The Grit Factor Podcast w/ Karl Jacobi

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Average is the enemy of greatness. Comfort is the enemy of growth. Welcome to the Grit Factor podcast, where we strip away the highlight reel and get into the darkness beneath it. The real stories, the real battles in the battle plans used to conquer them. I'm your host, Karl Jacoby. Combat that. Entrepreneur. Resilience and performance coach. Keynote speaker. Husband and father.

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I built, scaled, and exited multiple companies totaling over 40 million in revenue. But here's what that highlight reel doesn't show you. Life has been smacking me in the face with a two by four since I was just five years old. Walking home. Constant chaos. No playbook. No safety net. Just grit. And if you're anything like me, you know you've got another level in you, in your business, your career, your faith, your leadership.

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You're just not sure how to get there. That's exactly why we're here. Be sure to follow me for more great content and check out my website. Success with coral.com. Now that's car with a K. Now let's get to work.

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All right guys, welcome back for another episode. Today, I'm sitting out with a guy whose entire life's work is telling people something. I wish somebody I had said to me this to me 20 years ago. The thing that is going to save you is probably already set it in your hands. He takes people who feel stuck, scared or one bad move away from the edge, and he shows them the income that has been hiding in their own backyard the whole entire time.

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Their skills, their story, even the worst thing that ever happened to them. And I love that, my friends, because most people are sitting on something valuable and calling it. And I did that myself for a very, very long time. But listen, that is not the only reason I want you to listen here today, my friends. I want you to listen because this man has been handed a few things that no mindset shifts, fixes.

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He's lost several hundred thousand dollars after 9/11. He buried a brother at 53. Two sisters, a 62, all of it due to cancer. Then he got a phone call from Japan from his wife telling him, yep, you guessed it, test came back and they think it's cancer two. In 2004, he lost his lower left leg every time he went back to work.

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He has never had a real job in his life and he does not believe he need one either. He is a speaker, an author, a dog rescuer and jumping jump. Hello bungee jump master key at ten times fast and he went through the roof. He was from shoveling manure on a pig farm in New Mexico to helping launch thrill rides in Japan.

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So if you if you're sitting there right now with a skill, you're not using, a story you think it's worthless or a setback, you think you're disqualified from this hours. For you, my friends, this hour is for you. Brant. Merle, my friend, welcome to the show. And I know at this pitch of your last name, I apologize. Well, you missed my first name, too.

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Not to point that out, but it's Bart Merrill. Geez, it's a Monday, man. It is a Monday. Bart Merrill. Guys. All right. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Oof! Oh, man. I'm so sorry, man. Hey. No worries. I'm good. Yeah, man. I'm. I'm really excited for this episode. Especially as we were hitting, you know, before hit record, we were talking in the greenroom.

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You're talking about, you know, a couple things for complimenting you on your painting. Guys, if you're listening right now, just imagine a samurai painting in the backgrounds. Pretty. It's pretty slick, guys. Hop on over YouTube. Check out what I'm talking about here. When you talk about the the pseudo code for business or it's applicable to business, the five rings.

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So I know we're going to have a great conversation here. Really do real quick before we keep rolling. Maybe life hit you hard. Here's this fell apart. Career isn't working out. Relationship ended, health took a dive. And now you're staying in the role trying to figure out what the next move even looks like. Or maybe nothing blew up at all.

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On paper, you're winning, sure, but on the inside, something's off. If you're not in crisis, you're at a crossroads. And the playbook that built the life you have is not the playbook that builds the one you want. Either way, you're stuck. Not broken. Stuck between who you were and who you're becoming. Most self-help just piles more weight on load you're already carrying.

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All right, let's get back to the conversation. All right, man. All right. I want to start way back before any of the businesses you grew up on. A pig farm in New Mexico is somewhere in there. You decided you were never going to have a normal job again. Take me back to that kid, man. What did you see on a farm that made him believe that he can make money out of anything?

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And what did he think life was going to be like? So my original goal from about age 16 was to get in the FBI and chase serial killers. I love that that was my dream job, really. We had an FBI agent friend who he said the easiest way into the FBI is through accounting. And once you get into the FBI, you apply to the different jobs that open.

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And if you're good enough, you're going to get it. If you're not, then you have to stay where you are. And so he says he's way in his accounting. Then you just try and go to where you want. So I studied accounting up on his advice and my dad's advice, I found out two things really quickly. I did not like accounting and I was not very good count.

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Then I had one more quarter left up at college and I took I took some time off, went help my dad on the pig farm, tried to improve my Spanish, and while I was down there, I was making money in this podunk town in southern New Mexico. No place to spend it. Yeah, our case surgery had just come out.

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So this is before Lasik and I had customs agent friends, border patrol friends, cops go in and get in this correct division surgery done on their eyes. I had money, so I went and got it done. Got back up to school, finished up my last quarter in accounting once again in a degree that I didn't like and I wasn't good at start.

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The application process in the FBI found out that that automated that surgery automatically disqualified me from the FBI. It was still considered experimental, and they didn't want to put tens of thousands of dollars into an agent and have him go blind. Now. And as you can see, I have glasses now. But until I was 52, I was 2020 and one eye 2025 and the other I had really good vision, but it disqualified me.

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And so that forced me into this. I kind of I was, to be honest, I was devastated. I was in my college town doing landscaping as a part time job for five bucks an hour, and I just didn't know what I was going to do. And I kind of just fell back on some of the things my dad had taught me by through example.

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He never sat me down and taught me the birds and the bees of business. He showed me by example I told you was a pig farmer, but he had his hands in many different things, usually in the agricultural industry. Part owner of a dairy in Idaho. Part owner of a mushroom warehouse in Utah. Part owner of a a produce warehouse in Arizona.

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He was president of the Pork Producers Association. He just he showed me that you could do many things at one time because we we have this thing, right, that, oh, we can only focus on one thing. There's actually a a misused phrase about it. Jack of all trades, master of none. But if you go to the full quotation, the full quotation is Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than the master of one.

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It's used totally opposite than what it was meant for. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, I see perspective and Mr. Dad show me that you can do many things. And so I was up devastated in my college town in Utah figure trying to figure out what I was going to do on. A buddy of mine jokingly asked me he worked for the bungee jump company.

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He jokingly asked me, hey, would you like to go back to Japan? We just sold a bungee tower in Japan. We need someone to help, you know, build it, train the staff and I would contract with the Japanese company and I would just be the go between. Between the American and the Japanese company. I'm like, yeah, I think so.

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I'll do it. Yeah, sure. Three months later, I was in Japan, pushed a little Japanese people off the top of an eight story bungee tower, and that's where I started. Oh my gosh, sorry, I just got this visual on this pump that I have.

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Yeah, that that would be a fun job, right? Yeah. But, do. So, man, that that's got to be part breaker. I mean, it is some a dream you have for so long. And then you told. Nope. Can't do it. You can't have it, you know. So. All right, so you you did the bungee jumping thing. How you said that was a couple of months.

