Breaking Out Of The Matrix with Multi-Millionaire Alex Morton | Digital Social Hour #25

Welcome to the Digital Social Hour, guys.

I'm your host, Sean Kelly, along with my co-host, Ari Gold.

What's going on, everybody?

And our guest today, Alex Morton.

What's up, what's up?

How are we doing?

I'm good, man.

I'm good.

You're new to Vegas?

You're brand new, right?

Eight months.

Okay.

We're rarely here, though.

So I guess you could say brand new.

All right.

We're just doing tax evasion shit.

That's all right.

No state income tax.

Gang.

Didn't you have that in Miami, though?

We did, but Miami got so congested.

We were there when the COVID first hit.

Right.

And it's like,

you know, I'm like, damn, we're paying like 20, almost 30 grand a month at Porsche Tower.

So I'm like, we can't even go outside much.

So let's move.

So we went to Beverly Hills for a little bit.

Wasn't much better.

You know, LA is like whack now.

And then I'm like, all right, mom and dad live in Vegas.

no state income tax.

Let's go to Vegas.

LA has just become terrifying.

I haven't been back in a while.

I have a place in Hollywood that I dread going to.

Like, the only time I go is if I have a meeting, then I'm just like, I'm not paying $800 for, you know, a fucking hotel.

People there have lost their mind completely.

It's not safe.

Give people a summary on what you've done for those that don't know you.

Oh, wow.

Well, I was born in Houston, Texas in 1989.

Middle-class mom and dad growing up.

Grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and just like a lot of young entrepreneurs or, you know, young people in general, I just wanted to, I wanted to get rich.

You know, growing up in Ohio, it was like rich people, us,

and like the poor people.

And I always had this like fascination of, you know, why does this family get to take,

you know, 10 vacations a year?

And they get to drive a Range Rover to school, right?

And then why does this family, it's like struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle.

I'm like, what's the difference?

So I've always kind of been into like, why is this family rich and why is this family poor?

So I made a young decision at a young age.

I said, man, when I grow up, I'm going to find out how the wealthy people got wealthy and I'm going to freaking do what it is they do.

So I kind of had this like crazy little desire in me at a very young age.

And then, you know, at 18, I left, I left high school.

I went to Arizona State University.

And I remember being in high school, like, dude, these teachers are teaching me a bunch of random stuff, right?

Algebra 3 and, you know, American history and world history.

All this.

I'm like, bro, no one's telling me about goals.

No one's talking about taxes.

No one's talking about financial literacy.

You know, I thank God I had mom and dad that did well in the insurance business.

So I got a little bit of that Tony Robbins here and there, that Jim Rohn here and there.

But I said, I'm going to leave this small town.

I'm going to go to the West Coast.

I went to Arizona State.

I got started in real estate at 18.

And then I fell into...

you know, social network marketing at 21.

And there's a lot, a lot in there we're going to get into, but you know, the rest is really history.

I think it started with a big desire.

I thought the system was completely BS.

You know, I talk a lot about breaking out of the matrix now, and that's like my thing.

Like at 33, I'm like, I want to help as many people as possible

break free mentally and like learn like what's true, what's false, unpackage the lies so they can go out there and live a more fulfilling

better life.

Right.

So you believe we're in the matrix right now?

Yeah, to some degree.

I mean, I don't think it's Keanu Reeves style like the movie, but I mean, you walk around Vegas or LA or Miami, all these places that I've, you know, lived.

I've been in 76 countries around the world.

Most people are, I don't want to say sheep, but they're zombies.

They don't know what they're doing.

They're going to work.

Why are you going to work?

I don't know.

Why are you going to school?

I don't know.

Everyone's doing it.

Comfortable.

They're setting their ways.

What are you going to do when you graduate?

I don't know.

Go get a job.

Okay.

You know, it's just this premeditated nonsense programming.

And that's why at age 65 years old, okay, 96% of people in Vegas, in Barcelona, Spain, in Dubai, in Lagos, Nigeria, 96% of people are either dead or broke.

Whoa.

4% are financially free.

1% are wealthy.

So let's find out what the 1% do.

We got to know where you got that situation.

That's a real number.

Strangest secret.

That's insane.

And it's definitely been.

