October 22, 2022 • 47 mins
The Connection Podcast w/Jay Miralles- Guest Brandon Martin...
Brandon Martin from CMG FINANCIAL, speaks on a journey of self-improvement. https://www.cmgfi.com/mysite/brandon-martin
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Jay Miralles (00:02):
Yes, yes, yes, so one of the hardest two people in
the world to line up because weare effectively using our time
to serve others. I got them inour studio remote. Brandon
Martin from CMG financial. Andtoday, I'm going to introduce
those of you who don't know,Brandon. But more importantly,
you're gonna see a side ofBrandon that I want you to know
(00:25):
more of, we know what you do. Weknow how you do it. But Brandon,
thanks for being on today. Hey,Jay, thanks for having me. It's
my pleasure. And I certainlyappreciate all the things you
do. And I'm honored to be here.
Man, I'm excited to jump rightinto it. So Brandon, this is how
we met. And then I'm gonna letyou take over from there. So I
(00:45):
remember Kim bills. And, youknow, she brought you to light
by, you know, saying, hey, theseguys are getting involved with a
50 mile march. They're making adonation. And thank you again,
for that donation to the 50 milemarch foundation. So, you know,
I, I, I've heard of you. I'veknown of you didn't really
(01:07):
connect, right? Becausesometimes we don't listen as
people. But our paths crossedwith the right. Trusted
conduits. Right. So take us backto the first time that perhaps
you and I met.
Brandon Martin (01:22):
Yeah. So I mean, we actually met way back when at
some event PRI back in2014 2015, you are working at
Farm Bureau. And it was likecoffee and contacts. Or maybe it
was like a happy hour orsomething like that. Sure, don't
remember, but we just chattedyou presented about how to
(01:42):
connect with people, whichobviously you're really good at
and finding that common ground.
And that is the earliest memoryI have
Jay Miralles (01:50):
always smoke. When my hair was black, then
Brandon Martin (01:54):
that was for sure. You know, and then and
then fast forward to when wereally kind of connected was
that 50 mile mark when youintroduce all the walkers and
and I will tell you I don'tremember to this day what it was
you said that there wassomething you said when you were
(02:15):
up on stage. And it specificallychanged the way I started
thinking about life.
Jay Miralles (02:22):
Was it that everyone has a story? It was
something like Yes, everyone hasa story if you just listen. Yes,
Brandon Martin (02:30):
yes, absolutely.
And if you listen, and then Istarted listening to people's
stories, right? And then Irealized I have a story. Yes.
So. But my my story wasn't beingtold. So I started telling my
story. And I started living mylife a little bit differently.
And I just knew there was thiswhole other world out there that
(02:52):
I hadn't really seen.
Jay Miralles (02:56):
That's pretty awesome. And so you know, for
those of you who don't know, orhaven't been following, which I
know that you reach many andinspire, but I want to talk and
I want to highlight the thingsthat you probably wouldn't say
about yourself. So here's whatI'll say. Here's a normal human
being right. This is the ClarkKent of just a human being
(03:17):
humble, just works, grinds, youknow, but didn't serve himself.
He wasn't serving himself. Hewas taking care of everyone else
around him working hard and notpaying attention to his health.
Right. And you reached a tippingpoint at some point. Can you
take us back to that tippingpoint where you said
Brandon Martin (03:41):
Yeah, so as May 2, I'll never forget it. And I
get on the scale regularly, butI hadn't been on the scale for a
while and I hit 240 959 and 240but I probably wasn't drinking
as much water as I should have.
And so is like a dehydrated 240Yeah, probably really, like
245 250 Yeah, I've been properlyhydrated and all that stuff. And
(04:06):
I was so I was pretty round andmy waist was over four feet. So
is over 48 inches, which wasit's just too big. I actually I
went like I want like this. I'mlike, Oh man, it's it. That's
four feet tall, right? That'saround my waist. ductable So,
(04:27):
yeah, I I weighed myself on May2 And I said that day may 2,
Brandon Martin may 2 2022 is notgoing to be Brandon Martin may
2 2023. So that's where we'reat.
Jay Miralles (04:47):
How did you Okay, so, you know, some people don't
know some people do know. Howdid you think you got to that
point of just realizing that youweren't the best version of
yourself? What What made you Yousay, Oh my gosh, how did I get
here? How did you get there?
Brandon Martin (05:04):
Sure. So I don't even know I was just kind of
floating through life. Right.
And I think there was one thingand you probably don't even know
this, I'm probably telling youthis for the first time some
people know about this, and Idid make a video on it. But I
found out when I was 39, that mydad wasn't my biological father.
And I think that that affectedme mentally more than I portray
(05:29):
that it did. And so everybodydid. I ended up like, really
lucky, right? So my, my dad whoraised me actually adopted me
when I was two, and I thought hewas my biological father
forever. And so January of 2020,right before COVID My mom, I was
(05:49):
doing all this 23andme stuff andancestry and my mom's like, Hey,
I gotta meet you for lunch. Shewas in Des Moines. She's like,
hey, let's meet halfway forlunch. I'm like, Mom, work
clothes. Mom and I are close.
Her just calling me on a Friday,and I said, Hey, let's meet.
(06:10):
Let's meet tomorrow for lunchand like, something's up. And
that was it. And the only thingI really I cried one tear. I was
like, I couldn't believe it whenshe told me right. But I got
this biological father that'sout there. And I've since talked
to him. I haven't actually methim. Okay, that affected me for
two years where my weight hasjust started to balloon and I
(06:34):
you know, I was probablydrinking too much and all that
stuff and and happy hour was aregular part of my social life
as well. And it just so then Iwouldn't cook I grabbed fast
food on the way home and thatwould be that guy. It was it was
two years where I went fromprobably 215 to 240.
Jay Miralles (06:57):
Yeah, and at our height at five, what are you
590? said five nine? Yeah, hardnine. Yeah. So I'm five, eight.
And yeah, it makes you. You.
Were you ever the Did you everdo self deprecating jokes to
make yourself fit in? Like, didyou ever joke about your weight?
You know? And that's something.
(07:22):
Yeah. And we would tellourselves, and we thought when
people laughed, that was cool.
Because they were accepting usbecause they said, Oh, look at
this guy. He's being vulnerable.
He's being real. And Haha, I'mthe life of the party. Right?
Yeah, but no, that that is badfor our psychological, you know,
for our demeanor for our, ourconfidence. And, you know, I
(07:45):
know that you wear suits, youknow, sometimes you wear
blazers, right? Is that am Iright? We are able to hide under
those things, right? We're like,Okay, well, let's put the blazer
on. So May, let's fast forward.
Now to May of this year, yousaid that's it? What? Did you
have a conversation withyourself? Did you what was it
you wake up? Like, what was it?
Brandon Martin (08:07):
Yeah, I've had a lot of heart to heart
conversations with myself. Ijust said I gotta get better on
the daily and if I fall off thehorse, I'm getting right back
on. So I say that. I say thatall the time. And it was a slow
start. I didn't even reallychange my diet. My brother's a
doctor in Nutritional Sciences.
And I can't utilize him, reallyuntil August, is when I started
(08:29):
utilizing him, but but it wasall just about walking. And man.
I was huffing and puffing justwalking down. Yeah. Walking back
to your mailbox. To the mailbox.
Yeah. I mean, it wasn't like,and I think when you start
something like that, like, atleast for me, I was scared like,
(08:51):
Man, I could have I could bethat 41 year old or whatever,
there has a heart attack and,and passes away. Right. But what
I had to tell myself was, it'seither that or I'm just as
ticking time bomb, right? Yes.
True, have to do something, or Ijust lay on the couch and it's
gonna happen eventually. Anyway.
Jay Miralles (09:10):
So now you said okay, I'm gonna change. Did you
tell anybody immediately or wereyou kind of to yourself, like,
I'm just gonna do this. I'mgonna hustle and grind.
Brandon Martin (09:20):
I was just to myself, man. I was I was just to
myself. And I started like, Idon't know, just trying to look
for other people to follow andpeople that that kind of led the
lifestyle that I wanted to live
Jay Miralles (09:37):
modeling modeling is what we call it. Yeah.
Brandon Martin (09:40):
And and that was my game. I'm like, I'm gonna I'm
gonna reach more you know, thefolks are gravitate towards the
folks. And and shortly after,that was the 50 mile march
announcement. I don't evenremember what the exact day was,
but it was after May 2. Yes,most amazing. Second, there was
(10:00):
I almost think they aligned fora reason that the stars the
stars above, but put thattogether for me to give me
something to work towards. I'mlike, because you asked Trey
Trey Hilliard was there. Andyou're like, yes. Do this. And
she's like, Yeah, I'll do it.
And I don't think he ended upsigning up. But he's ready to go
next year. And I'm like, I thinkI can get in. I think I can work
(10:24):
towards this. Not this year, butcertainly next year, and I know
I can do.
Jay Miralles (10:32):
And you know what, I wasn't skipping over you.
Because Trey had expressed thathe was going to and he wanted
to, and you know, but I just,you know, again, I don't want to
force anybody to do anything.
But you know, I remember so wewere at Bernado. Wherever nado,
right, and everyone's doingtheir thing, and we're just
getting ready. And, you know,then I, then we lost contact for
(10:54):
a little bit. And, you know, Idefinitely thanked you guys, you
know, for for your support. Butthen I started doing my thing.
