Master Your Mindset: Supa Dave Johnson on Resilience, Community & 1% Growth | Infinite Gold Podcast

Push higher, go deeper, love longer, be stronger. We'll keep climbing up the mountain. All right, welcome back to the Infinite Gold Podcast. You've got our host Brian Anthony, and we have the amazing Super Dave Johnson today. Thank you for joining us, buddy.

Man, thank y'all for having me.

Yeah, we've been— ever since we, uh, met in Colorado, we were like, we got to get him on the podcast, we got to make this happen.

Yeah, I'm glad I could make some time, and, uh, I'm glad you guys were available to do this. I've been looking forward to it.

You're, you're a busy guy. Like, uh, you mentioned, uh, Greg calls you the multi-preneur. You got your hands in a lot of different things. Um, you're a Retired Marine and Air Force. So again, thank you for your service. We have a lot of listeners in first responders and military. So thank you for that.

Definitely my pleasure.

You own a Veteran Connect construction company, which is super cool. So government contracts, you know, building construction, getting into solar. So you got your hands in a few things. Got that insurance agency over 200 seats. Like that's pretty big.

Wild.

Yeah. And then the big thing, he's a part of Steve Aoki's management team. I think a lot of people know who Steve Aoki is.

Yeah.

I think this episode's gonna be really cool. There's a lot going on here.

All right.

Now the most thing that I'm excited for, 'cause I know you're excited, is this transformation journey you're on, this year-long transformation that has just been awesome to witness. And by the way, rocking that shirt of yours.

Oh yeah. Phase 1 is what we call it as well, is what I refer to it as. A year ago, well, just over a year ago, about 13 months, I reached my breaking point. Physically, I was at rock bottom. And went to the doctor, blood pressure read 203 over 156. The doctor— but no, I, for whatever reason, I did not look at the blood pressure monitor or pay attention to the nurse at that point in time. And the nurse rushed out, the doctor rushed back in and said, "Hey, you need to go to the emergency room right now." And I'm looking like, "Wrong room, bro." 'Cause I feel fine. And he's like, and he's like, he's like, look at this blood pressure. What's going on? He said, have you been taking your medicine? I said, I took my medicine about, I took my, uh, my, the 3 pills that I was on about 2 hours ago. So, and they're, they're, they're fast setting prescriptions. So my blood pressure should have stabilized or at least lowered by then. Wow. So he was like, okay, you know what? Maybe it could have been anything. Let's just wait about 5 minutes, take his pressure again, and then we'll assess. Mm-hmm. Take it again. 202 over 153.

That's crazy.

Get out. That's basically what, what you said to me?

Yeah.

Get out. I said, I'm not gonna go to the emergency room, doc. I'm really not gonna do it. Um, cuz it, it's, he's like, well, we can call the, we can call an ambulance and have 'em take you over. And I said, the emergency room's next door. Why would I do such a thing? I said, I can walk over. I feel fine.

Yeah.

I said, but I'm not gonna go. So he had me sign a waiver. I get in my car, drive home. I sit on the couch. And as soon as I sat on the couch, I said, that's your problem. Yep. That's your problem. You wanna sit around, eat, snack, put everything off till tomorrow in a sense. All right.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. And so I started to try to figure out what it was that I was going to do as far as my intake, because realistically, now that I have to take these deep dives to inform people of what I went through, I've come to realize that not only was I neglecting myself, but I was actually addicted to food. Wow. And I've been addicted to food for a long time. Mm-hmm. So you can say, okay, I'm gonna cut out sugars or I'm gonna go on a diet for 30 days or this and that, right? But I've done all that. The 17, I went vegan, sickest I've ever been.

Why bad?

Right. As far as how I felt physically.

Yeah.

Right. The weakest I've ever been. I've tried multiple fad diets and so forth. So Well, fast forward to May 1st. Well, the morning, the night before May 1st, I came up with the idea after seeing one post about someone being carnivore saying, hey, all right, you know what? I'm gonna do that. Yeah. I love steak. That's how I looked at it. I love steak. I love eggs.

What could go wrong?

