Booster #2: Dave and Yvette Ulloa From LAPD Blue to Blue Collar Millionaires

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We had followed everything that people told us to do. So we got our jobs. You know, we bought a house with a white picket fence and we're thinking about having kids. And life wasn't what we expected. Life wasn't what we wanted it to be. And that's where we actually went through some painful years financially, emotionally. And right around 32, 33 is when we dove into personal development.

Hello again everybody, and welcome to the Gap, the Get Attitude podcast. The Gap Bridging the gap from who you are to who you want to become. Hello, my name is Glenn Bill, founder of the University of Attitude, keynote speaker and author of the ABCs of Attitude. I've been fortunate enough to help tens of thousands of people Get Attitude. Attitude, the secret formula to success in your business and and in your life. And this podcast will help you get yours. So let's get some. Good morning everybody. I want to welcome you all to this podcast. We are focused on have a big goal. And boy do we have two unbelievable guests that are with us today that understand the power of big goals and what it did for them. Dave and Yvette Yola run one of the largest travel companies in the world with one of the largest sales forces. They are serial entrepreneurs, but more importantly, they are doing some unbelievable work in the personal development space. And I'm excited to talk to them about what they're doing with people that are in relationships, want to be in relationships, and have been in relationships a long time. So what I'd like to do is first of all remind you to please subscribe, rate and review. And let's go ahead and meet Dave and Yvette.

Hello. Hello. It is a pleasure to be on this podcast with you. Thank you, Glenn, for having us.

Tremendous amount of respect for you, Glenn, and all that you're doing with helping people get better attitudes and just glad to be a part of this.

That's fantastic. Now, you guys are my first couple that we've done a podcast with, so I'm going to do my best to make sure that we get equal time for both of you because both of you have so much to share. I want to encourage our podcast listeners to go to yvette and daveyuola.com they each have separate websites with unbelievable content in there. You guys have such an incredible following. Tell me when it. When you think about attitude, right? We're at the Get Attitude podcast. What does attitude mean to each of you? And, well, what does it mean to you? If you had to define it, what does it mean to you?

Well, for us, attitude is the thing that can make or break you. I mean, I've heard it said, all these fun kind of creative phrases. Your attitude equals your altitude. When you wake up in the morning, there could be life that is joyful, passionate, exciting, and you're going after your goals. Or it could be depressing, miserable, and sad and just tired all the time. And that's where I personally used to be as an LAPD officer. I would literally watch the news every night before going to sleep because I felt like I needed to know what was going on in the city. And usually what was going on in the city is bad things happening to different people every single day. And I'm wondering why. I would wake up every morning depressed, sad, stressed out, anxiety. And I didn't realize what I was putting in my brain was developing my attitude. And once I started changing that, life started changing. And so being broke as an employee and going through that, I could absolutely relate my attitude to changing that and how we were able to transform not just our business, but. But our relationship, too.

Absolutely, Glenn. And for me, attitude is an everyday choosing. We choose how we want to live our life regardless of the outside consequences or the outside influences. And we have. We've been together for almost 20 years. We've been through the ups and downs, the ups and downs of life, of business, of life and death. And every day when we get up, we choose to have a great day despite the circumstances. So attitude is something that we've learned. Once we got into personal development, we learned to choose on a daily basis.

Now, do you guys have morning rituals at all to, I guess, prime yourself for the day, or do you just wake up and you're on fire and ready to go?

Yeah, it definitely is something we condition every day. Every morning, as soon as our feet hit the ground, we immediately think and feel 10 things that we're grateful for every single morning. We do a short little meditation, we do a little visualization, and we set ourselves, our day up every single day that way.

That's fantastic. Now, I've seen you, Dave, in your hotel room on some of your videos, you know, running in place and doing all this stuff. I mean, do you still got your eight pack, bro? Are you still ripped?

The eight pack has kind of turned to a four pack, but I'm getting it back.

Attaboy. Attaboy. Is going to take some. That could be a big goal going from 4 to 8. Am I wrong on that? Not at all. So you know the title of this podcast for the yoloa's is Bridging the Gap from being a Government worker and a cop to being Blue collar Millionaires. Talk to me about, number one, what is a blue collar millionaire? And number two, what was the day or what was the time frame where you said, I'm going to be a millionaire? Because there are people right now, I'll guarantee you, who are in government working jobs, who are cops, who are nurses, who are working for the man who go, I know that this is inside of me. But they haven't made the connection. They haven't figured it out. That's why they're tuning into this, this podcast. So tell them, what is a blue collar millionaire and how did you bridge the gap?

