Baby, You've Always Been Good | Date Your Wife | Ep 118

Hello, guys, and welcome. I am here with two what we can somewhat call celebrities now, but I want to go to some early days. By the way, my name is Carlos Alvarez, and I am here to share a beautiful story of two human beings that have collided and created some beautiful empires in a life that so many would love to model. Danielle Garrett, welcome to my show. How are you guys doing today?

It's officially the Carlos Show.

I've been waiting for my breakthrough, and I think I finally made it, guys.

You said to me this morning, you're like, I have a vision. We're doing an interview. And I was like, okay, when are we doing this? And you're like, today. And I was like, okay.

There was no joke about it. I'm like, we're doing this, and we're doing it today. Are you guys in or are you not all in? Beautiful.

We're ready.

So, guys, the purpose behind this. I want to take you back to the journeys of where we began. Like, let's go back. Let's go back. Let's go back.

How far back?

Oh, we're going way far back. Pre Botox, pre everything.

Like, we're going back, man. You better buckle up, Buttercup.

Are you guys ready for this?

Please keep your arms in at all times, and please, no flash photography. So, guys, Garrett, let me start with you, okay? As a child, looking forward, what did you want to do when you grew up?

Play football.

You wanted to do football?

I didn't have any desire. I wanted to be. I want to play American football, and I want to be a football coach, and I want to be good.

You wanted to be good? You wanted to be.

Yeah, I wanted to be the best.

You wanted to go pro.

That was it. I wanted to play professional football. That didn't happen, or I was going to be a coach as this. So, like, football was my life. I didn't. I didn't know anything about money, didn't have any conversation with money, wasn't raised with money, did not have. Didn't know what entrepreneurism was. Marketing, sales, teams, leadership, nothing. So I understood inside the football space, that was it. And I didn't come from any family, had any money. I didn't have. There was no one on any side of my family who had done anything successful with money. Nobody made any of it. A lot of it. To be rich in our family, who make about 45,000 a year, you're rich if you had some TVs in the back of the minivan. Most of my family's around, like, you just Couldn't afford shit. We had powdered milk. Always. Never had real milk. Powdered milk and cornbread is what we ate. And top ramen. And then we lived in trailers for half my time. Life growing up, my dad made a little bit of money, a little bit more money. We got a house when I was in high school, but besides that, we were trailers and bounced from place to place about every eight trucks.

Funny story, when I first met his family, and I go to his house and I open the fridge, I'm like, babe, there's green milk in the fridge. I think it's gone bad. And he goes, oh, no, it's powdered milk. And it's St. Patty's Day. So my mom puts food coloring in it.

And I was like, I remember that.

So it was not green beer. It was green milk.

It was green milk. Yeah. So I was like, this is so different than how I was raised, you know?

But Danielle came from a different. Came from a totally different background than I did.

I feel like I wasn't. I mean, looking back, I'm like, we were definitely looked at as, like, an upper middle class, and I always had, like, nice things and nice cars and nice homes. But I. In my family, we were always taught to work. Both of my parents, neither of them went to college. Both of them entrepreneurs. And they flat out said, like, Danielle, you're 16. Go get a job. That was just required in my family. So it's so crazy because they wanted me to go to college, but more than anything, they instilled a really strong work ethic.

Beautiful. So let's go back to you now. What did you want to do when you grew up?

I wanted to be a mom and marry a rich guy.

Like, she had a focus from day one. She was like.

She came after cornbread guy at the age of five.

She was like, there's my vision.

But, you know, it's so funny. I was always a worker. Like, I worked from the time I was, like, 14. Which is funny because then people would be like, what do you want to do when you grow up? And I was like, I just want, like, seven babies and, like, marry a rich, hot guy. I don't know. Like, that was.

Wow. Like, she. Guys, she was on a mission. She knew where she was headed, and she went there. She didn't do any of this Number. Garrett, as a child, what was your biggest disappointment? That you can look back and you're like, as a kid, I remember this. This was a huge disappointment for me.

See, I mean, dude, like. Like I said, Everything. My whole world revolved around football. That was it. So my. My biggest appointment was, like, I broke. Tore my Achilles 10 or tore my tendon, my thumb my senior in high school. And I was pre seasonal American and was lost a lot of big scholarship opportunities I had and ended up at Boise State University on scholarship, which was great, but I didn't play football my senior year. So that was like, everything built all the way up to my senior in high school. And then I didn't get played my senior year because I was injured and I already had scholarship offers, so. And again, that's all I cared about. I was like, go to the NFL, make money, be a football coach. So that was it. So even today, like, there's a piece of me. That's why I went back and played professional arena football for a number of years.

Because you felt like you kind of, like, lost that.

I feel like I never proved to myself because it was, like, serious momentum. And then that's it. Outside that, I didn't really have a whole lot of regrets when I was a kid. That was it. Football was like, the big one. The.

What was it?

Oh, I said, maybe God had a different plan for you. I mean, I don't know.

Well, it's obvious.

Clearly. Here we are interviewing Garrett White, and we're gonna be going into some of the different questions, but clearly there was definitely a different path, Right?

And it turns out that path worked out.

Did you ever see yourself as a wife to a football coach?

I only.

Have. You made a lot of money?

No. Like, when I met Garrett, I mean, we're seven years apart. I was 18 when I met him. He was 25. And I. I remember he was telling me, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna be a football coach, but I, like, wanna coach college ball. So I was like, cool. Those guys make good money. I'm in. But it wasn't even that. His personality. I was like, you could sell a used car. It doesn't matter what you do, you're gonna be successful. And that's what I saw in him, is that drive. And for a woman, that's. I think what is most attractive is a guy that wants to actually work and has that drive and that passion. So I was like, cool. You wanna do that? You don't wanna do that. Whatever you end up doing, I'm sure it'll be great. You beautiful.

Beautiful. What was your biggest disappointment as a child or something? That you just go back a few years, just. Just like 10 years back.

You know what I feel like, now that I'm an adult, I. Even though I didn't go to college, I felt like I would have. I wish I would have applied myself a little bit more in school because I believe in school you learn to learn, right? And I felt like I kind of just like, scraped by. I didn't really do a whole lot, but. But I feel like later in life I'm kind of making up for it. Right. I didn't play sports. I was a lifeguard in high school, but I really didn't apply myself. And it wasn't until it was a good thing I got married young because I feel like where most people life gets started in their 30s, I got married at 20. I didn't have a choice, so I kind of got. Life started early. So even though part of me is like, I'm sad I didn't apply myself more, I feel like I kind of made up for it in my 20s and 30s. And I mean, even now, like, I feel like for the age I'm at and the neighborhood we live in and that kind of thing, like, I'm fairly established and. And still pretty young for what I've accomplished. So I'm kind of like. I think again, like, I feel like everything kind of happens how it's supposed to happen. You know what I mean?

