From Rock Bottom to Rebuild: Marine and Business Leader Richard Walsh on Resilience and Frontline Leadership

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We are doing 15, and I'm also downloading. We're

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So thank you, Julie Loken. I have no clue who

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Richard Walsh is, but let me just be clear. We

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are live on a few different channels right now,

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and on my favorite platform, which I love, ChatterSocial.

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And we've got, right now we've got Lisa and Momo

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in the room. Thank you guys so much. This is

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live. I have no clue who Richard is. I really

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don't. Richard, I just so you know, on ChatterSocial,

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I know I look like a sweet girl wearing this

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and a nice little white scarf, but at nighttime,

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Tuesdays and Thursdays, Joseph and I deliver

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Debate the News True Crime. Yeah. Very cool.

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And we do it live with an audience. So, okay.

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So let's start talking. So first thing is you're

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brave. You're bold. And you're bald. You go three

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B's. It's huge. I wish I was bald. I just would

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love that. OK, sorry. Just always love that the

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three B's make me happy. Triple B. I wish I was.

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OK, so Richard, tell us who you are. So I am

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Richard Walsh. I am CEO of sharpen the spirit

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coaching. I'm a. 30 years, 35 years now, 35 year

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entrepreneur, multiple businesses. I'm a best

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selling author. I am a US Marine, a champion

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boxer, a black belt. I'm an internationally recognized

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steel sculptor. I have a beautiful wife and six

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kids who are now in their upper teens and early

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twenties. Wow, lost everything in 08, 09 after

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20 years in business had to start completely

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over with four kids under. four or six years

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under four years old at the time. Lost the business,

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lost my home, had to start over again. And did

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that, opened a couple more businesses. I relocated,

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did that. Currently we do business coaching consulting,

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right? So I help business owners escape the owner

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prison, which is also the name of one of my books.

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Get them hands off and get them. Letting the

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business run them letting the business serve

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them instead of them serving it I have a major

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focus right now in the manufacturing industry

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as we're training frontline leaders for frontline

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leadership mastery That's a big thing that we

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do really take them through the process To help

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because they're bringing manufacturing back to

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the US right, but people really aren't prepared

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They're out there getting more work, but they're

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not able to run their teams in the front lines

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where everything begins again I'm a Marine so

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I kind of know a little bit about that. So we

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put that together which then generates You know,

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we close all the profit leaks, starts to begin

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to like create more revenue and ROI for the,

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for the companies themselves are able to scale,

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grow and deliver the products in a better and

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faster way. And I have a new book out called

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sharpen the spear. That's my new one is turning

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teams into top performers, uh, you know, by leading

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from the front. And that's me in a nutshell.

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Okay. Yeah, we're going to go back. We're going

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backwards. Okay. So I want you one at a time.

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What is it? So you've served our country, you

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said. The US Marine. The US Marine. All right.

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That's no easy feat for a person. I mean, to

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me, growing up, right, the Marine was always

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something that you admired. And don't get mad

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at me, anyone. My son was Army, so believe me,

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I'm not. But so being a Marine is not so easy,

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right? Let's just say, tell me, tell me, tell

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me. I want a little experience of each. I love

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your pitch, and I appreciate that. But we want

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to really know who Richard Walsh is, because

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if someone wants to work with you, all the stuff

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they can read, And I have it in the notes right

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there, but Richard, okay. Thank you for serving

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and sacrifice. Tell us more about your service

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time. And then each one that you said, take a

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little time. Let's share. This is about Richard

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Walsh. No problem. Yeah. So I initially tried

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to enlist in the Marine Corps at 13 years old.

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Okay. I was a big kid, six foot one 80. And I'm

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like, I got to get out of here. I'm going to

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go. I always wanted to be a Marine. went to the

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went to the DI to the recruiter's office, start

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talking to him. He's like, Okay, and he looks

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at me and he says, So how old are you? I went,

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well, I'm 13, but I'm ready to go. He was like,

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Okay, so he gave me some stickers. He said, Come

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back as soon as you graduate high school, we'll

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get you in. I'm like, Okay, so I did I was 17

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came in one day. So I got to go on the Marine

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Corps. So I did well in the ASVAB all that cool

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stuff. My mother was not thrilled. My brother

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was in the army at the time. He was a year older

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than I was. My younger brother actually went

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in the Air Force. I said, well, I got to be a

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Marine. And my mom was not a fan of me being

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a Marine. She goes, any branch but the Marine

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Corps. And I said, well, I can't. I have to be

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the best. So I got to be a Marine. And so she

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was all known. And that's a sign, right? When

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you're not 18, they got a sign for you. So just

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a quick note, I brought two recruiters over,

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my two recruiters. Okay. And who are also known

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as the best salesman in the world. They sat on

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each side of her on the couch and they basically

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browbeater for three hours till she signed the

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paper so I could go in. All right. So I made

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that happen. Went in the core. It was, it was

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a great experience. Wait again. How old were

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you? How old? 17. So, wow. Yeah. So I, uh, yeah.

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Great experience. Did a lot of, a lot of great

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stuff. A lot of great training. Learned a lot.

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Uh, one thing I did learn though, was I don't

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take direction well. Okay, so now you know I've

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been an entrepreneur for 35 years, because I've

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kind of got to be in charge. So four years was

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enough for me there. But again, great experience.

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My son currently is in the Marine Corps. He's

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been about two years now. He's an embassy guard.

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He's out in Europe now guarding an embassy and

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moving on to some other stuff. So that's a really

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great thing. Yeah, so that was the Marine Corps

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experience really, you know from a leadership

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standpoint from up from a grit standpoint It

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really the ethos of the Marine Corps is really

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what I was about and that has stayed with me

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my entire life I mean there are people now Adrian

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that will meet me. They don't know me, you know,

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and those look at me they get Marine they go.

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Yeah. Oh it still shows I've been out for 35

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years, you know, so it's kind of wild, but it's

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one of those, it's one of those transformative

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times and positions that you get that never leaves

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you. And the Marine Corps is a special brotherhood

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obviously, right? It's a little bit different

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than, you know, you don't say you're an army,

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but I get to say I'm a Marine, so it's not cool.

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So yeah, that was the beginning. Got out of the

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Marine Corps. We'll go into the next phase. Just

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started working. I wanted to, I started, I was

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swinging a pickaxe. digging trench in Tucson,

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Arizona for a whopping $5 an hour, 40 hours a

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week for a cable. And one day a guy came out

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and he said, yeah, I got a little side job for

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you if you're interested. I said, well, I like

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side jobs because I only make $5 an hour and

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I'd like to make some more money. So I showed

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up at his house on on a Saturday and he wanted

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me to shovel some granite. So it was like crushed

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rock basically. Right. He says, so I get there

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and he's got 35 tons in the street. of this crushed

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granite. He goes, I need you to wheelbarrow this

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to the backyard, dump it, spread it. And there

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you go. I'm like, I can do that. I can work.

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So I'm shoveling all day, did about 10 hours

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and a hundred degrees and they get done. I'm

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all proud. I'm finishing sweeping up the street.

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And he comes out to me, Adrian, and he put a

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thousand dollars in my hand. Okay. And I looked

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at this thousand dollars and I went, I know my

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future. I will shovel rock every day, all day

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for a thousand dollars a day. Okay. So I, I started

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my first business. I'm be a landscaper, whatever

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you want to call it. Like that's what I started.

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And that morphed into being a custom water feature

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builder, which I then scaled that moved to Chicago,

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built out that business for 20 years. Um, and

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during the same time I started to do steel sculpture.

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because I thought it was cool and I taught myself

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and I started building these incredible sculptures

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that people really liked and some were functional,

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some were not, and they bought those. I ended

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up doing world -class exhibits using my talents

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of water features and sculptures and everything

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else, getting internationally recognized, like

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I said, and that was great. And then 0809 came,

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okay, and then everything kind of collapsed.

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Not kind of, it just, everything shut down. No

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one needed a water feature or a sculpture. Right.

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And if you remember 08, 09, no one was spending

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money. People were terrified and really. So,

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um, my business, November 5th, 2008, day after

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the election, my phone started ringing. I lost

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a half a million dollars on that day. People

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cancel and cut. And that was the beginning of

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the cliff, Adrian. So it was like, I remember

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hanging up the phone at the end of the day. I

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looked at my office manager and I said, I think

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it's over. I don't know how we're going to get

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through this because this is really bad. And

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sure enough, we didn't, you know, I struggled

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for a while then. The cool thing about this,

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I always like to share is, so at this time I've

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got six kids, four years and younger. My wife,

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I got a home, we're about to lose our home. I'm

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thinking about like, how do we keep up? Four

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years and younger, a couple of twins? I don't

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understand that. Yeah. Yeah. Two sets of twins.

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We actually have three adopted siblings and three

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biological. I have a biological twins. And of

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course, my daughter, well, my daughter and then

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my three adopted siblings. Quick, here it is.

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I'll put it down for the record. Okay. So five

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years were married, little trouble conceiving.

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Okay. Let's go into foster care program. That'll

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be cool. We can maybe get a baby. Maybe we can

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adopt whatever. So we did that. First baby they

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brought was a day old. I said, up here he is.

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Got 45 minute notice. He shows up and they give

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us a car seat and a blank in the bag. See ya.

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You know, got him little D 'Angelo who's now

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the Marine. Um, so like, oh, that's great. And

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then my wife, we did an in vitro and nine months

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later she had, we had a baby girl. Okay. And

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then the day we brought her home, the phone rings.

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Hey, the mother of D 'Angelo, my first son had

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another baby, had a baby boy. He was a couple

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months premature and all that stuff. So, okay,

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we'll take them. So we brought him over. So he's

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three weeks older than my daughter. Okay, they

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have a three week gap. Right now they're both

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20, just around 20. And then we did in vitro

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again and we had twin boys. Okay, and then brought

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them home. And shortly after that, the phone

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rings again. Hey, the mother of the first two

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had another baby. She had a baby girl. We said,

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we'll take her. Okay. And she was pretty messed

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up, but hey, she brought all the kids to term.

