So You Want To Be A Trillionaire Anyway

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What's up everyone? Welcome to the Anthony Show. Today we're gonna talk about what it means to be a trillionaire. Holy Goddamn.

I never Anthony, did you ever think you'd hear that?

Yeah.

No, come on, come on, go. Yeah. Really?

Never thought.

I don't know. I just never thought in my lifetime I'd hear that. Trillion. Wow. Wow. What is it? 54? I think 54. Yeah, 54. A trillion year. If you haven't figured it out, guys, we're gonna talk about Elon Musk. God damn Musk, man. God damn. Musk. A guy that started out with zero and at the age of 27 hit his first million dollars.

I think he is such a polarizing individual that this topic is important for people to truly understand and really take expectations of it. So everyone knows who he is nowadays, but how he started, a lot of people don't know. Right? He's an immigrant, right? Born and raised in South Africa, came over to the US, piece of family, ended up getting into coding, had a company, was competing with the guy, and then realized that they might as well just join forces, ended up combining businesses, creating PayPal, sold PayPal for was it 100 million or something ridiculous? 27 years old. 27 years old. Realized that wasn't enough. He really wanted to have missions, used his entire money to fund Tesla while at the same time running weekends as philanthropy work to meet a group of scientists that we now call SpaceX.

Yep, dropped out of his PhD program day two. Day two, day two, day two, didn't attend. Literally went, turned back around and said, forget it. And did things that people told him were impossible. Impossible. Impossible. Did you when you first heard of Tesla, did you think it was gonna survive?

No.

No one did. Electric car.

No, electric car. He redefined the entire automobile industry. Correct. He did things with Tesla that didn't inside the automobile industry. Unheard of. Unheard of. I had the I knew we were gonna do this episode, so I listened to a podcast with the guy that wrote the book out of Elon to get a little understanding. Plus I followed Elon Musk. A little bit, the last couple years. I want to start with the hardest topic for people. It's the jealousy that you okay you hear from society. Follow go on Instagram. Elon Musk is such an asshole. He does this, he does this. Look at him, can you believe he did that? Or if he gave away all his money, we'd all be rich. Like he should just donate it. We'll talk about it.

Oh god.

Huge pet peeve, man. It's insane. Yeah, it's funny. You should congratulate the dude of doing something that no one thought possible. And before you look at like go crazy, and you asked me if I ever thought someone would do it, and I said yes, it reminds me of the five-minute mile. Sorry, what? The five-minute mile.

No, no, what is that?

Everyone knows the mile run in track, right? It was thought impossible to get sub-five minutes in a mile until one person did it. And then the year after the guy did it, people started doing it. Because he set the pathway, he showed how much you can push the human body for greatness, and how much everyone else is just holding themselves back. And then once somebody does something that everyone else thought was impossible and they see the path, it now becomes easy for everyone else.

So we should thank Elon Musk for breaking into new boundaries indoors because he showed it's possible that to do it. He's the first, first ever human history to touch trillion dollars. So I am grateful that someone showed the path of how to get there. And showed that there is no limitations. You'll see his dream five years. Oh, yeah, yeah. Someone will two trillion. Two trillion or more. Oh yeah, 100%. It's true. And I it's funny when when I first found out about it last week, yeah, last week, I posted, he just made, he just hit a trillion dollars. And your dreams are impossible. Come on. But he's privileged. No, I don't want to hear none of that, man. No, no. Those are just all those things you hear on Twitter, what's the other one called? Uh, Instagram, uh X, all those social media platforms, he's greedy, he's privileged, or he could stop world starvation. Marion, those are just lazy people that are looking for quick outs. Someone else that garnered a certain amount of success, you're looking for them to solve issues. You solve it.

You remember the stovetop theory we talked about? What is that?

Having focus in one area. You can't have it in multiple at once. Correct.

Elon Musk hit a trillion dollars and he proved to he proved a point after really understanding him.

Correct. I know what you're gonna say.

Yeah, I don't want a trillion dollars. No, no, no, no, no. It comes with a sacrifice to reach that level. He's sacrificed his life, everything. His life. He doesn't have a relationship with any significant other that he's close with. He doesn't have a relationship with kids.

Well, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Very well, read the book. No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. He has kids, he has a relationship with kids.

He does not have a very close relationship with his kids. Not much, not as much as maybe someone as you like you and he made it very clear to his family, and this was the the guy I was writing about in the book. The mission comes first above everyone. I love that. I'm sorry. Every boy, I uh everything.

I love that. He said it to me, you know, I have to hang out, man. And it doesn't mean we have to agree, but what I'm saying that I love about that is the sacrifice, right?

The sacrifice is great, and he'll definitely go down in history. And I want to be successful, and I want to leave my legacy in the world. To what extent? But to what cost? To what cost, yeah. And there's things that money cannot buy, and that's time, time destination, right? So I asked my wife, I was like, I just want you to know how much I'm willing to sacrifice, and I want to know what you think the answer is. And she's like, Well, you wouldn't sacrifice my relationship. The kids was like, You're right, I wouldn't, but I'm gonna sacrifice everything else. Which what else is there other than left hand? Any any other relationship is gone, you know. You don't I want that these people in my life, yeah, but I'm not gonna I need the mission.

The mission, so it's wife, kids, mission. That's for you. That's what it is. That's probably the order.

Yeah, and I feel like people will say that's you're selfish, yeah.

I'll let you selfish. What do you say to that? It's like, well, you this guy's freaking selfish. I knew you for freaking eight years, ten years.

