EP 212: Get $10,000,000 Cash, Tax-Free... But There's Just One Catch

Welcome to the Making of a DM. I'm going to give you $10 million today, but there's a catch.

No, there is a real catch. I'm going to share more about that as well as we're going to dive deep into legacy trips with your family.

This show is going to be raw, genuine, and it's going to challenge you to a new level. So with that said, let's get started. Hey there, it's your boy Mark Evans DM. That's right, you are the DM of your life, deal maker and dream maker. Thank you guys so much for being here as I sit here in beautiful, a little overcast, Parkland, Florida.

I have a lot to share with you as I've been up to a lot of things over here, and I appreciate you being on the journey. We have so many moving parts, right, as entrepreneurs. We got to be present with our family. We got to be present in the business. We got to make a lot of decisions every single day. And I want to talk to you guys about some of these things today. So again, appreciate you sharing the show. We got a lot of momentum going on, which is really awesome. Appreciate all the 5-star reviews, which is absolutely amazing. Hopefully you guys are checking out the new show I have out as well with my buddy Tim Brodt.

It's called I'm Rich, Now What?

Uh, we take you behind the scenes and talk about, you know, once you hit a certain level of financial wealth, kind of how you— why you keep going, what you're doing with the time and energy and money, and what makes you move and what makes you slow down, and all that fun stuff that we got to deal with as true entrepreneurs.

So I want to ask you a question today.

$10 million, that's the number. I'm going to give you 10 $10 million today.

Are you in?

I'll give it to you right now.

$10 million.

I want you to really think about this.

I want to give you $10 million.

What would you do with that $10 million? You start thinking about all the cool things you could do with it, things you could pay off, take off a lot of pressure, etc. But it comes was something. You don't get to wake up tomorrow. You're done.

Now do you want the money? Now do you want the $10 million? Now this might sound like a crazy question and maybe you're kind of like, whatever, man.

Like I would never do that. Obviously we wouldn't. That's why every day you wake up, is worth whatever dollar amount you set on it. It's worth—

it's worth way more than $10 million if you don't wake up tomorrow.

It's worth way more.

So why do we treat our days as if we're going to live forever? Because today could be the day. Tomorrow could be the day.

We don't know.

However, every day you wake up You could literally create whatever you want. Anything good, bad, negative, positive, it doesn't matter. You, yes, you, that person, that beautiful person looking back in that mirror at yourself, you can do that. However, I talked to lots of people that really don't understand How much they are worth to themselves, most importantly, but also to the world. All these problems start with you creating a solution. I get it, it's overwhelming. Lots going on. Shit, last week my wife walked in to give me lunch. I was out here in the house office and I had my head like, I'm like, I, I I don't know what to do today. I was making so many big decisions, cutting things, growing things, spending money, pulling money back, etc. And it just— sometimes you just got to stop for a minute and get back to gratitude. Be thankful that you have this opportunity of pressure. Pressure truly is a privilege when you start thinking about this $10 million, but you don't wake up tomorrow. When you do that, you get the ultimate gratitude surge of energy. Some days suck, some days are amazing, and some days are everything in between. But the good news is you get to wake up and do it again tomorrow, and tomorrow is a new day. Sometimes you just got to stop, let the dust settle, and get back to work tomorrow. Be thankful for what the opportunity you have at hand. As I'm sitting here talking to you, I literally just got back about 36 hours ago from the Masters. Now, the Masters— I'm not, I'm not huge into golf and all that stuff, but Masters is like the Super Bowl of golf, right?

But most importantly, my father-in-law was a huge golf fan. Like literally golfed every weekend. His, you know, he loves golf. He doesn't really golf anymore because his back, but he watches golf every weekend. He knows what's going on. And about 6 weeks ago, I was talking with my brother-in-law Joe, and I said, Joe, we got to take your dad to the Masters this year. Keep in mind, Preston's about to be 80 years old in September. Right? He's not a young whippersnapple like you and I. And, but he was pretty sick.

