September 15, 2025 • 41 mins
Ready for a financial breakthrough regardless of who's in the White House? The Finance BROs are back with Season 2, delivering "The Trump Antidote" – not a political statement, but a powerful formula for personal financial sovereignty.
Anton and Michel don't just talk theory; they share the real-world strategies they've been implementing through their Breaking Curfew initiative at colleges like Chabot and SJSU, and their new FBN Kids Edition program teaching financial literacy to children. Their community work reveals a profound truth: when you pour into others financially, you strengthen your own financial muscles and convictions.
The heart of their message? You are the president of your own pocket. Budgeting isn't about deprivation – it's muscle-building that creates financial discipline over time. Start small, be consistent, and watch your financial strength grow. The wealthy aren't navigating the system through luck; they're leveraging knowledge of credit, business structures, and tax deductions that anyone can learn.
Most revolutionary is their approach to resources: "Use the system to beat the system." Government programs and grants aren't charity – they're strategic leverage designed to help you climb the economic ladder. Combined with the right mindset ("stop thinking I'm poor, start thinking I'm strategic"), these resources become powerful tools for building lasting wealth.
Throughout it all, maintain faith in your journey. Even when the system feels rigged, your grind isn't in vain. Stack knowledge, stack money, and be ready to strike when opportunity presents itself. This is more than financial advice – it's a complete paradigm shift that works regardless of political climate.
Ready to become financially bulletproof? Tune in, apply these strategies, and join the Wealthian community. Your financial independence awaits – “We'll see you at the bank”!! #SYATB
Learn more about the FBN initiative and get access to all social media platforms at https://linktr.ee/fbnlinks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First and foremost, we want to be clear that what we
are sharing with you arestrategies and concepts that can
be implemented by individualswho understand the logistics of
how to approach such platforms.
As far as the literal, themental and spiritual format
(00:30):
needed to be successful withyour aspirations, I'm the one
half of Finance Bros.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Anton Lefwich, and this is Michael DePoe, the other
half, the other half, and weare coming to you with Finance
for the Unknown and we arehonored to be here with you, our
present and future wealthians.
We're back everybody.
Hey man, it's season.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We at season two on TV Season two.
We at season four on thepodcast.
There you go, there you go, andwe streaming on multiple
platforms now, there you go.
So you gonna hear it just likeyou see it right.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Mike, that's right.
That's right.
That's what we talking about.
We gonna make it happen for youand this is what we're bringing
to you guys.
Season two, and we're startingit off with a banger.
We're starting it off with abanger, mike, I was so excited
to get this thing going.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Man for this episode bro, because there's been so
much going on, man yeah.
You know, and we've been doinga lot in the off season too,
right, right, you know what Imean To further the mission and
get out here in the communityand do some special things.
So, yeah, should I give him thetitle mike, or you go ahead go
ahead tell him what's the title,like I gotta say how enthused I
(02:11):
was when you came to me withthis title because I thought it
was very relevant, whether youagree or disagree, whether you
on board or off the train, thisepisode today, the Trump
antidote, oh, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Look, we're going to give him the antidote and the
formula.
Remember that the antidote andthe formula, the Trump antidote,
and the formula yes, yes,wealthy ends.
There is an antidote for Trump,what you're dealing with today.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And a formula, and a formula.
Hey remember when.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
remember Lion king when he was like mufasa I feel
like I just got that littlechill when you say that you know
what I'm saying, antidoteformula.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's what's up, man , but mike, you know it's.
Should we talk about kind ofwhat we've been up to?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, absolutely, let's break it down.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Let's break it down so well, okay, so what was being
close to my heart?
You already know, mike has beenthe breaking curfew, yeah.
You know, we, we set out on amission to get in front of more
colleges and be in the communitywhere more you know, where more
people who are kind of cominginto the world of of well, not,
I wouldn't even say the world offinance, I would just say more
(03:28):
to where they're starting to getmore a recollection of worldly,
worldly views of their life,like where they're getting ready
to go, and for us that, for forthe most part, it happens to be
college kids, you know.
So we started this movement.
We call it breaking curfew.
Know, breaking curfew had thethe freedom over fear aspect to
it.
What we're talking about?
Breaking chains right, breakinggenerational curses, breaking
(03:51):
all ways of thinking.
We're bringing freedom overfear to all these colleges.
And we're calling it breakingcurfew because we kind of, we
kind of we want to break themold right.
We, we want to break out oftraditional ways of thinking.
We want to, we want to expandour horizons, we want our young
minds out there and, and even us, as we're learning from these
(04:12):
bro, because, mike, we're inthese colleges right now we're
learning from these kidsabsolutely I mean, their minds
are just so there.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
It's like boom, boom, boom, it's quick, it's fast and
and just the, uh, the, thetitle breaking curfew man think
about we're going against thegrain, yeah because, you know,
these kids, we're going intothese colleges and we're going
into these different, uh areaswhere that education is being is
not being taught, it's beingmissed, and that's that's the
(04:42):
whole point of breaking kerfing.
Yeah, we're going againstsomething, you know.
So we're breaking something.
Well, we're breaking somebarriers and we're gonna teach
these kids about finance.
We're gonna teach these kidsabout money, because that's
what's gonna save them, justlike we're trying to save you
guys, wealthy, and we're tryingto save you, yeah yeah, man,
we'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Talk about philanthropic movements.
You where we're making depositsinto the community, into the
world, into other people.
I mean, it has just as more ofan impact, I think, on us, even
almost feel selfish because aswe're giving, we're just getting
so much more back.
Even if it's us, even if's youand this is, this is for the
(05:25):
world right here if you'repouring into somebody and you're
pouring in things that youtruly believe are going to help
them, you're saying out loudthat's why they say words right
life and death is in the tongueright, like the words that you
speak.
As you're saying these things,if you truly believe it, you're
reiterating that thing out loudto yourself.
So you're not only helping thisperson, but you're, you're
(05:49):
you're, you're re-solidifyingthe belief in your own heart
that this is something thatmoves you and you remember your
why and why you started man andit's a reinforcement right big
time.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
you're reinforcing what we all need to know.
We're reinforcing finance is apart of our life.
Finance is everything that wedo.
You can't really do anythingthese days without finance.
You can't jump on a computerwithout electricity, and who's
paying for the electricity Can'tjump on for the Wi-Fi.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Who's paying for the Wi-Fi?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know everything you do.
You want something to eat.
Somebody gotta go buy it.
Who went to the supermarket andpay for everything we do?
So why isn't it part of oureducation?
And that's why you know, wedefinitely want to give a shout
out to Chabot College.
We were at Chabot College.
We want to shout out Dr Gilmore.
We want to shout out Jesprey.
Thank you, jesprey.
(06:40):
She's a liaison to the students.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Mr Bren just priest, she's a liaison to the students.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
They tell um, uh, mr brent, designer, too, she's a
heck of a graphic, hell of agraphic designer.
Uh, mr brent turner, who, who'salso our, our liaison for for
the facilities and getting stuffdone, and uh, over, we went
over to sjsu.
You know we have tamela overthere.
Thank you, tamela.
Who, who, who's a good friendand who's getting us that
(07:08):
connection in there.
We had a great session withCarla and with Kayla, kayla,
kayla and her team.
Kayla Got you Kayla.
So we want to make sure weshout out these people because
they are helping us bring themessage out.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm saying Helping us make this happen.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And we also did something, Anton we started a
FBN Kids Edition.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Man out of strictly need.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Out of need Kids Edition, and when we say Kids
Edition, you want your middleschool, even the last year of
elementary school kids.
So we're talking about maybefifth grade to eighth grade to
ninth grade, and those are kidswho are seven.
Well, let's say about 10, from10 to about 12, 13.
(08:00):
Let's say about 10, from 10 toabout 12, 13.
So they can understand thevalue of money, to understand
how it works.
And we were given the honor andas we want to thank Christine
Lewis at the playground inCastro Valley, california, who
(08:22):
heard our message and say, hey,this would be great for these
kids for summer camp and we'repart of that, right very much
wants the kids to to to be ableto dive into this financial
literacy and for them to get itand for it to be fun for them
too and you know what.
