EP 77: Random Show - Money and LIFE Seasons

Welcome to the Making of a dm. This is a random show. We're going to be talking about life, money, travel, more importantly, where I'm putting my money. So with that said, let's get started.

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Hey there, it's your host, Mark Evans, dm. Hope you're doing amazing and again, thank you so much. The last show we did, the Black Sheep, Socially Awkward, has been absolutely on fire. I've actually done, I think 76 shows today, 77 here of the making of a DM. And I've never had the response I've had with that. I thought I was the only one that felt socially awkward hanging out with family, old friends and all that. But clearly I'm not. So I appreciate all the responses, I appreciate all the shares, I appreciate all the five star reviews on itunes. It means a lot to me. And I know sometimes you don't think your voice can be heard or maybe you're in a tight spot financially and you're like, man, how do I help give back? And I want to do good stuff. Well, go leave a comment, share on your social media. Maybe one of your buddies, maybe one of your friends, maybe someone you care about listens to the show and you start getting dialed in together. That'd mean a lot to me. And all you got to do is share. It's free. It's one of the best ways to show someone that you're paying attention and you care and you're actually making an honest effort about giving back. So it's as simple as copy paste, put on your stories, tag me, whatever. But it is what it is. Appreciate you guys that are doing it. It means a lot. So today it might be a little random. I just, I want to share some stuff with you guys. Kind of on my heart and my mind. Been up since 3:30 this morning as I pretty much always am anyways. But today's a little different. Not bad, just different. We just got back last night. We were in Traverse City, Michigan. I don't know if you've ever been out there, but it's actually very pretty. I've never been there, but we were out there for the last four days hanging out the Park Place Hotel in the penthouse presidential suite, which is Not a presidential suite I'm used to, but it was, you know, again, all things being all. It was nice. It was a super laid back. We did a lot of stuff, you know, walking around town and hanging out with the kids and going to dinner and hanging out for lunch and to be honest, a lot of shit that I don't enjoy. And I'm not saying that to be a jerk. It's just not in my natural habitat where I go somewhere and want to hang out all day. I like to read, I like to work on myself. I like to have great conversations with great people to help them grow their business and their life. Help, like, help solve problems. I don't. Now listen, don't get me wrong, I love hanging out with my wife and my kids, but there's only so much I can do of hanging out before I actually started getting like antsy and start really shutting off and shutting down. One of my wife and I's biggest conversations, I sometimes could be arguments or whatever. She's like, oh, you don't want to do anything? It's like, well, we just, we went out three times a day. Like, what, what do you want me to do? Like, it's like I'm not here just to be a, you know, social butterfly and just sitting around and it's not fun for me to walk into boutique stores and, you know, and just honestly feels like I'm killing time. I don't know about you guys, but I like, I'm 43 now, but I've always. Truth is, ever since I can remember, I've always had kind of like a sense of anxiousness. Like time is limited. I don't know when I'm going to die, but I guarantee I'm going to die just like you. I hope it's long from now, a long time from now, but it's on my mind. Often I've actually done a show about how death motivates me. It's not just me, it's all my buddies that I know that are high performers. Death is a very real thing that we think about constantly. I'm not, I'm not sure if it's even healthy sometimes, but I could tell you right now it is a real thing and it's something I want you, you know, I want to talk about because I can't be the only one because my buddies are the same way. But you know, I think about like, man, I wanna, you know, I want to accomplish so much in life. I want to do so many great things in life and I Want to make a lot of fucking money. I already talk about being stupid, filthy rich, not for the money, but for what the money can do. And I was thinking about that today because as I'm sitting here out back, as you can probably hear the birds chirping and going crazy Today, it's beautiful. 