Number seven. Value comes from time, not money. Value comes from time, not money. I have to say that twice because it's so easy to fall into the trap that anything of value has a monetary value attached to it and the only thing that matters is money.  Quality time, experiences, spending it with people that you love and care about. That's the hardest road, right? I know personally for myself, there's been opportunities to use my time to help somebody else out, but I didn't have it. So it's like, well listen, it's a benefit show, it's a charity, I'll just send them 50 bucks, I've done my part. When in actuality, just me going there, giving my time, would have helped out much more. And it's nice to be in a position where if I can't be there, well then I could throw a few dollars in that person's direction, but I know that what they were asking for was more help than here's 20 bucks. And that's sort of my extension of this, is time to me equals relationships. Yes. It's time invested in other people and you can't get that back, you can't retrieve that, you can trade time for money, you can make more money, but it doesn't work the opposite way. So are you investing in yourself and the people that matter in your life? Or are you investing time, thought, and care in people that don't matter, people that are simply following you on Instagram? And I know for a lot of people listening to this, if you don't have a lot of stuff going on, it seems like, well, I have all the time in the world, that's not a big deal. As you start to build a social circle that is full of high value people and you start to get moved in a direction where your time becomes, started to become more and more important, you will find that all of a sudden, if you look at it as a pie, pie chart, that you, that's, it's fine.  You start dividing it up. You'll realize that there isn't much to go around. And listen, I'm in my 30s, Johnny's in his 40s. We're talking about truths here that took us decades to learn. And some of them we're still realizing right now as we get through this list. So I think to Johnny's point, right, these are going along with life's lessons here. And some of you listening are like, wait a second here, I disagree with that. I don't think this is a truth, right? These are things that we've discovered that have happened throughout our lives up until this point where we had a paradigm shift, right? Where all of a sudden I stopped focusing on, well, I got to get that extra dollar. And now I'm focused on how do I get that quality time with the people that matter to me? How do I make sure that if I am in Miami, I'm soaking it up? I don't know how many more times I'm going to be flying down to Miami. Absolutely. Right. And even when I travel on vacation, it's so easy to be like, oh, I'll come back to Paris. Really? Are you going to come back to Paris? Probably not.  Those are the things that you're going to be reminiscing on. I don't think you're going to be sitting on your deathbed counting 20s and hundreds. And to that point, you can't take it with you. Yeah. And I certainly hope not because that doesn't... All the research points, it's those relationships that you look back upon and wish you had more time to see that. Speaking of studies. Yes. So in preparation for this, we were looking at the Harvard study of happiness. This tracked happiness in people over 80 years. And they looked at the data and their conclusion of the definition of happiness is relationships, quality relationships in your life. And we all have heard loneliness kills. We know that loneliness, and to a degree, even what we're seeing in the media right now with these mass shootings and what's going on with people who've been outcasts from society, choosing violence as an option. Loneliness leads you to dark places. Tough choices. Yes. And true unhappiness. So I don't know too many relationships that you can buy. There certainly aren't relationships that you can buy that are legal. Paying for relationships is not going to equal happiness. The only way to get that relationship that leads to happiness is to investing time and energy in other people. Well, and to go along with that, I mean, if you go down that dark road, you will be able to find others in that position online and have that echo chamber. And you'll you'll really find yourself in some dark places, even places that you never thought you could ever find yourself in. And you've seen them. I heard. I heard stories. And another common thread for a lot of bootcamp participants is this idea that I'll just throw everything at my career. I'm just going to put all my focus and energy on my career accumulating wealth. And if I just receive X amount in my bank account, if I just have X number of possessions, if I just have this one materialistic thing, then I'll unlock happiness, then everything else will fall into place, then I'll get the girlfriend, then I'll get the friends, then I'll get the life that I want. Yeah, or then I can go and do my trip across Europe. Then I can go finally start that side hustle finally focus on that passion, pick up that guitar. Yes. When you focus solely on that and set aside all these other things, relationships, quality time, passions, interests, talents, even. We keep talking as if your deathbed is inevitable for everyone. Yeah. As if everyone's going to live till they're 90 and lay there reminiscing all those sweet thoughts of dancing in Miami and partying in Ibiza. There's no guarantee that there's a deathbed for a lot of us. Exactly. There's no guarantee that you're going to be able to reminisce about that time. This eventuality happens randomly for everyone. Yeah, we got organs that have a time limit and an expiration date that you don't know about. Typically, what we've found that's so intriguing is the guy in the room that will get up and say, oh, I spent my 30s working on my career and now I finally am ready to set aside some time for a significant other or finally make some friends. He's sitting next to the guy in the couch who's through his 40s going, I wish I had started this on my 30s or 20s or teens. I wish I was young enough to go back and do this. You know, one of the sayings that that changed how I looked at things like that was someone had mentioned to me, you will do what you want to do. And I thought about that and it was one of those things that I that I'm saying that I heard that I was like, well, now I have to adjust my life because he's exactly right.  If I really want to work out, then I will figure out a way in my schedule to make sure that I work out. If I really want to go playing a band and go to rehearsals, I will figure out a way to go ahead and do that. So don't tell me that there are things that you want to do that you are not doing, because if you really wanted to do them, you will figure out a way to get it done. And it was it was it was sayings like that that allowed me to get more involved in trying to to to be a better writer, to learn about certain things, to challenge myself in new ways, because I couldn't say I just don't have time. Well, if I wanted to do it, I will figure out a way to be able to do that. And it's one of those sayings that that had brightened my life out so much more with so many new opportunities and so many great things that I've been doing lately. And when was that realization for you, Johnny? I think it had come in levels, but it was about I don't know, maybe about three or four years ago, I heard that and realized that there was things that I wanted to do that I wasn't doing. We always make these choices and then these false choices, right? Well, I have to and this has to take priority over this other thing and that's a justification and an excuse, but it really is a choice. Everything comes down to that choice. You make a decision to get up before the sun is up to get that workout in to set the tone for the rest of your day so that you're energized and focused or you make the choice to say, oh, I'll get to it after dinner and then you don't get the workout in and then that rolls into the next day. You know, it's so funny when you're hanging out with people who maybe are not involved in self-development or look at things in this manner. So when you hear something like, oh, I would always like to do that and you say, well, why aren't you doing it?  Well, they're like, what do you mean? Why am I I'm busy? And then you try to, well, you will do what you want to do. And then they get mad.  Well, I'm just saying you're making choices. You're making choices. Are you making the right ones? Number eight, don't actively search for happiness. What? This is such a foreign concept to a lot of people. Well, it was the one of the first things that I learned when I got into self-development and I mentioned this on the podcast a few episodes ago that I was under the impression that I had to go out and get happiness. I had to achieve it. I had to find it. And then I had learned that it was something I could just be. And I was talking about this over the weekend that not only was it that I learned it was something that I could be, that at the end of the day, if I look back upon that day and I, for whatever reason, I wasn't happy, right? There is an opportunity for tomorrow to do something different that would fix that or at least lead towards this. Start actively making choices. They're going to get me there if it's not being managed at this point. And to this point, right? A lot of times we don't celebrate the small bits of happiness, the small moments because we're chasing the larger ones, the massive victory, the shooting your best score in golf. We don't celebrate the small victory of, hey, I hit three greens in a row. Hey, I just sank two long putts. I've never done that, right? We get so caught up in the payoff, the bigger happiness. I need this one big thing to happen, then I'm happiness, that we miss out on all these other smaller moments, more intimate moments, these tiny opportunities for us to choose to find happiness. And that was to your point, that choice, right?  And my friends know this about me and know that I'm easily excited and easily happy and I look for those things.  Easily happy, easily excited. I'm like, well, I'd rather be that way than everything just being so difficult, right? For instance, we were at Topgolf this weekend and I'm dinging balls, left, right, and we've been out to the range a few times and a few par threes for my advantage. And it doesn't go so well.  And I think I hit four in a row straight and lofty and I was on cloud nine for the rest of the day.  Actually, yeah, it is all it takes.  