You the I want relationships with people, but it's gonna have to be on my terms to help build the mission and push the mission forward. And I want them to be a part of it, but helping push the mission forward with it. That makes sense. So, for example, we're a friend at Calcutta, but we talk about business. Like and we bounce ideas off each other, better each other.

What if that friend were to respond and say, and they with all due respect? Well, I know we talk about business all the time, but uh you never really asked me about how I'm doing my personal life. Like, we don't if it's to better our personal life, to better ourselves as humans, to better our business.

We talk about that. But I don't bullshit with him. I actually I make jokes to him, I tell him because we spoke the other day. I'm like, this thing's John. I'm like, John, am I too blunt? He has not like that about you. That's because some people will hear the shit I say tell you on the phone, and they'll be like, You said that to him.

Oh wow. Well, I mean, there's a difference between being blunt and frank and then being rude and nasty.

No, he's blunt frank, because I know he has a growth mindset just like I do, and he does the same back to me.

Okay, there's a difference between you're an idiot, you're losing your relationship 100%. Yeah, we hold each other accountable so that you can grow. And I'm sure Elon got people like Dannis Corner. Listen, man, you don't make you don't accrue that uh amount of success by yourself. Let's get that straight. That's the thing that you guys don't say you guys don't get, but a lot of people don't get. You do not reach that amount of success by yourself. There's someone around him. There's someone you need teams. There's no way around him.

The team has to have that common goal of putting the mission first.

First, of course. 100%. And another thing that I admire that I'm still working on daily, and I I don't know, man. I'm I'm just trying to fathom and just understand how he was able to do it. I'm not talking about reaching a trillion dollars. Whatever your goals are, I think Elon could be successful in uh several other industries because of his focus.

But the focus is relevant to the mission. And I'm gonna the focus is relevant to the mission. I'm gonna make a point. If my mission was to feed all the starving caterpillars, would you give a shit? Do you care about caterpillars? Exactly. Yeah, I don't know. Right? But his mission was to go put people on Mars. You say to yourself, that's something I can get behind.

I mean, yeah.

So you're gonna get the best and brightest people that are gonna push because of the mission. You're gonna get the healthiest people because of the mission. It correlates with it. You need a strong enough mission in order to get the people you need to pull the business forward or pull the mission forward to make a difference. I see what you're saying now.

Yeah.

So therefore, if you're not, if there's certain people that you want in your life and you notice that they're not gravitating towards you, you don't have them in your circle, maybe your mission's not big enough. That's pretty much it. Maybe take an impossible problem and solve that. And that's how you yo, that's that's how you make it.

What's the impossible problem I'm trying to solve with redefined fitness? Starting a medical fitness company. I was gonna say that yeah, it's impossible, it doesn't exist. There's so many laws against it, there's so many different like credentialing we have to go through, and we have to we had to break norms about what is even in the fitness industry because everyone thinks it's about brutes, right? Being Arnold, that's what everyone thought for years and years.

No, it's not redefined the limitations of medicine, right?

So we're trying to put that's the mission, that's where we can pull people in, and they just gotta keep screaming that mission louder like mission first. Yeah, that's what it is. Tesla, electric vehicles, mission first, right? Zero mission cars that go really quick and make you throw your socks off. So, yes, relax, watch Netflix or stake sack scrolling the moon. Like, how strong is your mission? What is your goal? What's Yao's mission?

Change lives through storytelling.

How powerful is that to people? How do you change lives? What kind of storytelling?

Change lives through storytelling with people that want to better the world. I want to make this impact on the world.

You're making an document world by make by maintaining documenting positivity to have other people spread goodness. And that's people love that, they can get behind that. Yeah, right.

That's that is it. That is it, yeah.

That's why it's so important business to have an impactful mission. Yeah, the mission has something that comes first above everything else. And I got a lot of slack, yeah, for saying that loyalty doesn't matter.

Well, well, and that's not what you meant. That's not right.

I want to bring this back. I'll bring this back full circle. I didn't like that. That's I got a lot of slack because a clip uh went viral internally and externally, and so loyalty doesn't matter, but loyalty doesn't matter in the context that the people don't put the mission first and had the mission go forward. Correct, put themselves first.

No one's bigger than the mission. Correct. That is well, that is that includes myself. Correct. Yes, you and I had a conversation. I don't know, this eight podcasts ago. Anthony, if you weren't fit enough to be a CEO, would you step down and delegate to someone else? Do you remember that? And you said, Yeah, there's no doubt about the Minecraft guy, never did the Minecraft guy. So, yes, that's what it meant. The um, what do you call it? Um, what's the statement I just said, Brave Fart? Loyalty doesn't matter, not in that context that oh, I don't care who's no, those that put themselves first, and then the work doesn't as every business grows, and you have to keep up with that growth. And if you fall behind, the business is not gonna be loyal to you. That's the point. That's what it that's what it's like.

Anthony, you know, he's he's cruel, and I can't work for a company that does that. Who does that sound like?

People making fun of E-line. Yeah, that's true. That's it's cruel. Nobody's doing no, it's what what is he doing?

He's putting the mission first, but to them he's shoving everywhere now. The guy who just fired somebody who needed the money and they can't feed their kids. That's me either fam.

