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Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the
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Right Now Leadership podcast. I'm your host Kyle
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the owner of Gillette Solutions,
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and I'm excited for today's guest. He runs
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Elevate Leaders. He's the father of 3 boys,
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which a girl on the way. How exciting.
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Uh, he's a business and business and agency
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owner,
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and he's passionate about helping dads and families
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learn how money work and to step into
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business
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ownership. So I'm really excited to learn from
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Jeremy Sherrill today and to introduce
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you to him so that he can help
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you learn how to more effectively run your
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business to take those brave steps and to
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elevate your leadership and elevate your business to
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the next level. So please Welcome with me,
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Jeremy Charelle, to today's episode of the right
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now leadership podcast.
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Well, hey, Jeremy. Thanks for being on the
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show. Welcome.
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Awesome. Appreciate you having me. Yeah. So we
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met through alignable. Some people don't know about
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that, but, uh, we met through alignable and,
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uh, had a great conversation
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learned about elevate leadership and about what you're
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up to. Can can you share with us
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a little bit of your back history of
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how you got from where you are now
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to where you were before, what what was
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that journey like for you?
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Awesome. Absolutely.
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So, yeah, very very humble beginnings grew up
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in a little town called Palmdale, California.
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And, um, pretty much grew up in the
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same house. Um, my entire life, uh, saw
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my dad as a small entrepreneur. So really
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saw him, you know, grinding 247
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and learned the importance of work ethic. Um,
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my mom was a paralegal for a lawyer
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for 20 years. So, again, saw them both
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in their respective careers.
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And, uh, got an opportunity to, uh, pursue,
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uh, post grads who went to UC Santa
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Barbara from a undergrad
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fell in love with Santa Barbara. You grew
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up in a little desert town in Palmdale,
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then you end up right on the beach.
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Uh, so felt kinda like a dad and
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went to heaven. And, uh, so I had
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the time of my life out there, and
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my lot of people got really involved on
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campus.
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And, um,
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uh, that was kinda really the start for
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me. And, uh, my story, I always SA
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Cal Berkeley began in 2014.
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I had graduated.
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I actually got an opportunity to work for
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the university for several years, which I really
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enjoyed.
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Working with the students, but very quickly realized
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that, you know, living off of a $68,000
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salary was was kinda not gonna cut it
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or provide that future saw that I wanted.
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So, um, I knew for me, I wanted
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to always find a way to get into
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business. I always felt very cool to help
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people.
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In a meaningful way.
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And in 2014,
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I really kinda discovered that calling. Um, I
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got a phone call at twenty four years
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old that my mom unfortunately, was diagnosed with
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stage 4 breast cancer, uh, given less than
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a year to live.
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to a really dark time in my life.
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Started to really question a lot of things
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and understood how fragile,
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uh, life really was and, uh, really wanted
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to do me something meaningful
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the hard way that my mom, um,
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not only obviously going through a tough time
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emotionally, found out financially that my mom actually
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had nothing
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in place for herself. Um, had no retirement
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accounts, you know, no life insurance. Uh, really
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had nothing for her name.
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time, uh, financially.
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And, uh, coincidentally,
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how things work out? I end up being
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introduced to a gentleman
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who exposed me to the whole world of
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of financial services,
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and, um, that kind of opened my eyes
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to
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a career that I felt like not only
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can I provide this type of lifestyle that
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I wanted for myself and my future family,
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but also have the ability to really help
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people, you know, in such a meaningful way?
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It's been a incredible journey, you know, in
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entrepreneurship now and be able to help people
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in such a powerful way. And, uh, now
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led me to to my own family. So
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that was kinda really the the the beginning,
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uh, of it all.
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It's awesome.
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After we talked
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uh, a couple weeks back. I looked you
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up a little bit more and did a
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little bit more research on you and and
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found out you're doing these really powerful amazing
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things for lots and lots people on Elevate
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Leadership isn't some cliche
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that you have. It's it's a big it's
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a movement. I would even argue that there's
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a movement happening. There's a lot of people
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on board Can you talk about kind of
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the beginnings of that and what's the motivation
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and inspiration
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behind that, the purpose, all those components?
