Real Talk | Damnit.

everyone meet kevin here welcome to an

episode of real talk where i hold up a

bottle of tequila because i certainly

haven't had any uh or uh yeah anyway uh

let's just get to the point of the video

look

uh this morning some people in the

comments got mad at me

uh i i talked about uh how

a couple employees left before a really

big project many of you know that i'm

launching a project it's uh it's a huge

opportunity it's it's something that i'm

very excited about because like i told

my course members this morning like i

can't i can't say the words like oh i

guarantee but i

feel as though uh i'd be in a position

to say like i guarantee it's gonna make

lots of money for for lots of people

obviously you can't make that guarantee

but the point is like it's something

that is so big to me and it's so

important uh and uh it's something i'm

so excited about we don't have all the

details perfect we've got a really great

game plans

and um

the uh the you know core folks who were

working with me on this uh were were not

just employees uh these are folks that

uh have have been you know uh

probably the closest friends i've had

for years and to see uh to not only see

uh

well to not only get rug pulled by uh by

by uh you know people that are really

close to you uh but then also to see

people leave to like a a you know

a previous or or an ex-employee that

that is no longer with the company is

like kind of like a double burn that's

like ins add insult to injury right uh

so so this isn't like me trying to like

air dirty laundry it's just to say like

yeah like a this morning like i'm pissed

right it's kind of like the the steps of

feelings right it's like wow and it's

like and tesla's down it's like oh what

a phenomenal day for kevin like this

just goes down on the record books

but uh it's it's just to say and you

know i'm not here to name names or

complain about stuff or whatever it's

like hey look if you have a better

opportunity that's great i i

i hope the world that people get better

opportunities in fact i talk about

better opportunities in front of people

that work with me part of me is just

like maybe i and there's a broader

lesson in all this that i want to talk

about too maybe maybe i should stop

telling people like go get a job at a

coding boot camp because you could make

six figures quickly you know eventually

once you build up experience you can

make more uh you know and and uh you

know maybe that's where people are going

but it it it seems like you know when

people leave you for uh for for

almost guaranteed a pay cut it's like

wow maybe i'm the [ __ ] uh and maybe

that is true maybe i mean i

really don't think i am

but then again nobody thinks that they

are themselves uh you know i i

i'm uh i'm a big fan of work hard play

hard

you know this is why for example when i

went to cabo san lucas and invited all

of my employees

we spent sixty thousand dollars for a

five-day trip uh you know and that

sounds really frivolous but it was a

phenomenal experience you know one of

the best experiences i've ever had it

was so incredibly fun uh and again

that's insane it's it's totally like

ludicrous mode right or like we just

went to hawaii also with with staff and

it's like wow hawaii so freaking fun uh

you know and and that's that's probably

a 20 000 trip would took the family as

well so uh that's in it it's just it's

things like that where it's like oh man

it's it's not it's not about like oh

let's sit here and work 80 hours a week

right it's

life is about in my opinion you show up

at work you make money for the business

and then you play hard either with your

co-workers or your other friends i don't

care it's a you know it doesn't have to

be me right so

but i'm a big fan of of work hard play

hard so so maybe uh maybe maybe i'm too

much of an [ __ ] during the work hard

part you know you can't help but like

reflect inwards a little bit but what's

really cool and this is sort of the

lesson that i wanted to talk about in

this video

is that uh when unexpected things happen

uh oftentimes there's there's a

substantial silver lining

that uh that may not be apparent

immediately but

for me has already become very apparent

uh and that's that

uh i'm

very motivated now like this is like

some of the best motivation ever from

me to get my hands dirty on all the

stuff that i was was you know

relying on others to do

uh and uh and and now i'm i'm in a place

having talked to so many people today

about uh you know some of our

transitions i'm in a place where i think

our opportunities now are going to be

bigger than i thought before they're

going to happen faster than i thought

before uh like

things are looking up uh you know when

plans that we have for the channel for

videos for

future content

things are looking better than they did

before

yeah and what's really incredible about

that is i don't know if it's i'm looking

at the things with a different lens or

it's just that like i'm realizing like

nope kevin's going hands-on it's kind of

like hey you're running walmart and all

your cashiers just worked walked out and

you're the manager in the back like

picking up trash or trying to like like

you know motivate people to do their

packaging right uh it's like all right

