Ever wondered how securing sponsorships could revolutionize your builder summits? Join us as we explore strategic planning and the excitement around upcoming events, including behind-the-scenes negotiations and ambitious goals. We share personal challenges such as managing criticism and negativity, and even delve into an 18-day meat-only diet experiment that tested our fitness routines.
From cravings for simple pleasures like lettuce and sweets to the profound satisfaction of diet-friendly treats, discover the highs and lows of restrictive eating. We also shed light on the power of positive thinking and manifestation, recounting a rollercoaster journey of selling a car that resulted in a surprising success. Engage with stories on subconscious influence and how surrounding yourself with positivity can shape your daily decisions.
Tune in to hear about the transformative impact of Tony Robbins' personal development training and the importance of growth through discomfort. We tackle handling business stress and negativity, sharing reflections on self-esteem, emotional maturity, and the significance of stepping out of comfort zones. This episode is packed with valuable insights and inspiring journeys, promising a treasure trove of wisdom for listeners aspiring to personal and professional growth.
Ever wondered how securing sponsorships could revolutionize your builder summits? Join us as we explore strategic planning and the excitement around upcoming events, including behind-the-scenes negotiations and ambitious goals. We share personal challenges such as managing criticism and negativity, and even delve into an 18-day meat-only diet experiment that tested our fitness routines.
From cravings for simple pleasures like lettuce and sweets to the profound satisfaction of diet-friendly treats, discover the highs and lows of restrictive eating. We also shed light on the power of positive thinking and manifestation, recounting a rollercoaster journey of selling a car that resulted in a surprising success. Engage with stories on subconscious influence and how surrounding yourself with positivity can shape your daily decisions.
Tune in to hear about the transformative impact of Tony Robbins' personal development training and the importance of growth through discomfort. We tackle handling business stress and negativity, sharing reflections on self-esteem, emotional maturity, and the significance of stepping out of comfort zones. This episode is packed with valuable insights and inspiring journeys, promising a treasure trove of wisdom for listeners aspiring to personal and professional growth.
We get comfortable with the uncomfortable. Once you're comfortable with it, it's no longer uncomfortable. It's a paradox, right? And if you only do what makes you uncomfortable and become comfortable with it and you continue to do that same thing, you're no longer doing what's uncomfortable.
George:If you don't have enemies, then you're not doing enough. If you don't have haters, you're not playing a bigger game. Yeah, people are not going to like what you're about the whole way through. They're going to like what you're about the whole way through. They're going to call you crooks, they're going to call you everything under the sun, and if you're not doing that, then you're not playing a big enough game. And that's how I try and look at it too. You think people are scared of that. Yeah, without a doubt, like the hate side. Yeah, I think so. I think people would be concerned about that.
Robby:What should they do? So I, so I haven't eaten meat. I'm sorry I haven't eaten anything but meat, but for nine to 18 days now, man, yeah, how's it going horrible yeah, no shit, has it got to that point now?
George:it is where you're like fucking, uh, fucking other state.
Robby:You know, I've um, so I was doing this vlog thing, right, and I've hit the point now where I don't know what to talk about anymore. Yeah, and I was talking to someone about it. I'm like this fucking thing sucks, dude. Like I'm doing the same shit every fucking day. Every morning I'm up at the gym, every afternoon I'm going for a walk or a run. Yeah, I did the first one.
George:No, no. Have you talked about how much you fucking hate it? Now?
Robby:That's what he said to me why don't you just talk about how much you're hating it?
George:Yeah, and I was like I would for sure what I didn't, fucking-. I'd be cursing the fucking world right now. I'd be like, oi, I'm sick of me, I'm sick you know what I miss? I'm sick.
Robby:You know what? I miss Lettuce. The complete opposite, I miss lettuce, 100% dude. I'm going to go to Woolies and just kiss the lettuce. Have you ever Just smell it?
George:Yeah, just no honestly, though, have you ever actually Did you consume lettuce in great amounts before?
Robby:Not like it was just a passing by thing. Tell me it was yeah, just get it in. You, get it in you. Yeah, I really miss lettuce and I really miss sweets. Yeah, like I really miss lettuce and I really miss sweets. Yeah, like, I like sweets Me too. I'm a big sweet and yeah, I can't have sweets on this thing, you know, there's no, there's no, no segue. No, like the best thing I've got, I've started drinking milk again. Yeah, so I never said drink milk. I had not drinking milk for a year, again Seven. I had not drinking milk for a year again, seven years. Wow, yeah, no lattes. Oh, you get almond. Yeah, for the record, an almond latte tastes way better. Does it Way better, dude? I tried to have a normal latte the other day. I was like this tastes like horrible.
George:I didn't mind oat. For a little while Oat's okay, I had oat lattes Anyway, whatever. Yeah, for a little while Oats okay, I had oat plant-based, anyway, whatever. Yeah, milk, I don't know. I've come off milk a lot lately oh, dude, I was so when I say lately, like the last couple of years I was so off milk Like I was like, nope, not doing it.
Robby:And I'm back on it because you can have a little bit of milk as part of this diet. Yeah, you need to mix it up. I need to. I just can't um, the food's mundane, the food's boring. I mean steaks and chicken and lamb, it's just the same thing.
Robby:Fish over and I had a little bit of salmon yeah yeah, I mean um, which is the same thing over and over cheese, cheese sick. That's good too. It's like she's good on a good on a bad, hard cheese only, um. But what I wanted to mention was one I I'm drinking milk again. The only sweet I can have is a protein shake, and I don't even know if I was supposed to be having that.
George:To be completely honest, no, I think you're all right with that because it's going to help you. Not just that it comes from, but you're getting a lot of protein in the food.
Robby:You'd be high protein as it is yeah, but you're also highly satiated, so like I'll eat. For example, yesterday I had a bit of salmon sashimi and a bit of a couple two burger patties and I was like I didn't want to eat at night. Yeah, I was like I'm not even hungry, I don't feel like eating, but I had two steaks. Yeah, For a laugh. You know, that's fine, you know.
George:Why not Soon, as you're not even going to cook it, you're not going to give a fuck, and we're just going to grab that red meat and just bite into it and straight out of the fridge.
Robby:I might. You just reminded me. I don't have anything in the fridge. I don't have anything else. Usually I have something defrosting, so the only sweet I've been having has been like I drink milk now and I put a scoop of protein shake in it and I got like a raspberry white chocolate protein. Yeah man, I can't explain to you. It's my favorite part of the day, favorite part of the day, and it probably says for right now, when you're casting, 100, except for when you're casting met, and I was doing that and this.
George:So a little while ago we spoke about selling the car, uh, my car. Uh, the guy that I sold it to pulled out the ranger, yeah, oh shit, pulled out. And um, I remember I was like I was a bit annoyed. I'd held the car for him for about five, six weeks. Uh, he put a thousand bucks down and he's like, oh yeah, I just can't get finance, blah, blah, blah. He's like sorry, sorry stuff, you're out and actually, a thousand bucks, yeah, I did. Yeah, from that perspective, but I would have much preferred to to gotten rid of the car. But you know I was a bit annoyed but then I was like you know, fuck it, whatever, the car will sell, the car will sell. Eventually it will sell.
George:It's taken like six months. Never have I taken me so long, never has it taken me so long to sell a vehicle. And I look after my stuff, the cars speak for themselves. I reckon it's market conditions. I reckon people are just not buying cars. Yeah, economic stuff, for sure, for sure. I really do think it's that.
