My 2025 Profit Reveal: A Full Breakdown of Every Income Stream⏐Ep. #261

Welcome to the Kerner office. It's a wrap on 2025. And every year I do this year end episode where I talk about my investments this year, businesses I started, businesses that failed, net worth updates, income updates, where I'm making money, how I'm making money, what I'm working on, what I'm failing on, personal life, business, everything. This is an episode that won't do big numbers. But for the people that like this podcast and come back every week or every month, you should like it a whole lot. And I appreciate you. I appreciate you for liking more personal episodes like these. I'll try to be as specific as I'm comfortable being, but it's just tricky because I build a lot of stuff in public. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. And people ask in the comments sometimes like, hey, how's this going? How's that going? And sometimes they're going really well and sometimes they're already shut down. So I have a huge list of everything that I've been talking about working on, et cetera, and another huge list of things that I've never really talked about that I want to cover. So. So I want to tie up my 2025 in this episode. I did the same thing from a hotel room in San Francisco when I was on a trip across the west coast with my family a year ago. And you can find that in the show notes if you're interested in how my 2024 went. But at the end of this, I'll talk about some of my income sources, where my income's coming from and what it looks like. But first, let's touch on the businesses. The businesses that I own or have owned in the recent past or present. These will be in no particular order. Uh, it's just basically as I remembered them and jotted them down on this Google Doc I have in front of me. So I started a firewood business with some teenagers from church a little over a year ago. This was a spontaneous idea that came up on a campout, and it was just a way to help them earn money for college. It's called College Fund Firewood. And I bought a log splitter and I asked my tree trimming company to drop off big oak logs on my property. And it was just a way for me to kind of teach entrepreneurship to young people and support them in that. And it went well. We did it last season. We made a couple thousand bucks and all of it went to the boys, to their college. And now they're either on missions or in college. And we're doing it again this year, but it's been slower to get it picked up. I haven't been super proactive about getting the next generation, if you will, over to my place to start splitting logs. But the splitter is ready to go, it's gassed up and I got lots of logs for them. So the next business I'll touch on is BFH Backyard Funhouse. This is actually going pretty well. So we built a sport court in our backyard and I was too cheap to hire it out to a general contractor. So I found a bunch of subcontractors to do it myself. A concrete guy, a fencing guy, gotta paint lines on the court. A guy to do the electrical and the lights and all that. At the end of the day, I spent about 28,000 to build this and it would have cost about 50, 55,000. And that includes a pad for shed that I put in. So very happy with that. And I turned that into a business where we install sport courts and putting greens and, you know, basketball hoops and in ground trampolines in people's homes. And we have Facebook ads running for that right now. We've got a bunch of quotes out, like a ton of quotes out. A lot of good stuff in the works, but no revenue yet. We have yet to close any jobs. I've spent about $4,000 in Facebook ads. My business partner James, who is the same partner for Fast Tree Care, he built the website and it looks amazing. And it's just, it's hard to get your first customer, especially if it's a high ticket service like this. I mean, the jobs we're quoting are between 10,000 and $100,000 each. And so it's a long sales cycle and it's not really the right season for it. But this is one that I'm just as excited about today, if not more so than I was when I originally talked about it a few months ago. And it's one that we're actively pursuing. Next business is Fast Tree Care. The other business I have with my business partner James is this one's been pretty slow lately. I haven't put much attention into this. And it's also the wrong season. But we're still doing thousands a month, sometimes tens of thousands a month, and it's just pretty flat. We're just kind of complacent and it could be doing a lot better, but it's profitable and it's still there. Next one is secret pickleball. If you'll remember, I have a shop behind My house, it's about 2,100 square feet. And I wanted to launch an indoor private pickleball club for this, and I posted a bunch of Facebook ads for it with a type form that had 19 questions and I got a ton of inquiries. I was incredibly enthused at the response. And this club. So the business model is basically 99 bucks a month, and you can play pickleball a defined