Hello everybody, E here, welcome back to another book haul. These are all the books that I got in August, I believe it is. And then we also have, three, two, hello everybody, E here, I got a package, and an entire book haul for you. But we are going to start with the package first, and then we are going to jump right into August's book haul. So this one is a gift from my friend Terry, and we are just going to go ahead and jump right into it, because we are going to be here for a while. So grab some snacks, kick back, and relax, because I got 60 plus books to one haul. The first one is, wow, okay, I didn't expect this to be as big as it is, but this is Anne Rice's Taltos, I can hear it now, but I don't like Anne Rice, I don't like Anne Rice. But I am willing to give her stuff a try, and my friend, well, Terry, she found, she sent me pictures of a book sale she was at, and they had Taltos and Lasher for decent prices. So I got both of these, and they are the big version, Joe, they are the big ones. There's more coming, but I am so OCD about book hauls and things like that, I have to get the books that I got in August, even if it's like September 1st or 2nd, I have to get those books in the next book haul. Plus this video is going to be long as all get out, so we got to make sure we streamline some of this stuff. So yeah, these are not the only Anne Rice books I'm going to be unhauling today, so we're going to put these back here, I'm going to set up stacks, I'm going to put this up here. Okay, so we're probably going to jump around a little bit because I have, like I said, I have stacks upon stacks over here. My biggest finds we're going to start with, I finally found, and this is upsetting because I actually got it the day after I shot the video, I finally found a physical copy, a paperback of Clive Barker's Books of Blood Volume 1. Me and Cammie's Corner are going to be doing a series based on Clive Barker's work in chronological order that should be coming in October, hopefully. I know we're going to be splitting up the Books of Blood, we're going to be splitting up all the stories in there, and I'm excited for that content. But in the meantime, I am currently building up my Clive Barker collection, and I hadn't found any in thrift stores for a long time, and then all of a sudden I found a whole load of them. If you remember last month's haul, I got Books of Blood Volume 2, this time I got Coldheart Canyon. This was 50 cents at the thrift store, this was a quarter, and so are the rest of the Clive Barker books I'm going to show you. But this one says to Big Bro Tie, somebody and Clive Barker, so this one is signed. This was a quarter at the library, y'all, so it's got Clive Barker's signature in it. Another one I got, I got all four of these, I got, let's see here, we'll do it over here, I got Everville, I already have the Great and Secret show, and we'll put these over here since these jokers are so, so heavy. I got Sacrament, it's another first edition hardcover for a quarter, and then I got, this one has been well, well-loved, and Magica, it was another one that was a quarter. With these Clive Barker books what happened is I went over to the library and they have the books out that are a quarter a piece up on the shelving, but their overstock, their overstock is usually kept in the back room. Well today they just happen to have the back room door open, and I saw all the books back there through the door into their back room, and I was like, hey lady, are those books for sale? Are they going to be for sale? And she's like, yeah, they are, give me all the Clive Barker anyways. So another one that was back there with the Clive Barker was Wiley Cash's The Last Ballad, I grabbed that one too, it's the first edition hardcover, it's in pretty good condition, it's got some stickers on the back of it that I think are going to be really easy to take off, yeah it's like the books, books a million kind of sticker, but yeah, so I have another one, his other book that I have of his is This Dark Road to Mercy, I'm not sure which one I'll get to first, if you guys have any opinions on which one I should get to first, let me know. This one I picked up just because it looked decent, this is by R.N. Morris, The Gentle Axe, a novel, I have no idea what this book is about, let's take a peek, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1866, police investigator Porferey Petrovich faces his most challenging murder case since the events made famous by Mr. Dostoevsky and his novel Crime and Punishment, a case with disturbing parallels and even darker implications. I have not read anything by Dostoevsky, I don't know how to pronounce it for real, but yeah this one looked damn good condition, if nothing else it'll end up being resold. So is that, then this one I was asking for standalone fantasy novels or weird novels that kind of thing and someone mentioned The Children of Men by P.D. James? Is that right? Anyways, I think this is a book about a world populated entirely by men, which should be interesting because I read The Power by Naomi Alderman I think it was, which was basically the flipping of if women had the, instead of a patriarchy we had a matriarchy kind of deal. They had superpowers and basically treated men like men treat women, that kind of deal. This one seems like the exact opposite of that and I am, I'm really interested in checking it out because it's supposed to, I guess that men can have kids in this, I don't know, I have no idea, but yeah, so, wait a second, is it a, oh