George:Anyway, that's not the point of my story. The point of the story was I was like, cool, whatever, someone else is going to buy this car the next day and, mind you, in this six month period I've had no one inquire, like very few inquiries, very, very few. This guy, literally, was the first to come see the car and then he goes yes, I want it. Then the next day, when, after he said no, I'm not coming, I got an inquiry, I go cool, how good's that. So I got an inquiry, come in, came and saw the car on the Sunday. He liked it, didn't really call me back. I could, kind of you know when you can tell someone's going to buy the car and when they're not, or when they're going to do a deal with you, not so much buy a car. I could just tell in my gut that he wasn't, he wasn't going to buy anything, he wasn't the guy, nah. So he did it and I'm like, oh well, another one gone Be another six months before I sell it. Hey, I want to come check out the car. I said cool Guy's in Port Melbourne, funny enough, where he works, is a CFO at a company that I built a warehouse for him, like six, seven years ago. So it was pretty funny that the connection was there. Anyway, he came in and bought the car, bought it for more than what I originally sold it for as well, which is cool. So I picked up a little bit there and that same day that he bought it, or the same day that he put his deposit, I got another phone call. Hey, I want to have a look at the car. So all of a sudden it's like I manifested, getting all these inquiries coming in, because I just had that mindset of oh, that's cool man, I'm just going to get another, I'll sell it. This car is going to sell. It's not going to be with me forever. Eventually someone's going to buy this thing and I'm going to move it on. And yeah, even though that other person came in, he bought the car and now he was going to pick it up on Monday, tuesday, next week, but it started leading me. It made me aware that how I, what my attitude was towards that problem or that annoyance, and then the fact that I was able to manifest and get that car sold.
George:Do you believe in manifestation? Oh, it's real as fuck. Yeah, of course. Think about it. It's kind of woo-woo right. You're imagining something happening that you want and then it happens. Do you know what I mean? I can really appreciate going. Shut the fuck up. There's no such thing as that. Do you know what I mean? Oh, okay, cool, I want a million dollars and it doesn't so okay.
Robby:you can't make a million dollars without thinking about something that leads to that. Yeah, that's right, and that's what the thought is. Everything comes from your thoughts. That's the whole principle.
George:Yeah, and even speaking to the subconscious mind and all that sort of stuff, like waking up in the morning, you know, even saying today's going to be a great day, you don't know how good or bad the day is going to be. But if you wake up every single morning, today's a great day. Today's a great day. Today's a great day. You're probably going to have a great day, you're probably more likely to have a great day.
Robby:More likely to have a great day, that's correct.
George:So, yeah, I was looking at that and then I was thinking, okay, I want to try this out and see where else I can do this in my life. Where else can I manifest other things to come into my life? And I've just been thinking about it a fair bit. We've had some recent conversations, and on the podcast too, which is really cool, and outside of it. So I was listening back to one of our episodes and we're talking about how we've got to fuck this.
George:We've got to meet up every fortnight and then, pretty much after that session we did, we now meet up every Monday, yeah, monday, or Tuesday, every Tuesday. Well, we did Monday this week. Yeah, we did Monday, that's when we're off. But we're meeting up every Tuesday and it's such a good half hour, 45 minutes. It doesn't need to be six hours. It quick catch up. Hey, what are we going to do? What's happening? We'll talk about the podcast, we'll talk about the events that are coming up later in the year. We talk about other business ventures that we've got going on. We've just employed a sales team. How long ago.
Robby:does that feel like I've had the biggest four days? That feels like I spoke to you three weeks ago. I feel like I've been doing 75 hard for nine months. The last three weeks man has been just feels like the longest period of time.
George:I heard this other theory as well, where and it was on a podcast I was listening to actually Chris Willis, I, willis, I don't know, it's Willis Willis, sorry. Yeah, modern Wisdom, yeah, Modern Wisdom. I don't know who he was interviewing, I can't remember, but he was saying if you want more money, give more money away. If you want more love, give more love away. If you want more happiness, give more happiness away. What you're going to give out is what you're going to attract as well. So I do believe that that's true as well. I look at other times in my life where I've done things like that, where I've been generous in other areas and then I've received generosity or abundance in a certain area Do you know what I mean? And going on with the flow with that. So the car I just sold has got less than a quarter of a tank in it. Is it gone? No, no, he's picking up on Monday.
George:Oh, so the car's sold. Yeah, it's like I've sold it. Oh, like I've sold it. Oh, yeah, I thought you said you haven't sold it yet. No, the guy that originally bought it pulled out, and now I've sold it to the next people that came through. Yeah, and I was saying because it went yeah, fantastic. But I was saying no one has called up for this car for six months and then, all of a sudden, in the space, since this guy has said I'm not buying it, I've had four people and, um, yeah, so I felt that because I put those, that energy out there, that mindset, that manifestation out there, that it happened.
George:Anyway, going back to the, what we're just saying with you want more things, you give more things. Yeah, so the car now has a quarter of a tank, less than a quarter of a tank. It's due for a fill up. I'm going to give him the car with a full tank of petrol. Why, right? Because it's like, why wouldn't't I? Why not? What if it's just a nice gesture? Imagine you've just bought a secondhand car. Here you go, mate, by the way, filled it up for you.
George:Yeah, I think it's a very nice gesture I'll get a hose and sit down.
George:But aside from the fact that I don't have to do it and it's just nice, it's like that's a way for me to say well, there's plenty of fuel, I can go get more, there's plenty. It's going to cost me $150 to fill the tank up. I'm giving money away. It's cool, have it, I'll go get more money. Abundance yeah, there's another book.
George:I can't remember what it's called Thank you Money. I think it's called something like that. It's a Japanese author and he pretty much it's like yeah, it's something like that, I'll find it. I can't remember where it was. I think I've actually got it written down and it's pretty much. He speaks to money and he'll always say, like, whenever money comes in or no, whenever he spends money, he was like oh, thank you always say like whenever money comes in or no, whenever he spends money, he was like oh, thank you, thank you for being with me. Well, thanks, thanks for returning. Like, so, every time he gets paid, hey, thanks for coming in, glad to have you here. And then, every time that goes out, hey, thanks for being here, thanks for helping me. So it'll go out.
Robby:So it's that whole mindset around connecting a positive emotion and impact to a certain thing that you can receive it in abundance as well yeah, I think, um, what you're trying to touch on is, like the whole, how much your unconscious or subconscious, or whatever you want to call it, is controlling your life yeah, yeah, for sure it's.
George:It's a really fascinating topic. You know, I haven't I've I've done a little bit of study on it. You've done a lot more and I'm about to do another level of it in June. Um, just with regards to NLP, yeah, which is a lot around subconscious mind and framing and all that sort of stuff. So I'm going to do that next month, which is I'm looking forward to. It's just fascinating how you can affect yourself and also others.
Robby:Yeah, and how much like your others? Yeah, and how much your environment, what's around you, who you surround yourself with impact. Whether you think it does or doesn't, it does. Yeah, it does do. You're not in 100% consciousness all the time. You don't sit there and think everything through. For you to think everything through consciously right now, if you're driving, or you're sitting there listening to this or you're watching this on YouTube, for you to consciously think everything through, you need to stop and say, okay, cool, what.
Robby:Where are my hands on the steering wheel? What foot is my pedal on? What pedal is my foot on? Do you know what I mean? And think every single what's in my pockets? What's happening? Where's my seatbelt? Is there a fold in the seatbelt? Where am I? What road am I on? What car am I driving? How many Ks in the car? You need to consciously take every single bit of information in yeah, and you just can't do that. They're impossible. No, that's 100%. Do you powerful because it consumes all the stuff and that you don't have to worry about? Yeah, and filters all the information, and then you make decisions based on that.
George:Well, I think I said it in a previous episode, but it's like now. I just had a sip of water for those of you watching at home. I just had a sip of water. My mind has already decided how I'm going to pick up that glass. You know what I mean. It's picking it up in a certain way. It's made that decision before I've even gone to have a sip of water. It's held it in a certain way. It's used these amount of fingers, it's done everything in a certain way For me to have to think about that. You wouldn't be able to function if you had to think like that.
Robby:Yeah, if you had to think about everything like hold on, let me, how do I grab this glass? Do I grab it with this hand or do I grab it with that hand? Do I hold it from the top or bottom? Do I pull it straight to my mouth? Do I bend my elbow or do I bend my wrist or do I lift my shoulder Like you? Literally could not function.