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We got these kids. So now we got six in like

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three and a half years. Okay. So we've got six

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little babies in the house. Well, I just want

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to say something, Richard. Let me just say this.

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Not only you are a hero for us serving, but This

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is beautiful that you and your wife is a hero

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too. And you know what? I don't need all the

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goopily goop about Sharper This Fair coaching.

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I would work with you with just knowing this,

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this, this, no, honestly when you just the two,

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I can't wait to hear the rest, but this is what

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people want to know. This is, that is the grit

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and the determination, the love. Oh my god, i'm

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not i'm not i'm crying but like i'm not trying

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It's the most beautiful thing i've heard in a

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long time and you're probably just inspiring

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someone To to do something similar. Thank you.

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I just want to say thank you. Okay continue Thank

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you. Yeah, so that was so here we are and and

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just a funny note on that So we had like a couple

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levels in the house and kids are all over the

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place And I finally got to the point where i'm

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trying to save this business of mine Right. So

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I'm trying to say the bit so I'm not sleeping.

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I need a little bit of rest I got kids crying.

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He got to do all this with my wife is taking

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care of them all day. So I'm like, okay Here's

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the deal. We're all moving down to the family

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room. So I got a little egg crate mattress I

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said all eight of us are sleeping right here.

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So the kidneys of my reachovers take a bottle

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in their mouth I could change the kid in the

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dark and I was afraid of nothing. Okay, so like

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we're gonna do this my wife can sleep so I'm

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gonna do kind of the night stuff as well, but

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At the same time, I'm in the office sometimes

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and I'm just, I'm working also. I just passed

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out at my desk. You know, so I got to this point

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after, I don't know about like a 10 month point.

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And I think my son was having his fourth birthday

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party and we're having all these people over.

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And my wife like looks at me and she goes, what

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is wrong with you? I go, I looked at her. I go,

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I, I haven't slept in like 10 months. I think

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I'm going to die. i'm just I got this thousand

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yard stare because i'm like I don't even know

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what's going on it's been so this whole thing

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was such an experience but it was cool but i'm

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like i'm just true well she goes you got to suck

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it up you know that's that's my wife she's pretty

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hardcore so so yeah really great yeah right right

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she she knew who she married so she knew how

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to talk to me uh so it was really great and then

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hey i'll tell you what things just you know Here's

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the big epiphany I had, Adrian, just so people

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kind of wrap this up in a bow here. So struggling

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trying to keep the business, I'm doing all these

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dumb things to try to keep the business going

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and everything else, whatever it takes. And I'm

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like, I woke up one morning and had this incredible

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epiphany. And I'm like, I'm thinking about my

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kids, these six little kids who... When I leave,

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they're kind of crying. You know, I leave pretty

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early, but they still don't want me. When I come

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home, they come and they attack me. They love

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me. They just want to be around me. I'm like,

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this is so great. One day I'm leaving. I'm pulling

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out of the drive of my truck. My four is like

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running behind me crying because I'm leaving

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and I'm just watching them in the rear of your

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mirror, like get smaller because I got to go

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to work. You know, I got to keep this business

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going and everything else. And so as I laid there,

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I said, you know, if I stay on this path of businesses

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first, it's everything. It's what matters. I

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said, I want to ruin my children's future, their

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lives, because they might be good at business,

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but they're going to have failed relationships.

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They're going to have broken marriages, right?

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All this stuff because of what I'm doing to make

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this work. You know, so I'm like, I just can't

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do that. So I got up, got dressed, went in the

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office and said, we're done today. And then I

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went to my construction yard with my guys and

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I said, guys, we're wrapping it up this week.

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We got three days left. And I was like, what?

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This has been 10 years. Same guys work with me.

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We had our last cup of coffee together. Haven't

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seen them since. You know, it's been 16 years,

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right? So, but here's the challenge. I was going

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to ask if they were understanding. So I definitely

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want to hear what happened with them. They got

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it, right? They understood. And the thing was,

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what I said, what I told everyone, which was

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more disturbing for others than me, but I'm like,

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I will never make another water feature and I'm

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never going to do another sculpture. because

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here's the thing, that business, what happened

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was it became who I was. Okay, so my whole identity

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was wrapped up in my business. So now I'm also

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thinking, I don't have a business. If I don't

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have a business, who am I? What am I gonna do?

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I'm like, people know me, I'm in TV, magazines,

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I win awards, I've done world -class stuff. I'm

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like, that's who I am. And then I'm like, I'll

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never do that again. I'm never gonna be owned

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by my business. It's never going to become who

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I am. It's what I do and that's it. So I like

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literally have video like burning my, my uniforms

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in the backyards of friends that burned all that.

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Yeah. I'm just like, never. I'm not never. Cause

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I was always in a shirt, a hat, whatever. Always.

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That's like uniform of the day. Right. That's

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what I wore. And, uh, and to this day, it's been

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16 years. I haven't built a water feature. I

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haven't done a sculpture. Haven't touched anything.

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Just moved on. And people are like, dude, you're

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crazy. Like how can you do that? My friends were

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so upset that I wasn't gonna do this anymore.

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I kind of like lost friends. I'm like, they thought

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I was a fool. I'm like, you don't get it. It's

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not gonna, that's not who I am. That identity

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is not, I can't be that because then it owns

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me. Wow, wow. Okay, so I mean, I wanna work with

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you. Being a Marine, number one, then. literally

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taking the risk and understanding, but putting

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yourself and even your children and your clients

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first too, knowing that this was hard. I'm so

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glad that we're not going, because the sharper

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the spear coaching, that's something we all can

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learn. This is gold to me. Okay, so now we've

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learned, you've got the grit, the determination,

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you could go 10 months without sleeping, little

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nod to you, that's pretty intense. Okay, next

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thing you mentioned. So, you know, during this

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whole time to remember, so I said, I was a boxer,

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so coming out of the Marine Corps, I'll just

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jump back a little bit. I started boxing. Okay,

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I want to be a buy. I don't know why I had a

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friend who boxed him like his name was Dave is

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a very big dude. And I said, Well, I want to

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box, he will come down to the gym. So I'll give

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you the quick story on that. So I was like, Okay,

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so I go down again, I'm fresh out of the Marine

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Corps, and I want to box and they glove me up

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and like get in the ring my first day there.

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Like, okay, that was with with His nickname was

00:16:43.779 --> 00:16:48.659
crazy, Dave. He's about six, four, 235 pounds,

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about 10 % body fat could play with three 50

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on the bench. Like it was a toy and he's the

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South London kickboxing champion. Okay. And all

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this stuff. So now here we are in Tucson and

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I get in there and the bell rings and what do

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you do? I want to fight. So I, I'm chasing around,

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can't lay a glove on Adrian. Okay. Can't lay.

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He's just slipping and he's moving. And I'm like,

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then he just looks at me and he goes, Pop with

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a jab, just a straight left jab and breaks my

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nose. Okay. So I'm like, Oh, okay. So I keep

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going. I'm chasing around. So I'm bleeding. I

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bled a lot from the nose. I'm chasing around.

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Then he stops again. He looks at me. He throws

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a left hook. Okay. I kid you not mouthpiece out

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of my mouth, out of the ring and across the gym.

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Okay, that's hard to hit me. I'm like, whoa and

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some little kid ran up and gave me back my mouthpiece

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I put it back in I finished around I go I go

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to the ring. I'm like I'm bleeding a lot. I say

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man Let me just blow my nose like no, no, no,

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and I blow my nose would give me two big black

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eyes Okay, so now I'm going to work that night.

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I was running up. I was a manager of this bar

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I walk with two black eyes a broken nose can't

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chew Okay, I couldn't chew for like three days,

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you know, so I'm and they're like, what did you

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to go? I was sparring with Dave You can't do

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that. Like you can't be working here and like

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looking they go. Well, then I'll quit because

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I'm going back tomorrow Okay, I'm gonna get good

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at this. Okay, that's my mindset. I'm a little

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odd and I went back the next day I started training

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and moving up the Scott solar zone and trained

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even more became the state gold gloves champion

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maybe of champion I started doing all that kind

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of stuff and again went in doing really well

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and then my last fight and I was the favorite

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another Golden Gloves Championship and Ten seconds

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in a guy threw a little uppercut. It felt like

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he thumb me in the eye It felt like he pushed

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my eye back and I'm like, oh and then I couldn't

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feel the left side of my face So I dropped on

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the one knee real quick. I'm like there's something

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wrong Okay, counted me out. He thought he did

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something which he did nothing. Okay broke the

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orbit Underneath my eye is all cracked here is

00:18:52.309 --> 00:18:54.970
shifted. Okay, so that caused the nerve damage

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So I got a big gap in the side of my head. So

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funny story amateur athletics There's a ring

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doctor, right the doc. Well, he's literally drinking

00:19:03.930 --> 00:19:07.569
a scotch on ice in a plastic cup Okay, and he

00:19:07.569 --> 00:19:09.769
go doc. I can't feel the side of my face, you

00:19:09.769 --> 00:19:11.690
know, and he goes yeah, and he's sipping the

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scotch and he said Okay, you broke your orbit.

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He goes put this on it and he just he empties

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his glass of the scotch the ice and he goes put

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this on it So i'm holding this cup of him and

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he goes and go to the hospital So I drove myself

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to the emergency room Like holding this cup of

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ice, you know, that smells like scotch, you know,

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i'm like, uh, I need this like oh, okay So we'll

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take a look at you and a couple days later. I'm

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in for full surgery Now here's the deal. I had

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seven breaks in my nose It was actually detached

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from my face Then I broke all this all this doesn't

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seem like this. This was my face, right? I know

00:19:46.910 --> 00:19:48.690
you're saying how you so good -looking now of

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all that happens But I had a great plastic surgeon,

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but they rebuilt my nose everything else and

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all this was really good So recover that but

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never got the box again No, wait, wait. So first

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of all, did you get paid for anything? Was this

00:20:01.390 --> 00:20:04.069
all volunteer like your time or amateur baby?