number of times, either in doubles or singles. And if people don't play that often, I can fit up to 200 members. If they play a lot, I can only fit about a hundred members. So my Facebook ad test showed me that it will not be hard to fill this to capacity, that it would gross about 15,000amonth and net call it 10 to $12,000 a month. But a lot of big problems here. I need to add a new septic system, which is like 12 grand. I need to expand the building, which is like 20 grand. I need to add a bathroom because you can't have a pickleball club without a bathroom. That's going to be like 15 grand. I got to paint it. I got to demo this weird structure inside of it. I got to add gravel. I got to add a security system. It was going to be a lot of money, a lot more than I thought. I budgeted about 30, 40,000, but after getting a bunch of quotes, it was going to be about 70 to $90,000, which is still a great return on investment if it nets 10 to 12,000amonth. But I was afraid that the city would shut me down because it wouldn't be zoned appropriately. And it was just going to be a big lift to maybe get shut down by the city. And I want to do other stuff with my shop. I don't want it all tied up. I want to do woodworking out there. I want to liquidate pallets of washers and dryers, which is what I'm doing with it right now, and I'll touch on in a minute. I just want freedom and flexibility with that building. I don't want to tie it up as a pick wall club. So the validity of that business idea is still very strong, as strong as it ever was. But I just decided to not go through with it because it's just too much. I invested some money into it, but not too much where I didn't feel too bad backing out. There was a business called side vending. You may remember, a year and a half ago, I posted a video about perfume vending machines that went mega viral. 20 million views. We got in touch with the manufacturer, we started importing them, we sold them, and it just did not go great. We had a hard time with the sales cycle. We had a hard time managing salespeople. We had a hard time in a few different areas of this business. So we sold a handful of machines. We did six figures in a short period of time. We were profitable. But then we just said, you know what? The roh on this return on headache is not great. And when you're publishing a ton of content, you. You get a lot of inbound for cool opportunities and cool stuff. And so the opportunity cost of doing one thing becomes higher and higher and higher. And so as the months wore on and other opportunities started presenting themselves, it was like, you know what? This isn't worth the headache right now. So much like the secret pickleball business. Like, it's a very viable thing to import and sell vending machines, extremely viable. You make thousands of dollars profit per machine. But it's just not something that I wanted to mess with. So we just moved on from it. Next business was a agency that helped people get more leads for their local or home service business. And that was going pretty well. We were doing thousands of dollars a month in monthly recurring revenue. We were getting results for our customers. But back to opportunity cost, we just moved on from it. So long story short, we just moved on from it. Still a very viable business. We weren't the first or thousandth people to start that business. It wasn't a new idea. But like any business, it's usually harder than you think it's going to be. And the opportunity cost wasn't worth it. Next business, Texas snacks. That is my buc ee's resale business, which you've heard about a zillion times, so I won't go into, but it's doing great. We. We've been double paying sales tax for a while now, for years. And we've been trying to work with the state of Texas to get reimbursed for all of these overpaid sales taxes. And it was this huge audit process. We had to submit tons of receipts. And Kirk, my business partner, had to do a ton of work and my accountant and my employees. And it was just this major pain, Major, major headache. But really a headache you only have to go through once, because now that we have systems in place, it won't happen again. Anyway, it took years and years, but we finally got $170,000 check back from the state of Texas for sales taxes that we had overpaid and that was great. That went straight into our personal checking accounts, mine and Kirk's, and that was a nice Christmas bonus for us. So it's just, you know, this business is an overnight success. Five years in the making. All it took was to be a viral hit and then to kill your other business, to focus on it full time and then to move locations and then to almost get shut down and then to not be profitable for a while and then have to pay off the debts of the other business that you used to be a part of and do this mass, massive, painful audit with the state of Texas and figure out how to operate in a low margin business environment. And all we had to do is figure out all those things in real time and we're an