Right, exactly. So May 1st, 7:30 in the morning, I get up. And the first thing I do is I take some pictures of myself. Next thing I do is I went to the gym. 8:30 that morning, I signed the contract to be a member of the gym, and I've been there every day since, other than the month of September where I went to Thailand to train Muay Thai at AKA for that whole month.

That's awesome.

That is.

At first, In the process, and sorry if I'm long-winded on this, but I'm, I'm, I wanna be as detailed as possible because there's a lot to, to break down in it. Mm-hmm. So at first I hid in the gym.

Were we talking about that?

Not saying that I wasn't doing the work, I hid.

Yeah.

So if I show you pictures or video of me where I was, was beanie, big neoprene outfit, sunglasses. Every day I walk in the gym, walk through, there's a back gated area that has some punching bags and things back and some weights and stuff back there. So that's where I went every day. And I spend an hour on that, on the heavy bags a day. And then I go in and I do maybe 20, 30 minutes of lifting. No contact with anybody, no smile, no nothing. Grab my bag, get up, go. And I did this every day. And then gradually things just started happening to where things just started coming off. One day I just took the shades off, I put them in the bag, and I never put them back on. This is around November.

Okay.

Okay.

I say December, I got to the point to where I wanted the beanie off.

Mm-hmm.

You know? Okay. I wanted to feel my sweat. The beanie, the beanie collected all the sweat. But so I wanted to start feeling it. You fast forward to January, January, there was a guy, he was in there, he was in there. We were, we were sharing, sharing a cable machine. He was on one side, I was on the other side. Yeah. And I was on some, I was getting started. I was just about to do my first set of cable lateral raises. And he goes, dude, when you walk in here, Um, you can see your shoulders before you ever do anything. Nice. Sleeves came off.

I like it.

That's a compliment if I ever heard one.

Oh yeah.

So, oh my gosh.

So you get to, to the end of February. I, I told myself I wasn't going to, oh, and, and what I forgot to mention is through this whole process, not one time did I step on a scale. So I'm going through this and I'm doing my best to stay as far away from a scale as I possibly can. So if I had I had a doctor's appointment or anything like that, I stepped on the scale backwards. That way I didn't see the number. Yeah. So, and I made sure to let them know not to say anything. I don't want to see it or I don't want to hear it. So end of February, I'd also said I'm not going to take any progress pictures.

Interesting.

So I hadn't taken any pictures.

Yeah.

So you get to the end of February. And I'm get— I'm starting to get all of these compliments. So there's no more neoprene suit. There's no more, uh, there's no more, um, sunglasses and there's no more, no more hoodie or no more beanie.

Yeah.

So I'm in my t-shirt. I have my shorts on. I, my shoulders are back. Head is up. I'm able to walk into the gym with a smile. I'm not realizing what's happening until people start pointing it out to me. One guy said, One guy said, to be honest with you, bro— and this is one of the guys at my 4 AM workout— he said— his name is Oliver, shout out Oliver— he said, to be honest with you, bro, I just thought that you were a fat guy hiding under a suit. Once he saw me in— once he saw me in a shirt, he said, I never knew you were jacked like that.

That's awesome. That's a great feeling right there.

So I said to him, neither did I, because I don't see what y'all see.

Yeah.

So that sent me home to take pictures. And when I took those pictures, I said, whoa, this is—

that is so cool.

I didn't recognize me. I sent it to my dad and he said, who's that? I said, you've looked at me all my life. Yeah, I said, I kid you not, I sent it to my dad and he said, who's that?

That is crazy. Oh my God, that is so cool.

So it's been— and, and when I tell you it's become so magnetic. I don't look to recruit anybody. I don't look to ask anybody to work out with me or anything. It's just compliment— I mean, it's compliments turn into consistent conversation that turns into some, some great people coming into my life. Like, I've, I've built some amazing friendships and, and associations and things like that in this gym to where now this specific gym feels like a community and the, the general manager, or, uh, not the general manager, um, the regional manager flew in because he just wanted to meet me.

Wow, that's awesome.

He wanted to meet this guy that's talked about in meetings. He wanted— and, and he, he was very, very open with me, and he said that just with how I treat people in that gym, that I've helped their retention by over 40%. Wow.

