Special Guest Ashley Rust

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What's up gang? Welcome to another episode of the grind cast.

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We got big permanent house.

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And we got Ashley Rust in the house.

But guess what? There ain't no Rust.

Uh-oh.

Ain't no Rust about it.

Ain't no Rust about it.

She's an absolute beast.

So those of you that don't know,

Ashley Rust, she was our number one producer

in the entire company internationally

for American income life, which is the company we represent,

which is the company that I represent.

So to be number one in the entire company

out of over 5,000 different people, different agents

and to watch the journey was spectacular

because she called her shot.

Yeah.

Before the year, she was starting to talk about,

you know, I'm going to be on stage.

And I remember that going from, okay,

she's going to be on stage, all right.

Now she's going to be number one.

So that was crazy.

How did you get into the company?

How long have you been here?

Four or five years?

It's actually five years now.

Five years, I felt like.

Yep, five years.

It's crazy how fast it's going.

But yeah, my background was in behavior analysis.

I worked with kids with autism.

I was doing behavioral therapy.

Got my master's degree.

Loved it.

Loved working with the kids.

Helping people.

I just always have felt called to do something

along those lines where I know I'm giving back

and helping people.

So loved what I was doing.

I moved to Indianapolis from where?

From yeah.

I was in, I was still in Indiana,

but it was about a couple hours away.

So I kind of wanted to get away from home a little bit more.

I've always been real close to home.

Yeah, I was out a little bit.

I felt myself just being very comfortable

being with my family and, you know, not really.

Adventure enough.

Yeah.

So I felt like it was a step I needed

to take in order to grow a little bit.

So it was a little scary, but I went to the city,

not knowing anybody.

Just went out there and I worked at

an autism center for about a year.

And I liked it, but the environment

I was in was super negative.

You know, when you're working with kids with disabilities,

you really got to have a positive mentality.

You've got to, you definitely got to be on your A game.

And so just wasn't a great environment

in after about a year or so.

I felt myself becoming negative.

It's not the type of person I am.

I didn't enjoy it anymore.

So I ran into Mr. Cunningham James,

which he was on here a couple of weeks ago, I think.

And, you know, obviously you guys are real close.

So he had been talking to me at the gym several times

and kept putting a bug in my ear.

I was like, yeah, no, I don't know, not for me.

How long was that?

Man, I want to say it was probably shoot at least six months.

Imagine if he would have gave up.

That's true, you know?

No one, I've never met anyone successful

that quit their way to the top.

So that's, you know, so it's like,

imagine if he would have said,

I've been six months, it's been four months,

I'm done trying to imagine that.

All right, so you met James at the gym six months,

he's still going, staying on you.

Finally, yep, he finally, he was like,

why don't you come in?

Cause he heard me start to talk about how unhappy I was

in the position I was at.

So I was like, you know what?

Let me just go check it out.

He's been bugging me for a while now.

So I took a leap of faith, you know?

It was scary for me, but I went into an overview

and I just had this overwhelming feeling of like,

this is where I'm supposed to be at.

So, you know, I, from there on out,

I just kind of went with it and crushed it.

And so we'll get back to that.

But now I know I've seen you basketball

on your social media.

I've seen you shooting, whoop, she can shoot.

She can hit it too.

She can hit them from deep, you know,

free throws, three pointers, she got, she got,

she got some definitely game.

Now did you play in high, she got across over.

Did you play in high school?

I did.

I played in high school and I played in college as well.

I was offered a full ride scholarship for college.

He was a real baller.

OK.

I could shoot a little bit.

It's been a while, but I still got it.

But yeah, that sports has been my thing since I was little.

You know, I remember being, I don't know,

six years old, starting gymnastics

and then getting into sports a little bit more.

I was just always really competitive.

My family, we joke about it.

They say it's a rust thing because my dad was just real big

on all of that.

So it's in our blood.

That's what we talk about.

You know, just being very competitive, very athletic.

We, you know, a lot of people in our business

tend to be some of the most successful people

we call it business athletes.

You know, it's like former athletes, people that are athletic.