So we kind of shelved it for a while, but I have this calendar on my wall and I had it already marked out from the 7th to the 10th.

I'm going to go to the Masters. I set that up on January 1st, by the way. I wanted to do something.

I like to invest in family slash legacy experiences. You already know I talked about in February, I did a 7-day trip with my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law, his family, my sister-in-law, our family, and all that. We did a huge trip. By the way, when I say we do these things, I pay for everything. Now, I'm not saying you have to do that, but I want to, and I enjoy doing that. Every day that I work hard, I know why I'm working hard, and those— these weeks and these moments make it worth it. So Wednesday morning, I'm on the treadmill at a 15% incline at 3.0, walking, sweating my butt off. And this is Wednesday at 6:00 AM. And I had a thought and I could not get— shake the thought. And you get these thoughts. We all get these thoughts.

The real question is, what do we do when we get them?

So as I'm sitting there, Pushing down, you know, on this treadmill. I'm about 30 minutes in and I can't get it out of my brain.

Masters, Masters going on, Mark. Masters is going on, right?

Because Wednesday's practice day and I keep having this replay story.

How mad would I be or upset if Preston didn't make it till next year and he couldn't do it and or he couldn't walk next year?

I start creating a story and conversation like, dude, today's the day. Now is now. I didn't have tickets. I didn't have a place to stay. I didn't have plane tickets. I didn't have Masters tickets. I didn't have anything. It was simply a thought at 6:00 AM.

I got off the treadmill.

I got home and I made a contact with my guy that gets tickets to the Masters, made that happen. Went on Airbnb, made that happen. But plane tickets made that happen.

And then I called my wife up to the off—

my room and said, hey, I'm gonna call your dad, we're going to the Masters today.

And she's like, there is no way, like, my father is leaving in the same day.

Now keep in mind, Preston's a great guy, but his, his— he like takes 3 months to plan going down the street. And that's a true story. So I call him, Preston, how you feeling?

Right? Dean is in the room listening. And he's like, oh yeah, I'm feeling a lot better, blah, blah, blah.

I'm like, cool.

Well, I got some big news to share with you.

At 2:30 PM, I'm going to have my driver Kirk pick you up at your house.

He's like, okay, for what? And I was like, we're going to the Masters, Preston.

And this is exactly what he said.

Uh, uh, uh, I don't know if I could do that. Uh, uh, uh, you know, like all this stuff, right?

Because again, his brain is fried.

Like, he does not do this kind of stuff.

He's not spontaneous at all.

And this is how you always get the older people.

Preston, I just spent $40,000.

You have to go. And that is true. That's what we spent, about $45,000.

I was like, I spent $45,000 on these tickets, airplane tickets, trip, travel, uh, Masters tickets, Magnolia ticket, all this stuff. We have to go. If not, I lose it. So I used that tactic and it worked.

At 9 o'clock, he's like, well, I got to go do my swimming. Like, he's very regimented. So he went and did that.

And Kirk, my guy, picks him up at 2:30, drops him off. We land in Atlanta Airport together, about 30 minutes apart from each other. And I have another guy picking us up.

Major picks us up and drives us down to Augusta.

We arrive at our Airbnb about 9, 9:30 in the afternoon, in the evening. What's cool about this is as we're driving there, I place an order at Kroger to have all of our food delivered to the Airbnb by the time we arrive.

And, you know, we're driving.

This is the beautiful thing about technology and speed. And I'm sharing this with you not to impress, but to impress upon.

Life is short. Moments are fleeting. My father-in-law, heavens forbid, I hope he's here forever, but we all know it's the only way out is death. We're all going heading there. He's semi-healthy. He has a bad back. He, um, was really sick for 6 weeks, lost a lot of weight, just really You know, really got beat up, but we were there. And I had my son and my brother-in-law and his son. Us 5 guys, us 5 boys. You and I have the privilege of creating lifetime experiences with the ones we love. I'm using a drastic example. Of this because this just happened. I just got home from it.