it's a her, P.D. James is a her, the year is 2021 and the human race, 2021 and the human race is quite literally coming to an end since 1995, no babies have been born because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Oh, I'm not going to read anymore, that sounds interesting, that sounds much different from what I thought it was going to be. So I'm going to put that one over there. Next up is a gift that was sent to me by my buddy George or BookMonster on Twitter or shh, I'm reading, I think it's his name but he goes by BookMonster mostly. I didn't know who had sent it, he had, he bought it from somebody and had them send it to me but at Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth, that's a very nice cover. So if you guys were wondering who Louis, Louis or Louis was, yeah, it wasn't Louis at all, that was just the person who was selling it. We'll get to these at the end, I'm also going to be doing, I'm going to tell you right now for the people who hang around, I'm going to be doing a giveaway. I'm going to show you a total of five books that I'm going to be giving away and if you can name all five books that I pop up with, you will get at least one of them. So there's five chances to win, okay, five chances. And the first one is Thinner by Richard Bachman. I found a really good book club edition of this one. It's a hard cover. If anybody's interested in it, this is the first one of the giveaway so that's number one on the giveaway list. It pays off to hang around this time. Next up we have Ray Bradberry's The Martian Chronicles, this little hard cover edition. It's a library copy I found for a quarter. But I have a paperback copy of this. My family is probably going to try and read it all together. It says it's a first edition, but who knows how old it actually is. It looks like this one might be from 1997 because the introduction is written by Bradberry in 97. So this edition probably is from around that time frame. Let's put this one up here. Next up we're going to get into some of the stuff I got at Second in Charles. If you watch my walkie-talkie, you'll know at the end of that one, I talked about going to Second in Charles. We got there. They were shorthanded. We ended up having to walk around for two and a half hours while they did all the checking in of the books that I brought. But one of the books that I got was Stranded by Bracken McLeod. It becomes highly recommended by the horror community. I'm interested in it. I've never finished anything by McLeod. Not because he's bad, just because I wasn't in the mood for his stuff right then. I'm going to put this one back here. Next up we have one that I already read and reviewed, which is the Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson, who is the pin name for, well no, I think this is his real name. His other pin names are Patrick Lestuski, I think it is, writes Indie Horror, and then another name is Nick Cutter. He wrote The Troop, Little Heaven, and The Acolyte, and Deep. I believe. Let's put that over there. Next up, I finally got found a copy of this. So if anybody out there was planning on getting it, don't get it for me. I finally found Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, and I'll be starting this probably in November. I'll be starting my James Bond read through. But yeah, I found an almost brand new copy for three books at Second and Charles. Next up, another one I found at Second and Charles. People have been recommending this book forever, Fantastic Land by Mike Bacobin. Bacobin? Bacobin? Bacobin, okay, whatever. This is kind of like a World War Z, but instead of Zombie Apocalypse, it is kind of like a Lord of the Flies retelling people stuck in a theme park, something like that, like not a carnival, but yeah, Fantastic Land. So that's what this one's about. Since the 1970s, Fantastic Land has been the theme park where fun is guaranteed, but when a hurricane ravages, that's what gets them trapped, when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts, brah. I'm all in for that one, that one's going, that's gonna be a soon read, probably in September. Next up, another one that I've already read and reviewed was Nickel Boys. By the way, I got Saturday Night Ghost Club and this one, I bought them brand new on Amazon. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Fantastic book, instant classic, in my opinion. But yeah, check out my review of that one if you wanna hear more about that. Next up, we have another one, yet another one. This one's getting some more traction recently. And I know my buddy, Stephanie, over at That's What She Read. I know she loves this book. It comes highly recommended. Even though she is a Paul Tremblay fan, we will not hold that against her. I'm kidding, Steph. But The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnott. I've heard great things about the horror in this one, the mounting sense of dread. Very, very good from what I understand. But yeah, so if you've read this one, I'd love to hear some other opinions because I've heard a couple of opinions from people I trust. But I also heard from someone that I have the exact opposite taste of, they loved it. And I'm kinda worried about that. So let me know whether or not you liked it without any spoilers, let me know why. Next up, we have another one I bought, brand new also came as a recommendation of a lot of research. The reason why I got this is I put up a thing on Twitter. I was like, I need standalone fantasy novels. Doesn't matter how long they are, the bigger