Mostly Middle Tennessee Business Podcast

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low pro. That's what you have at

your studio, don't you?

You probably have this one or so
because it's adjustable. Those

are adjustable, but not as easy
as this one. All right,

here we go. This is the mostly
Middle Tennessee business

podcast, a podcast about Middle
Tennessee business owners and

professionals, mostly, mostly

so man, I'm going to say we've
got a real treat for you today,

as someone else might say, How
do you like how do you like

Nashville here so far, Mr.
Bradley, going back and forth

from Vegas to Nashville. I love
Nashville, and thanks for being

on again,

and my pleasure.

So

we just came from Nashville or
Vegas a couple weeks ago for a

trade show, and you put up a
video yesterday talking about

like you're driving through this
nice, lush, you know, probably

rain soaked road with the trees
and stuff like that. And he

said, there's just something
about this place. This is what I

believe you said, That's right.
What does that mean?

Well, I mean, it's just
Tennessee. Brother, yeah, it's

cool out here. Yeah, you don't
see it in Nevada, that's for

damn sure.

What you do see in Nevada, what
I always loved about living out

there, is the fact that you can
go 15 minutes in any direction

and be direction and be in utter
solitude out in the desert.

That's what I loved about it.
Like even driving in from

Kingman to the dam, I was
telling my wife, I said my BPM

was down to like 54 that's how
relaxed I was. It's like

something out there must
resonate with my soul. Are you

finding that to be the case
here? And you're kind of living

by coastally These days, right,

correct? No, I just find

the landscape and the people to
be

wonderful. The

people out here definitely are.
You got that Southern charm and

stuff like that. We found that
to be the case when we moved to

Vegas. But we were moving from
Connecticut, though, and that

was like, you know, lot of
Northeast kind of attitudes and

stuff like that. You've been in
Vegas a long time, the 90s, I

want to say, since 91 Yeah. So,
I mean, you must have seen the

attitude in that town change
over time as well.

Well, I mean, it's always been a
little bit transient, yeah, but

I still like Vegas. I'm still in
Vegas. I'm in Vegas most of the

time, yeah, and I still like it.
But when it comes to the

landscape, Tennessee beats it to
hell, really,

yeah? I mean, I'm not kind of
over the brown jagged edges and

stuff like that, yeah. I'm not a
big desert guy. You don't really

go hiking out there. No

hiking out there.

So, I mean, what's the plan you
guys? You're kind of planting

roots out here. Is anything you
want to elaborate on in terms of

plans that you have?

Well, my wife loves it out here.
So, you know, we're kind of

steadily getting over this way,
more and more have an office

getting created. Hopefully they
were trying to double dip me on

the the terms. Oh, but once I,
once they realized I was willing

to walk away, they were more
than willing to start

negotiating, let's just say, so
it's back on the table. I want

to open a miniature version of
what I have in Las Vegas. Yeah.

So about 889, 1000 square feet,
you know, podcast studio, green

screen studio, so I can continue
to make content and then create

other studios to where, if
people want to do a podcast, you

know, they can have a place to
do

are you adverse to, like, at
least having a place like this

one to do your podcast, or other
places here? What do you mean,

like, if you want to do a couple
of episodes of your own podcast,

but it's not as ornate as I've
been to your studio out in

Vegas. It's gorgeous. It's an
actual it's like a television

studio. Well, that's what I just
said, no opening, well, you're

opening that here, but in the
meantime, between now and then,

if you need two or three months,
if you ever need a place, you

got a

place here. I appreciate it,
yes, but, but again, I, I think,

you know,

I like to be at home, yeah?

Well, you got two homes here.
You still renting that place,

right?

That the house I'm in now is
still leased. Yeah, gotcha

looking

your wife is, she's about she's
in love with this area, yes,

yeah, she's a sweetheart, by the
way. How long you been married

there,

including today? Yeah,

15 years. Cool. Man, that's
awesome. What buttons you keep

pushing?

Man, I'm switching between
cameras.

I was gonna say, Man, you sure
make it look difficult. I'm glad

I don't have to mess

with that. I you know, this is I
like to be in the mix of a lot

of different plates spinning.
I've tried to reduce down to one

occasionally, and it never
really work out you're on that

camera.

You got. Get your your lights
going to where people can,

yeah, we're working on that.
We're building a studio

ourselves that's going to be a
little bit bigger than this

room. We're going to be owning
the actual space, if we don't

sell it before then. But we're
renting this place. We do the

best we can out of it, which
kind of like leads up with small

businesses. You kind of, you
know you're coming here. You've

come here a few times to have to
be on the podcast, and we're

still in the same house. We're a
small business that's just

working and tiring along and
stuff like that. Do you remember

those I mean, of course you do.
But do you look back on those

days when you were building
light speed, and do you have

like, nostalgia for those days,
because I certainly hope I do.

No matter of fact, I have
nightmares

still. And by the way, I mean,
you know, I start new businesses

all the time, yeah, so I have,
like, starting

the one, the anchor business,
you know, is, is always the

toughest thing I would think,
because I'm still in the mix.

You know what? I mean, you and I
have known each other going on

now, what six years. And, you
know, I'm relatively I like him.

He must. I'm like, I can only
imagine what he thinks. Because

I'm still doing like, we're
still, we're still trying, you

know, and especially in the last
three years has been the economy

tightened up a little bit. You
know, a lot of car washes are

what we typically serve with the
the majority of what we do. I

mean, we do a ton of stuff out
of this building, but that's the

one that pays the most bills.
And because of how the economy

contracted slightly in the last
couple of years, it's been

tough, and I'm very transparent
about it. I mean,

well, to me, it seems like it's
been about six months since I

met you. Cool, and I don't judge
people, quite frankly, in my

opinion, you know, it takes 20
years to become an overnight

success. So to me, it's like,

This place seems bigger than
before, so Well, before

we had the couches earlier?
Yeah, we actually, you must met

John. He's like, dude, I'd love
to be on more podcasts. But can

you get rid of the couches? I
look frumpy as crap. And I'm

like, Yeah, I've been thinking
about it. So we had this table

built in. Have you ever thought
about owning the car wash? We

thought

about it, but we, I guess it's
we know too much about it. It's

not a cash like a turnkey cash
cow, as one might think.

You know. Well, the little car
washes I know are,

yeah, you can make it so you can
get, like, the self serves and

IBAS that are automated, but
like an express tunnel or

something like that, where you
got to have staff on hand and

all that stuff. It's the owner,
the guys that go into that think

that they can just turn key it,
and they end up spending a lot

more time at the car wash than
they realize. So

I'm talking about the awnings
with the sprayers and the

machines, and you pull in there
and do it yourself, and it's,

yeah, self serve, yeah, yeah. I
would imagine those are just,

you need somebody there just to
kind of make sure nobody's

stealing anything or breaking
it.

All the guys I know that own car
washes do well, and they're

looking for more, yeah.

Well, it is. It is a growth
industry play. It is. It's about

a three to, I want to say,
anywhere from a two to $5

million initial investment to
get one going to ground up

nonsense. I start things with,
you know, two or $3 I'm

just telling you what I hear.
And we've, we've thought about

it before, but we don't have
that kind of horsepower yet. So

we're just kind of, we're
chopping at that one tree until,

you know, we get going with it
somewhere. We're juggling a lot.

Well, again, a lot of people
they hear about, you know, you

got to diversify. You got to
diversify. Well, I would say

focus, yeah, until you get big
enough to diversify. Most of the

people that I know that have
multiple streams of income, they

started with one, yeah,

which is what you did, yeah, way
back in that you, because you

were, you were tell the story
about, you know, you went back

to be a manager at a car
dealership while you were

funding Lightspeed as it was
coming up. Yeah.

Had to pay bills, had to feed
people, and the and the business

itself wouldn't sustain
everyone, so I had to go make

supplemental income, so I took a
job and funded it. Who's that

dealership with? Was that one
was Honda West,

Sonic automotive. We have that
in common. We worked for Sonic,

yeah, it's about a time. Yeah,
that's one of the things we're

kind of going through right now.
It's like, you know, I'm very

like, I said transparent about
it. John's doing what he has to

do to feed his family. The
business is sustaining itself,

but we just decided to forgo
paying ourselves a majority of

our paychecks for the past about
year or so. And it's like, oh,

this is the kind of stuff that
they're talking about. Because

we really had a good luck. Run
for a minute there where that

was the part of our business
that had commas in all the

deals, and we had a little bit
of trouble getting out of the

last situation we were in. And
that's about all I'll say about

that. But he and I kind of
getting into partnership in this

business was gangbusters. Out of
the gate, doing numbers at a new

business, new business shouldn't
be doing, but we had momentum

from the previous situation, and
eventually we're just, you know,

sometimes things run their
course, and we had to pivot.

We're in the garage door
business now. I brought my

podcast offerings to the table,
and that's kind of what we're

doing. So a lot of different
things that were

plates that we're spinning. You
know what I mean?

What it requires, nine times out
of 10,

it builds grit, and I think it
needs to be talked about more.

Because I'm happy to say that I
call you a friend and you

haven't made you haven't made
baller busters. Have you been

following that? No, damn I like
that, though I need to. No, you

don't

I'd rather you not.

Well listen,

baller busters, yeah,

is not

end all be all, fact, right,
okay, it said Patrick, but David

was one, right? You know, it's
just,

it's just that that threw me for
a curve. I was like, him really

did the

stretch baller busters. You
know, when, when I first heard

of it, I'm like, cool. I like
that idea. You know, expose the

scammers. But everyone's a
scammer in the world, if you're

selling a course to them, right?
Everyone's a scammer. If you

have a bunch of followers, and
you drive a nice car and you and

you do all these things when
they first started, I like the

concept. I think the concept is
great, you know, Let's expose

the scammers. But when they
start talking about people that

I know for a fact are not
scammers, like Patrick bet

David, yeah, they I lost
credibility,

and as the scammer definition
evolved as well, it's kind of

like calling somebody a
narcissist, but that's not the

original root meaning of the
word.

