S1: Welcome back to Building Billions. This is a true treat
S1: for me because a little backstory on this guest. I
S1: fell in love with this woman before she knew who
S1: I was and was determined to make her my friend
S1: and stalked every YouTube video, read every book, watched every
S1: social post before I got the pleasure of meeting her
S1: in person and the very first request I had for
S1: her when I met her in person was, Will you
S1: be on my podcast? And at the time I had
S1: no podcast listeners. I had never hosted a show with
S1: a guest, and I had her on my podcast five
S1: years ago, and this is the second time that she's
S1: been on my podcast, and now we are in a
S1: new unit of time because she has entirely changed my
S1: life over the last five years, and big been my
S1: biggest mentor, my biggest role model, my biggest cheerleader, and
S1: she is the queen of supporting other women. So with that,
S1: Alana Cardone, I am so happy to have you on
S1: this show.
S2: Thank you. You like fun to be here. It's gonna be.
S1: Fun. I'm excited to ask you all of the things,
S1: because when I look back on the previous episode for
S1: the podcast, I had no idea who I was. I
S1: was just figuring out where I wanted to take.
S2: Yeah, you were 25 years old. Yep.
S1: I was all about the age gap. And I asked
S1: you a lot of questions about your age gap because
S1: I didn't see value in myself being able to actually
S1: create business content because I didn't have stats. And that's
S1: something that you told me when I asked you about this.
S1: You said you need to get stats in your division
S1: so that you can talk about those things. And you
S1: told me you're not married yet, so why would I
S1: listen to you for relationship advice? I don't know if
S1: you remember telling me 1,000,000%.
S2: Remember telling you this. Yep.
S1: So can you.
S2: So I said that you did. Why? You're not even married.
S2: Why would I think I would listen to you for
S2: relationship advice? Right?
S1: I was asking for your advice and guidance. Did I say.
S2: This on the podcast?
S1: You did not say this on the podcast. You said
S1: this separately.
S2: At least I have some sense. Some filter. Yes, you are.
S1: Too kind and gracious to say it on the podcast.
S1: And I would have been horrified, but also really would
S1: have loved to have that video or that moment on video.
S1: But could you walk a viewer or a listener through
S1: this concept of why stats are important in the stats
S1: that you've achieved in your life, that make you really
S1: confident and proud of the woman that you are today?
S2: Oh well, um, you know, because today we live in
S2: the social media aspect, and that wasn't around in the
S2: very beginning of when Grant and I were building this thing.
S2: But I looked around and why the stats matter so
S2: much is because I see so many self-proclaimed experts here
S2: and there and and it's just, oh, how do you
S2: filter through? Because they can make everything look so great. Oh,
S2: I posed here or I'm here, I'm this. And they
S2: can you can fabricate and make yourself look to be
S2: more accomplished than you really are. And it's misleading. And
S2: so for me, um, the stats don't lie. So when
S2: you build stats it does a number of different things.
S2: A when you build the stats for yourself, you're building
S2: your own self-respect, you're building your own confidence. Plus you're
S2: building something that nobody can dispute. So no matter how
S2: many people want to be prejudiced against me because of
S2: my religion, or because I'm a woman, or because I'm white,
S2: or because I'm heterosexual. Pick your pick of how many
S2: ways somebody could, or because of my political preference. You
S2: can pick all of that apart, but the stats don't lie.
S2: So we always say rack the stats. You got to
S2: rack the stats because no one, no one can touch those.
S2: You can criticize me for a number of other things,
S2: but you can't criticize me when I have on my
S2: stats because the stats don't lie so good.
S1: Yeah, and you're confident because you have your confidence.
S2: Because they're real. Yeah. Like, you know, it's you can't fake,
S2: as Grant says, you you can fake a Ferrari. You
S2: can't fake a jet. Now, I'm not trying to be braggadocious. Oh,
S2: we have a jet. It's just that is a whole
S2: nother level playing field. And we've worked really hard for that.
S2: And so that jet symbolizes a lot more to me
S2: than just look at me. I have a jet and
S2: you don't. Some people will criticize and they will see
S2: that and think that's what we're doing when we say
S2: Jets or this or that or why we show that stuff.
