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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg business Week from Bloomberg Radio. His bio

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Speaker 1: who covers him says this because it's a great line

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Speaker 1: in your bio. He's a former rapper. He's also author

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Speaker 1: of the New York Times bestseller Living with a Seal

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Speaker 1: thirty one Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet.

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Speaker 1: He co founded the private jet card company Marquis Jet,

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Speaker 1: that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway. He has done so

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Speaker 1: much in his life. Owner of the NBA Atlanta Hawks

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Speaker 1: father for now, He's a millionaire life coach. He was

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Speaker 1: recently the subject of the opener of the Pursuit section

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Speaker 1: of Business Week magazine, and Jesse Hitler is joining us.

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Speaker 1: I'm so delighted to have you here with us. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: And you're not done yet? Are you know? What is

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Speaker 1: it about your DNA, because you've gone a lot of

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Speaker 1: different places. What is it that kind of drives you

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Speaker 1: in your life? Uh? I'm a big check the box

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Speaker 1: and move on guy. So I really just want to

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Speaker 1: have a big appreciation for where I am in my life,

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Speaker 1: and I believe in building my life. Resume more than

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Speaker 1: my traditional resume. So I'm just always kind of like

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Speaker 1: finished something and onto the next, never looking back. No,

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Speaker 1: you know what, Carol, I want to go through this

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Speaker 1: life like i'm and at the end of the journey

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Speaker 1: like I was the eight percent version of myself. So

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Speaker 1: I really am sensitive to how much time I have

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Speaker 1: as I can. Right because you could write you're financially

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Speaker 1: set that you could kind of just do whatever the

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Speaker 1: heck you want, but you continue to help other people.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me about this life coaching that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this, wrote about it, Andrew's Mellon wrote

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Speaker 1: and why you're doing it. Well, I've had a very

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Speaker 1: unorthodox business journey, you know. I started out in the

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Speaker 1: to live with my family and myself for thirty one days.

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Speaker 1: And it led to um speaking engagements and this and that,

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Speaker 1: which turned into people wanting more. They want to know

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Speaker 1: more about Well, what's it like? You know, we're all

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Speaker 1: So when I look back at my life and the

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Speaker 1: various life experiences, I believe like the more you experienced,

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Speaker 1: lot of questions that, you know, how could I help

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Speaker 1: these different buckets. And it turned to coaching program. We'll

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Speaker 1: It's from CEO s two moms and dads that are

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Speaker 1: most of us play defense in our life. Like our

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Speaker 1: And the notion around the Missaggi as you put one

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Speaker 1: never going to do it. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: go sailing, you know, you just never know the injury,

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Speaker 1: the change of circumstances. My parents, I have elderly parents,

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Speaker 1: Like life changes, and it's just it's so important to actually,

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Speaker 1: like just commit to it and do it. Just do it,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just gotta get the kid off. So

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Speaker 1: next year, when we next year, when we sit, you'll

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Speaker 1: tell them about your sailing. I will, I will know you.

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Speaker 1: But you're absolutely right, Like it's a it's a smarter

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Speaker 1: way of living. And I think this whole idea of

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Speaker 1: you just don't get it back, like I'm only going

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Speaker 1: to be fifty one once. I don't get it back.

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Speaker 1: But it's setting intentions like I think about that whenever

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Speaker 1: at right and then everything else. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Will you come back? Yeah, I gotta go run. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Thanks for having me pleasure, let us

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Speaker 1: know things are going. I would you up to well, okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you yeah,