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Inside of 3rd Street Barbell, Sacramento, California. 3SB, 3rd Street Athletics, 3SB.co. 3RD, Street Barbell on Instagram. Today we're going to talk about a courage, leap of faith, before we dive into this thing. If you have ever worn a vest, a hoodie, a jacket or a t-shirt, be sure to give this thing a thumbs up. If you enjoy ice cold water, lukewarm water, room warm water, or hot water, be sure to give this thing a thumbs up. If you like crunchy ice, round ice, cubed ice, or just a nice frosty glass of your favorite beverage, give this thing a thumbs up. Leave your comments below, questions below. So leap of faith brings me back. I think it's a common thing where you go to a ropes course to do some team building. That's common or hippie-dippy. I went to a little hippie-dippy school, and so we did those often. And the leap of faith is you climb up on a thing like this that I'm on right now, and there's a trapeze. I don't know, man. It's probably not that far out, but when you're up there, you're probably 50 feet in the air, 50, no joke. And it probably is only about 3 feet in front of you, maybe 4 feet in front of you, but from the ground and when you're looking at it, it looks like it's 12 feet. You have to be an Olympic long jumper to reach this thing, or I'm going to fall to my death. It's called the leap of faith. Because it's kind of like that, you know, do it like the 3, 2, 1, and then you just got to make a decision, you just got to go. That's the topic of the day. How to do the leap of faith, how to get the courage to kind of step into something business-wise. I've used this reference a couple times in a couple podcasts, back to like the climbing. There's a documentary on a gentleman who's actually here from Sacramento, and he free-climbed Half Dome, which is a huge freaking mountain. Capitan, I think, is like the side of the mountain of Half Dome in Yosemite, National Park here in California. Been there multiple times, grew up. It's kind of like a pretty common place to go if you grow up in California, especially in Northern California, it's beautiful. Absolutely stunning views, waterfalls, forests, redwoods, that whole deal. But this mountain is supposed to be one of the most difficult, one of the tallest things to climb. This dude did it with no safeties. They analyzed his brain, and I don't know how true or not this is, but in the documentary, they say that he, whatever, you know, your Madhula Albinghara, or whatever, his doesn't trigger when he's scared. To get his to trigger with like adrenaline or fear, or like, you know, the adrenaline-chasing junkie, his needs like a billion volts compared to what we need. So, although he's nervous to climb this thing, he's not even 50% as nervous as the rest of us. And in some senses, I think I have that with projects. I have that with businesses. I have that with content. I have that with doing what I want to do in a way. And I don't go into therapy and talk to my friends, and I consider myself pretty self-aware. I hang out by myself a lot, and I just think, I don't know what that stems from. Often courage, I feel like, is spoken about when you are so confident in yourself that you're not even thinking about negative outcomes. And that's definitely not what I would say I have. I don't think I have courage to go and do that, but I think what I do have is hope. I think when I'm not in a dark place, which we've talked about here, some of my depression, some of my anxieties, one of my gifts is that I have insane hope and I have insane vision of what can be or what could be. And I'm just not more so not afraid of what the negative outcomes may be, or I'm more excited about what the potentials are, so I chase those things down. Another thing is that I just don't have that many options. I don't want a normal job. This is the life I'm lucky enough to live, having all your guys' support here, having Twitch and podcasts for so many years, that kind of with your support, and then what we're getting to next, how I chose my team that gave me confidence to make this move. Not that I feel invincible, but this is the path that's supposed to happen. This is what I want to do. This is what we want to do, and we're going to do it our way. And this is one of the very few projects. I've opened multiple businesses that we talked about in the last video. Be sure to check that out. I've been a part of a lot of growings of businesses from the very bottom, from the very beginning before the internet knew what it was, and to be a pretty substantial stamp on the fitness realm. I've been a part of a lot of those companies in terms of marketing in front of the camera, social media marketing, campaigning behind the camera, logistics, product development. But this is one of the very few that, and I hope my team feels the same way, that this is like through and through us. Like we just sat there for two hours deciding what's the next step, what it's going to look like, what it's going to feel like, what we want it to look like, what we don't want it to look like. Every single step all four of us, our team are making together. So it's 100% me. You hear a lot of musical artists talk about like that, and maybe some like painting artists. And although we're opening a business, because of the renovation factor and the apparel factor, I, you know, if someone asked me what my job is, I'd say I'm a creator. I don't really know what my job is. I'm definitely a coach. I have some expertise in the fitness realm. I can teach you how to lift, get strong, lose some weight, get lean, et cetera, et cetera. But I would say I'm a creative