um can you guys take over back here i

got to go up and handle the registers

and it's like i got a big line at the

registers but i'm like wait wait a

minute this ain't that bad i get to i

get to interact with customers again

so uh uh you know this morning was very

rough uh now is uh actually very good

i'm i'm very happy i'm very optimistic

uh i'm super happy about the hundreds of

people who have uh have uh

almost probably closer to a thousand

people who have reached out uh in ways

of offering support uh and i think

broadly there's there's a way of

applying this to to our livelihoods and

to the stock market too it's that uh

good times generally follow bad times

and so uh you know if if we have really

bad uh a really bad time in life uh loss

of family member loss of job loss of of

a trade or made a big mistake or

whatever you could have uh you could

have massive depression uh and and i'm

not immune to that you know you can have

four or five months sometimes year-long

depression but it you'd usually take

some form of spark and i think there's

the lesson right some form of spark to

like

make you want to change

uh and hey you know got a haircut okay

getting dirty again going all in it's

like wait let's let's no problem let's

pour another cup of coffee work harder

and and you know pick it up by the

bootstraps and keep moving forward

nothing like nothing's gonna stop me

from wanting to achieve my dreams

certainly i'm not gonna let somebody

stay in the way of that uh i you know i

can only wish other people the best good

luck uh you know i uh obviously if i

could have scripted it i would have

loved to uh had people you know say

something and this would be a

recommendation uh for for you is like

hey like

uh you know if i'm an employee and let's

say you're my boss it's like hey you

know i'm uh

i maybe i don't like this line of work i

want to get into a different line of

work i want to get into a different

field even if that means i'm getting

paid a third of what i'm getting paid

now uh i want to get into a different

line of work because i have a passion

for it's like hey great how can we help

you transition to that right we don't

want to burn bridges we would want to

help uh people transition

the worst time would be to do that would

be like right before a uh

you know massive launch of something uh

you know and then sia you know be we'll

be gone and and you know now

uh you know would be really nice to do

something like hey let's let's get

through this launch and then by the way

hey by the end of the year we want to

transition to this or whatever great

totally fair like people change their

opinions you know it's like you go to

marriage you have a problem you go to

marriage counseling you go to marriage

counseling and you uh uh you you either

decide you know what no we're gonna part

ways and we're going to do so

methodically and and peacefully or or

or not something but you know other

times uh

sometimes that doesn't work out so i

don't know i guess everything's

everything's up to the individual uh

ultimately yeah because

usually it's the opposite too like and

it's always like is that a double

standard it's always the other way

around too because you can take the flip

side approach and oftentimes when like

managers are like hey you're

underperforming you're underperforming

you're underperforming and then like you

go to fire somebody as a manager

usually you don't want people working

for a company anymore after they've like

either been fired or you've given them

notice because then it's just like

you know usually bad things come in the

last couple weeks of somebody working

there uh so

either it's like hey in six months you

know i want to transition to something

or just buy is usually how these things

go from either side so

again like if i could have scripted my

own reality i would have preferred the

sixth month

uh let's let's transition together

because that also preserves

relationships right um but uh

you know oh well the big lesson though

is

uh that spark

when this when if if you hit such a low

that it now gives you a spark you have

to just look at it and say thank you so

i'll say that thank you for rug pulling

me it's been incredibly inspiring and

i'm very motivated now so thank you and

for all those of you watching uh if uh

you don't like something i say

don't watch

if you want to complain in the comments

about something i say that's okay i will

see your comments

uh i'll i'll take some offense uh but

i'll get over it and i respect and

appreciate all those of you that are

like have it stop complaining like got

it

you're right i should stop complaining

but i can do whatever i want

so anyway thanks so much for being here

thanks thanks for watching supporting

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leave mean comments or what i still

appreciate you watching uh and hopefully

if anything you could always learn

something coming here that's always the

goal every video is what i always ask

every video i make what what can you

learn from watching my video uh i never

want you to watch a video of mine and

realize i didn't learn anything today

because if that ever happens um

then i know i'll lose you and i don't

want that

i've already lost enough