66 degrees overlooking the ravine. Saw actually a couple deers bouncing around, some black squirrels running around, Turkey everywhere, which is pretty cool. I asked myself, why do you want to make a shit ton of money? And I want to ask you that question because I think there's a massive disconnect with most people in this question. Why do you want to make a shit ton of money? And I think about this question because I honestly, I'm being straight with you. I have a lot of money from where I started. I have a very little amount of money for I will be in 10 years from now. And I'm talking many millions. This isn't to be braggadocious or whatever, but I've always wondered, my mentors, people I listen to on podcast shows or read great books, I don't hear anybody ever talk really about money. More importantly, what the hell are they doing with their money? So I want to share a little bit of insights here with you. Might be a little choppy because I just, I'm just going off my notebook of what I was thinking about today, but you got to know where someone's started from and what their drivers are to actually understand what I'm saying. And I'm not giving here financial advice today. I'm just sharing shit that I do and I mess this shit up all the time. FYI, I got millions owed to me right now. People are not paying. Talked about that on a show recently. I got. You know, I'm making millions a week, sometimes overnight in certain investments I'm in, which is pretty wild. And I'll talk about that. But my first question is, like I said, why do you want to make a ton of money if you don't want to make a shit ton of money? You, as the listener, I would ask, why the hell are you even here? Because I am an entrepreneur and I'm all about helping people make more money. Because from my experience, the guys and gals that I help that make more money, they give back more, they're able to do more, they're able to take care of themselves better, they're able to take care of their family, do the things they've been dreaming about their whole life. And it's very important to me. So for Me, the truth is I was born in small town Ohio. My parents busted their ass to barely keep a roof over our head, barely put food on the table, barely give us the necessities needed for school. I didn't know back then, but I was poor. My parents were poor, right? Hard working everyday American folks that would just bust their ass work. There's nights my dad wouldn't even come home. He's working, you know, he'd work his main construction job and then he would take on a side construction job to go install carpet in a commercial complex three hours away to make sure they had enough money to pay for the trailer that we lived in. Probably the trailer was 250, $300 a month or whatever it was. And I'm very amazingly appreciative of that. See, I know my mom and dad are proud of me. I want them to be more proud. And I also want them to understand that when I talk about them, and they do know this because I talked to them about it, because I use them in references a lot because it's who I am, it's my life, right? So they busted their tail to give me and my two sisters food and shelter. And they're loving people. My parents are great people. But we very rarely had much money. We would go our vacation, true story, would be go to Kings island for the day. We couldn't even stay all night because it costs money to stay at a hotel. But my mom and dad would work really hard and to be able to buy all of us a ticket. And I'd be able to invite one of my cousins or my best friend Bill with us because you needed to have two riders per ride, right? So it was me, my buddy and my two sisters. This is a ginormous deal for my mom and dad. Like I said, we couldn't even stay all night because that costs money to stay at a hotel. So I always think like what drives me. And I used to see my parents fight a lot actually all the time about money. Mark, you can't buy this. Sandy, that's my mom and dad's name as well. Sandy, you can't, you know, what are you doing? But one thing they always did, I always bought lottery tickets I always found interesting. You know, we always had something going on. Like we had a big screen TV and a trailer. It was very strange to me. Once they got some money, they would get rid of it. They never really did investing, I don't think they did it, had an investment. They actually did investing in a property through default My mom's dad was something happened or I can't remember the full story, but was probably, I want to say 16 to 18. I don't remember because I kind of foggy in these time frames because I was like, just trying to figure out how to get out of school and go make money. But they, they actually got an investment property, but they always complained about it, always was a money stock, it never really made money, blah, blah, blah. So again, anything with money, it was always hard, it was always negative. And I genuinely, I'm saying this straight up today, where I'm at my life, mentally, emotionally, financially. I think about this as. Cause again, this all starts in the brain. But making money is very ultra easy, easier than anything I've ever thought. Once you understand the principles of investing, once you understand the principles of money in general, and a lot of times we think money creates freedom. Well, until you get in tune with yourself, I'm looking to be free of myself. I'm looking to be free of my negativity, free of opportunity. You know, I, I, I just want to grow. And money is a great tool. Don't let anybody ever tell you, you know, oh, man, you know, money's not going to solve everything. Well, I can