S2: So a lot of wealthy people in our circumstances, um,
S2: shut down those doors and they, they think it's crass
S2: and low class to show stuff like that. While Grant
S2: and I aren't trying to be anything other than what
S2: we are, but the reason why we show those jets
S2: is to show that everyday people like how we started
S2: in the beginning. Years can make it. And it's not
S2: only for the elitists. And if you're willing to do
S2: the work and you know how to avoid enough wrong
S2: mistakes and decisions, then you too could be on the
S2: path to having and creating the life that you want
S2: as well. But it took a lot of work and
S2: a lot of sacrifice. And so I'm not going to
S2: apologize from crawling from where I did, which I feel
S2: was in the muck, crawling out of that, crawling up.
S2: And to be where I am now. I'm, you know,
S2: I'm not willing to settle for less, and I'm not
S2: willing to have anyone just have a right into our
S2: lives just because they're entitled to it. I worked hard,
S2: and I want to protect what I have and what
S2: I built and the people around me and and that's
S2: that's just that's just come over time. And I paid
S2: the price for that. No one can take that away
S2: from me. You know, again, I don't want to talk
S2: too long. I don't want to run this this show.
S2: This is your.
S1: Show. This is your world. I'm just living in it,
S1: taking notes over here.
S2: But, yeah, a lot of people say, you know, what
S2: would you do if they took away all of your money?
S2: And I wouldn't like it, but I know it wouldn't
S2: take me and Grant as long the second time as
S2: it did the first time, because you can't take away
S2: what I've already been through. You can't take away the
S2: street cred. You can't take away my integrity, my confidence,
S2: the people that I've met, the skills that we've learned, the,
S2: you know, everything that we've been through, how to identify
S2: red flags and toxic people and this and that. So
S2: none of that you can ever take away from me.
S2: So you know, it's yours.
S1: Yeah. You've earned.
S2: It. That's right. And I'm not perfect yet.
S1: I don't know, I've I've spent a lot of time
S1: around you and I have yet to come across a flaw.
S1: I think I'm I've always said this. I'm your biggest
S1: fan and biggest cheerleader and feel like you are just
S1: the most magical person on this planet. So I'm honored
S1: to be able to learn from you. And I think
S1: about where I was coming from five years ago in
S1: learning from you and really having you hit me with
S1: hard truth around. You weren't telling me that I didn't
S1: have stats, but I didn't have stats in this area
S1: that I was, I guess, starting to talk about and
S1: hadn't really put those things together. So when we're talking
S1: to this audience, this listener who's maybe driving in their
S1: car right now or on a walk trying to figure
S1: out what stats to get, do you have any guidance
S1: around where somebody should start with getting stats, like, how
S1: do you go about doing that?
S2: You should ask yourself, how did you go about getting started?
S1: But it's not my this is not my episode. This
S1: is your episode. Do you want me to say I can? Sure, sure. Yeah. Well,
S1: at the time when we were starting the business, it
S1: was right when Cardinal Ventures was starting. And so I chose,
S1: instead of being in a relationship, podcast and content creation mode,
S1: it's like I don't have the expertise of scaling businesses,
S1: because the last one that I was working in didn't
S1: end up as a success. There was a lot of
S1: failure there, but I can get stats in the things
S1: that I'm responsible for. And at the time, as we
S1: were growing Cardone Ventures, I was responsible for the people.
S1: I was responsible for hiring them, for onboarding them, for
S1: training them. And I couldn't take credit for every other
S1: part of our business. But I could take credit for
S1: what was happening with our team and the growth of
S1: our team and I. That's why I wrote the book
S1: about that, because I had the stats of hiring those
S1: team members, onboarding them, training them, retaining them, promoting them,
S1: and developing them. So that's where I got my stats,
S1: and I really focused on those areas to kind of
S1: carve in my little piece of.
S2: The stats, right? And so when I first saw you
S2: at that phase, um, when you were 25 and you
S2: were asking me so many questions, I thought to myself, um,
S2: I never even knew. At 25, I never knew the
S2: person that I thought I could ask that to and be.
S2: I wouldn't have known how to ask those questions. And
S2: you ask really smart, intelligent questions. You've all you've always
S2: come across highly able, capable, intelligent. Which is probably why
S2: I told you the truth. At that time, I remember
S2: you were like you had your Instagram, the 25 year
S2: age gap. I'm like, where are we going with this?