Yeah. Well, there, there's
obviously a lot of people who

you know are scammers, and you
know they may have busted some,

I don't know, but when they say
baller Buster, well, what's a

baller right? That's true. I'm
not sure what a baller Buster

is. All I do know is when they
say Patrick, but David's a scam.

I know Patrick, and he's not a
scam. And that just means,

listen, if you're going to call
people scams that aren't scams,

then it's cool. Go ahead, but
like, I don't, if I don't think

that you've made it because
you're off baller busters,

there's a lot of scammers. They
have no clue about that are

truly scammers, and they're not
even talking about them. They're

talking about people who are
prevalent online and they don't

necessarily like their style,
like my boy Andy Elliot, you

know? They talk about his past,
they talk about this. They How

come they're not interviewing
and showing clips of all the

people that he's helped, right?
Patrick bit David's made a lot

of freaking people wealthy. He's
changed a lot of lives. Why

don't they talk about those? Why
are they always just focusing on

the negative and then
technically their opinions? Now,

again, I don't I've never
studied their channel. Maybe

they did stop people from being
scammed by people. But anyway,

yeah, I haven't made baller
busters, but you give it time,

Brother, give it time. I'm not
big enough yet. As soon as you

get big enough, you're pretty
big. Well again. I mean, has

Grant Cardone made baller
busters? Yes, I don't think he's

a scam, do you? I don't really
know him all that. You know him

better night. He's not a scam.
You know who else is. I mean,

I'm invested with him, so, I
mean, nothing. It's all been

pretty checks every month. Yeah,
so have I, yep, does he

actually, you know, buy
apartment homes, is everything

that he said he's doing he
actually is doing, right? Then,

what's a scam about him? They
don't have his marketing

tactics. They don't like his
personality. They don't like the

fact that he has more followers
than they do. And I think in the

beginning, the concept was pure,
and then it became evolved, you

know, or just general hate,
meaning, who can get us views?

Okay, let's talk about them,
right? But anyway, I didn't know

you were a fan of the page. I'll
try to do what I can do to get

on there. Well, yeah, if you
ever see it'll be ever sitting

on there, just,

just text me. I'll text you. Be
like, Hey, dude, you made it

Yes.

And if I'm ever on there, you
consider it a bad badge of

honor. Well, that just means
that you're that you're getting

attention, right? Because if
they know who you are, well then

obviously you've gotten some
attention

the thing. And then I could see
the scam side of it, but there's

a lot of people talking about
stuff out there they don't need

to be talking about because they
just don't know what they're

talking about. Like, what the
fake it till you make it's you

know, certain you know people
that are talking about, hey,

here's how you know, here's how
to go viral in a video. And it's

like they themselves have never
done it, or maybe they had a one

off. They're not consistently.
Having those big numbers, you

know, or how to grow your
audience. And then you look at

it, it's the comments are full
of bots. And you know that they

bought their audience. That's
stuff like

that. Yeah, but listen, I get
bots in my comments. I've never

purchased one followers. I know
you those. Those bots are sent

by people that believe you have
followers, meaning they want

those comments read and hooked
people into them. So bot

comments, real bot comments are
aren't really purchased or put

there. You're talking about the
ones where they have fake

comments, right? Like, Oh,
beautiful, when it has nothing

to do with their posts. Like,
three flames, yeah? But that's

when they buy. That's when they
buy comments, those are bought.

Comments, those are bought.
Yeah, bought, not bought. B O T,

that's what

I mean. Oh, you mean purchased,
yeah, oh, yeah. Like, and you

could see it a mile away, or
maybe that you can, especially

when it has nothing to do with
the post, right? Like, man,

folks pay attention. Like, if
there's a stair master and it

says gorgeous. You know, heart
emojis, like, obviously guys

they they paid to have those
comments. But I don't think

you're gonna get there, because
your stuff really is real. I

mean, you're seeing you're
saying, what's on your mind?

You're like a you're almost like
the guy we just had on another

podcast. His name is Jason
Whitlock, every year of them

real, that's right. It says

read on your shirt, brother,
like I would be foolish to not

be real with a name real, if you
gotta be, and a brand real.

Yeah? But a lot of people don't
realize this is actually an

acronym,

really, yeah? Dare I say yes, it
is. What is the acronym? The

acronym

is ours for relationships,
because, literally,

relationships are the most
important thing, and most people

don't figure that out until the
end of their life and on their

deathbed. Who do you think
they're calling for

relationships? They're not
looking at their bank accounts.

They're not saying, let me take
one more look at my watch

collection or my trophy case.
They're calling for people

relationships, and then when
we're born, if we don't have any

relationships, we die. So in the
beginning of life, they're

required, and then at the end of
life, they're desired, right? So

why do we forget how important
they are in between? And a lot

of people do. And then there's
also people. Man, I just want to

get paid. Brother, I ain't about
all that relationship stuff. I

got enough friends. Well, again,
I would challenge you to look at

every dollar you've ever
received, and I'll bet you

you'll realize it came from some
sort of relationship. So even if

money's your thing,
relationships, that's where

money comes from, resources,
that's where money comes or

that's where, that's what comes
from. Relationships, your

abilities are based on your
resources, right? So again,

relationships, so the R is for
relationships. E is for energy,

because a lot of people don't
realize that we're operating in

a frequency. We're vibrating
with an energy. And everything

is on the planet, the universe
is an ocean of motion, if you

will. And so because we're in a
frequency, we're a vibrational

frequency. That's our energy.
Yeah,

I'm listening. I'm just getting
my phone to get a little bit of

other content.

Well, E is energy, yep. And I
think with the right energy,

life gets amazing. And again, I
mean, there's heavenly energy

and then there's earthly energy.
The heavenly energy is what you

might think like if, I said,
describe the kind of energy that

you would imagine being in
heaven, what, what some of the

energies that you would describe

it's going to be, you know,
light energy. It's going to be,

I would imagine it's going to be
probably sunny and 75

it's going to be a loving type
of, how

about loving, courageous,
generous kind? You know? Yep,

good energy and then earthly
energy. Well, that's where you

got your anger and your greed
and your envy and your

depression and your anxiety and
your fear, right? You can call

it worldly, but I only live on
this one, so I call it earthly.

Okay, I've never been on Mars. I
don't know what the energy is

like there, but here, I know
what it's like. It's depression

and anger and fear and worry and
doubt and greed, heavenly. Well,

you got love and kindness and
generosity, and you know, so

energy is important. So to be
real man, you have to understand

that it's all about energy.
That's your confidence, that's

your mindset, that's your
energy. And then A is for

affluence, your affluence. Is,
is your is your abundance, it's

your financial and and legacy,
like everything that has to do

with, you know, affluence, look
up the word. You'll you'll see,

man, that's a I want that. And
then L is for leadership,

because I don't think you're
ever going to get anywhere by

yourself, right? So you have to
understand leadership is very

important. And quite frankly,
most people never learn the

first rule of leadership. And
the first rule of leadership is

lead yourself so self worth. You
know, that could be mindset, you

know, energy, that could be all
kinds of things, but it boils

down to leadership. You have to
build a team, and you have to

have the ability to lead, and
you should. And a lot of people,

they don't, they don't
understand how important

leadership is. So if you want to
make it real, you want to make

real money, build a real
business, build, you know, build

real wealth, build real legacy.
You know, have a real

relationship. You're going to
need relationships, energy,

affluence and leadership. So
that's why it's there.

I like that. I never, I never
realized that. Yes, sir, have

you talked about it before on
the show?

I've never maybe, I don't think
so

it's these things, it's these
exclusives that we get out of

here sometimes. Yes, well,
that's what

I'm good at. You live and you
learn and you constantly

develop. I think it used to be
relationships, energy, affluence

and lifestyle. Why? Because I
know a lot of rich people, dude,

it could be legacy, bored.
That's what I say about

podcasting. Podcasting is
ultimately a legacy play. It's

leaving behind. Imagine being
able to go back and listen to

your great grandfather, you
know, and that's why I I bring

up my kids a lot in this
podcast. I'm as real as I can,

because what we're going through
right now, it's like my father

went through and out of 30 some
odd years ago. And I'm like, I'd

give anything to talk to him. Be
like, dude, what was your what

was, what was going with your
mind? I was 15 years old. You

know,

legacy is usually determined to
be real estate or money. Well,

I think legacy is a, probably a
why it's a broad definition. I

would not

really no, like your legacy?
Yeah, your legacy is usually the

money and real estate you leave
behind. That's your legacy

that feeds the next generations.

Well, I mean, I don't know
define, pull up your little

Google like Google name, yeah.
Definition of

legacy. Define legacy. Do it on
audio so everyone can hear what

you find.

Hey, Siri, define legacy.

Hopefully it won't come

through, right? Let me turn this
off. Sometimes we do

these things. What it says
probably say something all deep,

like you're referring to.

Define legacy. Yeah, you don't

as a noun, Legacy means an
amount of money or property left

to someone in a will. Do you
want to hear the next one? Sure?

As a noun, it means an applicant
to a particular college or

university who is regarded
preferentially because a parent

or other relative attended the
same institution.

It basically no thank you. It
basically says legacy, an amount

of money or property left to
someone in a will. My

grandmother died and
unexpectedly left me a small

legacy.

See, that's like when you hear
like Bill Clinton talking about

he what he wanted his legacy to
be something and it's usually

like a presidential library, you
know, something like that.