Beautiful. This is where I love to go, down memory lane. Tell me about when these two worlds collided. How did you guys meet? Tell me about your first date, man. Young man, do you remember what you guys had to eat, where you went like, Garrett, it sounds like this guy.

Didn'T even take me out for dinner. He didn't even wanna commit. He's like, can you go for ice cream?

Okay, so first of all, let's backtrack. How did you guys meet?

Oh, God.

We were at a church conference.

We were at a church conference with, like, thousands of people.

It's not even, like 12, 13,000 people. Yeah.

Wow.

It was, like, crazy and that. He was, like, yelling at my roommates on our way out to our car. And I literally was like, you guys, there's a creeper. Like, get in the car, get in the car. But I didn't see his face. I heard like, a guy like, hey, cute girls. Like, totally, like, oh, like literally just.

Like, hey, cute girls.

Yeah, literally beautiful girls. There's like five of us cute, you know, 18 year olds.

No, I exactly said there were five of you walking out. And we're in the parking lot. I'm with my crew, they're with their crew. There's Lots of crews checking each other out. And I said, oh, oh. You don't see that many beautiful girls all in one pack together, often looking nice ladies. Something lame as hell. But they were all 18.

Something very Garrett style.

Something very Garrett. I had bleached out blonde hair that.

Was spiked, like, cooked with the travels.

That had Guy Fieri.

Yes, I had Guy Fury hair.

I shit you not.

I was like, guy Fieri hair.

All I saw was your hair. I didn't even see him until, like later when I was like, you're in.

Sync days with the frosted tail.

And he's tanning, but he doesn't tan. Cause he's Irish. So he had like white blonde hair and a bright red face. And I was like, but then, you know what?

I must have been hot, because you were all about that Guy Fury. She made up.

She wasn't into Chucky looks. Cause apparently.

No, I just remembered what's. I've shared this on some of our podcast. Date your wife. But, like, I feel the most attractive thing to a woman is how a man carries himself. Right?

Absolutely.

So he came to my apartment later because he met one of my roommates and he thought he was coming over to check her out, but she wasn't home. So joke's on him. So he comes over and he was just like, hey. And for the first time, I noticed him for who he was. Not, like, noticed a guy in the crowd or whatever it was. He was super chill and very confident and held himself with so much certainty and. And that. And like, like, literally was like, well, I'd like to get your number. Like, very forward and direct. Which I was like, okay, I like this. So I think it's just like, how he carried himself. And, like, I thought he was cute, but he was just like, he's a big personality. Right. And I'm a little bit shy. More shy, more introverted. So.

So how was Daniel back then? Like, I know the story, but I want for you to share this.

I was quiet, but she was very quiet.

She was very much talkative with me. But like, in public settings until, honestly, probably the last four years, Danielle's been quiet. There's people that even know up until like four years ago that Danielle's been.

A change in her. Right?

Yeah, like, massive two years or so.

Right.

Like, massive amount of certainty and confidence come about. I see an explosion with the birth of Isla, Your fitness competitions, the podcast, and then me stepping out of BMS in 2019 and you guys taking over. All those four things happen at once. She Took over full time again as owner of the companies. I stepped out. She was pregnant, had Ayla, did the fitness shows, and launched the podcast. Like, all these things happened at once within about the same time.

But it was kind of like a burst. Like. So when I first launched my brand, like, we had nothing. Like, I don't know if I've shared this story with you, but I launched my brand, Natural Beauty Rose, because we were emotionally, physically, everything, just, like, bankrupt. I had nothing. So I had no choice but to be like, hey, you're super quiet and introverted. Guess what? You got two kids. You don't have a choice. And that's when I started on YouTube and I started just like, promoting and pitching and all this. And it kind of grew. And then I kind of like, took my foot off the gas for a little bit. Cause I was just exhausted. And our relationship started to improve, and our financial situation started to improve. And that's kind of when Garrett came in. Right. And you met us when Garrett was a little bit more involved. And it's not that I wasn't involved, but we were kind of building the NBR brand together. Right.

It's almost like he was the one bringing in the business savvy aspect of.

Yeah, I'm very much like the artist.

And you were the artist.

Yeah. And I felt like. I felt like I. That was kind of a piece that I was missing. I was so passionate about the art that I needed a little bit of structure, you know? So he came in for like, two, three years.

Yeah.

I would do kind of the artsy portion of it and just pour my little soul out. And he would kind of come in and close it down and do more of, like, at the time, we called it Big Money Stylist, or bms, which has now turned into business, marketing and sales. So he kind of came in and revamped that. But then it was. He kind of had to make an exit and focus on Warrior. And then I felt like. I almost felt like. Honestly, in the last, like, two years, it was like I was back to this place where I'm like, I'm not gonna let my baby burn to the ground. Right. And I had to become a different human being, kind of like how I did when I started my brand. Right. So it's like I had two growth pockets that happened. And now I'm like, okay, cool. I feel like this is very much me, but it's. Now I'm not. Like, it was, like, me that only a small group of people could see. And now I Feel like I get to share it with everybody and it doesn't seem so scary.

Beautiful. If there's one thing about Danielle, is that she can fuck up my interview real quick. Because my questions now went out of array.

You know me.

I was going in a sequence and this woman took it back to like back over there. I know. So I'm gonna reel it back a little bit. It's a beautiful share. Thank you for sharing.

Two. Yeah.

Boom.

Thank you for the share. So I had taken you guys like childhood, blah, blah, blah. You guys met.

Yeah.

I still want to know about that freaking first date.

What did it look like laying on a grassy knoll?

I don't remember. I just remember he took me to get ice cream and I was like.

Man, I don't know if I can be committed to this girl for longer. Like, what that looks like. I'm going to see if she. She wants to go to ice cream. That was it. So I called her up and I didn't. I didn't know. She thought I was like, what the hell's wrong with you? Ice cream. But then went from ice cream. But then they think, but what they didn't say. What people don't know about ice cream.

I thought was weird. No, this is what I thought was weird. He takes me to ice cream. It's like 7:30 at night and he drops me off. I'm like, did you just fucking drop me off at 7:30? I think you had another date. So our first date.

So the truth comes out.

Yeah, I just remember you dropping me off early, which then I was kind of like, now I like him even more.

Oh, I did drop you off at 7:30.

He just took me for ice cream and then was like. I'm like, does he like me? Like nice.

But then he found out why I dropped you off because you remember what I picked you up in.

