WEBVTT - The Eds: The Year of Opportunity 

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<v Speaker 1>This is the EDS with Eddie Judge and Edwin Ado Yave.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, welcome back to the ED podcast. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>Eddie Judge. I got my co host here. Welcome back, brother.

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<v Speaker 1>It's good to see you so a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Happy new year, man, Can you believe this is a

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<v Speaker 2>whole new year. It's been a new a whole twelve

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<v Speaker 2>month since you know, we've we've you know, been doing

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<v Speaker 2>this all right, I know longer than that, but.

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<v Speaker 1>That blew by. Yeah, I still can't believe it. And look,

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<v Speaker 1>January is almost done.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, well, let me let me correct myself what

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<v Speaker 2>I was trying to say. It's been a year since

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<v Speaker 2>you and I have actually just caught up with each other,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, I want to know what's going on

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<v Speaker 2>in your life. Want to know how your twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five was. Talk about my twenty twenty five, and we'll

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<v Speaker 2>talk about you know, any gold or aspirations you might

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<v Speaker 2>have for twenty twenty six. And I just give our

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<v Speaker 2>listeners an update of what's going on with.

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<v Speaker 1>The sound good, sounds good, Let's do it awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, let's start with how was your twenty twenty five?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I remember a lot of shit going on

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<v Speaker 2>in your life, but I didn't kill us.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I guess I'll start with the holidays. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>The holidays was, they were good. We ended up on

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<v Speaker 1>a strong note. You know, it's not always how you

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<v Speaker 1>start the year, it's how you ended. And I felt

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<v Speaker 1>like this year we had a great ending. Did a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of shopping this year. You know, the kids have

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<v Speaker 1>been great, and I wanted to make sure that they

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<v Speaker 1>just had a great, great Christmas, especially with everything that

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<v Speaker 1>they've gone through. So I basically got them whatever they wanted,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and I got lucky. Well, one of my

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<v Speaker 1>kids asked for the world, if you got the world,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. My other kids didn't ask for so much,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was funny because I told them, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, this is why you have to ask,

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<v Speaker 1>because this year was the year that whatever you asked

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<v Speaker 1>for you would have gotten. And one of them didn't

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<v Speaker 1>ask as much, and the you know, modest, but one

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<v Speaker 1>did and she got some great, great gifts. But more importantly,

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<v Speaker 1>I think we had some great, great memories. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>this year we spent Christmas, we all spent it together.

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<v Speaker 1>Teddy was with us, the girlfriend was with us. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it was at the house. Yeah, so it was very

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<v Speaker 1>It was very similar to the Christmas that we had

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<v Speaker 1>last year in regards to just we had a bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of games. I mean, we played games for probably six

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<v Speaker 1>hours straight. And you know what, what I love about

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<v Speaker 1>those competitive games that we play is that you move

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<v Speaker 1>your body quite a bit. So you know, whenever you're

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<v Speaker 1>moving your body, everybody's just feeling great. You know, there's

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<v Speaker 1>the energy level is just goes through the roof, The

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<v Speaker 1>enthusiasm goes to the roof, and it was just great

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<v Speaker 1>to see smiles everywhere. And again it was it was

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<v Speaker 1>great to have Teddy Teddy there and yeah, we had

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<v Speaker 1>a good time. She even participated in a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>the games. So it was good, awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>I imagine. It's also a great way to distract you

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<v Speaker 2>all from any animosity or negative energy or thoughts or

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<v Speaker 2>you know, kind of just keep you distracted so that

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<v Speaker 2>you can focus on the positives of you know, the situation.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's genius.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it was great too because I think it

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<v Speaker 1>was the first time my mom had seen Teddy and

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<v Speaker 1>probably over a year and three months so since all

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<v Speaker 1>went so it was the first time really most of

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<v Speaker 1>my family got to hang out with Teddy and it

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<v Speaker 1>was just great to see them, so glad to see

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<v Speaker 1>her and vice versa. So yeah, it was a good moment.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a good moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Awesome. Sounds like a great way to end the year. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's for me. The holidays are been tossed, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>kind of a roller coaster up and down, and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>coming from not having two parents and that whole cohesive

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<v Speaker 2>family unit and structure, it always felt like it was

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<v Speaker 2>just about gifts. You know, we do have the Catholic

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<v Speaker 2>traditions in our family where we do I think we

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<v Speaker 2>do church on Christmas Eve and we open up our present.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes they let us open up a present at midnight,

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<v Speaker 2>but most of the time it was in the morning.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's always been interesting to me, like, well, how

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<v Speaker 2>are the holidays going to be this year? Because one

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<v Speaker 2>year I was not I was just focused on work

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<v Speaker 2>and that was all that mattered to me, my health

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<v Speaker 2>and everything. So I was not in a relationship, and

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<v Speaker 2>when it came to the holiday season, I kind of

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<v Speaker 2>felt a little lonely. But I had to talk myself

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<v Speaker 2>out of it because I was focused on accomplishing some

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<v Speaker 2>business goals. But it was a little lonely, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think it affected me in the long term because it

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<v Speaker 2>kind of set me in a place where like, it's

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<v Speaker 2>just an excuse for big commerce to come in and

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<v Speaker 2>sell you a bunch of shit candy and foods that

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<v Speaker 2>are going to start making you sick. My favorite, obviously

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<v Speaker 2>is Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving not just because of the fever,

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<v Speaker 2>because we all come together and say thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the appreciation that we have for each other,

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<v Speaker 2>beating each other's life, and you know, thank God that

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<v Speaker 2>we're all healthy. But then Christmas happens, and there again

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<v Speaker 2>we got to buy a bunch of presents, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>like it's all about the money, and I started looking

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<v Speaker 2>at it that way, like, okay, and being in business

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<v Speaker 2>and having a retail business, it's kind of like, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>it's time to start our marketing campaigns. And it used

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<v Speaker 2>to be October, but now it's you know, middle of

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<v Speaker 2>summer for the holidays that are coming. So it just

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<v Speaker 2>it kind of put a bad taste in my mouth,

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<v Speaker 2>and I wasn't too excited. But it turned out to

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<v Speaker 2>be an awesome holiday. This year. We spent it at home,

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<v Speaker 2>our new Dynamics as our kids are older now and

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<v Speaker 2>they have significant others, so they're going to you know,

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<v Speaker 2>they're they're they're going to spend it part time with

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<v Speaker 2>us and the other part work there significant other's family.

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<v Speaker 2>And this year we had, you know, kind of figure

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<v Speaker 2>out what's going on because ideally we wanted to go

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<v Speaker 2>to Big Bear and do it, but the kids can't

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<v Speaker 2>leave and we want to be with family. So mother

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<v Speaker 2>in law came down from Arizona. Our son, Spencer, he

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<v Speaker 2>was going to come over on Christmas Eve by himself

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<v Speaker 2>or with his girlfriend, and our daughter was going to

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<v Speaker 2>be there with her boyfriend, and we were just going

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<v Speaker 2>to be a small group of us there. And all

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<v Speaker 2>of a sudden, on the day of my sons like,

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<v Speaker 2>can I invite my girlfriend's family? And we're like, holy shit.

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<v Speaker 2>It just turned into a party because the family is awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>We love her family, we love spending time with them.

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<v Speaker 2>His girlfriend's dad is so funny. So it turned into

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<v Speaker 2>an awesome celebration. We had a lot of people. I

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<v Speaker 2>felt great, I had some great food, we laughed, we joked.

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<v Speaker 2>I think the kids started playing some sort of game.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't too into it. I think it was but

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<v Speaker 2>it was fun. And then when all that was done,

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<v Speaker 2>I think around I want to say six or seven o'clock,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe eight o'clock everybody went home. It could have been

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<v Speaker 2>nine o'clock. We woke up the next morning and drove

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<v Speaker 2>to Big Bear and it was just my wife and

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<v Speaker 2>I and mother in law and her boyfriend. And then

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<v Speaker 2>we were hoping to have a white Christmas obviously up

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<v Speaker 2>here in Big Bear, but ray it rained, snowed a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit. We had about maybe four into the snow

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<v Speaker 2>and it was okay, nothing to brag about, but just

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<v Speaker 2>being away was the fun part.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, let's go. So do you do much seen

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<v Speaker 1>when you're out there?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't. I'm not. I'm not a winter sport kind

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<v Speaker 2>of guy. I've had a lot of friends that have

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<v Speaker 2>been trying to get me into it, but and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>sure I can get good at it and have fun

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<v Speaker 2>with it. But I'm the kind of person that if

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<v Speaker 2>I find something I really am not just good at

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I like it, because I'm good at it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but I find that I will get into it and

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<v Speaker 2>try to find the right tool for the right job,

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<v Speaker 2>and of course it has to be, you know, an

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<v Speaker 2>expensive tool. Because those are usually the ones for the

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<v Speaker 2>right job. And I thought, if I get into snow skiing,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not just gonna be excited about coming up here.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to be traveling, chasing the snow and being

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<v Speaker 2>that idiot that you know goes all the way to

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<v Speaker 2>Switzerland in the winter just to get the best snow.

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<v Speaker 2>And the fact is that I don't know is going on. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but there's there's something going on in that in the

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<v Speaker 2>snow world where there's a company that purchased all the

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<v Speaker 2>mountains and they have the Ski Pass Mountain And when

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<v Speaker 2>you go to these ski resorts, you know in Vale

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<v Speaker 2>Espen and even here in California, there's masses and masses

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<v Speaker 2>and masses of people doing it. So there's a huge

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<v Speaker 2>line and it is just terrible. You know. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if I'm just getting old and grumpy, but I

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<v Speaker 2>hate lines. I hate waiting in line. I'm okay with

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<v Speaker 2>a small line, but if it's you know, it's snakes

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<v Speaker 2>around the whole building, forget it. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>do it. It's not worth it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So now I'm not a big winter sport guy. Do

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<v Speaker 2>you like to ski?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm Okay, I like skiing, but I'm I'm

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<v Speaker 1>like a blue, blue green guy. I don't really mess

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<v Speaker 1>with black. I think at this point of my life,

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<v Speaker 1>I just don't want to get hurt because I like,

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<v Speaker 1>I like my workout so much that I'm like, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't need to be doing stuff or I might break

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<v Speaker 1>my bones or anything like that. But I do like going.

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<v Speaker 1>I do like kind of mess around with the blue

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<v Speaker 1>slopes or whatever it's called bunny slopes. Yeah, but what'd

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<v Speaker 1>you do for New Year's?

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<v Speaker 2>New Year's was mellow again. Not a big New Year's guy.

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<v Speaker 2>I spent years when I was cycling a lot. I

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<v Speaker 2>would wake up early January first meet up with some

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<v Speaker 2>guys as about eight hundred riders that used to ride

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<v Speaker 2>from Long Beach to Dana Point on Pch and we

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<v Speaker 2>took over the whole street. There was eight hundred riders

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<v Speaker 2>and unofficial, you know. It was just one of those

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<v Speaker 2>things I used to do in New Year's Day. So

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<v Speaker 2>for many years I was like anti partying celebrating New Years.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, I didn't want to stay up this last

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<v Speaker 2>New Year's I wanted to go to sleep, but we

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<v Speaker 2>ended up having our daughter and her boyfriend come up

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<v Speaker 2>three days before New Year's and there was no snow, nothing,

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<v Speaker 2>so they got to play a little bit on some

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<v Speaker 2>of the leftover snow or the manmates know. But we

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<v Speaker 2>had a great time with our daughter and her boyfriend.