We had a great time doing it Imean, the kids were a little bit
rowdy, but you know what theywere, raising their hands and
(08:46):
answering when we startedteaching them about coupons
about, about a credit?
Oh my god they were.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
They don't let you know when you're doing a good
job yeah yeah, yeah, they don'tlet you know.
And then, when you're not doinga good job exactly, know that
too, yeah, and then I have totell you they were a little
smarties too, they were yeah,you know uh, maybe your mom or
dad would let you watch it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yes, I'm saying that you know who.
You were being the smarties upin there, but that's great.
You know what?
It was great to see those kidsat that age have a fundamental
understanding of what we weresaying.
They knew what money was.
You know, we did everything westarted from, from soup to nuts.
(09:26):
You know we, we started withcoins and dollars and and what
the bills were, all the way upto how it works, how their
parents get it, how they can getit to credit and so on and so
forth.
So it was.
It was phenomenal and it's anongoing program.
With every person that we shoutout we mentioned, they keep
wanting us to come back so it'ssomething ongoing, man.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Glory to god.
Brother too, man, and oh, Iwant to.
I want to make sure Idefinitely don't want to forget
trisha laconte uh the, thewonderful young lady that's
doing our, our, our new graphics, our logos, all the new stuff
you're getting ready to see onsocial media, from, you know,
from our backdrops to anythingon instagram or facebook.
You know, tricia, very, very,very rare and unique talent
(10:12):
awesome and guys, go look at ourwebsite, see the t-shirts, you
see the uniform.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, oh the website, oh the website, bro, did we,
did we?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
tell them about that.
The.
The website is.
Yeah, of course we told themOkay, okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
They know the website .
Go there, man.
Go to the.
Make sure you go to the websiteman, the website is phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
The website it is, it is, it looks great.
I still go in there and I justsometimes I'm in my office
during the day.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Mike, there you go.
I just have it on repeat haveit on repeat.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I got like all these screens up three or four.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know, that's why we brothers from another mother,
because I do the same thing inmy office.
So hey and hey, I want to.
I want to shout out to my wifeI just got married hey, hey,
congratulations you know, what.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I wasn't gonna bring it up, but if you put it up, I'm
a I'm a, I'm a deaf, I'm proudman I feel, blessed bro, I got
my best friend
Speaker 3 (11:09):
right, I got my best friend, and and not only just in
in business but in life with mywife.
You know what I'm saying, but Igot you as, as my best friend,
my mom, you know, in businessand in life, man bro, I I never,
ever knew somebody who would,who would drive five hours to
come make sure my mom straightall day, bro.
(11:31):
But but but you, you that, youthat you, that person all day,
you know saying so all day I'mjust putting that out there, man
.
And this this goes with thetrump antidote, this goes with
the life antidote, this goeswith the personal antidote.
This goes with the lifeantidote.
This goes with the personalantidote.
This goes with everything thatI think that we need to
understand to move forward withconviction in life.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
These are the pieces and that's part of the
ingredient that.
Thank you, brother.
That's part of the ingredient,is what we just told you, what
we're doing.
That's part of the theingredient for the antidote,
it's part of the formula.
We doing what we need to do forourselves.
So let's do that first.
Do what you need to foryourself first.
Make yourself, do that first.
(12:15):
Do what you need to foryourself first.
Make yourself happy.
Do things that you want to do.
Do and make things that you'reproud of first.
Trump can't touch.
He can't, can't touch, he can'ttouch.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Hey, they might be able to have you pay some taxes,
but they can't touch your heart.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
They can't touch your heart.
They can't touch your heart.
And if you're doing what you'redoing for yourself, just like
Anton and I are doing what'sbest for FBN, are doing what's
best for the UPI community,that's an antidote, that's part
of the ingredient that will givethe antidote against Trump.
I understand, brother, and thattakes us right into the subject
, right?
Yeah, man.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And brother, and and that, and that takes us right
into the subject, right, yeah,man, and look, and y'all know
we're not formal here, right,I'm going, we're going right off
of our phones, our tablets.
So this is this is real life,right here, this is real talk,
right?
So, look, um, you know, youknow, might, like we were just
saying, I'm sitting here, I'mthinking that one of the
ingredients in the trumpantidote is doing what we need
to do for ourselves Exactly.
Whether that's personal time,whether that's going for a walk
(13:21):
whether that's, I don't know.
Maybe some people out theremeditate.
I've seen some people doingwhat's that stuff in the park
where they do the motions thechi or something like that.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
The chi, yes, you know what I'm saying.
Yes, the chi.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Whatever your vehicle is, for personal peace and
helping yourself, just resetRight, because we go through a
lot in this life and justeverything that we do in our day
, especially if you're anentrepreneur.
Yeah, because I always say this, mike, entrepreneurship, it's a
self-improvement program with acompensation package attached
(13:54):
to it.
Of course, you want me to saythat again Go ahead With a
compensation package attached toit.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Of course you want me to say that again, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Entrepreneurship is a self-improvement program with a
compensation package attachedto it, because we'll never out
earn our self-worth.
That's right.
So for every level we'reelevating ourself, you can
expect our income to follow.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah Well, whatever, whether you support trump or you
oppose him, you know we're alltrying to make sure that we do
the best that we need to do forourselves, you know.
So, whatever president that'sin office, we have to do what we
need to do for our communityBecause, yes, right now it can
(14:36):
be hard for our community, it'shard for the UPI community.
You know what I'm saying.
So you know we got to thinkabout, okay, what are the things
that we can do to helpourselves within this hard time
of the Trump era right.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Mm-hmm, hard time of the trump era right, and I'm
thinking the first thing is uh,I believe is.
Is budgeting right?
Answer oh, absolutely so youare.
And look, I want to.
I want to say this because Ireally love this right here.
I'm gonna actually read it wordfor word because I love all
right, all right all right, theaudience is waiting for you,
brother, I know, I know so asfar as budgeting, you know not
(15:18):
and not just for bills, allright, maybe, maybe hustling to
make a little bit of extra dough, you know.
Or leveraging that extra money,you know comes to putting it
into a product or a vehicle,right?
So when we think aboutbudgeting, we're talking that we
always talked about.
And go back.
Please go back and listen toour season.
You know our season one, twoand three of the podcast.
(15:41):
Season one of the podcast,that's right.
You know our TV show.
We talk about budgeting andagain, we always reiterate this
Budgeting has nothing to do withsaving money.
Ok, it has everything to dowith building a muscle.
You go to the gym, you work out.
You can't lift 300 pounds rightaway.
You got to be able to work yourway up to that.
So when we talk about budgeting, it's a exercise period, right,
(16:05):
mike?
Yep, so save a dollar, save 10,save 20, save 100, but start
somewhere, figure out where yourcomfortable margin is and grow
it from there.
And then, once you get to acertain place, if you fall back,
don't worry about it, startover.
Sometimes we go to the gym andwe work out for a month straight
(16:27):
and all of a sudden, we're notthere for two weeks or a year in
some cases.
For some people it's stillthere.
The concept is there for us toaccess when we want to access it
.
Discipline ourselves issomething that we choose.
All right, just, you know youlove someone.
You choose love.
You know what I mean.
It's not a just thing.
You fall in and out of.
You choose it every single day,right?
(16:48):
So understand that Budgeting isan exercise.
It's a muscle that you buildand once you get to build that
muscle, you start getting accessto opportunities.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Right, and we talk about IULs, we talk about cash
value insurance, we talk abouttax-free retirement strategies,
we talk about all this stuff onour podcast, but the bottom line
is not to go into all thatright now, just build the dang
muscle and you want to hearsomething crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Guess who's doing the same thing and he doesn't have
to.
Who?
Trump, trump, thank you.
All right, we're giving you theformula here where you're
saving and then you're going totransition that saving into
stuff that Trump and hisfollowers or his people or his
circle that's using.
(17:39):
So like I, said whether youhate the man, you love the man.
Whatever the case is,something's gotta work.
