If you do this, you just leverage your life up 20X. I'm just telling you, if you want to be the best, this is how you do it.    If you're going to take notes with me, look, I got a really nice book every day. I take notes in it, I write in it, I fill it up every day. I mean, this is just every day. I take this head and I dump out everything that I'm thinking about all day long on here. I carry this with me, I fill it up every day and when I'm done, I move on, I get another one. I use spiral notebooks as I've gotten a little bit older in life. I like leather books because I keep track of them. They're a little bit nicer. But spiral notebooks will work. If you guys don't take what's in your head and write it down, you're running on a treadmill. You're never going to go anywhere. You're going to stay in the same place.  If you have an idea what you want to do and you don't take action, no one will know your name. That means you can't coach anybody if people don't know you.  You're really good at something, but what does it matter if you're good at it and nobody knows you, okay? So I want you to do me a favor. Let's talk about coaching for a minute, all right?  You can't give somebody something, you're not. So if you guys look at my shirt, right? Y'all see the shirt? I want you to look at the shirt I'm currently wearing, right? I want you to ask yourself, what shirt are you wearing right now? Is it your brand? Or is it someone else's brand?  It doesn't say Alex Smith. I don't know, but listen to me. Everybody, understand this. Alex, come on real quick. Alex, imagine this.  Hey, you know what I'm talking about too, but guess what? You guys are, but you guys still aren't doing it. So here's what I want you to do.  Your wife's going to be like, don't do that. Don't do that. Listen, I have two shirts, Elliot and Elliot Army. Which one do I want to wear today? Listen, I'm going to tell you guys something. This is super important, okay?  You don't rep your brand, which means you don't have a brand. I want to explain this to you. If you want to grow the greatest company in the history of the world, you must be the most interesting person in the history of the world. That way that people like you, so they'll like your company. Nobody follows the Elliot group without following Andy Elliot. Now, because of me, I built a team and they also wear Elliot. People go, oh man, you got your whole team wearing your name?  This is our movement. This is what we believe in. This is our culture, okay? Just quit being your last name a long time ago. Okay, now you think so small, you can't understand that, but this is a movement. So I want you guys to do me a favor. I want you to write this down, movement. Every one of you right now, what you're doing in life right now is a job to make money.  I do it now and I teach people to be good at it. So I want you guys to understand something. I want you to realize there's gonna be some different levels of us getting together and doing training. There's gonna be this last quarter of 2023, how can we finish out, make some more money, maybe start a business, maybe increase the revenue in the business, maybe start the brand that we've been slow poking around to build, maybe make some decisions with some people that we've been needing to make, but then also there's what we're gonna do in 2024 and what we're gonna do in 2025. Now, I don't wanna get too far ahead, but I do wanna tell you guys what the next 10 years are gonna look like. I'm gonna paint the picture, I'm gonna give them to you and it's up to you to decide to be a part of it or to not be a part of it. But this is what's gonna happen and there's nothing you could do to stop it.  The next 10 years, the news is going to go away, except for dummies, okay? Nobody's going to get their information from the news anymore. They're going to get them from coaches and influencers and by the way, you should all become influencers. What is an influencer? An influencer is a leader. You guys all should be massively influential.  Open your mouth, whatever you're good at, teach people it, get crazy, don't lay under the radar. The worst thing that could happen to you in your life is obscurity. Obscurity means nobody knows who you are. So many of you are so cool. I've met so many of you, man. Every one of you I've met and I'm like, dude, if people knew who you guys were, like you guys would be, man, like not only would you be fulfilled, right?  But the problem is that you won't get out there. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments, tell me that you need help. Do me a favor and tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. Now, I wanna tell you something, right?  Now, listen to me. I don't want you to just say, okay, well, social media has two sides to it. Number one, you watch other people all day long. You're distracted. You're not building the life you want. There's that side of social media. And then there's another side of social media that says, hey, where's my audience? Where's my people? I wanna impact people's lives. Where are they at? Where's my tribe? You know, and then you're looking for your people, okay? Dude, here's the craziest thing.  My life will never be the same because of you. These are people I've never met. These people would love to do coaching with me, which we do do coaching with them. But dude, really what they're looking for is they're looking for someone that they wanna look up to and someone to be the example.    And I wanna tell you guys something, and I mean this. I was talking to my team this morning about discomfort. And I've heard a lot of talk on social media where they're like, you gotta enjoy the pain. You gotta suffer.  I am born to work hard. I am born to grind. I love, you know what's discomfort to me? If you guys are taking notes, write this down. I'm gonna give you Andy Elliott's definition of discomfort.  That's the most uncomfortable thing I could ever imagine possible. I wanna give you guys a perspective and I wanna tell you that you're welcome to still it. And if you do still it, be prepared for a life you never imagined you could have. So everybody's so focused on what's tomorrow that people don't live today. Most of you, you're chasing. Do me a favor, write this down.  Own it. Own it. Guys, stop chasing.  And then it's like, it's like, it's like, I got so much going on tomorrow. That's like, it's exciting. But what about right motherfucking today? What about my team right here that I was with all day long? I was present. Everybody write down the word present.  It's for one simple reason. You're present and you stop chasing.  Everyone will chase you. Everyone will wanna do business with you. Everyone will want to join you. Okay, so number one, there's a couple things.  Okay, I'm gonna go through a list of under being the example. Look, less than seven or 8% body fat.  Okay, be the example. What does that mean? Be elite, be who people want to become physically. Okay, number two, mentally.  So let me give you my perspective of mentally. Mentally means me working hard is not uncomfortable. Me not working hard is uncomfortable. Okay, that's uncomfortable. Okay, me grinding, that's not uncomfortable. Me running 10 miles when I hate running, that's not uncomfortable.   Okay, me watching my family let life pass and me not being a part of it, that's uncomfortable. The thought of that makes me very unfulfilled. If you guys can find fulfillment in just being present, and I did, this is so easy, man, but no one knows how to do this.  If you can just be present. See, we're on this call right now, right? And I'm giving you advice that will change your life forever. I'm giving you advice that if you have a team, if you have an army, if you have a company, you make sure they live by these rules too. Can I ask you a question? If my guys are gonna work for me for 10 hours a day. And I told them, listen guys, I want you to be present with me for 10 hours.    Your team will be like, damn man, that's actually pretty simple. I can do that.  I wanna tell you guys something real quick.  Some of you that said you wanna open a coaching program, I can show you how to go from a thousand dollars a day to a million dollars a day if you wanted to.  Remember this, if you can be, if you, if you, every one of you can be the person that inspires your team, that is a spirit.  Your team will do anything for you.  I'm not a leader that would ever manipulate someone to do anything bad. I tell my team every day, I say listen, by the way, leaders always hold themselves to the highest accountability and they put themselves on notice in front of their team.  No, no, no, no. You know how I tell them?   If I ever, if I'm ever unloyal, if I ever talk behind your back, get out. I don't deserve you to follow me anymore. I don't deserve you. I've set the tone for how they should operate by telling them about me. Remember, the number one way to sell in a close is to make it their idea. So I'm always telling my team by holding me accountable.  Can I cheat? Can I steal? Can I hold? No, dude, I gotta now hold myself to the standard. All right, now let's go to social media. Wes Watson that was here this last weekend, one of the things that he said, he used his social media as an accountability tool to make sure that every day people see that he is doing what he says he's gonna do every freaking day. So if you guys that are like, social media, that's for kids.   Matter of fact, you know, some of you are having a problem right now. You're like, Andy, I'm just having a hard time coming up with content.  Come on, man, what are you talking about?  