What are some of the core principles? And then we can talk about how we figure out how it applies to us and maybe start taking some actions to move from where we are to where we want to be.

Yeah, I could go.

We could go a few different directions there.

Let's start with one to allow me to try to bust the people watching or listening, which is.

In that whole book, which is 15 or 16 chapters, there's one question in there that is the seminal moment in the book where I'm challenging the reader and I say, do you work for money or does your money work for you? The whole thesis comes down to that question.

Do you work for money or does money work for you? The idea, of course, is to do what your clients do with their clients, which is, hey, let's work for some money.

Let's put the money to work.

So now what do I do? What do I do to begin to both simultaneously fix some of these things and behave in a way where I'm actually building the business I really want instead of being stuck with my limited business because of my limited beliefs?

So how did you take that into your writing and into what you did with the books in order to start building up your reputation?

Well, I don't know that I looked as like I built autism into the structure or the strategy, because first of all, I didn't know I had it.

I'm an old guy, right? Autism wasn't even a diagnosis until 1985.

But when I was a kid, I just had a bunch of teachers and counselors and people who just Randy's just weird.

Randy's different.

Maybe he's developmentally disabled.

Maybe he's a mongoloid.

So they get on these apps and whatnot to make sense of me.

You got to tell the listeners why we got to have the sneak peek.

Okay, because that movie programs you on level after level after level after level that rich people are evil.

And, you know, we have rich people stealing babies to try and get in the lifeboat, deceiving to get in the lifeboats, cutting in front of the women and the children.

You know, we...

We see Rose and she's in the first class cabin, dining room with all the boring rich people in there, sifting brandy and smoking cigars.

Poor Rose is like, I would just kill myself if I can't get away from these rich people.

And then Leonardo comes along and says, hey, mamacita.

And that is, what is the most rascal thing that you have ever done in business?

movement

taking place in the world.

I was on a Zoom meeting with a bunch of entrepreneurs last night, and that was my topic to them, is I believe like the United States, UK, Australia, most of the what we would call democracies, free enterprise countries, they're going through this bi-curious stage or phase of socialism right now.

where they're like, I want to check out this socialism.

And the younger people you mentioned, that's the mission of my work right now.

This is the focus, right? Because what I'm trying to do with this book, with my blogs, my YouTube channel, my seminars, everything I do, I believe we got to make the world more prosperous.

Now, how do we do that? We got to make individual people more prosperous.

But what are some of the basic tips of how one can win the money game?

Where does that programming come from?

It starts at childhood.

For most people, you've been completely, your life, your future, your destiny has been completely programmed by the time you're eight years old.

because you have core foundational beliefs in six key areas, God and religion, health and wellness, marriage and relationship, money and success, um, How many I got so far? That was four.

That's four.

We got four.

Okay.

how do you think this way how do you think this one

right?

Colonial was already here.

So I wrote a book about all these crazy things that people thought I was insane.

Uber and Lyft, the rideshare concept, and this crazy idea about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin and that I predicted the country was going to leave the EU and I made all of these predictions so I remember doing the book tour and TV and radio and they were like they thought I was lost my mind sure now that was the book came out in um I think 2013.

I wrote it at the end of 2012 it came out in 2013. and I look back on it now and I'm like Well, I'm all out of contrary and hot takes because they all came true.

Whereas at the time, I was talking about we're going to be able to take a vacation on the moon.

People were like, you really think we're going to be able to vacation on the moon in our lifetime? And I was always like, that's the wrong question.

How did you define success when you... first started your change of attitude, after the law issues and your youth, after you started building a career or before you started building the career, how did you define success then and how do you define it now?

H- how did it change? Like what, what did you do?

So really that period would be, uh, 15 to 50.

Um, and it was after getting, uh, probation and a second chance saying, okay, I've got a second chance.

I have rethought my life sitting in the jail cell all those months staring at the ticking sound of the clock out in the hallway, and I'm gonna remake my life, and I'm gonna play by the rules.

I'm going to learn how to be a great employee and do a great job and get promoted and get advancements, and that's what happened.

So all I knew I had been a dishwasher in a pancake house, so I knew restaurant work.

That's all I knew, and I got promoted and became a waiter and then a host and then a manager trainee and then I was an assistant manager and then a manager, uh, right? So I was doing all the right things and I was a loyal, devoted company man and, uh, then I got the bug again to be an entrepreneur.

So, um, what is, what's the, the secret sauce that, uh, you help with total transformation? Like, what is it about you, what is it that you do that's different that you can really mold somebody's mind? I mean, really basically that's what you're doing.

How did you turn your life to where you went from 15 in the clink to where you are now? What was the big one thing that made that change in your life? Or was it a bunch of little things?

It's a mix in the middle there, right? I think there's always guidelines, guideposts along the way, but in keeping with your theme, at 30 years old, I had my business seized by the IRS.

I had a delivery pizza joint and a partner and I had started that.

We didn't really have enough to start it, but we went ahead anyway and figured we'd bootstrap it.

And along the way, we didn't take out the withholding taxes and send them in for the employees.

And so I've, you know, wrote a letter to the IRS.

Hey, I'm this Randy, I got this pizza place and we didn't pay the taxes.

I didn't want to put out something I wasn't going to be proud of.

Mm-hmm.

I wasn't like the other kids in school.

I wasn't like the other people in my family.

I just knew something was different.

And that kinda came to a head when I was 15, so I was a teenage alcoholic, teenage drug addict, and, uh, ended up in jail for armed robbery at 15.

And one day there's, like, uh, keys jangling and the cell door opens, and this guy comes in, and he is the father of a girl that I had gone to school with.