And then all of a sudden, itsays, Brandon Martin guy doing
in his garage? The heck, there'sno lights out. It's dark. I can
hardly see his face. Wait aminute, let me listen to this
(11:16):
thing, man. Always talking aboutman I just did. Was it just a
mile or something? It wasn'teven a mile. Now. Now, tell me
about your first few walks. Andwhen you started Facebooking to
the world? Not for attention.
But for accountability. Maybe orwhy? Why did you share?
Brandon Martin (11:38):
It was all accountability. But I wanted
other people to to know thatthey're not alone. Right?
Because what I think so. AndI've learned this later, right?
But 75% of people are obese oroverweight in the United States.
Yes. Think it's okay. And thenthe media tells us it's okay.
(11:59):
And we almost kind of shamepeople that are in shape, to
some extent, versus, versusfolks that are overweight. But
the reality is, it's okay toexercise, it's okay to take the
first step so that I'm like,Well, I'm going to something I
want to do I want to be more outthere anyway. I'm not going to
(12:21):
be ashamed of who I am anymore.
I'm actually proud of who I am.
Yes. acheiving. And so I'm gonnalet the world know, Facebook, or
any sort of social media can beyour platform to tell your
story. And it's no one else'sjob to tell you, you can't use
(12:42):
that platform to tell thatstory. So I started making
videos and documenting and itwas not easy. Those first few
arcs. Like I said, on FacebookLive I walked six miles, the
entire month of May. Yes. Almostthat every day today.
Jay Miralles (13:01):
And that crazy.
Six miles in the month of May.
Did you ever think like, youknow, I don't really need to do
this. I'm fine. I'm better thanI was. That was there was
there's that voice right backhere going? You're okay, man.
You don't need to do this.
Brandon Martin (13:17):
Yeah, well, absolutely. Yeah. And then and
then But then you get back onthe horse. And you're like,
Yeah, I do got to do this. I dohave to exercise. You now. And
then June carried on and it justwas kind of sporadic. I think I
did eight out of the first 15days. And then from the 15th to
July 16. My friend got married Iexercise every day. And then
(13:43):
coming back from his wedding. Igot sick, it was out from for
nine days, but then I'veexercised everyday sense. Yeah,
I look back at May all the time,because that is the first 30 to
45 days or when people go backto that habit. And yes, I wanted
to go back to that habit Iwanted to have my diet even
(14:05):
stayed pretty poor.
Jay Miralles (14:08):
Yeah, but you're you thought in your mind because
you're moving you're gonna getbetter,
Brandon Martin (14:12):
correct? Yeah.
Yeah, so the weight lossactually started. You know, I
think the first five pounds cameoff pretty easy. The next few
you know, he had the you had tochange other things, you know,
and the diet did start to changea little bit, you know,
eliminating fast food or insteadof it being three or four or
(14:33):
five times a week situation, itwas a once or twice a week,
situation before and now it'snow.
Jay Miralles (14:43):
I mean, Brandon, you may not know this and you'll
look back or you may know thisnow, but when I look at my
journey and journey of others,people think there's a magic
pill or magic program or somekind of membership that you can
get and because you pump ironore you do Do extreme tactics
(15:04):
that get you, you know, in shaperight and some people do 75 Hard
some people do orange theorysome people do whatever fitness
program, right, but let's notunderestimate the power of just
moving your butt. Just moving.
That's all you're doing waswalking because you couldn't run
yet right?
Brandon Martin (15:26):
I could not run at that particular time and even
there is a time in June where Igot shins glance, and I felt
like I thought like it's over.
Like I'm too big. I've I'veallowed my legs to get too weak,
and my body to become too bigthat my legs can't handle it. So
that was a big mental mentalpart as well. But absolutely,
(15:47):
yeah, I mean, you got a mentalblock to get through and, and
you all you have to do is startmoving. And don't stop. I hate
to use Forrest Gump as anexample. He just kept running.
Just move just move. That's it?
Jay Miralles (16:05):
Yes. I remember. I think one of our first
conversations or maybe a text Iwas like, bro, do you have a
knee issue or because you know,because I was watching your, you
are documenting it very well.
And I can tell by your, yourgait or the way you were walking
that there was kind of a, youknow, an issue with either
(16:28):
balancing the knee or something?
I don't know. I mean, was thatdid you have an injury or
something like that?
Brandon Martin (16:34):
Sure. Yeah. So I've hurt both my knees. I have
like a quarter of the cartilagethat I should have in both my my
left and my right knee. So yeah,I've struggled through some knee
pain a little bit. And I'vestruggled through some back
pain. As my stomach has gottensmaller. That's completely went
(16:56):
away. But isn't that crazy? Andto fight through it? Yes, you
did. Like, you know, a littleback pain. I'm gonna fight
through that to get one I wantto be and it's worth, even if I
hurt my back. I still I'm notgonna get anywhere if I don't
move.
Jay Miralles (17:14):
So that's true.
Yeah, you can hurt your backsitting down. You can hurt your
back. I mean, sitting down asnew smoking. But so so now
you're moving. You're crushingit, man. You are. You're
professing to others that hey,you can do this too. Your talks
aren't all about health. They'reabout financial wellness.
They're about introspect.
(17:37):
They're about insight. And I canhear the little voice in your
head say, oh, cares what anybodythinks. I can hear that row. Who
cares? what anybody thinks?
Right? Right. Have you missedyet? A morning of recording in
the last 30 days?
Brandon Martin (18:01):
Yeah, I have recorded I've posted something
every day. Sometimes I just postmy stats on Yes. Never. And show
what I've done just to kind ofkeep going. But yeah, I've
certainly missed some daysrecording. Sure. But ever,
everybody's got to know thatthey can do it. Everybody's got
(18:22):
to know that someone's beenthere with them. You know what I
mean? Mike, I just thinkthere's, there's there's this
mental block that stoppingeveryone for whatever reason,
but all it really isn't, is anexcuse, right? All these little
excuses as to why we can't dothis, why we can't do that, you
know, the kids or, or whatever.
But you have to make time foryourself. Because if you can't
(18:45):
take care of yourself, you can'ttake care of your kids to the to
the best of your ability. Iagree.
Jay Miralles (18:55):
Yeah, I mean, work. Absolutely.
Brandon Martin (18:59):
It starts it starts right here. It starts
right in the heart and, and andwith the mentality that hey, I
have to do this. I have to takecare of me because beyond that,
I can't take care of anyone elseif I'm not operating at 100%.
Jay Miralles (19:17):
Can I ask and if it's too personal to share, we
can save it for later but howmuch weight have you lost?
Brandon Martin (19:24):
Yeah, so on the sixth So on October 4, I
documented my waist measurementand I'm working with my brother
Tyler on my diet to kind of honein on it and the 20th I'll have
an update. So as of October 4, Iwas 202.8 pounds, which
(19:45):
obviously is down from 240. Ishould start with a one come
Friday when I when I documentthat my waist circumference was
48 or 49. It was 4048 inches theweek before that wedding I told
you about on July 8 or nine. Mywaist was 48 inches, and it's
(20:10):
down to 4140 or 41 inches atthis point. That's great. So
yeah, you can do a lot. What'scrazy about the human body is 20
years worth of abuse, you canturn around in 12 bots, if, if
(20:31):
you want,
Jay Miralles (20:31):
if you want to, that's just it. How many people
have said to you? Oh, Brandon,that's good. I would, but I
would start, you know, I'm goingto start next month. You know,
what, January 1 2023? is goingto be my year. You know what I
would do? I'll start thosetomorrow. Brandon. Have you
heard those statements frompeople? Yeah. I'm not hating on
(20:52):
them. But that's not you
Brandon Martin (20:55):
know, but that was me. But that's not me today,
that's not Brandon Martin here,as we dip, you know, in the
middle of October of 2022. Butit was Brandon in April of 2022.
And prior, so you just have tomake a decision to move forward.
Like and I would encourageanyone, like, seek seek help,
(21:19):
like, follow people. Likethere's a ton of people that
shoot me messages here andthere. Yeah, more messages than
I've ever gotten before. Aboutpeople like keep going, man,
like keep keep doing this. I Iimagine like you hit exercise, I
think 85 days in a row, or maybetomorrow is 85, something like
that. But I think once you hitlike, milestones like 100 I feel
(21:42):
like everybody's gonna be youknow, I'll get a lot of messages
that day, I guess those types?
Yes, sir.
Jay Miralles (21:49):
Yes, you will. You absolutely will. So I'm going to
ask you now, a series ofquestions. And let's keep it at
short bursts. So here's what I'mgonna ask you. What books are
you reading right now?
Brandon Martin (22:00):
So I just finished you. Oh, you by Eric
Thomas. And I recommend it foranyone. Cash, what is the book?
Hold on? I just started atomichabits. Yes. I just started
that. And then the little goldenbook of the Yes, attitude? is
(22:20):
another one or little yellowbook. I can't remember for sure.
Sure. Sure. And then the powerof one more is right on my list
as well.
Jay Miralles (22:29):
So that's awesome.
That's awesome. Tell me. Tell mewhich one of those were your
favorites? And or which one didyou really enjoy? Maybe not your
favorites? Or what did you enjoyabout one of those books? What
what spoke to you?
Brandon Martin (22:40):
Well, Eric Thomas is the first book that
I've actually read. So I readone other book that was 10 years
ago, but in high school, Ididn't read books. But you Oh,
you is very inspirational. AndI'll tell you this, he went
homeless at 16 in the very firstchapter, because he found out
his father wasn't his biologicalfather, as that resonated with
(23:04):
me right away. Yes. But thatthat book, I'd recommend 100
times over and I'm gonna letother people borrow it and and
I'll even I'll purchase it forsomeone if they want. That's
Jay Miralles (23:15):
awesome, bro.
