The Everyday Millionaire Show
The Everyday Millionaire Show
The Power of Commitment and Goals - Ryan, Nick, and Chase (Full Podcast)
In this episode, we take a refreshing departure from our usual business-centric discussions to explore how integrating fun and fitness can enhance productivity and happiness. Nick shares his exciting updates about moving into his new house and the challenges of installing an in-ground pool under county restrictions, while Chase dives into his triathlon training journey, sharing his struggles with swimming and the rejuvenating joy he finds at the beach with his dog.
Through Chase’s impressive progress and his background in mountain biking, we highlight the personal growth and shared experiences that come from embracing such demanding fitness endeavors.
Whether you're an athlete or an entrepreneur, this episode will inspire you to set ambitious benchmarks and stay dedicated to achieving success in all aspects of life.
You have to work hard, play hard, and if you don't and you just work hard, work hard, work hard I feel like you either burn out or you start doing inappropriate things to maintain your happiness.
Speaker 2:The thing that people don't think about the most is the nutrition dude Like eating.
Speaker 3:What have you changed differently?
Speaker 2:in what you're eating now, just being more consistent, upping my protein, upping the carbs Across the board. You just have to eat more. To be honest, man the swimming I just I can't sway. He calls me a dead fish. I mean, it's kind of what I look like when I swim, and that's what's so fun.
Speaker 1:I think about the multi-sport races that it's not just your ability to do one thing like you could get really good at running and fail a triathlon. Just get out there and just start training. The process is fun. It's very rewarding. Welcome to the everyday millionaire show with ryan greenberg and Nick Kalfas. All right guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Everyday Millionaire Show. We're here with Nick Chase and I. You've seen Chase on the show. We've also seen Chase behind the camera recently. What's going on, boys?
Speaker 3:What's going on?
Speaker 1:behind the camera recently. What's going on, boys? What's going on? I uh, you know we were here doing other people's podcasts and I uh wanted to start just kind of talking about stuff like that we're doing in our lives, because I feel like we're always talking about business and making money and buying houses and whatever else. But, um, since chase and I have been training and doing a couple of triathlons, I've been doing a couple of triathlons, I've been doing a couple of Chase's training for one. I've been posting just like random workouts online and I feel like people have been responding and people have been like looking and interested to hear about what we have going on. Chase is making a little docu series about his training process, so I figured we'll talk about lifestyle stuff today. What do you think about that? I like it. So, nick, I know you're obviously a savage business guy too, but what do you do for fun right now?
Speaker 3:So right now with the new house. You know, last weekend we had the Beer Olympics. That was a good time for people to get together, have some fun, have games set up. This upcoming weekend we're having a 4th of July party at our house as well. I'd like to get down to the ocean, spend some time in the condo, spend some time with the family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do have a great house for throwing parties. Dude, it's almost a dangerously nice house for parties because I feel like I would just be throwing parties all the time. You got the dock, the water, I mean, it's like, I mean it's a great spot, um, so that's been, uh, taking up a bunch of your time.
Speaker 3:Are you doing anything to your house right now, or are you just not right now? I'm going to, probably. I actually called the County to see what the restrictions are about putting it in ground pool there. Uh, cause, I talked to a lot of people. They were telling me there's like 100 feet that has to be away from the water line. And when I called the county they said I'm in like a critical area to where it can be within 25. It can be 25 feet away, not 100 feet, so that kind of gives me more flexibility. However, they said anything that's within the 100 feet but still outside the 25 feet can't be more than a thousand square feet of whatever it is that you want to put there so, and if you, there are variances and stuff that you can apply for too, if they say no right uh, I would imagine I'm not super familiar with all of that you guys you probably know a little bit more about yeah yeah, because I know, like when we do like um well and septic stuff, you
Speaker 1:can always apply for like a variance, stuff like that.
Speaker 3:And then I learned that the biggest thing was it's not that it's just super close, it's, I guess, the worry about pollution from being that close to the water, like plastic cups flying in the water and any type of like trash or debris. Yeah, so that makes more sense to me, because my opinion was, like it's your property, why can't you just get it as close as you want? But that was kind of like the reasoning that the guy explained to me, so it's more like an environmental thing question well, that's a good problem to have just trying to figure out where to put the pool in your waterfront house.