Dude, you need to be you. Your goal is to build you, to build your brand, to do things the way that you believe that they should be done in every freaking person out there that likes what you're doing. Dude, they'll be your audience. They'll be your future client. And by the way, hey, do me a favor. If you really wanna build a coaching program or build the best company in the world, everybody, do me a favor. Give away your best value for free. Empty the tank every day and give away, listen, you may say, Andy, what if I give away all my best value?    You've already ruined the value of money for me.   Everybody else is like, pay to play.  Listen, anybody that's watched me on social media, you probably watched me for a certain time before you paid to do any business with me and I gave you your return just in free content. I want you guys to know this. Accountability on social media daily is the greatest way for you to build your personal brand. You must stay in their faces. Some of you, you're flashing the pan. You'll shoot for a week straight and then you won't. By the way, take that away. We're not shooting. We're documenting. Write this down. When I build my brand, I'm going to document my life on five different, six different platforms.  And by the way, listen to me. Those of you that will document your life faster, okay?  Is it refreshing to see a motherfucker being an overcomer and change their life? Yeah, I love it, man. I love seeing people change. Dude, so many people stay the same all the time.   Your shoulders look the same, your legs look the same. You don't even sweat in the gym anymore. I ain't never seen you throw up on the floor.  You're just maintaining. Dude, your enemy is maintaining. Some of you right now, listen, there's a book David Goggins wrote and look, I love Goggins, but he wrote a book. It's called Never Finished. I would highly recommend that you guys listen to it on maybe a little bit faster of a speed than one, like 1.2 or something. Let it go a little quicker. It'll take you about 11 hours to get through the whole book. Dude, it is one of the greatest books ever.  There's this thing called keep your chip on your shoulder and I talk about it every day.    I mean it.    I didn't say I was gonna say something to them.  And I want you guys to torture your haters with your success. I want you to intentionally make sure they see you win and win at a big level. So what do we gotta do? Number one, you gotta be the example. That's number one. And I think it's physical. I think it's having a great mindset. By the way, if you wanna really blow everybody away, okay, your family, the people that you live with, the people that you love, make sure they're transforming with you, okay? My wife, when she transformed with me, like dude, it was huge. Had my wife not gone on this journey with me, we wouldn't have a business today. It wouldn't have been enough just for me to do it.  I'm gonna go over some names. You ready? Write this down. Andy Robbins. Have you ever seen his family? I haven't. I love him.  I've seen his wife on stage with him, but I've never seen his kid. I've seen a picture one time. Why? Why? I think a lot of people don't really wanna show their families. What does everybody live for? What's the most important thing to anybody, their family? Andy Frazzella, I love him. He's amazing, okay? Emily's got her own book, but a lot of the times other than his podcast, he runs on his own. I love him, okay? And he doesn't have any kids. Okay, what's your unfair advantage? Where's your kids at? Show people your kids. People need to see them. Show people your kids are badasses. You know, there's a guy that I coach, and his name is Kyle. He runs a company called Superhuman Fathers, right?  He didn't do that in the beginning. And I told him, add your wife to your business and it'll change everything. Dude, their company's blowing up. It's so crazy, okay? I mean, look at Ed Milet. Look at David Goggins. Do you see his wife? Do you see his? No, you don't see these people, man. I wanna tell you, this is what you need to do. If you're doing life with somebody, make sure people see what you stand for and your core values that'll make you stand out over everyone else. Cause most people, they're in it to try to raise their own self, but they don't take their family with them and it's unattractive. And by the way, most of you won't hear me on this. I'm just telling you, if you wanna be the best, this is how you do it. Now, one of the biggest things that I'll tell you is, is that right now, if you guys wanna really go and smash it, okay?  Just make sure that you're present in everything you do. Make sure that you stop racing ahead for the future. Make sure that you make today count. You know, I got Sean Pollard, who's my right hand guy. He's right here. You guys see him? Sean, what's up? He's always here with me. I wanna tell you guys something. Listen, with Sean, okay?  But you know what I do? I always make sure that he has time for his wife. I always make sure that he has time for the gym. I always make sure that all the things that I'm going after in life, I make sure he gets them also. And honestly, I think that a lot of people, when they go to build a company, they wanna get what they want, but they don't want their people to get what they're going after either. You want to, but you really don't make sure and ensure that it happens. Well, if you do and you end up, if you don't do that and you end up getting what you want and they don't, they're going to leave you. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor. I'm gonna tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video.  If you wanna build something great, you gotta build a team.  The bigger you get, the more people you need.  Your people need to be a reflection of the leader.  That's because the leader has ensured that the team knows what to be like and then also, I make sure that they also get what I want to. Why? Because I don't want them to see me pull up and drive a nice, nice cars, have a good life.  Listen to me, if you have something that your team doesn't have, okay, there'll be resentment.  And then they'll think they need to go start their own business because you're the business owner and you have what they can't get. So then they'll think, I need to start my own business. That way I can have what he has.  They could have been an employee, they could have worked for you and they could have had the same thing. But you didn't take your team with you also. Guys, I take my team to Mexico with me every quarter. In the beginning, there was three of us that went. Last quarter we went, there was 70 something of us. Listen, me and my wife had a conversation. We go, should we really go with 70 people? I mean, that's a lot. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of guys join our company because they've seen us do these things and they want to go do these things with us. You know what? Our team loves more than making money. The journey and the time that they get to spend with us. I want you guys to build a life that's so amazing, that's so magnetic, that's so infectious.  And dude, I want to tell you guys, man, like if you don't have what you want in life right now, guess what? Build it.    And also I want to tell you guys something. This is the cardinal sin to being a coach. If you want to build a coaching program, I dare you to not really be who you say you are.   There's a book that Tim Grover wrote called Relentless and I know that most of you have all read it. And in the book, Relentless, Tim Grover, he says, does winning recognize you?  That means this. If you're not doing what you know you should be doing and what you're telling other people to do, you will turn winning off and winning will leave you. You'll say, Andy, but I'm doing the social media, but Andy, I'm doing this and I'm doing that. You're probably not really who you say you are. Okay? Now listen, I want to tell you something. When I started my coaching program, you know what I had? No CRM, no marketing, no nothing. You know what I knew how to do?  That's all I did. And dude, some days I dialed for two or three days straight and I didn't make a cell. You know what? I kept dialing, man. I knew one day it was going to change. I want to give you guys a secret. I know you've heard it, but I want to make sure that you understand this. Write down three. Three stands for three years. If for the next 365 days times three, which is three years, you can do what I'll teach you on these coaching calls every day, seven days a week, and you'll take really good care of people. You'll keep recreating and becoming a better leader and a better example for the world and become a better human being and truly wear your heart on a sleeve, you will have more people than you know what to do with and you will be making millions and millions and millions and dollars and so will your clients. I can't tell you exactly when it will be for you.  I want to tell you guys this. See this shirt? I showed up today and I said, hey, Alex Smith. I said, where's your shirt? Now, when we get on the next call, it'd be cool to get on and all you motherfuckers got your name on your shirt. Right?  Dude, people don't know who Flex Gym is. People need to know who you are. I'm telling you, I can have Flex Gym on my shirt, but I promise you this. I wear Elliott or Elliott Army in my shirt everywhere I go. People, they see me and they don't even recognize me yet but they see Elliott and they say, I know that motherfucker. Elliott, that's right. That's that Elliott team right there. Here's the cool thing, watch this.  Okay, does your team wanna be you? If they do, they'll all wear the same gear you're wearing. Now, I'm gonna ask you a question, okay? If you're not willing to wear it every single day, what you believe in, your team ain't gonna wear it either. And if you wear it every day, then your team starts wearing it.  