Speaker 1: This is the EDS with Eddie Judge and Edwin Ado Yave.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, welcome back to the ED podcast. I'm
Speaker 2: Eddie Judge. I got my co host here. Welcome back, brother.
Speaker 1: It's good to see you so a while.
Speaker 2: Happy new year, man, Can you believe this is a
Speaker 2: whole new year. It's been a new a whole twelve
Speaker 2: month since you know, we've we've you know, been doing
Speaker 2: this all right, I know longer than that, but.
Speaker 1: That blew by. Yeah, I still can't believe it. And look,
Speaker 1: January is almost done.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, let me let me correct myself what
Speaker 2: I was trying to say. It's been a year since
Speaker 2: you and I have actually just caught up with each other,
Speaker 2: and you know, I want to know what's going on
Speaker 2: in your life. Want to know how your twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five was. Talk about my twenty twenty five, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk about you know, any gold or aspirations you might
Speaker 2: have for twenty twenty six. And I just give our
Speaker 2: listeners an update of what's going on with.
Speaker 1: The sound good, sounds good, Let's do it awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, let's start with how was your twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember a lot of shit going on
Speaker 2: in your life, but I didn't kill us.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'll start with the holidays. You know.
Speaker 1: The holidays was, they were good. We ended up on
Speaker 1: a strong note. You know, it's not always how you
Speaker 1: start the year, it's how you ended. And I felt
Speaker 1: like this year we had a great ending. Did a
Speaker 1: lot of shopping this year. You know, the kids have
Speaker 1: been great, and I wanted to make sure that they
Speaker 1: just had a great, great Christmas, especially with everything that
Speaker 1: they've gone through. So I basically got them whatever they wanted,
Speaker 1: you know, and I got lucky. Well, one of my
Speaker 1: kids asked for the world, if you got the world,
Speaker 1: you know. My other kids didn't ask for so much,
Speaker 1: and it was funny because I told them, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is why you have to ask,
Speaker 1: because this year was the year that whatever you asked
Speaker 1: for you would have gotten. And one of them didn't
Speaker 1: ask as much, and the you know, modest, but one
Speaker 1: did and she got some great, great gifts. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: I think we had some great, great memories. You know,
Speaker 1: this year we spent Christmas, we all spent it together.
Speaker 1: Teddy was with us, the girlfriend was with us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was at the house. Yeah, so it was very
Speaker 1: It was very similar to the Christmas that we had
Speaker 1: last year in regards to just we had a bunch
Speaker 1: of games. I mean, we played games for probably six
Speaker 1: hours straight. And you know what, what I love about
Speaker 1: those competitive games that we play is that you move
Speaker 1: your body quite a bit. So you know, whenever you're
Speaker 1: moving your body, everybody's just feeling great. You know, there's
Speaker 1: the energy level is just goes through the roof, The
Speaker 1: enthusiasm goes to the roof, and it was just great
Speaker 1: to see smiles everywhere. And again it was it was
Speaker 1: great to have Teddy Teddy there and yeah, we had
Speaker 1: a good time. She even participated in a couple of
Speaker 1: the games. So it was good, awesome.
Speaker 2: I imagine. It's also a great way to distract you
Speaker 2: all from any animosity or negative energy or thoughts or
Speaker 2: you know, kind of just keep you distracted so that
Speaker 2: you can focus on the positives of you know, the situation.
Speaker 2: So that's genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was great too because I think it
Speaker 1: was the first time my mom had seen Teddy and
Speaker 1: probably over a year and three months so since all
Speaker 1: went so it was the first time really most of
Speaker 1: my family got to hang out with Teddy and it
Speaker 1: was just great to see them, so glad to see
Speaker 1: her and vice versa. So yeah, it was a good moment.
Speaker 1: It was a good moment.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Sounds like a great way to end the year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's for me. The holidays are been tossed, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of a roller coaster up and down, and you know,
Speaker 2: coming from not having two parents and that whole cohesive
Speaker 2: family unit and structure, it always felt like it was
Speaker 2: just about gifts. You know, we do have the Catholic
Speaker 2: traditions in our family where we do I think we
Speaker 2: do church on Christmas Eve and we open up our present.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they let us open up a present at midnight,
Speaker 2: but most of the time it was in the morning.
Speaker 2: So it's always been interesting to me, like, well, how
Speaker 2: are the holidays going to be this year? Because one
Speaker 2: year I was not I was just focused on work
Speaker 2: and that was all that mattered to me, my health
Speaker 2: and everything. So I was not in a relationship, and
Speaker 2: when it came to the holiday season, I kind of
Speaker 2: felt a little lonely. But I had to talk myself
Speaker 2: out of it because I was focused on accomplishing some
Speaker 2: business goals. But it was a little lonely, and I
Speaker 2: think it affected me in the long term because it
Speaker 2: kind of set me in a place where like, it's
Speaker 2: just an excuse for big commerce to come in and
Speaker 2: sell you a bunch of shit candy and foods that
Speaker 2: are going to start making you sick. My favorite, obviously
Speaker 2: is Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving not just because of the fever,
Speaker 2: because we all come together and say thank you for
Speaker 2: you know, the appreciation that we have for each other,
Speaker 2: beating each other's life, and you know, thank God that
Speaker 2: we're all healthy. But then Christmas happens, and there again
Speaker 2: we got to buy a bunch of presents, and it's
Speaker 2: like it's all about the money, and I started looking
Speaker 2: at it that way, like, okay, and being in business
Speaker 2: and having a retail business, it's kind of like, all right,
Speaker 2: it's time to start our marketing campaigns. And it used
Speaker 2: to be October, but now it's you know, middle of
Speaker 2: summer for the holidays that are coming. So it just
Speaker 2: it kind of put a bad taste in my mouth,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't too excited. But it turned out to
Speaker 2: be an awesome holiday. This year. We spent it at home,
Speaker 2: our new Dynamics as our kids are older now and
Speaker 2: they have significant others, so they're going to you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're they're going to spend it part time with
Speaker 2: us and the other part work there significant other's family.
Speaker 2: And this year we had, you know, kind of figure
Speaker 2: out what's going on because ideally we wanted to go
Speaker 2: to Big Bear and do it, but the kids can't
Speaker 2: leave and we want to be with family. So mother
Speaker 2: in law came down from Arizona. Our son, Spencer, he
Speaker 2: was going to come over on Christmas Eve by himself
Speaker 2: or with his girlfriend, and our daughter was going to
Speaker 2: be there with her boyfriend, and we were just going
Speaker 2: to be a small group of us there. And all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, on the day of my sons like,
Speaker 2: can I invite my girlfriend's family? And we're like, holy shit.
Speaker 2: It just turned into a party because the family is awesome.
Speaker 2: We love her family, we love spending time with them.
Speaker 2: His girlfriend's dad is so funny. So it turned into
Speaker 2: an awesome celebration. We had a lot of people. I
Speaker 2: felt great, I had some great food, we laughed, we joked.
Speaker 2: I think the kids started playing some sort of game.
Speaker 2: I wasn't too into it. I think it was but
Speaker 2: it was fun. And then when all that was done,
Speaker 2: I think around I want to say six or seven o'clock,
Speaker 2: maybe eight o'clock everybody went home. It could have been
Speaker 2: nine o'clock. We woke up the next morning and drove
Speaker 2: to Big Bear and it was just my wife and
Speaker 2: I and mother in law and her boyfriend. And then
Speaker 2: we were hoping to have a white Christmas obviously up
Speaker 2: here in Big Bear, but ray it rained, snowed a
Speaker 2: little bit. We had about maybe four into the snow
Speaker 2: and it was okay, nothing to brag about, but just
Speaker 2: being away was the fun part.