Speaker 1:It's like god damn, today, this week's tough. We really gotta I gotta really get out there with the tape measure and figure it out. Well, that's sick, dude. Congrats on the new house too. It was awesome, the one party that I came to. Now I just feel like you're just hosting parties. I was just thinking I was like the one time I was, there was another party you hosted.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was the housewarming. Hopefully you guys show up for the Fourth of July party. That'll be fun. We'll have some fireworks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll work on that with the wifey. She's been away for this week, so we'll see. But, Chase, what's going on with you man Besides me dragging you around all over the place? I?
Speaker 2:feel like all I do is work, train and sleep, Like that's it right now, no, I mean when I get a chance, man trying to hang out with the wife, the dogs getting out to the beach. My dog is Black Lab dude. She loves water her, so we get out there, throw her the ball. She'll do it for hours, um, and then again training man just been doing it. So as much as I can?
Speaker 3:what's the hardest thing so far, now that you started training for?
Speaker 2:all of it. No, to be honest, man, the swimming I just I can't sway. He calls me a dead fish. I mean it's kind of what I look like when I swim. Uh, it's not that I can't swim, I'm a really good swimmer. I could, you know, I could probably float for like a couple hours, you know.
Speaker 1:Swimming in a pool and like going swimming with your friends is way different than like distance swimming.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a totally different beast and it's something that takes like I'm still not good at it, but it takes. So I don't want to sit here and talk to like I'm fucking michael phelps or something, but it does take like a very strict technique, especially when you're open water because, like you got waves and current and wind every time you come up to breathe if you're like a just yeah, because you know if you're swimming in one direction and the waves are coming at you, you can't breathe to this side because so you got to be.
Speaker 1:You know both sides. You would have to be able to breathe from um and making sure that the current doesn't take you somewhere where you're not supposed to go. Um, you got to swim straight because it's very easy to swim in a zigzag pattern and when you're in a race, obviously you want to be straight lines. Um, but yeah, the swimming is always every. I feel like it's going to be the hardest thing for most people, unless you are a swimmer, because it is tough, it's fucking tough.
Speaker 2:That, and I would say the thing that people don't think about the most is the nutrition dude, like eating.
Speaker 3:What have you changed differently in what you're eating now?
Speaker 2:Just being more consistent, upping my protein, upping the carbs, upping the fat. So I mean, across the board, you just have to eat more. Uh, I'm burning. I was telling Ryan the other day I'm burning like 23 to 3000 calories, 2300 to 3000 calories a day. So, like just to maintain I have to eat around. That you know. And you know you try to put on a little bit of muscle if you can, but it's just hard. I mean, that's the part that, that's the fatigue, that's where you get your muscle cramps and all of that. And that's why, like, runners have a very high tendency to lose fat is because they don't eat enough and they're burning all of these calories so you guys went on a 33 mile bike ride today.
Speaker 3:Yeah, does it just get like towards the end, I guess, chase, since you haven't done it that often like does it is it once you hit mile 10 or mile 15 or 20?
Speaker 1:I have to say though, Chase has been a fucking killer on the bike. That's one place where he's been really exceeding many expectations. With beginner bikers it's tough. Everybody knows how to ride a bike right, but when you're riding at like the level that we're riding at the speed, you're riding with hills and you know you have to shift correctly and there's a lot more to it than just hopping on your bike and and going um. So I do have to shout chase, chase out for that. And it's been like the other day we did was it sunday we did? Or saturday we did 50 miles, 50 something miles and then ran after that, um. So just the fact that you could do that is pretty impressive, you know, in itself yeah, dude, I had no experience.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was telling him too like a lot of it. Like we used to mountain bike um up in the shenandoahs, because I'm originally from roanoke, virginia, which we have a ton of mountains, so me and my dad would always mountain bike and I guess I was just so used to climbing hills that I mean that's part of like the biking that I just I I really enjoy that. Like it burns, it's tough, but when you start like really kicking it into gear and like passing people and me and him are super competitive. Like we were out on that 52 mile bike ride and we see these two, we didn't know until we passed them, but there's these two old guys and we're like we look at each other, yeah they're old, but they're out there cycling right, and so we see them and it's like a long stretch we're probably half a mile ahead of us and we look at each other.