When we, I live in Scottsdale, Arizona, but I live in a place called Fountain Hills, okay? And when we moved here, my shirt said Elliott, okay? Within one month, everywhere we went in town, since there's 50 of us, and they all wear Elliott, everybody knows Elliott. Now, when we're running on the street, we're going into a store, everybody's like, Elliott, Elliott!  They know that we're Team Elliott. They know our energy, they know our fire. And by the way, you know what I tell my team?  Everywhere we go, and they do it. And now, everywhere I go, dude, I can't even buy dinner. Everybody buys it for us, because of the way that my team treats people when they go somewhere, it's called reciprocity. It's the strongest selling skill in the world. Do for others what you want done for yourself. Do it for them first. Give it away for free. Give people what they don't expect upfront for free.  I told you, next 10 years, that's what it's gonna be. Okay, so I wrote down five things that I wanted to talk about. Okay, and everybody write down this word, mastery. Okay, because mastery's the key word, because 99% of the people in the world, you've heard me say this, but they're a master of none. Okay, what does that mean?   As a coach, we probably get paid in the top 10% in the coaching industry, in the world. The Elliott Group does. How does that happen? Well, number one, we started at the bottom, we worked our way up.  You're doing great, you've made some money, but you're on a new journey. Everybody write down new journey. New journey means a new motherfucking person. Listen to me, if you guys don't change daily, nothing changes. If you change today, but you don't change tomorrow, that means you did a little bit today, but then you gave it all back tomorrow. Everybody write this down. Five things you need to master. I wrote down five. I was thinking about these last night with my wife. I said, babe, if there was five things that we should master, what should they be? So I started writing these things down and I wanna share it with you, because these are things that mean a lot to me. I remember mastery means being the top 1% in the world, okay? All right, so I put down master knowing yourself. Write this down. This is super important. I don't know why a lot of people seem like they talk a lot of shit about everything, but they don't really know who they are. It's a rule number one. You gotta master knowing yourself, okay? Underneath that, I want you to put self-awareness. This is really important. When I say the word self-awareness, I don't think people understand what that means. Do you guys, are you aware of your weaknesses? I mean like, think about it. Are you really aware? Are you brushing your weaknesses under the rug? Are you exposing them? Do you know why we're all on this coaching call together? For one simple reason. I wanna motivate, I wanna inspire, I wanna encourage you to go get everything you want. I wanna give you tactical blueprints.  I want you to look in the mirror and be like, fuck, I'm fixing that. And I want you to fix it now, okay? So I put self-awareness underneath that. I want you to put the power of choice and self-control. What do I eat? Who do I hang out with? How hard am I gonna work out today? Okay, I wanna tell you guys something.  Okay, listen, I'm not asking you to give up your core values. I'm not asking you to give up God. I'm not asking you to give up anything. I'm asking you to find people who believe in everything that you believe in. You know what I'm saying? And they're extremists, they're obsessed people. Okay, but if you were with me and I was gonna hang out with you every day, I would want you to want to master knowing yourself. Okay, most of you really don't know who you are. You spend so much time working. You spend so much time following a schedule.  Okay, does that make sense? Like this is the key guys. Who's gonna be the person that's gonna change your family's life? You are. You don't master knowing you.  When I started to study me, I learned really quickly that I was good at a couple things and I was really shit a lot. And dude, I didn't like me at all. And that's why I changed. I really think if you guys see something that disgusts you, dude, that's good.  I used to get walked all over. And dude, one day my wife said, did you don't have a backbone?  Okay, well guess what? Then I had 10 times too big of a backbone immediately. Okay, but I needed to get angry to fix that problem that I had. So I put master knowing yourself, number one, self-awareness. Number two, right? The power of choice and self-control, okay? And put over your actions. Self-control, right? Power of choice and self-control over your actions. Control of your actions. Dude, you guys can control everything that goes on in your life. You can control every choice.   You don't have to manage anyone else about yourself. And if you manage yourself, then you're qualified to manage lots of other people. Okay, and also one more thing.    And I know this sounds corny, right? But I went to the vault in 2020, I think. First time I ever went. And anyways, hey, see big dog. 2020 went to the vault and Patrick Bet David said, hey, you need to create a vision board. And you know, like, I mean, that sounds kinda cliche, right? Like come on, make a vision board. I'm 40 years old. I'm like, come on, man. Make a vision board. I thought I was gonna get something tactical to go back and kill it with. Yeah, make a vision board. What do you wanna look like? Who do you wanna be? What are the core values you wanna emulate? Who do you wanna sound like? What is your image? Who do you wanna speak like?  And I thought, dude, I honestly don't even know the answers to any of these things. So I went and built a vision board. And I literally put a picture of who I wanted to look like, which I don't look like how I used to look because I saw someone else every day that I wanted to be like. I'm gonna tell you the craziest thing.  You can't change your body. You can't change your voice. You can't change everything about you. You guys already know I said this. Go look me up on YouTube. That's not, you're gonna say that's not you. It wasn't me. I was living in a alien's body. That was not me here. I thought I was this guy, but when I looked in the mirror, I saw that guy. Okay, now I wanna tell you something that's cool. This is what I love. That motherfucker's still lurking behind me. He's still in the mirror. That weekend, he's still there. I hated that guy.   He can still come back if I decide to let my foot off the gas.   No ways, man.  So you need to know who you wanna be. I would suggest you guys make a vision board. I had to drop my ego, my pride. I had to become a kid again.  And I start posting it on this board. I'm gluing it. It was like I was back in the first grade doing a science project. Seems a little silly, except for what it does is it creates clarity. If you're not crystal clear who you wanna be or how your life's gonna go, I'm sorry to tell you this, but someone else is gonna tell you how your life's gonna go.   Last four have been amazing. Why? Because I decided to change and not be too good for anything and be open-minded. If you guys can write down just these two words, open-minded, as I talk about stuff, what I've learned is a lot of people who won't grow, it's only because they hear things and they say, ah, that sounds stupid. Yeah, actually growing a new life is pretty simple. Most people just overcomplicate it. That's why they never change. It's really not that hard. It's proximity and it's everyday getting better. And day by day you start to recreate yourself and become a better version. 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, you just start becoming different people. All right, number two. That's number one, master knowing yourself. Number two, mastering the ability to reason. This is a big one, man. I don't think a lot of people know how to reason and I put a couple of things underneath this. I put how to deal with decisions you make, okay? Like guys, decision making is probably, okay, let's put it this way. The life you have today is because of the decisions you made yesterday. Okay, the decisions you make today will show you the life you're gonna have tomorrow. Like it's that simple. Okay, so how to deal with your decisions you make. And number two, write down high stake choices. You gotta be able to make high stake choices. Write this down with uncertainty. Which means I need you to understand something, okay?  Okay, mastering the ability to reason will honestly always go back to how much you believe in you and how much you feel like you can bet on you. Can I ask you a question? What are the odds in your favor? Say don't do this. But you know you need to do it and you bet on yourself so much that you know that you can risk this. Okay, I had to make a decision today and I won't tell you what it is, but I had to make a decision today that it was very uncomfortable for me to make, but I know that it was the right choice.  I wanna tell you guys something. Listen to me.   It's like you need more certainty. When you go to start a business, let's explain this to you. 99% of businesses that get started go out of business. Well, why do people start businesses?  And I think a lot of you guys know that. But remember this, okay? Underneath that, you gotta put this down.   But remember, the only thing that's uncomfortable would be not living in our, in fulfillment and in our purpose.  I'm not in discomfort spending a lot of money on my business that's not making money right now because I know one day it'll make money. Does that make sense? I know one day I'll have that life.  It will, every single bit of it will. But you've got to be able to bet on you. You've got to be able to believe in you. And look, I wanna ask you a question. Why do so many people, right, give in at some point at some day to not believing in themself? Dude, everybody write this down. Every time I doubt myself, I start over again. You wanna go back to the finish line? Fuckin' A, keep doing it.    