What if embracing discomfort could be the key to unlocking your true potential? Listen in as we navigate the intriguing themes of finding direction and stepping out of our comfort zones, all while sharing a few laughs over minor technical hiccups. We draw fascinating comparisons between the early days of the internet and the transformative potential of AI, brainstorming innovative ways to integrate lifestyle-driven visuals into marketing strategies. Our chat also ventures into the delicate art of balancing product promotion with selling a dream, wrapping up with a thought-provoking discussion on embracing change and the boundless opportunities it offers.
Ever wondered how successful entrepreneurs blur the lines between weekdays and weekends? Our second segment dives deep into productivity hacks and work ethics, sharing personal stories from our relentless pursuit of business success. From the power of single-task focus over multitasking to the critical importance of balancing work with leisure, we unpack the tools and methods that keep us on track. We also highlight the significance of time management, discipline, and the relentless grind that fuels our ambition to achieve million-dollar business goals.
What’s the secret to building wealth and growing your influence through content creation? Find out as we explore how consistent content sharing, even with a small audience, can lead to significant growth. We share personal anecdotes illustrating the indirect benefits of content creation and emphasize how hard work and persistence can transform your personal and business brands. The episode concludes with a reflective conversation on the impact of environment and mindset on success, stressing that true growth stems from enduring tough situations and learning from them. Get ready for practical tips and inspirational stories that will motivate you to take action and stay disciplined in your journey to success.
What if embracing discomfort could be the key to unlocking your true potential? Listen in as we navigate the intriguing themes of finding direction and stepping out of our comfort zones, all while sharing a few laughs over minor technical hiccups. We draw fascinating comparisons between the early days of the internet and the transformative potential of AI, brainstorming innovative ways to integrate lifestyle-driven visuals into marketing strategies. Our chat also ventures into the delicate art of balancing product promotion with selling a dream, wrapping up with a thought-provoking discussion on embracing change and the boundless opportunities it offers.
Ever wondered how successful entrepreneurs blur the lines between weekdays and weekends? Our second segment dives deep into productivity hacks and work ethics, sharing personal stories from our relentless pursuit of business success. From the power of single-task focus over multitasking to the critical importance of balancing work with leisure, we unpack the tools and methods that keep us on track. We also highlight the significance of time management, discipline, and the relentless grind that fuels our ambition to achieve million-dollar business goals.
What’s the secret to building wealth and growing your influence through content creation? Find out as we explore how consistent content sharing, even with a small audience, can lead to significant growth. We share personal anecdotes illustrating the indirect benefits of content creation and emphasize how hard work and persistence can transform your personal and business brands. The episode concludes with a reflective conversation on the impact of environment and mindset on success, stressing that true growth stems from enduring tough situations and learning from them. Get ready for practical tips and inspirational stories that will motivate you to take action and stay disciplined in your journey to success.
If someone can do something, then you can do it too. It's been proven that it's not impossible. It's been proven that he can do this role. You can do it too. It might take you longer, it might take you a week, it might take you a year, it might take you 30 seconds, but you can do it. You just have to give it a go. You just have to try.
Speaker 2:If it didn't take more work, you'd already have it, and you don't have it.
Speaker 1:It's a job at work, do that one thing and go okay. I've seen the benefit of this. I see that I need to do more. Now put a plan together. Now get that discipline there and go okay. I want to play a bigger game. I want to start doing more things. I want to start getting to that next level.
Speaker 2:Face the music. Yeah, don't fucking talk. A game you're not willing to.
Speaker 1:Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is George Passus, also known as Top George, also known as Gentleman George. Oh yeah, gigi, gigi, gigi. Saw that the other day.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, I just remembered something right now. How funny you just reminded me of the whole Gigi thing. What's that? I was talking to you about doing segments.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, I do. On the podcast.
Speaker 2:On the podcast. Yeah, I had a sick segment. What was it? Just give me a second, it'll come back to me.
Speaker 1:Should I keep talking, or do you want everyone to go make a coffee?
Speaker 2:No, keep talking. But if I interrupt you randomly, I'll know why you keep talking. But if I interrupt you randomly, I'll know why. You'll know why, I'll know why.
Speaker 1:Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, happy to have you here. I hope you're having a million dollar day, as always, because why would you want to have anything else other than?
Speaker 2:a million dollar day. Yeah, now grab your million dollars, sit down and let us tantalize your earbuds.
Speaker 1:That's it. Welcome. How are you, mate? I am amazing Good. Do you know? When someone asks me how I am, I always say excellent. Why not? Because the go to is not bad. How are you going? Yeah, I'm alright, excellent. How are you? I was like I was like saying that first interaction with someone to be on a positive high note. I don't know if it starts the day like because I've even had why would you say you're anything less? I don't know, because people do. How you going? Ah, shit, ass. Yeah, I just called someone before. I was like how you going? Oh, I've been better. He goes. I've shot a nail through my hand last night doing something. Been in hospital for two days.
Speaker 2:Okay cool.
Speaker 1:I still would have said excellent, even though I had a nail. How are you Excellent? I've got a nail in my hand. Think I'm going to fuck around? No Building shit Still alive.
Speaker 2:That's it, perspective, isn't it? Yeah, you know, because if you were in a war-torn country and your whole life was falling apart, you would do anything to be sitting in a hospital in a first world country. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:With a nail in your hand, exactly.
Speaker 2:Perspective. Right, yeah, that's it Brings you back.
Speaker 1:Cool man, cool, cool, cool cool uh, another busy period.
Speaker 2:Hey, dude, when this airs we'll be six months in the year down we will definitely do.
Speaker 1:This will air in july.
Speaker 2:I think holy shit yeah probably, yeah, somewhere in july.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so six months down, guys. Half a year, six months, what have you done? That's scary. It is man. We said it last. We said a few episodes ago as well Six months.
Speaker 2:I feel like we just said six weeks. Yeah, we're like whatever it is, we're a quarter in first quarter's down, la-da-da.
Speaker 1:And now it's like boom, another quarter gone. Hey, do you know what's cool, what we do? I can't remember if we All these podcasts just blend into one, but whatever, just we catch up weekly. Now We've been doing that for about three weeks now. Yep, yeah, talking business, talking how we're going to do some pretty amazing shit. I mean, we catch up weekly outside of that anyway, just even doing the podcast.
Speaker 1:But aside from that, the fact that we catch up on a Monday every single oh, it was a Monday, it Monday. Every single. Oh, is it Monday? It's Tuesdays, tuesdays every single week and go through quick 45 minutes to an hour and we just talk strategy, we talk business, we talk how we're doing this, how we're doing that. And it's funny, we leave there and throughout that week we're messaging each other going, oh, what about this, what about this? This is random. But what about this? This is random, what about this? And even last night you messaged me I was sleeping at that time and you're like, hey, the offer, we've got to change that completely. I've been thinking we're doing it wrong the whole time.
Speaker 2:Let's change it, like it just hit me there and then and I was like like, yeah, you don't know, and I had to message you and I was like, yeah, that was it's. I'm telling man, since that episode it's been on my mind yep, yep, dude, I haven't stopped working. Yeah, like I've been working every single day. Yeah, man, I spoke to someone the other day. They're like how was your weekend? And I was. I had to stop thinking why is this guy? And I realized it was Monday. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And I didn't realize it was Monday because I worked Sunday and Saturday. So, yeah, I didn't have that. Oh, yeah, it's Monday. Yeah, that was, which was sick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love it, dude. Yeah, I honestly think if I didn't have kids, if I was in your position and I was single, not married, no kids, nothing, no obligation outside of myself, man For me, I just sit there. You work at nighttime as well, like through the night, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, do you get to like five o'clock and that's it, and do what? Do what Exactly? That's the option, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Well, no, as in, what else are you going to do if you're not going to work? I feel the same. I said this to you the other day about the PlayStation. I saw it there in the corner and I was like, oh, I could play a game. Okay, that would be the worst thing I could do right now. I should go and do things that are going to generate or bring positive influence into my life, or generate wealth, or do something that's going to be a benefit. Playing PlayStation isn't going to fill my cup at the moment. It's okay to do it every now and then, if you enjoy it, if it's going to give you some relief from the world for that half an hour, two hours, whatever you want to play on it. But if you're doing that consistently, is it really helping you make that million dollar day dream come true?
Speaker 2:you know, I've always um, I've always got like a. So when I I make, I work with task list, you're in a task list. Never, you never make task list. What is task list? No, no, hold on, hold on, it's just. This is an ad, I'm trying to hide it. I want to get it now. It's like I write down a list of tasks, thinking like this isn't some ai app that I don't have yet sounds like a sick app, is it?
Speaker 1:I'm trying to hide it? I want to get it now. I write down a list of tasks. Oh, that's that. Thinking like this isn't some AI app that I don't have yet sounds like a sick app. Is it tasklistai? I thought so, yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought so yeah, do you? Do you make lists of what you need to do? How?
Speaker 1:do you track what you need to do? I have my effectivity matrix.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Is that what you use for everything? I use that for the. I've got OneNote where I put some stuff in. I don't really use that much. I can't say that. No, I try and use that. So you've got a whole bunch of stuff you need to do. Yeah, I try and actually write them down on little post-it notes and put it up on a board and then I try and grab. So I try to start a task, finish a task.
Speaker 1:There's a book called the One Thing. I can't remember who wrote it. That really good, easy read. Yeah, the One Thing by something Keller, that's right. Yeah, it's a good little book and I completely agree with it. You know it's pretty much the whole concept of the book is.
Speaker 1:Multitasking is a myth, it's bullshit. It was developed in the 80s by corporates to say you know, we're great multitaskers and can do multiple things at once, where you actually can't do multiple things at once. You can only do 60, 70% of lots of things and never finish anything. So you're much better off to concentrate on the one thing, finish that one thing in its entirety, then move on to the other and then move on to the other and then move on to the other. So that's what I try to concentrate and do, rather than doing 50 things at once or you know 10 of everything, so you don't use lists.
Speaker 1:Look, I've got a notepad next to me. I might write some things down as I need to, but ultimately I'm just using my post-it notes. I've just found that that's helped me lately when I say lately, the last six months, because I've had so much to do. It's kind of I just like the idea of peeling the post-it note off putting it in front of me doing that task and throwing it out. Idea of peeling the post-it note off putting it in front of me doing that task and throwing it out when it's done.
Speaker 2:It's interesting I can actually show you dude one sec oh shit.
