"Unlock Your Inner Strength: Martin Salama's Worrier to Warrior Blueprint"

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Unlocking potential, one dream at a time.

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On the CJ Moneyway Show.

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Sit back and relax, you're listening to the Moneyway.

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Show.

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He says, okay, I'll make you a deal, we'll take whatever we can.

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We come up with a number.

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He says, but I'm not giving you certification until you pay it off.

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I said fair, fair deal, you know.

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So I started and went there and about two months before it was time for the school to start, Welcome my good people.

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Welcome to the CJ Moneyway Show and I'm with your host, CJ.

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Moneyway, let's get it.

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What's up?

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My good people, this your boy, cj Moneyway.

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Today I have on the show Martin Salama, the author of Warrior to Warrior and also the architect of Warrior LIFE Code.

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Warrior LIFE code Live incredibly full every day.

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Marty Salama, how you doing, man?

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CJ, I'm doing well, so glad to be here with you, man.

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I'm glad you're on man, excited to have you on.

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So, like what's on your mind, you know recently that you would like to share with the listeners today.

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Oh, wow, that's a great way to put it.

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Well, what's always on my mind every morning I wake up is how am I going to greet this day?

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Because in the old days I used to get up and say, oh my God, I got to get up, I got to do work, I got to do this, I have to do that.

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And now I wake up every morning and say how lucky am I.

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I get to do these things.

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Yeah, and I start off my day with appreciation and I write down three things I'm grateful for.

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Wow, every single day, and even at night very often, I write three things I'm grateful for and and this way I'm ready for the day.

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And then then I say life live incredibly full every day.

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Uh-huh.

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Because if I got that mindset going in, things will go right off the bat.

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Yeah, you know what I like that I might implement.

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I'm thinking about implementing that in my life now, you know, wake up every day and write three things down that you're appreciative of, that you're grateful for to see another day.

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And I don't just write it down on a piece of paper.

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I go out and I have a good notebook like this, like a nice moleskin type of notebook.

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This is the one somebody just gave me, but it's the same type of quality.

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Mine is next to my bed and I write down in there because if I put it into a quality notebook it means something to me.

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It's not me just scribbling some words down on a piece of paper.

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It's a little value.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's something that, like you say, I think I'm going to implement that, because I know that by the end of the week and the end of the month, that you got so many things that you're thankful for and that you're grateful for just to be here, that you can thankful for and that you're you know, you're grateful for just to be here, that you can go back and and check marks and things like okay, I'm grateful for this today or or that.

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so, uh, that's right, I think you know what it does, cj, it helps you to eliminate the complaining and we know that's a lot.

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that's a lot going on today, unhappiness, as you was talking about.

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Before we get into that, the program I'm working on, a program of anger management, a seven-course program of anger management, and so later on, whenever we get another chance, I would like to pick your brain on how these programs and things work like that.

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And so, on that note, can you tell us about this program, this seven-figure program that you're working on?

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But before I get there, right before I get there, that's where I was.

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I was an angry person.

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I was a people pleaser.

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I needed to make sure that everybody was happy.

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I needed to make sure that I took everything personally.

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I was a control freak and when all those things weren't happening, then I would get angry to the point I would react to everything like a nuclear reactor and I'd leave fallout old.

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So I get you when it comes to anger management.

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I get it.

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So, man, I'd love to to help.

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You could pick my brain all you want on that.

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Okay, thank you for asking me about my new program.

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It's called the guaranteed seven figure warrior program, of course, because everything I do is about being a warrior.

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So people say to me well, what do you mean guaranteed?

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Well, what happened is there's.

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I've been a coach for about 12 years now.

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Okay, and many times I've gotten into these programs.

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I'm going to say, okay, we'll help you create a lot, make an impact, make a lot of money, blah, blah, blah.

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And they say it's done with you, done for you.

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But you know what I found out, cj, they were really done to you programs.

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You know, at the end of the day they just wanted my money, yeah, and the more money they got up front, the better it was, because after that they're like okay, go figure it out on your own.

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Like, what are you talking about?

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So I put together a program and I use something called a risk reversal strategy, meaning I've reversed the risk and put it on me instead of you, my client.

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Wow, the risk, and put it on me instead of you, my client.

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Wow.

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Because I say give me 12 and a half percent upfront of the cost of the program, and then you don't pay me again until you start making money.

