#52 Becoming so Free That Your Very Existence is an Act of Rebellion

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Greg Denning the Creator and coach in the be the man masterclass and tribe.

And today, my friends, we have a very special and very beautiful guest.

My wife, Rachel Denning is with us because what are we going to talk about?

Today is an extremely powerful and complex idea.

We're going to its philosophical Oil.

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And just just chew on it for a long time to see what necessary action Is On Your Horizon.

So you can be free.

Now before before we get the quarter Rachel, I'm talking and she was like cash, can you even be free?

And there's this idea of that, right?

Like the conceptually like, okay, absolutely.

We are dependent and I would say the best way to be as interdependent. so, we shouldn't be Two independent or two dependent.

We want to find a healthy balance of interdependence.

But there are some things where I, at least my perception, you know, having been in well over 50 countries.

Now, traveled extensively for four.

Decades worked with thousands of men across five continents Most of us are too dependent on things and we've given up our freedom.

So there's a cost there.

There's what I call an exchange rate and many of us are wearing handcuffs.

Some of those are what's been referred to as golden handcuffs where you get all kinds of nice benefits and perks and all these good things, but they are handcuffs nonetheless and many, many, many good men have told me that they're like, yeah, I feel like, I've traded over my freedom of traded over my life.

If my lifestyle traded over the things, I really want my own dreams at the expense of some something or someone they wanted.

So lots and lots of men.

So some have golden handcuffs on some have silver handcuffs on some just have peace crap, garbage handcuffs on.

You've handed over your freedom for nothing, The Exchange on that was just junk.

And so we're going to talk about breaking free.

I know like as far as I can remember, I I just feel like I was born free because for the longest time I just said I've been I've had this rebellious Rebel spirit in me, like you will not tell me what to do sir even as a little kid and I just mad, I definitely had that.

We are you twos?

Like no, we will.

And I think it's part of the human Spirit like, no, man.

But it is born to be here just to be told what to do and yet so many of us just exactly.

Yes.

We in some you know, theoretical or metaphorical sense we remove our spines and handed over.

We Castrate ourselves is like sure, here, take my balls and put them in a jar on the Shelf, over there, and I'll just be your little eunuch, and I'm being blunt here in bold, because it's pathetic.

How many good men are walking around like castrated caged, lions?

And, and the tragedy is, we put ourselves in those cages.

And that's we're going to talk about today.

So all this came about because Rachel saw something trending, trending audio programs so she grabbed it and was like, oh it's trending, this is cool and she threw it on there, too.

I mean, II obviously connected with it in some way because I only share things on our page that I feel have some relevance.

And so I took the audio and I made it into a real and, you know, it It was viral essentially.

And and the audio was basically, The only way to deal with an unfree world.

Is to become.

So absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion and behind the Audio.

I put pictures of us, living our extraordinary, family life.

It happened to be traveling through turkey because that's where we were at the time and you know it just showed pictures of us living a free life because ultimately to me that's what it represents our family.

Civically is able to live anywhere in the world, we want to live.

Well, even then, and this is where I get philosophical because, you know, technically, not anywhere in the world because we have talked about, we'd love to go spend a month in Mongolia, but that's not an option for us because yet, we'll talk through that because our income is internet dependent.

So we can live anywhere in the world that has a good internet connection but that gives us more freedom than A lot of people have where they have to go to a job and earn an income from a location dependent job or career.

So we are now location independent which means we do have that freedom.

We, you know, we've been able to spend the past six months.

Well, if this isn't new, we've spent the past 15 years traveling but the past six months specifically we've been in I think 16 or 17 countries were in Egypt right now and this I think it's the 17th country in the last six months.

And that freedom is brought about by our location independent income, which we worked very hard to create so that we could have that freedom.

We deliberately chose to have that myself find and create an income.

That was location independent because we wanted the freedom to be able to work from live from study in what and we'll come back to all these things.

Wherever we wanted that, of course, we're now we are dependent on a good internet connection, so weird.

Totally free.

What?

And that's that's the other thing too is, you know, kind of my Remark at me, beforehand has that can ever really be free, you know?

Yeah, there's always, there's levels.

There's always levels.

And so, even now, for us, the next level is the amount of Freedom where we can take.

We could take off work for a month and go to Mongolia where there's not an internet connection and we'd be fine.

The in the, the money would keep coming in because of our investments in our business.

Like, that's the next level of freedom for us is to be able to do that.

So, that you have even more freedom, you can now go do that, go to Mongolia and live on the step in agar and, you know, your business is going to keep operating.

Yeah, that's the next level of freedom.

And there's, I like that.

There's steps in that to, it might be the case where I can take a month off of work.

So when I come back, I'll need to keep working.

But the next step is.

So, again, I'm I'm throwing this out to all of you listening.

There's these levels, like, can do you want to be location?

Independent, you don't have to be.

Love you, love your work and you want to be there doing your work in your spot and you love where you live.

Fantastic that's great because you're choosing that you're free.

You have options of choices in your choosing into the life, you want.

Well and even just to expand on that a little more because even the location, there's always trade-offs with everything we talk about this all the time.

There's always an exchange rate.

And even with the location Independence, there still a trade-off because one thing we don't have a lot of is now working, when you're You're out traveling the world.

Yeah, you're meeting a ton of people, but it's not necessarily a networking type of meeting, where you're meeting people who might facilitate or help with your long-term business or career goals, right?

That's not just something or yeah, that too.

That's not just something that happens naturally, as a result of you beat, you know, if with a location dependent job or business, you're meeting the people in your community that are going to be contributing to some of those goals.

And So there is that trade-off where you give up some of that for the other side of, you know, another type of freedom I guess.

Exactly.

And and I think that would be important to point out early on to their, there are A massive if not infinite variety of freedoms and so it's going to look differently for each of us.

But the point here is that we are pursuing freedom and not just going to acquiesce, we're not going to settle.

We're not going to play small and live in a little cage.

We're going to we're going to be free and along what you're saying there.

I think it's important to emphasize that there's different levels of freedom in different areas of life.

And so you have to actually pick and choose what's more important to you so that you can pursue freedom in that thing potentially at the expense of freedom and something in something else.

So, there has to be a hierarchy of Values.

Yeah, the your values and your priorities.

You're right, because there's levels of freedom in each aspect or each role of life and you may not be able to have them all simultaneously.

So the ideal then would be to align yourself and your actions in the pursuit of Freedom.

According to what you value, most and what your family values because I think some people only feel like they're not free.

