i need to come clean

hey it's me Tevin in this video I'm

going to talk about 2023 everything that

I have planned for 2023 and how I want

to make 2023 and even more awesome year

than 2021 was yeah I skipped over 2022

because 2022 wasn't great in the market

and there was some other little bit of

you know scars that happened in the

meantime so we're gonna work on making

2023 awesome and this video is going to

be all about how let's go hit New York

we'll talk about it

foreign

make sure you turn the lights off okay

energy crisis

oh it's a bear Market you want to be in

the video it's not bad you watch your

wife watches tell me I started watching

New York when I was in Berlin I moved to

Spain I thought I invest in crypto oh my

gosh

oh my God he'll be back it'll be back

ready to come back

one of the biggest things I've noticed

studying other entrepreneurs other

creators people who have come and gone

is that most people don't get canceled

they actually

self-cancel think about that for a

moment that sounds really weird what do

you mean self-cancel just cancel culture

is you make a mistake and then you'll

get canceled and then you stop posting

because you stop getting attention but

the reality is most people cancel

themselves whether they're on social

media or not in other words they make a

mistake they become pessimistic they

lose hope they lose enthusiasm they you

they lose what made them them the energy

the excitement the optimism and when you

lose what makes you you of course you're

gonna fail and I believe I strongly

believe this that no matter who you are

watching this video If you believe

that you can make 2023 a better year

than 2022 behind us

you're gonna make it happen now how can

you practically take that into your own

life I believe it all comes down to a

risk risk versus stability and security

most of the time we think that's it this

is all I'm destined for

13 years ago I would have never in my

life thought that I would have had my

baby on this building never in my life

would I have thought that would have

been possible but it was only possible

through taking risk and I think in 2023

my plan needs to be to keep going I

don't want to just Coast I don't just

want to make videos and play it safe

make sure everyone perfectly likes me

you know I'd like for 80 percent of

people to like me and like my content

right I don't have to appeal to all the

extremes but if I can provide value to

80 of people while taking risks that I

can actually expand my business then I

want to be that symbol of Hope for you

that if you take risks even if you mess

up think about all the times I've messed

up you can also still succeed and that's

really really exciting tomorrow by the

way I'll be in the New York Stock

Exchange again for the opening bell

which is really exciting I've got an

interview inside and I've got my nice C

jacket ready to go

thank you

now in the next part we're going to talk

schedule and productivity one of the

biggest things about productivity I've

noticed is when you wake up in the

morning it's weird that if you stay in

sort of your gym clothes you know your

junky kind of clothes uh your casual

sleeve clothes

productivity goes in the toilet so I'm

actually gonna go back to Old School

cabinets old school Kevin had a

reputation for always being in a suit

now I've tried getting away from that

because people have this impression oh

you're just a suit but I realize the

people who say that don't know what the

hell they're talking about ask them if

putting on nobody

club gets me more productive in

the day

can be lost like when you wake up at

seven or not seven I wake up at four I'm

thinking seven eastern time because I've

been waiting up at seven here which is

four over there anyway I wake up at four

California time and I get to be more

productive worth it so that's change

number one going back to Kevin sleeping

in a super basically now what are some

practical reasons for that well there

are a few number one it's almost

impossible to just roll back into bed

after you do your morning meeting right

so you're awake for sure thanks you're

not just some dude anymore you're not

only dressing for every circumstance but

people can take you obviously and in

every circumstance

now one of the best dress tips I have

and it's what I'm going to be

implementing for 2023 white shirt jeans

it's versatile jeans you can get great

ones for 49 to 69 bucks you don't have

to worry if they get stained because

your seven-year-old son dropped Pizza on

your favorite hunter green pants

that may have just happened to me and I

can't get a replacement of them but I'm

working on ideas to get that oil out but

jeans look great very professional

and you can change the light kind of

contrast with any kind of jacket all day

long you want to dress it up wear a vest

wear a jacket want to dress it down wear

a little bit of a sports sweater but it

works with everything tire no time but

either way when you wear a jacket and a

