Practices for Personal Growth and Happiness (Mike Agugliaro)

Mike, welcome to the Creative Genius podcast. I’ve been looking to our conversation for quite a while and you are up on the East Coast and hopefully safe from all the hurricane issues that are going on. Yeah, very safe and excited to be here, Gail. Well, it’s our pleasure. So thanks for being here. I was thinking back, you and I met, my gosh, 2015. I know it was in a mastermind group. It’s been a while. And I was just thinking about how

when I met you, you were just so quiet. You’re very intent, you’re thoughtful. That’s the memory of my meeting with you. And what I’ve come to find out is how brilliant you are at business. And I’d love for you to share a little bit about your journey and how you got into doing what you’re doing. And we’ll get into your current business, but I’d like to start way back at the beginning. Well, it’s interesting. I don’t hear anybody really tell me Mike is, was so quiet and stuff, but I guess.

As a, I am a natural introvert. So now thinking back, I don’t like big rooms, a lot of people, and I normally sit and observe. But yeah, look, I’ve been on my own since I’m 15 years old. I always say I’m a survivor of a really tough parent divorce. And I ended up in a vocational school because back then it’s like you’re either.

fit for college or they’re like, just felt like I was going down a conveyor belt and it was like college, no, you might, you’re probably a plumber or an electrician. And so I went to a trade school and I became an electrician by trade. And then I ended up in the world, you know, I had a mortgage by time I was 19 years old. That was, think it was, you know, it’s funny about interest rates today. talk about back then in 1989,

I had a mortgage, it was 18 % interest. And I’m thinking people are freaking out over seven, 8%. I’m like, I was 18 % in nine years. I think I paid off $1,000 on this thing. And I started working for people. And I thought my boss was an idiot. And I figured I could do better than him. I’ll just start my own electrical company to find out.

I was an idiot just like my boss. You think you know, but you don’t know any better. And I struggled. So everybody listening, I understand struggle. I struggled for about 10, 12 years. I couldn’t hire people. I didn’t understand customers. Seems like nobody had money and everybody complained about the price. And one day I had a couple turning points, Gail. One was my son was being born. He’s 25 now, so this goes back.

ago and I remember going home my wife was at the hospital with my son and I remember putting together one of those rocking like gliding chairs so my wife could do the breastfeeding thing and stuff and I remember probably about 11 o’clock at night gal I sat in it and I built it I just broke down crying I was like I’m gonna be just like my dad I’m gonna work myself I’m never gonna be around for anything

And that was one of my big turning points that something had to change. And I don’t know how it came about, but the enlightenment was there must be somebody that figured it out. Just like there must be someone that figured it out and I have to go pay them and learn from it. So to give people a faster track here, the next 10 years of my life, I built a

plumbing HVAC electrical company in New Jersey from under a million dollars to $32 million in a 10 year period. I had 200 employees, 165 trucks fixing people’s stuff. I sold that in 2017. And then in 2014, I wanted to make a stand. I wanted to change the world. And all my friends were struggling and there’s nothing worse than getting around family or friends, gal.

And they’re like, how’s everything going? And I’m like, oh, I’m great. I’m making a lot of money and I don’t have a mortgage. And I’m like, how about you? And they’re like, horrible. Life stinks. And I was like, I gotta change this. So in 2014, I built a coaching company called CEO Warrior. I started, I coached over a thousand business owners. I had over 20,000 trades people come through my training.

And I sold that company in 2020. So that gives you a little bit, not where we are today, but that gives you a little bit of background for people. I understand growing, I understand struggles, I understand lawsuits, I understand the economy recession of 2008 and Y2K and pandemics. I get all of this. So in all of these situations, here you are, you’ve struggled, you’ve gone through all these difficult challenges.

And obviously, you were smart enough to get coaching, smart enough to get help, and then you started your own coaching business and of course built that to a very successful and profitable business as well. I think it’s really interesting because you have walked the walk, you’ve done all the things that you teach, which is awesome. And I remember recently, and I can’t remember the whole story, but you had posted something not too long ago, which I picked up.

I it was so humorous about how somebody asked if you were certified as a coach and then you proceeded to tell them, well, yeah, I’ve built a company, I had the company of 200 and I don’t know exactly how you said it, but it was so funny. And I was thinking to myself, oh my gosh, you know, here’s the perfect example of someone who has learned, who has gone out and has sought the resources and has changed his way of doing things so that he can succeed.