Speaker 2:We're like target acquired we just take off you know, and it's just like that's, that's the the fun part, like that's why I like cycling. Running's cool. Um, it's not hard, there's no, I mean, there is technique. He's been getting coached on that, so there's, there's some things you can do with running, but, like swimming, dude, that's the part that I I probably struggle with the most it's funny, though, the running aspect of it, where most people think like, oh, just go run right.
Speaker 1:Where, like I was an athlete my whole life, I can, can go run, but I hired a coach recently and he's breaking down my mechanics of running and, like my mechanics were terrible. There's so much that goes into running, to the angle of your feet and the placement of your hips and like where your foot drops in front of you and all this stuff that he's dialing in for me now. And like where, when I started running, I was doing like 10 to 12 minute miles for any like long distance, where the other day I just did a 5k at sub eight minute miles and it was just from. You know, I didn't get that much crazier in shape. It's just like changing certain things that propel you forward in different ways, and I think personally, like I'm a nerd when it comes to like the data and the. So that's been the most fun for me, doing all these races and besides getting in shape.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm 33 and I've been unhappy with the way I looked for the last 10 plus years. So I built my businesses, we've made some money, I have some freedom now and now I'm like really having a great time. Like chase and I are working out every day and it helps when you have other people doing it, so we're in the group chat. Maybe one day you'll be in this group chat, nick, with us doing these races, but every morning we're, you know, in the group chat sending our our workouts to each other, talking shit, making fun, you know making jokes and stuff like that and and it's cool, the fun it's culture.
Speaker 2:You know the culture is fun and um, it's good, it's a good thing, you know but really brings out the competitors side into you know, like you just see, like ryan dude, like his, his, his mind, like when I first started, right, like when he sent it to me, he was like, look, dude, if you're a man, sign up for this. He knows how to push my buttons. And he pushed it and I was like, damn, all right, I'm a fucking man, I'm gonna do this. So I signed up and then, ever since then, it was like I literally just signed up because I wanted to like race against him and I was like he was showing me his miles and like sub 10 minutes, like he was just talking about, and I was like, oh, I got him in the run.
Speaker 2:I really need to worry about the bike because he's been biking for a while. I was like he's gonna crush me in the swim. So I'm like really thinking about all this logistically and strategically of like how I'm gonna place myself here and now he's getting better in the run and I'm like starting to get nervous, which again like there's a lot more that go into like the triathlons than just like the actual sport. Like you got transitions. That's what I was telling him. I was like, bro, I can't fumble the bag during the transition because if I do like, I'm not gonna be able to make that time back up.
Speaker 1:So and that's what's so fun, I think. Think about the multi-sport races that it's not just your ability to do one thing, like you could get really good at running and fail a triathlon because you first have to swim, conserve the right muscles. That's the other thing with running that I learned recently. When you're running and you're, what I was doing wrong was I was running straight up and down and my feet were going up and down and my body was like moving forward, but my feet were going up and down where you're using your quads to go up and down, where that's the same muscle that you're using when you're biking. So when you get into this different stance my coach calls it like the cheetah stance and what you're really supposed to be using is your glutes and your calves when you're running and not your quads basically at all. So if you're somebody that is running with the wrong mechanics and you just got off of a long bike in the middle of your race and then you're using those same muscles for your run, you're going to fail and that piece of it it's like nothing. You I would never think of. That you know as just a consumer, as just somebody watching these triathletes work, and that to me has been really fun, just like learning the process, like the down to the shoelaces dude. Like my running, my race shoes now have like pull laces, like for children that don't know how to tie their shoes, because it's the fastest thing to get on your feet during a transition period. And that's transitions the only time where you're not working for time, you're not like really physically exhausting yourself to make up time. So, like the first race that we did, um, the guy, mike like lost his bike in the transition. Like he didn't, he like they're, they're all labeled and numbered and he couldn't find it. So he ran down one aisle couldn't find it. So, like all that stuff goes into it, he lost like a minute and a half and on a on a race that's two hours. Like a minute and a half when you're competing with people that are kind of close to you is a long time. So that's been, that's been really fun for me.