No, I think you had a second date. Or did you have to?

No, I picked you up in a blazer. That wasn't mine of a girl.

And you had to return it.

I remember that story now.

And I had to get the blazer back.

That story. So you were borrowing another girl who.

Borrowed the blazer to take her out.

To take Danielle out.

Two ice cream. So that's why she got dropped off at 7:30. So that was day number one. And then we. We like, we did not kiss. We didn't get sexual. Nothing for months and months and months. So.

Which was super weird for a second.

We didn't.

Did you.

I don't remember dinner or something does.

Yeah, I don't know.

It was like this. Like you could eat for $7 and go to a 50 cent movie.

Nice.

We had no money. We had nothing. Like, I was. I'd come out of my divorce and we were. I was still in school, I was finishing up my degree.

I would spend. I would spend all my money on shopping. And then my mom would be like, I'm not giving you any more money. So I'd call this guy to like, buy me dinner. Because I was like, man, golly. I was like this.

Calling the struggling man over here while the woman's crying.

I was like, I've only had a bowl of Furs Loops today. Do you want to take me to dinner?

Oh, my goodness.

We were lucky we grew up in a place that wasn't Orange county. Because if we were in a place in Orange county, she'd have just at that point been knocking on the door. 35 year olds versus me, who she was totally cool with ice cream.

And I don't know. Not at 20, I wouldn't be mad at you. 35 year olds, I don't know.

It's a common thing here in Orange County.

So then what was that pivotal point from you guys dating to popping the question, like, when did you know that this is my. No, hold on, ma', am, sir, when was that pivotal point where you were like, I am giving her a ring.

Well, here's the deal. She was so. She was. Oh, I was so intimidated by her because how beautiful she was. Like, I was just like.

He kept pushing me away, but I.

Was so intimidated and felt so not worthy to be with her that I would find a reason to be emotionally unstable and then break up with her. Then she would go hook up with somebody else, which then would fire me up, and then I would get pissed and then we'd get back together. And this happened like nine times.

So we had nine breakups.

Nine breakups.

Within two years, though.

Within two years.

And that's still a lot. And each time. Each time I would get like a message from one of my friends and be like, hey, bro, I don't know how to tell you this, but I was with so and so. Got it. And we were hanging out, and then I saw Danielle with this. This guy, other guy named. I was like, dude, this girl hooks up with somebody new every time you would tell.

He wouldn't tell me, though. He'd be like, I think you need to date other guys. Like, I'm older than.

So you were giving her the permission.

What is going on.

I was like, oh, you what? How dare you?

How would you go date other people? Then she does, and then he's over here getting upset about it, right?

So then we decided. We've been together about 18 months. When. 18 months. When 18.

Well, you know what? You know what? It was like, there was one date, like, we were just really vibing, and we started. We'd always kind of talked about getting married and that kind of thing, but, like, then we'd break up and get back together. Then there was one time we got back together, and he's like, let's go look at rings. And I was like. So we went and looked at rings, and really all I ever wanted from Garrett was, like, a commitment. I'm like, you keep pushing me away.

Like a little promise ring, or you.

Wanted the actual ring. I wanted a ring. I didn't care if we got married right away, to be honest with you. Like, I was young, and I was like, I don't know if I want to get married, but I wanted the king commitment from him. And because he kept pushing me away. And for women, like, we want to feel, like, that trust. And if you keep telling me to, like, go date other guys, and then you're mad at me when I do, it's not really creating any kind of trust. Although I felt like we always kind of, like, connected to each other. So finally he's like, well, let's go look at rings. I'm like, finally. Maybe if I get a ring, like, he'll finally stop trying to push me away. And literally, I remember we broke up. We went and looked at rings, like, like, the next day. And then he proposed. I swear, like, a week later. Like, it was crazy. Like, from breakup to, like, engaged within, like, a week. And people were like, don't you hate. Weren't you dating another guy last week?

Wow.

So even people were just confused. I was like, okay, who's with who and what? What? Now you're married?

Yeah.

Beautiful. When did you get married? Date?

August 22nd. Year 2000.

This is a funny story. Neither of us know when we got married.

2002. 2002.

Okay, so why? We gotta know why Neither one of you know, were the drugs that good? I mean, what the heck were we doing then?

So we got married one day, and then we had a reception one day. Like, it felt like a big Greek wedding. Like, we literally, like, so many people. We were raised Mormon, so it's, like, a big thing. Right?

So is it, like, in different days kind of thing? Like a Whole week.

Your mom wanted to do it that way.

We got married one day, and then we had the reception one day. And every year, I'm always like, babe, when's our. Which day is our anniversary? We always get them mixed up. And I'm like, is it the 21st or the 22nd? But it's the 21st.

So when you guys sign the paper, is it.

I don't know.

Listen, neither one.

Is it the paper signing or the actual blessing day?

The actual.

Both. We did both, I think, happened on one day, and then the next day was, like, the party and the reception. But I. We didn't. To this day, it's become a weird thing that we, like. I think it's a dependency thing on our moms, because our first year we're married, I remember we're driving, and we get, like, a text message. It's like, happy anniversary. And I look at Danielle, and I.

Was like, oh, we celebrated that yesterday.

Is that our anniversary today?

Because his mom's anniversary is, like, a day before ours or a day after. I don't remember.

My mom remembers all this shit.

So every year she texts us and is like, happy anniversary. And I'm like, I hope we don't miss it this year.

Oh, my God, that's awesome.

I expect presents. I mean, I expect presents around that.

So do you expect two presents?

Well, she expects lots of presents.

Is that your language of love?

Yeah, but I also. I have lots of languages. I want them all. Like, I want connection. I want physical touch. I want gifts. I want words of affirmation.

You heard of five languages? She has all 10 of them.

I want 10 of those languages.

Okay, she has 10 of those.

I don't think of myself as, like, needy, but I do like, all of the things of love. Languages.

Beautiful. Then we get married. Guys are married. Honeymoon, where there are some nerves, where there's some.

Like, we didn't have sex before we got married.

Yeah, it was like our honeymoon. We went. It was just awkward.

I was like, repeat that. You guys were not intimate until you were married.

We had sexual experiences with each other, but we hadn't had, like, penetrating sex. So sex, like, hadn't happened. That's typical Mormon style. So we would. We had had our moment, but there was never, like, sex. So then we get married, and it's kind of weird. It's kind of weird.

Well, we went to this. All inclusive.

You actually shared this on the podcast, though.

It rained.

Share what you said about the podcast, how it was such a disappointment.

No, it wasn't. Disappointment. I was just like.

So Garrett didn't perform well?

Exactly.

No, let's just call it out.