No. See, this is the pro hey, listen, listen, man. Listen, man. What I realized when Elon Musk hit that status, even when he hit 354 billion, all those things. No matter how good you do in life, there's always going to be people that are going to say negative things. Because they're jealous. That's it. No matter, it doesn't matter. No matter how bad you do in life, there's always going to be people that are going to say negative anti fat. It doesn't matter. Find your mission, stick to it, and just go. Whoever loves you, loves you, whoever hates you is going. You think Elon doesn't, dude, he's so nonchalant. You think he doesn't know this stuff? People are jealous, they don't like him. He he just broke it down. Oh, he's a trillionaire. No, he doesn't have a trillion dollars net worth worth liquid cash in his account. It's all about assets and things of that nature.

Pretty much that would kill the economy if everyone got his net worth. I mean, come on, yeah. It's like the freaking COVID. People don't like realize you give everyone money, what happens to the price of everything? Exactly. So we're just in the same boat we're now. Exactly. Now you need a weird baller of dollar bills to pay for a loaf of bread.

Exactly. You you need that higher goal system. And like I said, the thing I admire about him the most is it was not hand, it no one gave it to you understand. Do you could you guys like I don't know if it moves anyone watching this? Someone hit a trillion dollars that started from the dirt. His story I love the most, yes, sir.

Crazy, bro. He had $300 million net worth, right? Because he had $300 million net worth a few years back. Yeah, he was told and informed by everybody like you can't split your focus. Like, what's killing you is SpaceX and Tesla. Like, you need to pick. Like, if you the safe bets, close one of them, those $300 million to the other. I remember, I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's that's what you need to do. He's like, No, I'm gonna divide my money and put the both. That man went to zero again. Could you imagine being $300 million? Like you set for life. Yeah, you're done. And he risked it all out to a split decision. That's what you got.

What you just said is that's what I love about. Like you said, if they launched SpaceX the third time, he was bankrupt. He said, launch it. And he got another thing because he got in a field. That's another thing. He got in there.

Once one thing at a time, first talk about the sacrifice he made. He was willing to go to zero. People won't even sacrifice their savings account to put in the stock bargain on us.

Not even forget about sacrifice savings. They won't get they won't put $20 in. That's too much, man. They you you gotta understand for massive success takes massive sacrifice. That's it. You gotta be. Are you willing to go to zero for your dream? If the answer is no, you will never accomplish that dream. There are times I've been at zero. Yeah. And you kept going. But those are that's how you're tested as an entrepreneur. That's how you're tested as a leader. When you lose it all, Anthony, will you fold and break? Period. Will you break when you lose it all? Yes or no? That's what I'm saying, though. And guess what? That's why we're here. People don't understand. On the other side of that hill, it's there.

You just gotta they just look at the success, they don't look at the journey. That's yeah, you just nailed it. That's you just nailed it. That's one of that's one favorite story. I love the other thing I think that makes him so unique. Two sides. One, he has full unadmitted at level. Is what do you say? His brain is like a rage demon. They said, My brain feels like a rage demon. I wouldn't wish this up on anyone. Constantly like nuclear bombs going off in my head. He always like he definitely has Asperger's and severe ADHD. It gives him that hyper focus, right?

I want yo, bro. That's that's the that's the part about him. I want, how does he do Kevin O'Leary said the why jobs had it? A couple other people, his friends and colleagues. But the thing about Elon is he has this signal-to-noise ratio where he just blocks everything out, and I can't HD.

That's what we diagnose it as. Think of that. I want to think of it. What did you say? You want a mental illness? No, you put it that way. No, I'm not saying not with you. No, man. That wasn't fichus. I have ADHD, not spiritus, but I have it. I mean, I s they said I had it too, but I don't know. Here's why it's that most successful people have ADHD. Really? Yeah. Who else can shut out everything and hyperfixate on shit and go bonkers on new ideas and go quickly because you don't have any freaking risk.

Hold on. ADHD is attention deficit. Hyperactive disorder.

So therefore you cannot pay attention to one thing. You you're deficient in it. No, there's different forms of ADHD that correlate to different things. This is an example. So I was talking about this today to uh a coach I work with. I was like, what people don't get is like my off days, like when I'm home, I go like this. Then I get ante. My leg starts going, my body starts going. I'm like, I need to do something. And I just can't stop it. It's like uncontrollable. Oh, then I got the problem too, then. Okay. I I need to, I need to. I'm like an addict. I'm like, I need to work. Like I need to, I need to think, I need to brainstorm. I need to come up with an idea. I'm talking to A guy in like the bathroom. Hey Claude. Oh, you're just idea. What is something, bro? I obsess. That's totally obsessed. Yeah.

Oh.

And then what the worst is with the scrolling, like you go numb. You actually feel like your brain turning into mush. And then like snap yourself out of it. Then you have to like block out everything around you, being super hyper-focused more just to just force yourself to concentrate. But really, it's not that you're trying to concentrate on this one thing, you're hyper-focusing on something else that you're just not working on. And I can't get it out of my brain to get out of my head.

Bro, I got the same. I didn't, I didn't know that was ADHD though.

Yeah.

Huh. My wife, I have to ex I have to explain this to her because she's like, honey, I physically cannot think about more than one thing. Like I can't I can't. To the point, like if there's if her and I are having an argument that's like just human, I can't work. It paralyzes me. Because all I'm thinking about is that and how to fix that. It bothers you. The hyper focus. I can't stop thinking about it until it's fixed.

Anton, let me ask you a question. How often do you think of your business and goals? How often? Uh 20%. Okay, I got that problem. Like, like seriously, like it's almost a like it's a disease. Really? But it's a good disease. So you have that. Yeah. I thought it was bro. I thought it was crazy. Talking to your wife, do you think about it? Watching a movie, do you think about it? Laying in bed, do you think about it? Like I can't stop. Unless my brain is off. I can't do it, eh? I don't know.

