June 12, 2025 • 50 mins
Today on the podcast, Chance is joined by Blake Whtiing. Blake and Chance are very close WATT brothers and this will be fun and exciting conversation between the two of them. Keep an eye out for more episodes with more WATT members coming very soon!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, and welcome to the We Are the Day Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I am your host, Jimmy Rex, the founder and CEO
of We Are the They, and this podcast has been
specifically designed for you to get to know on a
deeper level the members of this community. What makes us
so special, why are these relationships so thick? And really
what is going on at these events? What are these
members experiencing, how do they grow? Why are they so
committed to this cause? And so, as you're listening to
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this program, if you have interest, check us out on
whatmovement dot com. And with that, let's get to today's episode.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Welcome back to the We Are the Day Podcast. Today
we have Blake sitting in with us. What's up, Blake?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
How are we doing?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Doing good? A little tired? We'll show it a slip blast,
but we'll have to face those consequences now.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, absolutely, Blake.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We want to keep some fashion here and just ask
how did you find out about why? How did you
find out about Jimmy Rex? And what made you intrigue
to get into the program.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That is a great question. Anything it where to start?
So I learned about Jimmy from Limitless the first year
he did. I think it was twenty twenty three or
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think it was twenty three. It's crazy to think of.
And I learned about I met Jimmy and I met
Pace the same time, and I looked at what I
was doing in my career, and I wanted to be
doing creative fight at stuff. So I got drawn to
Pace and what he was doing and essentially what it
ends up happing. Right after Limitless, I joined that sub
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two community. I started doing some deals in there, and
I noticed kind of a pattern in myself where every
time I got closer to the success I was looking for,
I kept self sabotaging myself. I kept feeling unworthy, and
I kept beating the crap out of my like just
stop myself from progress. So I'd remembered the pitch Jimmy
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put out for his group lot from Limitless and basically
just felt, well, I don't remember how it happened exactly,
but I had signed up for his marketing campaign. I
think I sat on it for a year or so,
and then LG five opened up, and if I recall correctly,
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like he sends to me mails out, I sent a
video in and then like three days later, I get
a call or says Jimmy Rex. I'm like, this is odd,
and I have this conversation with him, and I'm someone
who if we're gonna look at like Masswow's hierarchy of needs,
I'm definitely in like the security or even below it.
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And I'm just constantly like worried about the next paycheck,
and I'm worried about not disappointing people, and just I'm
very much of people pleaser. And I've talked with Jimmy
and I'm looking at kind of the stuff that I'm
carrying out, like the the heavy stuff that's on my
heart that I we won't talk about in this podcast.
And as I'm talking with Jimmy, I'm like, I know
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that if I can be part of that kind of group,
I'm going to be able to let go of the
stuff that I've been caring for years, and I'm going
to be able to embrace the man I know I
could always become. And Jimmy just wouldn't take any of
my shit. He wouldn't take any of my excuses. He
basically said, like, dude, this is exactly what you're trying
to do, Like this is going to help with everything
you're trying to you just have to figure out the
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money and the way I did that. Sorry, Dad, I
had a loan from a family member that was to
buy a vehicle. I'd bought this vehicle, and I'd sold
this vehicle, and now I just had twenty thousand dollars
sitting in cash liquid underneath my mattress. And they say,
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you can kind of tell how people like, what kind
of person someone is by the way they spend their
money or other people's money. And I use that money
to join what even knowing I didn't necessarily have a
way to repay it, because if I did that, I
would figure out what I need to build my business
and build myself, and that, even if I didn't have
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a good way to explain it at the moment, the
explanation to be there down the road regardless. Do that
kind of makes sense.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What's the cooler story to tell?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's cool?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I like, like Alex Hermosi says it a lot. It's like,
is the cooler story to pay the person back or
to take a risk on yourself?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And so yeah, that's just been me, Like I've taken
a lot of risks getting to where I'm at like
I've been kind of obsessed with getting around the right
people since I was nineteen, Like I just saw what
proximity could bring people. I worked for Facebook and Microsoft
as an eighteen year old, traveling across the country. When
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I got home from my LDS mission, I saw people
driving supercars in door to door sales, and I was
just I wanted to be around just that higher world,
at a different kind of world where people were thinking
more than just trying to cover the power build next month.
And in pretty much everything I did, I just kept
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taking a risk to try it again. And I had family,
I had friends, I had people just be like, what
the hell is wrong with you? You're gonna go knock
knock doors to sell solar in California? Like, yeah, I gain.
Every decision I look at I've made in my career,
like in my adult life, has been me taking a
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risk and a bet on myself knowing it would pay
off in the long run. And I know kind of
over the last nine years, it's all started starting to
it's all starting to make sense. And I don't know
if it's like we're getting into it too early, but
that brush with death, I had the other day almost
drowning in Hawaii. That kind of kind of it all
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makes sense. Okay, man, there's a lot. Okay, I get
I'll get into that, but I'm gonna go I'm gonna
step back a little farther before I do that. So,
even joy, even joining pace more resub two group, there's
still been a lot of ways I've just been kind
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of letting fear paralyze me. I've been letting my ego
stop me from asking for help. I've felt unworthy of
getting the help, or I just wouldn't reach out when
I needed to, and I avoided doing deals I felt
I didn't know how to do, or that I need
help on because I just didn't want to feel dumb.
So six weeks two months ago, something along those lines,
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I got a phone call that made me have to
decide what kind of person I wanted to be. I
got this phone call from my father in law saying, hey,
I rent this house. I have a contract with the
owner to purchase it, but I let it expire and
I don't know what's going on, but in eight days,
the bank's going to take the house and they're going
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to kick us out. Ninety days after it's like, can
you do something? And at that point, like I'd never
purchased a house myself. I'd only own the me and
my me and my wife's house we live in now.
I didn't own any rental properties, and I sure as
hell didn't know how to close like a deal of
eight days. But I reached out to my network. I
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reached out to everybody I knew, and was blown away
how many people wanted to help me, how many people
were willing to load me money to purchase properties, and
just how many resources I had just kind of sit
in my back pocket that I wasn't using. And through
that I learned that it's a lot better to have
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a slice of a watermelon than it is just just
keep trying to survive off one grape at a time.
Because me and the partner on that deal, we had
a lot of risks on it, but we got it done.
We literally we stopped the auction like an hour after
it had already sold, like we got it reversed. There's
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so many different emotions that went through my brain just
feeling that. But because of that, because because we closed
with that property, we help this homeowner save her equity,
and the deal we were going to be building back
her credit because the way we acquired it. And additionally,
my in laws are purchasing the property that they would
have been kicked out of otherwise, and they're going to
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have more equity in their house than I have in mind.
So it's it was amazing scene that happened that just
kind of opened me up to how far below my
potential I was living, and then to Hawaii kind of
where this ties in. I have never been good at
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acknowledging that I'm mortal. I ride motorcycles like a maniac,
I race cars like I just do stupid stuff, and
I really have not had to face the consequences of
my actions very many times in my life. I typically
just do something stupid. I'm smart enough to get away
with it and never learn the lesson that I'm probably
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supposed to. And what happened in Hawaii is I went
out and was storkling with my brother. We were spearfishing,
and we've been on this beach for three days. The
first day we were there, I told everybody, like, you
guys need to be really careful going out here. There's
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a nasty rip current. It's probably going to drown somebody
if it gets ahold of them, and if you don't
know what you're doing in the water, like someone's gonna
die here. That's what I said on day one. Day
two went fine. Day one went fine. Day threes where
things get interesting. Me and my brother, my dad, both
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my brother and my cousin Austin. We all went out
on this boat deep sea fishing in the morning. We
were out on this boat for six or seven hours.
I got super seasick, and we didn't catch any fish.
So it was a little bit of a bummer. Yeah,
but we decide afterwards we're going to go do some
spearfishing afterwards and some historically on this beach on north
shore near the YMCA camp earned my campus on Oahu.
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And while we're there, I go pop the trunk and
look in the back and the pair of diving fins
I've been using the past few days aren't in there.
Somebody else is using them, and the ones that I
wanted to use were in the other vehicle that was
an hour away for me. I'm I'm still kind of
feeling seasick, I'm feeling kind of gross. I'm like, if
I get in the water, I'm gonna feel much better.
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So I'm just gonna use these old fins that we
have that are not meant for these kind of conditions,
and I'll just use them and stay in the shallop.
I'll stay in the I'll stay close to shore, and
I won't go out and do anything crazy until my
actual good gear gets here. And what immediately did is
I went out as far to the edge of the
reef as I could, and I was a complete idiot
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and was not paying attention to all the different warnings
I got from picking up these fins. I saw, there's
a zip tie holding one set of the like the
the strap together, and yeah, I'll be okay. Five seconds
in the water, that zip tie breaks, and I rigged
it to make them still work because I was just
impatient and stupid and I'm like, I'll be fine, and
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I kept like in the water, I kept being feeling
like I really need to be careful and just I
don't have nearly as much power kicking with these because
they were half as long, not as wide, and like,
just it took a lot more effort for me to
get moving in the water with them, and I kept
kind of feeling like I something felt wrong. I kept
ignoring it. I went out when my brother he went
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down and speared this fish and was heading back to shore,
and I went down as try to spear fish my fins.
They kept having issues every like five or ten minutes,
and I messed with my fins. And the problem that
happens is my brother's heading back to shore now, who
had been with me the whole time, And I am
now in a place where as I'm messing with the fins,
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I were right by the edge of the reef and
I get pulled like ten to fifteen feet on this reef.
And once my fins are done, I start trying to
kick my feet to move back to where I was at.
And as I look at the ground, I realized I
couldn't make any kind of headway. I was completely staying still,
like I tried going sideways in it, and like I
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could go sideways, but I couldn't make any forward momentum.