Why do you think, or do you think it helped you at all,

you know, having an athletic background coming here?

Absolutely.

I think just that nature, you know, of being competitive.

If I wasn't competitive in our business,

I would just kind of like, you know, just get by.

I feel like, you know, it's that competitive drive

that makes me want to be better and reach the top

and like see what other people are doing

and try to go after that.

You know, especially men, you know,

with being a-

For real, being alone with dad, getting a woman, you know.

A lot of times you are in a male dominant industry

and I think ladies are proving themselves more and more

now these days with a lot of things.

But yeah, just being a woman, I was always that girl

when I was younger playing with all the boys.

You know, the only girl out on the court, 10 other guys.

And I just wanted to be better than them

and beat them in any way I could.

So I just, I feel like that has carried over

into the business and helped me quite a bit.

Still beating the boys.

Still.

Number one.

Still trying to beat the boys.

What did it take to be number one?

Because, you know, one of my favorite leadership authors,

my favorite leadership authors, John Maxwell,

I always talk about how much he's impacted me.

But he, at the last time I was with him in London,

he said, people all the time tell him

that they would love to do what he does.

You know, how many people he helps and inspires

and the books that he writes and speaking and traveling

and all that.

And he said, yeah, but, you know,

what I tell people is, would you want to do what I did?

You want to do what I do,

but do you want to do what I did?

People would like to be number one,

but do you want to do what she did?

So what did it take?

Like, who was that?

Who used to say who sung that song, Nelly?

What did it take to be number one?

What did it take to be number one?

Number one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, I think it's more than people even understand.

You don't realize it until you're actually doing it.

It's one of those things where I always used to look at,

you know, some of the top producers in our company

and be like, gosh, what are they doing?

They got to be doing something crazy.

Like, how are they reaching these numbers?

You know, I always thought it was like some type of mystery

to do what they were doing.

And I started doing it and I was like, oh my gosh,

I'm actually doing this.

But it was the complete sacrifice of my time family.

I lived out of a hotel last year.

I probably was home maybe three weeks out of the whole year.

Lived out of a hotel, rented car.

So I'm paying a car note, my rent.

And then I'm also paying for hotels, a rental car,

you know, the whole food lawn gone.

So money, you know, being able to sacrifice that,

paying somebody to schedule my appointments.

You know, I paid somebody a salary last year

that usually somebody would be making in one year.

I'm paying that out of my pocket to somebody.

Just for an appointment.

What a boss.

Just for appointments.

So, you know, like having that determination

and that, you know, being willing to sacrifice that,

the time was the biggest thing.

You know, I'm alone all the time 24, seven in hotel rooms.

That can get to you mentally.

No doubt.

I think that was one of the biggest challenges

a lot of people can't over.

How did you manage the mental side of that?

You know, the stress level of competing to be number one,

you know, being lonely.

People are spoiled.

We got to tell them about this new virtual world.

Yeah.

No hotels in a virtual world.

Right.

You don't got to hit a hotel to go get these appointments now.

It's been the best thing ever.

Any crazy?

I hit it crazy.

But anyway, how, how when back in the day last year,

back in the day, how did you manage the stress

like that on the road?

Because you were hitting it like a rock star.

That's like that, you know, rock star.

You running around it, you know, on tour.

Yeah, you're torn.

It did.

It felt like that.

People were like, you want to hang out?

I'm like, I'm not there.

I'm not in any end.

I'm in a whole other state.

Where are you at?

But I think managing that number one, keeping myself spiritually

focused because that's always been a big thing for me.

You know, I know that's why I'm at where I'm at right now.

It's just that I've never lost faith.

I've always had a relationship with God

and just making sure that I stayed on top of that first and

foremost.

Feeding myself mentally with just readings and, you know,

just trying to keep a routine.

So I didn't get in my head too much while I was away.

You know, we all I had times where I was just like, oh my gosh,

I just want to go home.

Right out.

Come on, keep it real.

You know, I'm over it, you know, as I swerved it.

Even I catch myself getting negative sometimes.

You know what I mean?

I'm like, I got to check myself mentally when

no one's around.