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It's free. It was free the whole way. I did this

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to myself Yeah. So, but I loved, I love the train.

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Another reason why to work with Richard. Right.

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Another reason. Here we go. Yeah. And I just,

00:20:15.170 --> 00:20:17.150
I love the train. I love to work hard. Right.

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So it just kind of worked again with my ethos,

00:20:19.069 --> 00:20:21.150
my kind of warrior mindset too. So that was great,

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but now we couldn't box anymore. The final thing

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was I'm walking, I'm walking down to the operating

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room with this nurse. She says, Oh, so how did

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it happen? I go, well, I was, I box and she's,

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Oh, my husband Ray does the videos. I go, I know

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Ray, I've got, he's done videos for me. So great.

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So I get on the table and they do the anesthesia.

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And she asked me, she goes, okay, she's looking

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over me. And she's like, it's all going to be

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able to get you all fixed up and get you back

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in the ring. And the last thing I remember right

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after that was the surgeon leaning over, shaking

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his head, going no way. You never get back in

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the ring. And he was right. Okay. So he fixed

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me up, did all that. And, uh, yeah, never box

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again. So there's kind of a quick ending there.

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Pursued my business, started building that, right?

00:21:04.779 --> 00:21:06.599
Started growing again. I got moved back to the

00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:08.920
Chicagoland area. And then from there, I said,

00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:11.720
well, I got to do something. So I took up Taekwondo.

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I said, I want to do Taekwondo. Okay. Cause then

00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:16.420
like, you know, I'm a pretty good boxer and I'm

00:21:16.420 --> 00:21:18.059
not going to worry about it too much. So I ended

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up getting a first degree black belt, spent a

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couple of years, five days a week doing that

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as well as running my business, achieve that.

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That was really great. It was not as good as

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boxing, boxing is. Incredible, but can't do that.

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So I did that and that was good. Um, and then

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just kept again, building a business going that

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we already talked about 08 09, uh, that was over,

00:21:37.190 --> 00:21:40.029
right? So next step was, what do you do next?

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Right? You have lost everything. You're out of

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your home. Everything. I was going to go find

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a place to live. We went to Wisconsin. Can I

00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:51.789
get how old you are? Like at this point? So let's

00:21:51.789 --> 00:21:55.670
see. Let me think. I got married at 34. first

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child at 39. So that 39 and then we lost four

00:22:01.569 --> 00:22:04.730
years later. So I was like 43. I was around 40

00:22:04.730 --> 00:22:09.150
years old. Okay. And then like start over. Didn't

00:22:09.150 --> 00:22:11.849
know what I wanted to do. I wasn't going to do

00:22:11.849 --> 00:22:13.690
water features. I wasn't going to do sculpture.

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What does it love training people? Right. I used

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to train people. I was a certified personal trainer

00:22:18.779 --> 00:22:21.099
in 93. I got the full, one of the first certifications

00:22:21.099 --> 00:22:23.299
for that. Love working out, train people. I turn

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them the box. They train them to work out. So

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I'm like, I'll do that. Now my dream was like,

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Hey, I'm going to have people in the wilderness.

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I'll be dragging them through creeks and climbing

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tree and do doing like this. That never happened.

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Okay. That tree was good. It was kind of what

00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:38.480
I want to do. I ended up, I ended up going to

00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.539
an anytime fitness. Okay. You know, so there's

00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:42.779
a million of them. Right. And they needed a trainer.

00:22:43.130 --> 00:22:44.910
you know, because I didn't like have one, then

00:22:44.910 --> 00:22:47.069
the program wasn't going well. So I can do that.

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And I built a program and I started training

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people and more people, more people. Next thing

00:22:52.250 --> 00:22:55.250
you know, I'm trainer of the year for any time

00:22:55.250 --> 00:22:57.210
fitness. I'm like, oh, that's cool. So what does

00:22:57.210 --> 00:22:59.250
that mean to an entrepreneur, Adrian? Wait for

00:22:59.250 --> 00:23:02.450
your own gym, for the local gym or for the franchise?

00:23:02.769 --> 00:23:04.630
For the franchise, for that they have a whole.

00:23:04.930 --> 00:23:07.349
So how it works is they have like six or 10 each

00:23:07.349 --> 00:23:09.730
or 12 each. And out of all those, how was the?

00:23:09.789 --> 00:23:12.089
the top guy right train of the year, uh, which

00:23:12.089 --> 00:23:14.130
is really cool, right? So I'm like, but that

00:23:14.130 --> 00:23:17.049
means I got to go with my own gym now. So I opened

00:23:17.049 --> 00:23:20.240
a gym with bootcamp style training. So I went

00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:22.000
and got a place, opened that up and started bringing

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:23.900
people in and training groups and doing all this

00:23:23.900 --> 00:23:25.920
really cool stuff. That was a lot of fun. Did

00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:28.660
that for almost five years. Um, really exciting.

00:23:28.740 --> 00:23:30.900
Brought some Marines in who I knew were all the

00:23:30.900 --> 00:23:33.460
trainers. You came in, it was hardcore. Adrian

00:23:33.460 --> 00:23:36.000
is blouse boots. We got, we got the boots on

00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.519
the black, the hats names, the whole thing. It's

00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.480
just, it just, it just reeked of pain when you

00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:44.019
came in. It's just like, there's like, it's like

00:23:44.019 --> 00:23:46.200
nothing in here. Oh, you don't need a lot. I'll

00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:47.660
show you. I'll show you what we're going to do.

00:23:47.940 --> 00:23:50.920
And that was a lot of fun. We did that. And then,

00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:53.440
uh, so that's going like, okay, now I have a

00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:55.740
direction. I'm back in business. I'm doing that

00:23:55.740 --> 00:23:59.119
kind of stuff. Um, wanted to do more. So the

00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:00.960
next step was to open a construction company

00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.619
doing roofing, sliding windows. So I, I launched

00:24:03.619 --> 00:24:06.660
that, got that going. Uh, that was great. Did

00:24:06.660 --> 00:24:09.940
that for a while. Didn't love it. It was, it

00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:11.500
was a good income general, but I really didn't

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:14.279
love it. So I'm like, people started asking me.

00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:17.460
Well, listen, how'd you go from all that world

00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:21.819
class, blah, blah, blah, lose everything. Six

00:24:21.819 --> 00:24:24.180
kids, all this start over coming. And now you've

00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:27.440
already done two more businesses and like your,

00:24:27.700 --> 00:24:29.500
how'd you do that? I go, well, I would tell them,

00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:31.720
I go, well, what are you doing? So I asked them

00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:33.880
about their business and then I help them like

00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:35.519
in the mentor position. Right. So I'm mentoring

00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:38.619
people and every business owner I talked to,

00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:40.619
the patterns were all the same. They're doing

00:24:40.619 --> 00:24:43.400
all the same wrong things. So I'm gonna go I

00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:45.440
can help these people. So that's like a really

00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:47.220
good idea I'm like start helping them and I go,

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:50.940
you know, I think I should write a book you know,

00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:53.579
so I'm gonna put this together so Again, I'm

00:24:53.579 --> 00:24:55.640
a little obsessive. I stood in my kitchen counter

00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:58.000
for about three weeks and I'm typing away and

00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.279
I wrote a book Okay, and I did this whole thing

00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.319
called escape the owner prison that contracts

00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.720
his new way to scale regain control and fast

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:07.619
-track growth while loving life Boom, we got

00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:09.900
a best -seller status Got that out there. I got

00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:12.200
the best selling book. I built an academy around

00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:14.920
that so I could train business owners. I could

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:16.660
help them. So that's when my coaching program

00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:19.299
really launched. I had it before that, but this

00:25:19.299 --> 00:25:20.579
kind of really launched with that. I'm like,

00:25:20.579 --> 00:25:22.680
oh, this is fun. You know, and then teamed up

00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:24.339
with some people, did a bunch of greats, so helping

00:25:24.339 --> 00:25:27.279
a lot of businesses. And here we're just rolling

00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.940
right now. It's 2019, you know, 2020, COVID hits.

00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:34.200
I'm doing all that stuff. I'm consulting, you

00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:36.079
know, through that. Then I'm like, okay, well,

00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.119
what's next? You know, so I'm just I'm just I'm

00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:42.259
scaling I'm growing this I'm like, okay, I want

00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:44.519
to shift directions, but let's write another

00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:46.779
book Because when you write a book, then you

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:48.619
got to build somewhere on the book You can't

00:25:48.619 --> 00:25:50.160
just write a book and because you don't make

00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.599
any money selling the book Okay, we'd all like

00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:54.980
to think we do but we don't okay. It's just it's

00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:58.000
just a it's a high -end business card That's

00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:00.970
what I call it. Okay, so I wrote this Sharpen

00:26:00.970 --> 00:26:04.789
the Spear. We're now working in the manufacturing

00:26:04.789 --> 00:26:06.589
industry because manufacturing is coming back

00:26:06.589 --> 00:26:08.410
to America. We're getting the people equipped

00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:11.470
to lead. We're creating a movement. So this is

00:26:11.470 --> 00:26:14.769
a big thing. It's not like I'm gonna go just

00:26:14.769 --> 00:26:17.029
train a few people. We're gonna kind of raise

00:26:17.029 --> 00:26:18.789
the standards. We're gonna create certifications.

00:26:18.829 --> 00:26:22.190
We have all this stuff in place for this manufacturing.