Speaker 1:We just did um Chase wasn't there, he was down in his hometown, but we just did a race in uh, on the eastern shore, where I had like knew, like the everything except what the run was and like the run happened to be mostly off-road and I was wearing my carbon shoes that should be like track and road shoes and they actually worked against me like in the sand and stuff like that. So, like just down to like knowing your course and wearing the right shoes, like there's, it's cool, it's, it's been a really cool process and, um, I think, just challenging yourself at like our age, where we're just you know, it's very easy. It could be very easy for us to coast and just maintain and do what we're doing every day and go to the gym for 30 minutes and come home and do your routine or whatever, but it's not as easy to like dedicate time and effort to getting better. At our age, I feel like so what do you?
Speaker 3:because you were going to the gym. You know, before you started all this training for the triathlons, you were going to the gym, like every morning, right? So what were you doing differently, Mostly weight training. Okay, and then what are you doing differently now?
Speaker 1:So before I was doing like let's call it 20 minutes of cardio and an hour and a half of weight training.
Speaker 1:Now I'm doing 30 minutes of weight training and two and a half hours of cardio where it's like we're ramped up the amount of time that we're working out. Of course, but we've also changed those. Like the other day, our warmup at the gym was five mile run. That's what we did to warm up before we lifted weights. Um, whereas before I would go to the gym I'd jog for 10 minutes on the treadmill, the elliptical warmup and then hit the weights. But being muscle bound doesn't help you in these races and it also doesn't necessarily make you healthier. That's the other thing. Like you could be this big jacked guy, but like, if you don't have flexibility and and cardio, what? What do you have? Like who needs to be 35 dead lifting a thousand pounds?
Speaker 2:like you could be, as strong as you want, but if your heart's not strong, right matter, right.
Speaker 1:So and and honestly, nick the, the big thing for me was like I wasn't happy with the way I looked, like I was. I look at myself now and I'm like I can't imagine being 40 fucking pounds more which I was. I was 40 pounds more than I am right now, whereas like, even if you just pick up 40 pounds of weights and carry it around like like God damn, I was carrying this every day, all day. And with the second I started seeing these results and and losing the weight and feeling good about myself, and like looking in the mirror and being fucking happy, that's like an addicting thing, that's like crack dude. Like you see that and you're like, damn, I'm not a fat fuck anymore.
Speaker 1:Like for 10 years I looked at myself and I was like one day I'll fucking do it right, I'll start running more, I'll start and even, and even dude, I was even biking, but I wasn't biking enough and I was eating bad. And now, like Chase said, nutrition is like number one thing. Like if you aren't eating right, tomorrow we might have a 50 mile bike and a 10 mile run. Or like you, you just you can't keep up with the training if you don't eat properly. And that doesn't mean like just eating the right amount of calories. It means eating the right stuff, like the right amount of protein, the right amount of fat, the right amount of uh, carbs. Um, so all that, that whole process, man, has been super fun.
Speaker 3:And it's it's like almost perfect timing, Cause I know you mentioned that you and Paige wanted to start talking about having a kid and like what better time to do it than the time that you're in great shape.
Speaker 1:That's what I because I felt like in my head. I was like you know how you talk about the five-year cycle, right, you also have this cycle of excuses me would have been. The next excuse on why I didn't take it seriously and get in shape and get control of my body was like oh well, I have kids. Now I can't. I and that's what you hear all the time right, you hear a big excuse I don't have time, I have kids. I'm like, okay, well, I do have time right now and I don't have kids, so now's the time. I gotta fucking hit it hard as hell. Create those those real structured routines where now it really like I don't know about you, but it's a two-hour workout, like doesn't really feel that crazy anymore, like in the beginning.