S2: It makes no sense. I am not relatable. I've got 15.
S2: I thought I was like, you know, killing it, but
S2: where do you go with this? How many people do
S2: you meet have a 25 year gap that's going to
S2: relate to this? I was like, what is the story?
S2: I don't get it. Yeah. And then when you were,
S2: you know, you were kind of like, I don't know,
S2: Brandon's the person and I don't know where I'm like, dude,
S2: find your place, make your mark and go. And you,
S2: unlike a lot of other people that have come or
S2: ask questions, you actually implement everything. It's astounding. I've never
S2: met anyone like you that just really absorbs data and
S2: really implements it. And I mean, you've turned this. I mean,
S2: you were just so magnificent. I read your book. I
S2: love your book. You do a certain area that I've
S2: never done. I do different things. I don't talk about that.
S2: I don't do that. So it's very, so rewarding to
S2: be on this side, reading your book, highlighting your book
S2: and actually implementing your strategy in my domain and in
S2: my sphere of ten ladies. And what I'm growing, this
S2: whole this whole arm in the card own training technologies
S2: bubble or umbrella, I should say. So, you know, you've
S2: made me just really, really proud. And I'm super excited
S2: as to who you are and what you've what you're
S2: turning out to be. I mean, you aren't like, I
S2: don't want to be like the gush.
S3: Yeah.
S2: But like, but but I'm at a point in my
S2: life now I hit 50. And you know, we're successful.
S2: And I'm at a point now where I have the
S2: stat of being the woman behind the man beside the man. However,
S2: people like to call. That doesn't matter to me, but
S2: I now want to look at those strengths that I've
S2: fought for so long, which is kind of infrastructure, mindset
S2: and support. That's where I feel like I really contributed
S2: to the to the motion of the Empire. Grant actually
S2: physically built it and but that was my area. I
S2: don't know if that's scalable because I obviously I'm not
S2: going to be married to, you know, millions of other men.
S2: I promise you that. But what became more important to
S2: me at this point in my life is, well, can
S2: I be the woman behind the women? So I'm on
S2: a new career path, if you want to call it that,
S2: or life's mission path, spiritual journey. I want to be
S2: the I want to build women so they can build
S2: their empire by bringing mindset, infrastructure and support. Because I
S2: believe women have the ability to not only have their
S2: own power, but they also have a very big power
S2: to influence the men who sometimes make decisions in their
S2: careers or jobs or post. So I feel like women
S2: are extremely powerful because women influence themselves. They influence the men,
S2: they influence the children, they influence the community. And if
S2: we actually started really owning that power on a magnitude level,
S2: I feel we can change the trajectory of this world
S2: and make it a better place. So, um, so anyway,
S2: just to see you in five years, do a 180
S2: in your life. Um, it's like a spiritual deposit in
S2: my bank account.
S1: I've always thought I want to be your best student.
S1: That's been, like, literally a goal of mine is how
S1: do I actually implement what you're talking about and not
S1: be a waste of your time or Grant's time? And
S1: so that is a very beautiful acknowledgement. And I appreciate
S1: you for saying that, because I still to this day
S1: watch you and had a team member as we were
S1: driving over here is preparing for this podcast. She I said,
S1: if you were listening to Elena, what would you want
S1: to hear? And she said, why does Elena show up
S1: to the office every day and do what she's doing
S1: when she does not have to? Like, why do you
S1: do this? And you just mentioned spiritual legacy play. You
S1: just mentioned a pivot in your career. Can you give
S1: like a little bit more of the behind the scenes on.
S1: The why you show up, even though there is nothing
S1: that forces you to show up for a paycheck or
S1: for a job, because you could do anything that you
S1: want to be doing right now, and yet you choose
S1: to show up, right?
S2: As much as I love money and I want that
S2: to go on the record, I value money. I think
S2: it's very healthy. I want other people to have money.
S2: But why? I'm here every day, um, when I'm assuming
S2: people are thinking I don't have to be here because
S2: I have money and I can't be here, but that
S2: doesn't fulfill me. What fulfills me now in life is
S2: I have stats, I have things that I figured out.
S2: I have information that I feel could help other people
S2: if they wanted to see what we did to become successful.
S2: I want to be transparent. My purpose in life is
S2: I want to empower women, protect children and restore the
S2: family unit on the planet. So I'm driven by that.
