I own 2 homes... and sleep in my OFFICE CLOSET!

There might actually come a day where it will make financial sense for me to have a plane. This is house number one, right next to the gym inside this office. It's here that I record the podcast. This is recording for the courses. This is where we do franchisee training. And then this is actually where I sleep here, the mattress on the floor. This actually used to be a Curves, which was a women's gym. And so we painted the wall, put some soundboard, and made this a facility that we can actually use train the franchisees. This is where we're at right now next to the gym. And this is where my first house is. Right next door to the gym, up in a place called Blaine. Now in Ferndale is where the headquarters is for Augusta Nation, as well as command center and the media team. Now, Bellingham and Mount Vernon are the Augusta lawn care locations that I own. And I go there on Thursdays and there on Mondays. So just once a week do I have to go to those locations. But this is why I positioned my second place that I live right here. So that way I either am staying up here close to to the gym as well as my family lives up in Blaine, but then also the fact that I go here daily, here once a week, and here once a week as well. So it really allows me to have a 30 minute sort of differential in terms of space on the north side of the county, the south side of the county, and then I'm relatively close, only a 30 minute drive down to Mount Vernon, where I go on Monday mornings. Now, some people don't believe me when I say that this is 6ft by 6ft. Pardon the bed not being made, but literally from here to there, six feet. The reason I know it is exactly six feet is because I'm five and a half feet. And if I extend my toes out, I can reach from one wall to the other wall, which you can hardly see because there's no contact. It's a white wall. Literally just have my jackets here and that's it. It's really, really simple. I've made the conscious decision to not spend my money on luxury with me, nice cars or new clothes, et cetera, but rather spend it on something that I feel is the most valuable asset or thing that I have, and that is time. Now, keep in mind, if you're optimizing for time, it's not actually the most frugal thing to have two homes. The most frugal have just the one house and then take all of that money and invest into the business. However, it's not about frugality. It's about taking the one thing that I have a very limited resource of, which is time. And unfortunately, so often the times when we are young, we do not realize the true value of time until we are much older. And so now there might actually come a day where it will make financial sense for me to have a plane. And yes, that, that is a plane right there. Because if that plane gives me more time than the money that I spend, that would be a transaction where time in my mind would actually win out. Theoretically, this has been proven to be about where you make $12 million per year before actually getting a private jet makes any sort of sense whatsoever. Or flying private. Instead of just telling you that this is where I record my course lectures and material and videos, et cetera, I'm actually going to go ahead and let you see behind the scenes. This is the video I am recording for landscapebusinesscourse.com and I'm talking about hiring, flight, finding new applicants, and sort of the system that you create in your hiring process. All right, so I have a pretty smooth kind of setup here. This is a Steinhauser clip on mic and it is plugged directly into the audio source of this relatively cheap Canon camera. And then this is dummy batteried. All I have to do is turn this on and then I flip the camera out like this. Now notice here, see that little, little glare on the whiteboard that's being caused from the lights that are currently still on inside of my studio here. So I do they go over here, turn off these lights, and every single time I turn up this light to hit a. Okay, so now we're back in business. We got our mic on up top, our cameras back on. We do not have any sort of issues. We are in autofocus. There we go. Then all we need to do is go ahead and put the clip on mic on. All right, we're all set up now. Let's go ahead and press record. Red light starts to flash, we're good to go. How I do my notes to these. The course material sometimes changes, but right now I use my remarkable, which is just a digital e reader tablet, to make my notes and I just pop it here on this chair. This chair is just below where you can actually see in the camera. The shot ends about right here. What makes that nice is I can wear whatever I want in terms of my lower body. I can see my notes and I can look at the screen. The other part of the equation is sometimes what I'll do is I'll actually use this screen which is below the camera, so I can actually put my notes here and that is connected to my computer. I can plug in the back on that table. Okay, so when we talk about finding employees, there's a few things I want you to think about. I really don't care what you use to get people in the front, the top of the funnel. Finding employees is literally marketing and advertising the same way you would find a customer. Well, if I can't find anyone to come work for me, I can't get them to show up for interviews, can't get them to actually, you know, want to work for me. You either A, you have to remove filters or B, you're going to have to increase compensation. And in the templates and downloads, download sections, there is a document that lists off all the questions. It makes it feel very systematized. They don't feel as awkward because you're not making up the questions on the fly. So check that in the templates and download section. And in the bonus section, check out the P50 module as well as 30 creative ways to hire when it's very difficult to find anybody that, you know, wants to work.

So this is how number two, it's actually a part of a 10 unit apartment complex that I purchased last year and we've turned a couple of the units into Airbnbs. The rest I rent out. And so it's a one bedroom apartment. I have not cleaned it up, so it's probably still a mess. This is the newest addition. This is the set. So there's four sets at the first house in Blaine where we do the training. I also have the whiteboard set and the podcast set. Here I have the live show set. So this has the camera. And one thing you'll notice on all of my sets is it's really built around functionality and quick delivery. So I turn on those two lights, I go around here, the back, and I turn on this right here. That light is going to light up the purple on the back wall and turn on my microphone. Boom. And then really turn on the camera and we're basically ready to roll. I will literally come around here, bring up my fader microphone. I'm talking to that bad boy right there. This is the live show and how I set it up here. So this is the, the living room. This is also where I want to do podcast interviews here with the likes of Lee and Liz, Lonnie Marcus, etc. Have them here. Here is the kitchen. This is my only kitchen. Got this little stove and a little fridge. Let's look through the fridge. So let's see here. I'm relatively healthy. So in here we got juices, green juices, lots of green juices. And I got.

Salad stuff. So leafy greens, spinach, eggs and cheese. That makes up omelets. Got hummus, carrots. Just a good bunch of good stuff. I don't do a ton of cooking, but it's mostly just grab and go stuff. Best thing to do, though, for me is just grabbing the salad. And I really like to get good salad dressings. This one's amazing at Whole Foods. Here's another one that's pretty good. And then this is technically my bedroom, but it's also where we have the other set. So this set is where I will do some podcast interviews. Here, again, same thing. It's all about functionality and how quickly I can get this set up. So it's one light here, then one light here, and then my back light is gonna be the purple boom. This back wall is dependent on this screen being pulled up. If I had a better camera, I would probably not need the screen because it would just fade out. But all that to say that's the tight shot that you might see occasionally. Again, same thing here. Turn this on. We are live. So it's all really built around speed of recording. There's nothing that I do in terms of the sets that take a long time. It's always about two, three buttons, a couple lights, and I'm off. Without that, I would not record half as much as I do because most sound like right now it is 114. And so I'll start recording here now. And partly why I actually started this set out here in the living room is because that bedroom set is adjacent to the bedrooms of the Airbnb. And so I don't want to be talking and them hearing me while they're trying to go sleep. So at least with this one, I can be talking out here. There's not bedrooms on the other side of that wall. It's just another living room for the next door apartment. So that is both houses. And you can see how it's just really optimized for speed of recording to get the content done. I spend such a little time on recording that when I have the time to do it needs to be very quick. I do not spend a lot of time setting up lights, cameras. It's all like plug and play. There cannot be moving lights. There cannot be, oh, I've got to adjust the camera, change the lens out. There would. Not a chance in the world. It's all plug and play. So just trying to optimize for getting the recording done without making an interference, and a big chunk of my day being spent on it every single day, so that's about all I got.