tell you right now, being rich with money is much better than being poor with. No, like, being poor. I'd rather, I, I saw a great quote one time. I'd rather cry on my Bagatti than to cry in my trailer, my mobile home. And it sounds douchey, maybe to you, but probably not, because you're listening to the show, so you know where that's coming from. Because if I have a Bugatti, I'm probably giving a lot of money away. I'm doing a lot of cool shit in life. It's just sometimes you have bad days, sometimes you have bad weeks, sometimes you have bad months, etc. See, just because you have money doesn't mean you're not going to have bad seasons. In the game of life, it's oftentimes it happens a lot more. Why? Well, because we're progressive, we want to grow. Things don't happen fast enough. And I genuinely, I own lots of companies. I have many, many, many, many employees and people that rely on these companies to produce revenue and grow, and lives would be changed or altered if that stopped. And I take that very fucking serious. See, when I'm buying stuff, I know people see me buy cars or whatever. I have a great car collection. I'm buying more. I'm actually getting ready to buy Another one today, for a matter of fact. But I'll probably put three miles a month on that thing. I don't really go many places because I don't have anywhere to go. I want to stay home. I want to work on my dreams. I'm writing some books. I have some podcast shows I'm working on. I have companies. I'm growing, so it's like I don't need to go anywhere. I know my wife doesn't like that sometimes, but can her And I would go out on dates and day dates and all that stuff once in a while. But I want you to understand is like, I'm growing me financially because I was born out of lack of safety. I would see, like, unstable times. I literally would see my mom and dad crying because they weren't sure how they're gonna pay the bills. I'd see a stack of bills on the table and it's whoever got that, whoever got picked up is gonna get paid. The other ones are just gonna have to wait. I see people like, you know, making decisions to go to the doctors or the hospital because they don't have the $20 back then for the co pay. This is a true fucking story, by the way. These are true stories. This happened more than once. I saw many, many things happen because of lack. See, a lot of times you get into desperation mode and you do the shit that you don't necessarily want to do, but you do it because you're trying to solve that immediate problem. See, the thing is, I never wanted to live in fear. My fear, truthfully, is me dying. Me not having my brain when I die, right? My kids have to take care of me or my wife or whatever. I don't want that. That's. That's. That's a big fear for me. You got to understand my thought process to understand where the way I invest, I invest in people. I love people. I love people. I love the jockey ideas are everywhere. Great people are not so everywhere. Not as much. I love hard workers. I love people that care. I love people that want to make change. And I'm looking for these people anywhere and everywhere at all times. Through social media, through. You know, it could be a server at a restaurant meeting at. Could be anywhere, anytime. Truth is, I was rolling in Traverse City. I got out, stop at the rest area. Me and my son, we're going out to go to the pisser. And this guy, like, somehow he's like, hey, nice Cadillac. Because we have that new Escalade, blah, blah, blah. And we start talking and Then he's telling me about his buddy, owns his company in Traverse City, Boat rental, blah, blah, blah. We start talking, exchange information. And I like people. I like to talk to people because that's what I do. So there might be something there one day, who knows? Could be a cool story. But I'm investing in that kind of stuff all the time. And I do lose. I do lose. I was talking with a buddy of mine today for an hour and a half prior to the show, and he's going through a tough time, not financially, but mentally and emotionally. And the money's there. The problem is his drive's not. His relationships are disconnected right now because he's been overly focused on making money for so long. See, and that's what sometimes I don't think people realize is, you know, it's hard. This is why retirement is such a big lie. But it's so hard to bust your ass for so many years thinking that by the time you make 10 million a year you're going to be happy. Well, you might be happy because you hit a goal. That doesn't necessarily mean you are going to be happy. So things I like to do is invest in people because it keeps me connected to the day to day and the people that love hustling and love working and sharing their excitement, I really get excited about that actually. That's why I love things like the deal maker family. I do 50k a year group because I get to like literally be a part of their journey. And that's very rewarding for me emotionally and mentally as well. I love to be on the cutting edge of stuff. Recently, as of February, I hired a great crypto coach. I've owned crypto since 16 or 17. A