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<v Speaker 1>It was.

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<v Speaker 2>It was fun to see my wife interact with my

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<v Speaker 2>daughter on a like a friendship relationship. We played games,

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<v Speaker 2>he played pool, We went to restaurants. We really had

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<v Speaker 2>a great time spending time with her and her boyfriend.

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<v Speaker 2>It was fun. And then somehow made it to midnight.

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<v Speaker 1>Nice.

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<v Speaker 2>It was. It was tough, but I made midnight kiss

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<v Speaker 2>my wife and went straight to bed. But you different years, man.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like a teenager. I ended up in Vegas.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's the first time in probably twenty years

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<v Speaker 1>at least that I was in Vegas for New Year's

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<v Speaker 1>Eve and had a blast. I mean, I was like

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<v Speaker 1>a total teenager. I had a great, great dinner. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>first of all, I was last minute, right, I ended

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<v Speaker 1>up getting tickets last minute, ended up at the win

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<v Speaker 1>the encore. Had this great dinner, but then we want

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<v Speaker 1>to go check out Rufe is still so okay, and

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<v Speaker 1>stayed out all night. It was fun. It was a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of fun. Then that the next day paid for

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit, but worth it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, It's funny the.

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<v Speaker 1>Last I did skip my workout, you know that's I

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<v Speaker 1>definitely did that. Not the way to start off the year.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think that's two years in a row. Last year,

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<v Speaker 1>I I also went out on New Year's Eve and

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<v Speaker 1>it was I ended up at the Soho house and

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<v Speaker 1>was also got one after it that that night. So

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<v Speaker 1>two years strong going out on New Year's Eve, because

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<v Speaker 1>prior to that, I was like, I was gone by nine,

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<v Speaker 1>not even twelve. I would't even make it till twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>I was I'd celebrate with the kids to nine pm.

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<v Speaker 1>We called it our East Coast New Years, and we'd

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<v Speaker 1>all be in bed by ten. And you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>last two years it's been, it's been definitely different.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you're in a new lifestyle, you know, kind of

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<v Speaker 2>a quasi single guy in a new relationship, doing new

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<v Speaker 2>things over again. Totally totally understand. And you know what

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<v Speaker 2>those last minute trips, those have always been some of

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<v Speaker 2>the best ones. The unplanned, let's just do it kind

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<v Speaker 2>of things, those have been some of the most fun

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<v Speaker 2>things to do. And I think that starts to dissipate

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<v Speaker 2>a little when you're in a long term relationship because

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<v Speaker 2>we love predictability. We you know, we know each other

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<v Speaker 2>very well. We sometimes manish each other's sentences. And my

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<v Speaker 2>favorite thing is sometimes you know, when it comes to

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<v Speaker 2>figuring out where we're going to go eat, we can

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<v Speaker 2>predict what each other's moods or or or or cratings are.

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<v Speaker 2>So the point is is that everything becomes predictable and

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<v Speaker 2>we plan everything, and you know, there's so much more

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<v Speaker 2>responsibility that we have to juggle that we can't just say,

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<v Speaker 2>let's go to Paris or you know, let's go to Italy. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but good for you, man, I'm still happy you're living

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<v Speaker 2>your life.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I think this year was was definitely a

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<v Speaker 1>year a lot well last year, which I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>continue that. I just I love the spontaneous year that

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<v Speaker 1>I had. I mean, I went to Europe twice. Last minute.

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<v Speaker 1>I booked my trip to France niece uh Central Pey

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<v Speaker 1>literally the day before. So July third, I'm like, I

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<v Speaker 1>had nothing to do in fourth of July for the

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<v Speaker 1>first time in my life. Kids are gone, everybody's gone.

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<v Speaker 1>By myself, I'm like, you know what, my friend called

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<v Speaker 1>me to say come down to centro Pey. Literally just

0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.040
<v Speaker 1>booked it. Boom, I'm down. I'm there the next day.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I just like that all year.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, so it was it was I you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I ate a lot this year, like.

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<v Speaker 1>I eat bread. Now. It's funny.

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<v Speaker 2>You see the results of that right here on the side.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd say, I'm down a four pack, so you'll get

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<v Speaker 1>back I need I need to get it back up. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I've been needing a little too much, too much. I've

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<v Speaker 1>become a foodie in twenty twenty five. That's what twenty

0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.120
<v Speaker 1>twenty five was about. God, I just ate left and right.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, I still kept up with the exercise.

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<v Speaker 1>But it still gets you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, Well you're in a new relationship. So I

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<v Speaker 2>can tell you from personal experience. When my wife and

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<v Speaker 2>I got together, before we got married, obviously we were

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<v Speaker 2>in great shape. I was working that all the time,

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<v Speaker 2>and we had been invited to Cobble for a VIP

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<v Speaker 2>thing to open up a new hotel. It was a paid,

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<v Speaker 2>paid thing, right, so everything was camped and everything, and

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<v Speaker 2>by then by the time we got to we had

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<v Speaker 2>been eating, traveling, doing a lot of things together. Gaining weight,

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<v Speaker 2>And it didn't hit us until we went to Cabo

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<v Speaker 2>and we were just doing all these events, taking all

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<v Speaker 2>these photo shoots, and we were walking on the beach

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<v Speaker 2>and there was a Papa Rozzi on a like a

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<v Speaker 2>small little boat or yacht that was pitting off the beach.

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<v Speaker 2>And I just got this weird feeling about it when

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<v Speaker 2>I saw it, because it's just odd that this one

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<v Speaker 2>little boat, I mean, it's a small yacht, like it's

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<v Speaker 2>got dark windows and everything. Why is this thing sitting

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<v Speaker 2>out there by itself. Well, the point is they took

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<v Speaker 2>a picture of camera and I unknowingly and they got

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<v Speaker 2>me with my gut out, my wife's ass out. It

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<v Speaker 2>was just like not prepared for these pictures. And of

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<v Speaker 2>course TMZ got ahold of them, or all these muddy

0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.720
<v Speaker 2>you know uh places got ahold of them. And they

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<v Speaker 2>wrote these stupid articles and showed that picture and kind

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<v Speaker 2>of woke us up, like, shit, we can't, we can't

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<v Speaker 2>do this. You got to keep it tight. Yeah, that

0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.840
<v Speaker 2>was a big wake up call, but you know that's normal.

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna do fun stuff. My daughter, when she first

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<v Speaker 2>got in her relationship, she did the same thing. I

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<v Speaker 2>think I think it's a normal thing. You just want

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<v Speaker 2>to enjoy each other's in each other's time in so

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<v Speaker 2>many aspects.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you know, you know it's interesting about that ediot.

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<v Speaker 1>It's I always tell my my guys, my my sales agents.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you don't get what you want, you get

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<v Speaker 1>what you are. So that's why I think your self

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<v Speaker 1>worth comes into play, because whatever your self worth is,

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<v Speaker 1>you'll you'll get to that point.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you do get out of shape, eventually it

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<v Speaker 1>hits you like, wait, that's not who I am, right right,

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<v Speaker 1>I need to go back to the person I was.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's why you don't get what you want. You

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<v Speaker 1>get what you are, and that's why your If your

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<v Speaker 1>identity is, oh, I'm just going to be out of

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<v Speaker 1>shape all my life, that's what you're going to get.

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<v Speaker 1>And if your identity is you know what, I'm always

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<v Speaker 1>in shape. I take care of my health, that's what

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<v Speaker 1>you're going to get. Because eventually, when you go below that,

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<v Speaker 1>you'll come you'll you'll recognize it, and you'll get yourself

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<v Speaker 1>back to who you are.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm talking about that place myself right now where

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, wait a minute, IM getting out a hand here,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't get back to who what I know, I

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<v Speaker 1>should where I should be, you know. But it's just

0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.639
<v Speaker 1>it's it's the power of your self worth, It's the

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<v Speaker 1>power of your identity. Right.

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<v Speaker 2>I also think it's a healthy balance, you know, because

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<v Speaker 2>I believe life is all about healthy balances. You really

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<v Speaker 2>can't be in the best shape of your life your

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<v Speaker 2>entire life. From an athletic or sports athletic performance aspect,

0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.080
<v Speaker 2>you always have peaks and valleys, and your values are

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<v Speaker 2>not going to be that low. They're just not going

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<v Speaker 2>to be days. You've got to let your body recover, right,

0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.960
<v Speaker 2>But when you can keep at the time of your

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<v Speaker 2>game or your competition or that, that's that's genius if

0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.320
<v Speaker 2>you can actually make it happen. Because there's so many

0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:07.160
<v Speaker 2>variables involved in this journey that it really is unrealistic

0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:08.959
<v Speaker 2>to be in the best shape every life. For example,

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<v Speaker 2>last November, after I got back from Bravo Kan and

0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.600
<v Speaker 2>I had spent you know, three days, maybe four days

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<v Speaker 2>out there shaking hands, you know, meeting a lot of people,

0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.480
<v Speaker 2>hugging people, taking pictures, just thousands of thousands of people.

0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.480
<v Speaker 2>I got sick and my wife got sick first, but

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<v Speaker 2>she knocked it out in like twenty four hours, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, well, she knocked it out in twenty four hours,

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<v Speaker 2>it's going to be easy for me because I usually

0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.320
<v Speaker 2>don't get sick that often or that long. Well, it

0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.480
<v Speaker 2>kicked my ass and I ended up buying antibiotics, and

0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.119
<v Speaker 2>I don't like taking shit like that. But after the

0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.800
<v Speaker 2>first week I took my last antibiotic, I gave myself

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<v Speaker 2>one more rest day, and the very next day I

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<v Speaker 2>got sick again, full relapsed one hundred percent of what

0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.520
<v Speaker 2>I experienced. It took me out for about a month

0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.760
<v Speaker 2>and a half and I didn't exercise. I really didn't

0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.120
<v Speaker 2>eat that healthy. I didn't do a lot of movement.

0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.640
<v Speaker 2>I was literally chilling like I was in my death.

0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:11.080
<v Speaker 2>That it sucked. It totally screwed me up. So since then,

0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.359
<v Speaker 2>I've been kind of on this journey to slowly get

0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.359
<v Speaker 2>back in shape, and I'm almost there now. But it

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<v Speaker 2>sucked because I had just gotten back two weeks before

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<v Speaker 2>that from a trip up north in northern California where

0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.080
<v Speaker 2>I did a two day dirt bike trip and I

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<v Speaker 2>rode ten hours the first day, which kicked my butt,

0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.000
<v Speaker 2>but I did it, and another six or eight hours

0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.399
<v Speaker 2>the next day, and I'm talking like long, long days.

