Inflation Sucks. Markets Are Wild. Here’s Why I’m Still Thankful. | Let's Get Real Ep. 27

Thanksgiving hits different when you’re the one holding everything up. The bills, the business, the team, the family. And then people tell you, “Be thankful.”

In this episode of Let’s Get Real, I sit down and talk honestly about gratitude in a messed-up economy — not the Hallmark version. I walk through what I’m genuinely thankful for as a husband, dad, and financial professional, even while prices are high, markets are chaotic, and business owners are tired of wearing all the hats.

This is real talk for women, minority, and LGBTQ business owners on that next step of growth who know they can’t keep doing it all alone.

In this episode:

• Why gratitude feels hard when money is tight and life is heavy
• Holding frustration and thankfulness at the same time
• What I’m thankful for in my family and my clients’ trust
• Finding meaning in your work even when the market is wild
• How chaos doesn’t erase your skills, grit, or progress

Full video of this conversation is available on YouTube:
 https://youtu.be/Wu_N0AKWCX4

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Episode Transcript

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After Thanksgiving, everybody.

(00:01):
Now I know a lot of you havebeen going through a lot this
year.
It's it, it's been a year,unprecedented year.
I feel like we say that everyother year now, and I understand
some of what you're goingthrough, but I want everyone to
know that this time, thisseason, with all of the crazy
shit that's going on, right,both politically,
non-politically, your job, yourwages, inflation, grocery prices
being at the ass, be thankfulfor those around you.

(00:23):
Be thankful for the ability tolive the life that you do have.
Be thankful for one, be ablelisten to me, but also learn as
much as we can.
I know I'm thankful for my wifewho transitioned from being
A-A-P-T-A out of the corporateworld into being executive admin
for Black Mammoth, and it's beentremendous having her around,
having her with the boys, andbeing able to live our life.

(00:46):
Really on the ways that we wantto.
I'm very thankful for my boys.
Um, as crazy as shit assholes,they are sometimes.
I love'em.
I love seeing them grow.
I love seeing, going through thetrials and tribulations of
sports, you know, whether that'splaying tackle football for the
first time this year.
Playing flag football for thefirst time this year, or for
Croy going and, and having twomedals from his first two

(01:07):
tournaments in soccer.
Just crazy things happen.
They can win championship goingin six and oh and tackle
football.
I'm thankful for those thingsthat they had to battle through.
I'm thankful for all my clientsthat have allowed me to and
trust me with everything thatthey have when it comes to their
life and that that weight andthat that trust.
Really, truly means a lot.

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And I tr and I love the factthat all of you have entrusted,
uh, me with teaching you and,and learning from the let's get
real from no BS wealth, fromBlack Mammoth, all of the above.
And, and follow me on thisjourney because it takes a lot.
It's not easy, right?
There's gonna be good days andbad days.
Hell, I've had my own right?
Good and bad things I'm dealingwith now.

(01:49):
Things I'm dealing with at othertimes too.
I'm just very, very thankful tohave all of you in my lives,
whether that you've reached outand I actually know who you are
or you're just, you know,listening and, and tuning in.
And this might sound weirdcoming from, from me.
I'm thankful for the markets.
I'm thankful for my industry.
I know.

(02:09):
I know you've heard me say I lowwith our industry and I do, but
I'm thankful for it's there.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be able tohave the connections, the
relationships, and doing whatI'm doing.
I'd be doing something else nowas, as crazy as the markets are.
I think at the time of thisfilming, Bitcoin's at its lowest
in a very, very long time.
The markets just went crazy fora while with no understanding of

(02:30):
why.
We've got geopolitical pressureswith Ukraine and Russia.
You know, hopefully when thiscomes out, it's all kind of
settled around.
Thanksgiving.
But I doubt it.
I doubt it.
I doubt I, I doubt that it'll bethat clean.
There'll be more chaos.
There will always be more chaos.
But what doesn't have to bechaotic is your relationships
with others.
Your continuous learning.
You waken up every day trying todo your best.

(02:51):
None of that is gonna go awaybecause of the chaos.
So for all of those listening,for all those tuning in on
Thanksgiving, uh, if you will,or even afterwards, have a truly
happy Thanksgiving and I reallyappreciate all of you and
everyone in my life'cause itallows me to be who I want to
be, uh, and I am veryappreciative of it.
So thank you.