Favorite Memories and Key Takeaways from the Land Geek Summer Bootcamp

Hey, it's Mark Podolski, the land geek with your favorite niche real estate website, thelandgeek.com and on this week's roundtable podcast, we have almost all the usual suspects. We got the Zen master, Breathe in the mailing, Breathe out, the marketing. Mike Zano. Michael, you're looking fit. How are you feeling?

Fit, thank you. You know, I don't know. I'm doing well, thank you. I'm down here in Florida moving our daughter into college and just chilling, so that's pretty cool.

How exciting. Exciting times. We've got the technician, Eric Peterson, Franklin, Tennessee. Eric, how are you?

I'm well, thank you.

It's good to see you. I love it when you call me Big Papa. Tate. Litchfield Tate. How are things in Sin City?

It's good, man. We are doing well. Life is busy and it's a good time to be a land investor.

It's good to see you. Last but not least, you know him, you love him, Brain. The professor, your flight school Sherpa. Scott Todd from scotttodd.net landmodo.com learn anything about anything. Investor ninjas.com. scott Todd, how are you?

Boring.

I'm great. How are you?

I have Covid. As you can probably hear my voice.

Yeah, I mean, do you know how you got it?

I do know how I got it. I think that's going to be a roundtable discussion. Live boot camp in San Antonio. What were our biggest takeaways? Mine was a horrible virus, but. Mike Zaino, what was your biggest takeaway?

It was not the horrible virus. My biggest one was I miss getting together. Like, it's been. It was a year. Like, literally a year since we all came together. And it. Although, I'll tell you, the virtual boot camps are amazing. There's, you know, the ability to attend and, you know, just wear a dress shirt and wear any kind of shorts or whatever you want and just relax. That's nice. And all the information, but the networking, the face to face, meeting people, I think to me, that. Is that too simple, Mark? I enjoyed meeting everybody and seeing them in person and talking to these people for a year and finally meeting face to face.

Yeah, see, I'm not real, like, judgy. Like, let's say a Scott Todd, where he's going to look at your answer. You'd be like, too simple, Mike. No, I think that's a great answer. So not too simple for me at all. Scott said he's not even responding. At some point, I thought I'd get an eye roll out of It.

I mean, look, for a second, I thought that Mike said that he enjoyed getting together and wearing a dress, but I know that's not what I heard. Like, for a second I'm like, did I miss that?

That's because Mike is hanging out with Dennis Rodman in Florida, and that's where your mind is.

I did have a cigar with him.

Yeah. Look, Mike has a sit down with Dennis Rodman. Next thing you know, Dennis Rodman is off to Russia to free the WNBA player. Coincidence?

I don't think so.

I may have. I may have put the bug in his ear.

You know, this. This power today.

Too much time in the water.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, before this thing devolves, let's go to the technician, Eric Peterson. Eric, what was your biggest takeaway from San Antonio Boot Camp?

Well, first, I guess let me say San Antonio, the hotel we go to there, it's always one of my favorites. I really enjoy going to that hotel. There's a lot of history there. So that aspect is always fun. What's not fun is waking up at 3am every morning with someone screaming down on the street. But nonetheless, we'll get through it. Takeaways from boot Camp. I think that, you know, it's always good to get together and see everybody. See the coaching students that we've been talking to on Zoom for, you know, months and months and never met them in person, to shake their hand and look at them eye to eye. You know, that's a great thing, I think. You know, generally speaking, you know, I did spend a fair amount of time in the VIP room. I think it was a really, really solid VIP room. I saw our students in there working. You know, they were listening to the lectures that were given. They were applying that and putting in the work in addition to networking with each other. I know they went out to dinner on, you know, multiple nights and did other things together. So, you know, the fact that they're out there building community, they're networking together, all of those things are really powerful as they continue to grow their businesses.

Yeah, absolutely. And there's this great quote by Tony Robbins. Proximity has power. And when you're in that room, that VIP room, and everyone's at this higher level, it has power. And the fact that everyone has this abundance mentality, it wants to help everybody. And taking that knowledge that you and Tate and Scott and Terea are sharing and then being able to apply it and have everybody work together on it is a really powerful combination. And, you know, not to shamelessly plug the coaching program, but I'll shamelessly plug it. You know, you've got to be in coaching to be in that VIP room. And as Scott Todd likes to quote, you want to be in the room where it happens, so. And that is, you know, a very popular Hamilton song as well, so it sort of checks off all the boxes. Anyways, I digress. Tate Litchfield. I love when you call me Big papa. What was your big aha moment from boot camp?