0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.560
<v Speaker 2>And I came home and I felt great, I felt

0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.920
<v Speaker 2>in shape, I felt like resilient. And then I go

0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.200
<v Speaker 2>to Bravocon and I get sick. It sucks.

0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.360
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, now something to be sad about. Consistency though,

0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.800
<v Speaker 1>Like I find like now the days I don't work

0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.520
<v Speaker 1>out as far as I used to. I'm just well,

0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.480
<v Speaker 1>for the last ten years, I've just been consistent. And

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<v Speaker 1>oh it's funny because I'll see people at the gym

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<v Speaker 1>doing these crazy exercises and I just do like the

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<v Speaker 1>same boring stuff all the time, and just the consistency

0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.840
<v Speaker 1>out performs all the time. Yeah, first doing all these

0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.360
<v Speaker 1>kind of crazy, you know, new exercises that no one

0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.560
<v Speaker 1>has seen. And then but you're not consistent one of them,

0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.240
<v Speaker 1>Like don't matter if you're hanging from the bar bell

0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:25.399
<v Speaker 1>and trying to do sit ups or the you know

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<v Speaker 1>whatever the whatever it's called.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all for the Instagram.

0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's all for them. It's all about consistency and

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<v Speaker 1>all that good stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>So I've had days where I've gone to the gym

0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:42.280
<v Speaker 2>and I wasn't feeling it. But you know, actually, let

0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.800
<v Speaker 2>me prove practice that. I've had days where I absolutely

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<v Speaker 2>do not want to go to the gym, but once

0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.080
<v Speaker 2>I get there and warm up, it's some of the

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<v Speaker 2>best workouts I've ever had. But recently I've had I've

0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.280
<v Speaker 2>had days where I've just I'm not feeling it. I

0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.120
<v Speaker 2>go to the gym anyways, I warm up and I'm

0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.960
<v Speaker 2>still not feeling it. I'm just out one hundred percent there,

0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.680
<v Speaker 2>so I'll just go stretch out, roll my body out,

0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.560
<v Speaker 2>you know, maybe therygun me and call it a day

0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.800
<v Speaker 2>and go home. You know, it's okay. I think the

0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:14.920
<v Speaker 2>most important part of going to the gym or being

0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.160
<v Speaker 2>consistent is exactly that figuring out how to get yourself

0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.960
<v Speaker 2>to start and do it. And if you have days

0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.560
<v Speaker 2>where you don't feel it, you don't have to go

0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.480
<v Speaker 2>one hundred percent, but it's that initial going to the gym.

0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.240
<v Speaker 2>Now you have your gym at home, right, yes, but.

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<v Speaker 1>I agree with those are the best days. Like a

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<v Speaker 1>day like that where you didn't want to go and

0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:39.200
<v Speaker 1>you still made it even if you didn't do much.

0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:41.920
<v Speaker 1>It's you were able to do things even though you

0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:43.719
<v Speaker 1>don't want to, right, because anybody can do it when

0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:45.760
<v Speaker 1>you feel great. But it's when you don't feel great,

0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.800
<v Speaker 1>can you still show up? And I think those are

0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.560
<v Speaker 1>the big I call those the identity building days because

0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:54.720
<v Speaker 1>that's what starts to transform you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, And I imagine it would be a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit a little bit easier or more challenging for you

0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:06.800
<v Speaker 2>having you know, your gym at home. Did I personally,

0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.639
<v Speaker 2>I don't like working out at home, you know, I

0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:11.879
<v Speaker 2>do so much at home. I like to leave. I

0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:15.080
<v Speaker 2>like to go to the gym and get out of

0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.560
<v Speaker 2>the environment that I'm in most of the day, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Plus not that I look forward to chatting up with

0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:24.359
<v Speaker 2>the people at the gym, but I do look forward

0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:25.919
<v Speaker 2>to seeing some of the people I do like at

0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.800
<v Speaker 2>the gym, you know, catching up, Hey, how you doing quick?

0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:30.440
<v Speaker 2>You know, to chat and back to work.

0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>But it do you think it's easier to have the

0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:37.440
<v Speaker 2>gym at home or to go to the gym?

0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:41.800
<v Speaker 1>Well, I personally like to get out, but it's good

0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.320
<v Speaker 1>to have a gym at home, so on these days

0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:47.240
<v Speaker 1>that you're running late, you can just sort of default

0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:49.960
<v Speaker 1>into the gym at home. So that's where I used it,

0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, for me, it's interesting we're talking about fitness

0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:58.720
<v Speaker 1>because obviously last year and the last well, the last

0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:01.280
<v Speaker 1>two years have been probably well, the last two years

0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:06.359
<v Speaker 1>have been very very hard, especially twenty twenty four. I mean,

0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:10.000
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five was hard in that obviously Teddy got

0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:14.640
<v Speaker 1>diagnosed with what she got diagnosed with, but that was hard.

0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:18.320
<v Speaker 1>Twenty twenty four was, you know, very very hard for me.

0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:22.639
<v Speaker 1>And what always sort of kept me through all that

0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:27.480
<v Speaker 1>chaos was just working out, like that was my mental health.

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<v Speaker 1>If it wasn't for I mean, there was times i'dn't

0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.680
<v Speaker 1>only sleep two hours a night and I would still

0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:36.880
<v Speaker 1>just get on the treadmill and run.

0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:38.879
<v Speaker 2>That.

0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:43.359
<v Speaker 1>What that did for my mental health was huge, you know,

0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:47.680
<v Speaker 1>because my body was so relaxed after workouts that didn't

0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:50.600
<v Speaker 1>matter what came at me. You know, it was almost

0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:56.040
<v Speaker 1>just as important as my scripture. In fact, I'd work

0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.200
<v Speaker 1>out and then do the scripture, you know, or whatever

0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.280
<v Speaker 1>my gratitude exercise sometimes because I was just I could

0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.760
<v Speaker 1>focus more, I was in a better mood, I was relaxed,

0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:09.200
<v Speaker 1>and that literally was you know that And my faith

0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:12.000
<v Speaker 1>was what carried me through probably the lot the worst

0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:17.200
<v Speaker 1>two years of my life. And I don't think I

0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:21.920
<v Speaker 1>talk about it enough, but It really was that fitness

0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:25.560
<v Speaker 1>that that that really helped me with my mindset at

0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:27.080
<v Speaker 1>the time, because if it wasn't for that, I would

0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:32.080
<v Speaker 1>have gone you know, creat Craig, you know, I agreed tremendously.

0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:38.480
<v Speaker 2>I agree for me like you I there's nothing that's

0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:43.880
<v Speaker 2>more effective in in centering myself and taking on challenges

0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:48.080
<v Speaker 2>to dealing with life challenges without working out. You know,

0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:50.520
<v Speaker 2>there's there's That's why I like to work out for

0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.760
<v Speaker 2>singing in the morning. M It's been very, very challenging

0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.560
<v Speaker 2>lately because my wife, you know, wakes up later or

0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.440
<v Speaker 2>or she wakes up earlier, but she doesn't the engine

0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:03.320
<v Speaker 2>running until later than me, So we tend to go

0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.080
<v Speaker 2>to the gym later than I enjoy. But I enjoy

0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.720
<v Speaker 2>more being with my wife at the gym than you know,

0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:14.600
<v Speaker 2>skipping the workout because you know it's too late for me.

0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:20.360
<v Speaker 2>But the point is is that I'm ready for the day.

0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:23.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready for the world. I'm ready for anything that's

0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.800
<v Speaker 2>thrown at me. When I actually have the blood pumping,

0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:31.600
<v Speaker 2>the lungs breathing, and the body moving that I can't

0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:33.920
<v Speaker 2>live without it. That's what I got to do for

0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.760
<v Speaker 2>the rest of my life. And now that I'm older,

0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:40.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm looking at the future, like, what is my life

0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:43.240
<v Speaker 2>going to look like when I'm eighty ninety? You know,

0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.040
<v Speaker 2>am I still going to be able to wake up

0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:48.000
<v Speaker 2>in the morning and do this? I have met some

0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:51.560
<v Speaker 2>older people that is fire me, you know. I think

0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:54.680
<v Speaker 2>that's important is to find those people. You know what

0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:59.680
<v Speaker 2>they say about surrounding yourself with smokers, six smokers or

0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:01.680
<v Speaker 2>five smokers, You're going to be the six smoker, you know.

0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:03.760
<v Speaker 2>Surrounding yourself with the people you want to be like

0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:08.240
<v Speaker 2>really is effective. And being in the dirt bike world,

0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.280
<v Speaker 2>every time I meet somebody new, I always ask how

0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.240
<v Speaker 2>old are you? Or do you who's the oldest guy

0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:15.399
<v Speaker 2>you know that's still riding? Because this is such a

0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:21.040
<v Speaker 2>physical thing for me and such a challenge mentally physically

0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:25.000
<v Speaker 2>and endurance wise as well that it tris me to

0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.360
<v Speaker 2>be better. And as much as I want to get better,

0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:30.920
<v Speaker 2>I also am looking for longevity because I want to

0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:33.760
<v Speaker 2>be able to be eighty years old and still do

0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:37.400
<v Speaker 2>some physical activities, not you know, sitting on a couch

0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:40.959
<v Speaker 2>watching TV or some stupid like that. But the oldest

0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:43.960
<v Speaker 2>guy I've ridden with was seventy three years old. And

0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:46.760
<v Speaker 2>he was doing some pretty challenging stuff on the bike,

0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:50.920
<v Speaker 2>and it inspires me, you know, I mean, I'm only

0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:54.600
<v Speaker 2>fifty two, but when I'm seventy two that I want

0:27:54.640 --> 0:28:07.360
<v Speaker 2>to do that, that's cool. What was your biggest takeaway

0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:08.400
<v Speaker 2>for twenty twenty five?

0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:14.119
<v Speaker 1>Biggest takeaway for twenty twenty five?

0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:17.600
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember last year around this time, we had

0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:22.040
<v Speaker 2>this conversation about, you know, we don't necessarily do New

0:28:22.080 --> 0:28:24.840
<v Speaker 2>Year's resolutions, but we do goal setting and we want

0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:28.400
<v Speaker 2>to do something. I don't remember what year goals were

0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:32.040
<v Speaker 2>last year, but something along those lines was What was

0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:33.520
<v Speaker 2>the biggest takeaway for last year?

0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:36.280
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I mean, I mean, I think if you compare

0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:39.800
<v Speaker 1>the twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five where I

0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:43.800
<v Speaker 1>was a year ago versus where I was at today,

0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:46.800
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, at the end of twenty twenty four,

0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:53.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm still bitter, right, there's a lot of bitterness.

0:28:52.960 --> 0:28:53.440
<v Speaker 2>In my heart.