overnight success. So that is a great business. It's very profitable and I'm very grateful to my business partner Kirk for doing a great job there. He's the reason why it's successful. I've got the cool startup story, but he's been the one putting in all the time and effort for five years now. Next business is our pet cremation business. Still going, Going strong? Pretty steady, Eddie. Not growing really fast. Not shrinking at all. Growing a little bit. It's profitable every month. We do tens of thousands in monthly recurring revenue, but we are looking for more veterinary partners for more customers here in dfw, preferably that own a veterinary clinic that we could work with. But it has strong margins. We've got a solid system in place, but we're just not actively trying to grow it really fast. It's, it's kind of a long sales cycle business, but once you get a customer and they tend to pay you thousands a month for many years to come. I owned an RV park with my business partner Nick in Waco, Texas and we sold that at the beginning of 2025 and maybe it was last year, actually end of 2024, I don't remember. But we're glad we did. It was a good buy, but it was also a big headache and not worth our time. So we sold it and I think that the new owner is doing great with it. So I always like selling an asset like that and seeing that the buyer continue to find success. While we're talking about real estate, I'm still a general partner in a fund called Blue Metric. Our parks are called Streamside Parks and I have ownership in about 10 different parks, which is about a little over a third of the portfolio. And I help fundraise for these parks and I help Source them. And it doesn't require a lot of my time because the operations team is great. And we have $111 million portfolio under contract right now that we're about to close on. That will almost double the size of the fund. So when I came on board, I think we had like $50 million worth of parks. Today it's closer to 150 million and it will be 270, 250 somewhere in there after we close this big purchase. And I'm not trying to make it sound like we've had all that growth because I came on then, like, no, I just came on at the right time and the team kept doing what they were doing before me and they probably would have done just as bad as well if I hadn't joined. But I have been able to contribute there and it's felt good and it's been a good symbiotic relationship for both parties. I am buying 53 acres outside of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, spending about 700,000 on it. And it also comes with two double wide mobile homes in decent shape. It has two water mains, it has a pond, it has a creek through it. About 40% of it's in a floodplain, which is why it's only 14,000 an acre. But it's 45 minutes from my house in the path of progress, the path of growth. And I just don't see how you can go wrong buying raw land. Well, it's raw land, but it's also improved. There's two mobile homes on it that I'm going to rent out for about 1500 bucks a month each. I don't see how you can go wrong buying land in the fastest growing metroplex in the country. Values peaked in 20, 22 or so, and they're depressed a little bit right now, but they're heading back up. So I feel like it's a good time to buy. And I just want this to be a generational asset that's in my family forever. And I want to take my boys out there and shoot deer and clay pigeon. And the rent from the mobile homes will come close to just paying the payment on the park. I am going to get a loan for it and I'm going to raise some grass fed beef. It'll hold about 25 black Angus because generally speaking you can do 2 acres per grass fed cow. So with the rental income plus the beef, I should make a 10 to 20 thousand dollars a year profit. It is ag exempt, which means my yearly property taxes are next to nothing. 500 bucks a year or something. So I'm not trying to make a bunch of money on this. I'm just trying to have some raw land that I can go camp on and hunt and just hold for a long time. And it should compound quite nicely 15 to 25% IRR when it's all said and done. I launched a community this year called tkowners. Tkowners.com you've heard me talk about it. Most likely. I launched it with a few friends. Taylor, Brandon, Kamal, Nick, Peter. We launched on April 30, my son's birthday, and it's gone great. It's a place for people to build businesses with each other and to get a little more support on ideas that I talk about. I do weekly ask me anythings in there. And we've done about 600,000 in revenue since launching. And the vast majority of that is profit. We do quite a few lifetime memberships, so our monthly recurring revenue is good. It will be to 100k a month in not too long. But our monthly sales are much better because we sell a lot of annual and lifetime subscriptions. So very pleased with that business. It's just tricky when I post about all these business ideas. People aren't likely to take action on them if they don't have enough support, right? There's