Speaker 1:Mics are off, headphones are off, and you're just here with me and we're back.
Speaker 2:All right, this is how I work. Yeah, and you tick everything off. I make lists and I tick as I work. Yeah, and you tick everything off, I make lists and I tick as I go. Yeah, right, like every single day. Like that's usually what my list looks like, dude, yeah, I've just gotten down to this now and that's from working seven days. Yeah, like I reduced it a whole lot and, as you can see, like a lot of these are done. Yeah, like I got a lot of shit done, so you do write.
Speaker 1:If you don't finish something in a day, do you then transfer it to the next day?
Speaker 2:So stuff from here that didn't get ticked off rolled over to here.
Speaker 1:So wouldn't it be better for you to just do a digital list, so like OneNote, where you can have all your lists and you can tick them off, rather than writing something every? Or do you like writing it down too? I've tried it.
Speaker 2:I just always end up reverting back to this. And then what I do after that? In, I grab one of these sticky notes. You want to note this down as a sick hack. I grab one of these sticky notes, cause when I look at a list like this or like this right, and if you're watching, there's my list there. When I've got a list that big, yeah, that's overwhelming. Yeah, you're like fuck, where where do I start? So what I do is I go and grab a sticky note and I write down five or six tasks and I close the book and I have the sticky note in front of me.
Speaker 1:I just tick up the stuff on the sticky note, like this Yep, and I just focus on those ones, the most important ones. Yeah, and I do that like they're the ones I need to do now, yeah, and I've got that same thing where I've got my most important tasks, ones that aren't really that important, ones that I can delegate, ones that I can eliminate. So I try and work like that a little bit too, yeah, and I've learned something over the last week.
Speaker 2:I think we grossly underestimate how much work we need to do, how much work people top are doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you know what I mean? Because like you only see the accolades, don't you? Yeah, you only see the title CEO, multi-billion dollar company. You only see them going to lunch in their Ferrari. They're going to eat. You know what I mean. You only see them on a weekend on their yacht, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's the first time in three years.
Speaker 1:That's the first time exactly that they've been on the yacht in in six months that they've owned for the last five years, dude, I guarantee you, like an elon musk of the world would outwork 99.9999999 percent of the world and that's why I think when he's say when a person like that employs someone and you're not a hard worker like you, know how he went into twitter and fired fucking 30 percent of the people in there, or 50 percent of the people 75.
Speaker 2:Was it even better? Cut it down to 25 percent of the?
Speaker 1:staff because he looked at that place and he goes you guys are doing absolutely fucking nothing. You're all fucked. I've woken up this morning and I've already achieved more than every single person in this room. We're cutting it down to the best 25. Now you reckon those best 25, they aren't exceptional at what they're doing. They're probably dominating and the business is probably doing better than it's ever done before. But instead they had employed a person to water plants. They employed a person to change the ink in pens. Do you know what I mean? Whatever they were doing, change. Do you know what I mean? Whatever they were doing, change the ink. Yeah, if you had one of those pens like Montblanc's you'd have to change the ink.
Speaker 2:It's a real role it sounds tough.
Speaker 1:Someone change my $1,000 pen.
Speaker 2:I can't do it.
Speaker 1:But you know, if you've got that many inefficiencies in a business and you've got a person that's inherently a hard worker, there's a level of of, I reckon, like go fuck yourself From who? From the top. So Elon Musk was very much like that. He goes no, you're fired Effective immediately. And he goes oh, I'll sue you. You know, here you go. Here's six weeks pay. Oh, but I've got I'm owed four weeks. Here's six months. Fuck off. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what's one of my favorite quotes? This comes from Alex Horwazy Dude. I've been consuming some of his stuff, alex, seriously, yeah, alex, hey, he's gone back to like just hardcore business content.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've noticed actually he's sick. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? He's so used to it. He's done a lot of shit with his top off. Have you noticed that too? Yeah, he must be shredding or something at the moment. He's just like cool. I've got to make sure people know I'm a boss in every area, every aspect of life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have you seen him without a beard? Yeah, a long time ago. Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 1:When he had the, he was just like this, just had stubble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did that ever again yeah, he was a kid, he was like 24, 25 or whatever. Anyway, one of my favourite people, business people on the planet. Yeah, and his quote is volume negates luck yep volume negates luck so if you do enough of something, it outweighs the. I got lucky, yeah, or I finally struck gold, or whatever I might. If you do enough of something, it'll outweigh that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I mean volume negates luck and I don't think I'm doing enough volume interesting yeah, like I feel, because I like I've been working now flat stick, and then I'm like this is like I've kind of pushed to a new level in the sense of the amount of things we're getting done and and I've started to think like, hey, this is still not enough. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Like you need to this, this now, this probably the the most, and still not enough. We need to now go like this is I need to take a sleep. Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:And I've recently had that realization in the sense of I worked the last seven days, ten days, whatever it might be, I've been working at night, everything, and I've got so much done. I finally caught up. And then I'm like this is how people do it, this is how people do a million bucks in a business with two employees. Yeah, they work like this. They have to. There's no other way. These people aren't fucking finishing at five, dude, no way. Do you know what I mean? These people aren't stopping work at 4.30 and saying let's go to the pub, that's it. And then it's like and I think I mentioned this last time or a couple of episodes ago I've stopped having long showers now. Yeah, you were saying waste of time. Yeah, I've stopped Now, so now I get in, get out, and my reward is, if I do that for the whole week, I'll have a long day on the weekend. Do you know what I mean? Because that's a waste of time, dude. Yeah, really, I would have to watch out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like, how do I?
Speaker 2:It's interesting, it's like you're affecting your hourly rate, dude, I'm like I need to get the most. It's to the point now where when I go and someone's wasting my time, I get upset because sit down. You're wasting my time, dude, like you are now. This is this is rude. You know what I mean. You're wasting my time. Do you know how fucking, how much I've been, yeah, finessing my schedule to make sure I don't waste time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that happens, like with me in the construction business. I say my old man used to do this all the time, still does, actually. He'll call me up and he's like, what color is the door in the main hallway? I'm like, why are you calling me? And he's like, what are you talking about? I go, just tell me the color of the door. I go, no, because don't you know what the color is? Absolutely, I do Call Ang angelo. Why are you calling me? That's not my fucking job. All right, call angelo, he'll tell you the color of the door. But you know it, just tell me. Now, I know you, you're in front of it. Bye, just hang up, right, but it's not, it's be, it's not that it's. I'm doing so much me to check, to open up the drawings, to go find the schedule, to do all this it's going to take me three minutes yeah, and you'll focus away from every, from whatever I'm doing.
Speaker 1:That's right and it's it annoys me and I'm like no, no, and it's also training them to say don't come to me for things like this. That's why I pay him. If I, if you'll come, if I'm doing that, I'll fire him right now. I'll go inside, I'll fire him and I'll just do it myself. Yeah, what's the point of employing people if they're not going to do these sorts of tasks for you? But he used to always come to me back in the day. Obviously, when we first started, it was me, I knew everything and I would tell him all these things. But now I'm like no, no, you've got to speak to the employees. That's what they are here for, that's what they're here to do. Don't come to me and ask me to do these things. I'm busy casting, way too busy. Someone's got to do it.
Speaker 1:Uh, so, coming back to the volume aspect, and it's like you know, when you have a problem in your business, most of the time you don't have problems in your business. You just don't have enough money in your business. You just yeah, yeah, it's a problem. It's not a problem if you can solve it with money. It's an expense. And this recently happened to me where we had a. I had a 120 issue. I won't go into what the issue was, but you know about it anyway and I know that. Yeah, it was. Um, it was regarding a. I had $120,000 issue $120,000?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh sorry, you said 120. No, $120,000.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry, you said $120,000. No, $120,000. Yeah, yeah, that's a whole different story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, and it's like I was thinking about it and I'm like I don't have $120,000 issue at all. I have an issue that I'm not worth $50 million. That's my issue. That's the problem here. It's the fact that I'm not worth 50. Because if I was worth 50 million, do you really think that issue is going to be an issue for me in my life? Of course not.
Speaker 2:It's going to be pocket check. Go away real quick. Go away, don't talk to me.
Speaker 1:Don't touch me. It's like GC is big on that too. He's right, dude. He 100% is right. He goes you don't have enough clients, because if you had 200 clients paying you $5 million each, do you really think you would be concerned about and I read this in a book. Oh, it was Patrick Beck David's book the other day. I finished it your Next Five Moves and he was talking about this.
Speaker 1:He gave an example of someone that he knew and this business was turning over $8 million. This business had $8 million of revenue, but one of the clients brought in $5 million. Yeah, that's right. It's like he was so heavily reliant on that one client that the client was able to dictate the terms and say, no, I want a better price, no, I want this, I want better conditions, I want better this, I want better this. It eventually got to the point where he wasn't making any money on that $5 million client anymore and then he had to have that conversation and say, well, oh, look, I can't do this price for you anymore. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:So that client left and, as a result of that client leaving, his business went from $8 to $3 million. Now his infrastructure was set up for $8 million business and when it goes to three less than half, he's now got employees, he's now got overheads, he's now got all these things he has to sort out and get rid of. His problem wasn't that he lost the $5 million client. His problem was that he didn't bring enough clients in so that if this $5 million guy said I'm leaving, he could say go fuck yourself. I've got another 50 clients, so what do I give a shit? Yeah, that's just bad business it was. And then, as the story ended, that client ended up buying his business for whatever it was that left, and this guy went out of business.
Speaker 2:He bought it at a fraction yeah, at a fraction of the cost, because he lost everything, he lost 60% of his revenue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it. So think about a lot of the problems that you do have in your business right now. Most of them could be solved if you increased your volume, if you increase the level of work that you were doing to acquire customers, to acquire clients and man, it's so true when you're saying about working hard and putting in the hours I've been doing. I honestly think I've had the busiest six months of my business career.
Speaker 2:I reckon I have too. I've been flat out dude, but it's been but I've been getting shit done.
Speaker 1:Getting shit done. I mean, you called me yesterday, messaged me yesterday, and you're like Oi, what the fuck, where are my videos? Stop fucking around. This is literally the messages, and one at a time. It wasn't like one long message. It was like Oi, boy, what the fuck where are my videos?
Speaker 2:you're playing small, huh yeah, I was like fuck, that's not, you're not trying to make a million bucks.
Speaker 1:Anyway, yeah, you're giving up. I called you up. I said, yes, you're right, thank you, thank you, he goes. No, you think this again. Yeah, I think we're here to fuck around. Said you're right. Do you know what I did?