This is what most of y'all's life looks like. And I'm gonna explain it because I've lived it, which is why I can talk to you about it. It's like running a marathon.  Like that's gotta suck. And I did that for a long time. So you guys need to decide, number one, who do you wanna be, okay? Also, the power of choice.  And then taking control over your actions.  Everything that's happening to you right now, good and bad is your fault. You gotta own all of it. Okay, now listen, number three, I put down mastering, building the right team. This is a big one. Okay, so what do we gotta master? Five things, master knowing yourself, mastering the ability to reason. How do I reason when uncertainties on the line, especially in high-stakes situations, okay? You know, easy decision-making is easy, but high-stakes situations, that's the ones where you guys need to really know who you are. You need to really believe in yourself. And if you did the vision board and you know who you wanna be, you can ask yourself, does this decision that I'm making align with that motherfucker that I wanna be? Everybody write this down. I wanna tell you something that Patrick Bette David taught me when I was at the vault. Now, I've called it a lot of different things. I've called it altering my belief, altering my identity, but he calls it future truth. And that's what he says.  And he goes, it's called living in your future truth, which means it's not true today, but in the future it is a truth. It will be true and this will happen. So I'm going to live today in my future truth. It's a big one, man. When I heard that, I was like, man, that's good. And it's just flow smooth future truth. I like that. So future truth guys. Okay, master building the right team. Okay, now listen, can I say something? And by the way, like this is not to divert anybody off of what their plan is and what they're doing. But I want everybody to write down two words. Number one, I want you to write down entrepreneur and number two, I want you to write down intrapreneur.  That's actually not true, okay? If you wanna build a life that no one's ever had, you gotta work for yourself. That's actually not true, so I take that back. I want you to decide what you're gonna do and what you want for other people. Number one, you're gonna be an intrapreneur. An intrapreneur is someone who works for the entrepreneur or you're gonna be an entrepreneur.  They know their role. They get a great life in that company. They don't have to take any of the risk.  That person takes great care of them. Boom, it's about a beautiful life.  Does that make sense? That's called an intrapreneur. I wanna tell you guys something. Four out of five millionaires work for someone else. I'm not telling you not to open your own business but I want you to really think about this. There could be someone right now. I'm giving you an example.  Like I wish I could. Like I'm actively looking for these people all the time. Well, a lot of people are like, oh, well, it's hard to get a job with these big influencers. No, it's not.  I just wanted to say that. Number two, there's the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur takes all the risk, okay? Takes all the payroll, takes all the expenses, takes all the lawsuits, takes all the beating.  I'm gonna tell you guys, if it wasn't for physical fitness, I probably would have looked 97 right now, okay?   So Botox in the gym, open your own business, okay? Or work for someone else and dude, you can look pretty your whole life, okay?   Okay, so I want you to play the odds for a minute as an entrepreneur, okay? How many people right now that run businesses are looking for someone bad to come help them grow their business? Every one of them, okay? So there's a plethora of these opportunities that exist.   You gotta outsmart all of them. You gotta outskill all of them. You gotta outcare all of them. Now, hey, here's my point.  But I just wanted to tell some of you that you don't have to open your own business.  Like it's just a truth. Now I'm not telling you to go one way or another, but I'm trying to tell you that when we go into master building the right team, you can be either one of these people to build a team. But building a team is one of the most important things in the world.  You ready? Write this down. Lead people to find the best in themselves.  Notice I said lead, leadership, you have to lead. You have to self lead and then lead others to find the best in themselves. Which means your goal is to max out others potential. That's your goal. Your goal is to make sure that other people find the best in themselves. That's your number one goal if you wanna build the right team. And if you do that, people will feel so fulfilled around you.  Matter of fact, people will work for you and they won't even believe that they should get to work for you. Could you guys imagine having a team that comes in and says, I can't believe we get to work here? Like how many companies have teams where people go in and say, I can't believe that we get to have this life in this company. If you guys are training with me, I have that team. I feel that way around my team. I can't believe I get to have them. This is the secret. If you can build this, you'll never worry about you're ever restarting. You'll build something that is the new mecca for how to run life.  And everybody in the world will be lined up for miles to come work for you. We did a trick one day. I was just showing Sean Pollard, one of my guys. I said, hey guys, it's Andy Elliott. We're adding a few more members to Elliott Army. If you guys have ever wondered how you can work for me, send me a 60 second video on Instagram and DM me about why you wanna work for me and why you're the right person for me. This was like six months ago. We took over, it was like 1,000 or 2,000 DMs over 24 hours. Like dude, why should you build a personal brand again? Because when you are growing and you're gonna need people, well, you don't need to run and add.    So building the right team, I said this, lead people to find the best in themselves and also write this down, build trust. You know, me and my wife always talk about a circle of trust. Dude, no great team gets built without the right culture and without building trust, you'll never scale.  So culture and trust, those are the two things. By the way, who must show the trust first? The leader. Guys, I wanna tell you something about leadership. Trust people first, and then if they screw you, okay? Then move on. But people always like, oh man, I've gotten screwed, dude. People gotta give me their trust first. Then they go, dude, I'm not really into that, man. If you tell me that I can trust you, I'm gonna trust you the best of my ability until you show me otherwise. I refuse to live any other way. And by the way, you guys can choose how you wanna live. But I can look into someone's eyes. And guess what, everybody write this down. Dude, this is so important. I'm glad we're talking about this on Team Building. Everybody write this down. You can always replace skill. Skills easy to replace. But it's hard to replace heart. Once you guys do me a favor, before you ever, ever let go of an employee, I want you to ask yourself one question. Does this person's heart still represent the core values of our company? Maybe that person needs a little bit more coaching. If their heart is in the right place, you can't go out and find heart very often, okay? Skills easy.  But if somebody doesn't have the skill they need, but they have the core values in the heart, I'm not giving up on them. I'm gonna coach them better. I'm gonna coach them harder. I'm gonna invest in them more.  Eventually these people are gonna have a breakthrough at some point. Okay, by the way, people say I don't have time.  Go hire one wrong employee without heart.   If you really care about time, you got somebody with heart, be grateful for them, appreciate them. Hey dude, just become a better coach. Or if you're not good at teaching people, go pay someone else to teach them. I have lots of companies that pay me to teach their people. Okay, not everybody's a good teacher. Just remember what I said. You can replace skill, but you can't replace heart. Okay, super, super important. I put underneath culture, I put number four, mastering strategy to scale. So a lot of people don't have strategies to actually scale. So we're talking about five kinds of mastering, okay? And I'm kinda going full circle here. Number one, master knowing yourself. Number two, mastering the ability to reason. Number three, master building the right team. If you wanna go far, we're gonna have to go with the team. Master the strategy to scale. So this is a big one, man. A lot of people don't have the right strategies. Let me give you a couple that I have found highly effective. I put holding people accountable for their actions. This is a big one. What I've learned with a lot of companies is that a lot of companies don't even hold people accountable for their actions anymore at all.    There's big time accountability in our company every day. I've got a guy right here. I don't know if anybody knows Keaton with Limitless Society, right? Keaton's a great guy. We're building Keaton's sales team right now, okay? We're building it in-house here. His Limitless Society sales team. And Ryan, who's his CEO and a couple of other sales reps were in our 8.30 meeting this morning where I was not because my team runs the sales meeting every morning because leaders make leaders, okay? I started doing the sales meetings when we started. I haven't gotten too good for it.  They're better than me. This morning they walked in and Ryan goes, I can't believe the way that your team runs in these meetings.  It's not just hype, it's tactical, it's strategy.  They knock the dust off each other. They get ready to go to war.  