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And when you do, it's two to one.

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So you're giving me another twelve and a half percent because you've made enough that it's twice as much as what you paid me.

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And then the next time you pay me is when it's five to one, and then the last one comes when it's 10 to one.

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Wow, that is a risk reward type thing.

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Okay, so you're doing it basically like, like I'm successful when you're successful.

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And yeah, yeah, and, and I like that, that aspect that you know, like you say, because I've been in some of them programs that you're talking about too and I just heard a guy say that when you're in these type of things, you are the product.

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You know what I'm saying.

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You're the product and they're just selling you off to different people because they really don't care about you.

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And so, like what you're saying, which is very interesting, is that you're not in it to get over on people or anything else.

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You're in it so that people can actually prosper, which is you know which is cool.

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You know what, the people that come into my program I'm very selective who comes in, because I want to make sure that they believe in themselves as much as I believe in them.

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Right, because there's three things that make somebody successful in anything, especially these kind of programs.

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One, you got to believe in the program that you're getting into.

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Two, you got to believe in the guy that's delivering the program that's me in this case, right.

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And number three, you got to believe in yourself that you can get there.

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And that's where my whole warrior to warrior comes in.

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Because, besides all the nuts and bolts that I'm going to teach you that I coach my clients on, they also get my mindset course to go through and come back and we go coach it and we learn it.

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And you know my book book, my warrior to warrior book and my course.

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Because all those things help, you say I know I can do this and when you, when you, when you're not sure, come back to me, we'll work it through, because that's how it gets going oh, okay, so with your warrior warrior to warrior book, what does that mean?

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like that, right, no, no, I mean actually, no, no, actually it's kind of fitting, you know, because when I was going over it, when I was reading it, it's pretty fitting because you go from worrying about certain things in life, you know which you know we do at times.

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You worry about bills being paid, worry about your condo being paid, we worried about gas prices and things like that.

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And so how I take it as you know what I'm saying in my analogy, how I take it, is that I go from worrying to be a warrior.

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You know, with these things that I was worrying about.

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Now I'm worrying over those things where they're not an issue, like you said earlier.

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Well, I'm not complaining about this or that, you know, because I'm worrying over these things.

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Exactly, right, exactly.

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I don't mean stupid Crazy name like you're worrying.

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My Brooklyn accent totally speaks to it, brooklyn's in the house.

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How about them?

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Nets, man.

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So I take it that okay.

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Let me ask you this then Are you New York Knicks or Brooklyn Nets?

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I've always been a New York Knicks.

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I got to stay true to my boys.

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Okay.

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I've been a Clyde Frazier fan since I'm 10 years old.

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Oh yeah, Can't change that.

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Can't change that.

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I'm a New York Knick.

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I bleed orange and blue.

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Oh Well, I'm a Laker fan.

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As you can see, I've been Lakers since 1980, so 44 years of my life I've been a true Laker fan.

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I like the Yankees though.

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The first basketball game I ever went to was a Knicks-Lakers game.

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Oh yeah, and it was Clyde against Jerry West.

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Oh, I know that was a good one, dude.

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That was a good one, clyde and Earl the Pearl.

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I remember Earl the Pearl.

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I remember Earl the Pearl.

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I'm an old man, man, I'm an old man.

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And the Knicks won.

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Yeah, hey, I do like the.

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Yankees.

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I like the Yankees.

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I'm a Yankee fan.

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Yeah, they're my second.

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I'm part of the evil empire.

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Hey, I've been a Yankee fan since 96.

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Oh well, it's a good time to get on board.

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Yeah, with Gene and them.

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And you had Mariano.

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Mariano Bernie Williams, paul O'Neal, tito Martinez.

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Yeah, so, yeah.

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So I like New York.

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You know, I like some parts of New York and everything.

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So like what?

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So you say you're from Brooklyn.

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So what are some of the skills that propelled you in your younger life?

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You know that got you to the point where you are now, as far as wanting to be a consultant, as far as helping others.

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So I grew up.

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I was very lucky.

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My parents, you know, we were never.

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We never really struggled, thank god.

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So my father had a business and every whenever I had off from school, my mom would send me to work with my dad.

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Go to the factory he was.

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He manufactured tablecloths back then uh, so I was always around entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship and all that and I think I realized it took me into my 50s to realize why my mother always shipped me off.

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I finally got diagnosed in my 50s that I was ADHD.