So I just tried to kick a little harder, like
a like a forty five degree angle to the the ocean.
And when I kicked harder, both my fins fell off.
And at this point, like I'm a football heeled and
half from shore, I'm in the section where it's shallow,
so like I'm starting to get pounded by waves. I
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can barely see people on the shore because the waves
keep hitting me. And I now feel like I went
from starting to realize that I'm in danger when I
couldn't move, and once my fins fell off, it literally
was just like I'm going to die today, and I
just started to have my life flash before my eyes
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and I started like feel like my body going to shock.
And what I did at first, I was trying to
figure out how to use this spear gun to spear
the rocks ten feet away and then drag myself, and
I was trying to do everything I could just be
like I'm the man, Like I'm the guy that can
figure shit out. I'm gonna save myself, and like I
thought that for all of five seconds, and then show thereafter,
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I'm like, if I don't ask for help and beg
and scream and moan like I have zero chance of living.
So I what I did. I threw my hands up
in the air. I screamed at the top of my lungs.
Help me, I'm drowning. Help me, I'm drowning. Help me.
I'm drowning, hoping and praying that somebody at the shore
could hear me, and me knowing like there's if they
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don't hear me, Like I don't know what's going to happen,
like I have. I don't know how long I can
stay afloat, especially in these waves, and I don't know
how far it's it's going to drag me, like in
my eyes, like my only help was my only hope
was it somehow they hear me and they call helicopter
and it somehow gets there fast enough for me. That's
kind of what's going through my head. And as I
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finish up just like shouting, screaming, waving my arms, I
then just focus on folding on my back and just
conserving my momentum, well my energy. I'm just laying on
my back and I'm I'm going through my life. I'm
like I am living so far below what I'm capable of,
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Like I've been letting fear stop me from asking for help,
from partnering with people, from seizing opportunities I knew I could,
and I was one hundred percent just not satisfied with
the man I was imagining myself at a funeral with
six people carrying me, and I basically told God that moment,
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I'm like, okay, God, if you like I get it.
I push the limits. Sometimes the limits push back, and
this might be one of those things I don't get
to get out of. But if you let me get
out of this, I'm going to push with everything. I
have to trust you to follow you, to not be
paralyzed by fear. And if I get a second chance
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of life, I'm just not going to ever let fear
be be something that's not be something that prohibits me
from doing something. And miracles happened. It was It literally
couldn't have happened better. Like as I'm fullowing on my back,
just focusing on staying alive, my brother who'd had speared
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the fish, had the fish get off, was surfaced and
was like halfway between me and the shore. He heard
my scream somehow he signaled everybody on the shore like, hey,
Blake needs help, like now. And this is the same time,
like other family was getting there. My wife had just
got there on the shore, like hadn't even seen me yet.
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Now I'm drowning and she sees this kayak that wasn't
even like it was the YMCA campuses and she starts
dragging it to the shore, and my cousin, Austin Austin King,
who's in the navy, he starts running towards the car
to grab his fence to get out to me, realizes
he doesn't have him, sees my wife with the kayak
and just kind of intervenes, jumps in, grabs that in
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the paddle and starts badd on these waves to get
out to me. And I don't know if it was
three minutes. I don't know if it was five minutes
or an eternity. He kind of felt like any of them.
But he gets out there, gets over all these waves,
and when he reached when he reached down, or like
when I was able to grab one of this kayak,
you know that painting of Christ reaching down to pull
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that Peter out of the water. That's what that moment
felt like. I felt like I had my life back again.
He tells me the shore like we get there and
it's pretty heavy moment, just realizing how close I came
to dying. As I've sitting on the shore, I'm just
having all these things grow through my head where I'm like,
I don't have a life insurance policy right now as active,
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I don't know, Like there's so many things that I've
been paralyzed by fearon that I can do better out,
and I'm like, I'm going to get it figured out.
And the thing that really popped up is like there's
been things in my heart my mind for nine years
that I've been just trying to bury and ignore, and
I felt like, if I had another chance of life,
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I was going to go after And this kind of
leads into everything else that happens, which the nine year
vision I've had is this idea, this idea that popped
up in my head when I was seventeen years old.
When I was seventeen, I got shown the cat you're
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familiar with Robert Kaysetogi's CASHULALW quadrant. I'm not, oh really.
So it's essentially this little square box that has four
different letters in at e SB I employee, self employed,
business owner, investor. You're an employee, you're a self employed person,
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which all my family I knew at the time was
you account ninety percent of the population of the world
and you're fighting over ten percent of all the money
in the world. If you're a business owner, investor, You're
make up ten percent of the population and you make
you're fighting over ninety percent of the money of the world.
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And for me when I when I saw that, even
as just like a seventeen year old of Mike, this
is changing everything in my life right now. I can't
just settle to be self employed or just be like
an employee anymore. There's bigger things that I'm capable of
and I'm going to run with it. And then what
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happened right after is that was a network marketing company
that I learned that from. They did a they did
our first mindset exercise with us, let us close our
eyes as visualize what we would do if we were
given a million dollars right then, and we'd be receiving
a million dollars a year for the rest of our lives.
And what ends up happening with that is they're like, well,
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what would you do? And I hear all these people
around me, a lot of these younger like mid mid
married couples that were talking about a second house, about vacations,
like all the stuff. That's great. But for me, I'm like,
you know, this is so profound just learning this one
simple truth that I want to teach people my own
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age about this because I just know how much this
is changing my life, even though I don't know what
I'm gonna do with it yet. And not only that,
like I don't want to just start a school for rich,
snobby kids, because like frankly, like they're going to figure
it out either way if they want to. I want
to change education as a whole. I wanted to Like
from that thought, I'm like, I want to start a
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school that teaches kids how to think instead of what
to think. That's going to get them in proximity with
people that are business owners that came from their same neighborhoods,
came from their same situations and made something out out
of it. Not just that, like I don't I want
to work with the worst of the worst first, because
if you take these kids that are getting kicked out
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of school, that are stealing cars, that are selling drugs,
picking up guns, joining gangs, et cetera, if you can
get those kids to figure this out, that's going to
change generations.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I want to hit on that for a second. One
thing that you said was how to think instead of
what to think? Yeah, And I think that's so deep
because I mean the school system in general was created
by Carnegie to create factory workers, right essentially, and push
buttons and to do what to think. And I always
felt growing up in high school that I resented everything
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that went on in the whole curriculum of my school,
from sitting down and doing a math problem to writing
a paper, like I just did not want to do
it at all, because, like you said, they teach like
how to think, and like I'm like, I'm a what
to think kind of guy, you know, Like, yeah, I
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want to be like how to think, Like, teach me,
teach me the skills that I need to be able
to learn to be able to make my own decisions,
to be able to have a creativity mindset, to be
able to go and expand on that and do what
I want, because I felt like in school, like when
I was younger, I was a big chess player. I
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was like in the choir, I was like doing all
these like creative things like wanting to play music and
like draw and all these other things. And as I
went on and on and on, all of that was suppressed.
And just recently is when I've started to like open
that back up, Like I really loved playing chess. I
hadn't played chess in like five years, probably before I
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opened it back up, just because all of those creativity
aspects were so suppressed in the curriculum of school and
in the environment of being around all the jocks and
athletes and just everything like it was something that I
wanted to be too, right of, Like, like I was
an athletic kid, I was probably one of the more
popular kids in my school or whatever that looked like.
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But I wanted to be those other things too, and
there just wasn't a space for that at all whatsoever.
And so it is very nice, like of something that
that you are creating to be able to give kids
that space and that to cultivate that environment for them
to be able to learn to grow.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I love that. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, and dude, for me, it's just had. I had
the same experience in school, don't I don't remember which
teacher told me this, but I remember going from elementary school,
I was like one of the top readers in all
of the elementary school. Me and this kid Andre, I
don't remember his last name, Me Andre and this other
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kid from second grade to sixth grade. We three battled
it out who could get the most air points every year,
and like we loved reading, like there's so much creativity
and like so much just like joy of life encouraged.
And I remember the moment I got to put sent
to middle school and I'm like, wait, you guys don't
do airpoints anymore, Like I don't get a reward for reading,
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Like there's no point to this. They're like, just do
what you want. Like it was so sad, Like I
think I was reading it like a twelfth grade level
from like third or fourth grade on likewise, so it's
just hard for me to just be like I'm on
their level, but they're not on mind. And this teacher
that was starting to get to so she told me
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how the grading system worked when I was in sixth grade,
because I said, hey, my grades, like they just didn't
seem like they made sense to me. She's like, oh,
here's why in your school everything used to count evenly
across the board. In middle school and high school. The
way your grades work is eighty percent of your score.
Eighty percent of your grade is going to come from
your test course, ten percent is going to come from
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your homework. The other ten percent is going to come
from your class work. I'm a kid where I thought creatively,
and I also is like protective of my time, protective
of like what I want to do. So all I
heard in that sentence was, Okay, if I do really
good on tests and I do all the class work
I can in class, and I do all the homework
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I can in class, then I can never touch my
homework at home or never do anything at home other
than like major projects. And I could probably average like
a B average maybe a SEE average without really trying.
And that was just me, Like I wanted to fly
under the radar because I wasn't challenged. Dude, I was
so freaking born in school, Like.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I never touched a piece of homework at home.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, and if I did, like it was like on
the bus ride home. That's like how done I was
with it. Like I just want to be over and
done with this stuff. And like shout out to mister Barton,
like he's my Honors Honors English teacher, I think my
junior or senior year. He is the only person I
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had in high school that I can recall who actually
challenged me to like do better than what I was
doing because he was this I forget what happened. Like
English is, writing has always been something I wanted to like,
I enjoyed, and I accidentally got myself into an AP
class not wanting to be an AP class. I remember
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the first time I turned in an essay to him
and he's like, where's your draft? I didn't do a draft.