What do you think is different about your approach versus a lot of people’s approach? I’ll give you two things that I think are very, and it’s funny to say that about the story because the other story I was in Wells Fargo years ago and the woman like first, she’s just like, I’m bothering her. This tattoo guy needs something, right? Like, you know, the world is so quick to judge and she starts typing on the computer and then looks at the bank account, looks at me, looks at the computer. What do you do?

And I told her and she goes, what college did you go to? And I said, the college of common sense. And the woman still couldn’t even get me by time I was done. But I learned two big things. one, how do you get an answer to what you’re struggling on? You create a question. So what is the question you’re dealing with? Number two, ask somebody way smarter than you the question and

You know, I was sharing with my brother about a year ago, even the last two years alone, Gail, between my wife, my son, my team, we’ve invested over $300,000 a year in our own education. And my brother said to me, he goes, you build and sold two big companies. Don’t you know everything? And I said, you know what? I know everything and I know nothing all in the same day.

And I said, the day I think I know everything is the day it’s over. It’s going to start to unwind. So I believe if everybody just writes down what’s the question and my goodness, Gail, I do a lot of training. So I’m on the lot with a lot of people and you know how it is. You say anybody have a question and people they stare and I go, even if you don’t know the question, ask this one question and everybody write it down. What’s the question I should be asking today? There you go.

There’s the question. You all now have a question for her. What’s the question I should be asking? And if people do those two things, get the right people, ask the right question or ask them what questions should I be asking? Life’s going to change for them. You know, it’s so interesting. I’ve had some interesting conversations in the last few weeks with some of my clients. And one of the questions that came up recently was I was talking to this one client and she was.

very upset and very emotional about things. And I think it’s just been a really tough time for her. And sometimes people are so emotional they can’t even come to a question because they don’t know what to ask. And so I love that, that you gave people a question to ask. But I also think that what was really interesting, and maybe I’d love your opinion on this, what I was observing in the conversation was that she was…

thinking that she reads a lot, she listens to lot of podcasts, and she feels like she’s smarter than everybody, but yet she’s struggling. So I thought this was really interesting, and my thought was, especially as I went back and thought through the things that she hadn’t applied from what we had taught, that a lot of people think they have achieved knowledge and expertise because they’ve listened to things or they’ve read things, but they haven’t taken action.

So I’d love for you to speak to that. Yeah. Well, I think people gain knowledge. I’m not sure everyone gains wisdom. we’re knowledge is going to become because of the technology evolution we’re going through with AI and all this knowledge is going to become pretty much useless and wisdom will be a superpower. The other thing is this world of comparison effect.

I think this is causing more probably addiction and depression than anything in the world because you’re on Facebook and you’re seeing your friend from 30 years ago that you thought was an idiot in school and now they’re married to the most perfect looking guy. They have a beautiful house and they vacation and on Facebook you’re going what happened to me right this person they got they got lucky and

The other thing is I don’t listen to things like that today. If it’s entertainment, well, normally my wife and I, my beautiful wife and I have been together since we’re 15 years old, Jennifer, so it’s 39 years. So yeah, we watch Netflix series for entertainment, but I don’t just consume, and I hope everybody will write this down, I don’t consume information that does not apply today.

Which means if I have a culture problem, I only focus on things that improve culture. If I have a marketing problem, I only listen to things that are going to help my problem. So with the podcast world today, I love all these things. But the thing is, make sure you’re listening to solve the one thing. Otherwise you’re gaining more knowledge and you’re not gaining wisdom. And how do you take action on knowledge? You take action on wisdom.

I love that. Yeah, I think that’s a great distinction. So let’s get back to you selling your businesses. You’ve sold two so far and that’s a very challenging process and only 20 % of businesses ever sell. So you have done it successfully and we have multi-million dollar businesses. talk to us about how that all happened and why you decided to sell.

What the things were that you learned through the process that you’d like to share with other people? What a great question in this I I hope this becomes one of the most viewed episodes for you guys. Me too. I don’t believe anybody sells a company. I believe they sell themselves into a bigger and different future. When I was growing gold medal, like I said, I had a lot of friends that were struggling.

