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What's up, gang?

Welcome to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready it's a new day.

And right now, don't hop off, Nat D.

Don't do it to me.

The, the, the, Nat.

What's up?

What's up?

I knew this was the only way I was going to be able

to get you on the grind cast with me.

Yeah.

And so I wanted to just surprise you with everyone on the call

because I want to talk to everybody randomly on the show

and ask them, what did they do today?

How did their, their day start off?

Or something good?

Every single one of them that was able to do it.

This is, was our idea for, for a show.

So I'll get you right off of here, Nat.

Can you just tell me, tell me, how did you start your day

this morning?

What did your day look like?

Are you having a good day?

How did you start your morning off?

I started my morning at about 5 a.m. per usual.

And I start my morning with a bath every morning.

I know that.

Yeah.

It's a little bit, and I'm sure the way you start your morning.

And then I came up to the office at about 15.

So love it.

That was my love it.

So for those of you guys that don't know when I introduce Natalie,

I introduce her as my boss.

Yep.

Because that's the truth always.

And so Nat, this is, you know, one of the things that's amazing about you amongst

of many things is how you are able to be a wife and a mom and you rock it in both of those

areas.

Yeah.

As a sister and as a daughter, you're like just there for everyone.

And then you kill it at work too and you're able to get it done here.

And anybody that knows me knows that there's no way I'd be able to do all this if it wasn't

for you.

And so those are some of the things that you know, stick out.

You're up early.

You it's not abnormal to see you here at seven o'clock in the morning once in a while, you

know, and stuff like that.

So I just so appreciate you.

And everything that you that you do for us.

Appreciate you too.

And I wanted to start going around and that, you know, I know I know you were busy.

You could hop off if you choose, but I wanted to start going around to everybody that cut

out some time and ask if you could share how your morning started, how your day is or

what's good?

Something good.

So who's who's who's on Giovanni?

I can't see exactly every single person.

Come on.

Somebody out.

Beat us at golf.

Come on, man.

Talk.

Oh, wait.

Let's talk about that real quick.

Now beat Beat us at top.

We ran.

We ran that we we we we took the staff out to top golf recently.

And then and then everybody got a chance to get tickets in there.

Yeah.

And then if based on the games that you won, you got more tickets.

And then we did a drawing.

I think they did 12, 13 hundred dollars different drawings.

And we get a call from that D.

Yeah.

Face down.

I'm had to leave.

Yeah.

Next time I'm staying though to play the whole thing.

And what happened?

The call is to let you know that you didn't win.

I know.

I really nice.

It would happen.

What happened?

She won.

She won it all.

She called me and say listen.

You don't want to buy her and then she said, bam, look.

I said, oh, she said all the girls won.

I said, oh, did you spend it or save it?

What are you doing with that?

500 that.

What are you doing with it?

You spending it?

You spending it already or you saving it?

What are you doing with that?

I don't need to Jonas and Hodey.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, look at you.

Just wife of the year.

Look at you.

Jonas and Haiti.

Tell us who that is because I've known who that is for a long time.

When Aaron was held.

Yeah.

Senior in high school.

Senior in high school.

He went to Haiti for the missionary trip.

Met a young man named Jonas.

And my family, Aaron's parents, we've all kind of been helping

him for the last 20 some years.

And now he has children.

And his youngest son needs surgery has a hernia.

So we're kind of just all working together

to get him the surgery.

It's amazing.

That's where that's 551 from.

Well, you know, you can hit me up.

Diesel hit me up.

I know.

I'm down.

I'll put in.

I got it.

So thanks for being awesome.

That's what you do.

That's how you roll.

That sums it up.

So we love you, Nat.

Who you want me to talk to next to Vanny?

Who's on here?

I can't see.

Why are we calling somebody out?

Diesel.

He got a Erica Robertson.

Erica Robertson.

What's up, E Rob?

What's up?

How's it going?

Good.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

Thanks for asking.

Thanks for being a beast.

I just wanted to just slide in real quick to your day

and see how you're doing.

See if you could let us into your world as one

of our top managers who's been on stage at the corporate level

for our company, number one manager and field trainer,

just on fire right now.

And so young.

You know, you're in, you're, you, you got a bunch of experience

now in this deal, but you're really still so young.

So you're just getting started.

So you're such a beast and boss lady.