George:Yeah, exactly. So imagine you could do that. On another level, you can program your subconscious mind as, again, as we're saying before, I'm having a great day, I'm having a great day, I'm having a great day. So then, soon you will already be in a positive mindset and a positive state before you've even begun your day. Now, yes, shit might come up, but it's not necessarily going to impact you on a negative way. So how do you do that? I think you've got to practice it. Do you know what I mean? The conscious mind would have to speak to the unconscious mind. Do you do anything I mean other than practicing gratitude? I think that's probably the main thing I would do. I don't do affirmations. Do you do that when you stand in front of a mirror? I own multiple seven-figure businesses, eight-figure businesses. I have my own holiday home in the Bahamas and talking to yourself like that, repeating it, and tony, robbins teaches this thing where it's.
Robby:He calls it incantations. So what it is is basically affirmations. But you get your whole physiology to it, because he's like if you just sit there and say I'm happy, I'm, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy, your mind says, bullshit, yeah, he goes. But if you get up and you physically like I am, I'm happy, look at me, man, I'm happy. And you physically do the movements of a happy person jump up and down with joy, whatever it is that your body starts to, we must be happy if we're jumping up and down. Hard to argue with that. As opposed to I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy bullshit, you know. And he says that that works supposedly, that works better than just saying it.
George:Yeah, I can believe that, especially when I've seen I've never been to one of his events, but I've seen recordings of his events sick, sick.
Robby:Yeah, you've been. I've actually done all his stuff virtually. I've never been to a shoot.
George:No shit, yeah man, so you were going to go in Sydney last year, wasn't it? Yeah, I didn't end up going and you didn't end up going. That's surprising.
Robby:I've done it all and I've moved Dude anyone that ever wants to go highly recommend Even that. Everyone wants to go highly recommend. Even though I haven't been just.
George:The learnings that I got from the experiences were amazing and I just I feel like they were amazing at that time and now I'm much further along, yeah because I see a lot of the people that go to those types of events almost searching for that level of happiness, or that level of happiness do you know what I mean? Or that level of impact or change in their life. Yeah, then that's why they buy into it so much. I'm not talking from a monetary point, I'm talking just buy into everything he's saying and everything he's doing, because you look at the crowd and you'll have five, six, 7,000, 10,000 people in a room jumping oh, dude, frying, he's hugging, hey, like fucking on the floor, just like just. And you just, I know, I look at that. Yeah, he's sterics, and I look at that and I'm like it's almost to a level of cult leadership, isn't it? You know what I mean? It is, it is, that's right, it's all. That's that underground influence.
George:And I mean I personally haven't ever been able to get into any of his training or any of his courses. I've heard a few of his podcasts. I haven't read any of his books. I think he's a wildly smart man. I enjoy listening to him. Yeah, I enjoy listening to him talk, but yeah, I haven't had that motivation to go and deep dive into his trainings. Not to say that they're no good, I just haven't had it myself.
Robby:So I read a book first. I knew who he was. I could see in videos and stuff and whatever and I'd always seen the events. Man, like I'd always seen them on late night. I remember watching as a kid. I remember them being on infomercials yeah, as a kid.
George:How funny yeah.
Robby:As a kid how funny, yeah, and I remember seeing them in infomercials. I used to think what a In Australia as well, yeah, far out.
George:They've been coming to Australia for ages. No but the info. Like him on an infomercial, I don't ever remember that.
Robby:Oh, ever, never. Do you recall Oliya though? Yeah, he's in a video. That's Ben Uriza. He's got a video for three weeks. He's going to ask you an old question about the show on TV. You don't know, just say it. I remember watching it as a kid and thinking how weird Guy on stage, people jumping up and down. It looks like a party. Yeah.
George:I just saw it from a. I was like these people have lost their mind.
Robby:That's how I was looking at it.
George:It's full on. I watched one of his Netflix specials years ago You've probably seen it, but there was a guy there and he's like pretty much He'll stand up and says I think he wanted to commit suicide and then Tony talked to him about that. And then there was another chick that stood up and he made her break up with her husband right there and there, in front of everyone.
Robby:I've seen him do the suicide thing yeah right. I've seen it a lot yeah, cool. It is one of the most unbelievable. He is so wickedly smart Unbelievable, he is so wickedly smart. And I've also heard other people say that no one should do that because, yes, he's good now, but he wasn't good when he started, et cetera, and obviously he got good through experience.
George:Yeah, so that's with everything and everyone though. Yeah, but like that in the sense of Telling me a therapist is better than what they are eight days in.
Robby:In the sense of it's a dangerous you know what I mean. It could go the other way. It could go the other way. Yeah, I also think he's a control freak and he wouldn't let it go the other way in the sense of if he felt like he wasn't 100% confident with the result, he would have someone grab that person. Yeah, he wouldn't just leave. He's got a full team and everything. Yeah, but I watched him do it, dude. He wouldn't just leave. He's got a full team and everything. Yeah, but I watched him do it, dude. I watched him do it once. I'll share this story. This is sick Tony Robbins world. There's a thing they call Tony Trance. Okay, it's like their own lingo. It is when he's in the middle of a what's it called? When you're Intervention. He's in the middle of an intervention, dude. Hey, intervention will go for like three hours.
George:Yeah, no shit, but with one person, with one person. So he'll do this live with one person for three hours, live with one person for three hours.
Robby:Shit Feels like 10 minutes. Yeah, when you're watching it, you'll be watching like so you don't know where he's taking this to, you've got no idea where this is going and you're so entangled in what the person's saying and what he's saying back and trying to work out because I haven't done his leadership stuff and the leadership stuff they teach you how he does it and then you watch him do it. It is fucking one of the best things I've ever done, because you watch him, dissect the person, and we were all on Slack and everyone's saying he's doing this, he's doing that, and you could see what he was doing, like oh cool, that was a rapport thing. Oh cool, that was this. Oh my God, what he did there was he led her to where he wants her to go, like and they were breaking it down and he did that thing the suicide thing, yeah Right. And he called out yeah, he knows who he's going to call on, because you do a questionnaire when you're coming in and he knows who he's going to call on, or he knows who the red flags are. And he called on this lady and dude for like three hours it was he was talking to. He's fucking the one. This is the one he's talking to her.
Robby:She was talking about how her dad died and her dad loved him and everything else and he was talking to her saying your dad wants you to do this. Like really, really full on man, yeah, like, and like two hours in and he's talking to her and he's like all right, close your eyes. He's doing all this hypnosis stuff. It's full on and she's crying and she grabs a frame and she hugs it to her chest and he goes did you just grab a photo of your dad? And then she was like and she nodded her head like no, I didn't. And then she's like can you show me what's that photo? And she turns the photo around and it's her and him from like 30 years ago, dude, and he, her and who, tony robbins. Oh, right in the frame. Yeah, and he freaked. He's like like it was the most like I can't. Where did she get the frame from?
George:she saw him like 30 years ago. You said she went and grabbed the frame.
Robby:Yeah, because it was virtual. Oh, yeah, because it was all virtual. Yeah, so she was at home. So he's doing this to her at home and I'm thinking, dude, like how are you going to control this If this goes sideways? How are you going to she's at home?
George:Yeah exactly.
Robby:Anyway, does this whole thing sick? He starts crying, she's crying and then buys her, says sick, get back your bags. Right now my team's sending you a plane, we're bringing you here. And he brings her to the studio where he is on the phone and I'm like fuck dude, like full on man. It is a wicked experience. I think everyone should do it.
George:Yeah Cool.
Robby:Wicked experience. But now, knowing what I know in the training that I've done, I now know what he's doing. At the time I didn't yeah, yeah.
George:But how cool is that? When you see, once you've done all the training and you've done all that, you can actually see, okay, and understand that whole process more so, and that's probably why it almost takes away the magic. It takes away the magic. I mean, it's like when you see him, when you know how a magician does his tricks, it's like yeah, it's cool, it's cool.