He's like, this is it. He's like, in my class,
you do a draft, and then you do you do
a rough draft, and then you do a final draft. Like, well,
I do want He's like, WHOA, no, you want. I'm
not grating it till you do it. What I appreciate
for him is he pushed me to be a much
better writer and just pushed me to further my education
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a way that I really never got that kind of
challenge with any other teacher. So thanks, mister Barden. I
appreciate people like you.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
No, I love that, And I had a couple of
teachers that would challenge me like that as well.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
One of one of my.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The best people in the school system for me was
my counselor actually Missus Pogue. And one thing that I
would go into her office and I was going through
some things at that time between my knee surgery and
my house burning and some other things like that.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
But yeah, for sure we god this of that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
She saw the pain that like I was going through,
but she also saw the light that I could be
and so I'm just so appreciative of that because what
we figured out that I could do is dual enroll
in college and in high school as well. And so
throughout my high school years, I would I would pull
off with like, you know, like a three point five
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GPA or like a three you know, just whatever, and
then but my senior year, I was like, I really
want to do this, Like I just want to go
into this year and prove that, like I could have
done this if I wanted to, but I just didn't.
And so my senior year, I pull off four point
zero and that was an all ap classes, all college
classes like everything like that. I was taking fifteen hours
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at the college along with my full schedule at the
high school. And so I pulled off a four point
zero that year and it was just like at the
end of the year, I was so happy with what
I did, just because I wanted it and I went
and got it, and she pushed me to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I was also dual enrolled in high school. I am,
I was just doing school work in school hours and
work and work hours? Is that dual enrolled? Right? I'm joking.
I'm making a bad joke now, I am. I work
night shifts for my dad's company, driving a truck picking
up used cooking while when I was from sixteen to
eighteen got the bills done, helped him build his business.
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So fair works out. Sorry, I just remember where we're
going with that. But my whole point of like wanting
to change education, like I have parents that say together,
I have a very stable household. I had a lot
of support growing up, a lot of amazing supportive family,
and yet like the amount of struggle I had to
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go through to build my business to where it's at today,
It's taken me nine years to get here. It's still
freaking like sucks in a lot of ways. It takes
everything out of me for it. And if that's how
much effort it took with all the right things going
for me, imagine the kid that has no support. Because again,
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these kids out here that if they're capable of stealing
a car, joining a gang, like you could look at
that as negative behavior and a lot of ways it is,
but like I want to look at the why of it.
If a kid's joining a gang, he probably doesn't have
a support group, doesn't have a support group, it doesn't
have a stable household, probably doesn't have a father figure.
It a lot of times, my kid's stealing.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
A car, like.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Probably just bored and knows he can and that's the
way to make money. I would love to see what
some of those kids could do when they just like
take the the gun out of their hand and put
the right the right people around them, put the right pen,
the right product. I'd love to see where you take
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these kids that they make money right now. They're bollers
whatever you want to call them, but they have to
look over their shoulder everywhere they go, and they got
to literally put their life on the line for the
lifestyle that have that's still not safe.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think what you're talking about right now is something
that Napoleon Hill hits on greatly. It's transmutation of energy.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Transmutation of energy.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, and so essentially what it goes into, and he
talks about it a little differently. It's in Thinking Grow Rich.
I'm sure you've read the book.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I've read it. I didn't remember that line.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
But there's a whole chapter on it. It's actually sexual transmutation,
but it's still I think it still applies in other aspects.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
We don't want that at school, but continue.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yes, But what it talks about is the energy, and
I'll actually go into it. Is sexual transmutation Napoleon Hill
talks about. Is the energy that we put into intimacy
with the opposite sex. Is that is the biggest time
that a man is creative, that they are motivated, they're passionate,
all these different things.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, can you agree?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Just look at some of my dates I've done as
a younger man. That corrects me up absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
But so there's all these different energy forces that we
have that comes out of that, right, But the most
powerful thing that a man can do in his life
is to be able to harness that energy and make
it flow into something else. So instead of giving into
the lustful temptations or something of that nature, instead we
put it into a project or we do it in
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something in our work, and so that it creates all
the flow, the energy, the creativity, everything that we have
in that moment. And so maybe something on a different
note of like somebody stealing a car, right, they might
get a little adrenaline rush out of it. They might
have to be creative to like get inside that car.
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They might have to be smart to know how to
get into that car. And so if you could take
that energy and transform it into something that for the good,
I think it's great. I mean people also talk about
and this is way extreme example, but Hitler being a
great leader, correct, Like if he would have used that
for good, just think about like how good of a
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leader he would have been, and how much influence that
he had. And so like we can take these two
extreme examples and we say, like one is very very
bad and one is very very good. And so if
we can get the very very bad and transform it
or transmutation of energy into the very very good, that's
when things change.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Fair enough, that makes sense. That's a long tension. But yeah,
now that's really for me, Like I just look at
like I feel like one of the things my dad
did a really good job of teaching me is that
if you see a need and you have the capacity
to fill it, do your best to fill it. And
I think for me, like I just look at all
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the things that have gone wrong and right for me,
have give me a unique ability to have a hand
in solving this problem. And for you, it's not just
like about starting one school, It's about creating schools all
across the US that are doing the same thing. And ultimately,
like just my goal is to revitalize and like turn
over the American education system as a whole, and therefore
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the world and just see how many like families and
generations that can affect.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
What are your thoughts on something like what Andrew Date's
doing with the real world.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I don't really follow Andrew hate too much. Like I
liked some of the stuff he posts. I think he's
crass and other things. But hell, I'd rather have somebody
that just I'm trying how to say this carefully. I
would rather have someone to look me in the eyes
(32:50):
and tell me, hey, I think you're a piece of shit,
then someone that speaks good graces to my face and
then talk says that behind my back, Because like I
look at the scriptures where says we shouldn't speak corrupt communications,
I think it's a lot more corrupt to mislead people,
misguide them, just kind of manipulate them in a way
(33:12):
where you're not acknowledging it. You're gas lighting people into
it than it is to just call things how you
see it, be a little bit crass with it, but
ultimately get the result you're looking for. So I think
what he's doing it's align with all of it. I
don't really know much of it, if I'm being honest,
but overall, I think it's time for men to be men,
for women to be comfortable supporting people and just being supported.
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I think all in all, we just need to focus
on personal excellence being the best kind of rebellion, kind
of like Andy Forsella talks about, and I think with
that it's just going to like if we all just
learn to step into alignment with the plans and the
blessings God has for us, it's going to be a
lot easier for us to change the world, and we're
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going to be a lot happier doing it. Because I
want to start with these because that's that I see
as like the root cause of a lot of other
problems we have in the world, and then I'd like
to go into working with people that are coming out
of the prison systems kind of in the same way,
giving them the same opportunities, maybe even have careers ready
for them that aren't just dead end. I just want
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to go after education as a whole across the board,
because there's so much knowledge in this world. There's so
much information. If we can find a way to give
it indigestible chunks to people that have never heard it before,
you know, it's just going to change everything.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
How big has faith been in this journey?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Very big? And I grew up in an household that
taught me about God, showed me about God. There's something
of my dad never told me, but I feel like
he just taught me through an example, and I really
appreciate the concept still, which is work like it all
depends on you, and pray like it all depends on God.
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He never told me that phrase, but when I heard
that phrase, I'm like, that's what my dad taught me
through his actions. I never saw him once give up
or turn and surrender in any kind of daunting situation.
And he's always been someone I've known who's who just
finds a way to solve the problem. And for me
and my own faith specifically, like I had some unique
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opportunities as a young kid, like just I had near
death experience. It's just I don't learn enough, so God
just keeps having him almost bring me home and then
puts me right back here. I wrecked a motorcycle when
I was fifteen, dirt bike on this red gravel road,
and when I went down on it, I went on
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a rock, broke both bones, dislocated my elbow. I remember
I got up for that. This is the time my
life where I was an angry little fifteen year old,
because every fifteen year old is. And I raised my
hand up to the sky and I'm like, God, why
do you hate me so much? And I was just
I think I said some profanities and might probably flipped
off the sky if I recall correctly. And I felt
(36:05):
like God just spoke to my heart and says, just look.
And I looked at where I wrecked. I looked at
how I wrecked. I went between these two different trees
that were there. I should have wrapped myself around them.
I should have been paralyzed or dead. And I felt
like God just spoke to my heart and said, I
love you so much, why do you just keep fighting
against me? And that really stuck with me. Or I
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looked at the actions I was taking, even at fifteen
like I was around a bunch of idiot kids that
we're going nowhere in life. I was dating this girl,
that this is going to be terrible. I was dating
this girl, and I thought to myself, like, man, if
that's the girl that's crying over crying over my casket
at my funeral, I'm going to be embarrassed from the
other side. So, guys, if you're out there, if you're
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dating someone and you're not dating something that you like,
if you're not comfortable dating a girl, if the girl
you're dating you're not comfortable with her crying over your casket,
just be done. It's not worth it. You never know
when you're gonna die, and that is not Oh my gosh,
I'm so glad I didn't die that just for that alone.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
I've always heard nobody will ever remember how much money
you made, but they will remember how hot.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Your wife was. I think it's a bullshit quote if
I'm being honest, but yeah, whatever, we could disagree on that.
But but that moment, I had that kind of first
realization that God was really there. He loved me, he
cared about me, and he had a plan for me.
And then I had another moment where at eighteen or nineteen,
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I forget I was deciding whether or not I wanted
to serve an LDS mission because everybody I knew was
going out and just doing it kind of just i'd say,
just going with the fall in a lot of ways.