00:26:22.549 --> 00:26:25.109
So that's where I'm at now. I've got a son in

00:26:25.109 --> 00:26:27.130
the Marine Corps. I got a couple other. Kids

00:26:27.130 --> 00:26:28.970
who have moved out, right? They kind of do their

00:26:28.970 --> 00:26:31.990
thing. I've got a couple left at home. Um, my

00:26:31.990 --> 00:26:35.509
youngest now was almost 18 and has been quite

00:26:35.509 --> 00:26:38.009
a ride. That's really great. My wife been married

00:26:38.009 --> 00:26:41.109
26 years now, so that's awesome. I made that.

00:26:41.250 --> 00:26:43.670
So I beat a lot of odds, especially with my friends.

00:26:43.930 --> 00:26:47.049
They all lost money. They all thought never married.

00:26:47.150 --> 00:26:48.609
You never get married. You're never doing this,

00:26:48.750 --> 00:26:51.130
never doing that. And I did it all. So it's really

00:26:51.130 --> 00:26:56.259
good. Oh my gosh, Richard. Oh, I I absolutely

00:26:56.259 --> 00:27:00.299
love your story and I love, oh, get some water,

00:27:00.339 --> 00:27:03.859
get some water. I love your story. And you know

00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:06.420
what? I'm glad I asked because one thing is understanding

00:27:06.420 --> 00:27:08.559
what a coach feels. Sometimes we forget the story

00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:13.740
behind it. Do you have any of your children interested

00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:16.660
in what you do, helping you in any way in your

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:22.900
business? I have one. I have one that is, I have

00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:25.269
one that is and he's, it was just great. You

00:27:25.269 --> 00:27:29.589
know, I mean, sorry, I love them, but I never,

00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:32.769
I never haven't had an expectation for my children

00:27:32.769 --> 00:27:36.809
to do what I do. Okay. Because when you do that,

00:27:37.230 --> 00:27:41.069
that's a lot of pressure on a kid. And I am such

00:27:41.069 --> 00:27:44.730
an odd bird, Adrian, like they're not, they're

00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:46.970
not like me. I mean, there's some, some things,

00:27:47.109 --> 00:27:49.109
right? But it's like, I don't expect them to

00:27:49.109 --> 00:27:52.640
follow this path. It's not easy. Okay. Not that

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:54.680
I want them to have an easy path, but a lot of

00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:56.440
them are like, just, I want you to go do what

00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:00.039
you do. My son went in the Marine Corps. Okay.

00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:01.660
He wants to go that path right now. He wants

00:28:01.660 --> 00:28:03.420
to do that. He's got goals in there and he did

00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:06.279
that. He wanted, I trained him. Okay. Since he

00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.339
was young, cross country runner. Great. We're

00:28:08.339 --> 00:28:10.900
doing that track runner, 800 meter. He goes,

00:28:10.940 --> 00:28:12.839
I'd like to go to the junior Olympics. I said,

00:28:12.900 --> 00:28:17.039
we can do that. So we trained for a year. Okay.

00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:20.359
Boom. Got him to the junior Olympics. That was

00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:23.960
a blast, both in the 800 and the, um, the discus

00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:25.839
did both of those. So that was a fun experience.

00:28:26.380 --> 00:28:28.740
And then the next thing he wanted to do was box.

00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:31.839
Okay. So I'm like, uh, you sure you don't want

00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:33.920
to do jujitsu or something like that? You know,

00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.460
he's like, no, I want a box. I'm like, okay.

00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:38.960
You tell your mother. Cause she's going to think

00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:41.910
I want you to do that. Oh, that's right. She

00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:43.349
is not going to be a fan of you getting punched

00:28:43.349 --> 00:28:45.009
in the face. Okay. You're a pretty good looking

00:28:45.009 --> 00:28:47.069
kid and everything else, you know, so I don't

00:28:47.069 --> 00:28:49.329
know, you go tell her. So he did. And we started

00:28:49.329 --> 00:28:51.930
training and the windows fights do an awesome.

00:28:52.390 --> 00:28:54.009
Um, and then the Marine Corps thing came. He

00:28:54.009 --> 00:28:55.269
said, listen, I want to go on the Marine Corps.

00:28:55.349 --> 00:28:57.470
He's getting his Eagle scout. We were at the

00:28:57.470 --> 00:28:59.829
ceremony. So we're having lunch before he goes,

00:28:59.910 --> 00:29:02.089
dad, I got something I got to tell you. No dad

00:29:02.089 --> 00:29:05.809
wants to hear that. Okay. So I'm like, uh, okay.

00:29:05.890 --> 00:29:07.930
What is it? He goes, Oh, I want to go in the

00:29:07.930 --> 00:29:10.799
military. I want to go. First would be Navy SEAL

00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:12.680
and all that stuff, but he wanted to do that.

00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:14.779
I said, well, that's all good. And he goes, and

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:18.619
I need you to train me. I said, now you're talking

00:29:18.619 --> 00:29:20.619
my language. I said, do you know what you're

00:29:20.619 --> 00:29:23.420
asking for? Cause he knows how I train. Okay.

00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:25.700
And it's nothing's easy about it. And he goes,

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.700
I do. I said, okay, great. So we ended up being

00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:31.420
in the Marine Corps. He did, we did, he did the

00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:34.440
work. I did the instruction seven months of three

00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.160
a days. So it was strength and conditioning in

00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.079
the morning six o 'clock half hour break. He

00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:43.839
did a six to ten mile hill run in the afternoon.

00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:47.400
We're in the pool Okay, doing all the stuff for

00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:49.859
marine recon qualification. That was our stand

00:29:49.859 --> 00:29:51.400
We're really training for boot camp because that'd

00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:54.299
be easy for him So we did that seven months doing

00:29:54.299 --> 00:29:57.019
that he went in super excelled even was called

00:29:57.019 --> 00:29:59.920
MSG third hardest school in the Marine Corps,

00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:01.779
Marine security guard. He's out again. He works

00:30:01.779 --> 00:30:04.140
at embassies, garden embassies around the world

00:30:04.140 --> 00:30:06.220
and stuff. So really great, but just another

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:09.380
great experience is training him to get in and

00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:12.599
go in and super excel. And it's just, it's a

00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.440
lot of joy in that kind of, I mean, I built an

00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:16.900
obstacle course at the house, 20 foot rope climbs.

00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:19.539
He's carrying logs, getting the hose down. I

00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:22.660
mean, we don't, we don't play, right? It's like,

00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.000
may I have his first name? What is his first

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.880
name? D 'Angelo. D 'Angelo, I just want to take

00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.079
a second to speak with you for a minute. I'm

00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:34.700
trying not to cry because your dad's story, first

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:37.480
of all, is so beautiful. But D 'Angelo, the minute

00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:43.920
I heard that you got your Eagle Scout Award as

00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:46.859
a former Cubmaster, and yes, I was a den leader,

00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:50.359
but I graduated to Cubmaster, but of a couple

00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:53.529
hundred boys, I just want to tell you. I don't

00:30:53.529 --> 00:30:55.829
know you, but I'm so proud of you because we

00:30:55.829 --> 00:30:58.450
need more young men like you. Just being an Eagle

00:30:58.450 --> 00:31:01.769
Scout, Richard, is no easy feat. And I've always

00:31:01.769 --> 00:31:03.430
said, when you first started talking about your

00:31:03.430 --> 00:31:04.809
son, I thought, oh my God, I wonder if he's an

00:31:04.809 --> 00:31:08.369
Eagle Scout. Being an Eagle Scout to me just

00:31:08.369 --> 00:31:12.190
is a top, right? You, D 'Angelo, thank you so

00:31:12.190 --> 00:31:14.670
much for your sacrifice, for your service. I'm

00:31:14.670 --> 00:31:18.329
going to cry. I'm going to cry, baby. But I just

00:31:18.329 --> 00:31:20.450
want to thank you for being a young man. I know

00:31:20.450 --> 00:31:22.829
that you had the best of the parents, but you

00:31:22.829 --> 00:31:24.789
are also going to be motivating and bringing

00:31:24.789 --> 00:31:27.269
up other people. And in essence, you're going

00:31:27.269 --> 00:31:30.049
to be coaching those people. You're doing it

00:31:30.049 --> 00:31:32.089
now. And I just think it's very special. And

00:31:32.089 --> 00:31:34.589
I want you to know, as a US citizen, I thank

00:31:34.589 --> 00:31:36.250
you for your service. Thank you for fighting

00:31:36.250 --> 00:31:39.269
for our freedom. That's it. I'm sorry. Uh, no,

00:31:39.369 --> 00:31:41.309
it's I pretty, you're making me well up here.

00:31:41.390 --> 00:31:43.829
You know, I mean, he, yeah, it's really something.

00:31:44.029 --> 00:31:46.190
The Eagle Scout thing was really great. Like

00:31:46.190 --> 00:31:49.069
here's a cool little story about that. So him

00:31:49.069 --> 00:31:51.710
and another friend were in the same troop and

00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:55.269
they weren't really excelling. Okay. Uh, D 'Angelo

00:31:55.269 --> 00:31:57.390
early on struggled to read the stuff. So people

00:31:57.390 --> 00:31:58.849
make fun of them a little bit and everything

00:31:58.849 --> 00:32:01.549
else, you know, but, but the other kids in the

00:32:01.549 --> 00:32:03.150
triple, you guys never going to be Eagle Scouts.

00:32:03.309 --> 00:32:05.549
And they do all that stuff. So him and his friend,

00:32:05.809 --> 00:32:08.170
Kyle made a pack. They're like, We're going to

00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:10.750
do it. We're going to become Eagle Scouts, you

00:32:10.750 --> 00:32:14.609
know, so he's it's a hard story for me too. But,

00:32:14.769 --> 00:32:19.109
uh, like, so he's on their way. Then Kyle was

00:32:19.109 --> 00:32:20.710
really struggling with the last we didn't even

00:32:20.710 --> 00:32:24.190
know about end up taking his own life. Okay.