George:Yeah, very tough. I didn't know you. I didn't know you were doing that. Yeah, because we had the same thing when we did our training about speaking on stage. And you look at it and you go, ah, cool, I know exactly what you're doing. Yeah, yeah, I know why you did it. I know how come you did it. I know timing, the voice, the tone. You can't unsee it. Yeah, you can't unsee it.
Robby:That Sometimes you need to be the magician. Yeah, there comes a point in time where it's like I don't want to be the audience.
George:Do you see yourself ever stepping into that world as far as being a Tony Robbins-esque type person?
Robby:Define what that world is Like. Pd, personal development yeah, potentially define what that world is like, PD the personal development. Yeah, yeah.
George:Potentially.
Robby:Not on that, not on that level. So Tony Robbins, if you look at personal development as a whole, tony Robbins is actually fairly simple Dude. When I learned what I learned from him, I was like this is unbelievable. How the fuck have I been walking around not knowing this stuff? Now I look at that and I'm like that's crazy. Yeah, do you know what I mean? But prior to that I didn't know any of that, nor what I know now.
George:Yeah, and that's funny. It's so true when you say that sort of stuff and when you learn it. And I think a lot of people there'd be so many people that go to Tony Robbins events like that done everything you have done, but still continue to go every single time, every single time, because they'll go. Sorry, I don't do that, me, neither I, I, I, despite I would, I wouldn't want to go because of the learnings it's you'd probably be going more for the entertainment, do you know what I mean? But I'm not. That's not what I was there for ever.
George:Yeah, exactly, yeah, I know, but I'm just saying this people, what I'm getting at is people do these trainings to feel good in the moment. They don't actually take what they've learned and use it in their life and they just keep going, like they just keep going there. They become fanboys ultimately, yeah, and keep going and keep going and keep doing it and keep signing up and going to the next one, going to the next one oh, this makes me feel so good in that moment because it's great and helps you think about X, y, z in your life and then they go out of it. They're good for a month, they're good for two months and then they're back to the same old shit.
Robby:Yeah, you know why? Because they don't take action. Yeah, Without Dude if you go and you implement what you've done and you've gained the trajectory or the projection that you want from that, like it has gotten you from A to B and that's what you've wanted to do and it's done that you don't go there anymore.
George:I've been in that exact same boat and just as recently as yesterday, funny enough, where I called you up and said, hey, I'm done with this program. Yeah, and I was like, oh, I just felt I was looking at it as far as, okay, do I go and continue this journey for another 12 months or whatever it might be, however long I've decided to do it and I just felt I'd gotten to the point where it was no longer benefiting me and, as good as it is to have that person to be able to lean on and have that conversation with, I didn't feel that it was going to take me further. You know what I mean. I felt like if I continued on that path, I just would have been like this the whole way through.
George:I don't think it was going to be a peak or a trough, whereas when I first started it was like I'm here, whoa, let's go up here now. Whoa, okay, let's go up here now. And then it continued like that for quite some time and I think people get tricked in that going. Well, the only way I can keep going up is if I stick around doing the same old thing. It's like, no, no, step out of your comfort zone. Go do it yourself, go reinvent yourself, go do it better hey.
Robby:I put on a post about this the other day sometime, can't remember and it said it said something along these lines we all claim to be people chasing our dreams. A lot of people do. There's some plebs, and that's okay. But a lot of people do some plebs, that's okay. But a lot of people say, yeah, like I am chasing my dreams, whatever it might be, and we all want to do that thing that makes us uncomfortable. Yeah, like we go, we do that thing. Yeah, I get up at 5 am. Yeah, I have cold showers. Yeah, I have ice baths. Yeah, I do this, I do that. We get comfortable with the uncomfortable. Once you're comfortable with it, it's no longer uncomfortable. It's a paradox, right? And if you only do what makes you uncomfortable and become comfortable with it and you continue to do that same thing, you're no longer doing what's uncomfortable. Yeah, that's right. Do you know what I mean? You need to have cold showers.
Robby:You talking to me, I'm talking to you because you don't want to do it, and that's the reason you need to do it. Do you know what I mean? Because you don't want to do it and you're like nah, I even sent you that video the other day?
George:yeah, coach, has a bad for you. I'm like you see, yeah, if I put your body into shock.
Robby:You're like I can't do that. But seriously, though, like and that was something I had to realize because I was doing the same thing and I'd been in the same circle for a few years and I was like, oh, but I need to stay in. You know what I mean? This is a whole like pushing myself out of my. But it wasn't, yeah, because I was so comfortable there, like I knew everything. Yeah, like I've done. I've done what I need to do here. It's time to move on. Yeah, there, I've done what I need to do. Here. It's time to move on.
Robby:And that's the thing that we don't do, even if you've done it once. Oh, you know what? I've been to Tony Robbins. Okay, what's next? Do you know what I mean? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I did this, that's great. What's next? Jimmy Carr went on a podcast recently. He said this thing and I fucking love it. I wish I made it up and he said imposter syndrome. It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? You should feel it every 18 months. You should be pushing yourself so much in life that you feel like you don't belong every 18 months, because that means you're fucking growing. Yeah, that means you're doing shit that you didn't do previously, because if you always feel like you belong and you always feel like you're comfortable with what's happening, it means not a lot is changing in your life. Do you know what I mean? And yeah, man, I was the same when I had that realization and I was like I'm too comfortable here, like this is not, it's no longer serving me, yeah, and I'm done.
George:You know, it's funny, I was thinking about it this day, rob, today actually, was it today? Or maybe it could have been just in this moment, right now, because it's like no, it just in this moment right now, because it's like no, it was today. So I've got my construction business, I've got the consulting business and I'm so busy, so busy. Every day something's up. Do you know what I mean? And I was there. I was like fuck, I can't believe.
Robby:I used to just do building yeah, like that one thing, but that's because you stretched yourself, you wouldn't know what you could. And there'll be a day I hope that you look back at now and say I don't hope, I know they will you look back at this time and you say, oh, three businesses and a podcast is that all like? Is that all I was doing? Fuck must have been like I must have spent time. Yeah, exactly like I had some fair time back then. It's nice having a part time job. Yeah, but that's but that is. I must have had some spare time. Yeah, exactly, I must have had some spare time back then. It's nice having a part-time job. Yeah, generally, but that is you get comfortable with stretching yourself. Yeah, this becomes the new. Oh, okay, cool, now this is the new. Yeah, run Like people who run. When you run a K in a time that you couldn't before, that becomes your new kilometer time. And then you stretch yourself every single time.
George:You push yourself beyond. It's the exact same thing that's happening to me at the gym. I'm lifting.
George:I'm at that stage where I'm hitting some personal bests in certain exercises and I used to not used to I still used to hate going to the gym and doing legs Not in the sense that I've always, actually never minded training legs. I actually don't mind at all. No, I don't mind it. I don't mind it. But when I started doing it with a PT, I was like, ah, Because he pushes you that extra amount where it is hard. So I know like Mondays is hard, like it's not an easy session. I'm going to be limping. But it's when I started to hit those PBs and go, holy shit, how am I lifting this? I couldn't lift this 12 months ago. I didn't even think I would ever lift this. But I am and I'm consistent and I'm getting more, stronger and stronger and even today I've had some shoulder issues, but it's pretty much gone now and hit a personal best and I like I could have done more. And my coach was like, yeah, and that's sick, that's really good, we'll do more next time, we'll do more next time. And he filmed me on a couple of exercises from from, like, uh, I was doing pull-ups, yeah, chin ups, and he was filming me from my back. I was like, holy shit, like you got the v, I got the popping shoulders, I got. Where'd that come from? He's been training for nine months. I'd like, holy shit, like you've got the V, I've got the popping shoulders, I go, where'd that come from? He's been training for nine months. I'd like to think something's happening. So, yeah, you've.
George:But the idea is now he was saying okay, you're doing whatever. It was 120 on squats, because you should get up to 160, 180. And I'm like mate, that's so far 120. Not on the shoulders. I can't remember exactly what it's. No, no, deadlift, ah, deadlift, okay, sorry, not squats, yeah, deadlift, and he goes. Was that 125, I think around there, and he goes by the end of the year we should try and be pushing 160 to 180. I'm like fuck, that's stupid. I'm not going to ever do that. But why wouldn't I? I probably just I'm there's people that are smaller than me lifting more you know what I mean.
