Zaya Younan: He Owns More Castles Than Kings And Says Nicotine Keeps Him Young | DSH #1584

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Okay, guys, we got Zaya here today. Runs a $7 billion company called the Union Company.
Came here with $25 at age 13. Thanks for your time today, man.
Pleasure to be here.

Yeah, you've lived quite the life. You know a lot.
You also own 2,000 patents. Yeah, worldwide.
Yes. Yeah, number three in the world.

Number three in the world for the most used patent in the actual application. Like, for example, one of the patents I invented back in 84 was the airbag crash sensor.

So the concept of airbag and automotive, I developed it. Wow.
And today, every automotive in the world has it. First was driver's side, now you have driver passenger side.

Now even you have airbags in the backseat. So you're a visionary, but you're also an operator too, because you run a lot of companies.

Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm an engineer by degree, but it was a field that I was very good at it. I knew I wanted to design and create things.

But when you're successful in creating things, then you grow to the organization. You get involved in manufacturing.
You get involved with operation, marketing.

And then at the age of 27, I was a president of Osmobile Division, which to this day is the youngest president ever. created in this 100 years old company.
Wow.

So you had success pretty quick when you came here. Yeah, it took a lot of hard work.
You know, for me, it wasn't quick, you know, because you have to walk the road. But

time-wise, it was very fast. Yeah, 13 with $25 coming from Iran, right? Yes, I'm a Christian, Assyrian.
I was born in Tehran, Iran.

And at the age of 13, I decided to come to the United States by myself. And I did.
You know, I was the son of a truck driver. So I had to do everything myself.
So I did it.

I came to the United States.

I was blessed. I became educated and I started working

for other people first. And then I started a couple of my own companies.
I launched into the huge enterprises and today we are seven billion dollars global.

We have operation in 38 cities, seven countries with 27,000 employees. Wow.
And you also own the most castles in the world. Yeah, more than any other kings.
Don't try that.

Too much headache, too much pain. Seriously.
A lot of maintenance, right? Unbelievable. You know, when your window breaks here, right, you call a window man to replace it.

If your castle window, because it's a government historical monument, you have to call a couple engineering firms to replace your window. Jeez, but you love the history of the buildings.

That's what I love it. I love history.
And I think history played a big part in me staying balanced because as you are successful, you grow in life.

You sometimes become complacent. You sometimes change the way that got you where you are.
So I wanted to always be balanced. I want to.

uh make sure i never forgot where i come from uh because it was a terrible childhood you know uh as As a child, there were days that I didn't have anything to eat. Wow.
And I wanted to stay humble.

So history, I always reflect back. And history is something that has always interested me.
Yeah, we were talking out there. You got in a lot of fights as a kid, too, right? Yeah, you know,

I was a Christian, a little bit lighter skinned than an average Iranian. So we were minorities and I live in a very bad neighborhood.
So obviously, I kiss peck on you. And

sometimes you have to defend yourself. So you get into a lot of fights.

yeah to be honest which is funny sean i never said this to anybody this is the first time i've seen it on your podcast that was the the reason that i said i'm gonna leave iran to go to america wow because i was sick and tired of fighting can you imagine a 12 13 years old kid goes to school and he knows he's gonna be forced to fight couple times i mean talking about bullying but not that i blame it on bullying i don't care about it but you just get tired of fighting all the time right yeah as a kid so you say you know enough is enough i want to go someplace that is more civilized.

Yeah. And I love what you said out there.
You brought your kid to the hood to play some basketball. Yeah, I did.
You know, my kids grew up different than I did, obviously.

And I wanted to make sure they're balanced. And my youngest kid,

he's an accomplished Division I basketball player. And when he was a kid, he was trained many hours a day, right? Because we knew he loved basketball and we knew he could be a great basketball player.

He had the body, he had the mind, and he had the soul, the heart. So he had a coach that used to play for Clippers.
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He was retired.

He was training this guy for 15 years. So one day he said, you know, there is one element about your son that we need to improve.
We need to put him in karate or boxing class. I said, what is that?

He said, he's not tough, right? When he plays in the court, other kids,

they're tough. They grew up differently.
And I noticed that he gets scared. He shy away from them.
He gets intimidated by them. So I said, how are we going to fix this?

He said, well, let's put him in karate or boxing or something like that. I said, no, let's do something different.
Let's go pick a worst neighborhood in Los Angeles, Compton, and take him to Compton.

And don't let him play with kid his age. At that time, he was 15.
Let him play with grown man in Compton.

And he said, oh, Mr. Yonan, I tell you, I can't guarantee safety.
I said, yeah, you can. You're a big guy.
Guarantee safety. He says, but they might hurt him.
I said, don't worry about that.

And the funny thing, the first time he did this, he was wearing a white uniform. When he got there, I was on there.
It was with his coach.

30 minutes into the game, one of the players, 34 years old, breaks his nose. Jeez.
And blood, of course, gushing all over his white uniform, you know. And the coach got really scared.
He FaceTime.

He said, oh, something happened. I said, just relax.
What happened? He said, look at your son. He's bleeding.
I can't stop the blood in his nose. I think his nose is broken.

Should I take him to the emergency? I said, no. Let him finish the game.
Let him finish the game. If, you know, his blood's going to stop.

You know, I had my nose broken many times times when I was a kid. His blood's going to stop.
Let him finish the game. He finished the game, and he said he exploded after that.