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Like, get out of my head, go with your father, go to work.

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I don't want you hanging around the house driving me crazy.

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I have four older sisters.

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The crazy younger brother they don't want around when I go to work with my dad and it's not like I sat in the office and did filing.

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He's like okay, you're gonna be here, you're gonna work in the factory.

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Okay, today you're gonna clean the toilets.

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Tomorrow you're gonna empty the truck.

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The day after or the next day you're gonna make boxes to fill them up with the tablecloths.

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Every day something else, because he said you can't ask anybody in this place to do something that you're not willing to do yourself.

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Okay.

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If I'm going to tell somebody to clean the toilets, I better be ready to clean the toilets myself.

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Because if they look at me and say, who the hell are you, even if you're the boss's son, I say me, I'll show you, here's the cleaning, here's the brush, let's go do it.

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OK, so that entrepreneur, I was thrown into the fire.

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But you know, I guess, as you said, as you said and by you going like that, that it was something that was instilled in you and although you know, a lot of times when we're younger we don't think that we're getting certain things, but as you get older, those values that you had as a younger age begin developing, you know so.

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Question about it.

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I'd watch my father every single day.

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He'd walk through the factory and say good morning to every employee on every place.

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There was two floors, three floors actually the third floor was mostly just storage, but the first and second floor he'd walk through and he'd say good morning.

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And every day he would stop by somebody else and say hey, mary, how are you, how's your husband, how's things going?

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The next day it might be Michael, how you doing, michael, what's going on?

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How's your boys?

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How's this?

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Every day.

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Everybody.

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How's your boys?

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How's this every day?

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Everybody there loved him because he cared about them.

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Okay, and you know and as we know it being in, you know working for people or you know just working for yourself or whatever that that that's key.

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You know, because I I've always said this when I, you know, work for folks, or when I supervise or manage that the frontline people are actually the people that make you look good, and so if they're not happy, then things ain't going to go the way that you want it to go.

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So you always want to be pleasant, you know, even to people that you may not, may not be too fond of, you know, but it's still, you know.

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It's like you still have to present yourself in that manner, you know.

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So's like you still have to present yourself in that manner, you know.

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So that was a good lesson to be taught.

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Take the higher road, take the high road.

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Yeah.

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So I don't want to get too far, I want to come back to this.

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So explain to me, explain to us a little bit about the method of warrior to warrior.

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Yeah.

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So, as I told you, I was a people pleaser for most of my life and I didn't know that I was a people pleaser and, taking things personally, I just thought that's who I am.

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I like to make everybody happy.

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But then, you know, it all started to come out.

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I've been an entrepreneur most of my life, business man.

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I had my own businesses doing different things, the ups and downs of that, and in the early 2000s I was in a business that we closed and my wife said you know, you got to find something else to do, even though you have some other income coming in, residual income.

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She goes and I've been playing tennis lately and I can't find any way to play.

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By then I was living down by the Jersey Shore in New Jersey.

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So she says why don't we look to open up a tennis center and I'll put some more tennis courts.

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Now I got to tell you, cj, I am not an athlete.

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You could actually call me an athletic supporter.

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But not an athlete though.

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I get lunch with the best.

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But you know the people believe in me is like, yeah, okay, let's look into this.

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So we do some research and we find out, we do a feasibility study Is it feasible to do it?

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And the guy says, yes, you could put seven or eight tennis courts around here easy.

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But if you think that's going to be a moneymaker for you, it's not going to make the money you kind of want.

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If you think that's going to be a moneymaker for you, it's not going to make the money you kind of want.

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You got to add things Put in a health club with membership, put in a spa, put in a basketball court, all these other things.

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Oh, okay, before I knew it, I went from just a couple of tennis courts to a $15 million project.

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Wow.

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Over 100,000 square feet and it took us five years to get through this process.

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You know, find the land, then go.

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You know, get an architect and an engineer and then go to the city and the city says, oh, you got to do civil engineering.

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How's it going to affect the traffic?

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How do you have enough parking, all this other stuff, like, okay, we keep going and we're raising money, borrowing money, getting getting investors and the bank.

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This whole time is like, yeah, man, don't worry, when you're ready, we love it, it's a great project.

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Now it was 2006 or 2007 when we finally got the city approval.

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Walking into the bank was like walking into Costco at lunchtime and going to the ends of the aisles and eating from the old ladies giving you the samples.

