The Crisis Facing Men Nobody Wants to Talk About

All right, all right, everybody, welcome back to the King's Council. You know what we're about. We're here to have, uh, just real conversations, uh, talk about culture, politics, everything going on in life, uh, but we do this from a kingdom perspective. And we got ourselves a treat today. If you're on the screen with us, you see Mr. Brian Delaney. Brian, what's happening, brother?

What's up, Rylee? Great to be here, man.

Man, I'm so pumped to have you on this today. For our audience, if you're on our email list, you've probably gotten a couple emails regarding this new event. Well, we do have an event coming up, but a new version or vertical that we've introduced here to the King's Council. And, uh, we, we're going to really dive into this a lot today, um, specifically for men. Now, if you're a woman listening, uh, you should be here too, because I guarantee you got a man in your life that, uh, that needs this community and accountability. Um, before we get into all that, Brian, man, I— we just got to give people a little bit of backstory, because you and I go— we go back, uh, man, about 10 years.

It's been about a decade, dude.

It's so wild. So wild. When you were out in San Diego, you're in Florida now.

That's right.

Yes. Yes. So I'm just going to give people— a lot of our listeners know the King's Council is, you know, it's our ministry, it's our passion project to disciple entrepreneurs. But where we've made majority of our income is through dinner seminar sales and marketing called the Social Dynamic Selling System. Uh, when I was on the verge of like, you know, okay, I know how to do this. Uh, I feel like I've perfected this. Uh, I, I just wanted to like convert this into, okay, now let me go consult. Let me teach people how to do this system. But I didn't really know anything about like branding and, and online marketing. Uh, and so I literally typed into my computer, done for you, like online funnel, something along those lines. And popped up the Perfect Funnel System, which was Brian Delaney, uh, which is wild, man, to think that that's even been 10 years now. But Brian has helped really just architect, uh, what, what we do now for a lot of our clients, um, as far as teaching them how to do dinner seminars, how to create a new client acquisition, uh, marketing and sales system into their business. And so Bro, you were— you and your team were phenomenal at building that out. And who'd have thought we would be here 10 years later?

Yeah, I know, right?

Really completely different, but completely different.

But yeah, it's awesome to see how, yeah, things come full circle, right?

Yes. Yes, it is, man. It really is. And we'll give them, if you will, before we— we're going to dive into a lot of meat here regarding men's accountability and um, just culture I think that, that men really crave and desire. But before we get into that, just tell us what, what have you been up to the last, you know, yeah, few years, I guess? Uh, because we, we've really just kind of reconnected. We've always stayed in touch, text every now and then, but we've really just kind of reconnected over the past few months here. Um, but give us a little update, bro.

Yeah, man. So my background of course is taking people like Rylee who have results in their life that, that are outstanding, and they want to bring those results into the world in a bigger way, right? They want to reproduce their intellectual property into a system, right, and then bring that system to more people, right? And so that's my business. I've been doing that for 20 years now. Um, it's— I, I say launching and scaling brands, but really it's launching and scaling expert brands is really what I've been up to, um, until about a year ago, and I started you know, really focusing on— I still, still focus a lot on that. But I also, you know, we're very focused on bringing this mission to life of, of shifting culture and helping men become better fathers, husbands, and leaders. That's really what Millionaire Man Caves at, you know, at its core, what it's about. Yes.

Yes. Which is why I am all about this. A lot of our listeners here know, like, we— I started the King's Council out of just a straight kind of period in my life of unfulfillment. And, you know, I realized you could be successful at a lot of things but still feel like a failure if you're not operating for the God-given intended purpose of why you were created. And that was really just kind of the birthing of the King's Council. We've had, you know, over 1,000 people that have come through our coaching program, but it was just— it got to be a lot, and I felt like God was just leading me to you know, just do it more from a ministry standpoint. So we speak at churches, we still have programs and things like that, but we're technically a nonprofit now. And really we partner to rescue kids and do all those things. But my heart within the King's Council, we talked about 5 pillars, mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, financial. And when you originally, you reached out to me, man, I think I was kind of like, I love it what you're doing, man. I just don't have time for this right now. And when I actually looked at it, I was like, whoa, this is exactly like even better than what I had been doing with the King's Council. You guys have really taken it to the next level here with what we call the Millionaire Man Cave. So for For those that are like, what is this Millionaire Man Cave thing? Give us a little background or even history on it, Brian, if you know how this really come to be for you personally.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, I mean, so Millionaire Man Cave is the name. One of our other owners woke up one night. So, he was going to launch his own IP, his own expertise. He comes from the direct selling industry and he's made over $10 million in that industry personally paid to him, and then he invested into a lot of different businesses. And I was talking to him about a year ago about bringing his expertise online, because he really felt like he's at a stage of life where he wants to give back. He wants to, he wants to raise up other people financially to be successful. And we were like heading down that track. And then God woke him up in the middle of the night. God gave him this whole download. I don't know how long the download was, but he filled up a journal full of things, including the name, right? And so we were wrestling with the name, and then, you know, Brian James is his name, and he goes, well, you're gonna have to— you have to take that one up with God because God gave me the name. And so it really morphed out of that. God showed him that it's not what the initial download was. It's not about I, it's about we. And he gave him this vision of, you know how, you know, Jesus had the 12 disciples. The 12 disciples went out and changed the world. Right? And so the vision that God dropped on Brian was one where there's 12 experts, 12 men of success, not just in one area of life but in many areas of life, right? Like, not just a— just not just financially successful, but also have great marriages, great relationship with their children, great deep meaningful friendships, right? And so it was like this holistic man that form the 12, and then the 12 are pouring into a group of men. So, for me, when he started to drop this on me, mind you, I launch and scale brands, right? I'm in this industry. I've been in it for 20 years. So, I'm like, dude, nothing exists. There's usually one figurehead or maybe two, but beyond that, there's nothing like this unless it's an event, right? Where there's like 12 dudes come together and they run an event and then every guy's like pitching their own thing and then they all go back to their own world, right? That's the only place that something like this exists. But the problem with that is that, you know, you go to the event, you have an amazing experience, kind of like Promise Keepers back in the day. Like Promise Keepers, I went to as a, you know, 15-year-old, 16-year-old kid with my dad. With, you know, tens of thousands of people in a stadium, and it was amazing. Got absolutely rocked by it. But there was no follow-up. There was no accountability afterwards. There was no immersion. Like, it just fell off like a cliff. Like, you just went back to your, your life. Yeah, you know what I mean? You got massive immersion, and we were on this massive high, spiritual high, but then it just, it just dwindled because there was no there's no afterthought of continued coaching and mentorship and training and accountability. So, when I first saw this, Brian, God had highlighted me as being one of the 12. And so, he had told me about this vision of these 12 men pouring into men. And there was a lot more into it, but the heart of it ultimately is to help men get out of isolation. You see, in my business, I call that lone wolfing it. Like I always try to help people stop lone wolfing it as fast as possible because in my business, that's what I did. I lone wolfed it in the beginning because I was in college and I didn't have a budget. I didn't have any money. I couldn't hire anyone. Like I was on a shoestring, right? Like living on student loan debt. Like that's where I was at, you know, back at Liberty University. And so never in a million years would I have thought like, oh, the fastest way to be successful is actually to go align with other people that are better than I am and the things that I need to get done. right? But as soon as I did that, my business completely changed. Like, the trajectory of success went up like a rocket. So for years now, I mean, a solid decade, I've been trying to help everyone in general, not just men, but everyone really, you know, stop lone wolfing it, right? Stop wearing all the hats, right? Michael Gerber talks about the E-Myth, right? Entrepreneur wearing all the hats, right? And so, you know, one thing I always say is like, it's not always about like what or how, but like who's in your corner, right? Like, who's in your corner helping you? Now, Rylee, you were smart enough to be like, I want to take this IP that I've built about doing dinner seminars and selling a mid-ticket, high-ticket offer. You're like, I have no clue where to start. Like, I gotta find a team to help me put this together, package it, and then, and then effectively have a selling mechanism to— for enrollment, right? Yeah, you, you were smart enough to do that. A lot of people don't do that. They just try to learn everything themselves and do everything themselves, and then they end up with, you know, little to nothing to show for it, right?