Robby:See, this, that's the thing of pushing yourself outside your comfort zone, like and I know we talk about this a lot but like and that's what I'm saying to you the cold shales thing. Like, you know, the, the obstacle is the way, yeah, right. Like, if this is a constraint, this is where I'm going to get the most growth. Yeah, do you know what I mean? If I hate doing legs, I'm probably going to see the most muscle gain when I do legs. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Because there's a reason you hate it. It's hard, yeah, it's hard. I get sore, I can't walk the next day. Do you know what I mean? It's probably the biggest muscle groups as well, and it's like what in life are you avoiding? You know deep down and you know you would know this that if I go towards that thing, it's going to help me go in the direction I want to go.
George:You do. That's the funny thing.
Robby:You know, fucking know. If you know you hide from it every time.
George:So much so you convince yourself it's probably not an issue 100%. And I'll tell you. Just coming back to the fitness aspect, I convinced myself it wasn't an issue as well.
Robby:Yeah, you'll talk about this. Yeah, dad, bods are cool. Yeah, but Mrs Lillian, that's right. Who was that? Was that Andy Elliot? Yeah, that's right. How funny, mrs Lillian.
George:She'd have a six pack, yeah but then you hear all these other people. It's like if you're married and you have a six pack, he's cheating on you. You know it's like. But no, I'm completely of that mindset, to a degree with Andy Elliot. He's also a little bit extreme, but, um, but yeah, I think I bought into that. I bought. No, no, I don't need to be. I'm married. Now I've won. I don't need to do any more. I don't need to work on myself. I'll just be one of those dads out of shape. That's cool. Have the beer gut, um, hang out with the boys, just whatever. All the other dads are the same myself, oh yeah, all the other dads are doing that. Why wouldn't I like?
Robby:that's cool, you don't need to have another pie yeah, but you, those thoughts you were having, they weren't conscious, you weren't sitting there saying should I? Yeah, no, you're like no, it just it just happens, that's right. Yeah, it became my, my unconscious thinking. You don't even question it, that's it. You're like, okay, no, you know well, like that's a, that's not, that's a waste of time, did, or whether it's like even today I was walking.
George:Just I only thought about this now that we're talking, but I remember walking down Bay Street today. I don't know why it caught my eye, but I saw an overweight person on the road and I just started thinking, okay, fuck, you shouldn't be like that. I'm talking not ridiculously obese, but fat. To put it plain and simply, they were overweight. I'm like what decisions have you made? When did you decide that that's okay and the vast majority of people are probably like that? Do you reckon we're more overweight than not as a society?
Robby:Yeah, that's true, dude.
George:That's right. It's so easy. Yeah, it's easy for us to survive and live. We don't have to try, we don't have to hunt.
Robby:Speaking of weight, I'm down six kilos. Hey, here we go, looking good. Yeah, I feel the same. Yeah, do you? You know what? Six kilos is a lot, six kilos is okay, but the start's always easy. You, you know what's happened. I don't know if this is because of the training or if this is because of the food. Part of the 75 hours you train twice a day, yeah, so I've been walking or running in the evenings and training. What are your steps up at Weights? I've got no idea. Yeah, I'd have to. Yeah, I don't know, but I actually don't track that. Yeah, I should, you should.
Robby:I had two things. I was getting this upper back pain. Yeah, like whenever I sit for too long, my upper back would hurt. I think it was a posture problem. Gone Because training. Yeah, gone, so cool. And I had this knee pain in my right knee where if I kind of sat in an awkward position too much, my knee would hurt, et cetera. I couldn't stretch it out fully. Gone, is it the training? Is it the training? Is it the food? No, I'd say it's the training.
George:I think it's the training too, because I don't want the same thing the food. I had the same thing with my lower back. I used to wake up every morning lower back pain, just tired and hurting, and it was a bit of an effort getting out of bed Gone. Haven't felt it for 12 months, yeah, hopefully, months. Yeah, completely gone. Oh, so good. Now I've got a bit of tennis elbow, but that's from training, yeah, so much. But also I went to see an osteo the other day and he was saying that it's also got to do with how I sit at a desk.
George:Yeah, because make sure you're sitting at the, you know, right back in your chair. You know you don't have to sit up straight, but you know 90 degrees with your arms and the table. It's just little things like that will help get better. Help your shoulder, your, your tennis elbow, it'll get better. And it's so important that you look after yourself. I mean, you're right, we talk about it heaps, but that's because it's so important and Gary Vee's so big on that.
George:People always say, gary, you say the same shit all the time. He's like, yeah, dick, because it always fucking works. Do you want me to start making shit up? Yeah, why would I change the narrative when this shit works. He's got his business, has turned over hundreds of millions of dollars, and you want me to change it, because you've heard me say this three times. Maybe you should take that as a hint and start doing what I'm fucking telling you to do, instead of sitting back and going. You're telling me the same shit. Well, you've been here six times, I remember you, and you still haven't done what I've told you did.
George:Did you buy his new book? No, I was going to order it. Yeah, I haven't bought it yet, though, but I do. I'm really interested and keen to read it Out in Australia. I don't know, probably have to pre-order it here. I ordered Patrick Bette David's Choose your Enemies Wisely, and I ordered that before it was released in Australia, and it took about four to six weeks to get here. So it'll probably be a similar thing. That's why I haven't rushed to get that book yet. Yeah, cool, yeah, okay. So that's really cool.
George:I want to talk about one thing now that's come to mind. Cool, have you, as a business owner, been in stressful situations? Right? I think no. No, I'm not going to ask you that question, I'm just going to talk. Do you find? No, I'm asking the question Do you find that when you come up against stressful situations, you handle them a lot better than, say, your employees would Now, yeah, now, of course, yeah, but now, you're trained now, so it's probably a little bit different. But, no, no, yeah, now, yeah, yeah, 100% See, because're trained now, so it's probably a little bit different. But yeah, now, yeah, 100% See, because it's funny, things will come up that stress the shit out of my employees.
Robby:What's the matter with you? Yeah, so that's like you talk about strain and touch it back on your weightlifting. Yeah, okay, you have had this projection of growth over a period of time. Now, what did you deadlift the other day? 125. Okay, so if I came to you when you first started signing up to you, how long did you sign up to the gym?
George:When did I start training with the PT?
Robby:Yeah, Say nine months ago? Okay, so if I came to you nine months ago and said, all right, cool 125. You'd be like what the fuck, I can't do this. What are you talking about? You know? Flip out. Yeah, exact same thing, dude. The level there is a direct correlation to how successful you'd be with the amount of stress you can have.
George:Oh we say, out of doubt what a great line. Just pause the podcast right now. Write that down. Yeah, press that button that says 15 seconds, reverse. Write that down. That is so true. That is so true and, like today, it happened on a couple of occasions. Today it happened literally before we started filming this podcast. My employee came in. He goes this is the problem.
Robby:I said okay what's the solution?
George:He's like, oh, I've got to do this, I've got to do this. He's like I can't do it because of this. I said, okay, cut it, move it back. Oh, that's going to take two weeks. Okay, you better fucking get on to it now. Then, yeah, and then I was like, okay, but what else could you do? Have you spoken to the engineer, maybe, because he's like I can't move the column, it has to stay there. I said we'll make it smaller and fatter. Change, it's still going to be the same mass. It's just not going to be long and skinny, it's going to be short and fat, but it's still going to have the same mass of concrete. You're going to say, oh, that won't work. You're not an engineer. Ask the question. We can move things around, we can make things work.
