Choosing Prosperity w/ Brad Lea :: Ep 243 Mostly Middle Tennessee Business Podcast

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It. Yee, I like this low pro. That's what you have at
your studio, don't you?
You probably have this one or sobecause it's adjustable. Those
are adjustable, but not as easyas this one. All right,
here we go. This is the mostlyMiddle Tennessee business
podcast, a podcast about MiddleTennessee business owners and

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professionals, mostly, mostly
so man, I'm going to say we'vegot a real treat for you today,
as someone else might say, Howdo you like how do you like
Nashville here so far, Mr.Bradley, going back and forth
from Vegas to Nashville. I loveNashville, and thanks for being
on again,
and my pleasure.

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So
we just came from Nashville orVegas a couple weeks ago for a
trade show, and you put up avideo yesterday talking about
like you're driving through thisnice, lush, you know, probably
rain soaked road with the treesand stuff like that. And he
said, there's just somethingabout this place. This is what I

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believe you said, That's right.What does that mean?
Well, I mean, it's justTennessee. Brother, yeah, it's
cool out here. Yeah, you don'tsee it in Nevada, that's for
damn sure.
What you do see in Nevada, whatI always loved about living out
there, is the fact that you cango 15 minutes in any direction
and be direction and be in uttersolitude out in the desert.

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That's what I loved about it.Like even driving in from
Kingman to the dam, I wastelling my wife, I said my BPM
was down to like 54 that's howrelaxed I was. It's like
something out there mustresonate with my soul. Are you
finding that to be the casehere? And you're kind of living
by coastally These days, right,
correct? No, I just find

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the landscape and the people tobe
wonderful. The
people out here definitely are.You got that Southern charm and
stuff like that. We found thatto be the case when we moved to
Vegas. But we were moving fromConnecticut, though, and that
was like, you know, lot ofNortheast kind of attitudes and
stuff like that. You've been inVegas a long time, the 90s, I

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want to say, since 91 Yeah. So,I mean, you must have seen the
attitude in that town changeover time as well.
Well, I mean, it's always been alittle bit transient, yeah, but
I still like Vegas. I'm still inVegas. I'm in Vegas most of the
time, yeah, and I still like it.But when it comes to the
landscape, Tennessee beats it tohell, really,

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yeah? I mean, I'm not kind ofover the brown jagged edges and
stuff like that, yeah. I'm not abig desert guy. You don't really
go hiking out there. No
hiking out there.
So, I mean, what's the plan youguys? You're kind of planting
roots out here. Is anything youwant to elaborate on in terms of

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plans that you have?
Well, my wife loves it out here.So, you know, we're kind of
steadily getting over this way,more and more have an office
getting created. Hopefully theywere trying to double dip me on
the the terms. Oh, but once I,once they realized I was willing

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to walk away, they were morethan willing to start
negotiating, let's just say, soit's back on the table. I want
to open a miniature version ofwhat I have in Las Vegas. Yeah.
So about 889, 1000 square feet,you know, podcast studio, green
screen studio, so I can continueto make content and then create

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other studios to where, ifpeople want to do a podcast, you
know, they can have a place todo
are you adverse to, like, atleast having a place like this
one to do your podcast, or otherplaces here? What do you mean,
like, if you want to do a coupleof episodes of your own podcast,
but it's not as ornate as I'vebeen to your studio out in
Vegas. It's gorgeous. It's anactual it's like a television

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studio. Well, that's what I justsaid, no opening, well, you're
opening that here, but in themeantime, between now and then,
if you need two or three months,if you ever need a place, you
got a
place here. I appreciate it,yes, but, but again, I, I think,
you know,
I like to be at home, yeah?
Well, you got two homes here.You still renting that place,

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right?
That the house I'm in now isstill leased. Yeah, gotcha
looking
your wife is, she's about she'sin love with this area, yes,
yeah, she's a sweetheart, by theway. How long you been married
there,
including today? Yeah,
15 years. Cool. Man, that'sawesome. What buttons you keep

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pushing?
Man, I'm switching betweencameras.
I was gonna say, Man, you suremake it look difficult. I'm glad
I don't have to mess
with that. I you know, this is Ilike to be in the mix of a lot
of different plates spinning.I've tried to reduce down to one
occasionally, and it neverreally work out you're on that
camera.
You got. Get your your lightsgoing to where people can,

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yeah, we're working on that.We're building a studio
ourselves that's going to be alittle bit bigger than this
room. We're going to be owningthe actual space, if we don't
sell it before then. But we'rerenting this place. We do the
best we can out of it, whichkind of like leads up with small
businesses. You kind of, youknow you're coming here. You've
come here a few times to have tobe on the podcast, and we're

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still in the same house. We're asmall business that's just
working and tiring along andstuff like that. Do you remember
those I mean, of course you do.But do you look back on those
days when you were buildinglight speed, and do you have
like, nostalgia for those days,because I certainly hope I do.
No matter of fact, I havenightmares

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still. And by the way, I mean,you know, I start new businesses
all the time, yeah, so I have,like, starting
the one, the anchor business,you know, is, is always the
toughest thing I would think,because I'm still in the mix.
You know what? I mean, you and Ihave known each other going on
now, what six years. And, youknow, I'm relatively I like him.
He must. I'm like, I can onlyimagine what he thinks. Because

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I'm still doing like, we'restill, we're still trying, you
know, and especially in the lastthree years has been the economy
tightened up a little bit. Youknow, a lot of car washes are
what we typically serve with thethe majority of what we do. I
mean, we do a ton of stuff outof this building, but that's the
one that pays the most bills.And because of how the economy
contracted slightly in the lastcouple of years, it's been

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tough, and I'm very transparentabout it. I mean,
well, to me, it seems like it'sbeen about six months since I
met you. Cool, and I don't judgepeople, quite frankly, in my
opinion, you know, it takes 20years to become an overnight
success. So to me, it's like,
This place seems bigger thanbefore, so Well, before

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we had the couches earlier?Yeah, we actually, you must met
John. He's like, dude, I'd loveto be on more podcasts. But can
you get rid of the couches? Ilook frumpy as crap. And I'm
like, Yeah, I've been thinkingabout it. So we had this table
built in. Have you ever thoughtabout owning the car wash? We
thought
about it, but we, I guess it'swe know too much about it. It's
not a cash like a turnkey cashcow, as one might think.

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You know. Well, the little carwashes I know are,
yeah, you can make it so you canget, like, the self serves and
IBAS that are automated, butlike an express tunnel or
something like that, where yougot to have staff on hand and
all that stuff. It's the owner,the guys that go into that think
that they can just turn key it,and they end up spending a lot
more time at the car wash thanthey realize. So

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I'm talking about the awningswith the sprayers and the
machines, and you pull in thereand do it yourself, and it's,
yeah, self serve, yeah, yeah. Iwould imagine those are just,
you need somebody there just tokind of make sure nobody's
stealing anything or breakingit.
All the guys I know that own carwashes do well, and they're
looking for more, yeah.
Well, it is. It is a growthindustry play. It is. It's about

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a three to, I want to say,anywhere from a two to $5
million initial investment toget one going to ground up
nonsense. I start things with,you know, two or $3 I'm
just telling you what I hear.And we've, we've thought about
it before, but we don't havethat kind of horsepower yet. So
we're just kind of, we'rechopping at that one tree until,

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you know, we get going with itsomewhere. We're juggling a lot.
Well, again, a lot of peoplethey hear about, you know, you
got to diversify. You got todiversify. Well, I would say
focus, yeah, until you get bigenough to diversify. Most of the
people that I know that havemultiple streams of income, they
started with one, yeah,
which is what you did, yeah, wayback in that you, because you

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were, you were tell the storyabout, you know, you went back
to be a manager at a cardealership while you were
funding Lightspeed as it wascoming up. Yeah.
Had to pay bills, had to feedpeople, and the and the business
itself wouldn't sustaineveryone, so I had to go make
supplemental income, so I took ajob and funded it. Who's that

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dealership with? Was that onewas Honda West,
Sonic automotive. We have thatin common. We worked for Sonic,
yeah, it's about a time. Yeah,that's one of the things we're
kind of going through right now.It's like, you know, I'm very
like, I said transparent aboutit. John's doing what he has to
do to feed his family. Thebusiness is sustaining itself,

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but we just decided to forgopaying ourselves a majority of
our paychecks for the past aboutyear or so. And it's like, oh,
this is the kind of stuff thatthey're talking about. Because
we really had a good luck. Runfor a minute there where that
was the part of our businessthat had commas in all the
deals, and we had a little bitof trouble getting out of the

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last situation we were in. Andthat's about all I'll say about
that. But he and I kind ofgetting into partnership in this
business was gangbusters. Out ofthe gate, doing numbers at a new
business, new business shouldn'tbe doing, but we had momentum
from the previous situation, andeventually we're just, you know,
sometimes things run theircourse, and we had to pivot.