Right. So burnout. Yeah, you get burnout real quick.

You get burnout, right? Like, I did it. I'm, you know, and people can do it. I've seen it happen over the years, and, and I love when it happens, when someone comes to me like, dude, I went through your course, I implemented the stuff, and I just did a million bucks. Like, dude, that's amazing. Like, you're a unicorn. Like, that's not normal, right? Yep. So that's so true.

So yeah, I remember I had a guy that did that too. He's like, I read your book, I took your course, I did my first event and made $63 grand. I was like, what? I didn't even know that was possible. But he did it. Yeah, that's great, dude.

So some will, you know, but it's a very small percentage, right? So it's like, I, I looked at this years ago. I'm like, you know what, what do people really need? It's like, there's a, there's a book, it's like, it's not about what, it's not about how, but rather who, right? And if you think about it, like, think about this, think about the most successful people in the world, like Tony Robbins, Richard Branson, uh, um, Elon Musk, right? Like, they're not wearing all the hats, they're not doing it all themselves. They are surrounding themselves with the smartest people in the world that they can hire. Yeah. And there's— and, and they put them to work. Right? Like, that's called leverage, right? And that's why they are where they're at, is because they've surrounded themselves with people that are brilliant in the thing that they're the, they're the most brilliant in. And that's all they focus on. They're not— they're also not wearing a bunch of hats, right? They're like, I need to find these specific people that are the best in the world at these specific things, and that's all they do. And if you think about it, like, that's, that's the path forward. So I always try to encourage people, stop lone wolfing it, right? Like, even if you don't have the resources to hire the people, find a way to get them to buy into your vision to be a part of it, and then find a way for, for profit share, because people are open to that idea, right? Like, if you just completely take yourself out of the, uh, it has to be this one way, you'd be surprised if you have an amazing vision for the thing that you want to bring forward in the world. The right people will show up and the right people will say, you know what, let's partner on this thing. Let's do this together. Right. But it all goes back to really the vision of what it is that you're building.

Yeah, bro. That's one thing that I've learned early on is like, I looked for the fruit in other people's life. And if they had what I wanted, I just, I've had to figure out how to get around them, whether it was paying money to be in the same room with them or serving at the table that they're sitting at, right? Like, whatever it is, I just, I had to be around them because I wanted to glean from what they were doing, right?

And that's the key. You just said it. You looking for the, the men and the women that are, that have the fruit in their life, right? And surrounding yourself with those people and finding any way to do it. It could be serving something they're already doing. Be like, dude, I don't need to get paid. I just want to be around you. How can I serve? How can I help? Like, that's— that, first of all, that's not normal because everyone's looking for a handout. So when you come with that approach, they're like— first of all, they're skeptical, like, well, what do you want from me, right? Like, initially it's like, that's not normal because people are usually just looking for a handout, but you're coming with a servant heart, right? But fruit is key. Like, that was one of the qualifiers that we put on Millionaire Man Cave was these 12 men absolutely must have evident fruit in their life not just financial, but across the pillars, the 6 pillars of excellence we call it, the faith, the fitness, the family dynamic, friendship, finances, and fight. So, it's really about the holistic man, right? And for us, those 12 were like you, men like you, right? I reached out to you, Rylee, months ago, right? I dropped you a text and be like, dude, Rylee would be an amazing contribution to what it is we're building here. Uh, because our vision is millions of men. It's not a couple thousand men in a group, it's millions of men. And prophetically, I mean, we've, we've had this said to us multiple times, like, you're, you're the, the Promise Keepers. This is the Promise Keepers of our generation, which is, dude, like, that's like humbling because I was at Promise Keepers when there was 30, 40, whatever, how many thousand people in a stadium. And I do believe that that's prophetic, and I do believe that's going to be materialized. I do see it because, you know, go back— one thing you might not know about me, Rylee, I don't know if I've ever shared this, but about 9 years ago, God gave me a download to start a ministry that was solely focused on helping kingdom people, so helping men and women understand their identity, understand who God created them to be. And God, he dropped the vision on me, showed me the brand, showed me the vision, but he said, do not worry about monetization, just build it. And we'll bring that into the equation later, but that's not anything you need to even think about. Now we're up over 750,000 people in this community that God showed me, this ministry that God showed me to build. Solely around identity. Wow. I mean, think about that, right? Yeah. Haven't monetized it a penny because God hasn't instructed that. It was just feed my people and, and, and build them up and encourage them and help them identify who I created them to be, right?

Yep.

And then fast forward, Millionaire Man Cave comes along the line. It's like, hmm, that's interesting, right? It's interesting the things that God has us go through, um, you know, even, even to the point of You know my story. I died and came back to life 2003, went on a journey to find my purpose. God told me in 2005, after I had to clear some baggage with relationship to my dad, he said, I want you to share your story and help others share theirs. And I was like, what's that mean? Like 2005, man, I was in college. I had no clue what I was doing, my career, my life, nothing, right? But God started dropping these visions of stadiums of people, 2005. And the word was share your story, help others share theirs. And I'm like, what's this mean? Is it like help people tell their testimony of their salvation? Like that's what I thought it was at first. But it's funny now, like all these years later, I mean, it's 20, what, 20, over 20 years later, 21 years later, he brought Millionaire Man Cave to life. And that's exactly what we're doing. We're helping men to— we're giving men a platform. We're giving men a place that's safe, that's, that's confident, that, or that's confidential, that they can share their story of the things they've gone through in their life. And man, when we started doing this, I, I started to see it. I'm like, oh my God, like, this is amazing. The thing you told me in 2005 is now materialized. And yeah, that's wild how it works in the kingdom, right? Sometimes God's going to show you one step to the staircase and he wants you to walk it out. Like, take the first step, take the next step, right? And then eventually it all starts to make sense down the road, but typically it doesn't make sense at the beginning. You're like, I don't know how I'm going to get the stadiums full of people right now. It's amazing. We— I see a very clear path to that with, with what we're doing here with Millionaire Man Cave.

Yeah, that's cool. That just reminds me, it's like his word is a lamp unto our feet. Like, it's not necessarily a spotlight, but if we just take that next step to that, it's like we're just— stay obedient to purpose, and, uh, he'll get the glory out of it. So that's cool, man.

That's cool.

I remember you telling me that story. You died, came back to life, uh, back in the day. So that's when we hit it off. So I love it, man. Uh, when I think about, like, the Millionaire Man Cave, you talked about the 12 Um, which are just some studs, some rock stars. And I think it's super cool too, that it's— they're not all like in one specific industry or one specific space. There's not like, this is a club of real estate guys, or this is a club of this. It's like, no, there's experts that can— to me, it's like the— it's the body of Christ. It's like, hey, everybody has a role, um, in their expertise. And like, your job is just to be excellent in that. And you've put together these 12 that are kind of like the chiefs or the leading trainings, coaching calls. And even just so people are clear, like, what is this? It's a community of men. We have coaching calls, incredible app that is like daily challenges involved within it. But the community component of it, I think, is, dude, that's just it's— you can't even put a value on what that provides for men, uh, because when you, when you surround yourself with other like-mindsetted people— and I, I know that's not a word, Brian, but I've, I've made it up— because I, I don't think it's great to be around everybody that's just like-minded, um, because if we're like-minded, it's like, yeah, we're just agreeing with each other. But mind-setted, meaning we're growth-mindsetted, not, you know, we're not, we're not willing just to be complacent, right? We're growth mindset. And now it could be growth in a number of different areas of the 6 pillars that you mentioned. When you're around those type of people, like, you just naturally begin to level up.

It's just— it's—

you can't— you can't not. It's just something that happens within this community.

Yeah. Well, I mean, so we always say, like, the app is world-class. I mean, we spent 8 months building out the the app, the platform, which is on all devices. And then we built out the website and the funnels and the tracking systems. I mean, we spent a lot of time on that because we wanted it to be world-class. And we always say, you know, in Millionaire Man Cave, it's life scrolling versus doom scrolling, which is like the main social medias, right? All the crap that you see in, you know, on Facebook or on X or on Instagram or whatever, it's like, straight fear-based mongering and just complete, you know, right? It is what it is, right?