S2: I'm I want to make that spiritual legacy for myself.
S2: I want to make a difference. I want my life
S2: to have been more than just, oh, I made money
S2: and happy and flew around on jets and got to
S2: see the world. You know, I love all of that.
S2: Those are the rewards. But I want to be like, hey,
S2: I came into Natalie's life. I said something, I put
S2: she she went, she was doing this and kind of
S2: maybe and not know, she might have figured it out
S2: 15 years from that point. But she didn't. She figured
S2: it out right then and went on another path. So
S2: that to me is more satisfying than just staying home.
S2: And I don't know what. Before I had money, I
S2: always imagined that rich people just was on beaches drinking
S2: pina coladas, you know? So that won't make me happy
S2: every day. Making me happy every day is hearing success
S2: stories or seeing, oh wow, I did make a difference.
S2: You know, you're.
S1: Really changing people's lives. Yeah. So when you think about
S1: changing people's lives and your desire to do this, when
S1: you look back at yourself and you think about where
S1: you started and maybe the lack of confidence that you had,
S1: what tip could you give somebody who is trying to
S1: build self-confidence and trying to just, like, change the direction
S1: of their life? I've watched you do this many times,
S1: even like your growth con speech three years ago at
S1: the Turnberry where you had like your your hair. I
S1: just remember your hair and your dress was just like
S1: that bomb on. Do you remember the two? Yes. And
S1: you were so vulnerable with the audience about you learning
S1: the real estate game and you figuring out your real
S1: estate test to get your license and you, like, were
S1: crying just a little bit about just the the thoughts
S1: you had as a kid that you weren't smart, just
S1: how you've managed to get to be this person today,
S1: who is confident, who can show up and represent herself
S1: and be this incredible woman. But 20 years ago or
S1: 30 years ago, or even moments where you're pivoting as
S1: recent as a few years ago, how do you get
S1: that confidence to make those pivots and become that next
S1: version of yourself?
S2: Well, for me, it's discipline and consistency and doing what
S2: you say you're going to do, and it takes time.
S2: And I started off with doing the little things that
S2: I could control, um, and setting out with small little
S2: targets and just hitting them every day consistently. So that
S2: helps to build confidence. Um, doing it any way, doing
S2: it scared all helps to build confidence. Um, but I'm
S2: never I've never hit this thing where still in my
S2: life today where I just go, oh, I have full
S2: confidence and I'm going to be great. I mean, I
S2: have to tell myself that, and I have to do
S2: it anyway, but I've never had that yet. You know.
S1: Still today, you don't feel like you have that showing
S1: up to a presentation or doing all of the amazing.
S2: Photoshoots. I trust myself that I'm going to deliver because
S2: I do, and I always show up and I always
S2: deliver so I can trust myself. But I still have
S2: fear that this is going to be the time that
S2: I don't show up and I don't deliver. Those fears
S2: still exist. This is this going to be the time?
S2: I don't know what the hell I'm doing, you know,
S2: as I'm trying to do bigger challenges and reach my
S2: and stretch myself, is this going to be the thing
S2: I'm going to fail at? Can I do this? I
S2: have all those old, you know, thoughts, considerations. There's a
S2: lot of internal I don't know if you want to. What?
S2: I don't know what you call it. Internal politics. I mean,
S2: the company's growing. There's different agendas, there's different personalities, there's
S2: different things that that, you know, I have to figure
S2: out with a lot of different people. And, you know, yeah, I,
S2: you know, there's, there's. Things, challenges and punch guts that
S2: go and then that make you introvert on myself. I
S2: won't say you, I'll say me that make me introvert
S2: on myself. That go, oh, I should have done that.
S2: I didn't do that. Now they're looking at me going, oh,
S2: you didn't do this and you didn't cross that T
S2: or that I and oh, did that ring me down
S2: on the rung a little bit and am I, you
S2: know what I'm saying. And I'm constantly having to, you know,
S2: feel like, oh, uh, like I don't do you know everything?
S2: I don't touch that. I touch turns to gold, you know,
S2: only about 99.9. But but that point, 1.1 knocked me
S2: down so hard, you know what I'm saying? So. But but,
S2: you know, it's. It's a it's a battle for me, but.
S2: So I'm not going to pretend like I have this.