Speaker 1: You know, let's go. So do you do much seen
Speaker 1: when you're out there?
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not. I'm not a winter sport kind
Speaker 2: of guy. I've had a lot of friends that have
Speaker 2: been trying to get me into it, but and I'm
Speaker 2: sure I can get good at it and have fun
Speaker 2: with it. But I'm the kind of person that if
Speaker 2: I find something I really am not just good at
Speaker 2: That's why I like it, because I'm good at it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I find that I will get into it and
Speaker 2: try to find the right tool for the right job,
Speaker 2: and of course it has to be, you know, an
Speaker 2: expensive tool. Because those are usually the ones for the
Speaker 2: right job. And I thought, if I get into snow skiing,
Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna be excited about coming up here.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be traveling, chasing the snow and being
Speaker 2: that idiot that you know goes all the way to
Speaker 2: Switzerland in the winter just to get the best snow.
Speaker 2: And the fact is that I don't know is going on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but there's there's something going on in that in the
Speaker 2: snow world where there's a company that purchased all the
Speaker 2: mountains and they have the Ski Pass Mountain And when
Speaker 2: you go to these ski resorts, you know in Vale
Speaker 2: Espen and even here in California, there's masses and masses
Speaker 2: and masses of people doing it. So there's a huge
Speaker 2: line and it is just terrible. You know. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm just getting old and grumpy, but I
Speaker 2: hate lines. I hate waiting in line. I'm okay with
Speaker 2: a small line, but if it's you know, it's snakes
Speaker 2: around the whole building, forget it. I don't want to
Speaker 2: do it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So now I'm not a big winter sport guy. Do
Speaker 2: you like to ski?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm Okay, I like skiing, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: like a blue, blue green guy. I don't really mess
Speaker 1: with black. I think at this point of my life,
Speaker 1: I just don't want to get hurt because I like,
Speaker 1: I like my workout so much that I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't need to be doing stuff or I might break
Speaker 1: my bones or anything like that. But I do like going.
Speaker 1: I do like kind of mess around with the blue
Speaker 1: slopes or whatever it's called bunny slopes. Yeah, but what'd
Speaker 1: you do for New Year's?
Speaker 2: New Year's was mellow again. Not a big New Year's guy.
Speaker 2: I spent years when I was cycling a lot. I
Speaker 2: would wake up early January first meet up with some
Speaker 2: guys as about eight hundred riders that used to ride
Speaker 2: from Long Beach to Dana Point on Pch and we
Speaker 2: took over the whole street. There was eight hundred riders
Speaker 2: and unofficial, you know. It was just one of those
Speaker 2: things I used to do in New Year's Day. So
Speaker 2: for many years I was like anti partying celebrating New Years.
Speaker 2: In fact, I didn't want to stay up this last
Speaker 2: New Year's I wanted to go to sleep, but we
Speaker 2: ended up having our daughter and her boyfriend come up
Speaker 2: three days before New Year's and there was no snow, nothing,
Speaker 2: so they got to play a little bit on some
Speaker 2: of the leftover snow or the manmates know. But we
Speaker 2: had a great time with our daughter and her boyfriend.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was fun to see my wife interact with my
Speaker 2: daughter on a like a friendship relationship. We played games,
Speaker 2: he played pool, We went to restaurants. We really had
Speaker 2: a great time spending time with her and her boyfriend.
Speaker 2: It was fun. And then somehow made it to midnight.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: It was. It was tough, but I made midnight kiss
Speaker 2: my wife and went straight to bed. But you different years, man.
Speaker 1: I was like a teenager. I ended up in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I think it's the first time in probably twenty years
Speaker 1: at least that I was in Vegas for New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve and had a blast. I mean, I was like
Speaker 1: a total teenager. I had a great, great dinner. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, I was last minute, right, I ended
Speaker 1: up getting tickets last minute, ended up at the win
Speaker 1: the encore. Had this great dinner, but then we want
Speaker 1: to go check out Rufe is still so okay, and
Speaker 1: stayed out all night. It was fun. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Then that the next day paid for
Speaker 1: a little bit, but worth it.
Speaker 2: You know, It's funny the.
Speaker 1: Last I did skip my workout, you know that's I
Speaker 1: definitely did that. Not the way to start off the year.
Speaker 1: But I think that's two years in a row. Last year,
Speaker 1: I I also went out on New Year's Eve and
Speaker 1: it was I ended up at the Soho house and
Speaker 1: was also got one after it that that night. So
Speaker 1: two years strong going out on New Year's Eve, because
Speaker 1: prior to that, I was like, I was gone by nine,
Speaker 1: not even twelve. I would't even make it till twelve.
Speaker 1: I was I'd celebrate with the kids to nine pm.
Speaker 1: We called it our East Coast New Years, and we'd
Speaker 1: all be in bed by ten. And you know, the
Speaker 1: last two years it's been, it's been definitely different.
Speaker 2: Well, you're in a new lifestyle, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: a quasi single guy in a new relationship, doing new
Speaker 2: things over again. Totally totally understand. And you know what
Speaker 2: those last minute trips, those have always been some of
Speaker 2: the best ones. The unplanned, let's just do it kind
Speaker 2: of things, those have been some of the most fun
Speaker 2: things to do. And I think that starts to dissipate
Speaker 2: a little when you're in a long term relationship because
Speaker 2: we love predictability. We you know, we know each other
Speaker 2: very well. We sometimes manish each other's sentences. And my
Speaker 2: favorite thing is sometimes you know, when it comes to
Speaker 2: figuring out where we're going to go eat, we can
Speaker 2: predict what each other's moods or or or or cratings are.
Speaker 2: So the point is is that everything becomes predictable and
Speaker 2: we plan everything, and you know, there's so much more
Speaker 2: responsibility that we have to juggle that we can't just say,
Speaker 2: let's go to Paris or you know, let's go to Italy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but good for you, man, I'm still happy you're living
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: I think I think this year was was definitely a
Speaker 1: year a lot well last year, which I'm going to
Speaker 1: continue that. I just I love the spontaneous year that
Speaker 1: I had. I mean, I went to Europe twice. Last minute.
Speaker 1: I booked my trip to France niece uh Central Pey
Speaker 1: literally the day before. So July third, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: had nothing to do in fourth of July for the
Speaker 1: first time in my life. Kids are gone, everybody's gone.
Speaker 1: By myself, I'm like, you know what, my friend called
Speaker 1: me to say come down to centro Pey. Literally just
Speaker 1: booked it. Boom, I'm down. I'm there the next day.
Speaker 1: And so I just like that all year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it was it was I you know,
Speaker 2: I ate a lot this year, like.
Speaker 1: I eat bread. Now. It's funny.
Speaker 2: You see the results of that right here on the side.
Speaker 1: I'd say, I'm down a four pack, so you'll get
Speaker 1: back I need I need to get it back up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been needing a little too much, too much. I've
Speaker 1: become a foodie in twenty twenty five. That's what twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five was about. God, I just ate left and right.
Speaker 1: But you know, I still kept up with the exercise.