the better though, I want standalone fantasy. No hinting at continuations, no hinting at series, none of that stuff. No, there might be a novella coming soon or there might be, I want a standalone one and done fantasy novel. And out of all the people that I talked to over probably 50 people, I finally settled on The Winter Road by Adrian Selby because the description spoke to me and it came so highly recommended. There were some other ones that came highly recommended too but the more research I did, the more it seemed like either it was part of a world that I really need to read other books from or especially Joe Ambercrombie. People were like, this book stands alone but most people came back and said, hey, you really need to read the rest of the books in this world. So this one, the empire will be born in spring but it is forged in vicious winter. The circle, a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacherous territory before but ex-soldier Thier Amundsen, veteran of a hundred battles is determined to try with a merchant caravan protected by a crew of skilled mercenaries, Thier, I guess it's Thier embarks on a dangerous mission to forge a road across the entanged wilderness that was once her home but a warlord has risen in the wilds of the circle uniting its clans and terrorizing its people. Thier's battles are far from over. Yeah, so I grabbed this one.  So I'm looking forward to that. Another reason why I'm looking for standalone fantasy novels is because I have a 400,000 word grim dark fantasy book and I'm just not sure if it's any good. I wanna read some standalone stuff but the book's gonna be a thousand page standalone epic horror slash grim dark fantasy novel that may never see the light of day. Patreon, my Patreon subscribers are going to be getting it but I'm not sure about the rest of everybody else. It's time for another giveaway book. Remember you have to be able to name all five books that pop up in this video. In fact, you might have to DM me. So at this point, you're gonna either have to DM me on YouTube or DM me on Twitter or Instagram to get in on this, okay? So the next one is Richard Bachman's The Regulators. If you wanna win this one, it's another first edition. Well, the thinner wasn't the first edition but it was a hardback. So this Bachman. All right, so back to the book haul. I finally got, you will see a review for the crying of lot four nine sometime this week. In fact, it might already be up on Monday. I'm not sure. But Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon. This is a whole break of a book, man. Look at that sucker. It's like 800, it's 700 and, but these are hardcover pages, 760 some odd pages. But yeah, I'm collecting Pynchon. I have The Bleeding Edge. I have Inherent Vice, The Crying of Lot Four Nine. Let's see here and Gravity's Rainbow. I'm still looking for V and some other ones. If you have a line on some Thomas Pynchon that I haven't mentioned, I would love to hook up with you and you may get a copy for myself. So if you would, if you're willing to get rid of any Pynchon. All right, next up are some gifts. I just got, it is The Witches by Roald Dahl. My friend Jessica, who I read The Nickel Boys with. She saw that I loved the Phantom Toll booth and decided to send me some middle grade stuff. So I got The Witches by Roald Dahl and The House with a Clock in its Walls. I'm really looking forward to this one because the movie looked good. We never watched it, but the movie looks good and I definitely want to give this one a try. As Jack Black was in it and whatever her name is, like I never remember her name. We're probably also, if you're seeing me check the time here after a while, it's because I need to make sure I only have 10 minutes of data left before not data, I have 10 minutes left on the card. Another one, and we're probably gonna have to stop and start over, not start over again, but you'll see it cut. Roald Dahl's Matilda, I got for a quarter. So I plan on binging his stuff. I also have the Fantastic Mr. Fox, so the Fabulous Mr. Fox, I can't remember which, and of course all the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books, we have all those. So there's that one, and then I got, this is another quarter by at the library. I got the Scarlet Letter, I will try and read it eventually. I didn't realize how short it was, so when I saw it I was like, eh, I'll give it a shot. I remember trying to read it in high school, but it was another one of those books that I just didn't speak to me and I ended up putting down. All right, next up, this is going to be a try read. Mainly I got it to sell it because it is in such good condition other than the sticker needs to come off, but that is Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. I know there's a movie based on this. I have not seen the movie, not even interested in the movie. I am interested in reading outside of my comfort zone, so I'm going to try this one out. Maybe, maybe not, who knows, I'm not guaranteeing that I will be finishing it. Have you read this one? Have you read Crazy Rich Asians? Let me know if there's anything in there that you think I might like. Next up, I have another copy of Jonathan Fransons, The Corrections, this one's literally for sale. I have another copy that's the exact same quality as this one, so I'll be putting that up either on eBay or it'll be for sale up on Twitter. Yeah, there's that one. And then I have, I got hard covers of Catching Fire and Mockingjay. I have the Hunger Games in hard cover also, but I'm reading these for research for my news firm trilogy, which again is all going to be on Patreon. That's going to be Slasher Live, Thrill Kill, and Snuff TV. Those three books, I'm calling the news firm trilogy, but all those will be up over the next course or the next five years over on Patreon. Next, we have, and this is something that I found for quarter at the library. You'll see that I have a repeat of this here in a minute, but Menknock, Menknock the Devil by Anne Rice. This is a first edition hard cover, which you'll probably end up getting sold. Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with that one. And then I'm going to go ahead and jump into all the Anne Rice stuff, get that out of the way. All these were a quarter, so I have the Mummy or Ramsey the Dead at that one. Bradbury over there to have a whole line of Anne Rice. All right, Lestat the Vampire, The Queen of the Damned. I think I even have these in order. Interview with the Vampire and the First Witches Booker on their way too. Thank you, Terry, by the way. So that is that. And then The Tale of the Body Thief. And then we have Menknock the Devil again. So I think I only need book six to complete this. Unless I'm going to go with the, unless I'm going to go with the, what's it called? Can you continue on? The one about Atlantis, Prince Lestat and the Lost City of Atlantis, something like that? I'm not sure. I got another copy of Mice and Men. This is my third copy of it. It's a quarter. I usually resell these. I have a very, very nice edition. This one might just be better though. So I got another copy of Mice and Men. I finally have a physical copy of Lord of the Flies. I'm going to try rereading it. I didn't care too much for it. I only gave it three stars with the e-book copy. But I'm going to give it a try here in a paperback at some point in time. I forgot how ridiculously short this book is. It's a very small version of the book. It's like handheld size and it's only 206 pages. Got another Steinbeck. Finally got East of Eden. I have this one on audiobook. I've never owned a physical copy. East of the Eden. And then this one, I have Philip Margolins, The Sun, I think it's called, but this one looked interesting to me. Worthy Brown's Daughter. I'm going to try and get into some more Western stuff too. I'm just trying to broaden my horizons. Much of the reason that I'm planning on doing this is because I want to write outside of my comfort zone also. And maybe, maybe I have a Western novel in it. Now, for the third book that you could possibly win, again, do not list these down below. You're going to have to DM me, message me, either on YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram, horns. I will clean up this copy. This is the first edition, but it was on clearance. First edition of Joe Hill's horns, okay? That's another one you can read. Again, you're going to have to list all five of these books. Okay, getting back into it. Sorry for the cut, but I ran out of time on my card. This one's going to be for sale. So if anybody's interested in it, this is Michael McDowell's. This is book four in Blackwater Chronicles. It's called The War. I have no interest in collecting these or reading them. So if I ever do read it, probably be in one big, I'm not going to go hunting for them. Because once I fall down that rabbit hole, man, I'll never come out of it. But this is a book four. If you need book four in the Blackwater Chronicles, there you go. This is another one that's going to be for sale. Once I get it cleaned up, this is Haunted Homeland by Michael Norman. I had Haunted Heartland. I'm not sure if it's the same author or not, but I sold that one on Twitter. You got that one? Next, we have, trying to keep some kind of, some kind of flow to this. I'm not exactly sure how I want to do this. So let's take these. I have by, this is James Lee Burke's Heavens Prisoner. This one was up at the thrift store forever for a quarter. And I never picked it up because it's a movie tie-in edition, but I can't find another. I wanted the audiobook because I've been doing this series in the audiobook and I completely missed the second one because the second one's not available in the audiobook. So that's the second of his, I can't remember the guy's name, the detective's name, RoboShow, David RoboShow. This one is Louis Duncan's Killing Mr. Griffin. If you don't know, Duncan wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer or something along those lines. I'm not sure if it's the same cost. I'm not sure if it's the same title in book form as it was in the movie, but yeah. So this, look at the teenagers on the back, man. This is great, great stuff. But yeah, it was only a quarter, so I picked it up. Next up, real quick, let me throw this out here. Dean Coon stuff I didn't have. Dark Rivers of the Heart, I had to pick that one up. These were all a quarter, Forever Odd, book two in the Odd Thomas, and then Brother Odd, which is book three. Brother Odd wasn't too bad. So yeah, let me get that stuff out of the way. Yeah, I'll do this. If you don't know, I collect John D. McDonald books, and I'll be doing a showcase for those, my unexpected collection series. But Nightmare in Pink, I grabbed this one. It's all of his Travis McGee books is what I have. There's that one. And then another one is the Event Horizon Novelization, which I was surprised to find at, it was only like $1.65 at Second and Charles. I was blown away because it's insanely hard to find. Next up, we have Wicked by Gregory McGuire, and