I know people don't always want to talk politics, but this mentality leads to a certain type of politics.

Yeah, I mean, nobody's ever going to elect me if I say everything is on you.

You know, like, no, you are the master of your fate.

Like, we're not doing anything for you.

Get up at 5 a.m. and do things for yourself.

You know, like, that's not going to be a popular message for sure.

And sadly, I would almost argue we have both parties kind of pandering to people and saying, your life sucks because of them.

How do you frame that to maintain your focus and positivity day by day?

Yeah

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they have these habits that, that do it.

And it also kinda changed my mind around, my mindset, uh, when I did manage a bank.

I had a client there, dude, who made $86,000 a month after taxes.

He was in his 50s, and he'd been doing this as a surgeon for like 12 or 13 years.

You know what his net worth was? It was negative $300,000.

Or sorry, a month, yeah.

Could you just give a brief intro of what got you to where you're at now with such this aligned, honed-in mission?

Yeah, sure, man.

So I married my, my awesome, beautiful wife.

We're coming up on 12 years of marriage, uh, at age 30, and then kinda settled into what I would just call some normalcy my first few years of marriage.

Um, I, I was getting promoted.

I was a bank manager at the time, um, and just getting promoted few times there.

Um, you know, we had a child and I, I, I woke up one day, I remember, at 34, and dude, [laughs] I was 20 pounds heavier, and I hadn't lifted weights, and I just lived a very normal life.

... and I'm very much to focus on what's in my locus, uh, of control.