She dated my best friend.

Right

But at the same time, it seems like it's necessary to have those strategic injections of self-reflective time.

That is the vacuum dynamic of prosperity.

If you have something clenched in your fist today, Nobody can put anything in it, right? The universe, God, nature, whatever metaphor you want to use, whatever label you want to use.

If you're hanging on to something, could be an addiction, could be a dysfunctional relationship, could be materialistic stuff, could be whatever.

If you're hanging on to that, nobody can put in...

You've got to release it.

You've got to create a vacuum, right? So for some people, you have to...

Why is that?

Mm-hmm.

So I, I...

Meanwhile, I'm being an entrepreneur.

I write some books.

I become a professional speaker.

I'm doing events, and then I get invited to do a program with Nicolas Hayek, who's the founder of Swatch.

We did a Central European business congress together, so I got the chance to get to know him and work with him.

Mm-hmm.

That's impressive.

Yeah, I was going crazy.

So what kind of prompted it was there was a guy named Bill Gove.

Bill Gove was the first president of the National Speakers Association.

And he just adopted me when I joined that organization.

For whatever reason, he saw something in this arrogant, obnoxious kid who, well, you know, joined the profession.

So you had joined this group before you retired? Yes.

Is there a common theme among those events that you see a commonality or a thread that has shaped you to be who you are? For

How do I stay in that space and be true to me in those moments?

I think the real issue in this scenario you're describing is this concept that I call victimhood.

We fall into victimhood.

And what I discovered at 30, after all of those calamities and tragedies and trauma and drama, was you can be a victim or you can be a victor, but you can't be both.

You have to pick one.

And what it took me 30 years to understand is that I had chosen to be a victor because of the emotional payoff that gave me.

Because when you're a victor, you're always right, you're never wrong, and nothing is ever your fault.

And so how do we move forward in that? And as you're explaining that, explain that how it goes into your book and where people can find you, your information, your book.

oh, what a jerk Jimmy is.

He's that, you know, those other nine people, they love me.

Those are my true friends.

No, those are the nine people who pandered to you, who told you what you wanted to hear.

Those are not your true friends.

Your true friend was Jimmy, who said, hey, now keep in mind, we also have to deal with the reality of the world today.

It's filled with trolls and haters and people with low self-esteem, and they need to tear you down to make themselves feel okay.

players, right? Without question.

How do we get

past that? It's limiting beliefs, right? What's the difference between a $35,000 speech and a $5,000 speech? The difference is $30,000.

The speech is the same.

It's 45 minutes.

It's got this catchy theme.

It's for the audience, right? But what's the difference? The person who charges $35,000 honed their craft for sure, they think of the audience first, they deliver tangible outcomes, right? They tell the story, they tell the speech that only they could do, right? What does the $5,000 speaker tell? They say, Well, let me tell you the story about...

I was walking on the beach and I saw some man in front of me and he was tossing something into the ocean.

Anywhere else you want us to find and follow you?

Or tell me about that, that part of your journey.

Yeah, so it wasn't 18.

I was let out when I was 16 because I had a defense attorney, public defender who believed in me.

I had a judge who said, you know what? Let's give this kid another shot.

Maybe he can make it, right? So I got probation.

And that was the thing.

If I stayed clean on probation, then, of course, your record's expunged.

Yes.

Now what?

I'm mortified.

And I think because I'm mortified, that's what saved the meeting.

Because people didn't say, well, what a jerk he just does.

I mean, I was so mortified.

I immediately like, how can I help? Milton, can we get a washcloth? Can we, you know, because it's on the front.

It's not like you're going to start wiping down her dress with, you know, fondling her breasts.

of

How important is it to attach money to a reason, a meaning, or for the sake of something?

I look at it kind of similar and a little differently.

I think more in terms of prosperity, which money is a part of, right? So I think there's four quadrants of prosperity.

Resources, which is where money and material things come in.

Wellness, we all know.

If you don't have your health, you would give away all your money to get it back.

Harmony is the third one.

It's

okay

if you you know a couple of great books on scaling are 10x is better than 2x and who not how they're both by um Dan Sullivan, the strategic coach guy, Dr. Ben Hardy.

Ben just wrote a new book this last year about scaling called the scaling complex, the scaling something, Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

And you realize I got to set a higher floor.

If I want to go from making a million dollars to making $10 million, I can't spend my time the same way I do in the million dollars.

What are the things I'm doing that I need to farm out to someone else? So I really adopted that mindset in a big way.

I unleashed AI in my business, creating agents to do functions that I was doing and to challenge my thinking.

And

It's hard to see, right? Even e- especially if it's your own, how, how do we see it?

The premise of the book is that there are six main areas in your life where you develop beliefs that are vital to a ha- healthy, happy, prosperous life.

And the premise is you get programmed, your beliefs, you inherit them by the time you're eight years old.

So you're not doing this by conscious reflection, critical thinking.

Your mom and dad argue all the time, one cheats on the other, one is abusive on the other.

Your core foundational belief about marriage and relationships is set before you're eight years old.

You don't know you set it.

Mm-hmm.

Randy, are people aware of this? And if they become aware of this, how do they tackle it? Well, first you got to look at, okay, what are the core beliefs I have?

Like in those main areas that I mentioned.

And so you discover what are the core beliefs? And like, if we talk about money and success, the core beliefs most people would have, and most people do have are money is bad.

Rich people are evil.

It's spiritual or noble to be poor.

And to be successful in business, you've gotta be a bad parent.

To run a successful company, you have to exploit the employees and plunder the environment.

Now, how should someone evaluate risk in today's world?