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If you're new to the show, basically we do three different types of episode formats. We do co hosted with my producer Eric More, just kind of like fun, messing around, telling stories, talking about money, news, things happening in pop culture and stuff like that, around money, how, how much people are making things like that. These are the solo shows where it's just me, you and the mic. It's just kind of me talking about some of the things that I've learned over the last few years of creating as much content as I have, but also consuming all the content that I have in order to be able to create what, what I've. What I've created. And then we have an interview that goes out as well, which is with a, with an entrepreneur, successful entrepreneur. So whatever you're looking for, you can find it here on the show. And this episode is just me, you and the mic. It's a solo show and we're talking a little bit today about how to get what you want out of life. I remember when I first was trying to figure out what I was doing with my life. Probably was a little bit too late to the game, if I'm being honest. I thought I was going to be in ministry basically my whole life. I committed to it when I was 12 and as we all know, you can't go back on a commitment that you made when you were 12. So that was what I was pursuing with my adult life. I went to Bible college. I graduated with a degree in Bible and Church ministries, double major. And my junior year I started working for solar company, started doing door to door sales. And because up to that point all I'd done was sort of like my own stuff, I was mostly landscaping senior year of high school, like summer before senior year, all senior year. And then a couple first couple years of college was doing landscaping stuff and it kept getting in the way of studies and you know, college stuff. And I didn't, I was getting so bored and so sick of doing the actual manual labor on all those jobs. And so I was sort of actively looking for some additional way to make income. And then my buddy started working at this door to door solar company and I was like, man, that sounds kind of interesting. And I remember it hitting me like a ton of bricks because the summer before that this friend of mine had worked two full time jobs so he could never hang out because he was always working because he was working to save up money for college. And so he's working two full time, basically minimum wage type jobs. So he was working literally 80 hours of scheduled work per week. And when we were sitting down one time he was looking at this door to door paycheck and he told me, he was like, I worked 20 hours last week and I made more in those 20 hours in last week, last week than I did working 80 hours a week this past summer in both of my full time jobs. And so that was like, ooh, interesting. So I, he set me up with a job interview and at the time, luckily they were basically just on a huge hiring spree. They were, you know, hiring sales reps. So basically anybody that they could hire, they were hiring to a certain extent. They just put you on performance plan if you didn't perform and then got you out and if you didn't and then kept the ones who did and kept burning and turning and getting reps and they were doing that whole hustle. So I was working that job my junior year and frankly loved it. I, I was, I was pretty good at it and got pretty, pretty quickly, got promoted three times. They start you off, you know, part time type of a rep and then you get promoted and you get a little bit of a raise and you get a bump in hours and then you get promoted again. Then you get, you get bumped up to full time and you get benefits and PTO and this stuff and then got promoted again to team leader to where I was then recruiting and training my own team of reps under, underneath me inside of the company. And by the fall, I believe of my senior Year, I want to say I was a team leader in this company and, and was making, I don't know, 1500 bucks a week or something like that doing this job. I was working 20, 25 hours a week. So it was a perfect, you know, gig to have in college. But what was interesting is that when I was about to leave college, I realized that I was already making like more than double of what anybody was going to pay me in the ministry position that I was supposed to be taking. But. So the money was a factor, sure, but it was also I didn't enjoy the work. So while I was doing this job, I was also on every weekend, I didn't work this job. I would travel. I would travel down to a church in Newport beach and I was interning at this church on the weekends. And I found myself when I was interning at the church basically being like, I don't want to do this. Like, this is the thing that I'm supposed to be doing for the rest of my life. And I am looking forward to getting back to school on Monday so that I can engage with the job that I'm supposed to be quitting in a few months after I graduate. And there's the first time in my life, especially my adult life, where I started to ask some questions like, is this the path that I'm supposed to be going down? And inside of the world that I grew up in, these are questions that you're not really allowed to say out loud. You know, like you might have some, some, some doubts or some thoughts or some questions, but you're supposed kind of figure it out and bury it deep down and never talk about it. So the first couple of times I tried to talk about it with friends of mine, they kind of shut it down immediately and they were like, well, this is, you know, this is just the devil trying to get you off of the path and prevent you from going to ministry. You have to go into ministry, you know, and which basically just made me not want to talk to anybody about it. So fast forward a little bit. I graduate from college and we do all these inter job interviews with a bunch of different pastors. And there was one pastor up in Fresno who basically told me for the first time ever, hey, we don't care if you join us in a full time ministry capacity or if you join us in a part time ministry capacity, or if you just move up here and you go to the church. We just want good people like you to be members of our church. So I basically took them up on the part time position. So that when everybody asked me when I was graduating where I was going to serve, I could tell them I'm going to go serve this church. Because it was technically true I was going to go serve the church. It's just that I was not in a full time position there and I kept working this sales gig on the side. But here's what happened that was interesting. I was doing door to door. This episode of the show is brought to you by Mars Men. So look guys, I don't know if everybody listening knows this, but a couple years ago I was diagnosed with cancer. And around that time I also noticed that my testosterone levels were dropping like crazy. And I know that some of it was due to the fact that my body was sort of in disarray. But then I also learned through this experience that most men start losing testosterone levels around the age of 30, 30 and then it starts just getting worse and worse after that. About 1% every year after that. 