There's gotta be a formulawhere you can survive in this
chaos period.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Like it, don't like it, eat the chicken and throw
away the bones.
Okay, use what you Use, whatyou, what they say, use what you
can use or use what you can useand just disregard the rest.
Right, oh, news you can use.
I got some news you can use.
People say that yeah, all right.
Digest the news that you can useand throw away the rest.
(18:14):
There you go Right.
Like you say like there's,there's some things in this is
this is again we call it theTrump antidote people.
But it's a concept yes, allright, it's it's it's.
It's a method All right.
There's people out there thatare setting good examples and
there's people out there thatthe things they do well, we can
(18:34):
adopt those behaviors.
The things that we don't agreewith, we can push those
behaviors to the side, period.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
There you go, and that segues great into this,
anton.
Use the system to beat thesystem.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Michael, can you say that one more time, bro.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Use the system to beat the system.
I love you, man.
Use what's available, like likegrants, like financial programs
.
If you're in a situation whereyou have to get some of the
financial programs that arestill out there, there's still,
there's grants out there thatcan help you in whatever
situation.
Yes, you're in aunderprivileged income situation
(19:14):
right now.
Upi, you are, up, you're,you're the wealthy and you, you
have the ability and thepossibility to become wealthy
and make money.
That's the definition ofwealthy ability and the
possibility to become wealth, tohave wealth, I should say, and
to make money.
(19:34):
But until that happens, thiscountry provides a lot of
resources.
So use the system to beat thesystem.
Let those resources help youand elevate you until you get to
that point where you can say,all right, now I'm going to turn
it on its head.
Now I'm going to leverageeverything that the system have
(19:59):
for me to grow and be wealthy.
So think about that, ladies andgentlemen.
You need to use the system.
Don't hide behind anything.
It's there for a reason.
You have nonprofits.
You have a lot of nonprofitsout there that, even if you're
working, you're making money,they will help you.
Again, you're just using thisas leverage.
(20:23):
It's not charity, it's justleverage.
Our system is designed, ourgovernment is designed.
You chose to live in america,ladies and gentlemen.
This is where you chose theland of the free.
You chose so.
So we have it.
Don't don't be too snooty,don't don't feel like, oh, I
don't need this type, it's notcharity.
(20:45):
It's not charity, it's thesystem that.
That's the way it is.
The system is designed for youto fill, but it's also designed
to build you up.
So why not not use it?
You feel me, so that's what wegot to think about.
That's the type of mindset wehave to have.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Right, anton, absolutely, mike.
And look, I'm going to go wordfor word on this one more time.
I wasn't so much word for worda second ago, but I'm definitely
going to be word for word onthis one.
All right, your mindset has tobe right.
Stop thinking I'm poor andstart thinking I'm strategic.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
There, you go.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The brain believes what you repeatedly think about
yourself.
I'm going to say us the brain,the brain, our brain, believes
what we repeatedly think aboutourselves.
Okay, so we need to startpracticing possibility thinking.
Oh man, that's a serious.
Mike bro, right, and okay, sowe got, we got, use the system
(21:46):
to beat the system.
Yep, that's a midday t-shirtmidway t-shirt.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's an honorable t-shirt right there.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Honorable mention t-shirt all right we need to
start start thinking possible.
It's possibility, thinkingright, all right.
All right Right, right Startpracticing, start practicing
possibility thinking, love thatman, I love that this is.
And look bro, look Mike.
You know what?
If we sound like a brokenrecord, I'm not sorry.
(22:13):
Yeah, because if you hear themessage every day, every Sunday
from the from, from the pastor,or Sunday from the pastor, or
you know wherever you get yourmessage from, for me it's maybe
I may be in a church house, I'mhearing it from the pastor, but
then all of a sudden I hear itfrom the assistant pastor and he
just happens to put it to me adifferent way, and you know we
(22:35):
talk about being parent deafsometimes.
Right, that's true.
Your kids come home from school, daddy.
I look man, oh, that's great,that's great honey.
Come home from school, daddy, Ilook man, oh, that's great,
that's great honey.
I told you that 20 times, butthat's cool.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You got it from the, you know, the campus security
guard.
Right, right, right.
Sometimes a different voice, adifferent approach, whatever.
So eventually this is we'rejust look, the sauce is the same
coming out the kitchen.
All right, it may be flippedaround a little bit the way we
say it, but the message isconsistent man, Always, Always.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
And also Anton, using financial literacy as a
self-defense.
Learn the rules of the gameLike.
This is all a game you know,but we have to learn how to play
the game.
Trump didn't dodge taxes byluck, right man, please say that
again.
Right, say that again trump didnot tap, did not dodge taxes.
(23:35):
By luck, are you sure?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
it wasn't luck mike.
No, I'm pretty, I'm pretty darn.
Look, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I'm gonna say it in their language I'm pretty darn
hootin' Look.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm going to say it in their language.
I'm pretty darn hootin' tootin'that it didn't dodge my.
Look, he knew the code.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
He knew the code.
And what is it for us to findout the code?
Get educated on credit,business structure and tax
deductions.
If you get educated on thosethings, even at your level, even
at the UPI level that you're atright now, you know whether
you're making 20,000 a year, upto 185,000 a year.
(24:14):
Based on it, it's probably thesenses are different, coming up
as far as what it's consideredunder privilege and we know we
say that for the other word thatwe don't use that finance pros
network but the underprivilegedincome is considered anywhere
from zero to 10,000, all the wayup to 185,000.
(24:36):
185,000 is considered poor,unbelievable, but that's our
country, yeah.
But guess what I bet you.
That person who's making 185000 looks like a trump and look,
man you know why?
Because they're using all oftheir education, financial
education to keep most of thatmoney and I want to.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm going into what I'm saying by piggybacking off
that.
You know why they're able to dothat?
Because they believe, there yougo.
Because they believe all ofthis doesn't work.
If you don't believe you'reworthy of wealth, all right,
you're not less than OK, you'renot inferior, you're not
improper, you're not late.
Ok, you just up.
(25:22):
To now.
Maybe you've been uninformed,maybe we have been uninformed,
but once we have the information, mike, once we have the
information, then we can operatewith a sense of, of, of, of, of
strategy, right Of, consistency, cause, cause, once you, you,
once you got it and you, youknow it's working, you're,
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you're gonna keep doing it,because the motivation, the, the
, the, the momentum comes fromthe success.
That's right.
You, you're like, oh, wow, man,I just paid off a credit card.
Okay, that felt, that feltpretty good.
There you go, let me, let mekeep going.
Okay, all right, cool, man, my,my credit card just broke, broke
, 700, okay, okay, okay, man,man, I just got that 100,000 on
credit, okay, okay, now wetalking and get that momentum,
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because momentum is magic, right, but guess what?
It's also very jealous and ifwe don't pay attention to it,
it'll go find somebody else.
There you go.
So we got to believe man.
First of all, we got to believe.
Believe that the next step ispossible, believe that getting
out of getting into whatevervehicle or circle of network
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that we want to get into ispossible, getting out of
whatever situation we're tryingto find ourselves out of is
possible.
We have to believe that it ispossible, period.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah, and that's faith.
Right, you know, faith is notjust a religion, but it can also
be a financial weapon.
You know, keep showing up, keepbuilding, keep believing.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Say that again Keep what, keep, showing what Keep
showing up, thank you.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Keep believing, keep building, you know, because what
you plant today will feed youtomorrow.
So just think about that,everyone.
Just think about showing up,believing in what you're doing,
because what you plant todaywill definitely be able to feed
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you tomorrow.
And on a personal note, anton,I'm going to keep my head down
practice P, B and C.
You guys remember what that isBe patient, be on time, be
consistent with Anton, favoriteP B and J, which is be polite,
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be bold, doing that While you'redoing that.
That's right.
So I'm going to stack knowledge,I'm going to stack money and
I'm going to strike whenopportunity presents itself.
Man bro, man, let the Trump andhis followers come after me.
They won't even see me coming.