a direct correlation between people launching businesses based on my content and how much time they spend with me or with my content. So the more time they spend with me or my content, the more likely they are to launch. So yes, it is a great business for me. It's profitable, I enjoy it. I'm in the business of business. But also it's a great way for me to fulfill my mission of helping to enable entrepreneurship and helping to enable 1 million people to start a business. Ultimately, that's the. That's the big goal here. TK Owners is more general. And I launched a couple months ago another community that's very, very specific for people wanting to become AI consultants to do AI implementation or automations. It's called Playmakers. That's playmakersai.com and that one's going great. We did 600,000 in revenue our first couple months, maybe 400,000 our first month. Most of that profit. And people are starting businesses, they're finding customers, they're posting their wins, and it's going great. You can check that out at playmakersai. Com. I have another business that I own a minority stake in called Glide. Glide builds software for skilled nursing facilities. And this thing has been in the works for three years. It started as an AI newsletter, pivoted a couple times, gone through some partnership changes, a lot of headaches. But Zach is an awesome operator. He's doing a great job. We've signed some really big clients lately, and I don't want to talk about our revenue because this is a pretty competitive space. Space. But it's going very well and we're very pleased with it. Another thing I'm doing temporarily, most likely, is I'm liquidating pallets from B stock, like overstock return pallets from Costco. In my shop back there, I've got about 26 double pallets of outdoor furniture and appliances that I'm selling on Facebook Marketplace. And if you think like, Chris, like, opportunity costs, like, isn't that beneath you? Not at all. Because it doesn't take a lot of time. And I have my kids help me with it. They take pictures, they help me list it on Facebook Marketplace. And I'm making a video about it with Shannon, who you've probably heard on this podcast. So I'm trying to see how quickly I can make $10,000 in profit. So it's a business and it's also a piece of content at the same time. All right. And as far as content goes, let's talk about content for a minute. Then I'll talk about investments I made this year. Talk about net worth, updates and income. So I'm still putting about three short form videos a day. I've got a guy named Austin that helps you with my shorts. Austin Shout Out. He's awesome. He lives in Idaho and he helps me. He's kind of like an analyst. He helps me script my shorts and find shorts. Ideas and shorts have been kind of slow lately. I have a ton of people copying my format, my green screen, you know, look at this freaking thing right here. They're mostly using AI and like, hey gen and like these lame tools. I don't know why they don't just use their own face and voice. I don't know. But that's made it a lot more diluted. So my videos have not done as well over the last few months. And it's forced me to get more innovative, more creative and come up with new formats, which we're in the middle of doing now. And it's a good challenge to have because I've said several times on this podcast, like, the more effective a growth hack, the shorter its lifespan. People catch on, right? Especially when millions of people are watching his videos by the nature of these videos. So that's gotten more competitive, but I'm still getting consistently over a hundred million views a month across all platforms. Most the vast majority of that being short form videos, over 95%. I'm doing a lot of long form videos as well. Two to four a week, some out and about style, documentary style. I've had some videos hit hundreds of thousands and my first hit a million views in my appliance rental video with Kyler. Those are a lot of fun to film. I had a video that I filmed in the middle of nowhere that I hope you watched because it's like my pride and joy. I had a lot of fun filming it and I just felt a lot of pride watching it. It was just. It was just very enjoyable to make. That one's called like I Started a Business in the Middle of Nowhere. I think we'll link to it below. But it's tough because the talking Head podcast style videos, they typically don't do as well because there's not a lot going on. You know, there's not a lot to watch. But sometimes they do if the concept is interesting enough, like turning $1 into $5,000 from books, that's interesting enough. That long form video did very well and the audio did very well. Mindy's awesome. I just published that a couple weeks ago. You probably heard it. But all else equal, you really got to go out there and do the thing like crying the stumps in person and the video will perform much, much better. So I'm trying to do a lot more of that. But it's also hard because sometimes you go spend all day filming with a crew