Importance of Breathwork, Moving to Dubai & Going Completely Sober | DSH #345

One year of breath work eliminated my asthma.

What?

No doctors could have solved the problem and I actually had very, very borderline, very, very tough.

Like I would, one time I went to the ER and they're like, you're having a severe asthma attack and I was just sitting there normally.

I was like, this is normal for me.

Like I can't breathe, but this is normal.

And they're like, I don't know, we need to check you in.

And I'm like, I'm kind of fine.

This happens every day.

And they're like, what?

This is not supposed to happen every day.

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Welcome back, guys.

Got a good friend of mine, Ali Hasib, here today.

How's it going?

From Dubai, right?

Well, yeah, now we just moved, so now I can call Dubai my home.

Dude, thanks for watching.

Thanks for flying out here, bro.

Absolutely.

Long flight.

What's it like over there?

Man, Dubai is a, you know, for a lot of people, it's a fairy tale land, right?

But for me, it was a lot of opportunity.

As soon as I went,

dollar signs just uh you know multiple ventures the people the culture the languages right and i just see the future you know how miami is currently yeah so dubai reminds me of miami but in the middle east i feel that i feel like miami's losing its touch a little bit why would you say that i just like vegas more dude i think vegas has the edge it i think vegas is his own world right and a lot of the conferences just because the the money comes over here too you know every sports league is here um every big major event my first 10x growth con you you know, started in Vegas.

So my entrepreneurial career started in Vegas.

Yeah.

Essentially.

Same.

That was my first event ever.

Yeah.

We were probably at the same one.

Which one?

The one at the Luxor.

10X2, I think.

Oh, you were, you're like, what, 2017 or 18?

Yeah, it was early.

It was the second one, I believe.

Okay, okay.

The one I went that really, you know, changed the trajectory for me was 2019.

Got it.

It was at the Mandalay Bay.

Yeah, I think I was at that one.

Yeah, something about Vegas.

All the conferences are here, man.

Every single one, traffic and conversions, affiliate Summit West is here.

I I mean, every week there's one.

I can't even keep up with it.

For sure.

Yeah.

But in Dubai, what's it like there?

Because you used to party pretty hard, right?

I was a raver for a while.

So, you know, before

entrepreneurship, that was my passion, just going to music festivals and traveling.

Yeah.

So I didn't go on that side of the world.

I went during my music festival career, I went to 40 states and maybe seven countries.

Dang.

Yeah.

And in six years, I did like 65 festivals.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

So I got like, it was, that was like my first kind of, you know, go at entrepreneurship.

I got paid to just go out and bring a group with me.

Oh, you got paid?

Yeah.

So I would have my own tent and I would have my own merch and stuff like that.

Wow.

Yeah, that was like the first thing while in college.

So I was doing two degrees, had two jobs, and then I DJed on the weekends and traveled every other week.

Jeez, you're a hustler.

Yeah.

What were you doing job-wise?

So

I was in the restaurant business and then I was working T-Mobile and then I was DJing.

Wow.

Because I had to, the whole thing is I went to college for free.

So I had a full-time schedule.

I got a scholarship to go, but I also had to support my family.

So even though I got paid for college, I still got to make, you know, make money somehow.

So I was just back to back to back.

And did you have a sense of wanting more at that time?

Always.

Since I was like 13, 14, I was like, you know, I'm, you know, I thought of myself like bound for greatness.

I was like, I got to figure out how to get the most money as possible, change the most lives, you know, get the healthiest version of myself, travel and speak to people.

Because for me, learning comes from learning from books and conferences, but the biggest one just talking to people one conversation can change the change the game for anybody facts so what was that big first conversation you had that first big breakthrough great question bro so I was in a business fraternity in college so shout out to my AK side brothers a lot of times fraternities get a bad rep yeah but I was in a business fraternity so instead of like regular hazing stuff they put you in a business hazing they'd be like all right you got to go raise 20 grand you got a week You're like, how do we do that?

Figure it out.

You got to sell pizzas and donuts on campus, whatever you got to do.

Wow, I never heard heard of a business fraternity.

It's a business fraternity.

So it's big.

Actually, crazy story, last Monday I just spoke at UT Austin and I had seven or eight of my fraternity, like, I guess brothers in there too,

still pledging, still working too.

So it was an automatic bond.

So the first thing that I learned was the ability to network through mentors and mentees.

So you learn knowledge and you share knowledge either on one side of the spectrum or other.

Either you're already made it in some way or the other, whether financially free, you know, spiritually aligned, physically fit, emotionally strong, and you're teaching somebody or you're seeking those things and someone's teaching you.

It's just a flow of energy.

Yeah.

So when was that moment when you achieved that financial freedom?

Was it in college or after?

It was definitely after.

The story is funny.

So unlike a lot of entrepreneurs, I went to college.

I got two degrees.

You know, I did the whole traditional thing.

When you're Middle Eastern, you have three choices.

You're either a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure.

Right?

So I didn't want to be either one of them.

So I was like, how can I really take things to the next level?

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Right out of college, I got a corporate job making 50K a year.

And it was cool because I was telling doctors what to do.

I was an operations and marketing consultant for a freestanding emergency room.

And long story short, in my three-year run, I built a software called an EMR.

Have you heard of EMR?

Electronic medical record software.

So, you know, back then you had to do patient forms, you sign everything, you wait in the waiting room, and they call you.

I still feel like I do that now.

Fair enough, but it's supposed to be on an iPad.

It's supposed to to be very integrated with a technology.

Okay.

iPad.

The doctors are taking their notes on.

I've seen some places do that, yeah.

So that's the best way to do it because there's laws called the HIPAA laws.

You have to keep patient files on

site for seven years.

So it's just like laws they have to go around.

So in order to, so my old facilities, they had three or four rooms full of file cabinets.

So I was like, yo, this is very slow.

You're seeing 20, 30 patients a day.

How can we speed this up?