Did you tell him first? Did you say, hey, now that we're talking about this, you owe me a cut? Just, just saying.

I'm actually going to release a video where, uh, the, um, the assistant general manager, he comes over shortly after, or a couple days after I had talked to the regional manager.

Yeah.

And I said, you know what, y'all, y'all should really give me a cut. But it's, it's not, it's really not about money. No, it's not about, it's not about anything. I I just don't want— because no one took me under their wing and no one came to me and said, hey, you're doing this wrong, or you should— or try this, or here's a variation of what it is that you're doing. Yeah, right. I just had to consistently put in effort and keep my eye on— put my eye on guys in there that were— that I could use as inspiration, right? Yeah. But those guys didn't stop their workout to, to help me. But I also— but I didn't want to be that person because too many people quit because they have no idea what to do.

Correct. It's so true. Yeah.

And sometimes your, your, your smile or just the hand that says, hey, you can do it, just do it like this. Yeah. That keeps somebody on their journey.

I love that.

Because they feel seen, they feel, they, they feel as if they're valuable because everyone is.

Oh yeah.

That's powerful. Unless you're sitting on your ass on the couch.

Right.

Then you have no value to us. Yeah.

Very true. But I love that we talk about it, um, within the Final Percenters, the, it's that open hand principle, you know, having that open hand of, hey, I need help. And then also that open hand of, hey, do you need help? Would you like assistance with this? Like, these are some alternatives that you could do that I've learned that works for me if you, if you're open to it. So I love that. And it just, it builds that camaraderie. I mean, we all met. Basically in the gym. Yeah, like, like you said, I love how you intertwined that and connected your vitality in the gym and the level that you're on and how much networking and connections you've gained from that.

Yeah. Yeah, because it's anywhere and everywhere and you just never know what someone's going through and when you can touch them to take them out of— maybe it's a negative mindset or it's something that they're dealing with and going through. All right, you just never know. For example, I tell you a story. Yeah. Um, about 2 months ago, I'm walking through the parking lot and I'm headed to my car. A guy isn't paying— no, I'm sorry, I'm leaving my car to go into the store. A guy isn't paying attention, he turns the corner and he clips my right leg, right? Clips my right leg. Yeah. Injures my knee and my, um, like beat up my Achilles a little bit. So the next morning I go to the gym and I'm talking to my guys, I'm limping, so I tell them the story. But during that gym session, the guy texted me and, um, and asked if he could talk to me. We had a long conversation outside, or during the incident, long face-to-face conversation, and in that When he called me, I stepped outside, and when he called me, he said, "You've been on my mind all night because how gracious you were after I hit you." He said, "I can't thank you enough for your words of encouragement and how you made me feel." He said, "I'm going to be honest with you. My father was my last living relative, and I was gonna end it all that night." What? Yes. So in the conversation, in the conversation that we had in the, in the parking lot, um, he, he was telling me that, you know, his father had just passed and he had just zoned out. He wasn't on the phone. His phone was— you could see it— his phone was on the floor, turned off, on the passenger seat, in the passenger side. So he had just zoned out. Yeah, you know, he was just, he was just kind of moving through. And if that doesn't happen, if God does not put me right there on that corner of that parking lot, then either he hits someone else and this turns out extremely bad for multiple people, or he still goes and and carries out because someone's reaction is going to be a whole lot different than mine. Yeah, if it wasn't me there, then he either takes a life or he gets more— he gets a harsh reaction that sends him completely over the edge where it could end up in, you know, him taking a life and then his own, or him just going off and actually taking his life. God You know, God forbid. But like I said, I couldn't be more thankful for it to have turned out that way. Right? I'll take that hit to save a life, so to speak. And we're in contact today. I check on him once a week at the very least. I told him my phone is open. I have a— and that's for everybody, anybody and everybody. I have an open phone policy. A lot of us try to hide behind The I'm busy moniker, right? Like, but you shouldn't be too busy to take a call because if, even if I have to tell you, hey, I can only give you 1 minute right now. Right. But the fact is, and what matters most is that you gave somebody your time because that's our most valuable commodity.

It is true.