00:32:25.369 --> 00:32:31.630
So that was like this great motivation for my

00:32:31.630 --> 00:32:37.039
son. Cause he did it for Kyle. See what you did

00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:42.400
me? But, uh, but it was awesome. So that him

00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.819
gaining, getting that Eagle Scout was way bigger

00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:48.140
than like him doing it for himself. You know,

00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:50.599
and Kyle, his dad was a Marine in about the same

00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:52.119
time I was and stuff and everything else. So

00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.619
we just had this connection. That was really

00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:57.539
awesome. You know, so that was, and everything

00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:59.599
he's going to do and everything he's doing now

00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:02.829
was, you know, I'm just super pleased. That's

00:33:02.829 --> 00:33:05.910
all I could say. What was his project? What was

00:33:05.910 --> 00:33:09.529
the project? He ended up raising, we have a thing,

00:33:09.690 --> 00:33:11.869
a men's shelter, really cool men's shelter that

00:33:11.869 --> 00:33:14.670
got started a number of years ago called Gifts

00:33:14.670 --> 00:33:17.529
Men's Shelter in Janesville, Wisconsin. And he

00:33:17.529 --> 00:33:20.950
went out and collected and raised paper products,

00:33:20.950 --> 00:33:23.089
you know, because they got like 50 guys there

00:33:23.089 --> 00:33:26.900
and he got like a wall full. Okay, like so toilet

00:33:26.900 --> 00:33:29.900
paper and paper towels and and lotions and all

00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:32.140
this kind of stuff that really drains the account

00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:35.039
of these shelters You know, they they need money

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.640
but man they need product we do it for the women's

00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.160
shelter in our church, too We give on by four

00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:43.140
by four bucks, you know four foot by four pound

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:45.099
loaded with shampoo Like they just tell us what

00:33:45.099 --> 00:33:47.740
they need. Well, we need garbage bags. Boom They

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:49.480
get we just everyone don't his garbage bags.

00:33:49.539 --> 00:33:52.069
They have garbage bags for three years Okay.

00:33:52.069 --> 00:33:53.609
They never have, they don't spend it, you know,

00:33:53.730 --> 00:33:55.809
shampoo. Boom. We got it. We take care of it.

00:33:56.009 --> 00:33:57.630
You know, so everyone can, everyone can donate

00:33:57.630 --> 00:34:01.430
$4, right? But you get 500 people who do that.

00:34:02.150 --> 00:34:05.269
That's a lot of shampoo. Okay. So it's, you know,

00:34:05.269 --> 00:34:07.309
so, so he was kind of, he did that, which was

00:34:07.309 --> 00:34:09.070
really cool. So that was, that was, that was

00:34:09.070 --> 00:34:12.570
a neat project for him. Um, but yeah, he's, he's

00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:15.190
very goal -oriented, very, very driven, you know,

00:34:15.230 --> 00:34:17.630
very focused. I mean, he doesn't take distraction.

00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:20.199
He's uh, yeah, he's he's impressive, you know,

00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:22.000
all my kids are impressive I don't want to like

00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.199
he's you know, I could say no I can I I want

00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:26.780
to hear the story of everyone We'll be here for

00:34:26.780 --> 00:34:28.980
a couple hours Richard. Oh D 'Angelo is gonna

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:32.019
be in the book That's great. This book will be

00:34:32.019 --> 00:34:35.719
this this interview will be turned into a Pod

00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.179
a book from pod to book dot AI which is amazing

00:34:39.179 --> 00:34:43.739
and you'll see your chapter but in essence again

00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.579
Just listen to the story. You obviously, we all

00:34:47.579 --> 00:34:49.500
know that Richard knows how to coach and the

00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:51.400
sphere behind you is freaking me out. But at

00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.699
the end of the day, what you have already talked

00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:58.760
about really shows me that you are, and I'm thinking

00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:02.300
that you probably have a lot of clients and that

00:35:02.300 --> 00:35:05.840
you maybe are like, so let's talk about who you

00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:09.739
would like to look at a client because. Not everyone

00:35:09.739 --> 00:35:11.280
may have the opportunity. Everyone's going to

00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:12.840
watch this, and you're going to have like 500

00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:14.159
clients. You're going to be like, no, I can't

00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.920
take everyone. But no, but seriously, like just

00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:20.780
everything I've heard, your personal story is

00:35:20.780 --> 00:35:24.199
really intense. And I have a feeling your wife

00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:26.960
has a story, too. I hope you write a book about

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:30.099
your children and your story. And I was a guardian.

00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:32.239
I lied to him for a couple of years. So I understand

00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:35.699
how not easy it is. You know, you're making it

00:35:35.699 --> 00:35:37.059
sound so easy. Like, oh, they quarreled. I took

00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:40.800
a child and then boom. I wish it was that easy,

00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:44.199
but it's not. And there's a lot behind it. So

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:46.579
it's not only the grit and the determination,

00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:49.079
you have the humanity, you have the heart, you're

00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:52.460
both empathetic. You are really both beautiful

00:35:52.460 --> 00:35:55.840
human beings. What is your wife's name? Andrea.

00:35:56.519 --> 00:36:00.780
And did I tell you? Andrea. Did I tell you? We

00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:03.380
also homeschooled all six kids all the way through.

00:36:05.219 --> 00:36:07.539
So we that was our plan from the beginning before

00:36:07.539 --> 00:36:09.360
we had kids like well, we're gonna do that They're

00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:11.579
not gonna go in public school. We're gonna raise

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:13.559
them with our view You know the whole thing our

00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.280
biblical worldview and everything else and that

00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:20.380
was a incredibly great decision It was not easy

00:36:20.380 --> 00:36:24.400
Six kids all the way through from the beginning

00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:26.159
to out of high school and everything else and

00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:30.280
it's been and man. They are amazing kids Andrea,

00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:32.559
I'm going to talk to you for a second. You are

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:36.639
my hero. You didn't just raise six of your own

00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.420
kids. You've raised our future. Thank you for

00:36:40.420 --> 00:36:43.219
raising our future. Thank you. Because that's

00:36:43.219 --> 00:36:45.119
exactly what it's about as parents. We don't

00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.880
just raise a child. The child just belongs to

00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:50.360
us. It belongs to all of us. That's what's going

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.360
to happen, what we're going to need to have a

00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.250
better world. And so thank you and thank you,

00:36:55.289 --> 00:36:57.809
Richard, for being just amazing parents. Yes,

00:36:57.949 --> 00:36:59.849
we're so glad that Richard has sharpened the

00:36:59.849 --> 00:37:02.829
spear coaching and 250. I'm like so glad that

00:37:02.829 --> 00:37:06.090
you're out there telling your story and believe

00:37:06.090 --> 00:37:09.889
me. at 63, if I could go back in my life, Richard,

00:37:10.190 --> 00:37:12.989
and if I met you at the age of 40, my last child

00:37:12.989 --> 00:37:16.309
was 44, actually, but if I I what I needed was

00:37:16.309 --> 00:37:18.730
a coach, there wasn't no there wasn't coaches

00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:21.449
around 23 years ago, there was psychologists

00:37:21.449 --> 00:37:23.690
around. You said you needed a coach, you were

00:37:23.690 --> 00:37:25.690
saying go for therapy. It was like the craziest

00:37:25.690 --> 00:37:28.590
thing. So if you are now at a point of your life,

00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:31.699
that you executive you're working for someone

00:37:31.699 --> 00:37:33.440
you want to work for yourself whatever that looks

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:35.820
like you really should look at sharpen the spear

00:37:35.820 --> 00:37:38.659
coaching because I know myself I need to sharpen

00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:41.760
up what I have I'm taking Len Lundy's challenge

00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:45.039
and it's um and it's uh unrecognizable being

00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:47.300
at and I'm like I want to be unrecognizable and

00:37:47.300 --> 00:37:49.539
confident and I could see right away just from

00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:51.780
like listening to he gets up early and breakfast

00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:54.440
with champions in the morning and I'm like it's

00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:57.869
moved me along so coaching is a gift give it

00:37:57.869 --> 00:38:01.190
to yourself, and then gift it to someone else.

00:38:01.510 --> 00:38:03.489
And you know what? I don't know if Richard has,

00:38:03.650 --> 00:38:06.349
I don't know exactly who he's coaching and all

00:38:06.349 --> 00:38:10.030
of that, but at the end of the day, I would trust

00:38:10.030 --> 00:38:13.150
Richard coaching my child. I have a son, Sam,

00:38:13.570 --> 00:38:16.809
like that's exactly what we need. We need to

00:38:16.809 --> 00:38:18.769
make sure that you have a coach like Richard

00:38:18.769 --> 00:38:21.130
that has the experience, has the wisdom, has

00:38:21.130 --> 00:38:23.070
the grit and the determination and the background.

00:38:23.329 --> 00:38:25.250
Because Richard, you know, this like coaching

00:38:25.250 --> 00:38:28.050
space can be like, I'm a coach, I'm 22 and I'm

00:38:28.050 --> 00:38:30.869
a coach. Like to me, it doesn't work that way.

00:38:30.869 --> 00:38:33.190
It's got to be the experience of the wisdom and

00:38:33.190 --> 00:38:36.590
all of it. You are a real package. Now I want

00:38:36.590 --> 00:38:38.710
to hear the spear story because I feel like you've

00:38:38.710 --> 00:38:40.130
just forgot to tell us that you were a spear

00:38:40.130 --> 00:38:42.869
fisher and you had a TV show on spear hunting.

00:38:43.190 --> 00:38:46.570
I don't know. No, the spear, the sharpen the

00:38:46.570 --> 00:38:49.309
spear is, again, a lot of what I do is warrior

00:38:49.309 --> 00:38:52.349
ethos, right? There's the grit, there's the determination.

00:38:52.909 --> 00:38:56.070
As a man, I'm a protector, I'm a provider. Right.