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Okay.

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They were giving money away.

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Oh, wow.

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In 2006, 2007,.

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Loans were nothing.

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They were giving them away like nothing.

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Unfortunately for me, it was the summer of 2008 when I got all the approvals.

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Oh, so I go to the approvals oh.

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So I go to the bank and I'm like, okay, I'm ready.

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They're like, yeah, we're not lending right now.

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I'm like what are you talking about?

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You told me come back when you're ready.

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Well, things have changed.

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A month later, bernie Madoff, subprime loans.

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The financial world falls apart and I'm broke overnight.

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Overnight, I'm broke and I've lost three and a half million dollars of my money, my family's money, loans, investors and everything.

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Just like that.

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I was broke down to nothing.

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I stopped paying my mortgage, I stopped paying my car payments.

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A couple of months later, my son says dad, look outside, they were towing away my BMWmw.

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That never happened to me before and it was, uh, it was a wake-up call, to say at least hey, hey, before I let you go with that one.

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I know that feeling, so tell me the feeling that it was when you sat there and looked out the window and watched them put the car on the tow truck, because I did it before.

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You know I've watched, I sat out the window, I heard the truck and I look outside.

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I say, oh man, they coming for my car and it's like your stomach just drops.

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You know what I'm saying.

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You run outside.

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What are you doing?

00:17:46.989 --> 00:17:50.965
Well, can I get the stuff out of the car?

00:17:50.965 --> 00:17:51.708
Nope.

00:17:52.250 --> 00:17:56.311
Man, now I can't even have the stuff out of the car.

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Now, I didn't have a BMW, I had a Monte Carlo.

00:18:01.887 --> 00:18:13.525
Now I can just imagine watching your BMW All of a sudden.

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These feet are made for walking.

00:18:15.349 --> 00:18:20.163
So yeah, so I know that was an experience, man.

00:18:20.163 --> 00:18:22.147
So through the triumph, you know.

00:18:22.147 --> 00:18:30.943
So you say that you know you lost $3.5 million of your own money, loans, borrowing things, uh, from family members.

00:18:30.943 --> 00:18:33.307
So the triumph.

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So you know saying how did you rebuild?

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You know the confidence that you had to rebuild, because I, I can just imagine how downtrodden one may be.

00:18:43.113 --> 00:18:46.589
You know to go through through a depression like that.

00:18:46.589 --> 00:18:50.749
You know whatever, so like, so what was the process of the trial?

00:18:50.749 --> 00:18:53.824
You know saying getting back to, like where you are now.

00:18:54.144 --> 00:18:55.448
I wish I could say CJ.

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I just woke up and everything was roses and tulips yeah no, that didn't happen.

00:19:02.824 --> 00:19:09.588
I went through a year of depression and you know the house was under foreclosure.

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Luckily, I lived in New Jersey, where maybe 50% of the houses went under foreclosure back then in 2008.

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That's how bad it was.

00:19:18.615 --> 00:19:19.855
Yeah, I remember.

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Everybody's loan to value went through the roof when I saw Topsy Turvy and it took them years until they finally processed the foreclosure.

00:19:29.646 --> 00:19:34.708
Oh, okay, okay that's a good thing yeah, that's great thing so here we are.

00:19:35.390 --> 00:19:39.765
So, but I'm depressed and my family's like you need to go to therapy, you need to get my.

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The doctor tells me you need to be on depression meds.

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I started getting.

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So therapy, coaching meds, all that, and it's about therapy, coaching meds, all that.

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And it's about a year later that I'm starting to get out of this depression, which was situational because of what was going on.

00:19:53.105 --> 00:19:57.483
It was all about the situation and I said, okay, now what I want to do.

00:19:57.483 --> 00:20:01.269
Right, nobody wants to hire a 48 year old guy.

00:20:01.269 --> 00:20:11.148
Yeah, you know, however old I was at the time 45, 48, almost 50 years old they just don't, especially when the economy was in the toilet.

00:20:11.189 --> 00:20:13.433
Yeah, the way that it was, yeah eight was bad.

00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:21.590
Yeah, and the people in my community were like I'm not hiring this guy, he'll learn my business, go to his family, get money and become my competitor.

00:20:21.590 --> 00:20:24.410
I'm like, no man, it don't work that way anymore.