little bit of Bitcoin and Ethereum, like the main coins. I never. I'm not a trader, by the way. I'm not buying and trading. I'm not trying to do swing trades and all that shit. I just truly do believe in the future of cryptocurrency. That's my belief. You don't have to like it. I'm just telling you what my belief is. So I hired a coach, as I would recommend everyone to do. Hire a coach. It helps you. You ask questions, you can expedite learning curves, you could gain confidence. I could borrow his belief, I could borrow his knowledge and implanted in me and I'd say I just take his word for everything. I could do deeper research based off the conversations we have, et cetera. Anyways, I pay this guy, you know, five Figures, whatever. For a couple hours we sit down. He helps me. I make a $50,000 investment in a coin today. The same coin's worth $2.4 million today. Eight months later, not even eight months, less than eight months. Seven ish and a half months later, it's worth 2.4 million. That might sound cool. The truth is, I pushed out. I actually moved 116,000. I was going to make that move. Instead, I just put 50 in just to test the waters. Not right or wrong, but the truth is 116 or 50,000, it doesn't affect my life either way if I lose it. And the thing is, if I'm educated, my risk is down. Because I'm educated, I understand the risk, I understand the upside, et cetera. I just, you know, I said, hey, I believe it, but sort of, right? So if I had to put 116 in, that'd be worth over $5 million. But don't be sad. It's worth 2, 4 only on 50 GS. And the good news is I actually bought more as it went up. I bought. I started buying more at 3 cents. I started buying at 0.8 cents. Then I bought more at 3 cents, 5 cents, 15 cents, all the way. Actually recently just bought another million coins at $0.40. So a lot of cool opportunities there because I do believe that cryptocurrency is powerful. And again, I'm staking it. This is Hex, by the way. I'm not saying go invest in it, but Hex, I believe there's massive upside there. And then Cardano Ada, that was another coin I got in at 38 cents. Today it's at 28290 somewhere around there. And I have a lot, a lot of those coins. But my goal is I got a Gamify ship to keep me interested. So it's like, hey, I want to generate $6 million in net profits. I don't have to. They'd be unrealized profits because I'm not looking to take the money out because I don't need it. But like, I want to grow my wealth, I want to grow my knowledge, I want to be on the cutting edge. I like to be a part of that conversation. And because I can kind of see it, I see how it works, I got frustrated just like everyone else does, setting all that shit up. Cause there's a lot of accounts set up to do it. Decentralized, centralized, blah, blah, blah, blah. And again, I'm a real estate guy, so I understand risk and reward factors. I'm a Business guy too, right? Like, I understand there's risk involved in everything. So it's hard for me to understand why people think making money's hard. Where I'm at today in my life, I get it. It's hard because we're dealing with hard situations, hard people, hard environments. As a real estate investor, you're dealing with shit all the time, right? You're dealing with a negative, motivated seller. You're dealing with a tire kicker buyer. There's a lot of shit conversations you got to have to ultimately make the sell or get the deal done. You got to spend a lot of money on marketing. You gotta spend a lot of money on your team. As soon as your team gets acclimated and understand what you're doing, they go off on their own. It's hard, man. You can make a lot of money. What I've discovered is through all my other companies I own, real estate is pretty hard. For real, it's good, it makes decent money, but it is hard overall. I have other companies that are very easy. I know Joe Polish coined this term ELF businesses. Easy, lucrative and fun. I have a company that generates millions of dollars a month for us, and it's very fun, it's very lucrative, and it's very easy. And a lot of people are winning in that company. I have people making more money in that company in a week than they used to make in months, many months combined, because the model is conducive to those opportunities. I have another company in the data world that generates a lot of money every single month. And it's fun, it's exciting. We're on the cutting edge of opportunity. We're learning how to get better data. We're learning more importantly how to use the data to serve the prospect, to serve the people in the data environments that we're in. It's very fun. Now, listen, I'm not in the day to days of any of these businesses, by the way. These are things that I see the big vision, I know the jockeys and I make the investments. I'll invest time, I'll invest money and, or both. And connections, right? A lot of things we could expedite through connections. I have a lot of great relationship capital that I've made massive amounts of deposits over my life to help people. Truth is, I'm not even good at asking for a lot of help because I just want to grind it, just