white shirt that contrast just looks so

good gives you that confidence makes you

look professional in every setting and

love that productivity remember we don't

just want to be some guy on YouTube we

want to be some professional guy on

YouTube next what about productivity

probably one of the biggest sins of

being an entrepreneur is feeling like

you're wasting time you gotta do more

with last time how do you do that

you gotta know thyself now that sounds

weird but it's actually practical advice

I know that I do my best video filming

when I'm high on coffee okay that's all

I do it's just coffee coffee coffee

coffee coffee and it works the best when

I wake up at four and I film to about 10

11. I get sit in the sue you I can read

I could study I I could go through I can

fly through Ernie's calls I could fly

through earnings statements financial

statements but boy oh boy as soon as

that clock hits post lunchtime usually

it's actually right when I eat my lunch

which I'm starving if I skip my

breakfast I'm starving by the time is

lunch as soon as I ate that food within

30 minutes I'm like damn I need to take

a nap this sucks so what am I gonna do

with my schedule to hack that I know I

work really well in a studio doing

numbers you know boring kind of Finance

stuff making videos cranking out thin

CBI news in the morning what am I gonna

do with the next half of my day to make

sure I can juggle all of my businesses

and what are my business expansion plans

looking like including employees and

interns all of that next first we gotta

get to fit fast okay JK not on Fifth Ave

yet but let's talk my schedule and my

actual game plan for how am I to be able

to coordinate my life and be productive

running three incredible different

companies remember and I think you're

going to be able to learn some

productive things from this as well

remember my goal is always to provide

value and if you provide value you too

can succeed in America

I don't know why I use that accent but

anyway

Michael

is 4 AM to 10 maybe 11 ish with course

number live stream

office only filming that's it ideally

take a break around lunch I rarely take

breaks but take enough of a break for a

little bit of a headspace reset 45

minute run 15 minutes for food grab

another afternoon or drive the first

afternoon cup of coffee boom now what's

next okay this is the cool part so I

have always always been basically solo

man show and when I did Real Estate

everything was solo I didn't want an

office I didn't want anything I wanted

to do everything myself I realized that

in 2015 when I got really busy as a

broker it was really difficult to do

everything myself and the same is true

now I've pretty much done everything

myself when it comes to research

production I've tried other people to

help with researching in the past but

I've pretty much done 99 of the videos

that you've seen on this channel

completely by myself and what I realize

is I don't need an editor I don't need

somebody to hold the camera

what I do need is a team to help me get

the best possible information that I

don't have time to hunt for beyond the

information that I already looked for

and so the second half of the day is

going to be dedicated to looking at the

information that my team gets for all

three businesses content production

research research or our exchange traded

fund that I managed after all I'm a

licensed financial advisor right and

number three making sure that anything

that has to do with house hack gets done

in the afternoons so that way I'm really

going to segment my day first half of

the day dedicated to filming content

creation second half of the day team

what do we need to know about properties

what do we need to know about research

for the next day of filming so that way

I'm prepared to film and I can really

then travel in afternoons and on

weekends to our real estate portfolios

making sure that I'm personally the one

who's pulling the trigger on doing these

real estate deals for house hack anyone

like BlackRock or Invitation Homes can

send somebody out to go look at and

Scout a real estate deal but not

everyone is meet Kevin going around

looking for wedge deals themselves and

that's what I'm going to be doing with

house hack so I've surrounded myself

with three amazing interns who have

officially been chosen and they will be

starting January 5th next they'll be

joining someone who's already core to

three of my business an amazing worker

one of the hardest working people I've

ever seen I mean like I think he Rivals

my hard work and the amount of time that

I work anyway McKay they'll be joining

him in the office he'll be joining the

four amazing construction team

individuals that we have who are

actually with me at the podium ringing

the bell at the New York Stock Exchange

foreign

and then of course we have our uh our

team for CPA investor relations

marketing and design but they're less of

sort of a Hands-On with me on an