and you script it and you storyboard it. You do all this, you spend all this money editing it and it does even fewer views than a talking head podcast. You just don't know, right? You think you do, but you don't. So still experimenting with that, but having a lot of fun. Just hired my first full time producer, Carly. She's awesome. She used to work for Airac, a big YouTube channel. She's worked with Mr. Beast and she's helping me systematize some stuff. Audio podcast has been kind of flat for a while. It's very hard to grow. I got a boost from Diary of a CEO, but it's been the holidays over the last week or two, so it's kind of shrunk a little bit. I don't know how much of that is permanent versus just seasonal, but it's growing just not nearly as fast as I'd like. My newsletter has grown a ton from about 77,000 subscribers a year ago to 240,000 today. I started doing paid ads with a guy named Kevin a couple months ago to grow it. So it's growing a lot faster thanks to Paid because before that I'd only done organic. So the newsletter's kind of a business in and of itself. It's quite profitable and it's fun to write and Molly helps me with that. Shout out to Molly. Open rates are very steady at about 55%. Mixed click through rates 3 to 5%. Unsubscribe rate 0 2.3% and I'm adding between 700 and 1500 new subscribers a day. More content stuff. I'm doing more sponsorships, working with brands like Busy, who I love to use for entity formation. Go high level of course. Beehive. I invested in Beehive just today by the way. Made an angel investment in them. I've been begging them to invest for a while. I'm doing sponsorships with Claude, the AI company replit Lindy. I also angel invested in Lindy this year. Only brands that I really love, like I genuinely love and that's been a good stream of income. Last note regarding content. I'm launching a podcast that I've been recording for a year and a half and I've never published. It's kind of a non profit passion project that I've wanted to do for literally a decade. It's called how'd you do it? We're going to link to it. It's just a passion project. It's my wife and I and we talk to active Christians that are older and have mostly grown kids that are out of the house and ask them how'd you do it? How did you raise your kids in the faith, so to speak, in a way that would keep them in the faith after leaving the home. Like very tactical like this, right? Like specifically like how old were they when you gave them a phone? What was your vacation policy? What did grounding them look like? Looking back, do you regret being too strict or not strict enough? So we've recorded five episodes and we're going to start publishing them. So I've just been procrastinating. If that sounds interesting to you, I would love for you to check it out. Angel investments I made a handful of angel investments this year. Lindy. Lindy AI. It's basically the zapier for AI. I interviewed the founder, fell in love with their story. He's a killer. So I begged them to invest and they let me. So I wrote a Five figure check into that. My good friend Arthur is the chief growth officer. I think I have that right for a company called Oterra O T T E R A And they are enabling fast channels, right? So you turn on your smart TV and you see all these random fast ch. That is a tidal wave. To give you some perspective on my YouTube channel in 2024, I think 7% of my views were on TVs. And in 2025 it was 40. From 7 to 40% in one year. People are watching YouTube on TVs now and people are watching random channels on TVs. Like my friend Kevin Espiritu. He has a YouTube channel with 7 or 8 million subscribers called EPIC Gardening. He has a fast channel and so people will watch him on their TV, not on YouTube but on his. He has his own channel, right? It's like a digital channel that is exploding right now and his company is exploding and they're riding that tidal wave. And he's a great guy. I've known him for 10 years. Go to church with him. And I wrote a five figure check into his business. And Beehive, I've been begging Tyler let me invest, let me invest for about six months. And they opened up around. So I wrote five figure check into that. And my friend Brandon, he started a business called Foundation AI, which is now called David DavidMarketing co. And then the AI side of things is GetDavid AI. He's implementing AI automations into small businesses. I obviously love that space. I talk about it all the time. And I love Brandon. I believe in him. So I wrote a five figure check into his business as well. And you know, angel investing, most of these go to zero. They take years or decades to pay out. So it's too early to tell. But all of these are going well so far. It's only been months, but happy with the outcome of all of these so far. And then I've made really random odd angel investments over the years, most of which have not gone well. Let's see, Virtuix, they're building full body VR gaming system. They're trying to be like the peloton for full body VR gaming. Invested