0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.520
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, today and even twenty twenty five

0:28:56.680 --> 0:29:05.840
<v Speaker 1>was obviously all about gratitude. I think that what I

0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:11.000
<v Speaker 1>realized I've done this before, but it was more evident,

0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:15.000
<v Speaker 1>more than ever in twenty twenty five, and I'm bringing

0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:19.320
<v Speaker 1>this into twenty twenty sixth, which is just continue to

0:29:19.440 --> 0:29:26.200
<v Speaker 1>push forward because eventually, no matter what happens, that pain,

0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:32.640
<v Speaker 1>that pressure, that stress, that storm eventually goes away. And

0:29:32.760 --> 0:29:36.640
<v Speaker 1>when it goes away, you have to be ready because

0:29:36.680 --> 0:29:40.640
<v Speaker 1>there's usually a huge opportunity that comes your way. Because

0:29:40.680 --> 0:29:44.760
<v Speaker 1>it's not always going to be that Storm's not always

0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.920
<v Speaker 1>going to be there your entire life. It's just in life.

0:29:48.040 --> 0:29:53.080
<v Speaker 1>You have to go through these seasons and you just

0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:55.760
<v Speaker 1>got to continue to push through it and push past it,

0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:59.800
<v Speaker 1>and eventually it doesn't and it usually comes with an

0:29:59.840 --> 0:30:02.720
<v Speaker 1>ourpportunity of a lifetime. Then if you're not ready for it,

0:30:02.760 --> 0:30:03.080
<v Speaker 1>you're going.

0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:03.400
<v Speaker 2>To miss it.

0:30:04.080 --> 0:30:09.840
<v Speaker 1>So for me, it's maintaining being ready so then opportunity comes.

0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:14.040
<v Speaker 1>And you know, I think what I've seen over just

0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:17.239
<v Speaker 1>my career is just you start getting really good at

0:30:17.280 --> 0:30:23.360
<v Speaker 1>recognizing patterns. You know, instead of just doing blind repetition, right,

0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:27.280
<v Speaker 1>you start seeing patterns and you're like, Okay, if this

0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:30.560
<v Speaker 1>and this and this happened, that means something great's about

0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 1>to happen. And it gives you hope, it gives you faith,

0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:37.320
<v Speaker 1>And for me, it's just about that. It's it's just

0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:40.720
<v Speaker 1>always continuing to push forward. No matter what comes, you know,

0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.479
<v Speaker 1>there's always going to be new, a new season of something.

0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:48.440
<v Speaker 1>And I think it's I know, I hopeful, faithful that

0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:51.120
<v Speaker 1>there's a great season coming. I'm already seeing the patterns

0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:54.800
<v Speaker 1>of it. So I think twenty twenty six is probably

0:30:54.800 --> 0:30:56.560
<v Speaker 1>going to be one of my best years ever. You know,

0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:58.400
<v Speaker 1>I had to go through some tough times in twenty

0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:01.760
<v Speaker 1>twenty four and twenty twenty five, but again, I'm starting

0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:06.200
<v Speaker 1>to see everything sort of line up, and I'm super

0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:09.800
<v Speaker 1>excited about, you know, twenty twenty six, and you know,

0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:11.640
<v Speaker 1>to keep keep going.

0:31:12.800 --> 0:31:15.320
<v Speaker 2>That reminds me of a quote I read. I think

0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:19.520
<v Speaker 2>it was last year. It was I hope I don't

0:31:19.520 --> 0:31:21.560
<v Speaker 2>screw it up, but it was something along the lines

0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:29.560
<v Speaker 2>of the bad news is that times will be hard,

0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:36.800
<v Speaker 2>m The good news is that our bad times will come.

0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:42.440
<v Speaker 2>The good news is that good times will come, but

0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:45.080
<v Speaker 2>none of it will last. I think something along those lines.

0:31:45.120 --> 0:31:47.640
<v Speaker 2>So that makes sense. The good news is that good

0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.320
<v Speaker 2>times and bad times are going to happen. The bad

0:31:50.360 --> 0:31:53.080
<v Speaker 2>news is that they're going to pass. So you can't

0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:55.160
<v Speaker 2>be always in the good times. And you can and

0:31:55.240 --> 0:31:57.760
<v Speaker 2>you will never be always into bad times, but you

0:31:57.800 --> 0:32:02.240
<v Speaker 2>will it will pass. As I think to your point

0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:07.720
<v Speaker 2>is living in a world of instant gratification. It's hard

0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:12.959
<v Speaker 2>for people to comprehend how long sometimes the bad times

0:32:13.120 --> 0:32:16.800
<v Speaker 2>takes pass. And for you it was the last two years.

0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:19.240
<v Speaker 2>And now things are starting to shift for you, and

0:32:19.840 --> 0:32:22.880
<v Speaker 2>you're seeing the pattern and you're seeing the good times

0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:25.560
<v Speaker 2>coming forth in twenty twenty sixth A lot of that

0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.040
<v Speaker 2>is also your mental attitude, right, you just go in

0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:32.920
<v Speaker 2>there positive, but you've seen the pattern, you recognize it,

0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:35.240
<v Speaker 2>and now you're ready for the good times.

0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:38.320
<v Speaker 1>Well again, I think I've said this before, but one

0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:42.120
<v Speaker 1>of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs twenty four to twenty

0:32:42.240 --> 0:32:46.440
<v Speaker 1>six twenty four sixteen, Proverbs twenty four sixteen, which says

0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:50.000
<v Speaker 1>for the righteous will fall seven times, but they will

0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:54.520
<v Speaker 1>rise again, but the wicked will stumble in calamity strikes.

0:32:55.160 --> 0:32:57.680
<v Speaker 1>That word seven really means infinity, like you're going to

0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:00.560
<v Speaker 1>fall and fall and fall and fall, and all you

0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:02.200
<v Speaker 1>have to do is get up one more time. And

0:33:02.480 --> 0:33:04.360
<v Speaker 1>the truth of the matter is that I think in life,

0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:08.239
<v Speaker 1>you're going to fall, you're going to fail, you're going

0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:12.240
<v Speaker 1>to lose, and I think sometimes the great danger in

0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:15.960
<v Speaker 1>that is that you'll spend your entire life blaming people

0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:20.600
<v Speaker 1>rather than realizing that it's probably the best opportunity that

0:33:20.680 --> 0:33:24.280
<v Speaker 1>you'll have that's coming out. And I think, as I

0:33:24.360 --> 0:33:27.960
<v Speaker 1>look back to where I'm at today, it's I'm not

0:33:28.000 --> 0:33:30.080
<v Speaker 1>here because I haven't fallen. I'm not here because I

0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:33.640
<v Speaker 1>haven't lost. I'm not here because I haven't failed. I'm

0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:36.960
<v Speaker 1>still here because I just I get up one more

0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:40.120
<v Speaker 1>time and when stuff happens, I just got to get

0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:45.280
<v Speaker 1>up one more time. And eventually the opportunity comes, and

0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:47.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, you have more good times and bad times.

0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:51.640
<v Speaker 1>But I've always said life and pain are inseparable. You know.

0:33:51.760 --> 0:33:55.040
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm going through my dad's sick Now it's like, oh,

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.400
<v Speaker 1>here comes another one and he is Now it's a

0:33:58.480 --> 0:34:03.560
<v Speaker 1>life threatening situation and you know, and I'm still dealing

0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:05.920
<v Speaker 1>with it, and it's just you know, what else is

0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:09.560
<v Speaker 1>coming at you. But eventually, if you get used to

0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:12.600
<v Speaker 1>going through pain, that pain doesn't affect it as much

0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:13.320
<v Speaker 1>as it did before.

0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:18.520
<v Speaker 2>Right, and happening with your dad, he's okay to talk

0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:18.880
<v Speaker 2>about it.

0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:22.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's he's unfortunately and debated right now and he's

0:34:22.800 --> 0:34:25.759
<v Speaker 1>having you know, he's fine for his life. He got

0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:29.520
<v Speaker 1>pneumonia and he got a flu, but he's eighty two,

0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:35.240
<v Speaker 1>so because he's had sort of lung issues before, anything

0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:37.319
<v Speaker 1>like that can wipe them out. You know. It's it's

0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:41.400
<v Speaker 1>like it's like a domino effect. Once one organ starts,

0:34:41.800 --> 0:34:44.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, when you get to that age, organ starts failing,

0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:48.160
<v Speaker 1>It starts to set off all the other things. But again,

0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.759
<v Speaker 1>when you go through moments like that, it's you either

0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.479
<v Speaker 1>choose faith or you you choose fear. They both haven't

0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:57.400
<v Speaker 1>happened yet. It's just which one you're going to choose.

0:34:57.560 --> 0:35:01.360
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, well, I not choose the positive side,

0:35:01.440 --> 0:35:05.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, And that's how I lived life my entire

0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:08.960
<v Speaker 1>time is just focusing more on the positives and not

0:35:09.120 --> 0:35:11.920
<v Speaker 1>focusing on the stuff I can't control. I can't control

0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:15.840
<v Speaker 1>if if he's going to make it, so let me

0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:19.440
<v Speaker 1>focus on just on the fifth side. And hey, I'm

0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:21.680
<v Speaker 1>going to get him for another season so we can

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:24.680
<v Speaker 1>go watch the World Cup together. So that's kind of

0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:28.040
<v Speaker 1>where I'm at with that. But yeah, just you got

0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:29.200
<v Speaker 1>to continue to push forward.

0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:33.040
<v Speaker 2>You know. It's the same I think strategy you had

0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:38.359
<v Speaker 2>when you went into it with Teddy and her cancer diagnosis.

0:35:39.920 --> 0:35:44.480
<v Speaker 2>You've come out of it, you know, pretty strong, but

0:35:44.560 --> 0:35:47.719
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure you're still you know, are are ceiling in

0:35:47.840 --> 0:35:51.239
<v Speaker 2>the consequences of the entire picture, the big situation that,

0:35:52.280 --> 0:35:54.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, why did this happen? You know, why are

0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:59.920
<v Speaker 2>we here? The big question? How do you think? Well,

0:36:01.200 --> 0:36:04.320
<v Speaker 2>do you know how is Teddy doing at this juncture?

0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:10.280
<v Speaker 2>You know, years into its what's your viewpoint?

0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:14.000
<v Speaker 1>You know? So you know, we were talking about how

0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:17.200
<v Speaker 1>when I was going and I'm not comparing my situation

0:36:17.280 --> 0:36:19.319
<v Speaker 1>to her situation because it's not even we're not even

0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.560
<v Speaker 1>the same no, no, not even the same level. But

0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:25.640
<v Speaker 1>where I give her so much credit, like I at

0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:28.920
<v Speaker 1>least had the ability to work out to help me

0:36:29.040 --> 0:36:31.319
<v Speaker 1>with what I was going through. You know, I think

0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:35.439
<v Speaker 1>one of the hardest things for her she really can't

0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:38.400
<v Speaker 1>work out. She's just starting to kind of move her body.

0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:41.200
<v Speaker 1>But I think that's what's been really tough for her

0:36:41.360 --> 0:36:46.000
<v Speaker 1>is that obviously she's going through the immuno therapy, which

0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:51.680
<v Speaker 1>that alone causes some side effects. Yeah, so that's been

0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:57.560
<v Speaker 1>really hard on her mental health, I think. And the

0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:01.920
<v Speaker 1>good news though, is that those tumors are gone from

0:37:01.960 --> 0:37:06.360
<v Speaker 1>what we can see. You know, the chances of that

0:37:07.400 --> 0:37:11.720
<v Speaker 1>happening were point zero zero one, So that was totally

0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:17.400
<v Speaker 1>a miracle from God. You know. I think.