It allowed me to enjoy the rest of the day. And, look, I had me something to look forward to until I get to the next plateau in the driving range. And that's the thing, you know, this cuts both ways, right? It's that flashlight analogy. You have an opportunity to shine your flashlight on the things that make you happy or the things that make you sad. And you could have gone the other way. Oh, I hit four terrible shots. My day is a wreck. What a waste of time. Why did I even come down here to Miami? Flip the table, right? Yeah, we can look at those four shots compared to how many were dinging off the wall. Searching for the next win, searching for the next happiness and constantly actively searching for happiness is a folly to fool Zaryn. You're not going to find it that way. It's being present in the moment and taking a step back. And that's one of the biggest reasons that we're such huge fans of journaling and writing down these thoughts and looking for ways to be grateful to express gratitude and to find those small moments of happiness instead of searching for this massive payoff. Yeah. And you know, if you need a reason to be happy right now, go read Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker and realize that the norm of civilization. Where we are in the arc of civilization and the fact that we have a super computer in our pocket right now. Yeah. And then access to everything. And that at any other point in life would have been pain, suffering, you'd been dying just from a tooth infection, like dysentery. I mean, Oregon Trail, right? All the things you could die from on playing Oregon Trail. That was real life. Right. We have modern medicine. We have technological advances that have made our lives far more comfortable to take a time machine backwards and think that their generations before are more comfortable. And if you have no reason not to be happy and if you're listening to this life ain't so bad. I would like to think so. Yeah. We have a tiny device playing an MP3. I believe three generations ago that you'd be viewed as a God. You'd be celebrated. Number nine, don't forget who you are. This is why we have that mental models and frameworks episode. Absolutely. To highlight where we came from, who we are, what we're about, and put some perspective on it. It doesn't mean you aren't going to change and shift and grow, but you should always remember where you came from. And the people that help support you on this journey, getting you there, your family members who've been there through thick and thin to allow you to mature and grow. And also if you are going to make changes moving forward, you're going to have to understand how you got here, how you got that path. And if you can see that, you can a lot easier to make the changes because if you don't have any idea, you're not going to be able to correct anything. You're not going to be able to look at it for what it was, the mechanisms piece by piece that put you in this position. And you have a great quote from Bootcamp. I'm probably going to mess it up, so I'd rather you just say it. But it's the goal is never as far as you think. Yeah. It's when we're looking to achieve certain things or fix anything. There's going to be a lot of work that goes into it, especially building new habits and losing weight or getting fit. All these things come into play. Social skills, public speaking. Absolutely. It's a learning process. And it would never happens as quick as you would like it to. But it's never going to be as long as you think it's going to take. And the other thing is you're always the last one to know. To realize it. To realize it. We always, the saying in music is you're always the last one to know you're a rock star. Everyone else that views you in that way, everyone sees you as who's accomplished a lot of things. But you're so focused on this goal that you can't even see how far you've already came. And even where we are, we have the same fallacy, the same issue. We're laughing like I can't believe this person wants to work with us. I can't believe they view us as successful. We can't even see our own success. It happens to everyone. And I know as we coach clients, as we work with people on their social skills, it's easy to put the coach up on this pedestal. Like the coach is infallible, the coach has all these securities and I'm going with the insecurities. We all have these same thoughts and feelings and self doubt. Yes. Understanding that it's important to realize how far you've come and have that grounding and check-in, right? How many times have our friends, Johnny, outside of the business that we run, our friends from back in the day, you know, cracked us upside the head a little bit and called us out on some things? Oh, yeah. Right? It's pretty easy to surround yourself with yes men, with people who celebrate you, people who think you're infallible and elevate you, and not to have that grounding of, well, remember where you came from, AJ? Remember what it's all about here. Keeping those people, keeping that perspective in your life can be healthy. Well, yeah. I mean, we live in Hollywood. How easy is it to get sucked into all the plastic tree and everything else, right? Like the whole the works. It's very easy. The other thing is to go along with the other point eight that rolls into point nine is that when I was younger, I had, I went on the, what is it, the the correct terminology of the hamster will of I'll be happy when I get to this point and then you get to that point and then you move. I'll be happy when I get to this point and you find just once you realize that that's no matter what you achieve, you're not going to get there. At some point you have to stop and go, okay, that's flawed and I have to fix it. And that's why I love number nine of having your roots, understanding who you are and where you came from and being happy in the moment and then looking at the challenges that I'm going to put ahead of myself and understanding what I need to fix from my past in order to achieve them and that you can be happy doing that, that it's actually fun. And I think this is also a healthy perspective of remembering all the other challenges you've faced and overcome. Absolutely. Right? Sometimes it's so easy to shine that flashlight on the challenge ahead and think, oh my god, this is insurmountable, taking a step back and putting some perspective of all the other challenges throughout your life you overcame. I remember, so Amy's sister is applying for colleges right now and going through the essay writing and I was remembering when I was sitting at home waiting for the big envelopes from college. Yeah. Right? How did I get in and you get the small envelope? I didn't get into my school. And I remember I got the small envelope from the University of Michigan and I was distraught. My grandma's consoling me in the kitchen saying it's going to be okay, you're waitlisted. How could this be? I did everything. Right? And as a teenager, that was it. That was the payoff. That was the big goal. If I just get into Michigan and make my dad proud, everything will be amazing. I'm waitlisted end of the world. I lose my appetite. I don't want to go out. I don't want to tell my friends. I can't believe this happened.  Do you know how often I think about being waitlisted at the University of Michigan? Rarely, if ever, outside of this episode. In fact, I never heard that story either. It's so easy to see that one challenge in front of you is insurmountable and life-ending and this is awful. Yes. It's helpful to take a step back and remember who you are, where you've come from and all the other challenges that you've overcome. Yes, absolutely. And to go back to you made mention of people feeling lonely and getting depressed. And I think there's a lot to be let's say an outcast in high school and then thinking is this what the rest of my life is going to be and to understand that that's just that point in time. If you take responsibility, you're able to do something to start fixing that in that moment. You're above that moment. You're more than that moment. Absolutely. I love that perspective. You're more than that moment. Number 10, give time. And this is what we mean by value, right? I define time as value. It's the most valuable resource as we talked about in point number seven. If you are giving someone value, essentially you're giving them your time. You're paying attention to them. You're accepting them. You're acknowledging them. You're appreciating them. That all takes time. That is not something you can just trade dollars for. So if you just focus on giving value and if this is a foreign concept to you, double back to our earlier episodes, 693, 694, and 695, we lay it all out. We define what we mean by value. We talk about some low value and high value behaviors. But giving people time, giving people time to grow, giving people an opportunity to change their impression of you, giving people a second chance. That's what we mean by giving time to people. You know, it's something you mentioned there about giving people time to grow. How many people have we met in the course of this company that said to us when we first encountered them, you're not ready for us. You're not ready for our partnership. You're not ready for this part of your company yet.  We had this going on. I can't believe this. Only to realize five years later, six years, seven years later, oh, now it's time that we were able to grow. We did the right things.  