And now you listen to Mark Cuban, Robert Kiyosaki,

Grant Cardone's of the world.

Now it's like the middle class ain't even there anymore.

Like they're creating this two-class system where...

No, I see that.

That I definitely believe in.

I think when you see the price of

not just what your dollar can get you, but what you're getting for the dollar and what everybody's trying to tell you with, you know, prices and rates.

And it's all bullshit.

I think at the end of the day, when you look at the lower in class, the lower income class and you look at the upper class, there's definitely been a segmented line where either houses are getting much bigger or they're getting much more segregated and smaller and put into cookie cutter boxes and fitting as many people in there as they can.

And people are either downsizing and living that life so that they can go paycheck to paycheck easier or they're stepping it up and

making more of it.

And it makes me mad.

It makes me mad that we're taught, you know, you have to come from a certain family to go out there and become successful.

You have to look a certain way, certain skin color, race, religion, all this stuff.

But when you break down success and the laws of the universe, you know, I was mentored by Bob Proctor for 13 years.

R.I.P.

Big Bob.

You know, to me, the best teacher ever, right?

I just, I just, I just love the guy and I still feel his presence all the time and his spirit.

And I just...

through his study and him helping me unpack how I was able to, you know, earn my first million at 24 and then go do that a lot more times and help a lot of people do it, you get down to the point where we are spiritual beings living in a physical body, right?

And our emotions dictate our reality.

And no matter what our test scores were in high school or the college we went to,

we can, anybody listening to this show can go out there and create the life of their dreams.

That's what I believe.

And that's what I preach.

I'm going to Europe in three weeks.

We're doing 10 events in 10 countries in 26 days.

Wow.

And we're helping people break free.

What do you think the number one thing stopping people is?

Other than the premeditated lies that have already been programmed in us from the start?

Well, I think those lies in the programming get into this, you know, this thing called the paradigm, where the paradigm is a multitude of habits that dictates, you know, what we eat, what we wear, what we listen to, how we talk, how we walk, how we think.

And that's what collectively holds people back.

That's why they have all this stuff in their mind.

And then, like, you, you may present them with an unbelievable, you know, crypto opportunity or, you know, this coin or this arbitrage or something.

And all all of a sudden their their subconscious mind says can't be real

get rich quick thing right you're not like those guys you can't you can't you can't have the money like ari gold you can't have a company like sean you can't do what alex has done because you're you're different than them so i believe it all comes down to our mentality and our mindset and through me studying

the Mark Wahlbergs, the Kevin Harts, the Diddies, I love to study people in every genre of life that have made a big, you know, a big splash, right?

Not just, you know, me and business and network marketing entrepreneurship, but when you study successful actors, musicians, serial entrepreneurs, you know, tech startup guys,

you break it down.

It's always the same thing.

It's always the same fundamentals.

Talk us through that.

Talk us through how you, I like the great reference you use of Mark Wahlberg because they're opening up another Wahlbergers out here.

The guy has expanded a multitude of franchises.

You wouldn't even know he's an investor in so many different businesses.

Talk us through how you would take somebody like Mark Wahlberg and dissect them.

Talk us through the steps of what you learned from them.

Well, the first thing I do is I look at habits.

And I love to look at people that were not gifted a $5 million or a $10 million trust fund.

Nothing against that.

It's all good.

But I like to look at people

like me.

You want to see the struggle.

Yeah, like I came from a place.

My parents paid for college, but that was about it.

You know, when I got my first company, it was called Vima back in the day.

I took my real estate commission check.

Vima, that's what it was.

I kept thinking Verve in my head.

I'm like, oh, the other people know, they remember that, yeah.

Vima.

You know, the energy drinks and the young people doing all that.

That's when we first, I mean, that was when we first ran into each other way, way back in the day.

This is like 10 years ago, man.

Long time, dude.

This is, yeah.

Listen,

in the early days of network marketing, there were few and far between when it comes to guys under the age of 30 pushing.

quality products or at least pushing something that could change your life.

I'll never forget, I walked into a room somewhere in like Long Beach, California, and you were on stage talking about how you just got like a brand new BMW or a brand new, some brand new car.

And I'm like, who the fuck is this kid?

Who is this guy with this shiny ass smile just like glowing on stage?

And I pulled you aside and we started having a conversation.