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We're in the garage doorbusiness now. I brought my
podcast offerings to the table,and that's kind of what we're
doing. So a lot of differentthings that were
plates that we're spinning. Youknow what I mean?
What it requires, nine times outof 10,
it builds grit, and I think itneeds to be talked about more.
Because I'm happy to say that Icall you a friend and you

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haven't made you haven't madeballer busters. Have you been
following that? No, damn I likethat, though I need to. No, you
don't
I'd rather you not.
Well listen,
baller busters, yeah,
is not

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end all be all, fact, right,okay, it said Patrick, but David
was one, right? You know, it'sjust,
it's just that that threw me fora curve. I was like, him really
did the
stretch baller busters. Youknow, when, when I first heard
of it, I'm like, cool. I likethat idea. You know, expose the
scammers. But everyone's ascammer in the world, if you're

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selling a course to them, right?Everyone's a scammer. If you
have a bunch of followers, andyou drive a nice car and you and
you do all these things whenthey first started, I like the
concept. I think the concept isgreat, you know, Let's expose
the scammers. But when theystart talking about people that
I know for a fact are notscammers, like Patrick bet

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David, yeah, they I lostcredibility,
and as the scammer definitionevolved as well, it's kind of
like calling somebody anarcissist, but that's not the
original root meaning of theword.
Yeah. Well, there, there'sobviously a lot of people who
you know are scammers, and youknow they may have busted some,

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I don't know, but when they sayballer Buster, well, what's a
baller right? That's true. I'mnot sure what a baller Buster
is. All I do know is when theysay Patrick, but David's a scam.
I know Patrick, and he's not ascam. And that just means,
listen, if you're going to callpeople scams that aren't scams,

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then it's cool. Go ahead, butlike, I don't, if I don't think
that you've made it becauseyou're off baller busters,
there's a lot of scammers. Theyhave no clue about that are
truly scammers, and they're noteven talking about them. They're
talking about people who areprevalent online and they don't
necessarily like their style,like my boy Andy Elliot, you

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know? They talk about his past,they talk about this. They How
come they're not interviewingand showing clips of all the
people that he's helped, right?Patrick bit David's made a lot
of freaking people wealthy. He'schanged a lot of lives. Why
don't they talk about those? Whyare they always just focusing on
the negative and thentechnically their opinions? Now,

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again, I don't I've neverstudied their channel. Maybe
they did stop people from beingscammed by people. But anyway,
yeah, I haven't made ballerbusters, but you give it time,
Brother, give it time. I'm notbig enough yet. As soon as you
get big enough, you're prettybig. Well again. I mean, has
Grant Cardone made ballerbusters? Yes, I don't think he's
a scam, do you? I don't reallyknow him all that. You know him

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better night. He's not a scam.You know who else is. I mean,
I'm invested with him, so, Imean, nothing. It's all been
pretty checks every month. Yeah,so have I, yep, does he
actually, you know, buyapartment homes, is everything
that he said he's doing heactually is doing, right? Then,
what's a scam about him? Theydon't have his marketing

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tactics. They don't like hispersonality. They don't like the
fact that he has more followersthan they do. And I think in the
beginning, the concept was pure,and then it became evolved, you
know, or just general hate,meaning, who can get us views?
Okay, let's talk about them,right? But anyway, I didn't know
you were a fan of the page. I'lltry to do what I can do to get

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on there. Well, yeah, if youever see it'll be ever sitting
on there, just,
just text me. I'll text you. Belike, Hey, dude, you made it
Yes.
And if I'm ever on there, youconsider it a bad badge of
honor. Well, that just meansthat you're that you're getting
attention, right? Because ifthey know who you are, well then
obviously you've gotten someattention
the thing. And then I could seethe scam side of it, but there's

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a lot of people talking aboutstuff out there they don't need
to be talking about because theyjust don't know what they're
talking about. Like, what thefake it till you make it's you
know, certain you know peoplethat are talking about, hey,
here's how you know, here's howto go viral in a video. And it's
like they themselves have neverdone it, or maybe they had a one
off. They're not consistently.Having those big numbers, you
know, or how to grow youraudience. And then you look at

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it, it's the comments are fullof bots. And you know that they
bought their audience. That'sstuff like
that. Yeah, but listen, I getbots in my comments. I've never
purchased one followers. I knowyou those. Those bots are sent
by people that believe you havefollowers, meaning they want
those comments read and hookedpeople into them. So bot

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comments, real bot comments arearen't really purchased or put
there. You're talking about theones where they have fake
comments, right? Like, Oh,beautiful, when it has nothing
to do with their posts. Like,three flames, yeah? But that's
when they buy. That's when theybuy comments, those are bought.
Comments, those are bought.Yeah, bought, not bought. B O T,

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that's what
I mean. Oh, you mean purchased,yeah, oh, yeah. Like, and you
could see it a mile away, ormaybe that you can, especially
when it has nothing to do withthe post, right? Like, man,
folks pay attention. Like, ifthere's a stair master and it
says gorgeous. You know, heartemojis, like, obviously guys
they they paid to have thosecomments. But I don't think

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you're gonna get there, becauseyour stuff really is real. I
mean, you're seeing you'resaying, what's on your mind?
You're like a you're almost likethe guy we just had on another
podcast. His name is JasonWhitlock, every year of them
real, that's right. It says
read on your shirt, brother,like I would be foolish to not

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be real with a name real, if yougotta be, and a brand real.
Yeah? But a lot of people don'trealize this is actually an
acronym,
really, yeah? Dare I say yes, itis. What is the acronym? The
acronym
is ours for relationships,because, literally,
relationships are the mostimportant thing, and most people

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don't figure that out until theend of their life and on their
deathbed. Who do you thinkthey're calling for
relationships? They're notlooking at their bank accounts.
They're not saying, let me takeone more look at my watch
collection or my trophy case.They're calling for people
relationships, and then whenwe're born, if we don't have any

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relationships, we die. So in thebeginning of life, they're
required, and then at the end oflife, they're desired, right? So
why do we forget how importantthey are in between? And a lot
of people do. And then there'salso people. Man, I just want to
get paid. Brother, I ain't aboutall that relationship stuff. I
got enough friends. Well, again,I would challenge you to look at

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every dollar you've everreceived, and I'll bet you
you'll realize it came from somesort of relationship. So even if
money's your thing,relationships, that's where
money comes from, resources,that's where money comes or
that's where, that's what comesfrom. Relationships, your
abilities are based on yourresources, right? So again,

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relationships, so the R is forrelationships. E is for energy,
because a lot of people don'trealize that we're operating in
a frequency. We're vibratingwith an energy. And everything
is on the planet, the universeis an ocean of motion, if you
will. And so because we're in afrequency, we're a vibrational

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frequency. That's our energy.Yeah,
I'm listening. I'm just gettingmy phone to get a little bit of
other content.
Well, E is energy, yep. And Ithink with the right energy,
life gets amazing. And again, Imean, there's heavenly energy
and then there's earthly energy.The heavenly energy is what you

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might think like if, I said,describe the kind of energy that
you would imagine being inheaven, what, what some of the
energies that you would describe
it's going to be, you know,light energy. It's going to be,
I would imagine it's going to beprobably sunny and 75
it's going to be a loving typeof, how

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about loving, courageous,generous kind? You know? Yep,
good energy and then earthlyenergy. Well, that's where you
got your anger and your greedand your envy and your
depression and your anxiety andyour fear, right? You can call

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it worldly, but I only live onthis one, so I call it earthly.
Okay, I've never been on Mars. Idon't know what the energy is
like there, but here, I knowwhat it's like. It's depression
and anger and fear and worry anddoubt and greed, heavenly. Well,
you got love and kindness andgenerosity, and you know, so

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energy is important. So to bereal man, you have to understand
that it's all about energy.That's your confidence, that's
your mindset, that's yourenergy. And then A is for
affluence, your affluence. Is,is your is your abundance, it's
your financial and and legacy,like everything that has to do

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with, you know, affluence, lookup the word. You'll you'll see,
man, that's a I want that. Andthen L is for leadership,
because I don't think you'reever going to get anywhere by
yourself, right? So you have tounderstand leadership is very
important. And quite frankly,most people never learn the

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first rule of leadership. Andthe first rule of leadership is
lead yourself so self worth. Youknow, that could be mindset, you
know, energy, that could be allkinds of things, but it boils
down to leadership. You have tobuild a team, and you have to
have the ability to lead, andyou should. And a lot of people,

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they don't, they don'tunderstand how important
leadership is. So if you want tomake it real, you want to make
real money, build a realbusiness, build, you know, build
real wealth, build real legacy.You know, have a real
relationship. You're going toneed relationships, energy,
affluence and leadership. Sothat's why it's there.

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I like that. I never, I neverrealized that. Yes, sir, have
you talked about it before onthe show?
I've never maybe, I don't thinkso
it's these things, it's theseexclusives that we get out of
here sometimes. Yes, well,that's what
I'm good at. You live and youlearn and you constantly
develop. I think it used to berelationships, energy, affluence

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and lifestyle. Why? Because Iknow a lot of rich people, dude,
it could be legacy, bored.That's what I say about
podcasting. Podcasting isultimately a legacy play. It's
leaving behind. Imagine beingable to go back and listen to
your great grandfather, youknow, and that's why I I bring
up my kids a lot in thispodcast. I'm as real as I can,

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because what we're going throughright now, it's like my father
went through and out of 30 someodd years ago. And I'm like, I'd
give anything to talk to him. Belike, dude, what was your what
was, what was going with yourmind? I was 15 years old. You
know,
legacy is usually determined tobe real estate or money. Well,
I think legacy is a, probably awhy it's a broad definition. I

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would not
really no, like your legacy?Yeah, your legacy is usually the
money and real estate you leavebehind. That's your legacy
that feeds the next generations.
Well, I mean, I don't knowdefine, pull up your little
Google like Google name, yeah.Definition of

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legacy. Define legacy. Do it onaudio so everyone can hear what
you find.
Hey, Siri, define legacy.
Hopefully it won't come
through, right? Let me turn thisoff. Sometimes we do
these things. What it saysprobably say something all deep,

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like you're referring to.
Define legacy. Yeah, you don't
as a noun, Legacy means anamount of money or property left
to someone in a will. Do youwant to hear the next one? Sure?

