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Let's Square handle the 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.400 back end so you can keep pushing your vision forward. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.600 What are the biggest lessons learned from investors and how 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:55.800 can individual investors? 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:01.480 Oh man, we've been here all day. What was your 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:02.360 biggest lesson? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.720 I'll start with you, like the biggest lesson, biggest takeaway 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.480 that had like the most impact on you from investing. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.480 I mean, so, I mean we're just in general, it's 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.640 always the power networking, like you know, as far as 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.200 so all right, So Steve Harvey has never met fifty 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.880 cent before. I don't think they haven't really chocolate and 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.200 so they connected for the first time and then they 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.639 was talking about business like they was talking literally like 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:25.400 Steve Harby was telling them, like, you need. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:26.200 To do this, you need to do this. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:27.880 We can work together on that. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.639 So just seeing that first hand, that's at the highest 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.640 level possible. But it just reinforces the theory that like 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.040 they obviously have ways to get in touch with each other. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.520 They follow each other on Instagram, they can shoot each 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.440 other at DM there's nothing like an in person. The 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.800 in person within fifteen minutes, they talking about doing business 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.160 together for twenty years. They've known of each other. Crazy, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.799 they have close friends, right, they could have they could 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.240 have done this twenty year, but it just wasn't you know, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:58.600 we're not we're not connected. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.239 And can we talk about writing ironm at Foster's that 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.119 as well? For sure? 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.639 That the rights, That's what I'm saying. So and then yeah, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.920 the good energy, so that for sure. And then you know, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.040 as far as panels, but what I could you know, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:13.480 I don't really get to see a lot of the 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:18.040 best because I'm behind the stage. But man, your your panel, 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.760 your segment. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:20.679 Got a lot of great feedback. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:26.600 Artificial intelligence X shot to her at least like five 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.800 ten people will hit me like yo, who's this I 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.640 need to meet this person like she's super dope, she's 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:35.440 super knowledgeable. That got great feedback Home Buyers Workshop. Yes, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.320 that is something that a lot of people I think 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.320 received a lot of value in. I can go on 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.280 and on student loans whatever. So as far as like 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.840 I look at it, like, okay, there's the relationship aspect 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.320 of it, which that's one thing meeting people. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.800 Can we say relationships are the biggest asset that no 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.480 one talks about the values proper. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.360 For sure, that's gonna be determining fact. So the relationship, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.800 the relationship aspect for sure. Then from the informational aspect, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.880 that really just depends on what you were interested in 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.000 and what you you know, went to right because some 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.640 people didn't go to every everything. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.760 That's okay, but you have to get the. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:14.080 Individual value from there, but also from just looking at 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.919 it from a scale standpoint and seeing all the businesses 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.240 in the Vendom marketplace. And Tye actually Todd Davis had said, so, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.280 Ti Davis, that's how that's how a camera guy shout 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.240 to Tie and he asked he said he was gonna 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.200 make a video because he was like, you know, top, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.360 you see us you're going to see tie. He's around 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.279 us all the time. And he was like he was 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.279 he was walking through the Vendom market place to capture 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.760 content on one day and he was like he walked 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:42.839 through like six rows of booths and he was like nobody. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:42.719 Like tried to sell him. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:43.279 Like they didn't. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.920 They didn't try to, Like he was like he thought 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.280 that that was a mistake because they wasn't being aggressive enough. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.280 And he was like, Yo, they don't even know who 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.480 I am, you know what I'm saying, Like like, yo, but. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.520 You know I might want to buy a product, or 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.080 I might want to, you know, tell you tell the 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.680 guys about your product, Like this is dope. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.839 He was like they they was just looking at me 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.279 waiting for me to come to them. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.320 Doesn't work like that. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.040 And he's like, yo, I'm not just gonna go out 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.520 of my way and just go to you. Like nine 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:08.400 times out of ten. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:09.000 That's the same. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.920 The only person to tell me something was Angel Well 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.560 with the glasses, you gotta be that hey. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:15.640 She's like, hey, you want it? 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.640 I didn't even think of Like obviously, when we walk 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.840 into space, it's like people want us to come to 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.120 but like, yeah, I mean I would imagine that what 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.880 happened to and some of the guys that they it's 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.679 like all these guys in there. But yeah, we always 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.839 tell people it's the surrounding people. You got to attack 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.160 the periminal. If you know, to takes the pictures of 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.440 us and he's walking, I gotta get them. You see 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.520 b you know he's with us. You got you see Pierre, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.240 you see that. You gotta go get them because they 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.400 can relay a message to it. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:45.960 Absolutely. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.680 But then I was also very inSpot to a lot 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.600 of young people. I mean, we had the kids from 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.880 our community that came. Then there was kids from the 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.800 Bronx that came. There was another group of kids from 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.560 the Bronx that came that just I didn't even wasn't 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:58.080 aware of them. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.840 They just randomly stopped me in the hallway and that 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.920 was dope. That was a dope moment. There was a 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:04.560 lot of young. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.360 People there with like older chaperone shots to all the 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.320 chaperones and group leaders that took kids there. But that 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.360 was dope to I met some college kids, some kids 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.440 that just graduated from college that were there. So it 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.240 was a lot of young young people, like teenagers, early twenties. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.000 That was there for sure. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.880 But I think the biggest takeaway for me whenever going 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.880 to something like invest Fest, which there really is nothing 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.840 like invest Fest, but whenever going to like that environment, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.440 the biggest takeaway is did I leave with three people 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.640 that I could connect with? Ill keep saying that because 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.320 it's the relationships is always the most important aspect you're 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.400 going to get the information. Information is powerful, but if 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.320 you have to learn and some peoples like, well how 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.400 do I network with people? 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.320 You have to walk up to them. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.960 And I actually did do a whole talk on this 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.160 for Eyo University. If you're interested, maybe all ship from 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.480 Mark is in Toronto. Yeah, so, but it's it's not 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.120 as complicated as you think. You just got to, you know, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.400 get out of your comfort zone and just find ways 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.080 to just network and meet people because that in person 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.680 experience very rare. You're gonna be around twenty thousand people 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.000 that's only there for business. They're not there at the party, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.360 they're not there that you know, they only there for business. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.080 So that is always going to be the takeaway from me. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:28.400 Man. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.000 But I feel like a lot of people just did 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:32.840 meet a lot of great people from what I've been 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.720 hearing and then seeing and it was a lot of 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.840 international people from Africa, people from Canada. Toronto was up there, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.200 heavy from London. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, fact fact London was in there. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.320 Definitely there. That's a fact. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.600 Few few things that I just observed. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.000 Did you connect with three? 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.760 Because I think even now at this level, they probably think, oh, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:56.720 we must know everybody. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.400 There's nobody be me connecting. Did you? Did you? Yeah? 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:00.680 I mean with a bunch of. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.440 People, right, a million people? Yeah, for sure. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.960 But then it's also about foster fostering even strong relationships 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.560 and the people that you know absolutely all right, you know, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.920 all right, let's do this. You're talking to whoever it 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.920 could be to be like yeah, you know, I haven't 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.320 seen him in a while, Like it's the first time 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.360 I'm seeing you. Let's talk like that's that's part of 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.040 it too, Like you might not you might not see 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.600 the person all the time. You get a chance to 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.000 beat them, it's like, all right, let's I haven't seen 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.120 you in four months. Let's build like, let's really figure 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.200 this thing out so we can do something together. That's crazy, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:30.920 Like I was going to start there, but you kind 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.880 of ended it with it was. It felt like this 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:33.840 is like a reunion. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:34.040 Now. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.679 Absolutely there's people like, yo, this is my third one. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.520 I'm like, remember, of course, I remember you. We took 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.520 the picture people show. I remember somebody was showing us 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.520 the braces that they have from each of that. I'm like, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.760 this feels like a reunion where we're seeing people, We're 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.599 seeing their development, We're seeing their growth even internally. Like 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:54.360 I was telling, I'm watching Pierre developed from the kids 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.559 who we used to have on the basketball team in 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.920 the sixth grade to now somebody that's handling the logistics 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.080 to making sure everybody's good like good like his development 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.080 abs development over the past four years when he started 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.120 working Earn Your Leisure to now it was like the 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.559 CEO over this company and his brand and everything he 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.640 does on the vestor has that growth. But community, even 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.800 from the people that were there, was like I think 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.800 that was what really stuck out to me. I had 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.040 this encounter with this young man and he came up 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.240 to me. He was like, Troy, I want to tell 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.200 you the story. Can you stop for like two minutes. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.559 I'm like, of course, I'm gonna stop, but let me 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.120 hear the story. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:29.960 He said. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.640 I brought this homeless gentleman in. He was standing outside. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.760 He asked me what was going on. I said, you 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.240 got to come in. They didn't let even get a 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.040 brace thatt. I bought him a ticket. I said, that's great, man, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.760 I appreciate that. He said, but let me tell you 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.600 what happened. When he came into the marketplace. He said, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.840 I went around to vendors that had clothing, and each 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:52.840 vendor put a package of clothing together and they gave 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.959 him clothes. Then I got a couple of people to 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.559 donate money, and he went to the food village and 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.559 had vouchers to eat. And I'm like, yo, that's community. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.679 I had another gentlemen, this is crazy teenager, and that 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.120 energy from the youth was there. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.520 He was like, look I was. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.400 I was nineteen years old. I was trying to get 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:13.679 my ticket. I was trying to save it up to it. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.839 I trying to do a payment plan. I couldn't do it, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:17.920 but I said I need to be in this building. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.720 And I'm like, all right, So what happened? He's like, look, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.800 I signed up for the volunteer list. I figured the 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.959 best thing I could do is help the volunteer was 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.800 was so long I was on the wait list. I 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.800 just started showing up and I just started picking up garbage. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.800 I started picking up collage, and I kept going and 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.439 I finally He's like I walked in and they saw me. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.319 They're like, what are you doing here, young man? He's like, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.079 I'm trying to volunteer. They brought him to the volunteer booth. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.200 He got a T shirt to volunteer. His first assignment. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.640 He was like, I need you to get some speakers 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.760 from their cars to the speak a lounge. First person 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:50.800 you can get is Van Jones. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.880 And listen, I'm gonna say this too for all y'all 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.960 who walk past Van to VIP. Now, y'all don't want 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:56.360 no money. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.400 Here's the best what. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.719 Van likes the kids so much. He gives him his 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.640 phone number, his email. He wants to stay in contact 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.280 with him. He said, look, while I'm here at that's 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:05.000 really was he there? 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:06.000 Oh? 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.480 He was early, he was early, he was early. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.800 Yeah, he liked him so much. He said, I want 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.680 you to stay with me for the whole day. While 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.720 I'm here, you stay with me. He then walked around 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.880 with him, then told everybody how great of a young 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.600 man this dude was he got to meet everybody? 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.719 Right. The next day is still volunteering. He goes he 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:25.640 now he's with OG. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.880 Shout out to the Og family, Shout out to Trav 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.839 Fear credible panel. He's like, yo, I just I got 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.640 I didn't get to take He's telling the story. Shout 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.120 out to Dennis. Dennis is like, yo, you want to 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.760 meet the guys. He was like, you know, I would 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.680 love to. The first thing I run into is Dennis 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.640 and the young man and he tells me the story 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:47.360 and I'm like, that's community right, Like he had no ticket, volunteer, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.640 got his way up and what got to me to 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.680 tell us? Like, you know, y'all have changed my life 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.400 with information. I was just so proud to hear his story. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.000 But that's what it's about. I mean, there's so many 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.679 of these community stories. We had a woman who a 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:04.480 vender was selling waste beads. Yeah, yeah, not only is 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.600 she making a lot of money in the drandom market 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.840 from waste beads, but she's giving it back to communities 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.719 in Africa. Like, there's so many these community stories that 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.600 obviously the main stage is a lot of information obviously 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.439 is valuable and everybody that's up there. But there's so 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.360 many of these stories and so much community that's happening. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.000 I got like almost emotional thinking about it, like, Yo, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.520 this is this is what it's about. This is what 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.839 community looks like. This is what coming together looks like. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.199 This is what working together looks like. This is what 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:34.440 bond bonds. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:35.080 Right. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.240 Yeah, so yeah it felt like that reunion field, but 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:38.280 it felt like community too. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:39.520 Yeah, it was amazing. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.040 One thing I picked up on the bigger or wealth 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.000 theater person, the kinder they are, I notice is always 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.560 the middlemen who act like they're the start to show. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.679 Like don people's got off stage and say great, hey, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.120 gret job. He's like, I'm gonna stay here and watch you. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.200 If you need anything, let me help you, like any advice, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.000 Like just do. I'm like, it's like, I watch your 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.400 stuff do. I'm like, damn, I. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.640 Mean, I know he's been on the show, but he 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.199 knew information I've covered. He went over in video. He 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.120 was like, how let you know? So just to see 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.160 his curiosity was like, damn, this is time special, dude. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.760 The interview with fifty was amazing for a couple of points, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.480 even though him and Puff had their battles for a 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.120 long period of time. It tells you how serious that 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.000 situation is. When even now fifty won't say nothing bad 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.760 about Puff, it tells you, like he talked about it, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.840 like listen, I was paying a company this. They were 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.760 tacking on double what they took six million dollars from him. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.880 But so now if you try and sue, I'm going 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.439 to defame your name and ruin your career and calling 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.640 it that's scary as hell. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.719 They got it some day, I know, y'all tell the 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.200 four story. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.120 That's scary to be like, Okay, you took thirty million 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:47.880 dollars from me, but if I sue. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.120 You're going to ruin my entire legacy. Yeah, that's insane. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.160 And then I think just the power of like connecting 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.640 with the people. You know, I love being amongst the 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.120 people and shaking hand and kissing babies. But just to 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.000 see the impact, like it was a lady was like, yo, 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.120 I joined in twenty twenty, so I started with fifteen 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.760 thousand at one point two million from your time, Like 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.840 what like I'm proud of It's. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.720 Like, what do you like? I don't need I don't 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:16.679 even need to testimony. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.000 The fact that you just are making the money when 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.040 you look happy and you're taking care of your family 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.760 and was able to retire her mom and dad like that. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.560 That's absolutely incredible. But to see the old entrepreneurs, like 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.120 everybody was no drama, co spirits, everyone's networking. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.240 Told entrepreneurs that came, yeah that wasn't speaking, that just 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:40.480 came to support. Yeah, a lot of people, uh influencers. Yeah, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.200 that I saw that was posted that they were at 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 investments that were not speaking. You can only put so 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.080 many people. Had a hundred and twenty speaker, so you 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.840 can only put so many people on the bill. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.480 And that's why when you get on stage, you got 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.240 to make the most of it, because it's some competition 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:53.640 in the bill. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.200 Yeah, it's more and more competitive at the end. And 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.360 of course out to or everybody that you know the 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.840 Drip Journeys, everybody that threw it on, you know the 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.560 Drip Journeys. There's a lot of There was a lot 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:06.600 of congress to. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:11.000 Make them fast. Finally it was longer, but it was 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:11.560 the right one. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.120 Appreciate the right one. Appreciate you, Appreciate you. Shout out 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.560 to Mike b Shout out to Todd Davis for apturing 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:19.560 the moment. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:28.960 Shout at the fashion finally, finally, respect for finally. But nah, man, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.080 I saw you. You had to double breasted. You had 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.960 the double breasted joint, man, you know that was that 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.080 was dope man. You know, Troy went the silk satin route. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.680 Mike did the chronic chronic. Yeah, color and color and color. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.760 Color, color, color like that. Yeah, that's what he did. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.680 I'm saying it was one was your favorite, the sugar red, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.280 the satin red, like that one. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.480 I was gonna go, I like the gray Man like 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.400 the Yeah, because he had the the LV loafers on. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, because when he walked he had it 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.080 with the jacket, but then it looked flat. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.520 Without the jacket too. So I'm gonna good. I gotta 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:08.040 give him that one. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:13.480 Shot the mic nineteen keys absolutely mad corn rolls. Yeah, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.400 sho shot the keys man. We had a great talk 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:18.480 at dinner and. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.640 Dinner yeah yeah, he braided his in all the ladies, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.320 to all the ladies that yeah, for sure. So it 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:25.880 was just dope. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.040 You know, really feels like the Grammys or the s piece. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.120 And then also speaking of investments in a highlight moment, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:34.760 as I said, we had fifty and you know, of 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.680 course fifty was a major inspiration for everything as far 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.440 as give it to that try and you know, changed 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.480 the game a few different times, a bunch of times. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.240 So I don't know if he was there, but I 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:47.040 actually also said that you were okay, So yeah, you know, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.720 and somebody that we met four years ago, yeah, four 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:56.200 years ago live yeah, so five twenty twenty five, yeah 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:01.280 for sure. So yeah, so you know we uh, you know, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.560 we've built Early Legion. We've been doing this. That was 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.280 a financial advisor. He was educated before we had Early Legion, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.359 so it was still in the realm of educating. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.440 Why do you always tell people that because it's a 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.639 good business lesson in it that you're a financial advisor. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.240 Because some people think, you know, sometimes dropped out people 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:24.080 like your houses got qualified to speak, I actually did 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.240 something even though you don't have to do it for 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:26.720 a living. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.960 Yeah but no, no, no, no, you have to level. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.400 But I love when he says it because it talks 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.840 about purpose of just walking in it, and you know 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.080 what I mean, like you're doing it just because you 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.360 feel like that's what you're supposed to be doing. That's 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.080 a career choice. But sometimes that might be your purpose. Right, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.200 So he was already in the world of finance. I 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.880 was already in education. The fact that this is financial 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.320 education we have just now just added another layer to 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:52.800 the purpose. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.359 And the next layer is we're coming out of a book. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.879