Speaker 2:Well, that's, yeah, that's exactly what I was about to say, like the progression, like we talked about earlier. I'm filming this like my journey throughout this whole thing, because I, again, I started from kind of zero. I, that was my baseline. So like, if you would have hit me up and been like yo, let's go run a 5k, I would have been like dude, fuck off. Like what are you talking about? No way I'm running a 5k. But now I'm just like he's like yo, you want to run a 5k? I'm like sure, whatever. Like is that our warm-up or?
Speaker 3:what? Yeah, you know like it.
Speaker 2:It just becomes intentionally like it's the same thing in business, right? Like you do one job and it seems super crazy, and then after you do it 10, 20, 30 times, it's just like that's natural. Yeah, it's second nature.
Speaker 1:And for me too, it's always having something in the books to work towards. I think it was like it's easy to set those goals in business right or in school because you have grades, those goals in business right or in school because you have grades, like, but when you're just in life, just in regular life, there's no benchmarks. After a while there's no like oh, I got to graduate from here and then I'm going to go do this, there's no more benchmarks for us.
Speaker 1:Unless you're like benchmarking your business or how much money you have or whatever. There's no regular life benchmarks. Once you don't really have a job and you like you have your business but like there's nothing else. Right, like most people at our age aren't competing anymore. They're not in baseball or football or whatever there's. There isn't that piece.
Speaker 1:So I was missing that competitive piece where, like when I was playing sports, like the shit talking was fun, man, like you'd get out there on the field or on the ice for me and like that feeling of like competing and and the adversity and whatever. That was like a great feeling. And then that goes away, like there's no more of that and especially with us, like we're in an isolated place in our life, like we all own our own, like businesses where Chase and I work together and own one together and we have partners and stuff like that, but you're just with that same small group of people. It's not like you're working at a big corporation where you are competing with other salespeople or anything like that. It's just like it's you yourself and I kind of thing.
Speaker 1:So I think that's been really cool benchmarking and, like you know, we started doing these sprint races where they're like an hour and a half, two hour races, and then we're now signing up for Olympic distance ones and in May we're doing an Ironman one which is like a seven hour race, where we're just like seven hours of just you yourself and I like battling demons through a 1.4 mile swim, then a 56 mile bike and then a half marathon all in the same day. Like that in my head I'm like how the fuck am I going to do that? And it's all like based on this training, I got to get to that next day of training and it's been incredible, it's been fun.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. He talks about the half Ironman that we're doing and, like my focus at first was the Olympic triathlon, like that was the only thing I thought about. But now that like we've already progressed and kind of moved on to like, okay, this is our next target. Now this Olympic triathlon almost just seems like a warm-up, you know so like this is, and we haven't even done stone.
Speaker 1:That's. That's the craziest part about how like and I I think, like entrepreneurial people and competitive people like us, that's just naturally going to happen, but like we don't, we haven't even done an olympic distance, which is like half of the half ironman. So like, we've only done the short ones and and in my head I'm like I'm already training for that, that big one. And and in two weeks from now I have an olympic distance, uh, off-road race. And uh, it's not olympic distance, but it's the same time frame because it's off-road, mountain biking and trail running. And like, once I do that one, now I'm like what's the next? What's the next crazy thing that's going to come to my head once I like know I can do that, now it's like the world is, you know, the options are endless. So we'll get you nick, I'll get you in there, we'll get you addicted to it.
Speaker 3:So what's the farthest you swam so far, then in one, a mile, one mile yeah about a mile is that the time we did it?
Speaker 1:no so I actually that was like three quarters of a mile um. We did one uh, I guess it was me and it was just me and ben actually um.
Speaker 3:But yeah, we're within reason, like we're pretty close, like so you've pretty much done everything in Ironman separately, like the bike ride. You've done 50-some miles before right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah the bike, but then what about the?
Speaker 3:run. Have you ever ran a half marathon distance? Nope. Do you think that would be the hardest?