And it did. It wasn't— I didn't go Tuesday to Friday.

I actually went Wednesday to Sunday, right? We landed there, we did our thing. Thursday we went to the Azalea House. It's a, it's a club where you hang out, all this food and drinking and golf simulators and hanging out and watching the stuff, talking, getting massages. And me smoking cigars. And then we got back to the house and did the thing.

And then the next day, it probably was the most prettiest day ever.

Walking, getting picked up at 7:00 AM and heading to the Masters. 7:00 AM on Thursday, beautiful weather with my father-in-law, my brother-in-law. Going to a place that he's seen on TV for many, many, many years. I made that happen. You're the one in the family that makes it happen. If you're listening to the show, you are the one that makes shit happen.

9 AM, and I had to rearrange my schedule.

I left here at 3:30 PM, jumped in the car, me and Mark And we rolled out. What's stopping you from creating lifetime experiences?

The biggest thing I'd recommend is you ask the people you love what their biggest bucket list dreams are.

My father-in-law one time told me, he's like, Mark, I want you to spread my ashes when I die in Maui. And I simply said, that will never happen, Preston. Because I'm going to take you there while you're alive. And we did that 4 years ago, 3 years ago now actually. Ask them, make their dreams your goals. I genuinely believe— I, again, I couldn't live with myself, I guess, if I did not make that move this year and something bad happened. I don't know how I could live with myself, right? I'll be 48 this year, so I'm in prime money-making age. I have a lot of cool stuff going on. I see too many people waiting way too long, and then unfortunately you think you're going to be healthy when you're ready to go. You think you have enough money when you're ready to go. You think they're going to be around when you're ready to go. And very rarely does it all align like that. I'd rather regret the things I did than the things I didn't do. I didn't wake up Wednesday morning saying, man, I can't wait to spend $45 grand today and change my entire schedule up for the next 5 days.

But when the man upstairs puts a thought in your brain and starts tapping on you so hard, you cannot not listen to it. What do you do with that message? What do you do with that information? You and I are in an amazing spot.

We have this beautiful thing called the interweb. We can literally, you know, your phone is not a phone, it is a supercomputer that literally you can make anything happen. I used it to find the tickets to go to the Masters. I used it to find the Magnolia Club, which is an amazing place. It's just beautiful. We were there in the Magnolia Club on Friday, and you can look all this stuff up. Go to Magnolia Club Augusta. And this guy, him and his wife started this place in 2008. It's kind of in a residential area, and that literally over the years they've built this amazing facility. It's like a house, and they got the candy section. They got shit, I think 7, 8, 9 bars. They got 3 putting greens. They have— it's the best food in the country. Like, the service is impeccable. It's $900 a day per ticket, per person, per ticket. There's probably 1,000, 2,000 people there. It's awesome. Meet amazing human beings. Um, and you just— I, I love sitting there. I was sitting there watching the Masters with my father-in-law, my son, my nephew, and my brother-in-law, and I was like, how cool is it that someone had a dream to build this, and we get to experience his dreams.

We participate in it.

Are people participating in your dreams of what you're building? Are you letting the world know what you're up to by constantly marketing and pushing the limits and getting—

like, stop being afraid to grow. Grow with confidence.

But to the main point is, what is your budget for life experiences per year?

You have a budget for everything. Do you have a budget for your personal life experiences, like your legacy trips? What is it? $5,000, $10,000, $100,000, $500,000?

I know a guy that spends $3 million a year truthfully on legacy trips with his family.

Now keep in mind, he has lots of cool stuff he does. He's a huge family and he takes everybody. I've known guys that spend a quarter million dollars on parties for their big day, say when they're turning 50, and fly their whole family and pay for their flights, pay for the hotels, et cetera, and have a badass party.