Guys, holding people accountable.  I want you guys to write this down. I'm not going to babysit you.      So holding people accountable for their actions. Write this down. Gain and maintain momentum. Gain and maintain momentum. I think that a lot of people, the reason why they don't have a strategy to scale is because they don't have momentum in their company. Your secret to any showroom floor, to any call center, to any company is momentum. Guys, right now I need you to write this down. Who are my culture drivers?    They run around here, they don't let anybody even blink.  By the way, they're girls and they're guys. They're psycho. I know who my culture drivers are. I have meetings with them every morning. And by the way, you know what culture drivers do? They're not the only ones running around driving the culture. They make other people who aren't driving the culture uncomfortable and they demand, everybody underlined the word demand. They demand people who aren't driving the culture to become culture drivers. Okay, hey, hey, by the way, listen to me. Always remember this. We're all going back to being a leader which is self-leadership. Your team can't have what you're not. If you're not an example of what a good culture driver is, then how in the hell can you tell your team what being a good culture driver is?   They learn it from me and then they repeat. Okay, someone has to lead the way in the beginning. Now, this isn't about me. It isn't, wow, look at me.  But you know what I've learned about leaders?  Hey, by the way, listen to me. I want to tell every one of you something. If you want to be an influence to the world, do me a favor.  Do you look up to you? When you look at you, are you like, fuck? Yeah. If you're not, they're probably not doing it either. And by the way, I'm not being sarcastic. I want you to be honest with yourself.  The answer is no. All right, what do we got to do to fix it?   Shit starts to change. Once you change your body, maybe that's what you got to do, okay?  Quit saving it. If you're pellas, you'll get a tan. I don't know. You got to do something, dress a little better. But figure it out. You've got to figure out how to make yourself a little bit more attractive every day. And guess what? You know what I've learned?     They're like, I thought we were gonna learn something. Dude, you already know everything you need to know.   That's why you don't have what you want. Or that's why you have something, but you haven't scowled or grown in a long time, okay? You guys need to reassess your drive.  If you're getting bored, I talked about this on our last call.  I'm telling you, man, this is the key. All right, so hey, and by the way, write this super important. I put gain and gain and maintain momentum, which means you never lose. Everybody write this down. Never have two bad days back to back. There's a rule in my company. We have a bad day, okay.  But two bad days in a row, this is gonna be like an all night skate. We're spending the night in this motherfucker. We're not going home. You can never have two bad days in a row, never. Okay, but I want you to write this down. Systems to track and measure. You gotta have systems that track and measure. You have to. If you don't have systems that'll track and measure your stuff, you're screwed. All right, so we're gonna roll out on number five. Master power plays. Master power plays. All right, mastering power plays is, I wrote this down to me. This is my power play, okay? Yours can be different, but I want you to share mine. Leverage social media to frame the story of your life. As a salesperson, I always framed everybody. So I had to make sure that they made it their idea before they bought what I had. I needed to make sure they were in a great place.   Don't make it fake. Hey, listen to me. Don't make it fake, dude.     And I'm gonna tell you this.  Because my home is my business.   You know what I'm saying?   Your goal is that you're gonna elevate. You're about to go to a level that no one ever imagined. You know what I mean? So the question is, are you an entrepreneur, right? Are you an entrepreneur, okay?  Mine was social media. That's it, and matter of fact, my second power play, which I already told you is building a team, okay?  How do I know you're the trainer that should be the one to teach them?  And then ask me that again.  And that'll answer your own question. See, what I want you to understand is that I want you to create a life in which shows people everything that you say that they can have, it's the truth, and it's real. And I need you to change very fast. Matter of fact, there's two things we're gonna end with. Number one, the person that can self-correct is forever wealthy.   So number one, the person that can self-correct is forever wealthy. And number two, if you can get around the fear of what other people think about you when you're changing, you'll change fast as fuck, okay? Bradley always talks about this word, allodoxophobia, the fear of what other people think about you. And he just says, dude, the reason why most people don't change is the stupidest reason, but it's just because they're afraid of what other people think about them.     I mean, come on, man. I mean, what are these people talking about? You know what they're talking about? You have the courage to do something they don't have the courage to do.  Lady, sorry.   I love bad women. I want everybody to know on this call I would not be anything without my wife, period.  If you don't include your wife, you are fucked. You're fucked. You're not gonna make it. She's not gonna sacrifice anything for you. And they know when you're real.  They have the craziest intuitions. And they know when your intentions are right. And dude, I promise, I know my wife, I know what her goal is.  My wife has one goal. She needs to be number one.  When I make her number one, she'll support me and ride with me everywhere. I have to make her number one. And some of you guys, you're not putting your girl as being number one. And by the way, I know there's ladies on here, but I'm just telling you the way it works for guys. I know that women wanna be number one. They may say they don't. That's like your girl saying she don't wanna go out for her birthday.  That's a trick.   Yeah, I don't wanna go out.   We're going out.  Jackie one time, I was like, baby, you wanna go out for your birthday? I shouldn't even ask. She was like, no, I'm cool.  Yeah, well, I figured out about 11 o'clock.      They wanna be number one.  They'll give you anything, anything. And they're the most dangerous thing in the world. And in a good way. Okay, as long as you take care of them.  And lastly, I wanna say something.    Okay, all right, because I used to do it all the time.   And by the way, these things, they're called standards. They're a way of living. And then I put one last thing. I put a successful business person that eventually learns to identify leaks and opportunities in their business, okay? I need you guys to identify leaks. What are the holes you have in your business? Okay, how much money is it costing you continuing to turn a blind eye to these leaks? Okay, and also how much is it costing you not pursuing these new opportunities? That's it. And by the way, if you guys have everything you need and you just need a build on it, then you need to go through a season of saying no. If you have everything you need, if you have the product, if you have everything right now, you need to physically just go through a season of saying no, stop getting distracted. I get asked to be on 800 podcasts a day and I say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, because if I did all that, I wouldn't have a business and I'd be out of business. Okay, like you prayed for attention one day and then once you start to get it, you gotta be real careful who you give it to. Okay, so I just wanna tell you guys about these traps. Most people could have made it that they get caught in a trap somewhere along the way. Our goal, guys, is to get it all. So, just wanna tell you guys much love. I appreciate you guys. Let's go to war, man. I'll see you guys soon. I hope that you're watching. Hey guys, I just wanna tell you the true one percenters you made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor, share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


Good morning, y'all. Happy Friday. My name is Sonali. If you guys are new here, and if you are, definitely subscribe down below. Guys, we are currently like nine subscribers away from 25,000. It's insane. I'm so hyped to get there. This morning, I'm gonna start my day off by going to brunch. I feel like I never go to brunch on Fridays, but a girl in my apartment complex and I are gonna go to Lesbisterie Cafe. I've yet to try their brunch, but I always go to their happy hour. There was a point in time where I literally hit up their happy hour every week in a row, because first of all, it's so cheap, and second of all, the food is delicious. But I wanted to share my outfit of the day.  