Speaker 1: But it still gets you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well you're in a new relationship. So I
Speaker 2: can tell you from personal experience. When my wife and
Speaker 2: I got together, before we got married, obviously we were
Speaker 2: in great shape. I was working that all the time,
Speaker 2: and we had been invited to Cobble for a VIP
Speaker 2: thing to open up a new hotel. It was a paid,
Speaker 2: paid thing, right, so everything was camped and everything, and
Speaker 2: by then by the time we got to we had
Speaker 2: been eating, traveling, doing a lot of things together. Gaining weight,
Speaker 2: And it didn't hit us until we went to Cabo
Speaker 2: and we were just doing all these events, taking all
Speaker 2: these photo shoots, and we were walking on the beach
Speaker 2: and there was a Papa Rozzi on a like a
Speaker 2: small little boat or yacht that was pitting off the beach.
Speaker 2: And I just got this weird feeling about it when
Speaker 2: I saw it, because it's just odd that this one
Speaker 2: little boat, I mean, it's a small yacht, like it's
Speaker 2: got dark windows and everything. Why is this thing sitting
Speaker 2: out there by itself. Well, the point is they took
Speaker 2: a picture of camera and I unknowingly and they got
Speaker 2: me with my gut out, my wife's ass out. It
Speaker 2: was just like not prepared for these pictures. And of
Speaker 2: course TMZ got ahold of them, or all these muddy
Speaker 2: you know uh places got ahold of them. And they
Speaker 2: wrote these stupid articles and showed that picture and kind
Speaker 2: of woke us up, like, shit, we can't, we can't
Speaker 2: do this. You got to keep it tight. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: was a big wake up call, but you know that's normal.
Speaker 2: You're gonna do fun stuff. My daughter, when she first
Speaker 2: got in her relationship, she did the same thing. I
Speaker 2: think I think it's a normal thing. You just want
Speaker 2: to enjoy each other's in each other's time in so
Speaker 2: many aspects.
Speaker 1: Are you know, you know it's interesting about that ediot.
Speaker 1: It's I always tell my my guys, my my sales agents.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get what you want, you get
Speaker 1: what you are. So that's why I think your self
Speaker 1: worth comes into play, because whatever your self worth is,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll get to that point.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So when you do get out of shape, eventually it
Speaker 1: hits you like, wait, that's not who I am, right right,
Speaker 1: I need to go back to the person I was.
Speaker 1: And that's why you don't get what you want. You
Speaker 1: get what you are, and that's why your If your
Speaker 1: identity is, oh, I'm just going to be out of
Speaker 1: shape all my life, that's what you're going to get.
Speaker 1: And if your identity is you know what, I'm always
Speaker 1: in shape. I take care of my health, that's what
Speaker 1: you're going to get. Because eventually, when you go below that,
Speaker 1: you'll come you'll you'll recognize it, and you'll get yourself
Speaker 1: back to who you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm talking about that place myself right now where
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, IM getting out a hand here,
Speaker 1: I didn't get back to who what I know, I
Speaker 1: should where I should be, you know. But it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's the power of your self worth, It's the
Speaker 1: power of your identity. Right.
Speaker 2: I also think it's a healthy balance, you know, because
Speaker 2: I believe life is all about healthy balances. You really
Speaker 2: can't be in the best shape of your life your
Speaker 2: entire life. From an athletic or sports athletic performance aspect,
Speaker 2: you always have peaks and valleys, and your values are
Speaker 2: not going to be that low. They're just not going
Speaker 2: to be days. You've got to let your body recover, right,
Speaker 2: But when you can keep at the time of your
Speaker 2: game or your competition or that, that's that's genius if
Speaker 2: you can actually make it happen. Because there's so many
Speaker 2: variables involved in this journey that it really is unrealistic
Speaker 2: to be in the best shape every life. For example,
Speaker 2: last November, after I got back from Bravo Kan and
Speaker 2: I had spent you know, three days, maybe four days
Speaker 2: out there shaking hands, you know, meeting a lot of people,
Speaker 2: hugging people, taking pictures, just thousands of thousands of people.
Speaker 2: I got sick and my wife got sick first, but
Speaker 2: she knocked it out in like twenty four hours, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, she knocked it out in twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: it's going to be easy for me because I usually
Speaker 2: don't get sick that often or that long. Well, it
Speaker 2: kicked my ass and I ended up buying antibiotics, and
Speaker 2: I don't like taking shit like that. But after the
Speaker 2: first week I took my last antibiotic, I gave myself
Speaker 2: one more rest day, and the very next day I
Speaker 2: got sick again, full relapsed one hundred percent of what
Speaker 2: I experienced. It took me out for about a month
Speaker 2: and a half and I didn't exercise. I really didn't
Speaker 2: eat that healthy. I didn't do a lot of movement.
Speaker 2: I was literally chilling like I was in my death.
Speaker 2: That it sucked. It totally screwed me up. So since then,
Speaker 2: I've been kind of on this journey to slowly get
Speaker 2: back in shape, and I'm almost there now. But it
Speaker 2: sucked because I had just gotten back two weeks before
Speaker 2: that from a trip up north in northern California where
Speaker 2: I did a two day dirt bike trip and I
Speaker 2: rode ten hours the first day, which kicked my butt,
Speaker 2: but I did it, and another six or eight hours
Speaker 2: the next day, and I'm talking like long, long days.
Speaker 2: And I came home and I felt great, I felt
Speaker 2: in shape, I felt like resilient. And then I go
Speaker 2: to Bravocon and I get sick. It sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, now something to be sad about. Consistency though,
Speaker 1: Like I find like now the days I don't work
Speaker 1: out as far as I used to. I'm just well,
Speaker 1: for the last ten years, I've just been consistent. And
Speaker 1: oh it's funny because I'll see people at the gym
Speaker 1: doing these crazy exercises and I just do like the
Speaker 1: same boring stuff all the time, and just the consistency
Speaker 1: out performs all the time. Yeah, first doing all these
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, you know, new exercises that no one
Speaker 1: has seen. And then but you're not consistent one of them,
Speaker 1: Like don't matter if you're hanging from the bar bell
Speaker 1: and trying to do sit ups or the you know
Speaker 1: whatever the whatever it's called.
Speaker 2: It's all for the Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all for them. It's all about consistency and
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: So I've had days where I've gone to the gym
Speaker 2: and I wasn't feeling it. But you know, actually, let
Speaker 2: me prove practice that. I've had days where I absolutely
Speaker 2: do not want to go to the gym, but once
Speaker 2: I get there and warm up, it's some of the
Speaker 2: best workouts I've ever had. But recently I've had I've
Speaker 2: had days where I've just I'm not feeling it. I
Speaker 2: go to the gym anyways, I warm up and I'm
Speaker 2: still not feeling it. I'm just out one hundred percent there,
Speaker 2: so I'll just go stretch out, roll my body out,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe therygun me and call it a day
Speaker 2: and go home. You know, it's okay. I think the
Speaker 2: most important part of going to the gym or being
Speaker 2: consistent is exactly that figuring out how to get yourself
Speaker 2: to start and do it. And if you have days
Speaker 2: where you don't feel it, you don't have to go
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, but it's that initial going to the gym.
Speaker 2: Now you have your gym at home, right, yes, but.
Speaker 1: I agree with those are the best days. Like a
Speaker 1: day like that where you didn't want to go and
Speaker 1: you still made it even if you didn't do much.
Speaker 1: It's you were able to do things even though you
Speaker 1: don't want to, right, because anybody can do it when
Speaker 1: you feel great. But it's when you don't feel great,
Speaker 1: can you still show up? And I think those are
Speaker 1: the big I call those the identity building days because
Speaker 1: that's what starts to transform you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I imagine it would be a little
Speaker 2: bit a little bit easier or more challenging for you
Speaker 2: having you know, your gym at home. Did I personally,
Speaker 2: I don't like working out at home, you know, I
Speaker 2: do so much at home. I like to leave. I
Speaker 2: like to go to the gym and get out of
Speaker 2: the environment that I'm in most of the day, you know.