00:38:56.190 --> 00:38:59.449
This thing I, I mean, choose your weapon. A spear

00:38:59.449 --> 00:39:02.329
is just cool. Okay. And I always tell people,

00:39:02.489 --> 00:39:04.210
Adrian, like this, I know this will be odd, but

00:39:04.210 --> 00:39:08.250
like, I'm not like scared of a gun. Like someone

00:39:08.250 --> 00:39:11.550
want to shoot me. But if someone has a sword

00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:15.690
or a spear, like that kind of worries me. Okay.

00:39:15.750 --> 00:39:19.360
Cause they wield like the damage. Even they don't

00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:21.659
kill you. I'm like that this way, you know a

00:39:21.659 --> 00:39:23.480
gun we pull the trigger and the bullet goes You

00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:25.900
know does the work but like that is and I don't

00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:28.659
be weird But it's just so I'm like that to me

00:39:28.659 --> 00:39:30.659
is more a spear is more terrifying than a gun

00:39:30.659 --> 00:39:34.360
You know, if you think I'm like airing like this

00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.400
or are you staring with a spare gun? No, this

00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:40.380
is all hand one of the vertical spear you see

00:39:40.380 --> 00:39:43.679
behind me I can't pronounce it in African. It's

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:49.010
an African spear, but They named it Okay. They

00:39:49.010 --> 00:39:52.070
named it after the sound it made when you ran,

00:39:52.250 --> 00:39:55.030
ran it through someone. Okay. It makes a certain

00:39:55.030 --> 00:39:57.349
sound because of the shape of the spear. And

00:39:57.349 --> 00:39:59.289
so that I can't, again, I can't pronounce the

00:39:59.289 --> 00:40:01.389
name, but I'm like, I gotta have that spear.

00:40:01.929 --> 00:40:04.889
Okay. So I have it on the wall here for display,

00:40:04.889 --> 00:40:08.230
but yeah, it's just, here's how I say, you know,

00:40:08.510 --> 00:40:10.849
what we do is we hone the entrepreneurial warriors

00:40:10.849 --> 00:40:13.469
on the battlefield of business. So we're honing

00:40:13.469 --> 00:40:15.289
them. We're sharpening them. Right. I have a

00:40:15.289 --> 00:40:17.769
whole thing now. It's sharpened impact. Right.

00:40:17.769 --> 00:40:20.289
It's all about it's all about sharpening your

00:40:20.289 --> 00:40:22.230
spear. And that's your that's your tools. That's

00:40:22.230 --> 00:40:25.809
yourself. Right. You're you're a weapon. Right.

00:40:25.949 --> 00:40:28.710
I got skills. We all have skills. But also when

00:40:28.710 --> 00:40:31.590
we're in business, OK, we have to keep that sharp.

00:40:31.650 --> 00:40:35.050
We can't get dulled by the every day, the all

00:40:35.050 --> 00:40:37.530
day. Right. When you use something to use a knife.

00:40:37.610 --> 00:40:39.530
What do you got to do? You got to sharpen it

00:40:39.530 --> 00:40:41.690
or it's not going to be effective. The only thing

00:40:41.690 --> 00:40:43.949
is going to cut is your skin. Okay, when you're

00:40:43.949 --> 00:40:45.789
using it, so you got to be sure that stuff stay

00:40:45.789 --> 00:40:48.510
sharp and these are tools in our tool belt You

00:40:48.510 --> 00:40:51.369
know coaching is part of that Improving your

00:40:51.369 --> 00:40:53.070
everything you're doing in your business letting

00:40:53.070 --> 00:40:54.690
go of a lot of your business Let other people

00:40:54.690 --> 00:40:57.090
run it things like that, right? This is all part

00:40:57.090 --> 00:41:00.190
of sharpening So it kind of really worked with

00:41:00.190 --> 00:41:03.070
again my mindset who I am what I am and then

00:41:03.070 --> 00:41:06.530
what I bring to my clients You know also it it

00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:08.010
attracts certain people because remember you

00:41:08.010 --> 00:41:10.409
don't you ever hear the same You don't get what

00:41:10.409 --> 00:41:13.920
you want you get who you are Oh, I don't think

00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.699
I heard that exact statement before. Wow. I believe

00:41:16.699 --> 00:41:20.780
that was Jim Rohn, but I love it. And it's so

00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:22.440
when you start looking, if you're working with

00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:25.940
people in any capacity, okay. Look at who your

00:41:25.940 --> 00:41:28.420
clients are and tell me how much they're like

00:41:28.420 --> 00:41:33.039
you. Cause they are. Okay. You know, you might

00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:34.840
be able to help them. You might be a different

00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.800
place along the journey, but you'll see. And

00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:39.800
I look at all my clients. I'm like, yeah, we

00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:42.059
could all go to the good range together. Okay,

00:41:42.139 --> 00:41:44.019
we can all, we can all get in the ring. It's

00:41:44.019 --> 00:41:46.260
just, it's that, you know, there's just those,

00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:49.079
that's the thing, you know? And once you understand

00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:51.460
it, you're like, okay, so that's who I target.

00:41:52.019 --> 00:41:53.960
Yes, like who I work with. I don't need you to

00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:56.039
be super warrior and like that. What I mean is

00:41:56.039 --> 00:42:01.199
a mindset of competition, of victory, that business

00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:04.159
is battle. And every day you gotta go to war.

00:42:04.300 --> 00:42:06.179
You gotta be on, you gotta be on point. You gotta

00:42:06.179 --> 00:42:08.500
be a watcher on the wall. right? You got to protect.

00:42:08.579 --> 00:42:10.139
You got to provide. You got to bring the stuff

00:42:10.139 --> 00:42:13.099
home for your family, right? You have to do all

00:42:13.099 --> 00:42:15.119
this stuff. So when I wrap all that together,

00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.139
you know, the spear works. It's beautiful. It

00:42:19.139 --> 00:42:20.940
is beautiful. Sorry to ask you, but can you just

00:42:20.940 --> 00:42:22.840
do that? Can you say that quote one more time?

00:42:22.860 --> 00:42:24.599
That is such a lovely quote. I want to make sure

00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:27.539
I capture it. You don't get what you want. You

00:42:27.539 --> 00:42:33.840
get who you are. Okay, we're going to end on

00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.489
that note. That is amazing. I definitely want

00:42:36.489 --> 00:42:38.809
that to be a highlight. Uh, as I said with the

00:42:38.809 --> 00:42:41.590
book, this is amazing. I'm so glad to capture.

00:42:41.889 --> 00:42:44.670
Uh, did you want to mention anything else or

00:42:44.670 --> 00:42:46.869
your other children's names? Just the first names

00:42:46.869 --> 00:42:51.550
to have. I should remember. Let's see. We got

00:42:51.550 --> 00:42:53.730
D 'Angelo. We go from the oldest to youngest.

00:42:53.829 --> 00:42:58.449
Got D 'Angelo. I've got Adeline. I've got Augustine.

00:42:58.670 --> 00:43:04.349
I've got Oliver, Xavier, and Tia. That's it.

00:43:04.610 --> 00:43:08.309
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Let me just see if Momo,

00:43:08.409 --> 00:43:10.929
did you have anything you would like to say on

00:43:10.929 --> 00:43:13.690
mic and say hello to Richard or Diana? Would

00:43:13.690 --> 00:43:16.789
you like to come up on stage? What a story. Momo

00:43:16.789 --> 00:43:20.730
was here. Oh, yeah. Richard, I absolutely love

00:43:20.730 --> 00:43:23.610
that. I definitely started crying with you guys

00:43:23.610 --> 00:43:26.269
when you shared the emotional moment. But what

00:43:26.269 --> 00:43:30.260
a life you've lived. And it's really inspiring

00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:33.820
to me as I'm entering that golden era of life

00:43:33.820 --> 00:43:36.539
where I'm in my 45s and feeling like, is this

00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:39.280
it? Is this over? You've been an inspiration

00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:42.960
to just take those leaps and jumps and really

00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:48.280
expand what I believe is possible. So kudos to

00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:50.920
you, Richard. What an awesome interview, Adrian.

00:43:51.460 --> 00:43:54.690
Just truly best to be here. Thank you. Just remember

00:43:54.690 --> 00:43:58.389
and remember 45. You're just you're you're a

00:43:58.389 --> 00:44:01.309
child. You're just getting going. Okay. Like

00:44:01.309 --> 00:44:04.070
there's so much ahead of you. Like don't like

00:44:04.070 --> 00:44:06.650
I have a cool past. Just want to say like I've

00:44:06.650 --> 00:44:09.090
done a lot of cool stuff. What I'm working on

00:44:09.090 --> 00:44:12.530
right now is bigger than anything I've ever done.

00:44:13.369 --> 00:44:15.989
Like it's it's massive what I'm doing. It's gonna

00:44:15.989 --> 00:44:19.170
it's a legacy builder. Okay. And I'm turning

00:44:19.170 --> 00:44:24.780
60 in like a week. Okay, so You're not done like

00:44:24.780 --> 00:44:28.159
you my favorite scene about retirement retire.