I had a friend yesterday. She sent a text. Well, she sent the text Saturday. Hey Dave, uh, I hope all is well. Can you do me a huge, huge favor? And I, and I'm the, but come to find out yesterday when I spoke to her, she sent the text and she just wanted to see who, who really cared for her because she, she's, to be honest with you, she, she's in a bit of a dark space. So who really cared for her enough to respond? So I responded, hey, what is it? Just let me know. Anything that I can do, I will. Anything I can't, I apologize.

Yeah.

But all she wanted was the response.

Dang. And you were there for her.

Yeah.

If she needed something. Yeah.

I mean, if I consider you one of my people, I'm always going to be there. Yeah.

You're one of ours. So likewise, man, if you ever need anything, man, we're here for you.

And I appreciate that.

Yeah, definitely. That's awesome. So this fitness journey has just been amazing this just past year.

Yeah. It's turned into something that I could have never imagined because I was just trying to lose 15, 20 pounds, just trying to regulate my blood pressure.

Yeah.

You know? Oh, and that's another thing I didn't mention. 21 days into me going carnivore, my blood pressure regulated itself to the point that while I was in the gym on May, on May 21st, 2024, I got lightheaded, lightheaded and nauseous and had to be carry it to the bathroom, right?

Oh, cuz you're still taking your meds?

Cuz I was still taking the meds. I keep a blood pressure— I keep a blood pressure machine in my car, so I sent someone out to get it out the trunk, and we checked my blood pressure. My blood pressure was, uh, what was it? It was 92 over, over 54, something like that. So it was super, super low.

Super low.

Super low. So I haven't taken the blood pressure medicine since, and my blood pressure doesn't go over 118 over about 72. That's probably the highest my blood pressure goes.

Went from medication to no medication, just like that, to no medication.

The, the— and I say it in my videos, in my reels— my, my irritable bowel and, um, and leaky gut, gone.

So cool.

The bloating I'm not gassy. I don't, I don't deal with any of that stuff. Right. Like the things that most people deal with in, in their day-to-day diet, I don't deal with any of it.

So let's dive in.

Go ahead, babe. Was that, so was that taking, taking a note that you got off of your medications, you were in the gym 24/7. My guess is obviously you also changed your diet besides doing carnivore. What, what did you transition into after carnivore that affected you not having that bloating and not having the leaky gut? And all the things you used to have?

After carnivore, there is no after carnivore. Dave stays carnivore. Meat, eggs, butter, salt. And I don't know if Greg ever told y'all the story about how we're sitting at—

Spread your own butter.

Yes.

Yes, he told me that story. I love it.

It's such a great story. But our listeners haven't heard it, so please, please tell us the story.

So we're in Miami and they have, uh, we're gonna have this VIP dinner with David Meltzer. And I, I was like, I know, I know what this is going to turn into, but I have to have protein and I need to have my fats. And I don't want people running around and trying to find butter and acting like they don't have butter, or them bringing me butter and then the next person that walks up takes the butter, right?

So I just Name, like, you don't have to name the restaurant, but obviously you're going to like this nice restaurant. Like, it's not some hole in the wall, so you would expect them to have certain things, but you're taking a step further. Like, I'm not even gonna expect.

Yeah, no, I, I just don't even expect it. It's, it, this is on the, the beautiful strip in Fort Lauderdale where these, these restaurants are so high end and they're, they're gorgeous. Right? So I'm like, okay. I just, I just have to stop at the store, grab my butter, right? Because honestly, I could have gone to my room and grabbed my butter because I travel with butter.

Okay.

I travel with my own butter. So I could have just stopped at the—

Do you keep that refrigerated in like a little cooler or is it just, you don't have to refrigerate it?

Nah, you don't have to refrigerate it. You don't really have to refrigerate it. I prefer to, if I, if I took you downstairs right now, my butter is out.

Okay, so even though like, uh, what is it, Kerrygold, it's that the Irish grass-fed butter, it says that it has to be stay refrigerated, keep refrigerated.

You don't have—

they're lying to you because ours has been on the counter. Ours will be on the counter for weeks.

Oh, that is so funny. I'm gonna be honest, I thought it had to as well.