S2: I'm very vulnerable as I. As I stretch to new levels,
S2: I get more vulnerable, more vulnerable, more vulnerable. Can I
S2: do it? Can I do it? Self doubt. Keep going.
S2: You can I don't try I try not to pay
S2: much attention to that while that's happening. I just keep
S2: feeling of it. Yeah, the feeling of it. I just
S2: try to go who am I in the future? In
S2: the future? I figured this out in the future. I
S2: have all the confidence in the future. I know what
S2: I'm doing. So be the future self now and wear
S2: that hat. Just be that future. This is what I do.
S2: You're asking for the person that's listening or jogging or
S2: in the car and they don't know what to do.
S2: This is my strategy. I pretend or mock up or
S2: whatever you want to call it, that future self and I.
S2: Where how would that person feel right now? It still
S2: doesn't make the voices go away of you messed up.
S2: You don't know what you're doing. You you should have
S2: done been more prepared in this meeting. Maybe you're biting
S2: off more than you can chew. You probably shouldn't do this.
S2: Why are you doing this? You don't need to do this.
S2: You're getting attacked because of this. People are telling you
S2: you should die in a flaming wreck or eliminate yourself
S2: from the planet immediately. I'm like, what am I doing?
S2: Doesn't stop those voices, but I be my future self.
S2: My future self got over that. Doesn't even remember all
S2: of that. Doesn't remember the mistakes my future self goes.
S2: I'm confident. I'm bold. I pulled this off. I'm a victor.
S2: And not only that, but a thousand, 2000, a million,
S2: 5 million, 100,000 million women change their lives. Because I
S2: got through this and they saw something, and I said
S2: something to change your life. And that's what I hold
S2: on to in that present moment. To keep taking the
S2: steps through the fall downs, get back up. Because I
S2: know that in doing that, even with all those negative
S2: lack of confidence feelings, that I am going to become
S2: that future self and I always do, and then when
S2: I'm there, it's there for about five minutes and I
S2: feel damn good and damn strong and I'm like, yes,
S2: until the next episode, and.
S1: Then you just.
S2: And then I'm right back.
S1: Threads right back through it. That's right. So you at
S1: one time said to me, affirm your wins.
S2: Make firm the wins, make firm.
S1: The wins.
S2: Ignore the losses, help.
S1: Paint that picture. Because what you were just saying, a
S1: lot of the time the losses are in social media world.
S1: What people talk about like learn from your losses and
S1: it's about the losses and appreciate the losses. And you
S1: flip my mindset around that for I kind of forget
S1: I'm not going to steal your your thought process on this,
S1: but I'd love to hear more about how you actually
S1: put that strategy in place as you're dealing with it
S1: in the present time.
S2: So that was another thing that I learned make Firm
S2: the wins, which I'm still, again, not great at, but
S2: I'm actively working to become better at because every make
S2: firm the wins. When I have a win, I just
S2: my tendency is to go, yeah, well that's expected. That's
S2: that's the competency. Like, and I don't really celebrate it
S2: because I've already set the target to the next thing
S2: and I don't really acknowledge it. I don't even really
S2: know how. But I started to when we started having
S2: those yacht trips that was make firm the win, make
S2: firm the win, acknowledge it, you know, and ignore the losses.
S2: And what I mean by ignore the losses is I
S2: used to operate back in the day from the past.
S2: So from the past there were losses and from the
S2: past while you're going through it and I'm here in
S2: the present, right? I haven't had my future yet, so
S2: I haven't had it yet. So in the present, all
S2: I can compare myself is to the not have and
S2: to the losses. So what was happening when I was
S2: living from the past into the present? If I ran
S2: through a challenge like I just explained a minute ago,
S2: if I ran into a challenge, I would go see,
S2: I'm a failure. I never made that work. See, the
S2: last time, the last time, the loss, the loss. And
S2: I kept looking back and looking back, which made it
S2: even harder to go forward because everything was, you know,
S2: the loss, the loss. You can't. You can't. So what
S2: I do now is I affirm all the wins because
S2: they keep you going and keep you energized and like excited, like, okay,
S2: it's working. And now I ignore the losses. So the
S2: only time I use losses is to make a policy
S2: going forward. So if I was naive in one situation,
S2: I make a policy. I know I'm naive. My policy
S2: is is now every time some. Something I'm going to say.
