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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey, welcome back. This is doctor John Wycoff filling in
for Michael Patrick Shields. Good morning to everyone across the
state of Michigan. It's a privilege and a pleasure to
join you this morning. We have a great guest coming up,
someone who's new to the show. His name is Eric Weir.
He is an author, an author, an entrepreneur, a public speaker,
(00:43):
and we're going to talk about his latest book, Who's
Eating Your Pie, Essential financial advice that will help transform
your life. Good morning, mister Weir, you morning to be
on Well, thank you for time in the time out
of your morning to talk with me and tell us
a little bit about you and your book. I read
(01:05):
through someone the information and your bio here fascinating the information.
But give us an introduction and our listeners and idea
of what this Who's Eating Your Pie book? What is about?
How can help them?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Sure? Sure? Sure? What wrote the bike during I wrote
the book during COEs and knows how separated people were
feeling and disconnected and overwhelmed and they were really down.
If you remembers the first report by the Health Organization,
we're saying things like twenty percent of the world would die,
so it is very depressed. And my first chapter is
(01:40):
Permission to Dream. If you think about it, most kids,
you ask me what they want to do A five, six, seven.
They have huge ambitions and dreams, and by the time
you're about foty years old, you just want a hot meal.
So I wrote a book using practical steps that anybody
could vasively change their life in the areas of faith, family, fitness, finance,
and friends with simple time tests and steps.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm looking through some of the bullet points you've got
and just some really good information that I think people
do struggle with is you know, how how do they
go about building wealth? And I think people do get disenchanted,
and they do get depressed. They start saying, well, you know,
how am I going to make this transition from you know,
working forty or fifty hours a week and I'm getting
(02:25):
closer to retirement, and you know, what should I invest in?
What shouldn't I invest in? And it sounds like your
book is kind of a roadmap and gives them some
ideas of how to navigate through that journey.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It certainly does, I mean, think about our school system.
It teach us a lot of wonderful things. It doesn't
teach us about money. It doesn't teach us how to
set goals, It doesn't teach us how to dream, it
doesn't teach us how to take responsibility, and it doesn't
teach us how to focus on the most important thing
at the time. So these are things that I talk
about in my book that are revolutionary, but they're they're
(02:59):
old things that are brought back to review today.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I think that's again very practical information. And you're right,
we just children as they're growing up. Unless their parents
take the time to really help them learn about money
and managing money and how money works and how money
can work for you, they just don't get that education.
(03:23):
I have three grandsons and I spend time with them
each time we meet, talking about, you know, where you
wanted to go, how are you going to get there?
What are you going to do. I've got my oldest
grandson kind of starting a business, and I said, well,
this is really great. You know, you're really good at this,
but maybe could you maybe branch out and hire some
of your friends to do some of this work and
(03:45):
increase your revenue streams. And so I think you're right,
we really have a more brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's just absolutely Brilliant's exactly, it's exactly some of the
principles that are there, the principles of leverage. You know.
So that's a great thing to be doing with your grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, and I think it's so important that parents and
grandparents understand that. Uh, those kids, and they just suck
up that information. They look up to you so much.
Now you you've you've done some other books also, is
that right?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I wrote, I wrote. I've written some other books
and have some some some other on the way. I
wrote one with a founder of Reebok and Evander Hollyfield,
uh and a few others who wrote a chapter so
how to Survive and Thrive. My book's been translated, you're
pin into several different languages. And I'm writing a book
now called the Victory Book.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, you are a busy guy, and you're involved, you know,
doing other speaking I would assume around the country and
helping people plan and strategic thinking and things along this line.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, that's correct. Yes, I do all that. I'm involved
in different things and from real estate. I've been involved
in entertainment real estate like top golf and uh self
story ideas and downtown urban revitalization just depends on I've
been involved in film as an executive producer and the
various faith based films are helping to finance to tell stories.
(05:12):
But it's really it's really the principles that I'm using.
You know, it can be applied to anybody's life, and
it's really how do you make small change daily that
compounds over time. And most people they make two basic goals.
Either they think they're too busy to plan, so they
never make a plan. I never set goals, or two
(05:34):
they make them so gigantic that they're overwhelming into intimidating,
they never start. And somewhere in the middle, as a
better way to be strategic, to take realistic plans, to
push yourself daily, make will do you get one percent better?