He was all over the court. He wasn't intimidated by these big guys.
He wasn't afraid of them. And he was actually challenging them.
Wow.

So it was a great lesson for my kids, and I'm glad I've done it. I love that.
Tough love, right? I hope people don't come and

call an abuse case for my kids, right? But it was a tough love, but it made him. He plays Division I basketball.
He's a great kid. He's fit.

He's into basketball from morning to night and uh i love to see my kids to be passionate about something you know shawn i always wonder how could a person living in this world not be passionate about one thing or several things right yeah so passion that i had when i was a kid you know i grew up hungry i mean there were times we didn't have food to eat in a day right so hunger was my passion i i was i was determined to change that right but when we live in america thank god everything's provided to us right And

there aren't that many things that stimulate you to bring your extraordinary effort out.

And the only thing that can keep that light on is a human self-produced passion.

From the time you get up in the morning, you're passionate about something to the minute you go to sleep at night.

If you have that, you'll be successful and you can build a 10, 20, 30 billion dollars company. And it's something that I see some people have it and some don't.

And it's very easy for every human being to develop that

blessing, to develop that capability within themselves. As a parent, were you trying to instill passion into your kids? As a parent, I was very concerned because I have five kids.

They had everything in the world, right?

And that was my big concern. I said,

These kids grew up totally different than me. So if they grew up totally different than me, they are going to be different than me.
But to what degrees?

I'm 63 years old. I still work 10, 12 hours a day.
Would they want to work? Would they want to try? Would they have any desire? Would they have any passion? Right?

So my 16 years old, when he became

a driver, when he got his driver's license, you know, he wanted a car and we want him to have a car because we got sick and tired of taking him to school and back.

So I could have bought him a nice car. I could have bought him any car he wants.
And I asked him, I said, what kind of car you want? He says, anything you want that.

And I had an engineer because one of our big business is commercial real estate.

I had an engineer that everybody used to make fun of him for this old truck. This truck was so old

and so ugly and so damaged that I always told him, I said, don't bring him in our building. It's a respectful building.
People are going to see this truck. What are they going to think about it?

So I said, okay, I'll pick your car. So he says, okay, great.
So I went back to office. I called the engineer.
I said, I want to buy your car.

How much you want for your car? He says, $100.

I said, how about $600? He says, great, you can have it. I took the car.
I took the car and I took it and I didn't fix it. I didn't do anything.
I took it home. And I said to my son, sit down.

This is your car, right? So he said, Dad, great. Thank you for buying this car for me.
Appreciate it. But how do you put the windows down?

Because he had to crack the windows on and he really didn't know that. And at that time, I knew I did the right thing.
Wow. He didn't complain.
He did not complain at all.

Matter of fact, he would get up, wash it. It was such an ugly truck that he had to wash it, wax it, trying to make it look as pretty as he could.
But I'm glad I did that because

I wanted him to know that if you're going to have anything good in this life, the best way is to get it yourself, not someone hand it down to you. Nothing was ever handed down to me.

Everything I have, I earned it. I had to work for it.
But I want him to be the same.

And, you know, living in a big house and so forth,

how would he develop that? So I enforce it inside of him. Well done.
Well done. So no inheritance, it sounds like.
No, I actually told him

99.9% of our wealth, when I die, when my wife dies, it's going to be gone to somebody else not you guys nothing for you did that piss them off uh not actually you know because it it struck me one day my uh third son at age of 10 he says dad can i ask you how much money you have i said first of all it's none of your business second of all i assure you one thing when i'm gone you will not see any of it wow any of it so start thinking if you care about money start thinking about it now how you're gonna make it yourself, just like I did.

You're not better than I am. You're not better than any other kid.
So go start learning to earn it yourself.

Yeah, because it cycles every three generations, right? Oh, sometimes the second generation.

Sometimes it's kids. Forget about that.
You know, who are the saddest people, most depressed people in the world? Rich people. Right.

I sometimes have a luxury or...

lack of luxury spending too much time with them, right? You could be going to a great restaurant. You could be traveling in a private jet.

You could be sitting in the best hotel in south of France, right? They're the most miserable people on earth because they have no desire. They have everything that they want.

And

I think that's not a blessing. That's the curse.
Yeah. Did you ever find yourself in that mindset when you reached a certain amount of wealth? I did.
I did. And I'll give you a good example.
I became

very wealthy to not only to my patents, to running big companies.

I started three startups myself and I sold them for over $2.2 billion. Wow.
And I was at early age. I was 34 years old and I became complacent.
I started buying many cars. I had 45 cars.

I had 500 watches. I had houses in 32 different cities.
Wow. Right.

And I thought, I earned it. I could buy it.
I'm going to go buy it, and I did.

And part of it was, I think, to bandaid my wounds when I was a kid. As a kid, I didn't have anything.
I remember as a kid, sometimes I used to open a refrigerator.

There was one apple in the refrigerator, but we didn't dare to eat it. We had to wait to dinner.
My mother had to divide it by five pieces for every child to have a piece. Oh my gosh.

So when I get to that stage,

it's even painful thinking about it. I became complacent.
I started not working hard. I start

spending my time buying things. I bought a yacht.

I bought four planes in one afternoon, right?

And then

pretty soon, all of those things that accumulated

that they were supposed to comfort my life, they became pain in the neck for me,

right?