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As a noun, it means an applicantto a particular college or
university who is regardedpreferentially because a parent
or other relative attended thesame institution.
It basically no thank you. Itbasically says legacy, an amount
of money or property left tosomeone in a will. My
grandmother died andunexpectedly left me a small

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legacy.
See, that's like when you hearlike Bill Clinton talking about
he what he wanted his legacy tobe something and it's usually
like a presidential library, youknow, something like that.
Obviously, what he's rememberedfor. I guess maybe that's what
I'm maybe that's what I'm tryingto say. Most people use the word
to mean what you were referringto, what you're remembered for,

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or, you know, good, the energyyou put into the world, you
know, yeah, what do you wantyour legacy to be?
I knew you were gonna ask methat.
Oh, man, that's a good question.That's troubling that I don't

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know. Like people ask me, Well,what do you want to do when
you're into your 50s? And Ididn't know what I'd want to do,
and it's what do you mean?Really? You think I'm not in my
50s yet? How old are you? I'm 49how old you think I was 50s?
Well, you know, I guess I'mgetting there. You're only 49
I'm only I'm on level 49 it'slike a video

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game. Did you got more gray hairthan I do? I know I'm 56 this
is, I thought we were both aboutthe same age.
Well, you're. Youngster I am. Ihave a lot. I gotta look at it
that way. I wish I was 49
I was gonna be 49 forever, but Idecided, Ah, who cares? Because
at the end of the day, man,don't you wish that someday

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you're 99 because a lot ofpeople, they make fun of these
people that are old, you know,oh, look at that man. He's old.
A lot of youngsters on theinternet will tell me, Hey,
okay, grandpa. And it's likethey they hate on age, when, in
reality, they're praying to makeit that old, right? So I've
already made 56 you, my friend,have no guarantees. None of us

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do, and I hope I'm 75 and then Ihope I'm 95 so at the end of the
day, man, don't hate on the oldpeople.
I'm not hating on you. I don'tthink you're old when you
get into the 50s. Now you'restarting to literally season and
roll out freaking realexperience,

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and you're one year away, yeah,and it's, I feel like I've
already kind of been doing that,but I don't know until I turn in
to get into my 50s, it
doesn't change. I feel the sameas I do now. I feel the same as
I did when I was 35 honestly, Ithink I know a little bit more,
but I act the same, right? Ifeel the same.

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I think that those laps aroundthe block of life certainly help
they I think they further refineand define who we are. You know
what I mean? You handle things alot different. You have
different conversations. Youhave a lot your Moxie is
different. You know in terms ofhow you carry yourself, my sales
conversations look entirelydifferent now than when they did

(26:44):
1015, years ago. Well, good,they should, yeah, but it's
they're more casual andrelational. In that sense, they
probably work better too, yeah,because you're just basically,
you know, I mean, I'll neverforget one of my general
managers at the Mercedes dealer,people were kerfuffled in terms
of how to reach out to acustomer when you had nothing,
you know, to really, trulyupdate them with, you know,

(27:07):
something of substance. Hey,I've got something for you. And
he says, Sometimes all they needto hear is, sup what's
happening? Have you been How'sthe family? Just checking on
you? You popped into my head. Ido that a lot. I think I've done
that with you. I've texted you,hey, you popped into my head.
You okay? That happens to me allthe time, and I act on it. You

(27:27):
know, you and I have more of atexting relationship. I'm not
gonna. I mean, if you want me tocall you, I'll call you, but I'm
like, Hey, you're good.Hopefully. I don't know if you
remember getting those, but youknow,
I'm dandy. You're wasting yourtext, you can always be certain
that I am doing
well with the the story tellingus. You know, previous to

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recording on this podcast, in a38,000 foot altitude, I'm pretty
sure you weren't dandy. You'reprobably freaking
out. I was wonderful. I have
you told that story before? Ihave extreme gratitude for
everything, yeah, because
you seen a lot. You would yousay you're an old soul?

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I believe we all are. But yes, Iam particularly old, yeah, Soul
wise. But I can also say that,listen, I understand frequency
and vibration and energy that,let's say, quantum, quantum
physics. If you look intoquantum physics, you'll start to
realize, like man, everything isvibrating. Everything has a

(28:33):
frequency, and frequenciesattract and repel other
frequencies. So again, like whatyou emit is nine times out of 10
what you get. So if you wantgood things, give good things.
So at the end of the day, Iunderstand energy, but what I
also understand that most peoplefail to realize is that we have

(28:55):
what's called free will. Yes, Inlayman terms, what would you
consider? How would you describefree will?
Free will is simple. Isbasically making the decisions
that lead you to the next walkdown the road to make a
decision. No, it isn't free will

(29:16):
in the spiritual sense, anysense. It's just, you know,
you're you. I thought to me,it's decision making. Well,
you're close, no, but free will,it means the ability to make
those decisions, the ability tochoose. That's free will. If you
chose not to decide, you stillhave made a choice. Thank you,
but you have, but you
have free will. Okay, free willis our gift. That's our that's

(29:37):
our power. That's the powereveryone needs to tap into. But
nobody seems to realize becausethey think it's going to be some
damn Marvel comic power, it'sgoing to be some superhero
power. It's like everyone missesit, because the power is free
will. And it's like it's that'snot sexy, but in reality, it is,

(29:57):
because you have the ability tochoose you. So literally, when
you get upset, you're choosingto get upset when you choose to
be anxious and depressed. And Ithink you're choosing it at the
end of the day. Because if Ijust busted into a room and
everyone got real angry with me,and then I left, and you all sat
around talking about Man, thatguy came in here and he thought

(30:20):
he was this, and he did that,and he said this, and how dare
him. And people said, Well, whathappened? They'd say, oh, Brad
came in here and pissedeverybody off and got everybody
angry. My question to thosepeople that would sit there and
be like, really, what do you do?What do you say? They don't
question. How did he get youangry? Well, he did this. Didn't

(30:44):
you have to choose to be angry,don't you have to choose to be
angry? How can he just make youangry? You mean, I have power
over you. That's weird to me,because you don't have power
over me If you offend me, and Iliterally walk out of here
pissed off. The truth is, I canblame you, for sure. I can get

(31:05):
everyone to agree that it wasyou, and get buy in. But the
truth would be, I chose to reactthe way I reacted. I chose to
feel like I felt, and I chose tostorm out mad it wasn't you that
made me mad. I chose to beperiod. So when people say, you

(31:27):
know, what's this power that Ineed to tap into, understand the
power is, is the gift that youwere given, and it's called free
will. You can choose to behappy, or you can choose to be
pissed, right? You can choose tobe rich and you can choose to be
poor, you can choose everything.And I understand that. So it's

(31:48):
like, that's why I said you'rewasting a text. You'll never get
me saying I'm not doing well ifI'm alive, and if I'm not alive,
you wouldn't be talking to me.So trust me when I tell you,
when I'm alive, I'm doing well,yeah, because I choose to,
I choose to react and to havethat gratitude that goes along
with it. I
wake up with extreme gratitudethat that gives me an advantage

(32:11):
over most people. Because mostpeople, they wake up, they reach
for their phone, and they chooseto get upset and they choose to
be worried and they choose to befearful, and they and they're
walking around life reactinginstead of causing. Okay, I like
to cause, not
react with the people thatreact. Does it matter their age
or experience, whether theirparents trust the kids? Because

(32:35):
I found that to be in my lifethat a lot of the things that
like we went through atumultuous experience couple
years ago. Thankfully, yeah,exactly.
We pray for strength and thencurse the tumultuous stuff that
strengthens us, right? Thatdoesn't make any sense.
I don't know if I prayed forstrength in this situation, but
it kind of fell into my lap. Andit wasn't of anything that I of

(32:55):
my doing, but it was one ofthose things that I would have
collapsed 10 years earlier, if Ihad to deal with any of it, well
again, age does teach us. Itreally does. It's like, you know
somebody in the Well, Gregmiles, I'll give him credit, as
always, the impetus of theprevious version of this podcast
was, what's your problem? And itwas based on the notion of, it's

(33:16):
always something. And I had oneof
those. Why you constantly hadthem, right?
But the thing is, that's whatlife is. There's always going to
be something, how you react toit, and
how you exactly see, I don'thave problems, not problem, but
it's
always little, varyingmagnitudes of just what thing
like this year for us has justbeen an onslaught. I joke with

(33:39):
my wife, I said it's like 2025.Is front loading all the crap.
You
know, should be thankful forthat.
I kind of, you know, she's got,she's like, okay, I get the
whole it's always something. Butcan we let off a little bit for
a minute, you know? But
it's not always something, Jim,
it's not those are blessings.Those are opportunities you're

(34:01):
choosing to see them asproblems, and that's why they
are. So stop looking see that,and stop looking at them like
problems.
I do, I do say, Okay, I kind ofhave a much different
disposition towards them, whereI just kind of chuckled myself.
See you're choosing because itis good. It's just, you know,

(34:22):
you're ready again. And not onlythat, at
the end of the day, we get tochoose. Why would you choose to
be upset and fearful and anxiousand worried and depressed if you
have a choice? Well, peopledon't realize they have one, and
I'm here to tell you, you do.You've got a choice. Use it.
That's the power. The power offree will is the gift that we

(34:45):
were given to choose him or notchoose him, to choose love or to
choose envy. You can chooseeverything. You get to choose,
and most people can't figureout. How to Get a hold of it.
And it's not elusive. It's,it's, it's an awareness, I
think, like I'm aware that I getto choose. Who gets to choose

(35:10):
for you know, what do you mean?That was a question. Well,
you're asking, yeah, who gets Iget to choose from are you? Do
you know this to be true? I
mean, there's certain thingsoutside you control, like you
I didn't say, you know, youcontrol everything. I said, you
get to choose everything. Youget to choose. Yeah, it's free

(35:32):
will. So, so again, you couldget up and punch me in the face.
I could choose how to respond,right? I don't get to control
you choosing to punch me in theface, right? But I do get to
choose my response. I get choosemy mood. I get to choose
everything. So if I get tochoose, that's the gift, and I

(35:52):
learn that I have the gift, lifegets better. Now again, it's not
going to solve all your problemsjust because you're now aware
you can choose. But I literallycatch myself getting pissed, and
then I think, do I want to bepissed?
Were you somebody who wasalways, like, quick to anger
when you went to anger, quick
to judge, quick to react, youknow, because I was reactionary

(36:13):
instead of causation, like, Iwant to cause things, and just
that alone is why I'm a force,because, like, I cause things to
happen. I don't react to thingsthat happen. I cause them to
happen, and when things happento me, right? I get to choose
how I react to those things,which will cause other things.

(36:36):
Do you believe in cause and orevery action has a has a result
or equal, every action has areaction. Yes. Okay, so whatever
happens to you, there's going tobe a reaction. Correct? Do you
think that that reaction isgoing to cause something? Yes,
and who chooses your reaction?Oh, ultimately I do. So you get

(36:58):
to choose. You get to be acausation. It gets deep with
people, then people are like,Oh, come on. And that's the part
where some people, like, theyfloat away back in their little
miserable depression andlimitations. I don't I refuse,
why? Because I understand. I'vegot the power to choose. I've
got the power. I've got thepower and see, most people don't

(37:21):
know that, and they will notmake that statement, and they
don't believe it. If they did,they're just sitting there doing
affirmations, hoping somedaythey wake up. Powerful. I am
powerful. You are powerful. Heis powerful. But most people,
they don't realize that they'repowerful, and that's the
problem, and that's why I try towake people up.