It wasn't that. It was just, like. I didn't realize, like, you gotta, like, find your groove with somebody. And I didn't know because we had such good chemistry. And then I.

Were you playing some Barry Manilow, trying to be, like, extra about it or. Not even that.

I don't know. I just.

My moves were bad. I come out of first marriage. Moves are bad. We had moves, but we didn't have moves. I didn't have moves then. Sorry.

Our honeymoon was weird a little bit. Like, we had such good chemistry, and then we, like, kind of regressed a little bit, and then we, like, had to, like, build it back up.

So you guys had to learn how to dance together.

Totally.

You guys need to learn your two step and your.

I think we would have figured it out eventually dating, but we figured it out married instead.

That's beautiful. Do you guys have any regrets about, for example, not being intimate before marriage, or do you think there's a sanctity?

I don't know if I would have. I don't know if I would have married you. I'd have been like, that's fine. Like, I. There was. In the Mormon culture. It was that bad?

No, no.

In the Mormon culture, like, no, this is true.

I can't hide from this nowadays. I got some game. I got no game.

Back then, what I was gonna say, like, in the.

I found out that he was that bad. I definitely wouldn't have got married in religious culture.

I think that if we had had sex before we got married, it would be so much guilt that I've been like. Like, it would have reminded me of that guilt, and I would have been like, I can't be married to you. Shame on.

Shame on you.

Like, it wouldn't have. I don't think we would have gotten.

Married because of the day. When you were raised.

You were both raised in guilt. Yeah. So, like, yeah, that's probably true.

I mean, I have a feeling there have been a lot more. There have been a tremendous amount of guilt. We were both raised with a lot of guilt, so it would have pushed us. It would have pushed away a lot of that guilt, affected our sex life, and even just our willingness to be intimate with each other, even for the first, like, four or five years being married, six years, seven. I mean, it was rough. It was rough. I don't think we found our real rhythm. We didn't understand, like, how to connect that way. Which was so crazy us, because we both so mentally were so connected and emotionally and spiritually we're so connected. We could spend like hours driving, talking. That was beast. That always bonded us. Was as attractive as she was. There was always this. There was a piece about her that was so much.

We would go to dinner. We just always could talk and communicate. Like, our communication was always really good. So when it. In our relationship, when the sex wasn't great and the communication left and then we had no money, like, there was like.

I was like, what do we have?

Yeah, what do we have? We have two kids. And that's when it was the rocky years.

So honeymoon.

We're past it. We know that Gary was a pretty shitty performer that night. Daniel wouldn't have married him, as, you know. So fast forward all of that. So here we are, we're married. You guys don't have kids until how many years after your marriage?

I was 24, so four years.

So you guys still waited romance. You kind of dated now your wife at that point, because you really did it.

I was young, so I wasn't like in a super big hurry. And I still even feel like I had kids. Young, like 24. I was like, still like pretty young, right?

So I was in money making mode. So the minute, the minute we got engaged, I like felt the burden of responsibility. Football. I was playing professional arena football at the time that ended up. And I was like, I'm done with this. And I found money. So when I was meeting her, when I first met her, I was going to be Pete, teacher, football coach. And then how old were you at that point? So let's see, I was 25 when I met her.

You were always obsessed with work, though. Like, you were.

But I became obsessed with. But I always worked, but I had never been obsessed with like a. The idea.

You were obsessed with me. And work, though. Like, you would work till like 10 o' clock and then we would hang out and like talk from like 10 to 2 in the morning. Like, we didn't care. We were young. You know what I mean?

You can still handle it.

Yeah, we could.

But, like, you can still bounce.

By the time we were like, even early married, I was like, well, you know, I remember being like, I wanted to like stay up, it was like midnight. And you'd be like, all pissed. You're like, well, I'm going to bed, I have to work. And I'm like, what happened at like 2:00am, Garrett? Like, come on.

Like, I was stressed. I was running. Like, I just became Obsessed with the money game. And for the next couple of years, like the first five, six years, seven years, we were married, money was my mistress. Business was my mistress. I started.

I think it's because you didn't know how to.

You were obsessed.

I didn't know how to operate with me anymore.

I don't know how to operate with you. And I also was terrified that I wasn't gonna be able to provide and she'd come from a more prosperous life than I did. And so there was a lot of pressure I had put on myself to like, have to show up and create a lifestyle, but I didn't know how that. So I had no examples, no mentors, no nothing. So I had to go hunt all those down. So I became obsessed with it and the pressure of it built and I wasn't like emotionally stable enough to be able to deal with it. So I was learning. I had no. There was no role model of like, how to do it. So I just kept fucking it up and figuring it out and fucking it up and figuring it out. So we moved to Vegas. Man, we have mortgage companies.

Even when our first years of marriage, you kind of pushed me away because you didn't know how to operate around me. And you're so used to being able to have that control and know how to succeed in life. And I was the one area in life that you couldn't control and you didn't know how to win. So you would bury yourself in work because you didn't know how to win, which in the long run, we both would kind of drift apart. Right. I think that relationships is about submission on both ends, right. Like, you can't control that. That person. Right? But you can grow together beautifully and create something massive.

So the ruling house at this point was in the mistress, which was your business, the money.

I worked like 16 hour days. I worked like, I just worked. And if I was at home, I was working. We just worked. It was weekends. I just worked. I was either reading books or anything.

But I was super independent. Like, I would always, like, I worked too, and I'd come home and I remember, like, I remember we lived in Vegas when we first married. And like, I'd come home, I'd make. I don't ever remember sitting down and having dinner.

I don't remember ever sitting down.

We'd go and maybe like have date nights once or twice a week, you know, like go out to Cheesecake Factory or whatever was in Vegas.

And your eldest was how old at this point? No, this is when we Were first.

Married, but I was like, super.

We have my son, but my son was not my. My world. So at that time, he's living with his mom in Canada.

Yeah. But I think I was like. I'm like, how did. It's kind of funny. Cause I'm like, no wonder we kind of grew apart. We start putting in the time, and then it was like he was working all the time. And then I was like, hey, it's time to have kids. And then we had a couple kids. And then it was like a decade went by, and I was like, wow. Like, what happened? Do you know what I mean? But it's like, we just. We kind of like, settled into, like, hey, you work, you have kids, you do this. Like, we didn't know. Right. But I mean, obviously it's all kind of turned around and worked out.

But how? I. I just look back to the way I operated. I'm like, how did I even think that was going to work? But I hadn't. I was already living above the standard of anyone I knew, so I didn't. There was. I didn't realize that I was fucking things up. We just. I just kind of thought, this is how it is. Oh, I guess how marriage is. This is how it's supposed to be.