Blue collar millionaire is Yvette and I, we both come from blue collar families. And when you think about what is blue collar, it just means the work and family. My dad was a deli man. Her parents cleaned houses and were teachers. And so blue collar, I was a cop. Blue collar basically just means people that are average people, but doesn't mean we need to live an average life. So we come from a blue collar family. We were blue collar workers, just average people. But we also had extraordinary dreams like most people. And so the blue collar millionaire is taking the average and knowing that even average people can become millionaires.

And it all started with a dream. We got into personal growth. We started attending seminars. But there was a big difference because we know people that were at those seminars with us and nothing changed in their life. And I think that's one of the big ways that we filled our gap. Implementation. Implementation is a part of our lives, and we do not let procrastination get in the way.

You know, that's cool. I actually met you guys for the very first time, I believe, at Date with Destiny with Tony Robbins. I don't know if you remember meeting me, but I remember we were all scrambling. Yes, we were all scrambling. And Yvette had her green drink and she ran me over and got my seat. Does that sound like her? I said, who is this? Who is this little fireball, 6ft 3 inch? I mean, I got some game. She just she just got right in front of me and took my seat. No, I'm just kidding. It was all good.

Right?

Talk to me about your. In your upbringing, the attitude, that blue collar attitude, you know, it's not a negative thing for sure. Right. There's a lot of beautiful things with. And my mother was a teacher who earned honest livings 9 to 5. Tell me some of the most beautiful lessons or lessons on attitude that you either learned from your family or somebody that you had worked for, maybe in the government or a cop. Because again, I love cops. I love our warriors. We honor them. Certainly there were some attitude, either boosters or attitude lessons that you can share with us and our audience that you picked up early in life that really helped mold you.

Absolutely. One of the things that I learned growing up from my parents, who were both music teachers, is passion. Passion for their craft, that they would show up to work as if it was the first day. Passion for in the holidays, they would go and find a convalescent home and share their gift, even if they weren't getting paid. So passion, along with a servant attitude and my parents telling me, you can do anything you want to it. Even though I had some roadblocks as a child and trauma as a child, I turned that into fuel. And so I would always remember my mom would say, go ask for what you need with personality. She would tell me in Spanish. And so she kind of just, you know, said, go out and get what you need and ask for what you need.

I love it. What a great lesson. How about you, Dave?

Growing up, Bill, my father was an orphan in Ecuador at the age of 8 years old. And he literally had to live on his own. Living off of boats, getting clams off the reef in order to eat shoe shining, started a little shoe shining business. And so growing up and knowing where my father came from, he instilled in us a work ethic that was unparalleled. I mean, just told us that whatever you put your mind to, if I can come all the way from being an orphan and 8 years old from Ecuador to come to the United States to live the American dream, then what's possible for you with all the resources and what you have here? So my mind was always thinking bigger than my current circumstances because I would always reference that how hard my dad had to work and what he had to go through in order to live. And eventually he ended up buying a house and paid it off in Burbank, California on a deli man's salary. So he was so disciplined and he Was always, always, always making sure that his family came first. And I learned a lot of those important factors in my life that we still apply today.

What an incredible man. What. What was his name? Or what is his name? Is he still with us?

His name is Galo uloa. And unfortunately, November 30, 2010, he passed away in a motorcycle accident. But he was my hero.

Man, oh, man, that is so, so cool. When you guys started this travel company, right? What I mean, you guys are some of the biggest in the world. You're some of the most. I like, see you on stage in front of hundreds of thousand or a hundred thousand people or something. Nuts. Talk to me about you got into this entrepreneurial venture, and now you're, gosh, you guys are at the top of the mountain. What did having the big goal mean and do for you? And when did you say, we're going to get to the top of this mountain? What was that like?

I'll start heading out there and over to you because it's hilarious. Bill. When we finally made the decision, and the decision came when we were absolutely disturbed at our financial situation. Ten years in the LAPD government, we were $70,000 in credit card debt. We hated our jobs. We hated our life. We were fighting all the time, on the verge of a divorce, you know, and we hit rock bottom when we're sitting there at a bankruptcy attorney's office because we're thinking about filing for bankruptcy. That's how bad things were. And he looks at all of our stuff, and then he tells us, well, in order to file bankruptcy, this is how much it's going to cost you to pay me to do it for you. And we're looking at him, and I'm looking at her. I'm thinking, well, that's why we're here. We don't have any money. How are we supposed to pay you to file? And it was just like the worst of the worst when it comes. So we made a decision right then and there that we're gonna change our financial situation. So we started reading books. First book I ever read cover to cover was Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Robert Kiyosaki opened our mind up entrepreneurship. And right around the same time, we went to Tony Robbins. And the Tony Robbins, Tony Robbins was basically the personal power. So we left there, and we had our personal power. We wanted to be entrepreneurs. And here's something I think that's so important from our. From our story, is that the first thing that we swing at, it wasn't a home run. We started Retail businesses. We started investing in real estate. Failed miserably in both of those. Tried to do the stock market, failed miserably. But we were swinging the bat. And every time we swung the bat, we learned something new and it took us to the next thing. And in 2010 is when we found our home run. And we didn't know it was a home run at the time. And that's when we jumped into travel direct sales.