Yep.

Ours is life scrolling, right? It's, it's guys that are in there that are, you know, being held accountable on a day-to-day basis across every area of life, not just one. And, and they're collaborating. I think the biggest thing here is a rising tide raises all ships, right? You're one relationship away from massive breakthrough. I know you've experienced this, I've experienced this. Like, I— we put ourselves in rooms where we know the caliber of the men or women in those rooms are going to help us take our business to the next level. And I can't tell you how many, you know, typically this is like a $25K or a $50K or $100,000 rooms that you have to make investment into to surround yourself with these type of people. What's cool about here is like we've got You know, that's happening here at this level, and it's nowhere near that price point because it goes back to the vision. The vision is not thousands of men. The vision is millions of men, and millions of men can't afford that high price ticket, that high barrier to entry. And I mean, we got guys that built billion-dollar companies here that are just straight-up members in the community, and they believe and love the vision and the mission that we're about. And so they're plugging in, right? They're playing full out. And dude, like, what's most amazing to me is guys are getting saved that were not— did not have a relationship with Jesus before coming in. And they're growing closer to God because we're all the 12— we're not teaching theory. Like, this isn't college where they teach theory, right? Like, this is real life. This is— guys talking from experience. And we got guys like from an expert level. The very first qualification is number one, do they have a relationship with God? Do they ever— do they have a relationship with God? Is that evident in their life, right? Can they talk openly and freely about what that relationship looks like? That's number one. Now this is not a kingdom-only, Christian-only. We got guys in here that don't, don't have a relationship yet. But eventually they might. Yeah, right. Like, they might be here for another reason. They might be here because they want to learn how to become financially free in a shorter period of time than, than the normal world is, is achieving it, right? So whatever reason they're coming in, faith is the— is the foundation of the Brotherhood. So that's number one. That's key. All 12 have to have a relationship with God. Number two, they have to be financially successful. And we got guys at the 7-figure level, 8-figure level, 9-figure level, they're all across the board, right? So the qualifier wasn't you guys all have to be, you know, doing over $100 million a year. That wasn't the qualifier. It just— they need to be financially successful. And so that was one, because it's hard to teach finances if you're not successful yourself, right? So that's out of balance. They needed to have fruit in their life financially to be able to teach financially, right?

Yep.

Uh, another big one, uh, was that they don't have a huge ego, right? I always say it's like, you know, you could have Donald Trump in here and he's— if he's a chief, I love the guy, like I'm for him, like 100%, voted for him every time. So that's where I'm at. But, you know, he would take over the show, like he's a very intense, bold character, right? And so it would become the Trump Show. And, and that's not the intention here. We don't want that ego And you see that a lot in the expert industry. You see that a lot in the coaching industry, guys with, you know, over-the-top egos. And to me, ego is edging God out, right? To me, like, that doesn't serve the purpose and the mission. So that's the third thing. Fourth thing was, for us, is that these are men of influence in their own thing. Like, they got their own thing going on. They're jamming. It's like, You know, Rylee, you've got your own thing, right? You've got your ministry, you've got your business, you know, you got the stem cell company, you've got things that are going on in your world. Like, you're already successful, right? But I know for you, like, when we chatted, um, you know, I sent you a message, uh, you responded. I didn't even see it because I got flooded, I guess, and it dropped to the bottom. And then my buddy Tracy, who you talked to— oh yeah, yeah— contacted us. He's like, hey, what about Rylee? Rylee would be an amazing chief. I was like, oh yeah, what happened to Rylee? I don't know, I need to message him again. And I looked, I'm like, oh dude, I completely missed the fact that you have a new baby coming on the way and like all these things. And then we reconnected at that point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, you have to tell Tracy what's up. It's been a minute. So, um, yeah, so I— yeah, I think you're, um benchmark, we'll call it, for the 12 leaders within this is certainly what was attractive to me. The non-ego component of it was a big factor for me as well, just having been involved with a lot of that in the past. But also, I want to be clear for people, you know, the title or what this community is called is the Millionaire Man Cave. But you don't have to be a millionaire. To be in this. Can we just provide some clarity on that, Brian?

That's a great question because I've had it come up. Yeah, it actually came up yesterday. We were doing a lunch with some of our leaders here in Sarasota, Florida, and one of the gentlemen has been inviting guys to our upcoming event, which is on March 28th here in Sarasota, Florida, Bradenton. It's in the area. And he goes, I've gotten some feedback on like, guys don't feel qualified because they're not a millionaire. It's like, well, no, no, no, that's not the point. Like, you don't need to be a millionaire to be in the group, right? We'd like to see you become that, right? Like, we'd like to see— give you the vehicle, the vehicles to become that, but you certainly don't have to be that already. Now, we've got a lot of guys that are here already. Like, we have a lot of dudes that are very, very, very well off financially, and they're here for a different reason, right? They're here to strengthen their faith. They're here to strengthen their, their, their, their dynamic with their family, their wife and their children. Like, they're here to work on other things, right? They're not here for the financial component, although they can learn some things too. But yes, you don't have to be a millionaire to be in Millionaire Man Cave. That's just, uh, that's just a cool name that we— that God gave Brian. So yes.

Yeah, yeah. When I think about this, I think it's—

we're—

who the community is for is really those that just want to call it level up, right? Those that maybe have a desire, maybe, you know, the King's Council, I kind of equated it to like, you know, we are the CEOs of our life. A lot of people will say Jesus is the CEO, but I disagree. Like, he's chairman of the board, baby. Like, he owns it all, and we're put here as kings and priests under the true King Jesus. To operate this thing, right? And, and oftentimes these, these pillars, these 6 pillars is, it's like we, we may be crushing the game financially, but our health is a train wreck, right? Or our relationship with our family is, is just not great. And it's, it's like a true CEO needs to have, I think of a company, like if a company is, if, if marketing is struggling in the company, the whole company struggles, right? Or if marketing's doing their job, but the sales team sucks, The whole company struggles, right? And so if we operate our lives like, hey, I'm CEO of Rylee Inc. and you're Brian Inc., like you have to operate those, those pillars in your life. And if you, if you take on a spirit of excellence, like we should be operating at a high level to, to be able to continue to take territory, to be able to be the husband that I need to be, uh, the, the father that I need to be. The business leader that I need to be, or maybe if I'm just an employee, the employee that I need to be, right? Because when we show up and we manage even the little that we have, scripture tells us like we are going to be entrusted with more. And when you just, when you have a desire or take on that spirit of excellence, that's where it's very difficult to run solo. And if you, when you emerge yourself in a group of other like-minded people like this, Man, first off, it's just freaking fun, uh, number one, right? But it's like now there's, there's a challenge involved. And if you're like most men, it's like we like challenges, right? And it's like, let's, let's do this thing together. And you have a whole team of, of people rooting you on in the same aspect.

Yeah. So the question really becomes like, how do you rate yourself or score yourself from 1 to 10 across the main areas of life, right? Like, think about it, right? Like, on faith, like, where do you score 1 to 10? On fitness, like, what's your health, right? On 1 to 10, right? Is there improvement? Can you improve? Can you be better? Can you, you know, is there gains to be had, right? Number 3, your family dynamic, right? Can you have a better relationship with your wife, right? Can you have a better relationship with your children, right? That's family, right? Friendship, This is big because we want all men to have 3 men in their life. The problem globally is that men don't have one of these guys in their life. And this is the epidemic, the isolation epidemic, because men isolate, right? There's been an attack on number one, the head of the family and the nuclear family itself. There's been an attack for decades, right? That's been intentional. That's a Marxist ideology. Attack. Like, that's what it is. Like, the reality— you just look at the Marxist playbook. Like, that's what they're— that's what they're intended, right? They tell you what they're going to do, what they're doing. So for us, here's how we view it. This is super critical. We believe when you help the man step up and, and improve the areas of life in, in his world that matter— faith, fitness, family, friendship, finances, and fight, right? You strengthen the man. The man can then strengthen a relationship with the with his, with his wife, can strengthen the relationship with his family. Now you have a healthy, growing, alive, thriving family. Then you can strengthen the community, then you can strengthen the state, then you can strengthen the nation. So it's like, how do we take our nation back from all of these politicians that seem to just be lining their pockets every day and not having our best interest at heart? I mean, just think about like all the things that we've witnessed them doing in the last 4 or 5, 6 years. It's like how they— it's like the SAVE Act is up for debate at the moment. It's like only legal citizens can vote in our elections in America. Like, right. Hello. Yeah, that should be a law. That should be like— that should be a law. Like, we should not allow noncitizens or illegals to vote in our elections. Right. Why is that even—

I think it'd be common sense, but it should be common sense.