This is what we know. This is how it is. And I guess this is life going forward. So at what point did you guys. Between getting married and having your firstborn, what were your days like? Like, what was the biggest regret, perhaps, for those right before you had kids?

I didn't.

I didn't want to. I do.

Like, I don't really.

Yeah, we were making money, and I didn't. I didn't take you places. We didn't do things.

Yeah, that's true. But you know what?

We didn't do shit. I just worked.

So you guys were growing, but you weren't living?

Yeah, we were not even growing. I think we were just. Just hanging out, like.

Well, because he's talking about. There was starting to be money.

There was money. We bought our first house in Vegas. It was a great house. It was super fun. We had a. I think back, like, we did not spend time together. I did not invest in her.

Now that we have kids, I'm like, why didn't we just have sex all over the house, like, all the time?

How the fuck.

Now you're thinking everybody right now.

I'm like, oh, my God. We had so much freedom, but we didn't even know.

And then you had the freedom.

And then you were like, okay, like now if we can sneak downstairs and watch a movie.

Well, you were still trying to teach.

Him how to perform. I bet you now that's going to be a thing now.

I'm still learning. It took me.

You were still learning.

Took her 13 years of teaching to get me there.

Baby V's been good. Just.

That's a good comeback, Daniel. That's a good comeback. That's a great comeback. I mean, coming with a woman saying, I probably wouldn't have married you, but.

It always turns this direction.

I'm always like, are those cameras? I mean, those lights getting a little too warm? No, I love steam. Anyway, let's fast forward a little bit more. Now you guys are starting to build your life. You have your first kid. Let's go past another five, 10 years. Now, where do you guys find yourselves at this point? Because I hear that there was. There was a rise, there was a plateau, and there was a collapse. What happened?

So we're in the banking world, and Danielle was doing hair, and we moved back. I'd been traveling tons, speaking at events, and Danielle was tired of me being. Working, gone so much, and she was pregnant with our first. Said, if I'm gonna have this baby, I wanna live by my family. So we moved back to Utah.

Oh, you got pregnant in Utah? No, I got. Oh, that's true. I got pregnant in Vegas. I miscarried. And then I was like, I really want to start a family, but I want to be closer to my family.

So we moved to Utah and I sold my mortgage company in Vegas, bought a couple of mortgage companies, collapsed all the ownership, and I started running these companies and we were making money and I was traveling, I was speaking on massive stages, and I was traveling and.

Doing my thing, and I was always gone. You were always trying to build. It's funny, you were doing the whole mortgage thing, but you were always more trying to build, like your speed speaking career.

I felt like, yeah, I was more interested in, like, impact than I wasn't. Like, I wanted to impact people, but I don't really know how to do that. So I wasn't banking.

I have a theory on this too. Like, I feel like, because our relationship was a little bit hollow, like you got more fulfillment standing on stage and feeling that from other people. Energy from other people. 100%, which I was like, I don't know, like, how to. How to give you that if you won't, like, let me in your world. So I feel like you were kind of like being fulfilled by these crowds and speaking.

Yep. And, like, the attention and the teams and 100 employees and just everything else was running. Like there was. There was just more energy coming from that space. Then 2007 turns in 2008, and right through that time frame, mortgage game starts shifting. And we were super young and aggressive. I was like, we had a guy, a couple partners, and locked in one day, and they said, you gotta let everybody go. We got no money, and the bank stopped paying commissions, and our deals started falling apart, and everything fell apart. And I. I had not been good at saving money, and every bit of money I had, I tried to pour into the business to save it, which was stupid. And so we ended up living on credit. And Danielle didn't know for, like, six months.

I knew, but I just kept thinking. I think I thought what everybody thought at that time, like, it's gonna turn around. It's gonna turn around. So we kept our expenses the same and started like, we're like, literally, we're spending so much money, like, out of our means, probably. And because we were making a ridiculous amount of money, like, just thinking it's gonna. And then it, like, tapped out, and we're like, well, we can't slow down this lifestyle, right?

So I knew you tasted the lifestyle.

You couldn't go back. I knew. And I was getting, like, sick in my stomach because I'd get the Amex bill, and I'm like, babe, like, normally It'd be like, 20 grand every month, and we pay it off. And I'm like, baby, it's at 120 grand. Like, when are we. Like, it was like I was on a sink or a ship that I knew was sinking, but I didn't know how to confront him, or I didn't want him to be like, what are you doing? Cause he'd get irritated and be like, I'm doing the best I can. I'm providing. And I was like, okay. Like, I didn't know how to approach that conversation. So I was on the ship that I knew was sinking, but I was just kind of more passive and just like, he'll figure it out. He'll figure it out. He'll figure it out. Till I was like, we are short selling our home. We have tapped out four major credit cards. Nobody else will give us a credit card. We stopped paying our rent. We short sold our house, stopped paying our rent. Like, I kid you not. Like, I tell people this, and they. They think I'm, like, joking around. Because at the time, I was driving a Range Rover and had a 6,000 square foot home. I'm like, we weren't paying rent on any of our cars or our home. And any money that I made was literally just to buy groceries and food for my kids.

So you guys at this point are just.

Now we're just surviving, surviving.

Barely.

Barely surviving. How did that make you feel as a man and as a provider and you're feeling all of this shit happening?

Horrible. Yeah, horrible. So I end up for the next four years, essentially becoming a right hand wingman to other business owners and or an employee of one of my friends companies. So 2008, I partnered with a friend of mine named Gary B. Gunderson who wrote Killing Sacred Cows. He was in financial services. I knew him. We were partners, strategic partners between my banking firms and his. He was barely hanging on by a thread. And he said, why don't you come on? Can't pay you about a salary, but come on and let's see if we can turn this thing around. And so, like, God was leading me down a path to learn business from another angle, to learn all the things that I had fucked up on.

I felt like too, like you made money when. When money was easy to make. Like, everybody in the banking world was just like, everybody was buying houses and everybody's living these lifestyles. But if you didn't know and like, even like this last year, I told Garrett with like everything that happened in 2020, I'm like, the people that didn't make it, it's a direct reflection of what you knew in business and what you didn't. As hard as that sounds like we learned the hard way.

So you know what? That's one of the things not to sound like a big about, but I feel like through 2020, those that survived were the ones that actually had a foundation and a strategy for anything that was coming to what was going through your mind as you're literally seeing your husband, aggravated, angry, going through all these different feelings.

I was like, let me finish my.

Question, ma', am, please. Thank you.

Super excited.

She's like, I think I know where he's going. You're seeing your husband, like, flooding, he's sinking his dying. What's going. What's the feeling? What's the first feeling as you're seeing that poor man, probably, you know, devastated as a man, as a provider.