No, off leaving like I'm sleeping.

Oh well. I mean, yeah.

Which I still dream about it.

Okay.

Okay. But yeah, I hyperfocus shit.

Really? But how do we how do we how do we obtain that that skill set he has, man? We have success.

If you have that that's the point. I want to go back to the original point. Do you want ADHD? Whatever he got, give it to me. What he got? As a society, we medicate it. But most successful people have it. We call it an illness, a mental illness. Is it a mental illness to be successful now? You need it. Signal the noise ratio, can I lose this, right? So that's how it's all signal because it's all that's it. You just borrow anything of medication to get rid of it. It's a superpower.

I guess his and I guess his is more intense than ours.

Oh yeah.

No, yo. Does he really? He talks about it all the time. I didn't know that. Wow. I guess it takes trade. I don't know, man. I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know how he blacks out everything and just focuses so much.

That's how and then he trained that in his brain. That's what I'm trying to get.

How do you do that?

You train it over and over. That's you reward it's a system reward system, right? Like to be healthy. You train yourself to love the discipline to push to work out. You train yourself to constantly think about it, reward yourself for doing it. And you keep pushing that. And you hyper focus and you find a new thing. Like a dog, what's the next thing I'm gonna pounce out of my business and fix? And I look and I go fat and I pounce.

So I so now that you said that, that's all it is. Technically, everyone has it. It's just what you choose to focus on. That's probably my own.

You can work yourself towards that.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You have the ability. It's just what you choose to focus on. To focus on your dreams and your goals, you're doing well, and then you decide to go party and you're not fixated on the goals enough. He does not decide to go party and do that things. He's fixated completely on the goals. This is why the personal life is shiz. This is why he doesn't have a relationship with family, kids. He made a decision to say, I'm doing this. This is what I'm doing first. This is it. I just want to let you know. Most of us watching this, most are not willing to have that conversation with an with a wife, significant other, or kids.

There was a story of a woman that uh went on a date with him. And he they were at a party, she said, and he's like, You want to go back to my place? And I want to show you my rocket ship. And she's like, Yeah, it's Elon Musk, okay. She's like, We literally went to his room and watched a rocket ship movie. And he was explaining to me about the rocket ship.

No, Elon?

Yeah. That's all he cared about.

Damn, I'm hyper-focused on all that. I want to be that. I want that so bad. And I think for me, it starts with well, myself, obviously. But I gotta take a step back and look at the distractions in my life. You only get to that hyper-fixated place in your life when you take a step back. Start from just take a step back for a second and ask, what are the distractions in my life? Once I get rid of that stove top, then I can focus in one area because only that kind of focus gets that kind of success. And I need to assess, like after this podcast, I just got to go back to the drawing board and think, what is what what are the things I'm wasting time on? Because the level that this guy hit, I is unheard of. It's one of a kind, unprecedented. And I don't want that. But if you have just a certain piece of the pie of that hyperfixation that he has, you can get way further than you are today. And that's what I'm trying to get. I don't want to be a trillionaire, even a billionaire, but I just want a piece of that pie, that fixation. If I can if I can get that and acquire that skill set and hone in on it, I can agree massive success.

There's two other things he does really well. I think it's important to bring up. The first thing, everything needs to be explained like a third grader.

I love that.

So he's like, how much can you cut out of a process that's all garbage and keep it so simple a third grader couldn't understand it? And just that's it. Like examples is employee onboarding process, which we were talking the guy was talking about in the book. You know what he made his onboarding process? Like we onboard an employee? Like, what's typical?

They show you how to do all of you, all that stuff.

He goes, it's one sentence. One sentence. He tells the people at the onboard. I want you to treat this job where everyone around you will go home and tell their wives and their husbands about how great you are. Everything else you're learning on the job.

That's it.

That's it.

So he prioritizes simplicity. Simplicity and speed.

So he had his factory, right, for Tesla. And the first one bombed, as everyone knows, the first factory he put up. The second one, he's looking at it and he's like, I did it backwards. I tried copying everybody else. Had the lower level with the manufacturing, the engineers up top. The time a message got here took too long. It was our 10 minutes, or it has to go to a different person. Too long. He took the engineers and put them on the factory line next to the person and doing the parts. So they could just be next to each other all the time all day, every day. And they just talk back and forth to exactly what they need. Instead of having the guy up there figuring out an engineer room.

Yo, yo, Anthony, you know what saying you saying this, you know what's making me realize? Sometimes the key listen to this one. Sometimes the key to success is very simple for changes. You literally just move people downstairs. It's not overcomplicated. Sometimes it's that simple.

Or servicing Teslas. Okay. They're having they needed to service the cars. Yeah. So a guy comes to me with a proposal. Listen, we need to open up 30 uh service centers. It's gonna cost about three million dollars each. He then goes, figure out a cheaper, quicker way to do it. He goes, no, this is what you have to do, is this. He goes, No, we're gonna figure out a cheaper, quicker way. What do people care about? What do you care about? What do you mean? Like when you have a car. You just want to fix. Right? Is it 80% of problems are fixable without lifts and machines? So we don't need big fancy equipment to fix 80% of our cars. So what's more what is Yao prioritize? Speed and ease, right? Is it everyone else that's having you go to them? I'm gonna come to you. So let's just hire a bunch of techs, give them the portable stuff, send it into people's homes. And we don't need the service centers. Yo he solved this stuff? That's what he did.