Some of them had testimony, some of them didn't. It's okay,
it's whatever. But for me, like, I'm not someone that
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is capable of doing something lightly. So I took this
job to avoid going on a mission because I didn't
want to just be forced to do a decision. I
travel the US. I worked for a bunch of different
big companies as a subcontractor. Had a great time with it,
Like as an eighteen nineteen year old, I had pretty
much everything the world said you wanted. I made like
six thousand dollars a month. I had a paid off BMW,
(38:15):
I had a super fast motorcycle. And to your point,
I thought at the time, I had a smoking hot
girlfriend and she was great. But the problem I had
is like I just kept feeling like I was empty,
Like no matter how much I gained, I still needed
something more, Like it just was gnawing at me constantly.
And I remember I was working in Georgia at the
Mercedes Benz Stadium doing the fiber optic WiFi there, and
(38:40):
I came home from work when they were working terrible
conditions because there were subcontractors where they could run us
that way. I come home from work, it's like almost
ten o'clock at night, and I go to open my
scriptures to try to read them. For the first time
in a long time. I'd been avoiding church too, and
I can't even like, I can't even get my eyes
to read on those scriptures. I just bow my bow
(39:02):
before my creator and I just pour my heart out
to him. I say, God, are you really there? Do
you love me? Do you care about me? Do you
have a plan for me? Because this sure as heck,
isn't it? Like I don't know what you want me
to do. I don't know where you want me to go.
I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. But again,
this isn't it. If you put in my heart what
I'm supposed to do and you give me direction, I'll
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take it. I'll run with it, and I'll honor you
and I'll do my best. And I felt like God
spoked my heart said if you're serious, go to church tomorrow.
And mind you, at the time I'm working seven days
a week, twelve plus hours a day breaks. We're not
a thing. But again, I just if God gives you
something to do, he's going to prepare a way. I
(39:44):
reached out to my boss, who was we were oving
in the same house. I said, hey, TG, I don't
know how to tell you this, but I need to
go to church tomorrow and I need you to figure
out how we can make that happen. And he worked
with me. I took all the guys to work. I
checked in work till about time church was at I
left early, well clocked out from my lunch break, and
(40:07):
just took the company car down to this church building.
And I remember from the moment I reached out, I
just touched the door handle of this church building. I
opened the door up. I felt like I felt like
like literal like warmth and love pour over me. I thought,
like again God spoke to my heart said, welcome home, son,
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this is my church, these are my people. This is
where you're meant to be. And not only that that
Book of Mormon you've been reading, it's true. And I
and with this like I want you to go serve
a mission. I want you to go share that with
other people, and I promise you that if you do,
you're going to look back on that as one of
the greatest times in your life, and if you don't,
you're going to regret the rest of your life. The
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choice is yours. So I shortly there after I left
that job, I cleaned up my act, went on serve
a mission out in Ana I'm California. It was one
of the greatest times of my life and set me
up perfectly for everything else I did in life and
what I made it. So I met my wife because
of that, not from the mission, but just it all
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lined up because of it. And what I think I'm
trying to say is God has been very present in
my life, directly in saving my life multiple times and
just redirecting me when I start getting off his path,
and I'm very grateful for it, and I want to
be better acknowledged Himan, acknowledging him in all things, because truly,
(41:38):
like in that moment when I was drowning and just
realizing how mortal my life was, I also got to
see just how much God cares about us to make
everything line up perfectly. If my brother would have been
with me. What if he would have tried to save me,
we could have both drowned if he wouldn't have been there.
(41:58):
I don't know if they would have ever even known
I was gone. Like the people that were on the
shore they saw me that I was waving and saying hello,
I probably would have died that day the kayak that
wasn't ours. I'm gonna call God. I'm gonna give that
grace to God right then as well. I really think
that if people start looking for him, they can find
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God in every aspect of their life. They just have
to open themselves up to it. And it does take
be vulnerable, it does take being willing to change. But
God's never going to take something out of our life
without giving us a blessing. That's far bigger. And the
kind of got into this a little bit. I never
summarized it for me. After that experience, I felt like
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the last nine years of my life just all made
sense where I'm like, Okay, I need to have the
experience of working for out of state. I need to
have the experience of going on the mission. I need
to have the experience adored our salves. I need to
have this experience and like it all at up to
a point where the network I have today, Like we're
looking at launching the AMS nineteen eleven project with Jonathan
(43:08):
Lopez and Skyler I can't think of his last name
out in Saint Louis. We're talking about launching that right now.
I'm looking at getting my five oh one C three
set up for the school too. Before the school, it
will be just be to do like youth meetups with
I can't think of the right word for it, cross religion,
cross culture. We're basically wanting to work with different churches
(43:30):
in the Saint Louis area to do meetups with the youth,
to speak with them, to work with them, to show
them how to start making money legally wholesaling houses so
we can give them a different avenue. And we want
to do all different kinds of things like the people,
Like the last two months after kind of just all
these things came together, the people that I've been attracting
into my life because I'm finally embracing the calling God's
(43:56):
given me. I'm so blown away by Like even when
we were driving here to the phone call I made,
like I just put this house under contract that I'm
looking at purchasing for myself yesterday, and I need someone
to do the paperwork on the wrap. I've never done
it before. I don't know anything about it. And the
phone call I forgot I scheduled. I had this twenty
minute call with this lady who's like, wow, I was
(44:18):
an operator for six years for this guy who this
is all he did. I could definitely help you out.
Like It's the point I'm trying to make is we
all have a calling from God, whether it seems big
or seems small, Like we all have talents that we've
been given that we need to multiply, and if we
just trust in God, go all in. He's going to
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provide for us. And even though the directions he gives
us at first might not make sense, nine years down
the road, you can look at what you've created and
you can see the wisdom in it, and it can
help you see where you're going. For me, like I
felt like nine years ago, I sent my intentions to
what I was going to do, and I've been building this.
(45:01):
I poured all this concrete, we we built this pad.
I'm like, this isn't gonna be good for house. It's
much too big. God's like, just trust me. And I
built this tall platform. We're like, God, what what are
we doing up there? Like there's this doesn't make sense,
that's just scaffolding, Like what what do we need the
scaffolding for? It's like, just trust me. And then I
built this, this rock, this rocket ship essentially standing straight
(45:21):
up on the platform. I'm like God, like this doesn't
look like any vehicle I've driven in before, Like where
is it going to go? It has no direction, like
it's pointing the wrong way. It's like, just trust me.
And now I feel like again, like the last two
months it's been, I'm sitting in the seat of this
rocket ship that I built with God's hand, with his direction,
and I'm finally hitting the start. But like we're finally
(45:42):
taken off and it all is clicking together because I
just kept trusting him even when it didn't make sense
to me. And when I started getting off the path,
he he sent the right things to pull me back
to it. And again, like I I'm very grateful for
every single person meant, in, want and otherwise to to
(46:05):
get me to where I'm at today. I couldn't have
been the man I am today without Jimmy and the
Watt program to help me love myself and what go
of the stuff I was holding on to. I can't
imagine trying to do deals without my community. I have
the sub and sub too, and people out there, like
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we have a plague of depression, anxiety, mental illness, et cetera.
And I think a lot of it steps from people.
People are isolated by social media and just by the
world in general, and they become convinced that they need
to be an island and we don't, like, we have
so much love that's coming towards us, and if we're
just willing to accept it, it's going to become overflowing
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and we're going to be that that light and that
lifts someone else that needs along the way to That's
that's all I got for you.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Nice, that's true to redirect to what a little bit, Yeah,
what's what's that experience been like for you? And also
like where you where are you at currently with the program?
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Are you excited for TUELI? I mean, are letises coming
up this weekend? I think that's how you say it.
I don't know, but yeah, we've got that a little
bit of the torture training, the boxing and MMA, and
a little bit of Capture the Flag.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
From what I hear, I'm actually really looking forward to that.
So the funny part about that is, like a month ago,
when kind of everything fell into place, I had kind
of decided myself, like, you know what, I think I'm
gonna pivot away from what because I have this new
thing I'm doing instead that will be a better opportunity.
And when I made that decision, I made it and
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna stick with it. This is
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what feels good to me. And this is where it
gets interesting. You'd reached out to me. Resa reached out
to me, Jimmy reached out to me. All these people
reached out to me. I didn't even tell like people
that I was just basically decided to be done with why.
I wasn't even planning on coming to the Lottas. Even
when Jimmy reached out, I'm just like, dude, Like I
literally was like, Jimmy, you're just trying to use like
(48:10):
church guilt to manipulate me into coming to this. I
don't want to come. And That's how I felt at
the time. But what I got out of it was
you know what, these people of me, They care about me,
they have so much to want a part to me,
and honestly, with what this program has done for me
to get me to where I'm at today, I would
be doing it as service to take all that receive
(48:31):
it and not just give back to those same brothers
that I have. So for me, I'm super stoked for
this week, and I'm super stoked to be around my
brothers to be able to lift them up, to be
just surrounded by great men. And I think for this
next year, I really just I look forward to being
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able to lift from a higher place where I'm in
far better alignment with my assignment than I ever have been,
and I can help those that aren't there yet get there.
That's what I really look forward to.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
As tradition goes, we always give a shout out to
somebody in the group at the end of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
So I will shout.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Out Nick case Bull for putting on these podcasts and
always helping us out in the studio.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
What do you got It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
I think.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I think I'm gonna shout out Mauricio. He's just a
dang good dude and He's one of my favorite people
to talk to because if I just need candid advice
that comes from the heart, that's the dude that's willing
to be open and honest and just tell it how
it is, but also tell it how it was for him.
(49:54):
And I just I appreciate the heck out of you,
dude and look forward to seeing you this weekend.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
Awesome, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
Thank you for listening to another episode of the We
Are the Day podcast. If you want to join this
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Click the link of the bio you can join the tribe.
