Ep. 90 - Beautiful Women are EXPENSIVE!!

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Billionaire’s on jets, millionaire’s in sports cars, the good ole days and beautiful, expensive women.

Episode Transcript

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The billionaire in a private jet misses the olddays.
The millionaire in first class dreams of owninga jet.
The businessman in a sports car wants to be amillionaire.
The employee in an old car wishes for a sportscar.
The unemployed cyclist just wants a job and acar.
The pedestrian wishes he had a bike.

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And then there's the paralyzed man who wouldgive anything just to walk again.
The terminally ill whose only wish is to behealthy.
You see, there's always another level, anotherthing to chase, another if only standing
between you and happiness.
But if you never learn to appreciate what youhave, you'll spend your whole life chasing

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what's next, never realizing that someone elseis dreaming of the life you already have.
Happiness isn't in getting more.
It's in learning to be grateful for what'salready yours.
I'm Keaton Turner, and this is the Perdianpodcast.

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Man, isn't that true?
Isn't it true?
So easy to look towards the future and think,man, I can't wait until I get this thing.
I'll be happy when I get this thing.
Life will finally be right when this thinghappens.

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So true.
So true.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm Keaton Turner.
This is the Per Diem podcast.
I appreciate you joining me.
I am recording this one tonight from the vault.
I'm downstairs.
I am, taking a break from watching collegebasketball.

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It's been an awesome, awesome week of collegebasketball.
Let's check here real quick.
I've been getting some text messages from someof the folks that like to trash talk, and in
our company's bracket, El Prez is winning.
El Prez is me, by the way, the president.

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I'm winning.
I am in the 99.1 percentile of all brackets inThe US right now or in the world, I guess, I
should say.
This is the ESPN fan fantasy.ESPN.com.
That is our company.
That's Turner Mining Group's bracket.

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Now I might be speaking too early becausethere's still a lot of basketball left.
But so far, almost through the round of 32.
A couple games left tonight.
I'm in the 99.1 percentile.
Jake is behind me.
Bailey is behind him, and then Jeff, and thenand then the list goes on.

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But so far, I'm doing pretty good.
Having a lot of fun having a lot of funwatching NCAA basketball right now.
It's been a it's been a cool year.
I've got all four of the number one one seedsgoing to the final four.
I know it's not you know?
I just felt like this year, they were all tootough to to get beat early.
So we'll see.

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But, man, I I started this this this episodetonight with that video.
I saw that video on Instagram, from one of thephilosopher accounts I follow.
I think it's like the Philoso Vibes orsomething like that.
Probably wondering why in the world would hestart it like this?

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This thing, this little video, I think, spoketo me, and I tell you guys all the time I get
inspiration from a lot of different things.
This was something that I don't think mostpeople even realize this until late, late, late
in life after they've accomplished almosteverything.

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You know, when I when I heard this video andwhen I listened to the audio of this, and I
that's I think it's kinda traveling around theInternet the Internet right now.
I think that I've heard I've seen a coupledifferent versions of this.
But when I heard this, I thought to myself,man, I I don't I don't think I would believe

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you if you told me ten years ago where my lifewould be.
I don't think I'd believe you.
And now here I sit ten years later, and to behonest with you, I I rarely take a minute to
stop and appreciate where I'm at, who thepeople are around me, my health, my family's

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health.
It's it's so wild.
We live in this hustle bustle run and getthings done, high achiever.
You know, everybody that listens to this, Ithink, in their own special way is a high
achiever.
Otherwise, why are you listening to a podcastabout achieving more and and leadership and all
those things?

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I don't know.
I think I think sometimes we get these littlenudges, and and I don't wanna get spiritual.
You can believe in whatever you wanna believeCall it a nudge from God, a nudge from the, you
know, the great whoever you believe in, greatwhite owl.
I don't know what some of you guys believe in,but, every once in while, get a nudge.

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And I think these nudges are, you know, I thinkthey're important to listen to.
I think everything happens for a reason.
You get this nudge and it's like, wonder wonderwhy that audio came across.
Maybe it's just maybe it's just luck.
I don't know.
Maybe it's just the way the way things work.
But every once in a while, I hear somethinglike this audio that I heard that I played for

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you guys, and it just makes me think, man, I Idon't do anywhere enough reflecting.
I don't do anywhere enough exercises aroundbeing grateful and and saying thank you to all

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the people that have helped get me here andthank thank you to all the the impacts in my
life and just being I don't know.
Just realizing where where the heck I actuallyam and yeah.
Man, I don't I don't know.
I I don't really know exactly what to say otherthan this this hit me.