We'll see what you can do with it. But I'm not ready to get in bed with this idea yet. It's hard in the moment to hear that. Rejection's not easy. Fear of rejection drives a lot of people to the program and the boot camp. But hearing it and now coming out the other side and being able to put it into perspective, you know, giving yourself time to grow, giving other people time to grow is an important truth, an important concept. And I think in today's day and age, it's so easy to write people off. It's so easy to find some reason with all these options for friends and relationships. Oh, that person likes this. Oh, that person went here, write them off, write them off. Yeah. Some of the most valuable relationships that I have in my life currently it wasn't necessarily the greatest first impression. Sure. I mean, I remember us meeting each other and we laughed about this on an earlier episode, right? It took a little bit of time. Sure. It took a little bit of effort, but those relationships survive and matter. Number 11, embracing gratitude. Yes, this is something that I may mention earlier that if you there's you have every reason in the world to be happy right now in this moment and you have every reason in the world to have gratitude that you're living right here in this moment because it could be a whole hours. Absolutely. And also this idea of being grateful for the people and experiences that you've been fortunate enough to have in your life. It's so easy to focus on the next thing, the next great opportunity that we can lose perspective easily of all those tender moments we've had with loved ones, all those experiences we've been able to share with people in our lives and to actually be grateful for the time and energy and effort that other people give to us. You know who really helped me with this concept? It was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History because at the time of like anyone who gets into that show, you've listened to this in high school, you've learned about World War One, World War Two and all that stuff, but Dan has a way of humanizing the whole experience where you're you feel like you're just dealing with it as it's there. He lays it all out in just such a way that you really have an idea, well at least for me, that I never had before of just what was going on in everyone's minds and realizing that those lessons of the 20th century is something that no one wants to revisit. If we continue to be smart and learn from that, we won't have to. Well, we'll see, right? This is on the doorstep of nuclear Armageddon here. But it was hearing about those stories and learning about those lives and those situations that allowed me to truly appreciate where I was and what I had going on and what my world was like. And I think going along with gratitude, being grateful for where you are, is also this ability to show compassion and have empathy for others and understand and take a step back. As you're talking about, one of the main reasons that Dan Carlin I think is so powerful is he gives you that perspective, right? So I remember sitting through high school history classes and being like, oh, this happened, this happened, history teacher just outlines. There's a timeline, right?  And that just seems so far away and these people are so alien. Right. And you can't put yourself in their shoes. You don't have that perspective. What Dan does really well is he draws the metaphors from today's day and age of what it would be like, what this experience would be like for us living it now so we can draw on that perspective. The same thing with gratitude. It's being grateful for the people around you and your experiences but it's also having some perspective, putting yourself in other shoes and having compassion for what they're going through and not just blanket writing people off for one negative action one negative view one way that they hurt you. You know, it's funny. I have a tendency to listen to a lot of tragic stories via podcast history. I know, man. And sometimes I couldn't even work myself up to have nightmares because I get so... Johnny's in a funk because he's listening to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Yeah, I get so entrenched in some of these stories and ideas. However, that's the negative. The positive is the appreciation for everything that I have now that I personally I'm not having to experiencing these things. It's twofold. And I love these stories and certainly the way some of these people like from Daniel Benelli, Dan Carlin, Daryl Cooper that have done and Jocker Willink have done a wonderful job of painting these wonderful beautiful stories that are, yes, horrific but on the other end make you so grateful. Right. Moments that give you gratitude for not sitting in the fox hole being shot at with machine guns for the first time. Yes. I would agree with that wholeheartedly. Number 12. This is a heavy duty one. Yes. I want to promise this one because this is... Oh, yeah. This I'm starting to feel a little like jocco right here. Right. This is me dreaming is for losers. Start doing the work. Yeah. Get on it. Everyone has dreams. Everyone has aspirations and if we were to even try to attempt to quantify the people over the last decade who've given us advice and trying to tell us how we should be doing things in perspective and dreaming up different ways for us to make money. Dreams happen.  Yes. Everyone has visions for what they can and can't do. Oh, I envision the iPad. I envision the iPhone. I envision the iPod before it was... Guess what? You're not Steve Jobs. You're not Apple. You didn't come up with it. Just because you dream something doesn't mean it's reality. Dreams everyone can have. The action, the work, the results not everyone can have. Start doing the work. I understand that there's value to vision and dreaming out the future and setting goals and mapping out where you want to be. But it's very easy to spend a lot of time dreaming and spinning your wheels and visioning and not doing and not taking the action necessary to get the results. And I think this is another downside to the internet where if you have a curiosity about something you'll ask some friends and they'll give you some advice and then you'll start doing it. But in today's day and age you have some questions about things and how to do something and you just do these endless deep dives and never actually get started to figure it out for yourself. But yet you're a...  Yeah. And we flip around and running a business we're like well actually we're probably experts and only a handful of things. Maybe one or two things I would label myself an expert. And we'll figure out the rest. I'm actively learning on the rest. But it comes from action. And that's how we're learning. And same thing. Many men many women over the years have dreamt up electric cars that can seat eight people and get you from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Yeah. I like the thing... There's only one who's turned it into a reality right now. Yes. And I was laughing at the other day I think and I'm sure you understand this as well because you and I have both had to learn a bunch of new skills and put on some different hats. And we were looking some old videos that were from years ago. And I had to remember that I edited those. Like I've I've lost more skills than I that I have just from doing all these different things. Let's not call your video editing a skill just yet. Well, yeah. Yeah, a little ahead of ourselves. I fudged around. I would put a few things together. I wouldn't really call it editing. But but if I had to do it now I had to learn even to that point all over again. Right. And it wasn't very... Well, we're we're launching a YouTube channel here shortly. And we were trying to pull some old footage over the last 11 years building the company and put it into a little intro video. And I have to say it was fun going back through and seeing all of the evolutions both us personally and professionally on video. And I'm happy we had someone recording it. But to this point, right? We are constantly asked for advice, feedback, guidance. Almost daily. The number of people that follow through and come back with Hey, AJ. Hey, Johnny. I did that. It worked. It didn't work. They actually took action. What's the next part? I could count on maybe hands and toes. Well, this is one of the things that you have put together so nicely when it comes to seeking out mentorship. So would you like to elaborate on that?  Everyone wants to learn from the best. Everyone wants an opportunity to pick someone else's brain and get that knowledge. Right. Very few people are willing to do something with that knowledge. Yeah. And from a mentor, mentee perspective, right? A mentor, the most value that they're going to derive is seeing their thoughts and their views in action need to results. Yes. That's what motivates the mentor. Seeing results, not your dream book, not your vision board, not your journal, but what are the end results of all of these things? And for a lot of people who are successful, they want to prove that it wasn't a stroke of luck. Yes. It wasn't a one-off. It wasn't a lightning strike. It wasn't a lightning strike that got them to that success in their career. Once they've reached that pinnacle, they want to find ways to bring other people up to that level to prove that value that they provide is more than just luck. And when you can come at a potential mentor listening but taking action, that's when that relationship really sings. And, you know, not to toot my own horn at all, and I certainly would not consider myself a business mentor, but the number of people over the years that have approached us asking for help and guidance on this.  I'm ready to go. Okay, let's sit down. We'd whiteboard and draw things for hours and, oh, I figured out this and, oh, check this out. Months, years later, no action, right? A lot of spinning wheels, and it can be frustrating when you're trying to help guide someone to that success that they're after. So dreams are for losers. Yes. Start doing the work. Start putting the boots on the ground. That's what matters. Where the rubber meets the road is what we're talking about here. Having a dream is helpful to success, but if that's all you have, you're not going to be successful. And as we said earlier, you'll do what you want to do. If you really want to do it, you'll get started on it. Yeah, you'll figure it out. And that's the great part about, to Johnny's point, right? Where we are in history. Yes.  How to do this, how to do that, someone's viewpoint, and how to do anything. And guess what? The person who will tell you how is some 11-year-old kid in some far-right way. Country who could do it a million times better than you ever dreamed. And he's already off and running. Yeah, he's taking action. Yeah, exactly. Number 13, stop reacting negatively. This one, it's a struggle for all of us. Of course. It's very easy again to allow those emotions to get the best of you and allow the negative thoughts to seep in. But the analogy that I love so much and again to borrow something from Johnny, I've been sitting in on Johnny's lectures if you haven't noticed. We are in control of our thoughts and emotions and reactivity and I like to think of it as the gardener. Yeah. And you have the option of pruning and picking those weeds every day and watering the plants that you care about or neglecting and letting those weeds and negative thoughts overrun and dictate your actions and emotions. So when you allow this negative reactive state to guide you to be that flashlight for you and your actions, you're setting yourself up for failure. And reactivity leads to increased cortisol. It leads to stress. And ultimately that stress leads to an earlier death bed that maybe you deserve. Understanding that, yes, there are always negative things that are going to happen. The more resilient you are, the more able you are to adjust to life's curveballs and laugh at them and call them just that, right? To our greater point in last week's episode, improv, having a sense of humor, breaking out of your comfort zone and letting things slide. And being able to laugh at mistakes. Yeah. In the moment it could be a little hard but pushing yourself the next day to revisit that and have a laugh at it. Not allow that negative emotion to turn into two days, three days a week, etc. I want to also go into how I don't think a lot of people understand the full working picture of how negativity affects your life. And I want to equate it in this manner.  