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(50:23):
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You could also go to watfid dot com w A
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you again for listening to the podcast, and it is
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I do
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
Welcome back to the We Are the Day Podcast. Today
we have Blake sitting in with us. What's up, Blake?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
How are we doing?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Doing good? A little tired? We'll show it a slip blast,
but we'll have to face those consequences now.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, absolutely, Blake.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We want to keep some fashion here and just ask
how did you find out about why? How did you
find out about Jimmy Rex? And what made you intrigue
to get into the program.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That is a great question. Anything it where to start?
So I learned about Jimmy from Limitless the first year
he did. I think it was twenty twenty three or
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think it was twenty three. It's crazy to think of.
And I learned about I met Jimmy and I met
Pace the same time, and I looked at what I
was doing in my career, and I wanted to be
doing creative fight at stuff. So I got drawn to
Pace and what he was doing and essentially what it
ends up happing. Right after Limitless, I joined that sub
(01:34):
two community. I started doing some deals in there, and
I noticed kind of a pattern in myself where every
time I got closer to the success I was looking for,
I kept self sabotaging myself. I kept feeling unworthy, and
I kept beating the crap out of my like just
stop myself from progress. So I'd remembered the pitch Jimmy
(01:57):
put out for his group lot from Limitless and basically
just felt, well, I don't remember how it happened exactly,
but I had signed up for his marketing campaign. I
think I sat on it for a year or so,
and then LG five opened up, and if I recall correctly,
(02:18):
like he sends to me mails out, I sent a
video in and then like three days later, I get
a call or says Jimmy Rex. I'm like, this is odd,
and I have this conversation with him, and I'm someone
who if we're gonna look at like Masswow's hierarchy of needs,
I'm definitely in like the security or even below it.
(02:39):
And I'm just constantly like worried about the next paycheck,
and I'm worried about not disappointing people, and just I'm
very much of people pleaser. And I've talked with Jimmy
and I'm looking at kind of the stuff that I'm
carrying out, like the the heavy stuff that's on my
heart that I we won't talk about in this podcast.
And as I'm talking with Jimmy, I'm like, I know
(03:00):
that if I can be part of that kind of group,
I'm going to be able to let go of the
stuff that I've been caring for years, and I'm going
to be able to embrace the man I know I
could always become. And Jimmy just wouldn't take any of
my shit. He wouldn't take any of my excuses. He
basically said, like, dude, this is exactly what you're trying
to do, Like this is going to help with everything
you're trying to you just have to figure out the
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money and the way I did that. Sorry, Dad, I
had a loan from a family member that was to
buy a vehicle. I'd bought this vehicle, and I'd sold
this vehicle, and now I just had twenty thousand dollars
sitting in cash liquid underneath my mattress. And they say,
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you can kind of tell how people like, what kind
of person someone is by the way they spend their
money or other people's money. And I use that money
to join what even knowing I didn't necessarily have a
way to repay it, because if I did that, I
would figure out what I need to build my business
and build myself, and that, even if I didn't have
(04:03):
a good way to explain it at the moment, the
explanation to be there down the road regardless. Do that
kind of makes sense.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What's the cooler story to tell?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's cool?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I like, like Alex Hermosi says it a lot. It's like,
is the cooler story to pay the person back or
to take a risk on yourself?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And so yeah, that's just been me, Like I've taken
a lot of risks getting to where I'm at like
I've been kind of obsessed with getting around the right
people since I was nineteen, Like I just saw what
proximity could bring people. I worked for Facebook and Microsoft
as an eighteen year old, traveling across the country. When
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I got home from my LDS mission, I saw people
driving supercars in door to door sales, and I was
just I wanted to be around just that higher world,
at a different kind of world where people were thinking
more than just trying to cover the power build next month.
And in pretty much everything I did, I just kept
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taking a risk to try it again. And I had family,
I had friends, I had people just be like, what
the hell is wrong with you? You're gonna go knock
knock doors to sell solar in California? Like, yeah, I gain.
Every decision I look at I've made in my career,
like in my adult life, has been me taking a
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risk and a bet on myself knowing it would pay
off in the long run. And I know kind of
over the last nine years, it's all started starting to
it's all starting to make sense. And I don't know
if it's like we're getting into it too early, but
that brush with death, I had the other day almost
drowning in Hawaii. That kind of kind of it all
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makes sense. Okay, man, there's a lot. Okay, I get
I'll get into that, but I'm gonna go I'm gonna
step back a little farther before I do that. So,
even joy, even joining pace more resub two group, there's
still been a lot of ways I've just been kind
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of letting fear paralyze me. I've been letting my ego
stop me from asking for help. I've felt unworthy of
getting the help, or I just wouldn't reach out when
I needed to, and I avoided doing deals I felt
I didn't know how to do, or that I need
help on because I just didn't want to feel dumb.
So six weeks two months ago, something along those lines,
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I got a phone call that made me have to
decide what kind of person I wanted to be. I
got this phone call from my father in law saying, hey,
I rent this house. I have a contract with the
owner to purchase it, but I let it expire and
I don't know what's going on, but in eight days,
the bank's going to take the house and they're going
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to kick us out. Ninety days after it's like, can
you do something? And at that point, like I'd never
purchased a house myself. I'd only own the me and
my me and my wife's house we live in now.
I didn't own any rental properties, and I sure as
hell didn't know how to close like a deal of
eight days. But I reached out to my network. I
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reached out to everybody I knew, and was blown away
how many people wanted to help me, how many people
were willing to load me money to purchase properties, and
just how many resources I had just kind of sit
in my back pocket that I wasn't using. And through
that I learned that it's a lot better to have
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a slice of a watermelon than it is just just
keep trying to survive off one grape at a time.
Because me and the partner on that deal, we had
a lot of risks on it, but we got it done.
We literally we stopped the auction like an hour after
it had already sold, like we got it reversed. There's
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so many different emotions that went through my brain just
feeling that. But because of that, because because we closed
with that property, we help this homeowner save her equity,
and the deal we were going to be building back
her credit because the way we acquired it. And additionally,
my in laws are purchasing the property that they would
have been kicked out of otherwise, and they're going to
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have more equity in their house than I have in mind.
So it's it was amazing scene that happened that just
kind of opened me up to how far below my
potential I was living, and then to Hawaii kind of
where this ties in. I have never been good at
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acknowledging that I'm mortal. I ride motorcycles like a maniac,
I race cars like I just do stupid stuff, and
I really have not had to face the consequences of
my actions very many times in my life. I typically
just do something stupid. I'm smart enough to get away
with it and never learn the lesson that I'm probably
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supposed to. And what happened in Hawaii is I went
out and was storkling with my brother. We were spearfishing,
and we've been on this beach for three days. The
first day we were there, I told everybody, like, you
guys need to be really careful going out here. There's
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a nasty rip current. It's probably going to drown somebody
if it gets ahold of them, and if you don't
know what you're doing in the water, like someone's gonna
die here. That's what I said on day one. Day
two went fine. Day one went fine. Day threes where
things get interesting. Me and my brother, my dad, both
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my brother and my cousin Austin. We all went out
on this boat deep sea fishing in the morning. We
were out on this boat for six or seven hours.
I got super seasick, and we didn't catch any fish.
So it was a little bit of a bummer. Yeah,
but we decide afterwards we're going to go do some
spearfishing afterwards and some historically on this beach on north
shore near the YMCA camp earned my campus on Oahu.
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And while we're there, I go pop the trunk and
look in the back and the pair of diving fins
I've been using the past few days aren't in there.
Somebody else is using them, and the ones that I
wanted to use were in the other vehicle that was
an hour away for me. I'm I'm still kind of
feeling seasick, I'm feeling kind of gross. I'm like, if
I get in the water, I'm gonna feel much better.
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So I'm just gonna use these old fins that we
have that are not meant for these kind of conditions,
and I'll just use them and stay in the shallop.
I'll stay in the I'll stay close to shore, and
I won't go out and do anything crazy until my
actual good gear gets here. And what immediately did is
I went out as far to the edge of the
reef as I could, and I was a complete idiot
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and was not paying attention to all the different warnings
I got from picking up these fins. I saw, there's
a zip tie holding one set of the like the
the strap together, and yeah, I'll be okay. Five seconds
in the water, that zip tie breaks, and I rigged
it to make them still work because I was just
impatient and stupid and I'm like, I'll be fine, and
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I kept like in the water, I kept being feeling
like I really need to be careful and just I
don't have nearly as much power kicking with these because
they were half as long, not as wide, and like,
just it took a lot more effort for me to
get moving in the water with them, and I kept
kind of feeling like I something felt wrong. I kept
ignoring it. I went out when my brother he went
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down and speared this fish and was heading back to shore,
and I went down as try to spear fish my fins.
They kept having issues every like five or ten minutes,
and I messed with my fins. And the problem that
happens is my brother's heading back to shore now, who
had been with me the whole time, And I am
now in a place where as I'm messing with the fins,
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I were right by the edge of the reef and
I get pulled like ten to fifteen feet on this reef.
And once my fins are done, I start trying to
kick my feet to move back to where I was at.
And as I look at the ground, I realized I
couldn't make any kind of headway. I was completely staying still,
like I tried going sideways in it, and like I
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could go sideways, but I couldn't make any forward momentum.
So I just tried to kick a little harder, like
a like a forty five degree angle to the the ocean.
And when I kicked harder, both my fins fell off.
And at this point, like I'm a football heeled and
half from shore, I'm in the section where it's shallow,
so like I'm starting to get pounded by waves. I
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can barely see people on the shore because the waves
keep hitting me. And I now feel like I went
from starting to realize that I'm in danger when I
couldn't move, and once my fins fell off, it literally
was just like I'm going to die today, and I
just started to have my life flash before my eyes
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and I started like feel like my body going to shock.