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And so what happened was I took an internal transfer at that company and started working for a different department inside of that company which was basically their lead gen side. And so I but I got put on a salary and with that salary I was able to qualify for a home loan and buy our first house when when my wife and I had just recently gotten married and moved up there. So I was 21, bought this house and I this is the only time in my life where I was working like a true 9 to 5. And so what ended up happening was I didn't end up doing that part time gig at the ministry on the on the weekends because when I took that internal transfer and had to work like an actual schedule, they made me work Sundays because I was the lowest on the totem pole just having started. So for those four weeks or whatever that I had that I couldn't work Sundays. And by the time I was done I was like, oh yeah, I'm basically like I'm good. I actually don't feel Like I need to be in ministry and incapacity. But the reason I tell that story is to say that while I was at this job I basically hated every second of it. Truly the only reason that I did it was so that I could qualify for the home loan. And then, and then secondarily I saw potentially that there was a path to becoming a full time rep for the company which was basically like a promotion from that job that I had. But I, I hated the fact that I knew that I was better than everybody else that was starting there because this is like the bottom beginner tier job. But it's easier than what I just came from which was basically the same job just on doors. And I was leading a team of 20, 25 people and we were like the largest team in one of the largest producing companies in the country at that point. And it just felt like this is like I've been doing this for the past couple of years. I'm way better than all these other people and you're making me start from the bottom again, which is some corporate bullshit that I never got on board with. So during that four weeks I basically learned, I got a crash course in what it a part of an American corporate structure. And it basically pissed me off from day one. This was the first, the first thing was they like they forced me to start at the bottom even though I was already selling deal. Like I already knew everything about all the stuff that they were selling. It was literally the same company. It was just because I transferred departments they weren't going to allow me to basically start with the experience that I already had. And then they probably looked at my age and discounted me because of my age and things like that. But which I think is again stupid for corporations to do that. Like look at the production like check out what I was doing. And then anyway, anyway, that's neither here nor there, but anyway, so I get into this, this role. First time I've ever, first time I've ever, I'm ever in a 9 to 5 and people are telling me what to do. Imagine that. And there was this one time I basically when, when we were doing this lead gen for this solar company, they had, they had lead gen reps inside of Home Depots. So I was inside of a Home Depot standing there, you know, eight hours a day just trying to get customers that were walking by and convince them to set up an appointment to allow one of our reps to go to their house and sell them solar panels. So I one time I was just like hey, my feet hurt because I've been standing all day and there was no chairs around. So I go grab a Home Depot bucket, I flip it upside down, I walk myself out to the garden area outdoors. I find one of those patio chairs, the patio furniture with the little pads on them, grab one of those pads, walk back over, set it on my Home Depot bucket, sit down. I'm like, cool. I fashioned myself a chair here. So then that night, I'm at the dog park with my wife and my dog, and I get a call from my manager. And he goes immediately, like, no questions asked? No, no. You know, hey, how was your day? Did anything happen? No. Beginning of the conversation, you know, cordial. How do you do? Just like directly into berating me and. And raising his voice at me. I don't know if I'd call it screaming, but definitely, you know, he was. He was very, he passionate. So it turns out he had gotten a phone call from the district manager of, like, 24 Home Depots who was responsible for putting vendors in the Home Depots, which we were one of their vendors, and the relationship, obviously for our company and that person was very valuable because they generated a ton of business by being in those 24 Home Depot stores. So apparently this manage. This district manager had called my manager and basically reamed him out for allowing one of his reps to be sitting down while they were in the store. So quite literally, what happened was one of the Home Depot employees saw me sitting down on a bucket and a cushion, took a picture, took an actual picture of me because my manager sent me the picture, took a picture of me, sent it up the chain to her manager, who sent it to their manager, who sent it to their manager. That got all the way up to the district manager who's in charge of all these vendors. Then she called my manager, and then my manager called me. So it was just a bunch of people, you know, yelling at each other. And I was like. All of this, like, who. Who decided it was worth even