You should have an ID, right? Like the only places Trump lost was where they didn't— they didn't have valid ID, literally the only place. So if they would have had valid ID to vote, would that have changed the game? I think it would have. Right. So it's so it's, you know, really it's it's to us, we see this as a crusade, a crusade to take back our nation and put good people that have our best interests at heart and wanna see America thrive, right? And then beyond that, we can go global and we can help the rest of the world that's a hot mess, like UK and like Australia and like these other countries, right? But the people in those countries can rise up, right? Like we're already a global platform and we have people in other countries already. Like this is not just an America thing, we're global already. So, we have leaders emerging across the world already, and we have just really begun. But that's the question to ask yourself. Do you think you could use improvement in the areas of life that matter the most so you can become who God has called you to become? Yes. Right? Think about it, right? God has called each and every single one of us to play a different role in the body of Christ. Right? Some of us are the mouthpiece, some of us are the hands, some of us are the feet, some of us are other parts that I'm not going to mention. We'll keep it PG. Yeah, yeah, you gotta have all parts of the body to be functioning properly, right? But that's ultimately what it's about. It's about, you know, you stepping up as a leader yourself of your own household, right?

Yes.

And it's about— we always say this, it's like through my children, I'm raising my grandchildren. I mean, just think about that concept, right? Like, for me, I never realized that I was going to carry some of the bad behaviors or beliefs that my father transfused into me until I had kids. Then I was like, oh shoot, where'd that come from? That was my dad. Like, get that out of here. Like that, I do not want that behavior a part of my household. Right? It just happens because we're conditioned throughout our life and things creep up, right? And so we get to be intentional about this, right? We get to be intentional. But I think it's powerful to think about, you know, the children we're raising, they're going to eventually raise children, Lord willing, right? They're gonna, they're gonna raise children. So right now, the, the beliefs, the, the rituals, uh, you know, the, the, the, the time that we spend with them is really shaping their children and their children. Think about that. And that's to us, that's legacy, right? But the cool thing, man cave. Yeah. Go, go, Rylee.

That's good. That's when you start to take it on from that, you know, more of an eternal type of perspective. That's when it, it should really hit home. It's like, man, I gotta get my crap together on this. And I like what you mentioned of. It is kind of a grassroots type movement. It's like everybody wants change in the world, um, and most people just sit back and complain about it, right? But you have no right to complain about what you tolerate in your life. And if you're just tolerating things, um, this is a time for you to, to really consider, like, man, what could I do differently, right? And, and if, if you want change in, in America, if you want change in the the world, then it needs to start in the home front.

It starts at home.

Why do you, why do you think it's a, I'm just assuming this is because this has been a struggle for me for, for men specifically. Why do you think it's, it's difficult for them to really have that? You know, you mentioned that the three friends, right? It's like a confident confidant. Yeah. Um, what are the three again?

The truth teller, the confidant, and the ride or die. Right?

Yes.

The confidant is someone that you can tell anything to and their lips are sealed, right? Okay, that's the, the confidant, right? Someone that you, that you can entrust with whatever it is you're going through, right? You might not want to talk to your wife about something you're going through with your wife, right? Like, might not be appropriate yet to talk to her about it, right? But it's, it's helpful. We found it's helpful to have men in your life that you can air that too and, and get a second set of eyes on it so you can come back to her and course correct, right? So that's the confidant, right? Then we got the truth teller and we got the ride or die. The ride or die is the guy that's there— something happens at 3 in the morning, just think about this for a second, something happens at 3 in the morning, crap hits the fan, whether it's in your marriage or in your business or whatever it might be, who are you going to call? Do you have a guy that you could call and he will not only answer the phone, he'll say, I'm on my way. Yeah, I've got guys like that in my life who aren't even here, and they would get on a plane, they'd fly in, and they would be here for me, and they would have my back through thick and thin. So those— that's what we want to see with men, because we know that that's healthy, right? That's healthy to have other men in your life that know the good, the bad, the different, right? One of the things that we brought it I ran a mastermind years ago, a Christian kingdom-based mastermind. And we had a gentleman come in who ran a mastermind of high net worth individuals. All these guys, qualification was you have to make $100 million, you have to be worth $100 million or more to be in the group. Okay? So, very high level men. And he said to us, first mastermind session we ever had, he said, guys, the faster you become vulnerable and real and transparent about what's actually going on in your life, like take off the masks, lay down the shield, and be vulnerable about what you're really going through. Okay, the faster, number one, you can— you're gonna grow and have more success, but also the faster you're going to be able to gel as men, as group, as a group of men. And it— that was such a great— it was such— it was critical to have that gentleman to share that in that that beginning time because, you know, a bunch of dudes coming up together, coming together for an event, they don't know— we don't know each other, right? But it's at the precedent of if we want transformation, if we want growth, if we want success, we've got to lay it all out, right? And that's what we do here at Millionaire Man Cave. We want to encourage guys to do that because we know that breakthrough is on the other side of that. It's not wearing the mask. I mean, I've been a part of a lot of high-level groups, $25K, $50K, $100K groups. And even there, like, they don't get this concept of, of transparency and vulnerability creates breakthrough, right? People talk about it, but it's like, dude, you're going through something in your marriage. You— it's probably something you don't want to talk about, right? Like, that's what— that's what the thing— that's the thing that you need to talk about is the thing you don't want to talk about. And then the other thing I'll say about this, uh, the men in the— in, in your life, think about this as all— as well. Rylee, when we all die, we're going to have 6 men to carry our casket. Why not know who those men are now and have the relationship capital now so we know who those are rather than just, you know, winging it and just relying on family to carry the casket? Which, right.

Yeah, that's good. I've never, I've never thought of that. Um, yeah, don't put that on your wife.

That's right. Find your men, bro. Right.

And they got to be tough men, man. Those caskets are heavy. So why do you think it's hard? I'm just thinking of, you know, the guys listening to this right now where it's like if, if you just sit there and think and if you can't just rattle off, oh, this is my confidant, this is my truth teller, this is my ride or die, which, by the way, on that, every single time, bro, I think of the movie The Town with Ben Affleck and I think it's Jeremy Renner.

Okay.

Where he's like, Ben Affleck's sitting in the chair and he's like, I need your help. It's gonna, you know, people are gonna get hurt. And it's gonna be dangerous, something like that. And Jeremy Renner goes, you driving or am I?

Yeah. I'm like, yeah.

That's the bro I want in my life.

So that's right, man.

Yes.

Yeah.

But why do you think for those listening, maybe they don't have them, some could rattle them off right away. But why do you think it's more difficult for, for men specifically? Um, even as we get older, it's like maybe when we were younger we had the college bros, um, and as we get older we have family and priorities shift and change, as they should. Um, but why do they— why do you think it's difficult for men to find those type of relationships?

Um, yeah, well, isolation is not just a— it's, it's a universal problem. Okay, and I don't know about you, Rylee, but like as I became more successful, I actually isolated more.

Yeah.