Yes. And that is. It's amazing when you're down on your knees and you failed forward. And one of the tips that I will share with today is don't be afraid to fail forward. We had three failed businesses where we lost a lot of money, but guess what? They gave us the courage. You take every failure, turn it into a lesson. Glenn, you have done that with many, many times in your life. And so what happened is we met somebody who was so starting this amazing travel concept that was going to change lives one life at a time. And we loved it. We wanted it to be about serving, honoring, and loving and creating more magical memories. So we jumped in, we sold everything we had, and we took a huge chance on life. We trusted this man and we co created this incredible giant that is now touching people all over the world. And it's all because of the personal growth, Glenn, because we were able to see an opportunity and not take our failure as we're not good enough. But our failure is now we got some, you know, courage to keep moving forward.

Yeah. I can't help but think, you know, when you guys talked about your parents and what they taught you, right. Passion and grit is what I think about with your father. You know, there's people that are listening to us right now, walking on a beach or taking a jog or that are sitting in their car that are probably failing forward. And they're going, I don't know how this is going to work. I've lost hope. And your stories that you just told, I can feel it coming through our podcast here, is that there are people in your life that are deep in your lives that were able to push you forward, give you the passion, give you the grit, and then failing two or three times. How many people are failing? And you know, failure is great. Loving adversity is number eight on this podcast, which is going to be down the road, but certainly at your lowest point, it seems like you had your biggest goal. And for those of you who are listening, please go to Dave and Yvette Uloa U l l o a.com and they can help you and share with you the dream that they had, the goal that they had, the big goal that they had, and how they're living that. And if you're interested in what they just talked about, you certainly can do that. Let's talk about the toughest. And again, to come from where you came from, that takes attitude, man. I mean, that's like, talk to me about how your emotional intelligence and your intelligence work together. Like, talk to us about how you create emotion. How do you think about how you feel, and how do you feel about how you think? And when you're down, what do you do to change course? Like, right now? What can you tell our people you do? Because, you know, it's tough to be positive all the time, Right? Tell us how you do that.

Yeah, that is a fantastic question, Bill. And when we look back today, there are things that we do automatically that we didn't do 15 years ago when we were struggling and had a bad attitude. And there's really five things personally for us that we do every single day. And now we do it unconsciously, but we do it every day. And the first thing is we have written down at least 10 affirmations of what it is that we want. Our goals, our dreams, our attitudes, what we want life to be like. And we write them down in the proper format that hits the subconscious. Declarations like, I am so grateful we're earning 100,000amonth. I am so grateful we have a passionate relationship in marriage. So we have 10 of those that we actually have developed. And we write down based on what we want our vision to be. And every morning we wake up, we are grateful we read those. We visualize and play a little mental movie. And that is part of our morning ritual. We also read at least 10 pages of a great book every single day, because information coming in, information coming out. And then we also listen to at least 30 minutes of a positive audio, like listening to your podcast, listening to Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn. Tony always talks about your past doesn't equal your future. Your past doesn't equal your future unless you live there. And what a lot of people don't know is human beings. We have 40 to 60,000 thoughts every single day, and 95% of the thoughts we have today are the same thoughts that we have. Y so if we don't do something to change those thoughts, like actually embedding thoughts that we want based on the goals that we have, reading somebody's biography, new thoughts coming in, new revelations coming in, new audios coming in. If we don't do that stuff on a daily basis. Our same thoughts today are the same thoughts as yesterday. And our future does equal our past because thinking and our thoughts are so powerful. So if we can change our thoughts, and then if you want to supersize it, man, you add an emotion of being grateful, of being joyful, of being happy. And instead of just being reactionary to life, you're on purpose and let your attitude pull you towards your goals and dreams. And that's the things that we do every single day.

Damn, I am fired up. Jason. You like that?

I love it.