0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:23.600
<v Speaker 2>I also think that she has the same mentality as

0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:26.200
<v Speaker 2>we do, and she thinks positive, right, I mean, you

0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:30.480
<v Speaker 2>know her better than anybody, But I'm just basing this

0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:33.560
<v Speaker 2>based on what I've witnessed and a little bit that

0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:37.560
<v Speaker 2>I know about her. She she's motivated, she loves to

0:37:37.640 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 2>help people. Yeah, she's positive, and she's fighting still for

0:37:45.239 --> 0:37:51.279
<v Speaker 2>her life, you know. And it's wanting to be sitting here,

0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:54.640
<v Speaker 2>you and I talking about all the ways that we

0:37:55.040 --> 0:38:00.959
<v Speaker 2>employ our skill set and mental fortitude and and strategies

0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:05.920
<v Speaker 2>on how we can prevent you know, a trauma from

0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:08.960
<v Speaker 2>taking us down. And yeah, it might knock us down,

0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:11.360
<v Speaker 2>but like we agree, we're going to be back up.

0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:16.839
<v Speaker 2>It's another thing to be living it. And I see

0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:20.600
<v Speaker 2>Teddy living in it and showing her tenacity and showing

0:38:20.640 --> 0:38:24.080
<v Speaker 2>her strength and showing the you know, the challenges she's

0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:26.920
<v Speaker 2>been going through and it's and she seems unstoppable.

0:38:28.760 --> 0:38:32.000
<v Speaker 1>It's been inspiring. It's been inspiring to watch and uh,

0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:35.160
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, what a such a tough battle that she's

0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:38.399
<v Speaker 1>happen to go through, and you know, it sucks because

0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:40.360
<v Speaker 1>you're in a position where there's not much you can do,

0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:44.000
<v Speaker 1>right because there's also the what she's feeling in the

0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:48.879
<v Speaker 1>inside that you know nobody really sees. But yeah, it's

0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:53.040
<v Speaker 1>a lot. But the good news is, you know, I

0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:55.200
<v Speaker 1>got to remind you all the time, you got to

0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:58.960
<v Speaker 1>focus on the positives. I mean, eight months, nine months,

0:38:59.040 --> 0:39:03.040
<v Speaker 1>and that these rumors are gone, Like that's a positive

0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:06.120
<v Speaker 1>in that is just huge. But you could easily just

0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:13.360
<v Speaker 1>focus on the negatives. Right, Hey, I'm not as active

0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:15.800
<v Speaker 1>as I used to be. I can't be as active

0:39:15.840 --> 0:39:18.600
<v Speaker 1>with the kids as I normally was. And it's that

0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:21.399
<v Speaker 1>constant like, hey, it's only been nine months. I give

0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:26.440
<v Speaker 1>yourself credit, you're doing amazing. So I think that's that

0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:29.480
<v Speaker 1>inner battle with the mind is probably one of the

0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:31.480
<v Speaker 1>toughest ones that you have to fight.

0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:34.239
<v Speaker 2>And I think that's the point I'm trying to make

0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:38.239
<v Speaker 2>is she's fighting this battle and she can't use the

0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:41.960
<v Speaker 2>tools that we you and I can use. So where

0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:44.120
<v Speaker 2>the hell is she getting her strength? Where is she

0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:48.200
<v Speaker 2>finding her tenacity? Where is she The only thing I

0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:52.720
<v Speaker 2>can surmise is, you know the power of thinking about

0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:55.120
<v Speaker 2>something bigger than you and I used to train my

0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:58.200
<v Speaker 2>clients when we had the gym, you know, talking about

0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:01.560
<v Speaker 2>when times get hard on the on the race or

0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:05.400
<v Speaker 2>on the competition. More specifically, when I was training spartans,

0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:10.040
<v Speaker 2>I would teach them to think about why they're doing it,

0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:14.799
<v Speaker 2>you know, and when you figure that out, you can

0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:16.840
<v Speaker 2>use that as a tool to get you through the

0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:21.000
<v Speaker 2>hardest times of your life. And the perfect example would

0:40:21.040 --> 0:40:24.600
<v Speaker 2>be for Teddy is you know, she has wonderful kids

0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:27.520
<v Speaker 2>she has to live for, and and if she just

0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:30.040
<v Speaker 2>thinks about that, I don't know if she is, isn't it,

0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:32.640
<v Speaker 2>But if she just thinks about that, why that purpose?

0:40:33.160 --> 0:40:35.600
<v Speaker 2>I think that would be powerful enough to get her

0:40:35.680 --> 0:40:38.200
<v Speaker 2>through these things without being able to use the tools

0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:43.000
<v Speaker 2>that you and I normally have working out, you know, meditation, prayers,

0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:45.560
<v Speaker 2>all the tools that we have at hand. But the

0:40:45.600 --> 0:40:47.720
<v Speaker 2>most important one that we agree on is moving.

0:40:48.440 --> 0:40:52.319
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, one tool that I'm one tool that I'm glad

0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:54.600
<v Speaker 1>she's starting to use is more of a spiritual tool.

0:40:55.239 --> 0:40:58.080
<v Speaker 1>She's still getting close. She's definitely getting closer to her faith.

0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:02.320
<v Speaker 1>I love that, and I you know that helps. You know,

0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:05.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot of times you you start to hear God,

0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:09.040
<v Speaker 1>you hear God's voice by reading scripture at times, you know,

0:41:09.160 --> 0:41:12.200
<v Speaker 1>one sentence could just speak to you, and you know, again,

0:41:12.280 --> 0:41:15.040
<v Speaker 1>it's if it gives you faith, that's all you can

0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:18.319
<v Speaker 1>ask for. Right, It's whatever you can do it gives

0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:21.520
<v Speaker 1>you faith over the fear. Right Because again, they both

0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:25.759
<v Speaker 1>haven't happened yet, right, So one's the projection of the

0:41:25.800 --> 0:41:27.759
<v Speaker 1>most positive thing. One's the projection of the most of

0:41:27.840 --> 0:41:30.440
<v Speaker 1>the most negative thing. So they both haven't happened yet.

0:41:30.480 --> 0:41:32.720
<v Speaker 1>It's it's you choosing which when you're going to choose,

0:41:33.560 --> 0:41:37.120
<v Speaker 1>and just being positive is you know everything, And you know,

0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:39.400
<v Speaker 1>I always tell people if you're struggling, if you're struggling

0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:43.880
<v Speaker 1>with your faith, focused on gratitude and it will increase

0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:47.319
<v Speaker 1>your faith. So it's been great, I've seen I've seen

0:41:47.400 --> 0:41:51.520
<v Speaker 1>that from her a lot. So that's that's makes me

0:41:51.719 --> 0:41:52.120
<v Speaker 1>very happy.

0:41:53.520 --> 0:42:00.480
<v Speaker 2>Well, I've always struggled with with religion, primarily because I

0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:04.920
<v Speaker 2>never really studied it when I started learning about it. Obviously,

0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:07.719
<v Speaker 2>I grew up Catholic, but I didn't love it and

0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:11.440
<v Speaker 2>I didn't quite unders grasp, you know, all the concepts

0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:14.719
<v Speaker 2>of the Catholicism. And then I went to Christianity, and

0:42:14.880 --> 0:42:19.400
<v Speaker 2>again I really felt the power of faith, but I

0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:23.560
<v Speaker 2>didn't like the structure of it. And when I learned

0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:27.200
<v Speaker 2>there's over one hundred different religions, I'm like, I give up.

0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:32.239
<v Speaker 2>But the biggest takeaway and the most powerful thing I

0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:38.839
<v Speaker 2>truly believe that comes from being practicing your religion, whatever

0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:42.200
<v Speaker 2>that is, is the power of faith. When you have faith,

0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:46.040
<v Speaker 2>you can do almost anything if you truly believe in

0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:51.400
<v Speaker 2>your faith, and it's an amazing tool to have, you know,

0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:52.839
<v Speaker 2>when when times get hard.

0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:56.279
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I think, you know, that's the problem. I

0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.800
<v Speaker 1>think religion is the problem. I think really when you

0:42:59.840 --> 0:43:01.759
<v Speaker 1>think about God, and not to get too much into

0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:04.480
<v Speaker 1>faith on this, but God is love, you know, and

0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:08.200
<v Speaker 1>it's really not our job to judge people. Our job

0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:12.520
<v Speaker 1>is to love people and let them figure stuff out

0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:16.600
<v Speaker 1>on their own, you know. I think the religion part

0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:19.400
<v Speaker 1>of it, that's where I think it gets mixed up,

0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:21.080
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's what turns a lot of people

0:43:21.080 --> 0:43:24.719
<v Speaker 1>away from it. But that's really not what what Christ

0:43:24.760 --> 0:43:29.680
<v Speaker 1>spot to to to the world. Right back it came

0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:34.680
<v Speaker 1>and he was against religion, right, he was against everybody

0:43:34.760 --> 0:43:38.160
<v Speaker 1>being so judgeful, and he taught everybody to just love,

0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:40.080
<v Speaker 1>and that's really what it's about. It's not our job.

0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:42.440
<v Speaker 1>It's not our job to judge people. It's our job

0:43:42.520 --> 0:43:46.520
<v Speaker 1>to love people. And there's one judge that will happen

0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:48.520
<v Speaker 1>at the end and let them figure it out.

0:43:50.080 --> 0:44:03.840
<v Speaker 2>I agree. So last year, of course, I remember some

0:44:03.920 --> 0:44:07.080
<v Speaker 2>of the goals I set. And do you remember any

0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:09.480
<v Speaker 2>one or two or three goals that you set last year?

0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:11.680
<v Speaker 2>And did you accomplish all of them or one of

0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:13.600
<v Speaker 2>them or none of them? Do you remember?

0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.080
<v Speaker 1>And honestly, I think my goal for the year was

0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:20.239
<v Speaker 1>just kind of to get through it and hang on

0:44:20.600 --> 0:44:23.400
<v Speaker 1>for dear life. Right. I knew that it was going

0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:26.400
<v Speaker 1>to be a challenging year. I knew for me it

0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:29.439
<v Speaker 1>was making sure that the kids had everything that they needed,

0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:32.480
<v Speaker 1>that we kept the routine, you know, because obviously you

0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:35.239
<v Speaker 1>have goals at the beginning of the year, but those

0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:38.359
<v Speaker 1>can get upside down once you get punched in the face,

0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:41.040
<v Speaker 1>you know. I had no idea when we talked about

0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:42.759
<v Speaker 1>that stuff. I had no idea Teddy was going to

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:47.719
<v Speaker 1>get diagnosed a month later with stage four cancer, and

0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:52.040
<v Speaker 1>then you just got a bigger stuff out. I think

0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:55.880
<v Speaker 1>for me in those days, the ninety days prior to that,

0:44:56.160 --> 0:45:01.759
<v Speaker 1>in many ways helped me so much when I got

0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:05.640
<v Speaker 1>the news of Teddy, because I had gone through so

0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:13.520
<v Speaker 1>much resistance and so much pain that even though it

0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:18.359
<v Speaker 1>was really bad news, I could take it on. It's

0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:21.400
<v Speaker 1>almost like I spent the last ninety days building muscles

0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:27.640
<v Speaker 1>for that news. So when it hit me, it didn't

0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:30.839
<v Speaker 1>hit me as bad as it probably should have because

0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:34.239
<v Speaker 1>I had already gone through what I had gone through, right,

0:45:34.920 --> 0:45:41.640
<v Speaker 1>And I also had this unwavering belief and just this conviction.