George:There is a delay. Yes, there might be a delay, going to be two weeks a week, whatever it's going to be, but at least you haven't sat on your hands and gone. This is a four to six week problem. You can reduce the severity of this issue just by taking action right now and thinking about it a little bit different and then, as a result of him, starting to think that he's like oh, we can do this, can do this cool. You see, once you start actually thinking about how you can solve the problem, other solutions will present itself. Speak to other stakeholders, to other experts, to contractors. Get your information, your ideas together and come up with solutions so you can actually deliver. He lost it if I wasn't there he would have, just we'd be more to six weeks behind on program now well, that's how I mean, for sure, because they would have accepted.
George:No, this is fucked. Another scenario happened earlier in the week which I've told you, and I'm going to try to be a little bit vague around this situation, but there was a scenario where people came to one of our jobs, did things they shouldn't have done and then posted about it across social media to the masses, Almost as a defamation against the company as well, so saying things that weren't true and portraying us to be in a way that we are not. Now all the team fuck these guys. Let's do videos. I'm going to write hate speeches. I'm going to do posts. Let's get them back. Let's do videos. I'm going to write hate speeches. I'm going to do posts. Let's get them back. Let's do this.
George:What are you getting upset about? What are you getting upset about? I go what is that going to achieve? If you go out there now and go tit for tat, what's it going to achieve? Think about it. Oh, we're just going to tell them how it is. And all this I said no, it doesn't affect me or the business in any way. Everyone that works with us, that works with you, knows what we're about and knows what we do. Correct, yes. Are they advertising to our clients? No, Okay, If our clients saw that, do you think they would stop building with us? No, Okay.
George:So where's the issue here? Oh, they've said something bad. Yeah, let's see, people are always like I said to them. I said, guys, I'm wearing this as a badge of honor. You know what I mean? Cool, like you're talking about me. Go for it. Yeah, exactly, free advertising, how good's that? Go for it, talk as much as you want, but then you get other people getting involved too, like comments and haters, and then people reaching out to you, calling you names when you start playing a bigger game. And this to me, this whole scenario, has just proven to me that tall poppy syndrome is real. Oh, it's so real, so real, especially in this country.
Robby:I've been in Australia. I'm like man, is this the place where you don't hit the goals you want to hit? Yeah, do you know what I mean? What kind of is that? How many billionaires do you know? None, and there is some that just stay low key. They'll park and cop. So much hate. Yeah, some of them have come out of Australia. Yeah, but they're just not. They're not, as look at the US. They are all about glorifying the, the people that have killed it in their country yeah, they celebrate, they celebrate.
George:Yeah, well done man. Yeah, the American dream yeah, independence.
Robby:You've done it, well done, yeah, but here it's like sit down, yeah, sit down, and we're going to chop your legs out, like you know what I mean.
George:And that's what I found was happening and that's what I will never be criticized by someone doing more than you. 100%. You will never be criticized by someone doing more than you. You think Michael Jordan is going to laugh at you because you're practicing basketball Cool snob. The guy eating pizza on the sidelines watching you and serping Coke is going to laugh at you when you miss your free shot. Michael Jordan, never will. You think a billionaire is going to laugh at you because you're starting a business or because you're grinding every single day? Absolutely not. You will always be criticized by those not anywhere near you. That's who's going to try and bring you down.
George:And I've noticed this a lot more so over the last I'm going to say 12 months because we've started now to do a lot more ads. We've started to put ourself out there. You see so many people. It's funny. People in my circle know me that I've never met before in construction and wherever it might be, I see your ads everywhere. I see this everywhere. You know what I mean. They see me. Yeah, absolutely. That's what I'm paying for. How come you haven't bought a ticket yet? What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? But they see me and they go. I love what you're doing. This is great. You know all that sort of stuff. Then you get the flip side. Oh, what the fuck do you know, Dodgy builder, Cutting corners on safety? You're a scab.
Robby:All that sort of stuff Just reminded me of a. I saw a comment that says more about the other people it does but you need to understand that these things can be hurtful as well.
George:It can put you down. You may not be as yeah fuck, I'm just trying to do well in business. I'm just trying to provide for my family. I'm just trying to live my life. I want to buy a new house, I want to buy a holiday house. Is that bad? Maybe I shouldn't buy a holiday house, because people will start throwing eggs at it or at me or then calling me names and it comes down like I keep telling my kids this like I don't like your blue hair, why am I getting upset? I don't have blue hair, so why am I getting upset when someone says that they don't like my blue hair?
George:It's the same thing with all of these comments. It's the same thing with all of these comments. It's the same thing with all of these people. They are so insignificant and I look at them now almost with pity. I'm like dude, you've given up. You've given up, you're conditioned, that's it. I think it was Beckham that said this. I can't remember. He was on the pitch and people are booing him and booing him. It's like yeah, but they're standing. They're standing in the stadium, so I'm on the pitch. I'm the one kicking the goals, I'm the one playing they're standing up there.
Robby:Never, never take advice from someone on the sidelines. That's right, they're watching me.
George:They've paid to come see me play and they're. You know what I mean. It's probably easier to say because it's not an extreme case for me, as far as it's not like I'm getting hate mail and you know 4,000 comments every single day saying how bad I am and all that sort of shit. You're not P Diddy, no, not yet.
Robby:I don't even know what he's doing. You don't know what's going on with P Diddy? I don't listen to that shit. Come on you. I don't listen to that shit yet. Come on. You know what's going on with you. Surely you know what's happening with P Diddy there?
George:you go, there you go. I'm not the only one.
Robby:I didn't even watch the news at all. It's like Did I watch the end of that shit? The whole Diddy situation at the moment. Isn't he, I don't know, irs or some shit, what is it? Nah, oh, is he?
George:Oh well then I'm not trying to get to that level, but I know he's a billionaire.
Robby:He's a billionaire, isn't he? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's about to get absolutely done for everything. Oh, is he? Maybe I don't know, I don't follow it too closely Like an? What's it called? R Kelly like that? Oh, not that bad. Oh, okay, r Kelly, um, but I think he was like domestic violence.
George:Yeah Right, smacking people around. That probably happens in that world all the time. Anyway, he's just probably that high profile person that gets caught.
Robby:That's gotten caught. Yeah yeah, he under the sky.
George:So yeah, I found that interesting being in that position this week because the team, how the team reacted and then how I reacted.
Robby:Yeah, but isn't that just emotional maturity as well? Yeah, I think it has a lot to do with that. You have to stay composed to ask yourself those questions and say, like, because I think when you called me and were explaining what happened and I said, and you're saying that people were saying you should go to them and speak to your solicitor yeah, speak to the solicitor. And I was like what are you going to get out of it though? Yeah, speak to a solicitor.
Robby:And I was like are you going to get out of it though? Yeah, dude, do you know how hard it is to sue for defamation? You've got to be able to show losses, yeah. You've got to be able to actually say no, I've lost 50K now because this deal fell through, or I've lost a million bucks because they don't want to proceed now. Then you can sue, yeah. But if you get no ground to say that, Exactly, yeah.
George:And then you're just causing trouble and then you're going to Creating emotional Exactly, it's not nice. So I look at that whole situation and the way I handled it and I go I won, yeah, I won. Even though the other people did the wrong thing, I won, and I'm like so much, I'm so much better for it as a result of that. And it didn't result negatively as far as business operations are concerned either. Everything's just normal. And this happened on Monday and it's like all right, done and dusted, move on, yeah, move on. And it's like again, I always come back and it's like I self-talk too. Man, I'm playing a bigger game.
Robby:So had this happened to you when you first opened your construction business, when you first opened.
George:Shaskard, good question. How would you have reacted? I think I would have been a lot more stressed. That's what it would have been. I would have been more stressed. I think I would have handled it lot more stressed. I can imagine that's what it would have been. I would have been more stressed. I think I would have handled it okay as far as my reactions, but it would have been more of a stressful situation for me.
George:Yeah, whereas I slept like a baby that night it's totally fine, didn't even think like I was laughing about it. You know what I mean. I found it comical. But again, people playing small, as Grant Cardone says it too. It's like if you don't have enemies, then you're not doing enough. If you don't have haters, you're not playing a bigger game. People are not going to like what you're about the whole way through. They're going to call you crooks, they're going to call you everything under the sun, and if you're not doing that, then you're not playing a big enough game. And that's how I try and look at it too. You reckon people are scared of that? Yeah, without a doubt.