bothering the person who's running 24. Who's. Who's responsible for 24 Home Depots? Like, who thought that that was even worth bringing to their attention? Apparently it was worth it. And apparently you weren't allowed to do that. However, nobody ever told me that. Nobody ever told me that I was not allowed to sit down. So my manager calls me, like, screaming at me over the phone. I am not somebody who is okay with being treated like that. So I cut him off and basically I didn't yell back at him. Because I'm not much of a yeller myself. But I, I basically just said exactly what I just told you guys, which is like, look, if you didn't want me to sit down, you should have told me not to sit down. Like, this is not you. You need to do a better job at training me. Because obviously I didn't think there was anything wrong with it, or I would not have fashioned my own seat and boldly sat there for the majority of the day during all the down. Cause I would have known that people were looking at me and they would have told on me. Like, I wouldn't have done. I wouldn't have even attempted this had I known this is something I wasn't allowed to do. So you're not allowed to call me and yell at me for something you never told me was even something that was allowed to be done. Plus, who cares? Who cares? I. If I am producing, which I was, I was the top guy at that of our department within my first, like, three weeks of being there when it came to what they called CWs or closed wins, where somebody actually closed an appointment that I set. So other people were outperforming me for appointments set, but I was better at qualifying the appointments and give them to good reps and actually turning it into business, which is much more valuable for an organization like that. So my first month, I was already in that type of a position. I was just like, why are we. Who cares? You're. You're. You're babysitting me like I'm a child. You didn't even tell me that there was something that I shouldn't be doing. And then I did something because it just made it more comfortable to stand there. And then now you're going to yell at me even though I'm out producing the majority of the. Like, your concern should be all the people who I'm out producing when I've only been here for three weeks. Like, you should not be concerned about who's sitting down or who's standing up inside of a. One of the stores that you like it. It blew my mind and I hated everything about the experience. And it, it, it forced me down this, this rabbit hole into thinking about change. And so, so this is kind of the point of this whole story. It forced me just to, to start thinking more about change and what that, what that looks like. Because life does not owe you your dreams just because you are born on this planet or born in this country. My day kicks off with a refreshing Celsius energy drink, then straight to the gym pre K pickup back home to meal prep. Time for my fire station shift. One more Celsius. Gotta keep the lights on when the three alarm hits. I'm ready. Celsius Live Fit. Go grab a cold refreshing Celsius at your local retailer or locate now@celsius.com this episode is brought to you by Indeed. Stop waiting around for the perfect candidate. Instead, use Indeed sponsored Jobs to find the right people with the right skills fast. It's a simple way to make sure your listing is the first candidate. C According to Indeed data, Sponsored Jobs have four times more applicants than non sponsored jobs. So go build your dream team today with Indeed. Get a $75 sponsored job credit@ Indeed.com podcast. Past terms and conditions apply. Tree Just because you had a good family or you got a good upbringing or you went to college, just because you checked the boxes you think you should check does not mean that life just gets to hand you your dreams on a silver platter. That's not how it works. So if you want to change something about your current situation because you are not living in your dream situation, then like, like by definition, if you are not okay with where you are now, something has to change in order for you to be okay with whatever's going to happen, right? So there's a few areas that I started looking at to say that like okay, well what, what needs to change? Because it's not always the same thing. So the, the first thing that I looked at was is it a change of environment? So if I am unhappy doing the thing that I'm doing with the majority of my waking hours, then the first thing that I'm looked to change is my environment. And for me that's basically what it ended up being. Was, was, was my environment was like I, I, I can, that's something that I can change basically immed daily. But some people look at this one and go I don't hate my job, I just kind of dislike it or it just annoys me sometimes or like I'm not a huge fan of my job. But like I, you know, I, I like, I like what I do, I like the work that I do. Just don't necessarily like the structure that I'm in or whatever. So where do you work? Where do you live? What are you doing with, with your life currently? Where you know, what's your typical milieu? What's your environment look like? Can your environment be changed? Can you craft an environment that allows you to be able to enjoy the way that you're Currently living life. So environment's the thing to look at. The second thing that you may want to adjust or change is your goals. If you are in a position that you don't want to be in, then, but you have goals that are bigger than being in that thing and you're not willing to change your environment to get after your goals, then you better change your goals because you're not just going to reach your goals unless you do something to change the environment that, the habits, the routines, the, the places you hang out at, the place you work. If, if you're, if you're constantly doing something with all of your time that is not something that fills you up or makes you happy or gives you fulfillment or puts more money in your bank account or has some sort of tangible end result to it, then you need to, then you need to first try to change your environment. If you don't want to do that, then you're going to have to change your goals. You're going to have to basically be like, okay, maybe I'm not going to have a private jet. Maybe I'm not going to fly first