So my clothes are everywhere because I wanna just see what I have like when it all comes. And I think it's all coming today. So I might film like a, you know, main channel kind of like fall haul. There's so many different stores that I bought from. So I might do that today, but probably not in the vlog because there's just like a lot. Don't mind the messy apartment, but this is my dress for today. I actually got it at Forever 21 and I know so many, like I wanna say half the comments, but this is probably very exaggerating. On my apartment tour was asking me where I got this dress. I got it at Forever 21. And then when I posted the video, I went to link it and it was not on their site anymore. But good news, I literally found it on, I wanna say it was shot for a dress or pink lily, but this dress still exists out there. So I'm gonna link it down below. Hopefully it's still up by the time this video goes up. But it is super pretty. I feel like it's so flattering because it's adjustable with the like cinched waist. And you can obviously button it up for like a more professional look. It has really cute balloon sleeves and overall this dress is like really high quality. I'm with Hannah. Hi. And we're actually at Snooze. You wanna tell him the story? This is our third of the race this morning. We've had very bad luck, but now we have food and now I'm super happy. Yeah, so Elizabeth Street didn't have brunch. So then we went to other snooze and the wait was too long. So we came here and I got the Bella, Bella, Benny. And I got everything. Yes, love that for you. I just got home and literally picked up five freaking packages from my apartment office. So I thought I would unbox one just because I probably won't include this package in my full haul because I didn't buy this. It was sent to me from Waif and Waif is sold at Nordstrom and I've been wearing a lot of their dresses recently and they're such good quality. It is a little pricier so it makes sense that they're such good quality but I thought I would do a little haul for you guys. First we have this blazer. I don't think I own any blazers. I actually just stopped doing fashion pass and I rented a blazer off of there, took a picture, didn't like love the picture. So I wanted to get another one because I feel like blazers are such a thing right now and has cute little buttons. It also has like the shoulder pads at the top so it'll really give you like that structured look. Ooh yes, this is so cute, okay. Also, if you guys know Champagne and Chanel and Dress of Buttercup, they're like the OG vloggers. They just did a best friend collection with Waif and it's so funny because I was out shooting one of their dresses because they sent it to me before the campaign launch and I literally saw Emily which was Champagne and Chanel. She like lives here in Austin now. They're both, they used to live in Houston or Emily used to live in Houston. But yeah, it was so cool because I was like, oh my God, this is your dress and it like hasn't even launched yet but it was really cool meeting her. But anyways, this kind of reminds me of their line just because they have these really cute little poof sleeves at the end. This is a wrap top and it's going so cute for like the holiday season. If you guys want to see these pieces styled, definitely go follow me on my Instagram because I will be posting a lot of fall content after my beach content. We're going to the beach next Wednesday and I'm so excited. I had the revelation because I was like, Ryan, guess what? We don't have to bring our work computers because we're both taking off the whole time that we're there, which is almost a week or so. And I was just so excited that I didn't have to pack my work computer because not that I hate my job or anything but it's a good feeling because I've definitely done a couple of trips where I had to pack my personal and work computer and it's just like so annoying because that's like an extra what five pounds? Probably not five pounds. I don't know how big my computer is but you get the direct. It's just inconvenient having to take both of them. All right, next up we have pretty much like that same like top of that sweater that I just showed you. It has like these cute little puffy sleeves but it is a dress. This next one is a maxi dress and it has this beautiful like snake print. It's a mock neck, which I love mock necks and it has a cinched waist. I have one more thing to show you guys. It is this top. It kind of has that mock neck and it has this really cool. I don't even know what this would be called but it just has a really cool front. It has like a little cutout. I'll have links to all of the pieces down below. My camera's about to die. I feel like I should go create TikToks because I haven't put on makeup this whole week really. Truly admire all these TikTokers because they make it look so easy but it's just, it takes forever. It's almost like I'm filming a whole video because I have to like get the lighting set up because the lighting in here is great and all but I feel like it just could be better with my lighting. It is a lot later.  We're about to meet Ally's dad and we're gonna go to neighborhood sushi. I don't even know where it is. I think it's on South Congress but I guess we'll find out. But why don't we do another OOTD because I switched my outfit up like 500 times today. I took a lot of pictures for my like to know it. So if you guys aren't already following me over there go follow me, get some styling spaux, shop my page and see what I'm wearing. Came in here to do my OOTD because I did not love the lighting in there but the lighting in here isn't even that great. So we'll just get it over with. This top is from Abercrombie and Fetch. These pants are from Abercrombie and Fetch and these shoes are my new babies. They are from Dolce Vita and they have like clear straps and like a really low heel but like a block heel. So they're really comfortable and this is my outfit. These jeans, I don't think they're on the site anymore like this style, this wash or whatever but this like structure jeans are still there. I think they're called the 90s relaxed jeans or something like that. I'll have everything linked down below. I need to take a bunch of boxes down to the dumpster. I like broke them all up today because there was just too many. So gonna leave a little bit early and do that. We're on South Congress. Is it a picture? No, no, no it's not. I'm sushi on South Congress. Vlog or blog? Vlog. She's a YouTuber, she's 25,000 subscribers. Oh my God. Not yet, almost. Hello, 25,000 subscribers. Oh my God. I'm Olivia and I will be living in Taylor's house. I'm from Motel. I'm Taylor and Allie and I'm so excited to be on Snally's vlog. Oh yeah.  Exciting day because we are gonna do Ryan shopping spree today. In my last vlog I mentioned that he lost like 30 pounds and so we had a bet. And so I'm gonna treat him to a little shopping spree. At first you wanna do lemon. I think we're just gonna go to South Congress and see. What? Do you really wanna go to Target first? No, I thought you'd get more of my money in Target. You should use my money for nicer stuff. Two shirts. Because then you can just use your money. Yeah, and probably two shirts.  We'll see what he gets. Our place is still mess because my clothes are everywhere. I just ordered some empanadas from caffeine and I, we live pretty close to there.  Actually it's not for Ryan, it's for me because I'm hungry and apparently he's not. But today, this whole week my face has been breaking out.  And I always break out like the week before. Why is that? That is so weird. So I'm just like not gonna wear makeup. I put on eyebrows and then lashes and then I literally just like tapped my beauty blender with excess foundation on my cheeks. But other than that, I do actually want to purchase a new foundation. Wait, can we go to the domain maybe? I wanna go to Sephora possibly. Sit down, sit down. Shuh. What is it? I got caffeine and I and I actually got some empanadas. And then I think it's called like a guayaba or something. Apparently my pronunciations are not very good. I'm literally getting torn apart on my Austin Day in my life TikToks. Structure and it is like the most beautiful patio I'm dying to go. I have like dinner plans tonight and we're busy tomorrow and then we leave for our trip. So we don't have time to go right now. And now there's this new breakfast place here.  Apparently it's really popular. I think Ally said it was like popular in LA or Australia, one of the two. So I'm pumped about that. Yeah, you already have that. That green is cute. Oh shit, we should have like did a closet audit and see what you needed because I have no idea what you need. So I got this pink workout top when I was thrifting and it was literally the exact same one. I love it because it's like padded. It has a bra on it and I kind of want another one. Should I get the white? What do you think, white? I think that would be cute. Yeah. All right, so this is what I tried on at Lou Lemon. I love these freaking workout tops. I only have one and I actually bought it at their store but I just like really like the fit of them. I feel like they're so flattering. And then these shorts are something new but I wanted to get more running shorts because I have like really cheap ones and they're so tight on me. So these are the On the Fly MR shorts. It is a 2.5 inch. You look really good. You look so good. You look so good. Yeah, I like it. We definitely did some damage on Music Lane and now we're gonna go into Target to spend the rest of Ryan's shopping spree money. I actually feel like I spent a good amount of money on music, I do. I went into Everline for the first time. I feel like I've heard about it more from influencers and I always thought it was really expensive. Some of the stuff is kind of more expensive because it's like cashmere but like the workout stuff was like pretty like affordable compared to like what I like know of like set active. Affordable meaning like, I think the sportswear was like 38 and like the pants were like 50 something. But if you think about like Lou Lemon, they're like $100. So. From the recognition phase, I thought that would be like really expensive. Oh yeah. So we went into this really cute like men's store for Ryan. It's called Buck Mason and I feel like I've definitely seen the logo. Like I could tell by the logo on the shirts. Maybe we like saw it in a store or something, I don't know. Who knows, but it was a really cool store and we also thought that was like super expensive because these stores on Music Lane look so nice.  The most of gloves on. Oh yeah.  