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So I was over there the first time for six months. The Japanese company that I contracted with liked me. I mean, come on. I'm a farm boy from New Mexico. I'm a pretty decent worker, not afraid of heights. And I would do anything they asked me that wasn't that wasn't stupid. So anyway, I I'm over there. They liked me.

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Next year, we built five more towers in Japan and so they contracted with me again. Then the next year they called me up and they said, hey, you've you heard this thing called the sky coaster? The Sky coaster is a big swing thing, that's all in all the big parks. And they says, we want you to go try it and tell us if you like it.

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And so they paid me, I think, close to $3,000. I had one an hour and a half away. Me and my girlfriend drove down. We tried it. I said, we liked it, and I helped take the first Sky coaster to Japan. And then several years later they called me and they said, okay, we saw this right in Germany, it's a complete unattached freefall into a net from about 150ft in the air.

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We want you to go try it. And I said, well, a free fall into a net. That's gotta hurt. Yeah, yeah, that's why we want you to go to. That's why we want you to go, not us. So I called Germany. They said it was just for for stunt people at the time. But they will call us when it's ready.

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For real people. For normal people, you know? And two months later, I got a call. So, February, I'm on a flight to Hamburg, Germany. And just so you know, Hamburg, Germany is. But cold. And yes, it in February we lived in Germany for. Yeah, I get it. And so I go over there, I try this 4 or 5 times and then fly to Japan.

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We sold three of those in Japan. I built two of those in the US, one in Wisconsin Dells, one in Dallas, Texas. But let me just tell you, you're only falling for like four seconds. Do you know how many times I should have hit the net by now? I should have hit the net by now. Can run through your head in four seconds.

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I can imagine four seconds seems like an eternity at that point. Doesn't it? Quite a few dives anyway. So that's. That's kind of how things started for me. We built our own ride in Japan called the Kamikaze Coaster. So if you can imagine a ski jump style track that if it was on flat ground, it would be 90ft off the ground.

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And then it has this track that goes down and then you it jumps off. And so you have a four passenger car that goes basically, it looks like a sand rail with coast roller coaster tires. Interesting. So it goes down, it jumps off, and after it jumps off, it turns into a zip line, goes about the length of a football field over there, over across the lake.

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And then it stops on the other side. And so that's kind of how my, my whole thing started for me after I found out I wasn't becoming going to become an FBI agent and chase serial killers. Hahaha. Well, well, I mean, obviously you can see I'm kind of an adrenaline junkie. I had no idea, man, I didn't get that at all.

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Nope. You know, people ask me, they'll ask me. So you must have graduated in engineering? No, I graduated in accounting. Hahahahahahahaha. Yeah, I would certainly have guessed that, too, right? I mean, most people that are in that space, if you will, or, you know, they have some type of engineering background, right? Or, you know, something other than accounting.

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It's very interesting because you you leave or you leave, you didn't get that dream, you know, and you move into something that was completely unexpected for you, you know, reminds me of a phrase, that I heard said a long time ago. It was a, you know, because there have been things in my life, man. I was like, man, I so wanted that.

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And when it didn't happen, it was like, man, that was the best thing that never happened to me because it gave me other things that, it actually enjoyed more than I initially thought I was going enjoy this other thing, right? Or give me better, more enjoyable success, you know? But I don't know how it would have worked out, obviously, but I still have a a I don't know what, lack of a regret that I didn't make it because I still.

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And but who knows if I would have got in in the in the accounting doorway. What I've been able to go to the cycle psychology side of things. So if I would have been stuck in a white if white collar crime, I would have hated it. That's not I mean, I'm seriously, I, I don't know where I got this from southern New Mexico, but man, I'm an adrenaline junkie.

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I just I'm doing stupid stuff all the time. I was I got married and I calmed down a little bit, a little bit. Oh me. And so now my adrenaline rush comes from speaking on stages. That just. That's awesome. Yeah, I can relate, man. I can wholeheartedly relate to one. Well, cool. Well, you know, let's fast for a moment.

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Right. You know, let's go to that phone call. Your wife is in Japan, visit family. She goes in for a routine health check, and she she calls you calm and she tells you the initial tests are showing cancer. You know, take a sick haul, man. You know, take us to that moment. You know, maybe we're, you know, tell us where you're standing.

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You know. What does she actually say? Of course. You know, feel free to hold back anything you need to, but, you know, and what happen in your body when it landed? I mean, take us. Take us to that moment, man. So I actually missed her first phone call. I was busy doing something. And, you know, she she goes back to visit her family.

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She usually stays a month. And I was she gets her health checks done while she was there. And I missed the first call. And then I got home or got freed up. And I called back and she calmly said that the the initial test indicated cancer and that they took it in for a biopsy. Will know in a few days and the few days is eight days.

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I don't know why. When you have this test, it takes that long to get the information back to you because you go down the YouTube rabbit hole, you you go from from concerned to worry to can't sleep to oh crap to, you know, you just go through the stage. I mean, imagine I mean, my brother died at 53, two sisters at 62.

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You just got a call that your wife had cancer. Might have cancer. What's going through your mind? You know, obviously, the first was I could lose my wife. She actually joked about it. She's like, I guess I'm going to find you a new wife. And I'm just like, that's, let's go there. And then. And then my second thought was, sadly, was, we can't afford this.

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I can't afford to drop everything. And be by her side as she goes through whatever it is she's going to have to go through and then pay the medical bills to. Yeah, yeah. And so my concern, you know, money is and everything. Or is it when you don't have enough and then it's dang important. And that's when I woke up.

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That's when I was like, man, I need to do multiple streams. I need to have multiple income streams in coming in so that I can be prepared for what happens when what happens happens when life happens. And, you know, so after eight sleepless night, the the biopsy came back negative for cancer. She just had to have the tumor removed.

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It was such a relief. It was it was a relief. And it was a wake up call. But why why do we have to wait to get a wake up call like that to get prepared for what happens when what happens happens? Yes. A great need to prepare before it happens. And that's what my that's what I do now is I help people understand.

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Number one, they need to. Life is going to happen. Yes. It's not if it's when. Yes. And you need to be prepared for that and you can. There's just so much that is left on your plate that what do you like to do? What do you need to do? What are you already doing? Ask how can you monetize one, 2 or 3 of those things and create financial security by the stuff you're already doing?

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Agree. So the the cancer or phone call was a blessing because it woke me up. That's so good. Let me let me pin this for a second because you missed is something that's really, really thought provoking. And this came apparent in my life multiple times even, is just recently that, in fact, a good friend of mine ran from her, he said this one of our mastermind calls.