Dave, that was awesome. If you are listening to this podcast right now, I guarantee you you're jogging faster, you're walking faster, you're sitting up straight, you're breathing differently. Dave Uola just crushed that question. Yvette, do you have anything you want to add on to that?

I would say the one rule we have in our house is we don't say the word problem. Problems don't exist. So when we talk, because if you start saying that there's a problem, then your brain starts going to, oh, my God, what's going to happen? You go into victim mode. All kinds of things. We use the word gift or lesson. So, you know, Dave may call me babe, I have a gift. And we're like, okay, what's your gift?

That's awesome.

I just got a flat tire. But guess what? I made the tow truck driver. And now he wants to join our club, and he wants to be a part of our community. So he turned something that could have been a bad day into a gift into a lesson. So we're always sharing, speaking to each other in terms of empowering words, not disempowering words. So it's really cool when we can choose to say, I have a gift in the making or I have a lesson that's coming to me. Rather than say, I have a problem, you can. You think of it in completely different solutions, right?

How you show up matters, and what you tell yourself matters. I mean, that's huge. Let's just touch on if we can, because, you know, as. As being a disciple of Tony, you know, we've. We've all been to every. I've been to all of it. You know, we all have two things in common, right? Problems, which I know you don't say. So we'll say gifts. Gifts and relationships. And I just think one of the most admirable things that you. I just love watching you two interact. And, you know, Yvette, I know you've been through some health scares and issues. And the way I see Dave look at you and stand by you and champion you, I think is amazing. I've been married for 32 years and I mean, you talk about a man that loves a woman. I mean, that's Dave and I see it and I feel it. So I love the fact that you have this passion about helping others. You know, I always tell people there how you been married 32 years, I say, trust me, it ain't just me. You know, I not to get religious, but I believe, you know, there's something, there's a higher power in successful marriages. So if you would just share with us some of the most, I don't know, positive or if you want to put an attitude slant on when it comes to relationships. Tell us, tell us what you are giving your audiences at these seminars and what's the main thrust of why people need to be listening to the we rise together. I know that that's going to probably end up being called something else, but so, so cool to see what you're doing. Talk to us, give us a commercial about it. Give us some. If somebody out there is in a difficult relationship, right, Maybe that's where we need to go. If somebody's thinking maybe this is over between me and her or her and him, tell us what you're doing and then give us two or three quick things that you can do to at least get people back on the path of starting their relationship on a higher ground. Ready? Go.

That's awesome. Glenn, Bill, thank you so much and congratulations for you and being married for over 30 plus years, that's fantastic. That's a goal in of itself. And to be honest, this is what Yvette and I, our passion is, is helping others. Because if you knew where we were many, many years ago, we were on the verge of a divorce. And we look around at our friends and family and people that are in relationships, our business partners that we come into contact with, and we realize that all of these separations and divorce, there's, I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's an unneedless suffering. And most of it is not because they don't love each other. It's because there are certain things that they don't understand on how to interact with each other. And most people, including us in a relationship, we're bringing the worst out of each other because we're coming from our human instinct and our instinct is that of to want to change the other person to be more like us. So women are walking around thinking that men, that us men were hairy. Women who are misbehaving and we should know better. And men believe that women are hairless. Men that just don't know how to focus and don't know how to take action because they're all over the place. And so we're constantly trying to change each other to be the other person. And we're not bringing out the best in each other. And I'll tell you what. Us as men do, and this is what I've learned, and what we teach men, what we do to our women is we create so much unsafetiness where they don't feel safe around us because of things we say, things we do. We interact with them where the thing that they fear the most is that their man is going to leave them. And so when we get into an argument and we run out the door, immediately in their mind, they're thinking, oh, my God, if you're going to run out the door in an argument, what else are you going to run out of me? It's just a matter of time before you leave me. And now when they feel unsafe, they get closed up. And that beautiful, radiant diamond that we fell in love with, who was spontaneous and glowing because of what we do and things that we say unconsciously, we start turning that beautiful diamond into coal. And little by little, she starts to become hardened. She starts to become dark. And then next thing we know, there's lack of passion. And in the lack of passion, there's no polarity. That's where a lot of divorces come from. And then the flip side is women tend to do the same. And all of this is going on behind the scenes that they don't even know it.