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This hit me deep because I think we can all,you know, continue to climb and climb and climb
and work for that promotion, work for that payraise, work for the bigger house, the nicer
car, the bigger salary, the big bonus, the newtitle, and and we get all these things, and

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we're still not happy.
I I I've said I cannot tell you how many timesthroughout the course of my life.
I've said this over and over and over.
When I get there, I'll be able to take a deepbreath and be happy.
I've said it a million times.
You know, I remember specifically starting mybusiness.
I'm like, man, if we could just get that firstcontract.

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Lord, if you could just if you could just giveme that first contract, I I swear I'll be so
grateful and so happy.
And and it comes and goes, and the next onecomes and goes, and and, you know, it's it's
weird.
I'm standing in this weird spot in life whereI'm 35.
I'm too I think I'm too early to have a midlifecrisis.

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I'm not there.
You know?
But I recently had won a really my team, we hadhad won an amazing relationship, an amazing
contract that that I've been striving for andpraying for forever.
And you get it, and you celebrate for a half anhour or a day or so.

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And, you know, I came home.
My wife had some champagne, and she was like,hey, we're gonna celebrate.
Although we had been verbally you know, we'dknown this thing was coming for, I don't know,
it feels like six months now probably, maybelonger.
So finally got the ink on the paper and got tocelebrate a little bit, but but, man, it the

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feeling goes away, and then you're chasing thenext one.
And it's weird.
I've I will I already know it's gonna happen.
I can feel it.
I'll find myself promising, man, Lord, if Icould just get that.
This one was big.
I appreciate it.
I've been praying for it forever.
It's gonna change the lives of a lot of peopleon our team.

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It's we're gonna make you know, it's gonna bean awesome thing.
Thank you, Lord.
Appreciate that.
But I got my eye on this other thing over here.
If you could you know, next year, when thisthing comes around, if you could help me do
this.
And I just wonder when that feeling goes away.

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I really do.
I wonder if that feeling ever goes away.
You know, I always kinda thought to myself,well, there's gonna be some there's gonna be
some moment in time.
You know, I'm still young.
I'm building the business.
There's gonna be some moment in time somedaywhere I either hand the keys to the business
off to somebody else for them to take it over,or I sell it, or, you know, there's going to be

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a point in time someday where I can say, man,I'm I'm proud of what I built.
It's in better hands now.
Other people are running it much better than II was able to, and I'm able to just kind of
breathe and relax.
And I say that comment, and I'm like, wait asecond.
My track record shows through every course ofmy life so far, I've never I've never been able

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to be happy or satisfied or content.
And and some of that's good.
I I talked about this here a while back on anepisode, and some of you guys some of you guys
chimed in.
You were like, hey.
Yes.
That's that's a good quality to have.
You don't wanna you don't ever wanna settle.
You wanna keep striving.
You wanna keep growing.
You wanna keep killing it.
Throw it all wide open.
I was like, yeah.

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That's that's great.
I totally agree with all those things.
But when you hear audio like this that Iplayed, it's so unbelievably true that the guy
with all the money flying around the jet looksback to the old days when things were simple,
when he was in the small house, when he had thesmall team, when business was a lot less

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complicated and there were a lot less probablya lot fewer knives stuck in his back.
You know, I I reminisce with my team all thetime about the good old days, and it's funny.
The good old days actually weren't that good.
I think I think we all have a better memory ormore more rose colored glasses when we look
backwards to the good old days.

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Sure, the good old days growing up and the goodold days with your grandparents.
I was just talking to Shelby, my wife, aboutthis the other day.
She was like, Babe, my when I was growing up,I'd go to my grandparents and do this and that,
and our kids don't have the chance to I'm like,Babe, I I really think we look back with a very
fuzzy memory of actually how it how it was.

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It's it's, you know, nostalgia is fun.
Nostalgia is cool to, like, think about andtalk about, but, you know, man, I remember the
good old days of our business.
To be honest with you, they weren't good olddays.
They were hard ball busting, grind your faceoff, hope you stay alive for another day days

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or good old days.
They were old days, you know, eight eight yearsago old days, but they weren't.
Sure, there were glimpses of good.
There were glimpses of, you know, we get a winwith the team and everyone breathes a sigh of
relief and, you know but but they weren't, youknow, they weren't good old days, at least most

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of them.
And so, you know, here I sit now.
Again, I wanted to share this audio because I Ithought it was interesting.
I thought it was, you know, I got a kick out ofit.
And, you know, when I did when I when I when Iheard it, I'm like, man, I don't wanna be that
guy that keeps chasing and keeps chasing keepschasing and is never truly fulfilled.