S2: Show me the stats. Look. Don't listen. Am I being naive? See,
S2: that's the circuit I installed in my brain, or whatever
S2: you want to call it, so that I can filter
S2: myself going forward. But I no longer live from the past,
S2: and I ignore all the losses, I don't care. Now
S2: I look from the future. So like I said, I
S2: live from my future self and who that is and
S2: that pulls me forward. So now I can look from
S2: my future and experience a loss and I can say, okay,
S2: that loss from the past would have pull me back
S2: and stop me. But now I go. That's what I
S2: needed to go through to learn how to become this bigger, stronger,
S2: more confident person in the future. I had to go
S2: through that in order to become my future self. So
S2: it's just a different mindset and a different viewpoint. One
S2: pulls you back to stop and one pulls you forward
S2: to keep going.
S1: What if somebody doesn't have clarity on the future you're
S1: talking about? Like you imagine your future self and you
S1: have this purpose about helping women and protecting children and
S1: restoring the family unit. Like Elena Cardona is clear on
S1: what the five year or the ten year version of
S1: herself looks like. And so you can kind of you
S1: can really channel that. But for the person that's like,
S1: for me, I'm asking this as if I was me
S1: five years ago at 25, because I think people really
S1: struggle with this. And you do this so beautifully, where
S1: you just reinvent yourself and you reinvent what you're doing
S1: to be in alignment with where you want to go.
S1: And so how do you go about making the decision
S1: and postulating that you are going to take on such
S1: a massively huge target, such as restoring the family unit?
S1: And that's so real to you as a place of
S1: motivation for you every single day. How do you start
S1: with that target?
S2: Well. You know, I would ask the person, like, what?
S2: Where do you want to go? I mean, for somebody
S2: to even want to have any awareness of anything, if
S2: they're already asking themselves, what am I doing? Then start
S2: asking yourself, where do you want to be? Because where
S2: you want to be is going to dictate what you
S2: need to be doing, because you're going to reverse engineer
S2: from that picture. So, I mean, if you have the
S2: ability to visualize anything or have some sort of creativity or,
S2: you know, mock it up, it's all mocked up anyway,
S2: you know? So mock it up.
S1: What do you mean by that?
S2: Well, like, if I, if I like it's it's all
S2: a mock up. Like happiness is a mock up. You know,
S2: I can be real. I can be an enthusiasm right now. Oh,
S2: my God, did I tell you about such and such?
S2: I'm so excited. I cannot wait to tell you this.
S2: That's enthusiasm. It's a mock up. It's a creation I
S2: can go down into sadness right now. Or total boredom.
S2: Those are mocked up. Those are mock ups, right? So
S2: what is it? What is the mock up of the
S2: future look like? Does it look happy? Does it have
S2: a family in it? Does it have good friends in it?
S2: Trustworthy people? Does it have drug free, alcohol free? Does
S2: it have success? Does it have money? Does it have traveling? Like,
S2: does it have airplanes? Can you think about those things?
S2: What does it look like? You don't have to think
S2: about how you get there. Just can you think about it?
S2: Do you have a good thing, something that you're love
S2: and you're passionate about and that you want to work towards?
S2: Like start thinking like because the more you think, the
S2: more you can think, oh my God, there's an ocean.
S2: I have a house on the ocean, I do this,
S2: I do that, I have the kids, we do this,
S2: I empower women, I, I, I'm a, you know, whatever.
S2: I own my own hair salon. My salon, actually, I
S2: own a chain. It's a global chain. It's a this
S2: it's that before you start hearing all the voices in
S2: your head that say, oh, that's absolutely crazy, you're never
S2: going to have that. Just create the picture. And then
S2: for fun and as easy and as light as it is,
S2: just a mock up happiness. Oh, you know, just start going, okay, well,
S2: let's just pretend like I'm pretending. Like I'm pretending. So
S2: if I were going to have that, what would that
S2: look like going backwards? Like, what would I have to
S2: do to have that? You know, let's just pretend that
S2: can that can be real. What would that person look like?
S2: What would that person have to know? What would that
S2: person have to know about money, finances? What would that
S2: person have to know about travel? Or how much does
S2: it cost to raise a family? How would I how
S2: do I learn about being a wife or a mother?