Speaker 2: Plus not that I look forward to chatting up with
Speaker 2: the people at the gym, but I do look forward
Speaker 2: to seeing some of the people I do like at
Speaker 2: the gym, you know, catching up, Hey, how you doing quick?
Speaker 2: You know, to chat and back to work.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: But it do you think it's easier to have the
Speaker 2: gym at home or to go to the gym?
Speaker 1: Well, I personally like to get out, but it's good
Speaker 1: to have a gym at home, so on these days
Speaker 1: that you're running late, you can just sort of default
Speaker 1: into the gym at home. So that's where I used it,
Speaker 1: you know, for me, it's interesting we're talking about fitness
Speaker 1: because obviously last year and the last well, the last
Speaker 1: two years have been probably well, the last two years
Speaker 1: have been very very hard, especially twenty twenty four. I mean,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five was hard in that obviously Teddy got
Speaker 1: diagnosed with what she got diagnosed with, but that was hard.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four was, you know, very very hard for me.
Speaker 1: And what always sort of kept me through all that
Speaker 1: chaos was just working out, like that was my mental health.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for I mean, there was times i'dn't
Speaker 1: only sleep two hours a night and I would still
Speaker 1: just get on the treadmill and run.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: What that did for my mental health was huge, you know,
Speaker 1: because my body was so relaxed after workouts that didn't
Speaker 1: matter what came at me. You know, it was almost
Speaker 1: just as important as my scripture. In fact, I'd work
Speaker 1: out and then do the scripture, you know, or whatever
Speaker 1: my gratitude exercise sometimes because I was just I could
Speaker 1: focus more, I was in a better mood, I was relaxed,
Speaker 1: and that literally was you know that And my faith
Speaker 1: was what carried me through probably the lot the worst
Speaker 1: two years of my life. And I don't think I
Speaker 1: talk about it enough, but It really was that fitness
Speaker 1: that that that really helped me with my mindset at
Speaker 1: the time, because if it wasn't for that, I would
Speaker 1: have gone you know, creat Craig, you know, I agreed tremendously.
Speaker 2: I agree for me like you I there's nothing that's
Speaker 2: more effective in in centering myself and taking on challenges
Speaker 2: to dealing with life challenges without working out. You know,
Speaker 2: there's there's That's why I like to work out for
Speaker 2: singing in the morning. M It's been very, very challenging
Speaker 2: lately because my wife, you know, wakes up later or
Speaker 2: or she wakes up earlier, but she doesn't the engine
Speaker 2: running until later than me, So we tend to go
Speaker 2: to the gym later than I enjoy. But I enjoy
Speaker 2: more being with my wife at the gym than you know,
Speaker 2: skipping the workout because you know it's too late for me.
Speaker 2: But the point is is that I'm ready for the day.
Speaker 2: I'm ready for the world. I'm ready for anything that's
Speaker 2: thrown at me. When I actually have the blood pumping,
Speaker 2: the lungs breathing, and the body moving that I can't
Speaker 2: live without it. That's what I got to do for
Speaker 2: the rest of my life. And now that I'm older,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the future, like, what is my life
Speaker 2: going to look like when I'm eighty ninety? You know,
Speaker 2: am I still going to be able to wake up
Speaker 2: in the morning and do this? I have met some
Speaker 2: older people that is fire me, you know. I think
Speaker 2: that's important is to find those people. You know what
Speaker 2: they say about surrounding yourself with smokers, six smokers or
Speaker 2: five smokers, You're going to be the six smoker, you know.
Speaker 2: Surrounding yourself with the people you want to be like
Speaker 2: really is effective. And being in the dirt bike world,
Speaker 2: every time I meet somebody new, I always ask how
Speaker 2: old are you? Or do you who's the oldest guy
Speaker 2: you know that's still riding? Because this is such a
Speaker 2: physical thing for me and such a challenge mentally physically
Speaker 2: and endurance wise as well that it tris me to
Speaker 2: be better. And as much as I want to get better,
Speaker 2: I also am looking for longevity because I want to
Speaker 2: be able to be eighty years old and still do
Speaker 2: some physical activities, not you know, sitting on a couch
Speaker 2: watching TV or some stupid like that. But the oldest
Speaker 2: guy I've ridden with was seventy three years old. And
Speaker 2: he was doing some pretty challenging stuff on the bike,
Speaker 2: and it inspires me, you know, I mean, I'm only
Speaker 2: fifty two, but when I'm seventy two that I want
Speaker 2: to do that, that's cool. What was your biggest takeaway
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1: Biggest takeaway for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: Do you remember last year around this time, we had
Speaker 2: this conversation about, you know, we don't necessarily do New
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions, but we do goal setting and we want
Speaker 2: to do something. I don't remember what year goals were
Speaker 2: last year, but something along those lines was What was
Speaker 2: the biggest takeaway for last year?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, I mean, I think if you compare
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five where I
Speaker 1: was a year ago versus where I was at today,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, at the end of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: I'm still bitter, right, there's a lot of bitterness.
Speaker 2: In my heart.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, today and even twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: was obviously all about gratitude. I think that what I
Speaker 1: realized I've done this before, but it was more evident,
Speaker 1: more than ever in twenty twenty five, and I'm bringing
Speaker 1: this into twenty twenty sixth, which is just continue to
Speaker 1: push forward because eventually, no matter what happens, that pain,
Speaker 1: that pressure, that stress, that storm eventually goes away. And
Speaker 1: when it goes away, you have to be ready because
Speaker 1: there's usually a huge opportunity that comes your way. Because
Speaker 1: it's not always going to be that Storm's not always
Speaker 1: going to be there your entire life. It's just in life.
Speaker 1: You have to go through these seasons and you just
Speaker 1: got to continue to push through it and push past it,
Speaker 1: and eventually it doesn't and it usually comes with an
Speaker 1: ourpportunity of a lifetime. Then if you're not ready for it,
Speaker 1: you're going.
Speaker 2: To miss it.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's maintaining being ready so then opportunity comes.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think what I've seen over just
Speaker 1: my career is just you start getting really good at
Speaker 1: recognizing patterns. You know, instead of just doing blind repetition, right,
Speaker 1: you start seeing patterns and you're like, Okay, if this
Speaker 1: and this and this happened, that means something great's about
Speaker 1: to happen. And it gives you hope, it gives you faith,
Speaker 1: And for me, it's just about that. It's it's just
Speaker 1: always continuing to push forward. No matter what comes, you know,
Speaker 1: there's always going to be new, a new season of something.
Speaker 1: And I think it's I know, I hopeful, faithful that
Speaker 1: there's a great season coming. I'm already seeing the patterns
Speaker 1: of it. So I think twenty twenty six is probably
Speaker 1: going to be one of my best years ever. You know,
Speaker 1: I had to go through some tough times in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty twenty five, but again, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to see everything sort of line up, and I'm super
Speaker 1: excited about, you know, twenty twenty six, and you know,
Speaker 1: to keep keep going.
Speaker 2: That reminds me of a quote I read. I think
Speaker 2: it was last year. It was I hope I don't
Speaker 2: screw it up, but it was something along the lines
Speaker 2: of the bad news is that times will be hard,
Speaker 2: m The good news is that our bad times will come.
Speaker 2: The good news is that good times will come, but
Speaker 2: none of it will last. I think something along those lines.