Simply because they're not prioritizing freedom in the things that really matter to them over.

Freedom in something else.

Well, ironically, it's a lot of self-sabotage.

I'm going to we'll Circle back to that.

A lot of the, your own slavery is your cause.

And so you're sitting there saying, I wish I were more afraid of the Sexes and and when you look good, you dig.

Deep into it.

You're the cause of your own servitude and your own were.

Yeah, you're the cause, or some other value that you have is contributing to the lack of freedom because you feel that, it's Very important when it might actually not be as important as you think it is.

I mean, 411 very relevant example, in my mind is family expectations, and church or Society expectations.

Because I know early on, in our own Journey, those played a massive role.

And so we didn't allow ourselves to pursue certain things or to travel to certain areas specifically with our religious background.

We had this belief growing up that we had to stay within the boundaries of the church we belong to and so it prohibited us from traveling to some place where that church didn't exist, you know, physically because we thought, oh, we can't, we can't go outside of those boundaries, but when we were able to rethink that and re-evaluate that and realize, oh no, we can still be participate errs in our beliefs without having to stay within physical boundaries that gave us more freedom to go have more experiences that were transformative for us that were We're like really impactful in our beliefs and Views and you know, just understanding of humanity and so when we realize that yeah, that's important to me.

But the way I was trying to live, it was limiting my freedom and if I re-evaluate that I actually have more freedom to practice what I believe.

In a way that I didn't view as being possible.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

So many of us are living under the constraints of what I call societal.

Shoulds, and that can be extended family, too.

And I hear this all the time.

Well, my extended family, this or my aunts and uncles, or cousins, or my mom's, my siblings, or cousins, or just like, well, what about all the?

I feel like all these things I'm supposed to do, or should be doing heard that yesterday in a couple coaching sessions, I'm doing this.

Should I'm like why we're does that even come from and it's the societal shoulds it's like things that are kind of said it's either spoken or kind of unspoken along the way and the extended family.

But when you stop and really dive deep into it, I do this a lot with coaching clients and them in the master class.

We walk through this area as well.

Yeah, well no, I've been doing that and it is kind of important to me.

But am I willing to sacrifice my own ideals?

My own dreams, my own gold.

My family lifestyle, because of what What my parents had expected or because of what, extended family thinks I should do.

And almost always there, like, no way, man, no way am.

I just going to keep carrying that along?

And I see that a lot with men, men and women, who They just feel this is pressure from their parents or grandparents like, well, this is the way things are done in like, will you agree with that?

Like, no in fat Aquino like, well, you don't need to keep going along with it.

You don't need to keep participating in things that aren't aligned with your values, right?

And that could be very difficult, obviously, because in, in some ways, essentially you are kind of breaking ties and that can be really hard on, you know, all the members involved.

Moved.

But you can.

And here's one thing I say you can and fact I did this two weeks ago.

We had 27 done.

Oh god.

Well and this will probably may be aligned with what you're saying, but essentially I'm saying that has to happen and for us, it did happen.

But ultimately, I feel like those, those ties were able to be Healed or renewed or recovered after we made a statement about?

No, this is how we're going to do things.

Yep.

This is how we're going to live our life and initially people, obviously kick back against that.

And I'm like, no.

What are you doing?

This is terrible.

You're going to ruin your life, you're going to ruin your kids.

Like we've had all of that but then over time as you prove that, no, you're not actually crazy.

You just saw it had a different Vision that we had.

People come around to that.

Now, if you don't do that, if you if you do destroy your life, that's a problem and they're like your we were right.

But if you can actually produce results, Then they say, oh, actually, you're not crazy.

Yeah, and it can take time.

Maybe it might take a decade, who knows, but if you can produce the results that say, actually, what I was pursuing was a good thing.

It was the right thing for us, here's the results.

And then they say, oh, okay, yes, I actually respect you for that and I think that's a fundamental basis here.

Like if you, if the decisions you make and we'll even talk about Bending or breaking some societal rules in order to get those things.

But if you if you pursue freedom and you tell me to now I'm pursuing Freedom.

There's a kickback, people, feel threatened, they feel scared.

You're attacking that is quote.

Yeah, exactly.

You're attacking their reality of things.

If you just say, well, I'm doing freedom and then you go out and you just tank your life or you, or you gotta do nothing.

That's lame.

And it doesn't help anyone or any cause Breaking Free from the Otis quo is only a good thing if you actually produce extraordinary results, way better quo is there to actually keep people safe and I, you know, I try to tell people this like if you can't do better than the status quo, go with the status quo because it's better than worse than that, right?

So it's in place for a reason because it's kind of like the bare minimum.

If you do this, you'll survive life.

Exactly.

But if some of you something better than that, you have to break free from the status quo, but you have to get the results because otherwise, you will end and we've had this conversation with our kids.

We were like, kids.

We've actually disadvantage you in life because you either have to produce really great results or you're going to end up worse than status quo, you're going to be worse off because of the entrance to the unconventional path.

We put you on, you have to work hard to get.

Those better results.

Because you don't have the status quo to fall back on.

Yep, that is the framework.

If you're going to step away from the status quo, it's because you are absolutely committed to getting better results, right?

That's so important.

So powerful, the people who ridiculed us early on now come to us for advice, and I'm not saying that to boast the saying that that can be the Journey of getting the results and And I want to say in fatica lie that you can still hold your ground and you can maintain and defend your sovereignty and your freedom without totally destroying ties.

Now some people won't accept that they just it's too threatening to them or their reality or their mindset, whatever it is but I wholeheartedly believes, you can you can live your life, you can Live Your Dream, you can establish your own freedom, and maintain it, and fight for it and live for it.

And still keep ties be a jerk about it.

Yeah.

And you'd have to be a jerk about it and you don't have to, you know, burn down the ship.

You don't have to burn down the family farm and two to go live somewhere else and people they don't like it.

Most people don't like change, but it is possible to still have those relationships.

Still be engaged, will be a great person but, you know, dance to doing your own music and make that happen.

So, if you're going to live life on your terms, Is what are your terms?

That's the fundamental.

First step is you've got to decide what your terms are and start building that out and started getting Clarity on the otherwise.

You're you're just chasing.

Rainbows man, you're claiming arts in the dark, you're climbing the wrong ladder you know that whole little story about if you get to the top of the ladder and you realize it's on the wrong wall, well you're in trouble.

So it's back to that hierarchy of what actually matters to you because a lot of times you feel a lack of freedom because you're not prioritizing the thing.

You actually want to be free in for us.

