A Podcast With Champions PT1

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Do you know what?

What's up gang?

Welcome to another episode of the grind cast.

Get ready.

It's a new day and today is going down.

We're going to have two parts of this.

I knew I couldn't wrap it all up and one is just too much.

Too much juice, too much fire, too much sexiness with big permanently house.

We got to make sure that we give this it's proper time.

Okay, so this is going to be split into two sections.

This is pod.

This is going to be titled a podcast with champions.

Okay.

A podcast and I'll explain it because

Justin was a state champion two times.

Yes.

Baseball and football four years starter in college,

been dominating this business, crushed it in track.

But Justin's Justin's a champion many times in his life.

Greg is a champion.

So what was one belt boxing as a professional?

He owned his own business at a young age was was super successful.

And you know, he's he's just a savage in a menace to society.

But he's he's actually started to calm himself down and he's flipped all of that,

all of that energy into positivity and helping other people and is crushing it now in yet

another another business.

So we're going to call this podcast with champion.

So let me first start out with the thing that I think everybody can relate to the most,

which is obstacles.

You know, there's there's no way to kind of reach peak levels of performance and anything

without having a few obstacles in your life.

So you know, what I would say is, is can you name a few obstacles in your life that have made

you better in life and in business?

So maybe let's let's give it to let's give it to Greg.

But first before we pass it to Greg, this is Perm's first show like this is going to be a fixture.

We we enhance still bar beans underneath the ground and Perm is going to be a fixture here.

This is going to be his seat for as long as the chair could hold up.

So Greg, okay, Greg, you want to start us off with with, you know, any obstacles you could

think of in your life.

Oh, yeah, yeah, Jesus, where do I start?

Obstacles.

So injuries, my daughter being sick with cancer, talk about it.

Don't what do you mean injuries?

You know, or let's just start off with with that.

We'll start off with injuries.

You know, I blew both of these suckers out in 12 months time.

Both of them.

Both biceps.

You'll see these nasty ass scars here, you know, poor right off the bone.

You know, while I was trying to, you know, compete in mixed martial arts, very, very

beginning in my career.

And you know, I love to work out.

I love to lift weights and look good and feel good.

So imagine, you know, just, I mean, you do the same thing.

You the same thing.

You got to watch your friends.

Since I became friends with you, I blew my right biceps.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

They're looking though to free out of four biceps blown out over here.

Hang on there.

Big Justin, too.

Yeah, just hold his out after we met you.

You know, I was going to learn.

Watch out.

Don't away.

No, but just not being able to, you know, do that, work out every day.

You have to do other things.

You have to rest.

You know, I'm not very patient as you know.

So, you know, once you're used to doing something, you get in that routine and you got to switch it up.

You know, that sucks.

You know, so injuries.

I had a lot of obstacles as a younger man like in my early 20s.

I got into a lot of trouble.

After my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia when she was four years old, I just lost my day of mind.

Like I lost it.

I didn't know how else to take it.

Right.

But it was hard.

Outlet.

So I got in a lot of trouble.

You know, some charges that are on my record to this day that will, you know, probably be on their

first of my life that I'm not, you know, proud of, but that's the only way I knew how to express myself at the time.

And those turned into, you know, getting on probation, you know, which a lot of you that have been on probation once you're in the system, you know,

it's set up to keep you in the system.

It's hard to get out.

No doubt.

Then you get in trouble again and they extend it.

So I kept getting in trouble.

And that's when I was introduced to mixed martial arts and boxing because that's how I kind of got my frustrations out in the world.

So that's a, that's a big one.

Being successful at an early age, I, from the moment I was 19, 20 years old, I started making a lot of money.

I opened up a business when I was 20, 21.

It was extremely successful.

It was very, very successful in the construction industry.

But I lost it.

I lost everything because of the events that happened after my daughter got sick.

So that's another.

So you got it.

You already listed a few good solid obstacles.

Can you pick any of those or all of those and say how did each one of those obstacles affect you in a positive manner?

Absolutely.

In life because, because, you know, we always get these learning experiences.

Yeah.

So as a young man, like 23, 24, 25, I was paying myself a lot of money, salary, you know, like $20,000 a month.