(37:41):
Some people are just leaders andfollowers, though, naturally,
naturally born.
Well, that's why you got to getreal. Yeah, program. I'm going
to put a program together, geton baller busses. Okay, I want
to put a program together whereI teach people how to get real.

(38:02):
I mean, are you mean, are youspeaking on it at least?
And I've been speaking foryears. You can look me up, okay?
You can find I see videos of mesometimes. I'm like, Damn dude,
how old was I there? And I'msaying I'm saying it maybe
differently, but I'm stillsaying it this many years later,
it's still the same message,essentially. It's

(38:23):
more refined and probably alittle more credible now, but
it's the same message was 10xthe first time you really spoke
in front of a crowd, prettymuch, yeah, that's I heard about
you through grant, and also backin the day, I started 10x with
Grant, like I caused him to doit.

(38:44):
What's the next iteration ofthat? Is that, is he going to
evolve it to somethingdifferent? What? Because
apparently, this was the lastone. That's the last one that he
had. Oh, dude, that's just tosell more tickets. I think, if,
I think if all he has to do ischange the name now, it's going
to be called, uh, instead of 10,11x instead of 10x growth, it'll
be, it'll be 10x wealth. Yeah,set of growth, it goes to

(39:06):
wealth. Why? Because he's tiredof the low paying people. Now he
wants the high paying people. Sohe's going to teach wealth, and
he's got the clout to do it.Yes, he does again. He's not a
scam. That's the thing. Like,you know, he's on baller
busters, Andy Elliot's on ballerbusters. All these people are on
baller busters, and it's like,wait a minute again. I'm not
saying that they're, they'rethey're angels, and I'm not

(39:27):
saying that they're that they'venever said no to a refund. But I
mean scams like, to me, a scamis something that is not true,
right? You know, you're, youtake my money hoping to get
something, and you're not goingto get it because I scammed you,
right? How blatantly lying. It'sa scam. And again, it's like

(39:50):
when you when you say, I'm gonnaexpose the scammers good. I hope
a channel comes up and exposestrue scammers, but you better do
your home. Work because, again,you're, you're calling Patrick,
but David a scam. Grant Cardonea scam. How are they scams? You
know? Well, they, they claimthat people are going to 10x
their revenue. People are notstupid. They don't real. They

(40:13):
don't really believe when theypay grant that they're going to
10x their revenue. Okay? 10x isa, is a lifestyle. It's a, it's
a concept, just like real if Iever start real success, that
doesn't mean that, man, you buya ticket to my thing, and you're
going to find real success. It'scalled marketing, you know. But
still, there are scammers outthere. But again, I've been what

(40:38):
you would call scammed before,but I don't think it was a scam.
So I can tell you confidently,I've never been scammed. And I
can also tell you that, like, ifI were ever to say, Man, that
was a scam, me believing it wasa scam is the problem, because
don't you learn

(40:59):
true Okay, so if it taught usanother choice, if it
taught you something, then howwas that a scam? Right? Well,
scam by the definition, youknow, he promised something, I
didn't get it. Yeah, I can agreethat's a scam. But in reality,
is it a scam? If you believe itwasn't? No. And there's a lot of
people who Andy Elliott andGrant Cardone and myself, and

(41:20):
I'm sure you and other peoplehave helped, Patrick, but David,
so again, all the people onballer busters, I haven't looked
at them all, but I've seen a fewof those guys on there.
Do you think with Andy Elliott,they're just upset at the
gimmickry that he kind ofpresents, because, I mean, a lot
of what he's he's got this, thenwhy don't they call it just
clown? Well, they kind of dothey, you know, Chief cloud

(41:42):
officers is in the description,yeah.
But I mean, again, you want tomake fun of people. Cool. Call
it make fun of people. Butthey've got everybody believing
these people are scamming them.And it's like, I know a lot of
people that have told me AndyElliot changed their life. I
know people that say, Patrickbut David changed their life. I
know people that that haveliterally helped a lot of people

(42:04):
that have been on that channelwhere, like, Dude, come on. Vet
people better than this. Youhave not just that they're
embarrassing. They wear tootight a clothes. They don't You
don't like their message, youdon't like their look, you don't
like their style. Then just callit that. Yeah?
Like, I don't like RichardSimmons.

(42:27):
You ever see me make fun of himon my channels?
Sometimes, I think a topicaldude to make fun of. What are
you
talking about? Richard Simmons,he passed away. Scammer. He
would tell you you were going toget in shape. He'd have Todd
leprey, yeah. Don Laurie forhim, back in the old 80s, was he
the guy that said you put tinyads across the entire United

(42:48):
States,
bedroom apartment placing tinylittle classified ads in
classified
Yeah? That guy, yeah. But hey,listen, I hope people you know,
use discernment, and all youhave to do to see if you're
getting scammed is find out ifthey did what you're trying to
do, and if they did and they'rewilling to teach you how is it a

(43:11):
scam?
Well, again, it's to your pointof it being a learning
experience, one way or another,one way or the other, brother,
but that's effective. That'swhat I'm talking I got scammed
out of money earlier last year,about two grand, and it was
something that I should haveknown better. That's what you
think you were going to get. Iwas supposed to get a car. Which

(43:34):
did you get? Nothing? How areyou you believe that you're
going to get a car for $2,000 itwas a little bit more than that.
They wanted a down payment, youknow, in order to, and it's
like,
yeah, you know, I almost gotscammed, yeah, in that sense, I
was looking for a muscle car.Was it here? I think it was, I

(43:54):
think it was here. Did I callyou? I called Well, here's the
golden thing at the place, youremember. And dude, they were
going to, I was going to putthey only want a 20% down. And
this deal was such a good deal,I said, Man, I got a Google
search. These guys, theirinternet, their website came up,
their testimonials came up.Everything seemed

(44:15):
legit. Telling the story acouple of episodes ago, yeah,
well, it looked
good. These guys were good, andI almost gave him 20% deposit,
and I thought to myself, let meGoogle Map it, like, let me look
at their lot to see their cars.And they gave me their address,
and I google mapped it, and itwas like an old, like,
industrial area with traintracks and, like, there was

(44:37):
nothing there, yeah. And so Isaid, I said, Do you have all
the cars on your property? Hesaid, absolutely. I said, Okay,
well, I'm gonna send someonedown to take a look at it. He
said, well, well, I can meetthem somewhere. I said, No,
they'll come down. They'll comedown. They'll come to you. Yeah.
And then I fortunately didn'tfall for it, but that would have
been a scam, legitimate scam,but I would have. Learned don't

(45:01):
do that, and I would have foundvalue in it. That's my point.
Just so you don't think I'm asdumb as I look, there was an
element of that particularexperience that I went through
where was, Well, hey, if I putthe money down, it's on a credit
card, I can probably get itback, because it'll be a
fraudulent, you know, in nature.Turns out it because of the
nature of how it was transacted,the credit card company didn't

(45:24):
stand by their their word use,American Express is all I can
say. Therefore, I do not usethat credit card company ever
again. Yeah, and anybody whoasks, I will tell them, American
Express stands behind you. Yeah,this one did not, and I was kind
of pissed about a black card.
If American Express is,listening, I'd like a black
card, please.
You don't have a black card yet.No, because you're, you talk

(45:47):
about, you know you're on yourway to, you want to be a
billionaire, yes. And the funnything is that you mentioned on
several episodes of your podcastthat you wanted to fund a movie
that you could act in. And haveyou done any acting since I
first met
what's the character you play?Bradley? Bradley superstar.

(46:10):
That's who you are, though.That's why it's easy to do.
Yeah,
the world is merely a stage.
Hey, what kind of music did youlisten to growing up?
I listened to, you know, DefLeppard, motley crew, 38 special

(46:31):
Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Eminem,Snoop Dogg,
90s. There, Boston, you're aclassic rock guy, classic rock
mix with some rap. Yeah, Ididn't listen to country. Were
you Huey Lewis in the news? HueyLewis in the news under Are you

(46:53):
here the 28th of May?
Negative. Man, I wish you were.Why is Huey coming?
No, but the heart of rock androll, the Huey Lewis in the news
tribute is going to be at thecity winery in Nashville, and
yours truly would be playing thedrums. Oh,
nice. Yeah. I tried. I tried.

(47:17):
They call it ecstasy
for the first time, or the onlyin the 90s? No, recently, I
wasn't recent. It was probably,it may have been the 90s. I
think it was the 90s. It was bigback then. Yeah, it was the 90s.
Now that I think about it,because I just moved to Vegas,
and Huey Lewis and the News wasplaying, and we got tickets, and

(47:38):
I'm like, Yeah, Huey Lewis inthe news, and I show up, and
somebody gave me like, thislittle what looked like a rat
turd. I didn't even know what itwas. They didn't tell me till
afterwards. It was a rat turd. Iwas dumb enough to take it, but
supposedly it was like, youknow, supposed to make it fun.
So I took it, and, man, it wasHuey Lewis in the news, and it

(47:59):
was a great, concert. I rememberstanding there, and it felt like
I was leaning backwards at a 45degree angles, like I was just
like, leaning at a 45 degreeangle backwards the whole time,
and everything was lovely, andeverybody was nice, and it was
awesome. Very cool. Yeah, notthat I endorse drugs, but

(48:22):
we all. We dabble every now andthen. Some points in our
life sure didn't. Everybody.Yeah, my wife didn't, never
touched a drug her
entire life. Every time we I seeher and meet her and talk, she
is an absolute sweetheart. It's
just amazing though, thatsomebody has gone through life
and didn't fall for thepressure, the temptation, like

(48:47):
she's never, ever done a drug inher whole life, unless I slipped
it to her. No, does she drink?Yeah, she'll drink sometimes,
but not to a point ofintoxication. I mean, I've she
has that. She's definitelydrank, but never a drug. She
said,
That's great
occasion. It's recreational forme every now and then, but it's,