It was it was represented by the ability to travel.

Ville and see the world like early on.

That was the ideal we held up in our mind was to be able to travel full time with our family and we didn't know anyone who's doing that.

We didn't know if it was possible but we thought that's an ideal worth pursuing.

And so we pursued that and we made choices along the way that ultimately led to us reaching that outcome.

In fact, back to when you were mentioning the golden handcuffs.

One of the things I thought of was Longer on Journey.

There was at least two times if not more, where we specifically gave up the golden handcuffs or turned it down in order to pursue something.

That was a lot more risky and no no guarantee guarantees.

No predictability that we thought ultimately would lead us towards this ideal of being able to travel full time, as a family.

I the to I can think of specifically was One was Back East.

One was out west and they were both lucre.

They were both job offers that.

You received that we're going to be you know, over a hundred thousand dollars a year plus benefits plus the you know the allowances the clothing envisions the commission's, you know good jobs and a hundred thousand dollars a year.

That was a great especially back then when we were broke But we turned them down and I say we because we were, you know, on board we were both on board with this.

We turned it down to pursue something.

It was riskier and that no guaranteed.

But to us looked like the path leading to eventual full-time Family, Travel option and at least it was more aligned with the freedom we wanted for our family life's, right.

As you as you were describing that I realized there were, there were multiple steps before that we there were like levels of Freedom.

We were began seeking before we even thought about our dreams are realized we could travel as a Ali, but we had already you guys.

We we bought into the whole like a steady paycheck every other Friday until 65.

If we retire early at 63, that'll be awesome.

We bought into that.

That's how we started our marriage.

But there were levels of the pursuit of Freedom that we took before that.

That got us to the place where we could even Explore the pursuit of location Independence.

I'm trying to travel that's before we even knew that was the thing.

No.

And one of them was when we get into some of these but one of them was was the pursuit of physical health is absolute freedom from from the Healthcare System.

Well we'll Circle back to that Bose, freedom of that it was and it was actually freedom to earn more income because I was in a great career that I absolutely love but no matter how, well I did, if I was one of the greatest in the company, my, my income was fixed.

So my pursuit of excellence and becoming really, really Good at what I do didn't didn't scale like there was no income scale with my Improvement scale, right?

And so we pursued freedom to earn more and that was, it was a guess.

That's right direction.

Yes.

What you had to actually leave that position you love so that we could have more freedom to earn more money and then yeah, step by step, we just kept, we just kept, I remember specifically these moments where we just kept asking ourselves.

We had to decide about nothing important like that, you know the hundred thousand dollar job or whatever and we would say is this going to help us reach that goal.

Full-time Family Travel, is it going to help us get closer to our dream?

And we would say that little thing to ourselves and ask those questions and if the answer was, no, it's not.

Then we said no, we turned it down.

Because We were so committed to that, that we were only going to take those actions that would help us, at least, from where we were, what we could see.

We didn't know all the answers.

We didn't have the path clearly marked out for us, but from where we were standing.

If we saw, it could move us closer than that.

Was the direction we were going to go, even if it was a significant pay cut or, you know, because it specifically, for one of these jobs you turn down, it was a hundred thousand dollars, put the bonuses and commissions and everything.

Or we got offered a 25 thousand dollar, a year job at a non-profit in India.

And that's the one we expect, we accepted, you know, with four kids.

Then I ended up being pregnant with our fifth.

That was the one we took on.

We're like yes, we'll take that one because it helps us reach that dream of having this International experience that we want.

Yep, those awesome, man.

It wasn't always us.

No, no.

Oh my goodness, some of these were so hard and Scary to see.

That's that's why so many people don't walk away into freedom because it's like the wild west or the jungle or whatever you're walking away from what, you know, the known this established society and you was walking into the Wilderness.

Hmm.

Now there's a lot more people going out there.

So there's books about it and videos and courses.

And I mean all of all of our coursework the Rachel's I need a challenge in the group code.

She's just for women.

And then the whole master class I do like there's a lot of people showing how it can be done the way more than when we started right but when we walk away it's still it's terrifying.

And you you experience it all the the heartache and the pain, and the fear in the gut punch in the hard work.

Like it's all there.

But I want to say, In fat ugly.

It's worth it.

Well right, I mean it was there was a lot of failures, there was a lot because you know you're saying oh I'm going to pursue the path that looks like it's going to get me closer, but it's not a clear path.

And there's a lot of obstacles and mistakes and challenges on that path.

It does take you in that direction but not it's not easy and so it's very challenging but from where we are now With the freedom that we have now with the direction we're going now.

It's absolutely worth it in every way.

Yeah, it made me think of a graphic.

I saw recently actually sharing my ask you where, you know, what the path you hope to Freedom.

Looks like he's like this little Trail going.

It's awesome, but it's like no.

You got to swim with sharks and crocodiles and go through the fiery pit just get through the phone Gauntlet in the pursuit of Freedom.

So there Is there is a high price tag on it and I think God and the universe have established away on purpose.

It's not, it's only for those who are willing to pay the price.

Exactly.

It's not for the faint-hearted, and and if you are faint hearted right now, there's a way you can strengthen that and fortify that.

And that's why we're talking through this.

And in the hole, you know everything we're going to do what we did.

You better keep thinking of examples like we started like right from the get-go.

We wanted to be Free from the educational system.

That was one step and freedom.

We're we're like, you don't know, we're not sending our kids to school because the educational system is well partly because you were working in the educational system when we started.

Well, I had this and you had seen the, the seen it, dark side of it all with teachers and students for we had kids.

Yeah, and I'm like, there's no way ever.

I'm sick.

You my kids to this place is run by the The government, didn't anything very much - state is.

So okay, let's do this.

Let's start with education.

But the but the edge, well, maybe you're going to talk about this.

But even that back to this idea of the constraints that we give ourselves, or perhaps sabotage ourselves with the very fact that we didn't put our kids in school.

At the time when we didn't see, it was connected.

That also gave us freedom to live Of in a different way that we wouldn't have had.

Otherwise, if we had opted into the system.

Exactly.

Because by not opting into the school system, we send me like our schedules free.

If we want to go somewhere, we can go.

I mean, you know right now it's May it's a school time but we're in Egypt with our kids going.

We went to the Egyptian Museum yesterday, we're learning in a different way and we have the freedom to do this because we never did.

Get sucked into the system, you know.

And so there's trade-offs with everything and for some people it might not be worth it for them to manage the education of the children on their own.

So, that's a freedom.

They have to give up freedom in another thing that they have to give up in order to receive that benefit.