I just wanted to stop in and see if you could share

with the grind cast, how your day's going

and maybe what you did so far today.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm coming to you guys from our new house.

So getting this place furnished has been the most fun thing.

And so we've been getting all the decorations

and all the furniture.

Didn't know you guys got a new house, congrats.

And where's that?

Where's it at?

It's in Glen Burnie.

It's about 30 minutes away from the office.

It's closer to the water.

There's four stories and a rooftop tech.

Oh, wow.

Love it.

And it's been amazing.

So my day started off pretty much all every other day

that as soon as I wake up in the morning,

I have a gratitude journal.

So I write down five things that I'm grateful for

from the last 24 hours and 12 declarations of things

that I want to accomplish.

But I put it in the past tense.

So it's seedly makes my brain focus on the things

that's going to get me to where I want to go in my life.

So always start my day like that.

Made some breakfast and I got on our women growth Wednesday call.

We had a phenomenal guest speaker today named Raven Magwood.

She was phenomenal.

So did that and then had a couple of one-on-ones

with some of my team.

And then I was about to go hit the gym

before my appointments tonight.

So I got to hit the appointments and get the help.

Hey, what's the women's growth?

When's that you're one of the two captains we have you and Selena?

They kind of, they run it.

They set up the meetings.

They run them.

They pick who speaks.

They teach whatever.

It's to help.

Why don't you tell them a little bit about what it is?

Yeah, so we got it started about two or three months ago now.

So on the first and third Wednesday of every month,

we invite every single woman in our agency

to get on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

It's called Women Growth Wednesday.

And it's just getting all the way together

to really just talk about personal and professional development

and how to grow in and outside of your business.

So we've had talks from sales workshops

to leadership to how to let go of the things in your past

to propel you to the future.

And now we just had our guest speaker, Raven Magwood,

who was amazing, basically graduated high school

and she was 16 graduated Clemson by the time she was 19.

New York Times bestseller.

She's just an incredible woman CEO of her business.

So it's just taking all these avenues of life

to help the women in this business

propelled to live a better future.

Love it.

Love that.

Love that.

Now you can see why she's crushing it and rocking it so much.

Well, congrats on your new house.

And good luck.

Good luck on your workout.

Keep it up.

Thanks for it.

Giovanni, who?

Brody.

Brody.

Brody's going to say some words.

Brody.

This is, wait a minute now.

Ladies and gentlemen, just slow down.

Grab onto this moment.

Okay, because this is spec, we're letting you talk all the time.

We're letting this world in.

We're, listen, AIL, listen, if you're listening

from our company, one of the best kept secrets right now,

just doing over 100,000 a week as an RGA,

crushing stuff quietly in his 20s is Brody.

And my dude is one of those people that just man a few words.

He just gets the job done and finds a way to win.

It comes to work and causes no issues

and no problem, super disciplined.

So we wish we had 400 of you.

But Brody, Brody, let us in on just bless us

with a few words, Doc.

How did your day start off?

How you doing today, Brody?

What's going on with your master's degree?

What's going on?

No doubt, man.

Well, you know, I believe you're not.

I've been talking all morning.

So in first of all, I want to say I'm a little jealous

of Russ and Ray.

Now it looks like he's like scar face and Miami.

Oh, I wish I could see it.

I can't wait to watch this.

But yeah, man, so starting the day off, woke up at around 5.30,

hit some, hit some proverbs, hit my mind body spirit,

went to Oxford, went to the gym, hit legs real quick

on Wednesday, and then got to the office

right around 8.30, met with the team at 9.

Had a couple of one on one with some newer cats and training.

And then got out, got the overview started.

And then that now we're here.

Now we're on the podcast.

So love it.

Show us a shirt, man.

Well, I love that shirt.

Yeah, yeah.

Look at that.

Come on.

That's dope.

EA sports.

Yeah.

Don't be watch your copy right on that.

Giovanni wants to shout out.

He said, who made that?

I'm assuming that's a Giovanni made that.

Yeah, I shout out Giovanni.

He's a beast at it.

Yeah.

I knew one day it was going to come back around.

It was going to come and handy to have Giovanni around it.

My life all the time for it since I was young

and is paying off right now.

I never knew that he had the skills that he had within him right.

He used to cut the seats, the back seats out of the holes in them

to put TVs in them and TVs in the headrests and stuff

like with no education on it.

He was our guy to hooks the U2 putting bang in the trunk.