But if you eat a little Debbie snack cake every time you want one, you're going to have some problems. And if you can, if you're going to be negative to just let it fly every time that you feel like it, that's going to end up becoming a problem. Why is that becoming a problem? Like little Debbie snack cake is becoming a problem because you are training your brain how to think. And if you allow yourself to go down a negative path every time something pisses you off, then you will only and fuel that to continue and foster. A shorter and shorter fuse, right? Absolutely.  And let's just say that for 10 years, you've done this for 10 years. You've been eating a little Debbie snack eggs. And are you going to have a hard time getting back in the shape after doing that for 10 years? Absolutely.   No, you have a lot of work of reprogramming and setting yourself back up. And and if you think getting yourself back in the shape after 10 years is difficult, I got news for you. Good luck with your brain. It's just it's as simple as that. And people don't look at the way they use their brain as the way they use their body, but it's one and the same. I'm here to tell you it's the same thing. And like attracts like.   Yeah, positive people don't want to hang around people that are constantly negative. No, because they understand what will frame their whole vision. Absolutely. And we talk about you only get as high as your five closest friends, the people that you spend time with invest in and build relationships with their worldview influences you. If you have a problem and all of your friends are negative and you phone up that friend and say, hey, my car broke down and they catastrophize and tell you that it's the end of the world. Well, you're going to get worked up and you're going to feel like it's the end of the world. It's going to be very tough for you to be positive when four people in your life are telling you negative things and it's going to be very tough for positive people to stay in your life. If your response to every stimulus is an overreaction is negativity and positive people like people who are in shape know what it takes to maintain that. So why would they put themselves in a situation where they're going to get affected by that shitty attitude or affected by your your little Debbie snack cakes sitting out on the counter. Simple as that number 14. We are huge proponents of in fact, we're in the business of. Yes, investing in yourself. I love it. The best investment you can make. And, you know, we were talking with somebody this morning who who is a high performer on all aspects of life, physically, mentally, emotionally and realizing that even that person has a coach and and as the more successful we get and not just not just one coach, multiple coaches for 20 years. Yes. And is also involved in coaching. Just to clarify. Yeah. So and so what does that tell you about the importance of investing in what I love and getting out perspective, right? It doesn't mean that she's unhappy with herself. No, it doesn't mean that she's disappointed in herself or doesn't feel fulfilled. But she knows that there's there's even more. There's even more that she can get out of life.  Well, she's an athlete, right? But also athletes and military people because military people are constantly wanting to get better, taking more training and athletes know that they can only push themselves to such a point that before they need an outsider perspective to get further. And here's the thing. A lot of people don't realize this, but our brain has a governor. Yes. It slows you down. This way before you physically are ready to slow down or need to slow down. Mm hmm.  Yes.  Yes.  And we've gone after coaching in almost every area of our life. Business coaching. We're getting golf coaching. Any skill that we're looking to acquire. We know that mentorship and having a coach to push you beyond that governor is how you get those real results. And let me ask you this. Let's look back at some of the coaching we've had. Let me ask you this question. Would you if you had a chance to do it over again, would you not take it? No, of course not. Right. Look, even the crappiest coaches. Yes. Even the crappiest coaches we've had and we've worked with a few not a lot, but we've worked with some coaches that were they're just getting started. Maybe they didn't really know what they're doing either. Yeah. There's still a tidbit of information that I can take out of it. Yes. I remember when we were in New York and we were trying to get better on air on serious. We just landed a radio show. We're trying to figure out how to bring the energy serious was like, hey, we need you guys to step it up. So we got a coach. And I remember going through the whole process with the coach, getting us better in studio, getting us more on. And I only took away probably two or three things out of all the hours that we spent that I found really helpful. Yes. But those two or three things right now help me prepare mentally for today. So I feel that any investment you make in yourself has a positive ROI. A lot of us just can't realize it because we don't have the perspective and the wherewithal to say, well, there's still value here. There's still something I'm taking out of it. There's a lesson I learned. I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was. I learned that my governor kicks in on public speaking before I'm actually truly nervous. Oh, yeah. And one of my favorite moments in class is we ask everyone to get in front of the room and share a little something about themselves, share what they're working on just to kick things off. And as you can imagine, a lot of people have fear around public speaking and they get off. They sit back down.  Oh my God. I look so nervous. I can't believe it. I felt so nervous. And finally we finish everyone's story and I ask about thoughts and feelings and oh my God, my heart was beating through my chest. I feel like I was sweating and no one else notices this. No one else notices this. Everyone else looks a lot more calm up there than they think because internally they're going through all these processes and all these issues and struggles with their fears and that governor that we're talking about. So having a coach push you beyond that. Let's talk about education, right? So coaching is one way to invest in yourself and obviously we're huge proponents. We are coaches ourselves but education, right? My father instilled that in me at a very young age and I still have a passion for educating myself and educating others and helping other people grow their knowledge. There's the saying that what is the answer to a limited amount of consciousness? It's more consciousness and how do you get more consciousness by educating yourself on all the different pieces of it? And if you want more freedom and opportunities you're going to have to become more conscious of all these things around you.  Health is an investment in yourself and I would argue one of the most important investments in yourself and it took me a while to realize it and I still struggle with choosing the right things health-wise over the wrong things but losing my dad of a heart attack suddenly and he didn't really value his health especially in the later years and also realizing that this life that we only get one of it's pretty crummy when your health is poor. It's pretty crummy when you're in pain and you can't do things and you can't move and you can't get out of bed. So are you investing in yourself? Investing the time in the gym? The time on your nutrition? Picking the right things to eat? Avoiding the negative, impactful health things like drinking and drugs, etc. Yeah and I can tell you the difference between me doing a workout by myself and me going to Barry's Barry's boot camp I know that on I would not push myself as hard as I get pushed in Barry's and surrounded by other people pushing themselves with someone barking at you. Yeah, absolutely, it's great. Investing in your hobbies, scratching that itch, going back to the original point we made earlier about don't waste your talent. Number two, are you investing in those things that excite you? Are you investing in learning some new skills, challenging yourself, right? It's so easy to invest in material things. It's so easy to invest in that car, that watch but that emotional high, that dopamine that you're getting is fleeting. Hours later, days later that watch isn't exciting anymore. And really think about it. Cars less exciting. Really think about it. What is going to allow you to be more happier, right? Is it the new watch or learning a new skill? Challenging. Waking up in the morning and working out and having that runner's high. I mean like, it's a no-brainer. Number 15, obviously we're huge proponents of as well. Sharing your knowledge and experience with others. And this is one that I think a lot of people in business especially like to avoid, right? We view everyone as competitors. We feel like there's only a finite amount of money and opportunity in the world. So if I share my experience or my knowledge with someone else they can get ahead. They can be more successful in podcasting than us. They can build a better company than us. They can maximize their sales page. They can optimize better than us. And you end up holding on to this knowledge. You end up holding on to this experience and not sharing. Guess what? There's value in sharing that with other people. There a lot of time it's value that you're not going to see immediately. It's not this massive ROI the second you share this knowledge or experience. But getting comfortable with sharing more of that side of you being vulnerable with that is how you get more out of life. Yes, and it's helping you build a community around you. You they always say it's lonely at the top not unless you bring people with you. Right. If you're bringing the party if you're elevating if you're at the top you're putting your hand down and helping other people get to the top. Yeah. Well the top's a lot more fun. Absolutely. And the party you could throw at the top. Woohoo. The last truth we have live today. Live today. Going back to that time I mean a lot of these truths are talking about time over money focusing on today. Stop worrying about yesterday. Today is what you have.  