You know what I'm like, dude, you don't want on the ground

cat talking about being positive.

You negative, didn't it?

Yeah.

I had those kind of things.

Out of 365, you ain't going to be perfect every day.

No, no, no, absolutely.

But what stops you from quitting or giving up when you do,

because what that means is you're going to have those mental

battles, those conversations, something pushed you past those

conversations and back into a positive focus and belief.

What, what were those things?

You think it was the spirit in the, you know, my body spirit?

I think, I think that's a lot of it.

You know, you also got to have a why.

We talk about that a lot in this business.

I'm having a reason that you're doing these things, because if you

don't have a reason, like for me, it's not the money.

You know, the money is a great thing that comes along with all

the hard work.

Right.

But that's not my main motivation.

So typically if that's the motivation, people don't last very

long because it can only do so much for you.

For me, it was my family.

You know, my mom, my mom is like my number one motivation.

So people that know me, they know that we have a really close

relationship and just, you know, wanting to make her proud and

being able to do certain things for her.

I think that's what was always in the back of my head is just like being

a person that people can look up to and just like having success

and, you know, something positive because we've had a lot of

negative things that have happened throughout our lifetime

with our whole family.

So I think, well, people see you and they think, well, she just,

you know, driving nice cars and I mean, you take them

unbelievable vacations.

You know, it's like, you're like the postcard.

You know, the main you take a picture is like, they should hire you

for the postcard, man.

I, looks like fun.

You know, I mean, just amazing places that you go and that's

that whole thing.

Yeah, you like to do what I do, but do you want to do what I did?

But what were the struggles?

You know, what maybe personal life struggles if you want to share

any or early childhood struggles?

You know, people see you and you know, your number one and you're

in shape and you're doing your thing and traveling.

It's like seemed like, oh, she must just had it easy, man.

You know, yeah.

Unfortunately, I've dealt with that stigma for a long time

even when I was younger playing sports.

You know, I was one of the top athletes in our area.

So being that person and you know, I was really good at not letting

things show.

So when I had a lot of stuff going on, you know, I would cry behind closed doors,

but nobody ever knew what was happening like in real life.

I feel like they would just see an athlete and, you know,

everything's cool.

Same thing now, you know, I don't always post certain things about my personal

life.

I like to talk about it though, because I would do want people

to understand that.

I've been through a lot, you know, to reach this point.

And I think that's the thing with a lot of successful people is that we've all

been through some things.

And that's usually what pushes us to be successful and keep doing what we're

doing.

But I mean, starting at a young age, I think my parents got divorced when I was

10, 9 or 10 years old.

That's kind of when everything started.

Some of the rough things, you know, I'm not from enough rough neighborhood

or anything like that.

That a lot of the people have stories about.

I came from a two parent household at first, had a nice house pool, everything was good.

And then my parents got divorced at the same time, the same month I want to say.

This is how I remember it.

But we went through a murder trial.

My sister's boyfriend at the time actually murdered a girl.

And so we, you know, as a 10 year old, you're trying to process all of that.

Like, parents get divorced.

I'm going to have to move to a new house, go to a new school, you know, and at the same

time, like I always loved my sister's boyfriend.

I was 10 years younger.

So, you know, I was like, I had a crush on every single one of her boyfriend.

So, it was hard to process.

That too is like, now he's going to prison, you know, what's actually happening.

And that's where it started, you know, just some of the changes from there on out.

I was, I'm the youngest of four.

So I got a 40 year old sister and then a couple in between, I'm 31.

But at that time, I was the only one that was left at home.

So it was just me and my mom.

And I think that's why our relationship is so close to because it was just me and her

for the longest time.

And so, yeah, just starting then and seeing some of the things that played out.

My dad had drug and alcohol problems pretty bad.

Eventually, you know, when I was 23, that's how he ended up dying was, you know, just the

life that he lived in the lifestyle.

It took him.

Was that before you started AIL?

It was.

I was 23.

I think I started AIL.

26.

Okay.

Yeah.

So, a few years before that.