But anyways, sorry, I went off on the tangent.

Brody, we appreciate you and your discipline.

And thank you for blessing us with some words today, brother.

Look, we were just loving seeing you live.

You're such a stud.

Come on, keep killing it.

Miami.

There we go.

That's who?

Oh Miami.

He's not in Miami.

Mike Russen.

Talk to us, bro.

What is this life about?

What are you doing over there today?

What's up, gang?

Today.

Oh, look at you.

I came down to visit.

I would have put a shirt on.

No, look at you.

It's all right for the next day.

But I just got the chest there.

It's all good for the next day.

That's it.

Okay.

But I came down to visit our St. Pete office.

Spent some time with them.

Took them all out to dinner Monday night, rented in Kambana

yesterday.

So it's like work and play at the same time.

Able to build relationships, hang out with people today.

Day started like it starts every day.

Vacation or not, up 4 o'clock in the gym.

I'm studying really digging into the new testament right now.

So I worked my way through Mark today.

After that got some max well in.

I'm reading a new, listening to a new audio book, 15 rules

and how to be a knife.

I eat in a hawk.

That's a, that one slaps.

It's amazing.

So I got my prayer in.

I got my workout in.

Got breakfast.

Got my body spirit got on that end.

Spent a little bit of time with one of my top GAs.

And now I'm just kicking it at the pool.

Got that tan in too.

I see.

Got that tan in too.

Not a hair out of place.

Throw it out through that all of that.

Not a hair like bam.

Like that.

Look, it's up.

You got that.

Keep it still, Jay.

I like it.

I want the pool too.

I was thinking of the water.

Russ, how old are you right now?

What are you 28 now?

28 years old now.

Oh, man.

Look at this is this is what we talked about when you didn't quit.

You know, the main this is through when when things were difficult.

This is the vision that you see is being able to help people help people have fun, but

have a good time yourself and be able to enjoy life and doing it at a young age.

You know what I mean?

So God bless you, man.

I know you're over there building relationships.

I saw some of the people in the pool.

I saw Geneva in the pool with some of the people from the office and it's beautiful to

see that's the dream.

Who wouldn't want that?

That's that's awesome.

That's what it's all about.

So what's up?

Thank you.

Thank you, brother.

Thank you for letting us in on your day.

I'm going to keep grinding.

I'm going to keep shining over here.

Okay.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Let's dial some 10 to lotion.

Evan.

Evan Stewart.

Evan.

Oh, Evan.

What's up, dog?

We waiting.

Young F.

Let's see.

Where's the F?

What's going on?

What's going on?

I can't see him.

Can't see him, buddy.

Art.

Keep talking.

Keep talking.

Keep talking.

You're going to pop up.

Not yet.

No.

Just keep talking.

It's all good.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Come on.

It's up new.

It's checking it out.

Evan Stewart, dog.

Okay.

So we're just kind of, you see what's out.

I don't know how long you've been on this, but we're live.

We're on the grindcat.

There you are.

In a way over there.

So what are we doing there?

So listen, this is Justin.

You guys know Justin Adams.

His sister.

His sister.

Okay.

Who's awesome?

Justin's wife.

Yeah.

His sister.

Is his sister.

So her little brother, Evan.

Evan.

Young buck, young pop.

I think 22 years old or something like that right now is killing the business.

Is a rapper, too.

I heard.

He is.

I'm glad you brought it up.

Talk to him about it.

I don't know.

Go ahead.

Let's say.

So how's your day going?

What did you do today?

Tell us from morning to now.

And being a rapper.

He woke up and started rapping.

Did you like, did you look in the mirror?

And was like, yo, what up?

My name is Evan.

I'm trying.

Go ahead.

Tell us.

I your day with.

You're too fun.

I'm.

So today, my, my back's a little messed up.

So I actually didn't get any lifting in or nothing.

I just went on to walk this morning.

I woke up about six.

Um, you guys know that my girlfriend works with us too.

So.

Hello.

We always do everything.

Yeah.

Um, right now we're in the car.

We just had lunch.

What I did today, though.

So I went on to walk this morning.

And then, um, I actually signed.

And I want to apologize.

I don't think I got.

Uh, the proverbs to you this morning.

So I'll do that after this call.

You do it every morning.

But we did.

Yeah.

Every morning.

I don't think you've missed a morning.