That company was 32 million. ran itself for the last five years. I didn’t have an office in it. I had 200 employees. I loved the people, but it just happened. I loved changing the industry better. So I sold myself into changing because especially plumbers and electricians, these guys, no one goes, I’m so excited today. The plumbers come into the house, right? They have these.

notions of what he looks like and they have these notions of what his life is like and I wanted to change that completely. So I sold that company to sell into this new world called CEO Warrior. And in five years, I made such an impact in that blue collar space of plumbers and HVAC guys. Matter of fact, in the last 36 months, Gale, almost 80 of them

have sold their companies, which is life-changing. It’s legacy-changing. And again, the pandemic came in and I made an impact in this world and I said, who’s struggling now? And people were struggling. They didn’t know how to navigate life through the pandemic. They didn’t know how to navigate business and thinking. So I sold that company because I sold myself into a bigger future, which is…

What we have today, which is food dog group, which is life, business and wealth by design. Because if you don’t have it by design, you have it by default. And some of the things I learned is everybody is going to, let’s not use the term sell. Let’s use the term exit. Everybody’s going to exit their company eventually. You’re either going to exit by selling it. You’re going to make money. You’re going to exit it. I hope not. None of you listening by going out of business, you’re going to exit it because you die.

and then I hope that doesn’t happen for a long, time for all of you. You’re gonna exit it because you decide to, you know, give it to family, but you’re gonna exit it eventually. And I think people don’t ever look at the timeline of what are all the different ways I might exit and prepare for that in advance. And I didn’t prepare for the first one, but the second one, I prepared for an advance. And then this company today,

I always tell people like, finally me and my wife, we we made it full circle. We made it back to what I would call our soul’s purpose, which is to remove suffering and help people have life, business and wealth by design. Because if you go back 30 years ago, my wife and I used to hold out of our house, we did not have a big house. We’d bring 50 people in on a Friday night and we would do empowerment events and break boards and fire walking and

We never charged anybody anything and we’d feed them and we did that. And then I started growing companies. did less of that to come right back to we’re changing humanity. I love that. Yeah. And the changing humanity is really about changing mindset and belief and so many other things. So talk to me a little bit about the core principles behind what you’re doing.

Yeah, so a lot of people, you know, I spent a lot of time thinking about mindset because, you know, my grandfather and grandmother used to point their old crooked finger at me. It’s all about your mindset, you know. And I was thinking back in time and I was saying, wait a second, my dad was a Mason and he used to pour concrete. And when concrete settles, strong. doesn’t change. And that sounded like mindset, which sounded like mind stuff.

I don’t think it’s about mindset. I believe it’s about mind growth. Love that. This is what everybody’s craving. And that’s why I wrote a book called Mind Power, because I wanted to share with people that a lot of the phrases and things that they heard and hear today, they might help some, but what if that word holds them back? Like think and grow rich. I was speaking to 3000 people and I said,

How many of you read Think and Grow Rich? And the hands go up. It’s like they all have a badge. It’s like they have the tattoo of Napoleon Hill on their arm. I read it. And I go, OK, keep your hands up. Now, keep your hands up if you’re rich. And 99 % of the hands went down. So I said, well, wait a second. If the book is so amazing, you’re also proud you read it, but you’re not rich. I don’t know. Is there something missing in the book? Is there something missing inside of you?

Is there a strategy or a timing? But let’s be clear, the book doesn’t change anybody’s life. You’re thinking about the book or through the book is what’s gonna change your life. And until you have mind growth, you have a great significance, but you don’t have great success a lot of times. Yeah. And I think the definition of success, obviously you have a different idea of what that is for you and for other people.

And I’d love for you to talk about that because I don’t think some people understand what success truly is. And again, it’s, I think somewhat subjective. Yeah. You know, my wife and I were driving the other day and we, I will tell everybody listening, I have a great balance between chaos and like I would call it in my life. I have a great balance between heaven and hell every week. Like

It’s balanced. And we were driving because, mean, we have a 22 year old daughter, a 25 year old son, anybody that’s having kids, you’re nodding your head. When they’re little, it’s little things. When they’re big, it’s big things. And then I was thinking, I got this one deal that went south, millions of dollars. And as I was driving with my wife, I said, you know what, with everything that’s going on, I’m just so glad we’re driving together.