But yeah, you know, there's just been so many things like drugs and alcohol real bad in my

family.

Not just my dad, my brother, you know, thank God he's in a different place now, but he had

drug issues, tried to commit suicide.

There's just things I remember as a child, like going to school and one of my friends coming

up to me, she was in a H.O.E. program.

It's for people that want to be like a nurse and stuff.

And I remember her coming up to me one day at school and she's just crying.

I'm like, well, she crying, you know, she's like, I'm so sorry to hear about your dad.

And at this point, I didn't even know what had happened, but like my brother had been

my dad with a baseball bat, so bad, almost killed just stuff that like people never even knew

about.

Right.

Like I'm having to deal with on a regular race, it's having to testify against my dad

and core as a child, like things that I still remember now that have shaped to our

aim for sure.

And it's just kind of like me, for me personally, I want to change that cycle for my future

family.

And so just, I think that's what motivates me even more.

So many people go through those types of that trauma and can't come out of it, can't

motivate themselves.

They end up going the opposite direction of because of all of these things and they're

upbringing, they go this way.

What do you think, you know, if there's someone listening in that circumstance, you know,

where did you use to get you going this way with all that pain and all that stuff going

on versus that way?

For me personally, sports with my outlet, you know, I would be in the gym.

24-7, that's where my mind, I would just be able to like not focus on anything else.

It kind of like was a stress reliever for me.

And even to this day, I may not play sports anymore, but I'm in the gym all the time.

You know, I still use that.

You don't get on the corner, don't I, mom?

I mean, it's been a while.

You don't get on the corner, don't I, mom?

You don't get on the corner, don't I, mom?

It's been a while.

No.

I'm not afraid to.

But you can, you can use, okay, I'm so full.

Yeah, I can.

But again, that court.

Yes.

I still got it.

I do have a basketball hoop at my new house, so I'm like, excited to use that.

All right, let's use that.

What new crib?

You got a new house?

I did.

I bought a new house back when COVID happened, so it's fun.

Okay.

But, yeah, if you bought it by yourself, no due, bought it for you, you didn't like that.

You went and got your own stuff.

All this rest.

Okay.

My own house is pretty nice.

You know, I never thought I'd be in this position to be able to get something, you know.

And how long you been here?

It's five years.

Five years.

Yep.

Yeah, that's another thing I like to encourage and inspire, especially women, you know.

Yeah.

I see now, especially in social media, you see so many things and it's just, it's just

appointing.

I get on there, I'm like, gosh, what are we doing?

Right.

You know, so I think for me, I like to be an example.

What do you mean you get on there and you think, what are we doing?

What are you seeing on there?

What are you seeing?

What are we looking at on the ground?

What's going on in that?

I'm seeing it.

Like what?

Like a lot of bad stuff?

Yeah.

I mean, just women portraying themselves, you know, just, I don't know, being, you know,

just not right.

Yeah.

It's not right.

It's not right.

It's not what you think.

All over Instagram, naked and stuff, you don't have to do that.

You know, I feel like what I've learned because, you know, this took a while for me to get to

this point, growing up without a father.

My dad wasn't around a lot because of the drugs and alcohol.

And then when he died at 23, you know, he just not here to help me with certain things.

Right, certainly.

And he's never been around.

So, that can hinder a girl for sure.

So I know there's a lot of women out there that don't have fathers around.

And I know that that can definitely how you portray men and like how you treat yourself

and feel about yourself without that love there.

That's huge.

So for me, I like to be that example for people to show like, hey, listen, you know, my

dad wasn't around either.

But I'm not here while now.

Like, you know, acting crazy, you know, being naked all over the place.

It's working.

Yeah, shaking my booty on Instagram.

I'm not that wop.

You know, they got going on that crazy song.

Ain't that crazy?

That's a whole nother story.

But yeah, you heard by dancing to that stuff.

That's crazy, ain't it?

It's interesting.

But yeah, I mean, I get a lot of feedback from people just about being positive and being

independent and not relying on somebody else.

And so I think that's important for me when I was younger, my coach always used to say,

actually, people are drawn to you.

