A conversational podcast episode (hosts Flip and Danny of Freedom Real Estate Group) about the influence of language and behavior on personal mindset and on others (family, employees, team). They argue that negative self-talk becomes believed, praise and affirmations can change behavior, and leaders’ attitudes strongly shape company culture ("attitude reflects leadership"). The hosts illustrate these points with music references, a Remember the Titans quote, a "Mile a Day" habit anecdote, and close with a site call-to-action and a standard investment disclaimer.
Hey, everybody. Flip and Danny here, founders of the Freedom real estate group family of companies. I don't know why I didn't have any of companies, but welcome to another episode of our podcast.
And our podcast is called freedom through passive income.
Thank you very much.
Stop making me laugh.
And welcome to another episode. And this episode is Careful the things you say. How about that? Is that good?
I dared him to sing it.
Children will listen. So careful the things you say because children will listen. It's actually a very. One of our favorite songs on one of our albums that we. Albums that we listen to because it's, you know, we got the big vinyl.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
On the turntable. But actually, funny joke though. I actually, I bought an album for my brother and he has a turntable, but he can't connect it to a stereo. Anyway, figuring that out. I know, right? Well, that's the 1970s meets the 2000s. Anyway, so this, it is very important. And this is. It's not only careful things you say, but careful of the things you do.
Yes.
So it's. That's also very important.
Yeah. So this is something flip referenced it the type. This title came out of us listening to this. This album that we call soul music. And it's on our phones, not on a vinyl record.
It's actually a playlist.
It's a playlist. Sorry. Okay. It's a playlist. And we chose like all the songs that kind of feed us, you know, and so this is one of them. And as we're thinking about podcast episodes, one night I think you had gone to bed and I'm just sitting in the kitchen still listening to the playlist and listening to songs. And this one came on, I was like, oh, that's so powerful. We should talk about that. And we don't have kids, so for us it's not children. It is also for our ears. Most importantly, like every time you go, oh, I'm an idiot or something like, stop it, don't say that word. Don't speak to yourself that way. But it's your family, your team, your friends, anybody that is around you. The power of words. The older we get, the more I realize how powerful that they are and how the positive mindset can get you so much farther. Because what you say to yourself, you subconsciously start believing, right? And if you subconsciously believe those things, then you believe you can do what you say you're going to do. And that's why many people have affirmations and when they have affirmations, they will literally Like, Stan and Annie said this to me recently. I want you to, like, belt it out as if you're, like, speaking it to a, you know, audience of thousands. And I'm not that person. I'm not going to do that because it is so easy for me to put a sentence in my head, and I won't say it in the morning and the night as if it's a routine. I'll say it all day long. And so there was one that she had written out for me, and she said, this is what you should be telling yourself. Right. And you and I have had multiple conversations now because of it. Not because I memorized it even. Like, I haven't even memorized it, but it's just so ingrained that I'm saying it all the time, thinking about it and brainstorming it. So I think that those things internally and externally, just make an impact on who you are and who you become.
Oh, no, I completely agree. And it's funny because you're right. You yell at me if I ever say I'm such an idiot or I'm so dumb. So I was like, I am so unintelligent in this situation. But it's also very important. Important. You know, it's not. Not only the children and yourself, but it's family, friends, team members, and building these companies. You know, it's all said. We had one employee, Betty.
Yeah.
You know, and then we had two, three, four, five employees. And all of a sudden, it's. Now it's. They're really looking at you.
Yeah.
And. And it was. I had to put my. Change my mindset because now there's people watching me. You know, it's not like I changed my. My personality, you know? You know, because of this, but it made me more cognizant of what I'm doing and how I react to things and how I say things and how I answer things, because they're going to repeat.
Yeah.
You know, and I wrote this down because one of our favorite movies, or one of my favorite movies that I make her watch every year, right. About July and August when I'm in the dog days of summer when I'm just dying for some football, I'll always start watching all the football movies that I love. And remember the Titans is one of the ones that I like to watch a lot. And there's a scene in there where the defensive captain says to the other defensive captain, because I think they're co captains. He said, you know something. He yells at him. He's like, what? Are you doing? You're acting like crap out there and you're blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he just looks at him, says, attitude reflects. Reflect leadership. And it was just like, oh, bam, snap. But it's true. So the attitude will reflect the leadership. And so when you look at a company and you look at the employees and that's Their attitude is reflecting what their leadership is, what their boss is doing, what their boss's bosses do. And it's. So it's not just. Not just about football. Look, I tied football to business, honey.
Good job, baby.
Thank you. Thank you. So. But it's that. That was. That one was like, wow, so true.
Yep. And we've seen that in our own company. I mean, times when I was so incredibly stressed and wasn't really able to deal with everything with the right emotional intelligence. Like, I even kept my door shut just so that people didn't have to be impacted by my stress levels, but it still affected the team. And so I think that stuff like that is. You sometimes have to learn it the hard way, but it's something that is really, really important. And it's hard to remember when you are overwhelmed. That's one of those things that. It's why you don't want to get overwhelmed, because these are the things that are really making the impact on you and your growth and your organization. And if you're overwhelmed, you forget about the simple stuff.
Right.
And this goes as far as I just wrote a note was like, the Mile a Day. When you started doing A Mile a Day, you were posting about it on Facebook. Well, then one of our friends, Tanya, started doing A Mile a day, and she just finished 365 days. Now she's doing a thank you card a day, and she's trying to inspire others to be grateful and tell other people, thank you for making an impact on my life or doing something that I remember. And it made me smile. And so that's careful. The things you say. That's just being proactive about now, going, hey, I want to be intentionally inspirational. And maybe not to motivate others, but it will just as a natural byproduct.
Yeah. And even the Mile a Day thing, I didn't start doing that to inspire other people to do it right. I just. I needed to start doing it right, you know? And so. And it was just. And then. So I started posting about it. I didn't post about it. Hey, I just did 10 miles. I would wait until it's like a milestone. Like, hey, I had six months in a row now. A mile and a mile a day. You know, it's something big or whatever, you know. So I wasn't, was being, wasn't being braggadocious about it and definitely was blown away when she said, you know, you inspired me to do it too. And I was like, wow, I didn't even mean that. But good job.
Yeah. And cool.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So. But yeah, it is definitely the power of words.
Yes.
Yeah. I am so unintelligent in that situation.
I don't even know if that's the right thing to say. Somebody needs to comment and rephrase that for flip.
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