0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.239
<v Speaker 1>And part of it was I was told it was

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:50.200
<v Speaker 1>going to happen beforehand, that Teddy was going to get cured,

0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:55.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, and I chose to believe it. And I

0:45:56.080 --> 0:45:58.120
<v Speaker 1>was also told that Teddy's life is going to get

0:45:58.120 --> 0:46:02.879
<v Speaker 1>turned upside down before it happened, I didn't know how right,

0:46:03.040 --> 0:46:05.120
<v Speaker 1>So it's almost like it was a prophesized to me

0:46:05.239 --> 0:46:10.040
<v Speaker 1>by my mom's pastor. And but he said, hey, it's

0:46:10.120 --> 0:46:15.200
<v Speaker 1>gonna be okay. Something's gonna happen. But he said, just

0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:20.080
<v Speaker 1>remain positive, keep your eye on faith, and you're gonna

0:46:20.080 --> 0:46:25.840
<v Speaker 1>see how God's gonna work a miracle. Interesting, and so

0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:28.759
<v Speaker 1>when she went through it, I knew that she was

0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:31.280
<v Speaker 1>gonna be all right. And I think that's the importance

0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:35.359
<v Speaker 1>of faith is that whether it's true, whether it's true

0:46:35.400 --> 0:46:39.319
<v Speaker 1>or not, you're believing that something positive is going to happen.

0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:42.680
<v Speaker 1>And I think if it wasn't for that also, I

0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:48.440
<v Speaker 1>probably wouldn't have been able to just conduct myself and

0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:51.759
<v Speaker 1>do the things that I that I that I needed

0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:55.239
<v Speaker 1>to do to make sure that the family didn't, you know,

0:46:55.719 --> 0:47:01.799
<v Speaker 1>fall apart. And so, yeah, it was an interesting year

0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:05.440
<v Speaker 1>and I just like I said earlier, it was just

0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:11.200
<v Speaker 1>all about continuing to push through, understanding that no matter what,

0:47:11.480 --> 0:47:16.160
<v Speaker 1>that storm was eventually going to end or is going

0:47:16.280 --> 0:47:19.240
<v Speaker 1>to end, and when it does, you better be ready

0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:22.080
<v Speaker 1>because good times are coming. And you hang on to

0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:26.840
<v Speaker 1>that thought. And you know, if you have big dreams

0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:30.800
<v Speaker 1>in life, it's not supposed to be easy, you know.

0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:35.640
<v Speaker 1>And I think that's why you have to not always

0:47:35.840 --> 0:47:38.320
<v Speaker 1>choose the easy path, not always try to choose the

0:47:38.400 --> 0:47:42.120
<v Speaker 1>easy road, you know, the easy way that's unfortunately what

0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:45.080
<v Speaker 1>most people are always trying to choose. And I've always

0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:49.040
<v Speaker 1>just chosen a life that demands courage, that demands resiliency,

0:47:50.760 --> 0:47:53.800
<v Speaker 1>that demands strength, and I think when you do that,

0:47:54.040 --> 0:48:00.400
<v Speaker 1>you can make impact. And you know, it's tough sometimes,

0:48:00.480 --> 0:48:02.440
<v Speaker 1>but you know, if you want big things, you want

0:48:02.480 --> 0:48:05.160
<v Speaker 1>big dreams, you're gonna have big resistance. And that's where

0:48:05.239 --> 0:48:11.879
<v Speaker 1>sometimes self sufficiency doesn't work, because when you're going after

0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:15.800
<v Speaker 1>stuff and you have this big resistance that comes at you,

0:48:16.840 --> 0:48:21.000
<v Speaker 1>you need to believe in something right And you know,

0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:23.600
<v Speaker 1>I've always chosen to just believe in a higher power

0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:28.640
<v Speaker 1>and that's gotten me through through those tough times. Is

0:48:29.160 --> 0:48:32.280
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I've been through a lot and that's always

0:48:32.360 --> 0:48:36.239
<v Speaker 1>been my what I hold on to. And you know,

0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:39.480
<v Speaker 1>another great verse of mind that I love is I

0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:41.880
<v Speaker 1>can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. And

0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:48.800
<v Speaker 1>that's what's gotten me through those days. So anyway, looking

0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:52.040
<v Speaker 1>forward to a huge twenty twenty six, man, I'm excited

0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:53.000
<v Speaker 1>about it, that's for sure.

0:48:53.800 --> 0:48:59.600
<v Speaker 2>Well, last year I had one real goal among other

0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:02.879
<v Speaker 2>small ones, and if you remember, I was like this year,

0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:05.600
<v Speaker 2>my biggest goal is that I want to learn everything

0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:08.479
<v Speaker 2>and anything I can about AI because it's the next

0:49:09.760 --> 0:49:13.600
<v Speaker 2>big y, you know, revolution in our in our country

0:49:13.719 --> 0:49:18.359
<v Speaker 2>and our world really And although I started to learn,

0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:26.080
<v Speaker 2>I got distracted, and that happens. I ended up still

0:49:26.239 --> 0:49:28.600
<v Speaker 2>kind of staying in the same space as you know,

0:49:28.760 --> 0:49:32.600
<v Speaker 2>learning about where AI is going to go and where

0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:34.640
<v Speaker 2>you know, how it works. I didn't get into the

0:49:34.719 --> 0:49:37.319
<v Speaker 2>intricacies of how it works and how I can use

0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:40.960
<v Speaker 2>it to my advantage or to you know, enhance my

0:49:41.400 --> 0:49:45.160
<v Speaker 2>skill set or my you know, task that I need

0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:49.280
<v Speaker 2>to accomplish. But what happened is around I think April,

0:49:50.000 --> 0:49:54.240
<v Speaker 2>I was getting our our financials in order, our trust

0:49:54.400 --> 0:49:57.480
<v Speaker 2>and you know, making sure our house it big bears

0:49:57.520 --> 0:49:59.239
<v Speaker 2>in our trust and you know, just take care of

0:49:59.320 --> 0:50:02.040
<v Speaker 2>all that. And I happened to glance over up my

0:50:02.120 --> 0:50:05.040
<v Speaker 2>brokerage account and I noticed a big chunk of money

0:50:05.080 --> 0:50:07.040
<v Speaker 2>in and I'm like, what's going on. I didn't sell

0:50:07.120 --> 0:50:09.879
<v Speaker 2>any stock. Why do I have this big chunk of money?

0:50:10.440 --> 0:50:13.520
<v Speaker 2>And that just led me down a rabbit hole and

0:50:14.200 --> 0:50:18.720
<v Speaker 2>it everything I learned in that probably twenty four hours

0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:22.640
<v Speaker 2>to forty eight hours, lit me up. And I was

0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:26.480
<v Speaker 2>so excited that nobody taught me this. You know, it's

0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:28.800
<v Speaker 2>one of those things like I went and I learned

0:50:29.000 --> 0:50:32.880
<v Speaker 2>what happened in this situation on my own, and it

0:50:33.000 --> 0:50:36.279
<v Speaker 2>came natural, almost natural, if you will. I comprehended it,

0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:39.480
<v Speaker 2>I understood it, and it just opened up my eyes

0:50:39.560 --> 0:50:44.960
<v Speaker 2>to a whole new world of investing. So since that day.

0:50:45.480 --> 0:50:47.640
<v Speaker 2>You know, I've been teaching myself and I have a

0:50:47.760 --> 0:50:50.480
<v Speaker 2>mentor that's teaching me his skill sets. He's been doing

0:50:50.520 --> 0:50:53.400
<v Speaker 2>it for thirty something years. He very smart guy, has

0:50:53.640 --> 0:50:56.279
<v Speaker 2>has been very successful in it. And the biggest thing

0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:59.520
<v Speaker 2>that I remember is the biggest lesson I've learned in

0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:04.000
<v Speaker 2>this world of our economy is the people that make

0:51:04.080 --> 0:51:07.200
<v Speaker 2>the most money in the world that I've ever met,

0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:13.040
<v Speaker 2>are not just entrepreneurs. It's bankers, it's financial advisors. It's

0:51:13.080 --> 0:51:18.640
<v Speaker 2>people that learn, live and learn and breathe money because money.

0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:21.520
<v Speaker 2>What I've learned is money is not just a tool.

0:51:21.840 --> 0:51:25.000
<v Speaker 2>It's not just go work your ass off, make money

0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:29.640
<v Speaker 2>and buy shit, or you know, buy this, or prepare

0:51:29.680 --> 0:51:32.520
<v Speaker 2>yourself for buy a house and buy a car, or

0:51:32.680 --> 0:51:35.319
<v Speaker 2>you know, buy a business. You know, it's not that easy.

0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:40.000
<v Speaker 2>It's not that simple. It's understanding the history of money,

0:51:41.000 --> 0:51:43.920
<v Speaker 2>how it was developed, how it was used, how it

0:51:44.040 --> 0:51:46.600
<v Speaker 2>can be used for fraud, how it can be used

0:51:46.640 --> 0:51:49.279
<v Speaker 2>for good, how can you be used for bad, But

0:51:49.440 --> 0:51:54.200
<v Speaker 2>more importantly, how it makes our not just our country run,

0:51:54.600 --> 0:52:00.759
<v Speaker 2>but our entire economy, world economy functions. And it just

0:52:01.239 --> 0:52:04.120
<v Speaker 2>hit me like that's why we have wars. That's why

0:52:04.200 --> 0:52:08.160
<v Speaker 2>we have, you know, so we have disagreement. And it's

0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:13.120
<v Speaker 2>been fascinating learning about more about money than I've ever had.

0:52:13.239 --> 0:52:17.360
<v Speaker 2>And I'm still, you know, fascinated by it. And I'm

0:52:17.480 --> 0:52:21.879
<v Speaker 2>more fascinating because I'm actually doing well, I'm actually making money.

0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:27.000
<v Speaker 2>But it's exciting to find something like that that you've

0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:30.000
<v Speaker 2>grasped and you understand and you just want to drive

0:52:30.120 --> 0:52:33.840
<v Speaker 2>it home until God knows how great it could be.

0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:37.640
<v Speaker 2>You Know. One thing I have learned is is the

0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:41.480
<v Speaker 2>last six months, eight months maybe since I started, the

0:52:41.600 --> 0:52:44.480
<v Speaker 2>market has just been booming. It's it's it's kind of

0:52:44.520 --> 0:52:47.719
<v Speaker 2>hard to lose money in this market. But it has

0:52:47.760 --> 0:52:50.359
<v Speaker 2>slowed down at the end of the at the end

0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:52.359
<v Speaker 2>of the year, I think the December just slow down,

0:52:54.120 --> 0:52:59.920
<v Speaker 2>the trading slowed down, the the money I'm making slow down.