That and then like also I was literally about to like go grab the shirt to feel it and I think he saw and then he was like, oh there's like gloves could you put them on? And I was like, oh okay, how am I gonna feel this shirt? We're gonna go into Target and then I actually have a couple of things that I need to get like underwear because underwear is like way too big on me and I just need to stop wearing big underwear. I don't know why I do that. This is TMI. Okay, it's great. Yeah literally gritty panties, okay. We are in Target now and I just found my favorite freaking nail polish in Target. It's the all of in June.  They're like the cutest packaging and they last so long honestly. So I'm picking up the color HD. I'm pretty sure it's just like a white color because I've been wanting to get a solid white color from them. So I'm really excited. I hope they have like more colors at Target. This thing is amazing, the poppy. I wasn't really always good at painting my nails but this helped something about the grip. It's just so nice. And then their cuticle oil is really great. Everything about that brand I love. We are back home. Georgia made a touchdown. We had to make it back for the game. Again. The one thing I enjoy in life, she can't let me have. No, I'm glad that I can do whatever I wanna do and you have that. It's fun. It's a nice thing. But we're gonna take a pause and do a little haul for you guys because I didn't show you guys everything that he got at Target and I got like a couple things at Target. So yesterday he actually went to Lululemon so this isn't what I got him. You like the snap pants? Which are like- Which Lululemon did you go to? Same one. Oh, South Congress? South Congress. Oh, got it. Okay. You can't see your sub pants.  And I got my favorite socks. Oh, those are socks. They like don't make me have blisters and they don't make my feel like sweaty or anything. It has like underarm breathers. It's so weird. It's pretty bad, I'd say. I've never seen that. It's pretty cool, actually. It looks really good on him. Got more Lululemon stuff today. He's inside, it's really nice. But wasn't gonna get it. It was like $118 or something. I tried it all and I just had to get it. I keep telling him he should start investing into like nicer things. But like not that Target stuff isn't really that nice, but I feel like now that we're older and like we have our own money, we are able to do this. But also always like get nice stuff and I'm like, oh, it's too nice. I'm not gonna wear it. Yeah. So I always thought, I have to probably make me wear these. They gave me fresh boob cups because the other ones in that shirt were like way too wrinkly. Which are made well men's. They have a made well for women down the street. Like it's a school bag. Mm-hmm. It's fine. My gosh. This t-shirt she just had to have. Me? I like that color on him though. The green. So this is Everlane. Never been in there. She knows about it apparently. Just got this crew neck. Thought I could wear it with like, you know, like work pants or just like, to see my golf pants later. Like where would that? Yeah. Target didn't have a dressing room to open. So I had to buy everything. So I could try it on return but I don't wear. I'm just gonna go play a contract explain. This is just all workout. I decided to go with a smaller hoodie. Trying to go with all in the store. So I'm gonna get a little more forward fitting. I like that color a lot. Yeah. These two things I got. So this is a really cute and really nice like sweater kind of thing.  This one was in the PJ section and just was super soft and cozy. So that is the haul of the day. I'm gonna meet my friend Nagin for happy hour. I think it's pronounced more cafe but I've heard they have a really good happy hour like food and drinks. So we're gonna hit that up later. I'm feeling a little sleepy.  I have heavy whipping cream in my fridge and we are gonna leave to our beach trip on Wednesday. So I wanna kind of try to use up everything that I have in this fridge. I have buttermilk and I don't know what the frik to do with buttermilk. But I definitely have heavy whipping cream and I'm gonna make crumb brulee if I didn't say that already.  So I will link this YouTube video that I always follow. It is super simple. Literally the YouTube video is like three minutes and no one's talking. It's just like B-roll and text over top. I'm here with Nagin at this restaurant. We're doing some happy hour. We're both gonna get the watermelon frozen. It looks so good. And it's super cute here. It's actually on Riverside. I've literally never seen it but it's right by Chilantro. It's like, I swear it's hidden. Good morning all. It is Sunday and I finally put makeup on but my pimple is still fricking there. I just like want it gone for a beach trip because I feel like at the beach I'm probably not gonna wear a lot of makeup. So I just want my skin to be better. But again, I think it's just like hormonal acne. This morning I actually went on a run. I did two miles running and 0.5 walking. I did it alone. Ryan didn't come with me.  But obviously you have seen that I've not been really eating the best this weekend and I'm literally going to brunch right now. We're going to Tiny Box Woods. Not sure if I've said that. It's super aesthetic, very elegant looking, very beautiful inside and has good food.  It is a mess and I'm actually picking her up. We just got to Tiny Box Woods and we put our name on the list. They said that there's really no wait so this is perfect. Hi, I'm Mariana. Sonali and I met at a Christmas party but then she took the best pictures for my daughter's first birthday. Yeah, it was so cute and she's about to turn two in January, he said. It's been so long. Yeah, and that was the last time we saw each other. Was that last January? And she walked in this January. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like this past January. Yeah. But this place is so good. Can't wait to show you guys. We actually got a table inside. The inside is really pretty though. It's stunning. The outside, it's just getting a little hot. The last time it was freezing inside, which is why. And I didn't bring a jacket but I'm gonna be fine. Okay, it's better than sweating I guess but this place is so cute. We are back on South Congress because yesterday when we went to Lululemon, I asked the guy if he would be able to make my Lululemon leggings into biker shorts and he said, yes, so I'm back. We're gonna get them tailored in the Lululemon store. But he said it was free. I hope that's still a thing. So I went into SoCo. That was so sad because they told me that you couldn't get old, like really long pants hemmed more than five inches. Like that's like the, I guess max, you can get it hemmed. And like literally the guy yesterday, like I explained my situation. And he was like, yeah, you can totally do that. You can get it hemmed like no big deal. Yeah, he was like, oh yeah, that's like a new thing. There was a shortage on biker shorts so we're allowing that now. And so I was like, what the heck? Like the guy literally told me straight up you could do it yesterday. So then I walked out of the store and like the lady at the front was like, oh, did you get it hemmed? I was like, no, they said I couldn't do it. And she was like, I've never heard of that rule. Like blah, blah, blah. And so I was like, okay, whatever. I'll just call another Lululemon and see if they could do it. And they said, yes, you can do that. I don't know why they wouldn't let you do that. So we're going to go to the Lululemon on 6th street. Is it 6th street? And I explained to them that they are old and they are long and is there like a maximum that you could have? And they're like, no, like we can totally do it. So we're going to go there, get it done and hopefully they look really good. I mean, these Lululemon leggings that I have are from high school. They're so old and like hilled, but I was like, it's free. Like why not? They're actually really nice leggings and they have some holes at the knees. So I was like, this is perfect. I can get it cut where like the holes don't show and I'll have free biker shorts. All right, we got the pants. They are being hemmed. I did five inches for all of them. And I have four pairs. So you can get four biker shorts. It's so exciting because I stopped wearing my Lululemons cause like I said, they had holes in them. But also update for today, our shoe got canceled because the other photographer's boyfriend got called into work. So, and we were going to do like a couple's photo shoot swap. So that got canceled, but it's fine because I'm breaking out and it's really hot. And I know that it would just not be very enjoyable. So we're going to do it after our trip, after we get back, hopefully it'll be more like fall weather then. And then we can actually wear fall outfits and like be in sweaters and dress all cute. So now we're going to go to Barton Creek Square Mall because I'm going to return a couple of Abercombe jeans. I don't know if you guys follow Brie Shepard, but she was an influencer that just did a collab with them and I actually got her jeans. So those were the ones that I ordered two sizes in. We're going to go return them. And I think I want to go into Morphe because there's a Morphe store at that mall too. So I tried this new taco place over the weekend and I have a feeling it might be better and more convenient than our normal place. Just a dollar's going to give it a try and see if we're going to switch. I spent the last couple of hours trying to like start packing and I feel like I was shopping so much recently but I was like, where are all my dinner outfits? Like I feel like maybe I just bought more casual outfits which obviously is probably better because then I can just like wear them on a normal everyday basis, especially when I come back here after my trip. But again, I was like, what the heck? Like I literally thought I was like buying clothes for my B trip. My review on the tacos, they are probably right under Las Troncas. I still like Las Troncas because I swear they dip them. Like they dip their tortillas or corn tortillas in grease or something like about them is so good and like probably so bad for you but they are definitely my top fave still. This place was on Riverside and it's, you know, comes close but not all the way there yet.