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And the one thing that comes to mind when Irealize I'm doing this, the the one thing, and
I promise I'm not gonna get preachy, at leastnot tonight, I will sometime, what am I
actually chasing?
That I think that's the question.
Because if it's if you're just chasing the windor you're just chasing the, you know, more

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dollars, bigger house, nicer car, I've got allthese dreams in my head and they all take
money, you know?
All these awesome big dreams take money.
The trips I wanna take my family on, the thingsI wanna do, the impact I wanna go make, it all
takes money.
And and so sometimes I think we can get kindacaught up in our own our own dreams, our own

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good dream, positive things.
These are positive things.
Right?
I wanna impact lives, and I wanna make myfamily you know, I wanna provide for my family
something that I you know?
So but it's easy to sometimes do that and thenand then remember, oh, wait a second.
I got it pretty freaking good now.
I used to pray for these things that I havenow.

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I I used to dream of the house I'm in now, thetruck I have now, the, you know, the wife,
like, the kids that are all healthy.
I used to dream of all this stuff, and now Ijust wake up and it's normal, and I take it for
granted.
And so that's a long winded, thirteen minuteway of saying we all take things for granted,

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and, here's your reminder, your friendlyreminder from me.
Don't take it for granted.
The older version of you probably would havekilled to be where you are now.
And if that's not the case, if you're in aworse spot now than where you used to be, now's
the time to double down.
Buckle down.
You know?
Work a little bit harder.

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And some of you guys are gonna I know you'regonna message me and say, yeah.
That's that's all great.
That's fine and dandy.
I do take things for granted, but I'm alsostriving for more.
I'm pushing for more.
I there's a happy line there some a happymedium there somewhere.
I don't know where the fine line is betweenbeing ungrateful for where you're at and and

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assertive and aggressive to where you wanna go.
I don't know where that line is.
I probably I probably toe on the other side ofthe line.
I'm probably a little ungrateful and a littlemore assertive and aggressive into where I
wanna continue to go.
I think that's what keeps us all movingforward.
But I think when when you get a nudge to say,hey, stop for a second and remind yourself of

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where you are and, where you used to be and howgrateful you should be, you know, I like to
listen to those little voices.
So I heard that, and I'm sending that to youguys.
I'm sharing that with you guys.
Moving on though.
Here's something that happened today in mylife.
So so finally got back to church today.

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It's it's been a long time since I've been inchurch for for for one simple reason.
I didn't I didn't stray away, at leastunintentionally.
I've been coaching basketball, and everyweekend, we've had we've had tournaments.
And so we were traveling pretty much everyweekend since, man, late December.

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And so finally got back to church this morning,watched some basketball, have a great day, end
up I I make dinner, end up putting the kids tobed, and I'm as my wife's upstairs putting the
kids to bed, I look at the front door, andthere's all these packages at the front door.
I'm like, what is going on?
It looks like a tower, a small fortress ofAmazon packages.

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And I was like, I thought I I thought I fixedthis.
We're I'm gonna have to go I'm gonna have to gogive her another pankin because I thought I
fixed this problem, and clearly, I have notfixed this problem.
So she's up there, and by the way, I just Ijust breezed right over that.
Pankin is something I say.

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It's like a spanking but for adults.
So you can steal that.
I'll let you borrow it.
She she hates it when I say that.
But anyway, I start while she's while she'stucking the kids in bed, I start unpacking all
this stuff, unboxing all this stuff.
I'm like, man, I should be recording this andputting this on YouTube.
People get paid to do these kind of unboxingswith this many boxes.

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First box, some facial product.
Like, okay.
Must have needed that.
Second box, lotion.
Third box, oil.
Some some eye oil, face oil.
Fourth box, some brush of some sort.

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I don't know if it's for hair or what.
I don't know.
I'm not sure what it was for, a brush.
Fifth box.
And on and on it goes.
And I she comes out and she says, Hey, the kidsare ready for you.
I look up at her and I said, What are youdoing?
She was like, Babe, babe, babe, babe, all thatstuff I need.
That stuff we needed, we were running low.