That's, I mean, hey, listen,that's paying it forward. Right?
Because you're, you're buildingyourself up and you want to
share the joy. All right. So ifI pick up your cell phone, and I
look in the podcast section,what podcasts might be on there?
Do you listen to podcasts? Or doyou listen to YouTube snippets
of people? Yeah, I
Brandon Martin (23:34):
listen to podcasts. I actually had a
plumber here at my house. He's afriend of cornerback. He is a
teammate of mine. And we justgot to talk in about podcasts
and, and how he listens topodcasts and invest in real
estate and stuff. I'm like, I'mgonna start listening and
started with motivational stuff.
I listened to Bradley. He's abusiness guy. But I resonate
(23:55):
with him a lot. But right now,I've been into the money
advantage, which talks aboutInfinite Banking and the family
banking structure. And I loveit. I could listen to it all day
every day. I listened to it forhours
Jay Miralles (24:11):
before awesome. So when you get bored do you get
bored lately? What do you do tofill time? You know? I mean, do
you totally unplugged? Are youdo you find yourself even bored
lately?
Brandon Martin (24:27):
I really don't.
My day is pretty structured. I'mup every day at four o'clock. In
like Saturday, the football gameran a little late, right? So
yeah, so I've been eating on theweekends. I don't negotiate with
myself and my day is fairlystructured. I tried to kill it
with marketing ideas work andreading or exercise
Jay Miralles (24:55):
this endless.
That's awesome. So is there amantra I usually play over and
over in your head, you know,something that you're just like,
bro, I need to say this tomyself and everybody watch out.
What is
Brandon Martin (25:11):
that there isn't really a mantra per se, but I
will say this. Every time Ifinished my workout in the
morning and it's dark. Iremember that scene in Rocky
when he's running up the stairsand he raises his hands. Yes, I
do that every time I come intomy driveway as I finish up,
because I know that this isthis, I'm just training for the
(25:33):
fight, right? So I'm notanywhere near where I want to
be. I'm not the champion. I'mnot fighting, you know, the
greatest fighter in the worldyet, but I'm training to get
there. And I'm training hard.
And I know that the littlehabits today are going to create
a champion in the future.
Jay Miralles (25:54):
So I'll give you a little bit of advice there. You
actually win like a championevery day that you beat who you
were yesterday. That's a win.
That's a champion, a championdoes not need a trophy. There
are champions in this world thatdon't have trophy cases, they
don't really care for metals,they don't care for titles, they
don't do anything. They just winfrom the person they were
(26:17):
yesterday. So I want to I wantto get really want to slow down
the conversation for a second, Iwant you to think before you
answer this. Okay. I want you totake me back to sic Brandon. May
2, right. fit up, Brandon, Iwant you to talk to him right
now. What would you say to sickBrandon. today? If you can go
back and say, bro, fill in theworks.
Brandon Martin (26:46):
Bro, it doesn't.
It doesn't matter what you didyesterday, it doesn't matter
what he did in 2021. It doesn'tmatter what he did in 2015. It
doesn't matter what he did in2001. It matters where you go
from here. So you got to takethat first step forward. You
take that first step, it startsanother step. You can't walk up
the cases, case stairs withouttaking the first step, right. So
(27:10):
just take that first step anddon't look back.
Jay Miralles (27:16):
Man you that's, that's pretty insightful, right?
That's people hang their hat on.
like, Yo, you remember that oneyear I did this? And, you know,
at least I am or I just want tobe realistic. And you know,
you're telling yourself, man,like it doesn't matter what you
did in 2021. No one cares, bro.
It doesn't matter what you didin 2015. Nobody cares.
Brandon Martin (27:39):
Right? I mean, Tom Brady doesn't care that he
wants six Super Bowls. He wantsto win the Super Bowl this year.
Right? People remember? Yes. Allright.
Jay Miralles (27:50):
So so here's what I want to ask you next. You told
me October 20? Is it? Do youhave a year goal? Is that Is
there a date set from the datethat you went? Or is there a
year goal? Do you have a milemarker on a year?
Brandon Martin (28:06):
So I do but I wanted to be under I turned 42
on November for I wanted to beunder 200 pounds by then. And I
want to be at 170 by May 2 2023.
About 170 is when my when my BMIwill be an abnormal range?
Jay Miralles (28:28):
Absolutely. So let's go forward. Let's go
forward to did you say May 2 Isthat right? Yep. Let's go to May
2 23 are in a time machine row.
And you gotta visualize rightnow you weigh 170 Right now you
are your BMI is even better thanwhat you thought you're probably
started resistance training bythen and everything and what are
(28:50):
what is Brandon Martin saying tohimself that morning when he
gets up at four o'clock in themorning
Brandon Martin (29:01):
is probably saying you gotta get better get
1% better today as well. Youknow what I mean? Keep moving
forward. Don't look back and andkeep progressing.
Jay Miralles (29:13):
I mean, it's important to recognize your
milestones, right? And I lookforward to that day for you,
bro. I won't let you slip man ii can tell you that. I get
excited when people facethemselves because it's really
easy to say you know, I workwith this guy. And then all he
does is eat junk food and man Iended up eating junk food or
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hey, I hang out with thesepeople. All they do is end up
drinking knowledge right nowlisten, I'm not chastising, but
I'm just telling you. You arewho you hang around. Has your
circle morphed. Has your havesome people said to you like
Cobra, not for me. You knowbecause I know you stopped
drinking. Is that right? Mostly?
Is that right? Like have youstopped drinking for Wow.
Brandon Martin (30:00):
Yeah, the only the only today I've had alcohol
to this point was that weddingsince May 2. So there Yeah, I
completely cut it out. And Ifeel feel amazing. So yeah, my
circle has changed both bydesign and maybe by other
people's design as well, as we.
And that's not to say we don'tlike each other we don't like,
(30:22):
but you know, we'll, we'll chator whatever, but but my circle
is very valuable to me and mypersonal life is valuable,
valuable to me. So who's in thatcircle? It has just morphed a
little bit to who I am todayversus who I was in the past.
(30:44):
And, and I've had a lot offriends that I've had
friendships for 20 some years,and they're still friends. And
some of them are in that circle.
And some are marked quiet inthat circle. But I still love
them and still care about them.
Jay Miralles (30:57):
Absolutely. But you've also prioritize the
things that are important toyou. And sometimes that doesn't
cut people out. But it alsodoesn't make an easy inclusion
to say, Hey, let's go do thesame things we used to do
together, right. And sometimespeople are uncomfortable with
change, and some people areuncomfortable with people around
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them getting better. Right?
Yeah, I've experienced that.
Brandon Martin (31:24):
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, there's a lot of folksthat they they want to live the
same way, right? They don't wantto change, they want to be
uncomfortable. They bitch andmoan a little bit about being
overweight and obese, but theywon't do anything about it. So I
had to, to me, to me, it allcame down to the negativity,
(31:45):
right. So if there's any sort ofnegativity, I gotta try to
suppress that as much aspossible, and add positive vibes
to the circle. And that's what Istrive for on the daily.
Jay Miralles (32:02):
And how is this translated into your business?
What is it done for you and yourbusiness man? Like, you know, as
I help you perform better has itmade you start crushing and
slaying it? Like,
Brandon Martin (32:13):
yeah, no, I do perform better on a day to day
basis, I'm more focused, my, mymental preparation for the day
is 100%. I hang around with agreat crew of folks that that
are that are really, really goodpeople. And, and I don't hang
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out with any negative or, orwill allow any negativity to
come into, into into the officespace really like business
partners, or otherwise, like,negativity just affects me a
different way. It's just, youwant to be negative, that's
cool. But it's not going tochange. It's not going to ruin
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my day. And believe me, it usedto ruin my day.
Jay Miralles (33:01):
Yeah, because you can occupy people can rent space
in your head for free. And youcan complain, and I've been kind
of on this journey to where it'seasy for me to complain and get
in that loop and say, or condemnor, or or compare or chastise.
And you know, that's, that'sjust in my composite right
(33:23):
comparison and, but I'veconsciously made an effort to
when it starts, I just know thatI can't do anything about that.
And, and let's be honest, likewe all love to be loved. We all
want to be wanted, we all wantto be included. But I need
everyone to understand this.
It's okay. If you're not. It'sokay. If you're not included.
(33:44):
Yeah, man, how many times did weseek that when we weren't good
enough for ourselves that weneeded to find acceptance
through other people'spermission, bro,
Brandon Martin (33:55):
we would write and then we would we would if we
if we felt we weren't includedwith with X person, we would go
find why person to do the samethings that they were doing,
even though quite honestly, Ithink God was kind of leading me
down a path to go a differentway. But I kept gravitating
towards a the Negativelifestyle. Right? Yeah, it's
(34:19):
easily either lead me to 240 andhe's like, go this way, go this
way. And we do that with veeroff the wrong way. And then for
whatever reason, it clicks atsome point.
Jay Miralles (34:30):
Yeah, man, I, it's, I need people to
understand like it's it's noteasy to catch my attention.
Right. I'm I'm so pointed atwhat I'm doing. I'm so stubborn.