And what I did at first, I was trying to
figure out how to use this spear gun to spear
the rocks ten feet away and then drag myself, and
I was trying to do everything I could just be
like I'm the man, Like I'm the guy that can
figure shit out. I'm gonna save myself, and like I
thought that for all of five seconds, and then show thereafter,
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I'm like, if I don't ask for help and beg
and scream and moan like I have zero chance of living.
So I what I did. I threw my hands up
in the air. I screamed at the top of my lungs.
Help me, I'm drowning. Help me, I'm drowning. Help me.
I'm drowning, hoping and praying that somebody at the shore
could hear me, and me knowing like there's if they
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don't hear me, Like I don't know what's going to happen,
like I have. I don't know how long I can
stay afloat, especially in these waves, and I don't know
how far it's it's going to drag me, like in
my eyes, like my only help was my only hope
was it somehow they hear me and they call helicopter
and it somehow gets there fast enough for me. That's
kind of what's going through my head. And as I
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finish up just like shouting, screaming, waving my arms, I
then just focus on folding on my back and just
conserving my momentum, well my energy. I'm just laying on
my back and I'm I'm going through my life. I'm
like I am living so far below what I'm capable of,
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Like I've been letting fear stop me from asking for help,
from partnering with people, from seizing opportunities I knew I could,
and I was one hundred percent just not satisfied with
the man I was imagining myself at a funeral with
six people carrying me, and I basically told God that moment,
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I'm like, okay, God, if you like I get it.
I push the limits. Sometimes the limits push back, and
this might be one of those things I don't get
to get out of. But if you let me get
out of this, I'm going to push with everything. I
have to trust you to follow you, to not be
paralyzed by fear. And if I get a second chance
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of life, I'm just not going to ever let fear
be be something that's not be something that prohibits me
from doing something. And miracles happened. It was It literally
couldn't have happened better. Like as I'm fullowing on my back,
just focusing on staying alive, my brother who'd had speared
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the fish, had the fish get off, was surfaced and
was like halfway between me and the shore. He heard
my scream somehow he signaled everybody on the shore like, hey,
Blake needs help, like now. And this is the same time,
like other family was getting there. My wife had just
got there on the shore, like hadn't even seen me yet.
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Now I'm drowning and she sees this kayak that wasn't
even like it was the YMCA campuses and she starts
dragging it to the shore, and my cousin, Austin Austin King,
who's in the navy, he starts running towards the car
to grab his fence to get out to me, realizes
he doesn't have him, sees my wife with the kayak
and just kind of intervenes, jumps in, grabs that in
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the paddle and starts badd on these waves to get
out to me. And I don't know if it was
three minutes. I don't know if it was five minutes
or an eternity. He kind of felt like any of them.
But he gets out there, gets over all these waves,
and when he reached when he reached down, or like
when I was able to grab one of this kayak,
you know that painting of Christ reaching down to pull
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that Peter out of the water. That's what that moment
felt like. I felt like I had my life back again.
He tells me the shore like we get there and
it's pretty heavy moment, just realizing how close I came
to dying. As I've sitting on the shore, I'm just
having all these things grow through my head where I'm like,
I don't have a life insurance policy right now as active,
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I don't know, Like there's so many things that I've
been paralyzed by fearon that I can do better out,
and I'm like, I'm going to get it figured out.
And the thing that really popped up is like there's
been things in my heart my mind for nine years
that I've been just trying to bury and ignore, and
I felt like, if I had another chance of life,
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I was going to go after And this kind of
leads into everything else that happens, which the nine year
vision I've had is this idea, this idea that popped
up in my head when I was seventeen years old.
When I was seventeen, I got shown the cat you're
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familiar with Robert Kaysetogi's CASHULALW quadrant. I'm not, oh really.
So it's essentially this little square box that has four
different letters in at e SB I employee, self employed,
business owner, investor. You're an employee, you're a self employed person,
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which all my family I knew at the time was
you account ninety percent of the population of the world
and you're fighting over ten percent of all the money
in the world. If you're a business owner, investor, You're
make up ten percent of the population and you make
you're fighting over ninety percent of the money of the world.
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And for me when I when I saw that, even
as just like a seventeen year old of Mike, this
is changing everything in my life right now. I can't
just settle to be self employed or just be like
an employee anymore. There's bigger things that I'm capable of
and I'm going to run with it. And then what
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happened right after is that was a network marketing company
that I learned that from. They did a they did
our first mindset exercise with us, let us close our
eyes as visualize what we would do if we were
given a million dollars right then, and we'd be receiving
a million dollars a year for the rest of our lives.
And what ends up happening with that is they're like, well,
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what would you do? And I hear all these people
around me, a lot of these younger like mid mid
married couples that were talking about a second house, about vacations,
like all the stuff. That's great. But for me, I'm like,
you know, this is so profound just learning this one
simple truth that I want to teach people my own
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age about this because I just know how much this
is changing my life, even though I don't know what
I'm gonna do with it yet. And not only that,
like I don't want to just start a school for rich,
snobby kids, because like frankly, like they're going to figure
it out either way if they want to. I want
to change education as a whole. I wanted to Like
from that thought, I'm like, I want to start a
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school that teaches kids how to think instead of what
to think. That's going to get them in proximity with
people that are business owners that came from their same neighborhoods,
came from their same situations and made something out out
of it. Not just that, like I don't I want
to work with the worst of the worst first, because
if you take these kids that are getting kicked out
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of school, that are stealing cars, that are selling drugs,
picking up guns, joining gangs, et cetera, if you can
get those kids to figure this out, that's going to
change generations.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I want to hit on that for a second. One
thing that you said was how to think instead of
what to think? Yeah, And I think that's so deep
because I mean the school system in general was created
by Carnegie to create factory workers, right essentially, and push
buttons and to do what to think. And I always
felt growing up in high school that I resented everything
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that went on in the whole curriculum of my school,
from sitting down and doing a math problem to writing
a paper, like I just did not want to do
it at all, because, like you said, they teach like
how to think, and like I'm like, I'm a what
to think kind of guy, you know, Like, yeah, I
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want to be like how to think, Like, teach me,
teach me the skills that I need to be able
to learn to be able to make my own decisions,
to be able to have a creativity mindset, to be
able to go and expand on that and do what
I want, because I felt like in school, like when
I was younger, I was a big chess player. I
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was like in the choir, I was like doing all
these like creative things like wanting to play music and
like draw and all these other things. And as I
went on and on and on, all of that was suppressed.
And just recently is when I've started to like open
that back up, Like I really loved playing chess. I
hadn't played chess in like five years, probably before I
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opened it back up, just because all of those creativity
aspects were so suppressed in the curriculum of school and
in the environment of being around all the jocks and
athletes and just everything like it was something that I
wanted to be too, right of, Like, like I was
an athletic kid, I was probably one of the more
popular kids in my school or whatever that looked like.
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But I wanted to be those other things too, and
there just wasn't a space for that at all whatsoever.
And so it is very nice, like of something that
that you are creating to be able to give kids
that space and that to cultivate that environment for them
to be able to learn to grow.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I love that. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, and dude, for me, it's just had. I had
the same experience in school, don't I don't remember which
teacher told me this, but I remember going from elementary school,
I was like one of the top readers in all
of the elementary school. Me and this kid Andre, I
don't remember his last name, Me Andre and this other
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kid from second grade to sixth grade. We three battled
it out who could get the most air points every year,
and like we loved reading, like there's so much creativity
and like so much just like joy of life encouraged.
And I remember the moment I got to put sent
to middle school and I'm like, wait, you guys don't
do airpoints anymore, Like I don't get a reward for reading,
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Like there's no point to this. They're like, just do
what you want. Like it was so sad, Like I
think I was reading it like a twelfth grade level
from like third or fourth grade on likewise, so it's
just hard for me to just be like I'm on
their level, but they're not on mind. And this teacher
that was starting to get to so she told me
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how the grading system worked when I was in sixth grade,
because I said, hey, my grades, like they just didn't
seem like they made sense to me. She's like, oh,
here's why in your school everything used to count evenly
across the board. In middle school and high school. The
way your grades work is eighty percent of your score.
Eighty percent of your grade is going to come from
your test course, ten percent is going to come from
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your homework. The other ten percent is going to come
from your class work. I'm a kid where I thought creatively,
and I also is like protective of my time, protective
of like what I want to do. So all I
heard in that sentence was, Okay, if I do really
good on tests and I do all the class work
I can in class, and I do all the homework
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I can in class, then I can never touch my
homework at home or never do anything at home other
than like major projects. And I could probably average like
a B average maybe a SEE average without really trying.
And that was just me, Like I wanted to fly
under the radar because I wasn't challenged. Dude, I was
so freaking born in school, Like.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I never touched a piece of homework at home.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, and if I did, like it was like on
the bus ride home. That's like how done I was
with it. Like I just want to be over and
done with this stuff. And like shout out to mister Barton,
like he's my Honors Honors English teacher, I think my
junior or senior year. He is the only person I
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had in high school that I can recall who actually
challenged me to like do better than what I was
doing because he was this I forget what happened. Like
English is, writing has always been something I wanted to like,
I enjoyed, and I accidentally got myself into an AP
class not wanting to be an AP class. I remember
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the first time I turned in an essay to him
and he's like, where's your draft? I didn't do a draft.
He's like, this is it. He's like, in my class,
you do a draft, and then you do you do
a rough draft, and then you do a final draft. Like, well,
I do want He's like, WHOA, no, you want. I'm
not grating it till you do it. What I appreciate
for him is he pushed me to be a much
better writer and just pushed me to further my education
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a way that I really never got that kind of
challenge with any other teacher. So thanks, mister Barden. I
appreciate people like you.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
No, I love that, And I had a couple of
teachers that would challenge me like that as well.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
One of one of my.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The best people in the school system for me was
my counselor actually Missus Pogue. And one thing that I
would go into her office and I was going through
some things at that time between my knee surgery and
my house burning and some other things like that.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
But yeah, for sure we god this of that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
She saw the pain that like I was going through,
but she also saw the light that I could be
and so I'm just so appreciative of that because what
we figured out that I could do is dual enroll
in college and in high school as well. And so
throughout my high school years, I would I would pull
off with like, you know, like a three point five
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GPA or like a three you know, just whatever, and
then but my senior year, I was like, I really
want to do this, Like I just want to go
into this year and prove that, like I could have
done this if I wanted to, but I just didn't.