Speaker 1:Pulled out my camera, made your videos, send them to you, boom, do. Do you like them? Yeah, they could. Yeah, good, do you need one more? No, I'll work up an old one. Oh, can you make more? I don't have three minutes. Don't have three minutes Waste of my time. But, you know, kept me accountable. Yeah, cool man, but I've been so busy doing heaps of other shit and it came off a really busy day that I had the other day. But my point is I look at all of the efforts that I've been putting into play lately and they're starting to pay off. Fucking off, they are Paying off, dude, they're paying off. My construction business is doing really well and it's at the point where I'm like, oi, I'm going to get some bank again. We're starting to see some blue oceans ahead, some clear skies. Yeah, isn't this, let's fucking go and it's-.
Speaker 2:But here's the thing is here's. Please say it. Here's my challenge, dude, please say it.
Speaker 1:Don't fucking take your foot off the pedal there thank you don't fucking take exactly what I did back, no, no, back in pre-covid yeah because you do dude, it's like yes, it was exactly that. But but can I tell you, I have this level of paranoia, I have this level of anxiety, that's just there.
Speaker 2:It's just in the back of my mind. Is it a good paranoia? I need to keep going. Yes, I'm coming for it all. Don't fucking stop. Yeah, don't fucking sleep now. Don't fucking stop, don't go to sleep. That's so good you think this is good.
Speaker 1:Keep going. It's better when it's $30 million, it's better when it's $50 million. Oi GFC's coming again.
Speaker 2:What are you going to do? 100% and you need to be Fuck around At global events like that. You need to be cashed up.
Speaker 1:Man, all I keep thinking is I have a $50 million problem. I know I have. I have a 50 million dollar problem. You do? I have a 50 million dollar problem. It's I am not worth 50 million. Yeah, so that's what I've been thinking about a lot lately, dude, it's been driving me, and also the conversation we said about ah, sick, sick, I got a training coming up and it's around the basis of wealth. Um, with my mentees and I'm going to be talking about this sort of stuff, how much money do you want to make this year? How much money do you want to make this year? How much money do you want to make this year? You not knowing that, how much money did you make this year? And you said this example the other day it's like you not knowing that cost you $10 million. You not knowing how to do that has cost you $950,000. That has cost you $950,000.
Speaker 2:You know we focus on the wrong side of the equation. Do you know what I mean? Like you grab. They're like save your money, oh yeah, Not increase your earning capacity. Yeah, dude, I learned that from Grant Carter. He was like you can only take to zero, Like, even if you get your cost of living from. Let's just say your cost of living is five grand a month or 10 grand. Let's call it 10 grand a month. But for the sake of round numbers, right, let's say your cost of living is 10 grand a month and you get that down to zero.
Speaker 2:That's only 10 grand you cannot make it anymore, like there's no way to make that higher. Do you know what I mean? Whereas your earning capacity, you can earn 100 grand a month. That's infinite. Yeah, and we always focus on the wrong side of this. And there's a really good example with marketing. Let's say we're doing right now, we're running ads. Well, actually, by the time this airs the build, the summer will be just about to happen. How exciting, okay and uh sy.
Speaker 1:Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Go on national, National company. How sick is that? How?
Speaker 2:good, how sick is it? George Bass is touring Australia. Holy shit, get your tickets, hey. So one of the figures we measure is cost per lead, right, or CPA? Yeah, cpa, cpa, cpl. Cpl is cost per lead, cpa is cost per acquisition. What's the difference? An acquisition is when they Someone that's actually purchased? Yeah, a lead is someone you can contact. Yeah, right, but let's just for the sake of the argument, let's just work off CPL. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So cost per lead.
Speaker 2:So just getting an inquiry. And then he's like we generally set and I was watching, I was watching a training on this right and he's like we generally set a budget and if we fall within that budget, I don't focus too much on bringing the cost per lead down and I was like, wow, why not? Like you know, we always try and, and he's like because we're looking at the wrong side of the equation here. I was like, well, why not? Like you know, we always try and, and he's like, because we're looking at the wrong side of the equation here, like what if we, instead of focusing on bringing our cost per lead down let's just say you're getting $10 leads and I get you a hundred leads, that's a thousand dollars he goes now, instead of spending all this time, effort, energy on turning those leads into $9 leads, to save a hundred dollars a month over the hundred leads. What if we focused on what else can we sell to the customer to give them all? That is how much? Because that's again, you know how, looking at the trying to save, yeah, or trying to bring up the upside, and it's focused.
Speaker 2:And I was like he's bang on, he is 100, bang on with this. Like what's the point of all that effort to save $100 when you could add something for $100 and sell it to 20 people and add $2,000. It's going to be 20x what you were trying to save. You know what I mean, and it's like focusing on the wrong thing. I can't remember who says this, but someone says if you're not making the level of money you want to make in your business and you're running out of time, you are simply working on the wrong stuff. It's working on the wrong stuff. If you've got no time in your business, you are working. You're pulling on the wrong levers. Yeah, and I think we do that far too often and I think I've been guilty of that as well.
Speaker 1:Especially when you first start a business too. Yeah, you know and oh you. But especially when you first start a business too, yeah, I do, because you got to do everything at the very beginning. But it's that you don't fall into it, that's right. The trap you fall into is you're like no, no, this is what I have to do to get to get by. You know, the very first person you employ it's always a big step, but the next one's not that hard, and then the next one's not that hard, and the one after that's not that hard. And it gets to a point eventually where you're like you know what? I need 30 people here and your payroll is 30 grand a week.
Speaker 2:And so we're making money. It's all good, this is a churning machine, that's it, and there's things coming in and things going out. We need to make sure we have processes for lead acquisition, processes to sell, processes for fulfillment, and everything churns like clockwork and then we spend our time refining it. Yeah, I think leverage, man. I think leverage is the next step, because now I look at it and you're like, even though, okay, cool, I've worked a lot of that down, yeah, and I got a lot of shit done, how do you now ramp it up? You need people. You need to leverage either tech or labor yeah, absolutely One of those three things. Water mate yeah, you either got to get some form of technology to do that thing, so not a human has to do it, or you need to get someone else to do it. That's the only way to continue to grow, and that's what's come to light recently.
Speaker 1:So what are you going to do about it?
Speaker 2:Well, hiring a salespersonperson pulling a few triggers, um, I'm just gonna go all in, dude, I, I, I've actually I'm so committed to going all in right now that I haven't even bought a car, like I haven't pulled the trigger on that anything, because I'm like marketing girls, yeah, I worked for that later. Like I don't need, I'll give you a lift, fuck it, you can come borrow my car whenever you want. Dude, I'm like I don't know anything. Because I'm like marketing goals.
Speaker 1:Marketing goals yeah, I'll work through that later. I don't need, I'll give you a lift, fuck it. You can come borrow my car whenever you want. Dude, I'm like I don't need. Honestly, actually, it's just a side topic. If you need to fucking trade your car, just come grab it. Yeah, I'm here 90% of the time.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I'm.
Speaker 1:It'll be quicker than the Ranger, but you love Rangers anyway, so it's all good.
Speaker 2:Big Ranger fan. But yeah, man, it's like I think you know when you think you're close, I think that's delusion. I think that is delusion to keep you going.
Speaker 1:So you're saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 2:The delusion. Yeah, I think it's good and bad. Good because if you thought it was so far away you probably wouldn't try, and bad because you're nowhere near where you think you're. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And it's like Dude, some people are doing ridiculous volume and you just look at it and you're like this guy seems to live a normal life, goes out to dinners, you know, got a missus or kids. He's a family man, but he's still doing 100 million a year, 500 million a year. You're like how, how the fuck are you doing all this? He's like what? You're not God, you don't have any special superpowers. It's like what did they do?
Speaker 1:to get there. People crack the code. That's what it comes down to. They realize it, they leverage.
Speaker 2:What's the code? What's the code? Do you know what I mean? Because it's like and you answered that in my head when you said to get into where we want to go, can't be doing what we're doing now. Something has to change, and that's always been in my mind, yeah, always. Like, what is it Like? What is it that needs to change? Dude to the fucking point where I don't have like I'm in and out of the shower in like five minutes now. Like to the point where I'm like a billionaire wouldn't have a shower for 25 minutes. Like you know what I mean. They're not just sitting here enjoying the hot water, like they've got shit to do. That 20 minutes things get done. They might have a meeting, they might have two meetings, they might make three phone calls. It's like, okay, cool, we need to start thinking like that now, because I've got habits that are keeping me where I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so funny. One of my employees wanted to have a meeting with me. He's like hey, can I have a meeting with you today? I said no, oh, no, when was it? No, he goes during the week. He goes. Oh, I want to come see you. Can you block to 12.30. I go one and a half hours. You want to have a meeting with me for one and a half hours? I said no, I'm too busy. No, what do you want? I want to talk about this, this, this and this. Text me, send me an email, right, or call me at this time.
Speaker 1:Anyway, he was very persistent. I said I'm going for lunch at this time. You can sit with me and we can talk. You have half an hour. You know what I mean. Like, if I'm gonna, you're gonna work on my time. I don't, like, I'm not gonna spend an hour and a half with you on these top. I knew what it was about um, nothing good or nothing bad, sorry, all good stuff, but it was more just a bit of clarity on what he was going to do in his role. I said look, that's cool. We can have these conversations and it's one that needs to happen At the moment. I've got a lot of stuff that I needed to. This podcast was one of them.
Speaker 1:As a result of me doing this podcast, I've got half a day left and I've got to do stuff in between that half day. Then I've got the weekend and then I've got next week. I've got events, I've got things coming up. I don't have time, but even so, even if I did have the time, I would still do it. Okay, cool, I've got lunch at this time. You can come down, or you can call me at this time, or I'll be on site at this time. I would make people work within my schedule and I think that's what billionaires and millionaires those real high net value people, do is their time is the most precious thing to them on the planet, on the planet and how they use it and how they maintain it, and it almost becomes obsessive to a degree. You know what's helped me with this.
Speaker 2:What's that? 75 Heart?
Speaker 1:Cool? Oh yeah, because now you have to do certain things.