Houses where we,

I bought a couple of houses in Chicago, Dallas, Houston. For six years, I never been into them, right?

But every day I would get a call from the keeper: this is broken, that is broken, we got to fix this, we got to fix that. It became so much headache that it stressed me out.

And I said, look how stupid I am. I was blessed by the Lord to have what I have.
I wasted it on buying things that now are pain for me, issues for me that I have to deal with every day.

And I sold them all at losses, and I went back to my root, and I got closer to the God

and

I started being humble.

I started being humble.

So if you have one body, one butt, why do you need to have two cars? One car should be enough for you.

And so I self-corrected myself very fast. A human has an unbelievable diagnostic capability that you can diagnose yourself, right?

It's funny how few people use it and how many people are not not using it. Because if you use that self-diagnostic blessing that you have, you can see what you do good, you do more of it.

And you can see what you do bad and do none of it or less of it. So again, you have to self-diagnose yourself every day.
Yeah, that self-awareness, some people seem to lack it.

They do. And they lack it in the right way.
Not the wrong way, right? Sometimes people say self-awareness, you know, I'm not making enough money, right?

And that's it. They're not doing anything about it.
They recognize the posts are not making enough money, but they're not thinking of doing anything about it. Or some people say, you know what?

I'm overweight. I don't like it.
Right.

And all right, what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Right.

That is what is difficult for me to understand. Every human being is blessed that he or she could bring the best

version of themselves out.

It's up to them. right

but often majority don't yeah and that's very sad agreed now being 63 you got amazing energy your health looks phenomenal what's the secret man cigars well i tell you something i i i i've been smoking cigars for 40 years and uh uh premium cigars it has to be a good premium cigars not just any cigars is made of natural plant right nicotina plant right and uh natural nicotina plant has a nicotine in it.

CHN, C4, H12, and N2, right?

It's the same compound that you find in the popular vegetables. Tomato, potato, eggplant, cauliflower, green pepper.
So don't freak out, guys. Just Google it.

If you Google tomato, potato, you find out that every tomato and potato in the world has actually same nicotine compound, molecular compound, as cigar has. Wow.
That is fascinating.

And there's a lot of beneficial studies on nicotine these days. Absolutely.

The first study we produced three years ago that using nicotine, natural nicotine, again, natural premium cigar, not any cigar, has to be a good premium cigar, that we don't put any additive on it, we don't put any pesticides on it, we don't put any chemicals on it.

It reduces the progression of dementia, Alzheimer's,

reduced Parkinson's

shakes by as much as 50 to 52%. Wow.

Increase body metabolism,

right? Improve your memory.

A natural nicotine is dielectic. So when you consume it, when you smoke a cigar, because it's dieletic, right?

It dilates all your organ. When the nicotine mix with your blood, it just dilates all your organ.

When all your organ is dilated, when your veins are dilated, oxygen and blood flows easier. reduce tension

reduce body inflammation bore both muscular inflammation and bone structural inflammation and a lot of famous athletes for years have used natural nicotine to enhance their performance michael jordan was one of them really absolutely oh yeah he loves cigars he loves cigars he was smoking it right after he joined the nba

He used to smoke cigar before practice, after practice.

He used to smoke a cigar before game and after game. And he's not the only one.
A lot of athletes have used it. Steph Curry today smokes cigars.

LeBron James smoked a lot of cigars because they have learned, right? They have become sophisticated enough to learn what enhanced their longevity, what enhanced the body performance. And

I smoke six to eight cigars a day. Wow.
No lung issues? No lung issues. It's dieletic.
It flushes the lung. Wow.
It flushes the lung. It's dieletic.

So when you smoke it, it actually dilates everything. Wow.
It washes everything. Where's my mindset on cigar?

I'm 63. I've been smoking for 41 years.
My lungs are fine. Actually, as age of 63, I take no medication at all, right? But I use natural product.
I smoke cigars, eight a day on Saturday, Sunday.

Sometimes I smoke 10 to 12 a day, right?

And I love it. It relaxes me.

It makes my body feel good. I don't eat a lot because it kind of suppresses appetite,

increases your body metabolism. So you don't maintain body water weight or body food weight, right?

So

you can eat normally and it's all good. And I also,

in my level, I spend a lot of time and money researching the today's and tomorrow science to find out what is out there.

because you know the world has become so smart it progressed so much there's so much knowledge right that often we don't use it to years and years years after that past right

we were talking about one just before we start this right where you said you have a specific issue with your body and we said oh my god there is a product sitting right behind you right behind you that somebody obviously gave that to you.

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It increases your metabolism.

It improves man-libido significantly. It does wonders for people.
I mean, this is a product that...

when it existed a year ago, exactly a year ago, I was the first to use it. Wow.
Because I was searching for the product and a couple of scientists said, there is a product being developed.

I said, go find out where is it being developed and bring that product to me. I want it.

And it took me months. I kept saying, what is that product? What do I need to do? How much do I have to pay you? Give me that product.
I want to try it, right?

Because for me, it's very important to stay healthy, right? I want to enjoy my life, right?

And when they brought it, the actual scientist who developed it came all the way from Dominican Republic and he gave it to me. Wow.
He said, this is the first bottle. You'll be the one to have it.

And I've been taking it for a year. And the changes in my body, in the way I function, in the way I think,

I actually sleep less. I feel more alert.
It's amazing, you know? So human has to use these things. You know, when the new vapes comes out, everybody buys one.
And it's terrible for you.