(49:09):
I don't feel the need so I it'slike, I've never really been
much of an addictive personalityin that sense, thankfully. But
again, that's a decision that wemake. You know,
I think it's a, it's a again. Imean, when people want to judge
me because I'm honest that Ihave tried stuff, Judge me then,
like, it doesn't bother me.Like, if you told me you used to

(49:30):
be a meth head, right? Good foryou. You're no longer a meth
head. How'd you make it out?Like, tell me, tell me, tell me
about that. But you know,because I've talked on my
podcast about, you know, smokingcrack one time for three days
straight. People are like, Dude,why would you say that? Yeah,
like, because it's the truth,man. Well, people are gonna I'm

(49:51):
like, see, that's the problem.Most people are so worried about
what everybody thinks about themthat they that they go through
life tiptoeing. And I don'tthink that. That's the best
option for me. For me, I'm goingto go through life, telling the
truth, being kind, choosingheavenly energy, trying to
provide value to people, andmaybe my story is going to help

(50:12):
someone else avoid the problemsthat I had. But at the end of
the day to lie and to worryabout what everyone thinks about
you, you still did it? Yeah,okay, so all you're saying is,
let me hide what happened to me,so you approve me. And I'm the
kind of guy that says, Listen, Iapprove me. I don't need your

(50:35):
approval. I'm not looking forsomeone's validation. You know
what I mean? And I think morepeople, I think more people need
to do that. They need to. I grewup worrying about everyone's
validation, and start tovalidate themselves. And some
people are like, Yeah, but Ihaven't done anything. Then get
up and do something, yeah, butI'm this and I'm that, then
change it so you've got thepower to choose. You've got free

(50:56):
will. Just start reverseengineering whatever it is you
want. Because I've had peoplesay you can't choose to be
successful, yes, you can. Youcan't choose to be rich. Yes,
you can. You can choose whateveryou want. That's the whole Gift
of free will. You choosewhatever you want. You can

(51:17):
choose it. Now again, doesn'tmean it just appears means
you're choosing it. But once youchoose and you commit and you do
the work, it's only a matter oftime. And whatever that thing
you chose, I believe, is on theway.
Is that your goal, though, to belike a wealthy billionaire, I
was at the ultimate goal. I
believe I'm already one. I'mjust waiting to get paid,

(51:39):
right? But I mean, is that, whatother purpose did you have? Did
you wake up in the car businessand say, I want it, this is what
I want to do. And this is why,like, what was the why behind it
to get more money or to really,because in your LinkedIn, I can
appreciate it, because I couldtell you I believe you wrote it
from the heart. Was to look, Ijust want to, I want to. I want

(52:01):
to, I believe you when you say Iwant to truly help people. Well,
that's what other people do.When other people say that my
gut feeling and that littleinner voice that we all have
based on wisdom or externalforces of good or evil or
whatever kind of guides you andhas gives you that discernment.

(52:22):
You know what I mean? That'swhat discernment is. Is like,
there's something off here. Idon't really believe what you're
saying. I've never had an issuewith that. With
you well, because I think youcan sense my energy, right?
Let's see, that's the energythat I'm talking about. Like I
show up on sales calls with adifferent energy, you know, I
try to teach sales people, stopbeing a salesperson, start being

(52:46):
a help person. What does thatmean? Like, genuinely see if you
can help them with the problemsthat they have with your
services or solutions. Like,just try to help if you, if it
doesn't help, move along andthat energy where I'm just
trying to help you, yeah, willclose you more deals. But again,
I mean, if somebody said to me,brother, you truly only want to

(53:06):
help people, yeah. I mean, Iwant to help people, but if
someone said, Brad, I canarrange to where you're going to
be so helpful to everybody allyour life, but you are going to
constantly be in pain and brokeand and you will be like,
seriously miserable. Well, no,okay, I'm not. I'm not Joshua,

(53:28):
okay? I'm a human. I justrealize that, number one, I like
to help people. I also realizethat the more I help, the more I
get so at the end of the day,there's a little bit of both in
there. Like, how do I make moremoney? Help more people? Oh,
what a what a bonus. Like, Ilike helping people. Hey, let me

(53:52):
help people, and I'll get moremoney. But if someone said, to
be honest, Brad, if you is itjust you want to help people.
No, dude, I also want to be abillionaire. What's your why?
Because I like nice shit. I doand it's expensive. This shit is
expensive. I like traveling. Ilike giving people things. I

(54:15):
like helping people. I likerescuing people. I like being
able to give somebody somethingthat will help them and dude, a
lot of times it's money like,what would you rather have if
your house was gettingforeclosed on a check that can
cover it or some advice fromyour grandpa? Huh?

(54:39):
Yeah, definitely a check wouldbe, Well,
Jim, listen, I can give you themoney, but I'm not going to.
What did you learn from this?Yeah, I'm not going to, because
that will be harming you, and Iwant to help you, so I'm going
to not give you the life savingfunds that you need. What I'm
going to do, though, is I'mgoing to give you a piece of
advice. Yeah. I sometimes, dude,I don't need your damn advice. I

(55:04):
need your money. Okay? And thenget me out of this situation
financially. And then, please,I'd love to hear how you're so
freaking wonderful and rich, andI'm not, but right now, I have
to pay this, or I'm going tojail. I have to pay that, or I'm
losing my house, I have to paythat or my kid's gonna die like
that takes money, so I want to,I want to have money because I

(55:27):
like nice shit and I like tohelp people.
You have a hard stop at two,right? Supposedly, I
mean, I personally don't haveany rules, okay, but my
priorities say I'm supposed tobe somewhere at like, three.
Let's just mark that. Ben at 55that I brought that up when
you're producing please?

(55:51):
I forget you guys had it, don't,
you know, typically, I let itrun, but, you know, and stuff
like that, when I, you know, ifit's real and we leave it in,
that's fine, you know, but it's
all real with me. Yeah, you guysare gonna cut out the ecstasy.
Leave the Huey Lewis, ecstasystory out, please.
My my business. Getting back tothe whole Free Will
conversation, or even justresponding to certain scenarios.

(56:14):
You met John just now, he saidsomething that was beautiful one
day. He says, Look, there is nocrisis like that's a great way
to look at it, you know, becausethat's what I think, what you're
talking about, what we'retalking about, a lot of people
responding to what they deem ascrises, you know, it's charging.
Yep, it is. Car business was abig education for me in that

(56:34):
where I was told, Look, you onlyhave control about of the 360
degree sphere around you, andthat's it. And that this
gentleman that told me, hey,it's always something. Just
accept it can and that's achoice.
Can I augment? Of course, you donot always have control of the
360 degrees around you. Okay,right now. You don't have

(56:58):
control of this.
You think you do within like atwo foot,
you don't have control of shit.I could get up and smash
everything on your desk, and youcan't control shit. We only have
control of one thing, fullcontrol, one thing our mind.

(57:19):
That's it. Nobody can controlyour mind everything else.
There's some extent that you'reyou, you're not in
government projects in the pastthat might, you know, challenge
you. If
they trust me, if they if theyhave done that successfully,
we'd all be mind controlled.Yeah, okay. They cannot control
our minds because we were giventhe gift of free will. That's

(57:43):
the
gift. Do you think that there'ssomething in our food supply,
though, that is I think they'retrying fogging our
minds 100% I think they'retrying to control our minds.
They're trying to brainwash usand and get control. But No,
dude, they haven't been able todo it. Generally speaking, I'm

(58:04):
sure there's people that havetried to hypnotize and get
control of your mind, but yourmind is the only thing that you
truly have 100% control overeverything else, dude, you
really don't like I can'tcontrol if you shoot me right
now. I can't control my 360 I'mthis 360 I got I can't even
control my arms.

(58:25):
It's kind of troubling thatyou're going through these
violent objection like I'm goingto do these things to you. Maybe
I just come over and give you ahug.
I'm proving a thing. See, Icouldn't control that either.
No, I try to control it, though,because I don't do hugs.
You don't do hugs. No, reallywell. I mean, are you with your
kids? I
hope you do. Yes, kids, kids andfemales,

(58:47):
kids and females. Yeah, not eventhe bro side hug, where you kind
of just messing with you.That's, it's like the, you know,
the you don't do the full onchest to chest. Maybe I have,
yeah, no, I'm past the no hugstage. But listen at the end of
the day, honestly, for all thelisteners, because it's supposed
to be mostly Middle Tennesseebusiness podcast, that's right,

(59:09):
so I messed the name up too,yeah. But if these guys want to,
like, build a bigger business,if they want to, you know, have
a better relationship with theirwife, which, by the way, will
help you build a biggerbusiness. So that's the whole
thing. People don't havebusiness issues. They have
personal issues that they bringto work. So again, remember that

(59:30):
you have a staff of people atyour organization and you have
business issues, you just have alocation where all the personal
issues are manifestingthemselves. Okay, become a
leader. Study leadership.Realize that a team is going to
get you there. You're not goingto do it by yourself. You're not
going to build it by yourself.You're not going to be able to

(59:52):
do it by yourself. Soleadership, that's what's going
to help businesses, not onlythat, training again, people.
Like, why? Here comes the plug.Listen, dude, it's 300 bucks a
month. I could care less. Youspend more than that on coffee.
I'll bet you, you guys spendmore than 300 bucks on the shit
you give
away, don't you. I have no ideahow much we spend on water.

(01:00:13):
Again, you're just offeringeverybody water and Coke, and
they offered me, you know, Cokewater, well, baby, costs money,
bro, toilet paper in thebathroom. Okay, then you're
spending money, and I'll bet youit's more than $300 a month for
just regular old employeefacilities, right? So at the end
of the day, $300 a month willbuy you a training system that
will deliver, track and measurecontent. All you have to do is

(01:00:37):
create it. So if a businessright now wants to grow. Do they
need people? Yes, of course theydo. They need technology and
people. So guess what? If everybusiness right now, let's say 10
plus employees, because again,if it's you and your brother,
you know you probably don't needit right this second. But real
businesses that have real plansof growth and exit, hopefully

(01:01:02):
their business becomes morevaluable the second. You have a
training system, and it can be amanual. Doesn't have to be light
speed software, but light speedsoftware is just a digital,
world class training systemthat's easy to use, but my point
is, businesses need to trainpeople, train yourself on
leadership. Train your employeeson customer satisfaction, sales,

(01:01:24):
closing, persuasion, personalbranding, marketing, everything.
So you need a training system.That's what I would tell people
of Middle Tennessee like, getyourself a training system, even
if it's documented and in abinder. A company's value goes
up by one and a half to fourtimes, minimum, if they've got a

(01:01:46):
training system, one and a halfto four times, really, one and a
half foot of four times. If youjust simply create your SOPs,
document all of your roles andpositions, and get yourself a
training book, a how to book,like, how do I run this company?