class. Maybe I'm cool with economy, or maybe I'm cool with only taking one vacation every two years instead of three vacations every year. You're going to have to adjust your goals if you're not willing to adjust your environment, the things that you're actually doing, doing. And then lastly, if you don't adjust your environment and you don't adjust your goals, then the last thing to adjust is your expectations of what you're going to get out of life. You cannot expect to live a long, happy, healthy life when you spend the majority of your waking hours doing something that you hate doing. You can't expect that to happen. It just is impossible. So either change your environment you have, or, or change your goals, Change your expectations of what life is going to give you, or lastly, change your attitude. Attitude. Change your attitude about it. You basically have to. If that's. If you're not willing to change your environment, you're not one to change your expectations of what life has to give you. You're not willing to change your goals, then you just got to change your attitude and just go like, okay, well, I just am going to accept that this is my lot in life and I can be happy doing this thing. And by the way, that might be a decent option. I'm not saying that these are terrible options. The only one that you should focus on is changing your environment and changing where you work and Starting that business and taking this massive risk. I'm not necessarily saying that, but what I am saying is that if you don't change the way that you look at it, you don't change your perception of the situation, you don't change your attitude, the way that you are engaging with your work on a daily basis, then again, you're going to live the version of life that you are expecting to live is not anywhere close to the version of life that you're actually going to live and not in a good way. So you got like something, ha. The whole point of this is say that something has to change. So when I was in that, in that job, to me it was, it was very simple to look at it and just go, I am not happy doing this thing. It doesn't bring me the money that I want. It doesn't bring me the fulfillment that I want. It doesn't bring me the freedom that I want. It doesn't. You know, I have to listen to these stupid rules that people are making up on the spot seemingly, and then yelling at me for. Even though I'm producing and doing my job correctly. I was just like, I don't want to be a part of the corporate structure stuff where like some magical wizard sits in front of an office three stories above me and gets to make decisions about my future and my career. Just like I don't want to do any of that. Of that. So literally two days after we closed escrow on that house, that was the entire reason I got that job. Two days after I called and quit on the spot. And I went directly back into 100% commission, door to door sales and didn't look back from there. But that one piece is the scary piece that a lot of people are not willing to do. They're not willing to change anything, but they still expect all these crazy things from life. They still have these massive goals or they at least talk about having these massive goals. Like they're talking about how they're going to have this type of house or drive this type of car, take these types of vacations and, and then they, they talk about what they expect life is going to give them because they got their bachelor's degree or they talk about their, their, you know, big dreams and, and it's basically just all talk because they're never willing to take the action to get themselves outside of the environment and put themselves into a situation where this is what is actually possible for life to give you. So something has to change. If you're upset with where you currently are, something has to change. You're either your attitude about where you currently are, and that's, you know, that's probably the most difficult thing to do, but also the most simple thing to do is to change your attitude. Because if you can, if you can be content and grateful in any situation, then that is a superpower that, that, that will, that will allow you to live a probably a pretty happy and fulfilled life, even if you don't reach all the big, you know, dreams and goals that you had. But if you want to also achieve the big goals and dreams that you have, then maybe don't start with just changing your attitude. You might need to change your environment. You might need to change the work that you're actually doing, the risks that you' actually taking. Put yourself into a position to get somewhere, to acquire a skill set that you don't currently have. If, if something about your current situation is not delivering you the result that you want, whether it's money, happiness, success, fame, fulfillment, family, whatever it is, if something about your situation is not delivering on, on any of those things, then something about what you're currently doing has to change. It's just the bottom line. So be willing to change something or, or just accept that life is going to be. That life is going to look much different than you wanted it to look like. And if you can accept that and again be grateful and content for it, then maybe that's a good case scenario for you. I know that that was something that I was never going to be able to be okay with. I wanted more out of life. I wanted to be able to travel. I wanted freedom. I wanted flexibility. I didn't want some boss breathing down my neck. I didn't want any of that stuff. And I, as soon as I had clarity about that, it wasn't even a decision anymore. It was just like I called my manager and said I quit and it was done. And that was the only nine to five I've ever had in my life. That was like 12 or 13 years ago now, and I only had it for five weeks just so I could close on that house, which we made some good money on. So it ended up being a pretty good decision at the end of the day. But the whole point is to say that, look, something's gotta change. If your life is not lining up with what you expected life to give you, then you gotta change something. And I'd start with one of these areas that we talked about today. So that's it for this episode of the show. Thanks. So so much for tuning in. We'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace.