Why Everything Is About to Get More Expensive

Fuel hits three dollars a liter and suddenly it’s not just “cost of living” anymore, it’s a stress test for how we think. We kick things off with the everyday reality of expensive petrol, expensive groceries, and the weird way the world feels heavier when war headlines and uncertainty are always in your face. Then we zoom in on what we’re seeing in the construction industry: clients hesitating, leads slowing, trades adding fuel surcharges, and the contract debate that keeps coming up when prices move fast (fixed price vs cost plus, and how builders should think about risk).

From there we go wider into interest rates, inflation, and why “the squeeze” can be real even when shopping centers are still packed. We also get blunt about money management: most people were never taught how credit cards work, how to budget, or how to make a plan when costs jump. The biggest pivot is simple but hard: stop asking small questions like how to cut a coffee and start asking $30,000 questions like how to negotiate, raise your value, change roles, or create new income.

We finish with the part that ties it all together: your environment and your algorithm. If your feed keeps serving fear and outrage, your reality will feel worse than it is, and you’ll make smaller moves. We talk about surrounding yourself with people who celebrate your wins, using adversity as fuel, and why downturns can be the moment you build something that lasts. If you want to take it further, check out the Builders Summit details and come say hi. Subscribe, share this with a mate who’s feeling the pinch, and leave a review with the biggest “$30,000 question” you’re asking right now.

Transcript

Life Gets Expensive Fast

George 0:00

Hey. Hi. Shit's expensive. Uh what? Just everything.

Robby 0:06

Just life. Just I breathed today and it hurt my lungs because it was so expensive. I was in um Vietnam. How was it? Cheap. I'm not lying. I believe that. Full tanked my scooter. Oh, did you really? Full tanked. Do you know how much it cost me? How much? Four scooters. How much was a scooter? Full tank. It was empty, dry.

George 0:28

Wow.

Robby 0:30

Full tank. In Melbourne, that would have cost you 43 bucks. In Melbourne, I would have had to skip two meals.

George 0:38

Just to fill it up. So we got wars going on. We got people losing their mind. We got huge spikes in. Today I went for a haircut. That's why I'm wearing a hat today. For those of you watching on YouTube, I went for a haircut. And I was speaking to the guy, my barber, my cashier morning bean. And he's like, got a lot on my mind. I'm like, oh well, fuck, you're just a bundle of joy. I didn't say that. But it's like, uh, you know, a lot going on with the war. So he's obviously from that part of the world and yeah, Middle East, something like that. Iranian? Yeah, I didn't ask, man. I just didn't bother getting into it because I knew it would have gone into a wormhole of just despair and probably left out left there just being really sad.

Robby 1:16

I'm the complete opposite. I'll just let the dive in. Can't believe it. Can you believe it? Can't believe it. What are we gonna do about this? What are we gonna do about Trump?

War Headlines And A Nervy Economy

George 1:23

Let's go. So yeah, there's um a lot going on at the moment. I'm hearing just people are apprehensive to do shit at the moment. I'm as an just observing, just observing life and things going on at the moment. We're seeing it, we're seeing it.

Robby 1:40

Uh all clients leads slowing down just a little bit.

George 1:42

Oh, without a doubt. I've noticed that in the construction space. I've noticed all the things that are.

Robby 1:48

Just give us, just let me see how this settles.

George 1:50

Yeah, we had a significant project just pump the brakes, they go, hey, we're good, we're doing it, we're just gonna hold off a bit. I'm like, all right, that's cool. I've been seeing some other people that I follow on social media saying, Oh, you should just be doing cost plus contracts. I see the the aftermath of COVID coming back with material shortage and price increases. Had a few emails come through from trades going, hey, we're gonna put a temporary excise on our pricing at the moment because of the increased cost of fuel.

Robby 2:17

That's fair, that's fair.

Construction Pricing And Contract Choices

George 2:18

Yeah, I guess. But I mean, I mean, look, learn from your mistakes. Yeah, yeah, of course, of course, of course. I look at it from a builder's point of view because I've I was listening to this gentleman speak the other day and very good guy. I I really think he's a smart builder, he's based in Sydney, I can't remember his name, but he was just giving some advice to people about construction. He goes, I don't think anyone should be getting into a fixed lump sum contract at the moment. I think they should all be cost plus, all my jobs are cost plus, I wouldn't touch anything. And I kind of disagree with that. I disagree with it on the basis that if you're gonna go into a fixed lump sum contract, you should be making money. There's risk associated with it, so you should be getting money on the back end of it. Now, if prices increase here and there, it's not gonna be detrimental to your bottom line. Yes, you might make a little bit less, but you're not gonna lose. You're not gonna be like, fuck, we did not make money on that job. And if you are, then you haven't priced a job properly. That's that's a big call. I think it's a big, yeah. Well, I I I don't think many people price jobs properly.

Robby 3:12

I agree.

George 3:13

And I think that's why it becomes such a big call.

Robby 3:15

Anything about pricing a job, but I agree.

George 3:17

No, but I thank you. That's it, George. Thank you. George said it. Um, I just I think a lot of people don't price jobs properly, and therefore, when there's any slight change in life, then it's like fuck, losing your mind. Now, I mean, let's go back and think about the everyday Australian, maybe not a business owner. You're looking at stuff like, well, petrol. Petrol, first of all, I just yesterday I took the dog for a walk and walked past uh Ampol in Albert Park. And fuck those guys. They're always the most expensive petrol station in the area. And I reckon it's just because they're they've got an Albert Park address. Anyway, that's a story for another time. Walk past, and it was$2 and nine,$2.99.9. I'm like, bro, just fucking make it three bucks. Yeah. Relax. Look, what are you doing? And I drove past there again today on the way back to the office from site, and it was$3.9 or something. So that did jump up. That took my advice. That took my advice.

Robby 4:08

Took your thoughts.

George 4:08

And so you're thinking about an everyday person, you know, now having to combat the the cost of petrol, it's gone up by 40%-ish, I suppose. Or more whatever it might be. You're 50%? Yeah. Well, so if it I don't even know, I forgot what it was. Like, I've been so conditioned now to expensive fuel prices, I don't even know what the price was.

Robby 4:28

If fuel was$2, a 50% increase would make it$3.

George 4:32

Yeah, well, there you go. So was it$2? I guess so. I guess, yeah, maybe I think it was like$2.20.

Robby 4:40

I don't pay attention. Because there's never been a time where you've pulled into a servo and thought, oh fuck, fuel's expensive, I'll just uh work tomorrow.

George 4:47

Yeah, yeah, I've never never thought that. And I'm glad I'm grateful that I'm in a position to do so, but yeah, I haven't thought about that. Um in a while, my old man called me today. He goes, I'll just fucking put petrol and gossip 260 bucks. Okay, it cost you 260. That's interesting. Did you put it on the on the Amex or did you put on the Pascal fuel card? So uh, but that's cool. He's he feels like it's him anyway. That's uh that's good. But yeah, there's that aspect. I'm sure there's gonna be a flow on effect with other things as well, like food, because all the food has to get transported, goods and services, like there's gonna be things that will have a flow-on effect to the everyday person who knows we could go down the road now, and coffee's got more expensive because you know all the things getting delivered is more expensive. Um, all those, all the fucking people with electric cars are laughing all the way to the bank right now. Still wouldn't buy one. New owner? No, no interest. I buy hybrid. I'm considering buying a hybrid. Why? I don't know, just I just that it's more the it's more the car, not the actual car. BYDs? No, never.

Robby 5:49

I'd be fucking sick. Yeah, is it?

George 5:51

I've sat in the back of one and I thought it was nice.

Robby 5:53

Yeah, self-driving.

George 5:54

Yeah, I was actually looking at the Range Rover. My car's coming up for um renewal, and I was looking at the sport, and that was a plug-in hybrid. I mean, I haven't driven it, so I don't know if it I'd like it, but I mean it seems cool in concept.

Robby 6:07

Go all in or don't.

George 6:08

With which? Electric or not? Yeah, I don't know. I there's no the only car I don't really I don't know, there's no car that electric car that I'm like, oh let's go get that. Yeah, yeah, I think I don't think you'd do it. I I test drove the Taycan, the electric Porsche, the sedan. That we went to Vegas uh early last year. Early last year? A year ago. Fuck. It was a year ago, yeah. Yeah, good. And we test drove um no, we did we took uh supercars around a track. That was a good day out. That was six. That was fun. We test drove we drove a um Aston Martin, we drove GT3 Porsche, yeah, a Lambo, yeah, the Hurricane, and the Ferrari. You liked the Ferrari out of the group, didn't you?

Robby 6:52

I think the Ferrari and the Lambo exceeded the other two by a mile.

George 6:55

Me too. I I thought the the Porsche handled amazing, but the Lambo my was my favorite.

Robby 7:01

The Lambo was sick, yeah.

George 7:02

Yeah. Now when I drove the the take in. I didn't love the Ferrari. Like I thought it was, I mean it was a quick car. Like that let's not be wrong. We took it that we were doing over 200k an hour. Do it 220 on the straight or something like that. So yeah, like you're in your seat. Yeah, it was definitely fun. Like I've what a great way to drive a car like that. Because you never, even if you had that car here, where are you gonna take a car to 220k on the on the roads here? You don't. Sydney Road. Yeah, Sydney jokes. Um never done that. Never, never would. In the Commodore, the VL. The VL Commodore. I had a VT, I like my VT. Anyway, back to the takehand. I got into that car, I don't know, 18 months ago, 12 months ago, whenever it was, just took it for a drive just to see what it was like. I've not been in a faster car in my life. That was faster than those than those cars. They just blew the doors off them. Couldn't believe like the from zero to just 60, it was just or to 100. It's just phenomenal. Seslas are like that too. Yeah, I booked some of the the high-end ones.

Robby 7:59

Yeah, they just do it in three seconds, and it's just like it's just like because it's like there's no I could be wrong about this, but it's like there's no there's no gears, there's no, there's no transmission, there's no reving.

Petrol Prices And The EV Temptation

George 8:14

It's just like yeah, there's no there's no lag. Yeah, it's just like it's just instant. Like even from like you know, you'll drive a car and you floor it, there's that initial lag, whether it's the turbo spooling or the v8's about to rev, like yeah, and the transmission, it's everything's like none of that.

Robby 8:28

Okay, let's go. The only lag is like from the engine to the wheels, yeah.

George 8:32

Whereas this thing's just bang, instant power. So that was that was pretty impressive. Um but yeah, I I think at the moment people are feeling a bit of a squeeze, and you got interest rates have gone up recently as well.

Robby 8:44

But so that's the so so okay. Can I play devil's advocate in here? I have no doubt people are feeling the squeeze. But the whole thing of like interest rates going up, there is a fantastic video. Uh, if you if you don't, if you have no idea of like economy stuff, there is a fantastic video called How the Economy Works on YouTube by a guy named Ray Dalio who built one of the biggest privately owned hedge funds in America in America, and it's a 30-minute video, it's basically a cartoon of how the economy works. Have you seen it? I I think I may have, but I'm gonna go to the case. It's got millions and millions of views. Like it's a very, very good video. Uh, and he explained why interest rates go up and down and do it to control spending. Correct. Right? So it's like, well, you've got to understand that they measure inflation. So inflation is expected. They measure inflation, and then if it's up beyond it's like KPIs. Yeah, you guys are crushing too hard. I'm gonna pull this back a bit. I'm gonna put the brakes on this thing, and I put the brakes on by increasing interest rates, which then causes money to be more expensive, and therefore you don't spend as much. That's right. So the fact that they've done that says the opposite of people are filling the squeeze.

Interest Rates And Spending Slowdown

George 9:52

I hear what you're saying, but here's the problem with it, because this is stuff that I've been listening to as well. And again, I'm not an economist, but I am it makes sense. Without well, that's why I'm speaking to the experts. I only get experts on this podcast. Now, you're talking about we've got in the history of Australia, we've got the lowest home ownership in a very long time. Not many people, well, if you're talking about affecting interest rates, if you've got low home home ownership, then how is that affecting people spending? So if you've got a really low but interest is not just I know, but we're talking about we're talking about yeah, it's across the board. Cars, it's everything. Yeah, that's right. The personal loans, yep, yep, yep, all the loans there. Yeah, so in that aspect, yes, I'm sure it would affect there too. Like I was gonna look at buying a car, now I've got to pay a higher interest rate to go get a car. Yeah, now it's like, all right, maybe but but you know what? That has an effect. It does. It makes me think, well, maybe I'll wait until the interest rates drop, or maybe I don't need that car right now. So okay, so look at it in the masses element.

Robby 10:49

If there's a hundred thousand people that were gonna buy a car and then the interest rates go up, and that hundred thousand turns to sixty thousand, they just saved 40,000 purchases, which in turn is them slowing down the economy. They're like, all right, guys, you need to slow down your spending way too quickly.

George 11:06

Yeah, but here's the thing, and and I reckon there's another issue too. It's the government spending too much money. They uh I'm talking Victoria now. I'm not I don't know much about the other states, but we're in a huge amount of debt, paying millions. I heard something ridiculous. It's like a million dollars a minute or some shit like that in interest that we're paying based off how much money we owe the rest of the world or wherever the fuck they're getting it from. So, you know, I I think they've got a spending issue and they're just throwing money at shit for dumb things like these recently the Commonwealth Games is going is being held in Scotland. We've invested all this money to build infrastructure, to do all that sort of stuff, to get the thing here, paid all this money, and then we're like, oh no, we can't do it, it's too expensive, and now they're paying Scotland to host the games.

Robby 11:46

What? Is that a thing? Yeah, it does.

George 11:47

It's not coming to Brisbane anymore. No, Commonwealth Games. What? Was it was it Brisbane or Melbourne? Wasn't it Brisbane? I don't know. It's we're not we don't have the Commonwealth Games. Commonwealth? Yeah. The Commonwealth. Are you maybe you're thinking Olympics or World Cup or some shit? Brisbane do have something. Brisbane's got something. I think Brisbane's got the Olympics. Oh, so that's still happening. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's still happening. But sorry, excuse my uh I think don't again, I'm not an Olympian, so I wouldn't know. I am one stop shot. Yeah, so I I feel that it's definitely there, it's definitely out there. I think people are are feeling the squeeze. And like I was speaking to I went out with my friends last week and we were talking, and he's a doctor, one of my mates, and he was telling me he goes, every single person coming into their to his clinic, they're all complaining about like money and they can't cope and everything. I know, but maybe more so than ever than he did previously. He's been a doctor for a long time, and he's hearing that story a lot these days. Uh and I'm sure it's doom and gloom on you, you open up the news and you're hearing all that sort of stuff as well. And my feed, my algorithm is how does have a lot of that stuff because I I've taken an interest to politics these days, so I do have a few political th people that pop up that I can regularly see. So, yeah, there's probably that element of it too. So now is it that bad? I'm not sure. Is it yeah, is it that bad? Yeah, and this, but I don't think it is at the moment. I've definitely as I said, I've noticed a downturn, but in the same token, I noticed a downturn inquiries coming in, so I increased my activity and then got an inquiry come in and we're pricing a job. Yep. So I also did go out and go, well, fuck the economy, so I'll make it happen. And as a result, I look it's a good job. Like we'll we'll price it, we'll put our best foot forward, and if we secure it, then I'm like, well, game on, let's go. We're hiring. Do you do you think it's that bad? I don't know. I can't, I I've known it, but then I've seen you make fuel memes. Yeah, I know. I just I just find them funny. It's not because I care about fuel, I just keep posting it because I'm like, oh, it's cool. Um clever. What was I say? That's uh oh um we had a builders, a built mastery event the last week, and you know, there's still people out there investing in themselves, there's still people coming to events and paying money and joining programs, and then I'm like, well, on one hand, you've got a downturn in the industry, but then on the other hand, you've got people spending money in the industry. So I don't think there's a huge squeeze there yet. I don't think it's anywhere near COVID levels, and I don't think it will get to that. Hopefully, Trump and everyone else that's punching on lets shit go soon and and we can get to some form of normality. But you know, they they've conditioned us for three dollars a litre fuel. You know that now. So when it comes down to 250, everyone's like, whoa, it's so cheap. Give me fuel, like bathe in it. You reckon that's the strategy? I reckon there's an element of it. Why? Because, man, why are they gonna now drop it after the new norm of three dollars and go, oh well, let's give these guys some money back and drop it to a below two bucks. Man, it's not gonna happen. I'm telling you, food fuel won't go down to 250 again. That's the we're setting the new benchmark. Or when it does, like 250 used to be expensive, and now it's like yeah, but like so.

Robby 14:57

Do you remember? I remember fuel used to be over two dollars. Yeah, there was a point where like that kind of became the norm, and then dropping under two bucks was cheap. And then for a long period of time, like whatever it was, yeah, I don't know, five years or whatever. I I can't remember when, but I remember a period in time where fuel was two dollars something. Yeah, that was normal. Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah, what when was it? Oh, it wouldn't be that long ago. Like give me a couple years? Yeah, okay, maybe. Yeah. Um yeah, but then you feel like more recently you'd fill up and it was like the lady or something else.

George 15:31

When we talk about difference from tanks, uh, a full tank. Like I normally run my tank to close to empty. Thereabouts. My tank is so fucking empty. Is it? That's the best thing. So empty. On tubes. I'm like, yeah, I'm waiting for the phone call to 47k is left. I I told the story, side note, I told the story actually at Built Nastry. That day that remember that time you came to my house and in um Page Street, and then you rocked up and you're like, hey, I got a flat tire, and then we had to pull the kid out the back, jack the car up, swap the tires over, and we had to go to the airport. And to get to the airport, like it was no fucking round. Because I was I was saying the whole thing about just you know, action taking action in your life, and I go, look, had Robbie rocked up to my house at the exact moment he needed to so we could leave, we probably would have missed our flight. Yeah, but he got there early and he's like, Oh, he was prepared for the day, got there, we had time to change a tire, laugh, get a bit dirty, jump on a flight, and fucking make it happen.

Robby 16:22

All I remember, all I remember from that. I can't remember if it was late, if it was early, I can't remember. It was early. All I remember was you saying if Nicole was here, she'd be freaking out. Oh, that's right. So true. If Nicole was here, she would be absolutely freaking out. Lose her mind, lose her mind. That's the only thing I remember that's right. I don't know if I remember what Jack we used.

George 16:40

I don't remember what car one. It was whatever you had in the car. It was the the the stock standard one. That's funny, yes. There, but looking at from the time from what it cost me to fill up a tank, you're talking it's gone from 180 bucks to 210. So it was like 30 bucks. I'm like, all right, well fuck, yeah, okay, it's expensive, but I'm not losing, yeah, I'm not losing my mind over it. And now that was I filled up around$2.50,$60, some shit like that just recently. And now it's three bucks. All right, well my guy up 60 bucks. It's probably not gonna affect me. That me personally, it won't affect me that much because I don't drive that much, but but if you're talking to a person that drives every single day, drives from fucking Frankston to the C C B D.

Robby 17:27

Yeah, okay.

George 17:28

You know, they'll do a tank of petrol that's gonna equate to let's just say they do a tank of petrol a week.

Robby 17:33

Yeah.

George 17:33

All right. So what's that, 50 bucks a week? An extra 50 bucks a week? Yeah, it could equate to another 50 bucks a week. See 50, 200 bucks. Uh yeah, so maybe 200 a month, 300 a month. Yeah, okay. And that should be the most extreme at the moment, yeah, assuming it doesn't go higher than higher than as in right now, like without making assumptions of where it's gonna go.

Robby 17:54

That is the the person who drives a lot, who lives far, yeah, who is chewing through fuel.

George 18:01

Yeah, but then maybe that changes things and goes, well, fuck it, I'm gonna drive to the station now. I'm gonna start catching public transport. It'd be interesting to see if there was some sort of correlation between increased public transport usage now as a result of the the fuel prices.

Robby 18:17

You reckon?

George 18:18

Yeah, pretty fucking eye. Yeah. Oh some people it is. Some people are living week to week.

Robby 18:26

I I think that's bad money skills.

George 18:28

Yeah, but uh some people just hand like you know what I mean.

Robby 18:32

Like I've done that and you think it's everything else, and it's like no no, you just don't know how to handle what you're doing. You haven't learned. It's uh like why why do we think that it comes naturally? Like you you don't, you learn from the people you see doing it. That's right. And if you're half good at maths, you might have some like kind of strategy that you kind of implement, but you you should learn how to handle money. I I think that's really, really important. And like no one actually teaches it. If anything, it's like uh taboo.

George 19:03

Yeah, to talk about money. I I think you know, the it's definitely something that people should be talking about. They should be teaching it at schools, they should be teaching money management at school, investing, like how to be able to manage your funds and handle your funds and do all that sort of stuff. They should be really teaching that sort of thing. They don't know. No, that the people, yeah, but they should get people in that do know. You know, they should get teachers that go, well, cool, you're good with money, or get some fucking anyone that's got business, done a financial advisor. Hey, this isn't financial advice, but let me give you some advice. Yeah, you know, do this, store your money here, invest it there, like learn to spend, learn to budget. If you don't have money, don't go buy this product. A lot of people will go and man, I used to not understand how credit cards worked. I used to not get it. I just didn't like I used to just go and put money on my credit card and then pay it off every month. And I was like, Yeah, not knowing I'm just paying interest. And I'm like wondering why my credit card never went down and I just didn't get it, and I was paying 27% interest or whatever the fuck it was when I was a kid.

Robby 20:07

Are you supposed to just get it? That's right. You're not, you're gonna be showing it now.

George 20:10

I use my credit card as one of my most powerful tools in my business. Like I max the thing every month. I get disappointed when I don't max it. And it's like I get upset. Didn't bounce this month. We're not spending enough. So it's like, no, no, you like use it as a really powerful tool in the business for cash flow, for points, for whatever you're gonna use it, for anything. And it's a it's a great tool to help you and your organization. And now I don't have any personal credit cards. I've got zero nah, never. I haven't had my a personal credit card for geez, I reckon at least seven or eight years.

Robby 20:44

Yeah, fair enough.

George 20:45

Yeah, I do. Yeah, that's that's fine. I got no no no qualms about it. I just haven't needed one. I'll just if I ever do stuff, I'm most of the time I'll put it on the business, and if ever I need to refund the business, I will do that. But just use my business cards. All for business purposes.

Robby 21:00

Of course, clearly.

George 21:01

Mr. ATO.

Robby 21:03

Um Yeah, I I run my personal life and my business life in the same way. Like in the sense of everything gets funded month to month and then pay off at the end.

George 21:11

Yeah, that's right. Now you don't go out buying a Ferrari tomorrow. Might. You might, but you're not going to.

Robby 21:16

Yeah, I'm not going to.

George 21:17

All right. So you might, but you're not going to because you understand that there's a money disparity there between how much you're earning at the moment and the decision to go out and buy a Ferrari.

Robby 21:27

Yeah.

George 21:27

And then that's where the government doesn't have that. They're not doing that. They're just going, no, no, that's Ferraris for everyone. You get one, you get one, you get one. That's because it's not their money. Exactly. And also, they're probably not trained in how to manage money. And I feel that we need someone now at this point in time. I'd be look, I'd be really surprised if the Labour government gets another term. Really? Yeah, I really would. I think if they get it, if they get it in at the moment.

Robby 21:52

This is not new. None of this stuff is new. What's that? Everything that's happening now with all the people. Yeah, I know. I don't think I know now. I think what you're seeing. is you're seeing people that are unhappy. Yeah. But I think the reason you're seeing that is because you're unhappy. Not unhappy life, like unhappy with what the government's doing. And it's you see someone going on a rant and then you watch it, yeah. Yeah.

George 22:12

And then and then and then I see that village likes this. I actually think you're bang on with that. Yeah. I actually do because I am unhappy with it. I spoke to Zuckerberg. Yeah. You got a direct line. I'd be upset because you run all my ads. So I'd wanted you to be helping you know having some sort of connection.

Robby 22:28

That is um speaking of ads.

Algorithms Doomscrolling And Free Speech

George 22:32

Speaking of ads. That'll make sense it will for the people it will right now. Speaking of ads, all right, are we going to go into what I'll fucking sell each and every one of you right now. What are you going to sell them? I'll look I could sell them on how I can change their life. We'll be back right after sorry stick around later. We'll let you know what was I going to say before that?

Robby 22:55

Oh yeah so you're you're you're um you're consuming content that's showing you what you want to hear. Yeah if that makes sense. Absolutely and I I think this is a really dangerous thing with the current world we live in.

George 23:08

It's very interesting isn't it so interesting it's so interesting when you say that because how can we have very different feats? Like it is so different.

Robby 23:17

You know what I mean? Yeah I worked it out when no one else was getting chiropractic stuff in this yeah like the I see the guys actually cracking next people getting cracked yeah and everyone's like what are you talking about? And I'm like this they're everywhere.

George 23:28

Oh you're fucking weirdo while you're watching that and I'm like everyone don't see this um yeah it's uh it's a very very serious do you side note do you still see lots of videos of of people putting makeup on nah no more that's gone nah I haven't had TikTok on my phone for oh is that where it was so long yeah that was great that was great I miss it yeah might uh might download might download TikTok I I I have a level of appre you know I I don't I'm not even gonna say it but yeah it was good it was good it was very um I don't know why I used to watch that but it was it was good to watch yeah it's it was good content dude you're like ee this is you want to see the end product it's like the start it's like well this is what they look like to begin with and then the end product oh wow that transformational video it's a real decent hook like I've learned you know I I've there's been times where I'm a consuming beast you know looking at uh looking at social media and just doom scrolling but I'd like to think that whenever I see stuff I'm also learning I'm also going oh that was a good hook or that was a good idea like I save videos to then recreate them for my own branding for my own business for whatever it might be and to create content and to get inspiration like I did that barbecue video where I threw the fake firecracker into the barbecue that was inspired through another video that I watched somewhere else of someone putting a firecracker in someone's pocket. Send you that video you sent it to me that's right but then I'm like okay how could I make this for building how could I do this for building I watched that whole video I was like he's gonna freak he's gonna freak is going to then a freak yeah yeah well that worked it worked you watch the whole thing so it's it was interesting to watch it for that aspect but then as you said there's the entertainment thing um as well which uh which grabs people's attention but yeah I think it's dangerous to constantly get fed what you already believe it creates a uh a reaffirming bias yes you know and we already have that we've got a confirmation bias as humans we always see the things that confirm what we think we already know and then it's like now there's this machine that will say oh like you want to see this let me show you more of that so you think you're right bang on because then think about the complete opposite of what I'm watching which might be a far left let's just say a far left um algorithm the person that's watching that will be like oh see I'm a hundred percent right you know people can be cats because they're just gonna keep seeing videos of people you know affirming to be cats does that so then the the opposite argument to that is like oh well do you want to see videos you're not interested in yeah exactly that would sit there no I don't no I don't I don't I don't need to see subjective videos now of people being cats like I don't care about that I think it's a stupid idea but I think I think I think you should I think you should be open to it and the discussion I think I think the media should be unbiased because you should have a full understanding I mean I I don't use it I I opened it up the other day dangerous ass platform yeah but that's isn't that what you're saying though where it's just it's a filter it's unfiltered but it still shows you the stuff that you yeah you still want to look I've look at stuff there and there's there I see so much of people I don't follow and I'm like that's dumb that's dumb and then I just don't use it I just think it's fucking rubbish the stuff on there and someone was telling me the other day like you can go on there and you see porn on X now like you'll see pornographic images and some yeah and just like full violence people getting killed and just things that you shouldn't be seeing and it's like man that's ridiculous that they're letting it go to that thing. Do you think do you think it's better or worse since Elon's took it over taking it over I kind of feel that it's worse. Yeah it's definitely different I think I liked it better before I think I would actually engage and and actually read some comments now I just see it's it's photos it's videos like don't get me wrong I've still post on it but I don't I don't I just I do because I've got it automated but I don't actually use the app at all I actually reckon threads is better from a a perspective of posting like a tweet or something I don't even have threads yeah I I've got the account but I don't have a I'm pretty sure it's not on my phone.

Robby 27:29

Um X is wild then it's a wild but but you gotta remember as well he took it over with the thing of I'm going to keep free speech free free right yeah and I think that's what's happened a lot yeah and it's like okay um this is the cost of that platform that's a fucking mess um yeah I don't know you don't you I you don't know what to believe on it. You don't know what to believe everything's fake, everything's AI'd but that's so would you rather that or Instagram which just shows you oh TikTok I don't know why but women seem to love TikTok I haven't noticed one way or another to tell you the truth.

George 28:14

Really?

Robby 28:15

Yeah go and ask women that you know any like m most ages oh from what I found like when I say most ages like most ages that I wouldn't know. Yeah but if I go and ask the women closest to me uh what's your favorite algorithm what's your favourite platform and they'll say TikTok yeah and they reckon it's just got the best algorithm like the best videos yeah I find it uh fascinating I think TikTok is poison.

George 28:43

That's what I I think they all are to a degree. Yeah but Instagram's cool only for cool people yeah I went to Chadston the other day and when I say the other day probably last week or something on a weekend didn't notice anything there as far as people not spending and not actively there like it was a busy day. So you know you look at that aspect of it and go well there's still people out there living their life spending their money so I still don't feel that the crunch has really hit. I don't think that people are really struggling yet but I'm sure there are no so this isn't a dig at anyone that is going through difficult times at the moment and not struggling with everything.

Robby 29:23

There was probably people struggling when the economy was booming yeah there's both ends of the spectrum. But when it's booming too though I think more people are doing better than when it's not yeah of course yeah it kind of kind of makes sense but even then even then you would think the people doing bad would maybe be doing a little bit less bad I don't know booming economy drives up spending spending driving up drives up prices.

George 29:55

Yeah well I think we've I think people have been spending for a long time but here's the thing I look at property now do you think property's expensive to go yeah just I'm just Melbourne I don't know I don't know yeah I don't I don't I think at the moment based off what something costs to build and then what you get for it when it's sold so say you did a development single house doesn't have to be anything fancy say you did a single home what it costs you to build and versus versus what it costs to sell I don't I think there's too much of a disconnect there at the moment I actually think prices need to go up to make it worthwhile. So you think property's cheap or building is expensive?

Robby 30:35

It's probably a combination of both I think the construction industry with time not not saying in the next three years or anything but I think in time I think with real estate as a whole is going to tank.

George 30:51

I agree with the cons on this construction side of things with that. Both yeah I don't know about the real estate aspect yeah but why would the supply Because I can now have a house in three days yes because can you have a house in the area that you want there's gonna be there's gonna be there's still going to be price fluctuation there's gonna be areas that are more expensive than others.

Robby 31:16

Yeah yeah but there's also gonna be it's gonna be so cheap that even to live in Turak is going to be ridiculously cheaper than what it is. Yeah I I think it's like everything tanks because there's an oversupply of everything. Do you know what I mean? Yeah like ridiculously imagine like houses can just be like you you you buy a house they print it you have it a week later for example and then a year later you're like I don't want this house anymore like I'm gonna yeah I'm gonna get rid of it I'm gonna buy I realized I like my sink on the left do you know what I mean?

George 31:56

Have you ever bought a different car because you didn't like the colour bought a different no I haven't yeah me though I was gonna say if you'd done that I'd be a bit depressed so you bought the car didn't like the colour took it back bought another car.

Robby 32:07

But I'm sure there are people who have done it but imagine like um it's even cheaper than that like like cents on the dollar but also years and years and years and years. It's gonna take a long time. Yeah um but I can see that happening man and then the whole conversation about is construction too expensive or is real estate too cheap won't won't exist. Think of you saying you should make a uh you should make a real saying I think Melbourne house prices need to go up that would fucking lose people hate me you'd get some views people hate me.

Ask Better Money Questions

George 32:39

They hate me now you get some views about haters come come at me keep going do it do it I will I will no I I but just excuse me based from what I've seen like you go to the Gold Coast or sorry to Queensland and there it's a huge difference like what from what they cost to build and versus what they're getting on sale is massive. And that's why they're building so much over there at the moment. I've heard the same I'm actually off to Adelaide tomorrow. I'm there for two days and I'm going to meet a developer and see some of the projects that they're doing and going through that and we're gonna look at potentially doing a partnership and doing projects in Adelaide from the construction sector. And I'm like I'm pretty I'm a little bit pumped about that. I think that'll be a really good venture if it does come to fruition because I'm like well I've got all the systems in place I've got all the processes in place we can go into state and build what a what a life how good would that be so different challenges. I'm sure there'll be growing pains in that aspect if we do pull the trigger and go yep let's do it but you know if the if the work's drying up here this is what I mean like where where are you creating other opportunities now? Because everyone can sit back and and that's probably where I wanted to go with this conversation like everyone can sit back and go everything's expensive. Petrol's expensive houses are expensive eating is expensive coffee's expensive cool go make more money. Yeah like make more money like go and do more things go and fucking out go out there and execute stop being the victim and going oh it's this is too I can't do this. I I can only make this much an hour like pick up a side hustle stop fucking being victim to your own mindset and external factors because you'll always be a slave to it. Yeah or or you're right and you're gonna be broke yeah for the rest of your life why now yeah yes you're right you are right yeah why now and that's gave everything that gave me and yes and like yeah cool you're right why now what are you gonna do about it now bang on bang on I heard this thing the other day there's a guy that was I can't remember some fucking famous entrepreneur motivational speaker whatever the fuck you want to call him is like you know if you bought a coffee every single day it's gonna cost you I think GC actually hates him as well let's do some let's run some into this let's just say a coffee in Melbourne costs five dollars fifty yeah so you'd spend so it's over it's just over two thousand bucks say two thousand and ten dollars that you spend a year on one coffee a day what's that five dollars fifty times three hundred and sixty yeah three yeah well I did three six five but let's let's go um yeah whatever and then say you did two coffees say whatever it is say you spent four thousand bucks on coffee a year all right it's like you if you just stop buying coffee all year you'll have four thousand dollars you put that into a high interest account you invest this here you it could be ten thousand dollars by the end like it's just whereas GC was like that's dumb like don't focus on going oh I can't buy a coffee go and focus on how you can make ten thousand dollars a year so you can enjoy your coffee and have it whenever the fuck you want and then get some eggs on the side all right focus on where in your life now can you increase your value to get more value yeah and take it from there and I've always looked at everything in life like that. You know I've got I'll have bills that come in and I'll look at them like fuck that's expensive or shit we haven't allowed that cool just go make more money. Make more money go out and fucking execute George like don't sit there and be victim to it because there's people out there that look at this bill and go, that's cute. Let me just get the let me just get my ashtray and pull out a fucking 50k and say yeah just go wait don't talk to me don't touch me. There's people out there that do that sort of shit they exist. They exist those people out there. So why am I sitting here going ah that's expensive?

Robby 36:13

Yeah I think the other side to that is like there's this really good book called I Will Teach You to Be Rich. I will teach you I can't fucking Remeat Sati is the guy R-A-R can't spell Rame Seti yeah that sort it out R-A-M-I-T uh Remeat and his thing is like this is and this for the sick when when I first heard it I was like fuck he goes everyone telling you go save your coffee go save your coffee don't drink your coffee blah blah blah he's like and you love your coffee he's like you love it it's like one of your most favourite things you look for during the day and people telling you no no you gotta you gotta stop drinking lattes yeah he's like you gotta stop asking three dollar questions and start asking thirty thousand dollar questions yes exactly right he goes instead of not drinking your latte what if you knew how to negotiate your telegram you know I mean because instead of not drinking your latte what exactly how to invest exactly like that's such a good point if you're in there just say hey boss times are tough I need more coin need more coin like we've got to like I've output I do this I do this I do this I do this let me show you my value this is what I'll do for your company this is what I can do this is what I have been doing these are the reps I've done yeah or or say hey what do I have to do between now and six months to to earn more money tell me what I need to do and if I want to if the opportunity is not there with your current employer leave fucking go somewhere else yeah and you go hey I found another job that's now going to get me 50k more money than what I was getting and now I can get coffee and I can get eggs and if Robbie's with me I'll fucking buy him a coffee too because that's how I'm rolling.

George 37:39

How good are eggs? Oh eggs are fantastic. I would have six eggs a day at the moment you eat six eggs a day five eggs and one egg white so yeah that's it that's it that's wild that's fucking I'm I'm a big guy I don't fuck around that is like isn't it such a serious amount of eggs dude three cartons a week yeah I'm fucking pumping through them we go through carton almost a day with the kids as well I fucking around buy those big cartons no I still buy 12 packs I don't even I've I can't find the big ones uh I've got to go buy chicken that's what I gotta fucking buy that's that's uh I see two in the morning for breakfast yeah with a uh high protein sh uh smoothie that I make I'll make your sick and uh I'll often for dinner I'll I'll make an omelette with steaks and meats and shit like that and I'll put four eggs in there or three eggs and one egg white because I'm trying to cut down on the fat a little bit.

Robby 38:38

Yeah fair enough make it up that's impressive eggs are expensive.

George 38:45

I don't think they're that bad. Coming back to fuel right at three bucks a liter like if you really think about the process of what it takes to take fuel out of the ground and then fucking refine it do everything you're gonna do and then transport it into a pump and then put it into your car three bucks a litre isn't that expensive. Yeah milk's more expensive exactly right milk milk milk's sick motherfucker I get the A2 milk as well I don't fuck around I get the expensive shit. Milk's more expensive that's A2 milk it's like$650 at a few litres at a first glance if you're like what's more expensive milk or fuel? You've got fuel fuel it was like uh it's actually not yeah go fucking buy 180 litres of milk then fucking come talk to me. Yeah and then and then come talk to me. Um so yeah I love where this conversation went because that's where I wanted it to go is you've got to ask yourself the$30,000 questions. What does that mean to you if you're in a position now whatever you're doing man like if you're a laborer man you I I guarantee you can find more money doing labouring whether it's with your current employer or with someone else also the other side is like things have always gotten more expensive. Absolutely they don't get cheaper yeah it's like you need to learn how to you can complain about the way it is or the way you wish it was or you can deal with it the way it is I've I've priced projects at a price and then they come back 12 months later every single time it's always gone up. Every single time I'm like hey that was the price back then I can't match that anymore the prices of steel's gone up and plaster and this and this and this oh okay that's gone a bit cheaper but all these have gone up. So ultimately they'll end up spending more money because they didn't take the action and make a decision back then thinking oh we'll just wait for the market to settle hasn't happened. Traditionally it doesn't happen everything always goes up so what's your$30,000 question that you ought to be asking yourself right now.

Robby 40:38

And another thing as well I'll add to that is um I read this other thing GC said this he's like you know people are like save your cup of coffee blah blah blah he's like you can only save to zero it's like if you are completely optimized your whole life and let's say you spend five grand a month he's like if you brought that down to zero you can only save five grand a month because you can't beat someone who's making 50 grand a month like you just cannot. It's physically important even if you optimized to everything like you found a way to get your rent paid for you got covered all everything. All your expenses you save it to zero.

Limiting Beliefs And Self-Sabotage

George 41:13

Yeah you only there's a there's a what's such a fucking great way to look at this so smart and you look at people like that and go well how is he so fucking well that's why he's so fucking rich. That's why he's so successful because he's thought about he's broken the code like he's broken the game and understands the game better than 90% of the people on the planet make so much money that you can't spend it. Yeah yes make so much money you're like hey I'm fucking I don't know shit's just stacking up it's getting in my way yeah it's offensive I love that question who wants to make less money next year yeah it all everyone laughs at you every time you ask it yeah because it's it's it's stupid yeah it's stupid this is a silly question who the f what but technically if you're in the same spot you were last year you've just made less money what your money's worth less worth less yeah you've made less money if you're in the same position you were last year you've made less money and you actually your time is worth more because there's less of it. Yes fucking less less yeah you know you've lost twice you've lost on both ends my word yeah my word yeah it's cool and you're gonna get people who try to pull you down all the time I find you'll get people who try to pull you down it's just nature of the beast so accept that and understand that it's gonna be there and it's sometimes from people that love you that care for you that don't that want to see you succeed but don't want to see you be stressed. For example it might be like I'm gonna go buy this investment property or I'm gonna go out and do my own business. No no don't do the business just go get a high paying job like that's stressful. You could be you might lose everything why would you go and risk all this to go and out on your own and be a your business owner just go get a job that gives you your 200k a year and you're nice and set why are you leaving your cushy job your golden handcuffs you got good super there like why are you leaving so uh or it could be just anything you're doing in your life some i was speaking to a a client today um for build relate that I was coaching and he's like you know I've worked real hard I've done this I've done this he goes I bought a nice car and I I felt bad he goes I felt bad that I bought a car for myself like I knew like my dad was going to say well what'd you buy that car for that's stupid you should have bought another investment property and he's like dad he goes I've I've got six investment properties and none of them make me happy none of them he goes I don't drive past this house that I own and go go hug it get out of the car go and hug it and run back in and go yes he goes so it doesn't make me happy he goes but then I bought this car and I felt like I enjoy driving it he goes I feel excited when I get into it he's he goes it's a it's a representation of all my hard work and what I've achieved over the years. So um as expensive as it was and is it the best financial decision for him to make probably not but I like the concept behind it going well fuck it go out and make more money. You've deserved like you you've got to be expensive Car, you've got to pay for an expensive car. Go out, make more money. Go make it happen, make it happen. And I think when people start to let go of their limiting beliefs, I think you know they can get some big changes in their life. Really big changes. Because ultimately, man, it's on each and every one of you to make that change. It's not up to me. I'm not going to do it for you. If anything, I'll walk over you. I'm not going to help you. And not many people will. You need to go out there and fucking make it happen yourself.

Robby 44:24

And you said people want to hold you down. Is that what the words you used?

George 44:31

Yeah, it might have been rewind.

Robby 44:33

Something like that. Go back 30 seconds, five guys. Sometimes you are the person. Yes.

unknown 44:40

Yeah.

Robby 44:41

Sometimes you are the one who has associated so much stress or so much pain to something where you're like, hey man, like have you not sold something, or like, not when I say not sold, like you've learnt towards not selling it because of the amount of pain you went through previously? Like, for example, I'll give you an example. Uh let's say a particular type of project, and then it's like that project comes up again, and then you're like, Yep, yep, yep, yep.

George 45:10

100%.

Robby 45:11

Like, I'm gonna fucking do like I'm gonna I'll I'll price it, but I'm gonna price it in a way where kind of it just releases bank if I'm not yeah, it's kind of like it kind of it's gonna decrease the likelihood that I get it, but I'm cool with that because that last time I did a job like that, it fucking cooked me.

George 45:26

Yeah, yes, you get what I'm saying? 100% because I've been like that.

Robby 45:29

Yeah, because why? Because we associated the level of pain to that thing, and then sometimes you're not even aware of it, but you might think like, oh, but if I have a business with a hundred employees, that equates to stress because I got four now and they're all fucked, right? And then it's like, well, if I have a hundred, that's gonna be 20 times, 25 times the amount of fucked. Yep. And if I associate this thing now, it's like more of that means more pain, and I don't want more pain.

George 45:52

Yep, I completely agree with that.

Robby 45:53

Then you will subconsciously block yourself from getting it. Yes, you will get in your own way without even you noticing it. I've done that, hand up, dude. You you you as a human being don't you don't want to change. It's human nature to not want to change.

George 46:10

It's like it's biologically wide. Yeah, you're like changing. It's a survival mechanism, yeah. It's like we put yourself in danger.

Robby 46:17

The Tony Robbins says the strongest need in the human is the need to be aligned with who we think we are. Do you know what I mean? And it's like if you have this image of yourself, it's like I grew up in this area, and that's you know what I mean. It's like uh and it's like you're gonna do everything in your power unconsciously to hold yourself there. Do you know what I mean? Um, and it's way easier said than done, but you need to find and surround yourself with people who can kind of help you go to the next level.

George 46:46

Well, I'm glad you said that because as much as there's people out there that hold you down, there's also people that will help you up. Yeah, there's also a lot of people there that help you up. There's people there that pump up your tires that are happy for you. And you know what? I'm gonna tell you something now. And I haven't told you this, but I'm gonna tell you first time on podcast. How good's a podcast? It's a good podcast makes me feel better. It's a good podcast.

Robby 47:02

Someone messaged me the other day and they're like, hey, have you seen this Builders podcast? It's no million dollar days, but it's all right, you should check it out. It's like no million dollar days.

George 47:11

How good. I so I called you up after our last event. I'm like, hey, how are you going? Is it GP? It's R C it's GP, give me a call. And you're like, Fuck, this guy's tanked. This guy is tanked out, he's fucking depressed, he's like, he's he's shit, he's he was you were stressed. And I called you up and said, Hey, just did this. And okay, this is what this is what the result was. And you know what? You were like, fucking oath, man. Well done. Like, good on you. You were so fucking pumped that I felt it through the phone. Yeah, I was like, I felt it through the phone, man. And that I just I didn't say it, but that meant a lot to me that you actually were like that because I was like, fucking hell, how many people in your life could you tell good news that happened to you? Not to them, yeah, it happened to you. And how genuinely fucking excited you were for me for having a win. And I was like, fuck man, that's they're the type of fucking people you want in your life. They're the type of people, yeah. Like if I heard tomorrow you just landed the biggest AI contract and you're just about, hey, that yacht's gonna become a reality. I said, dude, you're fucking legend. I'd be posting about it, I'd be fucking all up there, be your biggest cheer squad. And because I've seen the grind, I've seen everything you're going through, and they're the people you want in your life, from your partner to your business partner to your kids, to your mum, to your dad, to your friends, whoever it is. But you also get people who are those exact people, your mum, your dad, your partners, your business partners, your kids, whatever it is, who you tell them that and they go, Oh, oh, well, must be nice. Must be nice to drive a Porsche. Oh, it must be nice to be making 50k a month doing fuck all whilst I'm here grinding. That's just a bad mindset. It is, but there's people out there that have that. So I think when you start winning, yeah, that's right. Your your W is their L. Yeah. And it's like And it's like they're a reminder. I think what Moses said this, it's like you're a reminder of everything they gave up on, and that's why they hate you, or that's why they don't celebrate the win. Not because they hate you, it's just like it's it's a it's a their own thing, it's their own reflection, it's on them. So I reckon you you when you do find those people in your life, you've got to surround yourself with them. You gotta. You just gotta be, man, this is who I want to be around, this is who what we're about, this is what we're gonna do moving forward, and you know, your life will change.

Robby 49:23

Yeah, we dude. You're the you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Yeah, like there is no there's no way around that. There's no fucking, I'm gonna go lift these five people up, I'm gonna hang around five bums and make them all millionaires. Like, you're not fucking God. You're probably gonna become a there's way more likelihood that you become the sixth bum. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And it's like you want to be around people who are gonna lift you, motivate you, um, fucking celebrate your wins.

George 49:44

Yeah.