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Yeah. 100%. So, um, so when I got
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introduced
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to the financial world, I ended up working
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for a company called Northwestern Mutual for 3
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years. So that was kinda my exposure to
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both management and insurance and financial services. So,
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um, I was with them for almost 3
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years, um, until I really just came across
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our platform
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um, that I'm now a part of that
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allowed me to number 1 be independent and
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really have the ability to build, you know,
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my own agency and build my own company.
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Really, what I saw after being in the
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industry for a couple years, I noticed kind
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of a theme that not only, you know,
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there's so many families out there that needs
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to be educated and and that we can
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serve and help. But I also just saw
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a huge need for people, you know, not
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making the amount of income that they would
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like to be making. Um, people not really
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having a community
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of, you know, like minded, supportive, positive people
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that just believe in them. Right? I saw
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a lot of people that just kinda were
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working just for work, you know, and just
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kinda having their job just to pay the
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bills, um, you know, not really having the
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best associations,
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you know, spending time complaining or just, you
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know, worrying about when the next
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World series game or whatever it was. I
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just saw there's a huge gap in people
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feeling fulfilled, um, in life and really feeling
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like they're able to reach their god given
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potential. And so,
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um, coming on board, you know, on the
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independent side and and starting to grow my
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my own business loan agency, um, the idea
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of of of elevate was born where we
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wanted to create, like you said, a movement
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where not only people can, you know, come
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into the industry, whether we can get them
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licensed, help train them, actually teach them a
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career that they can, you know, really become
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successful in, but also have a space people
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have the opportunity to become the best version
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themselves. So we spend a lot of time,
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you know, working with our associates and our
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agents on their faith, their family, their fitness,
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or finances, um, also having a lot of
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fun. Right? We travel the world with them
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and do all these trips and contests
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now it turns an entire community.
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Uh, we now have an entire website
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and, um, you know, weekly Zoom calls that
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we call Olympic University where people plug in
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on a weekly basis and just surround themselves,
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right, with like minded, positive people that are
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all aspiring to do big things. And so
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Um, like you said, it's really not become
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a movement. Uh, we always say, you know,
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we're just getting started, and we've been able
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to now impact really thousands of lives all
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across North America, including Canada and Puerto Rico.
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And, uh, we're just getting started. So excited
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to definitely, you know, touch more and more
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families across the country.
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And, uh, be able to, you know, partner,
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collaborate with more individuals that really want bigger
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and better for themselves.
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Yeah. And, you know, the the question in
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my mind that's been rolling around, you teed
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me up perfect. So I appreciate that. But
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the question is I think there's a lot
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of people that feel like they've on the
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very edge of success. You know, there's the
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other swath of people that are like, I
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can't find success. I don't know going on
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and
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talking about that and helping those folks that
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matters, but I actually wanna go to the
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group that's like,
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I'm right there. I have I have some
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it's going well when you ask them, how's
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it going? Like, it's good. And it is.
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It really is for them, but they're not
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quite over that hump. Now at some point
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in your career and as you've progressed in
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this business, you got to that where you
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got to that edge and the way that
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I describe it, it's like there's a dam.
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And there's all this wonderful water and this
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wonderful opportunity, but it's damned up for some
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reason. It's like, how do you open those
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floodgates so that it starts flowing out?
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What did you experience? What were some of
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the things that you experienced that got to
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that point where it just really started to
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flow for you? What are some of those
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insights?
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Yeah. Great question. So I think sometimes, obviously,
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in life is in order to get to
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we have to be willing to give up
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good for great. Right? And I think that
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sometimes, you know, being an entrepreneur, being in
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the business space is a lot of times
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that we we can get comfortable really quickly.
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And sometimes we have to be willing to
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take a couple steps back so we can
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go 10 steps forward. Right? And so I
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think Uh, for me personally, I just had
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things in my life that just
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at the time, I thought, you know, god,
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why is this happening to me? Why are
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you doing this to me? And I eventually
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realized, you know, god does things for us
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and not to us. And so just over
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the last couple of years of my life,
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you know, losing my mom like that, you
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know, she fought for 2 years and Unfortunately,
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I lost her in 2016, and that that
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that changed my entire really perspective around life.