Yeah, yeah, no, I was thinking, I was thinking just to like keep it safe, you know, it's, um, perishable.

I just wanted to try it. I just wanted to try it and this worked out. It's worked out.

Okay, well, I'm gonna do that now. Yeah, thank you, Dave.

My daughter—

listeners out there, there you go, there you go.

Yeah, my daughter, everything you read is true. You'll hear toast, toast. She's 2, she'll say toast, and she wants to spread— she wants to spread the butter on there. Yes, herself.

That is awesome. Our 1 and a half, she just— she'll walk up and go, 2, 2, like, like, me too, me too. It's the cutest thing.

Yeah, and she eats butter right out the tub as well, so They say that's good for them too, though. It is. It's a healthy fat.

Yeah. Well, it helps oil up, um, like your intestines and like, you know, helps you pass bowel movements a lot easier. And they say it's really good for kids when they're constipated. I like that.

Absolutely. It's, it's amazing because all of the things that they told us wasn't good for us are the things that we're discovering will, will bring you back from a lot of the ailments that what you were eating caused. Yeah, I advise everybody, I scream it from the mountaintop, get away from seed oils. Hmm, run away, throw them all out. If you need me, DM me, I'll come to your house and I'll do a pantry audit, right?

Like, bro, I, I don't know if you need— you want to do some pantry audits for a lot of people out there right now. You're— I don't think they're gonna have anything left in their pantry. Hey, hey, uh, Bring in the dumpster, bring it in.

Yeah, incoming.

Yeah, it's, it's so true because like you, you mentioned it, your IBS is gone, your blood pressure is better. Like all of these things are better because you're doing what we're supposed to be doing. We're supposed to be eating meat, we're supposed to be eating the butters, the healthy stuff. Like that's what we're, we're built for.

Salt over sugar.

Yeah, it's exactly what we're built for. And you're not supposed to be cramming donuts down your face and and covering your chicken breasts in canola oil.

All of this stuff, yeah.

And flour and frying it. And for a moment, I have to speak on my culture, the way I grew up, right? The people that are elders and the people that we were surrounded by, because vegetable oil was deemed healthy fried foods were not, uh, were not harmful, right?

Yep.

And but what wasn't ever spoken, something that's never spoken on, is how bad the, the cooking truly is. So you're— we're talking about having potatoes, fried foods, rice, covered in gravy and a bunch of other foods that are just laden with sugar, just sugar shoved into them, as sweet as, as sweet as you can make it, right?

Yep.

Mhm. And we wonder why we find ourselves with all these ailments— diabetes, uh, high blood pressure, gout, renal failure, and, and heart heart issues, right? A lot of people close to me know that I lost my father because of all of this at the age of 61. So recently—

yes, yep, we're starting to hear that again.

In that, I'm always— I'm, I'm going to speak on it, and if I can just help one person, then I'm happy. But this is not the way to live.

No.

Right. This is why you're sitting around lethargic. And as I say, you end up snoozing and drooling and wondering why you losing.

Ooh, that is so good right there. That's gonna be a tagline for this one. I'm just saying.

So, you know, we, we have to be better at teaching our youth a better approach to life. So, yes. I'll say this to all of you. If you do not learn how to live, you will die.

Dude, that hits home, but it's so true. Yeah. And we're, we're in the, um, sort of the same boat. Um, my father is still alive, but he's had 2 heart attacks. He's been on diabetes pills for as long as I can remember. My grandfather lost both of his legs to diabetes and eventually his life. So like, it's very prevalent in our families as well. And My dad and my grandpa, they all have it and we try to preach it to them as much as we can. We try to emulate as much as we can. And unfortunately, sometimes it goes in one ear and out the other. So what is one advice you would try to give somebody who, let's just say they know it, you know, cause everybody knows it, right? But how do we get them that next step? Like getting them up, getting them moving, or for example, like my father. He works out all the time now. He's playing pickleball, swimming, doing all that stuff, but it's still the health. It's still the nutrition.

It's like a lot of times where, uh, what we have to do is make some of the things that they like unavailable.

Yeah, we just got to go to the house and just empty that. Yeah, the cupboard. Like, yeah, yeah, because that's, that's so good right there.