0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:03.279
<v Speaker 2>But here's a whole new year. There's a whole new

0:53:03.640 --> 0:53:07.560
<v Speaker 2>you know, economic plan, and a whole new challenges with

0:53:07.920 --> 0:53:11.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, different presidents, different fraudulent things going on in

0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:15.839
<v Speaker 2>our country. All this ship that's just compounding how how

0:53:16.120 --> 0:53:19.840
<v Speaker 2>it makes money makes our world go around. And I

0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:22.160
<v Speaker 2>love it. I love it. So I'm that's kind of

0:53:22.200 --> 0:53:25.120
<v Speaker 2>what I'm you know, excited about and I'm learning more

0:53:25.160 --> 0:53:29.200
<v Speaker 2>about it. This year, I probably will dabble a little

0:53:29.239 --> 0:53:31.759
<v Speaker 2>bit more into AI because I believe that's going to

0:53:31.840 --> 0:53:34.200
<v Speaker 2>take our country and our in our world, our human

0:53:34.320 --> 0:53:37.359
<v Speaker 2>kind to the next level. I just don't know exactly how.

0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:40.520
<v Speaker 2>And we have robotics coming to our market within the

0:53:40.600 --> 0:53:43.120
<v Speaker 2>next years. I mean, Elon's doing a great job with that,

0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:46.319
<v Speaker 2>and there's other companies that are launching that. So it's

0:53:46.360 --> 0:53:48.399
<v Speaker 2>very it's a very exciting place to be because I'm

0:53:48.400 --> 0:53:55.080
<v Speaker 2>almost also seeing what's coming next, right, Yeah, And it's

0:53:55.160 --> 0:53:58.120
<v Speaker 2>driven by money. Money makes things go round. The market

0:53:58.239 --> 0:54:01.759
<v Speaker 2>is future forward looking, like when when you invest into

0:54:01.800 --> 0:54:05.680
<v Speaker 2>a stock, it's because the value of the teachers, and

0:54:06.160 --> 0:54:08.279
<v Speaker 2>it's like, how do I become a fortune teller?

0:54:09.320 --> 0:54:13.280
<v Speaker 1>Well, you're in a good place, right, anticipation versus reaction,

0:54:13.880 --> 0:54:15.520
<v Speaker 1>you know. I just told my daughters she's about to

0:54:15.960 --> 0:54:17.840
<v Speaker 1>she's gonna enter a senior year, and I was like

0:54:18.760 --> 0:54:23.480
<v Speaker 1>business administration and finance accounting, like know your accounting, Like

0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:28.040
<v Speaker 1>knowing money is such an important piece of success, I think,

0:54:28.280 --> 0:54:30.879
<v Speaker 1>and it is, and having a good relationship with money.

0:54:31.360 --> 0:54:34.040
<v Speaker 1>You know, most people, unfortunately don't have a good relationship

0:54:34.080 --> 0:54:37.840
<v Speaker 1>with money, and it's that scarcity versus abundance. And you know,

0:54:37.960 --> 0:54:40.840
<v Speaker 1>for me at the end of twenty twenty four, I

0:54:42.040 --> 0:54:44.680
<v Speaker 1>was a big difference between how I ended the year

0:54:44.680 --> 0:54:47.160
<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty four to how I ended in twenty

0:54:47.239 --> 0:54:50.200
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. It is just and I was never like this,

0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:54.920
<v Speaker 1>but bitterness creates this is the scarcity mindset of like

0:54:55.920 --> 0:54:58.360
<v Speaker 1>you just get negative, Oh what if I lose everything?

0:54:58.640 --> 0:55:02.279
<v Speaker 1>And you know what, screw this, I'm not gonna let

0:55:02.680 --> 0:55:04.960
<v Speaker 1>all of this being taken away from me kind of deal,

0:55:05.000 --> 0:55:08.759
<v Speaker 1>and you get in this again very scarcity mindset, which

0:55:08.920 --> 0:55:12.600
<v Speaker 1>then sort of rob view of the opportunity to go

0:55:12.800 --> 0:55:18.320
<v Speaker 1>bring abundance. And I think for me it was a

0:55:18.360 --> 0:55:20.799
<v Speaker 1>big difference in twenty twenty five was all about abundance.

0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:26.280
<v Speaker 1>Like I wasn't worried about losing money. I was thinking,

0:55:26.520 --> 0:55:31.320
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna do very very well, and I wasn't trying

0:55:31.480 --> 0:55:36.520
<v Speaker 1>to block thing. I wasn't trying to stop things from

0:55:36.680 --> 0:55:40.640
<v Speaker 1>happening based on the fear of losing money. So I

0:55:40.760 --> 0:55:45.520
<v Speaker 1>think when you have this fear of losing money or

0:55:45.680 --> 0:55:49.160
<v Speaker 1>howarding everything because you think it's gonna get lost, just

0:55:49.360 --> 0:55:52.759
<v Speaker 1>what happens you're gonna lose it, you know. And it's

0:55:52.800 --> 0:55:54.880
<v Speaker 1>not about being reckless with your money either, but it's

0:55:54.960 --> 0:55:59.760
<v Speaker 1>just this expectancy of, you know, I'm a money making machine.

0:56:00.600 --> 0:56:03.719
<v Speaker 1>No matter what happens, I'm gonna figure it out, you know.

0:56:04.520 --> 0:56:06.560
<v Speaker 1>And the more and more that you have a good

0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:08.479
<v Speaker 1>relationship with money, the more and more it starts coming

0:56:08.520 --> 0:56:13.040
<v Speaker 1>your way. And and one of the I guess one

0:56:13.040 --> 0:56:17.920
<v Speaker 1>of the great things of hitting rock bottom is you're like,

0:56:18.280 --> 0:56:24.160
<v Speaker 1>I can't get any worse than this, and that nothing

0:56:24.280 --> 0:56:28.880
<v Speaker 1>really affects you, you know, there's really nothing that can

0:56:28.960 --> 0:56:32.840
<v Speaker 1>really knock you down as hard as that knockout that

0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:34.480
<v Speaker 1>you got that you never thought you were just going

0:56:34.520 --> 0:56:34.879
<v Speaker 1>to happen.

0:56:35.040 --> 0:56:39.520
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, Well, one of the things that I've learned

0:56:39.560 --> 0:56:41.960
<v Speaker 2>in my old age, and I picked it up a

0:56:42.000 --> 0:56:45.239
<v Speaker 2>long time ago, was when I was working with my

0:56:45.360 --> 0:56:49.560
<v Speaker 2>dad's law firm, I was surrounded by other lawyers, you know,

0:56:49.719 --> 0:56:53.440
<v Speaker 2>having conversations about life and then watching kind of what

0:56:53.600 --> 0:56:55.800
<v Speaker 2>kind of lawyers they are, right, And this is not

0:56:56.040 --> 0:56:59.759
<v Speaker 2>just specific to lawyers, but lawyers are the some of

0:56:59.800 --> 0:57:02.600
<v Speaker 2>the scum bags out there, not all of them, but

0:57:04.640 --> 0:57:07.560
<v Speaker 2>and that's I'll stand by that. But the point I'm

0:57:07.560 --> 0:57:10.000
<v Speaker 2>trying to make is that there's going to be people

0:57:10.600 --> 0:57:13.960
<v Speaker 2>out there that don't want to work, don't want to

0:57:15.360 --> 0:57:19.000
<v Speaker 2>make a buck, you know, the right way, and they

0:57:19.080 --> 0:57:22.400
<v Speaker 2>will go after the people that are successful. In other words,

0:57:22.520 --> 0:57:25.080
<v Speaker 2>the more money you start making, the more successful you become.

0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:28.360
<v Speaker 2>And especially if you become a public figure, whether you're

0:57:28.400 --> 0:57:32.120
<v Speaker 2>a politician or you know, a successful entrepreneur like Elon Musk,

0:57:32.120 --> 0:57:36.200
<v Speaker 2>for example, I can only imagine how many scumbag lawyers

0:57:36.240 --> 0:57:40.480
<v Speaker 2>and scumbag people are just attacking him because he's a target.

0:57:41.120 --> 0:57:44.600
<v Speaker 2>You know, he's he's you know, he's what the industry

0:57:44.680 --> 0:57:47.920
<v Speaker 2>calls deep pockets. So it's just the world we live in.

0:57:48.040 --> 0:57:51.400
<v Speaker 2>There's gonna be hyaenas. There's gonna be you know, scumbags

0:57:51.440 --> 0:57:54.400
<v Speaker 2>out there that just want to take people down because

0:57:54.600 --> 0:57:57.120
<v Speaker 2>they got nothing better to do. I literally had a

0:57:57.160 --> 0:57:59.400
<v Speaker 2>conversation with an attorney that says, I just you know,

0:57:59.640 --> 0:58:06.360
<v Speaker 2>draft a law, a law, A lawsuits and I throw

0:58:06.400 --> 0:58:10.040
<v Speaker 2>it against the wall and sometimes the company still loves, Yeah,

0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:13.760
<v Speaker 2>give me ten thousand dollars, I go away. What a scumbag,

0:58:13.840 --> 0:58:15.280
<v Speaker 2>What a bottom theater, you know.

0:58:16.080 --> 0:58:18.560
<v Speaker 1>And it's just a template too. It literally is a

0:58:18.600 --> 0:58:21.400
<v Speaker 1>template it is, and it's like it takes them like

0:58:21.960 --> 0:58:23.160
<v Speaker 1>two minutes to write.

0:58:23.560 --> 0:58:28.720
<v Speaker 2>Send it off. It pisses me out. But the reality

0:58:28.880 --> 0:58:30.520
<v Speaker 2>is is that we do live in a world where

0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:33.560
<v Speaker 2>there's good people and bad people. And again it goes

0:58:33.600 --> 0:58:36.240
<v Speaker 2>back to the beginning of our conversation. Everything's about balance.

0:58:36.320 --> 0:58:39.560
<v Speaker 2>If we had all good people in this world, I

0:58:39.600 --> 0:58:42.160
<v Speaker 2>don't know that it would be that exciting. You know.

0:58:44.000 --> 0:58:49.960
<v Speaker 2>I think balance is key. And when you are driving

0:58:50.040 --> 0:58:53.680
<v Speaker 2>yourself to be successful, healthy and live a prosperous life,

0:58:54.440 --> 0:58:57.000
<v Speaker 2>you got to be ready for the ship the curve

0:58:57.080 --> 0:58:59.720
<v Speaker 2>balls that come to you, because it's just the reality

0:58:59.760 --> 0:59:01.640
<v Speaker 2>of life. We live in a world there's good people

0:59:01.760 --> 0:59:02.480
<v Speaker 2>and bad people.

0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:08.520
<v Speaker 1>Yep, we wouldn't know the good if there wasn't bad.

0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:12.080
<v Speaker 2>Do you have any goals this year? Anything you want

0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:16.080
<v Speaker 2>to accomplish that I lean to keep you accountable with.