So me and this other guy that worked there, we put together a game plan to create an EMR software with the churn rate you know going through the patients instead of 30 a day we got to 100 a day because now we eliminated four extra rooms so now patients can come through and everything's on the iPad so you're not waiting for people to go pull files long story short I generated my boss $50 million in three years whoa guess how much he gave me 500k no he gave me zero wow yeah he gave me zero bucks he promised me a salary to hit six figures he would uh and i was young at that time right so i would get bribed so he'd be like hey here's a phone here's a car.

Here's some, you know, tickets to here.

He would like kind of bribe me that way.

But I was like, let me get to that six-figure mark.

You know, ego speaking.

Let me get a six-figure salary.

I never got it.

I think I stopped at like $68,000 in a year.

So on the three-year mark, I quit.

I sent an angry letter to everybody, and I was like, hey, man, you're a piece of sh ⁇ .

And

you didn't hold your principles to me.

Because, you know, me and you sat together.

I ate dinner with him.

He ate dinner with my family.

And we were connected for three years.

I looked up to him as a mentor.

so i feel like he betrayed me wow and um so i quit and then what ended up happening is i had a second partnership that i uh started with a couple of friends at the time started an online marketing agency and six months later i found out they scammed me oh my gosh for 50k

they were using it for ad spend but those nothing ever happened so they just took it they just took it it was just funneling it um

so what ended up happening is i had to go back to corporate america for a little bit and that's when 10x

GrowthCon came.

I was like, this is the first big conference that I want to attend.

And I always did little networking events and stuff.

But once I got there, I really saw the power of surrounding yourself with the right frequencies.

And at that point, I had already written my book.

So I had a book called Create Your Frequency, talking about the

entrepreneurship journey,

but the spiritual element of it.

Because I feel like entrepreneurship is its own beast, but if you incorporate spirituality and you take care of your mind and body

and spirit, the money comes with ease.

And I'm sure you can attest to that.

The more value you give, the more lives you impact, money just flows to you without having you, you have to chase it.

Yeah, I know you're huge on spirituality.

What are some daily practices you're doing to stay spiritual?

Absolutely, man.

So, a lot of times in the age of information and technology,

we get ungrounded because we're always on our phones or computers.

So, I try to go outside on a daily basis, of course, get some sunlight.

The gym is very important.

I'm down 50 pounds in the last two years.

Wow.

Yeah, just eating clean.

I do the animal-based diet right now, so pretty strong.

Just Gary Brechitanics, no vegetables.

No symptoms.

Only like two, like sweet potatoes and avocados.

I love sweet potatoes, bro.

Avocados are fruit, right?

Oh, is it?

It's something like that, right?

Okay.

I don't know.

We gotta know that.

But yeah, so avocados, cheese, dairy, and then meat, and then maybe a little bit of rice every couple of days, you know?

Yeah, the carbs are what screw people over, man.

Yeah, so no bread, no nothing.

It's working really well for me because

I hoop, I train, you know, and then I do Muay Thai and MMA for four or five times a week.

Damn.

Yeah.

What made you go in all in on fighting?

My stepson.

So he's a huge, huge fan.

And

we were watching UFC and stuff.

And he's like, I want to box.

I was like, okay, so I put him in Mayweather Boxing for six months.

And then like three months after that, I started.

And then we were like, all right, boxing's cool, but let's add some kicks in there.

So he started doing Muay Thai.

And I was like, the best way to lead by example.

So I went with him every day.

And four or five days a week we were doing, you know, we trained.

And next thing, you know, he has three or four fights under his belt and i'm i'm over here going to every gym in the world anytime i go to a different city i go to the best mma gym and i get trained and it's it's freaking fun man it's probably a good skill to have just in case you ever need to pull it out of course uh you know as a man you got to know how to defend yourself not saying i'm going to go and use it but it's just it's it's an art man just like just like hooping right yeah um is it's an art and it's one of those few also forms of meditation when you're hooping are you thinking about any anything else besides hooping that's why i love it man it's a form of meditation right yeah because we're grinding so hard so like being able to dedicate an hour or two to something else is nice.

100%.

And so fighting is the same way.

It's just me versus me, the

battle to the self.

So

a few other things, I do breath work on a daily basis.

Crazy story is I actually had asthma for 22 years.

Damn.

Yeah.

And one year of breath work eliminated my asthma.

What?

No doctors could have solved the problem.

And I actually had very, very borderline, very, very tough.

Like I would, one time I went to the ER and they're like, you're having a severe asthma attack.

And I was just sitting there normally.

I was like, this is normal for me.

Like, I can't breathe, but this is normal.

And they're like, I don't know.

We need to check you in.

And I'm like, I'm kind of fine.

This happens every day.

And they're like, what?

This is not supposed to happen every day.

So,

long story short, breath work changed my life.

I do three or four different types of breath work, but I even got the guy meditating kind of tattooed on me.

But

yeah, breath work eliminated my asthma within a year in the way no Western medicine could.

Dude, I thought asthma was incurable.

It is until you know, until you dig really deep and you heal the core.

And like I said, I was doing the inhaler, you know, the big up-to-doll inhalers.

I had to do it like once or twice a week.

And it wouldn't be while hooping or working out or nothing.

I'd just be sitting there.

And you can, you know, people hear me breathing.

Like, you're okay, man?

It's not, doesn't sound healthy.

Dude, that's insane.

Was it genetic?

No, no one else in my family had asthma.

Just me.

So it was environment then?

Yeah, you know, I don't know if it was Houston or Austin or what, but really, really bad.

Jeez.

And yeah, but it's gone now.

I haven't had my inhaler in like three, two and a half years.

I can see it, man.

I mean, Wim Hoff has breathed out disease from his body, he's been hooked up to machines, gets injected with diseases, and he breathes it out.

Well, even like Gary Breco says, right?

Um, the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease.

Yeah, so I mean, I do Wim Hoff every morning, I do in the sauna.

This morning, I did the sauna cold plunge combo.

Wow, so it's just the best thing, man.

I'm trying to get to the best shape, you know, of my life.

And I'm down, I was, I was 205 pounds at my peak.

Jeez, and I'm at 160, 162.

Yeah, and I can run three, four miles, I can hoop for four or five hours.