00:20:24.410 --> 00:20:26.702
They didn't care.

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But so I said, okay, I got to think of something else to do.

00:20:29.520 --> 00:20:30.303
Now.

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My whole life I've always been involved in community organizations, okay, and I was always a leader.

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And the leader is the guy that people come in and say Martin, I can't do what you're doing.

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I'm like hey, cj, I don't want you to do what I'm doing.

00:20:43.968 --> 00:20:53.712
I want you to do what's good for you, what you could help us with, and I would encourage them and I would show them what their potential was and say whatever you can give us, we'll take.

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And I realized that I was a coach, without even realizing that's what I was doing, and I've been coached before.

00:21:01.506 --> 00:21:03.640
So I was like this is interesting.

00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:11.330
So I started researching becoming a life coach and that's what I decided to do okay and you know I walked into the school there.

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What happened?

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To be located near me.

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I said look, I gotta tell you your program costs this much.

00:21:16.169 --> 00:21:24.403
I don't got it and I know you can tell me I can go get funding, but nobody's gonna give me any funding because my, my credit score is in the crapper.

00:21:24.403 --> 00:21:26.830
Uh, my house is foreclosed.

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I was close to bankruptcy.

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I could get without going bankrupt.

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I said but if we make a deal now, I'll pay you whatever number we come up with every month.

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And he says okay, I'll make you a deal, we'll take whatever we can.

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We come up with a number.

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He says but I'm not giving you certification until you pay it off.

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I said off.

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So fair, fair deal, you know.

00:21:48.632 --> 00:22:00.726
So I started, I went there and about two months before it was time for the school to start, it was my 24th wedding anniversary and my wife says to me I'm done, I want a divorce.

00:22:00.726 --> 00:22:02.667
Wow, I'm like.

00:22:02.667 --> 00:22:07.874
Looking back now you know there are 364 other days of the year.

00:22:07.874 --> 00:22:08.816
She could have told me this.

00:22:08.836 --> 00:22:09.415
Yeah, yeah.

00:22:10.259 --> 00:22:12.268
But you know the romantic that she was.

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She picked.

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You know.

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Luckily I can look back now, cj, and laugh.

00:22:20.198 --> 00:22:22.205
Yeah, it was funny then.

00:22:22.205 --> 00:22:27.131
Yeah, I guarantee it was funny, then I understand.

00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:36.068
But you know, what was going through my head was every emotion you could imagine fear, anger, loneliness, back to depression, even a little bit.

00:22:36.068 --> 00:22:41.409
And one of the things that went through my head was why does everything keep happening to me?

00:22:41.409 --> 00:22:44.289
And here's where I realize now what I was saying.

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When you say something like why has everything happened to me, You're looking to blame everybody else for what's going on in your world.

00:22:50.432 --> 00:22:58.394
Now I say everything happens through me, the good and the bad, and I take responsibility for it.

00:22:58.394 --> 00:23:03.111
And that came through now, going through all this stuff and going through coaching.

00:23:03.111 --> 00:23:07.131
And that first weekend of coaching they said you don't have to be who you think you have to be.

00:23:07.131 --> 00:23:09.125
You could be whoever you want.

00:23:09.125 --> 00:23:13.720
And it was about first working on myself before I can work on others.

00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:20.748
And I think God was sending me a message when my wife came and told me I'm getting divorced, Like, oh, you want to be a coach?

00:23:20.940 --> 00:23:25.257
Well, first figure yourself out yeah, you know that could be true.

00:23:25.257 --> 00:23:25.557
Figure yourself out yeah, you know that could be true.

00:23:25.557 --> 00:23:41.167
But, like you say though, sometimes I know that's hard, especially when you're going through things and you know you love someone and you've been through the fire and you've been through the trials and tribulations.

00:23:41.420 --> 00:23:43.027
And you think you can get through anything together.

00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:43.946
Yeah, you know.

00:23:43.946 --> 00:23:50.369
And then when that time comes where it's just like you know what, I don't want to be with you, no more, I don't love you more.

00:23:50.369 --> 00:23:56.169
When everything is down, like you say, when everything is down, it's like oh, you know what I'm saying.

00:23:56.169 --> 00:23:59.109
Like here go another obstacle.

00:23:59.109 --> 00:24:12.017
You know I took my copy and repossessed House in foreclosure and you know all these other things, but this one kind of stings a little bit more than all those other things that I have been through.