Obviously, what he's remembered
for. I guess maybe that's what

I'm maybe that's what I'm trying
to say. Most people use the word

to mean what you were referring
to, what you're remembered for,

or, you know, good, the energy
you put into the world, you

know, yeah, what do you want
your legacy to be?

I knew you were gonna ask me
that.

Oh, man, that's a good question.
That's troubling that I don't

know. Like people ask me, Well,
what do you want to do when

you're into your 50s? And I
didn't know what I'd want to do,

and it's what do you mean?
Really? You think I'm not in my

50s yet? How old are you? I'm 49
how old you think I was 50s?

Well, you know, I guess I'm
getting there. You're only 49

I'm only I'm on level 49 it's
like a video

game. Did you got more gray hair
than I do? I know I'm 56 this

is, I thought we were both about
the same age.

Well, you're. Youngster I am. I
have a lot. I gotta look at it

that way. I wish I was 49

I was gonna be 49 forever, but I
decided, Ah, who cares? Because

at the end of the day, man,
don't you wish that someday

you're 99 because a lot of
people, they make fun of these

people that are old, you know,
oh, look at that man. He's old.

A lot of youngsters on the
internet will tell me, Hey,

okay, grandpa. And it's like
they they hate on age, when, in

reality, they're praying to make
it that old, right? So I've

already made 56 you, my friend,
have no guarantees. None of us

do, and I hope I'm 75 and then I
hope I'm 95 so at the end of the

day, man, don't hate on the old
people.

I'm not hating on you. I don't
think you're old when you

get into the 50s. Now you're
starting to literally season and

roll out freaking real
experience,

and you're one year away, yeah,
and it's, I feel like I've

already kind of been doing that,
but I don't know until I turn in

to get into my 50s, it

doesn't change. I feel the same
as I do now. I feel the same as

I did when I was 35 honestly, I
think I know a little bit more,

but I act the same, right? I
feel the same.

I think that those laps around
the block of life certainly help

they I think they further refine
and define who we are. You know

what I mean? You handle things a
lot different. You have

different conversations. You
have a lot your Moxie is

different. You know in terms of
how you carry yourself, my sales

conversations look entirely
different now than when they did

1015, years ago. Well, good,
they should, yeah, but it's

they're more casual and
relational. In that sense, they

probably work better too, yeah,
because you're just basically,

you know, I mean, I'll never
forget one of my general

managers at the Mercedes dealer,
people were kerfuffled in terms

of how to reach out to a
customer when you had nothing,

you know, to really, truly
update them with, you know,

something of substance. Hey,
I've got something for you. And

he says, Sometimes all they need
to hear is, sup what's

happening? Have you been How's
the family? Just checking on

you? You popped into my head. I
do that a lot. I think I've done

that with you. I've texted you,
hey, you popped into my head.

You okay? That happens to me all
the time, and I act on it. You

know, you and I have more of a
texting relationship. I'm not

gonna. I mean, if you want me to
call you, I'll call you, but I'm

like, Hey, you're good.
Hopefully. I don't know if you

remember getting those, but you
know,

I'm dandy. You're wasting your
text, you can always be certain

that I am doing

well with the the story telling
us. You know, previous to

recording on this podcast, in a
38,000 foot altitude, I'm pretty

sure you weren't dandy. You're
probably freaking

out. I was wonderful. I have

you told that story before? I
have extreme gratitude for

everything, yeah, because

you seen a lot. You would you
say you're an old soul?

I believe we all are. But yes, I
am particularly old, yeah, Soul

wise. But I can also say that,
listen, I understand frequency

and vibration and energy that,
let's say, quantum, quantum

physics. If you look into
quantum physics, you'll start to

realize, like man, everything is
vibrating. Everything has a

frequency, and frequencies
attract and repel other

frequencies. So again, like what
you emit is nine times out of 10

what you get. So if you want
good things, give good things.

So at the end of the day, I
understand energy, but what I

also understand that most people
fail to realize is that we have

what's called free will. Yes, In
layman terms, what would you

consider? How would you describe
free will?

Free will is simple. Is
basically making the decisions

that lead you to the next walk
down the road to make a

decision. No, it isn't free will

in the spiritual sense, any
sense. It's just, you know,

you're you. I thought to me,
it's decision making. Well,

you're close, no, but free will,
it means the ability to make

those decisions, the ability to
choose. That's free will. If you

chose not to decide, you still
have made a choice. Thank you,

but you have, but you

have free will. Okay, free will
is our gift. That's our that's

our power. That's the power
everyone needs to tap into. But

nobody seems to realize because
they think it's going to be some

damn Marvel comic power, it's
going to be some superhero

power. It's like everyone misses
it, because the power is free

will. And it's like it's that's
not sexy, but in reality, it is,

because you have the ability to
choose you. So literally, when

you get upset, you're choosing
to get upset when you choose to

be anxious and depressed. And I
think you're choosing it at the

end of the day. Because if I
just busted into a room and

everyone got real angry with me,
and then I left, and you all sat

around talking about Man, that
guy came in here and he thought

he was this, and he did that,
and he said this, and how dare

him. And people said, Well, what
happened? They'd say, oh, Brad

came in here and pissed
everybody off and got everybody

angry. My question to those
people that would sit there and

be like, really, what do you do?
What do you say? They don't

question. How did he get you
angry? Well, he did this. Didn't

you have to choose to be angry,
don't you have to choose to be

angry? How can he just make you
angry? You mean, I have power

over you. That's weird to me,
because you don't have power

over me If you offend me, and I
literally walk out of here

pissed off. The truth is, I can
blame you, for sure. I can get

everyone to agree that it was
you, and get buy in. But the

truth would be, I chose to react
the way I reacted. I chose to

feel like I felt, and I chose to
storm out mad it wasn't you that

made me mad. I chose to be
period. So when people say, you

know, what's this power that I
need to tap into, understand the

power is, is the gift that you
were given, and it's called free

will. You can choose to be
happy, or you can choose to be

pissed, right? You can choose to
be rich and you can choose to be

poor, you can choose everything.
And I understand that. So it's

like, that's why I said you're
wasting a text. You'll never get

me saying I'm not doing well if
I'm alive, and if I'm not alive,

you wouldn't be talking to me.
So trust me when I tell you,

when I'm alive, I'm doing well,
yeah, because I choose to,

I choose to react and to have
that gratitude that goes along

with it. I

wake up with extreme gratitude
that that gives me an advantage

over most people. Because most
people, they wake up, they reach

for their phone, and they choose
to get upset and they choose to

be worried and they choose to be
fearful, and they and they're

walking around life reacting
instead of causing. Okay, I like

to cause, not

react with the people that
react. Does it matter their age

or experience, whether their
parents trust the kids? Because

I found that to be in my life
that a lot of the things that

like we went through a
tumultuous experience couple

years ago. Thankfully, yeah,
exactly.

We pray for strength and then
curse the tumultuous stuff that

strengthens us, right? That
doesn't make any sense.

I don't know if I prayed for
strength in this situation, but

it kind of fell into my lap. And
it wasn't of anything that I of

my doing, but it was one of
those things that I would have

collapsed 10 years earlier, if I
had to deal with any of it, well

again, age does teach us. It
really does. It's like, you know

somebody in the Well, Greg
miles, I'll give him credit, as

always, the impetus of the
previous version of this podcast

was, what's your problem? And it
was based on the notion of, it's

always something. And I had one
of

those. Why you constantly had
them, right?

But the thing is, that's what
life is. There's always going to

be something, how you react to
it, and

how you exactly see, I don't
have problems, not problem, but

it's

always little, varying
magnitudes of just what thing

like this year for us has just
been an onslaught. I joke with

my wife, I said it's like 2025.
Is front loading all the crap.

You

know, should be thankful for
that.

I kind of, you know, she's got,
she's like, okay, I get the

whole it's always something. But
can we let off a little bit for

a minute, you know? But

it's not always something, Jim,

it's not those are blessings.
Those are opportunities you're

choosing to see them as
problems, and that's why they

are. So stop looking see that,
and stop looking at them like

problems.

I do, I do say, Okay, I kind of
have a much different

disposition towards them, where
I just kind of chuckled myself.

See you're choosing because it
is good. It's just, you know,

you're ready again. And not only
that, at

the end of the day, we get to
choose. Why would you choose to

be upset and fearful and anxious
and worried and depressed if you

have a choice? Well, people
don't realize they have one, and

I'm here to tell you, you do.
You've got a choice. Use it.

That's the power. The power of
free will is the gift that we

were given to choose him or not
choose him, to choose love or to

choose envy. You can choose
everything. You get to choose,

and most people can't figure
out. How to Get a hold of it.

And it's not elusive. It's,
it's, it's an awareness, I

think, like I'm aware that I get
to choose. Who gets to choose

for you know, what do you mean?
That was a question. Well,

you're asking, yeah, who gets I
get to choose from are you? Do

you know this to be true? I

mean, there's certain things
outside you control, like you

I didn't say, you know, you
control everything. I said, you

get to choose everything. You
get to choose. Yeah, it's free

will. So, so again, you could
get up and punch me in the face.

I could choose how to respond,
right? I don't get to control

you choosing to punch me in the
face, right? But I do get to

choose my response. I get choose
my mood. I get to choose

everything. So if I get to
choose, that's the gift, and I

learn that I have the gift, life
gets better. Now again, it's not

going to solve all your problems
just because you're now aware

you can choose. But I literally
catch myself getting pissed, and

then I think, do I want to be
pissed?

Were you somebody who was
always, like, quick to anger

when you went to anger, quick

to judge, quick to react, you
know, because I was reactionary

instead of causation, like, I
want to cause things, and just

that alone is why I'm a force,
because, like, I cause things to

happen. I don't react to things
that happen. I cause them to

happen, and when things happen
to me, right? I get to choose

how I react to those things,
which will cause other things.