Robby:Like the hate side. Oh, without a doubt, yeah, without a doubt. A lot of people what if I start getting negative comments on social media? Yeah, yeah, without a doubt.
George:You know, someone says they don't like my blue hair. Yeah, I think so. I think people would be concerned about that for sure.
Robby:What should they do? What do you do? Okay, hey, go, I'm concerned about that. Yeah, so worried about the social media comments. Yeah, stress and heaps Haven't slept in four weeks. What should I do? Get off social media? What should I?
George:do Get off. Close your accounts. Yeah, close them all down. Shut it down, turn off all the ads. Move to Cuba. Yeah, they've got some good cigars.
Robby:Good call.
George:So what should you do? What would you do? I guarantee you, I'll try and tell you this same thing, almost to the degree. Coach you through that aspect of like. Well, why are you stressed? First of all, oh, because they're saying things that aren't true. Well, you just said it right there. You know they're not true, Do you?
Robby:reckon, hold on stop. Do you think most people the connection that those aren't true? I don't care? Yeah, I don't think most people think that way yeah, okay.
George:So they'll say, for example, you know you're stupid and don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, and then you're like, well, fuck maybe I don't.
Robby:There is a slight part of your if that bothers you, like something, if something like that comments like that bother you, there is a small part of you that thinks that could be true.
George:You know when I first started, but that's with almost anything at the very beginning as well, except your blue hair.
George:Yeah, yeah, but I'm saying from a perspective in business now, because this is most of the time when people are going to get that sort of level of hate. I mean, look at the Kardashians, I know very extreme there would be heaps of, or any influencer extreme there would be heaps of, or any influencer. There would be a lot of people that hate on them, a lot of people In comments all the time. You could think of so many people that are like that. Eric, I find it so funny. What's it called? Like Jake, paul and all those guys, there's people that love them, there's people that hate them and we'll bag them forever in a day. Like what do you? Logan Paul? That's right. Like both of them, they'd be people that love them and hate them. But are you going to sit there reading all the comments and stressing out about that? Because then it's just it's playing into your insecurities too, isn't it?
Robby:why I think Joe Rogan said it and he goes the reason why it bothers you when someone doesn't like you is because you're not sure if you like yourself. Yeah, you look for the external validation. Yeah, every single month and time.
George:That's right. And then Gary Vee said that too. I think a lady asked him years ago. It's like, look, my daughter's getting onto social media now and how do I protect her from all the shit that's going to be on social media and all the things that people may or may not say? How do I protect her for that? And he goes.
George:Well, it's not so much you protecting her on that, because it's going to happen. You need to build up the self-esteem in her to understand that these things aren't true and that the words that are being written are more a reflection on the person writing them. They're the ones that are hurting, they're the ones that are fucked. They're the ones that are trying to bring you down because it justifies their existence. That's how you have to look at it and that's what I'd be saying too, and it's always easier to say that, but you really need a deep dive as soon as you realize that, and I think that's what it is for me, it's a realization that it's not me. They don't know me, they don't know what I'm about, they don't know who I am, and everyone that does likes me, everyone that does go. Yeah, he's a genuine person. He acts with integrity, he's passionate, he loves his family, his business, he's a good guy. So why would I care about someone that I've never met, never had any connection with, has no context, has no context, nothing that says you're a shit builder or you're a shit coach or mentor. Why would I ever pay? Why do people pay money to come and see you talk? Do you know what I mean? And I think when I first started my consulting business, it was a little bit like that in the sense of, oh shit, it's the first time I'm ever doing this. Why would people come and see me and listen to me? What if someone says I'm smarter than you? Well, I know more than you. What do I do then, whereas now I'm just? I think that's probably helped too, and putting ourself out there has probably happened at the exact right time in our lives.
George:Because we've had that level of training, we can push off any negativity or anything, and I've had people I remember seeing you at events when people challenge you on a thought. I can't remember what it was. I think someone was saying something along the lines of I can't charge for a quote, or whatever it was, and you're like yes, you can. It's like, no, I can't, it's like but George just told you all that you can and he does it in his business every single day. He goes, yeah, but that's not, that's different, because of this, this and this.
George:And then you pulled him up straight away Like he was challenging you. But you pulled him up straight away and you said like, well, that's probably on your mindset on that issue, not because you can't do it. And then he's like pretty much, oh well, yeah, fuck, you're probably right actually. And then he shut up after that. But you still get people challenging you now and I've had it a couple of times on stage, not too much. I've had a couple of times where people were like, hey, you know, that's not right, I do it like this. I said, okay, what's that result been for you? Oh, it worked for me.
Robby:Okay, that's great, so go hire a room and a stage. Indeed, people Shut me off now.
George:I'm talking yeah, do you want to come up here? Sorry, I didn't know. Yeah, I'm just going to go on break. I'm going to go on break. You come fill in for 20 minutes. But the funny thing is okay, matt, that may be worked for you. Any digital ads? Yeah, and I won a $6 million project and I just posted three types. Not impossible, it could happen. You could post one photo and that one photo someone likes, follows, calls you up, buys your product. That happens Doesn't mean that it's the way to do it, or the only way to do it or the only way. Yeah, you know. Oh, I've got signage on all my cars. That's why I get jobs, because people see me everywhere.
Robby:But there's like I watched a YouTube. Fuck me, I enjoy this podcast so much. I watched a YouTube video. I hope you guys do too. Yeah, unless you don't Send it off. Yeah, go somewhere else. Okay, yeah, go somewhere else. Go, don't, don't Stay here.
Robby:Um, I watched a YouTube video yesterday and the guy was talking about different people and how they do things and he's like there is the super positive which is like the people who you know, even if it hasn't been done, if we can find a way, we'll do it. And then he's like and then the next step is no, it can be done, they've do it. And then he's like and then the next step is no, it can be done, they've done it. Like they, you need to, they needed to see the proof to you know. And then the middle is like neutral and they're like we'll, we'll give it a shot, we'll see how this goes Like very passive, yeah. And then it's like the. The fourth one down was um, I don't know if this is going to work, but I'll try. I don't know if it's going to work, but I'll try. And then the last one was like this isn't going to work for me because I'm a special pancake.
Robby:Yeah, do you know what I mean? And it's like people come and bring their own models of the world, whatever category they sit in there. They come and bring their own models of the world to whatever category they sit in there. They come and bring their own models of the world to whatever it is you're doing, whether it's an event, whether it's a post, whether it's you walking down the street and they look at you and they don't like your shoes, whatever it is, or they hate shoes, whatever it might be. They bring their own model of the world and they're going to judge you based on that, and some people are going to share their opinions and some people are not. But you need to become so sure in who you are. You don't even get phased. Do you know what I mean? Walk around knowing that, like the blue hair example, the reason why that phase is not on is because you know for a fact that you don't have blue hair.
George:Yeah, I think I'm at that level for myself at the moment, I don't get phased. It would take a lot for something to phase me now In business. In business, in elements of personal life too. Yeah, yeah, I think so, yeah, and rightly so. Only you would know Like I feel. Like say, my brother came to me tomorrow and said, oi, fuck, you Never want to speak to you again.
Robby:All right, sad. You'd better listen to this.
George:You fucking want to. I'd be like, yeah, okay, yeah, of course, that would be really upsetting 100%. Why? Like, what has happened? What are we doing? It's like look, I'm just done. I don't want to speak with you. I don't like your podcast. I heard you say that you only employ women because you want to take advantage of the system. Because I'm just not into that, I'm out, I'm out, that's it. I'm tapping out. I'm like, yeah, cool, I'd be upset about that, but then, in the same token, I'm like You're lost. See you later.
Robby:Yeah, I also think that's just a level of maturity.