So now you just told me that you have to say that's why I was called Evan you shouldn't

have said that we all called you to see why you didn't why were you not reading

promo this is the reason for the call. So I did still get my spirit in today we got a

prayer call every single Wednesday morning so I was on that for an hour.

J.A. is the one that runs that so I got my spirit in and then at nine o'clock I had some

development with him as well. Right before you texted me I was actually I'm working on

a new presentation I'm studying actually so we were taking notes on that and just trying

to get some development in and we're on our way to the office right now so that's actually

while I'm in the car. You and Brian she's in the house with you. She in the house say

what's up. How you doing? What's up? We know who's the better looking one out of the

two. Welcome to the podcast. Maybe we're in something like something fancy today you

know maybe something great to go on like power building. You guys are killing it killing

it together talk to us real quick yeah and then I want to swap stuff that looks like

Greg's on the screen. I want to say what's up to Greg. Okay Greg. What what what give us what's

going on man. What's how has this business affected your life. What what have you seen?

What have you been doing. Brack to me about yourself. There you go. That's another thing

I just wanted to say is I really appreciate what you guys have done for me. We're Justin's

done for me Simon Natalie everything that you guys do for the company for us you know

it really changed my life and just to give a small perspective on it. I really you know

I didn't have any money when I first started here last year again. Couldn't even buy Christmas

presents had to put it on a credit card you know and this year you know everybody in the

family is going to get whatever they want you know I really and I'm going to be able to

take time off in December instead of working day two so it just changed my life because I

never I never had any type of experience like this a lot of life experience it's not just

the income you know you guys bettered me and in a lot of ways you made me a man at 22 years

old. Go. That's for real proud of you both of you thank you so much for real we appreciate

you time she's a saving grace over there you you you that you were bad he was misbehaving

himself y'all don't even know he's all I was all talking all professional didn't you get

stabbed or something dog you was wild and you you got stabbed you was tripping. That was

my brother I was I was involved in it but I didn't get stabbed this dude was wild and I

burned it wasn't no idea it wasn't like one of my like Eminem had like it wasn't like

one of the moments on stage or something you're rapping and like the moment any wraps any

wraps so hey maybe maybe maybe maybe you know next time we'll just have him freestyle we'll call

you you already know what it is start rapping on site is Greg still on mr. Rudolph what's going on

mr. Rudolph what's up big dog my dog so on there you go your beard looks amazing by the way

thank you looks good man you pride in it how much oil do you got in there how much beard oil in there

it's sad and he zero not it just shod's like that on act just you look off smart don't he looks

smart so smart right he looks like a civilized human being you got everybody fooled today what are

you doing third interviews trying to convince people that you're a normal person exactly at what

point do you start letting people you know like do you do you ease them into it that you're fucked up

do you is this something that happens on the first day at work or like 90 days when did they start

to realize that you're not all there you are we getting raw to that like it's all we're Rudolph

wrong with Rudolph dog are we getting raw today let me just remind you that we're gonna be

right right right we're on the block I'd say a good three weeks in a month and they get it

they're saying like oh shit this catch really crazy okay you got me and I think you know I think

you know another thing is you know I think about you and all the things that you've been able to

to do and accomplish so far in your early career here with with with the company man but I couldn't

be I don't know if prouds the word just impressed with you on how much I've watched you

grow you know not that you were not already sweet and polished but I think that you know you've

grown so much man I've watched your patients like you were not a person of patience you know the

main you're you're you're I don't think anyone would describe you as patient and and you're super

aggressive but I've watched you be able to over time deal with such poise and and it's like

you're starting to figure the game out like boxing and for those of you guys that don't know Greg

is a former professional dogs they got to know that some guns right there

bang

but but but you you've been able to like man you've you've you've just polished everything and

handle things a lot with calmness and poise and behind all of that man behind all the muscles one

thing that I know is you've let me into how cool of a person that you are bro how good of a

dude that you are behind you being a savage and making me laugh and you know all these things

it you you you got such a good heart man this dude is the first person to give you know any time

there's a donation for for a kid or donation for something it's like never loud but when I look at who

who got the money it's like Greg's already putting in the money like right someone that that's

all rough and tough on the outside you never know would be the first top person to like to give all

the time and and and you can be trusted you know what I mean so that's a good thing about a person

that just says crazy shit like him and Marcus is at least you can trust that they're being real no

