are youstarving yourself?
And it's like, most people don'tunderstand breakfast is two
words, right?
It's break fast.
Because any prolonged durationof time where you go without
eating is technically a fast.
So sleeping, It's technically afast.
So when you eat breakfast,you're breaking your fast with
(14:01):
the first meal of the day.
So the time of the day that youeat.
Isn't the most important.
It's what you eat to break your,you know, your first meal of the
day.
That is important.
Whether that's that nine in themorning, seven in the morning,
whether it may be it's, youdon't break your fast till four
in the afternoon, whatever itis.
I just make sure that I get mycalories that I need to eat and
(14:22):
consume within a day during myeating window.
Now, I used to be very strictwith it and I was like, I'm only
eating between 12 noon and 8 p.
m.
dinner, you know, Eastern time.
It's like, anything outside ofthat, I wouldn't even look at
food.
But now that I, you know, I'm inmaintenance mode now, and now I
can just like, one day if Idon't feel like fasting, I don't
(14:43):
fast.
And one day if I am, then I'llgo push 24 hours.
Sometimes I'll push a little bitfurther than 24 hours.
I really go based off how Ifeel, but I didn't start doing
that until after, Well, maybefour years of almost like rock
solid discipline of intermittentfasting day in, day out.
And what I would recommend toeveryone else is find something
that you can fit around yourlifestyle.
(15:05):
I hate dieting.
I hate people telling me what Ican and cannot do.
So, but waiting for something issomething that I don't mind.
That's just me.
That's just my naturalpersonality.
So I was like the idea offasting is like, okay, what
you're telling me is I can eatthe cookie, but I have to wait
till four in the afternoon toeat the cookie.
(15:27):
I could do that.
But if someone were to tell me Ican't eat cookies, I would feel
upset because I see a goodcookie.
I'm going to want to eat it.
Right.
So it's like knowing yourselfand knowing something that you
could apply.
I argue with nutritionists backwhen I was in college, I argued
this nutritionist major.
And it's like, they're tellingme how you got to eat six meals
and every, you know, hour and ahalf, you got to eat a small
(15:47):
meal and break it up intoportions throughout the day and
drink wine.
It's like, We have jobs, we havebusinesses we're trying to run,
we have families that we'retrying to look after, we have
hobbies, we have a personallife, we have date nights, we
have all these different things.
Who on earth has time to eat sixmeals a day, at certain points
in time in the day, every singleday?
(16:10):
I don't personally don't knowanyone whose life is that
routine where it's like theyevery single day can
consistently eat.
So for me, I was like, what'smore realistic?
I can't control what life throwsat me.
So with intermittent fasting, Iwas able to really start getting
a lot of health benefits, but Iwas also able to still bulk up
(16:32):
and build muscle because I madesure to get my calories in.
I made sure to eat my proteinand get my macros in.
And so it became very easy forme to get lean because I wasn't
focusing on starving myself, Iwas focusing on how do I boost
my metabolism, which is a wholenother thing because you can go
on a caloric deficit but ifyou're, if your metabolism is
(16:55):
slow.
It's not going to really domuch.
So find ways to boost yourmetabolism.
Naturally, of course, exercisingis one of them.
I would start there.
And then from there, I said, Iknow health from YouTube
university.
I do not have a degree in any ofthis.
I just know what worked for me.
So this is not my advice towardsanyone.
This is just me sharing whatworked for me.
Magic Barclay (17:16):
And thanks for sharing.
Okay.
We've covered a fair bit, butlet's get onto what it is that
you do.
Tell us about your work andmaybe some things that the
listeners need to know aboutworking with John Mendes.
John Mendez (17:33):
Yeah, so thank you for the opportunity, Juan.
Uh, so the main two things is,I'll share with you guys a
little bit about my vision.
So, ideally, where I plan ontaking all this giant John
Mendes brand forward, is I wantto get into public speaking.
I want to start helping people'slives.
Like, walk to wealth.
Like, that's where I feel mycalling, my vision.
(17:54):
Like, I feel like God has placedin my heart, personally, to do
something with that and to justtake that to the next level.
I haven't monetized that yetthough.
So I have a marketing companythat I started and the quick
backstory behind that is I wasin a real estate group.
So like I told you guys earlier,find your group, find your
tribe, find your community.
(18:14):
I was in that group and.
I was always on this like 630 to7am call.
And I'm normally at the gym atthose times.
And one of the days they weretalking about social media.
So me, as I said, I'm 21 todayto date myself.
By the time this comes out nextyear, I'll be 22.
Nevertheless, I'm stillrelatively extremely young
compared to most real estateagents in my area.
(18:36):
So for me, I was easily theyoungest person in the group.
I'm still I think I still mightbe the youngest person in the
group or close to the youngestactive person in that group.
And.
I was, I just knew social mediafrom growing up with it.
It's not like I had a master'sdegree in it.
I had, um, I was going to schoolfor marketing before I dropped
out my sophomore year, but mysecond year of university, I
(19:00):
left school in the middle of thepandemic, so I didn't even get
to my actual marketing classes.
So.
I didn't know social media asidefrom the fact that I grew up
with it and posted a couplephotos, like once a year, um,
throughout my years in highschool and college.
And then I made a quick Facebookpost.
And then from there, one of thehosts of the group was like,
John, would you mind teaching aclass on this?
(19:21):
And I was like, I never taught aclass before.
She said, John, tell us when youwant it scheduled.
I said, Oh, okay.
I can't say no to a top agenttwice.
So, I just figured it out, andfrom there, I had over 440
Realtors sign up, and I prettymuch had to spend more time
(19:43):
inviting people manually,because I didn't know how to
host a class.