Speaker 1:Seven miles has been the longest that I've run. It was a seven-mile trail run, so that was really tough. And then I did a 10 K, which is like 6.2 on the road. Um, the run after the bike is really hard, like that's. A big part of training is called brick runs, where you're basically kill yourself on the bike and then get on the, on your shoes and start running right away. Um, because that transition, that wobbly kind of feeling that you just feel like you should, you know, like you get off a boat for a while because that's well, that's the first transition. First you're swimming and you feel like you get out and you get on your bike and you feel like you're still waving in the water. Um, but that transition is not as bad. But once you get off that bike and your legs are fucking shot and then you start running that's a feeling like you haven't really felt many times in your life
Speaker 1:yeah, and that that feeling is good. It's like it hurts, but you, yeah, the, the to talk about, like the distance and never doing those distances before. There's strategies that I'm learning through my coach and and research on how to increase the distance and it's actually. And robert kraus, who's another person we were talking about in the last podcast, is an ultra marathon runner and does like 60 plus mile races. Um, but how you train for those is actually running slower.
Speaker 1:So you run, do what they call zone two workouts, where you're just like very, very slow, you keep your heart rate under, usually like 140, 150, and just increasing the distance doing that, and then at the same time, kind of parallel working on speed work.
Speaker 1:So like separately not during your long, slow runs you're working on explosive mechanics and sprints and stuff like that, because the kind of the idea is that you run faster, it takes you less time, and the zone two work is getting your muscles you know, kind of in your heart just used to pumping for that long, and then the speed is what kind of carries you to get that.
Speaker 1:Instead of having to run a half marathon in three hours, you run it in two hours. So you kind of technically need less endurance because you have that speed. So there's a lot of science behind it, which is part of the cool part. You know. It's just like there's stuff that you just everybody thinks you know like what the healthy thing to do is, and just like run farther today or run faster today, but like there's a lot more to it and not getting hurt too. Like Chase has been monitoring an ankle injury, our buddy Ben, who's training with us, training with us is monitoring a knee injury and you can't train on a hurt knee or a hurt ankle, you can't run 20 miles or whatever.
Speaker 1:You have to do that day or ride 20 miles or whatever if you're injured another. It's not only nutrition, it's not only endurance, it's it's monitoring injuries and not over training. But you can't under train because then if you get out there and you're swimming a mile and a half, you can drown like you can literally drown. So, yeah, it's been, it's, it's cool man, I think, uh, I encourage anybody that like is on the fence about like doing one of these races or like training for one. It's just just get out there and just start training. The process is fun, it's very rewarding. I mean chase, like said the other days, like I feel so good, like mentally, like it does it it does.
Speaker 1:it really changes the way that you think and perceive like the world, because every morning and we'll, we'll have to plug his uh little docuseries when, when it comes out, but like every morning, you're just waking up doing something that that kind of sucks in that first moment. But then once you get doing it like like this morning, my five 30 alarm went off and like I'm, the first thing I do is put on my fucking bike bibs, like, and I'm like, god damn, do I? Then you get out there and that first fucking hill or that first straightaway where you're pumping at 20 miles an hour, you're like this is, this is what I came. You know, this is what I'm here for. So it's been fun.
Speaker 1:I think, um, one of the big things is just the process man just doing the process and learning and having fun, and I I that's why I wanted to talk about like just the lifestyle stuff, because I do feel like people get the wrong idea in, like you have to work hard, play hard, and if you don't and you just work hard, work hard, work hard you either burn.
Speaker 1:I feel like you either burn out or you start doing inappropriate things to maintain your happiness. Like you go out drinking too much, you're like now you've worked so hard that Friday night comes along and you just go out there and blackout because that's like your release. But for us, like we can't blackout on Friday because Saturday is a big brick day, like Saturday is the day where we get out there and ride for three hours and then go run for a half hour. Like how could we possibly do that if we are hung over? So and that's the other thing too, man, I stopped drinking. Like all these things are around the race that we're doing, or like the training that we're doing, and it's just been. Really it's been changing, changed my life.
Speaker 2:it's cool yeah, I was. It was funny because you talked about why, why you wanted to to end up doing this race and for for me it was a little different. It was because I was kind of like in a darker place where it was like, mentally I just I couldn't, I couldn't get into the gym, dude, like I had loved the gym in the past. You know, when you're single and you're like, oh, I got to get a physique and all these girls are like loving your body or whatever, and then you get into this like mindset and it's just like, dude, I just hate the gym now and I just I'm so inconsistent. And when he finally sent me that, I was like, okay, well, this is like a goal I can set for myself. And then I have to, because I already paid $300 and I already told him I was doing it.