Yes, yesterday has value but we shouldn't be living in the past and we shouldn't be holding on to it as much as we do. Yeah, and let's say you weren't happy yesterday. Okay, well, what are you going to do today to make tomorrow even better? And it's always about the steps that you make. It's the journey and we talk about this and that journey is what you're doing today. I like these truths. This was a lot of fun. Yes. And I feel like I'd love to hear from the audience any truths that they've heard or learned over the years. Yes. I know this was far from an exhaustive list. In fact, we were doing some research before the show and it feels like everyone has an article on brutal truths. Yes. We'd love to hear your brutal truths. Feel free to email me or Johnny A.J. or Johnny at The Art of Charm or hit us up on our social media at The Art of Charm. You can find us on Twitter and Instagram. We love hearing from the audience. If you're digging the content and you're digging these toolbox episodes we'd love a written testimonial in your favorite podcast app to share the love and hey, if some of your friends need to hear these truths tag them in a social media post. Shoot them this episode. Let them get a dose of some of these cold, hard truths as well. Share the knowledge. Yes, I also would like to give a shout out to an alumni named Rick who got to meet one of his heroes this week and we saw it on the celebration page and I just wanted to give him a nod and say good work on that. Got to meet Gary Vee, got a picture. That was really cool. And Rick got some great advice from a fellow alumni of the boot camp. Yeah. Before the event, trying to figure out how to maximize his opportunity with his mentor and someone that he really looked up to was sitting next to him at the event. Positioning yourself right next to Gary Vee. So congratulations, Rick. Sounded like an awesome experience. Way to go.


11 says you make known to us the path of life. You fill us with joy in your presence. We're so glad that you've joined us here on Hope Today for the next 30 minutes so that we can pursue the presence of God and be filled with His joy. I'm Anna. This is Tom and Tom, this is my first time being back with you in the new year. Hey, well, happy new year to you. Happy new year. Big year for you coming up for sure. Well, that's true. And you're following that path. And you know, sometimes we meet fellow travelers, Christians that are following that path and we hear their stories. And today we have Jeff Siegel, one of our favorites with us. Do you know that the conflict in Israel is your battle too? It's our battle. It's our conflict. It's a spiritual battle. We see the natural, but it's a spiritual battle. And we're going to be talking about that with Jeff and what he sees with that. Also, just about making disciples. What is the what is the gospel? What does it mean to go around the world and preach the gospel and make disciples? That's what we're commanded to do. And we're also going to hear Jeff's story. We're going to pack a lot into this show, because Jeff's story is powerful, you know, from growing up in a Jewish home to finding Jesus's Messiah. It's just a powerful story. Yeah, Jeff has been a friend of the ministry and just beautiful to see how God truly does pursue the hearts of his people to draw them unto himself. It doesn't want anybody to perish. So his story will be inspiring. Well, today is Monday and that means we have a meaningful Monday story for you. 060 Jewish and Arab musicians came together for an uplifting rendition of Somewhere from the classic musical West Side Story. Originally crafted in 1957 by renowned Jewish composers Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. The heartwarming performance features the song Somewhere in three languages, Arabic, Hebrew and English to convey a message of peace and hope amid the ongoing conflict. Here's a short clip from this moving performance. The performance featured 30 Arab and Jewish vocalists in an orchestra comprised of 30 Jewish and Arab musicians showcasing the power of music to bridge divides and promote unity during this challenging time in Israel. We thank Israel.com for the article. Tom, it really is beautiful to see the unity of all of these people coming together. Yes, I mean, I love that. I noticed they didn't sing the Jets and the Sharks song from West Side Story or the Maria song either. But no, it was really a beautiful thing to see them coming together. And you know, the conflict is spiritual and we're going to hear about that. What is God's purpose though? What is God's desire coming out of this? I know Jeff is going to be talking about that. We're going to talk more about what God wants and what God's real heart at the at the base, but it still was a beautiful thing. Yeah, that's wonderful.  We have different languages. We live in different areas, but Jesus is the root and we're all connected in him. So still come together in unity. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back, Jeff Siegel will be with us. If self help isn't getting you anywhere, it's time for God's power. Have you grown accustomed to bad habits, written off lifelong battles as unwinnable or believe that some destructive behaviors can never be altered? Then the seven resolutions is for you. This book will teach you how to overthrow old patterns, create new life systems and take hold of God's promises, resolve to join God, think truth, kill sin, choose friends, take risks, focus effort and redeem time. Never settle for too little. The time is now for humble dependence on God and a plan to walk in his power. It's time to come alive in 2024. Request the seven resolutions when you give to support Cornerstone Television this month. Call<PHONE_NUMBER> or give online at ctvn.org slash donate. Help us spread the gospel with renewed strength in 2024. Thank you. Welcome back to Hope Today. Before we get into our conversation with Jeff Siegel, we want to just give a quick shout out for our Hope Today newsletter. If you don't get it at home this one this month here in January, the cover article is written by yours truly, Tom Hollis and talking about the author and the adventure, the story of your life. You also get our full program guide, the recipes, good testimonies of God's faithfulness. So if you don't get it, give us a call here at<PHONE_NUMBER>. We'd love to send you the good news in your mailbox. Absolutely. It's good to keep up with everything. Well, our next guest is a tremendous friend of ours here at Cornerstone Television Network. He's been here many times. Jeff Siegel is the founder and president of Go Global Ministries which aims to spread the love of God across the globe to make disciples. We'll be talking about that. I've been with Jeff in Cuba. I've seen that disciple making process. It's awesome. Well, Jeff has also raised a Jewish and he has a tremendous story of meeting Jesus as his Messiah as well and we'll be talking about that. Jeff, it's great to have you on Hope Today again. Hey, it's great to see you. Well, why don't we jump right in. We talked to you saw that little piece at the beginning where the Arab and Jewish musicians coming together. But tell me about your view on the conflict. You know, we were told we're supposed to pray, you know, for the piece of Jerusalem. How do you see this conflict? I see a two-fold. Western thinking believes that there needs to be a two-state solution. But we need to go back to 1948 and 47 when Israel was rebirthed by God using the United Nations to say the Jewish people can go back legally and we're going to give you this plot of land. In one sense, and there was about 157,000 Arabs displaced from other Arabic countries who were living there side by side. But it wasn't so much those people but the other neighboring nations of Arabs, they didn't want the Jewish people there and they attacked Israel. Israel with pitchforks and firm equipment ended up winning that war because God was fighting their battle for them. They won and they expanded territory. That's why some people call them occupiers but what country in the world, people from within being attacked, they win, are told they need to give the land back. This happened in 67, this happened in 73. Israel never started a war from within and so now there's this false speech going around the world like you stole our land, for example Gaza in 2005 that was fully given to the people of that area and they chose to invite in Hamas to be their leadership. The world was donating money to them and instead of building infrastructure they built tunnels under the place and were securing bombs and using the money and for their leaders to stay all around the world in high level hotels or whatever. So they didn't really care about their own people. It was all a deception but in every case even leading up to the Bill Clinton administration he worked with their a fat and he worked with the Jewish people and 95 percent of everything that they said they wanted was offered to them and I don't believe in a two-state solution, I believe in a biblical solution which is full of love and respect and you know the Bible makes it very clear how you settle those those issues but the bottom line is we see that Arafat refused it all and now we have the Gaza war and if you read Psalm 83 we call it the war of extermination. If you look in Ezekiel chapter 38 it talks about a time when Israel is living in great prosperity. It says there are no walls, there are no borders and the towns are not living with high security level. So you say how do you, so this war is not Gog and Magog, but Iran and Turkey and Russia are using Gaza, Hezbollah, Tia, Lebanon and the North. All these areas that are wanting to, this is the motivation is to exterminate Israel. That's the key point isn't it that is that those nations in many cases have said they want to wipe Israel out of there. How is Christians, how is it our battle to? Here's why it's our battle. The scripture makes it very clear and even Netanyahu has been saying we're at war and we're going to win. In other words this war is going to fully secure more land and the borders of Israel and here's how Christians can get involved. First of all Israel needs humanitarian aid and we're getting ready to go back to Israel in November and I used to be part of chosen people ministries and still very very close with them. So we can get funds into Israel and there's frontline people