And I'm so just I'm just goingright, right. And if you're
standing still, I'm probablyjust going to run by and I don't
mean like be better than I'mjust, I'm so focused, but when
(34:52):
when someone like you capturesmy attention. I'm not trying to
tell you I'm holier than thouand if I see you that you're
great. I'm saying you You're oneof the people that I say, Okay,
let me see what he's doingtoday, because I've called you a
couple of times, right? Hey,Brandon, need to recharge,
right? I've called you about,what do I say? What did I say to
you on that one call?
Brandon Martin (35:11):
Like, yeah, well, I mean, you're just you're
having a rough day or whatever.
And you needed a little pick meup and wanted just a little bit
of advice. Not even reallyadvice, but like, hey, what,
what should I do? I've beenstruggling. And I don't know if
you told anyone about whatyou're gonna do. You know, I'm
sure that that, you know, butthat's a whole nother thing. But
(35:36):
you know that, that is somethingthat you can struggle with, you
know, on whether or not youshould do something or not do
something or what have you. And,and but, yes, sometimes
everybody needs to pick me up.
At some point, everyone needssomeone they can call. So I
mean, like, you and I have justbecome fairly close in the last
(35:58):
few months. Sometimes we needsomeone that we've known for 20
years, and sometimes we needsomeone that we've known for a
few months, but it can still beequally effective, depending on
the situation.
Jay Miralles (36:15):
The authentic, the authenticity, the alignment, the
behavior. You didn't have tosay, oh, Jay, I like keto too.
We're best friends. Like wedidn't do that. Right. That's
that's not what we're doing. Oh,you like to walk me to I mean,
it our lives just kind of met ina place that we're in the same
journey right now. And there'sno effort for me to say, Hey,
(36:39):
I'm gonna one up Brandon, mygoal in 40 more minutes, and he
does that. That's not it, youinspire me to go further to push
me further. I feel like walkingthree times a week is inadequate
at this point, you know, rockingthree times a week, but I'll
tell you this. I want to kind ofland this here. But you made a
(37:01):
commitment. Right? And I'm goingto put you on the spot. Why are
you walking the 50 mile Marchnext year? What Why? Why are you
doing it? I mean, there's awhole lot of different reasons
people do it. But why is BrandonMartin choose to participate his
time his effort is treasures,talents.
Brandon Martin (37:19):
Why? Share? i i First of all, I think when you
started the 50 mile march, Iheard about it. I looked at it a
little bit. I followed you alot. I mean, that video the very
first one, right? Yeah, yes. Andso I followed it, I knew about
it. I have veterans in myfamily. My mom's husband served
(37:40):
in the Navy, and they're verycognizant of, of military
efforts. And they always try togive to those sorts of things.
I've helped a ton of veteranswith mortgages. My my home base,
and when I started doingmortgages was in Bellevue. So I
am, I feel close to veteransanyway, and how you've grown
(38:03):
this particular event is, isremarkable. So it means it means
a lot to me, that that, thatsomeone puts a lot of effort and
your your heart and soul goesinto it. And every bit about it
makes me want my heart and soulto go into that event, just so
(38:27):
you succeed. And so I can't waitto be a part of that as well.
It's exciting to think about,
Jay Miralles (38:36):
Thanks, brother, I, I'll share with you and then
you know, we'll end it here. Butyou know, most people only live
40% of their capacity in life.
People live 40% of theircapacity, they're comfortable.
They if food in food out,punching the clock punch out
routine, they make money to paybills to buy stuff, to pay
(38:59):
bills, to make money to buystuff to pay bills to make money
to buy stuff, right and that'sokay. Again, not not judging,
but I'm saying you obviouslywant more, but I want you to
learn this now. You're going tomeet 80% of your capacity,
probably in the 19th or the 18thhour, by the 20 of our you will
(39:22):
meet probably 90% of yourcapacity of physical as well as
mental. And I want to tell youthat I can't wait to see you hit
that wall and break through thatbecause it breaks everyone I
don't care how great you are.
(39:44):
People, some people articulatetheir pain. Some people keep it
in, but man I know. I know bythe walking pattern. I know by
the tone of voice. I can seetears sometimes. I can see us
suffering. And man, oh man, thebest part of the march for me is
(40:05):
the last 50 yards. The last 50yards, we're talking half a
football field. And I visualizethis, I play this out. Usually
I'm in the back, probably 100yards out making sure that the
back stays pretty, pretty tight,the pack stays tight or the
squad stays stays tight. Then Ithen I walk around to the front
(40:29):
the last 50 miles, and I lookback and I watch their faces.
And then the last five yards, Imake sure that I fall out of
formation. And then I walk tothe back. And I let everyone
pass me as a high five them andon the way in. And the energy
that I get from every marcherfrom every Rucker from every
(40:52):
Walker is probably the highestI've ever been in my entire
life. And that is where you meetfriends. That is where you meet
allies. And that's where youmeet comrades. And that's where
you meet Ride or Die people,right? That's when you know,
when life's circle is hard,maybe not all of them. But for
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the most part, that's your squadfor life, man. That's what I
want to prepare you for bro. Ican't wait to frickin high five
you shake your hand. Can't waitto tell you put your chin up.
Like bro, it's it's like noother, but I can assure you mile
to two mile 49 sucks.
Brandon Martin (41:38):
You can definitely see the camaraderie
of the group this year. Like Imean it was and you can tell
like they are to some extentbonded in some way for life.
Whether I know you put them inin groups or whatever.
Definitely. Yep. Yeah. Thosesquads are their brothers and
(42:01):
sisters for life. Sure, yes.
Jay Miralles (42:04):
Yes. And you know, often people say I never served
Hey, man, now's your chance.
See, people serve in differentways. You know, and some people
who served the military servesandwiches or they served
missiles, it doesn't matter.
Right. The Americans who servedfrom here paid taxes to give us
the equipment supported us whenwe came back home. And that's a
(42:27):
way to serve, too. But this forme, is probably the best therapy
that I could ever give myself.
Because I know what it's like tobe home and secure. I know what
it's like to sleep on people'scouches and be less than, and I
know what it's like to, to writeletters to say goodbye to
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people. Yeah, that's somethingI'm proud of. But it's something
that I need people to know. Talkto somebody, have a
conversation. Becauseconversations can save a
suicide. conversations caninspire someone to lose 20
pounds conversations can makethe exiled field included.
(43:10):
conversations can open up. Ididn't say shouting. I said
talking. It's okay. If Idisagree with people. I love to
disagree with my friends in away that is very respectful. If
they are x affiliation, or yaffiliation, or Z affiliation
(43:32):
doesn't matter to me, because Idon't need to argue my point. I
know what I believe in. I knowthey believe in something too.
Right. And that's good. Andthat's good because
confrontation is good conflictis bad. And that's delayed
confrontation. But is thereanything else Brandon that you
want people to know man aboutyou bro like anything you want
(43:53):
to part with this audience andsay drop a nugget or something
or just leave with some, someharsh some hard words.
Brandon Martin (44:02):
I just want to I want to reiterate kind of what
you were just saying that we areall individuals and we all have
a right to our own minds and ourown thoughts and our own free
thinking. And that's what makesus beautiful. That's what makes
us individuals. But if you'restruggling with something reach
(44:23):
out, I mean, I'll talk to anyoneabout anything I'll talk to you
via messenger. I'll talk to youvia text. I'll talk to you on
the telephone, I'll meet up withyou and have coffee, I'll meet
up with you for lunch. I don'treally care anytime, anywhere.
If I'm available, which I am 90%of the time you can text me or
(44:43):
something like that. Outside ofsleeping but if you if you want
to better yourself if you wantto live a healthy lifestyle. If
you're down in the dumps andthing no one really cares about
you like someone does. I'mtelling you someone cares,
someone It wants you to bearound. Someone wants you to be
(45:03):
healthy. Someone does. And if,if you're if you want that
someone to know reach out to, toany of us and we'll help, I'll
help. I know you would helpanyone, you'd give the shirt off
your back for anyone. But Ithink it's important to know
like, yeah, we we try to live ahealthy lifestyle to save
(45:26):
ourselves. But we're here tohelp other people do the same
thing. And it a lot of it's uphere. Everything we do is
between the years and it is aphysical thing we're dealing but
we got to fight the mentalbattle every day.
Jay Miralles (45:41):
Well, Brandon Martin, I want to thank you for
being on and I'll leave you onebit of advice. And I know you're
a selfless guy. I want you toknow this. Don't treat your
customers better than you wouldtreat yourself because that is a
is a is a fallacy that we allfall into. And I know you serve
others, Brandon, I know you'regenerous. I know that you're
giving right? But as you cansee, the May 2 Brandon to the
(46:08):
October, October 19th. Brandon,this October 19. Brandon is able
to give more now able to givefurther now able to give even
more now of of your time, yourtalent and your treasure. How's
that make you feel man?
Brandon Martin (46:27):
Makes me feel great. It really does. Like I
value my relationships more Ican give more to my
relationships. I can give moreto work. I can give more to my
clients, like you said, becauseI've given more to myself.
Jay Miralles (46:44):
Man, I love this episode. I hope people smash
that like button so hard thatthey correct your screen man.
Share this. Get to know BrandonMartin. I'll put all of his
contact info in the show notes.
You're the real deal dude out.
I'm not high on you, Brandon, Ibelieve in you. I'm not high on
you. There's a difference,right? I believe in you. You're
(47:06):
inspirational. You're one of thepeople that are considered to be
in the circle. You're just anauthentic guy, and by the ways
great business person. Andthat's all I can really sum this
up to is do life and connectwith good people. Brandon
Martin, thanks for being on theconnection today.