matter what so the dude is just I can trust you you know what I mean if if if he says you know

whatever he's gonna do he's gonna do it if if there's a chance to do make the right decision or

the wrong decision money even if it would benefit him he won't do it like his character is on point

you're you're ethical you know what I mean you're you're just you're you do things the right way man

you a good dude good business person and I've watched you you know I haven't been there the whole time

for you as a father but I could tell you for the last few years that I've been in your life

you a good dad bro you know what I mean you do it all you know you keep yourself in shape because

you're you know you're getting older shit with me we're just banged up we're in constant rehab

but you know almost 40 years old you look like you're 20 you keep yourself in shape you're grown as a

person I'm watching you be a dad you're doing it all with Gia with with little G and and

Kendall got blessed I mean just the longer that I've been around you you know the more that I think

about how for sure Kendall is going to heaven for sure first like no matter what she does for

Dylan with you no matter what she does just she got to put in a good word for me because I know for

sure she's going for Dylan with you you know what I'm saying Rudolph he definitely is keeping it

interesting so thanks for sharing a little bit of our life your life with us today letting us

rage your crib real quick who you got Giovanni thanks for having the song young young bull Tristan

Tristan what's up dog can you hear us Tristan oh boy got the day boy got the go kill him

off it all what's up no yeah I'm through the shirt on I'm sure oh I don't know you should have

done a shirtless dog you should have yeah you should have like yo what's up yeah it's me because

that's I can't find too many pictures anymore with you with a shirt on dog yeah what's up

this is your district and Rody has to y'all go out to airs agencies number one I love Rody told me not

to do that look good though bro thank you means a lot on talk to us how'd you start today what's going on

let's be real no bullshit tell us the truth my alarm went off 5 30 central and I hit snooze and then I

woke up at six called my mom in order to put my interviews in so make sure she was up working

and then I started what time was that six o'clock and I mean Jesus you run a tight ship dog you

call your mom at six o'clock to make sure she's working dog geez Tristan hey she's four

hundred a month all she got to do is plug in a few names into Excel so I love it that's my girl

right there kind of get back to her and love on her but uh yes her checked in and then uh

Wednesdays are like yoga days for me so there's not really a place to do yoga around here um so I just

kind of stretch I used to do P90X all the time so I kind of have the yoga routine already memorized

so I'll hit yoga throwing some worship probably brush my teeth so depends on how I'm feeling so

I brush my teeth this morning that was great I've had two root canals this year

sorry that cost me sick you're in but uh so from there got to the office it was seven o'clock

hit some books max well then I'll send Simon I'll send you a screenshot of the proverb and then

I actually read it right on it and then I'll send you another picture typically by eight or nine so

now you do that like he really does every day every not almost every day every day every day every day

every day you shut up he sends a screenshot of the scripture yeah I let him know I'm getting it

watching and uh hitting the like button or the heart button I'm always up with the crack and don't

with him yeah and then he sends me uh uh him writing in his notebook things that he grabbed out of

it what he's going you know what I mean what he's zoned in on as well and this is always done by

eight o'clock would you say by eight o'clock at least 90% of the time I'm

sometimes nine and I tell you I want you to do that be normal yeah sleep in brother one time

go to sleep you know what I mean it's all good I I want you to do that but you're killing it bro

you're over there yeah we we had Tristan so he's 21 right now you 21 still or 22 now

21 21 say what 22 next month 22 next month okay so this is how far I mean you just so far

ahead again he moves out to Nebraska and where do you live at most kids are afraid to leave their

parents at this age 20 and he left I mean he Pittsburgh Pittsburgh okay here 19 20 years old people

ain't leaving their mom no I didn't and to go far away unless they're going to college right not

to go to work not to go to work so he left he and and open up the office in Nebraska and they these

these these young cats have just been blowing the thing apart I think you know 300,000 last

month out of that office already grew out of the office we only been there for how long we've been

there Tristan this is our this is we are eight months going into our eight months we're already

we're already buying out of a lease right now they're actually putting up the money with all of them

to buy themself out of the lease and then I'm getting them a new place oh and and because we've just

believe that they already blew it they already blew the place out they they need a bigger location

within eight months they've exploded it eight months and a lot of that has to do with with with you

being coachable you're a hundred percent coachable I could tell you that I don't think that I've ever

had anyone as coachable as you have been especially at the at the at the young age of that you are the