Obviously.

What is your budget? For your family legacy trips yearly.

Now, this might be new to you, but I've been doing this for a long time.

Once I understood—

when Dina and I were traveling the world, we traveled the world for 7 years, and we'd be hanging out in Santorini, Greece, or in these beautiful locations, and you'd see this nice little old lady in her 70s and 80s pushing her husband in a wheelchair. And I generally, I would want to talk to them.

I want to see what's up. How you doing? Where are you from?

What's going on? And they don't—

it'd always be the same story. I've been planning this trip my whole life. It's my dream trip. Now, side note, there's no way anybody in their right mind would be dreaming about being pushed around in a fucking wheelchair through Santorini, Greece at all. However, they kept pushing it off because they're making decisions when they're healthy. They're making decisions when they're, you know, when I get enough money, I'll do this. When I get enough money, I'll do that. And I'm not saying you shouldn't have the money, but what I'm saying is be conscious of where you're at in the cycle of life. If you're 50, healthy, with some cash coming in, go do the shit. Time is leading— it's leaving you every day.

And back to the main question: $10 million today, but you don't get to wake up tomorrow. No one's taking that. No one. So you're worth at least that per day.

Every day you wake up, every day you want to quit. Every day, all that pressure's on you. Know that you're at the right place and it's happening for you, not to you. And you got to step back and look at this and say, wow, pressure is truly a privilege, because without pressure, nothing grows, nothing gets better.

But as I talk to these older couples and they're like, yeah, you know, Johnny always wanted to come here, it's his dream.

Now he's 72, in a wheelchair, can barely move, doesn't really want to be there, but he had his mind set on it. He had to go there. Sitting in the room most of the time.

That sounds like hell, not a dream. Sit down with yourself. Sit down with your loved ones and ask them, what is your DreamTrips? What is your bucket list?

Figure out how to incorporate that into your life with them. As a family, I'm not saying you have to pay for everyone, but I recommend you work your ass off so you can pay for everyone. Create revenue, create assets, create opportunity.

I invest multiple six figures a year. I do. And family legacy trips I'm working on right now with my mom and dad, my sisters. Usually, typically we do something like in June, July, August. I've already done the one with my in-laws, and then me and Dina's got a really cool one with our family in August.

Everyone talks about being present.

The only reason you and I do all this goofy shit is simply because the people we care about—

we want to build, we want to protect, we want to earn.

I know lots of people earning. And building, but their personal life is in shambles because they're not paying attention to ultimately what they're doing all this for. It's easy to get caught up in the drama. It's easy to get caught up in the poor me, you don't understand, I'm busy.

Well, guess what, guys and gals like you and I, we're always busy.

But what are we busy doing? Get busy living.

Get busy being present.

Get busy being the one that makes the change in your life, your family's life.

Yes, it's a lot of pressure, but that's a privilege.

And when you start reframing that conversation with yourself, you will start enjoying the process so much more, so much more. And I can't wait to talk to you next week about what I've been working on. Because it truly is transforming something I've been thinking about for many, many years. And I know it's going to help a lot of people. So I want you to share with me what your family legacy budget is on social media.

Shoot me a private message @MarkEvansDM.

I look at all my personal messages. Again, Mark Evans DM on Instagram. Go to Instagram @MarkEvansDM.

Or if you want to send me an email, my email's simple, mark@markevansdm.com. Send me an email. Let me know, hey, I listened to the show.

Here's my family legacy budget.

And/or just share with me what you've done or what you're planning on doing. This is not bragging. This is sharing.

This is what winning looks like. Get in the game of life. Enjoy the ups, enjoy the downs, and understand that you will look back one day and you're either gonna say, I wish I shoulda coulda, or you're gonna say, I did it, it was amazing. It's really hard to make the decisions in the moment sometimes, but when it gets done, You'll be like, oh my gosh, that was nothing. Seems like a blink.