I found the sequel, Son of a Witch. So I got both of these. I'm a huge fan of the Wizard of Oz storyline. I never tried these, but I'm going to give them a shot for a quarter of a piece. I couldn't pass it up. Next up, I have two Jonathan Kellerman novels. This one I bought, it was a cover buy. It's the Butcher's Theater, see that? Yeah, but that cover, man, I love covers like that. And then I also semi-collect Kellerman paperbacks. I've liked some of his stuff, and I wouldn't mind having them on hand if I wanted to jump into a good thriller. This one's the Devil's Waltz, or just Devil's Waltz. Not the, so yeah, some Kellermans. All right, then we have, if you remember last month, it's down there on the floor, I don't want to go pick it up. I picked up Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, thinking it was The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. Well, this time, I finally found The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. So I got this one at the library for a quarter. And then this one was a cover buy also, kind of like a paperback from Hell kind of deal, but The Grange, yeah, I don't know if you see that. There's a like a castle going on up here. It's really cool. I thought an orange moon or a blood moon. And it's got a whole punched into it, which means that Tor probably never got paid for this book. I think that's what they do with discarded copies. I can't remember, but what is this? This is a piece of book cut out and taped in here.  And I have loved you so long, delighting in your company. Green Sleeves was all my joy. Green Sleeves was my delight. Green Sleeves was my heart of gold. And who but my lady, Green Sleeves. I don't know, man. I don't know. All right, so fifth book for the giveaway. Now fourth book is a kind of ratty copy of Heart Shape Box by Joe Hill. This is the first edition, but it is worn on the cover. The cover is not in great condition. So yeah, so this is the fourth one. Once again, you have to DM me all comments down there in the doobly-doo will get deleted because I don't wanna give it away. But Heart Shape Box by Joe Hill. All right, next up we have, I think it's the last two books. If I, yeah, unless I break down. Yeah, I also got the, I don't wanna go get it right now, but I also got the Joe Hill's a limited edition of horns. So if you're interested in that one, there's a whole video on it, but it's up there on my shelf. I don't wanna pull it down and disturb anything. But my buddy, Slain, he was find him in chat on the nights that I do the live streams. He told me that I absolutely have to read Tim Powers Declare. So here it is. I got it. When I will get to it, I have no idea. It sounds pretty amazing as a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi occupied Paris. Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret even more ruthless than war. Even more, even more ruthless, hang on. Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret even more ruthless war, okay? Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life, a lethal, unfinished operation codenamed Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian Desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft.  I'm not big on like spy thrillers. And inexorably drives Hale the fiery and beautiful communist agent Alina Theresa Sineza Bendinga, whatever. And Kim Filby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark. Ark to Covenant, I guess? Okay. It sounds interesting, but the thing that's got me shook is that spy thriller kind of thing. It's 590 pages, man. So I'm not sure when I'll get to it, but it's definitely on my read to try and get done with it within a year's time. So I'm not sure, dude. I'm not sure. We'll see about it. And last, but certainly not least, this is a fantastic, amazing gift from my friend, Slaan. He sent me Stephen King's The Stand, the original cut edition. I always want to say uncut. The original cut edition of the book and that cover is something else, man. It's very weird. Almost looks like an indigenous tribe kind of person, which is funny considering how the book ends and that cross and it's a very gnarly looking cover. But yeah, this is so good. Let me look over my stuff one more time before I show the last book. I think I got everything. But once again, if you have made it this far and you want to know all five books, you're gonna, well, if you know all five books, which I'm gonna show the fifth one right here, but if you know the books, send me a DM on Instagram or on Twitter or on YouTube, do not make the comment public down below. But the fifth and final book that I am giving away is a first edition copy of The Fireman by Joe Hill. And of course I'm not gonna tell you what the other books are because I wanna make sure that you saw every single one of them where they're supposed to be. But yeah, to wrap this up, I say this every single week. I'm gonna say it again, well not every single week, every single month. Book hauls are my favorite content on this platform, on Booktube. So if you have a book haul, please link me down there in the doobly-doo. If you link me and it doesn't show up right away, the spam filter might have caught it, so please give me some time. I will eventually approve it. But yeah, if you don't wanna go through all that trouble of making a video, please just list everything that you got from last month in August down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been a massive August book haul. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.