Hello everyone. My name is Jeremy Hickson. I'm currently the senior advisor over the Sheriff's Office Explorer program and assigned to our Community Engagement Bureau. Today we are going to showcase something that we get asked a lot about and that is our agency patrol vehicles. So today we're going to kind of show you the features and what's included within our patrol vehicles. But a little fun fact that not a lot of people know, our Sheriff's Office we have 1,250 vehicles assigned to us. That ranges from specialty vehicles, patrol vehicles, vehicles that go into different environments for different situations. And so each of them encompassing different tools and different resources for us to be able to provide services to the citizens. Alright, so the very first question we're going to tackle is the appearance of this specific Tahoe. As I alluded to earlier, I'm actually the senior advisor over our Explorer program. So this Tahoe is actually assigned to Explorers and it's wrapped to promote the Explorer program. But it has all the features and the appearance of a normal patrol car that you would see any Deputy Sheriff in Pasco driving. You have the arrowhead, the icon, it says Sheriff. And so another question that we get asked a lot is the lights features and why we have so many lights. And so traditionally for patrol vehicles, you would just see the standard exterior light bar on the top. And while those are very bright, they provide lights for the rear of the vehicle as well as the front of the vehicle. In this case, we have all of our vehicle or all of our lights are interior and there's a couple reasons for that. One, it allows us to install more lights. So as you can see throughout the side of the vehicle, we've got lights pretty much on top. The middle, the bottom. So it allows us to increase the visibility of the patrol vehicle but also longevity wise and maintenance wise. Lights aren't getting exposed to the environmental factors like weather, rainfall, dirt, debris and everything. So it paints a clear picture allowing more motorists and people to actually see the lights. What I really like is the tracer lights. So in case we use the patrol car to block an intersection or a roadway, where as the traditional light bar, we just pretty much have a strobe right here. That's all motorists or people would see. We actually now have trail board lights and lights throughout the side of the vehicle so to increase its visibility. Alright, the inside of the patrol vehicle. So it's just like any other vehicle. You've got your steering wheel, your accelerator, your radio, your air conditioning because it is Florida so we do need AC. But because this is a patrol vehicle, it has a lot more features that allows us to do our job. And so probably the first thing that we want to cover is the most notable and the most obvious is the laptop stand. So every patrol deputy gets issued a laptop. It's a fully functional laptop. This allows us to access our MCT or our mobile computer terminal. That allows us to access information about calls for service that's being reported to dispatch. And so that allows us to look at who's calling, the location, the address, any information that the caller is providing. So before we even get on scene to the call, we already have a picture of what might be happening or what's going on. We have an in-car radio and so this allows us to speak and talk to other deputies that we're working with, as well as dispatch, other entities such as fire rescue or other different units within the Sheriff's office. So we utilize this. Still within the center console, we have the lights and sirens control box or the module.  And so the very first switch that turns on the rear lights. So only the lights on the rear of the patrol vehicle, your red and blue lights will get activated. Your second switch that will turn on all the red and blue lights throughout the front of the vehicle, the sides of the vehicle, as well as the rear. And then your third switch, it'll actually, same red and blue lights, but also activate the visor takedown lights in a strobing fashion as well as the headlights. And so this is what allows us to activate our red and blue lights. Our scene left, that's our pretty much our bright lights to the side of the patrol vehicle, specifically on the left-hand side, our takedowns. So we've got two different features. If I press it once, it'll just turn on the white lights on the top visor lights. But if I press it again, all of the lights in the front of the vehicle get activated, including the lights in the grille. And so the scene right, that'll turn on all the lights to the right side of the vehicle, white. So it can illuminate that area.  And then scene front, this allows us to activate our red and blue lights in a steady, strobe manner, so it's not flashing. We have a couple directional signals. So in case we want traffic to divert to the right or to the left, we can actually change the flash pattern on our rear light bar to indicate which direction we would like traffic to go. We've got three different siren options. We've got a whale, a yelp, and a pier. And each one just provides a different tone. So we might change the siren if we're approaching or going through an intersection. That way motorists can understand or hear something more clear. But there's also oftentimes where we're responding with more than ourselves, two deputies, three deputies. And so with the different sirens, they'll be able to hear different patrol vehicles. Alright, so hopefully this is the only time you get to see the backseat of our patrol vehicles. But because we're a patrol vehicle and we transport a lot of different people, specifically and mainly to the jail, we have a modified backseat. So this allows us to safely transport suspects to the jail. And so anytime that we're transporting suspects to the jail for an alleged crime, we'll put them back here. And the cage allows us to still talk to them but to increase our safety for them as well. We do have safety harnesses in here. So when we are transporting somebody, we do make sure that their seatbelt is on because once we take somebody into custody, we're now in charge of their care and custody and their protection so we make sure that they have a seatbelt. A lot of people also don't know this but we do provide courtesy rides to the citizens if the need arises. So in case we go on a vehicle crash or a disabled vehicle and we can take somebody or transport somebody to a gas station to fill up on gas. And so there are times when we can do that to help people out. And for those times we'll try to make this as comfortable as possible but we make it how it is. Alright so now we're at the trunk or the cargo space of the vehicle and so as a deputy sheriff we get issued different tools and different resources to help us complete our job. And so for one we've got traffic cones so we are in the roadway a lot. Disabled vehicles, vehicle crashes. Anytime we want to try and divert traffic or create a new traffic lane we'll utilize these collapsible traffic cones. Every deputy gets issued a patrol rifle and a patrol shotgun. So these are specifically laid like this because if we get rear-ended we want to make sure that the firearms aren't pointing towards us or the person in the back seat or to the person that is behind us. So we try to lay our firearms horizontally. Every patrol deputy also gets issued a ballistic helmet as well as a ballistic shield. And this is typically for your active shooter responses, your critical incidents. So if we are responding to a call for service that we know somebody has a firearm we'll put this on to really just increase our safety and our protection. We're in Florida so I always carry a pack of water with me because it's always important to stay hydrated. We also have an ambu bag to help us when we're interacting with those who are unconscious, don't have a pulse, it can assist with breathing. Fire extinguisher in case we go on a fire. We've got crime scene tape, our first aid box. Just your basic utensils, band-aids, neosporin, alcohol wipes. Another feature is the stop sticks. So if we have a vehicle that's fleeing from us in an effort to stop the vehicle if a patrol deputy is in front of them they can deploy these stop sticks to help deflate the tires. And so that's pretty much the trunk and a nutshell. We also have lights on top of the tailgate so if we are next to a roadway and we have the lights activated motorists can still see our patrol vehicle so these lights do come in handy a lot. Alright and so one of the good things about having the Chevy Tahoe it does allow us to have a lot of space and a lot of cargo space to store a bunch of this equipment. So that's why our Sheriff's Office we're going to, we're trying to go to an all Tahoe fleet. We do have a couple other vehicles out on the road, the Ford Taurus that's kind of more of our sedan and then our Ford Explorers they also have the SUV style to help store some of this equipment but that's why we're going to the Tahoe's. Alright so that concludes the tour to the patrol vehicle. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you guys do have any questions about it and you see a deputy on the road feel free to ask. We're more than welcome to kind of explain the features of the patrol car and so with that being said I just wish you guys all have a good day.