I can train.

That's all.

And everyone else is gassed and I'm good.

Oh, yeah.

Even though I'm chubby and stuff, I'm good.

You know what I'm saying?

Did you neglect your health for a while because you were so focused on business?

Absolutely.

Oh, I wasn't focused on business.

I was focused on somebody else's business.

I was grinding for somebody else and working.

And it was in the healthcare industry.

So 12-hour shifts, matrix schedule, right?

Yeah.

So you have 12 hours to work, and you got 12 hours to do everything else, including eat,

do whatever you got to do,

clean your house, train, you know, whatever.

So it's not healthy, it's not sustainable.

And during that time, I was eating out every day and every weekend I would go drinking or whatever, you know, just wasting time.

Wow.

Because that was my escape, right?

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But once I really, you know, realize that your mind and body are the most important things, you don't have to chase the money.

You just take care of your mind and body and take care of people and the money comes to you.

Absolutely.

Yeah, you mentioned drinking earlier.

I know you quit alcohol now, right?

Yeah.

How long?

It's going to be five years

in February.

Dang, that's a long time, bro.

So you're probably done for good at this point.

Well,

right when 10X happened.

So my whole thing was like, all right, universe, God, I'm talking to you right now, and I'm going to go all in.

I don't want to backtrack and have these bad experiences with partners, but I'm I'm going to go all in entrepreneurship.

I'm going to give up everything that doesn't serve me.

And what doesn't serve me was short-term pleasures, including alcohol or weed or chasing anything that doesn't serve me for my future.

So as soon as I let those go, bro, as soon as I let those go, first year business made quarter million in revenue.

Second year of business, made $900,000 in revenue.

Third year of business, made $3 million in a single month.

Wow.

So,

you know, from there, the trajectory has changed.

Now it's, I'm not doing stuff for other people.

So no more agency clients.

Yeah, it's only for ourselves.

Principles Academy, you know, long story short, I don't know if you saw this, my tattoo.

Oh, I didn't.

Yeah, principles.

So my whole brand is based on the principles because my previous experiences, previous partners or bosses, didn't have any.

Right.

I always wondered why your Instagram username was Ali.principles.

Principles, man.

Principles of life, principles of wealth, principles of personal development, principles of health and spirituality.

You live by a code.

You don't change the code for nobody.

And then you build the community that also lives by the code.

So all you guys have the same vision, the same work ethic, the same values and morals.

So now you built a super team of everyone being the best version of yourself.

Even think about it, right?

The NFT project that we did, also based on the principles.

Goat Society.

Greatest of all time.

Trying to be the best version of yourself,

no matter what you're doing.

I love that.

Yeah, you're big on principles, man.

So am I.

I've been scammed a ton.

I think it's part of the journey.

Everyone gets scammed.

What was the worst one for you?

Dude, it was this Forex one.

You probably heard about it.

One's auto traders.

FX winning?

Yeah.

Oh, damn.

I lost a lot on those, bro.

Damn, I know a lot of people, man.

Forex is a tough one, bro.

If you don't know what you're doing, you can get rash.

Yeah, I'm never doing Forex again.

Are you still in the NFT game or no?

A little bit.

I still have all mine, but for more folks on the pod, I have sort of an all-in mentality, you know?

100%.

Focus on one business at a time.

100%.

Yeah.

Yeah, I sold Chibi Dinos, sold the NFT Marketing Agency, but I'm still holding some.

What about you?

I'm obviously

all out of NFTs.

Crypto, yes.

Still in crypto.

I like crypto.

For sure.

NFTs, just because it was a wave, man.

Again, our mission never changed.

Our mission was to still create people being the best version of themselves.

We were just doing it through a vehicle called NFTs.

But it was cool, man, learning completely new technology within six, seven weeks.

putting a community together, putting a team together, selling out, and then fulfilling on the roadmap.

It was a fun thing.

Yeah, you guys crushed it.

I want to talk about your mastermind group chat because it's one of the best I've been part of.

Appreciate it.

What made you want to build that community?

Absolutely.

So, you know, we're part of a lot of masterminds.

You know, you have a bad one.

Yours has crazy value, by the way.

We'll be scrolling on a daily basis.

Damn, even they're in there.

But so in order to, again, leading by example, in order to find the best mastermind group, we just wanted to create one, you know?

And the whole, there's two or three purposes for it.

So the first one is creating a group of people with principles so you don't have to worry about scamming.

Our rule is you screw somebody over once, you're banned for life.

Wow.

Yeah.

One screw up.

Have you kicked anyone yet?

Three or four people already.

Dang.

For not even something simple.

It was like a $1,500 service, they didn't fulfill, you're done.

Wow.

That's it.

We want to get to a point where we

make people sign a contract and stuff.

Get them very nitty-gritty.

Again, abiding by the principles because you have to be impeccable with your word, right?

So if you say you're going to do something, do it.

Second piece was to provide like-minded people, like our peers, to do business with each other.

So like if I don't know something, but you do, we can connect and do business.

I'll give you an example.

Like one of our boys, actually the CFO of the Circle Syndicate, Wolf, he does infinite banking.

Have you heard of Infinite Banking?

So I'm learning all about that, right?

Shout out to Wolf.

So I want to learn how to leverage my money, pull it out, you know, tax-free and have it working for me while I can go and invest in real estate, whatever.

So that's part of the reason I'm moving to Dubai, getting these international trusts set up and

asset protection and all that.

So I wouldn't learn that even reading all these books, you're not going to learn that until you're with someone who does that on a daily basis.

And you say, hey, you know, you have 5 million liquid, do this, XYZ.

You know, it's not just pumping dumb chats or anything like, hey, you know, get into this next wave.

It's longevity moves.

Right.

So that's that's the whole thing.

And then the third piece is private equity.

So we want to connect dots with capital.

So if you have a bad idea, you're like, hey, that's why it's called the Circle Syndicate, right?

Like, I might not have 50 million, you may not have 50 million, but we got 50 people that got 1 million each.