Wow. Women, we do certain things to emasculate our men, to diminish their ability to produce results, and we do it subconsciously. There are things that we learn growing up that we hear, well, you're a strong woman. You don't need a man. And so then we come in and, you know, thinking we are King Kong. And that is a great attitude to have when you're in the workplace and you're running the show. But I had to learn to honor him in a completely different way. During marriage, there's certain things that we do criticize, cut off, you know, diminish that completely, turn incredibly powerful men, and we slowly turn them into frogs. Right. My mentor at the beginning, she said to me, are you a frog farmer? Are you turning perfectly great men into frogs? Instead of helping them become the kings that they're supposed to be on this planet. So we have taken this on. We have studied from the masters and our work, our job is to get this out to the world. We have a free Facebook community where we share all these lessons for free. And we are planning some amazing retreats this year because we feel if we can help people that are building something with their life to keep it because most of them lose everything during divorce time, then you can allow that extra time to cultivate something beautiful at home as you raise your children to be kings rather to be frauds. There's just so much with this work and we're super passionate about it.

That is so cool. And that Facebook community is together we rise up. Is that correct? If people want to jump on there. Awesome. Awesome. Well, I can tell you, you guys are boy, so inspirational and you've risen me up. Today we're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back with the famous knowledge through the decades right after this quick podcast.

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And welcome back to the Gap. The Gap. The Get Attitude Podcast. We are here with Dave and Yvette Yeloa, serial entrepreneurs who have bridged the gap from being a government worker and cop to blue collar millionaires. Dave and Yvette, your stories were so great and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you sharing boy, your life and your knowledge with us. Now we're going to have you do one thing and it's called knowledge through the decades. So this is kind of a spontaneous thing. If your answers aren't good, don't worry, I can edit this out. But what we really want to do is try to trigger something from your past that people can take with them after this podcast. So I know that you don't remember being born, but if you think about a newborn baby or seeing a newborn baby, or if you do remember being born, as some of our guests have, what do you think the attitude lesson is of an infant? What's the attitude lesson or the greatest Thing you can learn from a newborn baby, who wants to go first?

I would say unconditional love and understanding. Because that young mother that may not have all the resources, that may be going through a really hard time is doing the best that she can with her limited.

And that little baby loves her no matter what. I mean, it's like, gosh, what if we could all clean ourselves of our judgments and biases and prejudices just like that newborn baby? I think that's wonderful. Yes. Dave, how about you? What's the lesson there?

You know, as you guys are talking, what comes to mind is being bold and confident to ask for what you want.

Yes.

You know, and not filtering it out. As a newborn youth, think about when they need to get changed or they're hungry, they're crying, they're asking for what they want. And I think as we get older, sometimes we filter it and we don't want to get rejected. So let me not ask. I mean, as a baby, they ask for what they want.

Yeah. Infants don't care about rejection. They have no concept of that, do they? I mean, that's a great point. Right? I don't know what rejection is. Let's go to Yvette and Dave. When you were just little kids, did you guys have brothers and sisters? I'm curious.

I did not when I was a little girl. But then my mom remarried when I was 14, and then I had three.

Brothers then you had. How about you, Dave?

I have an older brother and a younger sister, so I was the middle child.

The middle child. How about that? All right. Well, when you guys were 10 years old, I'd love to know what your attitude lesson was. What was something that you learned that you think shaped your attitude? But when you were 10, what's the attitude lesson there for you?

Creativity, Possibility. Limitless. And even though I experienced trauma as a child, the resounding what was in my life there was, you can do anything you want. You know, I used to play, you know, being a role model, a movie star and a singer. And I was always trying to create theater for people. So I was always just a natural born teacher. Nice ways to teach. Somehow, somewhere.

Sounds like that came from your mom, maybe, huh? The teaching part. And so do you still. Do you still desire, think about or dream about being a movie star?

No, I don't. I don't, you know, really wish to be followed by a paparazzi and have my life be public. So I think that was just a face of something I wanted to do as a child.

Yeah, the Money's not bad though, right?

That's true.

We.

We'll take the money, just not the invasiveness. For 20.

For 20 million a film. I think I could figure it out. Dave, what was your big. What was your big lesson as a 10 year old? If you can remember being 10, what do you. What, what comes to your mind up through that?

I actually just started getting into sports. My parents put me into soccer. So at 10 years old, I recall learning the power of teamwork, the power of practice and the power of setting a goal and going after a goal in working with a team. So that was something that was very, very big in my life around 10 years old.

Yeah. That's cool. So for our people that are listening, with kids, you know, I'm a jock. I know Dave was a jock too. Man, sports changed my life. And look at diabetes is children's. Diabetes is a real thing. It comes from, you know, not eating right and no exercise, which is number nine on the attitude boosters. But the power of sports is a great message if you have children. And I, I don't know why people don't do it. Maybe they had such a bad time with sports, maybe when they were young. But to find the right coach, I think is big in childhood sports, the coach that understands how to develop kids. But if you really want to do your kids a favor, maybe it doesn't need to be sports. Maybe it's Boy Scouts, whatever. But, boy, I sure found in sports. So, Dave, that's great. All right, Yvette, now you've blossomed into this young woman. You're 20 years old. I want to know where you were at 20. What was your attitude and what did you learn?