So, again, it's back to the priorities in the hierarchy, what really matters to you.

That's a great point there.

If you choose to do home, education, or home sourcing education for your children, You might be giving up some freedoms.

No, you are right.

That's what I'm trying to say.

You are giving up freedoms because now you can't do things when you want.

Even if you created a location independent income, you're bound by the rules expectations and responsibilities of the school system that your children are involved with.

So again we're not we're not here trying to say everyone needs to live life like we live it but we're using it as an example of how.

To be free in an unfree World.

Well, you have to start evaluating the areas in which you're giving up Freedom.

Now sometimes we're giving up freedom for benefits, that's how it works, you know?

But sometimes those benefits might not be worth it.

The freedom that we're sacrificing is not ultimately the price were willing to pay.

I would say though with I wasn't I wasn't in this state before with education.

I am wholeheartedly now like get your kids out of school like figure out if way there's so many resources.

Now, there's so many different options and I get your kids out of government school.

I agree with you, although I do believe that not everyone is prepared or You're smiling because you're well, that was a perfect.

Next question, not everyone is necessarily prepared and I don't want to use the word qualified because I don't think like, you know, I'm not a teacher.

I didn't, I don't even have a college degree and yet, I feel qualified to teach my children because of my skills and other areas of project management and Outsourcing.

But one of the things you talked about, you have earned my own education, right?

Otto, I'd active education but I also have gained the skills to be able to manage and direct the education of my children and that's one that's I think the benefit that many people don't realize today.

We live in a world where you can easily educate your children online because there's so many resources online that you're not doing it all yourself.

You're simply identifying the resources and managing the schedule.

So you're director.

Your educational director of the education.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So the question I was going to get to is what Knowledge and Skills must you acquire to even be able to begin to make your own terms.

I'm going to ask that again, let that sink it.

What?

Knowledge and Skills must you acquire to even be able to begin to make your own terms and I think education is the first place we have to all of us.

There's never a graduation from education, we have to pursue and acquire a world-class education.

Yeah.

You're talking about not your children's education you're talking about.

Your individual education.

So I can't begin to establish my own terms and really be free.

If my education is limited again extinct.

Clearly, I can't understand what's happening.

I can't understand myself, I can understand Society, picture, or economies and history like what's happening in the world?

Where are we at in the history of the world and the cycles and patterns in the world?

If I'm just going along with the tide and the waves and like in drifting in on the currents of, I don't even know, I'm clueless.

About what's happening?

I can't I get stylish my own terms and I definitely can't help my kids do it, and I can tell my kids earn a world-class education, either if I don't have my own.

So I need to be working on that all the time and this isn't chronological, where I spent some time, and then all the sudden I and I hear this all the time, I got my education, like, I'm somehow educated, the pursuit of education is indefinite.

You just keep learning.

So we didn't want to be confined by government schools.

And their rules and the garbage they're actually dictated or required to teach and just all the junk that we wanted nothing to do with that wanted to live on our own terms.

One of those ways is to keep our kids out of the school system and pursue education has her way.

So now I mean just on this trip the educational experiences we've had as a family, our children of course have experienced just in the last six months.

Off the charts, man.

Off the charts from thousands and thousands of years of history and seeing it touching it feeling it, hearing it, smelling it being right there, where it happened from the pyramids here in Egypt to Auschwitz.

Oh, Shawn Ephesus in Turkey, where Paul preached and lived for three years to it.

Istanbul, which was Constantinople to Viking period.

And the indigenous people saw me the Sami people and very north of Scandinavia mean in museums and romance.

So many cool things and languages and cultures and religions.

It's just been phenomenal.

And that's only available because of layers of Freedom.

We've been working towards, right?

So that's just one of them.

And again, I want to keep emphasizing this point, so many things that people kind of chop up, chalk up as bad luck or constraint.

So, I can't do that, or I would, I wish I could.

Oh, you guys are so lucky.

So much of that is actually self-inflicted.

Yeah.

For the life were living.

Now, like everything you just described none of that was luck.

It was all very specific and deliberate He and planning.

That's the only way.

It happened and bold, bold, action.

Adam bold action.

Like there, there is luck involved.

I'm not going to say that there's no luck, but there's more strategy and planning than there is luck.

I would say.

And look to me is, is when preparation meets opportunity, right?

Fortune.

Favors the Bold.

Yeah, the more prepared you are and the more bold.

You are the luckier, you are exactly or seemed.

So circling back you guys, the triple trifecta.

Te.

In the, for the whole strategy should be the man, right?

Is Fitness is the first one that's mind.

Body and spirit, it's family, marriage parenting and family Legacy and its finances.

So your income your expenses and your Investments for your financial Independence.

So we can Circle.

We can go through all of those and just touch on them and it in this holistic approach and see how you can pursue.

Freedom or how you're living under constraints.

So let's talk about the physical body, right?

And health Mind Body, Spirit and wellness and how you could pursue Freedom member the quote is that you want to live in such a way become.

So absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Many, many good men are, absolutely.

Trapped or stuck or confined.

By the poor condition of their body.

Which, of course affects their mind and spirit.

So it's a combined.

The obvious example on the surface is addiction, that is bondage.

You cannot be free when you're an addict.

And so the very first place to start, there is to break free from any and all addictions.

I just but you're very bold action and massive discipline its systems and strategies to make it sustainable to make it worked Breakaway.

But I just, I won't.

I refuse to be beholden to any substance.

In order to be who I want to be like some people drink alcohol because they want to loosen up a little bit and have more fun and if some kind of drug or alcohol, you feel like you're dependent on that for your fun, your slave.

The more common one is people are so dependent on caffeine to even get going or to have energy if you're dependent.

If you're addicted to some kind of substance that to have energy to get going, you're not free brother.

And you got to get free from from any of those substances, any of that garbage.

Well, even the going back to using the past six months of our life, as an example, in order to do what we have done to travel to 17 countries in six months, that requires huge amounts of energy.

I don't even know if people can comprehend it unless they've done something similar.

It requires, huge amounts, of energy, brain energy, mind planning, energy, physical energy of, you know.

Do you know how many times we have packed and unpacked our stuff and, and taking boats and trains and boats trains and ferries and home and planes like so much moving.

Happens because 17 countries but at least. double that, or triple that, in cities that we have been to It's huge amounts of energy so you cannot I don't think we could physically do it.