We pull our money together together and go invest in something and really change the game yeah you've been able to help raise millions for some of the members right so in six months of being a part of this um so my my boy kane kane wave out of dubai he he's the one who put it all together he's like hey i want you as my my uh you know other half can you can you help me take this to the next level and i was like all right cool so put together this ecosystem next thing you know in six months we've raised 72.5 million dollars holy yeah 72.5 and um we have half a billion in underwriting right now

But the crazy thing is, man, it's a numbers game.

So people, you know, submit deals from all over the map, all over the world, all over every single industry.

So we get real estate, commodities, early stage tech, blockchain, random, you know, events, concerts, whatever.

And so we have like hundreds of lending partners that we've created relationships with.

So

we have a process.

sign up on the form, NDA gets sent out.

And if there's a bite, we hit you up.

We're like, hey, there's a bite.

Let's go have a couple more conversations.

And then next thing you know, you know, we get obvious, of course, you get a piece of the puzzle to finding the money.

And

best case scenario, you get a little equity, too.

So I think being able to connect the dots is a high-income skill, but the way you're doing it is a whole nother level because you're able to even raise money.

Not a lot of people can do that, dude.

Well, again, it's all thanks to the team and the network, man.

It's where I'm learning.

Because the biggest thing with me, I'm just a

seeker of truth.

So I like learning.

That's why I read two books a week.

Wow.

Yeah, that's kind of my speed.

Two books a week.

I'm watching two hours of YouTube a day while I'm doing something

and retaining information.

So even private equity, the terms, the terminology, hedge funds, sovereign funds, private equity, lines of credit, all this kind of stuff, right?

I'm learning it.

And as I'm learning it, and we're putting it into practice at the same time.

Right.

You're implementing.

Exactly.

I'm learning them on the call.

On the call, I'm the dumbest person in the meeting.

So I'm over here taking notes.

They're saying things I don't need.

I'm Googling it right now, right next to it, you know, on the Zoom call.

And

next thing you know,

we're moving mountains because of our ability to execute really efficiently.

And that's what separates you because a lot of people read and listen, but they don't execute.

I think that's the biggest downfall.

People, there's information overload, right?

They don't know what to listen to, and then they get analysis, paralysis.

They don't listen to anything.

For sure.

They just take the information in and then don't do anything with it.

I think that's the biggest weak point, man.

In order to really succeed and do well in entrepreneurship, you have to be able to try it and fail and fail forward, you know, because you're not not going to get it right on the first time.

People aim for perfection.

It just doesn't work that way.

It doesn't work.

And I used to struggle with this.

People are scared to take that first step because of how they'll get judged online.

But dude, I don't care anymore.

Like, you only get hate from below.

100%.

No one above you is going to hate on you.

You've dealt with haters?

Oh, yeah.

I have them all the time because of the podcast.

But why do you think that is?

Why do you think people go out of their way to try to bring you down on your frequency when they could be doing things just as you?

It's actually mainly the guests that get the hate, but um some people hate on me just for having them on which is interesting because I like to have both sides on right I'm not gonna have just one side on I like to hear both people's sides and then form my own opinion but most people are so closed-minded they just want to see one side and then form an opinion

you know what I mean right right and that's just cognitive dissonance in general right people when you tell them new information that they haven't been taught it's just like a you know um culture shock for them like what's going on so even if you provide all the facts you can be like hey this is an industry expert been doing this for 20 years you'll still get hate dude yeah it's nuts i mean look at my life right like i grew up in new jersey heavy left state so my whole life i was pretty left and i was never exposed to republicans i just thought they were bad people growing up right and that's so bad because i never heard them out so i couldn't really form a logical opinion right and that happens to so many people dude but that's the problem with the education system nowadays you get only taught one perspective you don't get taught you don't get you don't get taught how to be how to learn and how to form your own opinion.

You get taught how to, you know, you get manipulated and programmed.

And that's the last project we're working on.

So

the legacy project that we're working on is Principals Academy.

So we're creating our own ed tech platform, revolutionizing digital education.

And the whole purpose of that is because I went to school, I got two degrees, but my little brothers and my stepson, I've pulled him out of school.

You're going to get homeschooled and self-taught.

Wow.

Due to the fact that I feel like I can create a better curriculum that you'll be taught in a traditional education system.

Dang, you pulled your bro out out of school?

Two little brothers and my stepson.

So all of them like, hey,

you're going to go through the principal's academy program.

So the way it works is you got to read a certain amount of books.

Yeah.

Right.

You have your own schedule.

It's almost like an entrepreneurship boot camp.

You have your own schedule.

You have a certain amount of books.

There's an online program.

You know, you take like tutors.

So there's different experts that, you know, I might not be the best in, come and teach.

And then you get, you know, physical fitness and training.

So like my stepson specifically, he trains two hours a day.

Wow.

Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu.

Yeah.

And so I want everyone to be well-rounded, mind, body, business, and spirit.

Dude, I love that.

The gym at my high school was a joke.

I don't know if yours was like that too.

You said the gym?

Yeah, like the gym class.

You know how you had to be like 30 minutes?

Yeah, we did.

No one did s ⁇ .

Like, we all just stood there.

You know, the worst thing is when all the coaches are out of shape, and I'm just like, oh, yeah, we had fat coaches,

fat gym teachers.

Because they're getting paid 40k a year, so they don't give a shit.

They don't give a shit.

Yeah.

And that's the problem.

See, now, think about all the stuff that's going on, all the programming in the media, all the misinformation.

You're sending your kids out eight hours a day, nine hours a day, and they're not under your supervision.

What are they getting fed?

Exactly.

And

I don't want to do that.

I don't want to put someone else in charge that doesn't care about my kid, like me.

And then they're taught their perspective, and then your kid comes back like completely left field.

And you're like, Where'd she even learn that?

Yeah, that's kind of the reason.

Pull them out,

you know, feed them clean food, clean water, good education, good music, good, you know, fitness,

and then show them the ability to

be an entrepreneur and not be stuck in the rat race.

Absolutely.

Dude, school was pretty traumatizing for me, to be honest, because it taught me to fit in with everyone when I didn't.

Did you ever get bullied?