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And I'm like, we were running low?
What what do you mean we were running low?
I didn't know we were running low on facescrub.
Are maybe you're running low on face scrub, butwe are not running low on face scrub.
And we go on and on, and I carry all of herproducts like the little servant I am.

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I carry them into the other room, and I thoughtto myself, and this is this is some of the best
advice some of the best advice I can give onthis podcast, especially for those of you that
are single.
Hold on.
I had to drink take a drink for this becausethis is real.

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I mean, people people pay big money for thiskind of advice.
The best advice or or it's not even advice.
The best secret I can tell you young men outthere who are still single, if you're not
single, you already know this.
Maybe you just haven't realized it yet.

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Here it is.
Beautiful women are expensive.
Expensive.
It's like foreign cars.
It's it's Ferraris, Lamborghinis.
They are expensive.
You don't think that.

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You do not think that when you see one at therental counter.
You're like, you know what?
That's a cool car.
I'm gonna rent that thing for the weekend.
Can't be that bad.
A few hundred bucks.
You take it out.
You have the time of your life.
You're like, dude, this car is sweet.
I gotta have one.
And then comes the oil change, and then comesthe brake job, and then comes the I'm telling

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you right now, beautiful women are expensive,and I only know this because I live with one,
and and I have too many beautiful women to letme back up.
That sounded terrible.
I have too many, m I n I, too many version of abeautiful woman living in my house as well.

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Too minis.
It sounded like I said I have too manybeautiful women.
I have three beautiful women living with me.
One is full grown.
The other are minis.
That's probably a better way to say that.
They are expensive.
And what I keep telling my wife is I guess I'lljust keep working.
I guess I'm gonna show back up to worktomorrow.

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More boxes.
I'm not retiring today.
I guess I'll show back up to work tomorrow.
And why I bring this topic up is because ifyou're into beautiful women, that's your thing.
If you like that, you better go make lots ofmoney.
You better figure it out.
You better go find out how to make a lot ofmoney.

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If you wanna I'm I know this is a weird I knowit's a weird thing to say.
I had to verbalize this.
This again, I'm keeping it real.
This is stuff that's happening in my life, andthis is a little epiphany I had tonight.
I never really I never it never really added upto me.
I was like, man, you know, of course she'sbeautiful.

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She's always been beautiful.
Back when we didn't have any money, when wewere in college and broke and even out of
college, she was still beautiful.
But I think I'm learning to stay beautiful thisis what I've been told.
I don't know this to be a fact.
This is what I've been told.
To stay beautiful or to get more beautiful asyou age, the costs grow exponentially.

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Stick with me.
If you're young and you have a beautiful womanand she's not that expensive yet, perfect.
As they age and they want to continue theirlevel of beauty or increase their level of
beauty, the costs don't just kind of grow in alinear fashion.
They grow exponentially.

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Okay?
So there's there's a tip.
I I'm I'm gonna leave it there because mywife's gonna end up she's gonna get on me for
this one.
But I feel like it's my duty and obligation tolet you young guys know what you're in for as
you get older.
You better go figure out how to make a lot ofmoney.
You have to because you have to keep up youhave to keep up with this maintenance of these

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high priced items that are that are, you know,living with you.
And so that's where I'm at today.
I wanna I wanna I don't know if anybody got anyvalue out of that, but I do wanna read a couple
things.
I've been getting some messages here.
Man, I've been getting some messages here, andI don't know which of these I'm I'm not gonna

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say any names anymore unless I just know for afact I can shout you out.
If I know you by name, I'll probably say yourname.
Some of you guys that are sending messages, I'mlike, I don't know if his wife is you know, I'm
just I'm not gonna say it.
So, oh, man.
Keaton, my husband and I have been listening toyour podcast lately, and it's been such a

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blessing.
It's crazy how similar our journeys have been,but also we're we're Christians, which is also
really a minority in the country we're in.
So listening to fellow believers doing whatwe're doing has been incredibly encouraging to
know we're not in it alone.
Thank you so much for that.
It's it's amazing, you know, especially withsome of the the the persecution that's

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happening kind of around the world on the newslately.
To see other to see other Christians out therekilling it.
I don't think yeah.
I think there's a lot of people that would saythey're Christians or, you know, really
actually are Christians, and they don't talkabout it.
And so a lot of people don't know unlessyou're, you know, talking about it or if you're

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maybe living in a little bit different way.
So those of you guys that that follow and get akick out of it, especially the religious kind
of crumbs that I drop, you know, I I love it.
To me, it's again, I've talked about this alot.
That's one of the angles, and I'm gonna dripmore of this angle in as I continue the grind

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in dropping more and more of these episodes.
As you guys get to know me a little better,you're gonna start to hear and see some of
that.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give my testimony somedayhow and why I can't why do I even believe the
things I do?
I'm gonna get into all that sometime when thetime is right.
Had another guy message me, hey.
How much do you charge for one story promotion?