Literally if either of us were overweight or like just lacking in overall health if either of us were unhealthy in any way, we couldn't do it because it's so intensive that you have to be in a peak State, practically to do it because you're going and you're you, and you're constantly making critically important decisions like You have to be so good at decision-making in order to not just have it be an epic fail.

Everywhere you go, you know, and we've been able to reduce those mistakes and mishaps, you know, to pretty minimally, I would say, maybe there's been five major mishaps on this trip maybe, but otherwise were able to dial it in, so that we Can avoid the disasters and the meltdowns that happened from a lack of energy and a lack of I keep referencing the decision-making because you know, that's the cognitive functioning there and if you don't have that dialed in, you're going to be making mistakes that are going to have serious consequences.

And then you're going to say, oh my gosh, this is this was the worst idea ever.

And you do not have to go out traveling in order to experience the disaster.

Of bad decisions and low energy and poor health means it is a Trainwreck of mind body and spirit.

And yeah I mean we're talking about pursuing your dreams and goals whatever yours look like you have to have more than average if it's just mediocre you're going to settle into mediocre existence and even then you're going to suffer so much.

If your brain and body are not in Peak condition, you have to be.

Healthy.

Right.

And so while we're using this past six months experience, as a metaphor in reality, think that's what's happening with.

A lot of people is that they are experiencing a lack of Freedom or meltdowns or major disasters or failures because of The lack of conditioning they have in their brain and body.

So it's, again, it's this, we're talking about Freedom, you're not experiencing as much Freedom as you could in your daily life because you're lacking decision-making, skills, cognitive thinking, ability energy, that can contribute.

A lot of people just don't get things done or do the things.

They know they're supposed to do because they don't have the energy to do it and the reason you don't have the energy to do it is because you're not taking care of your body and brain.

So of course, then you lack freedom in your life because of that fact up.

And even when they do, do it, the way they show up to in a low energy, state will physically and mentally and emotionally, you do poor work and you do slower work, right?

So again it's bought it's all around its bondage.

So if you are out of shape and overweight, it is a form of slavery.

You are a slave to the restraints of poor health.

Hmm let that hit home.

So look at any vices you have your life because something like pornography, right, that's total bondage and so much suffering.

But but then the emotional help like the how you handle things, how you process things, the mental emotional, Psych the psychological the physiological, the spiritual all that's combined there for tempers choices.

Like we talked about before whether you have inner peace, Or inner torment.

Right.

And I want to, I want to say boldly.

Here it is possible to live most of your life without suffering.

Some people are like, well, it's just suffering, life is just suffering.

You know.

I grew up under a philosophy from my parents life sucks.

Then you die.

And I embrace that I live by and then I realized no, that's not true.

Most of the suck and misery in life is self-inflicted.

It's because of servitude is because of this slavery, this bondage.

Is because we lack the freedom.

Now, yes, there's going to be suffering, obviously, it's going to happen but most of our Lives, we can enjoy the peace and tranquility and joy and Bliss of freedom.

And yes, there are going to be things that are outside of our control, especially, you know, as children things can happen to us.

That we don't have control over and then the whole refugee, I seized well currently in Ukraine, but you know, before then Syria and all over the place, yes, there are things that are tragic that are outside of our control.

And I just recently had someone share story with me from a Ukrainian Refugee.

And basically, everyone she knows has died and horrible.

Horrible, things are happening.

And the one, the one thing that I thought of was that's, Unbelievably tragic and sad.

And I obviously can't know what it's like to go through that, but I do know that there are people who have experienced things like that or worse.

That have lived and written to tell that ultimately, we have power over, not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

And you know, specifically Viktor Frankl who was in Auschwitz concentration camp and then Edith, eager.

Who was also she an Auschwitz or Susan?

Yeah.

And both of them have written.

Amazing books.

About hers are called the choice and the gift.

Like, ultimately you have a choice.

On how you respond to these things in your life and you have the gift.

You have is to be able to make something positive out of it.

So yes, that only comes Freedom.

Yeah that they just talk about exactly and so does Cory Kimble's and how you place like no you can you can keep being a prisoner or you can be free and they all point that out like even even the terrible things that happen directly to you.

You can choose at that point.

That's what you two talked about, so much and choice.

So you can choose Be a prisoner, you can choose to be a slave or you can choose to be free, right?

And those who choose freedom in all of these areas of life, then have power to recover, or rebuild a restart or do more, even be inspirational and help other people.

It's unbelievable but you have to have freedom.

So so much of the good things in life.

The happiness, the pleasure.

The Elation in health and marriage and raising a family and doing great work.

And in making a contribution to World, those things are deliberate.

The lack of suffering is deliberate.

It's not luck, it's not chance.

It's breaking away from this bondage.

That is so much self-inflicted from our own stupidity.

Well and so yeah, I kind of want to try this in even more and point out how the suffering is self-inflicted, because like Corrie Ten, Boom, and Frankel and Edith eager talking about that.

Yes, these horrible things can happen to you and less horrible things.

Just normal life things can happen to you but it's all timidly how you decide to.

It and the meaning that you give to it, that just determines whether or not you're suffering from it.

Or using it.

To bless your life or even in some cases, just dismissing it because you're right.

That's just crap, right?

I actually had a coaching session yesterday talking about this very thing.

It's just mental management.

The way we're managing our minds that, like you said, the meaning we're giving two things.

The way, we're handling our thoughts, our own self talk that dialogue.

That's going on in her head, what we allow in what we allowed to stay, what we bring into our heads, is the determining factor of whether we're in a great place or in a terrible space.

And so the anxiety and the depression, the desperation the self-loathing, the, you know, the hopelessness, the Learned helplessness, the vast majority of it is just self-inflicted, because of a lack of mental management.

So, so so many of those things.

So many mental illnesses are really just a form of bondage, another form of bondage.

And so we have to look at the Mind, our thoughts, education We have to learn how to think, what to think we have, to make sure we have the growth mindset versus the fixed mindset and make sure that we are mentally free, right?

Because mental illness, ultimately comes down to a lack of positive mental habits.

Just like physical illness is a lack of positive, physical habits, or health habits.

It's the same thing with my exactly mind.

And so people think that there are victim to men, It'll illness and it's outside of their control and their bondage to that.

But the truth is, you actually have way more power than you realize and it's based on the mental habits that you have developed or not develop.

I mean, you have developed them.

You just have the wrong ones that are producing mental illness.

Exactly.

So, just like poor physical habits produce.

Exactly.

Yep.

Which okay, and there's layers there.

Then that makes us dependent on.

We don't need to be taken for healthy and then it makes its dependent on Health Care system.