And I just remember thinking, this is years ago.

I remember thinking, I don't know what he's going to be doing with this company, but I'll tell you, in a couple of years, that kid's going to be somewhere different.

I appreciate that.

No, I mean, it's energy.

And I 100% believe what you're saying because some people, when you come into contact with them and you make that initial eye-to-eye contact, you make that handshake and you feel that energy.

It doesn't, people keep thinking, it's like, what are your first words, impressions?

It has nothing to do with it.

You connect with somebody, you look them in the eye, you get a great handshake, and it's like, fuck.

Let's go get a drink.

I want to get to know you.

I don't know what you didn't say a fucking word to me.

I haven't heard anything.

Let's just chat.

And I feel like people need to start relying more on those organic feelings internally instead of thinking more about who is this person?

What do they do?

What's their net worth?

What can they provide for me?

What can I do for them?

It's too inorganic.

And I don't think that enough relationships are built off quality connections like that enough.

Yeah, it's our intuition.

It's one of the higher mental faculties.

You know, it's like you can feel, like you said, you can meet someone and I can tell whether they're a good guy or a bad guy or they have malice, they have evil within them.

Or you can meet someone and be like, yo, they got great energy.

Like they're, what they're saying out of their mouth, they believe it to be true.

Especially in today's world with social media and, you know, the YouTube and the Instagram and the TikTok, there's a lot of fake gurus.

You know, let me teach you how I made 100 grand, selling people how to make 100 grand, all this BS, right?

So you're right, man.

Intuition and energy is everything.

But, you know, going back to what you asked about, you know, Wahlberg or Kevin Hart, I look at their, I look at their habits, right?

I like to look at who they were before success.

And then you just reverse engineer.

Yeah, I remember meeting Gary Vee for the first time.

My God,

I don't know, eight, ten years ago before he was, he was at, we actually shared the same stage before Gary Vee became Gary Vee.

It was crazy.

I think our CEO paid him like close to nothing to come speak.

And now I just did an event in Miami and we reached out to his people.

And I'm thinking

400 grand to come speak out of state, out of New York.

That's insane.

We didn't do it.

But the point is, and I remember talking to him backstage, man,

and always he always one he told me a lot of things but he said if you want to get wealthy go somewhere that's going to be trending and popular and and really amazing down the road get there before everybody else does and wave the flag

um and i think that's something that all these listeners can do is like you know you're sitting there it's 2023 you know shit's hitting the fan to say the least and the governments and the politics you know politicians and the world right now you're you're hungry you're listening to this show like i want to do what these guys are doing i want to make money I want to travel the world, I want to do cool stuff, right?

Think about what's going to be trending, not tomorrow, what's going to be trending, what's going to be happening in six months, 12 months, 24 months.

You know, in 2016 in network marketing, I was one of the first people to kind of leave the products, the energy drinks, the supplements, the protein shakes, the, you know, the coffee and the tea and go into financial literacy.

And everybody told me I was crazy, nuts, your career is going to be over.

You're joining some basically startup company with some nobody from Vegas slash New York.

It's not going to work.

And that's been, this has been the biggest, you know, grand slam home run Super Bowl of my entire career.

So I think sometimes you got to not listen to everybody else's opinion.

And like you said, focus internally, focus in your intuition, right?

Because energy, you can feel it, man.

And you can feel where the world is going, where attention is going.

And if you can get there with everybody else, you can definitely have a lot of success in whatever you want.

Speak that shit to the core.

You've had massive success with network marketing and you've made tens of millions off it.

Why do you think that space gets a lot of hate?

It gets a lot of hate.

I would say, okay, a lot of reasons to be honest.

And I can laugh at this because I'm like, you know, the number one under 35, like, you know, ever, very respectfully and humbly, but it's just, it is what it is, right?

People do it wrong.

They go out there and they tell you, hey, man, you're going to, you're going to be a millionaire in 90 days.

And it's like,

no, you're not.

You know what I mean?

So I think people market it wrong,

false expectations.

And they tell people, you know, go just talk to two people a day.

Go talk to two people a day.

And, you know, two turns into four, four will turn into eight, eight into 16, 32, 64.

And it's like, dude, if I go back in 2011, when I started in network marketing, when there was no young people, it wasn't sexy, it wasn't hype, it wasn't cool, I was doing

four meetings a a day,

every single day, getting told no after no after no after no after no.