everyday basis they're there when I need

them right so this is going to be my

plan for 2023. now in the next part of

the video I want to talk about

specifically some of the things we plan

to do and what things and lessons you

might be able to take away from those as

well now before we talk about scaling

those three businesses and lessons that

you can learn that might help you scale

your business let's understand how I

practically expect to get around but

first I have to go patronize Hugo Boss

Columbus Circle that's because when one

of my sons was having a tantrum in their

story yesterday rather than kick us out

they gave him cheesy popcorn and that

kid ate the entire back maybe he was

having a tantrum because he was hungry

okay I don't know he's four years old

certainly didn't tell me but maybe a

clue was that he was chewing on his

hands the whole time all right learning

over here but now let's go patronize

them and then let's talk about things

you could learn from how I'm planning to

scale my businesses because folks

we want house hack to own one of those

in future

wow that's really nice all right now we

gotta talk Logistics what the heck is

going on logistically how am I going to

scale all of these different businesses

so here's exactly what we're going to do

first of all we've subcontracted a lot

of the

support services that we need for the

ETF so in other words I make decisions

in terms of allocations I handle

research right I handle research review

uh the analysis and all of that but the

extent of my additional effort on the

ETF is actually very very little which

is beautiful because the research that I

do or potentially our team does is

research that I use and share with

course members and on YouTube for free

and in the future we're going to be

updating our meet Kevin app which is

available in the Android and Apple App

Stores we'll be updating that to give

free pdf versions of our research which

is really cool because not everything

makes it into videos that way we'll sort

of have a Daily Dump of research on

there and we'll have a very very

transparent ETF which I'm very excited

about sharing all that information but

the the core here is that what I've

actually done and this is a lesson that

you can take away is I've created two

businesses out of essentially the same

work see if my job is researching stocks

and sharing insights into financial

instruments or real estate or whatever

specifically in this case stock

companies that research that applies to

the ETF is information that also allows

me to create content so that's where the

first half of the day is essentially

content generation and and research the

second half of the day is essentially

going to be all about house hacking

house hack real estate touring homes

weekends will probably be a little bit

more real estate heavy and then the goal

is evenings and the second half of most

of the weekend days family now I've got

to talk about the structure for that

because that is going to be a little bit

tricky

so how do you scale a house hack okay

look there's an easy and lazy way to do

it and then there's the real way to do

it I'm going to reveal the real way to

do it right after this really noisy

ambulance goes by God bless you I hope

okay wait we're gonna park there no okay

they're still gone I'm like they're not

going by they're just gonna stay if

you're wailing at me but anyway best

wishes to them you know that's another

thing that I think a lot of us watching

this take for granted is uh our actual

ability to do things right we're not

dead uh I I hope that the vast majority

of us are not impaired to the ability

where we can't and of course we try to

help those around us who can't right but

if we can it's almost like a waste not

to use it right anyway nothing like

going to Vlog in Central Park at night

in the rain so what do we need to talk

about well we need to talk about scaling

a real estate Empire when I say that I'm

sharing that Empire that's not mine

right I'm sharing that with our

househack investors so

the way you could do it is you visit

maybe 20 different cities and areas that

you want to invest in you pick your top

free three not saying that like a

four-year-old uh you pick your top three

and then uh when deals come up you have

local matterport scanning individuals or

Representatives that they can kind of

vet the properties for you and uh you

you're a little bit hands off

I don't like that that method would

generally call for maybe visiting each

area if you're picking three major areas

to invest in equally like let's just say

I'm gonna make these up uh let's say

it's uh Denver or I don't know San

Antonio and Salt Lake City just to say

right or or maybe Tampa or South Florida

whatever it is that doesn't matter

you pick those areas once you've picked

those areas maybe you go out and sort of

like check in on things every couple

months

I actually think that's a really bad way

to scale house hack and make sure we're