Hey, what's up coach? This has been neighbors. I'm the founder here at Make Money Coaching Sports. I have this awesome interview that I'm about to show you. This is with Coach Jacob. Jacob is the founder of CAB training. He is a speed and agility coach. He works with a lot of football trainers out in Arizona. He shares his story about how he went from doing this like as a side hustle to full time. Now he's at the point. The last three months in a row he's made over $10,000 per month in his training business. So sit back, enjoy this, watch his story. I think this is really going to inspire you. It does not matter what sport you're in. If you apply some of the stuff that he's talking about in today's interview, it's really, really going to help you. So make sure you watch us all the way to the end. Thanks so much. See you in a second. First started October, 2019. And my first client, I charged them $25 for a private session. And so there wasn't any commitment. It was just, hey, sell me $25 every time a session. It was a 10 session package thing. And it took about five months to get that session package. I had no idea that it was going to be like a business thing for me. I thought it was just a side thing for me to do for fun or something. But then I started getting more people interested in stuff and I coached a team for a season. And then I got more kids involved. And then I had a group session where I had like eight kids and their parents all Venmo'd me 25 a piece. And I was like $200, that's crazy. One hour, this is what I can do now. And so I basically traded my LLC in November, 2020. And then from there it was, I've depended on people showing up and Venmoing me on the spot and selling me on the spot from November, 2020, probably all the way till November, 2022 when I joined the program. And I was babbling with changing pricing. I tried changing my prices once before where it was instead of, I moved it to $50 for private sessions, but I tried to move it to 75 and people were blindsided by that and didn't communicate well. I was just getting into like monthly memberships and subscriptions two or three months before joining the program. And I just didn't know how to implement it. So that's where I was at. And it was a good week for me to make between $800 and $1,000. If I had $1,000 a week, I was great. And I was always depending on this one group of homeschool kids that I would do every single Wednesday that would be 80 extra bucks for the week. And I was like, all right, awesome. They're here. I was depending on just people not being flaky and the days where people were flaky were really hard days for me and affected my mental health and definitely affected the income. I was refereeing in a league while I was doing this. And so I was making $25 per game. And so making $25 for training a kid without getting yelled at. Now this is better right here. Right, cool, cool. And then tell me, like when you had those weeks where you're depending on people to show up and some people didn't show up, like I know you said that that affected you mentally, but when did it get to a point where you're like, all right, I have to change this? It got, I think it was because the first year I did it full time was 2021. I did well in 2021. I think it was like 48K in income, 2021. And that was all on just depending on people to come out. But then there were just times where things got slow during the year for football season because I particularly work with football players. It's that August through October where that fall tackle season starts and everything where things slow down. I was making five, 600 a week. I was like, all right, I have to find another way to make this a little bit more. Because it was the money aspect, but it was also the commitment from the kid because you're not gonna get the results if you're not coming out consistently. And so I knew something was missing from a consistency standpoint and a culture buy-in standpoint and the money standpoint. So I started looking for ways and it was hard to input, was it raising prices? I didn't even think of a membership until a couple of months before joining the membership. Gotcha, gotcha. So walk me through that. So there'd be, you would run one-on-one sessions or group sessions and then people would pay you the day that they had the session. Is that right?  Yes, for the most part, yeah. There were some times where I would do, hey, do 10 private session package with me for 350, which was a heck of a deal. And it would take them freaking months to finish. But yeah, my day would be comprised of group and private sessions. So I'd usually have like two or three private sessions and one group or two groups. And then the groups were very inconsistent. So sometimes I'd be like, hey, can we move this private session into this group spot? But I'd be working four or five hours in afternoon in the Arizona heat trying to get 50 bucks here, 100 bucks here, 50 bucks here, that sort of thing. Gotcha. And I know, so you were doing it full time before we met. And then when you joined our program, like if you had to kind of pick a part, what are like the two or three biggest changes that you've seen in your business since working with us? Definitely just the process. Having a really, really good terms and conditions, that has been a huge thing. I'd say three things, terms and conditions, the process of getting people to become members and three, adding value to my service. So I'll kind of go one, the terms and conditions, just making sure that everything is taken accounted for and parents and athletes know what they're getting into when they join. And so in allowing them to make sure they know that they're committing for three months, at least when they start the program, policies regarding shouting at their kids while they're training and athlete expectations, that sort of thing. So that was very, very helpful to narrow that down because I didn't really have a template for that. And I didn't know, like I just copy and pasted a COVID and injury release when people signed up and they would, they checked the box on a Google form and I called that good. And I know that it's hot, a little bit more involved than that. So that was the first one. And then two is just the process of getting people to be members. I'd really, like before my process was, hey, are you able to come out every single weekend? I'd be like, hey, are you able to come out Tuesday at 5 p.m. for the group? And they usually say either yes or no and it was like a 50-50 toss-up. Oh, we can't make it this week. Now we have like on a text message, you would send them? Yeah, that would be a text message. Hey, is Ryan able to come out? It was flaky. But now I just, I send the schedule each week but like it's up to them now that they come out. Right. And so just, I'm not reaching out to people who aren't part of the program, begging them to come out to sessions anymore.  