I think a lot of transformation happened in that decade because we moved. Even though I was born in New York, I was raised in Bolivia. So we moved from Bolivia to the USA and went through a huge transition, transformation, hardship. So I would say I learned to be really mentally tough, cool. And adjust and adjust and adjust and just do whatever it takes to make a living. That's where my parents went from being teachers to cleaning houses. I would help them, you know, if I wanted to be in drill team. Hey, what? I had to clean houses all summer to fundraise the money to be in drill team in the fall. So I learned a lot of toughness in those years.

Did you go to college, Yvette?

I did, yes.

And where did you go?

I went to a community college first, got my AA there, and then I went to csun Cal State Northridge and I majored in public relations and marketing. I always knew I would do something with people, so I went full time while I worked full time, always.

So you were 20 years old and university working full time. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I love it. 20 years old. Where were you and what was your attitude lesson at 20, man?

Added lesson in 20, I was actually living in Australia playing professional basketball. And the biggest lesson I got was the success formula that my dad taught me, which was desire plus belief plus massive action equals success. And I transitioned from soccer to basketball because I love sports, but my high school team didn't have any soccer. So from high school to college, my whole goal and my dream was to one day play professional basketball. That was my dream. Everybody laughed at me, but my dad taught me that formula. He said, son, if you have desire and you believe and you take massive action, you can achieve anything. And so I just went for it. And I'm only 5 foot 8 and I'm Latino, so I'm not like the person that you would pick on the court saying, oh, he's going to be a professional basketball player. But that year when I was 20 years old, I signed a five year contract to play professional basketball in Australia. And so that opened up my mind of, oh my God, I'm actually fulfilling a dream. I'm getting paid to play. So my brain was just scrambled at that age.

That is. So you were, you are. You were Spud Web Pro. Was Spud Web your. You know, he was five. Five, right.

Maybe Carmel Webb, you know, I'm Latino. So.

When he won the dunk contest that about. I just said, wow, anything is possible. Do you remember that, Dave? Unbelievable. That was so cool. All right, so now you've graduated from university, you were playing professional basketball, and my guess is at 30, you're in love with this person next to you. Right. So do you guys remember being 30 and in love and. Or hating each other, whatever the hell is going on? Tell us, where were you at 30, what was going on and what was the big lesson there?

Yes, by that time I had a big thriving career in government. I had worked my way up from a clerk to I was head of economic development for the city.

Wow.

I thought I was gonna be manager next. So I was like, I thought, you know, I was on top of the world. And then I met this amazing guy. His sister was my intern. She kept on talking about this brother she had in Australia. Oh, professional basketball player.

Nice.

He comes home, he visits for Christmas, and one look at this Guy. And within a couple of months, all our plans had scrambled and everything changed.

Wow. So, I mean, literally, you guys met when you were 30 or when one of you was 34?

Yeah, I was 29 when we got married.

Oh, my gosh.

So that decade was a big transformation in our lives.

So that was like the growth of relationship for you, right? I mean, Dave, tell me what the attitude lesson was for you at 30.

Well, so now we're married, and, you know, we're building our life, and we have our careers, and we had followed everything that people told us to do. So we got our jobs, you know, we bought a house with the white picket fence, and we're thinking about having kids. And so now we're right around 30, 32, 33 years old. And life wasn't what we expected. Life wasn't what we wanted it to be. And that's where we actually went through some painful years, financially, emotionally. And right around 32, 33 is when we dove into personal development. And what happened to us, for me personally, is I went to college. I was the only person in my entire family to ever go to college, never mind finally get a college degree. And so I had thought in my mind that, oh, I got a college degree. I don't need to learn anymore. I don't need to read books. What's personal development? You kidding? I don't even know what that. I don't need that. And what we realized is because we stopped growing, we were in this rat race, and the only way to get out is stop blaming everything around us. We needed to take responsibility. And when we started diving into personal development, I mean, listening to podcasts like this back in the day, we started learning so much. But I think what separated us from a lot of people, Glenn, Bill. Is that we apply. Study, practice, teach. Study, practice, teach is what we learned from Jim Rohn. And we didn't just learn to learn. We studied and we practiced. We studied and we practiced. We studied and we practiced. And then when we got really good at something, we would share it with somebody else. And we took that philosophy, and that philosophy completely changed the course of our lives.