How about them, apples?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Hey man, they go to bumps apples, they go to bumps
man, they go to bumps man, theywon't see me coming and you
should do the same hey.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I'm saying this is what I'm going to do, but take
that, take that Stack inknowledge, stack in money, and
then strike when an opportunitypresents itself, because that's
the antidote.
Love it brother, that's theantidote.
Love it brother, that's theantidote I love it, man.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Hey, we in the breakdown, we in the break, in
the breakdown, we're in thebreakdown, you see how we slide
down there real quickhey, we play, take off and we
bring it back down so hey, youknow, mike, you already, you
already know, mike gonna giveyou the the literal and the
mental and I'm gonna give youthe spiritual and if you guys
have never seen fbn before, wealways, we always go into our
(28:49):
breakdown.
When we break down the episode,we give you the literal, the
mental and the spiritual of the,of the energy that we bring in
that week you know I mean.
So that's kind of what we'redoing now.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
All right, so let's start it off all right we're
gonna start off with the literal, ladies and gentlemen, budget
like it's survival track.
Every dollar like it owes yourent.
Now you know when your landlordis coming after for you for
rent, how it feels like right,why don't you do that with your
budget?
But a budget like it owes?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
you rent?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
that's t-shirt number three.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I told you we was averaging three we haven't even
got to the t-shirts yet yeah,and we already got two or three
so yeah definitely do it thatway and why we're emphasizing
that to make it sound like youowe rent is is is this is what
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you need to do.
You want to.
This is the antidote againsttrump budgeting.
You need to budget.
If you're going to spendfrivolously, you're going to run
out of money.
There's not going to be themoney there for you to just
easily be grabbed.
Your, your raise is only goingto be a point zero, zero,
whatever seven it is these days,you know it's, it's not going
to be there.
.00 whatever seven it is thesedays For real man, you know it's
not going to be there, but yougot to budget.
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You got to know, if not on yourbills, how you budget for
everything else.
That's why we mentioned notonly budgeting for bills but
budgeting for everything else,and then taking that money if
you got it for savings orsomething like that putting it
into something that's going toleverage it and that's going to
make money on money.
So if we're doing that, atleast for the next three and a
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half years because that's howlong he's going to be in the
office, no matter what Godforbid something happened to him
we don't want to wish nothinglike that on anyone but he's
going to be in office for thenext three and a half years.
This is what you need to doliterally.
You need to budget and thenwe're gonna go to the mental,
the mental budget every dollar.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Like it owes you, rent you have to say it again.
Are you playing around withsomebody?
I'm just saying, bro, are you?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
it's like it's like he marinated what we just said
and then he's like I have to saythat again.
I'm just for real, if Are youplaying.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's like he marinated what we just said in
there.
He's like man.
I have to say that again.
I'm just thinking.
I'm just for real man.
If somebody oh, you rent Mike,is you playing around?
No, I ain't playing.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'm just saying man, I ain't playing Go ahead, man
Give me a minute bro.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Let's get back on track.
Struggle as strategy as astrategy If you're survival, if
you're surviving sorry, ifyou're surviving poverty.
You've already budgeted like asuperpower.
You understand that.
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If you're surviving poverty, ifyou're in the UPI.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Budgeting is already a superpower for you.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Budgeting is already a superpower, for budgeting is
already a superpower.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, think aboutthat mentally.
That's that's what you need tothink.
That, man, I was able to payoff all my bills this month.
Man, you're a superhero rightnow.
For real man, that's asuperpower, that is a that is a
very in.
Oh my god, in this day and age,you're able to do that.
Everything is up, eggs is up,every gas is up, everything you
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still made it through the month,and you made it through the
month even with a zero.
Or maybe you know a hundred,two hundred dollars that you
could put in savings that youcould leverage.
That's a superpower you need togive your yeah, yeah uh a
self-pattern on the back on that?
Yep, for sure, I love that.
Okay, hit him with thespiritual Anton.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Hey, mike.
So the spiritual for this istrust the bigger plan.
All right, even if the systemfeels rigged, your grind isn't
in vain.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm going to tell you something about that real quick
, because this hits my heart.
All right, I'm going to tellyou something about that real
quick because this hits my heart, all right.
In our daily, just our daily,our kind of just going through
our day, right, sometimes youget caught in that little rut
Wake up, go to work, come home,go to sleep.
Wake up, go to work, come home,go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Almost starts sounding like a song yeah, wake
up, go to work, come home, go tosleep or a broken record.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You know a broken record, right, okay.
And we start to see, we startto maybe notice people having
things that we feel like wedeserve.
Okay, because we're working sohard.
Understand that there'ssacrifice involved in these
things.
I'm not talking about theone-offs, the trust funds and
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all this stuff.
I'm talking about people whoactually built themselves, built
their worth, from nothing.
All right, there's sacrifice.
All right, we're going to haveto sacrifice.
Sometimes good to get great.
Sometimes it takes us going outon the comfortable side ie,
maybe a job or something likethat to get to the elite, to get
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to the things that we feel wedeserve.
And believe me, believe us I'mtalking to myself, especially
right now, mike I hear that whenwe start to sacrifice things
for what we want because,believe it or not, if you have a
dream, all right, you won'thave to sacrifice for your dream
, or else guess what your dreamwill become the sacrifice, okay.
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So believe this If we aresacrificing for the things that
we believe we want, but thingswe believe we have the
capability to do, we will startto believe that we deserve
things that other people don't.
And when I say that, I meanthis very humbly.
I'm saying that in a way thatwhen you start to do the work
that we know other people aren'tdoing, when that baseball
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player, that football player,that professional athlete starts
to run the miles at night wheneverybody else is sleeping,
that's where the kind of thealmost, the almost, and you can
handle it in a good way.
Right, you don't have to becocky, but just believe that
that energy comes from somewhere.
When you run those miles atnight and you know everybody
else is asleep and you puttingin the rounds that you know when
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everybody else is out partying,you start to carry yourself
with this confidence.
Right, okay, and that's what Imean when I say, that's what we
mean when we say the game mightbe rigged.
Right, okay, but your grind isnot in vain.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Right, because you can always outwork anybody, all
day, all day, and that's truth.
And I know a lot of our UPIsbelieve in sport, believe in
basketball and believe inbaseball, whatever.
And what gets you to that nextstep is the grind right.
Is you like you mentionedgetting up at four o'clock in
the morning, running the miles,practicing eight hours, 12 hours
(35:37):
a day?
That grind is not in vain.
It will get you to the nextlevel.
So just have that belief inyourself, because same thing
with budgeting you're budgeting,you're gonna make it happen.
It's the same type of grind,the mentality of budgeting and
doing what you're supposed to do.
It's a grind so spiritually,you may not see it, but it's
(35:59):
coming.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
It's coming, I promise you it's coming like
that so, so it's real brother,that's it, that's it.
You want me to hit him with thet-shirt man?
I feel like you gave him threet-shirts already.
Tell him what the t-shirt saidso we got the t-shirt I gave, so
the official t-shirt for thisepisode.
Are y'all ready?
All right, I don't need a Trumpstimulus check to stimulate my
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hustle, there you go.
To stimulate my hustle, thereyou go.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Say it one more time.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
We don't need a Trump stimulus check to stimulate our
hustle there.
You go.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
So you know, the antidote is there.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope welaid it out for you and we even
have a best practice, as youknow, we have a best practice.
I know our podcast listenersare not used to this, but we
have a best practice, and ourbest practice on this episode is
whether it's Trump or anyoneelse in office, you are the
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president of your pocket.
The wealthian's policy is whatmatters most is for your future.
Love it, man.
Okay, that's what matters mostand, as you know, a wealthian
means the ability to obtainmoney and abundance.
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Love it, brother.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
So there you go, and we all have the ability.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
That's for sure.
That's it, it's in us all weall got gifts, man.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Let's make it our best, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
That's it.
So let's let's make it our bestpractice.
The president of your pocket isyou.
The president of your pocket isyou.
It's not Trump.
That's t-shirt number five, broDang we.
We put a lot of season, uh,season two.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
That's a wreck.
Episode one we got fiveT-shirts, brother.