If I'm being kind of harsh and honest, I'm like, please be honest. I'm not attracted to him at all. Like, literally, I'm like, pull your fucking head out of the sand and let's do this. But again, I didn't play any kind of role in, like, communicating or doing anything else. I just kind of, like, sat back and, like, watched it, right? And I. It was kind of. We refer to it, like, as, like, the dark years. Like, honestly. And I got pregnant with my second daughter, Ruby, because I was like, I love babies. And I was like, well, it had been four years, and it was kind of like, hey, like, it's time. It's time to have another baby. And I was like, that'll fix my problem, right?

I'm like, so that was gonna be your salvation?

That was my. Yeah. I was like, if I have another baby, that'll fix what's really going on. And it didn't. Like, I mean, I love. Like, it brought so much joy to my life. And I tell Gary all the time, I'm like, if we had not had Ruby, I don't know if we would actually be together. I think she was, like, a little bit of the glue that, like, kept.

It was a little bit of that blessing that came that had to come out of this. Let's get out of these dark years, right? Yeah, shit's happening. We're. We lost the business. You're looking at your husband, like, man rise or. Yeah, or I'm out kind of thing at that point. Right? I know that there were a little couple things that happened during that period, but as things start to get better, Garrett, you're like, okay, you're walking around like dead man walking. You know, There was a pivotal point in your life that you said. It's either this or that. Tell us a little bit about that. What was that pivotal point in your life where you're like, I either provide or I gotta tap out.

I mean, things got real dark. I mean, I cheated. And that was when Danielle was pregnant with Ruby. And Danielle just got more disgusted with me. I got disgusted with myself. And I was on, like, this. Like, it wasn't even.

Like, I was disgusted. I shared this on a podcast. Like, when people were like, what did you. When he told you you cheated? What did you do? I was literally nine months pregnant. And I knew I was so hollow in my relationship when I was just like, I don't care. Like, I literally. I was like. I was kind of in shock, but I was like, I don't care. Like, it wasn't like, how dare you? It was just like, ew, what do I do from here? You know what I mean? And I was in a very vulnerable place because I was nine months pregnant, and I'm like, okay, Right. And like I said, I believe that we continue to work on our relationship because now I'm here nine months pregnant, I'm like, I got a baby. We got to see if we can make this work.

That piece all like, triggered like the growth. I think that Danielle and I played an interesting role with each other in business because it was. We knew we needed a change and there was a chance in 2011 for us to make a big change in we just need to change. We. In 2009 and 10, we left the religion that we were raised in. The affair happened, the baby was born. I started figuring a couple things out of marketing and sales online. Danielle was actually doing pretty good with hair the whole time and had never really been telling me how good she was doing. And if she did, I didn't really believe her because like most people in the hair that look at hairstylists, they think that hairstyles are a joke and they are non essential. And that was proven in 2020 with, hey, why don't we just throw hairstyles in the non essential list? That's how I felt too. I was like, eh, fucking hairstylist, what kind of money you make? Give me a break, right? And. But I, I didn't have. It wasn't like I was negative in supporting you. I just wasn't supportive at all. I was like, you do it. But it was, I didn't know. So as we moved to Arizona from Utah and this was a chance for us to get away from everyone, our families, everyone we knew. And it was the first time bullets were kind of like, okay, I don't know if we're going to stay together, but we for sure can at least fight back to. Back to dig our way out of this fucking place.

When we removed ourselves from our community and our family so that there was no outside noise, it was like, if we're going to do this, let's clear the noise. And it's just you and I and our family, right? And I really think that moving to Arizona at that time, even though we lost our home and everything, we wouldn't have moved to Arizona if that didn't happen, right? We wouldn't have cleared the noise. We wouldn't have made the changes that were necessary in order for us to get to the level in which we're at. So everything has this weird kind of curvy path in which it plays a huge role of who you become. And I feel like we just kept throwing a curve ball and we just kind of kept like a. Just kind of kept going with it.

You know, like one of those. What are they called?

Like, I'm thinking of a game. Yeah. Where you're like, bing. Bing.

You're like, pinball thing. I'm like.

I couldn't think of the name, but I was seeing the thing.

Yeah.

As a woman. Other women, whether you want to call them feminists, whatever you want to call them, why would you forgive that man knowing that he is cheating? He cheated on you. Nine months pregnant. @ this point, many people would have been like, fuck you. Get out, you piece of shit. How can you cheat on your wife at nine months? Tough question.

Well, and I've actually shared this before. I was in a very vulnerable spot. Like, I wasn't working. I actually was working when I was pregnant, and I was doing fairly well, but I didn't. I don't even think I believed in myself, even though I was probably making, like, 10 grand a month. That's pretty good for a hairstylist in Utah. And I just don't think it was a lack of belief in myself and kind of like, what our industry and the stigma that we carry with being a hairstylist. But just having kids and being so vulnerable, like, being like. I hear a lot of moms that, like. Or I see a lot of moms that, like, are in unhappy, unhealthy relationships but stay married for the kids. And I felt that. I felt that I was like, I have to stay in this to give my family a fighting chance. Right. And it wasn't like, it was always crappy. Like, things started to get better. So, like, I kind of was in a very vulnerable place where I was like, okay, well, I played a role in this. And I think that every time something like this happens, like, both. It's like, somebody doesn't just cheat to cheat. Like, everybody plays a role in the relationship. And so even as hard as it was, I was like, well, I have to take accountability for how I showed up. I knew things weren't great. I thought a baby would be the fix. You know what I mean?

Right.

So I had. And I remember thinking very clearly, like, danielle, like, you're gonna have issues with no matter who you marry and whoever you're with and you have kids together. So why don't you give your relationship a fighting chance? Which means, like, actually work on it and stop pretending like everything's okay. So that I knew I wouldn't have been able to just been, like, fuck you, and, like, been divorced if I didn't at least give it a chance. If I Gave it a chance. And it was still like. And we gave it a fighting chance. Like, we were still talking about divorce.

Like 2016.

Yeah, like 2016. It wasn't till finally, like, in the last, like, five years that we finally, like, turned a corner, you know, and it like, divorce is kind of off the table. But we fought for, like, we fought for each other in our relationship for a solid seven. Seven years. And most people don't like. But there was, like, there was enough light at the end of the tunnel that I was like, there was enough happy moments. There was enough spark where I could. I could see it. Like, there was enough connection still there. You know what I mean?

Do you consider yourself stubborn? Absolutely. Do you, Daniel? Do you think yourself stubborn?

I think I'm stubborn.