Well, I'm surprised Eric's aha moment was. Or his takeaway was. Was earplugs. Like, dude, come on, you gotta travel with that. You should know better by now. San Antonio, that place is wild. But, you know, I had a lot of aha moments. Like Eric, it was really fun to link up with members of the community and brainstorm and have that ability to problem solve in the flesh. Right. I really enjoy that. I think it's really unique about our community, is that we are all there with pretty much the same goal, but we're willing to help others in order to get to where we all want to be. And so that's really unique and it's really interesting. I've always said it's probably the best part about Bootcamp is the people that come. The other thing that I really enjoyed was conversations with other people, and it's exhilarating to talk to somebody who is as passionate about something that I am. So I go in there, and I selfishly kind of recharge my batteries because I'm meeting people who have just now discovered the land investing business model two, three, four months ago, and they are just obsessed with it. And it's cool to sit down and have some of that excitement, you know, rub off on me and hear about their wins and give them little tips or, you know, advice on how they can improve and get to where they want to faster. So community, I guess, going along the same line as Mike and everybody else. But that was my big takeaway, is I missed everyone.

Yeah. No, I love it. I love it. It's. It's so true. And since we're short on time here, let's just move on to Scott Todd. What was your biggest takeaway?

I mean, like, everybody else said, you know, like, it's. It's about the connection that, you know, we haven't been together in a year, so that was quite interesting to see everybody. And, you know, I think that when you look at boot camps and how they've changed, you know, like Mark, we used to just have a lot of toolkit people in and toolkit people are always welcome to boot camp, right? But all of a sudden you have a lot of flight school students that go to boot camp. Like, it's almost like they go to flight school, then they go to boot camp. And so the, the knowledge, as you see the knowledge of the room rise, it's always cool because, you know, like, we used to have to talk about getting the list. Okay. When was the last time we talked about something so basic? Right? Like, life has gotten so much easier for anybody starting this business. It's really, really cool to see how stuff that we used to have to talk about at boot camp we don't even talk about anymore. And that just shows that the model has evolved, it's gotten better, and the educational opportunities have just risen to the fact that people are now walking into boot camp with way more knowledge than what they had prior to, let's say, flight school or anything else.

Yeah, no, I, I, absolutely. My biggest takeaway is, and I agree with everybody, like, our community is second to none. It really is. I mean, there's no, there wasn't anyone in that room I wouldn't hang out with or like, or be like, annoyed. Like the airplane, the airport test. Like, if I was stuck in an airport with them all day, I would be just fine hanging out and having conversations. And I had a lot of side conversations as well that were, that were really, you know, very just, just fantastic. Like, you just learn so much about people in their lives. And, you know, I'm, I'm kind of getting that age now where I just want three things in life. Good food, good conversation, and a good book. That's it. My needs are met. And for, for sure, boot camp meets all, all my, my needs in doing that. But what really stuck out to me, I think, was the fact that and Mike alluded to it had been a year since we'd all been together and how it's sort of irreplaceable. That belly to belly energy of, of talking to somebody and virtual is great, don't get me wrong. But there's, it misses that magic of being in the room and just getting to know someone really at a deeper level than you can in any other way than in person. The knowledge was great. I always learned something new at boot camp. One of the things I learned was Ross trainings brought it up in our Facebook module. He's having family and friends do post his ads for him so he doesn't need to go out and, and get separate Facebook accounts. I mean, just a simple little tip was like oh, my gosh. It's kind of brilliant. So, but at the end of the day, it's, it's just an amazing, amazing experience to, to be together. Anyways, we're at that point in the podcast now where we're going to ask the technician for his tip of the week. A website, a resource, a book, something else actionable for the auto passive income listeners to go improve their businesses, improve their lives. However, we got to give a shout out to our sponsor this week, which is paxlovid, to help you get over Covid. Just kidding. Just kidding. It's flight school. Learn how the next 16 weeks can transform your life. Go up the mountain of land, investing quickly, safely, efficiently. Scott Todd, who's done it thousands of times. Add your Sherpa and oh yeah, that flight school tuition ain't gonna cost you nothing. Guaranteed you're gonna make it back 180 days or less. Just show us your work, your next step to make your life so much better. Because once you got that passive income to work when you want, where you want, with who you want is simple. Go to the landgeek.com training. Thelandgeek.com training all right, Eric Peterson, what is your tip of the week?

Yeah, so I can't take full credit on this one. This, this book recommendation actually came from a coaching student, but I, I downloaded it and I've listened to probably half or two thirds of it and it's, it's been a great listen, so I'm gonna share it with the community. It's called you'd Next Five Moves Master the Art of Business Strategy. And I don't know, it's, it's, it's been a, an interesting perspective about business. Little tips and tricks along the way and motivating your team and, and so on and so forth. I, I think it's a solid book if you haven't checked it out.

Yeah. Your vision must align with who you want to be. Your choices must align with your vision. Your effort must align with the size of your vision. Your behavior must align with your values and principles. I like that.

It's funny, Eric. Well, this is the book I boxed you about the other day on Friday, you and Scott. I voxed both of you guys and like, hey, either of you read this book and it's funny that Eric brings it up. All right, that solidifies it. I'm picking it up. I'm going to do it.

All right. And it's so not. So you recommend the audio as well as the Kindle.

That's what I've been listening to is the the Audible book.

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