We were just going somewhere and I just looked over and I’m like, this is everything right here, no matter what’s happening. So I think if you could look at success as, you know, getting to the point of no matter what you want or what you desire that you could sit in a state of just grace, like you could sit in a state of just going, I’m excited to be alive. Because if you think of like,

the Florida thing and people losing houses and disease and addiction. So that’s my definition of success. I know a lot of people want to say it’s money and business and health. I just feel it is a state inside your mind that tells you that you’re just excited to be alive and you want to be alive as long as you possibly can. And healthy at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s so interesting because I’ll

talk to my husband sometimes. were making a drive yesterday. were building a new house on our way out there. He just looked at me and said, we are so lucky. And he says that probably at least three or four times a week. And he feels very grateful that we have the opportunities that we have in our life. And I think about how that is such a simple thing. And I think his parents brought him up to believe that the simplicity of

the relationships, which is not necessarily simple, but the relationships are everything. if you have a, if things are relatively good in your life, just, you have to appreciate where you are at that very moment because not all people have that situation. A lot of other people have many difficult things to deal with. Yeah. And, and you know, I don’t know about the word luck because I believe you’ve created your luck.

You’ve made decisions. You did things that other people don’t do. And I’m also a firm believer. I believe, Gail, there’s a lot of like old beliefs that I think also hold a certain generation. Like I still say goodnight to my kids every night. My son’s like, when are we saying goodnight? He lives in Maine now. We get on Zoom with his girlfriend. And normally I’m like,

showing them my eyeball and FaceTime and stuff. I’m like pretty, I’m silly like that. And I think those things too, it’s those are the moments that mean everything. And when you look back, when I look at the biggest chaos that I had a decade ago, it really is nothing today, 10 years later. It’s very tiny. And most of the, I always tell people most of your pain and suffering is like,

either trauma, guilt or shame, that you’re still living like it’s today, but it’s been gone for maybe a decade for most people. And you don’t have to live with that. We’re in a world where people created these identities today and they’re living the identity and the identity is not serving them anymore. So how do you let go of the trauma, guilt and shame? Yeah, I’ll give a quick way,

One of the ways is when you when you could see it as balanced, you know, I am around a lot of, you know, professional people and experts like you and they do this gratitude exercise. And I’m a believer that the gratitude exercise, the way most people do it is is actually dangerous. I think it hurts them. Most people are grateful for everything that’s good that’s happening, which is a one sided fantasy.

And so when I go to bed, I do a gratitude exercise. I look at everything that went amazing and I’m like, I’m grateful for that. Then I look at everything that was not amazing and I’m like, I’m grateful for the crack in the windshield, the flat tire, the traffic and the meal and they put the wrong cheese on the burger. And I go back and forth on those gratitudes until I feel like I’m leveled out.

And then I do a gratitude for the future of what didn’t even come yet. So if we pull that back into, what we’re talking about here is that a lot of people are inside their mind, what they’re struggling with. They only see the downside. Now, let me share a story. My mom, this is probably six, eight months ago. It was last summer. She said to me, we were at a, we lived down the Jersey shore.

which is great right now because everybody leaves, right? So it’s only like locals now. It’s like we own the beach now. And my mom said to me, Gail, she said, sometimes when I listen to your videos and you talk about being on your own at 15, I feel really bad. And I was like, Mom, wait a second. Don’t hang on. Let me share something with you. And I said, Mom, you see it as a bad thing that created independence.

It created drive in me. That experience helped me have the endurance and strength to scale and sell two large high eight figure organizations. you know, she’s a mom, so I’m still not sure she got it, but I got it. I didn’t see the downside. I was equally able to see the downside and the upside.

And if everybody can equally see both sides of it, don’t live with guilt and shame and traumas. They start to just extinguish away. just someone listening, just try it with something simple today. Now the world, you have to protect yourself because I’m from a generation where that generation didn’t have much of a filter, Gail. They’re like, looks like you’re bulking up a little bit.

I’m like, is that a kind way to say I’m looking fatter? Right? Like they have no filter back then. Today, I think they’re, people are a little conscious maybe, maybe just a little bit, but you know, people want to embed their shames about, you’re going to eat all the cake? You know, it’s like that game of Thrones, I think where it’s like shame, shame, you know? So yeah, you could balance it out.