Because I didn't relate to the people that I was connected with when I was struggling. All of a sudden I'm being successful and it's like, oh, like I don't know if I wanna even talk about it with them 'cause they're gonna get jealous or they're gonna wanna take from me and it became this weird thing. So it's not, this is a universal problem. This is not like a, this is just dudes that are struggling, they isolate. No, no, no, no, no, don't get it twisted. Guys at the highest, I've seen the guys at the highest levels of success building, you know, guys that have built billion-dollar brands, they also do the same thing, right? And I think it's because number one, yeah, you do gotta consider the factors, right? We get married as men, we have children as men, we take on a lot more responsibility as men, And simultaneously, we also have businesses that we're building, right? And so that has all— that looks like a variety of different scenarios. But now we've got team, right? And so we're spending a lot of time over here with team. And then outside of that, we're like— I don't know about you, but like, I spend all my extracurricular time, if I'm not in the business, I'm— I want to be with my kids. Like, I want to— I want to take the kids fishing. I want to take I want to go outside in the yard and play in the yard. And, you know, I want to be a present father. So I pour a lot of my time, energy, and attention into them. And what's interesting is that like I live in Sarasota, Florida. I have my deep relationships are guys all around the country. And we'll come together for different things, right? But I never really had like, I have one dude here, no, I have two guys here. That are like— I consider them my ride or die, Louie and David, and they're here, right? And so those are solid. But, but outside of that, I didn't really have like a large circle of guys until Millionaire Man Cave. Like, we do these things called Fire to Fire, which is, uh, local meetups, okay? And that's intended to be like a 2-hour session, bring the guys together locally, come around the fire, mastermind, talk about what's going on in their life, right? And it's this physical meetup component that's free for everybody, but it's super valuable. And so, I held my first fire in my backyard. I invited 2 dudes and all of a sudden, 60 dudes showed up. I was like, "Bro, where did all these dudes come from?" Like, I didn't know there were 60 high-quality dudes that lived here. Right. And now I've been exposed to some really incredible men. I mean, one gentleman built a billion-dollar company, spoke to hundreds of thousands of people on stages around the world. He lives right here, right down the street. I would have never met him if it wasn't for Millionaire Man Cave. Or another gentleman, this dude is a street preacher. He preaches at the beach every weekend or every week. And he's done it for like the last 400 weeks. Dude has literally get, you know, spoken the gospel, uh, and, and brought the salvation message to hundreds of thousands of people on the beach. Wow. Dude lives here. I, I would have never met him, right? But he showed up at a fire, right? And so every single week it's like I'm meeting new guys. I'm like, dude, like, like there's so much— there's It's really the power of relationships. It's a power, it's a power of— it's why do we join masterminds that are $25K, $50K, $100K? Like, why do we do that? Because we know that those people are movers and shakers, and those people will open up and unlock opportunities that we could never. Yes, it's happening here on a massive level because the price point's a barrier that everyone can afford. Right, right. We could certainly charge, you know, $10K, $15K to be a part of what it is that we've, we've built here. And many of our experts do charge that to be a part of their communities. But here, because the vision is so large, we don't want price to be a factor. We don't want price to be a thing that weeds out the group, right? Yep. And so I'm— I've just been blown away by number one, the caliber of men that are stepping up and showing up and serving, like truly have just serving hearts. How can I help? How can I serve? How can I help build the movement? Like they're just, and these are high-level men. These are not schmucks. Like these are guys that have, you know, one gentleman sold a company for $10 million a couple months ago and another guy built a billion-dollar company and another guy's running 100 million. Like these are successful dudes that are certainly busy. So, you know, you don't build a billion-dollar company and have tons of free time on your hands, right?

Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, those— I think what—

and same for you, Rylee. I mean, you're here, you're busy as all get out, right? Yeah, but you're still here too, right? Like, you're here, you, you love the vision and the mission. Like, what was it for you?

Yeah, no, I, I'm glad you even brought that up because I think that was one of my original responses is like, I love this. I just don't, I don't have time. Right? Because I can guarantee there's some people listening to this right now. It's like, yeah, cool. I'm, but I'm busy. Right? I got, I don't have time. And the reality is you, you make time for what's a priority in your life. And when you really do an audit of your life, it'll expose the areas that you're, you're probably falling short. Right? And when you start to make those priorities and priority in your life. And I guarantee you, of the 6 areas that we've talked about, like whether it's your faith, whether it's your fitness, whether it's your family life, or, you know, the fight pillar, right? It's like, again, if you're just sitting back and complaining, you don't have any right to do that if you're tolerating that in your life. And so when you do an audit of your life, you'll start to prioritize the things that are most important in your life, right?

Well, and, and guys can play— like, we've got some guys that are sold out to the mission. Some guys are like legit traveling to different states enrolling guys into the Brotherhood, like, yeah, which is amazing, right? So some guys are— they're playing full out, right? They're on the Monday night trainings, they're on the Thursday night calls, right? They're, they're at the fires, they're starting fires. I mean, we've got several fires that have just popped up here, uh, just naturally, organically. That's because that's how it's meant to be, a group of about 20 guys, not 60. That was the first one we did, and that wasn't— I wasn't expecting 60. Oh, but it's meant to— you can, you can plug in and play based on your, your schedule, right? Like, you could spend a couple hours a week plugged in, or you could spend 30 minutes a week plugged in, right? Like it's not an all-or-nothing situation, right? You could come to one of the events, or you could come to all events, right? Like, you know, you can play— or you— some guys just come to the fire. They just love the fire. They come twice a month to the fire. They meet new dudes at the fire, and they have a safe place to really like air out what's going on in their world. And then— and that's all they do because they don't have any extra time. So What I, what I say is like, you can, you know, what you prioritize is where your energy and attention go, right? You're going to learn, you know, if you're part of the Brotherhood, you're going to learn from super successful men, and it's going to help you sharpen your sword. Like, at the end of the day, and it's going to be from the experience. Like, we always tell our guys, do not overly prepare for your, for your training. We want the most vulnerable the most authentic. What are you actually doing in your life to produce the results that you have? Yeah, it doesn't need to be a polished presentation. It needs to be from your heart, what you actually living out, right, that's producing the fruit in your life, right? So that's the thing. And we've got— I mean, I'm excited because we've got all kinds of things planned, like men's events and experiences, like fishing in Alaska, going and shooting guns at the 100-acre comp— uh, training facility in Florida. Like, we've got all kinds of fun men's stuff. Like, our vision of events is not let's go into a stuffy, uh, hotel ballroom. No, no, no, let's get a tent. Let's go outdoors. Let's do some— let's do some competitions where we're teaming up and we're creating, you know, we're creating— we're actually going to get a little sweat in, you know. Yeah, like, let's compete, because men, I don't know about you, but like, we like— we're competitive. Right? Like that's normal. That's how God made us. Right? And so, you know, it's like for us, it's like, how do we create that container? Well, we've, we've created that container here. Yes.

Yes. I'm, yeah. Again, great component to this, whether it's online, you know, app community within the app. You mentioned Monday training calls, Thursday calls as well. The Fire to Fires is just like locally, regionally. So if it doesn't excite you to be, you know, on your phone in an app, but Man, you want to build some strong, solid relationships locally or regionally. It's a great tool to be able to do that with intentionality behind it, right? It's not like we're just going to get a fire and chit-chat.

Well, I'll give you an example. So I had a gentleman that showed up to my house. He had saw someone posted about the fire just on social. Dude just shows up, right? He parked out of my— out on my street, the whole neighborhood's parked, just cars, you know what I mean? It's just flooded. Yeah. And so he was sitting in his truck. I happened to walk by, I don't know why, but I walked by his car and he was in the truck, and I just waved to him, smiled and waved, and just kept going, you know. I figured he's gonna get out of his truck and he's gonna make his way up, right? He told me after the fire, he said, you know, I was about to take off. He's like, I, I was about to leave. I came, but like, I was about to just take off. Like, I was about to just make an excuse and leave. He's like, I thought, you know, this is gonna be like every other networking event where we exchange business cards. And he's like, you waved. And I was like, you know what, I'm here now, so why don't I just come on in? Comes in and it's like, this is nothing like standard business networking. Yeah, yeah. He's like, dude, like this is way completely different than I had ever thought. And he's like, I got to share a win in my life that I have not been able to share with anybody, but I was able to share it at the fire. And he's like, dude, that felt so good. Like, I need, I need more of this in my life. So, you know, think about that. I mean, the dude just came off a Facebook post. He didn't even know who the person was who made the post. Wow. And he showed up at fire and got wrecked. And, and now he's— and now— and he's a great dude. He's got a local business. He's got a studio. He does filming for all the local businesses and helps them get their message out there in a bigger way. And he's like, man, I need, I need this in my life. I don't have these, these strong men in my life that can hold me accountable, call me out to play it at a higher level, sharpen my sword and expand my network. And so that's why he's, that's why he's here.