Speaker 2:You can't let it go and you go like I told you, dude, I was here at one o'clock today. Yeah, I've already got my power workouts. Yeah, how good is that you don't have to go to Workouts are done. Yeah, I just got to make sure I read my 10 pages and then it's like okay, cool, that was all that was was discipline. Yeah, I had to get up early and get a workout in, and then I got a workout in before I came.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think people you know what I reckon people's biggest hurdle is. They want to be motivated all the time. I reckon people want motivation to go to the gym, motivation to work hard. I need to be motivated. I don't think motivation is a good thing to be tapping into. You know what? Going to the gym, every day sick. Yeah, that's been mad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I haven't liked the second workout. Yeah, that's been kind of like a Bit of draining. It's just pushing on my discipline more than anything else. Yeah, like it's just it's a lot dude Working out an hour and a half minimum.
Speaker 1:It was a single day Absolutely Like I worked out today and for me to go do another workout.
Speaker 2:I was just like that's what I'm saying yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 1:See, I don't mind. You know, if I worked out this morning and then you said, hey, I've got indoor soccer tonight. Do you want to come play?
Speaker 2:Yeah, fucking me.
Speaker 1:I see that as a bit of fun. Would I do it every day? I mean, if I loved soccer, no days off, if I loved playing that sport, it wouldn't be an issue. But if it was just that once or twice a week, yeah, it'd be fun to do. So I don't as the workout then. Do you know what I mean? That's fun. Yes, it's a bit more fun. Yeah, exactly. Whereas when you do go to the gym, look, you're not going to the gym and just sitting on the couch on Facebook. You know what I mean? You're working out, you're doing something that's hard and it might just be walking. Yeah, I got fucked yesterday. What the rain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah side, yeah, I did. You had no idea how good, had no idea it was raining and then it was like coming to. You should talk about that in your vlog 5, 30, 6 o'clock. Yeah, the vlog would already come out. I'd already come out, I'll do it the next one.
Speaker 1:Do it the next one. Um, for those you're not or listening for the first time, check out robbie's youtube channel. He's doing a vlog on doing 70 days, 75 hard. It's actually pretty funny. I was watching it this morning, dude, I fucking got a bit of a laugh.
Speaker 2:Had to go for a run in the rain last night. Did you run, did you walk?
Speaker 1:I was just 45 minutes. You can do whatever you want to do 45 minutes outdoor workout.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I mean? That's hard, yeah, well, walking is permissible, but, like you, get more wet.
Speaker 1:Nah, I don't know if you get more wet. Oh, if it's within reason, like if you're out in the wet weather for an hour, you're getting drenched. Yeah, I was drenched, but if you're just out in the weather for from here and you have to run 30 seconds, you will get more wet walking than what you will run you know what the weirdest part was?
Speaker 2:I wasn't the only person going for a run. There's other people, that was the way and I'm like all these people, don't people doing 75 hard? What's going on here? What the fuck's wrong with you?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm doing this because I have to.
Speaker 2:You're doing this out of pleasure you know, I saw a couple walking yeah, a couple and then I saw a couple people going for a run sometimes I think did they start the run in the rain or did they did it start raining mid-run? I wouldn't know, because by the time I walked out it was raining and I was like we didn't turn back, there's no turning back, Got to get it done. And I was like, oh well, that's just water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so discipline is the determining factor there, it's not motivation. You're not always going to be motivated to work or to go to the gym, or to have difficult conversations, whatever it is. You're never going to have that level of motivation at all times and I don't think you should be tapping into that. You should be tapping into the discipline of doing it.
Speaker 2:There's a great feeling that comes from getting shit done, man.
Speaker 1:No one's ever done something difficult and then be like I regret that. You know what I mean. How many times have you gone to the gym and just gone?
Speaker 2:fuck, I feel worse, dude I, I think I'll train every day.
Speaker 1:Oh post, yeah, yeah, cool I like that, I think I will train, not twice a day. No, I don't think you need to, though yeah, do you know what I mean if you do a solid 45 to an hour at any stage throughout the day, I feel physically, physically good Even, like do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Grabbing stuff, I feel stronger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how good is that? That's the best thing I found. I felt I feel strong. Do you know what I mean? I've done 50 workouts in 25 days. That's sick. That's sick. Yeah, I feel like they say the jokes like when you walk out, if you want to, you want to be like a, a boss in the area, just like walk, walk out in front of all the other dads with your top off, just to be an alpha male or something like that. Just gotta pick up a washing machine or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gotta put it out on the lawn on your shoulder, just put it over everyone else. Yeah, that's it. Um, yeah, and then.
Speaker 1:So you obviously believe in the concept of hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work.
Speaker 2:Do you believe in talent? Yeah, absolutely, why? What's talent?
Speaker 1:Who's got talent? Some people are naturally gifted at certain things and others who Absolutely Apart from physical, apart from physical?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Who's naturally gifted, apart from physical advantages? So if you're tall, you're going to be a better basketball player than me, yeah. Or your genetic makeup? Yeah, yeah, that is physical. Yeah, okay. What's talent Apart from physical makeup? Or?
Speaker 1:whatever you want to call it, I suppose it can almost be one and the same, can't it?
Speaker 2:What else is?
Speaker 1:talent. I'm saying because you could talent like is it physical? Being able to throw a ball in the exact same spot every single time? I think that's practice, yeah, or even throwing at a certain distance, that is strength.
Speaker 2:Have you watched? Yeah. Where does strength come from? Yeah, that's what I mean. It's physical, yeah, yeah. So have you watched? Yeah?
Speaker 1:that's what I mean. It's physical, yeah, yeah, so have you watched? Yeah, but some people have a natural ability To what I'm thinking Everything.
Speaker 2:I'm saying is coming back to physical, just to say, like, what is talent? Yeah, I refuse to believe that.
Speaker 1:I feel like talent is a word that we put on people to make ourselves feel better because that's good. Yeah, they're talented and I'm not. Yeah, they're talented. They have an advantage. They have an advantage over me because they're talented. I think people would reference that. Yeah, so you're a talent. Yeah, how are you a talented business owner? Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah, you can't be.
Speaker 2:So what's a talent? Is it just a physical?
Speaker 1:I think people would relate it to physical attributes yeah yeah, talented business owner or a talented mathematician, so smart.
Speaker 2:This is for me, I think, part of the upbringing, majorly, oh, without a doubt, majorly, without a doubt, tell me without a doubt.
Speaker 1:Um, you know, when I finished high school, I worked for a fencing company like building timber paling fences with your PT cover wouldn't go anywhere without it. I worked for a fencing company like building timber paling fences With your PT cover. Yeah, wouldn't go anywhere without it. Yeah, it's a good car, that one. That made me sad. Yes, got to get a 518 now. So when is it? Yeah, I was just working at a fencing company and the guy I used to work with he was a business owner done all right for himself, and he was a carpenter by trade, you know, builder, renovator, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:But man, building fencing was a hard work. It wasn't easy, like laborious, yeah, like I reckon it's probably one of the most labor intensive jobs out there. I see people building fences now. Hey, respect, I've done it. I know how hard it is, not an easy slog. But I reckon that gave me a real appreciation for what a hard day's work meant and what it was about and what I needed to do, and I think that helped me push through hard days, not just physically but mentally as well. That's where it really began for me.
Speaker 2:Is it the all blacks that make people work. One week of labor? Yeah, sweep the sheds. Yeah, yeah, and after that they're going to just labor, yeah, so you think there's benefit to that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do without a doubt, because, think about it, you never do that ever. You never have anything hard that you have to push through. What happens when something happens that's difficult comes up, you're fucked, you fall to pieces. Okay, good example. I think I was talking to you about this as well, actually. And something happened in one of my businesses, and and something happened in one of my businesses and we yeah, like everyone in the company was flipping. They're like fuck that guy, let's go. You know, let's retaliate, let's get him, let's do this, let's do this. You know I can't believe it. You know everyone.
Speaker 1:And I'm just sitting there, cool, calm, collected. Hey, what are you stressing about? Not a big deal, it's not a big deal. Yes, it's not a big deal, don't worry about it. No, no, fuck that. They can't say that about us. They can't do this, they can't do that. Oh, you're talking about us doing something, right, right, you're never going to be criticized by someone doing more than you and you get criticized by people doing less than you. What I'm getting at is I've gone through the difficult times. I was once that person. But because I've gone through difficult things in my business, when difficult things come up, I don't see them as hard. See, here's the thing. Here's the secret about business and life. Life doesn't get easier. Business doesn't get easier. You just become better at it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You start to handle. Well, that's, yeah. You start to handle things you wouldn't have handled previously. Correct.
Speaker 1:Correct, and that's where you need the difficulties in your life, because all of my employees, they haven't had this happen to them. They haven't had these difficult things that I go through as a business owner, you know before. In between, just before I got up and we're filming, podcasting, my employee comes up to me and says, hey, we've got a problem. What's?
Speaker 2:the problem. I said, yeah, I saw that. What's the problem?
Speaker 1:He goes oh, they haven't allowed for this and it's going to cost this. How much is it? It's $750. Just fucking pay it. Look, it's not just pay it big deal. So it's one day's worth of work. Yeah, okay, good, so I just solve your problem. Yeah, yes, but you know something? He was stressing over that. I just solved it like that. Have you thought about this? Have you done this? Have you done this? Oh, okay, no worries, so it's not a problem anymore.
Speaker 1:See, a lot of people when they get difficult things, if they haven't dealt with it before, it's immediately zero to 10. And really, for us it's like a zero to one and a half, but for them it's a 10. Well, this is an emergency. Let's fucking get the fire extinguisher. Let's go, we've got to put this fire out. No, no, relax, relax. What's your actual problem? What's the solution? Bang, what's your actual problem? What's the solution? Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. List them out, talk yourself through it. I had a big problem and also when I have had crisis moments where you go okay, this is a problem, big issue here, being able to go from an actual 10 or a 9 and experiencing that and still getting through it when a 3 or a 4 or a five happens. You're like man, it's a walk in the park. Is this all? Is this all? The problem is I just remembered.
Speaker 2:Do you remember when you called me once and this was the first webinar? Yeah, yeah, the first webinar. I can't remember how many people we had registered, but we had a whole bunch of people registered. And you're out in like half an hour and the office phone rings and one of your sites is on fire and you call me and you're like, hey, this just happened. And I'm like dude, why are you calling me? I just want to tell someone, call the fire brigade or something. You're like, nah, it's all under control.