My first presentation, I'm in Arizona State and I call up 50 of my friends.

I'm like, yo, seven o'clock tomorrow night, be at my house.

We're all going to get rich.

You got to be there.

25 out of 50 tell me they're going to show up.

Seven o'clock rolls around and 10 people show up in my front door.

Out of the 10 people, I'm doing my presentation, six out of the 10 get up during my presentation and walk out the damn door.

Okay.

A couple said you're going to jail.

It's a pyramid thing.

You know, whatever, right?

Four stay throughout the whole presentation.

Out of the four, two say no, two say maybe, one size, one signs up, the other one does.

So one person enrolled.

And we turn, you know, one guy and me basically at ASU into 96,000 people over the next,

you know, four and a half years.

So my point is, like, people go out there and they promote it wrong, wrong, they market it wrong, false expectations.

And there's a lot of also crap companies.

People launch, you know, you could, we can launch an MLM tonight in our basement.

Right.

We can have the Ari gold coin and tell people 400%

in 30 days and start a company and, you know, and then, and then, you know, poop it's the fan.

It's just, it's tough, you know.

So, and it makes people like me and people I work with, it's a lot more difficult now because so many people have been blindsided and, you know, not a good experience in network marketing.

And I get it.

You know, I'm not out there saying MLM's perfect.

Dude, it's not perfect.

Do I believe it's the best overall balanced opportunity for people around the world?

Sure, I believe that.

Of course, I believe that.

But, dude, there's a lot of positives and there's a lot of negatives.

I think network marketing, you get the best of people and you get the worst of people.

No doubt about it.

Agreed.

Do you believe in fake it till you make it?

I saw you post about this.

Yeah.

Fake it till you make it.

I kind of switch that and I go into act as if so i think there's a difference because i look back when i was 21 i'm paying 550 a month rent at asu and i get a hold of uh you know mentors and they're telling me fake it till you make it you know act as if blah blah blah i when i tell people i i felt like a millionaire when i was broke i i did

and i wasn't being fake but i was living from the end in mind like i had my i had the idea i wrote down on a piece of paper at 21 i'm so happy and grateful now that i'm a millionaire before my 25th birthday.

True story, right?

And I was living as that person.

I would walk, I would be in parties and I would enter, someone would say, hey, my name's Sarah.

I would say, hi, my name's Millionaire, you know?

And I'm telling you because I believed it to my core.

And when we met, wherever we met in Long Beach, dude, I wasn't a millionaire in my first company.

I made a million bucks in my first company, but I didn't have a million dollars in my first company, but I felt it.

I breathed it.

I slept it.

I ate it.

Like that, that was it.

So I think there's a difference between, you know, faking faking it till you make it and acting as if.

You know, if you go out there and you rent a Urus and you rent this house and you're telling people you bought the car

and you bought the house and you rent models for a rented boat, dude, you're full of, you're full of, you're full of it, man.

But you can be, you know, before you're a jersey company, at some point subconsciously, you had to believe you were going to build an empire.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

From day one, I knew.

That's what I'm saying.

It's a knowing.

So when I think you meet someone that really built it with their hands and they say, I felt as if I was already there, I think there's a big difference between some punk kids out there in Miami BSing, faking it till you make it, and somebody, you know, like you or me or whoever that's really acting as if and beginning with the end.

I can only laugh because out of the years that we've been around in the space.

There's so many different imitators and so many different people that try to cut, copy, paste, and do that that whole but again it all comes back to energy like you can do great on on the online thing you can you can paint a great image and a great portrayal of yourself but when people meet you in person

most people get a sense of i don't know about this cat like i i and every time thank god i've listened to my intuition because when i encounter people like that If I ever just get that kind of,

I might have indigestion right now.

I gotta go to the bathroom.

Right.

It doesn't matter like if I'm right or wrong.

I just follow the feeling.

And it's nothing against the person.

It's just if you give me a weird vibe or any type of, you know, feeling that doesn't feel organic or like force, like you're trying to achieve something.

Yeah.

I want it.

I won't, bro, I won't, uh, I won't entertain it.

It's just not, it's not worth my time and it doesn't feel like something that's valuable for me to do.