Brandon Martin (47:24):
Hey, thanks for having me. I know you can have
1000 people on here. I'm luckyto be one of them, and I really
appreciate it. Thanks, Brandon.
Thanks, Jay.
Yes, yes, yes, so one of the hardest two people in
the world to line up because weare effectively using our time
to serve others. I got them inour studio remote. Brandon
Martin from CMG financial. Andtoday, I'm going to introduce
those of you who don't know,Brandon. But more importantly,
you're gonna see a side ofBrandon that I want you to know
(00:25):
more of, we know what you do. Weknow how you do it. But Brandon,
thanks for being on today. Hey,Jay, thanks for having me. It's
my pleasure. And I certainlyappreciate all the things you
do. And I'm honored to be here.
Man, I'm excited to jump rightinto it. So Brandon, this is how
we met. And then I'm gonna letyou take over from there. So I
(00:45):
remember Kim bills. And, youknow, she brought you to light
by, you know, saying, hey, theseguys are getting involved with a
50 mile march. They're making adonation. And thank you again,
for that donation to the 50 milemarch foundation. So, you know,
I, I, I've heard of you. I'veknown of you didn't really
(01:07):
connect, right? Becausesometimes we don't listen as
people. But our paths crossedwith the right. Trusted
conduits. Right. So take us backto the first time that perhaps
you and I met.
Brandon Martin (01:22):
Yeah. So I mean, we actually met way back when at
some event PRI back in2014 2015, you are working at
Farm Bureau. And it was likecoffee and contacts. Or maybe it
was like a happy hour orsomething like that. Sure, don't
remember, but we just chattedyou presented about how to
(01:42):
connect with people, whichobviously you're really good at
and finding that common ground.
And that is the earliest memoryI have
Jay Miralles (01:50):
always smoke. When my hair was black, then
Brandon Martin (01:54):
that was for sure. You know, and then and
then fast forward to when wereally kind of connected was
that 50 mile mark when youintroduce all the walkers and
and I will tell you I don'tremember to this day what it was
you said that there wassomething you said when you were
(02:15):
up on stage. And it specificallychanged the way I started
thinking about life.
Jay Miralles (02:22):
Was it that everyone has a story? It was
something like Yes, everyone hasa story if you just listen. Yes,
Brandon Martin (02:30):
yes, absolutely.
And if you listen, and then Istarted listening to people's
stories, right? And then Irealized I have a story. Yes.
So. But my my story wasn't beingtold. So I started telling my
story. And I started living mylife a little bit differently.
And I just knew there was thiswhole other world out there that
(02:52):
I hadn't really seen.
Jay Miralles (02:56):
That's pretty awesome. And so you know, for
those of you who don't know, orhaven't been following, which I
know that you reach many andinspire, but I want to talk and
I want to highlight the thingsthat you probably wouldn't say
about yourself. So here's whatI'll say. Here's a normal human
being right. This is the ClarkKent of just a human being
(03:17):
humble, just works, grinds, youknow, but didn't serve himself.
He wasn't serving himself. Hewas taking care of everyone else
around him working hard and notpaying attention to his health.
Right. And you reached a tippingpoint at some point. Can you
take us back to that tippingpoint where you said
Brandon Martin (03:41):
Yeah, so as May 2, I'll never forget it. And I
get on the scale regularly, butI hadn't been on the scale for a
while and I hit 240 959 and 240but I probably wasn't drinking
as much water as I should have.
And so is like a dehydrated 240Yeah, probably really, like
245 250 Yeah, I've been properlyhydrated and all that stuff. And
(04:06):
I was so I was pretty round andmy waist was over four feet. So
is over 48 inches, which wasit's just too big. I actually I
went like I want like this. I'mlike, Oh man, it's it. That's
four feet tall, right? That'saround my waist. ductable So,
(04:27):
yeah, I I weighed myself on May2 And I said that day may 2,
Brandon Martin may 2 2022 is notgoing to be Brandon Martin may
2 2023. So that's where we'reat.
Jay Miralles (04:47):
How did you Okay, so, you know, some people don't
know some people do know. Howdid you think you got to that
point of just realizing that youweren't the best version of
yourself? What What made you Yousay, Oh my gosh, how did I get
here? How did you get there?
Brandon Martin (05:04):
Sure. So I don't even know I was just kind of
floating through life. Right.
And I think there was one thingand you probably don't even know
this, I'm probably telling youthis for the first time some
people know about this, and Idid make a video on it. But I
found out when I was 39, that mydad wasn't my biological father.
And I think that that affectedme mentally more than I portray
(05:29):
that it did. And so everybodydid. I ended up like, really
lucky, right? So my, my dad whoraised me actually adopted me
when I was two, and I thought hewas my biological father
forever. And so January of 2020,right before COVID My mom, I was
(05:49):
doing all this 23andme stuff andancestry and my mom's like, Hey,
I gotta meet you for lunch. Shewas in Des Moines. She's like,
hey, let's meet halfway forlunch. I'm like, Mom, work
clothes. Mom and I are close.
Her just calling me on a Friday,and I said, Hey, let's meet.
(06:10):
Let's meet tomorrow for lunchand like, something's up. And
that was it. And the only thingI really I cried one tear. I was
like, I couldn't believe it whenshe told me right. But I got
this biological father that'sout there. And I've since talked
to him. I haven't actually methim. Okay, that affected me for
two years where my weight hasjust started to balloon and I
(06:34):
you know, I was probablydrinking too much and all that
stuff and and happy hour was aregular part of my social life
as well. And it just so then Iwouldn't cook I grabbed fast
food on the way home and thatwould be that guy. It was it was
two years where I went fromprobably 215 to 240.
Jay Miralles (06:57):
Yeah, and at our height at five, what are you
590? said five nine? Yeah, hardnine. Yeah. So I'm five, eight.
And yeah, it makes you. You.
Were you ever the Did you everdo self deprecating jokes to
make yourself fit in? Like, didyou ever joke about your weight?
You know? And that's something.
(07:22):
Yeah. And we would tellourselves, and we thought when
people laughed, that was cool.
Because they were accepting usbecause they said, Oh, look at
this guy. He's being vulnerable.
He's being real. And Haha, I'mthe life of the party. Right?
Yeah, but no, that that is badfor our psychological, you know,
for our demeanor for our, ourconfidence. And, you know, I
(07:45):
know that you wear suits, youknow, sometimes you wear
blazers, right? Is that am Iright? We are able to hide under
those things, right? We're like,Okay, well, let's put the blazer
on. So May, let's fast forward.
Now to May of this year, yousaid that's it? What? Did you
have a conversation withyourself? Did you what was it
you wake up? Like, what was it?
Brandon Martin (08:07):
Yeah, I've had a lot of heart to heart
conversations with myself. Ijust said I gotta get better on
the daily and if I fall off thehorse, I'm getting right back
on. So I say that. I say thatall the time. And it was a slow
start. I didn't even reallychange my diet. My brother's a
doctor in Nutritional Sciences.
And I can't utilize him, reallyuntil August, is when I started
(08:29):
utilizing him, but but it wasall just about walking. And man.
I was huffing and puffing justwalking down. Yeah. Walking back
to your mailbox. To the mailbox.
Yeah. I mean, it wasn't like,and I think when you start
something like that, like, atleast for me, I was scared like,
(08:51):
Man, I could have I could bethat 41 year old or whatever,
there has a heart attack and,and passes away. Right. But what
I had to tell myself was, it'seither that or I'm just as
ticking time bomb, right? Yes.
True, have to do something, or Ijust lay on the couch and it's
gonna happen eventually. Anyway.
Jay Miralles (09:10):
So now you said okay, I'm gonna change. Did you
tell anybody immediately or wereyou kind of to yourself, like,
I'm just gonna do this. I'mgonna hustle and grind.
Brandon Martin (09:20):
I was just to myself, man. I was I was just to
myself. And I started like, Idon't know, just trying to look
for other people to follow andpeople that that kind of led the
lifestyle that I wanted to live
Jay Miralles (09:37):
modeling modeling is what we call it. Yeah.
Brandon Martin (09:40):
And and that was my game. I'm like, I'm gonna I'm
gonna reach more you know, thefolks are gravitate towards the
folks. And and shortly after,that was the 50 mile march
announcement. I don't evenremember what the exact day was,
but it was after May 2. Yes,most amazing. Second, there was
(10:00):
I almost think they aligned fora reason that the stars the
stars above, but put thattogether for me to give me
something to work towards. I'mlike, because you asked Trey
Trey Hilliard was there. Andyou're like, yes. Do this. And
she's like, Yeah, I'll do it.
And I don't think he ended upsigning up. But he's ready to go
next year. And I'm like, I thinkI can get in. I think I can work
(10:24):
towards this. Not this year, butcertainly next year, and I know
I can do.
Jay Miralles (10:32):
And you know what, I wasn't skipping over you.
Because Trey had expressed thathe was going to and he wanted
to, and you know, but I just,you know, again, I don't want to
force anybody to do anything.
But you know, I remember so wewere at Bernado. Wherever nado,
right, and everyone's doingtheir thing, and we're just
getting ready. And, you know,then I, then we lost contact for
(10:54):
a little bit. And, you know, Idefinitely thanked you guys, you
know, for for your support. Butthen I started doing my thing.