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Then after that, finding out, uh, meeting a
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girl, and find out that we're expecting our
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first child, um, only after a couple of
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months of dating. And that changed my entire
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life and then making decisions to propose
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you know, leaving my my my previous career
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and starting, you know, my entrepreneurship journey and
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and really having to reset myself, um, finding
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out then
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at the time, COVID happened that I'm at
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gotta get moved to another country now. And
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I ended up living in Canada for a
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couple years.
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accident, and my grandmother passed away. Then if
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I don't have another base, all these things
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and life just started to unfold,
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sometimes we're on that edge is life might
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start to you know, happen again for us,
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and we have to recognize
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if we don't go through this, we'll never
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grow through it. And so that was, like,
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awakening for me to just really persevering through
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all those challenges and hurdles that that life
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was, you know, coming my way. And so
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that kinda
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really
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grew me as a person and grew my
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character. And one thing I always tell, like,
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my team is you can never out earn
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your identity. And so those things had to
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happen. So
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Jeremy can become a better man, a better
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person so I can, you know, invite more
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abundance into my life. So that was kind
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of the first thing. I think the second
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thing um, aside from just, you know, persevering
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through those life challenges to really go from,
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I think, good to greater, like you said,
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open up those flood gates is
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really connecting a deeper level to truly out
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of what your purpose and why it was.
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Right? So for me, initially, when I, you
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know, losing my mom to to to breast
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cancer, my initial why I was, hey. I
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just wanna, you know, help other families, right,
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have a career that I can educate others.
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And that was kind of the initial why,
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right, do kind of the financial planning aspect,
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help people financial services, And that was my
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initial why, but as we as time went
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on and
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and, you know, I started now growing my
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own organization and and things got deeper, I
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realized, well, I definitely have a passion for
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that, but I actually really have a bigger
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passion for actually serving and helping others. And
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finding that deeper calling
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allowed me to say, okay.
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Been give up good to now for great.
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So instead of only
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Jeremy helping families and be able to provide
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from some income, what if I can duplicate
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myself and now have 10 of me or
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50 of me or 100 of me? Now
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we're pushing 300
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Um, my wife and I, licensed professionals, you
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know, in our organization that we coach a
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mentor. And so
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I think that would be, you know, really
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proud. The second thing is is
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continue
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to put yourself out there, continue to be
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open to opportunities
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where you might be able to find a
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deeper calling
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that can really allow you to, again, catch
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that flow that can invite even more abundance
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into your life.
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Yeah. I'm watching this series right now that
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talks about the parable in the Bible. That's
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the the 3 minas or the the parable
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of the guys that they're
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given by their master a certain amount to
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invest. Right? And you have the the one
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that gets 10, the other that gets 5,
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and the the one that gets the 1.
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And the one that gets the 1, buries
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it.
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The one that gets to 5 if you
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remember correctly, doubles it and the one that
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gets to 10, doubles it as well. And
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The message of that message that I never
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really understood that I've never really knew. Like,
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I knew I had talents and you have
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talents in terms of
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that definition of the word, like, abilities.
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But this message was,
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god gave us these opportunities, these abilities, and
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the finances
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not so that we could just hold on
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to it, but so that we can multiply.
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God god wants us to multiply
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that. And this isn't a prosperity thing. This
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is a
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God uses our finances to to impact his
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kingdom.
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I see that in big ways in your
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business. Like,
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having the influence on 300 different employees that
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all have families
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in varying degrees of of kids and marriages
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and extended friends and all this stuff. That's
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a huge impact.
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When you think about that
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legacy for yourself and that
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and you look back, let's say you're retired
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and you're looking back on that legacy,
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What do you want those
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employees? Those they're not employees, but those people
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that have connected with you and you've helped
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serve. What do you want them to be
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saying about you?