Speaker 1:It was just funny. It was literally oh, what a great story, what a great fucking example. Literally three to five minutes before the webinar started, at one of the very first webinars, there was probably about 50 people that was on the webinar. I was about to go live and talk about how to run a successful construction company. Meanwhile my company's on fucking fire, literally. And, yeah, I copped that phone call about two minutes before. I'm like, hey, what's going on? Oh, the fucking job's on fire. I'm like you serious, what the fuck? What's going on like, oh, police here. Okay, I've got to go.
Speaker 1:Now I gotta go all right sir, like what am I going to do in that moment?
Speaker 2:yeah, am I going to go I thought you were calling me to tell me a webinar's off. Oh, no, no, I thought that's right fucking around around At the time. I'm thinking it must be like, okay, cool, what are we doing? Canceling the scene? Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:It's fine. But okay, what was I going to do? So say it was on fire, it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. As usual, I'm thinking there's nothing I could. I'm at least a 25 minute drive away. You don't have a hose? I've got one at home, so okay. So I was 30 minutes away because I have to stop and get my hose on the way. Pick up the hose, all right. So I'm 30 minutes away. In 30 minutes that whole thing could have burnt down. So there is nothing on the planet that I could have done in that exact moment that would have changed the you know what it's.
Speaker 2:still, most people would freak out, lose their mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know what? Guess what? I have insurance. So if the whole thing burned down, went down in a pile of smoke, pile of flames, and it just means I'm making an insurance claim, all right, start again, let's go. How much is it going to cost? A thousand bucks excess, cool, let's go.
Speaker 1:So, but yeah again, the reason I was able to react like that in that moment is because I was trained even before that. Yeah, because a previous version of me yeah, would have maybe lost my mind, would have called you up, said Robbie, you've got to go. My job's on fire. All it was it was some material outside of the building caught fire. The actual house itself didn't catch fire and there was a little bit of damage on one of the walls which we just repainted. It was fine. So that whole aspect wasn't really a big issue, but it could have been bigger than Ben-Hur in my mind. I could be like holy shit, this is happening, what's going on? I've got to call my mum, got to call my wife, got to get the kids out of the house. Whatever I was going to do, even though I wasn't in the same suburb, I could just lose my mind, go crazy over that Panic. Nothing good ever comes from acting like that.
Speaker 2:I also think experience prior to it, like in the sense of because you talked about handling things better and I think you know, and as you were saying it, I was processing the thought of I haven't really freaked out recently. And then I'm like am I not freaking out because of the whole 75 hard thing, Like I've got other shit I need, like dude A, because I've gone public about this, like I can't flip up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right, Cannibal, Even if I've got something really important to do and I've got to do this and that, like I can't normally, I sit down, don't run fuck off Like I need to do this. Yeah, Now I'm like I've got to do both. I sit down and be like I have no choice I had I had.
Speaker 1:I did a body scan the other day at the gym. I don't think it was as intense as your one. I've got that teed up for you, by the way. Oh cool, how was it, out of curiosity, did you just stand on a machine and hold the Nah, I've done those ones. This is way better. Yeah, yeah, so I've just done the basic one. I did that at the gym, 20 bucks, and they did it for me. So I've done that. And then today we took photos like body top off, everything. He goes cool. Now he goes in four weeks time. We're going to check this. Yeah, we're going to do it again. Same body scan and photos. So between now and the next four weeks, I'll put in some work. If I keep eating cheeseburgers and croissants and ice cream every single meal, I'm not going to get the results, am I fuck?
Speaker 2:I'd love a croissant. How good would it be, how good I would love a croissant.
Speaker 1:When does 75 hard actually end for you? 50 days In 50 days, yeah, so when's that? That's mid-, that's day 25 today, so where are we? June, so you're mid-July. Yeah, so 11.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cool, no fucking around.
Speaker 1:No fucking around, just in time to go sick at the events, but you know what's sick, you at the events, but you know what's sick.
Speaker 2:You know what's good about 75 hard? They actually make you take a photo of yourself every day. Oh, sick Part of the challenge. Yeah, you have to take a photo of yourself every day. I almost missed it once I was camping.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, what about it yeah?
Speaker 2:Lucky, I remember it at 9.30 pm. It's not just a selfie, like you know on these ones. No, no, you gotta go top on yourself. Yeah, top off, um. But actually I'm gonna show you that because you want to talk about the whole weight thing, right, yeah, and check this out, dude. So this is my weight now and I share this in my vlog. If you want to go, look at it. But it shows you, see below that it shows you what I was on the 4th of may, which was like three and a half weeks ago oh yeah, for a fourth of may down 6.35 kilos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, body mat BMI down 2.3, and body fat down 1.7. No 1.4, sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's just from my scale at home. Yeah, and that's sick because you look at everything and you can see, so you've got a target weight of 70.
Speaker 1:So you were 80. You're going for 72. Oh, okay, so what were you? You were 86?.
Speaker 2:When I started, I think I was 87 point something.
Speaker 1:Yeah right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's cool that you're doing the same thing and you're going to see, you'll see, that's not even four weeks, dude. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, you know what I mean. So you'll see similar, if not more, difference over a four-week period. Yeah, but yeah, that's cool, man. I think, going back on the whole volume thing, like I need to be doing more yeah, that's kind of cool though yeah, I can't explain I know you mean because I, I, still I.
Speaker 1:I completely resonate that. I'm like I mean. Even in my last, in our last episode, I said something along the lines of I want to. I didn't feel like, I didn't think I would be where I am 10 years ago. If I was thinking forward in the future. I didn't think I'd be where I am. I thought I'd be further ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think that's just a level of ambition.
Speaker 1:Yeah, correct, absolutely it is. But then it's also a level of you know, I started to feel sorry for myself because I wasn't at that level, and then it's like, well, okay. But then I snap myself out of it pretty quick and I'm like, okay, well, what do I need to do to get to that level? And this is where our weekly meetings are great. This is where this podcast is awesome. This is where being around the right people is a really positive influence on you because it helps you level up.
Speaker 1:To us, it's not just me attracting or me wanting to be attracted to, whatever it is high network people or high performers. We're becoming those high performers, we're becoming the benchmark. And then people want your time. That's right. Well, I'm there now in the sense that I've got my consulting business. That people want to learn from me from my experiences in construction yeah well, man, you should want to learn from me from my experiences in construction. Yeah well, man, you should. You absolutely should.
Speaker 1:I have no doubt that anyone that joins my, any builder that joins my program, they'll benefit immensely from being in the program Through my level of experience and what I've encountered in the years of construction. If you listen and implement, you will get phenomenal results, and my hope is that they become even better and bigger than me. Fantastic Good on you. I'd be so happy to hear those stories. You're going to have to fucking work hard, yeah, because I was doing some sick shit. That's just that You're not stopping. No, it's like the next level today. I was even thinking about it today in a session, a meeting I had. I was like bam, when I get to that next level? So the next level for me is a GM in the business. When I get there and it's forecasted for this year when I get to that, I'm like okay, so what's my role look like then?
Speaker 2:What am I doing? What are you doing? Yeah, and then all of a sudden you got all this time back. Oh, 40 hours back a week there's a sick Tony Robbins clip where he's like he's like, yeah, he's like, look, because you know I get people come up to me, they come to my events, they leave, they're pumped and they're like, hey, I'm gonna remember me, remember me, I'm gonna get to where you are, remember me. And then he's like yeah, that's great, I hope you do, and when you get to where I am, you'll be where I was. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Yeah, because what he gives you, think he gives. Think I'm going to stop growing bitch. I was like that is so fucking sick. Yeah, that's cool, because by the time you get here, I'm not going to be here anymore. Oh, you got to 50 mil, finally. Cool, that's why I'll put you in my back pocket. Now I'm in belly. Then Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Like finally at 50 mil, yeah, that was my jet fuel bill last week. Yeah, last year.
Speaker 2:Jet fuel, all the greenies that I didn't understand, yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm on the cusp of learning a lesson that's going to change everything, like through a difficult thing or a good thing. Like, do you think this lesson is going to be a difficult lesson to learn or a positive one? When I say positive, I mean from a. Is it going to be a difficult thing that happens or a positive thing that happens and you're going to learn from it? Positive thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because so okay, let me. The other day I went and bought headphones like this Bose ones, though.
Speaker 1:Oh cool, I got the Sony ones. Yeah, are they good? Yeah, I quite like them, like noise cancelling ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I went and bought the big Bose headphones, right, and why I bought them was because I recently bought into a new trading program and the guy who actually runs the program talks about how he listens to things. Yeah, listens to everything on two speed and I listen to it non-stop, like, non-stop. Like he goes. I don't watch training videos as training, I have them on those podcasts, okay. And I was like, okay, how can I implement that? And I started doing it and then I was like, okay, I'll just leave it playing while I'm doing stuff. And then I found myself like going outside or going there and I couldn't, wasn't paying attention. So now I went and bought headphones.
Speaker 2:Now I can wear the headphones on the whole time because I was doing it with airpods and it was getting annoying, do you find, though, with that, because I've tried this as well he says, yeah, good, okay, take the pressure of yourself to remember, take the pressure off yourself to remember everything and if you're hearing something that you want to go deeper on rewind, take note of what it is and watch it later probably. But yeah, get through the content because you you will pick. If there is something that really triggers you, you'll stop and say what the fuck did? He just say yeah, and you're like wait, where am I listening to? Oh, this is chapter nine. Okay, cool, take note chapter nine. You need to sit down and fucking go through this properly. But it's the whole unconscious. You know what I mean. And then I'm like maybe that's what I need to do.
Speaker 2:Hey, now I watch all YouTube videos on 1.5 speed. Yeah, cool, I'll watch way more content in a short period. I'm consuming content to learn, not watching it for fucking cat videos. Yeah, that would be weird watching cat videos on 1.5 speed. You know what I mean. And now I'm like, okay, cool, I can actually watch over a two-day period. I actually watch more content than I would have watched over three days. Do you know what I mean? And it's like okay, I'm finding little things that I'm adjusting, levers that I can pull on knobs that I can turn slightly, that are getting me things that are compounding. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Now I'm structuring my days better because of the 75 hard I've been working nonstop and, honestly, monday-itis I didn't even know it was Monday, I didn't stop so I was like momentuming the whole time. I've done so much shit that's been on my list for ages and I've knocked it all out. And now I'm constantly learning and listening consistently, like every single. If I'm not doing something where I need to read, there is an educational something playing in the background. Yeah, good, in my ears in the car you know what I mean While I walk or run, and I feel like that's starting to compound. Yeah, and it's sick, but I also feel like there is something that's missing, like these guys are doing that. What else are they doing? No one is superhuman man, no one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I learned that lesson a little bit early on, in the sense of it's my working career, and I've told this story before. But long and short of it was, I had an old boss that he told me look, I was nervous to do a task because I'd never done it before, and he goes mate, that guy can do it. He's got half a brain cell left and he can do it. So why can't you do it? If someone can do something, then you can do it too. It's been proven that it's not impossible. It's been proven that he can do this role. You can do it too. It might take you longer, it might take you a week, it might take you a year, it might take you 30 seconds, but you can do it. You just have to give it a go, you just have to try.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's like the thing If it can be done, why can't I do it? That's right. And the people that I look up to are just here. Yeah, nothing. The people that I look up to are just here. Yeah, nothing special about it, dude, they're just humans. They're just doing something you are not doing. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:You know Elon Musk outworks everyone. That's the truth. He does the Rock. Do you reckon? The Rock takes fucking time to? You know what I mean? He'd do work. That guy would work like an animal. Yeah, and it's like cool.