in them like 5 years ago. Golf board, it's like an electronic battery operated golf cart. Invest in them a while ago, maybe Gumroad, that's actually done well. They've doubled in valuation. Hyle, which is kind of like Lululemon. They have not. I think they've already failed Keen, which was like a smart home gadget company, I think They've already failed. I've written most of those off. But it's kind of funny, like, you got proximity bias. You know, you invest in people you know, because you assume they're smarter than the average person. And that seems kind of like a fallacy. Like, just because you know them personally doesn't mean they're more likely to succeed. But in my experience and in my friend's experience, like, people usually have a lot of success investing in people that they know personally. So I'm taking that bet. But I will say, if you're listening to this and you're wondering if I will angel invest in your business, the answer is probably no. Just because I'm not an angel investor, I don't want to be. I don't want to look at decks. I don't want to hop on calls with founders to be pitched to. Like, that's not meant to sound harsh. It's just not my love. Like, I want to build things, I don't want to invest in things. So it's not really something I'm looking to do more of. In addition to those angel investments, I bought more Bitcoin this year. I've been buying and holding Bitcoin since 2016. I firmly believe in it. Pulling up my Robinhood account as I talk here. Not buying any more. Ethereum for the time being. Binance, Coin, xrp. Like a lot of this stuff I've just been holding forever and some of it may still go to zero, I don't know. But I just, I don't want to sell. I'd rather just keep holding. So I dollar cost average into bitcoin every single day. And I have a lot of bitcoin. It's. It's a big part of my net worth. I started buying precious metals for the first time this year. Thank you, Peter, for finally twisting my arm and convincing me. It's kind of funny. There's been some data that shows that, you know, oftentimes investments do the best when you buy at the all time high, which is completely the opposite of what you think. Buy low, sell high, et cetera. But oftentimes when you buy at the all time high, you're buying momentum, right? And it just keeps going up. Okay, not investment advice. I'm not an investor, right? So don't listen to anything I'm saying. I basically bought bitcoin at an all time high. $700 felt foolish. Wasn't gold and silver. It's only been a few months, but it was at an all time. They were both at all time highs and silver has been absolutely on a tear. Who knows? But when I buy, I never sell. And I said that on the episode a year ago. I just don't sell. If I had to sell to pay the mortgage to feed my family, of course I would. But I don't, I don't get in and out of positions. I buy things forever, whether it's land, stocks or crypto. So I did buy gold and silver a few months ago and I'm holding for the time being. I'm not buying any more, but I bought physical gold and silver and I have them safely secured stocks. I bought a lot of stocks this year. My biggest holding is Robinhood. I firmly believe in Robinhood. I'm a big nephil guy. Nefl network effects, founder led. I like buying stocks that enjoy network effects as in companies that get more valuable as more people start using it, like Facebook, like ebay, marketplaces. Robinhood. Bitcoin has network effects. I'm obsessed with network effects. So if a stock in my opinion has network effects and it's founder led, it's it outperforms the market. In fact, I did an episode about this a couple months ago, a video and I bought a domain name, NEFL Stocks N E F L stocks dot com. You can see for yourself, you can back test and you can see how stocks have outperformed the market when they were founder led and had network effects. I firmly believe that anything in life, it all comes down to incentives, right? If something is wrong, if something is right, it's because the incentives are either aligned or they're not. And if a company is founder led, the incentives are usually aligned. He wants his baby to keep going well, like Mark Zuckerberg, like Elon Musk, like the Robinhood CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO so Robinhood is my first biggest holding. I bought hundreds of shares of that this year. More in previous years. Tesla is my second biggest holding, never selling that. Coinbase is my third biggest, then Meta, then Google. I'm like insanely bullish on Google and how they'll stack up in the AI race. Voo, you know, just the index. That's my sixth biggest holding. Then Zoom. And I'm not really bullish on Zoom. I just bought a lot after Covid at way too high of a price and I've almost broken even on it. But I'm not selling it. Amazon, then Chipotle, then AMR Alpha, Metallurgical Resources and I just copied Mohnish Prabhai's trade there. I have no idea what they're doing. But he's smarter than I am. So I copied it. Coupang the Amazon of South Korea. Another