It's harmful for you because it's full of chemical. But the same human, when something good is available, we don't pursue it.

And you should pursue it again self-diagnostics figure out what you need how you can be better and think about action item that gets you there and that's something that if every human being does no matter where they are no matter what class of society they are lower class medium class they could be exactly who they want to be.

I really believe in it because it happened to me, right? A son of a truck driver. My father didn't go beyond second grade.
My mother had no education.

How did I become different?

And I'm totally different than all my siblings, my cousins.

You know, you would presume in 80, 90 members family, if it's in your gene, it would be more than one person, right? Wrong, right? Wrong. I'm the only one different.
Wow.

And the only reason I'm the only one different, because I had a different thought process.

I searched within my soul,

determined what my passion is, and I was committed to do what I need to do

to change my life and improve my life.

So you think it really comes down to an individual basis? I think it's comes down to individual basis and comes up in the way they think, right? Like often I get involved in a podcast.

People ask me, I was at several podcasts recently, you saw them. People asked me, what's the secret for success?

I said, there is no secret. It's something that you already know.
But the question is, how determined are you to make it happen or not? Are you willing to go through that difficult journey?

Are you committed to that difficult journey? Because hard times makes hard individual.

Strong individual. Well, if you're not willing to go through it, you're willing to sit down all day, watch TV, play Nintendo,

then obviously you're not going to get there.

Right? Yeah.

But if you spend your time improving yourself, we go to a gym to improve our body.

What do you do to improve your mind? What do you do to improve the execution of your daily activity?

So they tell me, okay, what should I do? I said, good. Change all your habits.
All of your bad habits. That's the first thing to do.

For all those people that you go pay for all those people to listen to their promotional speeches or tours, or you have to constantly listen to someone to be passionate about something momentarily or wanting something momentarily.

Let me give you a secret and save your money. So you don't have to spend money to go to all those Tony Robbins and all those guys that

they make money by telling you something that you should know. Right.

Something that is common sense. Yeah, motivational speakers.
Actually, exactly. You cannot be a rich person.
I'm richer than Tony Robbins. I've never been to any of his motivational speecher, right?

So why? Because I find the secret, secret. And it's not a big deal, right?

Write down on a piece of paper all of your bad habits. You know, you sleep too late.
You eat too much. You don't exercise.
You don't feel like working.

You spend too much time watching TV, you spend too much time on your iPhone, on your game consoles, right? Write them down and take the top two, say

from tomorrow, I'm not going to do these top two at all.

So, for example, you sleep too late, say, starting tomorrow, I'm gonna wake up one hour earlier, I'm gonna sleep one hour less,

right?

I'm gonna sleep. That discipline, that change

inside of you is going to completely change your character, your ability.

Where you're going to spend that one hour instead of sleeping, looking for a better job or looking for double job, right? I mean, when I was 14 years old, I used to go high school, right?

From morning to 3.30.

After that, I used to come home, eat, do my homework. And at five o'clock, I used to go to work at Denny's as a dishwasher to midnight.
Wow.

And I used to come home, sleep, get up, go to school, right? Do the same thing day after day. Did I like it? No, I didn't.
But did I know that that would help me in the journey to be who I want to be?

It did.

So every day, start changing and reversing and giving up your bad habit. If you're overweight, right? Say, I'm going to do two things.
I'm going to eat half of the plate that I normally eat.

So if you eat two cheeseburgers, eat one. One is more than enough.
Sometimes I see these athletes, they're 6'8, 6'9,

250 pounds. And we go out, if they eat, if you eat hamburger, they pick one.

They don't eat two. They don't eat three.
Just one. One is enough.
Eat it slowly and train your body to think is enough, right? Yeah.

If you're not making enough money, go find a better job.

Go find a better job. If you like your job, you just need extra money, go find a second job.

Right?

Motivate yourself. Psych yourself up to be successful.
This is a formula. You don't need to go read a magazine, read a book, listen to a lot of podcasts, right? This is a formula.

Every day you give up one of your bad habits, you're going to pick a right habit. And every day that you go living to that changes in your habit, you become a different person.

You become smarter, more powerful,

and better executor in designing a life that you really want to live in. I love that.
Would you say with all the success you have now, did you have to sacrifice a lot to get there?

A lot, a lot, a lot.

I remember long ago,

my kids were all in sports. They all played football, basketball.
And my wife says to me, you could, I would go get up, go to work seven o'clock. I come home nine o'clock at night, right?

And my wife said to me, you know, you should get up earlier, come to some of the games. And I said to her, look, if it's a weekend, I come weekdays, I can't have to work, right?

And I have to do what I have to do, right? Even working 12 hours a day is not enough for me these days.

So, well, one day I asked my kids, I said, let me ask you a question. Do you prefer me to come to your games? Or do you prefer me to work and create a better life for you?

Every one of the five says, no, dad, don't come to our game. You can watch it whenever you want on TV.
Continue to working hard.

So I said to myself, if these kids realize the importance of self-improvement, working hard, achieving the things that you never thought you can achieve in life, why I, as a father, grown man, would not believe in that?

Wow.

That's so interesting. Yeah, I grew up in a divorced household and

on my games, only my mom would come, you know and uh

everyone else had both their parents there now two things you can do one thing which was unfair for you to live through that is unfortunate but it happens

should that make you a troubled man because you didn't live through a normal childhood as most other kids do

That's one way of looking at it. You could be sad about it.
You could have psychological problem about it.