As a young person, I didn't realize how fortunate I was.

And then going from doing that, I mean, all my bills were paid through the business, your car payments, your insurances.

So literally everything, I'm just, it was taken care of.

I mean, you know, busy, you know how that works.

But when I lost it all, I mean, I had real estate that I lost with it as well.

But going from making that to making nothing, you know, in the same year, really taught me, you know, to be fortunate and responsible further in life because, you know, never take for granted, which you had or what you have.

But it made me hunger here because I wanted it back.

I wanted it even more.

Sure, you know, so that's a good lesson, I guess.

Is that for sure?

Justin, how about you?

What obstacles stick out and maybe you could time together of how you think it makes you better today?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, just looking at my life, I think the first one was, of course, I mean, a lot of people know when I was 12 years old, lost my mother from breast cancer, I think that obstacle just taught me how to deal with loss.

How to move forward, understand that it's part of life and, you know, good things happen to mean bad things happen to good people.

But I was able to see how my dad, you know, handled it, how he kept his family going.

We weren't without anything.

And I just thought it made me just a better well-rounded person because I saw him handle it very, very well.

When I was in high school, you know, one thing that happened also that was an obstacle. I felt like I was a really good baseball player.

You said, you know, down the road, we ended up winning the state championship.

Yeah.

But as a freshman, you know, I wanted to play varsity.

Who wouldn't want to?

And they said, no, you have to play, you know, freshman and JV. So I said no problem.

But as a sophomore, you know, I was getting better.

They did pretty good.

And I wanted to play varsity.

And they said, no, you can't play varsity.

So I didn't, I didn't play baseball that year and I ran track.

And that was a big obstacle in my life because I saw that, you know, for something that I loved for so many, so many years.

I wasn't able to do, but I excelled at track because I put my mind into it.

And I got, you know, really committed to it.

And we went to state, you know, also in track.

You know, in business, you know, one of the obstacles that I had with a lot of people don't know about me is when I first, you know, graduated from from

from Mercyhurst with you as well.

You know, I went to play a ring of football for a little bit, got cut there.

I learned that, you know, I wasn't as big enough or as good as I thought I was.

So I had to, you know, start to find a job, find a career.

When my first career, Morgan Stanley, I was there for a year and they cut everybody in the training program.

So a lot of people just hear the Morgan Stanley, I worked there, but no, I was searching for a job.

But because I built so good relationships, you know, I got a job at fifth third and I was doing really, really good at fifth third was managing, you know, a lot of people's money.

And that's when you came into play and I was watching my money.

He was breaking the rules.

He was looking at my counts and he said, I saw your accounts going up.

You got to find out who has the money.

And I think those were, were a lot of in life, you know, and also in business that made me just want to keep pushing the,

the finish line back, you know, it's not about, you know, where you're going unless you just keep pushing that finish line back and those

obstacles just taught me how, you know, that, you know, you're going to have troubles in this world.

It's not about what happens to you.

It's about how you respond to it.

Amen. Amen.

That's what they call you the horse, right?

How'd you know?

Let's go.

Because of some go.

Perm's opening words.

Ladies and gentlemen, was that's why they call you the horse.

He says, big perm, rep in his own t shirt.

I feel you big dog.

Hey, this is, this is your show today.

So perm feel free to interject.

Stop me at any time.

Of course.

Okay.

I'm going to be your, I'm going to be the co-pilot in that respect.

So Greg and then Justin, you know, how do you think if at all anything from boxing,

anything from MMA that transferred over into business or life that you grabbed out of that,

Justin, anything from, from football, four year starter in college, you know,

and captain in high school and stuff.

So what, what, if anything stands out from lessons from that that helped you in the business

situation today?

The harder you work, the more you put in, the more you get out.

You know, the harder you work, the luckier you get.

It's just not with sports.

It's with, it's with everything.

It's with life.

It's with business.

You know, the first time you go into a boxing gym, you know, you're probably going

to get your ass beat.

Do you return or do you quit?

Come on.

You know, the first time you truth open up a business, the first time you do anything in

business, your first week, your first month, your first year, your first 10 years, you

might get pounded.