We just have to make it unavailable. Um, It's, it's kind of like a, uh, uh, I don't know why the word is, is missing me, but when you have a drug, a drug addict, it's true. Intervention. Intervention.

There you go. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like an intervention because I love you enough to come over here and upset you by ransacking your house and taking all the things that I know that you enjoy having while you sit and watch football or your favorite shows or your movies or whatever while you do that. I know that you love this stuff, but I'm willing to— and, and I know that you spent your hard-earned money on it as well. Yeah, but I want you here, so I'm willing to do what it takes to show you that I want you here, right?

I like that.

And selfishly, a part of me needs you here.

Yeah.

It's true, you know, because I don't want any— like with my mom, my mom, I got one parent left and I told her, I said, I'm not letting you go nowhere. Yes, I'm not gonna watch you. My mom has all the— my mom's carnivore. My mom has all the energy in the world. Yes, right. I watched this lady stand in the living room with her 10 and 15-pound dumbbells and just go.

Right, girl, that's so cool.

She grabs her, she grabs her jump rope. Oh, today's my mom's 61st birthday. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday, Mom.

We call her Miss Tree. Love you, Miss Tree.

Love you, Miss Tree. Happy birthday.

Love it. This will probably go out afterwards, but I love it.

Oh my God, she'll love to see it. But, uh, you know, like, she, she just, she's at a point to where she's able to enjoy her life without any ailments. Um, the only thing that she was fighting at the time was sciatica. Asthma. So she hasn't had any, any flare-ups or anything since she started carnivore. And I have another guy, uh, because a lot of people will look at it as an opportunity to lose weight, right? Or something that you use to lose weight.

Yeah.

Young man, Joshua. Josh was 147 pounds, I believe, when we met.

Okay, just how tall roughly?

Uh, about 6'1". Oh, that's skinny. No, about 6 foot. I take that back, about 6 foot. Yeah, about 6 foot. So he was— no, I'm sorry, 157 pounds. Now I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was 157 pounds. Josh is 185 pounds since he started working out with me in March. It's 185 pounds. He's ribeyes, he eats his steaks, his chicken, like he— and he's jacked now and he lifts like crazy. He's adopted my mentality in the gym where we beat the weights, the weights don't beat us.

I like that. That's so good.

You know, and he's an animal now. I love it. And that's the one thing that I'm trying to create and relay to as many people as I can.

That's perfect. Well, on that note, since you're talking about that, where did the 1% come to play and what does it mean? I obviously, I know from my perspective, but I would love it from yours.

It's the idea was for it to be a conversation piece. Right. And it was something that I wanted to create for Greg to wear to where it doesn't say the final percent or anything like that, because I knew the approach of majority of people. Was going to be, yeah, man, I'm tired too, or I'm drained, or I'm struggling, right? But it, to be honest with you, it's one of those things that brings the people that we're trying to help closer to us without us ever having to say a word. So we don't have to, we don't have to chase them down the street. They're right there waiting for us to walk up to them. Or to come close, because the minute they see that, they feel like they have a trauma bond with you. But in actuality, I'm the rest of that battery that you need.

Yes. Oh, that's so good.

That really is. It's that, it's that psychomechanics of flipping the script on them. They're going to look at it as, yeah, I'm tired. And you're like, no, this is actually the opposite. I'm here for you to help you out.

Yeah, exactly. And I had a guy— I wore it, uh, actually wore it to the Raiders draft party, and a guy came up and he talked to me, and I said, well, sir, I hate to tell you, but I'm probably the battery pack that you're looking for, right?

And what did he say?

Uh, he, he was a little inebriated, and he said, what do you mean? And I said, I said, if you're, if you're as drained as you say you are, then you need somebody to spiritually lift you and help you mentally get back on track.

Yeah.

And he's like, well, I have my wife. I said, well, you both need it then.

That's good.

So yeah, so I gave him my, uh, I gave him my number and he called me 2 days later and we talked and then we met up, uh, we met up at a Starbucks and we sat and talked and He's been, he's been part of, uh, part of my, my, my coaching ever since.

Yeah. That's so cool.

That's awesome.

That is.

So we know where we can call.