00:44:28.739 --> 00:44:30.440
Yeah, I'm gonna retire I'm gonna put four new

00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:32.239
wheels on I'm gonna retire and keep going down

00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:35.019
the road That's that's where I'm going. I love

00:44:35.019 --> 00:44:39.099
that. I love that We'll retire with death death

00:44:39.099 --> 00:44:41.119
is retirement for me. I'm gonna be moving the

00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:46.300
whole time Wow what an entry welcome Diana Diana,

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:51.690
how are you? I'm doing very well. Hi Are all

00:44:51.690 --> 00:44:53.789
of you, I'm so excited to see Momo as well. I

00:44:53.789 --> 00:44:56.710
haven't seen her and Mr. Walsh, it's nice to

00:44:56.710 --> 00:44:59.070
meet you. I have complete FOMO. I'm nice to the

00:44:59.070 --> 00:45:04.170
entire interview. So hopefully this is a podcast

00:45:04.170 --> 00:45:06.829
or something that I can find afterwards because

00:45:06.829 --> 00:45:10.110
I love the sayings that you shared with us, both

00:45:10.110 --> 00:45:13.469
of them. I love the retire and it was just very

00:45:13.469 --> 00:45:16.070
nice to pop in and have a good experience like

00:45:16.070 --> 00:45:18.530
this. So thank you, Adrian, and nice to meet

00:45:18.530 --> 00:45:22.210
you. Oh, thank you. Go ahead, Richard. No, thank

00:45:22.210 --> 00:45:27.269
you. That's beautiful. Diana and Momo are both

00:45:27.269 --> 00:45:31.989
extremely talented and what they do. Actually,

00:45:31.989 --> 00:45:33.610
can we take a second, Richard? Would you mind

00:45:33.610 --> 00:45:36.869
if we if we have Momo and Diana introduce themselves?

00:45:37.289 --> 00:45:40.070
Would you would you mind Momo introducing yourself

00:45:40.070 --> 00:45:47.000
and then Diana? not at all I am a singer -songwriter

00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.900
here in Los Angeles and my background is in Reiki

00:45:50.900 --> 00:45:54.679
and Akashic reading so doing some healing and

00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:56.840
definitely I mean some of the things I'm most

00:45:56.840 --> 00:45:59.360
excited about right now is we've brought meditation

00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:02.820
and sound healing into the schools and I'm preparing

00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:06.780
a program on that and it's just been so amazing

00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:09.400
to inspire these children with the awareness

00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:12.199
that the peace, calm, and strength is within

00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:15.699
them all the time. I take this huge like 50 pound

00:46:15.699 --> 00:46:18.579
crystal that they're able to see and then I partner

00:46:18.579 --> 00:46:21.000
with the Sound Healer who has all these amazing

00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:24.289
instruments. And so that's been my focus. We're

00:46:24.289 --> 00:46:27.150
having a woman's little workshop. That's great.

00:46:27.469 --> 00:46:31.030
And then also I'm a host for podcasting and I

00:46:31.030 --> 00:46:33.949
just completed 32 episodes of a podcast calling

00:46:33.949 --> 00:46:38.250
and it's entitled Heartbroken Not Broken. And

00:46:38.250 --> 00:46:41.949
it's in 53 countries now. So I'm really excited

00:46:41.949 --> 00:46:45.079
just to be kind of you know, doing these little

00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:48.059
things, but, um, you know, to hear your story,

00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:51.239
I'm like, Oh, actually I can kind of create this

00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:53.559
legacy. And I'm definitely writing that retire,

00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:57.880
um, saying down like Diana said. That's awesome.

00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.239
That is awesome. I have a podcast as well as

00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.500
my second one. Uh, I'm at about 180 episodes

00:47:04.500 --> 00:47:07.139
so far, one hour conversations. It's really,

00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:10.440
it's a fun podcast. He's a blast. It's like the

00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:14.119
funnest thing I do. I love that. Or sometimes

00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:17.179
you cry, as you can see. Momo, thank you so much.

00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:18.880
I love what you're doing. Momo, I've loved Momo

00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:22.579
for a year. And wow, Momo. And I'll send your

00:47:22.579 --> 00:47:25.239
information to Richard so he has it, just so

00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:28.639
you can stay connected. And Diana, how are you?

00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:32.199
Do you mind un -miking and sharing? Sure, sure.

00:47:32.340 --> 00:47:34.420
Thank you so much. And I always learn something

00:47:34.420 --> 00:47:37.400
new about Momo and everyone that comes into this

00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:39.699
wonderful chatter space and shares a little bit

00:47:39.699 --> 00:47:42.219
more about them. It's always fun to get to know

00:47:42.219 --> 00:47:47.400
each other more and more. And I live in Los Angeles.

00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.159
I'm actually very close to Momo. And very much

00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:57.420
like her, I have a huge heart for the world of

00:47:57.420 --> 00:48:01.599
spirituality. Definitely. didn't see it coming.

00:48:01.940 --> 00:48:05.639
I've been in real estate for over 20 years and

00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:10.320
you know life has shared its moments with me

00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:14.519
in a very interesting way from having a child

00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:17.500
that's gone through multiple brain surgeries

00:48:17.500 --> 00:48:22.760
and learning challenges and just that whole experience

00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:29.400
as mom and and how how to be there for another

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:33.800
human being and their most basic needs was really

00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:37.800
humbling for me. So right now I'm still doing

00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:42.460
both. Very motivated, especially when I, your

00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:45.780
face lit up, Richard, when you talked about your

00:48:45.780 --> 00:48:49.820
podcast. So I think that's kind of like, he may

00:48:49.820 --> 00:48:53.059
be that final push for me because I've never

00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:58.980
done one. And I've spoken on a few of them who've

00:48:58.980 --> 00:49:01.199
asked me back, but I keep telling myself, you

00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:03.900
know what? I'm not going to do another podcast

00:49:03.900 --> 00:49:06.699
until I open up my own. And that's where I'm

00:49:06.699 --> 00:49:10.539
at. So that's so nice to meet you. Awesome. Yeah.

00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.280
Do it. Okay. Imperfect action wins the day. Just

00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.380
start doing it and go make some mistakes. Oh

00:49:17.380 --> 00:49:23.159
my goodness. Wait, what was that? Imperfect action

00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:27.400
wins the day. I love that. So perfection will

00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:32.260
ruin all your hopes and dreams. Oh, my God. It'll

00:49:32.260 --> 00:49:34.199
just just start doing it. You'll figure it out

00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:37.780
as you go. It's the old it's fire the name. It's

00:49:37.780 --> 00:49:41.159
not as ready fire aim. So send some rounds down

00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:43.960
range. Adjust your shot. You're good to go. But

00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:46.039
you're moving. And that's what you need to do.

00:49:46.059 --> 00:49:48.099
So take take that action. Just start a podcast.

00:49:48.420 --> 00:49:51.179
Even if you're just talking to nobody, which

00:49:51.179 --> 00:49:54.159
is how all podcasts begin. You are talking to

00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:57.219
anybody Okay, except yourself. So it's all good.

00:49:57.219 --> 00:49:59.260
You know, if you have a guest I love interview.

00:49:59.260 --> 00:50:05.119
I've under I think I've interviewed 360 or 70

00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:08.260
guests, you know and then and then been appeared

00:50:08.260 --> 00:50:11.820
on about 250 You'll love it and you're you're

00:50:11.820 --> 00:50:14.480
great. You sound great, you know, like just just

00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:19.739
get on do it Diana Diana, I'm even wear my pajamas,

00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:24.800
but you wouldn't know it because I've got So

00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:26.940
you can do whatever you want to do. That whole

00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:29.980
perfection is, I'm noticing that. I am not a

00:50:29.980 --> 00:50:31.940
perfect, like that's kind of part of my success

00:50:31.940 --> 00:50:34.500
is that I do do that. Sheila, I hope you're listening

00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:37.519
because we need to get you to take Richard's

00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.079
advice. That was incredible, Richard. Thank you

00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:42.820
so much. So Momo and Diana, what's going to happen

00:50:42.820 --> 00:50:46.219
is I had my first book, which Leah was in the

00:50:46.219 --> 00:50:48.820
room. She popped out. Leah is the community manager

00:50:48.820 --> 00:50:51.320
for ChatterSocial. So we all have a love for

00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:53.980
ChatterSocial. And so somewhere we go where we

00:50:53.980 --> 00:50:56.260
can do things like this and teach different things.

00:50:56.380 --> 00:50:58.139
And Momo, I'm really excited for you to come

00:50:58.139 --> 00:51:00.960
back and teach the rooms. But I'm doing this

00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:03.800
for PodMatch. There's a program called podmatch

00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:06.300
.com, you guys. It's amazing. And as a podcast

00:51:06.300 --> 00:51:09.440
host, it's really lovely. to be able to use the

00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:10.760
program. And I thought, well, I want to have

00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:13.699
15 guests and I'm going to put them in the book

00:51:13.699 --> 00:51:17.119
for PodFest coming up in Orlando. The last interview

00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:20.599
will be on Alex on November 6th. And then he's

00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:22.739
the owner of Podmatch, which is amazing program,

00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:26.800
as I said. And you know what else I did, Richard?

00:51:26.860 --> 00:51:28.260
I wanted to do something different so now that

00:51:28.260 --> 00:51:29.920
it's so different, but I thought, what would

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.000
it look like if instead of publishing like every

00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:34.750
Wednesday, right? I had enough episodes, so I'm

00:51:34.750 --> 00:51:37.329
doing a 15 -day sprint. And that really changed

00:51:37.329 --> 00:51:40.469
my algorithm. My downloads are really stronger

00:51:40.469 --> 00:51:43.610
now just by publishing it. So don't be surprised,

00:51:43.769 --> 00:51:46.030
Richard. It's not like, sorry, those of you that

00:51:46.030 --> 00:51:48.750
are a little bit three months behind or ahead.

00:51:49.150 --> 00:51:50.550
But anyways, Richard, you're going to be published

00:51:50.550 --> 00:51:52.969
in the next couple of days because I think I

00:51:52.969 --> 00:51:55.289
have nine in front of you. But you have made

00:51:55.289 --> 00:51:57.269
the top 15. I'm really excited to have you in

00:51:57.269 --> 00:51:59.349
the book. I'm excited to have your children listed.