Do you believe in cause and or
every action has a has a result

or equal, every action has a
reaction. Yes. Okay, so whatever

happens to you, there's going to
be a reaction. Correct? Do you

think that that reaction is
going to cause something? Yes,

and who chooses your reaction?
Oh, ultimately I do. So you get

to choose. You get to be a
causation. It gets deep with

people, then people are like,
Oh, come on. And that's the part

where some people, like, they
float away back in their little

miserable depression and
limitations. I don't I refuse,

why? Because I understand. I've
got the power to choose. I've

got the power. I've got the
power and see, most people don't

know that, and they will not
make that statement, and they

don't believe it. If they did,
they're just sitting there doing

affirmations, hoping someday
they wake up. Powerful. I am

powerful. You are powerful. He
is powerful. But most people,

they don't realize that they're
powerful, and that's the

problem, and that's why I try to
wake people up.

Some people are just leaders and
followers, though, naturally,

naturally born.

Well, that's why you got to get
real. Yeah, program. I'm going

to put a program together, get
on baller busses. Okay, I want

to put a program together where
I teach people how to get real.

I mean, are you mean, are you
speaking on it at least?

And I've been speaking for
years. You can look me up, okay?

You can find I see videos of me
sometimes. I'm like, Damn dude,

how old was I there? And I'm
saying I'm saying it maybe

differently, but I'm still
saying it this many years later,

it's still the same message,
essentially. It's

more refined and probably a
little more credible now, but

it's the same message was 10x
the first time you really spoke

in front of a crowd, pretty
much, yeah, that's I heard about

you through grant, and also back
in the day, I started 10x with

Grant, like I caused him to do
it.

What's the next iteration of
that? Is that, is he going to

evolve it to something
different? What? Because

apparently, this was the last
one. That's the last one that he

had. Oh, dude, that's just to
sell more tickets. I think, if,

I think if all he has to do is
change the name now, it's going

to be called, uh, instead of 10,
11x instead of 10x growth, it'll

be, it'll be 10x wealth. Yeah,
set of growth, it goes to

wealth. Why? Because he's tired
of the low paying people. Now he

wants the high paying people. So
he's going to teach wealth, and

he's got the clout to do it.
Yes, he does again. He's not a

scam. That's the thing. Like,
you know, he's on baller

busters, Andy Elliot's on baller
busters. All these people are on

baller busters, and it's like,
wait a minute again. I'm not

saying that they're, they're
they're angels, and I'm not

saying that they're that they've
never said no to a refund. But I

mean scams like, to me, a scam
is something that is not true,

right? You know, you're, you
take my money hoping to get

something, and you're not going
to get it because I scammed you,

right? How blatantly lying. It's
a scam. And again, it's like

when you when you say, I'm gonna
expose the scammers good. I hope

a channel comes up and exposes
true scammers, but you better do

your home. Work because, again,
you're, you're calling Patrick,

but David a scam. Grant Cardone
a scam. How are they scams? You

know? Well, they, they claim
that people are going to 10x

their revenue. People are not
stupid. They don't real. They

don't really believe when they
pay grant that they're going to

10x their revenue. Okay? 10x is
a, is a lifestyle. It's a, it's

a concept, just like real if I
ever start real success, that

doesn't mean that, man, you buy
a ticket to my thing, and you're

going to find real success. It's
called marketing, you know. But

still, there are scammers out
there. But again, I've been what

you would call scammed before,
but I don't think it was a scam.

So I can tell you confidently,
I've never been scammed. And I

can also tell you that, like, if
I were ever to say, Man, that

was a scam, me believing it was
a scam is the problem, because

don't you learn

true Okay, so if it taught us
another choice, if it

taught you something, then how
was that a scam? Right? Well,

scam by the definition, you
know, he promised something, I

didn't get it. Yeah, I can agree
that's a scam. But in reality,

is it a scam? If you believe it
wasn't? No. And there's a lot of

people who Andy Elliott and
Grant Cardone and myself, and

I'm sure you and other people
have helped, Patrick, but David,

so again, all the people on
baller busters, I haven't looked

at them all, but I've seen a few
of those guys on there.

Do you think with Andy Elliott,
they're just upset at the

gimmickry that he kind of
presents, because, I mean, a lot

of what he's he's got this, then
why don't they call it just

clown? Well, they kind of do
they, you know, Chief cloud

officers is in the description,
yeah.

But I mean, again, you want to
make fun of people. Cool. Call

it make fun of people. But
they've got everybody believing

these people are scamming them.
And it's like, I know a lot of

people that have told me Andy
Elliot changed their life. I

know people that say, Patrick
but David changed their life. I

know people that that have
literally helped a lot of people

that have been on that channel
where, like, Dude, come on. Vet

people better than this. You
have not just that they're

embarrassing. They wear too
tight a clothes. They don't You

don't like their message, you
don't like their look, you don't

like their style. Then just call
it that. Yeah?

Like, I don't like Richard
Simmons.

You ever see me make fun of him
on my channels?

Sometimes, I think a topical
dude to make fun of. What are

you

talking about? Richard Simmons,
he passed away. Scammer. He

would tell you you were going to
get in shape. He'd have Todd

leprey, yeah. Don Laurie for
him, back in the old 80s, was he

the guy that said you put tiny
ads across the entire United

States,

bedroom apartment placing tiny
little classified ads in

classified

Yeah? That guy, yeah. But hey,
listen, I hope people you know,

use discernment, and all you
have to do to see if you're

getting scammed is find out if
they did what you're trying to

do, and if they did and they're
willing to teach you how is it a

scam?

Well, again, it's to your point
of it being a learning

experience, one way or another,
one way or the other, brother,

but that's effective. That's
what I'm talking I got scammed

out of money earlier last year,
about two grand, and it was

something that I should have
known better. That's what you

think you were going to get. I
was supposed to get a car. Which

did you get? Nothing? How are
you you believe that you're

going to get a car for $2,000 it
was a little bit more than that.

They wanted a down payment, you
know, in order to, and it's

like,

yeah, you know, I almost got
scammed, yeah, in that sense, I

was looking for a muscle car.
Was it here? I think it was, I

think it was here. Did I call
you? I called Well, here's the

golden thing at the place, you
remember. And dude, they were

going to, I was going to put
they only want a 20% down. And

this deal was such a good deal,
I said, Man, I got a Google

search. These guys, their
internet, their website came up,

their testimonials came up.
Everything seemed

legit. Telling the story a
couple of episodes ago, yeah,

well, it looked

good. These guys were good, and
I almost gave him 20% deposit,

and I thought to myself, let me
Google Map it, like, let me look

at their lot to see their cars.
And they gave me their address,

and I google mapped it, and it
was like an old, like,

industrial area with train
tracks and, like, there was

nothing there, yeah. And so I
said, I said, Do you have all

the cars on your property? He
said, absolutely. I said, Okay,

well, I'm gonna send someone
down to take a look at it. He

said, well, well, I can meet
them somewhere. I said, No,

they'll come down. They'll come
down. They'll come to you. Yeah.

And then I fortunately didn't
fall for it, but that would have

been a scam, legitimate scam,
but I would have. Learned don't

do that, and I would have found
value in it. That's my point.

Just so you don't think I'm as
dumb as I look, there was an

element of that particular
experience that I went through

where was, Well, hey, if I put
the money down, it's on a credit

card, I can probably get it
back, because it'll be a

fraudulent, you know, in nature.
Turns out it because of the

nature of how it was transacted,
the credit card company didn't

stand by their their word use,
American Express is all I can

say. Therefore, I do not use
that credit card company ever

again. Yeah, and anybody who
asks, I will tell them, American

Express stands behind you. Yeah,
this one did not, and I was kind

of pissed about a black card.

If American Express is,
listening, I'd like a black

card, please.

You don't have a black card yet.
No, because you're, you talk

about, you know you're on your
way to, you want to be a

billionaire, yes. And the funny
thing is that you mentioned on

several episodes of your podcast
that you wanted to fund a movie

that you could act in. And have
you done any acting since I

first met

what's the character you play?
Bradley? Bradley superstar.

That's who you are, though.
That's why it's easy to do.

Yeah,

the world is merely a stage.

Hey, what kind of music did you
listen to growing up?

I listened to, you know, Def
Leppard, motley crew, 38 special

Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Eminem,
Snoop Dogg,

90s. There, Boston, you're a
classic rock guy, classic rock

mix with some rap. Yeah, I
didn't listen to country. Were

you Huey Lewis in the news? Huey
Lewis in the news under Are you

here the 28th of May?

Negative. Man, I wish you were.
Why is Huey coming?

No, but the heart of rock and
roll, the Huey Lewis in the news

tribute is going to be at the
city winery in Nashville, and

yours truly would be playing the
drums. Oh,

nice. Yeah. I tried. I tried.

They call it ecstasy

for the first time, or the only
in the 90s? No, recently, I

wasn't recent. It was probably,
it may have been the 90s. I

think it was the 90s. It was big
back then. Yeah, it was the 90s.

Now that I think about it,
because I just moved to Vegas,

and Huey Lewis and the News was
playing, and we got tickets, and

I'm like, Yeah, Huey Lewis in
the news, and I show up, and

somebody gave me like, this
little what looked like a rat

turd. I didn't even know what it
was. They didn't tell me till

afterwards. It was a rat turd. I
was dumb enough to take it, but

supposedly it was like, you
know, supposed to make it fun.