Oh, for sure.

Every entrepreneur did.

Fair enough.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah, we're different.

We're just thinking differently.

We're not trying to fit in.

I'm always trying to be friends with people that

weren't meant to be friends with.

That's the thing.

That's the thing.

School is like that.

Think about it.

uh you're taking a kid with unlimited creativity, just on the peak of their learning curve, you know, that can adapt language in th three, four months.

You're putting them in a room with no outside engagement besides 30-minute recess, which they do b anyway.

Um you're feeding them sh food every day.

Terrible food.

Terrible food, right?

Uh and you're around, you know, even though they have teachers, the teachers are not the best, you know, curators of uh you know, of programming, right?

Because they're they're taught a specific way and half the teachers are, you know, they're not the best,

you know, people.

They have to follow an outdated script.

Correct.

Well, they're not even passionate because it's different when people are passionate about teaching, right?

Yeah.

Like you have a, you have a coach, like a fitness coach or something like that, training coach, basketball coach, a little bit more, but they're taught things that they don't really want to taught, they might not agree with.

And so they're just, it's just a big game of telephone.

And next thing you know, they have to deal with, you know, bullying and this, all this kind of stuff where the pros and cons just don't add up.

Yeah.

I mean, everything happens for a past.

I try not to dwell on this, but think about how much time we spent in that system and where we would have been if we were this educated as teenagers.

100%.

I think if I was to go back, I would definitely skip out on college.

For sure.

And high school, honestly.

To be honest, and I was about to say that, and high school.

Right after eighth grade, after I got my people skills,

you know, just your cognitive ability to think and reason.

there should be a program where we're like, all right, that's why like countries overseas, you know, after like five, six years old, whatever skill sets you have they start curating the program for that really yeah like if you if you look at the certain Chinese schools what ends up happening is the kid after like three until about three or four there's no janitors in the school

they teach the kids to clean and do this stuff by themselves before they get into the school system after four years old yeah yeah kids and then because now they're learning life skills and then then they get put into these curriculums and whatever skill sets they show,

the students get curated a program based on, let's just say, you're good at science and math, you get put in engineering, you get put in, you know, this kind of stuff.

If you're good at the body and health functions, medicine, if you're, you know, creative, you might be, you know, a painter, artist, something like that.

That's how it should be, man.

Yeah.

And I think about this a lot because I do want kids and I would never send them in public school for sure.

100%.

And that's kind of the reason, you know, moving over to Dubai, putting our mark in the other side of the world because the education system,

you know, the food qual oh, food quality.

It's another thing.

We're silently poisoned here, man.

It's crazy.

I'll eat food here and I'll feel so terrible.

Over there in the bike, I ate pretty clean, but I ate whatever.

You know, I was eating french fries and stuff like that, right?

Um, and I lost three pounds.

Wow.

Yeah.

No seed oils over there.

No seed oils.

Natural meat and natural veggies.

And it was pretty incredible.

So that mixed with the safety, mixed with the education system and the culture.

You know, I feel like we're...

We're taught all this over here and we're programmed.

So I just, I want to stay away from that.

We're NPCs, man.

I was an NPC until I was probably 21.

Maybe even later, dude.

It was bad, man.

I mean, think about everyone in school right now is just following a script.

They don't even know.

It's crazy.

Think about the, you know, the era you went to school, right?

When growing up, we didn't have phones in schools.

We had to go bikes everywhere and stuff.

Now, kids have school.

I mean, they have phones.

They have laptops.

They could kind of do whatever.

Post-pandemic, you just chill at home and watch school.

And then they're still turning out dumb as hell.

So it's like, you know, what's going on?

You know, what are you actually being taught?

And you're there eight, eight, nine hours a day.

Yeah.

So it's kind of scary, bro.

It is, man.

It is.

But being in Dubai, surrounded by so much wealth and affluence, is becoming a billionaire one of your goals?

Absolutely.

How do you plan on getting there?

So the first $100,000 was sheer hard work.

The next, you know, getting to a million was smart work.

Yeah.

And building the right team and having the right products and offers and just being good at different businesses, just like, you know,

a marketing agency, NFTs, putting together teams and having the ability to do accounting and bookkeeping and marketing and operations.

Get to that 100 million, it's all about the network.

You have to meet to the right people.

And if you meet the right people, you provide value, you receive value.

The next billion is just

spiritual alignment.

Because once you're making that impact, once you have the right people, you move mountains.

There's a book by Deepak Chopra called The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.

And law number four is the law of least effort.

And the law of least effort is literally the opposite of what we've been taught.

We've been taught hustle, grind, stay up, sleep, you know, do all that kind of stuff.

But the law of least effort says when you're in alignment, everything flows to you without you having to lift a finger.

Wow.

So then the last piece of the puzzle, that's why the whole thing started.

So now let's create, you know, beasts by giving the education that we had.

Let's create this network where we teach people what we didn't know.

And then let's raise capital for bad the best of the best ideas.

And once you're doing all a combination of those three and you're spiritually aligned, taking care of your mind, your body, your business, your family, you're not chasing anymore.

You're creating the divine family and the man and the woman you know shout out to my shout out to my wife sarah and you know being able to you know connect and create a bond of heavy hitters like me you you know dan all our people are working together uh and that's how you move mountains and then everything just flows i agree man that network can take you far

you're the best at it man you know what i'm saying

loyalty is important to me i would never try to f ⁇ over someone for money like that's so that's such a low iq move in my opinion and it happens all the time 100

every day bro people people scam your 50k you could have made 50 mil who's whose loss is that yeah like anytime I get scammed I find it so hard to believe because if you just kept me as a friend you'd make 100x right

that that's the that's the hard part bro people have that short-term pleasure it's like all right and the way I think of it now is like you probably need it more than me take it now the relationship is severed

you know do you yeah yeah i try not to dwell i try not to have regrets and i try to just i try to forgive some of the scams are pretty hard but how do you protect yourself from future scams?

Dude, that's a good question.

I just got scammed like a month ago, so I don't know if I'm qualified to answer, but

my girl, honestly, girls are very spiritual.