I think five T-shirts in theepisode might be the record man
somebody's going to have a lotof work to do building those
T-shirts.
God darn it, we got a vaultbuilding up too, man.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Yeah, that's it.
That's for real bro.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Hey look y'all, we're going to have a great time this
season.
This is a new season is a newseason.
You know.
We always want to bring a newconcept.
We want to bring new life toanybody we are in front of.
We just love, obviously, welove doing this.
We love y'all for all thesupport you give us.
Please don't forget to comecheck us out.
Anywhere you can find us.
You can go to our website,financebrosnetworkcom, check us
(38:23):
out on Apple iHeart, applePodcasts, iheart Radio, google
Podcasts, iheartradio, spotify.
You can check us out at ourhome at HHNTV.
You can find us anywhere onsocial media Y'all.
Just make sure you don't comeforget to check us out, because
you already know we love what wedo.
We love y'all and, as usual,mike.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
And you already know we'll see you at the bank.
All right, y'all See ya, Takecare.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
See ya next time.
Thank you, I said oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Thank you.
First and foremost, we want to be clear that what we
are sharing with you arestrategies and concepts that can
be implemented by individualswho understand the logistics of
how to approach such platforms.
As far as the literal, themental and spiritual format
(00:30):
needed to be successful withyour aspirations, I'm the one
half of Finance Bros.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Anton Lefwich, and this is Michael DePoe, the other
half, the other half, and weare coming to you with Finance
for the Unknown and we arehonored to be here with you, our
present and future wealthians.
We're back everybody.
Hey man, it's season.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We at season two on TV Season two.
We at season four on thepodcast.
There you go, there you go, andwe streaming on multiple
platforms now, there you go.
So you gonna hear it just likeyou see it right.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Mike, that's right.
That's right.
That's what we talking about.
We gonna make it happen for youand this is what we're bringing
to you guys.
Season two, and we're startingit off with a banger.
We're starting it off with abanger, mike, I was so excited
to get this thing going.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Man for this episode bro, because there's been so
much going on, man yeah.
You know, and we've been doinga lot in the off season too,
right, right, you know what Imean To further the mission and
get out here in the communityand do some special things.
So, yeah, should I give him thetitle mike, or you go ahead go
ahead tell him what's the title,like I gotta say how enthused I
(02:11):
was when you came to me withthis title because I thought it
was very relevant, whether youagree or disagree, whether you
on board or off the train, thisepisode today, the Trump
antidote, oh, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Look, we're going to give him the antidote and the
formula.
Remember that the antidote andthe formula, the Trump antidote,
and the formula yes, yes,wealthy ends.
There is an antidote for Trump,what you're dealing with today.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And a formula, and a formula.
Hey remember when.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
remember Lion king when he was like mufasa I feel
like I just got that littlechill when you say that you know
what I'm saying, antidoteformula.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's what's up, man , but mike, you know it's.
Should we talk about kind ofwhat we've been up to?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, absolutely, let's break it down.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Let's break it down so well, okay, so what was being
close to my heart?
You already know, mike has beenthe breaking curfew, yeah.
You know, we, we set out on amission to get in front of more
colleges and be in the communitywhere more you know, where more
people who are kind of cominginto the world of of well, not,
I wouldn't even say the world offinance, I would just say more
(03:28):
to where they're starting to getmore a recollection of worldly,
worldly views of their life,like where they're getting ready
to go, and for us that, for forthe most part, it happens to be
college kids, you know.
So we started this movement.
We call it breaking curfew.
Know, breaking curfew had thethe freedom over fear aspect to
it.
What we're talking about?
Breaking chains right, breakinggenerational curses, breaking
(03:51):
all ways of thinking.
We're bringing freedom overfear to all these colleges.
And we're calling it breakingcurfew because we kind of, we
kind of we want to break themold right.
We, we want to break out oftraditional ways of thinking.
We want to, we want to expandour horizons, we want our young
minds out there and, and even us, as we're learning from these
(04:12):
bro, because, mike, we're inthese colleges right now we're
learning from these kidsabsolutely I mean, their minds
are just so there.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
It's like boom, boom, boom, it's quick, it's fast and
and just the, uh, the, thetitle breaking curfew man think
about we're going against thegrain, yeah because, you know,
these kids, we're going intothese colleges and we're going
into these different, uh areaswhere that education is being is
not being taught, it's beingmissed, and that's that's the
(04:42):
whole point of breaking kerfing.
Yeah, we're going againstsomething, you know.
So we're breaking something.
Well, we're breaking somebarriers and we're gonna teach
these kids about finance.
We're gonna teach these kidsabout money, because that's
what's gonna save them, justlike we're trying to save you
guys, wealthy, and we're tryingto save you, yeah yeah, man,
we'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Talk about philanthropic movements.
You where we're making depositsinto the community, into the
world, into other people.
I mean, it has just as more ofan impact, I think, on us, even
almost feel selfish because aswe're giving, we're just getting
so much more back.
Even if it's us, even if's youand this is, this is for the
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world right here if you'repouring into somebody and you're
pouring in things that youtruly believe are going to help
them, you're saying out loudthat's why they say words right
life and death is in the tongueright, like the words that you
speak.
As you're saying these things,if you truly believe it, you're
reiterating that thing out loudto yourself.
So you're not only helping thisperson, but you're, you're
(05:49):
you're, you're re-solidifyingthe belief in your own heart
that this is something thatmoves you and you remember your
why and why you started man andit's a reinforcement right big
time.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
you're reinforcing what we all need to know.
We're reinforcing finance is apart of our life.
Finance is everything that wedo.
You can't really do anythingthese days without finance.
You can't jump on a computerwithout electricity, and who's
paying for the electricity Can'tjump on for the Wi-Fi.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Who's paying for the Wi-Fi?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know everything you do.
You want something to eat.
Somebody gotta go buy it.
Who went to the supermarket andpay for everything we do?
So why isn't it part of oureducation?
And that's why you know, wedefinitely want to give a shout
out to Chabot College.
We were at Chabot College.
We want to shout out Dr Gilmore.
We want to shout out Jesprey.
Thank you, jesprey.
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She's a liaison to the students.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Mr Bren just priest, she's a liaison to the students.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
They tell um, uh, mr brent, designer, too, she's a
heck of a graphic, hell of agraphic designer.
Uh, mr brent turner, who, who'salso our, our liaison for for
the facilities and getting stuffdone, and uh, over, we went
over to sjsu.
You know we have tamela overthere.
Thank you, tamela.
Who, who, who's a good friendand who's getting us that
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connection in there.
We had a great session withCarla and with Kayla, kayla,
kayla and her team.
Kayla Got you Kayla.
So we want to make sure weshout out these people because
they are helping us bring themessage out.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm saying Helping us make this happen.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And we also did something, Anton we started a
FBN Kids Edition.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Man out of strictly need.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Out of need Kids Edition, and when we say Kids
Edition, you want your middleschool, even the last year of
elementary school kids.
So we're talking about maybefifth grade to eighth grade to
ninth grade, and those are kidswho are seven.
Well, let's say about 10, from10 to about 12, 13.
(08:00):
Let's say about 10, from 10 toabout 12, 13.
So they can understand thevalue of money, to understand
how it works.
And we were given the honor andas we want to thank Christine
Lewis at the playground inCastro Valley, california, who
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heard our message and say, hey,this would be great for these
kids for summer camp and we'repart of that, right very much
wants the kids to to to be ableto dive into this financial
literacy and for them to get itand for it to be fun for them
too and you know what.
We had a great time doing it Imean, the kids were a little bit
rowdy, but you know what theywere, raising their hands and
(08:46):
answering when we startedteaching them about coupons
about, about a credit?
Oh my god they were.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
They don't let you know when you're doing a good
job yeah yeah, yeah, they don'tlet you know.
And then, when you're not doinga good job exactly, know that
too, yeah, and then I have totell you they were a little
smarties too, they were yeah,you know uh, maybe your mom or
dad would let you watch it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yes, I'm saying that you know who.
You were being the smarties upin there, but that's great.
You know what?