Speaker 2:And we got another group of friends that are doing it. So like how silly would I look if I didn't fucking actually train for this? And so now I'm like training for it and I was talking to my wife the other day and I was like it almost reminds me of like basic training, how you just said, like the first bit, when you get there. It sucks, like you do not want to be there at all whatsoever. And you pull up on the bus and all the MTIs are yelling at you and you're like, fuck, what did I do? Like, why did I sign up for this? And then you get in the motions and you're like, oh, this isn't so bad, actually, like. And then you look back on it and you're like I missed that.
Speaker 2:That's the best thing that was the best, one of the best decisions I ever made, you know. And so, like I kind of feel, like I'm starting to see that in, you know this. So it's it's mentally and physically, I feel, the best I've ever been. Decisions like I used to be pretty indecisive about things. I'm becoming more decisive and it's just like I'm waking up the mental, like becoming mentally stronger. I think too, like saying like I'm going to do something and then, like, go and doing it. You know what I mean. So it has been life changing for sure.
Speaker 1:I also feel like you know they had that book or that military guy about making your bed right. It's like you ever heard that. Like you wake up and you make your bed, like that's the thing that you've accomplished, like you accomplish that thing every day, no matter what For us. Like every single day, I feel like I am and I joke with people. Like you know, I say like I'm better than you kind of thing, but like I love the fact that I wake up every day and I do something that is harder than most people are willing to do when they wake up. And in my head that's what has made me so successful that I've always been willing to do that extra thing, whether it's waking up. Before I was a school teacher and would wake up before school to look at deals or to show up at a project before school started. So the guys were set up to work that day so I can come to.
Speaker 1:You know, like those things that people aren't willing to do is typically what leads to success, whether it's physically, business, whatever, and just doing hard shit. Like the, I love David Goggins. You know it's like that guy's just a savage and I sometimes, when, when chase and I, I think we were coming in from like finishing we probably had like two or three miles left on our 50 mile bike and he's like, are you gonna want to run after this? I'm like, fuck, yeah, hell, yeah, we're gonna run after this. What do you mean? Like that's what we said we were gonna do. And then I think he said something and I was like what would david goggins do, dude, do you think he would? Do you think he would question running right now? Of course we're gonna run, dude, are your legs broken? Like in my head, like I didn't want to run, dude, I didn't want to run. Like that sounded terrible. We just biked for three and a half hours.
Speaker 1:But like we did it and and I think, just the accountability of like I love talking about it online too because or like hitting up my friends like Paige and I went on an anniversary trip and I texted a couple people saying we're doing a 10K today. Like I'm running 6.2 miles today. I got like three miles in and I did not want to keep running. It was hot as shit, it was on the eastern shore, it was like 100 degrees. And in my head, paige was like, do you want to stop and I'm like like we can't stop already. I told everybody that I was going to do it. So like my workouts get posted on strava. I can't not run a 10k, I just told everybody I'm gonna run a 10k.
Speaker 1:So I think putting it out there in the world for me anyway and like you know, everybody has their own um motivation, but for me it's like if I'm gonna say, I'm gonna this that's why I keep talking about this half Ironman thing I'm going to do it, because if I don't do it now I look like a liar, I look silly. You know, and I think the good part about having a podcast in general or being on the internet we are putting a lot of stuff out there. You talk about your first deal and you literally told the guy that lent you money on the first deal that you never even had $30,000 before and like all that stuff is like you're vulnerable but like it's truthful. And when you say things and you set them online and you don't do them, that's your liar then. And for us you know, nick, you and I have probably a couple hundred hours of us talking online, so if somebody wanted to catch me in a lie like that would be the place to start. You know, and I don't want to be caught in a lie, so if I put it out there, I'm going to.