So nowadays, it's really become a thing of like, I'm sure for you, conserving conserving your energy for people who are protecting your energy.

And right now, I feel like, especially nowadays with all this, you know, fake shit going on in our minds,

for guys like you, it's so important to protect that image and that brand integrity.

So my most important question is, how have you seen the

basically, how have you protected your image in a sense where your brand integrity has never been questioned?

Yeah.

It's never faltered.

It's never gone through that, ah, he's questionable.

Yeah, I mean, I've been the, you know, the work ethic guy, the positive attitude guy.

You know, I went through a lot of, I went through hell.

When my first company shut down, I left about 10 days before it shut down and I didn't know.

The old CEO, BK, and I joke about it now because he's like, you know, people really think you knew that we were going to get shut down.

And it's like, dude, there's no way in hell.

Like, they're not going to tell me.

They want to kill me.

Right.

So

when that happened, man, I never felt hate in my life like I felt for that six to 12 months.

You know, you're the reason why it shut down.

There's 300,000 people that don't have a quote job now because of you.

You know, somebody tweeted at me.

I hope you die

in a car crash with your family.

Peace.

And I went through some tough times, man, anxiety attacks.

You know, I don't know if I was depressed, but I mean, it was.

Just fucking, it was brutal, man.

So for me, I've always just, you know, keep the brand the way it is.

I just always kept it real um that's why i've gotten a lot of like like i said i'm i'm hated over here and i'm loved over here in my space because i i don't know i feel like sometimes i may i i've in my past i've made other leaders look bad because i'm the one doing you know i was touring non-stop around the world from pushing a private propeller plane out of a barn in paraguay to doing home meetings in Beverly Hills.

Like I've Lagos, Nigeria, South Africa, Ecuador, Peru.

I mean, I've been all over the planet.

And I think a lot of people are just like, oh man, like, screw that guy, screw that kid, because they're over here trying to lead a team, but their people are watching my videos.

They're like, this Alex guy is nuts, man.

He's over there just doing it over and over and over and over and over again.

So for me, the reason why I've had a sustained career since 2011 and I've just, you know, won at a high level, obviously the grace of God, but, you know, people just know with me, you know what you're going to get.

I pride myself on being the same person in front of 5 million people on a podcast or, you know, chopping it up one-on-one with my cousins, you know, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hanging out, playing FIFA.

Right.

You know, and I think a lot of people,

I don't know, I feel like people have like masks.

Oh, yeah.

And I just, I just, I just keep it real.

And I think a lot of that, honestly, because the people that I look at as mentors now since Bob passed away, you know, Ed Milette, Grant Cardone, Rob Deerdick, some of these people, I feel like they're who they say they are.

And I've been with, with, you know, these people behind closed doors.

Dude, they're just normal, normal guys.

He dropped a random name in there.

I was not going to see coming, Rob Deardick.

Yeah.

Go back.

I know he's a beast.

I've been back to my event in Miami.

We connected.

His wife was in network marketing for a while.

We met at a blackjack table 2013, 14, and just kind of built, you know, just a relationship, friendship.

He's a busy guy.

We don't talk all the time, but

he'll text me back.

And

he's just a stud and when i say stud you know now being 33 married and all that when i look at someone to model myself after they got to have everything yeah there's plenty of people out there with a hundred million dollars and they got to take depression medication in the morning because they're unhappy and i've gone through enough you know made 2 million you know lost it all you did bad you lost 300 grand in this crypto deal made money here you know i i've done the whole ups and downs deal now for 13 years as an entrepreneur to where i now feel like happiness really is that that golden ticket, that golden key.

Money is very important.

I talk a lot about money because you need money to be happy.

I believe that.

Well, money's not going to make you happy.

Well, it's like, okay, dude, it's being broken to make you happy.

However, it's got to be health.

It's got to be money.

It's got to be the relationship, husband, father.

It's a fine balance.

You got to, you know, to me, you got to have it all, man.

I know a lot of people, you know, throw shade at some of these names that I've mentioned, but to me, they have it all.

And that's who I choose to kind of emulate after.

Yeah, man.

100%.

One thing you're very well versed is is human psychology because you were mentored by Bob Proctor.

One statement I saw you made online was, you believe most humans are negative and pessimistic.