00:24:12.641 --> 00:24:13.744
No question about it.

00:24:13.744 --> 00:24:14.507
No question about it.

00:24:14.507 --> 00:24:20.102
It really hurt and, as much as I probably can say, I knew it was coming until it really happened.

00:24:20.102 --> 00:24:21.167
You don't really believe it.

00:24:21.188 --> 00:24:21.348
Yeah.

00:24:21.940 --> 00:24:30.835
But that's why, when I went to coaching and I started to understand who I was, I started to understand why you felt like, ok, it was time.

00:24:30.835 --> 00:24:40.884
Yeah, because, as a guy who had a short temper, I would be lecture her and I would lecture whoever was around me until they saw my side point of view and they said, ok, you're right.

00:24:40.884 --> 00:24:42.267
But you know what?

00:24:42.267 --> 00:24:47.748
It's not about being right, because you'll fight till the end, you'll lose.

00:24:47.748 --> 00:24:51.065
So you're right, big deal, take that and go to the bank.

00:24:51.065 --> 00:24:52.008
What's it going to do for you?

00:24:53.342 --> 00:24:58.626
So they'll just tell you you're right, so you can shut up, so they can just go on about their business.

00:24:59.107 --> 00:25:09.133
Right, here's the problem Most of my conversations turned into confrontations and I needed to change that back to being conversations.

00:25:09.354 --> 00:25:16.144
Okay, you know, I'm kind of like what I'm working on too.

00:25:16.144 --> 00:25:22.288
One of my things is, too, which I feel is, though a lot of men, because that's my focus base.

00:25:22.288 --> 00:25:33.203
I want to in my next podcast, I want to focus totally on me, and which I wanted to start this one on, but it, you know, turned into something else which I'm really enjoying.

00:25:33.203 --> 00:25:41.564
But my next one is going to be focused on me, and one thing that I think a lot of times that we lack is accountability.

00:25:42.365 --> 00:25:44.307
Oh my God, so true.

00:25:44.307 --> 00:25:45.788
So so true.

00:25:45.788 --> 00:25:46.750
You know why?

00:25:46.750 --> 00:25:49.954
Because we think we know it all.

00:25:49.954 --> 00:25:54.607
We think that it's all up to us and if we don't do it right, it's on us.

00:25:54.607 --> 00:25:56.752
And you know what Partially it is.

00:25:56.752 --> 00:25:59.945
But it's also okay to reach out and ask for help.

00:25:59.945 --> 00:26:03.902
We grew up, cj, in a time where asking for help was a weakness.

00:26:03.902 --> 00:26:07.959
It's not a weakness, it's really a strength.

00:26:07.959 --> 00:26:15.673
When you show your vulnerability to somebody, they're willing to help you because you're willing to ask for the help.

00:26:15.794 --> 00:26:53.589
Yeah, too, is that when I see you ready, that you have the will to do something, I will be there for you to help you and keep you accountable for what you're doing, because I believe in you, and that's, you know, sometimes in life, that's all we need is somebody to believe in us, Because a lot of times and I know that you, you know being in the profession, that you're in that a lot of times, and I know that you, you know being in the profession, that you're in that a lot of times people can see things in you that I can't see in myself.

00:26:54.230 --> 00:27:08.987
You're 100% right and that's why I love this new program I'm developing, because I'm using the nuts and bolts, but I'm also using the mindset and the accountability and saying I'm not going to give up on you if you don't give up on you.

00:27:08.987 --> 00:27:11.055
And even when you do give up on you.

00:27:11.055 --> 00:27:13.060
Get ready for me to hound you.

00:27:13.730 --> 00:27:17.135
It's not about getting the money, it's about getting you where you want to be, and if you get where you want to be, even better because then I get the money.

00:27:17.135 --> 00:27:18.038
But that's not about getting the money.

00:27:18.038 --> 00:27:18.999
It's about getting you where you want to be.

00:27:18.999 --> 00:27:21.303
And if you get where you want to be, even better because then I get the money.

00:27:21.303 --> 00:27:22.786
But that's not why I'm doing it.

00:27:22.986 --> 00:27:31.025
Yeah, you know, like I heard you say that when you went to the school and you went to them about the program and everything.

00:27:31.025 --> 00:27:46.198
Now it gives me a broader perspective of how, when you say that you take the risk, you reversed it and you take the risk and you know the way that you break down the payment 12 and a half here.