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Yeah. Good question. So for our I I
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kinda live by a quote personally, which is
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we all know that we're not gonna the
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goal isn't to live forever and to create
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something that will. And so, um, that's kind
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of, you know, what's always,
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uh, propelled me every single day in my
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career. It's like, I just know and and
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my business is, again, we all know that
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we're not, you know, immortal or, like, our
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time is always gonna come at some point
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in time, but being able to create something
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that can last beyond me. So my my
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number one thing is every day I show
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up as the best version of myself, pushing
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myself
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because I know
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that other people are watching. I know that
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my choices and my decisions don't even just
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affect me personally or my family, but affects
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others. And so one thing
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we talk a lot about, you know, when
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I'm training my team, right, as energy, right,
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and tonality and how we show up on
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the call and what what even trust me
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out sometimes knowing is that if I'm, let's
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say, having a bad day and I show
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up not the best version of myself, not,
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you know, the the best energy, not with
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the best enthusiasm,
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I can potentially robbing somebody else of an
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opportunity that can change their last name forever.
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And so I think about these things, right,
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that I never really used to think about
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before. And so, yeah, legacy is a big
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word, uh, for me, obviously, you know, losing
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my mom, unfortunately, at a at a young
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age, Um, you know, my my passion is
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to, you know, allow her legacy live through,
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you know, forever and and through me. And
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so every single day, it's not a day
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to go by that. I'll share story, right,
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and allow her legacy to continue living on.
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Um, and now being a father, right, of
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of 3 little ones and and race three
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boys and and now seeing them and knowing
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that, again, it's no longer about me. Right?
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So so I would definitely say legacy is
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really big. Someone that truly again, uh, believes
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in others,
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my team, they call me kind of the
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the drip king. So I just don't give
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up on people. I'm always kind of dripping
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and constantly checking back in. So I made
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a decision
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you know, I I way back when that,
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you know, it's very easy for a lot
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of us to
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for other people not to believe in us
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or even ourselves not to believe in in
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our own talents, our own capability. So as
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a leader, one thing that I just made
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a decision in, um, is that I just
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don't give up on people. And so that's
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something I always want, you know, my team
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and really my community to know is that,
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man, Jeremy was something that never never gave
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up on me, always believed in me, And,
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um, and if when you have one person
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like that in your life, how can you
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lose? You know, the one you really lose
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is if you get in your own way
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and you you create your own damage, you
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block yourself. Right? And so
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That those are probably the 2. And, you
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know, number 1 is just, you know, legacy.
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Um, you know, obviously, Jeremy, you know, someone
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that cares about his family and cares about
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others and and, then number 3, and I'll
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just never give up on you. And, uh,
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you know, I'll fought for you until the
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day. He didn't he didn't, uh, desire to
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then you mentioned our retirement. Yeah. You know,
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that's obviously something that we do on a
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daily basis, helping people retirement, helping people create
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tax free retirement plans, and you know, for
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create strategies. So like I always like to
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share people, it's I think most people are
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kinda realizing that maybe that whole retirement at
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60, 65,
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you know, uh,
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just sitting on a porch all day. I
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don't think that's most people's desire anymore, so
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I always like to tell people
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retirement truly is just be no to work
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because you want to, not because you have
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to. And this is what we actually educate
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people about. It's called their Fin number, financial
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independence number, and help people understand what that
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is and put a plan in place to
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get them there. And so definitely for me,
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right, I don't there's no retirement today. I
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go into the ground. Right? There is no
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retirement. Especially when you find something that you
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enjoy doing and you get a chance just
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to
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help people reach their goals on a daily
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basis. It's it's pretty awesome.
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There's a lot of, obviously, in your personal
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history, there's a lot of challenges that you
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went through and, uh, you've used that. You've
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used that as fuel.
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But if someone's just listening to your story
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right now, they they don't know about the
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journey because you're at 300
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agents. And and that's a big number. That's
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a big deal. Right? And you're pretty young,
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and and people are going, well, this guy,
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he got lucky or whatever. I'm not thinking
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that about you, but some people have that
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at too. Like, well, I can't get it.
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And so he just got lucky. He was
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the right place at the right time. I'm
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gonna guess that that's not the case. I'm
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gonna guess that you did a lot of
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grinding, and you did a lot of connecting.
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You did a lot of things to help
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make this
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happen.
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When
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things didn't seem to be playing out like
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you wanted them to, right, where you were
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doing the grinding and things, but still things
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weren't happening.