Well, that’s a great exercise for people to do and I’ll have to try that myself. Yeah. I like that. Well, you never learn anything really from the things that go well. It’s always from the things that are hard. 100%. Yeah. And I appreciate when things go well, but for a lot of us, we have a lot of things that don’t go as well as we’d like. So we have lots of opportunities to really change our thoughts about that and take that in as a lesson.

I love that. And Gail, the thing I check myself every day with is that thought empowering me or disempowering me. Because let’s say you don’t have enough money in the business or you’re struggling to get clients and all you keep repeating is I’m struggling and people aren’t buying and people don’t have money. Well, you’re going to disempower yourself and that’s the only reality that you can live with them.

versus turning around and saying, okay, I see there’s someone, I’m reaching out, someone’s gonna say yes, I know I’m the best in the world for them. It’s the difference between chaos and certainty. And today, the more you can live in a state of certainty, the more confidence you have and the greater you’re gonna get to what you desire in life. The more chaos, and especially in a world of polarity, you’re saying,

This is unfair and it’s the economy. No, it’s not. is a, everything everyone sees in the world today is human behavior and it’s being driven by, they want to say it’s driven by everyone else. It’s driven by us. If we all change, everything changes. Everything changes. That sounds simple. in saying something that simple, how do you do that? Yeah. Well, you, I believe in playing

you know, we each play our part. We each play our part. When you play your part and you’re out there, I don’t contribute to drama. I don’t do drama. And being an influencer, because I, you know, I have decades of a following of people, you know, every now and then someone wants to come and, you know, they want to give you their Facebook wisdom of why you are horrible and make no sense. And I just say, thank you. You win.

You win. I hope you feel good today. I’m great about myself. I always tell people like I curse every now and then. If you don’t like it, pray for me. I’m perfectly fine the way that I am. So I think if everybody just wakes up when I go to bed, my last gratitude is I say, yeah, if you let me universe, you let me wake up tomorrow. I won’t waste that day. I will do my very best to serve people.

I will give it everything I got. Just let me wake up in the morning. Let me wake up. Let me see my wife. Let me see my kids because there’s no guarantee. And I think when you frame this in a way, I’m so excited to be here with you today. We know each other since 2015. I mean, look at this. This is like, this is life right here. Whatever else is happening, it’s happening because, you know, I don’t believe things happen to you.

I believe they happen for you. You just don’t understand why it’s happening. My wife and I just said it the other day. saying, what are we being balanced at right now? Like, I’m like, I don’t know, but I hope we’re balanced already, because I don’t want more of that chaos that’s happening. And I think, Gail, a lot of people out there, when they see people like us and influencers and people make an impact, they think you live in a land of butterflies and rainbows and skittles. And I’m like,

No, we have the same things. We just don’t let those similar things break us. That’s all. It’s not easy to shift that thinking though for many of us. And I’ll include myself in there. Sometimes I get stuck in my own little pity party, hopefully not for too long, because I’m an action taker. But it’s to me, and this is just me, my first response is, okay, well, this

isn’t exactly great, so what can I do about it? What is the step I can take to move past this and make this a better situation? So that’s always in the back of my mind because some days are just hard and it’s really hard to see the positivity of this situation. But for me, it’s all about getting to action, do something, and you’ll get some feedback and then you can make another shift. But don’t sit there and feel sorry for yourself because it won’t solve the problem.

But I’d love your opinion on that. I don’t believe that there’s any positive or negative, good or bad, right or wrong. I believe there’s only the definition you choose to give it. And if you think about that, then you get to stop a minute and pause and say, OK, what is this really? Now, my fail safe is I ask questions of smart people every single day.

There’s probably not a day in my life, don’t, I have four different coaches, I’m in four different types of mastermind groups, and I am the ultimate, not only contributor, I’m the ultimate leader of asking a question. What do you see? What don’t I see? How would you feel if you’re in this, we just got a weird lawsuit the other day from a 1099 employee.

which is a subcontractor trying to act like he was an employee, subcontractor. And I’m like, okay, what do you do? Go to smart people. Has anybody ever experienced this? How did you feel? What did you do? Did it get you in a funk? If it did, how did you get out of the funk? And it’s like, I want to solve things so quick. And the way I do it is I find out there’s probably anybody listening here. You don’t get the badge of honor if this is the first time somebody experienced it.