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Several. You know, I don't know about you. Two or so years ago, maybe a year ago. Timelines that real often. But, man, you can have a thousand problems in this world when you have a health problem, you look at one problem. I see it. You only got one problem, you know, and then you're so right, man. Because up until that point, man, all you're trying to do is solve that one problem while everything else is going to stand, you know, stand by sign.

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You know, it's a shame that we have to have like, we know deep down that we're going to leave this blue marble. But time has a way of of fooling us that we have forever. Right. You know, so talk more about that, man. Talk more about, you know, to to those individuals out there that you're talking to, that, you know, that haven't yet had a wake up call, or maybe they have had a wake up call now.

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So like, wait till Monday. Well, I've had several in my life, starting with, starting with missing out on my dream job. Then you mentioned that I lost several hundred thousand dollars after 911. I was this close to bankruptcy because about 80,000 of that was on credit cards. When you could do balance transfers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. In business deals that went bad all of a sudden.

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That were supposed to be amazing. Yeah, I remember and and so I'm, I'm, I'm like right here. But my credit score is still amazing. So what do you do? I went out, I bought a brand new Ford diesel pickup, 3 or 1 time diesel pickup. I'm going to go pull trailers nationwide camping trailers from manufacturer the dealer, but I didn't.

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I couldn't get a contract until I had the truck, so I had to buy the truck before I had the contract. So I bought the truck. I drove out to Indiana to where the main hub is for the trailer manufacturing. I got the contract and I started pulling trailers. I know I saved my butt. I know where in Indiana to.

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Yeah. Elkhart. Yeah. Elkhart. Yeah. And so that's, that's that's one of the things that happened. And so let's go back to bungee jumping for a second. So like you said, I am a bungee jump master. That means I have the authority and the permission to push. I mean, to assist little Japanese people off the top of the tower.

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You didn't have to correct yourself. First time was perfectly fine. Hahahahahahahaha. And our our busiest day, I assisted or I shouldn't say I. We assisted 783 people off the top of this tower, but sometimes in the middle of the week, when it wasn't so busy, I was alone up at the top of the tower, just me and my brilliant mind.

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Now, now, this is brilliant. This is crazy. So if your hands going around your head forward, you're brilliant. If it's going backwards, it's crazy. My tower at the bottom of it. There was a stunt person airbag and that stunt person airbag. In theory, one could jump from the top of the tower, eight storeys up all the way to the bottom and hit that airbag without a bungee cord and be okay.

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My brilliant mind was asking me, hey, Bart, we'll try to do that. I walked over the edge and I looked down. I like, no, I ain't that crazy. No. No. Today your mind is still talking to me and it says, okay, you can jump with a bungee cord attached, wait for the bouncing to stop. Then you can unhook yourself and fall from six stories instead of eight.

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Now, in my mind, I could do that. I could do that. Yeah. So I jumped with a bungee cord, hooked. I waited it for for it to stop and I couldn't get it unhooked. I mean, I'm my weight is just too much. The tension on that giant rubber band was just too much to get unhooked, so my buddy let me down.

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I went back up to the top and my brilliant mind continues. Okay, when you attach bungee cord to your customer, you have a knot a foot long one inch nylon strap with a carabiner on the end. You can take that carabiner, rapid wrap the hook, hook it to the other end of the strap and you have a loop.

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You get two loops. You put them at the end of the bungee cord. What do you have? Handles? I couldn't jump just hanging on to the bungee cord with my bare hands. Wait for the bouncing to stop, and then all I have to do is let go. Brilliant, right? I'm waiting here. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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I had my my handles in my hands. I walked to the bungee to the edge of the bungee tower. I looked down, said 3 to 1 bungee and I jumped. Now obviously I survived, but sometimes your brilliant mind doesn't think all the way through. I am hanging from a giant rubber band. What's going to happen when I let go?

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That bungee cord shot up to the top of the tower with this loud bang. I fell to the mat and hit with a loud slap. It echoed throughout the park and everyone came to running to see who just died. Now, if you're going to be in business, you got to be a little bit of brilliant and a little bit of crazy.

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Crazy. Yes. Now, yes, some of you listening to this story, you're like, that's just stupid. Why would you have that stupid? You're right, it probably was stupid, but it was an educated guess, an educated decision to jump. I had bungee jumped thousands of times. I knew the pressure, and I believed I was sure that I could hang while I was 99% sure I could hang on.

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So it was an educated decision to do this, to achieve the goal that I wanted, which was to drop to that mat in a freefall in business, in doing things, you're going to have to take risk, like buying a $40,000 Ford pickup and driving to Indiana to see if you're going to get the contract. So when you're doing side hustles, when you're starting things, you have to be willing to do that.

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And that's something that I have done all my life. Take a little bit of risk educated, risk educated risk. That's a good story, man. It's good though. I mean, I agree, me and I thank you for sharing that perspective because you do have to be brilliant. Probably listening to that story. What the hell does this have to do with anything?

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Hahahahahahahaha I'm sure we're getting there, but no, that's a great story, man. And that really is some perspective of you got to be, you know, be willing to take risks. You can be willing to be crazy and brilliant at the same time. Right? I mean, that's the only way, you know, you know, your boundaries. I'm not saying you jump off a freaking bridge and see you know, if that works for you, but, I mean, we all in our own right city take risks 100%.

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And when we start taking risks, we stop growing, we stop living, we stop enjoying life. And that's that's why I'm of the belief in guys, if you're listening, just, you know, hop on my YouTube channel. But this guy has got a huge smile on his face. He's you could tell he is gaining huge sense of joy and happiness.

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And it's because you take a risk. You've lived life, you know, and from a no regrets perspective. And not that you wouldn't have. Not that you haven't learned lessons, but you're taking risks. So good man. Yeah. And so doing stuff like that, how did it kind of progress to where I am now? You know, I'm over at the I'm in Japan doing the bungee jump thing.

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I'm going to a gym at night. I have no friends because I'm new to the area and I'm this big gringo. Or in Japan they call them guy jeans. They call us guy jeans. And I'm, you know, I'm 64 to 20. Nobody is really coming up and saying, hey, dude, how are you? Yeah, yeah, for about two weeks, the only people that talk to me were the staff and finally this one guy, he walks up to me and he goes, Hiro, you said hello in the best English I could drum up.

00;28;30;25 - 00;28;52;27
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Yeah. And then I started speaking Japanese to him. He's like, oh, I'm glad you speak Japanese because I was done at Hiro. We became friends. He was a big rig driver in Japan. And for American big rig drivers, you guys suck. Japanese big rig drivers come back into the small us. They are incredible. One shot backing into the smallest places.

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And I shouldn't say big rig driver because there's a lot of really amazing big rig drivers in America as well. Yeah, I hear you. I would watch him back into these places or I'm just like, oh my gosh, this guy's good. Anyway, he was a big rig driver and he about two years into our maybe a year and a half into our friendship, he's like, you know, I want to quit driving Big Rig and start importing camping trailers and Ford and Dodge diesel pickups into Japan.