It was great to see those kidsat that age have a fundamental
understanding of what we weresaying.
They knew what money was.
You know, we did everything westarted from, from soup to nuts.
(09:26):
You know we, we started withcoins and dollars and and what
the bills were, all the way upto how it works, how their
parents get it, how they can getit to credit and so on and so
forth.
So it was.
It was phenomenal and it's anongoing program.
With every person that we shoutout we mentioned, they keep
wanting us to come back so it'ssomething ongoing, man.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Glory to god.
Brother too, man, and oh, Iwant to.
I want to make sure Idefinitely don't want to forget
trisha laconte uh the, thewonderful young lady that's
doing our, our, our new graphics, our logos, all the new stuff
you're getting ready to see onsocial media, from, you know,
from our backdrops to anythingon instagram or facebook.
You know, tricia, very, very,very rare and unique talent
(10:12):
awesome and guys, go look at ourwebsite, see the t-shirts, you
see the uniform.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, oh the website, oh the website, bro, did we,
did we?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
tell them about that.
The.
The website is.
Yeah, of course we told themOkay, okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
They know the website .
Go there, man.
Go to the.
Make sure you go to the websiteman, the website is phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
The website it is, it is, it looks great.
I still go in there and I justsometimes I'm in my office
during the day.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Mike, there you go.
I just have it on repeat haveit on repeat.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I got like all these screens up three or four.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know, that's why we brothers from another mother,
because I do the same thing inmy office.
So hey and hey, I want to.
I want to shout out to my wifeI just got married hey, hey,
congratulations you know, what.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I wasn't gonna bring it up, but if you put it up, I'm
a I'm a, I'm a deaf, I'm proudman I feel, blessed bro, I got
my best friend
Speaker 3 (11:09):
right, I got my best friend, and and not only just in
in business but in life with mywife.
You know what I'm saying, but Igot you as, as my best friend,
my mom, you know, in businessand in life, man bro, I I never,
ever knew somebody who would,who would drive five hours to
come make sure my mom straightall day, bro.
(11:31):
But but but you, you that, youthat you, that person all day,
you know saying so all day I'mjust putting that out there, man
.
And this this goes with thetrump antidote, this goes with
the life antidote, this goeswith the personal antidote.
This goes with the lifeantidote.
This goes with the personalantidote.
This goes with everything thatI think that we need to
understand to move forward withconviction in life.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
These are the pieces and that's part of the
ingredient that.
Thank you, brother.
That's part of the ingredient,is what we just told you, what
we're doing.
That's part of the theingredient for the antidote,
it's part of the formula.
We doing what we need to do forourselves.
So let's do that first.
Do what you need to foryourself first.
Make yourself, do that first.
(12:15):
Do what you need to foryourself first.
Make yourself happy.
Do things that you want to do.
Do and make things that you'reproud of first.
Trump can't touch.
He can't, can't touch, he can'ttouch.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Hey, they might be able to have you pay some taxes,
but they can't touch your heart.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
They can't touch your heart.
They can't touch your heart.
And if you're doing what you'redoing for yourself, just like
Anton and I are doing what'sbest for FBN, are doing what's
best for the UPI community,that's an antidote, that's part
of the ingredient that will givethe antidote against Trump.
I understand, brother, and thattakes us right into the subject
, right?
Yeah, man.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And brother, and and that, and that takes us right
into the subject, right, yeah,man, and look, and y'all know
we're not formal here, right,I'm going, we're going right off
of our phones, our tablets.
So this is this is real life,right here, this is real talk,
right?
So, look, um, you know, youknow, might, like we were just
saying, I'm sitting here, I'mthinking that one of the
ingredients in the trumpantidote is doing what we need
to do for ourselves Exactly.
Whether that's personal time,whether that's going for a walk
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whether that's, I don't know.
Maybe some people out theremeditate.
I've seen some people doingwhat's that stuff in the park
where they do the motions thechi or something like that.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
The chi, yes, you know what I'm saying.
Yes, the chi.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Whatever your vehicle is, for personal peace and
helping yourself, just resetRight, because we go through a
lot in this life and justeverything that we do in our day
, especially if you're anentrepreneur.
Yeah, because I always say this, mike, entrepreneurship, it's a
self-improvement program with acompensation package attached
(13:54):
to it.
Of course, you want me to saythat again Go ahead With a
compensation package attached toit.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Of course you want me to say that again, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Entrepreneurship is a self-improvement program with a
compensation package attachedto it, because we'll never out
earn our self-worth.
That's right.
So for every level we'reelevating ourself, you can
expect our income to follow.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah Well, whatever, whether you support trump or you
oppose him, you know we're alltrying to make sure that we do
the best that we need to do forourselves, you know.
So, whatever president that'sin office, we have to do what we
need to do for our communityBecause, yes, right now it can
(14:36):
be hard for our community, it'shard for the UPI community.
You know what I'm saying.
So you know we got to thinkabout, okay, what are the things
that we can do to helpourselves within this hard time
of the Trump era right.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Mm-hmm, hard time of the trump era right, and I'm
thinking the first thing is uh,I believe is.
Is budgeting right?
Answer oh, absolutely so youare.
And look, I want to.
I want to say this because Ireally love this right here.
I'm gonna actually read it wordfor word because I love all
right, all right all right, theaudience is waiting for you,
brother, I know, I know so asfar as budgeting, you know not
(15:18):
and not just for bills, allright, maybe, maybe hustling to
make a little bit of extra dough, you know.
Or leveraging that extra money,you know comes to putting it
into a product or a vehicle,right?
So when we think aboutbudgeting, we're talking that we
always talked about.
And go back.
Please go back and listen toour season.
You know our season one, twoand three of the podcast.
(15:41):
Season one of the podcast,that's right.
You know our TV show.
We talk about budgeting andagain, we always reiterate this
Budgeting has nothing to do withsaving money.
Ok, it has everything to dowith building a muscle.
You go to the gym, you work out.
You can't lift 300 pounds rightaway.
You got to be able to work yourway up to that.
So when we talk about budgeting, it's a exercise period, right,
(16:05):
mike?
Yep, so save a dollar, save 10,save 20, save 100, but start
somewhere, figure out where yourcomfortable margin is and grow
it from there.
And then, once you get to acertain place, if you fall back,
don't worry about it, startover.
Sometimes we go to the gym andwe work out for a month straight
(16:27):
and all of a sudden, we're notthere for two weeks or a year in
some cases.
For some people it's stillthere.
The concept is there for us toaccess when we want to access it
.
Discipline ourselves issomething that we choose.
All right, just, you know youlove someone.
You choose love.
You know what I mean.
It's not a just thing.
You fall in and out of.
You choose it every single day,right?
(16:48):
So understand that Budgeting isan exercise.
It's a muscle that you buildand once you get to build that
muscle, you start getting accessto opportunities.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Right, and we talk about IULs, we talk about cash
value insurance, we talk abouttax-free retirement strategies,
we talk about all this stuff onour podcast, but the bottom line
is not to go into all thatright now, just build the dang
muscle and you want to hearsomething crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Guess who's doing the same thing and he doesn't have
to.
Who?
Trump, trump, thank you.
All right, we're giving you theformula here where you're
saving and then you're going totransition that saving into
stuff that Trump and hisfollowers or his people or his
circle that's using.
(17:39):
So like I, said whether youhate the man, you love the man.
Whatever the case is,something's gotta work.
There's gotta be a formulawhere you can survive in this
chaos period.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Like it, don't like it, eat the chicken and throw
away the bones.
Okay, use what you Use, whatyou, what they say, use what you
can use or use what you can useand just disregard the rest.
Right, oh, news you can use.
I got some news you can use.
People say that yeah, all right.
Digest the news that you can useand throw away the rest.
(18:14):
There you go Right.
Like you say like there's,there's some things in this is
this is again we call it theTrump antidote people.
But it's a concept yes, allright, it's it's it's.
It's a method All right.
There's people out there thatare setting good examples and
there's people out there thatthe things they do well, we can
(18:34):
adopt those behaviors.