Robby 49:45

Do you know what I mean? And then you you you all fucking rise together. I think there's nothing. The number one predictor, I've said this before, the number one predictor is like your your environment. Nothing will determine your level of success more than you the data point being your postcode. It's like cool. And what is it? It's not it's not the fucking weather, it's the people. You know what I mean? It's who you're around. That determines that has the biggest likelihood of any level of impact. And if you're right now, like you might be in the thick of it, and fuck man, business not going well, fuel prices are up, there's war everywhere. It's like, look at look at what's around you. Look at who's around you. What are you fucking consuming on social media? Who are the people around you? Because I bet you the people around you are probably saying the same fucking shit that you are, or probably feeding you the same, you know. You probably go see him like your barber. You said you kicked off the podcast and went how's things? Oh man, the war, whatever. What do you think? Okay, something along those. A lot of my mind. Yeah, a lot of my mind. And it's like that person, with all due respect to him, I'm sure he's a great person. Yeah, but don't know who it is, but um he's probably not the ideal person to be around at the moment. He needs to kind of sort his own shit. You know what I mean?

George 51:00

And if you're in the thick of it, you being with him is maybe he's got family over there that are literally getting bombs dropped on him. Do you know what I mean? He could be fucked, like he could be in a really bad spot or 100% or someone close to him passed away, you know. Like people go through stuff. I've gone through stuff, you've gone through stuff. It's you're gonna have bad days. Not no one ever said that you I mean, you gave that example a while ago, but no one ever said things are gonna be easy throughout your whole life. And if you got to really pick, would you just pick that life that's just nothing happens and everything's safe and you cruise around, or would you want the life with some amazing highs and you get some bad lows with it, but then you get amazing highs and you get some more lows? Like, which life are you gonna pick? You're gonna pick the one that has existing in it, that has fucking life and shit happening.

Robby 51:39

The rainy days make the sunny days better.

George 51:41

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and Hormozy also said, No, Chris Willis said on his podcast, and he was probably paraphrasing someone else, but adversity is a terrible thing to waste. You know, difficult times is a terrible thing to waste. That's where you're gonna get your most growth, your most change, your most um pivotable moments in your life.

Robby 52:03

That's where people make the most money. Yeah, sure it is. Down. I think it's if you looked at um there's a stat, I don't know what it is, but I'll I'll try and kind of paraphrase it. It's a it's a very high percentage of the if you look at every Fortune 500 company, it's like a ridiculously high percentage of those Fortune 500 companies came to fruition during a downtime economy.

George 52:25

That doesn't surprise me.

Robby 52:26

Yeah, it's like these all these people were businesses that started in a huge downturn. You know what I mean? And came to fruition and rose so quickly because of everything else that was crumbling around them. Very good. That doesn't uh if that doesn't inspire you to go and and make something of what's happening at the moment, uh I don't know what will.

Builders Summit Invite And Giveaways

George 52:49

Yeah, absolutely. I I think that's a very powerful segment, and I think it's something that if you're listening to this now, like what are the areas and the opportunities in your life? Don't focus on you know everything that's difficult or everything that's expensive or everything that's not going your way. What can you control? What can you start to make some moves on? Because if you do, you'll be surprised what happens. You'll be surprised what happens.

Robby 53:10

And um if people aren't inspired, George, where could they uh where could they get a little bit more inspiration?

George 53:18

Look, they could definitely come to a builders' summit. I reckon if they came to a builders' summit in May of this year, 2026, in either Melbourne or Sydney. You know, take your pick. Or if you're really pumped, if you're gonna take shit to the next level, come to both. Travel. Do it. It'd be well worth it. I I would if it'd be well worth it. I would freak. So someone at both, I'd be like, that you'd I'd put him, I'd put him on my shoulders. Give him a hat. I'd give you a million dollar days happen without a doubt. No, we've got Builder Summer coming back again, mate. We had a really successful start to the year with the trainings and the events, and it just motivated both of us to just go again. You know, there were questions at the start of the year going, well, you know, this is difficult. Should I keep going? Should we keep moving forward in this direction? There was the questions there, it had to be asked. And it's like going through, seeing the people, connecting with the people, seeing the changes, seeing the results, and we're like, man, we've got to do it again. This is too powerful of a program not to keep it going. Everyone I speak to is like, you know, just recently, more so than ever before. I've had people coming up to me saying, Hey man, thanks for doing something like this.

Robby 54:22

Dude, I spoke to someone today and I said, How's the event? And he goes, Bo, that event was amazing. Yeah. Okay, it's so he goes, How's the event for you? I was like, it was good. I was there for a few hours, but it was good.

George 54:33

Oh, you're talking about the built mastery one.

Robby 54:34

Yeah, so someone of the guys that was there.

George 54:36

Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, it's like it was everything I needed. Yeah, and that's so good to hear because then it's like, well, it's not just about the money, it's not just about you know, uh getting people there and to feel good about my ego and all that sort of stuff. It's we're genuinely helping people improve their lives and their business, and it has a huge flow-on effect. So I think the per the the aspect of that is really cool. And then aside from it, man, like it's fun. So we have a good time. Each time we do an event, like we we laugh, we carry on, we uh connect with people, it's just a fun day out. And I think if you can combine the entertaining and the fun with the learning, it's a winning recipe.

Robby 55:15

Yeah, and there'll be one lucky, uh, one lucky winner at each event. At each event. So two lucky winners. Two lucky winners. So if you come to both, you've actually increased your chance.

George 55:24

Especially if you buy a VIP ticket. Doubled your chance. If you get a VIP ticket, which is only 200 bucks thereabouts, don't quote me. Robbie will let you know. Less. Less, less than 200 bucks. You could get up to 20 bonus entries into winning a two to two and a half thousand dollar Makita or Milwaukee toolkit. We haven't decided yet, but you're gonna get a toolkit that's sick. Up to two and a half grand. Like, what a life. Yeah, plus all the additional bonuses, plus all the bonuses we give away on the day. Like, we're not gonna give too much away here, but man, what a life. If you're interested in doing that, you can head to builderelete.com.au. Uh, you can go to any of our social pages, it'll be in the the link in bios. It's you can find it. It'll be linked in this video. It'll be linked in this video. You can find it. Make it happen, get there. I promise you it's gonna be a great day out. And you know what? If money's tight at the moment, yeah, we said it.

Robby 56:15

Fuel prices are high.

George 56:16

Fuel prices are high. Give away a full tank. You know what? Mate, people will flock. Yeah. Flock. I think it'll be a venue. Yeah. Um, mate, it's a free event. It's also a free event. So if you are finding it tough at the moment, I still want you to win. I still want you to walk away with some goodies, and I want you to go and implement and just change your life. So you can get there for absolutely nothing. All you have to do is register your details. Can't say any more than that, can we? That's it. Thank you very much, guys, for tuning in. Another episode of Million Dollar Days. Loved having you here as always, and cannot wait to see you next week.

Robby 56:53

Bye, everybody.