So you might as learn from somebody else and get past it quickly. Get back to happiness as fast as you possibly can. That’s great. So let’s talk about your current business, Food Dog Group. And you started that a few years ago. I watched you get that rolling and I watched your posts over on Facebook and your wife’s involved and you have a lot of things that you’ve been doing to help a lot of people. What do you think is the

biggest impact you’ve been able to make on people and why is that? You know, we created the food dog name. My wife and I and our business partner, Aaron, we were sitting at a restaurant and I’m a boutique brand builder gal, but I’m a builder of movements. I don’t want to build anything for money. Money will come. I want to build it because it’s a movement that will shift things.

And food dogs, if anybody doesn’t know what food dogs are, they’re mystical like lion dogs. They sit outside castles and stuff, and there’s a male and a female. And when we were sitting there, I said, you know what? And they’re over 5,000 years old. I said, we’re gonna grab something that is powerful in strength, but very balanced. Because everybody has masculine and feminine energy. It just depends on the balance of the two.

And I believe what we’re doing that’s making the biggest difference besides we’re helping Life, Business and Wealth by Design is we have a lot of couples in our world. And you know, because when I was running business only events, a wife that wasn’t in the business, what was she going to do? I mean, well, I, okay, so every wife was there going, I’m so excited. I’m going to go to a place, learn marketing at a company called CEO Warrior.

Like, come on, like if that isn’t scary enough for a lot of women, like, I’m gonna go there and they bang tables and bang their chest. It’s like, okay, so I had a very imbalanced organization. I didn’t realize it until I made people wealthy and then they were getting divorced, which was never the plan. And then I was making them wealthy and then they weren’t getting healthy because now they have no more money problems. So they’re going out and eating and drinking all this. And I was like, man. So what we did was we created

an organization that can help where men and women, couples or individuals can come together and learn and grow through a balanced approach so that they can improve their life. If they have a business, improve their business with the goal to get to wealth and have a legacy. I don’t know how it is for women, but I’ll share on a man’s perspective. If you look at your legacy,

Most people don’t know. And I wonder if you know, like, do you know your dad’s dad’s dad’s dad? Most people don’t know. That’s only four, four away, which means in three or four, you’re not even a distant memory of anybody. And I was thinking, wow, is that what this is about? Like.

You’re just gonna like my kids, kids, kids, kids won’t even know who I am. And that motivates me to create not only a brand and create an impact. And we have a target, not only for the impact, our immediate targets to impact. So thank you for having me on. It’s to impact 1.2 million people or more by 2030. And we want the brand to impact people’s lives.

and people might be interstellar by then for the next thousand years, thousand years. And I believe that makes us different. And we have a world of experience because, you know, my wife’s in the business, my son’s in the business, I have a partner, we have a team of 17 people, and we work with them every single week. We’re their board of advisors. So if you’re gonna buy something, sell something, you’re struggling in your mind,

And if you want your life to go faster, well, you you get your mind, I’ll say, get your mind back to where it was. Because Gail, a good friend of mine said, probably over two decades ago, he says, and everybody might want to write this down. He said, you’re born perfectly fine. Life has a way to make you un-fine with the hopes in your life to getting back to fine. So if I summarize food on,

We want to get you back to find as fast as we can. Love that. Well, it’s great. And I’m curious too, and I’m sure part of this is your wife, but who is your greatest inspiration? Wow. Well, there’s so many. I’ll give you one that might surprise a lot of people. And I share this story because I feel it’s impactful. My dad, he was a great inspiration of a strong man.

And he passed last year in November and you know, he was holding my hand a couple of weeks before he passed on and hopefully this isn’t too sensitive for anybody, but maybe it’s a good memory of who you love. And he said, you know, Michael, I’m so proud of you. And I said, thanks, dad, that feels good. But I told my dad, I want you to know something. I’ve been really proud of me a long time. And he just looked like that was one of the most magical things.

One of my first inspirations is myself. I inspire myself and I challenge myself. But after that, my wife, my dad, my mom, my son, what an inspiration. 25 years old, author two books, coaches over 40 people, helped create Decca Millionaires at 25 years old. My daughter at 22, like so.