(01:02:07):
What if you quit right now? Whoknows what you know? Right?
Right? So at the end of the day,it takes a little bit effort,
but if a company just goes, bam,let's document everything. Who's
that? What's his role? What ishe supposed to do? He can
document it, by the way. He'sbeen doing it forever, John,
whoever's around here, doingwhatever they do. All you'd have
to do is say, hey, spend thenext couple days and just turn
in a step by step thing of whatyou do on a regular basis. And

(01:02:30):
then they'd all come in andthey'd say, Well, here's what I
do. Number one, you're able tolook at it and go, Well, wait a
minute. That ain't what you'resupposed to be doing, right?
Yeah. But number two, let youput it in a binder, and then
whatever role that person hashere, you market creating
services, and you bring yours,and then something happens.

(01:02:51):
Guess what? I can walk in hereand buy this business, and I
know exactly how you guys dowhat you do and who does what,
even if y'all quit, I couldreplicate the business. Now,
some people might be better atothers, but without that book,
it's all in your guys's heads.This business is not as
valuable, period. And whenyou're looking to exit, dude,

(01:03:12):
people that come in, they wantto know that there are systems
and processes, and they wantthem documented. So again,
Middle Tennessee document yoursystems and processes, and I
would say, get a training systemto where you can now deliver,
track and measure withrepetition, all of that
information that needs to buildyour team, because the team is

(01:03:35):
what's going to grow and what'sgoing to make you wealthy. You
don't build a business, man, youbuild a team, and the team
builds the business. Yeah,
it is. It's a challenge.Definitely. That's all we I feel
like we've been doing for thepast two years. You have a
training system. I mean, we'rewriting it down. We're going it
over people, probably not likedocumented, like you're talking

(01:03:57):
about, but it's definitely,yeah.
Now again, if you ask likeMcDonald's, you think they have
a training system? Oh, totally.You think any successful
business out there has atraining system?
This is how we do things.
Are we trying to replicate theirsuccess? Are we trying to
emulate what they've donesucceed? Well, then again,

(01:04:19):
there's clues like, you know,get your systems, get your
processes, and if you don't havethem, dude, it's time to think
about them. Yeah, I'm justtrying. I'm just trying to give
business.
I got podcast, and I like to, Ilove hearing about the days. You
know, everybody has them, evenif you choose. You know, if it's
a new thing that you'rechoosing, how you get up, is
that, is that always been like amantra of yours for your entire

(01:04:42):
life, or did you just kind ofbecome enlightened by morning
routine? Well, morning routinethe gratitude of being able to
having the notion of choosinghow to react to something that's
that's a mature way to look atthings. Well, you know,
I learned it over time, yeah,and it's getting stronger and
more. Were advanced as time goeson, right? You know. And what

(01:05:03):
were the days like, though,where, you know, you got to get
up, you got to go to thedealership, but at the same
time, everything I'm doing atthe dealership is feeding my
business. You have the long goalin mind. There had to be those
days that you woke up and youwere like, I just don't I'm
free. Flipping tired. I wasn'treally
tired. I'm very energetic, andalways have been. Yeah,

(01:05:27):
I wasn't tired. I was
like, in other words, sometimesI got tired of it, meaning,
like, I'm frustrated. Why?Because I was making great money
at the dealership, but stillbroke, right? Because it's all
feeding your business, I had togo give it to people. Yeah, and
you know, why would you keeppouring money into something

(01:05:50):
that didn't work and isn'tworking well again? Eventually,
I realized that I'm like, Well,why am I split? If I just went
and put the effort into mybusiness like I am this job, it
might actually work, right? Andso I was treating it like my
like I was an owner. You know, Ididn't have to get up, I didn't

(01:06:10):
have to do anything. I didn'ttreat it like a job. I treated
it like I owned it. And a lot ofbusiness owners do that. They
think because they're the boss,they don't have to do anything.
Well, I always say you bettertreat it like a job, or soon
you're going to need one. Andthat's what happened to me. So
then I went and busted my ass atwork for someone else, building
their bank accounts. And then,and then I realized, man, if I

(01:06:32):
worked this hard for myself andquit dicking around, I probably
wouldn't need a job. And so I,after one year to the day, quit,
went back and said, I'm treatingthis like a business now, and
I'm gonna work it like abusiness and treat it like you

(01:06:53):
have a job. This is my job,yeah, like I didn't have choices
anymore, right? A lot of people,you know, because they own it,
they think they they get it, tomake decisions. Yeah, but in
reality, real winners. Theydecide once. They don't keep
making the same decision overand over.
It's it's the buck stops withyou. If you
well again. If you want to get ahabit formed, start forming the

(01:07:16):
habit of deciding once, like Idon't, I don't decide to work
out over and over again. I'vedecided once to work out, and
now I work out. I decided onceto start treating it like a
business, and now I treat itlike a business. Lot of people,
they, they don't decide once.They just keep making the same

(01:07:37):
decision. I'm gonna get inshape. I think I'm gonna get in
shape this year. Yeah. Yeah. Imean, but now, at this point,
you can treat it. You are theboss. It's kind of, it's running
on its own because of the system
does not run on its own becauseI was really foolish. I'm
getting it there now, really,yeah, how long ago did it? I'm
like, a 25 year old startup. Jimstill. Yeah, that's why, when

(01:07:58):
people come they're like, willyou coach me? Will you mentor
me. I'm like, bro, I don't knowwhat to do. I'm still figuring
it out, like the wait till I'm abillionaire.
That about you. That's, that'sso there's a humility to that
you're just to being willing,because
it's called Truth. It's not,it's not humility. Because I
don't think I have humility.Humility, by definition, is, is

(01:08:22):
a low opinion of one'simportance. I know you've done
you've gone down this rabbithole before, and I'm gonna look
it up. I know. Okay, so I don'tthe acknowledgement. And I don't
think I have a low opinion of myimportance. I don't think you do
either. Okay, so I'm not humble.It's not humility. It's
truthful. The truth is I don'tknow. The truth is I don't know.

(01:08:45):
Like, you know, how do I fix allmy problems? I
love, I don't know your love. Ilove your willingness to say
that. There's so many gurus outthere that they gotta come off
all the time that like, oh,yeah, I got it all under
control. And this is my life,and this is the veneer and all
this other stuff. Yeah,
and half of them are cheating ontheir wives. They're freaking
miserable. They're freaking deepdown scamming someone. They're,

(01:09:09):
they're, they're, they're nothappy. They're, they ain't got
shit figured out. But I thinkthat's
but that's the great here youare just like, look, I don't
know. It may seem like I do, itcertainly looks like I do, I've,
I've certainly everything that'sled me up to this particular
point in my life have been basedon decisions I've made. That's a
fact, right? And that's that alot of what you're doing and

(01:09:30):
talking about is the fact that,even now, I don't that's that's
freeing, in a way, because Itell my kids that all the time,
I you know, I don't know. Isaid, All I know is that when I
ask questions, you taught methat ask why, and you're the
answer is going to be,typically, no. If you don't ask

(01:09:51):
the question, you're just notgoing to know. Ask the question.
Can I retake the test? Is therea way I can do this? What's the
one thing holding you back fromletting me try? I try it this
way, you know? And they to mydetriment and to my my wife and
my detriment, they do it on us,which is awesome, but it's still
a pain in the ass, becausethey're freaking nags. When it
becomes that way,
you want me to give you anotherquestion? Sure, okay, course,

(01:10:15):
here's a question that everyoneshould ask themselves on a
regular basis.
He's writing all this stuffdown, by the way, aren't you?
He's right. What purpose? That'show he absorbs the information.
I should be charging him.
Get on baller buster.
It's called a scam. I scammedyou. Okay? I sold you some great

(01:10:35):
information.
He's gonna like next week and belike, Okay, Jim, I'm turning in
my notice, and I'm starting myown thing.
I do that, that all my employeesdo that nine a lot of time, is
what happens. But I say, I say,Good, that's what I do. Yeah.
So, so here's the question thatI would ask on a daily basis,

(01:10:57):
every day, and if the answer isno,
fix it.
Am I better than I wasyesterday?
That's it. That's all you haveto ask yourself, am I better
than I was yesterday? And if theanswer is no, then get off your
ass and just pick one thing thatwill make it to where tomorrow,

(01:11:21):
you'll say yes. The answer tothat should be Yes. Am I better
than I was yesterday? Yes. Am Ibetter than I was yesterday?
Yes? Am I better than I wasyesterday? Yes? And if the
answer is no, not a problem,just fix it.
Would you have to know the KPIsthat go into that question
beforehand. Well, what matters?You

(01:11:42):
should KPIs are very important.Now, again, we're talking to
business or life, because inlife sometimes, huh,
both. I mean, I've been soabsorbed with my situation in my
station in life is, for the pastprobably eight, nine years has
been catch up financially, youknow, and we're getting there,
but I'm basically going throughwhat you went through in your

(01:12:04):
30s, but now I'm going into my50s. It is what it is, you know,
it's not only so much you coulddo about that.
I know, but you know, and itmight be that you're also a
victim of comparing, right? Youcompare everything to you think
so? Yeah, I, you know, you're,you're, you know, I'm not where

(01:12:25):
I where I should be based onwhat you're doing and what
you've done and what he'saccomplished. And I, you know,
dude, are you better than youwere yesterday? Yes, then who
cares where I'm at and what I'mwhat I'm doing, I appreciate
what are you doing and what areyou doing, and what are you
doing? Like, that's all I careabout. Like, I don't care that
Grant Cardone has more moneythan me. Number one, he's 10