So I took it, and, man, it was
Huey Lewis in the news, and it

was a great, concert. I remember
standing there, and it felt like

I was leaning backwards at a 45
degree angles, like I was just

like, leaning at a 45 degree
angle backwards the whole time,

and everything was lovely, and
everybody was nice, and it was

awesome. Very cool. Yeah, not
that I endorse drugs, but

we all. We dabble every now and
then. Some points in our

life sure didn't. Everybody.
Yeah, my wife didn't, never

touched a drug her

entire life. Every time we I see
her and meet her and talk, she

is an absolute sweetheart. It's

just amazing though, that
somebody has gone through life

and didn't fall for the
pressure, the temptation, like

she's never, ever done a drug in
her whole life, unless I slipped

it to her. No, does she drink?
Yeah, she'll drink sometimes,

but not to a point of
intoxication. I mean, I've she

has that. She's definitely
drank, but never a drug. She

said,

That's great

occasion. It's recreational for
me every now and then, but it's,

I don't feel the need so I it's
like, I've never really been

much of an addictive personality
in that sense, thankfully. But

again, that's a decision that we
make. You know,

I think it's a, it's a again. I
mean, when people want to judge

me because I'm honest that I
have tried stuff, Judge me then,

like, it doesn't bother me.
Like, if you told me you used to

be a meth head, right? Good for
you. You're no longer a meth

head. How'd you make it out?
Like, tell me, tell me, tell me

about that. But you know,
because I've talked on my

podcast about, you know, smoking
crack one time for three days

straight. People are like, Dude,
why would you say that? Yeah,

like, because it's the truth,
man. Well, people are gonna I'm

like, see, that's the problem.
Most people are so worried about

what everybody thinks about them
that they that they go through

life tiptoeing. And I don't
think that. That's the best

option for me. For me, I'm going
to go through life, telling the

truth, being kind, choosing
heavenly energy, trying to

provide value to people, and
maybe my story is going to help

someone else avoid the problems
that I had. But at the end of

the day to lie and to worry
about what everyone thinks about

you, you still did it? Yeah,
okay, so all you're saying is,

let me hide what happened to me,
so you approve me. And I'm the

kind of guy that says, Listen, I
approve me. I don't need your

approval. I'm not looking for
someone's validation. You know

what I mean? And I think more
people, I think more people need

to do that. They need to. I grew
up worrying about everyone's

validation, and start to
validate themselves. And some

people are like, Yeah, but I
haven't done anything. Then get

up and do something, yeah, but
I'm this and I'm that, then

change it so you've got the
power to choose. You've got free

will. Just start reverse
engineering whatever it is you

want. Because I've had people
say you can't choose to be

successful, yes, you can. You
can't choose to be rich. Yes,

you can. You can choose whatever
you want. That's the whole Gift

of free will. You choose
whatever you want. You can

choose it. Now again, doesn't
mean it just appears means

you're choosing it. But once you
choose and you commit and you do

the work, it's only a matter of
time. And whatever that thing

you chose, I believe, is on the
way.

Is that your goal, though, to be
like a wealthy billionaire, I

was at the ultimate goal. I

believe I'm already one. I'm
just waiting to get paid,

right? But I mean, is that, what
other purpose did you have? Did

you wake up in the car business
and say, I want it, this is what

I want to do. And this is why,
like, what was the why behind it

to get more money or to really,
because in your LinkedIn, I can

appreciate it, because I could
tell you I believe you wrote it

from the heart. Was to look, I
just want to, I want to. I want

to, I believe you when you say I
want to truly help people. Well,

that's what other people do.
When other people say that my

gut feeling and that little
inner voice that we all have

based on wisdom or external
forces of good or evil or

whatever kind of guides you and
has gives you that discernment.

You know what I mean? That's
what discernment is. Is like,

there's something off here. I
don't really believe what you're

saying. I've never had an issue
with that. With

you well, because I think you
can sense my energy, right?

Let's see, that's the energy
that I'm talking about. Like I

show up on sales calls with a
different energy, you know, I

try to teach sales people, stop
being a salesperson, start being

a help person. What does that
mean? Like, genuinely see if you

can help them with the problems
that they have with your

services or solutions. Like,
just try to help if you, if it

doesn't help, move along and
that energy where I'm just

trying to help you, yeah, will
close you more deals. But again,

I mean, if somebody said to me,
brother, you truly only want to

help people, yeah. I mean, I
want to help people, but if

someone said, Brad, I can
arrange to where you're going to

be so helpful to everybody all
your life, but you are going to

constantly be in pain and broke
and and you will be like,

seriously miserable. Well, no,
okay, I'm not. I'm not Joshua,

okay? I'm a human. I just
realize that, number one, I like

to help people. I also realize
that the more I help, the more I

get so at the end of the day,
there's a little bit of both in

there. Like, how do I make more
money? Help more people? Oh,

what a what a bonus. Like, I
like helping people. Hey, let me

help people, and I'll get more
money. But if someone said, to

be honest, Brad, if you is it
just you want to help people.

No, dude, I also want to be a
billionaire. What's your why?

Because I like nice shit. I do
and it's expensive. This shit is

expensive. I like traveling. I
like giving people things. I

like helping people. I like
rescuing people. I like being

able to give somebody something
that will help them and dude, a

lot of times it's money like,
what would you rather have if

your house was getting
foreclosed on a check that can

cover it or some advice from
your grandpa? Huh?

Yeah, definitely a check would
be, Well,

Jim, listen, I can give you the
money, but I'm not going to.

What did you learn from this?
Yeah, I'm not going to, because

that will be harming you, and I
want to help you, so I'm going

to not give you the life saving
funds that you need. What I'm

going to do, though, is I'm
going to give you a piece of

advice. Yeah. I sometimes, dude,
I don't need your damn advice. I

need your money. Okay? And then
get me out of this situation

financially. And then, please,
I'd love to hear how you're so

freaking wonderful and rich, and
I'm not, but right now, I have

to pay this, or I'm going to
jail. I have to pay that, or I'm

losing my house, I have to pay
that or my kid's gonna die like

that takes money, so I want to,
I want to have money because I

like nice shit and I like to
help people.

You have a hard stop at two,
right? Supposedly, I

mean, I personally don't have
any rules, okay, but my

priorities say I'm supposed to
be somewhere at like, three.

Let's just mark that. Ben at 55
that I brought that up when

you're producing please?

I forget you guys had it, don't,

you know, typically, I let it
run, but, you know, and stuff

like that, when I, you know, if
it's real and we leave it in,

that's fine, you know, but it's

all real with me. Yeah, you guys
are gonna cut out the ecstasy.

Leave the Huey Lewis, ecstasy
story out, please.

My my business. Getting back to
the whole Free Will

conversation, or even just
responding to certain scenarios.

You met John just now, he said
something that was beautiful one

day. He says, Look, there is no
crisis like that's a great way

to look at it, you know, because
that's what I think, what you're

talking about, what we're
talking about, a lot of people

responding to what they deem as
crises, you know, it's charging.

Yep, it is. Car business was a
big education for me in that

where I was told, Look, you only
have control about of the 360

degree sphere around you, and
that's it. And that this

gentleman that told me, hey,
it's always something. Just

accept it can and that's a
choice.

Can I augment? Of course, you do
not always have control of the

360 degrees around you. Okay,
right now. You don't have

control of this.

You think you do within like a
two foot,

you don't have control of shit.
I could get up and smash

everything on your desk, and you
can't control shit. We only have

control of one thing, full
control, one thing our mind.

That's it. Nobody can control
your mind everything else.

There's some extent that you're
you, you're not in

government projects in the past
that might, you know, challenge

you. If

they trust me, if they if they
have done that successfully,

we'd all be mind controlled.
Yeah, okay. They cannot control

our minds because we were given
the gift of free will. That's

the

gift. Do you think that there's
something in our food supply,

though, that is I think they're
trying fogging our

minds 100% I think they're
trying to control our minds.

They're trying to brainwash us
and and get control. But No,

dude, they haven't been able to
do it. Generally speaking, I'm

sure there's people that have
tried to hypnotize and get

control of your mind, but your
mind is the only thing that you

truly have 100% control over
everything else, dude, you

really don't like I can't
control if you shoot me right

now. I can't control my 360 I'm
this 360 I got I can't even

control my arms.

It's kind of troubling that
you're going through these

violent objection like I'm going
to do these things to you. Maybe

I just come over and give you a
hug.

I'm proving a thing. See, I
couldn't control that either.

No, I try to control it, though,
because I don't do hugs.

You don't do hugs. No, really
well. I mean, are you with your

kids? I

hope you do. Yes, kids, kids and
females,

kids and females. Yeah, not even
the bro side hug, where you kind

of just messing with you.
That's, it's like the, you know,

the you don't do the full on
chest to chest. Maybe I have,

yeah, no, I'm past the no hug
stage. But listen at the end of

the day, honestly, for all the
listeners, because it's supposed

to be mostly Middle Tennessee
business podcast, that's right,

so I messed the name up too,
yeah. But if these guys want to,

like, build a bigger business,
if they want to, you know, have

a better relationship with their
wife, which, by the way, will

help you build a bigger
business. So that's the whole

thing. People don't have
business issues. They have

personal issues that they bring
to work. So again, remember that

you have a staff of people at
your organization and you have

business issues, you just have a
location where all the personal

issues are manifesting
themselves. Okay, become a

leader. Study leadership.
Realize that a team is going to

get you there. You're not going
to do it by yourself. You're not

going to build it by yourself.
You're not going to be able to

do it by yourself. So
leadership, that's what's going

to help businesses, not only
that, training again, people.

Like, why? Here comes the plug.
Listen, dude, it's 300 bucks a

month. I could care less. You
spend more than that on coffee.

I'll bet you, you guys spend
more than 300 bucks on the shit

you give

away, don't you. I have no idea
how much we spend on water.