It's just a yes or no question.

I think you're controlling.

I think.

I think successful men are controlling, and I think that they have to let go of that control. Control to kind of get what they want.

Do you feel like he controls and dominates in his business?

Yeah. And like I said, do you feel.

Like he controls and dominates at home?

No. He's pretty sweet. He's a.

He's pretty sweet.

He's pretty sweet. I like him.

Beautiful. So we go through all of this gloom, doom. We're starting to rise. Things are starting to get better. You see the horizon? The picture looks absolutely beautiful. You move to California, you left all that shit behind. What starts happening here in California that you guys see so differently? Where was that growth? What started? What sparked this?

So I'm taking off with Wake Up Warrior at the time. So I feel inspired in 2012 to. We had started kind of turning things around for us, and it was recognizably different in a short period of time. People even recognized in my world and Danielle's world, like, what's going on with you guys? You were. I mean, you were dark. Like, you guys, not only you would fight. Anytime we were in public with people, we were fighting anytime it was apparent.

To everyone that you guys were not in a happy place.

Everybody knew we were not in a good place. So all of a sudden we were. And we were going on date nights, and we're going. We're posting pictures about it, and it's genuine. We're, like, enjoying each other again and having a good time. You doing. And I started creating these games in my journal to try to figure out how. I couldn't figure out how to be her husband. I couldn't figure out how to be a dad, and I couldn't figure out how to be a businessman, I couldn't figure out how to do all this. At the same time, I shouldn't know how. I was like, if I double down to go make money, I can do that. But then I don't know how to deal with all this guilt for my kids. I don't know how to deal with this guilt and lack of this rejection I constantly feel in my marriage. Like I don't know how to. I don't know how to fucking do all this.

You knew how to do the work piece, but you.

Yeah, I didn't have to do anything else. I knew how to work out and how to work. That was it. Which is why most guys spend most of the time working and working out. So at that transition period, I also start recognizing in business that not only not like the fastest path to being successful in business was to control the rain. If I could make it rain, then I could control the game. And I had this awareness one day I'm sitting in this event, I watch this guy and I'm like, if I can become a master of marketer, there's nothing I can't do in business. What killed my banking businesses? Lack of lead quality. I was like, okay, so what if I master this second piece? What if I could have it all? What would that need to look like? To be physically on fire, spiritually connected, sexually and emotionally and mentally connected to my wife, deeply connected with my children and still crushing it in money. It's like, is that possible to even do this? And I called it body being balance in business or the warriors way to have it all. So I launched Warrior in 2012 as just a concept to help some people maybe make a little money on the side while I was doing this other thing running a marketing agency.

So this was just a concept that you didn't know was going to grow to the empire in which it has become.

I thought it was just something we're going to do as a side thing with this other thing I was doing just kind of something make me feel purpose. While I was working as a, we were building marketing sales funnels and sales systems for other people at a partner named Adam Spiel. And we had clients lining up at 50k to be able to collect money. So I was making money again. And Danielle at the same time had transitioned during that transition in Arizona, she had also made the decision to start stockpiling cash to leave me.

It wasn't really to leave you. It was just like case things didn't work out.

It was to Leave me. And that. But that was when the core game. That was the core game of when.

I think when I started. No, that's when. Because before we had, like, joint accounts, and I was just like, I'll put my money in here. And it kind of disappeared, right. I had no idea. And it wasn't until I had my own accounts where I started stockpiling cash. And he was still paying the majority of the bills. Like, I paid lifestyle and things like that, but he was still paying the majority of the bills. So I started to, like, get some money in that account, and I was like, okay. And seeing my numbers, I started to gain some. Some certainty and some confidence. And I was kind of like, hey, if you want to stay married to me, like. Like, you're. We're gonna have to put in the work. Like, I'm not. Like, it was a very. I wasn't vulnerable anymore. I was very powerful. I was like, I'm in a powerful place. Cause, like, if we wanna be together, it's because we're both choosing to do the work and stay together. You know what I mean? So that's really what shifted. Our relationship is just like, I was making money and had that confidence and certainty, and he was making money, and, like, we're kind of doing our own thing. And now it's like. And then we kind of had this, like. Like where we kind of butt heads a little bit. We're both a little alpha, you know.

It was complete alpha.

But, yeah. So then it kind of. I had to get.

That's why I was asking, like, are you stubborn?

So.

Well, that's.

Oh, yeah. She's an alpha and I'm an alpha.

But now we've learned, like, how to really balance that. Like, because I very much want to be treated like a woman. Right. I know that I'm a powerful woman, but I don't need to be, like, alpha all the time. Like, I like being submissive to him. And when I'm Danielle, wife Danielle, like, that's a different role for me, and I love that role. I also love being powerful, and I love being in business. And I know how to do both roles. You know what I mean? So I think a true feminist woman is somebody who understands that, and they're not always in their alpha.

Absolutely. And I think you identified something very important. It's like, at work. I mean, we even talked about this a couple weeks ago. I've been coming here for a couple weeks now in a row, and I saw you walking in, in that power suit that Little. I mean, it was still so feminine and gorgeous and beautiful. It was like this little cutout. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Like a little cape suit and everything. Then I went to your house and I was like, dude, your wife, powerhouse. Like, she walked into that room, and I think that there was, like, a certain way that you carried yourself that whole day and you felt it, right? So you dominate in the business world of hair. Then you go home and you know how to turn that off and be.

Like mom and wife.

The baker.

Oh, totally. I'm like, who wants cookies?

Who wants cookie time milk? And I love that. Looking back into your life now. Here we are.

Success.

Massive success. It didn't happen overnight. And I think that a lot of people see you guys, the Maseratis, the beautiful home, the this, the that. And that's why I was like, hey, guys, I want for you to know exactly that not everything is birthed from, like, overnight success. They're like, oh, you're so successful, you're so this, you're so that. Fast forwarding all of that. The things that people now see. Do you ever look back and say, I would have done this a little differently?

Oh, for sure. The path itself was amazing. Like, tell the truth faster. Like, the key that was, like, fucking us up in a marriage and family and life was we were liars. We did not tell. We either were lying through commission, which we were saying things that weren't true, which didn't happen too often, but what we mostly lied about was we just omitted truth. She wouldn't talk and tell me what was going on. I wouldn't talk and tell her what was going on. I was terrified to tell her what I was really feeling and thinking. She was terrified. So the only thing I would have changed in the process is move the line. When honesty became the policy of how we operated as people, and that inside that honesty, there was permission to be all of you. She's a bitch and she's fucking brilliant, and I love both. When she goes to her bitch, there's moments I take a stiletto to the forehead. I deserved it. That was an interesting night. A little too much.