You might lose, but do you keep showing up?

You know, it's, it's the same thing.

You know, you have to be gritty and keep moving forward.

Truth.

You know, amen.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, sports had taught me, it taught me commitment.

That, you know, nothing comes fast.

You got to work for everything you're going to get.

Most people try to cut corners because they're impatient or they don't want to develop

and take part of the process.

And sports was just another way because I got hurt in sports before.

Talked me that wasn't invincible.

That you did have to work for things that a lot of things in life.

If you want them for yourself, you can't get alone.

I know Greg was a boxer, but, you know, a lot of the sports I played, you know,

we're, we're, we're team sports.

And you can't win a state championship by yourself.

You can't, you know, score a touchdown just by yourself.

You need a bunch of players committed to the process in order to get that job done.

And it also taught me patience.

You know, we didn't win the state championship as a freshman.

We won it as a senior, you know, and then baseball as a junior.

So it taught me, you know, when you work hard, good things happen, but you got to be

consistent and you got to be patient.

You just got to be willing to be not satisfied with anything that happens.

You always got to keep going.

I think, you know, another thing that Justin, I would say that is one of your

better traits, um, other than those biceps.

Big, but huge.

I see.

I see it.

Is this a half a half one right here?

Uh, this is the full one.

Jesus Christ.

Look at that.

And then what happened?

The other one is a half a little low.

It's like roller coaster came down.

But I think one of one of your strong traits, Jay, is your, is your, is your, is

your discipline.

Yeah.

You know, the main and, and you're one of the random, one of the, you know, few people

that at 5 30 in the morning, when I'm texting people, I'm responding to me, like, you

know, they're ready for the day, like me, you know, the main, like I'm working.

I'm ready for 30.

Justin, me and him are getting stuff done.

You know what I mean?

So Jay, that, that morning ritual and routine.

Yeah.

Um, most of the, uh, uh, successful people that I've tried to have on here that I've

been interviewing all are saying very similar things, but not all, but, but most are, are

having this morning, like ritual routine.

What, what does yours look like and how, you know, what would you suggest?

Do you know, is it beneficial to you and why?

Yeah.

I love the mornings.

You know, I have family kids and I never want to take away from my family.

Um, and in order usually to wake up at the time that I wake up, I have to go to bed,

you know, at a certain time.

I'm trying to go to bed between nine and 10 at night and I wake up at five in the

morning every morning.

It just makes me feel good that I know I'm the only one other than, of course, Simon,

uh, knowing that I'm beating somebody at something I love competition and, uh, what

you taught me and, and I don't even know if you taught me this or not, but I heard you

say it and I try to catch on the things that people say, always always being a

ten of them listening.

Uh, he said now he makes sure he develops himself before he works out.

So I was just getting up in the morning, just working out, then developing

myself, but now from five to six thirty Monday through Friday, you can ask anybody

my wife, uh, I'm developing myself on something.

Let's go to, you know, and it's something different every day.

It might be the Bible, uh, with, I read the Bible every single day, but the Bible

even more for an hour and a half, you know, some leadership stuff, some sales up,

but it's always accounted for on Sunday.

You know, what I'm doing.

Then I work out for an hour six thirty or seven,

thirty doesn't matter if the gyms aren't open.

I got to find something to do.

Then I shower, then I get the day started because once the day,

started, now everyone needs me.

So if I'm trying to develop myself and, and, and work with the people that

need me, I'm going to be frustrating.

I found myself frustrated whenever I did that.

So I didn't like to be frustrated.

I didn't like to be, uh, you know, making sure that I wasn't there for people.

So instead of them doing it, I want to sacrifice my time, wake up early.

So now I have divide, I have nobody rushing me.

Nobody asking me for anything because nobody else is up from five to six thirty.

And I found it being very, very, very helpful because if you're not reading

developing yourself, you guys,

nothing to give to anybody else.

And even if you're not in leadership,

you know, you weren't built, you know,

just to do nothing with your life.

You know, God put you on this world for a reason.

And what I think is you should be able to give more,

but you can't give more if you're not feeding yourself.