Speaker 1:I mean, I did we talked about, remember we did an episode and it was like upstairs in my like living room and I was like right, when I got on theary brekka train and started like trying to take control of my health and all that stuff, and I was like I was just telling the camera like goals, like I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, and every single thing I have followed through with. Because in the back of my head, if I just stayed fat, this camera was looking at a fat guy still seven months later, then I would be a fucking idiot and a liar and that's the last thing I want to do. So it's been cool. So, nick, do you have any other kind of plans like lifestyle goals, plans in your future coming up?
Speaker 3:I mean, I like taking the jet ski out. Now that I'm on the water there, I can pretty much take it out whenever I'm home. I can jump on it, bring it back in.
Speaker 1:I see you got a little jet ski gang up there too. You got a couple of friends with skis too, yeah.
Speaker 3:So I have one buddy who has a close friend of mine who has a jet ski, and then there's this place that everyone else has rented jet skis that day that we went out. So it's just fun to get out there on the water. It's always nice if you're on the jet ski, you're just cruising, just having the time of your life yeah, I don't think that'll ever get old.
Speaker 1:It reminds me of um. You ever seen eastbound and down? No oh god, it's just such a funny show. Kenny powers, it will have to. It's not going to make sense if you guys don't know it, so I won't talk about it, but for anybody listening kenny powers on a jet ski uh, it's the funniest thing ever. Now I'm gonna have to send you guys clips later so I don't seem silly that's fair, but are you traveling?
Speaker 2:are you going to cabo with us?
Speaker 3:um, I don't know if he's been undecided so we're planning a disney trip at the end of october, which is gonna be the same time that you guys are gonna to be heading there.
Speaker 1:It's funny. I, I, uh. Usually we have like a solid group of people, but there's a couple of people that have like other things to do, so there's like four of us now and I got this like insane house in Cabo. It fits like 12 people. It's like four of us. It's like it was pretty. It'll be a good trip, with or without you, Nick. It's November 1st, though right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like 1st to 5th of November. I think it's going to be cold in Disney. Well, it won't be too bad. It's Florida, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Florida would be fine, it'd be, good, but what you should really do is look up flights from Orlando to Cabo. Baby, no, I may consider that, because we're going to leave probably the 1 first, yeah, and come back home so perfect, yeah. So just fly right into cabo. That's our. It's funny too, I planned that trip not really thinking of the following weekend. We have our triathlon his first, his first race that weekend. So we'll have to. We'll be in cabo like our boys will be like drinking and, uh, our two the two guys that were going with her like single guys, you know they like to party. So, chase and I'll be waking up early to run and swim and bike and they'll be like still probably coming in from the club the night before who's going?
Speaker 1:uh, me, eddie, tyler and chase so far, but we should have, we should have fun. There'll probably be a couple more people that commit by the time we end up going. But but I went to Cabo, uh, this, I guess it was this January that passed and it was just Paige and I and we did like a romantic getaway to Cabo kind of thing and it was really really nice. But there's definitely more to it than just like we we did the resort thing and the nice din and just stuff like that that I wanted to see, that I didn't get to kind of experience when I'm, when you're there with your wife doing like a honeymoon type type of trip, um, so that's it, man. I don't know, uh, if you guys have anything else to talk about, but I thought that was a good, you know, I just wanted to talk about, like, what else we have going on besides just like trying to sell a bunch of houses.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's a cool, cool thing for people to follow and people have been commenting on a lot of the stuff that I've been posting positively about like me posting my training and I try I'm trying to not be the guy that like post things just to seem like a dick, like I'm better than you kind of thing. But like I, people have like hit me up and like I'm getting motivated by all your training videos and all this stuff and and posting your workouts and stuff like that. So so that's my kind of intention there and, um, just following the process.
Speaker 2:Love it? Yeah, dude, it's been fun. All Love it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, it's been fun, all right, guys. Well, until next time, we got a couple episodes coming out for you and, yeah, we'll be putting out as much content as possible. We have an event coming up July 18th, right?
Speaker 3:Thursday July 18th 6 to 9. 6 to 9 is CVP in Towson.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anybody that's trying to sponsor trying to come. The event is on Facebook and Eventbrite the Everyday Millionaire Show Investor Meetup. So hit us up and we look forward to seeing you guys there. All right, until next time.