in nature. This whole project, we're building like a whole, like, hemisphere is not the right thing. We're building a whole like new world. And I'm not talking Aladdin, but, you know, someone asked me a question like, how do you choose your team? Like we talked about how we're choosing the vibe, the branding, the apparel, what the vision is, why I'm opening a gym maybe, because it's lacking in my area, in my city. I think it's lacking in terms of the fashion and fitness and, and, and, and athleisure that I like to wear and that I grew up wearing and kind of the nostalgia of growing up as a basketball player and always, like athleisure is so weird to me that it's a thing because all I ever wore was baggy tees and basketball shorts my whole life. If you played basketball, let's just switch a war. If it was winter, you'd wear basketball shorts and then you put sweats on top. And then you take the sweats off and go play basketball. Like that's what I always wore. So for now it to be like cool and normal people wearing like shorts and a t-shirt and like a hat as their everyday stuff, that's been my everyday. So to me to represent my nostalgia and our fashion as a collective group, our style, our creativity in that it's kind of a no-brainer to me. Choosing like partners, teammates, this squad that we assembled, well if you guys listen to 50% Facts Me and Jim McDee's podcast, Jim McDee's a no-brainer. Him and I have worked together in some capacity for almost eight years. Podcasted, business trips, communicated, different projects here and there. I think we have similar visions. I think in a lot of ways we balance each other out with how we think. We obviously are different ages and experiences of what we do as a living where he has some marketing background or a large marketing background as an MBA. And then he also ties it into the YouTube where all I have is the YouTube and I've learned some of the other stuff so we kind of counteract what we have there. He's passionate. He's all-in. He's a hard worker and with the Renault stuff I don't know how we'd get through without him because he has a clue of what he's doing and me and the boys just have some labor but we don't know what the heck we're doing. So in many ways I chose the right dude he's easy to communicate with. We don't ever fight. A lot of times we do partnerships and business partnerships and you don't see out of eye. You end up fighting like you used to fight with your third grade best friend or you argue with your spouse or a significant other. But luckily enough we're on the same page with a lot of things and we just communicate well. It's open, it's easy and we both have similar visions so it all lined up. 50% facts where I was going back to our podcast we interviewed a bunch of business owners particularly in the fitness space over the last couple months and we talked to a bunch of them on employees and trainers and how they hire and etc etc and a lot of them lined up with what I already believe is and it's kind of counter to how the world hires people. It's not really about your skills, your degree it's not really about what you can do because a lot of those things you can contract out whether it be a web designer or whether it be insurance or tech guy or equipment all these specialties you can always just consult out when you want to start a company and that's something I've learned from a very early age like I don't have to have a skill I'm skillless, I'm absolutely talentless but if you have selflessness that's the number one thing I look up for and anybody I ever want to work with you have to be about the team you have to be about being a part of something greater than yourself, bigger than yourself being a part of a project, a system having a similar enemy or a similar goal as a like-minded unit that's number one and if someone can't do that you're not going to be a part of my crew I'm never going to work with you if you can't be a part of something bigger than yourself do your job, do your role in the bigger picture scheme I don't want to work with you and I don't care if you're the best businessman on the planet I don't care if you're a billionaire I don't care if you're Elon freakin Musk I don't want to work with you it's not what I'm going to be a part of so that's all tied into selflessness that's all tied into the group over the individual mentality and that's something I obviously learned from my dad who's insanely loyal and hard working insanely selfless I don't know why that's always just been a part of who I am and that's not to say I'm an angel by any means but I've always enjoyed team and I've always put the ultimate goal before my individual goal and it shows like my favorite basketball players are Magic Johnson, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash things of this nature selflessness number two I guess would be loyalty kind of ride or die stuff and I know that sounds like whatever but if you can't I mean Connor here Kyle that's the main team right me and Jim if you can't be in the gym when it's 100 degrees and we're eating cement for 10 hours I don't want you you know in the hypothetical sense in the Bentley when we're bopping bottles six years from now having success I don't want what a fair weather fan again I don't care what your talent level is if you're not down kind of for the cause and willing to work hard I guess hard work it would be number two if we have to give it an exact title label hard work is going to be number two work ethic grind and that term it sets me off a little bit because everyone's always talking about it every entrepreneur talks about it just because you wake up at 4am doesn't