(01:12:47):
years older. Catch me in 10years if we're in a competition,
but we're not. I just askedmyself, am I better than I was
yesterday? And the answer in alot of cases has been no, yeah,
no, I'm not, matter of fact, I'mnot heading in the right
direction. Okay, well, just thatquestion wakes you up, because

(01:13:08):
you have to ask yourself everyday, am I better than I was
yesterday? Now, why? Well, lastnight, you freaking had Krispy
Kreme and and, you know,financially, you just you just
lost this. You got scammed outof $2,000 your business isn't
cranking out what it didyesterday. Like yesterday, we

(01:13:30):
did good today. We aren't doingas well. Am I better than I was
yesterday in all those areas?And the answer nine times out of
10 could be no in a millionareas. But are you better than
you were yesterday. And if theanswer is no, Jim, you can fix
it. And if you don't think youcan, dude, that is called a
fixed mindset, you need a growthmindset. You need to believe

(01:13:53):
that it is possible, it may notbe comfortable, it may not be
free, it may not happenovernight. But can you fix it?
And the answer is, of course, Ican, at least that's my answer,
which is why I, I think that'sthe question, you know, did I do
better than yesterday? Yeah,good. How much better could I

(01:14:14):
have done? Well, I could havedone much better, but, you know,
now we're starting to head down,down that that?
Well, it's always me road youcan I've discovered, and I know
that about myself. That's one ofthe things I learned, is that
you learn a lot about yourselfwhen you're put to the these
kinds of tests. I've had a lotof revelation about me in the
past several years to myself.And it's, it's one of those

(01:14:38):
things I look at and I go, onceupon a time, it would have been
a poor me, you know, feel sorryfor me, not anymore, because I
do have days where it's like,yeah, everything just went
wrong. But you know what? Theone thing that went right as I
was able to still come home and,you know, give my wife a hug,
that went right? You know, so toyour point. What you're kind of

(01:15:00):
saying is that, no matter howyou look at it, are you better
off today, today than you wereyesterday? There's always an
area where you were Does thatmake sense theoretically against
KPIs? Well, hey, you know, forthe longest time, I mean,
because when you're when I lookfor a minute there for probably
about four years, knocking itout of the park every I should
have done this years ago, so onand so forth. Look at this. It's

(01:15:22):
all I had to do was this, andall the rewards are coming, and
I'm feeling validated. And I getto the point where, you know,
sometimes those challenges comeup, and you have these seasons
of just they're a little bitmore struggle than what they
were, which are the ebbs andflows of life and time.
But I looked at those situationsas

(01:15:45):
okay. Once upon a time, I couldhem and haw about it. But now I
look at all I have to do. I havecontrol of the energy I put out
there and the decisions I'mgoing to make, who I'm going to
talk to. All I need to do isthis. That's right, and it's
actually, you know, since we'vemade the decision to take
podcasting and divert it intoour business and feed it and
stuff like that. I felt for thelongest time like, I feel like

(01:16:06):
I'm losing because I'm not, youknow, we're just struggling
here. And then I realized I'mlike, but I've put more on the
books in terms of podcasts inthe past two years than I ever
have, and I gotta remember, it'sjust not feeding me right now.
And I gotta How is it notthough, let's just get it. We're
trying to make, you know,payroll to payroll and stuff
like that. And this, that's justa seize. We look at it. I don't

(01:16:27):
look at it as permanent. Who doyou have on your podcast? Who do
I have? I mean, all sorts oflocal business owners
we have. They don't payanything. No, no, you're just
gonna, you're just gonnaintroduce them
to all those, all the free,hundreds of people. You
don't have sponsors.
Well, I mean, we advertise ourbusinesses on here. I I get what

(01:16:49):
you're saying. I just haven'tgotten around to putting a rate.
I have an idea of taking around.I know I do.
You're a walking contradiction.I totally am all you have, but
I'm honest about it. Make adecision, right? This is how you
do it. Yeah, may be difficultfor you, but this is the truth.
You make a decision. Hey, I'mmaking money with this podcast

(01:17:12):
from now on. Now it might bejust you on it for a while. Why
was no one will pay to be on it,right? Well, I would find that
highly unlikely. They justprobably won't pay much, right?
But literally, bro, there'speople on this podcast, and you
and you've got an audience, evenif it's a small audience or a
big audience, obviously willdetermine the value of being on

(01:17:32):
right? But all you have to dofrom now on is say, hey,
podcasting is the new billboard,right? This will be listened to
for years to come by new people.So this is a billboard that will
constantly run now, if I willallow you to get on my podcast
and talk about your business andall my listeners discover your

(01:17:53):
business and do business withyour business. Is that worth
nothing? Yes or no? Oh, it'sworth something for sure. Okay,
how much? That's the question?Yeah. Well, in my case, like
people sponsor dropping bombsfor $25,000 Yeah, and most
people don't know who sponsoredand who didn't why? Well,

(01:18:14):
because I'll make theconversation good anyway, right?
So at the end of the day, Iliterally am building a studio
here and investing all the moneybecause I turned down sponsors.
I can do four a week withouteven trying. That's 100,000 a
week for a podcast. One hour.That's four hours for 100 grand.

(01:18:39):
You could do the same thing. Andif you're like, No, mine's not
as big as yours mindset. Again,it is your mindset. And then
don't charge 25,000 charge 2500and if you're like, well, who's
gonna pay that? See, you don'teven value it. Like, dude, this
is advertising. You don't thinkanyone's gonna hear me. I

(01:19:00):
guarantee you people will hearme on this podcast. Now, if
there's zero listeners, wellthen you're a scammer. But
that's not the case. You havelisteners. And if you've never
tried to test it, test it. We'repushing up to episode 250 at
this point. So well, did you Iguarantee you probably have
listeners? Oh, I know I didn't.And those listeners are business

(01:19:21):
owners, and those businessowners are freaking consumers,
and the people in that are onlistening to the podcast have
businesses that they want toadvertise, but you're not asking
for it. Tell them it's $500 tosponsor the show. $500 to have a
show that's out there repeatingitself over and over. You'll be

(01:19:42):
getting listeners in two yearsthat we don't even know about
yet, you'll constantly begetting leads to drive your
business. $500 they say, okay,boom. Now they come out. You
have a guest, and you got $500now the question is, how many of
those can you sell? All Well,dude, how many are you offering
right now? None. Well, how manythink you're going to sell when

(01:20:06):
it's none?
So that's, I figured when I'mwhen people are clamoring, and
I'm getting hit up, like,multiple times a week, I get
what you're saying someday,yeah? And, like, you all of a
sudden, you got that inboundstream, yeah? That makes it
easy. It does make it easy,because I do get the people that
hit me
out, reach out. Let's just waitfor you know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna sit here and donothing. No, they're gonna barge

(01:20:28):
in the door one day and offer memoney, and I'm just gonna go,
yeah, no, dude, you have tobuild it. You have to, you have
to say I'm I'm not doing thisshit for nothing. Okay? You
already did it for nothing, 250okay, you put the time in, you
put the money in, you've alreadyproduced them and paid everybody
in editing. Dude, it's abusiness. You have to now

(01:20:51):
monetize it, right? I'd tell I'dstart right now. Hey, whoever's
listening to this, let's proveMr. McCarthy incorrect. Okay,
prove me correct. I'm
not putting anything out there,that is, I'll put it out there.
Listen, listen, whoever'slistening to my voice right now,
if you have a business and youwant to drive a little revenue
to that business, get on apodcast, talk about your

(01:21:15):
business, and I'll bet youanything, you get business from
it. Now, just as a test, becausewe don't want to go too crazy if
someone's listening to this andthey're willing to give Big Jim
McCarthy, and by the way, I'msure you'll still have to vet
them, okay? And by the way,let's say he vets you and he

(01:21:38):
doesn't want you, well, thenjust offer him more, because
eventually he's gonna say deal,but that's the sponsorship. You
sponsor the show, and then youcan be a guest on the show, and
then you can access all hislisteners, and then all you have
to do is talk about who you areand what you do. And I'll bet
you, you get more than yousponsored the show for, because

(01:22:00):
it's never going to end unless,of course, you're a scam, and
then he'll delete the episode.But for the most part, all your
episodes you've ever dropped arestill out there, right? Oh,
yeah. And I'll bet you, if yougo look, they're all getting
downloads. Are they not? Theyare because I noticed that one
time when I looked at mine, itwas like, Wait a minute. Yeah,
someone just listened to EpisodeOne? Well, yeah, cuz they

(01:22:22):
listened to Episode 871 and thenthey're like, I like this guy.
I'm gonna go listen to them all.And so now episode one, you were
talking about Joe Blow with hiswith his circus, you know? And
all of a sudden the guy's like,oh shit, I didn't know about a
circus. And they go to the guy'scircus. I get people all the
time going, Dude, can I get backon your show? And I'm like,

(01:22:42):
Well, it's funny that you shouldask, but why? Because, dude, I
still get business from yourshow. And I'm like, Sure,
absolutely. Let me have you talkwith Anthony. He's the one that
books the show, and then, oh,Anthony will get you on the
phone and say, Well, you canwait for 22 months, which is the
invite list length, or you cansponsor an episode, and I can

(01:23:05):
get you into bookingimmediately. And people are
like, well, how does that work?That's $25,000 plus he's going
to do this that. And the otherthing, you get the footage
coming and going. It's awonderful opportunity if you're
trying to build the businessman. And then he closes them and
they write checks for 25,000
bucks. And get them scheduled. Iput
them right to booking. Why?Because, dude, I have 100 people

(01:23:26):
that want invited, and I alwayssay, look, Are you famous? Did
you do something like that? Theworld needs to hear, in my
opinion, because I will
invite you. You don't want tobecome an infomercial. That's
the last thing I want to do.
No, I have two ways to get on myshow, no invite or sponsor. So
every guest is either invited orthey're sponsored. Now again, go

(01:23:50):
listen to a bunch and tell mewhich one's which, but all I
know is the show will doprobably 6 million this year.
That's crazy for a podcast. Goodfor you. Well,
I they had just asked me tokeynote this big podcast summit
in Atlanta, really, because theguy that was out there said
something about monetizing. Andhe said, You do sponsorships?