like you. I want to grind, I want to. Want to work hard because, right. The harder we work, the more we make. That's a Lie, by the way, because I can tell you right now, there's a lot of people work way harder than me that make way less than me. It's not that I'm better than them, it's that I've worked really hard on myself to understand. I want to work hard and I also want to work smart. More importantly, I must constantly fucking evolve. Every second, every hour, every day. I'm not the same me 30 days ago, not the same me 30 years ago, I'm not the same me, fuck three minutes ago. We're evolving at such fast rates, like crypto, for example. Why I like to be on the front end of crypto is because there's so many people against it. So many. And the re. And then you talk to them, they just don't understand it. They're uneducated. I've invested many, many, many hundreds, if not thousands of hours of time researching, watching videos while you're out around getting up with your buddies. I'm in my theater room on YouTube watching creators of crypto. Richard Hart, all these guys that created Ada Ethereum, who's saying this? Why are they saying that? What's this mean when they do that? What's a fork? Blah blah blah blah. Like busting not. But it's not even hard work. It's just educating yourself, getting in the trenches to understand what I'm up to, what is how I can be better, how I can be smarter with my money. Because trust me, everyone wants your fucking money. Everyone. I want your money. If I can help you, why wouldn't I? Why would I not want your money to help you? See, money to me is just a tool. It's an amazing tool. I've donated more this year than I've ever in my entire life. I've invested in more cars and watches than I even knew was a thing. Yes, I said invested because there's certain things you could buy that could become investments. Some of my watches have went up 100 plus percent in the last 12 months. Now I'm not saying I predicted that, I'm just saying if I didn't make the investment in top notch timepieces, that wouldn't work. I could go spend $250 at fucking a store buy. I don't even know what kind of watch is 250, but whatever kind of watch 250, as soon as you walk out of the store, things fucking worth zero. But I can make an investment by, you know, 50, 35, 45, 50 hundred plus thousand dollar watch and all of a sudden These things are worth double or more. It's pretty interesting how we've been taught about money, right? My wife isn't buying Michael kors purses for $500. I don't even know what those cost. But whatever they cost, she's going to buy the Chanel's, the Hermes, the 5000, the 15, the $30,000 purses. Oh my God, it's so over the top. Cool. But did you know that we can sell those for more money than she paid for them and she's used them. See, the thing is, is what do you know about money? More importantly, what do you do with your knowledge of your money that you know about money? I buy everything. I just said, by the way. Watches, purses, cars, etc. I buy with cash flow producing assets. Companies, real estate, Crypto. Yes, crypto can be a cash flow producing asset if you stake it, which is a very cool thing. And by the way, my staking with our crypto. And again, this is not braggadoci. I'm just fucking telling you truth. Literally, my staking, what I generate in a month is what I used to dream about making in a year. And I don't do dick. Except I, I saw it, I learned about it. I took my, I took my dollars where my mouth was and put it down. And now I'm seeing it through fruition. See, a lot of you guys are out there fucking talking shit, not doing anything. If you talk, if you did as much as you talked, you'd be way wealthier, way more connected, way more opportunities. And money, again, is simply a tool. And I ha. I don't have anything figured out. By the way, I'm not acting like I'm smarter than you. It's just, I do think that you have to understand the contrast. Understand what's driving someone to work the way they work, to earn the way they earn. A lot of people are bragging about how hard they work. No one cares how hard you work except you. I remember when I was 18, 16, 13, and I would work and outwork anybody and I'd brag about, I'll work outwork you any day. Yeah, but we're all, we're cogs in the will. We're replaceable. I want to be irreplaceable. I want to connect with you at such a deep level that you can't go anywhere else. See, in my real estate investment company, and this is true, I've sold thousands of turnkey real estate deals. And if they bought them and held them and did exactly what we said they're worth three, four, five, some of them ten times of what they paid for them. Seven, eight, ten years later. Very good investment. But what's cool about this is there's other companies that started popping up. I was training what you would want to call training, because I would do three day, you know, two three day events, showing people what I was up to. I'm not worried about you taking what I've done and competing against me, because the only fucker I'm competing is that person looking back at me in the mirror. By the