Oh the guy is smart, man. Dang.

Saved tens of millions of dollars. Oh, the guy is smart. Just by the service. Now you and I, even though that's cheaper for him to do, prefer that. I'd rather you come to my house to fix my car. I don't have to go waste all day, drive there, wait six hours. Convenience. Yeah, it's all convenience. Convenience. Keep it easy for me. Convenience. So that was that was huge. Then he would look at parts of engine rockets. And because they got past hand so much, right? This part would cost $13,000 a piece of steel. That's what he was saying. So there's one part, it's like $13,000 for the shield he needed. Space certified. Elon's like, $13,000? It's like how much steel is on there? They go, Oh, I don't know. Wait, how much money in actual steel is on this thing? $162 worth. There's $162 worth of steel, and this thing they're selling for $13,000 because it's space certified. Go buy the steel and let's retrofit it.

Wow.

And so they saved money doing that.

You know, hearing how easy it is he to solve these problems, like that, how he solved his problems with this way of thinking makes you start assessing your own life and thinking about things you may have done wrong by overcomplicating situations that could have been solved so simplistically.

I think I I keep going back to this. It was uh Hermozy said it first when I was first like shit. I I felt like everyone else. I created this business, having issues with employees, and my onboarding book for employees went from two pages to 50 pages over the course of a year. I had to put things on don't steal, don't like shower before you come to work. Like all these little stupid things. And he goes, if you're hiring employees, well, you need an onboarding book about stupid shit, they're the wrong employees. It's not the book. 100%.

I was like, oh. Ain't gonna lie, you're right. I just had this conversation today. It's it's so funny you just said that. I'm talking to employees today. I said, guys, I just want to let you know, haircuts need to be every two to three weeks. You need to groom yourself. We're going into places of business, you can't smell. And now you just said that, why do I have to explain that to adults? That you have to come to work nice, slacks, decent, well groomed. Harmozy's right. If you have to tell an adult that, why you shouldn't hire that kind of guy. There's people with common sense that no, I gotta look decent when I come to work.

Yeah, if you don't have the common sense for that, you don't help me. Well, I work for me.

You're not gonna level my company up. Exactly. Exactly. And that's the level of simplicity. That's what I'm saying. It's just solving simple problems. So you went from 50 pages to what then, Ant.

We're still still cutting. I think we're down to 20, and I know Amanda's still cutting it down more.

What do you want to get down to?

No.

Are you getting down to that one sentence, Elon Musk thing? I was thinking about it today. What do you think? I be, but but but think about it. But that's the stuff you and I were talking about with the A players. They know that. Yeah, he has them people around. If think about it, just think about it. If he's only saying one sentence, that means the people the hiring pro they they know who they're hiring. These people are well fit for the job.

And he knows, like, he's gonna you're gonna get fired quick. He was Elon Musk's Steve Jobs all the time. I'll fire people on the spot. Like, out, you don't fit the mission, you don't follow long gun.

Oh, wow.

Because it's mission first, at the end of the day, yeah, and you need to know that the mission is you need to make sure everyone around you goes, someone talks to about how good of a day was at work. So that kind of person is easy to explain.

You think you can never get down to that one sentence? I'm gonna try. And that just comes with upgrading and letting people know. Yes. Either you, if you don't learn to adapt to where I'm trying to go, I'm gonna get rid of you and get someone that will. And then we speak less. It comes down and then we start trimming and eventually gets into one sentence. I already know you're here, I know your credentials, I know what you can do. This is all I have to say. Everything's time. If I needed pages that cut your hair, don't come in smelling bad, I think you're the wrong guy. And and then that speaks to me what kind of people I'm bringing in the room. If I have a the the onboarding packet says this, like what kind of guys am I? This is and that's the stuff I gotta say because I just had this conversation. Hey, you gotta use some deodorant, man. And I'm like, why? Huh? He's right. Do I if I have to have that conversation? That's not the right guy. He doesn't take care of himself. What makes you think he's gonna take care of your cameras and equipment and be respectful? Just think about that. And yeah, it's having that, it's having that level of um just that discipline enough to say, I'm not gonna tell you anybody. This is who these are the kind of people that I'm on board, I'm bringing on. And if you don't meet the standards, goodbye.

Mission first.

And I think that's how but that kind of that lifestyle, like you said, you're gonna be very lonely. We had that episode, man. That's a lonely lifestyle. We can't have both. I'm not gonna lie, Ant. It's gonna sound crazy. I want it. You can have a not both. I'm not both. I want the mission first. I'm I'm being I'm I I am that hungry and crazy. The reason I'm saying that, Ant, is I don't want you die, a normal guy that just directed. I need to do something great. I gotta do something so my kids, like, that's my dad. Yeah, my dad was incredible. You my time's limited. I'm 36. I don't know how much God forbid, I may go 10 years from now.

I said that for my birthday episode. Yeah, dude. You called me crazy.

No, I called you crazy because we said crazy. Yes, because you were saying, I think I don't have much time. But then I understood it. Yes, we're on the same page. But if it takes me sacrificing, I was gonna say, if it takes me sacrificing my family to reach that level of success, me, yeah, I'm willing to do it. Because I want to pass knowing my girls are okay. My dad, my dad did it. Like, we're safe. We don't have to work at certain jobs of work if we face through go through workplace harassment, we don't have money in college and all stuff I went through. Don't want to go through that.

My kids will never go through that.

Yeah, because you'll start with something already. Yes, that that's why your kids won't I take that back. What? Hold on.

Okay, I think I know what you take what back. I want my kids to go through some no, no, no. Some form of that workplace harassment? Not even You talk about adversity. Adversity. Oh, yeah. I want them to go do adversity because it's the only way they'll grow. How many rich poor kids do you know?

Yeah, but you don't have to put them in Walmart and come home crying that this guy did this to me. You can create their own adversity for them. You can employ your kids here.

So here's fire them.

Yeah, you're coming to work for me. What do you mean that yeah? You're gonna train people, you're gonna do this, or you're gonna look at the books. You're gonna I'm I plan to do all that stuff. You're gonna fix that. That stuff is I'm gonna embed. Yeah, that's a rich stuff. But it's teaching them is failure without having to throw them in the water and go through, which some people do. There's a guy, I damn. I wish I knew his name. Such a good story when I heard there's a millionaire, private jets, filthy rich. And he said a lot of millionaires, my friends, they hide their wealth from their kids. They don't give it to them. You know, if a hostel, I'm not giving my kids a don, you get it, you're on your own. He said, I don't do that. Instead, I let them know we have a meeting every quarter. You probably heard this before. We have a meeting every quarter. Um, and I think this is a good one to post for our age. This might be really good. I have a meeting every quarter of my family. I tell my son, this is how much you're getting. This is how much you're getting, you know, gives a certain amount of money to everyone. This is how we make our money. He shows them all the insights of the business, shows them how we make money, this is where we lost money, and he sits back and goes and lets the kids and the cousins, everyone talk about how do we solve these issues that we have. That is brilliant. Why would I tell my kids, oh, you gotta go through, you gotta work hard for your money, go get a job at Target. No, I busted my butt so you don't have to do that. But that doesn't mean you're not, you're gonna get it easy, you're gonna work, but you're going to work on the current problems that I have as an entrepreneur and as a family, and you're going to learn how I accrue this amount of success and how to sustain it so that when I'm gone, your two kids can take over. We got 30 locations. My dad's in his 70s, Anthony Aimon's in his 70s, 75. Hey, sis, we got to take over this. Oh, we're dad's been teaching since we were eight years old. We're good. No more, we got it. Okay, that's true. Versus they're working at Walmart and get college degrees, and now your business goes in the ground when you've gone. That's the whole point. And you know somebody that took over his dad when his dad gave it handed the business to him, he did way better. He took it to another level. You know what I'm talking about. That's it. That's the adversity. That's true. That's the adversity. Different levels of it, right? It really is different levels of it. So Elon Musk taught us something then that is no limitations anymore.

And it's to not take things for face value.

Yes.

Don't look at something and say that thing's worth $13,000. I'm gonna spend that kind of money on it.

I love that.

Or don't look at a problem and say, I'm gonna fix it like everyone else is fixing it. Or don't look at a problem and say it's impossible. Say, how do I make it possible? How do I take this impossible solution and work on something no one else is working on, make it possible?

And you know, I think the most difficult part about this is that we only know what we see. We only know what we see. You only know what you were taught. So if your parents don't have a lot of money, you grew up around, you didn't grow up around people that are entrepreneurs, there's a cap. There's a cap on your mind. Not anymore.

No, no, Robin. I mean, and they used to be now with social media.

Yeah, well, no, no, no, no, no. Still social media, yes, it helped it, but there's still people that don't. Yeah, you got social media. You talk to some people's, you tell them you could do uh look at social media. I don't know if I could do that. There's still people that exist like that, still have that.

It's not, it's not. They just don't want to admit that they are lazy and they don't want the accountability for themselves.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They'd rather just pitch a complaint and say it's the government's fault, it's the it's the tax laws, it's I don't know, pick X, Y, Z about whose fault it is. It's not my fault. Okay, that's something I did.

Fair enough. No, no, no, fair enough. You're right, yeah, you're right. Because if you see people that are becoming trillionaires, you see social media, you see Warren Buffett, Charlie Mugger, you see all these people in the old they they're billionaires and millionaires, and you still making excuses, you're right. It's just excuses.

I want to learn from everyone. I want to learn from everyone, regardless of their political opinion on the top. I want to know what the hell they did. Come on, what things they would change. I want them to come in and be like, Don't do that, don't do that, do that. This is why. And give me the explanations of ins and outs. I want to learn. That's true. I want to absorb everything. I'm not gonna sit here and be like, Can you believe this guy? I wouldn't be in the room with him. Oh, but those are ladies, those are bumps.

It's funny, my brother and I were just talking about this uh last week when we heard the millionaire billion trillion thing. He he told me he saw on Twitter people saying, Well, you should end world starvation and get money. There's such losers. Get out of here. What would who you end it? Where did you come? Where does that come from? Because I became successful. I have to do things and I'm wrong because I accrued this amount of it doesn't even make sense, but it comes from laziness, it comes from entitlement. That's where that comes from. You don't have anything. Hold on, hold on.

I can't believe that I'm doing going through this because of this, and they're sipping their nine dollar Starbucks drink with their Gucci bag on their $2,000 phone. Oh, yeah. Can you believe the adversity I go through?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, that's out there. You don't want to make the you and it pisses me off. And it until you meet someone that's successful and understand their journey, those statements come out of your mouth. Because you don't know, you just see the end result. You don't know what that guy went through. And a fraction of the thing, you wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to make the sapphouse, a fraction of the things he did. He's able to give it all away and say, I'm taking that another shot, man. SpaceX said, Oh, they'll get a launch at the third tent. He said, if you do this, we just want you know, if this rocket falls, you're bang, you have zero dollars. I said, launch it. That's crazy, yo. Can would you are you able to give it all and just say I'm giving everything? Not not hold back, everything. Are you able to do that? I have until no, no, I mean in general, just people in general. Until you're able to make that decision, that's when you reach it. That's a hard decision, man. I've been there.

Yeah. But you build that muscle. How much easier to make the decision now? I was I was recent, like I told you from an employee stealing from me. Uh we needed $40,000 in 10 days or we were bankrupt. Dog ass. No, it was this year. I remember it's two months ago. Three months ago. 40k in 10 days, right? Or in 10 days. Because at that point I wouldn't hit payroll. And I had no money to loan from anybody. So it was I don't pay my employees, and then what happens to my company? I lose respect from all my employees. Come. What would have what have you done?

If 10 days, yeah, 40,000 dollars. Where are you pulling it from? And and you know, the 10 days 40,000 is the mentality we need every day. That's how you do it. I did it. No, I know. But but think about what I'm saying, though. If you did it in 10 days and got it, why not keep that same fire underneath you and tell yourself, I got keep giving like who is it? You know, I must say, if you give yourself two days to clean a room with the device, is that all right? Why not keep that fire underneath us and say, yo, dude, I'm limited. And I gotta do that, man. So I think ending it, Anthony. I think there's a little bit of laziness in all of us. Oh, yeah. I think there's a little, I think it's a little bit of laziness.

Because if you did that in 10 days, that means Anthony, what could you do if you keep that same fire? Right. Here's the difference between you and Musk, which is why I'll never be as successful as him. I'm first wanted to admit, at least I can admit it on camera in front of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's six o'clock on a weekday. I have some work to get done. I'm going home tomorrow if you need. I have an hour before my son goes to bed.

You guys you're gonna go home?

Yeah.

It's gonna sound crazy, but just he, it's I don't know, man. I'm not I'm scared of of of of of passing away and not achieving a fraction of what I wanted, dude. And I think that is what now at 36. I'm starting to change my mind and say, I got permission first, bro. Because you have the time. I know you can't get certain things back, but I just don't want to be complacent and keep choosing. Well, don't get me wrong.

I'm working from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. No, okay. But I'm not Elon Musk that's doing 24 hours in a warehouse to get a product out in 30 days because it's the deadline he's set for himself. I'm not doing that.

But what where would you be if you did that?

Just think for it. I'd be probably in his ballpark. What? I'd probably be in his ballpark. Let's do it.

I'm being dead. I think I'm gonna do that shit. I think I'm really going I would give everything I got.

I'm gonna give most.

What is small? Give me a percentage. What is most? 90%. What's 95% look like? Just tell me what what is that extra 10? Give me the five. What does that five look like? Five more. It means not seeing my kids for days. Are you willing to do it? Yeah. I think I am. For me. At this at 36 I am. And I think because I don't know, I don't know. Maybe I'm getting older. There's just this fear I got where it's like, damn, dude. I just gotta do it. Because I know when I go, who's taking care of them? I gotta set that foundation. And I'm not at a stage where it's enough for me to go, and I don't know how much longer I got.

So if it takes that kind of sacrifice, something I sat with, because I like being so realistic with myself. I really like understanding if I can admit it to myself, I can be happy. Like I'm not gonna sit here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I I really you have to think about it. I I didn't come to the answer easily. I've always been made a decision. I was 100% business for years. Yeah. And and what what changed what changed? What changed? When I walk into when I walk home, my son runs into me and screams Dad Dad.

That love man. That love man.

And I don't want him not knowingly I'm trying to see how you answer that.

I mean, that's a tough one, yeah.

I mean Or I don't want to drive my wife out of my life.

So Yeah, you're right. There's no answer to that. You're gonna lose something. You gotta choose. Is it worth it?

But let me That's hard, right? It is, that's what's quiet for a second. I'm like, you can't just say yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

I think those are hard decisions, but it's not all or nothing. I can give up going out to bars. Oh, yeah, yeah. I can give up so maybe that's the five percent. Maybe that's the five percent. Oh, I I've given up. Okay. I stopped drinking. I you know you did it, yeah, you did it all that. Like I've I've given up. I've sacrificed everything else.

Is there something else in your life that you currently do that you feel hearing Elon Musk's story and anything that inspired you to say, let me look back at my own life and say, hey, is there something else I'm doing that I know I can cut out?

Yeah.

One thing.

Okay, and it's internal. Okay. That's what I've been working on personally, on my own personal journey for the last few months. Guilt.

That's your final step. So maybe that's the 5%, Anthony. That's my 5%. That's your five.

And I'm working with someone to get rid of it. So I don't have to do that. So I don't sit there and let guilt take over my last I gotta find that for me, man. I get rid of guilt.

It's over.

You think? Oh man. But at least hey, Anthony, the beautiful thing is at least you're on your final step. What the end of that means? You know who you are inside and out completely. Being able to identify it is the mo that.

I've worked with someone to figure out what value I value more than anything else in the entire world. Like, what's this? We all different values, right? Yeah, there's one value, it's ties into accountability. It still starts with an A. Authenticity. And I do that, and I realize my authentic self is this. What do you mean? You and I here. This is Anthony authentically. Wow. This is how I like when I'm alone, this is how I think. Yeah, this is how I think all the time. But I play pretend when I talk to the people.

See, I'm this scared, guilty person. And I ain't gonna lie. You ever the day you call me and say, yo, you know already? Let's do this. I didn't, ah man. Dude, once you show who you are, the people that are your tribe cards. That's my point. Just be you, man. Not everyone who cares. I'm gonna die. Just be you, bro. Your tribe's gonna come. Hate Elam Us or love him. I'm sure he got friends. I'm sure he calls some. He's not alone completely. There's people he calls them. Well, he's friends with the president. Exactly. Well, we used to be so far, but whatever. That's all fake. I think it's probably W. But yes, you get it. Sorry, WWF stuff. But you get it. There's people he calls. Your my whole point is your tribe comes when you live in your genuine and authentic self. Just be yourself. And and I keep on all this stuff I'm saying, I'm taking my own advice. I struggle with stuff. Should I pose that? Should I be yourself, man? Cares.

Just be authentic. Just be yourself. Be authentic and take accountability and use that as the leverage you need to push yourself up. And really you want people to think like when I look at someone like Elon Musk, how do I feel? Do I feel jealous? Answer that. How do you feel when you when how do you feel? The first gut is oh, it's unfair. Then I listen to him and I go, the first gut with one second. And then my brain kicks in and it goes. He worked for wow, that man did a lot. Yeah, you worked for him. That man is amazing. I probably wouldn't be friends with him. I would love I would fucking love to be Are you kidding me? Oh, heartbeat.

Heartbeat.

I don't know.

Heartbeat.

You know something learned from a guy like that. I would love to be able to do that. I want to learn from him. I want to talk to him when I didn't even want the show. Elon, if you want to come on the show, you call it you. I don't have a trillion dollars, but I'll find it somewhere.

Dude, my first uh uh uh uh emotion is shame. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I'm just gonna be honest, shame. I forgot I blew some look at this guy's he's a he's he's he's a trillionaire. He was born in South I was born here.

I feel that way with Hermosy. Why? Because I relate to him. I was about to say that he's in the same same age, same industry. It's shame. We're very much alike, him and I.

But here's the thing: if you feel that way with whoever inspires you, that's a powerful thing. The first step is accountability. Can you look in the mirror and go, I'm fat, I'm shameful because this guy does this and this is where I am in my life. And then what the the the the key step is what do you do after? You just live in shame and move on? Or do you take action and go? I'll give you a quick example. I saw the Michael movie, Michael Jackson, the movie, and the success that this guy garnered at 20. And I told my girlfriend leader theater, I felt heavy. I felt like embarrassed. I'm 36, and this kid was 20. He would the way his mind thought he was ahead of his time and thriller and all that. I'm like, I'm behind like the success. He went to MTV and made a call and all this stuff. I'm like, people are making it happen out there. What am I if you feel that way and then take action, not just talk and go to sleep and do the same. And you're on the right path, man. So this podcast, this episode, guys, for me, I'm speaking for myself, gave me a wake-up call. Just that's why I was throughout the podcast. I was quiet a few times, just thinking. And I made a decision that I'm willing to give it all. And even if that for me, I'm talking about even if that means sacrificing time with my kids, losing time with them, birthdays, whatever. Uh, I love them a day, uh God knows. Uh, with my girlfriend, significant other, not losing her as much as I love her. But I did the my mission is to create a legacy and a stamp on this earth that will change lives and generations after I'm gone through storytelling. Someone that can paint a story and a narrative that no one has ever seen it in that light. Uh, to move people, to change people, to change people for the better, to do better and treat people better. That's why I'm very selective on the stories I tell. And through doing that, obviously, God will bless me with the finances to help others and to have other missions such as building water system stuff for people. And the more time I use BSing, the further away that goal is. And that's gonna take me sacrificing. The question is, what is that 5% that I'm willing to sacrifice? Because I'm already giving. I would say right now, for me, and Anthony, you can answer yourself. For me, I'm probably giving 70%, I would say, because I really feel I can give a lot more. Okay, yeah, I really do. And and I and then that comes, I'm talking about stuff like maybe watching TV, you know what I mean? Oh, I don't but but that's what I'm saying, though. Taking accountability, it looks like this. Don't lie, tell the truth.

I I do that's my that's I don't even know why we pay for Netflix. I haven't turned that damn TV on in six months.

But here's the thing, though, dude. To my just to my credit, I'm a filmmaker though. So when I watch it, I'm studying, but then I also find myself watching it for enjoyment. Do you do you see what it is? So I need to figure out and go back to the drawing board because Elon Musk has so much. What can I cut out? And I know one of those things is when I pass all the I'm at 70 right now. When I get up to that 85, 90, most people never even get there. And God will I get there. That that that last 10%, guys, is family. This is real. That last 10, do you have it in you to say, I'm gonna give that five more? Anthony's five more is guilt. And I think that five after that is family. Anthony's okay with 95% because that can garner a massive amount of success. That 100% is Elon. I'm giving everything. Most people can't move past that 95 because the last five is family. Tough. No, it's not a joke, it's serious. And um, this podcast is powerful. I I'm gonna go to the drawing board and just I gotta assess some stuff. And one of those things are trimming extracurricular stuff that I don't need. And yeah, I'll go from there.

Thanks, guys. Hope you enjoyed it.

Comment something you learned about this one today, and what you can trim out of your life that you think is noise to change your life.

Love it. Thanks, yeah.

Let's do it. Peace.