Or that could make you a stronger person. Yeah, I choose the latter.
Exactly. And you are who you are.
The world knows who you are. And,

you know, when they said to me, you should go to Sean Kelly, you know, I said, absolutely.

Yeah, it made me want to become a better father, a better husband. Exactly.
So you see, so you took an unfortunate situation and you turned it to a positive reinforcement. Right.

A lot of people are capable of doing that. Everybody's capable of doing it.
But few people do it and few don't. They use it as a psychological problem.
Well, you know, I'm messed up because

this happened to me. I'm messed up because this happened to me.
Well, it's unfortunate that happens. It happens to all of us.
We just don't talk about it, right?

How can you turn it to a positive force? to change your life and to change you as a better person. Yeah, a lot of people get these labels, right?

These mental health labels, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and then they use that as like an excuse.

One day I saw a good friend of mine. He's a, he's a, he's a actually very famous guy, developer.
Yep. And he called me, he said, I want to see you.
And then I went to his house.

I figured something's wrong. And he says, I am depressed.

I said, you are depressed? He said, I'm depressed. And everybody in the world knows this guy.

He's very famous in America.

And I said, you know what your problem is? Why you think you're depressed? He says, no. I said, you don't have enough problem.
That's your problem.

Wow. I turned it around on him.
I said, that's your problem. If you had a lot of problems, it won't give you time for self-pity, pity, self-pity.
Oh, I'm depressed.

You know, I was with this woman and, you know, she cheated on me. It happens.

It's a free country. She cheated on you.
Fine. Let her go.
Find someone better.

Right?

But I said, that's your problem. Your problem is you don't have enough problem.
He said, well, how can I create a problem? I says, good, I'm going to give you a couple right now.

I said, I want you to get out of here right now. I want you to go to this other company we own in Hollywood.
And I want you to do this thing right now.

Look at all the famous movie stars. Look at all the

famous entertainers. Not all of them, but some of them end up

screwing up, drinking too much, using too much drugs, you know,

going to jails. God blessed them with the talent and everything, and they misused it.

And that is something that they were aware of it. They didn't think about it, and they didn't stop it.

Right? So I think everybody should do that. Everybody should diagnose themselves daily basis, you know? Like I weight myself every day.
When I get up in the morning, I weight myself.

When I come home from work late at night, I weight myself. If I find out I'm I'm half a pound more than what I should be for whatever reason, I'm going to skip dinner.
Wow.

I don't care how hungry I am. I'm going to skip dinner.

I'm going to skip dinner.

But to be honest with you, one thing I don't skip smoking is

okay, which is true. I said to my wife, you know, why don't you have a dinner and let me smoke a cigar? I'm not hungry.

So I diagnose myself. When, you know, I get sometimes thousands of emails.

And I have a policy. I never go home at night until I respond to every one of my emails.
Wow.

That might take a while these days. Yeah.
And some of the emails are complicated. It's the operation of the hotel, losing money.
You know,

I mean, you have to look at the P ⁇ L, the balance sheet, right? It takes time. But I said, if this guy wrote me an email, I'm going to respond to him today.

So when he comes to office tomorrow, he sees my response to him. I cannot ask the guy to be responsive to me if I'm not responsive to him.

So you have to build a discipline. When you build that discipline in your life, in your character, in your personality,

then you will see how easy it is for you to achieve your goals that you want to achieve.

Wow. I love that.
So you must deal with some whole lot of stress then. Tremendous amount of stress.
Tremendous amount of stress. Sometimes, to be honest with you, I'm shocked my body can.

I was 63 years old, right? I was born in 1962, right

i should be senior citizen what do they call it aaa yeah you should be retiring yeah i should be taking a boss free right you know i should i should be sitting watching tv but i don't do it but that's okay i'm happy i'm happy i can create things if i was an important person or if i didn't have enough accomplishment in my life you wouldn't ask me to come here to talk to me would you i wouldn't see So I'm being rewarded for it and I'm happy about it.

You ever get burnt out to the point where you can't handle it? I do more now than before.

When I was 27 years old, I was

one of the highest ranked executive in General Motors and

one of the most accomplished

executive in history of General Motors. At that time, they used to take all of the young kids.
They used to put them on rotation program. They used to call it EFS program.

They used to put them in rotation program, send them to Japan to run operation, then after one week send him to Germany, then send him to Belgium, then send him to France.

One week they let him worry about operation, one week they let him worry about design of the new vehicle and on and on and on.

And a lot of the men's my age who were part of this program would get burned out

and would be stressed out.

And

I used to say, what happened to this guy? I don't see him anymore. They say, oh, he quit.
Why did he quit? He was stressed out. He was burned out.

And I used to say at the age of 27, what the hell does stress mean? Seriously, what does it mean? I don't know what it is. I never tasted it.
I never felt it. What is it?

But that was in a younger age, when you are very young and powerful and you are very determined.

As I get older now, I get stressed out. And sometimes I notice

at night when I come home, I just want to sit down, smoke a cigar, have a glass of wine, and chill out.

So there are times now at night, I don't look at my iPhone to answer emails, which dad never existed before. Before, I would constantly look at my iPhone, constantly look at my iPhone.

If somebody sent me an email, it was my policy. I got to respond to them within a minute.