Yeah.

It's that shirt is, is one of those things that it just, it does what it's supposed to do.

Yeah. That's awesome.

I love that. It's, it's speaking, it's speaking volumes and speaking words without you having to even say anything.

Exactly. Exactly. You never have to, you, you don't, you, you, you can even act like you didn't even realize you had it on.

You're like, actually, I have that battery pack that you're looking for.

Yeah.

I like that.

Didn't know it.

Yeah. You know, that's perfect. So, so you mentioned coaching and I have a feeling that's the non-negotiable. It's on the wall behind you. It's on the shirt. So explain that to shameless plug. Shameless plug. Ah, no shameless plug here.

Nope.

Uh, explain it to, uh, the listeners.

So, Non-Negotiable is actually, uh, the community that I'm in the process of building. And what I want it to be is, um, a community of growth-minded people who, uh, set out to not just inform youth, but bring up the next person. So I'm working with other entrepreneurs to teach people who are looking to get into entrepreneurship the right way to get started. So, A lot of people consider startup businesses, businesses that are already going and accumulating revenue, right? I want to teach the people who don't even know where to start, how to start, because I think, I feel that those are, that the ambition can also be turned into success. You don't just have to have, you, you know, and because what I've experienced is a lot of people will tell you what, but they will not tell you how.

So that's so true.

Non-negotiable, you get to start out on a journey where someone is there to go through that journey with you, and you don't have to go at it alone. All your questions can and will be answered. All of your concerns can and will be addressed. And you have the— and it also gives you the opportunity to grow with us and teach the next person.

Oh, that's so good.

Awesome. Like a chain reaction.

Yeah.

It's like the butterfly effect.

Yeah, absolutely. So there's that. And then of course there's the health and wellness. You're not going to be in here if you're not going to be— you're not I can't just help you become successful in business and not come, not become successful in vitality, life and vitality. Right. So, so it's very, very important that, um, for us that we share our journeys. I don't care if it's, I just want to lose 2 pounds or 2 inches of fat, or I just want to gain some muscle, whatever. I don't care what it is because it's growth-minded.

Yes.

Yes.

Right. But it's becoming the best version of yourself. And one of the things that we will discuss is, um, putting that compounding, that compound interest in yourself. And when I say that, I always, I, I started asking people this, if I have access to a checking account that has 1% compounding interest every day, Would you or would you not sell all your assets and give me all your cash to go into this account?

Of course.

Uh-huh. Exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So why would you not—

it's not batting an eye.

Why would you not put that same energy into yourself?

That's so good right there.

Every day.

So good.

Just becoming 1% better is compounding because look at it with me, the story that I told you guys. Yeah. Right? I'm this guy hiding behind glasses. In a hat, big old jump, uh, sweatsuit on, putting in the effort, definitely putting in the effort and just becoming better every day to the point to where all of a sudden when I take it off, I'm nothing like when I first put it on.

Nope. You had that compounding interest of doing the work every single day.

Doing the work every day. So that's what we have to do. We have to put in the effort every day to be 1% better. Learn a new word. Uh, read, read some, read some books. Yeah. Get familiar with, with different speakers under, uh, understand some quotes, study stoicism, right? Like there's so many things that you can do to make yourself better to where when you're having conversations with people, they're like, hey, I gotta hear more of what this guy is talking about. I have to see, you know, I, I, can you, can you refer me to that book that you referenced? Or there's so many opportunities to point people in the right direction. Yes. But we have to put the work into ourselves in order to do it. Because if you're just a blubbery F, you know, and you're having a conversation, no one's really gonna come back and say, hey, can you tell me where to find this? Or, or what you were talking about in this? There, there are no follow-up questions.

They may not even been listening to half the things you were saying either.

Mm-hmm. Exactly. Because I was that guy. I was that guy. Wow. People were interested in what I had to say because it was informative and I gave them information they could use. But a lot of people didn't come back because I didn't look the part. You can sound it all you want, but I didn't look the part. And now I understand it because I'm on the other side of the fence and I'm like, yeah, man, I really don't care what you're saying.