Oh, the forehead, not the floor. Okay, got it, got it. That was something else.

Yeah. Not a stiletto on that head. But those moments that get, like, spicy. But, like, our spiciness now, there's a commitment inside of us.

There's a respect.

This is the piece that was missing. So lying didn't allow for that. When honesty came in, respect was the thing we were missing. It wasn't love or attraction or desire for each other. It was a respect. And her building her brand gave her respect for me. She'd never been able to appreciate the pressure I was under. Then all of a sudden, I'm watching her come home. I was like, oh, you're having a third glass of wine tonight. Must have been a rough day. Everybody used to talk shit about my beer tonight. And she was like, yeah. I was like, well, yeah, welcome to my fucking world. This is the way I've been in for 10 years. All of a sudden, there was this place for her and I where there was a relatability and an understanding. And inside of that came a respect for each other.

And we were able to kind of grow. We came to this beautiful, harmonious place of, like, growing back together and kind of, like, keeping pace with one another, which ultimately, like, helps. That's like how a relationship survives. If you have one person that's constantly, like, dragging the other one along, they're only going to drag them for so long, right? And I feel like Garrett and I both have, like, that same appetite for life, for business, for everything. And so that's. It's been. And I think we always had, but now we're kind of like, again, like, paving the way together.

Beautiful. Beautiful share, guys, this has been absolutely amazing. I think that there's a lot of things that you guys on the other side of the lens probably didn't know about. Garrett and Daniel White going to the White House, you know, a couple weeks ago, I was like, this little mansion is beautiful. And as I was walking around their house, I'm like, I see the perfection, the detail, details that you and I talked about. The AC vents, like, little things. I was like, the AC vents, the toilet, this, that, that. The coffee maker, which I'm now putting one in my bathroom. Like, I'm like, I feel poor now. I don't have a coffee maker in my bathroom, you know, in my little three, 3,500 square foot home. So it's like, we've all seen this, we hear your stories, and I think that that's one of the things that I wanted to do is invite you guys into a little bit of the history of success. People see success and they think that success only comes from overnight, you know, whatever. Like, this was birth. And you're like, all of a sudden, you pitch the tent and there is success, you guys here. There were tears, there was conflict, there was collision. There were all these different things that they were feeling, and yet they were able to Survive. And here you guys are, thriving and now sharing parts of your life that actually could have been very painful. Shameful. Yeah. And I'm unspokable or unspeakable. Sorry. I make my own words. I'm very creative at that. But this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to share a little bit of what you guys have gone through.

You're great.

A little bit of the. Thank you. Thank you. This is another one of my pastimes. I talk in front of the mirror.

A lot, you know?

True. Last final question. You are now 84 years old.

I mean.

No, you are now 84 years old.

Okay.

You're looking back.

I'm 91.

You're 91. He's still. He's still around. He's still kicking a lot more time. Still kicking.

Like a face tattoo, whole body shape.

84. Looking back at your life, the biggest accomplishment of your life.

I see myself as building a legacy. Like, I see moments in the future where I'm like. It kind of keeps me pushing. And, I mean, I'm young. I'm 37. I'll be 38 this month. And for what I've accomplished, I'm like, I'm very proud of myself, and I know that I'll continue down that path, and I just. I. I just feel like I will build a legacy and an impact in our industry, and I believe that everything that Garrett's doing with Warrior is going to have a. A massive. I think both of us have, like, a massive.

This is your life right now. You're looking back. You're not looking at yours, you're not looking at his.

Well, he's part of my life.

I know. But you. Your biggest accomplishment is now a legacy.

A legacy.

A legacy. You want to be a Vidal Sassoon. You want to be somebody that's going to live, leave an imprint in our industry and be, like, being put in our textbooks and everything. Like, you guys, this is the story of Daniel White. You know, it's like, that's who you are.

I tell my mom all the time, I say, I am the next Palm Mitchell. And she's like, I believe it. And I'm like, thank you. So I. I don't know. Like, that's kind of where I keep pushing to go, and I'm excited to see where the future takes beautiful.

A legacy. Garrett looking back. 91.

Now 91.

Hopefully not in diapers.

So, yeah, hoping on diapers, I'll screw up the surf game.

That's all you think about, just the surf game.

Just the surf game. I. The. The Wake Up Warrior itself has. Has become an imprint of an idea and a belief system and operating system. It's ultimately what sits at the core of what happens at the get upstyling academy. It's the X factor that's married up to MBR that makes it so different. It's why the training companies, the systems, why it works. People are like, how are you guys dominating in training? I said, because it's Warrior blended with dkw. DKW is a blend of natural beaded rose meets Way to Wake Up Warrior fact maps, the daily four. All these core four, living by the code, all these things. I want that operating system to be something that Warrior itself became a brand that people forgot who I was. That it's a global operating system with thousands of faces and tens of millions of people. And that 200 years from now, they're studying, when did the operating system of man change? And I say, well, it originated in the first magazine or first newspaper ever called out was in 2017 with the new York Post that said Gary J. White and Wake Up Warrior were the initiators and the inventors of the industry of massacre masculinity. So in a world of men falling apart and families falling apart and couples falling apart, I want to know that that's what I did. Because that legacy, I make that impact. My. My family is impacted by this, my kids. And second piece is just knowing that my wife and I did it together. That our worlds collided and became one superpower, that it wasn't just two. And that's a place I feel like we're at right now, which is like, there's no us, there's no me and you against each other, which has been that way. Honestly, it's been that way for a number of years, where it's my brand, her brand. And behind the scenes, instead of fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

Even in the last year, we're kind of like slowly letting each other back into each other's businesses and worlds and that kind of thing.

But now I feel like you guys have both identified your roles very, very distinctly to where it's not gonna bleed into one another. Garrett, don't come into my business because you're gonna dominate. Danielle, don't come into my business cause you make up all my men are gonna end up being gay or whatever. There's gonna be a lot of softness going on or whatever the case may be. Be right. So both of you literally want to leave an impact, a mark, a legacy a change, a pivotal point that you both are going to be look back and be like it was the whites. Guys, there you have it. It is simple as a conversation to be had. Some little things that I wanted to bring a little bit to light fruition. All these little things that they always talk about, but we don't always get to see. Garrett, Danielle, thank you very much for being in this amazing studio that we have here in Dana Point and allowing me to tap into your private life and for you guys to share with all of us.

Awesome.

Thanks, Carlos.

Thank you guys. And America, stay fresh, stay beautiful, but most importantly, be kind to each other. Thank you guys for watching. My name is Carlos Alvarez, and I'll be seeing you guys very, very soon.