I've only been home for 36 hours and I've done forgot how, like all the stuff we did, all the memories, all the pictures, all the conversations, just sitting around the house talking.

He's hanging out in his underwear all day. Cause he's lived with himself for 20 plus years. So it's normal to him, but like the kids loved it, right? 9-year-old, 10-year-old, they're laughing the whole time.

Sitting there, Preston, now that this is off the list, what's next, buddy? What's next? Oh, I don't know. Well, we need to know. Let's talk. Same thing with my brother-in-law. There's so much to do in this life. Don't limit it to what's in your bank account. Talk with people that can make it happen. Talk to people like you and I, because we are the ones That make it happen.

I just wanted to share this with you because I know I've never been taught this, by the way. No one told me to go invest a lot of money in family trips, legacies. Everyone's like, man, my family, all they do is suck off the tit, blah, blah, blah.

Good.

Maybe sometimes that's a good thing.

Actually, my nieces are coming in.

I'm flying them in this week.

They come in 3—

they come in Friday. My knee, my 4 nieces, they're gonna hang out with Uncle Mark, Aunt Dina, my kids, their kids.

We're gonna play in the pool and we're gonna hang out.

We're gonna eat lots of ice cream and we're gonna eat cake because Drea's birthday's coming up and all these fun things. They can't afford to do that, but I can, and you can too. You can make it happen when you start setting targets like this.

This game gets way more fun, way more interesting, and way more worth it. You're capable of so much more. Allow yourself to have fun.

Allow yourself to release this money for experiences.

You'll never even notice it's gone, but you will forever remember the memories that you create with it. I promise you that. You don't have to go big at first. If this is new to you, start small.

Go to a campground, go to a park, create something, turn it into something, turn it into like your thing. Let them know you are the person, you're the, you're the person that makes things happen.

Many people just talk about it. But I want to be the person that does it. Don't you? Of course you do. That's why you're here. If you're not generating the type of money you want, it's not because you can't. It's because you don't have a clear framework of how to do it. I talked about this on my Quick Talk from the Walk this morning, actually.

Math is math.

It's simple reverse engineering. I talk about this every single day, every single week, every single month, every single year in the Deal Maker Alliance. The Deal Maker Alliance is a high-level group of people, 150+ people that meet every single week on Wednesday at noon. And we talk about what's working and what's not. We talk about reframing your conversation and showing you how to get a bigger vision of your future, how to scale and grow through processes and people. How to get a bigger path of revenue and opportunity in place. The secret is doing the work, but more importantly, you got to show up in the right environments where they're sharing these insights, giving you the tools, giving you the connections.

And if that's what you want, the Deal Maker Alliance is where it's at.

You can simply get over to dealmakeralliance.com. Again, that's dealmakeralliance.com. Fill out a form. Sonia will contact you. We talk to every single person to see if it's a good fit for you, what your expectations are, what you're up to, what you're not up to, etc. It's not for everybody, but it is for somebody. This is the stuff we're talking behind the scenes every single day. What tactical approaches you can you take to get to that million-dollar net per year number? What are you doing to raise money? What are you doing to get more volume and more eyeballs? How are you hiring people? How are you letting people go? How you creating contracts and deals. It's all there in one place. The only thing missing is you. Get over to dealmakeralliance.com, fill it out, and let's connect. In the meantime, get over on social media @MarkEvansDM and let me know what your family legacy number is. How much are you investing every single year in your family legacy trips? I'd be excited to read it. And it's go time. $10 million and you don't wake up tomorrow. Are you doing that deal? The answer is absolutely not. And if that's the case, treat today, tomorrow, et cetera, accordingly.

So with that said, make today count.

Peace. About what I know and how I did it to discover freedom. There ain't no question, Mark Evans, when he step in the door, he's closing deals. Time to tell him what the DM stand for. I'm a deal maker, a deal maker, but I'm not just a deal maker, I'm a dream maker.