Yeah, that's great. I know there's, I mean, we've only been at this a couple months and already it's, it's really growing, which is amazing to see. And I know there's been some pretty incredible transformations that have even happened in that short of time. Could you give us like one or two of those?

Like, yeah, so we wired— I mean, we just hit 300 members. And by the way, guys, this is completely word of mouth because we decided instead of giving our ad budgets to Facebook and YouTube and Instagram, like giving our budgets to the people that don't really like us, We would rather give it back to members and incentivize them to grow the brotherhood. So there's another component here that we haven't talked about yet, but personally, I mean, I've given the big tech overlords, I call them, over $10 million over my career, feeding them with my budgets. And, you know, I'd rather give it to people that I like that share my values, quite frankly. So we build a model that allows it, that has allowed us to grow to 300 members without a single paid ad. Which is incredible. Yeah. But getting into transformation, so I mentioned the one gentleman, he came in, uh, through a relationship. He did not know God. He was far from God. He was nearly on his deathbed 2 years ago, went through cancer and all these things. And just, just by plugging in, coming to the fire, showing up on the weekly training, like, he made it his own decision to accept the Lord into his life. And he got baptized, right?

Come on.

Like, that's one example, right? Another example, a gentleman who his relationship with his marriage was strained to the point where he was sleeping in his office in the house. So every night for 11 years, sleeping on the floor in his office. Okay, I would say that's a little bit of a, a little bit of a problem. Right, right. If you're not sleeping with your wife, there's a problem. So, but by being a part of the, being a part of the, the training and plugging in and like really working on himself, his wife has started to see him change. And we were on a training, and it was all about family and fighting for your marriage and fighting for your kids and fighting for your family. And she actually overheard it, and, and he confessed that she go— she said 'Are you listening to what he's saying right now? He's talking right to you.' And she was like, 'I didn't know you were listening to this,' right? And it just like— so it shifted. So what he's seeing is that the relationship with his wife is, is morphing now. It's changing because she's seeing that he's doing the work to become a better husband, father, and leader himself. Yes. And she's recognizing the change that's happening in his life because he's able to see things from a different perspective because he's, he's hearing from these 12 men who are pouring into his life on how to be a better husband. Yeah, right. Just giving different context, right? Yeah. Like, he didn't have that context mechanism. He didn't— he didn't— all he's got is the mirror, or he's in the picture, but it's hard to see yourself when you're in the picture, right? Like, you can't see yourself, you're in the picture, right? Yeah. Now he's able to to get out of the picture, get in front of the mirror, and be— and get reflected back upon him. Oh yeah, I do have work to do. It's not all her fault. It's not all her fault. Like, right, I need to own my role in this relationship. And the reason why it's estranged and, and, and on the rails is because I'm not showing up for her. And I'm not, you know, I'm not showing up for her in a way that, that, that she needs me to be. Yeah, right. So that's just a couple that we have every single week. We, we let guys get on for an hour of Q&A and hot seats, and, and guys will just come up and they just, they just tell us the transformation that they've had.

That's awesome.

So it's, it's in a very short period of time, and we want— so just so you know, we wired this this way. So this is what I do for a living, right? I, I launch coaching programs and trainings and courses and mentorship programs and all these things, right? So, the big thing for me when I was wiring this out with the other gentlemen was how can we make a tangible impact in these men's lives within 30 days or less? And that was into every— so, everything we created and we call it the first 30 days. How can you create a magical first experience for every man in the first 30 days, and how can you get them to uplevel the pillar? So let's say they come in and they're like, I'm a 4 on fitness, I'm a 5 on faith, I'm a 7 on finances, I'm a 7 on family, right? Like, whatever it is there, how can we just bump it one, one notch? Yep. And we, we call this growth by a thousand cuts, right? Like, you're not gonna— you're not gonna join any program and get six-pack abs tomorrow. Right?

Right.

Think about it, right? You got to go to the gym, like, you got to change your diet, you gotta, you gotta do some things over a period of time, and then you'll get the six-pack abs. Yeah, right. Same thing in business, right? Like, you're not gonna join a program and then next week you're— a million dollars is going to flood your bank account, right? That's, that's not reality, right? So we call it growth by a thousand cuts, not death by a thousand cuts, but growth by a thousand cuts from the perspective of We're giving you the things that you need to do that if you make a 1% shift every day, by the end of 6 months, by the end of a year, your life will look different than it is— than it does now. Yes, because that's life, right? Like, that's, that's, that's reality, right? Think about your business, Rylee. I think about my business. Like, we're, we're either growing or we're dying. There's no, there's no sitting still. There's no, there's no middle ground here, right? You're either growing or you're dying. And so if we're growing, that means we're getting better every day by just a little bit, by just a little bit. So that's how we wired this thing was that to really help focus guys on getting new rhythms in their life from guys, the 12 experts, from getting what are these guys doing to create success in their life? And I can, and here's another really key distinction. In most programs out there, you're learning from one figurehead or two max, right? But it's typically the one guy's way. Here's my way of doing fitness. Here's my way of doing finances. Here's my way, because that's, that's, that's all they can speak to, right?

Right.

Here it's more like a smorgasbord. It's like, all right, cool. Like, I like what Rylee does with his fitness and his health and his nutrition. And, but I like what Ryan talks about on financial freedom. So I'm going to take a little bit from Rylee on, on family and faith and on, and, you know, on fitness. And I'm going to take a little bit from, from Ryan on finances. I'm going to, you know, does that make sense? So it's like, there's not, there's not the millionaire man cave way to do fitness, to do finances, to do, that's not it. Right. And I always say this, if you went to Tony Robbins and you went to Elon Musk, and you said, hey guys, what's your financial strategy? Now, I've had time to spend— I've had an opportunity to spend time with, uh, Tony privately, and so I know his answer to this question. He mapped the whole thing out on a whiteboard, which was really cool. And but if I asked Elon, they would be different, right? It's not going to be the exact same thing. Like, they don't have the— they're not deploying the exact same playbooks for their finance, for their financial situation.

Yep.

Right. But imagine if you had the opportunity to learn from, say, Tony Robbins and Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Richard Branson and name the 12, and you got to— all right, I like this from Elon, I like this from Tony, I'm going to integrate that into my life and I'm going to make that work for me. Yeah, that's how we built this here, which is, you know, which it doesn't exist. The marketplace doesn't have anything like we've created from the perspective of, one, the 12 IPs, the 12 experts, and number two, um, we call them our founding 300 men, which is our next line of leadership. So I, I definitely want to hit on this because the way we look at this, Rylee, is that it's not just about the 12, like the movie 300, where They pulled the top 300 most mighty, fierce men to fight at Thermopylae, right? Against a large army, right? It was the best of the best. We have this, what we call the founding 300 men. This is what we call our next line of IP. And I'll show you how this plays out because these guys, we want a platform, we want a spotlight, and we want to showcase their superpower. Their brilliance, their genius, their expertise. So I have a gentleman who he is— doesn't have it all together across the pillars and the financial gap, but he's really good when it comes to getting your home in order of all of the toxins like mold, light, EMF, all the things, right? So he has a training on how do you test for mold, how do you test your EMFs, the impact of the EMF in your environment? How do you, uh, get proper lighting in your home, right? So he basically optimizes your home for peak performance, right? I'm like, dude, I want you to be a part of Millionaire Man Cave because I want the wisdom that you have. Because he came to my house and he spent a whole day and literally tested every single corner of the house inside and out. To find any leaky, leaky faucets, leaky buckets. Yeah. And, and without him, I would have not found some problems that I didn't know were there. So I was, I was like, dude, you would be amazing at giving this wisdom to all of these men. You're not qualified to really be the chief or an IP contributor, an expert, because you, you're not there yet. But you can certainly help these men uplevel their environments, their home, their offices, right? And so we're doing stuff like that here at Millionaire Man Cave, where the next line of IP contribution is our founding 300 men. These are the guys that we want to have on the podcast. These are the guys we want to show, we want to showcase, we want to spotlight, and we want to platform these guys here within our community and outward to the global community as well. Yeah, that's unique. I mean, You know, we would rather have those guys on the platform than just go knocking on Tony's door and, hey Tony, can you do the podcast for us? Right, right, right. Totally. Men who have amazing expertise and brilliance in the thing that they're the best in the world at, we want to shine a light on that. And the way we do that here is we have to get to know you, right? You know, you have to not only be in the brotherhood, but you gotta— you've gotta show that you care about building the brotherhood and also you know, show up and, and, and help and let us get to know you. Because we're not going to give a microphone to everybody. Everybody wants a mic, right?

