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Wake up. Your competition is asleep. It's you against the world. And if you want to win, we need to get a few things straight. Your business is a mental war. Your success is a mental war. And making money is a game. And the game of money starts in your mind. This podcast exists to help you weaponize your brain through advanced marketing mindset and money concepts. To have what others don't, you need to know what others won't. Your future fortune awaits. Welcome to the War Plan Podcast. Hey, my friend. Welcome back to the War Plan Podcast. It's been a minute. You might hear some background noise because I'm doing this while I'm driving, but I'm doing it super safe, so don't worry about that. Do you want to make more money? Do you want to live a life that maybe felt impossible to you in the past, but maybe part of you knows it's possible? But maybe not for you, but you're not sure. I'm joined by my three sons. Say, what's up, boys? What's up? So, funny story. Tomorrow I'm going to Japan, which is random. So I live in Michigan. Our studio is in Dallas. I go back and forth. I'm all over the place. In the last three weeks, I was in Las Vegas at an event, then I went back to Michigan, then I went to Florida and I spoke at an event. And then I went back to Michigan and then back to Dallas to speak an event at our studio. And now I'm back in Michigan, but I go to Japan tomorrow. It's not always this weird, but I want to tell you this because you, you know, we have five kids, and I always joke that, especially men, we use the excuse, you know, everything I do is for this family. And it's not really true. It's more of an excuse when you're stressed or sometimes people use their business to hide and escape. Hopefully that's not you, but I did that years ago a lot. But the purpose of our business is to serve our family, right? And so the reason I have my boys here is Sawyer, my youngest son. He's actually 15 years old. We're going to Japan tomorrow because one of our family systems is a rite of passage trip. And this has everything to do with your future finance, believe it or not. You know, when my wife was pregnant with our oldest, Maverick, I started dreaming about what type of dad I'm going to be. And I was stressing and had all these thoughts running through my head. And one of the things we did when Maverick was really little is I decided when my kids turn 13, they get to go on a rite of passage trip with dad. Like, that sounded so epic. But back then, when I invented this idea, I'm like, how am I going to pay for that? How can we afford to do that? I'll figure it out, right? And then When Maverick turned 13, we took a trip to Alaska. And we do some really cool things on this trip. Like, the grandfathers go with us. It's just the guys. We speak life into our son. It's like kind of this memorable core memory is the idea just to Mark, like, I'm becoming a man. And Maverick, like, wrote a letter to his future wife in the woods of Alaska and all this stuff. And then Tucker, our second oldest son, went to Alaska as well. They both get to pick where they want to go. They chose Alaska. It was really fun. And then Sawyer has chosen Japan. Now Sawyer's not 13, he's 15. He kind of got the short end of the stick because when he was 13, like, we just couldn't schedule it. And then we just kept putting it off. Putting it off. First he wanted to go to maybe Iceland or Australia. And we finally settled on Japan. So the reason I'm able to do this is because of leverage, because of flexibility, and because of the type of business that I run. And I'll give God all the glory for all of it. I just want you to think, if you have a local business, some of the limiters on it are location dependence. If you have a good team and your business is bigger, you can definitely get away for a while, and that's great. But if your company's smaller, there's not a lot of leverage in terms of your geographic location, at least for extended periods of time. The second problem is, with a local business, the challenge is profit margin. And there's probably certain times of the year when you make really good profit, but you're also losing money certain times of the year when you're not as busy, depending on what type of seasonality you deal with. And when you average it out, the average local business owner is keeping 10 to 20% of what they make. So one of the reasons I love making money running accountability groups and coaching and doing mentorship is because of the leverage. I've had a teacher's heart forever. I love to teach. I love to help people get breakthroughs. Maybe you do too, I don't know. But if nothing else, think about the leverage that it provides, because you can do cool stuff like this. I'm curious to get my boys Thoughts on this right of passage trip thing and the fact that I work on the Internet. I do travel a lot, but a lot of times we take our family with us when we travel or sometimes when I go speak, I'll take, like, one kid at a time. And we get to spend time together, and it's super cool. So this is not prescripted at all. We are just driving, getting ready for Japan tomorrow. Gonna go to the grocery store. But I'll start with you, Maverick. Tell me your thoughts on our weird lifestyle. I don't know, traveling, business, it's normal to you, but you know that it's not typical in your rite of passage trip. Any thoughts about any of that stuff? Go ahead.