Right, I love it.

Amen.

What, you know, the other day I made a post

and it was like the 15 laws, 15 core things

that I think somebody needs to get down in business.

And one of those core few was being coachable.

It might have been number one on my list.

I think it was the first thing that I listed on there

was being coachable.

And so I think, you know, coachability

is not something that comes easy to alpha males.

You know, but you know, I look back on my life

and you know, I think personally

because I was small, I had to be coachable, you know,

in high school, I feel like I was coachable in college.

I feel like I was coachable.

And even though I was an alpha male,

I didn't like to be coached by many people.

I wouldn't listen to anybody, right?

I wasn't listening to no one.

I can't do it.

But I would listen to my coaches.

There was a couple people.

And then when I got into this business,

I listened to Marcus and Jim.

And I humbled myself to that coaching.

And I think that is what made things happen

at a faster pace.

And so that gave me the yearning to stay

in that spirit of coachability because it worked out.

So, you know, I think you guys now in leadership,

you know, can kind of think of people

that are super coachable and people that are, you know,

maybe need to get more coachable, you know,

that you know would get better if they were more coachable.

And I also think, you know, Justin,

you still remain super coachable.

I'm sorry.

This stage of the game in Greg to be real,

which are you surprised me?

You know, I didn't think you were going

to be very coachable at all.

Stereo-g�zins.

And you've surprised me with your coachability,

even though you're stubborn.

And you know what I mean?

And strong willed.

I knew it was going to be that way.

But you've been pleasantly surprised in a lot of areas.

Like, you know, I don't worry anymore about,

you know, you getting in road rage and one day,

one day me losing my, you know, one of my top leaders,

you know, for the most part, I think we're good.

You know what I mean?

Look at this guy.

But you've been coachable.

You know, we can always get a little better,

but you know, I think you've been coachable.

So how would you describe what it means to be coachable,

you know, for people that you're leading

and what would be the positive things

that people will get out of it

when they learn to be coachable?

Yeah.

I'm just trying to be coachable.

Being coachable, it's so different because,

let's just take me, for instance, you know,

I've been in roles in my life where I was, you know,

the top of the food chain, all right?

The decision maker came here.

You have to start as a sales agent.

You know, we had a plan before we came here, you know,

to get into that role of a leader very fast.

You know, it was fast-tracked.

And that was the reason why I came.

But, you know, I have to look at other people

that have been here for maybe five, six years.

And they might be 10, 15 years younger than me, you know,

and you have to seek out advice from them.

Yeah.

It may not be the thing that you want to do,

deep down inside, but you know that they're doing better

than you at something and you want to know how they did it.

So you have to be the word I'm looking for the most is humility.

You have to be humble to seek out that guidance

and seek out the answers from somebody that may be 25 years old

if you're 38, you know what I mean?

So being coachable is really just wanting to be better

at something.

And if it's something new, you know,

you're going to have to ask a lot of questions.

You're going to have to be coachable

or else you're never going to get to where you want to be.

Sure. You know?

So that's, you know, how I feel here.

You know, I talked to everybody in this business

and I asked them how to do it.

And maybe I can have a better way of doing it

in a more efficient way, but I'm asking people questions every day

every week.

But, oh yeah.

And you've said that.

He said that to me before.

You know, and Greg is 100% coachable.

I was coachable when Perm, Perm, I think taught me

how to freak a black amount.

I was like 11 years old.

You know what I'm saying?

Freaking the black.

Sword all started.

No body started in Perm.

You know, when I look at coachable, you know,

when you look at the words, it's, it's am I able to be coached?

And I look at it as, you know, sports, you know,

in sports, you always got a player.

You always got a coach, you know, and in business, you know,

you're the coach, you're the player.

So if you're the player, you have to follow, follow suit.

And one thing Greg said that was huge is that you got to want more

for yourself.

You know, if you don't want more for yourself,

it's kind of hard to be coachable because now you're not

listening to anybody but you because you feel like you have all

of the answers.

So I think, you know, when we look at people that are 100% coachable,

they just want more for themselves.

And they're willing to follow this person to be successful.