That really sucks bad.

We've opted out of that was totally out of that and now hold onto certain is understood here.

If we have an emergency, oh my goodness, I am so grateful and gladly will pay medical bills.

If there's an emergency, if I break my leg and I need to go in an ambulance and get it set!

Wow!

Yes!

Absolutely!

That's what it's there for.

But if I'm the vast majority of a call, Al's the vast majority of people in the hospital or they're from preventable diseases.

Exactly.

For illnesses for suffering, that is totally preventable.

So you can break away from that and even like we're kind of purest where you break away from most supplements I'm extremely skeptical of the vast majority of supplements especially because if you kind of look behind the curtain like everybody their dog wants to have a supplement company and they're just put together whatever just try to sell it.

I mean it says It's just a money-making and it's a joke.

So, you know, even even down to, like the protein powders or oh, take this thing for this.

Whatever.

Like no just eat.

Good pure.

Healthy food.

Nutrient, dense food, get good food.

So, break away from your dependence, on junk.

Be free mind.

We talked about that.

Let's talk about spirit for just a second.

There's a lot of spiritual emptiness.

A lot of spiritual corruption.

On a big scale and on an individual scale and there's a lot of spiritual Conformity or you just kind of going through the motions.

And again, any one of those is some form of bondage of slavery, you're not free.

And so be willing.

To be free.

To give your spirit the wings to fly.

Write and do what you have to do to be spiritually free.

Hope this is hitting home for all of you just, just seeing each aspect of your life.

Every part of it is this.

What is it that this Kaleidoscope?

Yeah.

And and the relationship between all these aspects or elements of slavery and freedom.

Well, and just to expand on that a little bit because I think some people are trying to experience more freedom, in their spirituality and that results sometimes in them throwing off their religion.

And while I understand why people do that and you know, perhaps that's necessary.

Sometimes I also think you can have more freedom in your religion.

Without.

Rejecting it all, rejecting it all or been?

Yep.

Because in our own Journey, you know, we've studied a lot and have also learned a lot about other religions and we personally believe that religion is very important.

It is a, it is one of those things, the status quo society that helps keep Society in check, religion has a very important role.

So I don't think that it's healthier good for people to just throw off religion, you know, haphazardly because unless you have something to replace it, you're really going to be upsetting your life in a lot of ways That's not healthy and very few people make drastic the shifts like that.

Like you know, they're going to very few people convert from say like Christianity to being Muslim or something. so, unless you replace your religion with something as Let's say What's the Word?

Powerful.

Strong dominant structural.

Yeah, it religion is a structural form in your life and in your Society.

So you can't just throw it off and pretend like there's not going to be a void.

There will be a void and unless you really have something as large and dominant, like it's a pillar there.

Unless you have another pillar to replace that with, you're going to be destabilizing your life and that's dangerous.

So you can practice more freedom in your a religion without throwing away.

The religion.

This is, especially sorry, I'm sorry, especially if the dominant religion is also a part of the culture you belong to.

So, for example, in Western culture, Christianity is the dominant religion.

That's also the foundation of the society itself.

For right now, we're in Egypt, we were just in Turkey.

Islam is the dominant religion of the culture.

You can't just throw all of that out.

Out without having a giant void, that's going to just stabilize things so it's possible.

To keep the religious beliefs, and the religious background and, and keep those things in place, but still practice more freedom.

Of spirituality, if that makes sense.

Yeah, sorry.

Well, that's how I just keeps getting excited about this because that's such a great example of wanting more freedom.

I just want to be free instantly, we throw out everything, there's no structure, it's like it's like taking your skeleton out and just like, I just want to be free.

I don't you bound with the by all these bones here, right?

I just want to be there with you, just want to be skin and muscle and nerve and then you're a blob on the ground, you have no effect.

You can't move because there's no structure right there.

Are certain things in your life that are like that and people I think they try to do that with sometimes with marriage people are throwing it out.

Like oh marriage, I want to be free to just sleep with whoever I want to have fluid relationships.

Same thing, like it actually destabilizes you and to stabilizes your life.

I think religion is like another to slavery, you'd actually write it trading, one form of bondage, for another great.

So it's kind of ironic because you want to throw off the religion, in an effort to be more free, but it ends up destabilizing you and so you become less free because what happens is people will assume that certain beliefs or practices were religion only based.

And so then they throw that out And then they want to engage in those.

And then they real, well, they may never realize, but they end up Bond it in bondage to these practices that were actually, it was one of those status quo, things of like, no.

This is what we need for healthy Society.

Like the Ten Commandments they didn't, they weren't just haphazardly come up with because it was thousands of years or tens of thousands of years of it experimentation to where people saw.

So actually these things work, if we can all kind of agree to these things.

Our society is Going to be a lot more stable.

How about we all agree to that but then, if you throw off religion, and think I'm going to throw out the Ten Commandments to Well, now you're left with what you're going to start over from the beginning and you're going to figure it out, things all relative.

Yeah.

And then yeah.

Then you get you be get in the bondage and slavery so then you and I'm sorry.

I'm really a philosophy lesson today.

Keep interrupting you and then you end up destroying your life for what?

That's not more, freedom, destroying your relationships and destroying your religion and your beliefs, and everything.

That's given it, some sort of Solidity.

That's not Freedom.

Not at all, it's just another example and it's a worse bondage.

Exactly, then you end up in the bondage of just loneliness and despair, and darkness and doubt, and fear and misery, then you become a slave to misery, right?

So, and then this is the irony because while our life has a lot of, you know, unconventional Freedom by throwing off the status quo.

And in many ways we have kept and insisted on other levels of the status quo marriage for one thing and you know, a covenant commitment and parenting like this were very this very traditional family model.

Because we've through our study and travel and research and education have learned, that that is actually a fundamental part of true, Freedom.

Yep.

Like real happiness and joy and fulfillment, come by holding up that standard and living by it, not by throwing it off.

And so this is where it can get so challenging to quit.

When you question the status quo and people run into danger doing this, is they questioned it and then they want to throw out.

When the truth is yeah it's good to question everything but there are some things that are there for a reason Society didn't just come up with them like they've been around because they've been proven to actually work and holds things together.

So if you use those things your benefit to create greater Freedom.

Exactly.

Okay, so we're hitting all kinds of things here.

Let's let's kind of touch on family and finances.

You want freedom?

Like that's how we were just kind of wrapped up the last segment you want absolute freedom in your marriage, but that doesn't mean there aren't standards and rules and structures you have to live with in Gray centers rules and structures in order to have tons of freedom in your marriage.