getting the best wedge deals and I have

that solution I'm going to talk about

that solution once I sit down because

walking is cold

that I personally

these properties is because I think any

company like in Invitation Homes or

whatever can send somebody who doesn't

really care that much at the end of the

day because it's not their company right

they're not the executive running it to

go buy and pick real estate or look at

matterport scans and do analysis I think

real estate is a people business and by

being the individual who myself

interacts as much as possible for as

long as possible with real estate agents

and contractors and locations with my

team then when it does get to the point

where we scale beyond my ability to see

every property which probably won't

happen for the first few hundred

properties right maybe once we get to

like 501 Properties Plus we've got a

model that we can really copy and paste

without me but without me there all the

time right but at least we build that

relationship and that reputation the

areas where we're buying with me first

once those areas go into autopilot I can

move into the expansion mode of okay

well now Kevin's gonna be boots on the

ground in the new areas we're expanding

to but do think that personal touching

real estate like the guy who's making

the decision is actually the guy showing

up and introducing themselves to

contractors meeting real estate agents

and learning from real estate agents I

think that goes a really long way there

are ways that you can very inexpensively

travel short distances by plane whether

that's turbo prop or whatever it is

inexpensively get to destinations that

are up to say maybe two hours away and

get back especially if you have multiple

people with you that are being trained

you can inexpensively get back and forth

in the same day without actually missing

out on family time or content production

time and so that's what we're working on

right now full details of that whether

it's fractional ownership or what uh and

the tax benefits of all that are going

to be coming I do want to be very clear

that at least for the very long initial

period of time all of the expenses of

whatever travel I choose initially

you're going to fall on me and that's

because I'm going to use whatever way I

travel as a way to also produce content

and make sure that I could still run my

initial business right my media business

as possibly as possible while expanding

house hacks so stay tuned for more

insight on that I'm really really

excited to share it and we'll absolutely

make sure that all of our travel

accounting is 100 Trans 100 transparent

as well uh the uh the things we're

looking at right now let me just put it

this way it is more reasonable than

commercial Aviation like commercials

like which you might say there's no way

oh there's a way and it's really really

cool and I'm so excited to share that so

stay tuned for that but wait a minute

what about the first business right that

Core Business the media business what's

the goal there and what can we learn

from what I want to do with that Core

Business let's talk next all right so

I've been thinking a lot about this look

as a Creator and somebody who runs any

business I believe it's extremely

important that everybody always focus on

what is their number one most profitable

business and obviously for me that's not

house hacked because that's a long-term

play right that won't make me a dime

until after an IPO so it'll probably

take six seven years hopefully sooner

but who knows we want to make sure when

we get to IPO it's perfect right it's a

great company uh so we've got time there

and patience there uh and so when I say

it's important to focus on the number

one most profitable business and

thinking about how to expand that many

folks I believe especially Entre openers

get stuck in this trap of oh you know

what this is good enough like I'm I'm

doing good I'm able to get by I can pay

my bills so I can take vacation why

would I take a risk right risk is scary

because if you take a risk maybe you

could make more but what if that risk

leads you to go to zero and I've just

found that my entire life ever since I

was 17 standing outside that New York

Stock Exchange to 13 years later so

that's already my entire life 13 years

of sort of my adult life

I've just found that I don't know what

it is but I get bored and I've got to

always be expanding and I think that's

actually a great thing for the

businesses right that's great for house

hack that's great for the ETFs that's

great for the media business and my hope

is that at some point in the future we

can rival companies like CNBC and other

mainstream media and actually provide a

better service in other words rather

than providing the same thing that feeds

True Media does providing really good

perspective that provides extreme value

but is done so in a neutral manner what

I don't want to do is and it's not to

bag on these folks right these are