Speaker 2:You can't do what they're doing now because they're worth billions of dollars to teach. They have now leverage that you don't have access to, but what did they do before? And how do I start to implement those things and get there? You know what I mean. Yeah, I feel like I'm on the cusp, dude. I feel like I'm on the cusp of working something out. I don't know what it is, pump, but I feel like I'm on the cusp of working something out where it's going to be like dude, I have to work this out soon. Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Some of the people I look up to now are younger than me and I'm like what the fuck? Do you know what I mean? Like what I remember thinking when I was young. I remember someone talking about Chris Judd. I'm Carlton, I love Chris Judd. I loved him when he was at West Coast dude. I couldn't believe he was a Carlton Very good. And I think it was my uncle I was talking to and he was telling me he loves Chris Chard, like he's a Carlton fan as well. And I remember looking at him and thinking, no, it's the same age Chris Chard was older than me. Yeah, I was looking up to him. And now I'm at the point where I'm like, cause I found that weird. It's like you know what I'm saying, man, like this guy could be your mate. How can you you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, but now it's like I'm looking at people and I'm 33 and I'm looking at like someone who's 31,. I was telling you, oh, moses is 31, isn't he? No, he's 34. Oh, is he? And I love that, but that. And then I'm like I'm now looking up to people that are younger than me, which is weird. It's a weird feeling, cause then I'm like, well, I, I almost catching this guy is going to be almost impossible unless I start doing more than what he's doing, and he's already way ahead of me. And yeah, and that's where I don't know, I can't explain. It's weird.
Speaker 2:It's making, it's, it's motivating me because it's saying like, hey, like you know, you think you're working hard. You're not working hard, bro. Do you know what I mean? Oh, you're working 13 hour days. That's cute. That's cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're probably doing six hours of work. You know what I mean. Or you're probably doing seven hours of work and you're fucking around half the time. Or you're not efficient, or you don't know how to leverage your time, or you need to learn how to leverage your time, become more efficient and do 16 hours. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And then it's like you either gotta step up or face facts. That's where my head's out of time. And facing facts is not a. This is not facts. Yeah, if I can step up, yeah, exactly. Yeah, do you know, and I'll, it's murder me like I'm pumped dude at the moment. Fuck me doing some shit. You know, I said I'll be working like flat stick and, but I don't feel tired, I don't feel great, I don't feel like fuck man, like let's go. It's a greater purpose. Momentum, it's momentum. Yeah, I'm momentuming, do you agree? If momentum was a verb, it would be a bit better for me. Yeah, it's sick, it's sick. But yeah, talent is real.
Speaker 1:Great myth of the world, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Is it real? Great myth of the world, isn't it? Is it real Like, apart from physical advantages, you know you're taller, bigger, stronger, whatever? That's real, but is talent genuinely a real thing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, not in that context, I don't necessarily think it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right. Why isn't there any talented business people?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then, if it's not it's almost probably a way they use to describe luck.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's Go back to luck. Volume negates luck, that's it. Do you know what I mean? So it's like well, I'm not doing enough. I'm simply not doing enough. Yeah, I watched a video last night. Yeah, I didn't get like I get. We can get many views on these blogs. I don't really care, I'm not me, I'm just having a life. But even you go that with anything, though, hear me out, this is sick, because when I heard this, I was like fuck, that is so right man.
Speaker 2:He's like people don't want to put out the youtube video because they get a hundred views and they're like 100 views. You know they're too embarrassed to get 100 views, but if I told you, hey, I've got a room full of 100 people and you can come and talk to them, because most people would come pretty quickly, you don't understand that the 100 views is 100 different people watching what you put out there, and it's there Like it's not going away. So it could become 101 or 120 or 100. You know what I mean. But most people have so much shame, too much of an ego to get the 100 views and to start there not knowing that that's a great starting point and it's fucking free. Dude, having a YouTube channel is fucking free. You know what I mean? I'm going to ramp up my content so fucking much. Man. You don't understand.
Speaker 2:Like I've got, see, I've been noticing even your editing skills now and it's cool, yeah, some of the shit you're doing in your vlog today I'm just having a play, because then when you, when you play around, you start to understand the whole concepts of that and do these head in below do you?
Speaker 1:does it take you a while to edit the video?
Speaker 2:I think that video probably took four hours, but I did it like one time for like 9 pm to 1 am and I just, yeah, I just smashed it out at night and it was done and I was like cool, that's it like I spent. I think I did it on tuesday night, that's it, it's done. It's got a bit and just get a bit and that's it like that. Did that big.
Speaker 1:They have become like that dude, yeah, but see, eventually you'll get you to do it or a team member to do it. Yeah, you won't edit your own video, and that's where a lot of these guys are at now. That's why, and that's how Paul Mosey puts out, you know, three, four, five posts a day across every single platform. Because he has, though At one stage I guarantee you he had his phone on a pedestal or whatever it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, 100%. He used to have his own camera. That's it. He used to go tape himself. That's it. Have you seen him? And he's wearing the mic? Oh, he didn't know how to do. Know what I mean? That's the. This is sick Media company, right? Legacy media legacy media. We need to make like content should be. Should we be putting out content for legacy media like business content? Do you know what I mean? Like just sharing knowledge and sharing. You know what things I'm currently doing now? Yeah, and be like hey, this is this, this is how I've done this.
Speaker 1:This is why I've done that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is three ways, three things to check. If you know that, if you want to increase your prices, this is how you do it. These are the three steps Do this, do this, do this. This is this. This is how you do that. You know what I mean, and it's like just share your fucking knowledge. Yeah, yeah, and that is another volume thing. I feel like I don't post enough content. I get once. I called him once and he called me Not a guy I speak to regularly, but I've known quite well and I saw him calling me and I was like oh, and I answered he's like is that lord of the reels? Lord of the reels? Yeah, good, and I laughed. And he's like dude, every time I jump on instagram, he's like I see a reel and I'm like have I watched this one? Oh, no, I haven't seen this one. How funny. And I'm like that's cool. I honestly feel like I'm not putting it out yeah yeah, same.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just feel like I'm not putting it and we try we you said something like we have like 300 videos on the podcast on youtube or something, don't we 200 or something? Yeah, 200, something, yeah. So that's, that's a heaps. Yeah, some people don't even do that in a lifetime a lifetime, let alone in the space of six months. So that's fantastic that you they're there because there's that. And then there's your personal brand and there's other business brands. There's so many things.
Speaker 1:Even just recently, I've now said, yeah, you're right, I'm still not putting out enough content on my business. I said, cool, here, this is your problem. Now Get your team onto it, then I'm going to pay you to do that. Then we're going to go cool, what's the strategy to create the content? I did where I walked out of this. I was in a mediation and building their dream home, spending a considerable amount of money for a single home. And he goes oh, look, I haven't really been. She goes oh, I'm not really on social media or anything like that, I don't do any of that stuff. He goes, but my wife, my wife is all over it. She goes oh, she loves that job you're building in Brighton. So that has indirectly influenced their decision to build with me, because I was putting out content on another project she was able to engage, she was able to follow, she was able to get excited about the prospect of using my construction company to build her home has resulted, or influenced their decision to build with us.
Speaker 1:Now people don't see that value. People are like oh, I didn't get 43,000 views in the first hour and 180,000 likes and it didn't go viral, so this didn't work. But that me creating those videos and putting out that content has resulted in a $4 million sale for the business and it's there forever. And everyone is sitting here bitching and moaning and going I'm not viral, I'm not this, I'm not that. It's ego. But get the fuck out of your own way. Who gives a shit? 100 people might watch that Awesome. 100 people just consumed a bit of your content. You just need one of them to buy from you. And that's what happened here. They bought from me as a result, not directly. That wasn't the determining factor. Do you know what I mean? They didn't just go oh wow, I want this builder to build my shit, let's buy for it. But mind you, it can get to that if you're consistent enough, if you invest in it. But why wouldn't I now spend $50,000 on creating content this year?
Speaker 2:Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? Yeah, it's a no fucking brainer and I've got content forever. You know what it is. People can't see the. They can't make the connection between doing the work now and the end result. By the way, gear up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm ready, it's coming. I should tell Iggy to gear up. You need a new camera. We're going to add some new shit. We're going to the next level $50,000 camera. I'm sure you could easily spend that too. Yeah, but you know what? Why is it used? Okay, so I'm making let's just say I'm making $700,000 on that job. Let's just say, why not take 50 of that? I'm a really the difference between 700 and 650, so I'm 10% there it's not gonna change my life, no, but you know what?
Speaker 2:so let's see people. People would take this hit if the person turned around and said it's all like the person paying you turn around and said no, no, no, I'm going to pay you. Most people will take the hit. But when it comes back to spending the money or investing the money, I should say investing back into what they should know they need to be doing.
Speaker 1:They won't do it or they're like no, no, I can go get. I'm going to go get another company to do this and I'm going to pay him 500 bucks because he's a uni student and he would just do a quick video for me or whatever it is. No, no, go out If you've got the money there. But, as I said, it's an investment. There are different levels to this. You can get a video made for 500 bucks, Absolutely, but you can also get one made for a couple grand.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's fucking sick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or like multiple five figures.
Speaker 1:That's right. Sick, yeah. Or like multiple five figures, that's right, exactly. You get one made for 10 grand that blow people's mind and get some real creative shit there. You guys did a sick video for us the other day for Pascon, when you had a building come out of the ground whilst I was standing in front of it and all this sort of stuff Sick shit and it's like why are we wasting our time going for spending $500 on little bits and pieces when I've just built some content now that I'm going to have forever that I can use across all the platforms? That's going to be amazing that you could repurpose in six months.