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How did you continue to move forward? How
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do you can you give us some insight
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on what you did in that to to
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push my listeners to help them to see
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that you know what? Keep going you're gonna
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get to that next level. What what's been
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your experience there?
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Yeah.
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Well, that definitely was that luck. And I
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think most successful
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entrepreneurs will will kinda tell you the same.
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Right? There's no there's no secret. You know,
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you gotta you gotta put in the time.
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You have to put in the work, and
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you can't there's no microwave to success, right,
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you know, and I always like to tell,
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you know, my organization all the time is
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that sometimes, you know, over my life and
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a lot of the hurdles that I have
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gone through, is the bigger the struggle,
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the bigger the success. I truly feel. And
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so if you're in a season in your
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life, know, anyone listening to this, and you're
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you're going through that that season. You're going
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through that storm. Like, it's it's for a
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reason, but you gotta get on the other
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side. And most people never get on the
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other side. They just kinda sit in that
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storm. And then that's when you adopt that
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victim mentality of why me and this and
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that. Right? And so you gotta get to
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the storm. So Really, for me, I've
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as things have unfolded my life, yeah, I've
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definitely got through the storm. So what things
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that I would always think about
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is
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number 1. Um, I've always kinda had a
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drive in me. I guess that kinda comes
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from my parents at work ethics, so I
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don't know if kind of a god given
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thing that was kinda in me, but I
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think some people just got it. Maybe some
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people don't. Um, I definitely think it's something
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that you can work on, but, um, one
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thing that I train my team on times
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that when you know, why you'll figure out
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the how. So the first thing that you
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gotta spend time on is you gotta understand,
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again, what your why is because when you
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know the why, you always forgot the house.
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So an example of that is, let's say,
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you know, us as parents, right, no matter
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what's going on in our life, no matter
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how bad things are financial, lady no matter
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what stress that we're under. Is there ever
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gonna day a day that goes by, or
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we don't feed our kids?
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Right? And I would pretty sure everyone would
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say absolutely not. Of course, those kids are
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always gonna get back. So why is that?
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Because because that why is very clear. And
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so imagine applying that mindset to your business,
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right, is there ever gonna be a a
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day or month goes by where family can't
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be helped or, you know, you can't be
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able to you know, get a sale or
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whatever it is. So you gotta get number
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1, spend time, and getting clear on your
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why.
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And if you don't you're having a hard
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time understanding what you want, then what I
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would suggest you do is make a list
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of the things you don't want.
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Right? Do you wanna be rich or you
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wanna be poor? You want it in a
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big mansion, you want it in a shack.
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So when you actually just kinda compare, most
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people actually do know what they want. It's
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just we're all programmed we're all born to
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win, but we're programmed to fail. And so
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that's why a lot of our mentality
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is just programmers to fail. The negative
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thinking, the doubts, all that. And and that's
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where mentorship is so powerful. And the big
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part of elevate and everything that we've created
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is we've provided an environment
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that allows individuals to have mentorship, have access
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individuals that are making multiple 6, 7, 8
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figures a year that you get a chance
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to plug into having weekly trainings that you
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can kinda, like, attest to supercharger, get plugged
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into on a weekly basis. And now all
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the negative is going through your week, have
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1 hour that's, like, allows you to recharge,
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right, and and staying close to the fire.
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So aside from, I would say no, in
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your life, it's definitely number 2 is you
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gotta elevate your hurt. No pun intended. You
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gotta elevate your associations.
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Right? You need to
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surround yourself with people that are living the
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life that you aspire to live. And there's
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so many ways to do that. Right? Obviously,
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joining different communities Now I think with social
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media, it's easier than ever because now there's
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online communities, even like what we built would
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elevate.
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All of our associates get access for free.
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There's obviously some that you can pay for.
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Um, and so definitely I'll bring your associations
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because you truly do become
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the the people that you spend the most
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time with. Right? Um, and then aside from
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your, you know, knowing your why and kind
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of working on your belief system, then secondly,
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you know, your associations.
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Um, 3rd, I think is just
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being consistent in something. I think so many
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times, so many people, they start and stop
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and start and stuff, and they never actually
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really get momentum anywhere. And so I think
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the third thing is you gotta
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find something that you can be consistent at
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and work at day in and day out.