So for me, it was easy for me because I always want it more.

And you know, when I look at Simon, I look at Marcus,

when I look at all these people, it's easy for me to be coached

by them because I see what they have.

But also in the, in the other hand, you know, I see Simon being so humble

that he'll take coaching from somebody not doing better than him.

So when I see that, I'm like, man, you know what,

I can know I can get a little bit better

and be coachable too.

So I think if you look around and you see people that you admire

or people that you look like and people that you that you want to be like,

you know, look and see how coachable they are.

And a lot of times they've been 100% coachable.

And that's why they're in the position that they're at.

So you got to ask yourself, am I able to be coached and do I really want

the things that my coach is telling me to do?

And at the end of the day, you know, you are either that player,

you are that coach.

And at some point you will be that coach.

And do you want your player, you know, not listening,

just like maybe you might not be, if you're not being 100% coachable.

That's what I always look at them.

Right. So I want to swing it over to big Jesus right now.

Okay. I don't know if anybody knows who big Jesus is.

But that's the second name, nickname, big perm.

Yeah, that's it.

You got to be in for a while to learn his real name.

But for now, it's going to be big perm, big Jesus.

I mean, Jim also wants to be like him, right?

Oh, that's what he said, right?

He showed us out of the gym.

Shoot some off the top.

You know, I don't know if you had anything prepared or not.

But even if you're not prepared off the top of your head is fine.

Anything you want to talk to these two gentlemen about or ask them or anything?

Greg, I did see a couple of things you had on Facebook, man,

which was kind of cool.

Wondering, you know, where did you get your name, Lumberjack?

From you had a tree that you cut down.

And I don't even know how, where the cat thought you were going to destroy a home.

No, stop.

I mean, what was that about?

No ropes.

Jesus Christ.

Thank God.

I've never dropped a house that's all I've ever been doing.

It's for a long time prior to this or what?

And you put it on your back too?

I was self taught.

Yeah.

If you honest with you, you know, why not?

What that is?

I came up.

How do you become so taught?

So taught like a parent.

I'm going to go chop these trees right now.

I got it.

Might hit a house, but don't worry if we do we go run.

Don't worry.

I'm learning other people, man.

You know, monkey see monkey do it.

It's the same thing we do here.

You know, so I came home from college and I wanted to make a lot of money.

So I didn't want to work for anybody.

You know, my parents have a business.

I didn't want to work there.

It didn't intrigue me at all, you know, so I wanted to do my own thing and be independent.

But I also didn't want to work for anyone.

Yeah.

So I had a few friends that were in the construction and I've been, you know, construction my whole

life since a young kid, you know, helping my grandfather and my family, big Italian family.

I had their own remodeling businesses and I did concrete, you know, through high school

and college with friends.

But I worked for somebody for two weeks and he let me come work with them, watch them

bid everything, cut trees down.

I kind of just went out and bought everything.

I got a line of credit from the bank.

A bought bucket truck, chippers, stump grinders, trailers, trucks.

Bucket truck.

Jack for real, huh?

And no job.

Yeah.

And I just went at it, man, went at it, word of mouth and then I got into advertising, the

Google, you know, searches, read a book on how to, you know, do Google ad work and all

that shit.

And wasn't called the lumberjack then.

No.

It was called real.

Just cutting down trees.

Just cutting down trees.

You know, I did that for years and then when I got into the MMA scene, you know, your

coach has to name you, has to give you your fight name.

Okay.

Okay.

And I was out with Jeremy Bennett, phenomenal wrestler.

He's a beast.

And before my first fight, we were training for my first fight.

He's like, what are we going to call you?

I'm like, I don't know.

What the fuck you talking about?

He's like, you're fighting me.

What are you going to call you?

Right now you're up next.

I don't care whatever you want.

It's a word I call you the fucking lumberjack.

Oh.

And then it, it just stuck.

It's done there from.

You know, I want to know what I name you down the.

I was a coach right now, brother.

You know what I'm saying?

On the side, I live right now.

You don't care.

We can't say it on the wrong.

Jay, how about you, man?

How was it in this time that we had for the COVID-19?

How have you been with the family?