time I'm sharing it, I'm already massively ahead of the average person that I'm teaching. Well, definitely that I'm teaching it and I'm just sharing raw data. But what was cool was I we would forge such great relationships with our clients is that people would try to poach them that I would teach, which is fucking stupid. But they'd try to poach our clients and they'd be like, hey, do you know Steve Johnson? He just called and said he can give us a $5,000 better deal than you. Oh, okay. Well, I do know Steve Johnson, but what does $5,000? Yeah, man, I know we would never go with them, but just heads up, he's poaching people or trying to poach people. And I'm using Steve Johnson as a fictitious name, of course. But what's cool about it is you build loyalty. That's why I'm here on this podcast show. I want to show up every week to be in your ear, to let you know that I'm here. I'm a real person, just like you. I have massive amounts of flaws just like everyone else. I do have a couple little things I'm great at. Very few that I'm not good at. Many, many, many things. But very few things I'm good at. But I know how to see big picture. I'm very good at. Wow. I see the big picture. I'm very good at taking massive quick action. Like literally, I've seen it, I get it and I'm on. So it's funny to me. Let me give you an example. I have people that reach out to me. It's like, Mark, I'm interested in your mastermind. 50,000 you already know. It's $50,000 a year. You already know. I have a lot of successful people. It's been like, literally people that are online every day talking about how the deal maker families change their life in two months, three months, three years, five years, et cetera. And they Follow them too, because they'll use them as references. Yeah, man, I've been listening to so and so and blah blah, blah, blah. Cool. So what do you want to talk about? Well, I want to see if it's the right fit for me. Yep, we got to talk to every single person. I talked to each person prior. And when I say, man, this is a fit for you, how do you want to take care of it? Send a wire today. I can get you the details. Blah, blah, blah. That's when the rubber meets the road. That's the difference with the people I work with and that's the difference with me. If I'm calling to waste your fucking time, I'm ready to make a move. This car I'm about to buy today. True story. I talked to him about three minutes yesterday on the ride home from Traverse City while my wife was driving. I said, I'm in. Tell me where to send the money. Here's my address. I'm not price haggling. I'm not trying to fucking, you know, beat them up for $2,000. I'm trying to get free. Whatever, dude. I already know what the car's worth. You've priced it right. A fair deal is a fair deal. Now, see, some people get a hard on to try to save two bucks or to try to feel like they got a deal or got one over on someone. But why? Why? If it's a fair deal, it's a fair deal, period. See, this is how I grew my real estate company too. I told my team, because this is what I do and this is what I believe, because I know it's true. Call and help the fucking person. It's a human being on the other line. This is like your grandmother or your grandfather or your mother or your father or your uncle or someone that you care about. Hear them out, guide them, give them direction. Solve their fucking problem. By the way, that doesn't mean we have to buy the house. If we can, great. If we can't solve their problem, make their life better. By hanging the phone up with you, by giving them a direction. When you do that kind of shit, you build loyalty, you build trust, you build relationships. You get people want to win with you all the time. I see guys online all the time talking shit like I'm abundant, every single one of their actions. By the way, they're the guys calling me, hey, man, I want to learn about your DM family. Cool, what's up? And then you make the say, yes, this is a no brainer. And then they can't pull the trigger on 50 grand even though they just told you they made a million dollars. They're fucking lying. They're lying. Not saying all, but I'm saying most. Because people that make real money don't waste time like that. Not in my world, especially. I already worked in my brain that I'm executing. I already know what things cost and don't cost. When I talk to you, I'm. Yes or no. Not fucking. Maybe not. Let me get back to you tomorrow. But, motherfucker, let's do this deal today. Why would you throw that in the universe that you let everything just cycle around? I'll get to it tomorrow. I'll get to it next week. I'll get that. I'll get. Yeah, I'm gonna do it next year. I'm gonna do that. When things change a little bit over here. You're a fucking liar. You ain't gonna do dick. All this comes back to money. So you think when you pay 50 grand for the DM family, it takes from you? What if actually that added to you? What if you actually investing in that new office that you know you need to get? Because it's time. It's scary, but it's time. Your team sees you making moves. Your team sees you growing. Your team. Share it with them. Guys, I'm fucking scared. It's a big goddamn investment we're about to make, but I'm doing it because I trust you, I believe in you, and God damn it, our product is the best in the market. Do you agree? Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. The energy and the momentum alone, if you lead them and guide them and share with them, will pay for that building many times over. Just share with them. I'm scared. I've done this many times. I do it all the time, actually. Fuck. Colleen. That's a big investment. 280,000 this week. What do you think? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Wow. It's a big number this week, but do you think we can pull it off? Yep, I'm in. What do you. I trust you, Colleen. I trust you. I believe you because I know they came to the game prepared. They shared the data in a proper way. That is very conducive to, like, hey, we're going to grow this bitch. Here's the data. Share the data. Not the drama. Right? Data, not drama. I can make decisions off of data. I could not make it off your bullshit drama. No one cares about your problems. It's true. So, money again. I told you a show would be a little Sporadic today. But I want you to understand where I'm coming from when I'm making my investments. I have investments, lots of them, with many different people, many different companies, and I'm always growing. And my buddy I was talking to today, I, I, I have a decent amount of people that owe me money. And he's like, dude, like, is it even worth it? Because one guy owes me a decent, real decent amount of money. And I was like, dude, I'm not changing me because of one bad apple. I'm not, not going to do it. I'm not going to veer to what I'm capable of, my vision of where I'm going because of some dickhead that is a con artist at the highest level that I've known for a long time. He's all talk, all, I'm gonna let that ruin me. It's gonna make me better, right? I'm having different procedures on the front end, a different filtering process. But other than that, I'm gonna keep at the game, dude. I'm at the game. It's like in football, you get your head whacked, you're blowing snot bubbles. Do you stop playing football if you love the sport? It actually gets you excited because you're like, that will never happen again. Because I'm going to get my head on a swivel a little bit better. I'm going to stay a little bit more focused. I'm not going to look as far down the field as I used to. I'm going to do both, right? You start getting more conscious of these things. Sometimes you don't know it's a problem until it's a problem. And that's okay because that means you're growing. Dude, I would never do anything if I learned about all the problems. Fuck, I'd have never got married. I'd have never started dating. I'd have never had kids. But thank God I got married. Thank God I have two amazing kids. And thank God I didn't know about all the problems. Truth is, you could have told me about all the problems. Maybe some people may have, but I wasn't listening to him because I didn't. I wasn't there yet. So for me, money is simply a massive tool. I want to protect my house. I want to protect my family. Shit's crazy in the world right now. You better get your shit in order. My boy Sean always says, get your house in order. I've been saying this for years to myself. I'm only, I'm focused on me. I wrote A book about it called me Economy for God's sakes. Get your shit in order. Get your money dialed in, get your brain tight, get your shit under control. Because I can tell you right now, when shit hits the fan, you'll be in a way better position. If you have many millions of dollars, you'd be in a way better position 10 years from now if you busted your ass today when things are hard, It'd be way easier ten years from now. A lot of lazy fuckers out there sitting around. And if you follow me on social media pretty much everywhere I go, I give hundred dollar bill tips to servers, staff. You know, the lady cleans our place at the hotel. I gave her $100 and said thank you. Because right now, the people that are working will be a thousand times better off in the future than the lazy pieces of shits that are sitting at their house milking the system, taking advantage of an of a situation and they think it's an opportunity, it will come to bite them in the ass. Not. Whatever happened with like, like you as a person being a man. For me, it's a man, right? Like literally, I'm gonna sit my ass at home and do nothing, thinking that's manly. I'm gonna brag to my buddies that I'm not working, but I'm getting paid more money than what if I did go to work? Dude, I don't care if I got paid half my ass showing up to work is worth way more. Just the effort and the actions are worth way more than dollars. See, again, you gotta understand where my brain's at. I want the money, I'll get the money. But I'm willing to work for it. I don't need it, you know, I don't need you to just give it to me. I want to provide a service. I want to provide a value. An exchange to earn doesn't mean I have to work hard to earn it. I've worked hard for 25 years to