Speaker 2: So that makes sense. The good news is that good
Speaker 2: times and bad times are going to happen. The bad
Speaker 2: news is that they're going to pass. So you can't
Speaker 2: be always in the good times. And you can and
Speaker 2: you will never be always into bad times, but you
Speaker 2: will it will pass. As I think to your point
Speaker 2: is living in a world of instant gratification. It's hard
Speaker 2: for people to comprehend how long sometimes the bad times
Speaker 2: takes pass. And for you it was the last two years.
Speaker 2: And now things are starting to shift for you, and
Speaker 2: you're seeing the pattern and you're seeing the good times
Speaker 2: coming forth in twenty twenty sixth A lot of that
Speaker 2: is also your mental attitude, right, you just go in
Speaker 2: there positive, but you've seen the pattern, you recognize it,
Speaker 2: and now you're ready for the good times.
Speaker 1: Well again, I think I've said this before, but one
Speaker 1: of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs twenty four to twenty
Speaker 1: six twenty four sixteen, Proverbs twenty four sixteen, which says
Speaker 1: for the righteous will fall seven times, but they will
Speaker 1: rise again, but the wicked will stumble in calamity strikes.
Speaker 1: That word seven really means infinity, like you're going to
Speaker 1: fall and fall and fall and fall, and all you
Speaker 1: have to do is get up one more time. And
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is that I think in life,
Speaker 1: you're going to fall, you're going to fail, you're going
Speaker 1: to lose, and I think sometimes the great danger in
Speaker 1: that is that you'll spend your entire life blaming people
Speaker 1: rather than realizing that it's probably the best opportunity that
Speaker 1: you'll have that's coming out. And I think, as I
Speaker 1: look back to where I'm at today, it's I'm not
Speaker 1: here because I haven't fallen. I'm not here because I
Speaker 1: haven't lost. I'm not here because I haven't failed. I'm
Speaker 1: still here because I just I get up one more
Speaker 1: time and when stuff happens, I just got to get
Speaker 1: up one more time. And eventually the opportunity comes, and
Speaker 1: you know, you have more good times and bad times.
Speaker 1: But I've always said life and pain are inseparable. You know.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going through my dad's sick Now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: here comes another one and he is Now it's a
Speaker 1: life threatening situation and you know, and I'm still dealing
Speaker 1: with it, and it's just you know, what else is
Speaker 1: coming at you. But eventually, if you get used to
Speaker 1: going through pain, that pain doesn't affect it as much
Speaker 1: as it did before.
Speaker 2: Right, and happening with your dad, he's okay to talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's unfortunately and debated right now and he's
Speaker 1: having you know, he's fine for his life. He got
Speaker 1: pneumonia and he got a flu, but he's eighty two,
Speaker 1: so because he's had sort of lung issues before, anything
Speaker 1: like that can wipe them out. You know. It's it's
Speaker 1: like it's like a domino effect. Once one organ starts,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get to that age, organ starts failing,
Speaker 1: It starts to set off all the other things. But again,
Speaker 1: when you go through moments like that, it's you either
Speaker 1: choose faith or you you choose fear. They both haven't
Speaker 1: happened yet. It's just which one you're going to choose.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I not choose the positive side,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's how I lived life my entire
Speaker 1: time is just focusing more on the positives and not
Speaker 1: focusing on the stuff I can't control. I can't control
Speaker 1: if if he's going to make it, so let me
Speaker 1: focus on just on the fifth side. And hey, I'm
Speaker 1: going to get him for another season so we can
Speaker 1: go watch the World Cup together. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: where I'm at with that. But yeah, just you got
Speaker 1: to continue to push forward.
Speaker 2: You know. It's the same I think strategy you had
Speaker 2: when you went into it with Teddy and her cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 2: You've come out of it, you know, pretty strong, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're still you know, are are ceiling in
Speaker 2: the consequences of the entire picture, the big situation that,
Speaker 2: you know, why did this happen? You know, why are
Speaker 2: we here? The big question? How do you think? Well,
Speaker 2: do you know how is Teddy doing at this juncture?
Speaker 2: You know, years into its what's your viewpoint?
Speaker 1: You know? So you know, we were talking about how
Speaker 1: when I was going and I'm not comparing my situation
Speaker 1: to her situation because it's not even we're not even
Speaker 1: the same no, no, not even the same level. But
Speaker 1: where I give her so much credit, like I at
Speaker 1: least had the ability to work out to help me
Speaker 1: with what I was going through. You know, I think
Speaker 1: one of the hardest things for her she really can't
Speaker 1: work out. She's just starting to kind of move her body.
Speaker 1: But I think that's what's been really tough for her
Speaker 1: is that obviously she's going through the immuno therapy, which
Speaker 1: that alone causes some side effects. Yeah, so that's been
Speaker 1: really hard on her mental health, I think. And the
Speaker 1: good news though, is that those tumors are gone from
Speaker 1: what we can see. You know, the chances of that
Speaker 1: happening were point zero zero one, So that was totally
Speaker 1: a miracle from God. You know. I think.
Speaker 2: I also think that she has the same mentality as
Speaker 2: we do, and she thinks positive, right, I mean, you
Speaker 2: know her better than anybody, But I'm just basing this
Speaker 2: based on what I've witnessed and a little bit that
Speaker 2: I know about her. She she's motivated, she loves to
Speaker 2: help people. Yeah, she's positive, and she's fighting still for
Speaker 2: her life, you know. And it's wanting to be sitting here,
Speaker 2: you and I talking about all the ways that we
Speaker 2: employ our skill set and mental fortitude and and strategies
Speaker 2: on how we can prevent you know, a trauma from
Speaker 2: taking us down. And yeah, it might knock us down,
Speaker 2: but like we agree, we're going to be back up.
Speaker 2: It's another thing to be living it. And I see
Speaker 2: Teddy living in it and showing her tenacity and showing
Speaker 2: her strength and showing the you know, the challenges she's
Speaker 2: been going through and it's and she seems unstoppable.
Speaker 1: It's been inspiring. It's been inspiring to watch and uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, what a such a tough battle that she's
Speaker 1: happen to go through, and you know, it sucks because
Speaker 1: you're in a position where there's not much you can do,
Speaker 1: right because there's also the what she's feeling in the
Speaker 1: inside that you know nobody really sees. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lot. But the good news is, you know, I
Speaker 1: got to remind you all the time, you got to
Speaker 1: focus on the positives. I mean, eight months, nine months,
Speaker 1: and that these rumors are gone, Like that's a positive
Speaker 1: in that is just huge. But you could easily just
Speaker 1: focus on the negatives. Right, Hey, I'm not as active
Speaker 1: as I used to be. I can't be as active
Speaker 1: with the kids as I normally was. And it's that
Speaker 1: constant like, hey, it's only been nine months. I give
Speaker 1: yourself credit, you're doing amazing. So I think that's that
Speaker 1: inner battle with the mind is probably one of the
Speaker 1: toughest ones that you have to fight.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 2: is she's fighting this battle and she can't use the
Speaker 2: tools that we you and I can use. So where
Speaker 2: the hell is she getting her strength? Where is she
Speaker 2: finding her tenacity? Where is she The only thing I
Speaker 2: can surmise is, you know the power of thinking about
Speaker 2: something bigger than you and I used to train my
Speaker 2: clients when we had the gym, you know, talking about
Speaker 2: when times get hard on the on the race or
Speaker 2: on the competition. More specifically, when I was training spartans,
Speaker 2: I would teach them to think about why they're doing it,
Speaker 2: you know, and when you figure that out, you can
Speaker 2: use that as a tool to get you through the
Speaker 2: hardest times of your life. And the perfect example would
Speaker 2: be for Teddy is you know, she has wonderful kids
Speaker 2: she has to live for, and and if she just
Speaker 2: thinks about that, I don't know if she is, isn't it,
Speaker 2: But if she just thinks about that, why that purpose?