Again, you're just offering
everybody water and Coke, and

they offered me, you know, Coke
water, well, baby, costs money,

bro, toilet paper in the
bathroom. Okay, then you're

spending money, and I'll bet you
it's more than $300 a month for

just regular old employee
facilities, right? So at the end

of the day, $300 a month will
buy you a training system that

will deliver, track and measure
content. All you have to do is

create it. So if a business
right now wants to grow. Do they

need people? Yes, of course they
do. They need technology and

people. So guess what? If every
business right now, let's say 10

plus employees, because again,
if it's you and your brother,

you know you probably don't need
it right this second. But real

businesses that have real plans
of growth and exit, hopefully

their business becomes more
valuable the second. You have a

training system, and it can be a
manual. Doesn't have to be light

speed software, but light speed
software is just a digital,

world class training system
that's easy to use, but my point

is, businesses need to train
people, train yourself on

leadership. Train your employees
on customer satisfaction, sales,

closing, persuasion, personal
branding, marketing, everything.

So you need a training system.
That's what I would tell people

of Middle Tennessee like, get
yourself a training system, even

if it's documented and in a
binder. A company's value goes

up by one and a half to four
times, minimum, if they've got a

training system, one and a half
to four times, really, one and a

half foot of four times. If you
just simply create your SOPs,

document all of your roles and
positions, and get yourself a

training book, a how to book,
like, how do I run this company?

What if you quit right now? Who
knows what you know? Right?

Right? So at the end of the day,
it takes a little bit effort,

but if a company just goes, bam,
let's document everything. Who's

that? What's his role? What is
he supposed to do? He can

document it, by the way. He's
been doing it forever, John,

whoever's around here, doing
whatever they do. All you'd have

to do is say, hey, spend the
next couple days and just turn

in a step by step thing of what
you do on a regular basis. And

then they'd all come in and
they'd say, Well, here's what I

do. Number one, you're able to
look at it and go, Well, wait a

minute. That ain't what you're
supposed to be doing, right?

Yeah. But number two, let you
put it in a binder, and then

whatever role that person has
here, you market creating

services, and you bring yours,
and then something happens.

Guess what? I can walk in here
and buy this business, and I

know exactly how you guys do
what you do and who does what,

even if y'all quit, I could
replicate the business. Now,

some people might be better at
others, but without that book,

it's all in your guys's heads.
This business is not as

valuable, period. And when
you're looking to exit, dude,

people that come in, they want
to know that there are systems

and processes, and they want
them documented. So again,

Middle Tennessee document your
systems and processes, and I

would say, get a training system
to where you can now deliver,

track and measure with
repetition, all of that

information that needs to build
your team, because the team is

what's going to grow and what's
going to make you wealthy. You

don't build a business, man, you
build a team, and the team

builds the business. Yeah,

it is. It's a challenge.
Definitely. That's all we I feel

like we've been doing for the
past two years. You have a

training system. I mean, we're
writing it down. We're going it

over people, probably not like
documented, like you're talking

about, but it's definitely,
yeah.

Now again, if you ask like
McDonald's, you think they have

a training system? Oh, totally.
You think any successful

business out there has a
training system?

This is how we do things.

Are we trying to replicate their
success? Are we trying to

emulate what they've done
succeed? Well, then again,

there's clues like, you know,
get your systems, get your

processes, and if you don't have
them, dude, it's time to think

about them. Yeah, I'm just
trying. I'm just trying to give

business.

I got podcast, and I like to, I
love hearing about the days. You

know, everybody has them, even
if you choose. You know, if it's

a new thing that you're
choosing, how you get up, is

that, is that always been like a
mantra of yours for your entire

life, or did you just kind of
become enlightened by morning

routine? Well, morning routine
the gratitude of being able to

having the notion of choosing
how to react to something that's

that's a mature way to look at
things. Well, you know,

I learned it over time, yeah,
and it's getting stronger and

more. Were advanced as time goes
on, right? You know. And what

were the days like, though,
where, you know, you got to get

up, you got to go to the
dealership, but at the same

time, everything I'm doing at
the dealership is feeding my

business. You have the long goal
in mind. There had to be those

days that you woke up and you
were like, I just don't I'm

free. Flipping tired. I wasn't
really

tired. I'm very energetic, and
always have been. Yeah,

I wasn't tired. I was

like, in other words, sometimes
I got tired of it, meaning,

like, I'm frustrated. Why?
Because I was making great money

at the dealership, but still
broke, right? Because it's all

feeding your business, I had to
go give it to people. Yeah, and

you know, why would you keep
pouring money into something

that didn't work and isn't
working well again? Eventually,

I realized that I'm like, Well,
why am I split? If I just went

and put the effort into my
business like I am this job, it

might actually work, right? And
so I was treating it like my

like I was an owner. You know, I
didn't have to get up, I didn't

have to do anything. I didn't
treat it like a job. I treated

it like I owned it. And a lot of
business owners do that. They

think because they're the boss,
they don't have to do anything.

Well, I always say you better
treat it like a job, or soon

you're going to need one. And
that's what happened to me. So

then I went and busted my ass at
work for someone else, building

their bank accounts. And then,
and then I realized, man, if I

worked this hard for myself and
quit dicking around, I probably

wouldn't need a job. And so I,
after one year to the day, quit,

went back and said, I'm treating
this like a business now, and

I'm gonna work it like a
business and treat it like you

have a job. This is my job,
yeah, like I didn't have choices

anymore, right? A lot of people,
you know, because they own it,

they think they they get it, to
make decisions. Yeah, but in

reality, real winners. They
decide once. They don't keep

making the same decision over
and over.

It's it's the buck stops with
you. If you

well again. If you want to get a
habit formed, start forming the

habit of deciding once, like I
don't, I don't decide to work

out over and over again. I've
decided once to work out, and

now I work out. I decided once
to start treating it like a

business, and now I treat it
like a business. Lot of people,

they, they don't decide once.
They just keep making the same

decision. I'm gonna get in
shape. I think I'm gonna get in

shape this year. Yeah. Yeah. I
mean, but now, at this point,

you can treat it. You are the
boss. It's kind of, it's running

on its own because of the system

does not run on its own because
I was really foolish. I'm

getting it there now, really,
yeah, how long ago did it? I'm

like, a 25 year old startup. Jim
still. Yeah, that's why, when

people come they're like, will
you coach me? Will you mentor

me. I'm like, bro, I don't know
what to do. I'm still figuring

it out, like the wait till I'm a
billionaire.

That about you. That's, that's
so there's a humility to that

you're just to being willing,
because

it's called Truth. It's not,
it's not humility. Because I

don't think I have humility.
Humility, by definition, is, is

a low opinion of one's
importance. I know you've done

you've gone down this rabbit
hole before, and I'm gonna look

it up. I know. Okay, so I don't
the acknowledgement. And I don't

think I have a low opinion of my
importance. I don't think you do

either. Okay, so I'm not humble.
It's not humility. It's

truthful. The truth is I don't
know. The truth is I don't know.

Like, you know, how do I fix all
my problems? I

love, I don't know your love. I
love your willingness to say

that. There's so many gurus out
there that they gotta come off

all the time that like, oh,
yeah, I got it all under

control. And this is my life,
and this is the veneer and all

this other stuff. Yeah,

and half of them are cheating on
their wives. They're freaking

miserable. They're freaking deep
down scamming someone. They're,

they're, they're, they're not
happy. They're, they ain't got

shit figured out. But I think
that's

but that's the great here you
are just like, look, I don't

know. It may seem like I do, it
certainly looks like I do, I've,

I've certainly everything that's
led me up to this particular

point in my life have been based
on decisions I've made. That's a

fact, right? And that's that a
lot of what you're doing and

talking about is the fact that,
even now, I don't that's that's

freeing, in a way, because I
tell my kids that all the time,

I you know, I don't know. I
said, All I know is that when I

ask questions, you taught me
that ask why, and you're the

answer is going to be,
typically, no. If you don't ask

the question, you're just not
going to know. Ask the question.

Can I retake the test? Is there
a way I can do this? What's the

one thing holding you back from
letting me try? I try it this

way, you know? And they to my
detriment and to my my wife and

my detriment, they do it on us,
which is awesome, but it's still

a pain in the ass, because
they're freaking nags. When it

becomes that way,

you want me to give you another
question? Sure, okay, course,

here's a question that everyone
should ask themselves on a

regular basis.

He's writing all this stuff
down, by the way, aren't you?

He's right. What purpose? That's
how he absorbs the information.

I should be charging him.

Get on baller buster.

It's called a scam. I scammed
you. Okay? I sold you some great

information.

He's gonna like next week and be
like, Okay, Jim, I'm turning in

my notice, and I'm starting my
own thing.

I do that, that all my employees
do that nine a lot of time, is

what happens. But I say, I say,
Good, that's what I do. Yeah.

So, so here's the question that
I would ask on a daily basis,

every day, and if the answer is
no,

fix it.

Am I better than I was
yesterday?

That's it. That's all you have
to ask yourself, am I better

than I was yesterday? And if the
answer is no, then get off your

ass and just pick one thing that
will make it to where tomorrow,

you'll say yes. The answer to
that should be Yes. Am I better

than I was yesterday? Yes. Am I
better than I was yesterday?

Yes? Am I better than I was
yesterday? Yes? And if the

answer is no, not a problem,
just fix it.

Would you have to know the KPIs
that go into that question

beforehand. Well, what matters?
You

should KPIs are very important.
Now, again, we're talking to

business or life, because in
life sometimes, huh,

both. I mean, I've been so
absorbed with my situation in my

station in life is, for the past
probably eight, nine years has

been catch up financially, you
know, and we're getting there,

but I'm basically going through
what you went through in your

30s, but now I'm going into my
50s. It is what it is, you know,

it's not only so much you could
do about that.