Is that true?

You still believe in that?

The average person walking around Las Vegas, I would say is probably negative and

pessimistic.

In our circles, in our rooms, there's a lot more optimism about the future, about the present.

But the average guy and girl walking around town, man,

I would say they're negative because they're beat down at their job.

They're beat down at home.

Inflation's up.

You know, the kids are screaming.

They're fighting over the mortgage payment and the bills.

Life's just not.

Life's just not.

Most people are not out here winning heavy.

Most people are not out here getting heavy wins every day.

They're going to nine-to-fives.

They're getting beat up.

They're going in the same fucking constant motions, repetitive after the same, bro.

Waking up, kids crying, like you said, going to work and then coming back home, dealing with bullshit.

Like, there's a lot of stuff in this world that I am thankful for.

And one of them is just not having to deal with a boss.

Like, for me, and

granted, I don't want the statement to get blown out of proportion because the world needs workers.

Like,

that's like people need to understand not everybody can be an entrepreneur.

It takes a certain amount of something.

And

I haven't helped as many as you, that's for damn sure.

But I've definitely helped my fair share of people get to that next stage.

And

the number one thing that I always hear back is that, holy shit, I didn't know it was going to be this hard.

I didn't know it was going to, like, yeah, nine to five is a safety net.

That's a cushion.

If you want to take that blue pill, great.

You want to break free,

switch it up, but understand that there's consequences.

There's no boss when shit goes wrong that you can go complain to.

You are the boss.

You're the worker.

You're the shipping guy.

You're HR, you're fucking your maintenance.

you're everybody.

You're all in one and you're the only person dealing with it.

So if you can't handle that certain level of stress, might not be for you.

But for the people that can and you

think that you really believe that you deserve more and you deserve better in the world, take the shot.

Yeah.

Take your shot, man.

And people are pessimistic because go to school, get good grades.

Go to college, get good grades.

If you can't afford college, take out a student loan.

Graduate, go get a job.

And you're going to work 40 hours a week for 40 years of your life.

And someone else is going to tell you when to go to the bathroom, when you can take your own family on vacation.

Now, I tell people, if you have a job in 2023,

there's some gratitude associated with that because AI is knocking people out left and right.

However, if you want to have freedom at some point in your life before age 72, You got to have a side hustle.

You got to learn new skills.

You got to get the mind right.

You got to get off your ass and you got to get to work.

I love that.

How can people stop comparing themselves to others?

Because I feel like that's a natural instinct.

I used to struggle with this.

I'm not sure if you did, but I feel like a lot of people.

Absolutely.

I still do.

I still do, man.

I'll come out and say that.

Yeah.

I mean,

you know, when I got into, you know, 21 years old, getting started in, you know, sales, leadership, marketing, I'm comparing myself to people that are making 40, 80, 100 grand a month.

There was a guy in a coffee company making a million dollars a month.

And I remember the moment I stopped just comparing, because

when I compare myself to somebody, I'm going to take their strengths versus my weaknesses.

It's not even fair.

So I remember sitting in this room.

I'm never shaking this man's hand, but I spoke on a panel at this event.

He got up on stage and did the big keynote and he talked about making a million dollars a month.

And everybody around me, around my same age, they're like, you know, he's special.

He's the only one doing it.

It ain't going to happen for me or you.

And I'm sitting there for the first time, instead of just comparing my weaknesses to his strengths, I said, you know what?

If he can do it, I can do it too.

So in that moment, I stopped comparing and I started to learn.

I wrote down every word this guy said and I said, you know what?

Million dollars a month is the target.

Million a month, million a month, million a month, million a month, million a month.

And the company I was in at the time, A million a month didn't even exist in the compensation plan.

But again, when you sit out to go do something, you don't have to know how it's going to happen.

You just have to know what's going to happen.

So I watched this guy talk in 2014 and I hit a million a month.

I don't know.

I think it might have been 2020.

Wow.

So I wrote it down and I saw it.

And at that moment, I said, me and him, we are the same.

Right.

We, we, because we all are the same.

We are, again, spiritual beings living in a physical body.

And at the end of the day, 24 hours, we're all made in the, in the image of God.

You know, someone may call God a different name, but at the end of the day, man, we're all coming from the same source.