Been a whole nine rough kids over there.

Turn the house up.

What's going on?

I mean, at first it was hard.

It was kind of hard.

I remember Greg said, I said, have you talked to Justin today?

He said, I called him and I couldn't hear you.

The kids were screaming in the background.

I had to hang up the phone.

I have to.

Take a walk when they come over to my house.

The three girls.

Then my son, oh my God.

I'm believable, you know?

But at first it was hard.

It was hard.

I mean, they were trying to get acclimated for school.

And I was trying to make my office in the kitchen.

You know, so they were down coming in.

I'm like, you guys got to stay upstairs.

I'll be downstairs.

Well, I don't only work for about a week.

It was, it was hard.

I had to buy a new laptop.

And then I started working from upstairs

and everything started to be fine coming to the office

a little bit.

But it was just another area in life

where you just had to adapt.

Yeah.

And what I found out is that if you stay calm

when you adapt, things will always go out

the best way that they can do.

Because a lot of people get emotional.

And they get it all up in their feelings.

Like Greg said.

And you cannot make good decisions

when you're all up in your emotions.

So I tried to stay calm.

We figured it out in a week.

And it's been going great.

Boom.

You know, ever since.

And Simon, for you, how has it been for the,

being up in this owner and holding it down

and just taking care of business.

And now we're almost close to reopening all up again.

Like, how did you do that?

Like, how did you maintain?

I didn't do it alone.

Of course not.

It was a crew of people that were,

I didn't realize how prepared they really were

and how good that we really were until this thing hit.

Because everything changed overnight.

And literally we went from an in-home sales force

where that's how we make a living

to the government shut it down

and we can't go into anybody's home.

So what do we do?

And from the corporate all the way up top,

they were able to flip everything to virtual appointments

where we would set appointments and sell them

and everything logistically would work.

And our team within two weeks had it down

at like a B level.

And then the next two weeks,

they had it down about the A level.

And about five, six weeks in,

I feel like even all the people that didn't want to get on board

at first were becoming believers

and they were becoming good at it.

And then we started breaking records.

Like Greg said, we broke the record in March.

Big part of that I think was the motivation off of the idea

that Perm gave was for me to give away to Maserati.

Let's go.

And yeah, so that worked out.

So we'll do that one, you know,

give you another shot at the next idea there, big piece.

But that one worked out.

And then to see what we just got done doing right now,

this month actually today,

it's just amazing.

You know, probably the second biggest month

that we've ever had in an agency history, possibly first

and just crushing it right now.

What I've learned is that great leaders find a way to win.

That winners find a way to win.

And if you put people in that environment

that are all war tested and war proven

because nobody's been handed anything

and they're real business soldiers,

then it don't matter what the battle is.

Just we can switch the rules, switch the jerseys.

We're gonna find a way to win

because characteristics of winners transcend different things.

Just go everybody out there

and hold Aerys agency teams out there.

Let's go.

So why don't we wrap out the first session

before we get into part two?

Why don't we wrap it up with,

I think both of you have in common this ability

to not let your mind get comfortable with the status quo.

The main like, like Greg's broke,

is like most people's dreams.

You know what I'm saying?

But I get it.

I get the mindset because I do the same thing to myself.

So what you do is you trick your mind

that this is not enough money here.

Just like you might have three, 15 on a bench

and you like this ain't enough.

No, we gotta go ahead and put four plates on there.

Just we gotta keep going.

keep it pushing in progress and if you don't avoid that mindset then you start to fall back.

I get it.

But the mindset is what one person would be celebrating is a dream.

Greg thinks is he's broke.

You know what I'm saying?

He's just like, his check he expects to be quadruple.

I think that mindset, a lot of people in your shoes, both of you would be comfortable.

Because neither one or you are broke.

So it's like, okay, most people get to a point where it's like all my bills are paid.

You know, like right now all your bills are paid with your renewals.

You paid off so much stuff with your money, all your bills might be paid with your renewals.

And you got tons, you guys have more, but you still continue to reset and go and want

to go to the next level.

A lot of people will get to a place where their bills are paid.

They're doing okay.

And you know, a little bit of money in the bank and that is it.