00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:02.269
It is a narrative. It is, it's a story. It's

00:52:02.269 --> 00:52:03.969
not, it doesn't come out like a transfer or anything

00:52:03.969 --> 00:52:06.750
like that. Thank you, Momo and Diana for being

00:52:06.750 --> 00:52:08.789
here. You know, I love both of you. I just think

00:52:08.789 --> 00:52:12.289
so highly of you and Richard, anything that I

00:52:12.289 --> 00:52:14.010
didn't tell you that I shouldn't, I didn't ask

00:52:14.010 --> 00:52:17.289
you that I should have asked. No, I, I think,

00:52:17.969 --> 00:52:20.210
I think it just on the podcast thing, you know,

00:52:20.210 --> 00:52:21.929
when, when you talk to people and doing this,

00:52:22.010 --> 00:52:24.449
it's, it is very, it's a very powerful platform.

00:52:24.969 --> 00:52:27.730
I'm the same thing. I had 50, I did 50 recordings

00:52:27.730 --> 00:52:30.400
to have like a bank. Right. But then I realized,

00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:33.300
wow, that'll that's all year. If I do one a week,

00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:36.420
I said, well, I'll release three a week. Okay.

00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:38.760
So I run out, then I'll go to one a week. Okay.

00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:42.159
That started in January. All right. And now and

00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.000
I'm still doing three a week. I've got 30 more

00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.420
interviews before the end of the year. January

00:52:47.420 --> 00:52:50.079
is already booked with guests. I'm like, I, I,

00:52:50.179 --> 00:52:51.880
I'm still at the three person week. I've tried

00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:54.480
to reel it back a little bit, but I'll be over

00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:56.300
200 before the end of the year for the first

00:52:56.300 --> 00:52:58.800
year. So that's exciting too. You know, it does

00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:00.239
change a lot of things when you, when you get

00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:02.980
that. But, but I do it just, just so if you,

00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:05.840
I don't do it to monetize it. Like I know people

00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.199
can make money and everything else. I do it because

00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:10.500
of the people like Adrian and a bit that I meet

00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:13.719
the ability to collaborate. That's where you

00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:16.960
connect. Where can you go? We're in this year.

00:53:17.179 --> 00:53:20.739
I spoke in the 200 top experts. I've talked to

00:53:20.739 --> 00:53:24.000
everybody over both my podcasts, NBA coaches,

00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:26.960
Navy seals down to best selling authors, publishers,

00:53:27.340 --> 00:53:30.199
you name it. I've talked to them. That was, was

00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:33.119
not ever even in the, in the possibility 20 years

00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:36.519
ago. You had to be NBC. It's all the people and

00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:38.980
now we're doing it here. Here we are. Like doing

00:53:38.980 --> 00:53:40.860
this with incredible guests. So like you said,

00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:43.340
you save those recordings, you get clips. I mean,

00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:46.920
it's what, what a blessing. It is to do and it's

00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:51.480
just fun. It's just I taught my daughter how

00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.500
to do the show notes and how to listen. I don't

00:53:53.500 --> 00:53:55.420
edit this. There's no editing. We go on we come

00:53:55.420 --> 00:53:58.300
out. But Richard, how many interviews have you

00:53:58.300 --> 00:54:02.559
cried together? Yeah, there's not many. A couple,

00:54:02.619 --> 00:54:04.960
you know, I try to, I still get choked up and

00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:06.780
I try to reel it back, you know, but you know,

00:54:06.780 --> 00:54:08.860
there's, when you get in there, so talk about

00:54:08.860 --> 00:54:11.179
your kids or, you know, some of the life experiences,

00:54:11.179 --> 00:54:13.739
you know, it's, uh, it's pretty intense. Great

00:54:13.739 --> 00:54:16.519
thing. So talk about podcasts. I was on a, I

00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:19.000
was a guest on one. She was a guest on mine.

00:54:19.380 --> 00:54:21.340
And then she knew about my son. She said, is

00:54:21.340 --> 00:54:24.380
he, or can we both, can I review him and you?

00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:27.960
So we got to do a podcast together and he did

00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.480
most of the talking. You want to talk about like

00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:35.059
a dad moment. for 35 minutes, him describing

00:54:35.059 --> 00:54:38.099
his childhood and like why he does what he does.

00:54:38.300 --> 00:54:41.059
I'm just like, I'm going, okay. So I said this

00:54:41.059 --> 00:54:45.019
to him, I go, listen, son, the difference between

00:54:45.019 --> 00:54:49.239
me at 20 and you at 20, I did things for the

00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:51.579
thing. Like I do a great thing because it's a

00:54:51.579 --> 00:54:53.980
great thing and I did it. I go, everything you

00:54:53.980 --> 00:54:56.260
do is for the future. When you listen to them,

00:54:56.909 --> 00:54:59.269
Because she asked him. Well, why you do the Marine

00:54:59.269 --> 00:55:00.869
Corps? And why did you buy he she goes? Well,

00:55:00.869 --> 00:55:03.730
he goes well I want to be able to protect my

00:55:03.730 --> 00:55:06.710
family with both my hands and a weapon Okay,

00:55:06.710 --> 00:55:08.869
and then you talk about discipline and why why

00:55:08.869 --> 00:55:10.530
it's important and people don't do it I'm like

00:55:10.530 --> 00:55:13.590
and I'm just sitting there in awe like oh my

00:55:13.590 --> 00:55:18.650
gosh Yeah, but it's yeah, but I feel like he's

00:55:18.650 --> 00:55:22.230
just saying it on this podcast you're like Wow,

00:55:22.730 --> 00:55:24.630
dude, that is good because here's I'll give you

00:55:24.630 --> 00:55:27.929
one more saying ready With children, more is

00:55:27.929 --> 00:55:32.909
caught than taught. Okay. So you can, you can

00:55:32.909 --> 00:55:35.429
tell them all the right things. They're only

00:55:35.429 --> 00:55:38.610
going to do what they see you do. So if you don't

00:55:38.610 --> 00:55:41.969
walk congruently with how you talk, okay. They're

00:55:41.969 --> 00:55:44.909
only going to do what they see you do. So be

00:55:44.909 --> 00:55:47.710
careful. Okay. Be aware of that. That matters.

00:55:47.809 --> 00:55:50.710
And that's one of those, that was a great confirmation

00:55:50.710 --> 00:55:53.670
of more is caught than taught. So it was pretty

00:55:53.670 --> 00:55:57.010
cool. Wow. I love that. I have a podcast, my

00:55:57.010 --> 00:55:59.630
daughter, my friend. And so it's my daughter

00:55:59.630 --> 00:56:02.789
and who's 19 and myself, and we hop on. We did

00:56:02.789 --> 00:56:06.829
a five month road trip three years ago and people

00:56:06.829 --> 00:56:08.650
were like, Ooh, how could you be with your daughter

00:56:08.650 --> 00:56:10.210
all the time? And I'm like, Ooh, how could you

00:56:10.210 --> 00:56:11.710
not be with your daughter all the time? Like

00:56:11.710 --> 00:56:14.429
I can't wait till she wakes up and I like every

00:56:14.429 --> 00:56:17.190
day. But, um, yeah, I've noticing this, like,

00:56:17.289 --> 00:56:19.070
you know, just the sharing. And as I'm learning

00:56:19.070 --> 00:56:21.789
more about her, as it goes from a podcast, it'll

00:56:21.789 --> 00:56:23.639
be a book too, by mother's day. and we wanna

00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:25.619
interview other mothers and daughters and answer

00:56:25.619 --> 00:56:28.260
that question, can mothers and daughters be friends?

00:56:28.340 --> 00:56:30.360
But now I'm like, same thing. I hope someone

00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:33.340
starts up, my son, my friend, because at the

00:56:33.340 --> 00:56:35.940
end of the day, it's an interesting topic. I'm

00:56:35.940 --> 00:56:38.340
not here to judge or say if you should or shouldn't,

00:56:38.460 --> 00:56:41.139
but I'm so thrilled that my daughter at the age

00:56:41.139 --> 00:56:44.039
of 19 and me at 63, that we both could actually

00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:47.880
be considered friends right now. And I just can't

00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:50.300
wait to... Get off work and stop doing the interviews

00:56:50.300 --> 00:56:52.599
and spend time with her today. But Richard, thank

00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:54.579
you so much. And I'm going to just say this because

00:56:54.579 --> 00:56:57.900
it's crazy. We laugh together. We cry together.

00:56:59.260 --> 00:57:02.280
I've learned stories of your life. Andrea, I

00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:05.320
love. Your son, I love. I just want to tell you,

00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:08.420
you are a fantastic. guests. Thank you so much

00:57:08.420 --> 00:57:10.840
for your time. I don't take it lightly. And I

00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:13.920
am just so grateful to Alex and Padme for putting

00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.099
us together. I always think of how do we meet?

00:57:16.119 --> 00:57:17.780
And then there's someone that had to be behind

00:57:17.780 --> 00:57:20.340
that. So thank you, Alex. Richard, we're not

00:57:20.340 --> 00:57:22.400
this is not the end of our relationship. So thank

00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:24.900
you so much. You will definitely see a copy of

00:57:24.900 --> 00:57:26.699
the narrative. So we make sure your family can

00:57:26.699 --> 00:57:29.119
look at it and make sure they're happy. And I

00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:31.000
think I've fallen in love with you. Not that

00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:33.320
way, Andrea, just in like a friendly way. OK.

00:57:33.559 --> 00:57:35.559
But you have three things again. You're brave.

00:57:36.340 --> 00:57:39.340
You're brilliant. You're bald. And you actually

00:57:39.340 --> 00:57:41.820
are a very beautiful human being. Thank you so

00:57:41.820 --> 00:57:43.940
much. I've just loved every minute. So I'm gonna

00:57:43.940 --> 00:57:45.900
say goodbye and then I'm gonna close the room.

00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:48.340
And I really appreciate your time. So have a

00:57:48.340 --> 00:57:49.960
great, thank you for watching. If you've come

00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:52.239
on, I really appreciate your coming on the live

00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:55.320
stream. And what a great that you made my day.

00:57:55.679 --> 00:57:58.579
Thank you. I'm gonna end the stream right now.