They're like your shield if you get a girl by your side.

Very true.

She's never been wrong about someone.

That's actually very true about Sarah, too.

Yeah, within two minutes, you'll know if it's a good person or not.

Damn.

Yeah.

So every time I've gone against her opinion, you have gotten scammed or screwed over.

Yeah.

So their intuition is strong.

So that's why it's important to have that good woman by your side.

very very very important even the one from a month ago she told me not to do it damn so your your gut was like let me try it like yeah because we're moving fast yeah so we're just trying to make moves and like yeah we get we don't actually analyze on a spiritual level you know 100 so that's why now i i think uh i'm incorporating the spirituality a little bit more into business right yeah um i'll give you an example like we we think of entrepreneurship as this like hustle journey, but it's a very spiritual experience.

I'll give you an example.

The elements, elements the the water element right uh you know water is the most important element for us because you know we're made 70 water and all this kind of stuff so think about all the terms that are used to describe money okay think about it streams of income cash reserves

liquidity

cash flow that's all water elements man yeah so if you think about that what do you need to do you don't you can't go against the grain of water you'll get destroyed you know you have you've seen a flood coming and nothing nothing survives strongest of houses get blown away.

You have to go with the current.

That's why Bruce Lee says, like, become the bottle, become the cup, and become where the water can be abundant, you know?

And once you relax and you flow with the ebbs and flows of life, it just becomes a lot easier.

Because my problem, a lot of entrepreneurship problems, is we go against the grain.

And we're like creating friction that doesn't necessarily need to exist.

Wow.

And I'm really bad at that.

Like, if I have a certain schedule on the day, it has to be that schedule by the T.

Right.

If I have a little, you know,

it sways a little bit, my day gets thrown off.

Right.

Because think about it.

If someone was late to your podcast, then you got the next podcast, then you got a meeting, everything's delayed, right?

Yeah.

So now imagine being so good at, you know, navigating through life,

there's no obstacles anymore because you're flowing so well.

And then you're receiving.

So one thing, again, it's about giving and receiving.

When you don't receive these signs and changes and obstacles, you're stopping the flow of energy because you're giving out, you're not receiving.

Something as simple as someone asks you to help you with your bags and you're like, nah, I got it.

You're stopping the flow of energy.

Wow.

You know?

So you have to be able to give and receive the energy because energy is neither created or destroyed.

It's just transferred in forms.

Interesting.

Yeah, that's a good take, man.

I never thought about it that way.

So how can people get in that flow?

So first, be very clear with your purpose and understand there's a higher source that's, you know, taking you through it.

Of course, you got to be connected with yourself, connected with your family, connected with your body.

But you have to relax a little bit.

The strong suit of entrepreneurship is the hustle, go, go, go mentality, but that's the masculine.

It's hyper, hyper masculine.

You have to have both a hyper masculine and the feminine.

The feminine is present.

It's sits still.

It's receive.

So in order to really, you know,

push the bounds of creativity, make as much money as possible,

experience presentness, and just be, you know, not always thinking of the future or the past.

You have to learn how to balance masculine and feminine.

And once you do that,

you'll see signs of start to work in your favor.

I love that.

Yeah.

So that's kind of, that's the struggle that I've had too, because I'm always in go mode.

Yeah.

So now I got to slow it down and be like, all right, what is the universe trying to teach me?

I'll give you an example.

Let's just say

you're on the way to a flight, big meeting, but you missed the flight.

Old me, I would have been like, damn, I missed the flight, man.

I should have booked earlier.

I should have done this.

How can I, you know, how can I push it back and get the next one?

You know, I'm frustrated.

But now I'm like, yo, I could have died on that flight.

Maybe the universe is like telling me to, you know, relax a little bit, you know, unwind, you know, just trust it.

So now I've changed my perspective.

So when things happen that are out of my control, that it's, it's, it's meant for a greater purpose.

Bro, that literally happened to me.

So I was at the airport in Vegas.

I was going to New Jersey and I hear a voice in my ear.

Swear to God, it was crazy.

I believe it.

And it was my dad who's passed away.

He's calling me.

He's saying, wow.

and the flight gets delayed so i'm like what the hell gets delayed again so now i'm like yo this is weird

but

like i said the old mentality i'm like no i'm getting on this flight like i need to make this i even got upgraded first class so i'm like i'm i'm going we get on gets delayed again while we're on it they say the um stabilizers aren't working which is the wings So I'm like, bro, I'm out.

Like, this is a sign.

I get out.

That flight ended up getting completely canceled.

Wow.

So if it took took off, it, yeah, something bad would have happened.

What was that?

What was that voice?

Dude, it was just my dad calling my name.

And this actually happened to my cousin who served in Iraq.

His dad who passed away too.

Him and his friend were walking, and he heard his dad call his name.

Wow.

His friend stepped on a landmine, but since he heard his name, he jumped a second earlier.

His friend passed away.

Wow.

Yeah.

It's crazy, bro.

How long ago did your dad pass?

Passed away last or two years ago.

Wow.

What month

i think it was november that's crazy my dad passed december 2021 wow right after the biggest month of my life crazy financially same it was around the same time when i was killing it damn it's crazy sorry sorry for your loss dude it's one of my biggest regrets because

you know we're like we're in go mode so we're just making money we uh we don't call them when we're living away from them as much as we should the crazy thing is man for me uh so november uh 10th, GOAT sold out.

January 10th was my dad's birthday, and I was going to retire him.

And December 10th, right in the middle, he passed away.

Damn.

Yeah.

It's terrible.

And I had a whole plan, and it was a big act of detachment, again, going with the flow of life, because I was so

stuck on giving him my, you know, whatever, quarter million dollars and being like, you're chilling.

Here's a check.

I wanted to take home the duffel bag and give him, you know, have my little ego experience.

But again, out of good intention, I wanted to take care of my father and give him, you know, reward him for what he's done for me.

The universe was like, look, it's not, you know, his time is up.

And biggest act of detachment.

So again, one thing I'm learning is detaching from the outcome.