And then all of a sudden, itsays, Brandon Martin guy doing
in his garage? The heck, there'sno lights out. It's dark. I can
hardly see his face. Wait aminute, let me listen to this
(11:16):
thing, man. Always talking aboutman I just did. Was it just a
mile or something? It wasn'teven a mile. Now. Now, tell me
about your first few walks. Andwhen you started Facebooking to
the world? Not for attention.
But for accountability. Maybe orwhy? Why did you share?
Brandon Martin (11:38):
It was all accountability. But I wanted
other people to to know thatthey're not alone. Right?
Because what I think so. AndI've learned this later, right?
But 75% of people are obese oroverweight in the United States.
Yes. Think it's okay. And thenthe media tells us it's okay.
(11:59):
And we almost kind of shamepeople that are in shape, to
some extent, versus, versusfolks that are overweight. But
the reality is, it's okay toexercise, it's okay to take the
first step so that I'm like,Well, I'm going to something I
want to do I want to be more outthere anyway. I'm not going to
(12:21):
be ashamed of who I am anymore.
I'm actually proud of who I am.
Yes. acheiving. And so I'm gonnalet the world know, Facebook, or
any sort of social media can beyour platform to tell your
story. And it's no one else'sjob to tell you, you can't use
(12:42):
that platform to tell thatstory. So I started making
videos and documenting and itwas not easy. Those first few
arcs. Like I said, on FacebookLive I walked six miles, the
entire month of May. Yes. Almostthat every day today.
Jay Miralles (13:01):
And that crazy.
Six miles in the month of May.
Did you ever think like, youknow, I don't really need to do
this. I'm fine. I'm better thanI was. That was there was
there's that voice right backhere going? You're okay, man.
You don't need to do this.
Brandon Martin (13:17):
Yeah, well, absolutely. Yeah. And then and
then But then you get back onthe horse. And you're like,
Yeah, I do got to do this. I dohave to exercise. You now. And
then June carried on and it justwas kind of sporadic. I think I
did eight out of the first 15days. And then from the 15th to
July 16. My friend got married Iexercise every day. And then
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coming back from his wedding. Igot sick, it was out from for
nine days, but then I'veexercised everyday sense. Yeah,
I look back at May all the time,because that is the first 30 to
45 days or when people go backto that habit. And yes, I wanted
to go back to that habit Iwanted to have my diet even
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stayed pretty poor.
Jay Miralles (14:08):
Yeah, but you're you thought in your mind because
you're moving you're gonna getbetter,
Brandon Martin (14:12):
correct? Yeah.
Yeah, so the weight lossactually started. You know, I
think the first five pounds cameoff pretty easy. The next few
you know, he had the you had tochange other things, you know,
and the diet did start to changea little bit, you know,
eliminating fast food or insteadof it being three or four or
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five times a week situation, itwas a once or twice a week,
situation before and now it'snow.
Jay Miralles (14:43):
I mean, Brandon, you may not know this and you'll
look back or you may know thisnow, but when I look at my
journey and journey of others,people think there's a magic
pill or magic program or somekind of membership that you can
get and because you pump ironore you do Do extreme tactics
(15:04):
that get you, you know, in shaperight and some people do 75 Hard
some people do orange theorysome people do whatever fitness
program, right, but let's notunderestimate the power of just
moving your butt. Just moving.
That's all you're doing waswalking because you couldn't run
yet right?
Brandon Martin (15:26):
I could not run at that particular time and even
there is a time in June where Igot shins glance, and I felt
like I thought like it's over.
Like I'm too big. I've I'veallowed my legs to get too weak,
and my body to become too bigthat my legs can't handle it. So
that was a big mental mentalpart as well. But absolutely,
(15:47):
yeah, I mean, you got a mentalblock to get through and, and
you all you have to do is startmoving. And don't stop. I hate
to use Forrest Gump as anexample. He just kept running.
Just move just move. That's it?
Jay Miralles (16:05):
Yes. I remember. I think one of our first
conversations or maybe a text Iwas like, bro, do you have a
knee issue or because you know,because I was watching your, you
are documenting it very well.
And I can tell by your, yourgait or the way you were walking
that there was kind of a, youknow, an issue with either
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balancing the knee or something?
I don't know. I mean, was thatdid you have an injury or
something like that?
Brandon Martin (16:34):
Sure. Yeah. So I've hurt both my knees. I have
like a quarter of the cartilagethat I should have in both my my
left and my right knee. So yeah,I've struggled through some knee
pain a little bit. And I'vestruggled through some back
pain. As my stomach has gottensmaller. That's completely went
(16:56):
away. But isn't that crazy? Andto fight through it? Yes, you
did. Like, you know, a littleback pain. I'm gonna fight
through that to get one I wantto be and it's worth, even if I
hurt my back. I still I'm notgonna get anywhere if I don't
move.
Jay Miralles (17:14):
So that's true.
Yeah, you can hurt your backsitting down. You can hurt your
back. I mean, sitting down asnew smoking. But so so now
you're moving. You're crushingit, man. You are. You're
professing to others that hey,you can do this too. Your talks
aren't all about health. They'reabout financial wellness.
They're about introspect.
(17:37):
They're about insight. And I canhear the little voice in your
head say, oh, cares what anybodythinks. I can hear that row. Who
cares? what anybody thinks?
Right? Right. Have you missedyet? A morning of recording in
the last 30 days?
Brandon Martin (18:01):
Yeah, I have recorded I've posted something
every day. Sometimes I just postmy stats on Yes. Never. And show
what I've done just to kind ofkeep going. But yeah, I've
certainly missed some daysrecording. Sure. But ever,
everybody's got to know thatthey can do it. Everybody's got
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to know that someone's beenthere with them. You know what I
mean? Mike, I just thinkthere's, there's there's this
mental block that stoppingeveryone for whatever reason,
but all it really isn't, is anexcuse, right? All these little
excuses as to why we can't dothis, why we can't do that, you
know, the kids or, or whatever.
But you have to make time foryourself. Because if you can't
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take care of yourself, you can'ttake care of your kids to the to
the best of your ability. Iagree.
Jay Miralles (18:55):
Yeah, I mean, work. Absolutely.
Brandon Martin (18:59):
It starts it starts right here. It starts
right in the heart and, and andwith the mentality that hey, I
have to do this. I have to takecare of me because beyond that,
I can't take care of anyone elseif I'm not operating at 100%.
Jay Miralles (19:17):
Can I ask and if it's too personal to share, we
can save it for later but howmuch weight have you lost?
Brandon Martin (19:24):
Yeah, so on the sixth So on October 4, I
documented my waist measurementand I'm working with my brother
Tyler on my diet to kind of honein on it and the 20th I'll have
an update. So as of October 4, Iwas 202.8 pounds, which
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obviously is down from 240. Ishould start with a one come
Friday when I when I documentthat my waist circumference was
48 or 49. It was 4048 inches theweek before that wedding I told
you about on July 8 or nine. Mywaist was 48 inches, and it's
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down to 4140 or 41 inches atthis point. That's great. So
yeah, you can do a lot. What'scrazy about the human body is 20
years worth of abuse, you canturn around in 12 bots, if, if
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you want,
Jay Miralles (20:31):
if you want to, that's just it. How many people
have said to you? Oh, Brandon,that's good. I would, but I
would start, you know, I'm goingto start next month. You know,
what, January 1 2023? is goingto be my year. You know what I
would do? I'll start thosetomorrow. Brandon. Have you
heard those statements frompeople? Yeah. I'm not hating on
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them. But that's not you
Brandon Martin (20:55):
know, but that was me. But that's not me today,
that's not Brandon Martin here,as we dip, you know, in the
middle of October of 2022. Butit was Brandon in April of 2022.
And prior, so you just have tomake a decision to move forward.
Like and I would encourageanyone, like, seek seek help,
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like, follow people. Likethere's a ton of people that
shoot me messages here andthere. Yeah, more messages than
I've ever gotten before. Aboutpeople like keep going, man,
like keep keep doing this. I Iimagine like you hit exercise, I
think 85 days in a row, or maybetomorrow is 85, something like
that. But I think once you hitlike, milestones like 100 I feel
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like everybody's gonna be youknow, I'll get a lot of messages
that day, I guess those types?
Yes, sir.
Jay Miralles (21:49):
Yes, you will. You absolutely will. So I'm going to
ask you now, a series ofquestions. And let's keep it at
short bursts. So here's what I'mgonna ask you. What books are
you reading right now?
Brandon Martin (22:00):
So I just finished you. Oh, you by Eric
Thomas. And I recommend it foranyone. Cash, what is the book?
Hold on? I just started atomichabits. Yes. I just started
that. And then the little goldenbook of the Yes, attitude? is
(22:20):
another one or little yellowbook. I can't remember for sure.
Sure. Sure. And then the powerof one more is right on my list
as well.
Jay Miralles (22:29):
So that's awesome.
That's awesome. Tell me. Tell mewhich one of those were your
favorites? And or which one didyou really enjoy? Maybe not your
favorites? Or what did you enjoyabout one of those books? What
what spoke to you?
Brandon Martin (22:40):
Well, Eric Thomas is the first book that
I've actually read. So I readone other book that was 10 years
ago, but in high school, Ididn't read books. But you Oh,
you is very inspirational. AndI'll tell you this, he went
homeless at 16 in the very firstchapter, because he found out
his father wasn't his biologicalfather, as that resonated with
(23:04):
me right away. Yes. But thatthat book, I'd recommend 100
times over and I'm gonna letother people borrow it and and
I'll even I'll purchase it forsomeone if they want. That's
Jay Miralles (23:15):
awesome, bro.