You know, you have this charisma about you that people are going to follow you.

And so I've always remembered that even from a young age and I've thought about that.

I'm like, I don't want to be that person that's out there doing things and people are following

if they're not good things.

So that's kind of helped keep me humble and grounded to as to like making sure that what I'm

doing is if somebody, you know, was watching and I didn't know they were watching, like,

I want to make sure it's good.

It's good stuff.

It's good stuff.

Yeah.

That's definitely.

It's definitely important for me, especially for women.

I like to be an example to show people you can have it all, but you don't have to do certain

things to get that.

You can actually get it on your own and you can do it in a good way.

And I have to be out here doing stuff that we see.

No doubt.

No doubt.

I mean, I'm drilling that into my, I said my 18 year old of like, you know, as a man,

if you want a good man, yeah.

If I can include myself in there, I try.

I know I'm not looking for somebody that's moving too fast.

And you know what I mean, I'm trying to like, I'm thinking, how would this woman be

as a mom?

How would this woman be as a wife?

And you attract those things based on how you portray yourself.

If you portray yourself as a certain way, and you're going to attract a certain thing.

But, you know, you've transitioned into being a beast, you know, entrepreneur.

You know, you're, you're, you're, you know, you straight commission.

You know, 100% is on you.

Not just independent, legit, independent contractor, independent, it's all on you.

I love this life as a business owner.

I love this life as an entrepreneur being able to control your outcome and dictate,

you know, within five years to be able to do the things that you've been able to do,

you know, new car, I can't even keep up.

Do you still got the Range Rover?

Would you do?

You have the Range Rover?

I still have it, but it's about to, I'm getting a new one pretty soon.

I'm just swapping it out.

I'm just doing some else.

Yeah.

Can we just in Mexico again?

Right?

Just in Mexico just for it recently.

Yeah, yeah.

Mexico, I love traveling.

That's probably like the one of the things that motivates me too.

I love being able to just, hey, if I want to go kill it for a week, then I can go somewhere

for a week and not have to worry about it.

So sweet.

And come back and kill it again.

So, you know, the, the flexibility of what we do is amazing.

It's changed my life.

It's opened up so many opportunities for me just to like live a little bit more and see

actually what's out there because that's something I think I missed when I was younger.

Just being in sports and stuff.

You're dedicated to that.

You don't get to go anywhere, do anything.

So now that I'm free of that, I have this ability to be able to do what I want to and

live how I want to and create the schedule that I want to.

So like you said, people love it.

They want to be that, but you got to be willing to sacrifice and put the work in because

the last five years I haven't, you know, it wasn't until just the last year, well,

not last year, but probably the year before that I really started traveling because I was

so focused on work in three years, three years in the game.

Then you started to loosen up a little bit, let yourself enjoy some of the fruits of your

labor.

But that's something people don't realize is they want the fruits of the labor first

year, first six months.

Let me go travel now.

Let me go instead of investing into your future.

It's really short term, 36 months, three years, four years to be able to do the things

that you're able to do.

It's a small investment unless you don't realize it in that perspective.

What tips would you be giving to people that are entrepreneurs are coming into this business

on what your thought process would be and was it all worth it?

What's it like now?

You know, what did you have to do and what would you suggest for somebody to do to get like

you?

Yeah, you know, I've always been a hard worker.

You know, that's never been an issue for me from the time I was young with sports, but

you have to be willing to just dedicate a certain amount of time, sacrifice.

Like, I tell my friends know all the time, people just know, no, not to even ask me, hey,

you want to go out or whatever, because they know I'm usually focused on my work in trying

to get to a certain point, but that willing to sacrifice even if it's a short amount

of time, like it flies.

I've been in the business five years.

I cannot believe that it's gone so fast.

Fast forward now to where I'm at.

Like I could take a month off and be fine.

Like who can take a month off of work and still pay all their bills and have money in

the bank?

How many hours was it in the beginning?

Like, how much?

I would say I was probably working 70, 70 to 80.

I would say it's a good number a week in the beginning.

First three years.

Yeah, I'm not in take time off.