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I've never charged anybody, to be honest withyou, Will.
I don't know if that guy's serious or not.
He sounded serious, but I don't I don't thinkI've ever charged anybody for a one story
promotion.
Don't know what even really what that means.
Just I don't have enough followers where youwould get much out of it, to be honest with

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you.
Here's another one.
I'm gonna read a couple of these.
Oh.
Keaton, you're an exceptional leader.
It is evident through your thought leadership,having spent twenty seven years in the field
across 20,000,000,000 in complex construction.
I wanna applaud you for conversations you'rehaving.

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It's a pleasure to engage you online.
I appreciate that.
This gal's a CEO, looks legit, kinda big timefirm.
Appreciate that.
I I've said this before.
I said I think I said this on the Ramseypodcast or the Entre Leadership podcast.
I don't believe I'm an exceptional leader, butI do believe I do believe at the rate at which

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I'm learning lessons, which is rapid rate, atthe rate at which I'm screwing up, learning,
and then applying the learnings, I do believeI'll be exceptional someday.
I do believe I'll be legit.
And, you know, I think a lot of the people youyou look at a lot of the folks that are legit

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right now in in leadership roles, you know,love him or hate him, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm
gonna just go ahead and say this.
Look at the current president.
I don't think he was legit at 35.
I don't.
I don't I don't know his full story.
I don't I haven't watched any documentaries onTrump.

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You know, I watched his stuff back when he wasoh, what was the show?
The Apprentice?
I used to love the show, The Apprentice.
He had to be the boss and fire celebrities whowere trying to do business thing.
I used to love that show.
Watched it with my mom every week.
I'm guessing he wasn't super legit at 35.
He was probably a young stud, know, young Don,literally.

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But I don't think he was, like, battle testedand and, like, had calloused hands from all the
war he'd experienced in business yet.
And so I think people like him, you can pickany politician, you can pick anyone in
business, whoever, I think year after yearafter year, if you can stack up bodies, not

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physically, I'm not I'm I'm using a rhetorichere, but if you can stack up lessons and go to
battle day after day after day learning theselessons, I think you're a dangerous person in
business and leadership someday in the future.
I think it's really hard to be excellent at at35.

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I think I'm good enough to be dangerous, Butwhen you look at, like, world class leadership,
when you look at some of the best of the best,a lot of them are, you know, a lot of them are
post military.
So they've had some really good leadershipstuff from the from the military, marine, so on
and so forth, which I'm a big fan of.

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A lot of them have been molded throughout theircorporate journey.
Right?
If they're a, you know, Fortune one thousandCEO, they've kind of been prepped and guided
throughout their career to be in that spot.
And then you have this weird bucket of peoplelike me who kind of just by trial and error,

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brute force, try to figure it out.
And it's the I think it's the least effectiveway, by the way.
I think it's the least effective way andprobably the least, I don't know, smooth way to
become an excellent leader, but it's a way.
I mean, and, you know, and it's it's the wayI'm trying to figure out how to do it.

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It's you're taking big swings, and you takeyour licks.
You get your wins.
You surround yourself with people you think aregoing to help you kill it, and you replace them
when they're not.
And, you know, and so I think at the rate atwhich I'm learning lessons, my hope is someday,
you know, I really think it's another fifteen,probably probably fifteen years of lessons.

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My hope is to always be learning lessons.
I I told some of you guys I'm sharing thisprofessional or this personal personal
development dashboard.
I'm gonna share it here in the next few days.
I really think that one of the key traits to mylong term success will be a lifelong leader.

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It's kind of one of the values I put on my ownpersonal development dashboard for my vision,
for my values, lifelong learning.
I think fifteen more years, I will be I'll bedangerous.
But now, right, you know, right now, I'm stillmaking enough mistakes.
I'm still still going through the journey.
I got a video this morning from from BlaineLarson.