actually very successful people and it's

a compliment to them I don't want to do

the Ben Shapiro Tucker Carlson model

where you cater to one audience one

political affiliation and that's it what

I'd really like to do is that middle 80

right left 10 right 10 might hate you

whereas 10 of people might hate you no

matter what anyway they don't like the

way you look or they think your face is

punchable or whatever

but if we can focus on blowing up our

top core business with that schedule

that productive schedule I talked about

in the morning while also potentially

vlogging kind of like this are real

estate ventures in the afternoons and

being really transparent with everything

we're doing in real estate then I think

we have a really good chance

to Triple or 5x or even 10x the

viewership that we had in 2022 in 2023

and if this model Works which so far in

my testings

it works if this model continues to work

2023 is going to be awesome but 2024 and

5 when we really go into expansion mode

not just for house hack in the second

half of the day right but also for the

media business it's gonna be freaking

amazing now what about family time

important What I've Done seems a little

regimented and it's like wait why do you

have to do this with your family time

but what I actually did is something

that I think would be even better and

more time efficient for the time that I

spent with family watch this on an

ordinary basis maybe I'll spend a couple

hours a day with the family kids make

stuff however but sometimes that time is

actually distracted so I'll be with the

family but I'm not really present

because maybe I'm on my phone or

whatever so that means it's a not really

good 14 hours a week right quick aside

this is Trump Tower and back in the

early 2000s The Apprentice was actually

a show that I found really inspiring I

didn't love it when it turned into

Celebrity Apprentice and I think Trump's

lost his mind a little bit recently I

think this is probably time for new

folks like a DeSantis or something like

that look I I don't want to get

political in this video but I just

wanted to come by here and stop by

because this actually was an inspiration

for me and I I gotta honor that gotta

honor that okay but now back to that

family question this is a pretty neat

solution and I think you'll like it as

well so the rough game plan with family

time is that I dedicate at least two

week days starting at 2 p.m doing fun

things with Dad Lauren kids right all of

us together so that way starting at 2PM

to about 10

pure family time oh those days which

days those will be will be dependent on

what we've got going on for travel for

house hack or kids schedules or whatever

but that way at least that works out too

15 hours during the week just for family

and that's going to be dedicated time so

rather than potentially an interrupted

14 it's actually a real

16. on top of that starting at roughly

noon on weekend days even if we travel

somewhere I take either a child or or

Lauren or whatever and then the second

half of the weekend days also gets

dedicated to family so I count to about

10 p.m so 12 to 10 works out to about 10

hours that's 20 hours on weekends plus

16 during the week that's 36

uninterrupted family hours versus a

previous

embarrassed to say it but 14 not that

committed that's a problem it's

something I've got to work on but in

doing this I think I've got a schedule

that takes me from somewhere about

9 30 10 ish right to about four in the

morning on a daily basis I operate

pretty well on about six hours of sleep

it now gives me dedicated and scheduled

family time but it also gives me time to

operate and expand three businesses the

first two have a massive overlap in the

mornings and the second is dedicated to

afternoons and those mornings on

weekends so the last piece of this whole

time might actually be a little bit of a

surprise but 2023 I want to make a year

about reinvesting everything that I make

for my business into my businesses into

all three of them so even if most of

that comes from social media it's going

back into all three of them and that

also includes the people and that's

probably the most important part that I

think if there's one thing I haven't

done as well as I could it's making sure

that I am tripling down on my

commitment to other people making sure

that we we keep hiring we keep expanding

I've really got to get off of this train

of uh oh it's only Kevin's gonna do

everything

I think there is something about

having a team that camaraderie that I

miss I had that during the campaign and

for a bit after since about April I feel

like it's only been really myself most

of the time with a little bit of help

from from others on the team now but not

that that core camaraderie that we had

during the campaign days and I want to

get back to that so that's why we're so

excited about investing in people again

and expanding to our interns so that's

going to be very very Epic

thanks so much