S2: If you want a family, how do I even find out?
S2: About what is it to mean to be a mother
S2: reverse engineer? Okay, well, what are the books on that?
S2: Who says what about that? Who do I want to
S2: listen to that would Elena be someone I'd want to
S2: listen to? What does she say about her kids? Now
S2: you're going to start doing it. Let me start reading
S2: about trips to Africa or this place, or that place
S2: of where I want to go and what I want
S2: to do. And you know what? Finance courses. We took
S2: five finance courses together. Do you remember that I do.
S1: I want those.
S2: Isn't that amazing? So now you start doing the things,
S2: you just start mocking it up. You got to mock
S2: it up in the real life to then be able to.
S2: All of a sudden you go, oh my God, you
S2: wake up and you're in your life that you mocked up,
S2: that you created. It doesn't just fall into your life.
S2: It's got to be created. It's got to be mocked up.
S2: You mock it up, you know, you make it happen. Yeah.
S1: And you just make it happen.
S2: This life that I'm living right now is a mock
S2: up that I had in 2008, when the economy was
S2: collapsing and we were on the verge of being bankrupt.
S2: I mocked up a plane.
S1: So I've heard Grant talk about goal setting in the morning.
S1: He writes his goals down on a legal pad, and
S1: then at the night, at the end of the day,
S1: he writes his goals down again two times a day.
S1: You going back to 2008 when you're mocking this up,
S1: do you have a different process? I think it might
S1: involve a ball where you go up and down just
S1: a few times. You want to share what your process
S1: is on this real fast. It's not embarrassing. I think
S1: this is so magical about you. So it's out. So
S1: I'm not outing you on anything, right? Can't do that.
S2: Can't do that. So anyway, I've always been hyper. I've
S2: had a trampoline my whole entire life. I grew up
S2: with a big trampoline in my backyard. I have a
S2: trampoline in my yard. Now to know that, yeah, I
S2: guess I did that. The trampoline, little turtles. The turtles
S2: took over the trip. Yeah, yeah. Um, but. So I've always,
S2: I've always just, I don't know, I've just it's been
S2: very soothing for me. So when one of my friends
S2: was pregnant, I went over to her, her baby shower,
S2: and she sat on a potty ball and was bouncing. Now,
S2: I always used to go outside on a trampoline, and
S2: I would just kind of jog in place for hours,
S2: because that's why I do all of my visualization. And
S2: that's where my mind, just how my mind works, is.
S2: I start seeing the future, and then I run every
S2: play down in my head like I go, this play
S2: did it. What would I need? What are the what
S2: would I have to do? What a lawsuit, this, that?
S2: Or would that work? Or how would this work? And
S2: so I run the whole chain down and then I go, okay,
S2: what if I did it this way and then I
S2: run the whole chain down and then I have this, this,
S2: this and this. And if they say if they did this,
S2: then I could do that and did it. And so
S2: like I see all this like thing that goes on
S2: in my whole entire head while I'm bouncing on my trampoline,
S2: looking at my beautiful ocean. Now, back in the day,
S2: it was in New Orleans, in my backyard. But but
S2: I'd have these big visions of everything. So I play
S2: it all down. Like, how does this work, that work
S2: this to how could this work? Who would have to
S2: know who? And da da da da da? I can
S2: make this happen. And that's my magic. Because then I
S2: come back after I've done this whole madness in my
S2: head and I go, that's what I need to do. This, this, this,
S2: let me put this person with this person, blah blah blah, boom.
S2: That happens. Da da da da da. And then they
S2: take off and they sprout the seeds. And then sometimes
S2: it looks different, but in the in the end it
S2: pretty much comes to fruition like this.
S1: The way that you mocked it up and you mock
S1: it up on a Pilates ball or.
S2: Yeah. So I hate that part because I feel like
S2: it's so, so anyway, my my friend's house, she was
S2: bouncing on this ball and I was like, wait, what?
S2: And I bounced on the ball and I was hooked
S2: and I was pregnant. So I started bouncing on a
S2: Pilates ball when I was pregnant with my first child.
S2: And then when I came out, when she came out
S2: of the womb, I. If I held her and wasn't bouncing,
S2: she'd cry. So then I became captive to the Pilates.
S1: You're stuck.