(01:24:13):
Are you selling mid roll and adroll? I'm like, I don't really
do sponsorships that way. I'mnot talking about boner pills
or, you know, lotion orsomething. But, you know, I do
let people sponsor the showbecause they want to be a guest
on it. He goes, you're doingthat much? I'm like, Yeah. He
goes, dude, you got to comespeak at my event, because

(01:24:34):
they're all podcasters, andthey're wondering how to
monetize their their podcast,their real podcast. This is a
real podcast. You do it day in,day out. This is a real podcast.
There are real listeners. That'scalled advertising. Advertising.
You're not asking anybody topay. That's true. You're
inviting everybody and their dogfor
free. Building, the building,the foundation. And a lot of you

(01:24:58):
know, like
the foundation is 100 100 shots,
I could see that. Yeah, you'reway past the foundation. Now you
need to start billing. Andagain, it's dude, they don't
have to do it. Are you offendedto ask people for money? No. Are
you embarrassed? No, it's areyou getting freaking Jason
Aldean on here? I can ask him.Okay. But again, if Jason Aldean

(01:25:21):
comes on, bro, don't charge him,right? Okay, but when Larry
Tucker, from you know, theflorist over there in Franklin,
wants on, and he's, he's agreat, he's a great guest. Yeah,
he's got killer stories. Sowhat, dude, he's gonna make
money from you from the episode.Charge him. Tell him to sponsor

(01:25:43):
the show. You'll start to seewho your real friends are, but
at the end of the day, man, it'sjust a it's just an observation
with you. If I were you, Iwould, I would, I would shift my
perspective about this show andstart monetizing it. You've been
doing it long enough. Oh, yeah,you're damn near 50.

(01:26:08):
Thanks for reminding me. It'sfor me. It's getting Are you
charging
people to sit here and listen toguests? You could have said, Do
Brad Lee's coming? You want to?You want to pay 100 bucks to sit
in the corner and take notes? Atleast you would have got us paid
from him. Yeah, well, he works
for us. I'd rather him. You
pay him. Yeah, okay, so you'repaying him to sit here and be
educated by all yourentrepreneurial skills? Yeah,

(01:26:30):
I'll bet you, you could find avolunteer for that. And besides
that, the tripod has been doingall the work he's been there
for me. It's, it's, it's toughto see. And I'm not making
excuses, but I can tell you whatI know about myself is I'm
inside my own bottle when itcomes to that yes, and it's

(01:26:51):
tough to see the label. So thankyou for reading my label. I will
certainly make those adjustmentsyou should
Yeah, and again, going back todid I outdo myself yesterday? In
other words, am I better than Iwas yesterday? Hopefully my
visit will be enough to make yourealize, dude, I'm just not
asking for it, right? You gottaask for it. Something is

(01:27:17):
something. You gotta valueyourself. You have to value what
you've built. You don't valueit. So who else is going to
nobody. And if you do value it,well then ask for freaking
sponsors.
I used to get really, like,annoyed when, and that still
happens. People hit me up tobeyond probably once or twice a
week. But they're typicallylike, hey, my guest. They're

(01:27:37):
like, guest booking agencies.They can talk about this for
their audience, and they havethis kind of value. And I was
great, great. We're in MiddleTennessee, are they? Oh, they're
in Spokane, Washington. Oh,okay. I used to get really,
yeah, exactly. I used to getvery, like, put off by that, but
I have made that adjustment, youknow, I'd, I'd love to have them

(01:27:58):
on, on a freaking zoom, ifthey're in person, even better,
it's probably even better. Ifthey were, here's what I would
say. I turn it around, and I doask them, you know, for 500
bucks, they can totally come on.We'll give them 10 clips. He
said that, Oh, yeah. And what dothey say? Yeah, you don't hear
back from them, because theydon't want to pay for it. They
want they're looking. Somebody'spaying them to get some they're

(01:28:19):
looking for the
freebies. You're not either,either that or you're just not
serving it up correctly. Maybenot, maybe not, or maybe their
targets, not Middle Tennessee.Middle Middle Tennessee. Well,
it is, when it's free, if Idon't know, the mostly Middle
Tennessee podcast their target,mostly the whole United States
podcast in the world, by theway, right? That's why I put

(01:28:39):
that in there. But, but again,Jim, just just ask yourself
every day, and any listeners askyourself, am I better today than
I was yesterday? And if theanswer is no, just fix it, and
it's whatever you want it to be,money, emotionally,
relationally, financially, itdoesn't matter. Yeah, like, did

(01:28:59):
you work out
today? No,
I am way off my game on that
same thing, and I'm real aboutit, I know, but it's the same
thing with money, withrelationship. Did you did you
send your wife a text tellingher you miss her? I had coffee
with my wife. Okay, so, boom,that's better than you're better
than you were yesterday. You'vebuilt a little relationship, and

(01:29:20):
all you do is map out where youwant to go. And I'm just using
you because you're sitting herethis, this is anybody, me, you
everybody, map out where youwant to go. When people say,
Well, you know, fitness isn't mything. Okay, dude, you don't
have to work out every day. Iwent plenty of times without
doing it. But when you start tosay, You know what, what would

(01:29:42):
my ideal life look like? Youknow what? I'd be in better
shape, I'd have more money, I'dbe closer with my family, I'd be
closer with my kids. I'd be abetter dad, I'd be a better
husband. I'd do all thosethings. Okay, just write those
down, and then those are yourcategories that you that you
self proclaim, want to move inthat direction every day. Just
ask. Yourself. Am I a betterdad? No, dude, day's not over.

(01:30:04):
You go, you go, Hey, let me go.Let me go, grab my kids, see
what I'm saying. Like, it just,it just spurs you to, it's a
simple question that nobodyasks. I mean, it just spurs you
to, like, think and act on it.Because, am I better than I was
yesterday as a dad? No, here.Let me text my kid and let me
take him for ice cream. Let mego spend 30 minutes before he

(01:30:25):
goes to bed. Am I? Am I a betterhusband? No, not necessarily. I
haven't done anything. Let me goget my wife some flowers and
just tell her I love her. It'snine o'clock at night. She's
right over there. Takes asecond, and then boom, and then
boom, and then boom. And thennext thing you know, dude,
you're going to progress in allthose categories. Because you
asked yourself one question, amI better than I was yesterday?

(01:30:49):
And a fitness is one, did I workout today? No. Well then before
I go to bed, let me just do somepush ups or walk around the
block right before I go to bed.And then the answer is, yes, I
did. Okay, good. You're betterthan you were yesterday, and
then better you were. Next thingyou know, dude, people like,
bro, you're looking good. Whatyou doing? I'm just, I'm just

(01:31:10):
getting a little bit betterevery day. Dog. That's all I'm
doing.
I make better food decisionsthese days. I got that going for
me. Good. I had myself somecottage cheese and honey and all
those this morning. Oh, goodbreakfast. To champion.
You know what's worked for meunbelievably better than
anything I've ever done before?
Intermittent fasting. Yeah.

(01:31:31):
What's your schedule? I eat fromtwo to eight, two to eight, six
hours a day.
You have yet to eat. I haven'teaten anything you hungry? No.
Okay, dude, I live this way.It's unbelievable. Yeah, I've
eaten fat. I've eaten body fat.That's what I always tell
people, what do you have forbreakfast? I eat body fat for

(01:31:51):
breakfast. But, I mean, dude iscrazy because I've went on
stupid diets and stupid programsand stupid shit and like, it
works, but it's not sustainable.It's not realistic. I'm gonna
carry around my freaking foodand weigh it out and, dude, I
just don't want that lifestylelike I've already made the
decision. Dude, that ain't me. Idon't like that. I don't want
that. And if I have to be fat, Iwill be what

(01:32:13):
are your workouts like? Youthere every morning, every day?
Well, six days a week, yeah,
I just pick a body part and liftand lift heavy things, you know,
I exercise. That's, it's no bigdeal. Like, if, if I can't hit a
gym, which a lot of times youcan, well, then, dude, I'll just
do some push ups, yeah. And ifit's shoulder day, you know, you

(01:32:35):
can grab a towel literally, andand move your shoulders. Like,
like, like, just move. What dothey call that? Calisthenics,
kinesthetics, yeah, just bodyweight stuff. The question is
is, did you exercise? And theanswer is always going to be for
me, yes. Why? Because I want toget better, and it's just a

(01:32:57):
daily decision to take action.And the question that triggers
it for me every day,financially, emotionally,
spiritually, relationally,physically, am I better today
than I was yesterday? And theanswer a lot of times is going
to be no, then get up and fixit, and then, boom, dude, you

(01:33:20):
literally find yourselfprogressing every single day
because that one little assquestion, and no, I don't say it
first thing in the morning. Isay it like mid afternoon, first
time I go, am I better today?And a lot of times, guess what?
The answer is, hell yes. Good.Keep going. But I also ask it
when I get home, yeah? Because Iwant to be a better dad. I want

(01:33:43):
to, you know, be a betterhusband. I want to just be
better in a lot of areas. So Ijust run through them in my
head. And a lot of times I'vecaught myself saying, You know
what, let me get a littleexercise? You know what, let me
go take my vitamins or whatever,just, it's just a nice hack.
It's a good question. Yeah,
I like that. I gotta say, I'mgonna honor your time and kind

(01:34:04):
of wrap it short, cut it short,and your listeners
are gonna freaking be pissed.We're just getting good. Well,
we can keep going if you want.Joe,
hey, honored to call you afriend. Thank you, sir. And of
course, guys, all the detailsthat we talked about, any sort
of the the links to lightspeedvt.com bradley.com all those

(01:34:28):
things. Sure they're out there.Make sure, if you haven't
followed them yet, to followthose links and make sure to
follow them. And of course, ifyou go to mmtbp.com we got a
link there if you want to be onthe show. With consideration,
we're going to start lookinginto that as well, so make sure
you check that all out.Mmtbp.com,

(01:34:51):
Mr. Bradley, thanks again. It'salways a pleasure. Thank you.
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