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And that's been my life. When I started
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in financial services and got my career, I
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was 6, 7 days a week, 10, 14
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hours days.
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Um, everybody else would be at the the
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bars or watching the games. I'd be at
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the office. First one in, last one out.
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I remember I used to become friends with,
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like, the, the housekeepers and the, the beauty
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to clean the offices because I would be
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the only one in there. And,
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And I just and I paid the price.
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And and thank god for that. You know,
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I I've learned that principle early on and
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probably, you know, from my parents and seeing
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their work ethic.
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Um,
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and and now everything that's unfolded is is
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a is a reflection of that. Right? And
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even says, Dave, even though I might be
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still ahead of of most individuals, I'm still
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out working most of my team, right, even
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since they, right, and leading by example. And
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so
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I think if you can, you know, get
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those three things in check, you know your
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why, you really start to get a clear
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path on where you wanna go. You start
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to surround yourself with people that are already
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living life that you want or that, you
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know, believing you and that challenge you and
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aspire to be better. And then you can
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just get locked in on that one thing,
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um, and and work on it every single
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day put in the time and, um, and
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kind of the rest, you know, unfolds from
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there.
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Awesome. So I have I have one more
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question for you. And then when you can
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wrap up here,
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the word distraction
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kept popping into my mind, not that I'm
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distracted,
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I'm I'm thoroughly enjoying this interview and and
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you're giving us some powerful insight, but people
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get distracted so
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easily because they get It lose motivation a
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little bit, or they're like, I can't do
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the 14 hours, or I I'm just tired
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or whatever.
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What do you suggest to them so that
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they don't
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fall into that trap and they stay focused
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and they don't get distracted? What what are
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some what's one piece of advice you would
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give that would make a big difference for
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people?
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Yeah.
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So I think again, um, a lot of
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times,
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So many individuals, including myself, I was always
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so worried about how do I get better
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with my time and time management,
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and that's why I think where most people,
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when it comes to distractions, like, hey. I
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just gotta better, you know, figure out my
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my my my schedule, my time. Like, I
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just don't have enough time. That's, like, usually
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a big thing where I get distracted.
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And I think the number one thing to
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overcome distraction
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is it's not focusing on time management, but
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priority management. So a lot of times that
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people are distracted. They're just not clear on
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their priorities. All their priorities are not in
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check. Right? And so
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For me, for example, um, you know, I've
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now started building this community called 4 pillar
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Dads, and a big part of that has
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been help individuals aside from just, you know,
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let's say finances or business. That's just one
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pillar.
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But for me, it's like the the the
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foundational pillar is fake. Without faith, everything else
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crumbles. If you're not connected to that higher
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source, nothing else really matters. And it's very
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easy to get caught up in the wrong
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things and lose sight of through parties. And
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I did that for many years of my
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career, right, where it was just all business
731
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and my relationship suffered. Right? I didn't feel
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I felt not fulfilled the had the cars,
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had the money, had, you know, things coming
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in, but I still felt completely unsatisfied, completely
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unfilled. And so
736
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how to get the priorities in my life,
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you know, fixed first. Right? So faith,
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family,
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fitness, right, finance.
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Right? If we don't feel good. Right? We
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don't do good. And if you have all
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the money or success in the world, if
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you're not healthy, what's the point? Right? So
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I had to really get clear on my
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priorities. So I think for anyone listening, if
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you're distracted and I would I would take
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an inventory, I'm currently, what are your priorities?
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And, typically, if you're just distracted, it's just
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a pure
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correlation
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that you're not clear on your priorities.
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Um, and I think if you can just
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even follow that template, right, okay? What's my
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parties right now for faith. Am I attending,
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you know, a church service for, you know,
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weekly? Am I doing a bible study? Am
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I, you know, connected with individuals that helped
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me, you know, strengthen my relationship with God
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and my praying daily,
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um, you know, family. Do I have dedicated
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family time? Am I, you know, spending time
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with my spouse Uh, do we have date
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nights? Do we have time for the kids?