discipline that you show tonight lose yourself in the midst of success because I'm talking about

you're looking at a kid that made 60 grand or so last month last month you made 60 grand Tristan

next year it'll clear I mean that he may make a million next year half a million for sure so

this is it but you haven't lost yourself you still humble still gets up discipline goes to work and

then what's beautiful man is to see how many young people over there are getting their lives changed

in that culture that started with you just being coachable when I see all of you guys go to church

together there must have been ten of you twelve of you that means more to meeting you doing 300

thousand on a PMP report because that's one month that stuff right there is is life that's

salvation that's changing generations of people's lives bro so thank you for executing the game plan

and being disciplined because we're gonna continue to break records and and help a lot of people

together dog you know I'm saying I'm the old coach though now dog we we got to pass the ball to

you for you to shake a movement in score I'm gonna start coaching you from from the sidelines bro it's

time for you to take the throne Pimp let's go Christie Christie because in Christie you know she

don't go by that anymore we can't call her no no Giovanni is Christina oh I didn't know that where's

Christina she dipped out she's out okay she's gone who you got who you got Burns Dorf

Burns Dorf aka Zach what's up guys I'm doing my dude buddy what's up I call I call Burns Dorf

Zach from King do you know why do you want to tell them why I call you Zach yeah apparently I look

like Zach Morris for saving by the bell I'm getting a nod from Giovanni in the back like yeah he does

you know at least at least for him you know Zach Morris all the girls love that

all the exact I mean they fell out over all the black chicks like Zach Morris everybody didn't matter every

single everybody like like Zach Morris me I get pitbull you know the man I'd rather get Zach Morris dog

so but not only are you are you good looking but your PMP report is good looking too you've been you've

been crushing it over there how long so so you've been in Florida so you just move how long you've

been in Florida what would you would you do in production with your team last month so we've been

here about so end of April we got here been here about I guess that's like four months now so four

months last month is a team we did about a hundred and ten thousand last month crazy how did your

day start day today yeah yeah what you do you have to wake up every day 545 in the morning is

it sunny out there about that time the sun out what's that is it the sun out about that time the sun

out no not that time usually comes up around seven okay so it makes it a little harder but

545 read the chapter of Proverbs today was Proverbs 26 and then I read this little devotional call it

it's by Tony Dungee used to be the coach of the the Colts I don't know if you guys remember him

but of course real good dude try to basically relate to everything in football so that's what

I like it. So I did that. Then I went to the gym, hit some legs, got back around the

715, had breakfast, read the John Maxwell Daily Reader today. And then left for the office

about 815, got their 845, went through my emails real quick, 9 o'clock. We did an accidental

death benefit referral, like workshop with the team to some role-playing on it. Because

our referrals right now as a team is bad, so we got to get that up. We're doing a little

contest right now. First person to sell, one of those, one of those referrals, gets $100

gift cards. So there you go. And that 10 o'clock, I did a little training with one of the

release, or not an unreleased agent guy that's in training from 10 to 11. And then 11 o'clock,

what I do at 11, 11 o'clock, I train a phone setter because we got to get ready for

October. We need help on the phones. So we're trying to find phone setters, so training

here on the phones, 12 o'clock just now Poker's Car broke down, so we went to help pick him.

Oh Poker. Yeah, so we got him picked up. And now we're kind of just taking some old furniture

out of the office building, some cubicles, trying to have more spots in the office for everybody

presents. That's what we're doing right now. Your crew looks, looks stacked. I was just

there in Florida. And I mean, what a crew you got. You just got. I was on the phone

with three today, three, all of all three of those are your people, right? Yes, sir.

Yeah. So who? Yeah. You had your cousin on. You had a who out cue? Cue in my guy. And

my guy are all three of them. What did I what did I text you telling you? I thought about them

three future M. G. A's every single one of them, every single one of them. And so that's a testimony

to your leadership and you how you are as a person, bro, because like attracts alike and people go

along with people that they get along with. So that means you're building relationships and you're

attracting super talented people because you're super talented. And I got to tell you you

surprised me. You surprised me. You know, I used to think you were going to be too soft coming

in here. Cause you look so like perfect. You know, not a not a two thought of place. You know,

the main just the perfect, you know, the main of like that, you know, well spoken. Good. I'm like,

man, we're going to be a little bit too wild for him. He's not going to want to do it. He's

not going to. And you blew it and you've blown it up, bro, you've you've crushed every position.