that we are in partnership with, that we can get food, humanitarian aid, medicine and we are hoping rather Tom in November to bring people from American churches, Messiana congregations on a tour of Israel but we're going to secure a period of time in partnership with chosen people ministries to go into the affected areas and we're going to bring food. We're going to bring all of this humanitarian aid maybe even medical team but we're going to bring the love of Jesus because we are in a time period where even from Ukraine there are Jews who've remembered the Lord while being among the northern nations and the scripture says God says I'm going to bring them back and so God through our prayers and our support will preserve Israel but when this war is over Israel will have secured their borders but there will be pain in their heart and we can go in and share the love of Jesus at that time. What's it like when I know I mean you're an evangelistic disciple making ministry go global we want to ask you about that again I know you work in Cuba and we saw it in Cuba I mean I saw it that our team saw it is that there are churches established God is doing great things through go global maybe you should tell us about your ministry and what God is is doing through go global. Well go global we live to make disciples of Christ here's how we do it through sports medical teams humanitarian aid street evangelism partnering with the churches there and they do the follow-up but when we do the past or a leadership training I have a burden not only in Cuba but the door has opened to me so Cuba's 11 million people and we are very situated with the house church movement in the greater Havana area but we're getting ready to push east and make and plant more churches and more disciples. So when we use this term disciple at times it can just be a cliche what do you mean make a disciple God said to Peter Peter do you love me three times he said tend my lambs feed my sheep feed my sheep first calling is the call to salvation but the second calling for a believer is go feed my sheep in other words go make disciples so my burden in Cuba and the Philippines is to give them good doctrine and to through the scripture show them this is what a disciple looks like and the book of Joshua see Joshua what was Joshua he was a disciple of Moses right I call it the Joshua generation Joshua Caleb the elders and that younger generation that made it through and the Bible says they did not deny the Lord a whole generation so it's I believe that even though crazy things are happening around the world incredible things are happening in the church and the church is catching this vision we want to be discipled and so the scripture in the book of Joshua I'll come right to the point God said Moses is dead but as I've been with Moses I'll be with you so Moses discipled Joshua but then a time came when God himself discipled in other words God will raise up elder brothers elder sisters pastors and people to invest their lives in us so that we know what a disciple looks like but then we have a responsibility to also allow God himself through his word God said to Joshua study this word the book of this law day and night he says meditate on it he said speak it and he said live it and then after that when Joshua got the point and he committed himself to being God's disciple he said to the children of Israel make provision we're going in to take the land so there is a promise land actually for the Jewish people but even to the Jewish people God then said to his disciples go begin in Jerusalem then in Judea and the uttermost part of the world disciples make disciples and disciples may have a local context a promised land but God gave the Jews a physical promised land God gives to us a spiritual promised land and part of my promised land is Cuba the Philippines wherever God sends us we are living in exciting days we are living in exciting days you know another thing that I love about what God spoke to Joshua when he was about to go into the promised land was be strong and courageous because Joshua was about to face all kinds of hardships and fears and he needed that strength and that courage can you talk a little bit about God's encouragement us as disciples that are called to the world and to be strong and courageous in our faith and spreading the gospel you know what's exciting about that scripture and God speaking to Joshua he said if you do your part I'll come behind you and you will have success do you know that God wants you to be successful we're not talking about a wrong prosperity gospel where it's all about taking it for yourself God will bring the resources we need but God wants you to be successful yes there's an enemy out there but God is bigger than our spiritual enemy and God as um you give yourself to the reading of his word to spending time privately with Jesus God will bind the enemy the enemy will try to attack but God will take care of the enemy himself on your behalf and he will open doors and he Tom and sister and cornerstone God is going to open doors for you in the days ahead when this thing happened with Israel God took an hourglass and he said new season guys just like 9-11 and some of the other in the pandemic that began a new season because as it goes with Israel therefore I know you to be disciples of Christ and you can stand on the word of God that the doors that God opens for you you will be successful oh I love that Jeff because I think that's that's in the heart of every Christian I think or should be every true disciple to see the kingdom of God expanded I just have to get to your story because I love your story I know you've shared it on here before but there's many people out there that have not seen it could you just tell us about your life and and maybe what God did in your life well I think a good starting point I had the privilege I grew up in Chicago I love all that against to there but no just hey so I'm long suffering I was a cub fan right Chicago hot dogs and the Chicago Cubs what could what could be better right um but anyway so I went to the University of Illinois and I was on scholarship I was a pitcher with the university and beginning with my junior year I made the spring trip and I actually got to pitch at University of New Mexico and they played in a minor league stadium the air was a little thinner it was high altitude pretty cool and after a day I came in relief my roommate who also played on the football team said hey Siegs Billy Graham is doing a crusade right on campus he said I'm gonna go why don't you come with me and I thought to myself Jewish kids from Chicago don't do this kind of thing I said I'll take a rain check you tell me what Mr Graham says Tom it was the John Travolta era I had my silk shirt I went out with my Italian and Greek buddies and we disco danced the night away I came back to my room and Doug said Siegs you missed it I said what did I miss he said I got saved tonight I said what did you get saved from he said I I gave my life to Jesus I became a Christian I said wait a minute you've been going to the church building every Sunday on campus how does a Christian become a Christian he said well Mr Graham straighten me out he said just because a mouse is in a cookie jar does not make him a cookie just because you go to the church building on Sunday doesn't make you a Christian he Mr Graham used this term that we needed to be born again and he said I invited Jesus into my heart I asked forgiveness for my sins I believe that he's Lord and Savior and on the third day that God rose him from the dead and he said that Mr Graham said the scripture says if we confess with our heart we believe in our mouth that Jesus is who he says he is and that God raised him on the third day we will be saved he said Jeff I was saved wow it blew my mind and I went to bed now my senior year my friend Doug there was a move of the Holy Spirit on our campus through the fellowship of Christian athletes and there was a famous Christian lady on Thursday night of my senior year going to speak at the campus huddle my friend invited me again to go here this person speak and um you know me Jewish kids go go to these kind of gatherings I had my silk shirt my Italian and Greek buddies we went on campus it was pre-weekend we just go dance the night away but my friend who is a Gentile we grafted him into our Jewish fraternity house he said Siegs this time you really missed it I said what did I miss he said a lady named Corey Tenboom was the speaker and he said this Dutch lady was from a family of clockmakers but during the Holocaust they were hiding Jewish people behind the pictures in the walls of their home they got caught and the whole family died either in concentration camps or jails but Corey was witnessing her love for the Jewish people right in a concentration camp and through a miracle she got released from the camp I think it was an error but a Holy Spirit error it was God getting her out to tell her story about what they did as a family and their love for Israel and I said to myself why would a Gentile family want to risk their neck for a Jew during such times but they didn't fear for their life they were more concerned about honoring God and they knew that the Jewish people were God's chosen people but Corey wanted to reveal to the Jewish people what they were chosen for and that their Jewish Messiah had already been here I said to myself in private wow whatever the real deal is she's it her family's it I went to my grandfather a Romanian Jew who'd actually been in a program in Romania I said grandpa who do you say that Jesus is he said Jesus oh he was a great rabbi he was a magician like Moses you know my grandpa never said a negative word about Jesus he said negative words about people who claimed to be Christians who wanted to hurt Jews but see now through this testimony through my friend making me jealous I saw a different Christian and then as I would walk the campus from my fraternity house heading on my way to class all of a sudden all these FCA people who loved Israel would cross the streets and they would just hug me and they go brother Jeff we love you man you're one of God's chosen people and I would say to myself what the heck are these people smoking whatever it is I want some then my best friend growing up in Chicago Jewish Neil Siegel Dan Beaver who was the president of the huddle his roommate was Jeff Goldberg he led Jeff Goldberg through the fellowship of Christian athletes to the Lord Jeff Goldberg slipped my best friend Neil Siegel who played on the hockey team slipped him a Bible my last day pitching for University of Illinois I was pitching against Michigan State and