George:Yeah, Is everyone healthy? Yeah, that's right. That's where it comes down to. Gary goes extreme with that. Gary Vaynerchuk, he goes extreme with that. He goes once a day. I think about my wife, my kids, my dad, my mom dying, yeah, and then he goes. As long as they're not dying, then every other problem is a number. It's not even on the Richter scale.
Robby:He's also a very extreme person. Yeah, and if that's what gets you lucky, do you think? Yeah, that works for him. Go for it.
George:Yeah, and if it helps you, for sure, for sure, I reckon ever since having kids that's helped me from that perspective, less relevant. Yeah, that's it. It's like well, man, that's the most important thing, that's right, that's the most important thing. Anything else above that.
George:And this is a weird one I remember after I had my so we had a family dog. When I got married back with my parents and I married left, the dog was obviously still alive at the time, and then I had a son and son and then, you know, when my boy was two years old, the dog passed away and that was our family dog. I loved it. Great shit, nelly, dude, I gotcha, it was like it was. But you know what, I wasn't as shattered, as shattered as I thought it would be and I was like it's sad family dog. I loved it would be, and I was like, oh yeah, I mean, it's sad Family dog. I loved it. It was a great little dog, but I had kids. Then it wasn't as important to me. Do you know what I mean? I don't know why. I just remember thinking about that at the time and even now.
Robby:Do you think there's an emotional disconnect?
George:Yeah, a little bit yeah as a result. Yeah From, yeah as a result, yeah From the dog, yeah, like just in general, yeah, I think so, I think so.
George:Yeah, because it's even like with friends that have moved on in your life, like at one time I would have been really, really upset at that. Oh, we don't see each other anymore. Like what happened you know? But fuck off whatever. Cool man, I don't mind, yeah I, cool man, I don't mind, I don't hate you, I'm not like no negative vibes, nothing like that. You've grown apart. That's cool man. I'm not going to just lose sleep over it. I've got mine. Do you know what I mean? I've got my family, and then I've got the 10, 15, 20 people around me that I want. Everything inside or outside of that. That's full. And maybe, as I'm getting older, it's like you know, they say, the older you get, the smaller your circle gets sometimes too, where it's just the the left things. Yeah.
George:Yeah that's right. It could be an element of that too.
Robby:Do you know what I mean, One being age maturity, emotional maturity, Another one being the fact that growth do you know what I mean? Like not just from a maturity level, but the skill set, the knowledge, the okay, I've been here before, yeah.
George:You know, yeah, let's go. I reckon that's what a lot of it comes down to.
Robby:No and and um, what was the third one? I had a third one. I can't remember what it was. Now, what did I say? Knowledge, like your skill set, emotional maturity, emotional maturity and the whole thing around kids and the things that matter in life, yeah, I mean like starting to understand what really matters to you. Yeah, and everything else is just Also dude.
Robby:Experience in the sense that you ever had that thing you're fucking stressing about and then six months go by and you haven't you ever think about, you couldn't sleep that night for whatever reason. Like something kept you up. You're freaking out, you're stressing and then it's like it doesn't even matter six months later is irrelevant. Whichever, whichever way that situation went, it doesn't even matter right now, like it had no impact on my life. Yeah, I think those experiences teach you as well. Yeah, because they make you say, okay, cool, I freaked out about this thing and I have a post about it, saying something along the lines of 99.9 percent of things we stress out about never end up happening. Oh, yeah, do you know what I mean? It's like we create all these scenarios in our head, and most of them even in the moment, and I think it's that as well, yeah, learning that, understanding that, getting those experiences and starting to whether you're consciously aware of it or not, yeah, your, your unconscious mind is starting to track that, and that's probably why you get better at it.
George:That's it and I think for our viewers, for our viewers and our listeners I know in their subconscious they've already subscribed to this channel. They just as I'll listen, they would have just clicked it automatically. Yeah, they haven't even realized it. And so, congrats, well done that you subscribe to this channel. They just says, oh listen, they would have just clicked it automatically. Yeah, they haven't even realized it. And so, congrats, well done that you subscribed to the channel. Yeah. And for those few of you who haven't yet, now you can consciously do it.
George:Top right-hand corner, click that red button that says subscribe. There's probably a bell there for notifications. Click that one too. Stop fucking around. Stop fucking around. Yeah, absolutely, you've got to do it. Take it a lot seriously. Into the prime. You've got to take it seriously, and this is where you need to be to get through all the hard times and to share some of the good ones as well.
George:Deep, yeah, it was deep there, wasn't it Went sideways. The funny thing was, though should we let him in on the secret? Should we let him in? Is there a secret? Yeah, I mean, is there a secret? Yeah, me too About the topics that we cover? Oh, yeah, go for it. All right, I sat down with Robbie today. I'm like, oh, what are we talking about? He's like I don't know. Okay, did you read the show notes? Did you read the show notes? I guess, fuck, I missed those, missed that one again. I missed that email from you, missed that email from me. It is my thing and I write it every. I send it to you too, iggy. I send it to show notes, dot points, what we're going to cover each night and you never read it. So much preparation, so much preparation goes into this and yet it's still a deep and meaningful conversation. D&m, that's it, d&m? Yeah, I reckon.
George:Hey, sick hat by the way, that's part of thanks, man.
Robby:Yeah, you've been saying it the whole time, it's just like not trying to interrupt you. Cool, thanks, man, I'll get you one. Yeah, thanks for waiting.
George:Yeah, I got it. I got it from the F1 when we went that day.
Robby:Oh, you bought it that day. Yeah, oh, yeah.
George:Sick Instagram Negative. Yeah. So no, yeah, instagram, see, got torn to shreds on Instagram for wearing it was actually a Mercedes hat that I was wearing Got roasted by all the haters because I was a fan boy of Drive to Survive. So they said but you know what I put it out there. I actually never followed F1 prior to Drive to Survive. I am a consequence of that show, for sure.
George:The Drive to Survive I am a consequence of that show, for sure, and it's not so much because I didn't like the F1 prior, I just didn't know the ins and outs of it. And then that show showed me the ins and outs of it. I got to understandable and now every time it races on, I'll watch a race. If it's not at 2 am in the morning, I'll watch a race. If it's a replay or whatever it is, I follow the drive, I follow the teams, I follow the drive. I've got an interest in it now. So what they went out to do with that show, they've achieved in the masses. So I think it's fantastic for the actual sport itself that it's managed to get so many people interested in the sport by just through that show.
Robby:Yeah, but do you know what it is now with the F1? Like those people who would have been hating, they don't like change.
George:Yeah, so true, and you know, ask it like how many of them went to the F1 before? It was massive. You know they probably never went. It's the whole spewing that they had to wait an extra 15 minutes in line because all the fanboys are there now. Do you know what?
Robby:I mean it's also the whole V12. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all cylinder thing. Yeah, people just being human.
George:That's right, that's right, so yeah, but you know I've got heaps and heaps of comments on that day about people just bagging me because I was wearing that. I said, dude, like you're commenting on a jacket that I purchased, you know what I mean Of all things in the world, commenting on a fact that I bought a jacket. And then I posted a video about why I bought the jacket as well, because there was a little story behind it and everyone missed those. People missed the complete point of the story, which was along the lines of um saying how I think the story I was saying was Toto Wolff, who was the um he's on the Mercedes team was saying they won, they came third or second in a race or something like that. They won the team photo, yeah.
George:And then someone goes, hey, should we take a team photo? And he's like no, no, we don't lower our standards, we didn't win, like that was the point of the story that I was saying on social media we don't lower our standards and I love that. That was really cool. Holding yourself to a high no-transcript. You know, not everyone gets to be third. Well done, you should celebrate that. We'd love to be third. You're not planning to be in our fame, are you?
Robby:We could do a whole episode on that. Yeah, had a big enough time Participation trophies.
George:Oh, dude, let's talk about it next time. Shit, all right, guys. Thank you so much for tuning in another episode down. We're in the 1% club. How good is that. How good is that? It was amazing. It was amazing. Speak to you next time, guys. Thank you All right. Thanks, guys. See ya.