And so that was huge. And that kind of leads to the third one which is like value added. Being able to understand how other coaches add value to their training programs, how other coaches plan for their sessions, that was very, very huge for me. So just putting more value into my program has made it so much more attractive to all the prospects around me. Right. Yeah. And since you've added more value, the new clients that come in are more committed to something that's, it's just overall better product that you're delivering. Cool. So tell me, because like this is a question I haven't asked a lot of coaches before but this is something I wanna ask you. Tell me what's the biggest difference now when someone does commit and they're committing at least to three months minimum, tell me the difference between that and how you used to do it. The kids come out pretty much every single week and they're getting better, their results. I do monthly testing events where I time these kids speed and their agility and they get results because they come out more frequently. There's better progress, that's one. And then the lifetime value of my clients in money has gone way, way up. I only had last year, I did the numbers and I only had a couple clients that paid me up over $1,000 over the course of the 12 months of 2022. And already this year I have, I think almost a dozen clients that have paid me over $1,000. It's so much of a difference. Lifetime value, they're paying me more, they're training with me more and their kid is getting more out of it. Right. And I know the process of how you collect money because that's something we helped you with but try to explain how much easier that is now versus what you were doing. It's definitely very, very easy. It's so much better having one spot where money is coming from rather than Venmo, Zell, Cash, and Apple Pay. Like it was a headache just figuring out, oh, I gotta transfer from my Venmo account to my business account and hunting people town for payments, which was really rough. Like, hey, John came to my session Thursday and it's now next Thursday. I'm like, wait. Where's my money? Right, gotcha. Okay, cool. And if there's another coach out there watching us or listening who is interested in our program, like why would you recommend our program to them? Like why do you think or what do you think would be a couple of good reasons of why they would get a lot of benefit from it? Yeah, well, first of all, I would say the program was the best investment I've ever made for my business. That's number one. And it's because anything that you think of pertaining to sports training in the industry and how to structure, whether it's camps, clinics, payment, hiring on new coaches, which I'm preparing to do in the next several months, getting a facility, all that, it's all encompassing and there's an answer to every question and there's a community that surrounds it that motivates you. I don't know. Like a lot of the stuff that I've implemented have come from members inside the community who've posted suggestions within the discussion. And so that has been really, really helpful. And outside of just the course info and the modules, the community that feeds the knowledge is so transformative. Yeah, and that's, in my opinion, that's the thing that I think at the end of the day, that's what people need is that they need to be around other people who are in the trenches and it also shows you what's possible. Cause I'm not gonna speak for you when I say this, but I can probably imagine when you initially joined, you saw people posting results and it probably made you feel like, Godly, I wanna do that. Or like, this person's doing that. I'm a human being too, I can do this too. And so that's one of the, I think one of the big benefits is, it is the community of serious coaches that are in there that are posting, they're sharing ideas. And really at this point, people are pushing each other, which I think is a really cool, really cool thing to see.  Like you said, it was like around $800 or $1,000 per month or per week, right? Yeah, as I, my 2021, that was where it was really at. 2022, I was around five to six K a month, which I was really starting to kick it into high gear, just more people were coming out. But since joining the program, joining the community in November, 2022, I haven't had a month under $8,000. Every single month, $8,000 or more. And I'm now three months in a row, February, March, April, where I've gotten 10 K or more. And so now the expectation is 10 K every single month where the goal and the expectation used to be 5,000. It's double everything. And it's a lot more predictable income rather than I got a grind and I got a dig for begging people to come out. Right, man, that's awesome.   I ran my company for almost 13 years outside. And I did rent out indoor space sometimes for camps and clinics and stuff like that. But like, are you in an indoor facility or are you doing everything outside? Like, where do you operate your business? Everything is outside in a public park inside of a neighborhood. I'm in a residential neighborhood that has a city park inside of it. It's kind of a confusing situation, but there's parking, there's open fields and there's enough space for me to run things. And I'm lucky enough to have a pretty solid enough program for parents to start viewing me as a legitimate company that's working out of this park. And this park's free too. Like, there's no renting it. There's not a lot of people who are on it. It's just me going out to my neighborhood park that has a little bit of parking and running things. The goal is to get a facility in the future, but right now this is working and it's doing a great job for me. And I've no overhead for paying for the facility. And I was just about to ask you that, like everything is basically, I mean, everything is profit. There's like, you're not having to pay for anything other than probably like equipment, insurance, some software, that's it, right? Our company, one of our goals coming up, it's we're trying to transition all of the coaches that we're working on right now into primarily doing upfront payments with clients. And it's a newer model that we're trying to get into. So tell me like, I know right now your clients sign up for either like a three month minimum commitment. Do they have the option to pay upfront for that too? I rarely ever present it. That's the one hurdle that I want to get to now. Cool, cool. That is something that we definitely want to work with you on. Because what that does is it elevates the commitment even higher for that person. And for you, like if you look at having a base of monthly income that's coming in automatically every 30 days, which I know you have that set up, right? When you do a couple of high ticket sales every month, like your income jumps up every month as long as you keep doing that. So example, let's say that you have a $2,000 package and you sell one of those a week or one of those a month with what you're doing with your monthly subscriptions. Like that's gonna help you grow your business and have more cash on hand to reinvest into ads or stuff like that, like whatever you're doing to promote, does that make sense? Yes, absolutely.  