That's also the difference between us is you'll just straight up and say it like, hey, I know you're going to continue rambling on for the next 5 minutes. I'll be honest, I'm not even going to listen to a thing. Single thing you're saying right now. It might be smart and adequate, but this is what we're dealing with right now.

Yeah, man, like, because I just can't trust you as Andrew Tate, as I can't trust fat people, you know?

Like, you're letting yourself go, so are you letting your business go? Are you letting your family go? Your life? Like, what, what else is there that, that corresponds to all that, right?

Yeah, you know, and, and no hate or not shaming, because when I say it, I want to help.

Correct.

Right.

And that's the difference. Yep.

I want those men who are having a hard time to reach out to us. Right. We, we want to be a resource. We want to be able to help you. We want to point you in the right direction. Doesn't matter what it is that you need. Just ask.

Right back to that open hand policy at the very beginning where you ask for the help. Like, if you see Dave Johnson in the gym at 4 o'clock in the morning, or his second session, which could be at noon or 11 o'clock— oh, there you go, at 4 and 10. If you see him and you have questions, go up to him. If you have questions about business, life, go up to him. He's here to help you guys out. Like, that's his goal and his job to do.

It's awesome.

It's what I was put here for.

Yeah. That's, I love that. I mean, you, you literally got hit by a car and saved somebody's life. Like you're, that's, that's who you are. You're just a, you're an amazing human being and we love you and we're so excited that you were able to come on here with us.

Yeah. I really appreciate it.

So we ask everybody, it's the last question of the day, uh, 3 golden nuggets. So this could be about. You being in the military, it could be about your businesses. It could be about the main conversation today, which was, uh, fitness and health. It could be about any of those, but 3 golden nuggets that you think our listeners and/or people should hear from you about.

Uh, 3 golden nuggets. And now when you say golden nuggets, you mean pieces of advice, correct?

Yep.

Yes.

Yep.

All right.

We just call it golden for Goldner in the podcast.

Right, right.

I get it.

Okay. I just wanted to make sure. Yeah, my first one is be actionable, right? Faith without works is nothing, right? You can have as much belief— do not fall into— do not ever fall into leave it in God's hands, because God never said he will do it for you. He will put forth the effort for you. He never said that. So you have to put forth the effort. So be Actionable. If you want it, go get it.

That's good.

Two, you are not a victim. No matter what, what you've gone through in your life, trauma occurs all over. We all go through something, but we cannot continuously allow others to make their traumas bigger than ours, and we can't make our traumas bigger than theirs, right?

Yes.

We have to be there for one another. In our times of need, because yes, trauma is hard to deal with, but if we are, if we become each other's, uh, crutch, right? If we become each other's crutch in our moments of need, then we can walk through and get through these journeys together. People don't always have to be alone in, in, in dealing with what it is that they— that they find themselves— I guess you— anything that they find themselves dealing with, right? And that's the importance of community. That's— and to be honest with you guys, I'm just learning that. But it's okay because now I know what it truly means. And the third one is I want to speak to the men who find themselves in this specific scenario. You have a family at home, but you have successful business. Your business takes precedent over your family. Your mindset is, your mindset is, I make the money, I provide a house, I provide a nice living, right? Everything's okay. I'm going to tell you it's not. You must be present. Find a way to, to make a schedule to where you are at home, because when you lose home, you will lose you.

Oh, that's so good. I thought the first— I thought the first two were going to be good.

He saved the best for last.

It's Dave. That's— that's— that is so good. So good. Good. Again, Dave, you're an amazing human. If anybody is listening and you haven't followed Dave yet, you really need to go find, follow him, follow him on Instagram, check out Non-Negotiable, the things that he's doing behind there with that community, with the people. It's second nature. I mean, if you want somebody who's, you're going to hit him with a car and he's going to save your life, like that's a great mentor to have. That's somebody that you want to be in the same room with. Like his goal is to literally serve you. Whatever issues you're having, that's what you're going to learn inside of his community with his people. Um, he's been following us ever since we met, so we appreciate him and everything. So thanks again, buddy, for being on.

We truly, truly appreciate y'all having me. It was a blessing. I loved every minute of it.

Awesome. Thanks, buddy.

All right, and I'll see y'all soon.