The things that we don't agreewith, we can push those
behaviors to the side, period.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
There you go, and that segues great into this,
anton.
Use the system to beat thesystem.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Michael, can you say that one more time, bro.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Use the system to beat the system.
I love you, man.
Use what's available, like likegrants, like financial programs
.
If you're in a situation whereyou have to get some of the
financial programs that arestill out there, there's still,
there's grants out there thatcan help you in whatever
situation.
Yes, you're in aunderprivileged income situation
(19:14):
right now.
Upi, you are, up, you're,you're the wealthy and you, you
have the ability and thepossibility to become wealthy
and make money.
That's the definition ofwealthy ability and the
possibility to become wealth, tohave wealth, I should say, and
to make money.
(19:34):
But until that happens, thiscountry provides a lot of
resources.
So use the system to beat thesystem.
Let those resources help youand elevate you until you get to
that point where you can say,all right, now I'm going to turn
it on its head.
Now I'm going to leverageeverything that the system have
(19:59):
for me to grow and be wealthy.
So think about that, ladies andgentlemen.
You need to use the system.
Don't hide behind anything.
It's there for a reason.
You have nonprofits.
You have a lot of nonprofitsout there that, even if you're
working, you're making money,they will help you.
Again, you're just using thisas leverage.
(20:23):
It's not charity, it's justleverage.
Our system is designed, ourgovernment is designed.
You chose to live in america,ladies and gentlemen.
This is where you chose theland of the free.
You chose so.
So we have it.
Don't don't be too snooty,don't don't feel like, oh, I
don't need this type, it's notcharity.
(20:45):
It's not charity, it's thesystem that.
That's the way it is.
The system is designed for youto fill, but it's also designed
to build you up.
So why not not use it?
You feel me, so that's what wegot to think about.
That's the type of mindset wehave to have.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Right, anton, absolutely, mike.
And look, I'm going to go wordfor word on this one more time.
I wasn't so much word for worda second ago, but I'm definitely
going to be word for word onthis one.
All right, your mindset has tobe right.
Stop thinking I'm poor andstart thinking I'm strategic.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
There, you go.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The brain believes what you repeatedly think about
yourself.
I'm going to say us the brain,the brain, our brain, believes
what we repeatedly think aboutourselves.
Okay, so we need to startpracticing possibility thinking.
Oh man, that's a serious.
Mike bro, right, and okay, sowe got, we got, use the system
(21:46):
to beat the system.
Yep, that's a midday t-shirtmidway t-shirt.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's an honorable t-shirt right there.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Honorable mention t-shirt all right we need to
start start thinking possible.
It's possibility, thinkingright, all right.
All right Right, right Startpracticing, start practicing
possibility thinking, love thatman, I love that this is.
And look bro, look Mike.
You know what?
If we sound like a brokenrecord, I'm not sorry.
(22:13):
Yeah, because if you hear themessage every day, every Sunday
from the from, from the pastor,or Sunday from the pastor, or
you know wherever you get yourmessage from, for me it's maybe
I may be in a church house, I'mhearing it from the pastor, but
then all of a sudden I hear itfrom the assistant pastor and he
just happens to put it to me adifferent way, and you know we
(22:35):
talk about being parent deafsometimes.
Right, that's true.
Your kids come home from school, daddy.
I look man, oh, that's great,that's great honey.
Come home from school, daddy, Ilook man, oh, that's great,
that's great honey.
I told you that 20 times, butthat's cool.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You got it from the, you know, the campus security
guard.
Right, right, right.
Sometimes a different voice, adifferent approach, whatever.
So eventually this is we'rejust look, the sauce is the same
coming out the kitchen.
All right, it may be flippedaround a little bit the way we
say it, but the message isconsistent man, Always, Always.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
And also Anton, using financial literacy as a
self-defense.
Learn the rules of the gameLike.
This is all a game you know,but we have to learn how to play
the game.
Trump didn't dodge taxes byluck, right man, please say that
again.
Right, say that again trump didnot tap, did not dodge taxes.
(23:35):
By luck, are you sure?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
it wasn't luck mike.
No, I'm pretty, I'm pretty darn.
Look, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I'm gonna say it in their language I'm pretty darn
hootin' Look.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I'm going to say it in their language.
I'm pretty darn hootin' tootin'that it didn't dodge my.
Look, he knew the code.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
He knew the code.
And what is it for us to findout the code?
Get educated on credit,business structure and tax
deductions.
If you get educated on thosethings, even at your level, even
at the UPI level that you're atright now, you know whether
you're making 20,000 a year, upto 185,000 a year.
(24:14):
Based on it, it's probably thesenses are different, coming up
as far as what it's consideredunder privilege and we know we
say that for the other word thatwe don't use that finance pros
network but the underprivilegedincome is considered anywhere
from zero to 10,000, all the wayup to 185,000.
(24:36):
185,000 is considered poor,unbelievable, but that's our
country, yeah.
But guess what I bet you.
That person who's making 185000 looks like a trump and look,
man you know why?
Because they're using all oftheir education, financial
education to keep most of thatmoney and I want to.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm going into what I'm saying by piggybacking off
that.
You know why they're able to dothat?
Because they believe, there yougo.
Because they believe all ofthis doesn't work.
If you don't believe you'reworthy of wealth, all right,
you're not less than OK, you'renot inferior, you're not
improper, you're not late.
Ok, you just up.
(25:22):
To now.
Maybe you've been uninformed,maybe we have been uninformed,
but once we have the information, mike, once we have the
information, then we can operatewith a sense of, of, of, of, of
strategy, right Of, consistency, cause, cause, once you, you,
once you got it and you, youknow it's working, you're,
(25:45):
you're gonna keep doing it,because the motivation, the, the
, the, the momentum comes fromthe success.
That's right.
You, you're like, oh, wow, man,I just paid off a credit card.
Okay, that felt, that feltpretty good.
There you go, let me, let mekeep going.
Okay, all right, cool, man, my,my credit card just broke, broke
, 700, okay, okay, okay, man,man, I just got that 100,000 on
credit, okay, okay, now wetalking and get that momentum,
(26:08):
because momentum is magic, right, but guess what?
It's also very jealous and ifwe don't pay attention to it,
it'll go find somebody else.
There you go.
So we got to believe man.
First of all, we got to believe.
Believe that the next step ispossible, believe that getting
out of getting into whatevervehicle or circle of network
(26:32):
that we want to get into ispossible, getting out of
whatever situation we're tryingto find ourselves out of is
possible.
We have to believe that it ispossible, period.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah, and that's faith.
Right, you know, faith is notjust a religion, but it can also
be a financial weapon.
You know, keep showing up, keepbuilding, keep believing.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Say that again Keep what, keep, showing what Keep
showing up, thank you.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Keep believing, keep building, you know, because what
you plant today will feed youtomorrow.
So just think about that,everyone.
Just think about showing up,believing in what you're doing,
because what you plant todaywill definitely be able to feed
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you tomorrow.
And on a personal note, anton,I'm going to keep my head down
practice P, B and C.
You guys remember what that isBe patient, be on time, be
consistent with Anton, favoriteP B and J, which is be polite,
(27:42):
be bold, doing that While you'redoing that.
That's right.
So I'm going to stack knowledge,I'm going to stack money and
I'm going to strike whenopportunity presents itself.
Man bro, man, let the Trump andhis followers come after me.
They won't even see me coming.
How about them, apples?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Hey man, they go to bumps apples, they go to bumps
man, they go to bumps man, theywon't see me coming and you
should do the same hey.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I'm saying this is what I'm going to do, but take
that, take that Stack inknowledge, stack in money, and
then strike when an opportunitypresents itself, because that's
the antidote.
Love it brother, that's theantidote.
Love it brother, that's theantidote I love it, man.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Hey, we in the breakdown, we in the break, in
the breakdown, we're in thebreakdown, you see how we slide
down there real quickhey, we play, take off and we
bring it back down so hey, youknow, mike, you already, you
already know, mike gonna giveyou the the literal and the
mental and I'm gonna give youthe spiritual and if you guys
have never seen fbn before, wealways, we always go into our
(28:49):
breakdown.