Speaker 2:You can use for ads.
Speaker 1:You can use for like 1,001 other things. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's like people look, they just don't get out of it, they're not playing that bigger game.
Speaker 2:They're thinking too small, like I can't spend money on this because it's whatever. How many people you reckon go from living? You very rarely hear of someone growing up in an affluent area and becoming a bum. Don't get me wrong. There is someone who becomes a crackhead or something, but I wouldn't say it's a common thing. No, I understand what's the point. The other way around is also not common. Like in the sense of we don't escape our environment, oh, yeah. If you grew up in a thing where people did things in a mediocre way, yeah, you'll often become that mediocre person. The same thing. Even if you think you're the standout in the mediocre, in the grand scheme of things you're just a little bit more.
Speaker 1:I can't remember who was saying this. They were saying one of the biggest determinations to a person's success is their postcode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, was it you, samuel yeah?
Speaker 1:Samuel, I saw it, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I determinations to your person's success is their postcode? Yeah, was it you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's massive dude. Yeah, I think that's a huge. You know what I mean. And then, like it's so true too, though, right, it's like dude. I get people telling me like amen, you work non-stop, or like you do you know. I mean, you're always working. Every time I see you, you're always on the phone or you're always you know, and I'm like yeah, you mustn't have any friends, you know you must have.
Speaker 1:It'm like yeah, you mustn't have any friends, you know you must have it. Yeah, I have no friends. You mustn't have any friends. You mustn't have any. A life you must be miserable.
Speaker 2:But it's that conversation, and then it's the conversation of I'm not doing enough. Yeah, Do you know what I mean? Like the reality is I'm not doing more than Paul. I'm not doing more than Paul Mosey. Paul Mosey, I'm not In any aspect. He's putting out more content, making more money. You know what I mean. More knowledgeable reads, more. Where did this guy get all the time? How does he, how does he read? You know what I mean? How's he consuming all these books and learning and creating content? And yes, now, and yes, now. Okay, I get it. He's got a team, but at one point he didn't.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I mean? Went from 8,000 to 2 million followers in two years. Yeah, at one point he didn't have that. People don't put in the effort, that's all. It is, man, you're so you know how you say you're on the cusp of something. I felt like that too, and I feel that it because it's going to happen. Your tipping point. That's right, but all you have to do is work. Everyone's here. Everyone, every fucking person is here, even some of the people that think they're working hard. I have employees that think they're working hard. That's what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying you know what I mean, think of that. But then it's like are you really Because these guys who are playing at the top level, like they are fucking doing?
Speaker 1:it to a whole. So if you, even if you're just here, even if everyone is there and you're here, and then you're here and you're going holy shit, look at where these guys are I need to go okay, man, we got a little bit more. Go that little bit more, go that little bit more. To be successful these days, you just got to be doing that 10% more than everyone else. And then when you see that growth, in that moment you go imagine if I did 50% more.
Speaker 2:The gap between the average and the top players is ginormous, huge In the sense of how much they're doing Like it's not even comparable. And I said this year I've been watching a lot of Hormozy stuff and he goes. If I can be on YouTube, right, but he said he goes. I was in a room where, where some of the biggest YouTubers he goes. You would have known every person in the room. Yeah, like, biggest YouTubers, you know the kind of like the mr beasts of the world. Yeah, he's like.
Speaker 2:And I said to one of the guys hey, can you come and help me like I, you know we're trying to take it to the next level. And and he's like yeah, sure, send me your ds. Like send me your pre-video documents. And or is like what he's like? You know your pre-video shoot, like all your documents. He's like can you tell me on? He's like I just got notes in my phone and then he's oh, he's like, can know your pre-video shoot, like all your documents. He's like can you tell me he's like? I just got notes in my phone and then he's like oh, he's like, can you tell me yours? I can see what it looks like.
Speaker 2:And he goes. And he sent him a 22 page document of the pre-production of the video, and then he's like okay, I get it. He's like I'm not doing it like he is, I just haven't gone deep enough on this thing. He's I thought I was doing a lot because I'm putting out three videos a week. And then today he's like the reality is is these guys are spending 20 days or 15 days a month On the one video, though On the one video just in the pre-production, putting everything and making sure everything's perfect to get to that level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Mr Beast does that, right, he does. He'll spend days filming videos. Yeah, dude, but Homozy's trying to go for volume though, too, and a lot of his are quite-. This thing is volume negates luck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's his thing. Yeah, so if he puts out enough, he'll eventually get good. Like if he puts out a thousand even dude, mr B says it. He's like if I was going to start a YouTube channel today and I didn't have the knowledge, he reckons he will get to 10 million followers in six months. With the buddy does, he'll get 10 million subscribers in six months, easy. And I was like dude, that's fucking massive for a start. Like that's massive. Yeah, not many people have 10 million subscribers yet. Mental.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and be curious. He should almost open an alias just to prove you know what would be. Sick Beast if you're listening Also, do you see?
Speaker 2:But know what he's saying as well. Does he want to give away secrets? He consults, yeah, he does consulting. Screwed him Okay. That's pretty cool. He's younger than us too, don't forget, dude. He's like 25. That's what I mean, but he's also got 13 years in the game of YouTube, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'd be curious to see Imagine. That would be such an interesting video. Even if you just just even if you said, look, I did it. I opened up an alias as as Jon Snow, yeah, and it just blew it up. Here it is. Here it is. This is the I did videos on. I wasn't in front of the camera. No one, no one that's in my business was in the camera. It was just this.
Speaker 2:Bang he um one of the things he says, he goes. I had to open up youtube today and I couldn't take any of my knowledge. The first thing I would do is I'd make 100 videos yeah like that's the first.
Speaker 2:Get 100 videos out before you're even trying to sit there and you know, oh, I need these titles or these dumb that make 100 videos. Make 100 videos, get some data as a workup and then start to reflect. He is Cause the improvement you will make. Just this, dude, why don't you can do on the blog, and how much better is my last blog than my first one? Oh sick, there's only three. Do you know what I mean? But it's. The whole thing is like I just need to just fucking do. Yeah, just shut up and do. Just shut the fuck up and do the work. Man, you're complaining, shut up, go do the work. You're not doing enough. Do more, do more. If it didn't need more work, you'd already have it. If it didn't take more work, you'd already have it and you don't have it. So do more work. You'd already have it and you don't have it. So do more work. That's it. That's where my fucking head's at at the moment, dude.
Speaker 1:That's a trip through. I hope that motivates a lot of people. Listening to this as well Will put you into a state of discipline more than motivation, but sometimes you do need motivation to get cracking. Yeah Right, it's like a shower. Yeah, exactly. Do. Sometimes you do need motivation to get cracking yeah, all right, it's like a shower. Yeah, exactly. Do that one thing and go. Okay, I've seen the benefit of this. I see that I need to do more Now. Put a plan together. Now get that discipline there and go. Okay, I want to play a bigger game. I want to start doing more things. I want to start getting to that next level or ace the music yeah.
Speaker 2:Don don't sit there, talk about. You're not sick putting yourself out there? I think is, and don't get me wrong. Some people said you shouldn't tell people your plans, blah, blah, blah. And I agree don't tell them everything. I'm going to tell you everything. Yeah, you think you know everything. You have no idea, but I think I honestly believe putting myself out there for the 75 hard has kept me accountable. I honestly, truly believe it. Yeah, you know, because I know that my seven subscribers on YouTube are watching me and waiting for me to get to the end and I can't let them down. I'm watching the vlogs every week. Do you see the part on the YouTube channel where I'm like, if you're watching this, what the fuck are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? What the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1:You know Mr Beast has got videos.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, Do you watch his news? Yeah, like what the fuck are you doing? This is 20 minutes in. You're still watching me talk.
Speaker 1:It's too much, but playing the big game. It's what it's about, isn't?
Speaker 2:it. It always circles back to that, huh.
Speaker 1:I think, yeah, I reckon it really does. I reckon it, I really think it does. It's funny, but you see it in all aspects, like I look at it in strangers in the street. See someone that's ridiculously overweight, like giving up. Look at you, look at you. You can't be. You can tell just by looking at someone these days whether they're a high performer or not. Yeah, are you how they walk? Are you how they hold themselves? They're walking with their head down. They're walking with the shoulders back, head high. Are they present? Presence they smiling? Are they miserable are? Are they fat? Are they ridiculously skinny? Are they smoking?
Speaker 2:Are they drunk? Fuck. I judge smokers so much, dude Cigars as well, Nah, I don't mind a cigar.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I love the smell of cigars. If you were smoking a cigar in this room right now, no sweat, but to actually smoke it, it doesn't do it for me.
Speaker 2:Oh really. Nah, I don't mind a cigar, but people whose cigars, I see it as a it's kind of like a status. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Yeah, but people who die like seas. I just look at them and I think you're not aware. You are lacking awareness, my friend, because you're doing something that's killing you slowly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're not paying attention.
Speaker 1:Yeah, choosing your pain.
Speaker 2:And it just seems so bizarre to me Because I used to smoke. I used to smoke, yeah, I used to smoke. I used to smoke full time. Hey, I can't remember if.
Speaker 1:I knew that Winnie Blues. I think I was very surprised at that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, winnie Blues 25. Funny story Buying from Wilkins $10.80. Is there Winnie?
Speaker 1:Reds.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I've got a funny story about that. Once I was 17, 18 years old, I think. I was pretty sure no, I was definitely underage. And we were with mates and we went to a bottle shop. We were trying to get some alcohol and we we go hey man, can you get us some Toohey's Reds, whatever like a slab of Toohey's Reds? I think it was me and two or three other mates, whatever it was. He's like oh, can you get us a slab of Toohey's Reds? He's like yeah, no, worries, cool man. And he comes back with a packet of Winnie Reds cigarettes. It was like we've just given this guy our life savings because we're 17. We only got 10 bucks each. He gave us a bag of cigarettes. What the fuck we're supposed to do this? He goes oh, he said Winnie's Reds. I'm like no dude, I've got a whole beer. He's like what? So two of the guys started smoking that night. I didn't.
Speaker 2:Dude Winnie Reds. That's a harsh Ziggy too. Yeah, I don't even know that's a heavy Ziggy, is it? Yeah, there you go. How funny, that's like a strong Ziggy. Oh, we're fucking around.