Doing your best, being present, giving it all you got, being smart.

having the right intentions, but detaching from the outcome.

Because let's just say you have all these goals and you don't hit it.

What are you supposed to do?

Be depressed through life?

No, you still got to enjoy.

You still got to be present.

You still got to be grateful.

The people that do care about you, you still got to take care of them instead of being, hey, I'm not a billionaire in five seconds.

You know, I'm going to be depressed.

so detaching is a big form of spirituality I love that man because yeah we have that mentality like when this happens I'll do this but you never know what happens in between when it happened to us and it's like wow I wish I took care of him more for sure absolutely so now with my with my mom and my my brothers I'm a lot more present so when I'm with them you know I turn my phone I put my phone away it's not work while I'm there so I might be working during the day but evening I'm always spending time with them we're going to places eating together you know spending time laughing and stuff so just being as present as possible.

For sure.

Yeah, I call my mom every day now, and that's something I'm proud of, actually, because in college, I only called her like once every four months, dude.

Wow.

Yeah, it was terrible.

So I definitely want to be there for her.

She took care of me her whole life, you know.

Absolutely.

Well said, brother.

And you know, you want to hear something crazy?

A month, I mean, a year after my dad passed, I went to Costa Rica to go do ayahuasca.

And that was a mind-blowing experience for me because that's when I really tapped into the spirituality.

Because I was always pretty spiritual.

Growing up, I studied the Quran.

I read the Torah.

I read the Bible.

I read the Bahatavagita.

I read the Tao De Ching,

the Emerald Tablets.

I read all of them.

Again, seeker of truth, right?

I want to know all of it.

But when I went to go do ayahuasca in Costa Rica, so shout out to my boy Jay.

He put on a beautiful retreat.

We went to

Diamante Valley, which is the, it says the energetic capital of the world.

And crazy energy in Costa Rica.

And we did, it was a week, but the first day we did combo.

You ever heard of the toad?

It's the toad, the frog poison.

So they put it in your body and, you know, everyone throws up.

You purge all these negative energies out.

The next thing we did was a temascal.

There's a sweat lodge.

Yeah.

And again, you're praying to the elements.

And it's the crazy experience.

It's like a three-hour sauna.

Holy crap.

Yeah, it's three-hour sauna with steam and it's super hot.

And then you're doing these prayers and these chants.

And it's pretty crazy.

How did you not pass out, dude?

That's a long time.

It was crazy.

Actually, out of all the things, that was the hardest thing I've ever done because you're sitting there and you're laying down.

It's muddy and it's hot and everyone's like, you know, everyone's struggling to crawl out when you're done.

But it was a very

invigorating experience.

You feel so connected to earth.

I was so much grateful for water and plants and animals and just presentness when I came out.

And then the two days of Ayah ceremonies.

And during my experience, I definitely saw

my father after he passed.

I saw my grandma.

And I got connected to

the God molecule.

So it was crazy.

Three different cups, three different experiences.

And the first one was where I asked the universe, I was like, show me that everything is a, you know, everything is an energy or vibration.

So I'm sitting there, next thing you know, it hits.

And it wasn't like a...

hallucinating or something out-of-body experience.

I'm present.

I can get up and go to the restroom, come right back.

But I can feel every every ligament in my body.

If I do this, I can feel 40 ligaments that go to make this muscle move.

It's a vibration, vibration, everything's a vibration.

I can feel a heartbeat.

You know, I can hear my breathing.

And then I would have little panic attacks, like mini panic attacks.

I'm like, all right, am I good?

What's going on?

It's good, right?

And then I remembered, of course, as we learned to go back to our breath.

So I'm going.

Four, three, two, one, but back to my breath work, right?

My box breathing.

Next Next thing you know, and we're not supposed to have our phones, but I went to the restroom one time and our phone's in our back, and in our backpack, in the back.

So I was like, let me look up the frequency of life.

What's the love frequency?

And it's 4, 3, 2 hertz.

So I kept saying 432 in my head for like four hours.

So I like kind of clicked.

I'm like, all right, the love frequency.

So love is the vibration we need to be on.

Second thing, I took another cup.

And next thing you know, I saw sound.

There's a word for it.

I can't think of it at the moment.

I saw sound.

So when the shaman's singing and he has the drums, he hits the drums.

So I see the ring come out, bounce off the wall, and his voice is like projecting.

So again, vibration.

The universe is showing me everything's a vibration.

Sound is a vibration.

The way we speak is a vibration.

The way we think is a vibration.

But I literally saw sound.

And there was a thing.

So

me and Sarah were doing, me and my wife were doing research.

And

we were researching, you know, before ayahuasca, I did, I read read six books, you know, 20 documentaries,

you know, thousand articles.

Because I'm, again, I'm a nerd.

I want to know everything, right?

And when we got there, there was a thing, she was like, try this.

There was a guy, I think it was Aubrey Marcus on YouTube, and he was talking about how there's different energies when you're in the room.

So she was like, I remember she said, try this.

So I'm in the Maloka, right, which is a temple.

So when I was going to the restroom, I stopped right in the middle and half my leg is outside and

half my body is inside.

When I look right, it's just peaceful, dark

nature, nothing going on.

You hear the crickets and stuff.

And over here on the left side, just crazy glowing energy.

So I'm literally in two realms at one time.

And I was just like, oh, wow, this is crazy.

And when you walk, when you look outside from the inside of the Maloka because there's windows.

So you look outside, because it's open, right?

It's not like a real window.

It's just like an open hole.

You look outside and the crazy,

through the inside of the temple where the energies are crazy and everyone's going through their experiences.

You look out and the stars, you can see the fractals and the constellations.

But as soon as you step out and you look up, it's normal sky.

Craziest experience.

Interesting.

Yeah.

And then the third cup, the second day, a second day I only took one cup because it hit me hard.

It hit me so hard.

And

again, it was, it was like a body.

It was like I took.

like 100 grams of edibles.

Yeah.

So I was like, really like feeling all, and I was coming back to my body.

So again,

the last piece when I was feeling all weird, there was a moment where I'm like, you know, universe, show me that you're real.