I think that that doesn't mean it's true, but my perspective is we're all coming from the same creator at the end of the day.

And if you can do it, I can do it.

Anybody watching this show, you can do, you see someone go do something, you can do the exact same thing.

It's awesome.

Did your life change when you became a millionaire?

I mean, shit, yeah.

I think so.

Last time I checked, the car got a little comfier.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I mean,

I had a three-series BMW, and then it was a six-series BMW.

So it was a BMW, right?

It was.

It was.

All right, I did remember.

I was getting a car program.

No, I just.

Bro, this is how long I've

been almost a decade.

No, it's crazy.

It's the circle of life, my friend.

It's universe and energy, and I always believe that good people always find their way back to each other.

This is how it works.

But keep going by the cars.

Yeah, and then

it was a wraith.

So my buddy Roman out in San Diego,

he's Floyd's car guy.

And he's like, hey, I know you were talking about a Rolls-Royce.

You know, Mayweather's got like, you know, 17 of them or whatever.

He hasn't even, he's driven this one like twice.

He wants to get rid of it at a discounted thing.

If you can send me the wire by like Monday, I think I was leaving Nobu in Miami.

I remember texting my money guy and I sent the wire and we picked up a Wraith and that was cool.

And now I have a truck because the Rolls-Royce truck because.

you know, a kid's going to be on the way probably next two,

three years.

Two, three years or so.

No, not this.

It's on the way.

It's processing, right?

We're child-proving the house just in case.

Yeah.

So

my life definitely changed, man.

I was able to do nice things for my family.

You know, I owe a lot of my success to my mom and dad.

And I believe like every next generation should push the family forward.

So my parents did exceptionally well for who they were.

You know, my mom's parents came from Armenia, the genocide.

My grandparents come here with, you know, know, $2 and they're sewing buttons for a dollar a button in New York City.

They put five kids through college.

My dad's side, my dad's parents' parents were Holocaust survivors.

So I come from like, and I, I, I get, I, I tap into this sometimes when people say, Alex, how do you still stay motivated and inspired?

And, you know, going on a 10-country tour all through Europe and busted your ass till two in the morning, like you're good.

You don't have to work anymore.

I tap into

how I'm even here today.

And this is a little bit deeper, but I feel like in today's world, it's so surfaced, people should get deep.

And I tap into like my great-great-grandparents or, you know, almost got murdered in Europe, you know, from, you know, Hitler and the Nazis.

And my other side, they were watching some of their kids get, you know, bayoneted,

watching babies get bayoneted, you know, through their brains

and escaping murder and all that.

And then two generations later, I'm sitting here.

It's like, dude, I owe it to the past to make something of myself and to take care of family, right?

So I held that.

I still hold on to that today, but you know, becoming a millionaire, yeah, man, life, life definitely got, it got better.

Um, but when you make a million, you quickly realize it's not as much money as you once thought

with taxes

with mom and dad, with different things, with cars.

It's like traveling, you know, it's once you take care of the shit that you always wanted to take care of.

You look down, you're like, oh, 20 grand.

How did I?

that?

What happened?

Right?

That's what I was doing.

My first million went like this.

Yep.

Like a fuck me, man.

I didn't even, I could, I didn't know.

It was a $1.4 million bonus check.

Wow.

And I looked at it and I was like, this isn't real life.

The first thing I did, I called my jeweler.

I said, I want to buy this watch that I never thought I could obtain.

And

it was a fucking Paul Newman Daytona.

And he didn't have it.

He sold it to some super,

super, much richer guy than me at much more than I was going to pay for it.

But he gave me my day just

and wisely was like, hey, you have all this cash here.

You should give me some of it, and I'll give you gold.

Okay.

And this was

two years ago, maybe?

Like, gold was like maybe $1,200, something like that.

I was like, I mean, I don't own any gold, but all right, cool.

I'm like walking out of his office like a fucking kilo bar.

Like, what do I do with this now?

He's like, go put it in a bank.

Like, go stash that shit.

And luckily, that was that was the only way that out of all the money that I spent on, you know, I helped my parents build a house and do all this other shit.

The only money that's left is that watch and that bar.

Wow.

And that's it.

Gold's a big thing.

We've got some gold, too.

I'm hoarding gold.

Gold and silver.

Yep.