Because he's my worker. If he has a question and I take my time getting back to him, he's on standstill.
He's not doing anything, waiting for the answer. Imagine 27,000 employees.

If you slow him down, it will be like a three-month-long train that it comes to complete halt.

You know? But I get tired now. But again, I improve the quality of life.
I exercise. I take blue scorpion, which, by the way, helps me a lot with managing stress.

And I smoke cigar, which relaxes me completely because natural nicotine compound, the molecular compound, actually reduce inflammation. Inflammation causes stress.
It causes disease. Most disease.

Inflammation is the biggest killer in the world for more than cancer, more than cardiac arrest and everything else. But

the nicotine, again, the national nicotine guys. Now, don't go in, write bad comments.
So before you do that, I want you to Google it.

The tomato that you eat in your salad, in your pizza, in your pasta, the potato, the french fries, the cauliflower, they all have the same nicotine compound, CHO.

that it is in the actual premium cigar. Remember, there is a difference between a good cigar and any other cigar.

So always pick the premium cigar because we take tremendous amount of care in making it. There is a scientific process we use that we took all the impurities out to create the most perfect cigar.

Wow, I can't wait to try one of those. Absolutely.
I got you some outside. Oh, I love it.
Yeah, you've changed my opinion on cigars. Oh, absolutely.

There's many other things that cigar does. It is anti-aging.

Why? Because the nicotine is dieletic, right? When you smoke a cigar, it hits your face, right? It dilates your organs, right? Blood and oxygen flows better, faster. Wow.

Imagine you have a car that oil just doesn't move fast enough to the engine and to the car, to the carburetor and to the entire pistons and so forth, right?

And this is why in the plantation where we make cigars, I have seen guys working at age of 90, 95. Wow.

I have seen guys working in our field 102. And I ask him, I said, how old are you?

He said, 102 do you smoke cigar of course i smoke cigar i see one in his mouth how long you've been smoking cigar 90 years

so it's all of these stupid politician incompetent politician we have in this country and the rest of the world right that they say oh smoking marijuana is good is legal

right but smoking a pure tobacco leaf that comes from the plant, there is no additive in it, no pesticides, no nothing, it's harmful for you, which is wrong. I'm 63 years old.

I've been smoking for 40-some years. And before I die, if they say, Do you have any last word? I say, yes, please put a cigar in my mouth.

Let me take a few draws before I leave this beautiful world with the beautiful cigars in it. Absolutely, yeah.
I think because the cigarette industry has a negative connotation.

Now, I've never tried cigarette. I've never tried cigarettes.
And we do,

from time to time, we've been approached by big cigarette makers for us to buy their company.

So I visited one, Dominic Republic recently, where is the largest cigarette maker in the Dominican Republic.

And I choose not to buy it because I've noticed in this cigarette company and any other cigarette company, there is over 600 chemicals

added to tobacco, including benzene, which is petrol. You put it in your car.
Jeez. This is why when you turn a cigarette on, it never goes off.
It's always on.

You know, because

it's full of petroleum in it, right? So I said, I'm not going to buy this business.

It makes sense to buy it, but I'm not going to buy it because I can't put in people's mouths something that I know is dangerous for them.

So I never smoke cigarette. I will never smoke cigarette.
I never did waves.

I don't do hookah because all of those tobaccos are artificial tobacco, but the pure natural tobacco from a premium cigar that I will do it all day long.

I smoke it, my wife smoke it, my children smoke it, and we smoke it every day.

When I sit with my kids, I love sitting, talking to them, eating with them, and smoking a cigar with them because I get their attention. Otherwise, they eat and they leave.

But if they have a cigar in their hand that lasts an hour, hour and a half, for an hour, hour and a half, you're having a natural conversation.

Natural conversation. And that is unbelievable for me.
But absolutely, look, the best athletes in the world smoke cigars. You think they're stupid? They don't know what they're doing.

They make money with their body. You think they're going to harm their body?

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I met him several times. He has pictured when he was weightlifting in California.
He was doing curls with cigar in his mouth. I love it.
I love that. Yeah, it's powerful, man.

I love what you said earlier. So

you put morals before profits. Of course, it's very important for me.
Look, at this stage of my life,

I give a lot of money to a lot of organizations globally. I don't need to make more money, right?

Because

it doesn't serve any purpose for me. What would more money will do for me now? Right?

Nothing.

I want to do good deeds. So my legacy is remembered, right?

And

a story of my life was never told

because I was too busy working.

But now through a lot of famous digital media,

people like George Enko, Steve Harvey, you,

they're telling a story of my life, which is important for me.

Not for me, because I have enough scars on my face. I don't need to.

remember my scars, but it will tell my children who I am, but not by me, but by someone else.

Yeah, because they won't listen to you. And if they hear something about their father from someone else, they'll never forget that.
Wow. They'll never forget that.
That's powerful.

I think legacy is what is more important for me. And helping people.
I'm glad to do this podcast. I notice you have a lot of young audience that listen to you.
And

I promise each and every one of you, you can be exactly who you want to be. All you have to do is create a new frame of mind and start executing on it.

From now to the rest of your life, pick a habit or something that you do that you know is bad and say, I just won't do it again.

Simple as that. I just won't do it again.