That's, I mean, hey, listen,that's paying it forward. Right?
Because you're, you're buildingyourself up and you want to
share the joy. All right. So ifI pick up your cell phone, and I
look in the podcast section,what podcasts might be on there?
Do you listen to podcasts? Or doyou listen to YouTube snippets
of people? Yeah, I
Brandon Martin (23:34):
listen to podcasts. I actually had a
plumber here at my house. He's afriend of cornerback. He is a
teammate of mine. And we justgot to talk in about podcasts
and, and how he listens topodcasts and invest in real
estate and stuff. I'm like, I'mgonna start listening and
started with motivational stuff.
I listened to Bradley. He's abusiness guy. But I resonate
(23:55):
with him a lot. But right now,I've been into the money
advantage, which talks aboutInfinite Banking and the family
banking structure. And I loveit. I could listen to it all day
every day. I listened to it forhours
Jay Miralles (24:11):
before awesome. So when you get bored do you get
bored lately? What do you do tofill time? You know? I mean, do
you totally unplugged? Are youdo you find yourself even bored
lately?
Brandon Martin (24:27):
I really don't.
My day is pretty structured. I'mup every day at four o'clock. In
like Saturday, the football gameran a little late, right? So
yeah, so I've been eating on theweekends. I don't negotiate with
myself and my day is fairlystructured. I tried to kill it
with marketing ideas work andreading or exercise
Jay Miralles (24:55):
this endless.
That's awesome. So is there amantra I usually play over and
over in your head, you know,something that you're just like,
bro, I need to say this tomyself and everybody watch out.
What is
Brandon Martin (25:11):
that there isn't really a mantra per se, but I
will say this. Every time Ifinished my workout in the
morning and it's dark. Iremember that scene in Rocky
when he's running up the stairsand he raises his hands. Yes, I
do that every time I come intomy driveway as I finish up,
because I know that this isthis, I'm just training for the
(25:33):
fight, right? So I'm notanywhere near where I want to
be. I'm not the champion. I'mnot fighting, you know, the
greatest fighter in the worldyet, but I'm training to get
there. And I'm training hard.
And I know that the littlehabits today are going to create
a champion in the future.
Jay Miralles (25:54):
So I'll give you a little bit of advice there. You
actually win like a championevery day that you beat who you
were yesterday. That's a win.
That's a champion, a championdoes not need a trophy. There
are champions in this world thatdon't have trophy cases, they
don't really care for metals,they don't care for titles, they
don't do anything. They just winfrom the person they were
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yesterday. So I want to I wantto get really want to slow down
the conversation for a second, Iwant you to think before you
answer this. Okay. I want you totake me back to sic Brandon. May
2, right. fit up, Brandon, Iwant you to talk to him right
now. What would you say to sickBrandon. today? If you can go
back and say, bro, fill in theworks.
Brandon Martin (26:46):
Bro, it doesn't.
It doesn't matter what you didyesterday, it doesn't matter
what he did in 2021. It doesn'tmatter what he did in 2015. It
doesn't matter what he did in2001. It matters where you go
from here. So you got to takethat first step forward. You
take that first step, it startsanother step. You can't walk up
the cases, case stairs withouttaking the first step, right. So
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just take that first step anddon't look back.
Jay Miralles (27:16):
Man you that's, that's pretty insightful, right?
That's people hang their hat on.
like, Yo, you remember that oneyear I did this? And, you know,
at least I am or I just want tobe realistic. And you know,
you're telling yourself, man,like it doesn't matter what you
did in 2021. No one cares, bro.
It doesn't matter what you didin 2015. Nobody cares.
Brandon Martin (27:39):
Right? I mean, Tom Brady doesn't care that he
wants six Super Bowls. He wantsto win the Super Bowl this year.
Right? People remember? Yes. Allright.
Jay Miralles (27:50):
So so here's what I want to ask you next. You told
me October 20? Is it? Do youhave a year goal? Is that Is
there a date set from the datethat you went? Or is there a
year goal? Do you have a milemarker on a year?
Brandon Martin (28:06):
So I do but I wanted to be under I turned 42
on November for I wanted to beunder 200 pounds by then. And I
want to be at 170 by May 2 2023.
About 170 is when my when my BMIwill be an abnormal range?
Jay Miralles (28:28):
Absolutely. So let's go forward. Let's go
forward to did you say May 2 Isthat right? Yep. Let's go to May
2 23 are in a time machine row.
And you gotta visualize rightnow you weigh 170 Right now you
are your BMI is even better thanwhat you thought you're probably
started resistance training bythen and everything and what are
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what is Brandon Martin saying tohimself that morning when he
gets up at four o'clock in themorning
Brandon Martin (29:01):
is probably saying you gotta get better get
1% better today as well. Youknow what I mean? Keep moving
forward. Don't look back and andkeep progressing.
Jay Miralles (29:13):
I mean, it's important to recognize your
milestones, right? And I lookforward to that day for you,
bro. I won't let you slip man ii can tell you that. I get
excited when people facethemselves because it's really
easy to say you know, I workwith this guy. And then all he
does is eat junk food and man Iended up eating junk food or
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hey, I hang out with thesepeople. All they do is end up
drinking knowledge right nowlisten, I'm not chastising, but
I'm just telling you. You arewho you hang around. Has your
circle morphed. Has your havesome people said to you like
Cobra, not for me. You knowbecause I know you stopped
drinking. Is that right? Mostly?
Is that right? Like have youstopped drinking for Wow.
Brandon Martin (30:00):
Yeah, the only the only today I've had alcohol
to this point was that weddingsince May 2. So there Yeah, I
completely cut it out. And Ifeel feel amazing. So yeah, my
circle has changed both bydesign and maybe by other
people's design as well, as we.
And that's not to say we don'tlike each other we don't like,
(30:22):
but you know, we'll, we'll chator whatever, but but my circle
is very valuable to me and mypersonal life is valuable,
valuable to me. So who's in thatcircle? It has just morphed a
little bit to who I am todayversus who I was in the past.
(30:44):
And, and I've had a lot offriends that I've had
friendships for 20 some years,and they're still friends. And
some of them are in that circle.
And some are marked quiet inthat circle. But I still love
them and still care about them.
Jay Miralles (30:57):
Absolutely. But you've also prioritize the
things that are important toyou. And sometimes that doesn't
cut people out. But it alsodoesn't make an easy inclusion
to say, Hey, let's go do thesame things we used to do
together, right. And sometimespeople are uncomfortable with
change, and some people areuncomfortable with people around
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them getting better. Right?
Yeah, I've experienced that.
Brandon Martin (31:24):
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, there's a lot of folksthat they they want to live the
same way, right? They don't wantto change, they want to be
uncomfortable. They bitch andmoan a little bit about being
overweight and obese, but theywon't do anything about it. So I
had to, to me, to me, it allcame down to the negativity,
(31:45):
right. So if there's any sort ofnegativity, I gotta try to
suppress that as much aspossible, and add positive vibes
to the circle. And that's what Istrive for on the daily.
Jay Miralles (32:02):
And how is this translated into your business?
What is it done for you and yourbusiness man? Like, you know, as
I help you perform better has itmade you start crushing and
slaying it? Like,
Brandon Martin (32:13):
yeah, no, I do perform better on a day to day
basis, I'm more focused, my, mymental preparation for the day
is 100%. I hang around with agreat crew of folks that that
are that are really, really goodpeople. And, and I don't hang
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out with any negative or, orwill allow any negativity to
come into, into into the officespace really like business
partners, or otherwise, like,negativity just affects me a
different way. It's just, youwant to be negative, that's
cool. But it's not going tochange. It's not going to ruin
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my day. And believe me, it usedto ruin my day.
Jay Miralles (33:01):
Yeah, because you can occupy people can rent space
in your head for free. And youcan complain, and I've been kind
of on this journey to where it'seasy for me to complain and get
in that loop and say, or condemnor, or or compare or chastise.
And you know, that's, that'sjust in my composite right
(33:23):
comparison and, but I'veconsciously made an effort to
when it starts, I just know thatI can't do anything about that.
And, and let's be honest, likewe all love to be loved. We all
want to be wanted, we all wantto be included. But I need
everyone to understand this.
It's okay. If you're not. It'sokay. If you're not included.
(33:44):
Yeah, man, how many times did weseek that when we weren't good
enough for ourselves that weneeded to find acceptance
through other people'spermission, bro,
Brandon Martin (33:55):
we would write and then we would we would if we
if we felt we weren't includedwith with X person, we would go
find why person to do the samethings that they were doing,
even though quite honestly, Ithink God was kind of leading me
down a path to go a differentway. But I kept gravitating
towards a the Negativelifestyle. Right? Yeah, it's
(34:19):
easily either lead me to 240 andhe's like, go this way, go this
way. And we do that with veeroff the wrong way. And then for
whatever reason, it clicks atsome point.
Jay Miralles (34:30):
Yeah, man, I, it's, I need people to
understand like it's it's noteasy to catch my attention.
Right. I'm I'm so pointed atwhat I'm doing. I'm so stubborn.
And I'm so just I'm just goingright, right. And if you're
standing still, I'm probablyjust going to run by and I don't
mean like be better than I'mjust, I'm so focused, but when
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when someone like you capturesmy attention. I'm not trying to
tell you I'm holier than thouand if I see you that you're
great. I'm saying you You're oneof the people that I say, Okay,
let me see what he's doingtoday, because I've called you a
couple of times, right? Hey,Brandon, need to recharge,
right? I've called you about,what do I say? What did I say to
you on that one call?