Neil came in and really upset me our nickname to each other is Sieges he said Sieges I need to tell you something after a careful examination of the Hebrew scriptures I've come to the conclusion that the promised Jewish messiah has already been here I said Neil do you believe in Jesus he said yes I said were you baptized he said yes I said Neil what have you done you're out of your mind I said you're not Jewish anymore he said Jeff I'm a completed Jew now he said if you read the Old Testament for yourself I believe you'll come to the same conclusion as me and I did I read the Hebrew scriptures beginning in the book of Genesis I held it up to heaven just like this Bible I borrowed my brothers to knock that he got as a birthday present and I said God can I have a burning bush experience like Moses and is Yeshua or Jesus my burning bush I came to the same conclusion that Neil did it was all there the prophecies it all pointed to Jesus I was beside myself alone with God and my Bible I fell on my knees I said I wasn't looking for Jesus I didn't think it was Jesus this is a different Jesus this is the real Jesus the Jesus who lives inside of people like Cory Ten Boom I said dear Jesus I don't know how to do this I'm a sinner please come into my heart and I ask you to forgive me for the sins of my life I told my dad a week later that I gave myself life to Jesus and that my friends fellowship of Christian athletes baptized me he immediately kicked me out of the family 26 years later my baby brother gave his life to Jesus my dad apologized and God turned my whole life around wow wow yeah I mean I know that was an abbreviated version but it's almost all we have time for but a fantastic story Jeff Siegel thank you so much for being with us thank you for what you're doing around the world and in Israel as well yeah thank you so much what a powerful testimony of God's faithfulness to continue pursuing the hearts of his people to draw them closer to himself know today that God is pursuing your heart if you don't know Jesus seek him while he may be found draw near to him and he will draw near to you he wants to reveal himself to you today so that he can take you in as one of his own thank you so much for being with us on hope today have a blessed day on tomorrow's hope today inspiring you to stand for life and be a voice for the voiceless Pastor Jay and Tiffany Gilbert are joined by founder and former CEO of 40 Days for Life David B. Wright as they share how you can make a difference for the lives of the unborn that's tomorrow on hope today cornerstone television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible


On this playoff edition of Titans All Access, the Titans wanted Houston to clinch a playoff spot. We'll let you experience the sights and sounds of Sunday's big win. Ryan Tannehill leads the Titans into Foxborough this weekend. Number 17 talks about the Tennessee offense with Mike Keith and this week's Nissan Insider. Coach Dave McGinnis takes us beneath the surface to show us the creative ways that the Titans are getting brown involved. As Mike Brable takes his team to Foxborough, Brable has a playoff victory, not a reunion on his mind. General Manager John Robinson gives us his keys to a win over the Patriots. It's time to make a playoff run. As Titans All Access starts now. We welcome you to Titans All Access with playoff Amy Wells. Hello. A better version even. Oh is that possible? I don't know. I'm Mike Keith. The same. And we're glad you're with us for an extra edition of Titans All Access. We hope we're busy for the next several weeks because the Titans are in the playoffs. And let's talk playoffs. Let's start off talking about quarterbacks. Who you want to talk about? Well, you know New England's quarterback Tom Brady. Yeah, he's fine. He's pretty great. He's all right. But you know who's been great this year? Ryan Tannehill. Ryan Tannehill has been great. His first ever playoff start upcoming and we are excited to see what number 17 does. I had a chance to sit down with him for the Nissan Insider and you know this guy. Totally humble. All about team and what did he want to talk about first? His teammates who are his weapons. I want to ask you about some of your receivers. Just give me some quick thoughts as I say their name. AJ Brown. Let's start with explosive physical playmaker. You know a guy who I think is more dangerous the ball on his hands than than he is without it. You know, it's a guy that we want to get touches and get involved. We've seen what we can do every time he touches the ball off schedule crossing route and ends up catching it late and turn it up and scoring. So it's something that he's done all year for us and hope to continue. Tajé Sharp. Consistent. You know he's a guy he's probably hadn't had as many touches as he'd like but he's consistent. He's there when we need him. You know a guy we believe in and we trust that whenever his numbers call he's gonna be there to make a play and he's done that multiple times for us this year. Janu Smith. Strong. Strong and fast. You know you look at him as a tight end. He's a guy that he's physical, he's tough. You see him with the ball on his hands a lot like AJ. You know he's tough to bring down. We always say the first guy never tackles him. He's able to you know fight through those those tackles and get that extra yardage so he's made some big plays for us. Corey Davis. Corey Davis is talented. You know a guy who's been good for us. Tight coverage. Guy on his back and I was able to kind of get it on the body. You know he was really proud of the way he played fast, played physical and was really crisp in his rock. So really proud of the way he played. Ryan what has been the key to completing 70 percent of your passes this season? I think it starts up front with the old line give me time in the clean pocket and then the guys now feel making a play. You know if I have that belief that if I put in a good position and it's catchable ball that our guys are coming down with it and they prove that time and time again. Finally winning is the most important thing in the playoffs no doubt about it but winning means you get to keep playing and for you in watching the joy with which you have played over the last two months and just how much fun it looks like you're having. We see the shots on TV and I know you're over 30 but you look like you're about 17 with that smile on your face. Winning means you get to keep playing and that's a huge factor because I know you want this team to keep going for what it's meant and what it can be. Yeah no doubt I love playing football I love competing with the guys I love the preparation day in and day out the grind and nothing's better than win in the locker room after a game you know just that moment you get to share with your teammates after putting in a ton of work blood sweat and tears and get to kind of just relish that moment in the locker room after the game so obviously want to keep doing that as long as we can. Good stuff with Ryan Tannehill Titans need good stuff from Ryan Tannehill in New England. Absolutely they do. We've got more good stuff coming up on this edition of Titans Hall Access including a look at Mike Vrabel's return to Foxboro and why the national media is making such a big deal about it. Speaking of the Patriots our general manager John Robinson previews the Titans matchup in Foxboro with Tom Brady and company and Dave McGinnis comes by to show us the way the Titans are using AJ Brown in the offense. The rookie receiver is going crazy but up next. Up next we are taking you down to the sidelines for the Tennessee Titans victory over the Houston Texans it's what got us here in the first place so we're gonna reveal it. The sights and sounds from Houston next. Welcome back to Titans Hall Access. If you listen to Titans radio you know Amy Wells is on the sidelines for Titans radio providing information and interviews. It's all very interesting. You have a unique perspective and so Sunday as the Titans clenched a playoff berth in Houston you were on the field for all of it. What was it like. You know it was a little bit more emotional than I thought it was going to be. Everybody was so excited and especially after Derek Henry had that 53 yard run and he was able to clinch being the rushing leader it was such a big deal. Everybody was so excited and it was I cried a little bit. Did you really? I did. Yeah it's an emotional game. It's an emotional game. It's a big deal to make the playoffs and so we here at Titans Hall Access want to take you inside the moment so you can experience it like Amy Wells did. Here are the sights and sounds from Sunday's big win in Houston. Try not to cry. Y'all ready? Alright man. Now all I gotta be saying is you already understood man. Only that matters is how much energy we bring today. How how lit we gonna make it today? How many plays you gonna make today?   They get in the playoffs. They said you gotta do one thing. Lock them. Get gates. Yes sir. Hey lock the gates on three. One, two, three. Lock the gates. Okay we're at the tackle. We missed too many tackles right there. Tana Hill's in the gun. Takes the snap. Tana Hill looking forced out to his right. Throws complete. Brown breaks the tackle at the 40, at the 30, at the 20, at the 15, at the 10, at the five in the end zone. A.J. Brown. Fifty one yards. Touchdown Titan. My boy needs some oxygen. Hey, can we get some oxygen? Sure. What up baby? Let's go baby. Tikes begin this drive at their own 10 yard line. Third down and nine upcoming. Tana Hill fires right side ball clock. Corey Davis. Tana Hill firing. Pass is caught. Left side. The grab is made by Sharp. That's a first down for the tight. I put on six. Put on six. Tana Hill play fake. Looking in the back of the end zone. Big J. Sprint's out to his right. Fires back toward the middle ball. Caught. Touchdown Titan. Michael Pruitt, who came to the Titans last year off the Texans practice squad. Tana Hill playing out of his mind. The Titans gonna get the football and they need to go get points right here and separate this score as you like to say. It'd be nice. It would be really nice. Pad love on finish. Pad love on finish. Let's go. See if they try to go to Henry pretty early. Here's carry number 14 on the left side. 25-30. He's across the 40 to the 42. Breaks a tackle at the 10. Toss right side. Henry turning it up. Going into the end zone. Touchdown Titan. That was as efficient as you'd ever want to come out and open up the second half. Great job. That's the way to knock him off the ball, Taylor. Just at the moment it looked like the Titans were gonna take control of this thing. The Texans answer and it's still a ballgame. Hey, let's