mean you're a grinder that doesn't entertain me that doesn't please me do things when you don't want to do them work hard work ethic get the job done that needs to be done in front of you if you can't do that you're also not on my team I guess number three if we had to just choose communication positivity factor if I don't want to be around you if I can't talk to you if I can't have fun if we can't get through hard things and easy things you're not here so having a sense of camaraderie everyone always says don't do business with friends don't do business with family I highly disagree I don't think being friends or family is an issue it's just like anything else doing business with the wrong friends if you have the correct friends or choose the right friends out of your group and that's not saying that they still can't be your friends but only certain ones are ones you probably want to go into business with whether that is a financial thing whether that's marriage, same thing regardless of sexual attraction or whatever we want to dig into there's multiple friends that you could hang out with on Friday and then there's probably only certain friends that you could go on a week long trip with and share an Airbnb or going through the stress of bills working hard manual labor meetings, configuring your gym's business plan etc etc so it's just an escalated version of that friendship and it's not a knock some people just don't get along and some people do some are on different wavelengths but that would probably be number three some of that I actually think is probably the most important thing and it was a really good question or thought that's been in my mind is like those two factors how do you choose your team and how do you have the quote unquote courage to do these things the leap of faith and that's the best answer I have for you I'm no business guru I've been a part of some really cool things I've been a part of some companies that have made a lot a lot of money I've been a part of companies that have made a lot of money I've failed multiple companies I've had multiple successful launches but number one if you're with those people I guess that would be the fourth detail of the teamwork if they have passion if they give a shit and it doesn't always have to be about the same thing if Connor doesn't give a shit about what color the floor is but he's very particular of the Feng Shui or how the retail area might look or he's very particular on how we greet and treat our members as long as someone has a passion for something you'll at least draw my attention and I know that seems easy like well everyone likes something like nah they don't everyone kind of likes things but passion is like a deep rooted non-ego drive that is so within a person's soul and I think everyone's capable of passion but I don't think everyone is a passionate human being and that's something that I struggle with on the opposite end I just can't turn it off so I'm up to the middle of the night looking up different apparel and getting different inspirations from nature and the past and all these different artists I can't shut mine off sometimes I know Connor's the same he's on Reddit looking up weird things in the middle of the night that he just wants to learn more about it's just that trigger that you really give a shit and then again that's probably the number four so maybe Connor can recap but I can't even remember where we started but selflessness definitely number one tied into a loyalty, hard work willing to get your hands dirty for the core what was number three some kind of community number one has to be selflessness team player be a part of something bigger than yourself number two is like a work ethic of some nature you have to be able to work hard and I don't need you to work tirelessly or insanely or be a workaholic but you have to be able to get it done when it needs to get done number three I got to want to be around you there's got to be some type of relationship there but we have to be able to communicate and be on the same wavelength and that's not just about communication but communication is a big part enjoying one's company being a positive energy in the room people can feel that if you start to pay attention you don't have to be the number one guy at the party but some people are around there's positive energy and then number four it has to be passion and these aren't in a tiered order but passion is so important you have to give a shit you have to want to be better you have to do things attention to detail you have to want to be different which could be number five even be unique I don't want a yes man I don't want a follower I've sent tons of different things to Kyle via text say man what do you think about this color combo with this jacket and he's like nah that's not that cool alright bro moving on to the next one I can't surround myself with yes man or people that just don't care that's where we sit the floor is done painted the bathrooms we're waiting on these accent walls and the details equipment order going in first launch coming in I don't know how we're going to tease it but the first apparel launch at 3SB 3rd Street Athletics is coming very soon good company be a part of some bigger self good company man coming soon so apparel going in I don't want to say it's the finishing touches but we're in the finishing touches so we're getting there I'm going to touch up the paint in the bathroom with the boys they set it up for me appreciate them while I'm over here babbling take care of yourself take care of your loved ones surround yourself with good company I'm solid Mike out here how's that first sign