earn me. So I can go share it with you and hopefully expedite your results. So money, it's a tool. Don't let anybody ever tell you getting stupid filthy rich is a bad thing. Because if they say that that's more about them than you acknowledge that cool and. Or fucking stop talking to him about it and. Or disassociate, limit association with him or whatever, right? Some people just don't get it. Oh, man. Money is the root of all evil. No, love of the money is the root of all. I don't love money. I Love me and I love what I can do with money. I'm a great giver. I want to give more. I want to be more. I want to hire better people. I want to hire more people. I want to give to a bigger cause. I want to share my blessings with other people. I can tell you right now, there's a lot of great fucking people that have no money, that can't share like I share financially. They could make a bigger impact. You can make such a bigger impact with money. Money is simply the tool. You could build wings. You could help people with cancer. You help, you know, give people experiences like we did. Our boy Nick that passed away recently to be able to fly his mom and dad, mom and him on first, mom and him on first class to the super bowl game to give them tickets that they could never afford and do things. Take them to Disney for seven days, full expense paid trip, limos and blah, blah, blah. All this stuff just to give him a smile on his face that has no dollar value. I still talk to them, his mother today. Money is a tool. Use it wisely. Get investments, build cash flow. Get so much cash flow that you're like, I cannot believe how much money's coming in. And then when that happens, get more. Because if you can do 100,000amonth, I can promise you, you can do 500,000amonth. If you can do 500,000aMonth, guess what? You can get to a million a month, etc. I know it's real. Now is the time. Dig in. It's go time and again. If you. If you think money is the root of all evil, please unfollow me. I have nothing for you. If you think working hard is stupid. I'm not saying working hard stupid. I'm just saying working hard without evolving is very dumb. My uncle does construction. He busts his ass every day. I bet you he has less than $1,000 in his savings. Not because he's not a hard worker, because he doesn't understand investing. He's a hard worker. He just works really hard. Then he gets home, he's like, dude, I deserve. Blah, blah, blah, blah, boom. Spend. Like he's investing all the wrong energy. Go learn on YouTube. Pull it up. Join a mastermind. Join a local group. Join a free group. I don't care. Just join something to connect with people that are talking and thinking about the right stuff. It'll change your life. So, again, I would love to hear your thoughts on this show. I want to start talking more about other things. I'm investing in different. I'm in 18 different verticals that I have investments in personally that are generating. Some are generating cash, some are generating cash flow, some are going to be an exit for massive amounts of cash. But the relationships I'm building through the process. I just invested recently into 30 restaurants. That's a new game for me. The ROIs look pretty amazing, could be zero, who knows? But at the end of the day, I'll never know if I don't get involved. See, I'm not afraid of losing. I'm afraid like I'm more afraid of not winning. Losing is just part of winning. I want to get in the game. I want to get my teeth kicked in. I want to get kicked in the nuts, punched in the face. I don't wake up and say I can't wait to lose money today. But I do know it's a part of the process and I don't avoid it. The key is to make your winners bigger than your losers, have more winners than losses, and just stay in the game. So love to hear what you got going on. I'm here for you. Message me DM family if you got the balls to step up. It's Mel only, by the way. Not that I don't like women to help women. It's just the guys peacock around females. It's a fact. They do that. I know because I'm a guy. It's what we do. So instead I'm there to help the guys get to the next level. And not just with financially, but emotionally, mentally, physically, with their spouses, with their children and get their money. Right. So anyways, I'm here for you guys. If you need anything, let me know. I have a lot going on and I'm going to be sharing with you more and more. Follow me on social media. If you're not, I'm pretty sure you are. But if you're not on Instagram and Facebook at Mark Evans dm, I got something cool coming out too. I'll share with you guys next week, so be on the lookout for that. It's 100% free. It's another way for me to give back to you. If you have business opportunities that make sense, that have a lot of upside, a lot of great opportunities, I'm looking at them every. I look at opportunities every single day and if there's an opportunity that makes sense, I'd love to hear about it. So again, appreciate you being here. Thank you for the support. Let's go get that money. It's go time. Have an Amazing day.

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