And you look up after a year two those plans
that you probably thought originally would have been unattainable, you're
(05:55):
already there. But it's consistency, it's structure, sure, and it's resolved.
Those are the things that make the most massive difference
in anyone's life. It's not your education, it's not your IQ,
it's not your where you grew up, what part of town.
It's really going to be you. Can you get the
(06:17):
clarity in your head or where you want to go,
and can you make small steps each day, and if
you can do that, you'll be just about unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I think you're exactly right. I've always lived by that
mantra and try to teach my staff, my employees and
my family. I said, you know, don't worry about trying
to impress me. Just try to be a little bit
better person tomorrow. And if you can accomplish that, just
one little step better, you're going to be on that path.
And with what I do in my practice with Pathways
(06:45):
to Wellness my podcast, we talk about a lot of
the things. So just in terms of building wealth, if
you had an average guy or a gal and they're
working at their job and they're trying to invest in
the four one K give this one or two things
that they can maybe start doing today that might put
them on that pathway to improving their lifestyle twenty years
(07:09):
from now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think, you know, the best thing somebody can do
is I call it reframing, reimagining. Doing what you're doing
today and more of it is just going to get
you more of the same results. So if I meet somebody.
I met somebody who's in a real estate agent years ago,
and they had just lost all their assets and lost everything,
(07:31):
and I said, he couldn't fail. What would you do?
He said, well, I would buy this textile mill in
my tent. Why would you do that? He said, well,
it's the value of the brick and the copper and
the wood is more valuable than the textile mill itself.
I said, okay, why don't you own it already? I
don't have the money. And I said, well, it's not true.
People who buy the brick, buy the textile, buy the copper,
and buy the wood do Why don't you make an offer,
(07:52):
really little ball offer, and yet use their capital to
buy it. Why would they do that. They're not going
to take the time to do this. They're just looking
to buy the copper. They're not looking to structure a deal.
Why don't you do that? Open attorney's escrow account, put
a deposit down those three categories, you use that to
pay for the property, and then he keeps the profit
in the upside. He did that in the work. It's
a slightly longer story than that, but he did it
(08:14):
within ninety days, and he did it twenty times after that,
and it's something that he could have done it all
the whole time. All the pieces were in his head,
but he never gave a self permission to dream and
he never thought about knowing what I now know? What
would I do differently if I had clarity?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I think you're right getting people to reframe. I'm speaking
with who's eating your pie? With author? Or Eric Ware?
How can people find out more about you or get
your book?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Sure they go on Instagram and connect with me at
at at Eric Weir at e ri kwei r dot com.
I'm also on LinkedIn, or you can go to Amazon
and find my book.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Very good. Eric has been a privilege and a pleasure.
God bless you keep doing great work. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
This is Chris Buck with Michigan Reimagined podcast. And when
it comes to managing your finances and planning for your future,
I suggest you contact my friends at Wagoner Financial. Whether
you're just getting started, getting ready to retire, or anywhere
in between, Wagoner Financial can help you make smart financial decisions.
Don't navigate a complex problem on your own. Wagoner as
the expertise to help you feel confident that you're making
the right financial Choices. Contacts an advisor by calling five
(09:23):
one seven eight five three three three sixty seven or
visit their website at Wagonerhyphenfinancial dot com.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Our path to a top ten state is only as
strong as our strength of commitment. It's time to compete
to win. When we do better by our kids, invest
in people, accelerate our economy, and get the fundamentals right,
we will feel a powerful win in our sales that
will move Michigan over it. That's a top ten state.
(09:50):
Business Leaders for Michigan is the state's business Roundtable. We're
committed to make Michigan more competitive. Time to be bold, Michigan.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
It's time to compete to When it comes to healthcare costs,
we often focus on one thing, our insurance premiums. But
what if we're only seeing part of the picture. The
truth is our health insurance costs reside downstream at the
end of the cost equation. But to really understand what's
driving up costs, we need to look upstream to the
healthcare system itself. Upstream, there are costs like the price
(10:21):
is charged by hospitals and doctors, and the cost of
prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology these costs flow downstream
directly into your health insurance premium. That's why Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Michigan is advocating for a system wide
solution to address the rising cost of healthcare. Blue Cross
knows that healthcare is personal, needs to work for everyone,
(10:45):
and affordability matters, and that starts with shedding light on
the entire cost equation from upstream costs to downstream premiums.