0:59:19.080 --> 0:59:22.640
<v Speaker 1>I think again going back to twenty twenty five, that

0:59:22.680 --> 0:59:25.480
<v Speaker 1>I want to keep living is uh. I do feel

0:59:25.600 --> 0:59:28.640
<v Speaker 1>like I lived a little more in twenty twenty five.

0:59:29.240 --> 0:59:32.320
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's just I kind of went back to

0:59:33.640 --> 0:59:37.720
<v Speaker 1>being that teenager again, not in a reckless way, but

0:59:37.960 --> 0:59:43.320
<v Speaker 1>just in in just you know, making sure Sometimes if

0:59:43.400 --> 0:59:47.920
<v Speaker 1>you stop having fun, you start becoming ungrateful. Yeah, And

0:59:48.440 --> 0:59:52.240
<v Speaker 1>I think fun sometimes makes you grateful about life and

0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:56.600
<v Speaker 1>just I'm all about experiences now. So I want to

0:59:56.640 --> 0:59:58.360
<v Speaker 1>travel more, which is I think I did a good

0:59:58.400 --> 1:00:00.440
<v Speaker 1>job of that. I want to travel more. I have

1:00:00.520 --> 1:00:03.000
<v Speaker 1>a big goal of, you know, taking my dad to

1:00:03.080 --> 1:00:07.480
<v Speaker 1>the World Cup in twenty I mean this year, spending

1:00:07.800 --> 1:00:11.320
<v Speaker 1>a good thirty days with him and just traveling everywhere

1:00:11.360 --> 1:00:14.560
<v Speaker 1>with them, so you know, hopefully he makes it and

1:00:14.760 --> 1:00:17.440
<v Speaker 1>well not hopefully he will and we're gonna have a

1:00:17.560 --> 1:00:20.880
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna have a blast. And again being there more

1:00:20.920 --> 1:00:22.720
<v Speaker 1>for the kids as well. You know, one of the

1:00:22.800 --> 1:00:27.919
<v Speaker 1>things that that I've gotten better at is just reading

1:00:28.040 --> 1:00:33.280
<v Speaker 1>school emails and being more involved with their work and

1:00:33.360 --> 1:00:37.440
<v Speaker 1>asking them questions about their school work. You know, that

1:00:37.560 --> 1:00:39.680
<v Speaker 1>was something more that I was on Teddy. You know,

1:00:39.920 --> 1:00:42.760
<v Speaker 1>I get all these emails coming from school, wouldn't even

1:00:42.800 --> 1:00:45.280
<v Speaker 1>look at them. I'm like, Teddy, that's that's you. Yeah,

1:00:45.520 --> 1:00:48.440
<v Speaker 1>And now I've been more involved in that end. So

1:00:49.920 --> 1:00:53.160
<v Speaker 1>continuing that, continuing to make sure that I can give

1:00:53.240 --> 1:00:56.600
<v Speaker 1>them everything I can so that they can continue their

1:00:56.720 --> 1:01:01.960
<v Speaker 1>routine what they're used to, not seeing a drop off.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I'm sure that brings me. I'm sure that

1:01:05.320 --> 1:01:08.440
<v Speaker 2>brings you closer together with your kids too, right, you know,

1:01:09.000 --> 1:01:14.000
<v Speaker 2>because in my experience, it's not it's I'm not saying

1:01:14.080 --> 1:01:17.640
<v Speaker 2>your Disneyland dad, but there's a lot of Disneyland dads

1:01:17.640 --> 1:01:20.920
<v Speaker 2>that are out there just living their lives, doing whatever

1:01:20.960 --> 1:01:24.240
<v Speaker 2>they do, and then they leave everything else, the responsibilities

1:01:24.320 --> 1:01:27.080
<v Speaker 2>to the wife to handle, but they really don't know

1:01:27.200 --> 1:01:32.520
<v Speaker 2>what's truly going on in their kids' lives. And the

1:01:32.920 --> 1:01:37.600
<v Speaker 2>dads that and even the moms that spend that quality

1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:41.320
<v Speaker 2>time just having a conversation with the kids and really

1:01:41.360 --> 1:01:44.200
<v Speaker 2>getting to the feelings and understanding what's going on with

1:01:44.280 --> 1:01:49.200
<v Speaker 2>the kids is so invaluable. And you know, I'm not

1:01:49.240 --> 1:01:51.200
<v Speaker 2>saying you didn't do it before, but now that you

1:01:51.400 --> 1:01:55.000
<v Speaker 2>are consciously aware of it and getting involved with the

1:01:55.080 --> 1:01:58.120
<v Speaker 2>school emails and all that stuff, I'm sure you can

1:01:58.280 --> 1:02:00.120
<v Speaker 2>get a better idea of what's going on in the

1:02:00.200 --> 1:02:02.520
<v Speaker 2>kids heads, right yep.

1:02:02.720 --> 1:02:05.920
<v Speaker 1>And it's you know, my dad taught me this, and

1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:08.560
<v Speaker 1>then I heard from a mentor as well that you know,

1:02:08.760 --> 1:02:14.280
<v Speaker 1>things aren't taught, they're caught. Again, things aren't taught, they're caught.

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<v Speaker 2>And for me.

1:02:17.200 --> 1:02:20.240
<v Speaker 1>Seeing my dad always take care of his mom. That

1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:22.640
<v Speaker 1>was something I'd never forget and to this day, I

1:02:22.800 --> 1:02:24.600
<v Speaker 1>am the way I am with my mom because I

1:02:24.640 --> 1:02:28.120
<v Speaker 1>saw my dad always taking care of his mom first.

1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:30.400
<v Speaker 1>His mom was first, and nobody could get in the

1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:33.480
<v Speaker 1>way of messing with his mom, right, and then he

1:02:33.560 --> 1:02:36.560
<v Speaker 1>took care of He's very responsible, took care of everyone.

1:02:37.200 --> 1:02:40.560
<v Speaker 1>And for me now I'm at that place where I

1:02:40.640 --> 1:02:43.360
<v Speaker 1>want my kids to see that that no matter what,

1:02:44.320 --> 1:02:49.000
<v Speaker 1>you show up for your family. And I want them

1:02:49.040 --> 1:02:51.960
<v Speaker 1>to see that, hey, you know what, Dad was always there.

1:02:52.000 --> 1:02:54.960
<v Speaker 1>No matter what this could have happened, that could have happened,

1:02:55.440 --> 1:02:58.720
<v Speaker 1>this guy still showed up. And I also want them

1:02:58.760 --> 1:03:02.400
<v Speaker 1>to see, like, as they get older, you got to

1:03:02.440 --> 1:03:04.160
<v Speaker 1>cut your mom with respect. You got to always be

1:03:04.280 --> 1:03:08.800
<v Speaker 1>there for your mom. And because you only have one mom, yeah,

1:03:09.280 --> 1:03:12.000
<v Speaker 1>you know that. That's a driver for me as well too,

1:03:13.520 --> 1:03:17.320
<v Speaker 1>to be an example for them in that sense that

1:03:18.200 --> 1:03:19.600
<v Speaker 1>no matter what happens, you show up.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I think one of the biggest examples that

1:03:24.520 --> 1:03:27.800
<v Speaker 2>you did with Teddy is you know, be there even

1:03:27.880 --> 1:03:31.160
<v Speaker 2>though in spite of you know, the separation, you were

1:03:31.440 --> 1:03:35.000
<v Speaker 2>able to show the kids that none of that matters.

1:03:35.080 --> 1:03:37.560
<v Speaker 2>Right now, what matters is that you take care of

1:03:37.640 --> 1:03:40.520
<v Speaker 2>mom no matter what's going on. So that's an awesome,

1:03:41.720 --> 1:03:46.120
<v Speaker 2>awesome lesson and point of view. What other things have

1:03:46.280 --> 1:03:50.360
<v Speaker 2>you have you shown the kids that you know, this

1:03:50.560 --> 1:03:53.520
<v Speaker 2>is what you do when your mom is fighting cancer

1:03:53.720 --> 1:03:56.640
<v Speaker 2>or you know, fighting for her life that you can

1:03:56.720 --> 1:03:57.800
<v Speaker 2>share with our audience.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I think making sure that they have awareness about

1:04:03.120 --> 1:04:07.440
<v Speaker 1>how mom is showing up right, you know, bringing out

1:04:07.520 --> 1:04:10.240
<v Speaker 1>the depositive qualities like look, even though your mom's going

1:04:10.320 --> 1:04:12.160
<v Speaker 1>through this, this and this, look at look at what

1:04:12.280 --> 1:04:15.280
<v Speaker 1>she's doing. Like life's going to get hard sometimes you

1:04:15.360 --> 1:04:17.920
<v Speaker 1>got to still continue to push forward.

1:04:18.320 --> 1:04:20.720
<v Speaker 2>And do you have these conversations with all the kids

1:04:20.800 --> 1:04:25.080
<v Speaker 2>or is it like different? I mean they're all different ages, right, my.

1:04:25.480 --> 1:04:27.800
<v Speaker 1>Eleven year old, my thirteen year old, and my seventeen

1:04:27.880 --> 1:04:29.840
<v Speaker 1>year old. For sure, the six year old she probably

1:04:29.840 --> 1:04:33.560
<v Speaker 1>doesn't understand those kind of conversations just yet, but definitely

1:04:33.680 --> 1:04:38.400
<v Speaker 1>with with with the kids. Yeah, like, hey, your energy

1:04:38.480 --> 1:04:40.480
<v Speaker 1>levels low, like you need to we're gonna go as

1:04:40.480 --> 1:04:42.800
<v Speaker 1>a mom, I need you to get your enthusiasm up,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. Yeah, that's all I need to be because

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<v Speaker 1>we need to get her enthusiasm going, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, that's aw So that is so good for you. Man. Yeah, well, man,

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<v Speaker 2>I think you know. All I could do now is

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<v Speaker 2>wish you an incredible twenty twenty six. Obviously we'll be

1:05:00.760 --> 1:05:02.640
<v Speaker 2>talking on our next podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I love that you're into this the finance

1:05:06.720 --> 1:05:09.080
<v Speaker 1>world now, man, that's an exciting industry to be in,

1:05:09.520 --> 1:05:11.360
<v Speaker 1>and I think you're going to do very very well.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's all about excitement. And I see how excited

1:05:14.320 --> 1:05:18.080
<v Speaker 1>you are, and especially you know, what causes you to

1:05:18.120 --> 1:05:19.720
<v Speaker 1>take action is your ability to think you can get

1:05:19.720 --> 1:05:22.400
<v Speaker 1>a result. So, like you said, now that you're getting results,

1:05:22.440 --> 1:05:24.560
<v Speaker 1>you want to take even more action towards it. So

1:05:25.040 --> 1:05:26.880
<v Speaker 1>I think you're going to blow it up. So I

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<v Speaker 1>can't wait to hear more about it.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks, brothers, appreciate that. All right, No, man, always up

1:05:33.400 --> 1:05:36.520
<v Speaker 2>with you. I have a wonderful day, bro.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, you too,