Speaker 2: I think that would be powerful enough to get her
Speaker 2: through these things without being able to use the tools
Speaker 2: that you and I normally have working out, you know, meditation, prayers,
Speaker 2: all the tools that we have at hand. But the
Speaker 2: most important one that we agree on is moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one tool that I'm one tool that I'm glad
Speaker 1: she's starting to use is more of a spiritual tool.
Speaker 1: She's still getting close. She's definitely getting closer to her faith.
Speaker 1: I love that, and I you know that helps. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you you start to hear God,
Speaker 1: you hear God's voice by reading scripture at times, you know,
Speaker 1: one sentence could just speak to you, and you know, again,
Speaker 1: it's if it gives you faith, that's all you can
Speaker 1: ask for. Right, It's whatever you can do it gives
Speaker 1: you faith over the fear. Right Because again, they both
Speaker 1: haven't happened yet, right, So one's the projection of the
Speaker 1: most positive thing. One's the projection of the most of
Speaker 1: the most negative thing. So they both haven't happened yet.
Speaker 1: It's it's you choosing which when you're going to choose,
Speaker 1: and just being positive is you know everything, And you know,
Speaker 1: I always tell people if you're struggling, if you're struggling
Speaker 1: with your faith, focused on gratitude and it will increase
Speaker 1: your faith. So it's been great, I've seen I've seen
Speaker 1: that from her a lot. So that's that's makes me
Speaker 1: very happy.
Speaker 2: Well, I've always struggled with with religion, primarily because I
Speaker 2: never really studied it when I started learning about it. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I grew up Catholic, but I didn't love it and
Speaker 2: I didn't quite unders grasp, you know, all the concepts
Speaker 2: of the Catholicism. And then I went to Christianity, and
Speaker 2: again I really felt the power of faith, but I
Speaker 2: didn't like the structure of it. And when I learned
Speaker 2: there's over one hundred different religions, I'm like, I give up.
Speaker 2: But the biggest takeaway and the most powerful thing I
Speaker 2: truly believe that comes from being practicing your religion, whatever
Speaker 2: that is, is the power of faith. When you have faith,
Speaker 2: you can do almost anything if you truly believe in
Speaker 2: your faith, and it's an amazing tool to have, you know,
Speaker 2: when when times get hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think, you know, that's the problem. I
Speaker 1: think religion is the problem. I think really when you
Speaker 1: think about God, and not to get too much into
Speaker 1: faith on this, but God is love, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's really not our job to judge people. Our job
Speaker 1: is to love people and let them figure stuff out
Speaker 1: on their own, you know. I think the religion part
Speaker 1: of it, that's where I think it gets mixed up,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what turns a lot of people
Speaker 1: away from it. But that's really not what what Christ
Speaker 1: spot to to to the world. Right back it came
Speaker 1: and he was against religion, right, he was against everybody
Speaker 1: being so judgeful, and he taught everybody to just love,
Speaker 1: and that's really what it's about. It's not our job.
Speaker 1: It's not our job to judge people. It's our job
Speaker 1: to love people. And there's one judge that will happen
Speaker 1: at the end and let them figure it out.
Speaker 2: I agree. So last year, of course, I remember some
Speaker 2: of the goals I set. And do you remember any
Speaker 2: one or two or three goals that you set last year?
Speaker 2: And did you accomplish all of them or one of
Speaker 2: them or none of them? Do you remember?
Speaker 1: And honestly, I think my goal for the year was
Speaker 1: just kind of to get through it and hang on
Speaker 1: for dear life. Right. I knew that it was going
Speaker 1: to be a challenging year. I knew for me it
Speaker 1: was making sure that the kids had everything that they needed,
Speaker 1: that we kept the routine, you know, because obviously you
Speaker 1: have goals at the beginning of the year, but those
Speaker 1: can get upside down once you get punched in the face,
Speaker 1: you know. I had no idea when we talked about
Speaker 1: that stuff. I had no idea Teddy was going to
Speaker 1: get diagnosed a month later with stage four cancer, and
Speaker 1: then you just got a bigger stuff out. I think
Speaker 1: for me in those days, the ninety days prior to that,
Speaker 1: in many ways helped me so much when I got
Speaker 1: the news of Teddy, because I had gone through so
Speaker 1: much resistance and so much pain that even though it
Speaker 1: was really bad news, I could take it on. It's
Speaker 1: almost like I spent the last ninety days building muscles
Speaker 1: for that news. So when it hit me, it didn't
Speaker 1: hit me as bad as it probably should have because
Speaker 1: I had already gone through what I had gone through, right,
Speaker 1: And I also had this unwavering belief and just this conviction.
Speaker 1: And part of it was I was told it was
Speaker 1: going to happen beforehand, that Teddy was going to get cured,
Speaker 1: you know, and I chose to believe it. And I
Speaker 1: was also told that Teddy's life is going to get
Speaker 1: turned upside down before it happened, I didn't know how right,
Speaker 1: So it's almost like it was a prophesized to me
Speaker 1: by my mom's pastor. And but he said, hey, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Something's gonna happen. But he said, just
Speaker 1: remain positive, keep your eye on faith, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see how God's gonna work a miracle. Interesting, and so
Speaker 1: when she went through it, I knew that she was
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. And I think that's the importance
Speaker 1: of faith is that whether it's true, whether it's true
Speaker 1: or not, you're believing that something positive is going to happen.
Speaker 1: And I think if it wasn't for that also, I
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have been able to just conduct myself and
Speaker 1: do the things that I that I that I needed
Speaker 1: to do to make sure that the family didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: fall apart. And so, yeah, it was an interesting year
Speaker 1: and I just like I said earlier, it was just
Speaker 1: all about continuing to push through, understanding that no matter what,
Speaker 1: that storm was eventually going to end or is going
Speaker 1: to end, and when it does, you better be ready
Speaker 1: because good times are coming. And you hang on to
Speaker 1: that thought. And you know, if you have big dreams
Speaker 1: in life, it's not supposed to be easy, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why you have to not always
Speaker 1: choose the easy path, not always try to choose the
Speaker 1: easy road, you know, the easy way that's unfortunately what
Speaker 1: most people are always trying to choose. And I've always
Speaker 1: just chosen a life that demands courage, that demands resiliency,
Speaker 1: that demands strength, and I think when you do that,
Speaker 1: you can make impact. And you know, it's tough sometimes,
Speaker 1: but you know, if you want big things, you want
Speaker 1: big dreams, you're gonna have big resistance. And that's where
Speaker 1: sometimes self sufficiency doesn't work, because when you're going after
Speaker 1: stuff and you have this big resistance that comes at you,
Speaker 1: you need to believe in something right And you know,
Speaker 1: I've always chosen to just believe in a higher power
Speaker 1: and that's gotten me through through those tough times. Is
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been through a lot and that's always
Speaker 1: been my what I hold on to. And you know,
Speaker 1: another great verse of mind that I love is I
Speaker 1: can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. And
Speaker 1: that's what's gotten me through those days. So anyway, looking
Speaker 1: forward to a huge twenty twenty six, man, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about it, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Well, last year I had one real goal among other
Speaker 2: small ones, and if you remember, I was like this year,
Speaker 2: my biggest goal is that I want to learn everything
Speaker 2: and anything I can about AI because it's the next
Speaker 2: big y, you know, revolution in our in our country
Speaker 2: and our world really And although I started to learn,
Speaker 2: I got distracted, and that happens. I ended up still
Speaker 2: kind of staying in the same space as you know,
Speaker 2: learning about where AI is going to go and where
Speaker 2: you know, how it works. I didn't get into the
Speaker 2: intricacies of how it works and how I can use
Speaker 2: it to my advantage or to you know, enhance my
Speaker 2: skill set or my you know, task that I need
Speaker 2: to accomplish. But what happened is around I think April,
Speaker 2: I was getting our our financials in order, our trust
Speaker 2: and you know, making sure our house it big bears
Speaker 2: in our trust and you know, just take care of
Speaker 2: all that. And I happened to glance over up my
Speaker 2: brokerage account and I noticed a big chunk of money
Speaker 2: in and I'm like, what's going on. I didn't sell
Speaker 2: any stock. Why do I have this big chunk of money?