Want to learn more, VISITMI blue Daily dot com slash
Affordability
Hey, welcome back. This is doctor John Wycoff filling in
for Michael Patrick Shields. Good morning to everyone across the
state of Michigan. It's a privilege and a pleasure to
join you this morning. We have a great guest coming up,
someone who's new to the show. His name is Eric Weir.
He is an author, an author, an entrepreneur, a public speaker,
(00:43):
and we're going to talk about his latest book, Who's
Eating Your Pie, Essential financial advice that will help transform
your life. Good morning, mister Weir, you morning to be
on Well, thank you for time in the time out
of your morning to talk with me and tell us
a little bit about you and your book. I read
(01:05):
through someone the information and your bio here fascinating the information.
But give us an introduction and our listeners and idea
of what this Who's Eating Your Pie book? What is about?
How can help them?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Sure? Sure? Sure? What wrote the bike during I wrote
the book during COEs and knows how separated people were
feeling and disconnected and overwhelmed and they were really down.
If you remembers the first report by the Health Organization,
we're saying things like twenty percent of the world would die,
so it is very depressed. And my first chapter is
(01:40):
Permission to Dream. If you think about it, most kids,
you ask me what they want to do A five, six, seven.
They have huge ambitions and dreams, and by the time
you're about foty years old, you just want a hot meal.
So I wrote a book using practical steps that anybody
could vasively change their life in the areas of faith, family, fitness, finance,
and friends with simple time tests and steps.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm looking through some of the bullet points you've got
and just some really good information that I think people
do struggle with is you know, how how do they
go about building wealth? And I think people do get disenchanted,
and they do get depressed. They start saying, well, you know,
how am I going to make this transition from you know,
working forty or fifty hours a week and I'm getting
(02:25):
closer to retirement, and you know, what should I invest in?
What shouldn't I invest in? And it sounds like your
book is kind of a roadmap and gives them some
ideas of how to navigate through that journey.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It certainly does, I mean, think about our school system.
It teach us a lot of wonderful things. It doesn't
teach us about money. It doesn't teach us how to
set goals, It doesn't teach us how to dream, it
doesn't teach us how to take responsibility, and it doesn't
teach us how to focus on the most important thing
at the time. So these are things that I talk
about in my book that are revolutionary, but they're they're
(02:59):
old things that are brought back to review today.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I think that's again very practical information. And you're right,
we just children as they're growing up. Unless their parents
take the time to really help them learn about money
and managing money and how money works and how money
can work for you, they just don't get that education.
(03:23):
I have three grandsons and I spend time with them
each time we meet, talking about, you know, where you
wanted to go, how are you going to get there?
What are you going to do. I've got my oldest
grandson kind of starting a business, and I said, well,
this is really great. You know, you're really good at this,
but maybe could you maybe branch out and hire some
of your friends to do some of this work and
(03:45):
increase your revenue streams. And so I think you're right,
we really have a more brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's just absolutely Brilliant's exactly, it's exactly some of the
principles that are there, the principles of leverage. You know.
So that's a great thing to be doing with your grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, and I think it's so important that parents and
grandparents understand that. Uh, those kids, and they just suck
up that information. They look up to you so much.
Now you you've you've done some other books also, is
that right?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I wrote, I wrote. I've written some other books
and have some some some other on the way. I
wrote one with a founder of Reebok and Evander Hollyfield,
uh and a few others who wrote a chapter so
how to Survive and Thrive. My book's been translated, you're
pin into several different languages. And I'm writing a book
now called the Victory Book.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, you are a busy guy, and you're involved, you know,
doing other speaking I would assume around the country and
helping people plan and strategic thinking and things along this line.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, that's correct. Yes, I do all that. I'm involved
in different things and from real estate. I've been involved
in entertainment real estate like top golf and uh self
story ideas and downtown urban revitalization just depends on I've
been involved in film as an executive producer and the
various faith based films are helping to finance to tell stories.
(05:12):
But it's really it's really the principles that I'm using.
You know, it can be applied to anybody's life, and
it's really how do you make small change daily that
compounds over time. And most people they make two basic goals.
Either they think they're too busy to plan, so they
never make a plan. I never set goals, or two
(05:34):
they make them so gigantic that they're overwhelming into intimidating,
they never start. And somewhere in the middle, as a
better way to be strategic, to take realistic plans, to
push yourself daily, make will do you get one percent better?
And you look up after a year two those plans
that you probably thought originally would have been unattainable, you're
(05:55):
already there. But it's consistency, it's structure, sure, and it's resolved.
Those are the things that make the most massive difference
in anyone's life. It's not your education, it's not your IQ,
it's not your where you grew up, what part of town.
It's really going to be you. Can you get the
(06:17):
clarity in your head or where you want to go,
and can you make small steps each day, and if
you can do that, you'll be just about unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I think you're exactly right. I've always lived by that
mantra and try to teach my staff, my employees and
my family. I said, you know, don't worry about trying
to impress me. Just try to be a little bit
better person tomorrow. And if you can accomplish that, just
one little step better, you're going to be on that path.
And with what I do in my practice with Pathways
(06:45):
to Wellness my podcast, we talk about a lot of
the things. So just in terms of building wealth, if
you had an average guy or a gal and they're
working at their job and they're trying to invest in
the four one K give this one or two things
that they can maybe start doing today that might put
them on that pathway to improving their lifestyle twenty years
(07:09):
from now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think, you know, the best thing somebody can do
is I call it reframing, reimagining. Doing what you're doing
today and more of it is just going to get
you more of the same results. So if I meet somebody.
I met somebody who's in a real estate agent years ago,
and they had just lost all their assets and lost everything,
(07:31):
and I said, he couldn't fail. What would you do?
He said, well, I would buy this textile mill in
my tent. Why would you do that? He said, well,
it's the value of the brick and the copper and
the wood is more valuable than the textile mill itself.
I said, okay, why don't you own it already? I
don't have the money. And I said, well, it's not true.
People who buy the brick, buy the textile, buy the copper,
and buy the wood do Why don't you make an offer,
(07:52):
really little ball offer, and yet use their capital to
buy it. Why would they do that. They're not going
to take the time to do this. They're just looking
to buy the copper. They're not looking to structure a deal.
Why don't you do that? Open attorney's escrow account, put
a deposit down those three categories, you use that to
pay for the property, and then he keeps the profit
in the upside. He did that in the work. It's
a slightly longer story than that, but he did it
(08:14):
within ninety days, and he did it twenty times after that,
and it's something that he could have done it all
the whole time. All the pieces were in his head,
but he never gave a self permission to dream and
he never thought about knowing what I now know? What
would I do differently if I had clarity?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I think you're right getting people to reframe. I'm speaking
with who's eating your pie? With author? Or Eric Ware?
How can people find out more about you or get
your book?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Sure they go on Instagram and connect with me at
at at Eric Weir at e ri kwei r dot com.
I'm also on LinkedIn, or you can go to Amazon
and find my book.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Very good. Eric has been a privilege and a pleasure.
God bless you keep doing great work. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
This is Chris Buck with Michigan Reimagined podcast. And when
it comes to managing your finances and planning for your future,
I suggest you contact my friends at Wagoner Financial. Whether
you're just getting started, getting ready to retire, or anywhere
in between, Wagoner Financial can help you make smart financial decisions.
Don't navigate a complex problem on your own. Wagoner as
the expertise to help you feel confident that you're making
the right financial Choices. Contacts an advisor by calling five
(09:23):
one seven eight five three three three sixty seven or
visit their website at Wagonerhyphenfinancial dot com.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Our path to a top ten state is only as
strong as our strength of commitment. It's time to compete
to win. When we do better by our kids, invest
in people, accelerate our economy, and get the fundamentals right,
we will feel a powerful win in our sales that
will move Michigan over it. That's a top ten state.
(09:50):
Business Leaders for Michigan is the state's business Roundtable. We're
committed to make Michigan more competitive. Time to be bold, Michigan.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
It's time to compete to When it comes to healthcare costs,
we often focus on one thing, our insurance premiums. But
what if we're only seeing part of the picture. The
truth is our health insurance costs reside downstream at the
end of the cost equation. But to really understand what's
driving up costs, we need to look upstream to the
healthcare system itself. Upstream, there are costs like the price
(10:21):
is charged by hospitals and doctors, and the cost of
prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology these costs flow downstream
directly into your health insurance premium. That's why Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Michigan is advocating for a system wide
solution to address the rising cost of healthcare. Blue Cross
knows that healthcare is personal, needs to work for everyone,
(10:45):
and affordability matters, and that starts with shedding light on
the entire cost equation from upstream costs to downstream premiums.
Want to learn more, VISITMI blue Daily dot com slash
Affordability
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