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We have sports. We have maybe just even
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to do a breakfast together. I know, you
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know, as a busy entrepreneur, right, uh, you
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know, my I'm not always gonna be able
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to spend as much time as I want,
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but I understand that sacrifice. Right?
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And and they know about that sacrifice. But
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I have dedicated family time. Sunday's faith and
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family day. I don't do any appointments. I
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also have times blocked off on my counter
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throughout the week. I can do dinners and
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little things.
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Um, fitness. Right? Is there time on your
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calendar you're prioritizing your health? Um, right now,
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we've hired a personal trainer that, you know,
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works with us remotely and tracks our diet
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and our workouts.
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And obviously, lastly, you know, you know, finance
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and and business. So I think for most
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people that are distracted out there, get a
784
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clear idea of what's important to you, get
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your priorities in check, and then you start
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to you you map those things out. You
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you live by a calendar. I tell my
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team all the time you live by a
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calendar. And once you have that, then a
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lot of those distractions
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kind of really, really goes away naturally.
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Um, the only time, even in my life,
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we're almost doubtful, almost distracted,
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is when I'm, you know, not living by
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my calendar and my priorities are not in
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check. So that would be the the utmost
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priority
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You know, if you're right now, you're in
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your life and you're just not clear and
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and you're kind of, you know, distracted,
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um, and I think we'll really help you
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get to where you wanna go. Alright. I'm
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gonna put you on a spot a little
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bit on this one.
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So what does what does Jeremy want that
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he doesn't have right now?
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Yeah. Great question. Um,
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I would say
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obviously, as you're a driven entrepreneur, there's always
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more, right, more more, you know, bigger team,
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bigger passive income, you know, more and more
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people that you're serving and helping I would
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say right now in my life, um, definitely
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a stronger relationship with God.
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Um, that's been a a journey of mine
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over the last couple of years. And my
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wife has has been instrumental in that. I
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I grew up with no faith and religion
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in my entire life.
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Um, actually, just last year, made a commitment
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to to give my life to Christ and
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got baptized.
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Um, but still figuring that out. And I
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still feel like I don't have a
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full 100%
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you know, relationship
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with god that, um, I fully desire yet.
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And so that's something that I'm still, you
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know, working through and connecting with individuals like
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yourself and and people that,
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you know, might have a have a have
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a great relationship there, an example that I
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can that I I can follow. So, um,
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that's something that, you know, I'm constantly pursuing
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more, um, looking at, you know, again, joining,
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you know, small groups that church and and
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just keep, you know, investing to the right
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people. I have a buddy that we do
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a weekly Bible study at. And, uh, now
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starting this, like, dad group, I'm kinda holding
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myself accountable and posting, like, devotional day. So
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I'm working at it, right, every single day.
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And, again, like, everything, we don't chase perfection.
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We chase progress. And so that's really, you
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know, my area in my life, but that's
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definitely as Ira's being fully connected, you know,
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to the source and, uh, something I continue
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to aspire more and more on a daily
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basis. I feel more grounded. So, you know,
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I can become the the god given, you
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know, potential that, you know, god wants me
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to be so that can conserve serve more
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kings and more people, you know, in in
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the world and bring more people to the
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kingdom.
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Awesome. I love it, Jeremy. So if you
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could please share with us the best way
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for people to connect with you, and then
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I'll make sure to leave that in the
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show notes and people can reach out, connect,
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learn more about you, and
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Who knows? Join the join the the movement.
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You know?
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The elevate family, for sure. Um, cool. Yeah.
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I would say, uh, probably either Instagram or
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Facebook. Um, my handle's just, uh, jeremy_cheryl,
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um, and Jeremy with an e at the
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end. And then, um, or on Facebook, it
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seems you were, I'm, uh, most active.
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And, um, so definitely start there. And, uh,
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yeah, I'd love to connect anybody in, uh,
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in your audience. And, uh, yeah, help more
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and more, you know, individuals grow and whatever
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area is important in their life. And, uh,
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like, you know, we're bringing more kings to
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the kingdom. So
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Awesome. Well, thank you, Jeremy, for being on
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the show. Fantastic, John. We appreciate you and
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listeners, please do check out the links and
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check out what he's up to. And if
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make those comments. Leave a review,
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