Speaker 2: And that just led me down a rabbit hole and
Speaker 2: it everything I learned in that probably twenty four hours
Speaker 2: to forty eight hours, lit me up. And I was
Speaker 2: so excited that nobody taught me this. You know, it's
Speaker 2: one of those things like I went and I learned
Speaker 2: what happened in this situation on my own, and it
Speaker 2: came natural, almost natural, if you will. I comprehended it,
Speaker 2: I understood it, and it just opened up my eyes
Speaker 2: to a whole new world of investing. So since that day.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been teaching myself and I have a
Speaker 2: mentor that's teaching me his skill sets. He's been doing
Speaker 2: it for thirty something years. He very smart guy, has
Speaker 2: has been very successful in it. And the biggest thing
Speaker 2: that I remember is the biggest lesson I've learned in
Speaker 2: this world of our economy is the people that make
Speaker 2: the most money in the world that I've ever met,
Speaker 2: are not just entrepreneurs. It's bankers, it's financial advisors. It's
Speaker 2: people that learn, live and learn and breathe money because money.
Speaker 2: What I've learned is money is not just a tool.
Speaker 2: It's not just go work your ass off, make money
Speaker 2: and buy shit, or you know, buy this, or prepare
Speaker 2: yourself for buy a house and buy a car, or
Speaker 2: you know, buy a business. You know, it's not that easy.
Speaker 2: It's not that simple. It's understanding the history of money,
Speaker 2: how it was developed, how it was used, how it
Speaker 2: can be used for fraud, how it can be used
Speaker 2: for good, how can you be used for bad, But
Speaker 2: more importantly, how it makes our not just our country run,
Speaker 2: but our entire economy, world economy functions. And it just
Speaker 2: hit me like that's why we have wars. That's why
Speaker 2: we have, you know, so we have disagreement. And it's
Speaker 2: been fascinating learning about more about money than I've ever had.
Speaker 2: And I'm still, you know, fascinated by it. And I'm
Speaker 2: more fascinating because I'm actually doing well, I'm actually making money.
Speaker 2: But it's exciting to find something like that that you've
Speaker 2: grasped and you understand and you just want to drive
Speaker 2: it home until God knows how great it could be.
Speaker 2: You Know. One thing I have learned is is the
Speaker 2: last six months, eight months maybe since I started, the
Speaker 2: market has just been booming. It's it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: hard to lose money in this market. But it has
Speaker 2: slowed down at the end of the at the end
Speaker 2: of the year, I think the December just slow down,
Speaker 2: the trading slowed down, the the money I'm making slow down.
Speaker 2: But here's a whole new year. There's a whole new
Speaker 2: you know, economic plan, and a whole new challenges with
Speaker 2: you know, different presidents, different fraudulent things going on in
Speaker 2: our country. All this ship that's just compounding how how
Speaker 2: it makes money makes our world go around. And I
Speaker 2: love it. I love it. So I'm that's kind of
Speaker 2: what I'm you know, excited about and I'm learning more
Speaker 2: about it. This year, I probably will dabble a little
Speaker 2: bit more into AI because I believe that's going to
Speaker 2: take our country and our in our world, our human
Speaker 2: kind to the next level. I just don't know exactly how.
Speaker 2: And we have robotics coming to our market within the
Speaker 2: next years. I mean, Elon's doing a great job with that,
Speaker 2: and there's other companies that are launching that. So it's
Speaker 2: very it's a very exciting place to be because I'm
Speaker 2: almost also seeing what's coming next, right, Yeah, And it's
Speaker 2: driven by money. Money makes things go round. The market
Speaker 2: is future forward looking, like when when you invest into
Speaker 2: a stock, it's because the value of the teachers, and
Speaker 2: it's like, how do I become a fortune teller?
Speaker 1: Well, you're in a good place, right, anticipation versus reaction,
Speaker 1: you know. I just told my daughters she's about to
Speaker 1: she's gonna enter a senior year, and I was like
Speaker 1: business administration and finance accounting, like know your accounting, Like
Speaker 1: knowing money is such an important piece of success, I think,
Speaker 1: and it is, and having a good relationship with money.
Speaker 1: You know, most people, unfortunately don't have a good relationship
Speaker 1: with money, and it's that scarcity versus abundance. And you know,
Speaker 1: for me at the end of twenty twenty four, I
Speaker 1: was a big difference between how I ended the year
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four to how I ended in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. It is just and I was never like this,
Speaker 1: but bitterness creates this is the scarcity mindset of like
Speaker 1: you just get negative, Oh what if I lose everything?
Speaker 1: And you know what, screw this, I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: all of this being taken away from me kind of deal,
Speaker 1: and you get in this again very scarcity mindset, which
Speaker 1: then sort of rob view of the opportunity to go
Speaker 1: bring abundance. And I think for me it was a
Speaker 1: big difference in twenty twenty five was all about abundance.
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't worried about losing money. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do very very well, and I wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to block thing. I wasn't trying to stop things from
Speaker 1: happening based on the fear of losing money. So I
Speaker 1: think when you have this fear of losing money or
Speaker 1: howarding everything because you think it's gonna get lost, just
Speaker 1: what happens you're gonna lose it, you know. And it's
Speaker 1: not about being reckless with your money either, but it's
Speaker 1: just this expectancy of, you know, I'm a money making machine.
Speaker 1: No matter what happens, I'm gonna figure it out, you know.
Speaker 1: And the more and more that you have a good
Speaker 1: relationship with money, the more and more it starts coming
Speaker 1: your way. And and one of the I guess one
Speaker 1: of the great things of hitting rock bottom is you're like,
Speaker 1: I can't get any worse than this, and that nothing
Speaker 1: really affects you, you know, there's really nothing that can
Speaker 1: really knock you down as hard as that knockout that
Speaker 1: you got that you never thought you were just going
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Well, one of the things that I've learned
Speaker 2: in my old age, and I picked it up a
Speaker 2: long time ago, was when I was working with my
Speaker 2: dad's law firm, I was surrounded by other lawyers, you know,
Speaker 2: having conversations about life and then watching kind of what
Speaker 2: kind of lawyers they are, right, And this is not
Speaker 2: just specific to lawyers, but lawyers are the some of
Speaker 2: the scum bags out there, not all of them, but
Speaker 2: and that's I'll stand by that. But the point I'm
Speaker 2: trying to make is that there's going to be people
Speaker 2: out there that don't want to work, don't want to
Speaker 2: make a buck, you know, the right way, and they
Speaker 2: will go after the people that are successful. In other words,
Speaker 2: the more money you start making, the more successful you become.