go. This is one of the big quarter, bro. We need it. Let's go. What's up? What's that? Let's hold up another notch. Let's go. Play fake. Looking. Looking. Looking. He has all day. He throws deep downfield. What a grab by AJ Brown. Give it to Henry. He steps out of a tackle and they're saying he extended the ball and got it in. Touchdown Titan. And that gotta be like nominee for Ketsuna. He's 53 for 1500. He needs 48 for the title. Oh, we gotta get that 15. For the rushing title. All right. Hold me. Go. Okay. All right. Let's go. Let's go. As Henry gets the carry, he's to the 50, to the 45, to the 40, to the 30, to the 20, to the 10, to the five, to the end zone. Wow. Derek Henry to the house. We did it, baby. We did it. For the crown on day, bro. We just got that rushing title, man. We just punched our ticket to go to the playoffs, man. But we got to go back to work, clean up the little things, man. Hey, we see how the fuck's going. Like I said, the beginning of the year. Why not us, bro? Bring it in. Let's go. Let's go. Hey, Titans on three. One, two, three. Titans offense has been blossoming over the last 10 games. Get the leading rusher in the league in Derek Henry. You got the quarterback with the highest passer rating in the league in Ryan Tannehill. And you also have a rookie receiver who is showing out AJ Brown. Absolutely. And coach Dave McGinnis sits down to break down all of the great things that AJ was able to accomplish against Houston. That's next on Titans All Access. This is Coach Mack. Welcome back to Titans All Access. Today, we're going to look at three plays in the Houston ball game by AJ Brown, who's having a tremendous rookie year and watch the magic that he and Ryan Tannehill are creating for the Titans offense. First play we're going to look at. AJ comes across in motion. Now we've got two tight double stacks here on the outside. We're in man to man defense with the Texas. They roll down to a short hole robber and the robber is going to double AJ Brown. Ryan Tannehill is in such sync with this rookie receiver. He sees immediately that they're doubling. So he holds the ball, does not panic in the pocket, is able to manipulate and buy time. As AJ comes across the field, raises his hand. He's now got the cornerback trailing him in a tailpipe position. Perfect throw on the run, right where he can catch it. Up the sideline, touchdown Titans. Second plays in the second quarter. Now what we've done, Arthur Smith has done a nice little innovation here. He's put Marcus Mariota in the ball game. This is Ryan Tannehill up here at the top. The Houston Texans have gone to a default zone defense. They're now playing quarters coverage. Watch the three linebackers in the second level position. Watch how hard they bite on the play action to Henry. You're going to see a huge area open up right here between the second level and the safeties in the corners playing quarters coverage back here. Nice route up here by AJ Brown. Starts to move like he's taking off, sticks his foot in the ground, comes across on a deep slant. Perfect throw by Marcus Mariota right out in front of him. This is the catch that put AJ Brown over 1,000 yards receiving in his rookie year for the Tennessee Titans. Our final play we're going to look at today. This play by next gen stats was deemed the most improbable throw and catch in the National Football League this year. 6.2% chance of completion. We get motion back to a tight trips. You can see up here at the top AJ Brown is in a cut split. Ryan Tannehill makes a run fake, stays right on the railroad tracks. You've now got both safeties double covering AJ Brown 47 yards down the field. This is a magnificent, magnificent play by Ryan Tannehill, AJ Brown, the offensive front. This play right here just about put an exclamation point on AJ Brown's day. Later on on this playoff edition of Titans All Access, general manager John Robinson joins Mike Keene with his keys to winning at New England. But up next, Mike Vrable has no interest in the story of his return to Fox Borough, but it seems like much of the football world does get the entire story next on Titans All Access. The national media's number one story about this playoff game between the Titans and the Patriots concerns Mike Vrable's return to Fox Borough. The national media has been consumed with it. Absolutely. But I mean, it's an exciting story. It is an exciting story. And we understand why they're interested. Remember, Vrable became a Patriot in 2001 before Tom Brady was a star, before Bill Belichick had won anything. And he went on to win three Super Bowls with Patriots teams that were beloved. But the other reason they love Mike Vrable up there, he's from the Midwest, but he's really kind of a North Easterner at heart. He kind of is. Yeah, he's got a little Boston to him. He's got a lot of that personality. Doesn't take it off anybody.  They loved him while he was a Patriot and they still love him today. But they didn't love Vrable so much in week 10 of the 2018 season. The Patriots came to Nashville at seven and two and on a six game winning streak. The Titans were scuffling at four and four. But Tennessee attacked New England from the outset, scoring 17 first quarter points and taking a lead they would never relinquish. Tom Brady was never able to get comfortable, missing 20 passes and being harassed all day. Brady in trouble, stepping up. Corey Davis and John Doosmith caught touchdown passes. Derek Henry paced the Titans rushing attack on a day that Tennessee ran for 150 yards and the Titans actually out game the Patriots by over 100 yards. With seven minutes left in the game, Tom Brady had taken a seat as Tennessee went on to win 34 to 10. But that was just one regular season game. The Titans finished nine and seven and didn't make the 2018 playoffs. The Patriots ended up winning the Super Bowl for the sixth time. And Brady was pretty quick to remind Mike Vrable of that this past August when the Patriots came to town for joint practices with the Titans. Brady actually presented Vrable with a trophy signifying what Tennessee's regular season went over New England had meant. It was one game out of 16. More than anyone else, Vrable got it. And when the two teams practiced together for those two days in August, Vrable got after it with Brady and Brady gave it right back. The laughs were all in fun, but the work was deadly serious. And as the assembled fans and media saw Bill Belichick coach his Patriots, they completely understood where Vrable gets his attention to detail. Whether it be their first team, second team, or guys who would eventually be practice squad members, the New England Patriots take everything they do seriously. Even when their rookies are told to sing happy birthday to the former Patriot, who's now a head coach of another NFL team. The preseason game that followed was anti-climactic. Brady and the majority of the Patriots big names sat while the Titans stars mostly made cambiums. New England won 22 to 17 and many wondered then if the two teams would have a date in Foxborough in January. And now we've got the match up that many wondered about. But one thing's for sure, while everybody has made such a big deal about Mike Vrable's return to Foxborough and what a big deal it is, the Titans head coach says he'll save homecoming celebrations for high schools and colleges. He's not interested at all. All he's interested in is getting a win. I like that. Good stuff. I am into that. All right, well coming up next, we've got someone else who has some New England roots. General Manager John Robinson will be right here, so stick around. Titans gonna take on the New England Patriots this Saturday in Foxborough. Titans General Manager John Robinson joins us for his weekly segment on Titans All Access. All right, so the Patriots are always well known for offense, but this year their defense amazing, allowing 14 points, 276 yards per game. They have 36 takeaways. They have 47 sacks. Give me the guys making this Patriots defense go. I mean really it's at every level of the defense.  He's a big, strong, wide-bodied guy. He's tough to move. Jamie Collins at the linebacker spot. He moves around to a lot of different positions. Same thing with High Tower and Kyle Vanoy. Those three guys are, they're really interchangeable in how they use them and how they either send them or drop them into coverage to affect the offense. In the back end you've got, you know, Devin McCordy, you've got Patrick Chung, guys that have played a lot of football. And then Stefan Gilmour corner who's having a, you know, player of the year type season. So it's really every player on that defense that they kind of intermingle and twist to create confusion and they're being super productive. What must the Titans offense do well against that talented defense? I think it starts off with taking care of the football. You know, we've got to take care of the football. We can't give them their offense. Tom and the boys extra possessions. And staying on track offensively. It's about establishing the running game, setting up the play action pass, maintaining the pocket, you know, when we've got to drop back and throw the ball for Ryan to throw it. And the receiver's getting open and catching against man coverage. Against Brady and against the Patriots offense, what must Dean P's Titans defense do well? Well, I mean, I think it's stopping the run. You know, they've got a good back in Sony Michelle. Their line is big. They can move, move guys off the ball. And then they've, they've got pass catchers at the skill positions. They'll sub those backs in, whether it's James Wyatt or whether it's Burkhead, you know, Edelman in the slot, you know, the rookie and the kill. Harry's doing some good things. And then you got Philip Dorsett, who can really stretch the field vertically. So they challenge you at a lot of different levels. So we've got to do a really good job of executing the defense. Other keys to a Titans victory in Foxboro? Well, I think, you know, we talked about it offensively. It's about, you know, staying on track. It's about running the football, making plays when they present themselves, taking care of the football, staying on track, offensively, executing the defense. Go get a win in New England. That's the plan, Mike. All right, John Robinson with us every week on Titans All Access. We'll remind you that the game this Saturday night, it's not Sunday, it's Saturday night, 7.15 central time kickoff, 7.15 central. We're on the air with Titans Radios, Titans Countdown at 6 central, 7 Eastern. We hope you'll join us. For Amy Wells and John Robinson, Mike Keith, thanks you for watching and we'll see you next time.