Speaker 1:Oh, fucking hell that's all that went, Anyway, Brutal. They picked up smoking that night. But yeah, you can possibly get and you know I see it Ever since I've started playing a bigger game. I see it, I see it a lot more. And look, whatever you want to do, whatever floats your boat, you know I'm like it makes you happy, it makes you happy, but I don't see these people as being happy.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. Yeah, and if you do like, uh, and and gary reese has this all the time and I love it because he says like if your thing is you want to finish work at full and you want to coach two soccer teams and you want to have weekends off, and you know you love having four weeks of annually and you're happy and genuinely happy, I love it. Yeah, I could do that. Agree more, that's fine.
Speaker 1:Couldn't agree more. But I feel that a lot of people aren't there. I don't think there's a lot of people in that space there. Man, I don't. I honestly see man people.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I coach my son's football team. I've been coaching it for three years straight. How many people do you reckon have put their hand up to do it as well? Like there's none of them. One of my mates is an assistant with me, but no one else wants to do it. It's like the biggest inconvenience for them in the world. Oh my God, it's so draining.
Speaker 1:Why would I want to do that? They don't even come and help at training, as the dads would come and just help set out the cones or kick the balls with footy. No one, it's like they set and forget, leave the kids there. See you later. I'm gonna go chill out at home for an hour or three after my kids. Yeah, come back. And it's like man, are you serious? I got my son said to my wife the other day he's like I love, I love that dad's coaching the team.
Speaker 1:You know, I love that he is there and he's like doing it, like that's a connection that I have with him now forever. Yeah, and he'll always remember that, even when he's when he's older. He'll remember me coaching his side and winning and having fun and losing and doing everything that comes. That's sick, yeah, really cool, um, but yeah, so many people, it's like a burden. Life is a burden for them. Doing everything they have to do, working, living, fucking, anything. They just all. They live for the weekend. Like gary says, if you're living for the weekend, your shit's broken. I mean, you know you're hanging for friday.
Speaker 2:Thank god so what is it?
Speaker 1:tg, tg, tgif, tgif. Yeah, oh yeah, you're a fucking hate. Uh yeah, monday-itis, wasn't that what you hated? Oh, you remember the thing you're going to tell me nearly there I think it was something I want.
Speaker 2:Fuck man, dude, it was a sick thing. Yeah, I was going to tell you this is the thing we're going to introduce At every single episode. We're going to do this.
Speaker 1:Robbie's Rants. That's a good one, robbie Rants.
Speaker 2:I can't remember. When it comes to me, we're going to do it 100%. Oh, he's got it. Alright, hold the topic you're on, fuck it just. 100%, 100%. Oh, he's got it. 100% level alright, hold the topic you're on, fuck you just. Dude. Coin dropped in my head.
Speaker 2:This is what I'm gonna start doing first of all, before I do it, just a big shout out to our sponsor for this episode, hydro Flask Hydro, and if you're interested in getting one of these it's rated the world's number one water bottle you can simply go to hydroflaskcom, use the code Robbie20, and save yourself nothing, because we're not sponsored by them.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, I was going to say it's a drop. We had an actual fucking sponsor, but but what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, do I need this? I'm going to stand. Hey, nah, sit down, sit sit down, sit down. This is what we're gonna start doing. Why do we have to wait for sponsors to give us money first?
Speaker 2:we don't so why don't we just sponsor something different that we both use or like every single episode and give them a shout out, and then eventually one of them will come back around. Do it get me like every single episode? Let's have a sponsor for the episode, whatever it is. It might be apple, it might be, yeah, just things we do in our life and use, and it might be apple. I get so much. Um, there you go. Filtered water, breva, is that what it's called?
Speaker 1:burrita, burrita close, you're gonna get the name of the sponsor.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, jeff, that's our road, you know anyway, and I want to do that at every single episode. Let's just plug a company that we like, we didn't. Why do we have to get something for it? Yeah Well, I spoke about this last episode. This is thinking about sponsors differently. Yes, this was the thing. This was the thing. Yes, yeah, and I was saying, like every single episode, let's self-promote our own sponsor, even though they're sponsoring us. Okay, they don't know it, but they're sponsoring us.
Speaker 1:Okay, they don't know it, but they're sponsoring it. Okay, again, I read this in Patrick Bet-David's book as well. It's like he was at an event. Someone came up to him and said Patrick, I love you. You've changed my life. Everything's been great. Thank you so much for everything you've ever done. He goes, by the way if you're ever in the Vegas area, here's my business card Give me a call and I'm working real estate. I'll sell you a property. And he grabs it and goes whoa, whoa, whoa, my friend, come here, let's talk. He goes.
Speaker 1:What you have just done to me right now is the equivalent to going up to a girl and saying, hey, at a bar, she's sitting at a bar. Say, hey, you're really beautiful. I think your hair is stunning. Your face, those lips, that ass, those tits everything is the total, perfect package. Here's my number. Give me a call a bit later and we can have a root. That's the equivalent to what you just did to me right now. You haven't offered me anything to entice me to want to give you a call. You haven't made that connection. You haven't gone that extra level. You need to start thinking well, no, what service can you give me? Or how can you help me? What are you going to give first? That's right. Yeah, that's the same concept here. 100%. You know what I mean. It's not about me receiving something, it's about you know what. This is a product that I use in my day-to-day life. It's something that I've got some great benefit from. I enjoy using it. I like it. Here it is, let's go. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:And then we just find a different brand every single episode and it'll be like you know what dude you know, and it doesn't have to. Hey, like now, I got the water bottle. That's why I use it as an example but we don't even have to have the product yet.
Speaker 2:It can be like hey, dude you, are we going to wait for the next episode? Nah, because I don't even know if it's going to be good, so you can't plug it. Then if it's not going to be any good, that's what I'm saying. So I'm going to tell you what I bought. I bought. You seen the hostage tape thing? No, hostage, no. Have you seen hostage tape? You've never seen hostage. Both of you have never seen hostage tape.
Speaker 1:Is it a video? No, I've seen the nose, not the mouth, the one that Hormozy wears, Andy Elliott. No, I've heard about. I've heard about. Is that to stop snoring, or some shit? Dude, you've fucking seen it. I can guarantee you've seen it. Is that what it is? Is that to stop snoring, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you thought I was lying when I said my whole fucking thing about the way he feels doing makeup. Yeah, it's Homozy wears it, homozy wears some.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I mean. He wears that for his breathing, though.
Speaker 2:Yes, Dude, I can let me find this. Yeah, you haven't seen this, you haven't seen that.
Speaker 1:Hostage tape. What the fuck is this?
Speaker 2:yeah, you've never seen it, no, anyway.
Speaker 1:So to give you a quick hot. Please tell me. They've got like seven million, oh 73 000. What's the seven million?
Speaker 2:give you a quick brief. I think it might be andy elliott's company. Yeah, but to give you a quick brief on um, yeah, I just bought some hostage tape and what it is is the nose tape is to help you, your nose paper. So I've been using nose strips for a few months now. Every night when I go to sleep, I put a nose strip on and I go to sleep. Yeah, apparently, when you tape up your mouth and this is I heard this a long time ago now, there's like a beehive around it, but I heard it from Tom Bilyeu and he used to use a mouth tape and I thought it was the most bizarre thing ever but apparently, when you tape up your mouth, you're forced to breathe through your nose, which puts you in a different parasympathetic state or something, and you actually have a deeper sleep and a better sleep and you wake up a little refreshed. So I'm glad. Oh, I brought some.
Speaker 1:Let me know what it's like got some coming 90 days worth coming and you can tape up your mouth and go to sleep.
Speaker 2:Interesting, let me know yeah, I'll let you try it first. Well, how did I get there? But you know, just talking about just plugging plug and shit brands um. But yeah, I think we should share. What do you think of that idea? I?
Speaker 1:think it's cool. Yeah, again, this whole, I'm massive on this at the moment. It's just something that has recently come into my, my way of life and thinking about giving before receiving. If I want more love in my life, I'm going to give more love. If I want more happiness, I'm going to give more happiness. If I want more connection, friendships, I'm going to give it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to give it, I'm not going to expect it, all right, I'm going to give it. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to give it. I'm not going to expect it, all right, I'm going to call Iggy up tomorrow and say hey, bro, just wanted you to know that yesterday I really loved your jumper. That's it, that's all I wanted to tell you. I'll tell you right now. That jumper there, it's great. It's a beautiful shade of gray. It is gray, isn't it All for it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Now what a sick episode. Good, I'm so glad you sent me everything in the show notes. Yeah, clearly, because otherwise you know that 20-page script about what we were going to talk about. Of course, yeah, that we planned for 15 days. That's it. Maybe we need to do that. Imagine if we did do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wish we shared the when the cameras are rolling and we're like what, fuck it, just fucking go, we'll just wing it, it's so true, there's a whole bloopers reel coming. Thank you, ari, I can work it out, let's go.
Speaker 1:You could do just an episode just on the pre-show talk. That'd be entertaining for sure. It might be one in talking, who knows? That's it. So yeah, cool Good stuff. Thanks for joining us. Downloads, comments, love, affection. I sent out a Mars bar to someone the other day. They loved it. They sent us a photo saying thank you, you got that photo. Yeah, I got the photo. That was cool. We just literally chucked the Mars bar and anything else that was in the vicinity of my desk. I put it in there. I think it was a paper clip, some elastic bands, an eraser, staples, glasses, wipes. Oh yeah, some glasses, wipes. Yeah, it's just an added bonus. You will speak. Even I was it. Oh, there was just a cable. I had. No, it was in my top drawer and so you know we just have shit lying around. You don't want to do it. Everyone's got one of those drawers, so just grabbed it, put it in there. Finally, how to use? What would you do without that drawer?
Speaker 1:with those drawers is that those drawers are key component to life I've got one at home that's got so like a heap jamming, yeah, and I'm just like this is gold. I gotta go home and open it up now. So in order for me to do that, I do need we do need to end this podcast. So thank you very much for tuning in once again and we look forward to chatting to you next week. As always, many of you are listening, but not necessarily subscribed, and that's how we can grow this channel. That's how we can grow this audience. That's how we can affect and change more people. And it's not necessarily about getting 450,000 views on this episode, but if we get 10 million, if we get that hundred, that's what it's about. Someone will listen to this, someone will enjoy it, someone will keep listening, someone will keep passing it on. That's what it's about, man. If you guys get something out of this, we'd love to hear about it and we'd love for you to share it.
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