Speaker 2: And especially if you become a public figure, whether you're
Speaker 2: a politician or you know, a successful entrepreneur like Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: for example, I can only imagine how many scumbag lawyers
Speaker 2: and scumbag people are just attacking him because he's a target.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's you know, he's what the industry
Speaker 2: calls deep pockets. So it's just the world we live in.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be hyaenas. There's gonna be you know, scumbags
Speaker 2: out there that just want to take people down because
Speaker 2: they got nothing better to do. I literally had a
Speaker 2: conversation with an attorney that says, I just you know,
Speaker 2: draft a law, a law, A lawsuits and I throw
Speaker 2: it against the wall and sometimes the company still loves, Yeah,
Speaker 2: give me ten thousand dollars, I go away. What a scumbag,
Speaker 2: What a bottom theater, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's just a template too. It literally is a
Speaker 1: template it is, and it's like it takes them like
Speaker 1: two minutes to write.
Speaker 2: Send it off. It pisses me out. But the reality
Speaker 2: is is that we do live in a world where
Speaker 2: there's good people and bad people. And again it goes
Speaker 2: back to the beginning of our conversation. Everything's about balance.
Speaker 2: If we had all good people in this world, I
Speaker 2: don't know that it would be that exciting. You know.
Speaker 2: I think balance is key. And when you are driving
Speaker 2: yourself to be successful, healthy and live a prosperous life,
Speaker 2: you got to be ready for the ship the curve
Speaker 2: balls that come to you, because it's just the reality
Speaker 2: of life. We live in a world there's good people
Speaker 2: and bad people.
Speaker 1: Yep, we wouldn't know the good if there wasn't bad.
Speaker 2: Do you have any goals this year? Anything you want
Speaker 2: to accomplish that I lean to keep you accountable with.
Speaker 1: I think again going back to twenty twenty five, that
Speaker 1: I want to keep living is uh. I do feel
Speaker 1: like I lived a little more in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just I kind of went back to
Speaker 1: being that teenager again, not in a reckless way, but
Speaker 1: just in in just you know, making sure Sometimes if
Speaker 1: you stop having fun, you start becoming ungrateful. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think fun sometimes makes you grateful about life and
Speaker 1: just I'm all about experiences now. So I want to
Speaker 1: travel more, which is I think I did a good
Speaker 1: job of that. I want to travel more. I have
Speaker 1: a big goal of, you know, taking my dad to
Speaker 1: the World Cup in twenty I mean this year, spending
Speaker 1: a good thirty days with him and just traveling everywhere
Speaker 1: with them, so you know, hopefully he makes it and
Speaker 1: well not hopefully he will and we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a blast. And again being there more
Speaker 1: for the kids as well. You know, one of the
Speaker 1: things that that I've gotten better at is just reading
Speaker 1: school emails and being more involved with their work and
Speaker 1: asking them questions about their school work. You know, that
Speaker 1: was something more that I was on Teddy. You know,
Speaker 1: I get all these emails coming from school, wouldn't even
Speaker 1: look at them. I'm like, Teddy, that's that's you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And now I've been more involved in that end. So
Speaker 1: continuing that, continuing to make sure that I can give
Speaker 1: them everything I can so that they can continue their
Speaker 1: routine what they're used to, not seeing a drop off.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm sure that brings me. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: brings you closer together with your kids too, right, you know,
Speaker 2: because in my experience, it's not it's I'm not saying
Speaker 2: your Disneyland dad, but there's a lot of Disneyland dads
Speaker 2: that are out there just living their lives, doing whatever
Speaker 2: they do, and then they leave everything else, the responsibilities
Speaker 2: to the wife to handle, but they really don't know
Speaker 2: what's truly going on in their kids' lives. And the
Speaker 2: dads that and even the moms that spend that quality
Speaker 2: time just having a conversation with the kids and really
Speaker 2: getting to the feelings and understanding what's going on with
Speaker 2: the kids is so invaluable. And you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying you didn't do it before, but now that you
Speaker 2: are consciously aware of it and getting involved with the
Speaker 2: school emails and all that stuff, I'm sure you can
Speaker 2: get a better idea of what's going on in the
Speaker 2: kids heads, right yep.
Speaker 1: And it's you know, my dad taught me this, and
Speaker 1: then I heard from a mentor as well that you know,
Speaker 1: things aren't taught, they're caught. Again, things aren't taught, they're caught.
Speaker 2: And for me.
Speaker 1: Seeing my dad always take care of his mom. That
Speaker 1: was something I'd never forget and to this day, I
Speaker 1: am the way I am with my mom because I
Speaker 1: saw my dad always taking care of his mom first.
Speaker 1: His mom was first, and nobody could get in the
Speaker 1: way of messing with his mom, right, and then he
Speaker 1: took care of He's very responsible, took care of everyone.
Speaker 1: And for me now I'm at that place where I
Speaker 1: want my kids to see that that no matter what,
Speaker 1: you show up for your family. And I want them
Speaker 1: to see that, hey, you know what, Dad was always there.
Speaker 1: No matter what this could have happened, that could have happened,
Speaker 1: this guy still showed up. And I also want them
Speaker 1: to see, like, as they get older, you got to
Speaker 1: cut your mom with respect. You got to always be
Speaker 1: there for your mom. And because you only have one mom, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that. That's a driver for me as well too,
Speaker 1: to be an example for them in that sense that
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, you show up.
Speaker 2: I think I think one of the biggest examples that
Speaker 2: you did with Teddy is you know, be there even
Speaker 2: though in spite of you know, the separation, you were
Speaker 2: able to show the kids that none of that matters.
Speaker 2: Right now, what matters is that you take care of
Speaker 2: mom no matter what's going on. So that's an awesome,
Speaker 2: awesome lesson and point of view. What other things have
Speaker 2: you have you shown the kids that you know, this
Speaker 2: is what you do when your mom is fighting cancer
Speaker 2: or you know, fighting for her life that you can
Speaker 2: share with our audience.
Speaker 1: Well, I think making sure that they have awareness about
Speaker 1: how mom is showing up right, you know, bringing out
Speaker 1: the depositive qualities like look, even though your mom's going
Speaker 1: through this, this and this, look at look at what
Speaker 1: she's doing. Like life's going to get hard sometimes you
Speaker 1: got to still continue to push forward.
Speaker 2: And do you have these conversations with all the kids
Speaker 2: or is it like different? I mean they're all different ages, right, my.
Speaker 1: Eleven year old, my thirteen year old, and my seventeen
Speaker 1: year old. For sure, the six year old she probably
Speaker 1: doesn't understand those kind of conversations just yet, but definitely
Speaker 1: with with with the kids. Yeah, like, hey, your energy
Speaker 1: levels low, like you need to we're gonna go as
Speaker 1: a mom, I need you to get your enthusiasm up,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that's all I need to be because
Speaker 1: we need to get her enthusiasm going, you.
Speaker 2: Know, that's aw So that is so good for you. Man. Yeah, well, man,
Speaker 2: I think you know. All I could do now is
Speaker 2: wish you an incredible twenty twenty six. Obviously we'll be
Speaker 2: talking on our next podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I love that you're into this the finance
Speaker 1: world now, man, that's an exciting industry to be in,
Speaker 1: and I think you're going to do very very well.
Speaker 1: And it's all about excitement. And I see how excited
Speaker 1: you are, and especially you know, what causes you to
Speaker 1: take action is your ability to think you can get
Speaker 1: a result. So, like you said, now that you're getting results,
Speaker 1: you want to take even more action towards it. So
Speaker 1: I think you're going to blow it up. So I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear more about it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, brothers, appreciate that. All right, No, man, always up
Speaker 2: with you. I have a wonderful day, bro.
Speaker 1: All right, you too,