And I've watched many of talented folks lose the momentum doing stuff like that.

What is the mindset?

How would you coach others on coaching others or how would you, you know, what goes on in

your mind to keep you above that status quo?

So I mean, the battle always is on the inside, you know, in your mind.

It's not on the outside.

And you know, for me right now, what keeps me going is the people, you know, it's not

about me anymore.

It's about the people.

And you know, it's great that I got all my bills paid through renewals, but not one

all breaks.

I want all Steve's.

I want everybody who I'm in charge of, you know, it's not about, you know, what you

get.

It's about what you give.

And I talked about that earlier, you know, it's about, you know, are you able to give

yourself, you know, the people?

And then you got to have goals.

You know, you got to have goals.

And it might look like all my goals are accomplished, but they're not, you know, you got

to have that vision.

And we got action plans set up.

Marcus talks about it all the time.

VGA vision goal action plan.

And I have that set up.

So in my mind, I'm always thinking about that and understanding that bad things are going

to happen.

It's inevitable.

But you have to keep it, you got to keep it moving.

And that battle, I always try to make sure that my mind is good with my mind, my body,

my spirit.

We said over and over again, but people have to get it, you know, you got to be working

on these things, you know.

So that helps me with my mind when everything's happened.

And whenever I know I got everything, I'm thinking about Greg.

I'm thinking about, you know, a Zach Garber and brand new.

You know, I'm thinking about, you know, people that depend on me and I got to keep moving

or I got a retire and be done.

And I'm not done yet.

Yep.

Yep.

I love that, you know.

That's good to always thinking about other people, you know.

I was taught that a long time ago.

And the more you give, the more you're...

Sure.

And the more you give without any expectation of anything in return, the better it will be,

you know, for you.

So that's a good point.

But me as far as being broke, you know, I'm just, I don't get complacent.

And I think it's the people that I choose to be in my circle too.

Has a lot to do with it.

You know, everybody that I either, you know, associate with, you know, with what we do here

or outside, they have more than me.

And I'm competitive as shit and I want that too.

And I want to be able to leave a legacy.

I want to be able to be part of that 1%.

So I think it's just because I'm very competitive.

I look at someone else like, why the fuck don't I have that?

Why are not building a 10 million dollar house?

Why can't I have that car?

And it just pisses me off and I get pissed.

I think, you know, when I asked Marcus, when we, when I interviewed Marcus on here, I asked

him, what number one, what's the number one characteristic that you see in all people

that come into this business and smash it?

And the first thing that he said to me was competitive.

Yeah.

You got to be competitive.

Anyway, you cut it up slice it.

I think what you said is not unique to you.

I think it's unique to most people that go to that level at some point in your mind.

You have to say, I'm just as good as this person if I'm willing to do the work.

Why can I not have that and go to that?

I don't want it all for me either.

Of course that's the key.

That's the key.

I want to be able to touch everybody in a way that I meet.

I want to be there's so much stuff that I see every day that I want to contribute to,

but I know that I can't.

You know what I mean?

Like there's so there's been posts that I've seen of kids getting their dirt bikes stolen

or something and their heart broken.

I just want to go buy my dirt bike.

Well, I want to someone just lost a kid and they want to give them.

I'm so much that I want to do for other people.

All the people that work for me here, I want to be able to pay their rent if they can't

make the payment or pay their, so much I want to do.

I want to leave my daughter something.

I want to leave my son to legacy.

I want to leave my, if something happens to me, I want my wife to be able to be, you know,

live her lifestyle.

It's not all about me.

I got, I love nice stuff.

I love nice cars, clothes, things like that, material things, but it's about helping other

people as well.

Absolutely.

And I want to be able to do that where it doesn't affect me.

I love it.

I think, you know, that's going to be a wrap for session one, part one of this.

And so I just want to thank you guys, Greg Justin, you perm getting ready to get it

in.

Completely permanently over here.

And I just want to, I want to encourage you all to stay strong out there mentally.

Stay as strong as this chair that's holding up big perm over here.

All right.

Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Grandcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

I'm on the back grids.

It's time to try and told them I'm a beast.