00:27:46.198 --> 00:28:00.516
12 and a half there is because somebody, when you were in a position, somebody was willing to help you when you didn't have it, and so now it's like paying it forward.

00:28:00.516 --> 00:28:01.498
You know Paying it forward.

00:28:01.679 --> 00:28:03.202
Exactly right, paying it forward.

00:28:03.430 --> 00:28:05.257
Yeah, and I think that's pretty cool.

00:28:05.257 --> 00:28:09.730
You know because that shows me that you're a man that you don't forget where you come from.

00:28:09.730 --> 00:28:32.798
You know you're taking on your trials and tribulations head on and although you know you might have a mask you wrote books and you do this that you don't look at people as their lord and you are you know there was a saying a long time ago in the honeymooners Jackie Gleason bing, bing, bing.

00:28:33.392 --> 00:28:41.778
Ed Norton told him be kind to the people on the way up because you're going to see them on the way down, because you're going to see them on the way down.

00:28:41.838 --> 00:28:42.540
Yeah, that's life.

00:28:44.109 --> 00:28:44.874
But you know what.

00:28:44.874 --> 00:28:47.236
It's so true, it's a joke what he's saying.

00:28:47.236 --> 00:28:53.445
If you don't take, people are like are you going to remember me when you're at the top I go?

00:28:53.445 --> 00:29:07.263
I'm never going to forget you, good or bad, because if you gave me something bad where I was a failure and I don't like it anymore, I learned something from you, right, and most of the time, 99% of the people out there I've already forgiven.

00:29:07.263 --> 00:29:21.853
Whether they've asked me for forgiveness or not, and whether I've said it to their face or not, I've forgiven them inside myself, because it's a burden on me when I don't forgive them and that's holding me back for myself.

00:29:21.853 --> 00:29:25.335
You know so a hundred percent.

00:29:25.335 --> 00:29:35.180
You got to remember where you started and where you are now, where you're going and where you may end up back, because it all going to come.

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:37.161
Life is is roller coasters.

00:29:37.161 --> 00:29:39.403
It's how big of the roller coaster are you on?

00:29:39.403 --> 00:29:43.305
I used to be on one that was to the tops, to the bottoms.

00:29:43.525 --> 00:30:03.096
Now it's kind of like like this OK, small waves instead of crazy, crazy, you know, and that's life, Like you say, the life experiences, you know.

00:30:03.096 --> 00:30:05.285
I've heard something, you know, it's a passage that say you know, I'm content in whatever situation I be in.

00:30:05.285 --> 00:30:05.787
You know what I'm saying.

00:30:05.787 --> 00:30:29.461
Whether I'm up or down, you know, or based or bound, I've learned to be content wherever I'm at, Because if I get too high on some things, you know, or I start thinking of myself too highly than I ought to and I'm looking down on other folks but not knowing that one day I can be that person, you know that could be me in reverse, as easily, god will kick the leg right out from under you.

00:30:30.211 --> 00:30:31.134
Hey, you know.

00:30:31.134 --> 00:30:33.821
So yeah, man, that's interesting.

00:30:33.821 --> 00:30:36.532
So a couple more things I'd like to ask you.

00:30:36.532 --> 00:30:37.953
So a couple of month days.

00:30:37.953 --> 00:30:41.758
I'd like to ask you the live, incredibly, for every day.

00:30:41.758 --> 00:30:45.240
You know the acronym IAOFI.

00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.623
How did you come up with that, like what you know, sam?

00:30:47.623 --> 00:30:49.444
What was the concept we're coming up with that?

00:30:49.684 --> 00:30:51.186
Great question, great question, cj.

00:30:51.186 --> 00:31:01.380
So here I am, I graduate from coaching and I get my certification because I paid off my bill and I become a divorce recovery coach.

00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:03.525
Makes sense, yeah.

00:31:03.525 --> 00:31:06.218
I just came through a divorce and the coaching helped me get through it.

00:31:06.218 --> 00:31:07.101
God was smart.

00:31:07.101 --> 00:31:10.961
He put me into the coaching course at the same time I was going through my divorce.

00:31:12.049 --> 00:31:17.478
He had a plan, even though I didn't realize that it was his plan, but now I know it's his plan, yeah, yeah.

00:31:18.030 --> 00:31:25.998

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