Yeah, I think in fact to have the ultimate freedom and having us in your marriage, you do have to Live by those and with Holt, you know, hold those up because that's it's the stability of that structure and that the trust that you can have with one another, that allows for the full freedom of expression and vulnerability and intimacy.

And openness, that's what gives this relationship.

Its freedom, and, and creates its most beautiful form is, when you cancel, they trust each.

There which happens when you keep the commitments and promises that you have made to each other.

And I would say, in this case that you even have to have higher standards.

Yes.

So it's not having no standards where I think where people get this confused like, well I just toss out standards and I'm free, right?

Oh, oh no, it's the opposite.

You actually have to have higher personal standards.

This is a perfect example here, where you know Society or sounds like okay, you know, don't do this, don't do that, do that.

And it's like this bare minimum, exact quote, but if you're in this case, you like, no, I want Absolute Total Freedom.

That means you have you take on more responsibility and you live by a much much higher standard.

Okay, this is, this is the case in all of it, right?

If you have a much higher standard physically, you have better health, you have a much higher standard mentally and emotionally you have way better mental health, same spiritually.

If you take, you know, most religions are holding up like a minimum standard.

That the Ten Commandments are a minimum standard.

The mostest, energy your Search there a minimum standard that, if you, if you, if you're going to be able to go to Sacred places, they have a, you got it, you got to meet these minimum standards or you can't come in.

And that's, that's the case, across most of the world for sacred place.

We just went into the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, you had shorts on, you weren't allowed to go in, you had to cover up, they gave you some it was like a look like a skirt to me.

It gave you the skirt thing to cover on that went down to your ankles as women we had to cover our heads.

They have These requirements for us to be able to go in to see their mosque.

And and so, even that are, those are those are the bare minimums.

The some people look at bare minimum, like offshoot.

Check that box, I'm good.

Like no, that's the bare minimum.

So raise your standard you live by really high standard spiritually.

You have more spiritual Freedom.

Now we move to marriage parenting and family Legacy in the triple Trifecta.

If you have much higher standards then you get more freedom in your marriage.

It's beautiful and Powerful wonderful.

And you can You and I we get to do so much more than other couples because we live by a higher standard.

One example is you and I can talk about anything.

Any time we can just open up, full complete dialogue, every week.

Rachel, I both receive messages from people.

Like whoo.

How do I get my spouse to do that or talk?

Talk about that.

How can I even talk about it?

And I'm like, we'll just just talk about it.

It's just bring it up, but I can't do that.

How did they?

They're not even free to communicate openly with each other.

Yeah, so they don't have freedom in their marriage and I'm saying, what we are saying is raise your standards live by our standards.

Now the same is true with your children, right?

Raise your standards, your own personal standards as a parent and you have more freedom, freedom to influence, influence freedom to experience life, on a completely different level.

Like we get to do.

Do like our family Legacy or family lifestyle.

Our family Dynamics. are so rare and so beautiful and so free because we've deliberately broken away from outside bondage and transcended or risen above Inside bondage in our bondage to help pursue that freedom.

And, and then specifically.

Well, okay, let me, let me talk about our quick for your legacy, you and especially your children are and will be the product of your environment, right?

And and I refuse, we refuse to be constrained by environment.

And hence the global exploration that we consistently experiencing, but look at your environment.

Look at everything.

You do as a family, you're going to find if you just go over this.

Where the fine tooth comb has?

They say, you'll find lots and lots of things in your the different layers of your environment that are actually constraints.

Some of them you'll find that our structures you want to keep like we've been talking about some of them, you'll find like that's an absolute constraint, it's keeping you in bondage.

It's preventing your freedom in raising your family, and even in experiencing just a full range of beautiful, emotions and happiness, and really being free from contention and all the fighting and bickering, and hatred.

And the the competitions and The disconnection, the distance, the separation inside families.

Well, I even the way in which you actually experience life and gain meaning, and fulfillment, from living life with your family.

One of the things I think of is After we leave Egypt or going to Portugal, and it's a place where we're going to set up a home base for our family there.

And the reason we're doing that is because Pre covid.

We moved to Georgia. in the United States, Georgia, the state, and We ended up being there three years because of covid and, you know, the world things going on, but we did.

We were not having the type of life experiences that we wanted to have as a family in that location.

Now, not that had to do with being in one house per se.

But that the actual location we were living was not feeling filling or meeting the needs of the people, aren't you?

You like there just weren't a lot of things for us to do and so your experience of Life as a family is reduced and so you feel less, meaning you feel less significance, you feel less fulfillment partly because of where you happen to be living.

Now, we can say this because we've lived in so many different places that where you live actually matters big time and people love to use the little things about you know, blue.

Umm where you're planted, blah, blah blah.

It's a bunch of crap and I feel that there's I feel there's some truth to it.

But I also know from experience that where you live matters and some people bloom in certain places where other people don't.

So you might just happen to live in a place that's not a good fit for your family and you're having this suboptimal experience.

Just because of the environment you're in.

Yes, it's so you have it is even if it's just a lack of access to resources or classes, right.

People are Community or activities or sports or whatever it is like, whatever it is, your family loves to do, you have to find a place where they can do those things?

And I know again, some people they're limited by budget money.

Well, then that's another lack of Freedom.

You have to find a way to make more money so that you can go live in the place.

Is that you want to live.

So we are moving to Portugal.

We picked it because it was a place that had more of the things we wanted to do.

As a family had, more of an outdoor active lifestyle, there's more, you know, days of sunshine.

There's surfing.

There's paddleboarding there's hiking there's Lots of things.

Lots and lots of things, massive amounts of diversity and then immediate access to restaurant.

Good Europe, yes, oh my God it has more of these things that we want.

And so we quote unquote, uprooted our family which for us, it's not that new.

Because we've done it lots of times but you know, people are afraid to do that.

And we're going to move there to have a better lifestyle.

Now, we're experienced enough to know that that doesn't mean everything about, it will be perfect.

There's always Exchange rate.

There's going to be things.

We hate about it.

That's just normal.

No place is going to be perfect but if you can intentionally Create.

A life, that's more exciting to live.

That's just another element of being more free.

You don't have to just put up with whatever wherever you happen to be planted right now.

Like that's not what you have to do.

In order to just I don't know, whatever the excuse, be a good person or just you know, be content with the lot.

You've been allotted, right?

It's not true.

It's not really, you know, need to be more intentional.

If you want more freedom, you have to be more intentional about everything including Including where you actually live.