NEFL stock. The founder is an absolute monster. Just like Jeff Bezos. Iren. It's like the data center Play Open. I own open stock. I don't think I'm that bullish on it, but whatever. It's doing well, but I kind of regret it. Uber going very well. Alibaba, Netflix, Unity, the software business. Garmin been holding for a while. It's done really well. Angel Studios, they make clean movies. That stock is not going well. It's down about 50% since I purchased it. But we hodl Stubhub just went public this year. Both founder led and enjoys network effects. Down 22% since purchasing it. And then Airbnb, which is just doing okay. It's been very flat for a while. Those are all of my stocks. And I did a big boy thing. I opened a Roth IRA for both myself and my wife. And I learned what that is and that's maybe the most mature thing I've ever done. So I'll be contributing to that every year. I had some crypto debt. I had borrowed against my my Bitcoin years ago to buy more bitcoin. I paid that off this year. We sold our minivan and my Tesla Model S this year. Swapped out my car with a Cybertruck lease. I did all the research and it told me that I would save more money if I leased a cybertruck as opposed to purchase it because they depreciate like a rock. So far it's maybe the best vehicle I've ever owned. I love it. I love it, I love it. And we'll see if the lease decision paid off. It's only a two year lease. I think I pay 1300amonth for that. And then I got my wife, Sequoia, a 2024, had 3,000 miles on it. Sequoia in the lunar rock color and she loves it. Looks awesome. It's really the first vehicle that she's actually loved. So we've graduated from the minivan. On a personal note, I'm considering some goals for 2026. I've never been much of a goal person, but I want to be. I set a bunch of goals last year and I failed at most of them. But I think all else equal, it's better to have goals than not. I signed up for an ultra marathon this Saturday. I have not ran since June and that was only four miles. I ran 11 miles in all of 20, 25. I'm completely out of shape. I haven't gained my weight back. I weighed 260 pounds for all my 20s, but I'm sitting at about 210 right now. Try to be closer to 200. And I've been working out in the yard and stuff, but I have no cardio capacity right now. And I was standing in line for a ride at Six Flags talking to my 15 year old who is a cross country runner. He's never ran more than eight miles and I've been trying to convince him to run an ultra. And he's like, no, I don't want to, I don't want to. And then finally I was like, I'll give you 300 bucks if you run one with me. And I'm, I'm like, I'm as out of shape as you get. And he's like, done. So I pulled out my phone. We found an ultra in Waco this Saturday, which is what, January 3rd? I don't know, it's called a Waco Resolution Run or something. And we signed up with a 50k which is 31 miles. And I'm not running at all this week. I'm not training. I just want to see how it goes. So it's going to be painful, but it's going to be awesome. And my son's going to do great. And it sounds, I don't know, it sounds more intimidating than it is. Think of it like a hike where you do a lot of running because there's a lot of walking on an ultra. Even like the best ultra runners in the world strategically power walk uphills. They, they strategically walk at times. It's normal, it's accepted. So I'll just do a lot of walking and hopefully I can finish in under six hours. And I'm excited to see what my boy is capable of because most people don't know what they're capable of physically, mentally or otherwise. So I feel like, you know, how you do one thing is how you do everything. And if he pushes his limits in this, and if I push my limits in this, it will open up doors in other parts of our lives. So I have run 14 ultramarathons between like in 2022, give or take. My last one being a hundred miler three years ago. So my body will remember, like my muscles will remember to an extent, I think, I hope. But that only goes so far. So I will report back on how that goes. I kind of want to wake up at 5am every day this year, whether it's a Sunday, Saturday, whatever. I'm an all or nothing person. So when I set goals that are like, all right, only eat sweets on Sundays, it just doesn't go well. It needs to be like, I eat no sugar this year or I don't have a sugar goal and I do whatever I want. So I'm curious to see in the comments, genuinely, this isn't just like engagement bait. If you guys have set goals around waking up early and what was the structure of that goal? What did it look like? How well did you do at it or not? Very curious about that. I want to transcribe the whole Book of Mormon. Just like write the whole thing down and journal instead of reading it with my adhd. Like, I. I cannot focus when I try to read the scriptures. I just can't pay attention. Like I can. I could. I don't want to just write myself off, but I don't. It's extremely hard. I still do it almost every day because I think it's a good