Probably the other answer nobody gets is every single person has been an inspiration for me, from the person working at the grocery store to you, to the listeners, to people on social media. I’ve never met, but they did a post. I’m inspired by every human on this planet. That’s so beautiful. And it’s so interesting. And I know that you have said before, I’ve read this in a couple of places, you don’t drink, you don’t do drugs, you’ve never done those things.

You’ve been faithful to your wife. You have a wonderful marriage. You have really just focused on being a good person. And it’s very clear that you were centered and grounded at a very early age, at 15, to have found your wife and then to still be together after all these years and running these businesses is amazing. So congratulations on that. Yeah. And don’t make it sound rainbows and skittles again. Never. Yeah. We’ve never done.

I never did drugs or alcohol my whole life, but being on your own at 15, you really only have two choices. Be a statistic or prove the world wrong. And that was one of my goals, prove the world wrong. A relationship only goes that long because you’re really good at arguing and resolving arguments. We still get into stuff today, me and my wife, like, because I, she says, don’t forget to.

switch the clothes and push this button on the dryer. I can’t ever remember the button to push and I never put the dish away in the right spot. So we’ve learned how to do the dance of understanding each other. you know, I believe everybody in a relationship that’s growing together, they don’t have to grow the same way, but if they’re growing together, they won’t grow apart. And that’s something we’ve been conscious of.

our whole life and you know, I want to live a really, really long time. It’s the only way that I can impact the world. I’m pretty excited about the consciousness being able to pull me out and put me in a robot. I want the coolest robot. Like I want my mind to be in the coolest robot ever. So I’m excited for all this wildness you see and you know, they say every household

in the next 10 years, there’ll be more robots in houses than cars on the road. So everybody knows I’m calling my robot Ninja. And I’m pretty convinced like the people that drive by with like loud cars, I’m gonna have my robot go chase it down the road and stuff. So I’m excited about all this world. It’s gonna have tattoos on it. I know that. of course. I already got some ideas of the tattoos this robot’s gonna have. It’s gonna be so, so cool looking this thing.

I know it scares a lot of people, but you know, I met a woman down here because the beaches right down the road where me and my wife live and she she was turning 90 something. This is about a month ago. And I’m like my dad. I’m in the grocery store. I’m the guy that’s talking to you in the cereal aisle or something like I just talked to everybody. And so I’m talking to this woman and you know, she’s been around before cars, before gasoline.

And I was like, imagine then people were worried about cars. They were worried about, you know, washing machines, refrigerators, and then cell phones and internet. And I’ll just tell everybody like evolution has as many upsides as downsides and fear and it doesn’t help anybody because at one time

I mean, I’m glad they have electricity. I’m glad. I’m glad I have a toilet bowl that flushes. I’m glad I don’t have to go to a building and crap in a hole. I am so glad. My grandmother said the Sears catalog was out before toilet paper. They used to use, can you imagine this? So you know what? I don’t fear all this. I love all of this thing. And as humans get stronger together.

We’ll create a more sustainable and healthier and then we’ll become interstellar. And I’m already trying to figure out how to get food dog on Mars and stuff. So I’m in the long game. You can call up Elon and tell them how you can do that. I’m working on it. bet you are. Well, we always like to end our podcast with asking our guests about three things they would like to share. Maybe three takeaways, three ideas that we talked about today or maybe.

didn’t even talk about, but you would like to share with our audience. Yeah. Three things that I would like to share is one, if you’re in a relationship, just don’t, don’t give up. Just don’t give up. Embrace the wildness of your partner. They’re, they’re not there to give you, they’re there to give you growth and vice versa. So that’s, that’s number one. Number two, your health.

Like you got one shot at this and I realized it’s tough. I don’t do sugar and I don’t do gluten no more. And I’m an Italian guy. Like how does an Italian guy go gluten free? Like it’s ridiculous, right? But your health is important and people are counting on you. And then number three, I promise you, no matter what your situation is that you’re in life, no matter what’s happening, there is a way out of it and there’s a way forward.

And if you just, if you ask the right question, the right people, the life that you desire, it’s, it’s not, it’s not that far away. I promise you just read the book, three foot from gold or acres of diamonds. If you’ve never heard of it, just read those too. And you’ll find out it’s right there. Your greatest future is already built. It’s just waiting for you to catch up to it. So I wish all every, all the listeners amazing success and extremely long and

healthy life. You are a beautiful human being. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Boom.