You have to have a process and a system because if you're too like, oh, anybody can join, it's gonna make you attract people. So having that application has really, really helped me. I've done the math on that. I've had 90 people fill out my application since creating it in November and almost 50% of those people have signed up for a camp or the membership. And so having that application has been huge. Word of mouth, you just have to be good enough and it's not good enough, but so good that people are willing to talk about you. And that's how most of my business is. I was talking to a couple of my clients, like you guys wouldn't be with me if it wasn't for this client right here. Like I appreciate everybody so much because they're willing to spread the word. And that's one way just being good enough, the application and then Facebook groups. Facebook groups have been huge for me. Like I'm in Gilbert, Arizona and there's this group called Go Gilbert. Anytime someone's looking for a football trainer or a speed and agility trainer, legions of people recommend me. It's like cab training, cab training, cab training. And that has gotten me several clients just off of Facebook groups alone. Or spread well when you're good enough. Yeah, and that's why it all comes back to, it's something that I think a lot of coaches don't understand this concept, which is if you are really good at producing results with the kids that you work with, it is easy for those parents to go spread the word about what you do if you are producing those results. This is why a lot of coaches don't, they don't look at it that way. They're like, well, I don't have any clients right now. And I'm like, well, what have you done to, what have you done with the clients that you have worked with? What sort of results have you gotten? And that's where a lot of coaches have a blind eye on that. And they're just trying to focus on getting new clients, but then they don't keep those clients because they're not doing a good job with the clients that are right in front of them. And man, that's huge. So you get a lot of referrals, right? The application through your website. And then the Facebook groups, like what was going on in your head when you were trying to do this full-time? I kind of just made up my mind and was like, this is how it's going to go. It wasn't a, oh, if this doesn't work out, I've got something really to fall back on. I have a degree and I probably could have gotten my job back at refereeing, but I quit refereeing. I just really didn't allow myself to fall back on whether or not it would fail or not. I just decided, we're going to make this work. I did some math. Hey, this is what I need right now. Obviously life is a little bit more expensive now that I'm married and have a house. But then it was like, all right, we're going to grind this out. We're going to make this, we're going to make it work. And if you really want it that bad and you love it so much where I don't even call it work, it's training, it's called training.  Correct, correct. Yeah. And man, yeah, there's a lot there because I know I made a very similar decision when I had my last job, this is 2009. I remember I told myself, I don't care what happens, I'm never working for someone again. It was like this decision that was made. And I was like, that's just going to be how it's going to be. And I'm going to figure this out one way or another. And it sounds very similar to what you just said. Hey coach, if you just got done watching this interview and you want to chat with me one on one about how we can help you take your business to the next level, just like Jacob did, shoot me a message right here at this number. That's going to set up a one-on-one call between you and I where I can learn more about your business, I can see how and if we can help you grow and get to the next level. Thanks so much for watching, talk to you soon.


Padre, I saw that too. Padre's saying, I'm excited about Cornell West running here in the U.S. Hopefully they can force a Biden primary debate. Yeah. I cannot believe that they're saying no debate.  The person who's going to represent one of the ruling class, ruling party in the United States, and they're saying no debate. You have no right to find out what this person represents or ask him any questions, right? Or get him to debate with any potential contenders, right? This is democracy. Can we even stop pretending that the Western world represents democracy?


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That's like in all these footprints in the sand the famous poem about the footprints in the sand and It occurred to me that I think sometimes in life we Think our job our role is to follow the footprints of those that went before us, but I'm getting I'm getting Wet here Either way, I didn't expect to pick up to near the ocean I Think sometimes we Think the footprints are the sacredness of those that went before us so we follow the footprints as it were of those that Paved the way for us and I understand the sentiment and I understand the heart and spirit of that I don't respect and honor for those that went before us, but you know the footprints are not what's sacred What was in their hearts is what's sacred the methodology and the people involved and the way that they thought Is not sacred What's sacred is the values and the vision that they had that's the sacred part of What we should be following so I wouldn't want to pass on to the emerging generation that you must Walk in my footprints meaning do it like I did it with the people that I did it with with the methodologies And the mindsets that I used Because that version of me that first of all set those footprints Is a long past version of me and version of whatever it is that would involve in The business or the church or the organization or the political party So the footprints are not sacred today. You are not obliged to follow in our footprints I think you're more obliged. We are more obliged to follow the sacredness of what was in the heart that created those footprints So follow the heart of The generation that went before us Follow what you admire and love about their heart their spirit their vision their dream But make your own footprints Forge your own path People will accuse you of not following I've been loyal to their footsteps. They'll do that, but I want to teach you something today from this speech in Rio, Brazil That the footprints are not sacred The heart that created the footprints is where the eternal sacred things live Let's follow the heart. Let's remember and catch the heart Let's not get confused between that and the footprints that those hearts made footprints are not sacred The heart of the people that created those footprints is where all the sacred stuff is Follow that