Yeah.

But we do these, we do these lunches here in Sarasota and around the country where our— we call them multipliers. And our multipliers are guys that are actually building the brotherhood. They, they, they want to bring the vision that we have to life globally. And so they're building the brotherhood. So we call them multipliers. And we have these lunches, and during these lunches, which I just had one yesterday, we ask the question, what's your superpower? What are you the best in the world at? Two weeks ago, we did one, and this gentleman spoke up, and he has a fat loss clinic, and he uses peptides. We're like, dude, that's amazing. He's like, but I'm really a mindset coach. I was like, oh, well, tell us more about that. He tells us more about that. Then he goes, and I'm also, I also, I do emceeing. I've spoken at, I've done MC for over 80 events, 89 events, 90 events. I was like, well bro, we have an event coming up March 28th. Why don't, would you be open to MCing this thing? We don't have a guy that's like really gifted in that area. He's like, yeah, I'm happy to. I'm there, I'm your guy. Let's, I would've never known he was an MC if it wasn't for that lunch and us getting to know him on a deeper level. Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's cool. I love that, man, because that is— it's just like, you know, the saying, it's lonely at the top, but it's only lonely at the top if you don't bring others with you.

Right.

And so I think that is the overarching, like, component or heartbeat here of the Millionaire Man Cave. It's like, hey, we're all going to level up. We're going to— we're going to run this race well together with accountability and but also just like back to just like that spirit of excellence and whatever it is that we do. You mentioned March 28th. I want to make sure that, that we hit this because this is coming up about a week and a half. Um, I'm gonna be there, the other Chiefs are gonna be there. This thing's gonna be epic, bro. Give us a rundown of, of what people can expect and why. If first off, if you're in Florida, if you're within driving distance of this, get your rear end there, uh, and if you got to book a plane ticket, it no question will be well worth your time. Give us a rundown of it, Brian.

Yeah, so we're bringing together all the experts, the, the owners, the co-founders of Millionaire Man Cave, and we're flying in from all around the country. Um, this is a local event really ultimately for people that are in Florida, uh, but it is open to the general public and it's free. So you can come, you can bring bring a friend, bring a couple friends. I've got guys that are bringing, you know, 10 people with them. Like, yeah, I got a text yesterday from a gentleman. He's like, I've got 11 guys that I'm bringing with me to the event. I've got another gentleman we had lunch with yesterday. He's like, I've got 10 guys signed up, but I'm determined to have 20 guys there, right? That's great.

I got guys flying in from Texas, bro, and Arkansas, coming in from all over the country.

All over the place. Boise, Idaho, San Diego, California. Like, guys are flying in for this. Because this is the very first event that we've ever hosted for Millionaire Man Cave. And so it's going to be special. It's the first thing, um, and we're going to have guys, uh, really speaking about all of the pillars and giving tactical things that you can integrate into your life so you can uplevel your life to be a better father, husband, leader, right? And then also, it's really about— like any event, to me, it's always I always go in with this mindset. What is the one golden nugget that I can get out of this that I can apply to my life that's going to take me to the next level? And if you show up with that mindset, number one, you'll probably have more than one golden nugget. And then the second component is who do I need to meet here? And I always pray before I go on. I'm like, all right, Lord, who do I need to connect with at this event? There's someone here, I know it, that I need to connect with and I need to either lock arms with or support in some way, shape, or form, right? So that's really what it's about. There's going to be a bunch of high-level men, um, very high-level men showing up to this event because up until this point we've been talking to a lot of influential and high-level men. So, uh, you know, we publicly launched this brand in, uh, October, okay? So we're, we're in what's called pre-launch And right now we're reaching out personally to high-level, influential, networked men to be a part of the foundation of this thing, to bring this thing forward in the world. Okay, so at this event, which again is free, uh, which is insane, uh, you're gonna— you're gonna have an opportunity to expand your network in ways that I, you know, nobody can, can, can foresee. There's no, there's no crystal ball there on that one. But, but I, I promise, if you plug in, you play full out, uh, this, this, this event is going to be a, a catalyst for a lot of men, not only unlocking new relationships in your life, uh, but, but shifting the way that you, that you go about, you know, growth, personal development, spiritual development, financial development, all the areas of life.

Yes, no question. Absolutely. If you guys want to know more about that, um, we've created a page on our site, uh, so joinkingscouncil.com. Um, you're going to be able to find details just about Millionaire Man Cave in general. Uh, but then also that'll link you to the actual event page. Um, but get registered, man. This is, you know, one last thing that I just want to end on, Brian. And I'll let you kind of take it away from here and then we'll wrap this thing up. But for somebody that's listening to this right now and they just know like deep down, like there is something, I know God's called me to something more, right? And a lot of our listeners are Christians, right? Not all of them, but I would say majority of them are Christians. They think that, you know, the point of this life is about getting to heaven, which is not true. That's just not true, right? That's not the point of this life right now. That is a part of it, a component of it, to receive Christ as Savior. But it's not that you are saved from something, but you are saved for something, right? And God has chosen you to be on this earth, this time, this place, and all of creation. It's wild to me when I think about that. Like, it's 2026. And God chose you now here today to be a part of something bigger than yourself. Right. And for somebody that's just like, man, I don't know what that is. I feel like there's something out there, but I don't know what it is. Like, what would you do? What encouragement maybe would you even just give to them to just take that next step? What might seem like even risk to somebody, which at the end of the day is just fear of man. And the only fear that we really should have is the fear of God. Uh, and if we start to do a mindset shift of, of, you know, fear is just simply, uh, unidentified faith. If we would just take that step of faith to, to move, right. Take that next step. Like, how would you encourage that individual, whether it's to come to this event, if they can't make the event, like check out Millionaire Man Cave, what, what is it, man? What would you tell them to do? What's their next step?