Not only that will improve you immediately because you're not doing something that you shouldn't be doing that is bad for you,

but it will teach your mind

that it's easy

to change yourself it's easy to do the right things and turn your back on the wrong things

powerful like i saw one of my family members a young boy

he's overweight

he's overweight so

He always is very sad. He's sad because he's overweight

and he doesn't know that control is in his hand i mean this is a guy that if you put three triple by triple in front of him he will eat it geez and he's five five wow

so i said so i took his picture and i had somebody in our staff to use ai to change

to change it that if he was half the weight he is right now, now,

right? Because he's 260 pounds, ridiculous. Wow, 5'5? Right.

When I show him that picture, he said, Oh, that's a good-looking guy. Who's that? I said, That's you.

He said, What do you mean? I said, That's you. We use AI to create this image so you see what you would look like if you were 155 pounds.

Now,

you like that? You like that guy? Oh, yeah. You want to be like that? Yeah.

Eat one hamburger. Don't eat fries.

Eat it slowly.

That's all you have to do. You be that guy.
And he's doing it. Nice.
And he's dropping weight like there is no tomorrow. And don't wait to transform yourself to a better version of yourself.

Because every day that you wait is the one day less you have to enjoy the result of it.

So determine what's the best version of yourself and convert yourself to it.

Slowly but surely. Yeah.
But have a discipline that if I stop eating french fries or fried food, I'm just not going to eat it.

Simple as that. There are so many other healthy things to eat.
Yeah.

Do you think being fat is a choice?

In some cases it is, in some cases it isn't, to be honest with you, right?

And it could sometimes it could also come from

medical problems, right?

But if you feel, if you feel that you don't want to be overweight, do something about it.

It's 21st century. There is always a solution for something.
Science has improved so much. So much information these days, especially with AI, you can look up anything.
Exactly, exactly.

So do something about it. Don't sit down, feel bad about yourself that you are slightly over.
First of all,

everybody in this world are beautiful, no matter who you are, what color you are, what you look like. You're all beautiful because you're all created by Lord, great Lord himself, right?

So I look at everybody as a beautiful people. Everybody are beautiful, right? You can never judge human beings because you don't know what they go through.

You don't know how they live their daily life, right?

And you don't know how they have been impacted by...

negative things in their life that cause them to be that way.

So none of that matters. What matters is what you think about yourself.
If you think, you know what, I'm a little bit overweight, maybe not a bad idea for me to lose few pounds, lose it.

If you're overweight, you feel good about it, don't do anything.

Do what you want to do, but make sure when you're doing what you want to do, that the end result has actually benefit for you.

You see what I'm saying? It's a benefit for you. Otherwise, why do it? Yeah.
Sounds like God's played a really big role in your life. Oh, huge.
I'm a

big believer of faith.

I always been.

And

for sometimes for a selfish reason. Really?

Because fate has brought a balance in my life.

Faith has

brought a balance in my life.

Fate

is a boundary

that I try to restrain myself to be within.

Do you believe conscious is a good thing?

Conscious is a good thing. Yeah.
Right? Yeah. You think conscious is a good thing, right? So if you get mad at someone and you break their heart, pretty soon later you feel bad.

Look, I should have done that. Maybe I should go apologize and never do it again, right?

You know for me, what conscious is? Voice of God.

When I do something wrong,

When I do something wrong that my conscience bothering me is the Lord talking to me that, hey, Zia, you just said something wrong. You broke that guy's heart.
You need to go fix it.

The day you feel you have no conscious

is the time that God has forgotten you. Wow.
That God doesn't talk to you anymore. So every human being should have a conscious.

Because that's the only communication line we have. with Lord himself.
Without conscience, sometimes we are like animal.

We do the things that we shouldn't do. Right, psychopaths.
Exactly. With the conscious, to maintain that communication with Lord Himself,

he keeps us balanced.

Isaiah, don't get into cigarette business. You will make millions and billions, but you can also create a lot of diseases for young kids.
That's the conscious.

God is telling me that. Otherwise, what is conscious? How can you explain what conscious is?

That's the only way I have learned to understand a significant of conscious and the true meaning of a conscious. I love that explanation.
Yeah, we all have that inner voice, right?

You'd be surprised some people don't. Sometimes I tell you, in my office, I walk to somebody's office.
They all work for me. Everything's paid by me.
The tables, the chairs, the pens.

And I'm signing something and I walk to my office. I realize I took her pen.

It's not her pen. technically, it's my pen.
You know, I pay for it. But also, if she loses it, she gets another pen that I will pay for it.
But I make it to turn around, go back.

I said, I'm sorry, Jennifer, I took your pen. Here's your pen.

She said, Mr. Yonan, this is your pen.
I said, no, but it was in your hand in your office. And I felt bad taking it to mine.
So I want to give it back to you.

Because I don't want consciously that every time I look at that pen, I say, oh my God, this is Jennifer pen. What does it do in my office?

Right? So conscious,

Sean, has brought balance in my life.

I think human without conscious

could behave terribly and become animal.

Sometimes on the M ⁇ A, mergers and acquisition, I could take over the company.

I could take over a $500 million company for nothing.

And then I go say, do I really need this money? I go back to owner, I say, you know what? I was going to buy your company from bankruptcy, but I'm not going to.

I tell you what you've been doing wrong. You've been doing all these things wrong.
Fix that right now.

And I'm going to fund you, pull you out of the bankruptcy.

So you can turn this profitable and pay me back. And you can leave the company for your family.
Wow.

And somebody says to me,

My attorney, why did you do that?