You're super fricking competitive. And and not only did did you come in with us and you got

it, you know, you know how we all are now. It's like a sports team. It's like Dylan with a locker room.

But then you then you end up with Greg. What's that like? Greg? What's Greg? You know, what's it like

Dylan with Greg? Cause he's a little, would you say he's goofy or no? Scala one to 10. Yeah, he's goofy.

He's like one of us. Sometimes I forget that he's so old. Yeah. Exactly. He's awesome. I mean, honestly,

like I look back and coming in at him interviewing me. I don't know if I'd be here if I weren't for him.

You know, probably the best dude that you can really form a relationship with in this company.

You know, he's awesome. Everybody else that's on our team. We all love Greg.

Always here to help us to anything. He's a good person. And he you'd never know it.

Never. I mean, to people who think he wouldn't be. He's a good dude. And if you look at him, he's like,

I don't know. I don't know if I want to mess with that guy at all. Period. But he's in the

right guy. But the biggest thing with him though, I mean, like his position that he's in,

like usually those guys are hard to reach. But I mean, I swear anytime I call Greg, I text Greg,

he's always available. He's never, never complaining about it. Either he's always willing to help

too. Even if we're running over views at nine o'clock at night, he's always saying, like, yeah,

let's do it. He's never saying no. Like, this is too much. Always down to help.

Yeah, that's good. He don't complain. He complains to me. Like shit.

Cause I appreciate you and all you do for us, Mark. You're a great person. I love you.

You're like my little brother, buddy. And I appreciate you and everything that you guys are doing

down there. That's good. Burst door. Real quick before before we move on. Hey, tell us real quick.

How did you start with us? How did you start with us? Where did you come from? What were you doing?

So I was playing a football university at Pittsburgh. It was coming back to, I had to come back to

school the following fall after I, you know, expired my eligibility and had to take two more

credits. I was trying to get into sports performance and recruiting company, hitting me up,

called me in said, we're looking for former athletes came in, talked to Greg. You know,

really wasn't something I wanted to do, but it seemed awesome when I came in, talk everybody

here. And I'm here. Now what do you think about it? How long you been here?

Wouldn't rather do anything else. I mean, this can't get better than this. I love it.

Right. How long you been here? Only two years. Hit two years about a month ago.

Running running an office down in Florida. I was down there visiting you guys. And he's like, you know,

you guys want to work out with us on the beach? We're six o'clock. We're running sprints on a

beach and doing yoga. And I'm thinking like, dog, think about your life. Yeah. Making six figures,

a couple of years out of college, doing sprints on a beach with your boys. Yeah.

With good people on the beach in Florida, knowing that the sky is the limit. You're just getting started

over there. Ain't that crazy? Ain't it crazy? Yeah. Keep being great, man. You got to, you got to

hard to go. Giovanni, what were you putting up zero? What is that? Zero time left? How nobody else?

We're good. Okay. That's it. What happened to Christie?

Good. That's good. We're having a mark. So we didn't text Marcus. We didn't text Marcus. So this

was Giovanni's idea. I got to give love to Giovanni for this. Right? Wasn't this Giovanni's idea?

Both of ours. You and Giovanni. Should we give him any credit? Not at all. On a scale of like

100 out of 100 percent. 20 20 80 20 80 20. Okay. Okay. I like it. How long you've known Giovanni?

Oh, man. Since he was like really, really skinny. Yeah. That's why we called him kid. He was so skinny.

How long since his moh me see. What's vinyl over 20? 25 years? Yeah. No. Like 28 years.

Now 28 years. Yeah. Over over over 20. Maybe almost 25. What's about you about? Yeah. About 25. Did you

ever think he was going to be doing what he was doing right now? Like think about did you ever see

us working together like this and it's like this and him doing what he does? You know, he was always good

with computers. Right? That was one thing he was really always always. We didn't even know what

that shit was. Right. We had a computer with everything. It was a comp pack or comp costs.

It was a regular old big old computer that he took with us for Freddie's house. Gateway. Gateway.

Gateway where we had the running man. It was like the the dollop, right? Yeah. So we were dollop

and we would be on trying to record. We would be at Freddie's house at ESA in the hook. We had a

tape mic like this. Mike kind of like this, but a taped one. We would record on that thing. We

were young. We even know what we were doing, but Giovanni was always great at this stuff always. Always.