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Shout out, Blaine.
I love I love waking up to videos, from fullgrown men.
You guys know this about me now.
So Blaine sends me a four minute video, andhe's he's, you know, he's talking about, you
know, the some of the things we went throughtogether and some of the org chart changes.
I hate dealing with org chart stuff.

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I hate I hate the formalities of who reports towho and what titles are.
I was just texting with one of our guys just alittle bit ago on a Sunday night, nonetheless,
about some org chart changes and all positivethings.
Not getting rid of anybody, so don't none of mypeople freak out, but just making some clarity

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and some roles and some, you know, somepositive moves for some folks, and I hate org
chart stuff.
It's details.
It's it's it's in the business stuff that Ireally struggle with, and so that's one of the
examples of, you know, another five, ten,fifteen years of polishing those rough edges of
my leadership journey.

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I, you know, I think there's a lot of lessonsto to still learn.
So so thank you for the message.
You know who you are.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate you listening.
Oh, man.
Let's see.
I wanna I wanna answer a couple of these.
I need a better way to I need a better way toorganize my my messages.

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Here we go.
I'll do one more.
Do one more.
Carlos, project engineer.
Thank you for the message, Carlos.
He says congrats on being on the mountaintop.
Hi, Keaton.
Love listening to your podcast and justfinished episode 85.
Just wanted to take a moment to congratulateyou, brother, on the big win and relentless

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pursuit of the client.
Rooting for your continued success in businessand life even though we don't know each other.
Thank you, Carlos.
Appreciate that, brother.
Thank you for listening.
And thank you thank a lot of you guys.
I I know I'm missing some of your messages.
I know I'm I'm bad about responding.
Let me do one more here just to get it off myplate because this guy messaged me, and he's

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got a awesome awesome looking family picture ashis LinkedIn profile.
Three very cute looking kids.
Lindell, site supervisor.
Hey, brother.
Love the value your podcast has brought to mylife.
It is so much.
I can't even tell you what all it is now fromthe from the story of Skinhead to your plug for

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coaching, etcetera, has caused me to deepen myrelationship with God and my wife and my
family.
Please keep him coming.
Thanks.
Appreciate that, man.
Lindell, you know, anything that I can do firstof all, the story of Skinhead, I wish I had I
wish I had 20 more of those stories because I Ican't tell you how many you guys have commented

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on the Skinhead thing.
I I have more of those stories.
I'll tell them.
I gotta figure out a way to not get myself introuble.
So thanks for thanks for loving the theSkinhead story.
I don't know which episode that is.
Some of you guys have to crawl back through allthese episodes to find that one.
Hilarious, though.
And, you know, if I can push you to coaching,Lindell, I think coaching's an awesome thing.

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I think there's, you know, there's a there'sanother coach I wanna add into my life, I
think, later this year that I'm excited about.
I'll talk more about that later.
And then, you know, getting closer to God andto your wife.
I mean, those are two things that I think allof us men honestly struggle with.
Just, you know, straight up, I think it's easyto it's easy to go through phases in life where

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you're really close to one or really close tothe other or really far away from both of them.
And, you know, anything I can do to be a smallvoice to push you closer, because I need the
small voice sometimes.
Know, that's why I have a coach.
He can help be the voice.
I got really good parents.
They can help be the voice.

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But, you know, I you know, yeah.
It's anything anything you can put in yourbrain, in your mind, in your ear, on you know,
in your eyes, anything you can watch, listento, read, consume that pushes you closer to the
best version of yourself, those are really goodthings.
So oh my goodness.
My wife's texting me.

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She said, are you watching this Marilyn game?
And I'm not.
I'm here with you guys.
This is this I'll I'll tell you this one thingreal quick while I'm looking up this game.
This is the tough part.
Oh my gosh.

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Maryland won by one, but I lost my bet becauseI had them covering a two and a half point
spread.
Well, good for the bracket, bad for the wallet.
That's okay.
I don't bet enough just just so you guys hearthis.
I don't bet enough to to be dangerous.
I don't have a I don't have a betting problem.
I promise you.

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Just do it for fun when it's college basketballtime.
But that's the problem with this podcast is isyou have to say no to a lot of things to get
this in every day.
This is I think this is episode, I don't know,ninety, ninety one something.
It it's a it's a massive, massive time suck,and, man, I don't know.