Brandon Martin (35:11):
Like, yeah, well, I mean, you're just you're
having a rough day or whatever.
And you needed a little pick meup and wanted just a little bit
of advice. Not even reallyadvice, but like, hey, what,
what should I do? I've beenstruggling. And I don't know if
you told anyone about whatyou're gonna do. You know, I'm
sure that that, you know, butthat's a whole nother thing. But
(35:36):
you know that, that is somethingthat you can struggle with, you
know, on whether or not youshould do something or not do
something or what have you. And,and but, yes, sometimes
everybody needs to pick me up.
At some point, everyone needssomeone they can call. So I
mean, like, you and I have justbecome fairly close in the last
(35:58):
few months. Sometimes we needsomeone that we've known for 20
years, and sometimes we needsomeone that we've known for a
few months, but it can still beequally effective, depending on
the situation.
Jay Miralles (36:15):
The authentic, the authenticity, the alignment, the
behavior. You didn't have tosay, oh, Jay, I like keto too.
We're best friends. Like wedidn't do that. Right. That's
that's not what we're doing. Oh,you like to walk me to I mean,
it our lives just kind of met ina place that we're in the same
journey right now. And there'sno effort for me to say, Hey,
(36:39):
I'm gonna one up Brandon, mygoal in 40 more minutes, and he
does that. That's not it, youinspire me to go further to push
me further. I feel like walkingthree times a week is inadequate
at this point, you know, rockingthree times a week, but I'll
tell you this. I want to kind ofland this here. But you made a
(37:01):
commitment. Right? And I'm goingto put you on the spot. Why are
you walking the 50 mile Marchnext year? What Why? Why are you
doing it? I mean, there's awhole lot of different reasons
people do it. But why is BrandonMartin choose to participate his
time his effort is treasures,talents.
Brandon Martin (37:19):
Why? Share? i i First of all, I think when you
started the 50 mile march, Iheard about it. I looked at it a
little bit. I followed you alot. I mean, that video the very
first one, right? Yeah, yes. Andso I followed it, I knew about
it. I have veterans in myfamily. My mom's husband served
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in the Navy, and they're verycognizant of, of military
efforts. And they always try togive to those sorts of things.
I've helped a ton of veteranswith mortgages. My my home base,
and when I started doingmortgages was in Bellevue. So I
am, I feel close to veteransanyway, and how you've grown
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this particular event is, isremarkable. So it means it means
a lot to me, that that, thatsomeone puts a lot of effort and
your your heart and soul goesinto it. And every bit about it
makes me want my heart and soulto go into that event, just so
(38:27):
you succeed. And so I can't waitto be a part of that as well.
It's exciting to think about,
Jay Miralles (38:36):
Thanks, brother, I, I'll share with you and then
you know, we'll end it here. Butyou know, most people only live
40% of their capacity in life.
People live 40% of theircapacity, they're comfortable.
They if food in food out,punching the clock punch out
routine, they make money to paybills to buy stuff, to pay
(38:59):
bills, to make money to buystuff to pay bills to make money
to buy stuff, right and that'sokay. Again, not not judging,
but I'm saying you obviouslywant more, but I want you to
learn this now. You're going tomeet 80% of your capacity,
probably in the 19th or the 18thhour, by the 20 of our you will
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meet probably 90% of yourcapacity of physical as well as
mental. And I want to tell youthat I can't wait to see you hit
that wall and break through thatbecause it breaks everyone I
don't care how great you are.
(39:44):
People, some people articulatetheir pain. Some people keep it
in, but man I know. I know bythe walking pattern. I know by
the tone of voice. I can seetears sometimes. I can see us
suffering. And man, oh man, thebest part of the march for me is
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the last 50 yards. The last 50yards, we're talking half a
football field. And I visualizethis, I play this out. Usually
I'm in the back, probably 100yards out making sure that the
back stays pretty, pretty tight,the pack stays tight or the
squad stays stays tight. Then Ithen I walk around to the front
(40:29):
the last 50 miles, and I lookback and I watch their faces.
And then the last five yards, Imake sure that I fall out of
formation. And then I walk tothe back. And I let everyone
pass me as a high five them andon the way in. And the energy
that I get from every marcherfrom every Rucker from every
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Walker is probably the highestI've ever been in my entire
life. And that is where you meetfriends. That is where you meet
allies. And that's where youmeet comrades. And that's where
you meet Ride or Die people,right? That's when you know,
when life's circle is hard,maybe not all of them. But for
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the most part, that's your squadfor life, man. That's what I
want to prepare you for bro. Ican't wait to frickin high five
you shake your hand. Can't waitto tell you put your chin up.
Like bro, it's it's like noother, but I can assure you mile
to two mile 49 sucks.
Brandon Martin (41:38):
You can definitely see the camaraderie
of the group this year. Like Imean it was and you can tell
like they are to some extentbonded in some way for life.
Whether I know you put them inin groups or whatever.
Definitely. Yep. Yeah. Thosesquads are their brothers and
(42:01):
sisters for life. Sure, yes.
Jay Miralles (42:04):
Yes. And you know, often people say I never served
Hey, man, now's your chance.
See, people serve in differentways. You know, and some people
who served the military servesandwiches or they served
missiles, it doesn't matter.
Right. The Americans who servedfrom here paid taxes to give us
the equipment supported us whenwe came back home. And that's a
(42:27):
way to serve, too. But this forme, is probably the best therapy
that I could ever give myself.
Because I know what it's like tobe home and secure. I know what
it's like to sleep on people'scouches and be less than, and I
know what it's like to, to writeletters to say goodbye to
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people. Yeah, that's somethingI'm proud of. But it's something
that I need people to know. Talkto somebody, have a
conversation. Becauseconversations can save a
suicide. conversations caninspire someone to lose 20
pounds conversations can makethe exiled field included.
(43:10):
conversations can open up. Ididn't say shouting. I said
talking. It's okay. If Idisagree with people. I love to
disagree with my friends in away that is very respectful. If
they are x affiliation, or yaffiliation, or Z affiliation
(43:32):
doesn't matter to me, because Idon't need to argue my point. I
know what I believe in. I knowthey believe in something too.
Right. And that's good. Andthat's good because
confrontation is good conflictis bad. And that's delayed
confrontation. But is thereanything else Brandon that you
want people to know man aboutyou bro like anything you want
(43:53):
to part with this audience andsay drop a nugget or something
or just leave with some, someharsh some hard words.
Brandon Martin (44:02):
I just want to I want to reiterate kind of what
you were just saying that we areall individuals and we all have
a right to our own minds and ourown thoughts and our own free
thinking. And that's what makesus beautiful. That's what makes
us individuals. But if you'restruggling with something reach
(44:23):
out, I mean, I'll talk to anyoneabout anything I'll talk to you
via messenger. I'll talk to youvia text. I'll talk to you on
the telephone, I'll meet up withyou and have coffee, I'll meet
up with you for lunch. I don'treally care anytime, anywhere.
If I'm available, which I am 90%of the time you can text me or
(44:43):
something like that. Outside ofsleeping but if you if you want
to better yourself if you wantto live a healthy lifestyle. If
you're down in the dumps andthing no one really cares about
you like someone does. I'mtelling you someone cares,
someone It wants you to bearound. Someone wants you to be
(45:03):
healthy. Someone does. And if,if you're if you want that
someone to know reach out to, toany of us and we'll help, I'll
help. I know you would helpanyone, you'd give the shirt off
your back for anyone. But Ithink it's important to know
like, yeah, we we try to live ahealthy lifestyle to save
(45:26):
ourselves. But we're here tohelp other people do the same
thing. And it a lot of it's uphere. Everything we do is
between the years and it is aphysical thing we're dealing but
we got to fight the mentalbattle every day.
Jay Miralles (45:41):
Well, Brandon Martin, I want to thank you for
being on and I'll leave you onebit of advice. And I know you're
a selfless guy. I want you toknow this. Don't treat your
customers better than you wouldtreat yourself because that is a
is a is a fallacy that we allfall into. And I know you serve
others, Brandon, I know you'regenerous. I know that you're
giving right? But as you cansee, the May 2 Brandon to the
(46:08):
October, October 19th. Brandon,this October 19. Brandon is able
to give more now able to givefurther now able to give even
more now of of your time, yourtalent and your treasure. How's
that make you feel man?
Brandon Martin (46:27):
Makes me feel great. It really does. Like I
value my relationships more Ican give more to my
relationships. I can give moreto work. I can give more to my
clients, like you said, becauseI've given more to myself.
Jay Miralles (46:44):
Man, I love this episode. I hope people smash
that like button so hard thatthey correct your screen man.
Share this. Get to know BrandonMartin. I'll put all of his
contact info in the show notes.
You're the real deal dude out.
I'm not high on you, Brandon, Ibelieve in you. I'm not high on
you. There's a difference,right? I believe in you. You're
(47:06):
inspirational. You're one of thepeople that are considered to be
in the circle. You're just anauthentic guy, and by the ways
great business person. Andthat's all I can really sum this
up to is do life and connectwith good people. Brandon
Martin, thanks for being on theconnection today.
Brandon Martin (47:24):
Hey, thanks for having me. I know you can have
1000 people on here. I'm luckyto be one of them, and I really
appreciate it. Thanks, Brandon.
Thanks, Jay.
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