When we break down the episode,we give you the literal, the
mental and the spiritual of the,of the energy that we bring in
that week you know I mean.
So that's kind of what we'redoing now.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
All right, so let's start it off all right we're
gonna start off with the literal, ladies and gentlemen, budget
like it's survival track.
Every dollar like it owes yourent.
Now you know when your landlordis coming after for you for
rent, how it feels like right,why don't you do that with your
budget?
But a budget like it owes?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
you rent?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
that's t-shirt number three.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I told you we was averaging three we haven't even
got to the t-shirts yet yeah,and we already got two or three
so yeah definitely do it thatway and why we're emphasizing
that to make it sound like youowe rent is is is this is what
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you need to do.
You want to.
This is the antidote againsttrump budgeting.
You need to budget.
If you're going to spendfrivolously, you're going to run
out of money.
There's not going to be themoney there for you to just
easily be grabbed.
Your, your raise is only goingto be a point zero, zero,
whatever seven it is these days,you know it's, it's not going
to be there.
.00 whatever seven it is thesedays For real man, you know it's
not going to be there, but yougot to budget.
(30:05):
You got to know, if not on yourbills, how you budget for
everything else.
That's why we mentioned notonly budgeting for bills but
budgeting for everything else,and then taking that money if
you got it for savings orsomething like that putting it
into something that's going toleverage it and that's going to
make money on money.
So if we're doing that, atleast for the next three and a
(30:31):
half years because that's howlong he's going to be in the
office, no matter what Godforbid something happened to him
we don't want to wish nothinglike that on anyone but he's
going to be in office for thenext three and a half years.
This is what you need to doliterally.
You need to budget and thenwe're gonna go to the mental,
the mental budget every dollar.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Like it owes you, rent you have to say it again.
Are you playing around withsomebody?
I'm just saying, bro, are you?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
it's like it's like he marinated what we just said
and then he's like I have to saythat again.
I'm just for real, if Are youplaying.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's like he marinated what we just said in
there.
He's like man.
I have to say that again.
I'm just thinking.
I'm just for real man.
If somebody oh, you rent Mike,is you playing around?
No, I ain't playing.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'm just saying man, I ain't playing Go ahead, man
Give me a minute bro.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Let's get back on track.
Struggle as strategy as astrategy If you're survival, if
you're surviving sorry, ifyou're surviving poverty.
You've already budgeted like asuperpower.
You understand that.
(31:36):
If you're surviving poverty, ifyou're in the UPI.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Budgeting is already a superpower for you.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Budgeting is already a superpower, for budgeting is
already a superpower.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, think aboutthat mentally.
That's that's what you need tothink.
That, man, I was able to payoff all my bills this month.
Man, you're a superhero rightnow.
For real man, that's asuperpower, that is a that is a
very in.
Oh my god, in this day and age,you're able to do that.
Everything is up, eggs is up,every gas is up, everything you
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still made it through the month,and you made it through the
month even with a zero.
Or maybe you know a hundred,two hundred dollars that you
could put in savings that youcould leverage.
That's a superpower you need togive your yeah, yeah uh a
self-pattern on the back on that?
Yep, for sure, I love that.
Okay, hit him with thespiritual Anton.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Hey, mike.
So the spiritual for this istrust the bigger plan.
All right, even if the systemfeels rigged, your grind isn't
in vain.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm going to tell you something about that real quick
, because this hits my heart.
All right, I'm going to tellyou something about that real
quick because this hits my heart, all right.
In our daily, just our daily,our kind of just going through
our day, right, sometimes youget caught in that little rut
Wake up, go to work, come home,go to sleep.
Wake up, go to work, come home,go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Almost starts sounding like a song yeah, wake
up, go to work, come home, go tosleep or a broken record.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You know a broken record, right, okay.
And we start to see, we startto maybe notice people having
things that we feel like wedeserve.
Okay, because we're working sohard.
Understand that there'ssacrifice involved in these
things.
I'm not talking about theone-offs, the trust funds and
(33:26):
all this stuff.
I'm talking about people whoactually built themselves, built
their worth, from nothing.
All right, there's sacrifice.
All right, we're going to haveto sacrifice.
Sometimes good to get great.
Sometimes it takes us going outon the comfortable side ie,
maybe a job or something likethat to get to the elite, to get
(33:50):
to the things that we feel wedeserve.
And believe me, believe us I'mtalking to myself, especially
right now, mike I hear that whenwe start to sacrifice things
for what we want because,believe it or not, if you have a
dream, all right, you won'thave to sacrifice for your dream
, or else guess what your dreamwill become the sacrifice, okay.
(34:13):
So believe this If we aresacrificing for the things that
we believe we want, but thingswe believe we have the
capability to do, we will startto believe that we deserve
things that other people don't.
And when I say that, I meanthis very humbly.
I'm saying that in a way thatwhen you start to do the work
that we know other people aren'tdoing, when that baseball
(34:36):
player, that football player,that professional athlete starts
to run the miles at night wheneverybody else is sleeping,
that's where the kind of thealmost, the almost, and you can
handle it in a good way.
Right, you don't have to becocky, but just believe that
that energy comes from somewhere.
When you run those miles atnight and you know everybody
else is asleep and you puttingin the rounds that you know when
(34:59):
everybody else is out partying,you start to carry yourself
with this confidence.
Right, okay, and that's what Imean when I say, that's what we
mean when we say the game mightbe rigged.
Right, okay, but your grind isnot in vain.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Right, because you can always outwork anybody, all
day, all day, and that's truth.
And I know a lot of our UPIsbelieve in sport, believe in
basketball and believe inbaseball, whatever.
And what gets you to that nextstep is the grind right.
Is you like you mentionedgetting up at four o'clock in
the morning, running the miles,practicing eight hours, 12 hours
(35:37):
a day?
That grind is not in vain.
It will get you to the nextlevel.
So just have that belief inyourself, because same thing
with budgeting you're budgeting,you're gonna make it happen.
It's the same type of grind,the mentality of budgeting and
doing what you're supposed to do.
It's a grind so spiritually,you may not see it, but it's
(35:59):
coming.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
It's coming, I promise you it's coming like
that so, so it's real brother,that's it, that's it.
You want me to hit him with thet-shirt man?
I feel like you gave him threet-shirts already.
Tell him what the t-shirt saidso we got the t-shirt I gave, so
the official t-shirt for thisepisode.
Are y'all ready?
All right, I don't need a Trumpstimulus check to stimulate my
(36:24):
hustle, there you go.
To stimulate my hustle, thereyou go.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Say it one more time.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
We don't need a Trump stimulus check to stimulate our
hustle there.
You go.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
So you know, the antidote is there.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope welaid it out for you and we even
have a best practice, as youknow, we have a best practice.
I know our podcast listenersare not used to this, but we
have a best practice, and ourbest practice on this episode is
whether it's Trump or anyoneelse in office, you are the
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president of your pocket.
The wealthian's policy is whatmatters most is for your future.
Love it, man.
Okay, that's what matters mostand, as you know, a wealthian
means the ability to obtainmoney and abundance.
(37:21):
Love it, brother.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
So there you go, and we all have the ability.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
That's for sure.
That's it, it's in us all weall got gifts, man.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Let's make it our best, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
That's it.
So let's let's make it our bestpractice.
The president of your pocket isyou.
The president of your pocket isyou.
It's not Trump.
That's t-shirt number five, broDang we.
We put a lot of season, uh,season two.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
That's a wreck.
Episode one we got fiveT-shirts, brother.
I think five T-shirts in theepisode might be the record man
somebody's going to have a lotof work to do building those
T-shirts.
God darn it, we got a vaultbuilding up too, man.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Yeah, that's it.
That's for real bro.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Hey look y'all, we're going to have a great time this
season.
This is a new season is a newseason.
You know.
We always want to bring a newconcept.
We want to bring new life toanybody we are in front of.
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We love y'all for all thesupport you give us.
Please don't forget to comecheck us out.
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(38:23):
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And you already know we'll see you at the bank.
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See ya next time.
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