I know, but you know, and it
might be that you're also a

victim of comparing, right? You
compare everything to you think

so? Yeah, I, you know, you're,
you're, you know, I'm not where

I where I should be based on
what you're doing and what

you've done and what he's
accomplished. And I, you know,

dude, are you better than you
were yesterday? Yes, then who

cares where I'm at and what I'm
what I'm doing, I appreciate

what are you doing and what are
you doing, and what are you

doing? Like, that's all I care
about. Like, I don't care that

Grant Cardone has more money
than me. Number one, he's 10

years older. Catch me in 10
years if we're in a competition,

but we're not. I just asked
myself, am I better than I was

yesterday? And the answer in a
lot of cases has been no, yeah,

no, I'm not, matter of fact, I'm
not heading in the right

direction. Okay, well, just that
question wakes you up, because

you have to ask yourself every
day, am I better than I was

yesterday? Now, why? Well, last
night, you freaking had Krispy

Kreme and and, you know,
financially, you just you just

lost this. You got scammed out
of $2,000 your business isn't

cranking out what it did
yesterday. Like yesterday, we

did good today. We aren't doing
as well. Am I better than I was

yesterday in all those areas?
And the answer nine times out of

10 could be no in a million
areas. But are you better than

you were yesterday. And if the
answer is no, Jim, you can fix

it. And if you don't think you
can, dude, that is called a

fixed mindset, you need a growth
mindset. You need to believe

that it is possible, it may not
be comfortable, it may not be

free, it may not happen
overnight. But can you fix it?

And the answer is, of course, I
can, at least that's my answer,

which is why I, I think that's
the question, you know, did I do

better than yesterday? Yeah,
good. How much better could I

have done? Well, I could have
done much better, but, you know,

now we're starting to head down,
down that that?

Well, it's always me road you
can I've discovered, and I know

that about myself. That's one of
the things I learned, is that

you learn a lot about yourself
when you're put to the these

kinds of tests. I've had a lot
of revelation about me in the

past several years to myself.
And it's, it's one of those

things I look at and I go, once
upon a time, it would have been

a poor me, you know, feel sorry
for me, not anymore, because I

do have days where it's like,
yeah, everything just went

wrong. But you know what? The
one thing that went right as I

was able to still come home and,
you know, give my wife a hug,

that went right? You know, so to
your point. What you're kind of

saying is that, no matter how
you look at it, are you better

off today, today than you were
yesterday? There's always an

area where you were Does that
make sense theoretically against

KPIs? Well, hey, you know, for
the longest time, I mean,

because when you're when I look
for a minute there for probably

about four years, knocking it
out of the park every I should

have done this years ago, so on
and so forth. Look at this. It's

all I had to do was this, and
all the rewards are coming, and

I'm feeling validated. And I get
to the point where, you know,

sometimes those challenges come
up, and you have these seasons

of just they're a little bit
more struggle than what they

were, which are the ebbs and
flows of life and time.

But I looked at those situations
as

okay. Once upon a time, I could
hem and haw about it. But now I

look at all I have to do. I have
control of the energy I put out

there and the decisions I'm
going to make, who I'm going to

talk to. All I need to do is
this. That's right, and it's

actually, you know, since we've
made the decision to take

podcasting and divert it into
our business and feed it and

stuff like that. I felt for the
longest time like, I feel like

I'm losing because I'm not, you
know, we're just struggling

here. And then I realized I'm
like, but I've put more on the

books in terms of podcasts in
the past two years than I ever

have, and I gotta remember, it's
just not feeding me right now.

And I gotta How is it not
though, let's just get it. We're

trying to make, you know,
payroll to payroll and stuff

like that. And this, that's just
a seize. We look at it. I don't

look at it as permanent. Who do
you have on your podcast? Who do

I have? I mean, all sorts of
local business owners

we have. They don't pay
anything. No, no, you're just

gonna, you're just gonna
introduce them

to all those, all the free,
hundreds of people. You

don't have sponsors.

Well, I mean, we advertise our
businesses on here. I I get what

you're saying. I just haven't
gotten around to putting a rate.

I have an idea of taking around.
I know I do.

You're a walking contradiction.
I totally am all you have, but

I'm honest about it. Make a
decision, right? This is how you

do it. Yeah, may be difficult
for you, but this is the truth.

You make a decision. Hey, I'm
making money with this podcast

from now on. Now it might be
just you on it for a while. Why

was no one will pay to be on it,
right? Well, I would find that

highly unlikely. They just
probably won't pay much, right?

But literally, bro, there's
people on this podcast, and you

and you've got an audience, even
if it's a small audience or a

big audience, obviously will
determine the value of being on

right? But all you have to do
from now on is say, hey,

podcasting is the new billboard,
right? This will be listened to

for years to come by new people.
So this is a billboard that will

constantly run now, if I will
allow you to get on my podcast

and talk about your business and
all my listeners discover your

business and do business with
your business. Is that worth

nothing? Yes or no? Oh, it's
worth something for sure. Okay,

how much? That's the question?
Yeah. Well, in my case, like

people sponsor dropping bombs
for $25,000 Yeah, and most

people don't know who sponsored
and who didn't why? Well,

because I'll make the
conversation good anyway, right?

So at the end of the day, I
literally am building a studio

here and investing all the money
because I turned down sponsors.

I can do four a week without
even trying. That's 100,000 a

week for a podcast. One hour.
That's four hours for 100 grand.

You could do the same thing. And
if you're like, No, mine's not

as big as yours mindset. Again,
it is your mindset. And then

don't charge 25,000 charge 2500
and if you're like, well, who's

gonna pay that? See, you don't
even value it. Like, dude, this

is advertising. You don't think
anyone's gonna hear me. I

guarantee you people will hear
me on this podcast. Now, if

there's zero listeners, well
then you're a scammer. But

that's not the case. You have
listeners. And if you've never

tried to test it, test it. We're
pushing up to episode 250 at

this point. So well, did you I
guarantee you probably have

listeners? Oh, I know I didn't.
And those listeners are business

owners, and those business
owners are freaking consumers,

and the people in that are on
listening to the podcast have

businesses that they want to
advertise, but you're not asking

for it. Tell them it's $500 to
sponsor the show. $500 to have a

show that's out there repeating
itself over and over. You'll be

getting listeners in two years
that we don't even know about

yet, you'll constantly be
getting leads to drive your

business. $500 they say, okay,
boom. Now they come out. You

have a guest, and you got $500
now the question is, how many of

those can you sell? All Well,
dude, how many are you offering

right now? None. Well, how many
think you're going to sell when

it's none?

So that's, I figured when I'm
when people are clamoring, and

I'm getting hit up, like,
multiple times a week, I get

what you're saying someday,
yeah? And, like, you all of a

sudden, you got that inbound
stream, yeah? That makes it

easy. It does make it easy,
because I do get the people that

hit me

out, reach out. Let's just wait
for you know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna sit here and do
nothing. No, they're gonna barge

in the door one day and offer me
money, and I'm just gonna go,

yeah, no, dude, you have to
build it. You have to, you have

to say I'm I'm not doing this
shit for nothing. Okay? You

already did it for nothing, 250
okay, you put the time in, you

put the money in, you've already
produced them and paid everybody

in editing. Dude, it's a
business. You have to now

monetize it, right? I'd tell I'd
start right now. Hey, whoever's

listening to this, let's prove
Mr. McCarthy incorrect. Okay,

prove me correct. I'm

not putting anything out there,
that is, I'll put it out there.

Listen, listen, whoever's
listening to my voice right now,

if you have a business and you
want to drive a little revenue

to that business, get on a
podcast, talk about your

business, and I'll bet you
anything, you get business from

it. Now, just as a test, because
we don't want to go too crazy if

someone's listening to this and
they're willing to give Big Jim

McCarthy, and by the way, I'm
sure you'll still have to vet

them, okay? And by the way,
let's say he vets you and he

doesn't want you, well, then
just offer him more, because

eventually he's gonna say deal,
but that's the sponsorship. You

sponsor the show, and then you
can be a guest on the show, and

then you can access all his
listeners, and then all you have

to do is talk about who you are
and what you do. And I'll bet

you, you get more than you
sponsored the show for, because

it's never going to end unless,
of course, you're a scam, and

then he'll delete the episode.
But for the most part, all your

episodes you've ever dropped are
still out there, right? Oh,

yeah. And I'll bet you, if you
go look, they're all getting

downloads. Are they not? They
are because I noticed that one

time when I looked at mine, it
was like, Wait a minute. Yeah,

someone just listened to Episode
One? Well, yeah, cuz they

listened to Episode 871 and then
they're like, I like this guy.

I'm gonna go listen to them all.
And so now episode one, you were

talking about Joe Blow with his
with his circus, you know? And

all of a sudden the guy's like,
oh shit, I didn't know about a

circus. And they go to the guy's
circus. I get people all the

time going, Dude, can I get back
on your show? And I'm like,

Well, it's funny that you should
ask, but why? Because, dude, I

still get business from your
show. And I'm like, Sure,

absolutely. Let me have you talk
with Anthony. He's the one that

books the show, and then, oh,
Anthony will get you on the

phone and say, Well, you can
wait for 22 months, which is the

invite list length, or you can
sponsor an episode, and I can

get you into booking
immediately. And people are

like, well, how does that work?
That's $25,000 plus he's going

to do this that. And the other
thing, you get the footage

coming and going. It's a
wonderful opportunity if you're

trying to build the business
man. And then he closes them and

they write checks for 25,000

bucks. And get them scheduled. I
put

them right to booking. Why?
Because, dude, I have 100 people

that want invited, and I always
say, look, Are you famous? Did

you do something like that? The
world needs to hear, in my

opinion, because I will

invite you. You don't want to
become an infomercial. That's

the last thing I want to do.

No, I have two ways to get on my
show, no invite or sponsor. So

every guest is either invited or
they're sponsored. Now again, go

listen to a bunch and tell me
which one's which, but all I

know is the show will do
probably 6 million this year.