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Will you help me? I didn't know how to do it, but I said, yeah, sure, let's do it. I thought he knew how to do it now. He didn't know how to do it either, so we figured it out on our own. That was back in 1997. We're still doing it to this day. Interesting. And it's been a very amazing side hustle for me.

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Unknown
I mean, it has its ups and downs with different, different things that happen, but it's part time in part time time and sometimes really, really, really good income. Interesting. I never thought of that man. Okay, I didn't either. All I did was say yes. He thought of it. I just said yes. Amundsen, you have a quotation out there by Richard Branson.

00;30;02;15 - 00;30;23;04
Unknown
When someone comes to you with an amazing opportunity and you don't know how to do it, say yes and figure it out. Yeah, I agree, I agree wholeheartedly. I think that's for some of your biggest opportunities. Lie is learning. Learn how to do it. You know, because I mean you think back dude, nobody knows how to do anything for the first time, right?

00;30;23;05 - 00;30;42;06
Unknown
You didn't know how to do the whole jumpmaster thing for the very first time. You know, the push. You know, people are pushing. Yeah, I'm sure that was the easy part. But, you know, we all have a first thing. We never going to have a first until we say yes, you know, and give ourselves permission to get comfortable.

00;30;42;06 - 00;31;03;22
Unknown
Give yourself permission to to be open to that man. So what's it going to take in that first step, taking that initial jump to with an educated guess. Do your homework as much as you can, but then you you got to quit doing homework and and take that first step. Yeah 100% man hunter sin. Well I mean in your journey, dude.

00;31;03;22 - 00;31;30;29
Unknown
I mean, you mentioned this. You know, you you've had losses, right? You've lost family members to cancer. You had a health scare with your wife. You even had a health scare, in last party leg or your whole leg. You know, walk us through your mind as you're navigating these things in a sense of like, oh, man, guys, this I love it.

00;31;31;00 - 00;31;53;11
Unknown
They've, It's tax deductible. Tax deductible. All right, it was your listeners this. Imagine for a moment this guy, you know, held up his lawyer. You know, is is why can I not think. Prosthetic leg. There you go. Thank you. That was to me syllables. Anyways, he had a similar I had a similar a painting on the back of it, and it was really beautiful.

00;31;53;16 - 00;32;16;07
Unknown
And, I can't tell you, you know, I can't tell you every cultural person. And so, well, so in looking back, you know, to these events and even then it's gone on. And so for you talk to this person out there that is very risk averse, right? They're probably listening to you right now. They're like, yeah, I'm in it.

00;32;16;08 - 00;32;39;08
Unknown
That sounds all well and good right now. But you know, there are some people that are very how do I say this man? They're very more innate to take risks. If that's the best way I could come out with us versus others that are not right. Yeah. People are so scared to just step outside the line, you know, out of the hallway, you know, mess less.

00;32;39;13 - 00;32;59;08
Unknown
You know, doing jump, you know, bungee jumping, testing, you know, testing Newton's law, you know, you know, on a bungee jump, you know? So, what do you say to that person who's listening to you? It's like, yeah, that's. I'm not. I can't be that kind of person. So it's understandable. We've been taught this our whole life.

00;32;59;08 - 00;33;16;19
Unknown
Go out and get a job. It's the safe thing to do. Yes. You're going to work there for your whole life. You're going to get a pension. You're going to retire. You're going to be happy. Everything's going to be great. Yeah. Right now it's not going to happen that right now the new risk is the one jar of Amen.

00;33;16;21 - 00;33;37;27
Unknown
Yes. With I out right now, you know what? Job's going to disappear. Yes. And I'm not anti I actually I think you should learn all you can about I because I am agree. That's one of the things that I, I add into my system is a bunch of AI and a bunch of tools that you should use to increase your chances of success.

00;33;37;27 - 00;34;00;06
Unknown
But we've been taught this to go down this path, and we haven't been taught the birds and the bees a business. We've been taught the birds and the bees of employment, and I think that's for a reason. But yeah, yeah, employment is going to make the big guys. Rich is not going to really help you. They they can get rid of you whenever they want.

00;34;00;10 - 00;34;27;18
Unknown
Once again, I'm not anti rich either. I'm just saying you need to think differently and you need to figure out how to do these things. Now, if you're risk averse and you have trouble doing this, start small, start small and get the winds going before you go big. I think the more my side hustles that I've done, the biggest one was dog training, and I think it cost me $10,000 to start.

00;34;27;20 - 00;34;51;03
Unknown
I mean, when I say the biggest one, the the most expensive startup cost was dog training to get to get the training to get my. And so we adopted this Rottweiler, eight months old, 90 pounds. Did not know the word no, I could not leave him alone with my wife because he would he would mouth her. He wouldn't buy bite, but he would be her.

00;34;51;03 - 00;35;06;26
Unknown
And she bruises easy. And I come home in her arms, all bruised up. I'm like, Holy crap, don't make sure everybody knows I didn't do that to you. So I figured, okay, I kept calling my buddy Sean. I was like, Sean, Rex is doing this. What do I do? Rex is doing this. What do I do? By the fifth collies?

00;35;06;26 - 00;35;27;07
Unknown
Like we're doing a Train the Trainer program. Why don't you come take the train a trainer program and train your own dog if you're not going to pay me to train him, so I did. I think it was $8,000 for the class. It was a two month, all day, every day work with all their dogs. They had, you know, 40, 50 dogs on the on their place at a time.

00;35;27;10 - 00;35;49;28
Unknown
So in two months time, I had my hands on 100 different dogs, all different sizes, personalities and shapes and learned everything I needed to start a dog training business our first year. So I have a business partner that I also met at the training that that Sean was putting on his older dozen isn't very tech savvy. I say he's older when I'm old, but he's older than me, so.

00;35;49;28 - 00;36;13;10
Unknown
But he wasn't very tech savvy. And so I do all the tech. He does all he he helps with training and we kind of run two separate businesses. He does one on one training. I do the board and train, but we run it under an umbrella LLC, a series LLC, where where our expenses are shared and our profits are different businesses.

00;36;13;17 - 00;36;34;19
Unknown
And so I our first year, I did almost 100 grand in his first year, very part time, because he's also a plumber. He did close to 50 grand. Nice. That was without trying, you know, it was just and it was just once again, if I'm going to learn to train my dog, I'm going to get paid very well to play with other people's dogs.

00;36;34;26 - 00;36;54;26
Unknown
Yeah, man. So I did not. Right. And so when things come up, you just got to be willing to take take a chance. I mean another another quick example. My wife, she told me, Bart, I'm seeing a little too much of you. I would like to see a little less of you. Yeah. You've been working on that before.

00;36;54;26 - 00;37;13;11
Unknown
Picture long enough. Let's start with Mr.. On the after picture now, she was being funny, telling me I need to lose weight when I decided, okay, yeah, I need to lose weight. My my first thought goes, okay, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to get paid. Like Marie Osmond and Dan Marino that were the the spokespeople for Nutrisystem at the time.

00;37;13;11 - 00;37;35;06
Unknown
Yeah I remember, yeah. And so I went to I was like, okay, I want to give my wife what she bargained for, that my wedding weight. I went to GoDaddy back to my wedding Wacom. It was available, I bought it, I didn't even know what I was going to do, or if I could lose the weight. I was the heaviest I'd ever been, 64 to 85.

00;37;35;13 - 00;37;56;06
Unknown
I look back on some of those pictures. I'm like, oh man, you look, you all look good. So with and it took me seven years to find what worked for me. But when I found it back to my wedding, Wacom turned into a income stream for me. Offers something that I needed to do. So I have three questions I like to ask people.

00;37;56;09 - 00;38;19;25
Unknown
What do you like to do? Make a list. What do you need to do? Make a list. What are you already doing? Make a list. Then how can you monetize one, 2 or 3 of those things? Sounds like a good guy. It's close. Yes. Yeah, he missed the one to, for the good guy. But yeah, that's very good.

00;38;19;25 - 00;38;46;23
Unknown
I like that, and that's just what I've done my whole life. Anything good, bad or ugly that crosses my path, I always ask, how can I monetize it? Well, that's. Man, that's interesting. Would you think so? By doing that, it helps you develop your muscle to look for opportunities. To me, it comes naturally. Like I said, for me it comes naturally.

00;38;46;23 - 00;39;09;07
Unknown
What I do is I take people through a process to help them think like I do, and so so that they become thinking that I mean, school bus driver, a friend of mine, she came to me bar, can you help me? I want to do this. She came to me with her idea and I said, Stephanie, I know you came to me with an idea, but humor me and go through my process.

00;39;09;09 - 00;39;24;29
Unknown
And so I had her make her list, you know, what do you like to do? What do you need to do? What are you already doing? Told her, I says we'll meet next week. Two days later she calls me up and she's like, Ma, I'm so mad at you. Like what? I woke up at 3:00 this morning and I couldn't go back to sleep.

00;39;24;29 - 00;39;43;04
Unknown
You know, I have to be on the bus by six. I mean, just like Stephanie. From what I can remember, I was not. I was in my house asleep at 3:00 this morning. Yeah, yeah, but I thought of an idea, and I couldn't go back to sleep because I was thinking about all the things I needed to do to see if I could make it happen.

00;39;43;06 - 00;40;04;21
Unknown
And and so I don't I don't help people. I don't make their decisions. I just get them started thinking and then they do it. That's that's the whole point. That is the whole point. I mean, I can I can relate to that, right? I mean, we have to develop our muscles. And I'm not talking about our muscle fibers, our skeletons.

00;40;04;21 - 00;40;31;03
Unknown
You know, I'm talking about mentally muscle where it develops the creativeness. You know, the the reticular activating system for looking for opportunities. And, you know, and that's how and I think if I understand you clinically, that's how you're seeing so many opportunities because you programed your mind. Right. Exactly. It just comes easy to you or natural to you.

00;40;31;03 - 00;40;58;01
Unknown
It's because you programed your mind all of this time to look for these opportunities. And now you see it's it's like second nature to you now. Yeah. And and let's just go to how crazy I am, okay. Whenever I found out that so it was October 2023, I went in for a what I thought was going to be to schedule a ankle fusion surgery.

00;40;58;04 - 00;41;18;24
Unknown
The radiologist took the first picture and they're not supposed to say anything. They're supposed to let the doctor tell you anything from behind the partition where the guy is hiding. He's just like, damn, you don't have an ankle bone. I like, oh, crap. So I got in with the doctor. Doc said, okay, you don't have an ankle bone.

00;41;18;24 - 00;41;40;03
Unknown
I'm like, yep, okay, thanks. I've already know that. What's my what are my options? He this there's an amputation. That's your option. So when I found out about that, obviously after the shock and all was over, my mind goes, okay, I don't like this. There's nothing I can do about it. It's going to happen. How can I monetize it?

00;41;40;05 - 00;42;03;18
Unknown
Six months post-op, I contracted with my Prosthetist to help people go through what it is I went through. So and it went like this. I said, Scott, you know, I interviewed three other prostitutes before I decided on you. One of them had a guy, a guy that had his leg cut off that I could go talk to and ask, how bad's this going to hurt?

00;42;03;21 - 00;42;26;09
Unknown
What about phantom pain? What about my bathroom? Do I need to change my bathroom? What about what about what about? I could ask all the questions that I couldn't get answered. Scott, you don't have a guy. I'm your guy. That's how I started. If I hadn't thought about it six months prior to my surgery, I wouldn't have taken the opportunity because he didn't ask me.

00;42;26;11 - 00;42;29;19
Unknown
He didn't come to me.

00;42;29;21 - 00;42;43;27
Unknown
I asked him, and that started our negotiation. I was like, Scott, I don't want a real job. I want to be on retainer. You send me the numbers of the people I need to talk to. I go do whatever it is I need to do. And we've been doing that for over a year and a half now. Nice.

00;42;43;28 - 00;43;02;21
Unknown
It's it's a it's a side income to me. That's very good. Yeah. Well think about it though too man. It's ultimately Lee chases something that gives you fulfillment and gives you a sense of peace. It gives you a sense of like you're doing something. It's bigger than you. And this is something I talk a lot about, you know, all my programs.

00;43;02;21 - 00;43;29;20
Unknown
This, you know, is something that you generally love doing and either direct or indirect, so that you get to do the things that fulfill you and me. And dude, it's it's so good, man. I hope those are listening right now. And my brain's turning as we speak right now, but I hope there's a listening right now or listening and think about me and what you know, what can I, you know, like your three point exercise there.

00;43;29;20 - 00;43;58;06
Unknown
What what have I been through? What have I done? What do I have to do? All these different things. If we all have something, we all have something. Every single time will go chopping off body parts to start a side up. Oh, no. Please don't. Please. No, I, I agree, but that is a good point, man. I in fact, I've got several ladies in our group that there are entering in a season of life right now where the carpet was, you know, yanked underneath them, you know, in their earnest space.

00;43;58;06 - 00;44;19;02
Unknown
And this, this is impeccable timing because there's a lot of people right now that are losing their jobs, their their hours are getting cut. They're like the whole world as employment is shifting as we know it. You know, you just perfectly summed it up, but it is it is 100% changing. You know, I, I say, I grew up, I pretty much grew up.

00;44;19;03 - 00;44;41;02
Unknown
I know you did too, in an era where we were like you said, we're sold a lie where you go to school, you'd be a good boy. You get indoctrinated to go to college, you be a good boy and go to school or, you know, to get a job or work there for 40 years, retire, maybe live for a couple years and die.

00;44;41;04 - 00;45;02;04
Unknown
I mean, you're dead a long time ago. You don't get buried until, you know, a couple of years later, or decades later. Right. Somewhere along the lines, man, it really shifted to where you really don't have any security. Other bet on yourself to put security in your own hands. Yeah. And for me, I didn't recognize this for a long time.

00;45;02;06 - 00;45;24;15
Unknown
I just did it. I did it for myself. And then I was volunteering at a drug rehab center in Salt Lake, and I was I was doing a you're familiar with Toastmasters speaking? Yeah. Yeah. So I was doing this. They have a mouse. Oh, yes, I know there I was doing a Toastmasters style club in this in this rehab center was a 90 day in house rehab.

00;45;24;19 - 00;45;49;22
Unknown
And I was just trying to teach people how to share their stories. And I was listening to Jim tell her story, and she was talking about how growing up, she didn't realize that her life was different, or that other people's lives were different than hers. When her family was out and about, they acted somewhat normal. No problems, no issues, no nothing was until they went home that the abuse and neglect happened.

00;45;49;25 - 00;46;11;01
Unknown
And so she thought everybody else went home, did the same, abused, same neglect until she went to college and had roommates and found out, no, they did not go to, you know, go home to abuse and neglect. And I'm listening to her tell that story. And for some reason I know the reason, but I my my mind says it's the same when it comes to making money.

00;46;11;03 - 00;46;38;25
Unknown
If you didn't grow up with my dad or someone like my dad, you don't think like I do. You don't recognize the opportunities that are right there and I need to share. I need to write about. And that's when I wrote my book, Monetize Your Mindset. But it was all because of listening to Jen story and her perspective on on life and how different nurture versus nature type of things happen and change the way you think.

00;46;38;28 - 00;47;01;15
Unknown
And the reason I was so on that mark is because earlier that day or earlier that week, my sister denies it, but I swear it was her coming from the same dad and she posted an article or a book about it was How to live on less than $28,000 a year. And I'm in my head. I'm just like, why would I even read that book?

00;47;01;20 - 00;47;22;07
Unknown
Yeah, exactly. Give me a book that says how to make more than $28,000. Exactly. Yeah. And so I was already on that edge, and I'm just thinking. And I drove once again, I'm driving home from this event where Jen was speaking, and as I got home, I got home, I went and I looked it up. Monetize your mindset.com.

00;47;22;07 - 00;47;41;18
Unknown
It was available, I bought it, I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but I bought it. And then I wrote a book and then it's it's blossomed, from Monetize Your Mind set to the side hustle. Samurai just progressed and progressed and progressed. You got to take action. Yeah, I agree man, I agree. Harley is there.

00;47;41;19 - 00;48;06;16
Unknown
Has there been anything at all? Right. Because, you know, for a lot of what you've been saying is you turn everything into an income stream, right? The farm, the the setbacks, you know, even losing your leg, you turn into an income stream by helping other people. So let me ask you straight, man, has there been anything that's happened to you or anything at all in your life where you could not monetize it?

00;48;06;16 - 00;48;28;11
Unknown
User version of that question. It comes a way to avoid actually feeling the thing. So let me give you two examples. Right out of college, I thought I was going to do some snowmobile rental, a snowmobile rental business from the top of the mountain. So we bought a big flatbed trailer, loaded nine snowmobiles on it, and pull it up the mountain.

00;48;28;11 - 00;48;45;00
Unknown
People are going to come to me and rent from me and I actually had one of those old cellular phones that had the little thing, you know, it was like a real phone. You know, you picked up the thing and you punched the numbers. I remember yanking on the top of your truck. You could get the reception, I remember.

00;48;45;03 - 00;49;08;24
Unknown
So I'm up there waiting for people and and we had people come and rent from us. It was our first year. We didn't get enough snow until January 1st. And then our first day we had one kid total, one of our sleds. And I mean, it was just it wasn't a good thing. And we I did it for probably 3 or 4 years, and then I'm just like, this isn't worth it.

00;49;08;27 - 00;49;31;25
Unknown
So failed there. Then I have a Japanese restaurant that I just love. It's the first place I go when I land in Japan, and it's the last place I go before I leave. It's called Coco ichi Bond curry. It's Japanese curry and it is. It's amazing. You can choose your your hotness. You can choose your toppings. I mean, you can put on cheese, you can put sausages, you can.

00;49;32;01 - 00;49;52;27
Unknown
It's just it's amazing. And in Japan they are. It's a chain restaurant. So they're everywhere. And these restaurants, they open up and they're first year. They're profitable. If you go to one by a military base on a Friday or Saturday night, you think you're in America because that's where all the guys are. And so I'm like, oh, this is I need to bring this to America.

00;49;52;27 - 00;50;19;01
Unknown
This is amazing. I love this stuff. I would love to do this every day. I got home and I started doing my research, talking to a couple of restaurant tours. And I'm just like, I don't want to work that hard. Yeah, no. Yeah. No. But one thing I forgot to tell you is I had a rich Japanese backer that was going to give me the money to start, and he said it like this if we make a profit, we split it.

00;50;19;03 - 00;50;49;02
Unknown
If we don't, and we fell, don't worry about it. I had free money to get this started. Oh, wow. I still said no. I love to eat this stuff. I don't think I want to oversee making it every day. Yeah. And I just and a lot of people come into things like this, they go, oh, I wish I was Bezos or I wish I was Musk, or I wish I was Cuban, and you have to give up X to get this.

00;50;49;02 - 00;51;13;25
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. True. And you got to is it worth it. Do you want that lifestyle Mark Cuban slept on everybody's sofa until he made it. True. It's true. He was struggling. He slept on everybody's couch. Is that the life you want? You know, so whenever you're trying to decide these things that are crossing your path, good, bad or ugly, is it something you want to do?

00;51;13;28 - 00;51;37;10
Unknown
I probably work longer hours than most people with a 9 to 5, but it's something that I like doing, especially with AI. Right now, I'll be doing something and I'm just learning or building. Yeah. And I'm just like, oh, it's 2:00 in the morning. I better go to bed. Yeah. And I have I forced myself to go to bed, but it's something I want to do and I can control my time.

00;51;37;13 - 00;51;56;01
Unknown
If I want to go do something, I can go do it and say, okay, I'll come back. I want to go play golf, or if I want to go, well, whatever it is I want to do, go fishing. Yeah, yeah, that's true man. And it's true. You know, it kind of goes along to phrase, right? You know, when you love what you do, you don't work a single day in your life.

00;51;56;01 - 00;52;12;25
Unknown
And I think that's misconstrued in a lot of different ways. But, you know, I think with whoever initially said that, I think the initial, the true context of it is if you truly love what you do, not that you're not going to have hard days or there are days you took, you know, they're like, man, this is bullshit.

00;52;12;28 - 00;52;30;04
Unknown
But if you truly enjoy it, man, it makes it more, makes it makes pursue it through the hard times much more palatable. I guess is not the best way to say it. Right. Because it's not work to you. It's it's something you love doing. Even if the way you really paid you do it, you still do it just because you love doing it.

00;52;30;04 - 00;52;50;28
Unknown
But you just have to make it pay for it. So hey. Cool, right? So and that was my mantra if you're going to be doing it anyway, you might as well figure out how to get paid for it. Yeah, I mean that's true. That is true, man. Especially as you mentioned. I mean, that's especially in today's times that I things have gotten way easier.

00;52;50;28 - 00;53;12;04
Unknown
So man, fast forward a day, man. You've got a lot things. You know, between the books and the workshop and, you know, kind of all kinds of stuff that you're doing. What is what are you most fired up about right now that the world hasn't yet seen of you? So I'm taking this, helping people to a new level.

00;53;12;06 - 00;53;51;06
Unknown
I mean, trying to do one on one coaching through the workshops, through the webinars, and from zero to cash flow in six months, 180 days. The goal is 90, but I give 180 days to get this done. And I just think people right now, they needed. I was listening to the radio the other day of some something that said, right now, 52% of households with the way gas prices and stuff right now, they can't afford a $500 emergency.

00;53;51;09 - 00;54;15;25
Unknown
And it's just one of those things where it's something that's needed. The hard thing is, is a lot of people, they may want it, but they don't know how to get it. And I'm here to show them how to get it. And right now with I, there has never been a better time in the history of the world to start something on your own.

00;54;15;28 - 00;54;22;14
Unknown
You used to have a knowledge. You had to know something to get something done.

00;54;22;17 - 00;54;50;07
Unknown
You can have a group of you can have a board of people helping you do what it is you want to do. And it's at the it's at your fingertips. I agree, the only better day to start it's, you know, a business was yesterday, right. And even then I think as we move forward, it's going to get easier and easier and kind of cringe when I see this because I feel, oh, it's going to be easy now.

00;54;50;09 - 00;55;13;07
Unknown
It's going to be simpler, right? It's going to be more simple to start a business. The access me for me is that way, that access to starting a business and the simplicity of it is like the barrier to get in is far, far, far easier. I do YouTube, I like you, you can learn everything you need to know about starting a business just with this two alone, right?

00;55;13;13 - 00;55;33;10
Unknown
And let it be your guide, you know. So we never been an easier time or simpler time to create a business or create an income for yourself. This matter of doing it, you know, a lot of people are afraid of me. What if I fail? What if I look stupid? What? You know, where's my friends going to say?

00;55;33;17 - 00;55;58;09
Unknown
Where's my family? Or my friends going to say, you know all these fears, right? The effort, as I say, and no, not that effort. But, that's so good, man. People need people, you know, like like you to pioneer and show them the way where people can. Because, man, it's only going to get worse. Well, I have, you have a season with things.

00;55;58;11 - 00;56;20;23
Unknown
And right now we're at the edge of beginning and middle of. I, as everybody knows that the competition is only going to get harder. Agree? Oh, I guess, like, right now is the perfect time to start something. Two years from now, five years from now, it may be harder. I don't know, it may be easier. It may be harder.

00;56;20;23 - 00;56;43;14
Unknown
I don't know. Right now is amazing. If you have fear, get a mentor. Whether you pay someone or whether it's YouTube videos or whatever. Gary Vaynerchuk says, what is it? I would rather fail three out of ten times than hit ten out of ten, because I learned so much from the failures. So don't be afraid of failure. You'll learn something.

00;56;43;16 - 00;57;03;09
Unknown
I agree wholeheartedly, and I love that you put that perspective of the seasons of my success when he's in the ecommerce space. Leverage and Amazon. When I first came in in industry. Looking back, man, it's like where I is. It's like, wow, wow. That's right. Real quick before you go, if you're still with me this deep into the episode, something in it hits you.

00;57;03;12 - 00;57;28;29
Unknown
Maybe it was the guest, maybe it was one line. Either way, you're still here, and that feeling in your chest right now, that's the signal. Most people get a signal like that and do absolutely nothing with it. I close the app. Life rushes back in the moments gone. Six months later, there are the exact same spot. I don't want that for you.

00;57;29;01 - 00;57;56;05
Unknown
So I put something together. I want to invite you to check out a free video series called The Grit Code Exposed seven Short videos. The Five Laws I walk every client through, the same ones that rebuilt me when everything else fell apart. And if you listen closely, you heard them running underneath the entire conversation. Because everyone who's come back from the fire walks through these five laws.

00;57;56;08 - 00;58;25;13
Unknown
Some find them on their own, some get help, but the laws don't change. Free video series. You can start it tonight. No fluff, no 90 minute webinar, just the series. And if you're going to do something with what you heard today, do this before life talks you out of it. Go to grid code expose.com one more time. Grit code exposed to.com.

00;58;25;15 - 00;58;50;25
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And hey, before I let you go, thank you for writing with me this law. It means a lot more than you know. Thank you. Now it's so freaking much more competitive. Margins are so slim. Everything's gone up except for profit. Now, can you still start a business leveraging Amazon and you know the platform? Sure. But it's not. It's not as easy as it used to be.

00;58;50;25 - 00;59;19;17
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Said. And it wasn't as much competition and people weren't as resilient, you know, so it was easier. You know, as long as you just hung out one more day, especially in a Covid era. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So. Well, dude, thanks for for coming here and sharing all this wisdom and advice. Where can people find out more about you, man, they want to learn about your workshops, the books anywhere, connect with you and say thank you.

00;59;19;24 - 00;59;44;27
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Where can I find out more information about you? Or how can I connect with you? These side Hustle samurai.com is my website. You can I have a free gift right now? That is the one k blind spot assessment. What is holding you back from making your first $1,000 in the side hustle, and that can be found at your ideal side hustle.com I love it!

00;59;45;05 - 01;00;03;23
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing all that guys. Everything is going to be in the show notes, so make sure you plug in that, especially in that guide to get your, you know, to remove that blocker for the first thousand. Because I will tell you, once you remove that first blocker, it's just like a domino ish, right? If you tip that first domino over, it's a straight up momentum from there.

01;00;03;26 - 01;00;33;08
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So awesome man. Well, cool. Well I've got a couple last questions as we wrap up, that I ask every guest in this season that you're in, man, of all the things you're doing. But right now in this season you're building, how do you personally define grit? So grit is something that you go through. So a lot of people ask me when I was going to get my leg cut off, there's like, sorry, this is going to happen to you.

01;00;33;10 - 01;00;56;05
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How are you doing this with such a great attitude? And I thought about it for a long time and I thought about my past life. Okay. So my past life, not my past life, but my younger life. Yeah, yeah, I've grown up with the name Bart. I mean, I grew up with Bart the father as a kid, and then in high school, it got worse.