Yeah. So for me, man, it's, uh, You know, I believe, you know, salvation is step one, right? But I truly believe God wants to use us. We're a vessel, right? And God wants to use us in the ways that he can use us. And it looks like a lot of different ways, right? Like for me, I remember in my early journey as a 15-year-old kid that accepted Christ into my heart, I remember, and then I died, came back to life. Like that was, you know, couple years later. And for me, like, I remember in the beginning of my faith walk, I always— I was like, God, God, like, I want you to lead my way. I want you to direct my path. I want you to guide, direct, and lead me to where you want me to be. Because when you die, you come back to life, and, um, you know, you, you look at life differently. And I remember— yeah, I remember, you know, I mean, the doctor called my parents, said, your son's going to be dead or brain dead for life. That was a diagnostic. Call the night before, and, and the doctor said, son, you're a living miracle. My 30 years being a doctor, I've never seen anyone with your severe condition live, let alone even be able to comprehend what I'm saying right now. So God must have planned purpose for your life. Now it's your job to go figure it out. And what blew my mind at the time was a doctor even saying that. I mean, think about it, right? Like, yeah, that's not normal for doctors to talk about God saving your life. And so for me, you know, I'm grateful for the experience that I had to go through. Obviously God wasn't done with me and there was a purpose, but I believe each and every single one of us has a purpose that God's uniquely designed us to fulfill. And so in the beginning of my journey, I would, I was transferring schools because I was at a public university. I was like, you know what? I need to get around Christians. So I was like, I need to transfer to a Christian university. And I put in my application, I ended up going to Clearwater Christian College for 6 months and eventually Liberty University. But I remember in the beginning of my journey, I said, "All right, Lord, I want you to confirm where you want me to be." And I remember, you know, God confirmed. 3 different people, random people that I did not know, confirmed Clearwater Christian College. And so that's the decision and direction I took. Sometimes God's going to use you to give a word to someone else that he can only deliver through you as a vessel, right? Because that's how God works, right? Like, sometimes God's going to speak to us directly and we're going to get the download like Brian did with Millionaire Man Cave, and we're going to start taking the action to fulfill that vision. Other times he's going to use other people to give a word, and that's going to confirm what you've been already praying about. And I would imagine there's people listening to this right now that God has already confirmed to you. We've already had this happen like a dozen times where I'll share the vision and the mission of what we're doing here, helping men get out of isolation and become better fathers, husbands, and leaders for those that matter the most in their life. And they, and they've said, they say to me, Brian, God's— God showed me a vision of this that I was supposed to be a part of, or I was supposed to start. I haven't done it, but I know I'm supposed to be a part of it in some way, shape, or form. That's happened at least a dozen times at this point. And I'd imagine there's someone sitting here right now, at least one person, that God has planted the seeds in your mind, whether it's revival or whether it's, um, or whether it's, um, you know, men sharpening other men's lives, or whether it's events where people are being transformed in a positive way, shedding the baggage of the past, stepping into the new. You've had those visions. And are our offer to you is step into the cave, right? Like step into the cave. God's doing some really amazing things here and we've just begun. We've just begun. I mean, we are just getting started, but this thing is going to spread and is spreading like wildfire to the point where guys are hearing about Miriam and Man Cave from multiple people. I always say this, Rylee, it's not a matter of when Sorry, it's not a matter of if you're going to hear about Millionaire Man Cave, it's a matter of when and by who. Yep. A gentleman that we are interviewing right now for the expert seat, his name is Ray Higdon. I reached out to Ray because I have a relationship with Ray 6 months ago, 7 months ago. Then David reached out, then Brian reached out. Then Joe talked to Ray, then Troy, and then finally, uh, now Ray's at the table because he prayed about it and God gave him the green light and said, you need to be. But he heard about it from all these different people, and now he's finally saying, all right, I need to pay attention because obviously, like, I'm getting inundated with messages about that I need to be a part of this thing, right? So God works in miraculous ways. And we're just getting started. And there's just, you know, the, the funny thing that I run into, Rylee, is with the people that I talk to about this, like, my— I've been reaching out to a lot of my close friends and influential people in the marketplace, you know, like the Russell Brunsons and like the, the different people that I'm not— that I know. And, um, and they immediately think, you know, well, how much is it? Is it $10,000 or $15,000? And I'm like, dude, no, no, no, it's $97 a month. He's like, they're like, what? That's crazy. Like, well, send me the link, dude. Like, this isn't even a question. Like, it's not even an issue. Like, and I think that's because I'm in the world where people know me for being high ticket and being premium. I think that's why. But we had a gentleman who was one of the top financial planners on the planet, met with Trump's economic advisor a couple of weeks ago. Was sitting down talking about finances. And this is the guy that does finances for super wealthy people. And we were talking to him about Millionaire Man Cave. He's like, dude, I love what you're doing. He's a Christian man. And like, and he's like, well, what's the next step? Like, what do I do? Like, well, like, well, yeah, we'll send you a link. It's just $97. And he literally spit his coffee out. He goes, I was gonna laugh if you said it was $10,000. He's like, $97 a month? Dude, just send me the link, bro. Like, I'm like, I was in. If it was $15, I'm in. Like, and, and that's because the marketplace, that's what these typically are.

Yep.

Right, look at, look, here's a classic example. Ed Mylett, dude runs 3 trainings a month and he's got a community and that's about it. It's about $397 a month.

Yep.

For $97 a month, you get 12 ads and it's weekly 2 to 8 weekly trainings plus daily accountability plus Fire to Fires plus regional events that are free. Like unprecedented value proposition for $97 a month. Like, and that's because the vision in the heart here is again, not thousands of men or not tens of thousands of men, right? It's millions of men. Like we want to change culture and we believe like General Michael Flynn says this all the time. And I've had the honor and privilege of working with him. And he says, you know, local involvement has a national impact. Local involvement has a national impact. For any of you guys that know General Flynn, he said that shouting to the rooftops about it because he said, you know, if you want to take back your government to work for the people, not for special interest groups, it's got to start at the grassroots level. It's got to start in the local community. You got to go to the school board meetings. You got to take back your your local, your local, um, offices. Yes, you can work your way up to the top, but you're not going to do it by sitting on the sidelines. You're not going to be doing— you're not going to do it by whining about it and blackpilling about it and complaining about it. Nothing's going to move. And when you do that, it's only by taking action, stepping into the arena. Yes, that change happens. And I told General Flynn about what we're doing, and he loves it. And I— and hopefully we can get him out to an event. He, he He wants to, you know, I recently texted him about coming and speaking and being here with us because I think it so much lines with his vision and mission for what he wants to see for America. Yeah. And I'm sure we'll have him show up eventually at some point.

Yes. That'll be fun.

I'm putting it out there. Yes. Right on.

Well, yes, this is a good way to end this, Brian, because so Um, March 28th. Again, put it on the calendar. Uh, if you're— if even if you're not within driving distance, I can promise you this is gonna be well worth your time. If you just need that, that, that initial launch, um, get in this room. It's gonna be absolutely incredible. At the very least, uh, go to our website joinkingscouncil.com and you can learn all about Millionaire Man Cave. Don't hesitate to reach on out. Um, we'll get any questions answered. And just like You had mentioned, Brian, everybody that I talk to, they're like expecting this to be $15,000, $20,000 and it's $97 a month. And every single one, it's like, bro, what? Send me the link. Like, whatever. You know, it's just like, it's a complete no-brainer for them. So it's affordable. Right. Um, and there's, there's a part of challenge with that too.

It's like, because like it's priced so low, it's like, yeah, people pay, like people, people pay for, they tend to value and pay attention to.

Yep.

Right. And so that also becomes a problem because it's like, we should be charging $15,000 for this.

Yes.

But because the vision and mission is every day— like, when we launch a sucker in October, we want to be hitting the dude that's, that's, that's in his basement, got a terrible relationship with his wife, can't talk to his kids, is over overweight, out of shape, and potentially on the brink of suicide. Like, guys, there is such a massive problem. Isolation is so harmful to your longevity in life. I mean, it's like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Isolation is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, every single day when you're isolated. And so that's really the heartbeat here. It's really about, that's really the heartbeat here. So that's why we didn't make it a high-ticket thing because then it would only be high-level men, and then we would be missing out on the impact that we can all make together, right? And that's how I believe we'll change culture. We will shift culture. We will be a part of saving America. Good things are shifting, but I do believe that Millionaire Man Cave will be a catalyst for taking our country back and having people in office that are actually gonna serve it. Serve the better interest of the people rather than their pocketbook, which has been far too long. It's been happening for far too long. So somebody's got to put an end to it. And the only thing we can do is show up and, and be a part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Absolutely. Yeah, I'm so on board with that, man, because if, if you're not going to do it for yourself, do it for your kids or your grandkids. Amen. Uh, and, and that's, that's really what this is about. So I love this, bro. Well, we'll have you on again here soon. Um, give— we'll give some updates on, you know, what's been going on in the Millionaire Man Cave. Um, but I will see you here in about, what, 10, 10, 12 days, something like that.

So about 2 weeks. Well, it'll be about 2 weeks.

So yeah, yeah, looking forward to it, bro. Looking forward to it. For the rest of you guys, uh, again, joinkingscouncil.com. Check it out, the page there, Millionaire Man Cave. Um, you can enroll right there. and get onboarded within the app. The, the first 30 days is key. So, uh, get in there and, and get ready to sprint, but then also get there to the March 28th event in Sarasota, Florida. Brian, it's been a pleasure, brother.

Likewise, man. Thanks for having me on.

Look forward to seeing you soon.

Yes.

Everybody else, we'll see you soon.