That's crazy for a podcast. Good
for you. Well,

I they had just asked me to
keynote this big podcast summit

in Atlanta, really, because the
guy that was out there said

something about monetizing. And
he said, You do sponsorships?

Are you selling mid roll and ad
roll? I'm like, I don't really

do sponsorships that way. I'm
not talking about boner pills

or, you know, lotion or
something. But, you know, I do

let people sponsor the show
because they want to be a guest

on it. He goes, you're doing
that much? I'm like, Yeah. He

goes, dude, you got to come
speak at my event, because

they're all podcasters, and
they're wondering how to

monetize their their podcast,
their real podcast. This is a

real podcast. You do it day in,
day out. This is a real podcast.

There are real listeners. That's
called advertising. Advertising.

You're not asking anybody to
pay. That's true. You're

inviting everybody and their dog
for

free. Building, the building,
the foundation. And a lot of you

know, like

the foundation is 100 100 shots,

I could see that. Yeah, you're
way past the foundation. Now you

need to start billing. And
again, it's dude, they don't

have to do it. Are you offended
to ask people for money? No. Are

you embarrassed? No, it's are
you getting freaking Jason

Aldean on here? I can ask him.
Okay. But again, if Jason Aldean

comes on, bro, don't charge him,
right? Okay, but when Larry

Tucker, from you know, the
florist over there in Franklin,

wants on, and he's, he's a
great, he's a great guest. Yeah,

he's got killer stories. So
what, dude, he's gonna make

money from you from the episode.
Charge him. Tell him to sponsor

the show. You'll start to see
who your real friends are, but

at the end of the day, man, it's
just a it's just an observation

with you. If I were you, I
would, I would, I would shift my

perspective about this show and
start monetizing it. You've been

doing it long enough. Oh, yeah,
you're damn near 50.

Thanks for reminding me. It's
for me. It's getting Are you

charging

people to sit here and listen to
guests? You could have said, Do

Brad Lee's coming? You want to?
You want to pay 100 bucks to sit

in the corner and take notes? At
least you would have got us paid

from him. Yeah, well, he works

for us. I'd rather him. You

pay him. Yeah, okay, so you're
paying him to sit here and be

educated by all your
entrepreneurial skills? Yeah,

I'll bet you, you could find a
volunteer for that. And besides

that, the tripod has been doing
all the work he's been there

for me. It's, it's, it's tough
to see. And I'm not making

excuses, but I can tell you what
I know about myself is I'm

inside my own bottle when it
comes to that yes, and it's

tough to see the label. So thank
you for reading my label. I will

certainly make those adjustments
you should

Yeah, and again, going back to
did I outdo myself yesterday? In

other words, am I better than I
was yesterday? Hopefully my

visit will be enough to make you
realize, dude, I'm just not

asking for it, right? You gotta
ask for it. Something is

something. You gotta value
yourself. You have to value what

you've built. You don't value
it. So who else is going to

nobody. And if you do value it,
well then ask for freaking

sponsors.

I used to get really, like,
annoyed when, and that still

happens. People hit me up to
beyond probably once or twice a

week. But they're typically
like, hey, my guest. They're

like, guest booking agencies.
They can talk about this for

their audience, and they have
this kind of value. And I was

great, great. We're in Middle
Tennessee, are they? Oh, they're

in Spokane, Washington. Oh,
okay. I used to get really,

yeah, exactly. I used to get
very, like, put off by that, but

I have made that adjustment, you
know, I'd, I'd love to have them

on, on a freaking zoom, if
they're in person, even better,

it's probably even better. If
they were, here's what I would

say. I turn it around, and I do
ask them, you know, for 500

bucks, they can totally come on.
We'll give them 10 clips. He

said that, Oh, yeah. And what do
they say? Yeah, you don't hear

back from them, because they
don't want to pay for it. They

want they're looking. Somebody's
paying them to get some they're

looking for the

freebies. You're not either,
either that or you're just not

serving it up correctly. Maybe
not, maybe not, or maybe their

targets, not Middle Tennessee.
Middle Middle Tennessee. Well,

it is, when it's free, if I
don't know, the mostly Middle

Tennessee podcast their target,
mostly the whole United States

podcast in the world, by the
way, right? That's why I put

that in there. But, but again,
Jim, just just ask yourself

every day, and any listeners ask
yourself, am I better today than

I was yesterday? And if the
answer is no, just fix it, and

it's whatever you want it to be,
money, emotionally,

relationally, financially, it
doesn't matter. Yeah, like, did

you work out

today? No,

I am way off my game on that

same thing, and I'm real about
it, I know, but it's the same

thing with money, with
relationship. Did you did you

send your wife a text telling
her you miss her? I had coffee

with my wife. Okay, so, boom,
that's better than you're better

than you were yesterday. You've
built a little relationship, and

all you do is map out where you
want to go. And I'm just using

you because you're sitting here
this, this is anybody, me, you

everybody, map out where you
want to go. When people say,

Well, you know, fitness isn't my
thing. Okay, dude, you don't

have to work out every day. I
went plenty of times without

doing it. But when you start to
say, You know what, what would

my ideal life look like? You
know what? I'd be in better

shape, I'd have more money, I'd
be closer with my family, I'd be

closer with my kids. I'd be a
better dad, I'd be a better

husband. I'd do all those
things. Okay, just write those

down, and then those are your
categories that you that you

self proclaim, want to move in
that direction every day. Just

ask. Yourself. Am I a better
dad? No, dude, day's not over.

You go, you go, Hey, let me go.
Let me go, grab my kids, see

what I'm saying. Like, it just,
it just spurs you to, it's a

simple question that nobody
asks. I mean, it just spurs you

to, like, think and act on it.
Because, am I better than I was

yesterday as a dad? No, here.
Let me text my kid and let me

take him for ice cream. Let me
go spend 30 minutes before he

goes to bed. Am I? Am I a better
husband? No, not necessarily. I

haven't done anything. Let me go
get my wife some flowers and

just tell her I love her. It's
nine o'clock at night. She's

right over there. Takes a
second, and then boom, and then

boom, and then boom. And then
next thing you know, dude,

you're going to progress in all
those categories. Because you

asked yourself one question, am
I better than I was yesterday?

And a fitness is one, did I work
out today? No. Well then before

I go to bed, let me just do some
push ups or walk around the

block right before I go to bed.
And then the answer is, yes, I

did. Okay, good. You're better
than you were yesterday, and

then better you were. Next thing
you know, dude, people like,

bro, you're looking good. What
you doing? I'm just, I'm just

getting a little bit better
every day. Dog. That's all I'm

doing.

I make better food decisions
these days. I got that going for

me. Good. I had myself some
cottage cheese and honey and all

those this morning. Oh, good
breakfast. To champion.

You know what's worked for me
unbelievably better than

anything I've ever done before?

Intermittent fasting. Yeah.

What's your schedule? I eat from
two to eight, two to eight, six

hours a day.

You have yet to eat. I haven't
eaten anything you hungry? No.

Okay, dude, I live this way.
It's unbelievable. Yeah, I've

eaten fat. I've eaten body fat.
That's what I always tell

people, what do you have for
breakfast? I eat body fat for

breakfast. But, I mean, dude is
crazy because I've went on

stupid diets and stupid programs
and stupid shit and like, it

works, but it's not sustainable.
It's not realistic. I'm gonna

carry around my freaking food
and weigh it out and, dude, I

just don't want that lifestyle
like I've already made the

decision. Dude, that ain't me. I
don't like that. I don't want

that. And if I have to be fat, I
will be what

are your workouts like? You
there every morning, every day?

Well, six days a week, yeah,

I just pick a body part and lift
and lift heavy things, you know,

I exercise. That's, it's no big
deal. Like, if, if I can't hit a

gym, which a lot of times you
can, well, then, dude, I'll just

do some push ups, yeah. And if
it's shoulder day, you know, you

can grab a towel literally, and
and move your shoulders. Like,

like, like, just move. What do
they call that? Calisthenics,

kinesthetics, yeah, just body
weight stuff. The question is

is, did you exercise? And the
answer is always going to be for

me, yes. Why? Because I want to
get better, and it's just a

daily decision to take action.
And the question that triggers

it for me every day,
financially, emotionally,

spiritually, relationally,
physically, am I better today

than I was yesterday? And the
answer a lot of times is going

to be no, then get up and fix
it, and then, boom, dude, you

literally find yourself
progressing every single day

because that one little ass
question, and no, I don't say it

first thing in the morning. I
say it like mid afternoon, first

time I go, am I better today?
And a lot of times, guess what?

The answer is, hell yes. Good.
Keep going. But I also ask it

when I get home, yeah? Because I
want to be a better dad. I want

to, you know, be a better
husband. I want to just be

better in a lot of areas. So I
just run through them in my

head. And a lot of times I've
caught myself saying, You know

what, let me get a little
exercise? You know what, let me

go take my vitamins or whatever,
just, it's just a nice hack.

It's a good question. Yeah,

I like that. I gotta say, I'm
gonna honor your time and kind

of wrap it short, cut it short,
and your listeners

are gonna freaking be pissed.
We're just getting good. Well,

we can keep going if you want.
Joe,

hey, honored to call you a
friend. Thank you, sir. And of

course, guys, all the details
that we talked about, any sort

of the the links to lightspeed
vt.com bradley.com all those

things. Sure they're out there.
Make sure, if you haven't

followed them yet, to follow
those links and make sure to

follow them. And of course, if
you go to mmtbp.com we got a

link there if you want to be on
the show. With consideration,

we're going to start looking
into that as well, so make sure

you check that all out.
Mmtbp.com,

Mr. Bradley, thanks again. It's
always a pleasure. Thank you.

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