And so my senior year, I pull off four point
zero and that was an all ap classes, all college
classes like everything like that. I was taking fifteen hours
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at the college along with my full schedule at the
high school. And so I pulled off a four point
zero that year and it was just like at the
end of the year, I was so happy with what
I did, just because I wanted it and I went
and got it, and she pushed me to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I was also dual enrolled in high school. I am,
I was just doing school work in school hours and
work and work hours? Is that dual enrolled? Right? I'm joking.
I'm making a bad joke now, I am. I work
night shifts for my dad's company, driving a truck picking
up used cooking while when I was from sixteen to
eighteen got the bills done, helped him build his business.
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So fair works out. Sorry, I just remember where we're
going with that. But my whole point of like wanting
to change education, like I have parents that say together,
I have a very stable household. I had a lot
of support growing up, a lot of amazing supportive family,
and yet like the amount of struggle I had to
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go through to build my business to where it's at today,
It's taken me nine years to get here. It's still
freaking like sucks in a lot of ways. It takes
everything out of me for it. And if that's how
much effort it took with all the right things going
for me, imagine the kid that has no support. Because again,
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these kids out here that if they're capable of stealing
a car, joining a gang, like you could look at
that as negative behavior and a lot of ways it is,
but like I want to look at the why of it.
If a kid's joining a gang, he probably doesn't have
a support group, doesn't have a support group, it doesn't
have a stable household, probably doesn't have a father figure.
It a lot of times, my kid's stealing.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
A car, like.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Probably just bored and knows he can and that's the
way to make money. I would love to see what
some of those kids could do when they just like
take the the gun out of their hand and put
the right the right people around them, put the right pen,
the right product. I'd love to see where you take
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these kids that they make money right now. They're bollers
whatever you want to call them, but they have to
look over their shoulder everywhere they go, and they got
to literally put their life on the line for the
lifestyle that have that's still not safe.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think what you're talking about right now is something
that Napoleon Hill hits on greatly. It's transmutation of energy.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Transmutation of energy.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, and so essentially what it goes into, and he
talks about it a little differently. It's in Thinking Grow Rich.
I'm sure you've read the book.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I've read it. I didn't remember that line.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
But there's a whole chapter on it. It's actually sexual transmutation,
but it's still I think it still applies in other aspects.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
We don't want that at school, but continue.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yes, But what it talks about is the energy, and
I'll actually go into it. Is sexual transmutation Napoleon Hill
talks about. Is the energy that we put into intimacy
with the opposite sex. Is that is the biggest time
that a man is creative, that they are motivated, they're passionate,
all these different things.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, can you agree?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Just look at some of my dates I've done as
a younger man. That corrects me up absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
But so there's all these different energy forces that we
have that comes out of that, right, But the most
powerful thing that a man can do in his life
is to be able to harness that energy and make
it flow into something else. So instead of giving into
the lustful temptations or something of that nature, instead we
put it into a project or we do it in
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something in our work, and so that it creates all
the flow, the energy, the creativity, everything that we have
in that moment. And so maybe something on a different
note of like somebody stealing a car, right, they might
get a little adrenaline rush out of it. They might
have to be creative to like get inside that car.
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They might have to be smart to know how to
get into that car. And so if you could take
that energy and transform it into something that for the good,
I think it's great. I mean people also talk about
and this is way extreme example, but Hitler being a
great leader, correct, Like if he would have used that
for good, just think about like how good of a
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leader he would have been, and how much influence that
he had. And so like we can take these two
extreme examples and we say, like one is very very
bad and one is very very good. And so if
we can get the very very bad and transform it
or transmutation of energy into the very very good, that's
when things change.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Fair enough, that makes sense. That's a long tension. But yeah,
now that's really for me, Like I just look at
like I feel like one of the things my dad
did a really good job of teaching me is that
if you see a need and you have the capacity
to fill it, do your best to fill it. And
I think for me, like I just look at all
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the things that have gone wrong and right for me,
have give me a unique ability to have a hand
in solving this problem. And for you, it's not just
like about starting one school, It's about creating schools all
across the US that are doing the same thing. And ultimately,
like just my goal is to revitalize and like turn
over the American education system as a whole, and therefore
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the world and just see how many like families and
generations that can affect.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
What are your thoughts on something like what Andrew Date's
doing with the real world.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I don't really follow Andrew hate too much. Like I
liked some of the stuff he posts. I think he's
crass and other things. But hell, I'd rather have somebody
that just I'm trying how to say this carefully. I
would rather have someone to look me in the eyes
(32:50):
and tell me, hey, I think you're a piece of shit,
then someone that speaks good graces to my face and
then talk says that behind my back, Because like I
look at the scriptures where says we shouldn't speak corrupt communications,
I think it's a lot more corrupt to mislead people,
misguide them, just kind of manipulate them in a way
(33:12):
where you're not acknowledging it. You're gas lighting people into
it than it is to just call things how you
see it, be a little bit crass with it, but
ultimately get the result you're looking for. So I think
what he's doing it's align with all of it. I
don't really know much of it, if I'm being honest,
but overall, I think it's time for men to be men,
for women to be comfortable supporting people and just being supported.
(33:35):
I think all in all, we just need to focus
on personal excellence being the best kind of rebellion, kind
of like Andy Forsella talks about, and I think with
that it's just going to like if we all just
learn to step into alignment with the plans and the
blessings God has for us, it's going to be a
lot easier for us to change the world, and we're
(33:57):
going to be a lot happier doing it. Because I
want to start with these because that's that I see
as like the root cause of a lot of other
problems we have in the world, and then I'd like
to go into working with people that are coming out
of the prison systems kind of in the same way,
giving them the same opportunities, maybe even have careers ready
for them that aren't just dead end. I just want
(34:18):
to go after education as a whole across the board,
because there's so much knowledge in this world. There's so
much information. If we can find a way to give
it indigestible chunks to people that have never heard it before,
you know, it's just going to change everything.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
How big has faith been in this journey?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Very big? And I grew up in an household that
taught me about God, showed me about God. There's something
of my dad never told me, but I feel like
he just taught me through an example, and I really
appreciate the concept still, which is work like it all
depends on you, and pray like it all depends on God.
(35:00):
He never told me that phrase, but when I heard
that phrase, I'm like, that's what my dad taught me
through his actions. I never saw him once give up
or turn and surrender in any kind of daunting situation.
And he's always been someone I've known who's who just
finds a way to solve the problem. And for me
and my own faith specifically, like I had some unique
(35:23):
opportunities as a young kid, like just I had near
death experience. It's just I don't learn enough, so God
just keeps having him almost bring me home and then
puts me right back here. I wrecked a motorcycle when
I was fifteen, dirt bike on this red gravel road,
and when I went down on it, I went on
(35:45):
a rock, broke both bones, dislocated my elbow. I remember
I got up for that. This is the time my
life where I was an angry little fifteen year old,
because every fifteen year old is. And I raised my
hand up to the sky and I'm like, God, why
do you hate me so much? And I was just
I think I said some profanities and might probably flipped
off the sky if I recall correctly. And I felt
(36:05):
like God just spoke to my heart and says, just look.
And I looked at where I wrecked. I looked at
how I wrecked. I went between these two different trees
that were there. I should have wrapped myself around them.
I should have been paralyzed or dead. And I felt
like God just spoke to my heart and said, I
love you so much, why do you just keep fighting
against me? And that really stuck with me. Or I
(36:28):
looked at the actions I was taking, even at fifteen
like I was around a bunch of idiot kids that
we're going nowhere in life. I was dating this girl,
that this is going to be terrible. I was dating
this girl, and I thought to myself, like, man, if
that's the girl that's crying over crying over my casket
at my funeral, I'm going to be embarrassed from the
other side. So, guys, if you're out there, if you're
(36:49):
dating someone and you're not dating something that you like,
if you're not comfortable dating a girl, if the girl
you're dating you're not comfortable with her crying over your casket,
just be done. It's not worth it. You never know
when you're gonna die, and that is not Oh my gosh,
I'm so glad I didn't die that just for that alone.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
I've always heard nobody will ever remember how much money
you made, but they will remember how hot.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Your wife was. I think it's a bullshit quote if
I'm being honest, but yeah, whatever, we could disagree on that.
But but that moment, I had that kind of first
realization that God was really there. He loved me, he
cared about me, and he had a plan for me.
And then I had another moment where at eighteen or nineteen,
(37:32):
I forget I was deciding whether or not I wanted
to serve an LDS mission because everybody I knew was
going out and just doing it kind of just i'd say,
just going with the fall in a lot of ways.
Some of them had testimony, some of them didn't. It's okay,
it's whatever. But for me, like, I'm not someone that
(37:53):
is capable of doing something lightly. So I took this
job to avoid going on a mission because I didn't
want to just be forced to do a decision. I
travel the US. I worked for a bunch of different
big companies as a subcontractor. Had a great time with it,
Like as an eighteen nineteen year old, I had pretty
much everything the world said you wanted. I made like
six thousand dollars a month. I had a paid off BMW,
(38:15):
I had a super fast motorcycle. And to your point,
I thought at the time, I had a smoking hot
girlfriend and she was great. But the problem I had
is like I just kept feeling like I was empty,
Like no matter how much I gained, I still needed
something more, Like it just was gnawing at me constantly.