If you guys are really smart, stop buying up platinum.

Wow.

Okay.

Platinum is so over,

it's an oversight.

Nobody really looks at platinum, even though it's much more valuable than gold.

And it's also used for great semiconductors.

But platinum bars are the best way to retain value in a small compact.

Like a bar of gold, a kilo of gold, I think, is $65,000.

A kilo of platinum is like 200K.

Wow.

Something like that.

I could be wrong on those stats.

Around that kind of jump, it's a lot.

So when I look at platinum Swiss bars, anything like that, or even if you're smart, you start hitting up, do the Gary Vee method, start hitting up

like auctions where people are foreclosing on their homes.

Some people just have collector coins.

Some of these collector coins, like graded, can go upwards of 50, 60, 70, 80, $100,000.

Jeez.

Yeah.

I've been getting into weird, nerdy shit lately.

Yeah.

But precious metals is big.

That's a topic talks a lot about.

Precious metals mixed with nostalgia, like American nostalgia.

That is.

Especially with the dollar crushing now, it's getting a little nerve-wracking.

Well, a lot of people are going back into collecting old American coins, like old pennies made of copper, like old, you know, dimes made of real silver, silver quarters, half dollars, shit like that.

Bro, that I think once, and listen, all speculation, don't listen to the Jew.

I don't know anything.

I think eventually we will just hyperinflate the dollar to the point where it becomes nothing.

I think that we'll have a whole rebirth of a wealth class and the people that are stashing up

precious metals.

The big one, I think, is really going to be farmland.

I think it's going to be livestock.

I think there's going to be a whole commodity shift to where, oh, you got chickens?

Bet, son.

Tray me some eggs for some meat and I'll give you some gold.

Man, if we get to that point, it's going to be scary.

Yeah, I don't know.

But I just think either that or digitize.

It's one of two ways.

But

you even see that happening now in the South, like where my parents live there are a lot of people that are already bartering and and doing trade for services for product and goods like one of our handymen comes over does the does the lawn uh takes care of uh a bunch of the chicken feed and like stuff with the goats a bunch of shit and in exchange like my dad will work on his truck for him because we have a car lot like he has a mechanic and everything so instead of him paying fucking thirteen hundred dollars to get it's like all right i'll just do this shit for a couple months yeah

alex it's been a pleasure man any Any closing comments and where people can find out more about you?

Yeah, I guess, you know, only thing in closing, I would tell people if they're watching this, you know, whatever your dreams are, whatever your goals are, just know that you really can obtain them.

And a lot of times on your road to success, on your journey, on your process, you know, you're going to encounter a lot of naysayers, a lot of haters, a lot of people that try to knock you off course.

And I think in 2023, it's super important to be focused,

do personal development.

You know, I think this gets overlooked a lot.

People think, oh, I'm just going to scroll on Instagram all day and I'm going to grow myself.

But the truth is, if I didn't read Think and Grow Rich, if I didn't read You Squared, if I didn't spend the money to go to Tony Robbins' events and walk on fire, if I didn't spend the money to build relationships with people like Grant and the late and great Bob Proctor, you know, that's where you really gain the strategy and the blueprint to go out there.

and win.

So I think after watching this show, man, make an action plan.

You know, write down, get clear on, hey, what do I really, really want?

Not what Ari wants, not what Sean wants, not what Alex drives today.

What do I really want?

Know what you want.

Get clear on it.

Figure out, hey, who am I going to listen to?

Who am I going to really tap into?

Because right now, man, there's a lot of these gurus, fake gurus, good gurus, all these different people saying they're all multi-multi-cajillionaires, right?

Look at people with real, tangible

results, make that plan, and then and then get busy.

And do not underestimate what you can accomplish between now and the end of the year.

And people got to stop waiting.

People say, someday I'm going to start that business.

Someday I'm going to go out there and retire my mom.

Someday I'm going to get in better shape and better health.

Make today that day.

Someday's not a day in the week.

You know, take action now and go out there and make it happen.

Love him.

Alex, we can't thank you enough, brother.

Always a pleasure.

Appreciate it.

Sean, tell them where to.

Oh, I'll go.

Ari Gold, E.T.H.

Sean.

Sean Mike Kelly, Digital Social Hour.

I'll see you guys next week.

Peace.