I was grinded and like literally grinded in every day.

Monday through Sunday, you know, eight a.m. to midnight, sometimes I get home at two

o'clock in the morning, depending on how far I had to drive.

So it was, yeah, it was a lot up front, but I wouldn't take it back for anything.

You know, I mean, to be in the position that I'm in now, you know, bought a house on my

own, got my own car, got money in the bank and travel, I got money, say, you know, like

just it's a whole, it's a whole new world.

And for just five years, people think that's a long time.

It's like five years.

I think about like the people we work with or people I talk to like 30 years they put

in and they're living off of a small check every month just from, you know, 30 years that

they put in.

You know, so it's me I'd rather put up all that time up front in a few short years

and be able to, you know, live comfortable.

Hey, man, if you hear that out there regardless of what your business is, regardless of what

it is that you're in, I think it almost relates to anything.

Anything.

You need to go all in in my experience.

You need to go all in for a period of years straight.

And then you will reap the rewards.

You'll reap the benefits.

But if you don't go all in, this process drags out longer.

You know, if you're 80% in, it ain't a three to five year thing.

It's a 10, 15 year thing.

And people wonder why, you know, what happened?

How come it's taking me so long?

So if you just went all in, all in three years, three years, like you can't even get through

college in three years.

Right.

I mean, I'm talking about you're, you're coming out and making doctor lawyer money right

now within a three year period and living that type of lifestyle.

And you know, these people ain't living that type of lifestyle.

They got to show up every week.

Doctor can't take a week, you know, month off and all that stuff all the time in their first

five years, building a practice and paying back student loans.

The life that you get to live, the rewards that you get to have is worth that upfront.

Absolutely.

Sacrifice as long as you're taking care of yourself.

Notice she said, man, mentally, you know, I was doing this, doing that book spiritually.

I was taking care of myself.

I know you're big into fitness and into gym.

I would just saw you on what are you up for some fitness award or something like that

up there.

I can't keep up.

What is that?

It was, it was.

See you like out there.

You know, the main, I'm like, what's you going now?

It looked like you was on ESPN to magazine or something.

Yeah, it was just a little fitness competition thing that I entered into.

I was trying to get some money for my sister's organization.

So anything I can do to help me and give back, you know, whatever that is.

What was your sister's organization?

She actually recently just started a nonprofit autism center.

My nephew has autism.

That's what got me into doing that before.

He's 16 years old.

So we've dealt with it for a long time.

She, I'm so proud of her.

You know, she's the complete opposite of me when it comes to being comfortable, like talking

in front of people.

I wasn't like that all the time though.

Either I just recently have been able to do better with that.

But you mean you weren't comfortable talking in front of people?

No, like I never would want to do something like this before.

You're right.

And now we're in good.

Now we're out there.

Now we're out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've had to learn.

I've had to learn to become more comfortable.

I'm still timid with a lot of stuff.

But when it comes to business, like I'm not anymore, I know that like my voice needs to be

heard with a lot of things.

I think that's something that God's really showing me.

Like I'm being used as an example for a lot of different things.

I can't.

I can't be quiet anymore.

Sure.

Let it out.

But yeah, I'm so proud of her because she's just stepping outside of her comfort zone.

And I'm excited to see what happens.

How long has she had the nonprofit?

So she started everything in 2018 is when the vision started.

But we still have not opened the center yet because starting a nonprofit, there's a lot

of money, fundraising, stuff that has to go into it.

It brings to the choir.

It's a whole nother level.

So I never would know but he would understand how hard it is.

But here's the thing.

When you get into that world, you respect it so much more.

You never look at a nonprofit and what these people are doing.

The saying ever again, because you know how much goes into it.

Time, money, how hard it is to get people to want to give.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

We're on to.

You know, she started off with a business partner and that fell through.

So she's like, I'm not giving up on my vision.

So something I want to do to help other families because it's helped my nephew so much.

He wouldn't be where he's at right now without the therapy that he received when he was younger.

So I mean, for her to do everything on her own, she is doing amazing.

So we're hoping we just got a little bit more to fundraise to get the doors open.