And I remember I was working in Georgia at the
Mercedes Benz Stadium doing the fiber optic WiFi there, and
(38:40):
I came home from work when they were working terrible
conditions because there were subcontractors where they could run us
that way. I come home from work, it's like almost
ten o'clock at night, and I go to open my
scriptures to try to read them. For the first time
in a long time. I'd been avoiding church too, and
I can't even like, I can't even get my eyes
to read on those scriptures. I just bow my bow
(39:02):
before my creator and I just pour my heart out
to him. I say, God, are you really there? Do
you love me? Do you care about me? Do you
have a plan for me? Because this sure as heck,
isn't it? Like I don't know what you want me
to do. I don't know where you want me to go.
I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. But again,
this isn't it. If you put in my heart what
I'm supposed to do and you give me direction, I'll
(39:23):
take it. I'll run with it, and I'll honor you
and I'll do my best. And I felt like God
spoked my heart said if you're serious, go to church tomorrow.
And mind you, at the time I'm working seven days
a week, twelve plus hours a day breaks. We're not
a thing. But again, I just if God gives you
something to do, he's going to prepare a way. I
(39:44):
reached out to my boss, who was we were oving
in the same house. I said, hey, TG, I don't
know how to tell you this, but I need to
go to church tomorrow and I need you to figure
out how we can make that happen. And he worked
with me. I took all the guys to work. I
checked in work till about time church was at I
left early, well clocked out from my lunch break, and
(40:07):
just took the company car down to this church building.
And I remember from the moment I reached out, I
just touched the door handle of this church building. I
opened the door up. I felt like I felt like
like literal like warmth and love pour over me. I thought,
like again God spoke to my heart said, welcome home, son,
(40:29):
this is my church, these are my people. This is
where you're meant to be. And not only that that
Book of Mormon you've been reading, it's true. And I
and with this like I want you to go serve
a mission. I want you to go share that with
other people, and I promise you that if you do,
you're going to look back on that as one of
the greatest times in your life, and if you don't,
you're going to regret the rest of your life. The
(40:51):
choice is yours. So I shortly there after I left
that job, I cleaned up my act, went on serve
a mission out in Ana I'm California. It was one
of the greatest times of my life and set me
up perfectly for everything else I did in life and
what I made it. So I met my wife because
of that, not from the mission, but just it all
(41:14):
lined up because of it. And what I think I'm
trying to say is God has been very present in
my life, directly in saving my life multiple times and
just redirecting me when I start getting off his path,
and I'm very grateful for it, and I want to
be better acknowledged Himan, acknowledging him in all things, because truly,
(41:38):
like in that moment when I was drowning and just
realizing how mortal my life was, I also got to
see just how much God cares about us to make
everything line up perfectly. If my brother would have been
with me. What if he would have tried to save me,
we could have both drowned if he wouldn't have been there.
(41:58):
I don't know if they would have ever even known
I was gone. Like the people that were on the
shore they saw me that I was waving and saying hello,
I probably would have died that day the kayak that
wasn't ours. I'm gonna call God. I'm gonna give that
grace to God right then as well. I really think
that if people start looking for him, they can find
(42:19):
God in every aspect of their life. They just have
to open themselves up to it. And it does take
be vulnerable, it does take being willing to change. But
God's never going to take something out of our life
without giving us a blessing. That's far bigger. And the
kind of got into this a little bit. I never
summarized it for me. After that experience, I felt like
(42:45):
the last nine years of my life just all made
sense where I'm like, Okay, I need to have the
experience of working for out of state. I need to
have the experience of going on the mission. I need
to have the experience adored our salves. I need to
have this experience and like it all at up to
a point where the network I have today, Like we're
looking at launching the AMS nineteen eleven project with Jonathan
(43:08):
Lopez and Skyler I can't think of his last name
out in Saint Louis. We're talking about launching that right now.
I'm looking at getting my five oh one C three
set up for the school too. Before the school, it
will be just be to do like youth meetups with
I can't think of the right word for it, cross religion,
cross culture. We're basically wanting to work with different churches
(43:30):
in the Saint Louis area to do meetups with the youth,
to speak with them, to work with them, to show
them how to start making money legally wholesaling houses so
we can give them a different avenue. And we want
to do all different kinds of things like the people,
Like the last two months after kind of just all
these things came together, the people that I've been attracting
into my life because I'm finally embracing the calling God's
(43:56):
given me. I'm so blown away by Like even when
we were driving here to the phone call I made,
like I just put this house under contract that I'm
looking at purchasing for myself yesterday, and I need someone
to do the paperwork on the wrap. I've never done
it before. I don't know anything about it. And the
phone call I forgot I scheduled. I had this twenty
minute call with this lady who's like, wow, I was
(44:18):
an operator for six years for this guy who this
is all he did. I could definitely help you out.
Like It's the point I'm trying to make is we
all have a calling from God, whether it seems big
or seems small, Like we all have talents that we've
been given that we need to multiply, and if we
just trust in God, go all in. He's going to
(44:40):
provide for us. And even though the directions he gives
us at first might not make sense, nine years down
the road, you can look at what you've created and
you can see the wisdom in it, and it can
help you see where you're going. For me, like I
felt like nine years ago, I sent my intentions to
what I was going to do, and I've been building this.
(45:01):
I poured all this concrete, we we built this pad.
I'm like, this isn't gonna be good for house. It's
much too big. God's like, just trust me. And I
built this tall platform. We're like, God, what what are
we doing up there? Like there's this doesn't make sense,
that's just scaffolding, Like what what do we need the
scaffolding for? It's like, just trust me. And then I
built this, this rock, this rocket ship essentially standing straight
(45:21):
up on the platform. I'm like God, like this doesn't
look like any vehicle I've driven in before, Like where
is it going to go? It has no direction, like
it's pointing the wrong way. It's like, just trust me.
And now I feel like again, like the last two
months it's been, I'm sitting in the seat of this
rocket ship that I built with God's hand, with his direction,
and I'm finally hitting the start. But like we're finally
(45:42):
taken off and it all is clicking together because I
just kept trusting him even when it didn't make sense
to me. And when I started getting off the path,
he he sent the right things to pull me back
to it. And again, like I I'm very grateful for
every single person meant, in, want and otherwise to to
(46:05):
get me to where I'm at today. I couldn't have
been the man I am today without Jimmy and the
Watt program to help me love myself and what go
of the stuff I was holding on to. I can't
imagine trying to do deals without my community. I have
the sub and sub too, and people out there, like
(46:27):
we have a plague of depression, anxiety, mental illness, et cetera.
And I think a lot of it steps from people.
People are isolated by social media and just by the
world in general, and they become convinced that they need
to be an island and we don't, like, we have
so much love that's coming towards us, and if we're
just willing to accept it, it's going to become overflowing
(46:51):
and we're going to be that that light and that
lifts someone else that needs along the way to That's
that's all I got for you.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Nice, that's true to redirect to what a little bit, Yeah,
what's what's that experience been like for you? And also
like where you where are you at currently with the program?
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Are you excited for TUELI? I mean, are letises coming
up this weekend? I think that's how you say it.
I don't know, but yeah, we've got that a little
bit of the torture training, the boxing and MMA, and
a little bit of Capture the Flag.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
From what I hear, I'm actually really looking forward to that.
So the funny part about that is, like a month ago,
when kind of everything fell into place, I had kind
of decided myself, like, you know what, I think I'm
gonna pivot away from what because I have this new
thing I'm doing instead that will be a better opportunity.
And when I made that decision, I made it and
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna stick with it. This is
(47:48):
what feels good to me. And this is where it
gets interesting. You'd reached out to me. Resa reached out
to me, Jimmy reached out to me. All these people
reached out to me. I didn't even tell like people
that I was just basically decided to be done with why.
I wasn't even planning on coming to the Lottas. Even
when Jimmy reached out, I'm just like, dude, Like I
literally was like, Jimmy, you're just trying to use like
(48:10):
church guilt to manipulate me into coming to this. I
don't want to come. And That's how I felt at
the time. But what I got out of it was
you know what, these people of me, They care about me,
they have so much to want a part to me,
and honestly, with what this program has done for me
to get me to where I'm at today, I would
be doing it as service to take all that receive
(48:31):
it and not just give back to those same brothers
that I have. So for me, I'm super stoked for
this week, and I'm super stoked to be around my
brothers to be able to lift them up, to be
just surrounded by great men. And I think for this
next year, I really just I look forward to being
(48:51):
able to lift from a higher place where I'm in
far better alignment with my assignment than I ever have been,
and I can help those that aren't there yet get there.
That's what I really look forward to.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
As tradition goes, we always give a shout out to
somebody in the group at the end of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
So I will shout.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Out Nick case Bull for putting on these podcasts and
always helping us out in the studio.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
What do you got It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
I think.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I think I'm gonna shout out Mauricio. He's just a
dang good dude and He's one of my favorite people
to talk to because if I just need candid advice
that comes from the heart, that's the dude that's willing
to be open and honest and just tell it how
it is, but also tell it how it was for him.
(49:54):
And I just I appreciate the heck out of you,
dude and look forward to seeing you this weekend.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
Awesome, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
Thank you for listening to another episode of the We
Are the Day podcast. If you want to join this
incredible community, this incredible brotherhood of men, you can go
on Instagram at mister Jimmy Rex or at watmovement dot com.
Click the link of the bio you can join the tribe.
To tribe is open right now. Directly through there, you
could also go to join Watt dot com that is
(50:23):
j O I N W A T T dot com.
You could also go to watfid dot com w A
T T V I D dot com to go watch
the We Are the They documentary as well. If you
have any other questions, feel free and to reach out
to Jimmy directly or hit us up on Instagram. Thank
you again for listening to the podcast, and it is
that time once again for me to bid you all
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