I think one of the big problems I'm glad you bring this up.

It's is that tolerance has been toted as this a giant bird.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

You know.

You don't like where you live.

You don't like your life.

Remember, patience and tolerance.

Yeah.

And so we keep putting up with crap, right?

And we're not saying don't be grateful and don't if there is a real constraint for a Time stuff, great attitude.

Still do everything you can within those bounds.

But it's What we did when we were in Georgia.

Yeah, we made the most inept, make the most of it, but most of your constraints are self-inflicted and stop using excuse and just dismissing it.

Like what I'll the jobs here.

Are you kidding me?

With eight billion people and anywhere that you can't find more work, right?

Well, it's just, you know, money's tight is so much iron what with all the economies in the world and all the opportunities, you can earn more money.

You kidding me.

Like let's go stop.

Well this is where my family was and this where we met kids are in school and they don't like there's there's always going to be something but ultimately, and this is where it comes back to that bold action.

You have to be willing to take bold action and often sometimes disruptive action, disruptive to others in your family.

And they're not necessarily going to like it, but if you can prove to them that it's going to be worth it.

It will be worth it.

Yeah, it's all what you make it.

So ask yourself constantly look at every single excuse you use and say, am I willing to hand over my freedom for this excuse?

Woohoo.

Whether it's family lifestyle or or opportunities, specifically thing about opportunities, the freedom of opportunities and many of you are limited, your opportunities are limited just because of some some little constraint like that.

Some excuse you're using some rationalization or justification and and that can stop and you can pursue more freedom.

Of course, we've been talking about money and I mean we wrap up here with money.

It's the third of the triple trifectas, but any constraint there.

In your income is almost always a lack of.

Knowledge and Skills and often money mindset, right?

You might have a fixed mindset about money, you might have a scarcity mindset or a poor relationship with money.

But again, that's self-inflicted and it's a form of slavery.

It's keeping you from earning more income or it's a lack of skills.

And everything comes down to skill, set and knowledge and skill set.

So if more skills specific valuable marketable, skills are the only thing standing between you and more income.

Then get the skills man commits to that.

Make it happen.

You're staying in bondage or slavery to your own limitations because you're not acquiring the skills, you need.

So get the skills.

Same with the expenses, many of you sometimes us.

We become slaves to our spending habits and those become restrictive or they cause problems, and they get us into some kind of bondage.

I mean, debt, obviously, well, not all that, but some debt is a form of bondage.

Age.

And so we put ourselves into that, right?

So the way you see the way your money comes in and and what you do that, the way your money goes out.

And we do that and then investing, of course, the the bad Investments or a form of bondage and no Investments are a form of bondage.

So make it a super high priority to be investing in good things regularly.

So if we're constantly trying to improve our income is one of the things I've really been emphasizing and training about inside the, be the man master class and tribe that we have a standard to increase.

Significant well, significantly least but at least deliberately increase your income.

Every quarter.

That's the ideal at a minimum, every two, quarters every year, you should be earning more money, and then managing and directing your expenses.

So, they're going to the things that actually matter to you and bring you to Freedom.

Not more bondage.

Somebody was we're spending our money on more bondage.

It's unbelievable.

And then increasing Investments your Investments are constantly growing ideally every quarter and that brings you to more freedom.

And obviously don't invest in things that lead to more bondage with some people do that.

So your Investments lead to more Two less for you.

Is that more.

So you see this?

You take every aspect of your life, so Fitness mind body and spirit family, marriage, parenting and family Legacy and finances.

Your income, your expenses, your investment.

So that's all nine elements of the triple Trifecta and just go through each element and say how can I be more free and be willing to be unconventional?

Be willing to be a nonconformist be willing to break some of the rules or been some of the rules and instead Away from things that are lame.

Well, step away Step Above like, we're yes.

Yeah, to be, you have to raise those standards even more and it's just as you were talking about the money piece here.

And thinking back on our own journey.

I know for me, I felt like it was always the money piece that help held us back from.

Living our dream life.

You know, we always use that cliche term but that was the one that we just always use.

We were pursuing this dream life and I think we all have this dream life that we'd like to live and maybe I'm wrong but I think more often than not.

It's the financial constraints that keep us from pursuing it.

We're afraid of taking those risks financially and of the potential disasters which are real that could result by risking our financials.

Security.

But we wouldn't be where we are now learning the amount of money we're earning, which is obviously the most we've ever earned and living the kind of life that we're living, which is a very free life.

If we hadn't been willing to pursue that dream life and to take the necessary risks of making it happen.

Now they're the did of course results in failures is sometimes Financial failures.

You know, hard things that happened.

So It's not going to be easy.

It's not going to be straightforward.

It's not going to be without Danger.

But it will be.

Amazing.

And incredible mean, like when you use a word amazing, like you don't even know we were in the desert, two nights or three nights ago, writing dromedaries and then you got in this Arabian horse, but he let you get on and you're just riding around horses.

He's like oh take my horse and go.

I was running running through the desert of the Sahara desert with the pyramids right there on the center.

And I mean, this is our lines, I don't know.

What is this is amazing. and and we wouldn't be experiencing or having any of that if we hadn't been willing, To pursue that Less Traveled Road.

I guess that riskier road and it's not easy and it's terrifying and it's so many things challenging but it's so beautiful and so rewarding.

So rewarding, and I think that that's why like the risk, the rewards are our compensation for the risk that when you do take those risks, And you persist and pursue in them, the rewards that you receive are.

Exponential graph, the church and worth it to us.

It became non-negotiable because again, in our present, like what's the alternative?

It's bondage, it's acquiescing.

It's sad life.

Yeah.

It's settling for an okay life and that's just to us that's unacceptable.

We're not going to just live in.

Okay life.

So we're going to take on the challenges ready to take on the risks to be free free to live life on our terms.

So gentlemen, thank you for listening, thanks for being here.

Be bold.

Be courageous.

Be clear about the terms for your life and the things you want and get just Fierce and tenacious about breaking free especially from the stupid things.

The thing the low hanging fruit is right there.

Front is very obviously, robbing you of your freedom, just dump all of that crap.

Just get it out of your life for good.

And then chase that freedom and and fight for it and then defend it.

And be free so you can maximize your potential.

Most of you are living far below your potential.

This is sitting there on the table because you're not picking it up and make it so you can't pick it up because you're Shackled and you're handcuffed.

And you're in bondage.

So break free and get to a place where your very existence is an act of rebellion against an unfree world.

Be the man.

Be the man.