01;00;56;05 - 01;01;27;25
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And then I just. I dealt with it. I, I dealt with it. Now, granted, I had good parents that encouraged me and helped me along the way. But going through these things throughout my life has, you know, my job, my dream job, being blown up, losing $300,000, getting my leg cut off, whatever the obstacle was going through things all my life has made me into who I am so that I can endure whatever comes my way.

01;01;28;02 - 01;01;46;22
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And so grit is being able to endure whatever comes your way and just doing what you have to do. There's I mean, there's nothing I could do about getting my leg cut off. I just had to deal with it. I had a lady at church. She came up to me, it's like, oh, I'm sorry, this is going to happen to you.

01;01;46;24 - 01;02;04;17
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So when you when you get it amputated, are you going to get a prosthetic? I looked her straight in the eye. I didn't smile a bit. I said, no, I think I'm just going to scoot scoot around on my but for the rest of my life. And then I actually let it. And then I smiled and let her know.

01;02;04;17 - 01;02;29;12
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I'm just kidding. I can see just how you doing it. You just got to have a good attitude. Yeah. And the way you have a good attitude, there's nothing I can say to you right now that is going to help you if something happens tomorrow. So it's like you're saying you got to put good stuff in your head, get a good mentor, watch videos that are going to teach you about how to have good things when the good, when little things happen.

01;02;29;12 - 01;02;50;05
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It's just like when you ask me about the job. What if people or the people who are afraid of going out on their own? You have to start small. So my my first obstacle isn't getting my leg cut off. My first obstacle was as a kid having to deal with getting kicked. Now I'm not an advocate for bullying.

01;02;50;10 - 01;03;15;08
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I'm just saying what it did for me. The Johnny Cash song A Boy Named Sue. It is real. It helped me become who I am, is going through the little things that I had to go through and then learning to overcome them. That's awesome man. Yeah, that's that's true man. I mean, I guess kids perspective in terms of, you know, that really sets you up for success, right?

01;03;15;08 - 01;03;36;15
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When you're able to program your mind for positivity and you sound like the the foo foo stuff rhyme again, what we're talking about earlier progress. You're you're developing your mindset your muscle. So always look for the opportunity in the positives in things because what are you looking for. Guess what. You're going to find it right? So if you're always looking for the negative stuff congratulations.

01;03;36;21 - 01;03;55;14
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You're always going to find that right. And going vice versa. My amputation there are times. And so I knew I was going to be able to go through it okay. I was worried about when it was done. And I'm sitting in my recliner and I look down and I see that I only have one leg. That was what I was worried about.

01;03;55;16 - 01;04;19;07
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And if I do that and I dwell there, I will get depressed. Why did this happen to me? There's people that are that are, that are less healthy than me. They didn't have to lose their leg, you know, why did I lose my leg? And I could, but I don't. I acknowledge the problem and then I, I move on, I go away.

01;04;19;09 - 01;04;35;24
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I could when I knew that was going to happen, I was like, I'm not going to be able to jump rope again. Well, I haven't jumped rope in 20 years. Why does it matter? Yeah, I hear so I think about the stuff that I can do, and I don't think about the stuff that I can't love it man.

01;04;35;27 - 01;05;01;29
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So good. Cool man. Love this. Last two questions for wrap up. Well, when the lights are out and you're in the trenches, what do you find yourself repeating to yourself? It could be a quote directive. Scripture even was something that you tell yourself to pull you out of the trenches or out of that darkness. So I don't know where this this quote came from.

01;05;02;02 - 01;05;28;14
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I heard it somewhere. I've googled it, I can't find anywhere. So now it's mine. Let your fears push you until your dreams can pull you. And so if I'm afraid of something. If I'm down, if I'm okay. Why am I analyze? Why am I down and what do I need? You know okay. What is the worst thing that can happen if I continue in this place?

01;05;28;16 - 01;05;56;24
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Agree. And then I figure out how to get out. So good man. Might be a terrible episode right there. Our last question comes in two parts in for those who are listening or watching for the first time. Always love to give my current guests an opportunity to challenge my future guests with a question of their own. And guys, the lineup is completely anonymous, so my previous guest, Chris McManus had this for you.

01;05;56;26 - 01;06;22;10
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Are your goals big enough to scare you? Are my goals big enough to scare me? I don't scare very easily. Come on. I jumped off a bungee tower just hanging on with my bare hands. I would say I would have to be honest and say no. Okay, I have big goals but I'm not afraid of them. Am I afraid I'm not going to attain them.

01;06;22;10 - 01;06;43;21
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Do they push me. Yes. Yeah that was but I can go bigger, I could go bigger. Well there you go. There's your saying go bigger. Well the context of that question is I asked and say, you know, I realized that my goals I set were to protect their are too easy. You know the the five year plan I smashed them one year.

01;06;43;24 - 01;07;07;04
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You know, because here tennis some workshops are some conferences. And so you know, he realized that, he should have set up much, much bigger goals because in that moment, he is it was a protected goal, right? It was a realistic goal. I use that loosely. So that's why he said that's yes. You know, are your goals big enough to scare you where they're not protected?

01;07;07;08 - 01;07;30;07
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There's there is a number that if you it gets you excited essentially. So we're cool man. What would you love to challenge? My guess with was a question of your own. Are you aware of all the opportunities that are all around you, and are you willing to take action on them? I like that. I like that man.

01;07;30;09 - 01;07;51;23
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Good deal. Well cool. But man do this last hour man. It's absolutely fine by me. And I really appreciate sharing you know not just you you know the highlight reels in the successes but you shared your your tremendous stories man. And it's been truly an honor to have you on here man. And it was good time laughing sharing the stories.

01;07;51;23 - 01;08;12;02
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It was so amazing, so funny given everybody hope and ask, you know, just giving everybody hope that, in this time that we live in, that they too can create something out of nothing based on what you talked about here. You get inspiration from you, and it's that they too can do everything right without losing a leg potentially.

01;08;12;07 - 01;08;32;14
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So I know right? But, maybe. Yeah, man, thank you so much for coming here. Appreciate you. Honor and respect you for all that, man. It takes a lot of courage and and, you know, I respect you for that, dude. Thank you. Thanks for having me. And everybody. Remember, there is not a better time in the history of the world to do something than right now.

01;08;32;17 - 01;08;52;16
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Go do it. Absolutely. Agree. Well, on that note, guys, for those who are listening, watching the gap between average and excellence is action. So please stop this. Listen to Bach. He is giving you so many things. Take that three step assessment. Do anything he's talked about today and apply in the next 24 hours. Be the reason somebody doesn't quit today.

01;08;52;16 - 01;09;07;21
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Someone in your circle needs this episode. Don't just keep to yourself sent to him. But again, I do thank you for accepting arena. It was an honor to have you, my man. Thank you. My pleasure.