Like, you got my back.

So, I felt an energy behind me just like kind of lifting me up and like propped me up, sat me down.

And I'm like, yo, so I, you know, I'm kind of connected with you now.

The next cup is going to be easy.

I'm going to come back every other year to do this, incorporate this into my spiritual journey.

But show me that you're real.

And then I heard a whisper.

Same thing, like the way you heard your dad.

So I heard like my grandma's voice.

she's like i got you and i'm like you got me she's like you got this and i got you so like never stress ever again and from there when i came back so now i'm you know i gave up drinking i gave up smoking i gave up chasing and now i'm gonna give up stressing wow i'm just gonna flow through life and you know whatever's meant for me meant for me and and i know i'm gonna do great things and just trust the universe that has my back dude i love that yeah stress was a big part of my early years in entrepreneurship but i've i've done my best to eliminate most of it now yeah there's still stuff that pops up like lawsuits and stuff that are.

How do you handle when you have so much on your plate and something throws you off?

Wim Hoff.

So I do that every day.

And if something stressful pops up, I do it immediately.

And it's usually gone by then.

I take some natural pills like magnesium and I think ashwagandha if I'm feeling a little stressed.

But I try to cure everything holistically.

I don't want to take anything synthetic.

No random medicines and stuff.

Yeah.

I've done much better at being able to communicate.

I used to repress all my emotions because I got it from my dad.

He had

Asperger's.

Okay.

So he never, like, I remember the one time he hugged me, I cried.

Wow.

I was moving to LA when I was 23.

It was the first time he ever hugged me and showed emotion.

Wow.

We both just started crying.

So that was the environment I grew up in.

So it took me years to be able to express myself.

But once I started doing that, it really helped.

Because you bought all that stuff in, man.

Bro, trauma is stored in the body.

People don't even realize.

I thought I got rid of all this stuff, even like my dad passed, right?

I handled it pretty well until I didn't.

It all came out you know because I was being there for my mom and my brothers and the whole family and this and that and I still because I remember my dad passed on a Friday Monday I got back to work wow I had no choice yeah we had

60 employees like what am I supposed to do you know yeah I went back to work too

and so it stays and so months later it comes out you know it comes out when I'm stressed out it comes out when I'm lonely it comes out and then you know my my my girl has been very supportive.

She, you know, she helps me through the recognizing what I need to fix.

Yeah.

and uh being aware enough to go and fix it because a lot of times it's men you're like it I'll handle it you know I got it no worries but you have to go and attend to this stuff because it'll come it'll come out one way or the other it might not come out now but imagine you have a kid and then it comes out is that when you want it to really come out you know unhandled trauma uh you know inner child wounds you don't want that to happen yeah it's best to deal with it as soon as you can well once you become aware of it you know you you want to handle it and learn to mitigate it you don't want to you don't want to suppress it you want to mitigate you want to alleviate it and understand it and you know be one with it and be like all right cool i went through this now i'm healed and i can move forward in the journey yeah way too many people suppress it because that's what we're taught it's we're taught it's weak to show emotion is man it sucks man it's the and that's why a lot of times in in friend groups too like you say someone's a friend of yours but you're not even able to share with him how you really feel is that really a friend like nah you got to be able to be like hey hey homie i'm having a tough time come here come over let's talk about it either you want you know you want to vent or you want me to knock you back in place and tell you you're tripping you know which one is it if you want a vent i'm here to That'll be your ear to listen to.

But if you really want true advice, I'll tell you, hey, you're screwing up.

You got to fix this, this, and this.

And I know you got it in you.

Let's make it happen.

Have my support.

I love that.

Yeah.

There's not many friends that would actually do that.

If you look at your friend group and analyze it, I can only count a couple.

Yeah, I mean, it's usually in your hands.

You don't need a hundred pennies, man.

You only need four quarters.

Right.

It's the same amount of money, right?

But you have more value.

It's the quality over the quantity.

A lot of people growing up, they go, I need thousands of friends.

I need 20 different friend groups.

No, you don't, man.

You need two or three beasts around you.

And those beasts might shift based on, you know, your industry, the time period in your life.

When you're younger, it's different.

When you're a family, man, it's different.

Like, you know, but it's just good to have a small group around you.

You have that small group, direct circle, your inner circle, and then you have your extended circle that, you know, like me and you extended circle.

We might not talk every day, but if I needed something, hey, Sean, you got this for me?

Cool, I got you.

Let me connect the dots.

For sure.

Same thing like that, you know?

Yeah.

Dude, I'm glad you got to connect you with your dad and grandma.

I actually got to connect them with my dad, too.

And this is something people don't even know about, but you know, these spiritual journeys can provide great closure.

Nice.

Did you ever do plant medicine or anything like that?

No, I went through a psychic medium.

We did some past life work and I got to connect with my father.

And it was great to get some closure because when they pass, you don't know what they were thinking.

Very true.

Being able to understand where he was coming from.

And, you know, it was a really good moment.

That's amazing.

Past life progression, right?

Yeah.

Have you done it?

I have not.

I've looked into it a couple of times.

I read these books by Dolores Cannon.

She talks about it.

You heard it, Dolores?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So,

yeah, again, my readings take me a long way, but having these experts, it's a whole different game.

Like, I have my boy Jay, Adiyami, Christian.

They take me to these, you know, conversations and these meditations that do, you know, clear these inner child wounds and stuff like that.

But again,

you have to have these people in your arsenal.

So if you want to connect me with that person, I'll be able to do that.

Oh, I got you.

Yeah, she's in the chat, and she changed my life.

We explored some past lives.

You have a lot of past life trauma that you don't even know about.

Generationally.

Generational.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it adds up.

But, dude, it's been a pleasure.

Anything you want to close off with or promote?

I'm good, bro.

Honestly, the biggest thing is for me is just, you know, connecting with the right people.

So I appreciate you having me on.

I look forward to just continue building with you and connecting with everybody in the chat and just, you know, keep changing the world, making impact and income.

Let's do it, baby.

Thanks for watching, guys.

That was a great episode, and I'll see you tomorrow.