And so I had this Excel sheet,and I was copying and pasting
emails, and then copying andpasting the links to send it out
to everyone.
So it was a nightmare, but Iended up getting over 200 people
live.
And I call, I ended up goingamazing.
And that's how I cut mymarketing thing got started.
So now I'm really passionateabout helping non tech savvy,
(20:04):
real estate agents, boosteronline presence so that they
don't have to pay for mediacompanies, and eventually I'll
be branching out to helping, youknow, entrepreneurs and small
business owners.
I not, I'm not the person to docontent for people.
I'm the person that teaches youhow to do it.
For yourself or teaches your VAor your admin or your assistant,
(20:25):
how to do it so that you cankeep your marketing in house
because a lot of the stuff thatthese media companies do, man,
they're just posting the sameCanva images and I can't speak
for every industry.
I can only speak for theindustry industry just because
that's when I want to have themost experience experience in,
but like there was this onerealtor and she ended up
(20:45):
becoming, she's a student ofmine now and she was in, she's
in my course.
Before we hopped on a quicksales call.
To see if it'll be a good fitfor her or not And she was
showing me her facebook pagethat she's paying 500 bucks a
month for a media companyLiterally, you look on her
facebook page.
You look like through 20 quickposts.
We just scroll through Sheprobably got maybe like six
likes across all 20.
(21:08):
I'm just like you're paying 500bucks a month for this And on
top of that, there was one post.
It was like, here's three easyto bake recipes to cook while
you're at home.
Like what on earth does thathave to do with anything related
to her business?
And they're probably postingthose same exact posts to all
their other clients.
And there's like, man, we'redoing them a great service.
You're doing a good job.
(21:28):
We're posting for them on theirbehalf.
so many more seasoned people,they don't understand social
media as well as the youngergenerations, because of course,
you guys haven't grown up withit.
But it's like, nevertheless, youstill shouldn't be getting
robbed of your hard earnedmoney, just because you don't
understand it or just becauseyou don't have the time to
understand it.
And a lot of these people thatare more seasoned to have more
(21:49):
established businesses.
It's like they hire out becausethey know they don't understand
it.
They know they don't have thetime to understand it.
And so it's like, they'd ratherhave someone do it for them.
So the people that are, havethese media companies, they do
it for them.
But they don't get any returns,but they're still posting every
day.
So it looks like they're doingsomething for them on their
(22:10):
behalf that actually benefitsthem.
So that's really my main missionreally is just, as I said, the
walk 12, I, and that's where Ireally want to scale and take
that to the moon.
But for the time being, as Imean, I'm doing both
simultaneously, the marketingcompany is what's going to help
fund my mission.
So I'm using my expertise tomonetize.
And then my purpose right now,Is not being monetized.
(22:32):
So I'm using my expertise tohelp fund my purpose.
So I can continue living at thepodcast and to continue pushing
that out to more people rightnow.
I'm specifically targeting realestate agents just because I'm
getting off the ground now, butas I continue to scale and grow
and start getting more socialproof, I said, all these things
are just battle tested thingsthat I've learned myself from
(22:53):
posting tons of videos andgetting burnt out and trying to
keep up with all the algorithms.
It's like, all right, how can Idumb this down to only the stuff
that matters?
Because a lot of stuff is justgibberish.
Like for example, Oh, what's thebest time to post?
Who cares?
Get the content out there.
Like so many people are stuck onthings that don't matter.
So just get it out there, figureout the rest later, figured out
(23:16):
how to edit it later, figure outhow to make it look nice and
fancy later.
You're not getting nothing outthere.
You're not going to get anyreturn.
So there's a quote I love that Ilearned on this.
It's.
You have to become a disaster inorder for you to become a
master.
And so now I'm pretty muchhelping people become masters of
this content creation andartificial intelligence and how
(23:38):
to use AI so that they can keeptheir marketing in house.
Save thousands of dollars permonth and save tens of hours,
you know, of their own time.
Magic Barclay (23:49):
I love it.
You have to become a disaster tobecome a master.
That is terrific.
John, how can people get hold ofyou?
John Mendez (24:00):
So the best way to get a hold of me would be to go
to If you need marketing helpspecifically, go to
stopandstare.
media.
Stopandstare.
media forward slash learn.
There I have tons of freemarketing material.
You can catch the replays to myclasses that I teach.
(24:22):
All the classes and stuff that Ido is for free.
The only thing I have that'scost money is the course.
So all my content is on therefor free.
So go stop and stare.
media forward slash learn andjust eat up all the marketing
company, start saving yourmoney, stop paying for these
terrible media companies andstart building your presence so
that you can reach more people,impact more lives.
Magic Barclay (24:44):
And before we let you go, John, we love freebies.
What can you offer the listenersand where can they find it?
John Mendez (24:50):
Yeah.
So right now, for anyone that islooking to start their first
business, if you go to bit bit.
ly bit.
ly forward slash walk number twowealth gift forward slash walk
(25:13):
to wealth gift You can get mybeginner's guide to
entrepreneurship, the fourbusinesses you must start in
order to start your dreambusiness.
So that is my free gift to youguys.
It's a free training that Ipretty much collaborated with,
with a guy that I know namedDrew.
He is a business strategist andhe really helped break it down.
(25:35):
And so that anyone, no matterwhere you are, can help.
Start their entrepreneurshipjourney and break into the
working for yourself instead ofworking for the
Magic Barclay (25:46):
man.
John, thank you so much for yourtime today.
John Mendez (25:50):
Thank you so much for the opportunity
Magic Barclay (25:52):
and listeners.
Thank you for your time.
Please go ahead to like review,share, and subscribe to this
podcast.
We appreciate every time that wesee a new listener subscribed
and for now go forth and createyour magical life.
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