S2: I was stuck because every time I was bouncing on
S2: the ball happy, I so. So then it became like,
S2: literally like my ball and chain.
S1: But not even the ball.
S2: So, so. But I'm not leaving the ball, I still.
S2: So when I watch TV at night with the family,
S2: I bounce on my Pilates ball and they watch. And
S2: that's the way I like it, because I don't. If
S2: I sit still at nighttime, I'm asleep, like, oh, interesting.
S2: I'm out.
S1: Okay, so the body ball keeps the energy going.
S2: Oh yeah. Potty balls. Great.
S1: Well, for those of you who are looking for a
S1: goal setting hack or a visualization hack.
S2: I don't know if that's going to. I don't know
S2: if I endorse that one. I it just might.
S1: It works for.
S2: You.
S1: But some people that's what I think is cool about well,
S1: Sarah successful people.
S2: Sarah Blakely says that she drives in her car, she
S2: goes and gets lost and she drives. Yeah. That's her
S2: she like.
S1: Even though the Spanx office is like a few minutes away,
S1: she still drives around.
S2: And just kind of gets lost in her thoughts. Yep.
S1: And Grant writes his.
S2: Goals down on a Pilates ball, not ensure.
S1: You have no carbon footprint associated with your Pilates ball sitting.
S2: I'm not worried about that. I'm just worried about like, no,
S2: I'm not worried about her. She's got her routine down,
S2: but crushing it in my head. I don't know if
S2: I could be driving, uh, focused with.
S1: Running all your plays.
S2: Yes, I'm running plays. I'm I'm I'm playing chess. Yes.
S2: In my head. Yes.
S1: On a safely on a Pilates ball. Not in traffic
S1: with other cars that you might need to maneuver around.
S1: So question for you. You talk about four pillars, the
S1: four core pillars. Could you give the audience a little
S1: bit of a taste of these core four pillars that
S1: you talk about, and maybe let them know a special
S1: little offer that you are giving to everybody who is
S1: currently listening to building buildings.
S2: Okay, so I wrote a book, Build an Empire How
S2: to Have It All, and the Empire is based on
S2: these four pillars, meaning you can't build the foundation without
S2: these four pillars, and you can't have one without the other.
S2: Or we have a sinking house. They all have to
S2: be stable and sturdy. And that's the Empire mindset, dynamic relationships,
S2: because no empire has been built alone. So you have
S2: to figure out how to get along with people. People
S2: have to figure out their roles and how to work
S2: cohesively for the mission. And then there's, um, master your money,
S2: because we live in an economic planet. So you've got
S2: to understand money. We. Resources. And then the last one
S2: is the lifestyle, the health, the wellness, and and that
S2: ability to postulate, as you said earlier, which means assumes
S2: something to be true. So how to make it manifest?
S2: The manifestation isn't the word manifestation means to make appear.
S2: Did you know that it means to make seen by
S2: the I. I always thought manifestation was this thing that
S2: you think about. It's not. It means to make appear
S2: like that's what manifestation means. So those are the four pillars.
S2: How to make it manifest. It has to show up.
S2: Can't stay in your head. How do you get it
S2: out of your head from that vision that I've been
S2: talking about to show up in the real world, I
S2: don't want it to just stay here. It's got to
S2: actually show up here. It has to manifest. So mindset, relationships,
S2: money and manifestation are the four pillars that you've got
S2: to build so strong to then be able to build
S2: up and out. If you however big you want to
S2: build your empire for the expansion. Yes. So if anyone
S2: is interested in learning a little bit more about the pillars,
S2: you can go to Elena Cardone okay Elena cardone.com/pillars and
S2: you can have them for free.
S1: Amazing. She is so incredible. You are not going to
S1: want to miss out on the the expanded version of
S1: the pillars. The pillars have changed my life and I
S1: know they've changed tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of
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S1: The millions of women's lives that this woman has helped
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S1: with an S. There's multiple pillars pillars to get that
S1: free downloadable I appreciate you being on the show. Thank
S1: you for being so wonderful and such an example to
S1: so many women. And I'm just going to continue rooting
S1: for you, supporting for you, loving on you.
S2: Thank you.
S1: And you should do the same.
S2: Prayers. Anything.
S1: Follow her. Support her. Get your friends involved with what
S1: she's doing because she is creating a movement and she
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