thing to do, even if I don't retain anything. But I feel like if I transcribed it onto a journal, I saw an Instagram reel about someone that did this with the Bible. I feel like if I did that, I would get more out of it. So I think I'm going to try that. I got a new job calling in my church nine months ago. I basically helped my pastor, and I was very intimidated by it. But it's been amazing and I love it. And I get to hang out with the youth a lot and I get to push myself and be uncomfortable a lot, and it's difficult. But I really, really have enjoyed doing that a lot. And to wrap this up, you know, this is a business podcast. People love hearing about income, real numbers. I don't really like talking about that. It does really well. Like when I talk about how much money I make or whatever, those pieces of content do really well. But it's also awkward. So I want to try to find the balance between, like, showing people what's possible and also keeping cards close to my chest because I'm somewhat of a private person. But this year was incredibly transformative for me in every sense of the word. There's a lot to be grateful for. And I think I counted and I'm making six figures of net profit from seven to eight different sources each. So any of them could go away tomorrow, but I could also gain one or two more tomorrow from other things. Much of that is driven by content, and I think people are quick to write that off. And say, oh, you're cheating because you have an audience. It's like, well, if you consider, you know, learning skills for 15 years, you know, starting 80 different businesses and then posting about those experiences and then using that as a distribution channel as cheating, okay, but it certainly wasn't the shortcut. These are hard fought lessons. I'm not like a 19 year old like regurgitating business books that I'm reading. Like I've actually done these things and I'm still doing these things. And it would be foolish of me to not use advantages that I have to grow a business. I know people that are really good at making content and they feel kind of prideful about not wanting to have to rely on that to start a new business. And I just think that's foolish. Like if you became the best person in the world at Facebook ads, why wouldn't you use Facebook ads to grow your next business? Just because like you're prideful about it and you want to see if you could do it. Okay, but why handicap yourself if you don't need to? So I'm always going to be extremely mindful about things that I promote, things that I talk about, things that I start, things that I. Because I don't want to waste people's time or attention. I know that's like the world's most scarce and valuable resource is attention. So I am going to be very mindful about that. But at the end of the day, like if I can offer something that people want to pay for and that they will find more value out of than what they pay, then I'm going to see if I can do that in a good, sustainable, moral, ethical way. So 2024 was, I think my best earning year ever. And 2025 did about three times more than that. My main YouTube channel makes between 15 and $30,000 a month of profit. My secondary YouTube channel makes between 500 and $3,000 a month. My Facebook page makes between 10 and $30,000 a month. My communities each make net profit between 30,000 and $150,000 a month. And when I say make, I mean like make net profit to me, not revenue. Texas snacks, six figures a year in profit. RV park stuff, six figures a year of profit. Sponsorships closing in on seven figures a year of profit. Newsletter, six figures of profit. Mid to high six figures. TikTok five figures. Audio podcast six figures. Other bets like other random one offs six figures. Oh, I forgot I have an RV mobile home park community. That's another six figures a year of profit. And you will never, ever catch me say the phrase multiple six figures. If it's 900,000, it's six figures. If it's 100,000, it's six figures dot Sparkloop helps me monetize my newsletter. That's five figures. High five figures a year of profit. Twitter. Thousand bucks a month. 2,000 bucks a month. Amazon affiliate, other affiliate stuff. A few thousand bucks a month. And I think that's just about most of it. I have no idea what 2026 will bring, but I'm very grateful. I'm grateful for all of you for being a part of this, for helping me, supporting me, for your kind words. I receive much, much, much, much, much more support than I do negativity, and for that I'm very grateful. So thank you for following along, listening, watching, however you consume this. But just remember, all of the time you spend consuming this or other business content is kind of a waste if you don't take action from it, right? Strive to get your dopamine from action and not from information. Okay, that's not my quote, but I heard it and I love it. So I'm taking it. Action, not information. Go take action and you'll be better off for it. So love you guys. Appreciate you. We'll see you next time on the Kerner Office.