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One more message I'm gonna share.
Let me find it.
I'm looking.
Again, I don't have these all in my okay.
Here we go.
This one's from my sister.
It's in our family group chat.
Shout out Midwest skinny, the Midwest skinny.
Listen to your podcast this morning, Keaton,about your sushi massage and date night.

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I'm making Griffin listen to the next I'mmaking Griffin listen to it next.
Love that you're helping people on all sides oflife.
So Griffin's my brother-in-law.
Griffin, I'm not even gonna go there talkingabout you giving my sister a massage.
Okay?
I'm not even gonna go there.
Buy the sushi.
Take her on a date.

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The massage stuff, I'm just gonna move on.
Okay.
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna move on.
Wow.
Let's see.
Here's one thing I've I've been meaning to say,and I wanted I wanted to leave you guys with
this because we're thirty five minutes in.
I told my wife it's gonna be a quick onebecause she's she's waiting on me.

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Oh, here's one thing I was gonna say.
I told you we were watching a new show,Lioness.
Okay?
So far, it's it's not bad.
I mean, it's no Yellowstone, and it'sdefinitely no land ban, but it's not bad.
Good acting.
Pretty interesting and compelling storyline.
Of course, Hollywood's gotta do their thing,and they throw some some weird stuff in it.

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But it's worth the watch, I think.
It's definitely worth the watch.
We're, I think, on episode six or so.
So it's it's something that hold on.
I'm gonna sneeze.
Oh, man.
Sorry.
I had a sneeze and I don't have a sneezebutton, so I have to pause.
It's funny.
One of the one of the color commentary guys onone of these college basketball games here

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recently coughed louder than life on nationaltelevision, and he said, sorry, guys.
I couldn't find the cough button on his soundboard.
Apparently, they all have cough buttons.
You push it, you can cough, clear your throat,whatever.
I don't have one of those, so I had to pause.
But anyway, I'm I'm kinda not all the way thereyet on Lioness.

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So far, it's decent.
It's it's not bad.
It's worth the it's worth the watch, but we'regonna go flip back and forth between that and
basketball because I can't I can't get her tobuy into watching basketball for, you know, the
whole night.
So I will I'll kinda flip back and forth.
We'll pause it.
When a game gets close, I'll flip it to thegame, and then we'll flip it back to the show.

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So this was I know this one was unconventional,thirty seven minutes worth of rambling.
Again, the key takeaways here are one, take afew minutes, be thankful for where you are and
what you have, be grateful.
We all, I think, struggle with that.
Everyone that's everyone that's an assertive,aggressive, dream chaser, it's hard for us to

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stop and smell the roses.
So there here's your reminder.
Second takeaway, beautiful women are expensive.
If you're into that, if again, maybe that's notyour thing.
You might be better off, honestly, at thispoint.
If that's not your thing, you I I can tell youyou'll be a wealthier person if it's not your

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thing.
But if it is your thing, you better figure outhow to go make some real money.
And you and I'm just telling you, you youbetter figure it out because it only everyone
told me this when I was younger, especially nowthat I've got two girls that are getting older,
it only gets more expensive.
The cheapest a beautiful woman, will ever be isthe first date.

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And then from there on out, they get more andmore and more expensive.
That's my that's that's the best advice I cangive on this podcast.
And then the third one, as we kind of jumpedaround a little bit, you know, the third one is
find something that you can do with with yourwife, with your girlfriend, whatever, that they

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actually enjoy spending your you know, spendingtime with you.
Find something that you guys have in common.
Find a show.
Find a book.
Find a podcast.
Maybe it's this podcast.
Find something that even when you guys are madat each other, one of the other person you
know, one one of you guys pops your head in andsays, hey, I know you're mad at me.
I'm actually mad at you.
You wanna you wanna go watch this show or youwanna go do that thing or whatever?

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Find something that pushes you to, know,together because it's really easy, and I've
been through phases of this in my own life.
It's really easy for us to go through phaseswhere we say, hey, I'll be downstairs.
I'm gonna watch this, and she's upstairswatching that or, you know, there's no talking
or any of that.
So so my my push is go go do somethingtogether.

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And then we're gonna do it again tomorrow.
You know, I've got some stories.
I I had some really cool meetings this pastweek.
I got some stories to tell.
I'm really gonna try hard to get a couplepeople on this week that I've been holding off
and and pushing off.
And so there's gonna be some fun this week.
But go kill it.
Go earn your per diem.

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Come back.
See me again tomorrow.
Thanks, guys.