You know, the center's coming along.

Everything's been donated for the building.

People in our community have been great.

We're from a small town.

So everybody's been really supportive with that.

She got a 501c3 and all that stuff.

She does.

She does.

Yeah.

So I got five on it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I mean, before you leave, make sure I contribute.

We appreciate you.

No, no.

We're super excited.

It's going to help a lot of families.

She's already got a whole, everybody.

It's already booked basically.

People are just waiting for the doors to open.

So we got a lot of families to serve and super excited for her.

So I'm hoping that I have been a little bit of inspiration for her just seeing like

what happens when you step outside that comfort zone because when I got into this business,

I was scared out of my mind.

James, we all work.

James always talks about it.

He's like, you were so scary when you started.

I'm like, man, it was something I've 100% commission never did that before.

Nobody taught me about that.

You know, we're trained to be 9 to 5.

You know, this is what you need to do.

And it was new to me.

So I was scared.

I'm like, I got bills coming out of college, making $25 an hour.

That's pretty good.

You know, I'm doing okay.

To my third month in making $15,000 a month, I'm like, what is this?

You know, it was just a whole another ballgame.

So I really truly believe that.

Hopefully that had an impact showing her stepping outside that comfort zone was going to

do.

So I'm super excited for her.

I know you're just getting started on the lives and the people that you're going to

impact.

You look at how young you are, man.

I know personally how much left I got into tank, you know what I mean?

And you're a lot younger to me.

So I mean, you got so much five years you just getting.

You know what I mean?

Imagine your first five years playing basketball, how good you got after those first five years.

You're at the, you're at the, just imagine how good you're going to be and what you're

going to be doing for people five years from today.

Off the cuff as we, as we start to unwind here, 20 bucks, I'll give you if you could, if

you can tell me what his first name is.

You know what Purms first, you know what Purms first name is?

I guarantee you don't, don't, don't tell her.

I should have done some research before this.

Nah, it's hard you ain't going to find anything.

We've been hiding his identity for a while.

Let's see, can you, can you, can you, okay, so no clue.

So then we're going to a guess.

So this is a guess.

This is a guess that I got a hundred, I got a hundred on it.

I'll give you three guesses.

If you could get it and three guesses, I give you a hundred bucks.

Hey, three guesses who I look like to you.

What's my name?

I'm like, I'm like, I want to call you like, the Dmitry or something.

Okay, that's, that's one.

Okay, oh my goodness.

Is this something weird?

Is this something weird?

Let's give him a mix, let's give her your last name.

Cateron.

Oh, are you, are you some Owen?

Some people, yeah, this is the video needs to be.

the opening of this Giovanni.

You're supposed to be, you're supposed to be,

that's the beginning of it.

Okay, all right, all right.

That's wrong.

Well, it was the guest though.

You got two more names, that's great.

Oh my gosh, you guys have played me on this.

Last name's Caldrone.

Last name is that.

Oh my gosh.

What is my first name?

Jared.

Jared, I'm not Subway.

Come on, I'm not from Subway, come on.

Well, one more.

One more, one more.

Oh, the Marvels.

I can't even get it.

You get it.

It's like we have to casino.

Look at her boxing me out, trying to look at you.

Like, I got to give you something out.

Come on, last one, you got it.

You got it.

I know you got it.

I want to say it's like something different.

Say it.

Never comes to you.

Never comes to your mind.

Saul.

Saul, I love it.

I love it.

You're the best.

You're the best, dog.

Sit.

Saul.

It's Jose.

It is Jose.

Jose, why couldn't I get that?

That's like a normal.

It's easy.

It's easy.

I love it.

Saul.

I need to give you something to laugh about.

Are you Simone?

I love it.

I love it, bro.

That's awesome.

Ashley, thank you so much.

Thank you for coming.

Thank you for coming this all this way.

Thanks for being on the grindcast.

Thanks for the role model that you are for so many people

in this company.

Keep doing what you're doing.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Thanks for joining us on another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

Count money, man.

The grind is big.

Gritches.

I'm trying to tell them I'm a beast, bro.