Always. He just our remember from the beginning. Even when I mean, I never was messing with. I didn't.

I'm like, what? I can't do that. And you knew he had a gift because none of us were doing anything

as far as like scholars. None of us were like getting. He was always smart though. But he was smart.

He was always smart and good at that. Smart. He was smart. He was always like want to learn. He always

want to learn. He was a nerd. He was a great nerd. He was. No, he was. You know what I'm saying? And he

was good at it. See, we all had our our like our own thing. You know, I mean, how about you? How were you

as a student? Oh, man. I was a student. I was a student. Oh, a student in school. I was never in

school in class. You know what happened, man? Shout out to him. What's up, guys? You know, thank you

for coming today. Yeah. Well, no, they used to kick me out. This is why they used to kick me out is because

at the time, that's kind of like when we had to wear uniforms. And you know, uniforms that just came

out. We changed and did the transition into right, you know, our stuff. Well, Walmart, I don't

think Walmart was even there back then. How money? Well, they wouldn't sell big shirts yet. So it

was only B from X or you know, small too. This is great. Till maybe one extra to two X. Okay. I

ain't wearing no two X. No, no one X number five. I said, she was great. I was five. Yeah,

I'm five up. You know what I'm saying? Five what up? Five X. So five X. Five X. Yeah. Okay.

Got you. They didn't have them. No, they didn't have them. So you know, I had to go to Big and Tall with

Big and Tall. That's just expensive. So one shirt is like $99 for one shirt. Yeah, because it's like

six shirts. Right. It's like six shirts in one. Six quills. So you know, the average joke like you

can get five shirts. You your size. You know, you're like extra small baby gap. You probably get your

shirts from $5 each piece. You know what I mean? Me. Mine is a little bit more expensive. So I had

to get a shirt. Well, it came with a polo sign on it. Right. So I went to school and they met

for me. Well, you can't have that on because it has a symbol and symbols aren't allowed for you to

wear in school. So you have to purchase. I'm like, well, I'm sorry, ma'am. Because people was

starting to wile out. Oh, yeah. That's why no, no symbols because gangs was, I mean, gangs was

getting heavy. Even the camel. Camel wasn't no joke. Camel. So I had to pay. And then I'm from the

east side. So you know, from the east side and Camel, we didn't believe it was, you know, I mean,

it was hard to get along because I'm from the east side. Camel was rough. You know what I'm saying?

So I painted my shit and a man, they messing me every day. I'm on it every day. Every day,

every day I came to school. I'm trying to learn and they was picking with me because of the symbol.

Right. Now now it's like TSA. That's what they do to you now. So I'm in airplanes. Yeah.

So I'm a UD for it. You know, some don't look right. We're going to check you brother.

It's just, no, you look, you look like we want to check you. That's how we, we got to make sure

you're okay. There's some weeks that the TSA gets more with, uh, we're probably maybe gets a

better feel of you than precious, maybe depending on the travel schedule. Yeah, they're like, we're,

we got this guy coming up. Wait a minute. It sucks, man, but it's all right. You know, everyone

likes that now. Now we got the thing here. I love you. I love when you get padded down at TSA.

Right. That's people that that's a favorite for people and and and the Starbucks is the new one.

The Starbucks is Starbucks. Are you are y'all watching my stories of of

Perm or the Starbucks if you're not, you're missing out on life. Yeah. But but I'm going to,

well, I'm going to keep these videos. We have to do something with these videos,

Giovanni, because I got them. Yeah. Yeah. Of you ordering crazy Starbucks. All of them. I'm

a send them all to you. So today was a great show with the, uh, what happened to random folks on.

Yep. And, uh, and we appreciate everyone that you know gave us some time out with Perm and Mr.

Eris agency at the grindcast. Thanks for, uh, thanks for giving us your random time. We just texted

them two seconds ago and didn't tell them what we were doing and said, uh, can you hop on in 10 minutes

and stuff and and, uh, so thanks for those of you that made it out and all of you that listened to

the grindcast. We appreciate your time. Sure do. And, uh, let me know if there's anything you want us to,

talk about in the meantime. We appreciate you. Keep grinding. Keep rocking. Keep hustling.

And they'll see you next time. Let's get it. Count money, man. Money back riches. Time's

time told. Trying to told them I'm a beast. But.