Yeah. That's so cool. Yeah. So if you want change, you gotta change, right? I mean, that's the deal, per Jim Rohn the Great. So now, because you're not 50, so this will be your last share here, things really started hitting for you. I'm guessing 40 was a pretty good year for you. When you guys said, hey, we're 40, my guess is you probably remember your 40th birthday, you felt like maybe the ship was steering in the right direction. Tell us about what has 40 meant to you and what's the attitude Lesson at turning 40?

40 was probably one of the biggest breakthroughs for me, Glenn, because I was getting ready to write a book. Fabulous at 40. Because finally I thought in my head, everything in my life is at the peak level. Our business is thriving, our relationships amazing. My health was incredible. And that's the day that I believe in God. I believe in a higher. That's the day God told me, well, you need one more chapter in your book. That's a chapter of transformation. That's the chapter of chaos turned into power. That's the chapter that is going to change people's lives. And I was given a health journey, a gift that at the time, it was an incurable illness, a tumor in my jaw that was incurable and through a lot. And two months later, his dad was killed in a motorcycle accident. And so it was a really hard. That's the same year we had joined Platinum Partners with Tony Robbins. We were like, bliss. And then we were in hell. And then we were like, okay, this is the time to use everything we've learned. So that year, it took an unbelievable amount of strength, of courage to use everything we had learned and to step into a much higher power through a lot of darkness. That started a decade of healing, of reconnecting with myself, because that's one of the things we teach in relationships as women. We work so hard, and men have 10 to 30 times the testosterone than we do, but yet we go at the same speeds without giving ourselves a break. And that's why heart disease illness is so strong in women, because we don't take care of ourselves. So I had to have that crisis to learn to love myself again. And so I will tell you, it has been the biggest decade of our lives in terms of giving us gifts back and getting to know myself as a woman again.

Wow. That is powerful. Yvette, that's awesome. Thanks for sharing that. That's really, really cool. And I know that there are people listening to this that needed to hear that message. There's people that, again, love adversity. Number eight, you cannot be considered a person of perseverance unless you have its mother, which is adversity. And it feels like all that time before 40, all those lessons, all of your awareness, got you ready for what you guys faced at 40. So really, really cool stuff. Dave, tell me your attitude lesson at 40.

You know, I love listening and having conversations like this, Glenn, Bill, because it really does expand and it gets the brain to think about things. And as you guys are talking, for me, the lessons lesson is embrace the grace. Embrace the grace. Because instead of trying to avoid the roller coaster of life, embrace that there's going to be years of expansion and amazing abundance and growth, and then there's going to be years of challenge and maybe some recession and maybe some contraction, and then don't stay stuck in that. Just know that eventually there's going to be more expansion and more grace and more love and more joy, and then anticipate that there's going to be more challenges and there's going to be a winter and there's going to be all these things. So, embracing the grace, because right now, we just bought our dream home in San Diego. Never would have imagined we would have our dream home a mile and a half from the beach, and here we are. And what I know is that there's also going to be some challenges down the road. And yet because of our attitude, because of who we become as people, yeah, we're ready to embrace them and be able to handle them at the highest level possible. But we're not blind thinking that, oh, my God, life is always going to be peaches and cream. We just have now better skills to handle the challenges when they come.

That's so cool. As we talked about, the goal of our podcast is to help bridge the gap between who you are to who you want to become, to bridge the gap between where you are to where you want to be in that new mile and a half from the ocean place in San Diego. That's so cool. And the bottom line, guys, is the bridge is not a short bridge. And sometimes the bridge is a curvy bridge. And there's a lot to go into this. And, you know, my big goal is to bring to everybody who listens, to hear the hope, the tools, the information, the grit, and the passion that you guys bring. So the people on the other end of their earbuds go, dang, I can do it. And that's why I've selected Dave and Yvette to be part of the Get Attitude podcast. Because they're big thinkers and they're big dreamers, but they're also big realists, and they're big lovers, and they're big people that understand who come from amazing people, which is so cool. And I know everybody's going to want your 10 affirmations. We're going to have to post that somewhere, if you're comfortable giving that to Us. Us. But boy, what, what you gave, what you gave us today was a ticket over the bridge that I know people are going to want to listen to, that they need to listen to. So we'll just finish this. This is attitude booster number two. Have a big goal. I would love you to share with us just one because I'm sure you have many. What's your big, what's your biggest goal right now? What's the big goal that seems, you know, damn near impossible that you said this is a big ass goal and we're going to set it. So go ahead and tell us because. Because we all know that that's part of it, right? You got to tell people.

Yeah, you're absolutely right. I'll start it off. We started a foundation called Chosen Greatness Foundation. And we've all heard it said that some people are chosen. And we believe that everyone is chosen, but some, very few choose to step into their greatness. And so our foundation is designed to help underprivileged kids with the music and the arts, which is her family, with instruments and singing and then also with sports and personal development and bringing these arts to children to help them boost their confidence, to find out where is their genius, where is their greatness? Is it arts, is it sports, is it knowledge, wisdom and bringing that to us. So we started that foundation last year and our goal is to raise a million in a year for that foundation. So that's one of our goals and our affirmations that we're reading is a million a year to our Chosen Greatness Foundation. We have no idea. We've never had a fundraiser, a non profit before. We have no idea how we're going to do it. We just know what the mission and the goal is and we know that the resources, the people and the ideas and the things from us are going to come. If we keep focused on the mission and the goal, no matter how big it is, we know that million will show up somehow, some way. We don't know when, we don't know how, but that's one of our affirmations.

And that is chosengreatnessfoundation.org or what's the website? How do we get to that?

Right now we are on Facebook under Chosen Greatness Foundation. We are creating the website.

Okay, very good, very good. That is phenomenal. I'm a huge not for profit guy. I can probably give you some ideas on that. We're involved. We just had Dr. Chuck Dietzen of the Timmy Global Health Foundation. He was on our podcast be nice. You should listen to that day. Dr. Chuck Dieson was our guest on the be nice podcast. Dr. Chuck. Dr. Chuck spent a few weeks with the wonderful Mother Teresa and had several audiences with the Pope. So if you want to subscribe, rate, and review to the Get Attitude podcast, you want to click on Dr. Chuck's podcast because it's powerful. And my guess is he will give you some thoughts and insights on how to do. He is giving. Now he delivers 2 million of medical supplies to the poorest children of the world. And we started from a broom closet with a big goal. Right? So, Yvette, I'm not going to let you off the hook. I know that the Chosen is one of your big goals, but do you have another big goal you'd love to share with us and our listeners so they can set a big goal? My hope is this. If you're listening to this podcast, I want you setting a goal. A goal that's meaningful. You heard it in Dave's voice. Don't be afraid to set it. And so, Yvette, tell us what you're not afraid to set or what you're not afraid to take on.

Yes. One of our big direct goals right now is to touch 10,000 couples with this work of Together we rise up. So we're in the middle of creating a very affordable, simple product. It's going to come out as a webinar. So we're in creation mode. And our goal is to touch at least 10,000 couples with this work because we know what it's capable of doing. We have raving fans just of the free product. People are like, we want more. We want more. So that's been, you know, we just got out. I finished my healing season in Brazil. So this is. We're kind of in creation mode right now. So I'm super excited about that new phase of our life.

I like it. Well, you guys heard. I'm just huge fans. I'm going to keep following you. I hope you follow us and what we're doing. If you have people that come into your life that you think can send a message out on the Get Attitude podcast, by all means, please introduce them to me. I feel that you're at the beginning of your bridge in a lot of new things, which is so cool. And I hope that this podcast will help bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be. You guys got some big goals out there. I am so grateful to you that you took the time for us and our listeners, very inspiring. And we just want to wish you guys the best. God bless. And we'll make sure that we go to daveuola.com and yvetteuola.com to follow up on opportunities to make money and become entrepreneurial. To go to the the We Rise Together Facebook page if you need some help with your relationships. And then, boy, the Chosen Greatness Foundation. Very excited. You can count on me. I'll send you a little money that way. And I'll also give you some ideas on how to how to have some big fundraisers. But you guys are rock stars, and I can't thank you enough for being here.

Thank you, Glenn. It was a pleasure and an honor for us. We see all the good that you're putting out into the world with your knowledge, your wisdom, your resources. And if there's anything that we can continue to do, we're obviously going to be sharing your content with the people that follow us because we just put good stuff out there, and we're just so appreciative and grateful to be able to share today with you.

All right, God bless. We'll go for a walk on the beach.

Come and visit. Thank you, Glenn.

Hey, I will come and visit. You know that's going to happen. All right, well, God bless you guys, and thanks for being on the Get Attitude podcast. Dave and Yvette Yola, our superstar Get Attitude podcast guest, have a great, great week. This podcast is a part of the C Suite Radio Network. For more top business podcasts, visit c-sweetradio.com.