Do you know that guy? Why did you do that? I said, I didn't do it for him. I did it for myself.
To make myself feel good by doing a good deed.

Wow. So you're willing to walk away from hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

How would that impact my life differently? Would I wear a better suit? Would I eat a better dinner? Would I fly a better aircraft? No.

No. And I tell you something.
If you leave too much money for your kids, it will become a burden, a headache, a disease, and it will ruin your family after you're gone.

I'm sure you've seen it many times with your friends. All the time.
Sean, not many times. All the time, Sean.
You'll be surprised. Every time, Sean.
Wow. Every time, Sean.

Wow. It's amazing.
So if you're sitting home, you say, I wish I was a rich person.

Don't wish for that. It's a curse.
You want to have a better life. You want to get rich.
Get up and do it yourself.

How many people that win the lotto tickets, they end up being bankrupt shortly after that? Most of them. Wife, husband divorcing each other, fighting, family coming, creating a huge problem.

So when they win that lotto, they think, what a gift they just got. And they realize that it became a huge curse.
and a huge negative point in their life.

So God has created this world world perfectly for us to live a perfect life that we want to live. Somebody wants to live in a nice house.
Somebody wants to live in a small apartment. It's okay.

Whatever make you feel good.

But if you have desire to pass through that boundary,

the only person that can do it is you by yourself only.

Yeah, the universe is very fascinating. When you make or earn something very quickly, you seem to lose it.
Absolutely. I got lucky with some crypto and made millions, but I lost it very fast.

You see that? I didn't earn it. You see that? You see that? So we must learn from our life, right? Also, how often do you sit down and to think about your life, self-assess yourself, right?

I do it all the time.

And I strongly recommend you should take a cigar, good cigar, put it in your mouth, light it up, sit outside, think about the life. What do you like about the life that you are experiencing?

Do more of it. What makes you happy? Do more of it.

What doesn't make you happy? Change it.

Hour later, by the time you finish the cigar, you could be totally a different person.

A kind of person you wanted to be.

So sometimes I see people saying, oh, I listen to soul podcasts. to self-encouragement, self-development, self-improvement.
I said, yeah, good for you.

I said, how many times have you been watching that? He said, oh, every time that is on.

I said, oh, for how long you've been watching that? Oh, I've been watching it now for a good two years.

I said, oh, my God. So two years you haven't changed.

Yeah.

It's like going to therapy for five years.

And gaining nothing from it.

Gaining nothing from it. But you are no different than any rich guy, any smart guy.
in the world.

You are not different. So if you say, then why I'm not living a life of that person?

Because that person choose to take the hardest journey in his life and live by it day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

Well, you choose the easier way.

Remember, hard life makes a hard person.

When you are a hard man or woman, you don't break easily. You are like stone.
You're always together.

And you can conquer anything anything and everything.

I love it. You mentioned happiness earlier.
Would you say you're really happy right now overall? You know, I don't think about it, to be honest with you. And

because

I'm a kind of a person

that don't think about what I have, I think about what I don't have.

Right?

I always wanted to do something to make this world a better place.

Not mainly for everybody that live in this world, but for my own selfish reason. So the world will remember me.

Right?

Like we always remember people that impact us in our life significantly.

Right?

Have I accomplished that? No.

Today, I see the world is not better.

America is not better than America that I lived in it 40 years, 50 years ago.

I see

we have progress in technology science, but there are more cancer cases every year, 5.8% increase year-over-year cancer rate. Wow.

Right? People in their 20s are getting it now. People at the age of two and three are getting it now.
Jeez. Right?

I sometimes go to the children's hospital. I see a one year, two years, three years.
on chemotherapy, lost all their hair. She barely can talk.
She barely can breathe. So, how can I be happy, right?

I wish

I would have been a medical doctor. I would have gotten research and I could have tried to solve some of these problems.

But I don't think these problems are solved by natural occurrence. I think it's all the imperfection in our food system,

imperfection in a system we have that is driven by profit. Yeah.

Profit.

Today,

we make

meat in laboratory

with chemicals.

The use of dye. They encourage people to drink water.
Water is good for you. And I know that you keep drinking it, but good thing you drink it in the glass.
All the water sent to us

with plastic bottles has a high level of PFAS.

PFAS is number one causing cancer. That's why there are more women in America getting breast cancers cancers now than ever before, because the level of

PFAS in the body is significant. Because now you drive, you see a person sitting in a car and juggling a gallon of water in two minutes, and they think it's healthy for them.
It's not. It's poisonous.

Stop drinking. Only drink when you're thirsty.
I'm 63 years old. I maybe have a glass or two a day.
What? Yeah, exactly. One or two glasses a day, only if I'm thirsty.

Look, your parents grew up, your grandparents grew up, they only drank water

unless they were thirsty, right? Today, you see everybody walking in the mall, in the shop, in the city with a bottle of water in their hand

because they think it's healthy. Yeah, it's not.
They tell you to drink a gallon a day. Oh, I haven't been.
I'm 63 years old, and I can beat you enormously. And you're taller than I am.

Now, joking aside, so I'm not because I'm not happy because I see a lot of things wrong with

the systems, with the culture, with

government.

Politicians have become stupid. They all care about themselves.
They don't care about the people that they represent, right? Everybody's for themselves.

And if somebody says to you, well, Zaya, what's your business worrying about that? You know what my business is?

When I'm gone, which is probably going to be a few years from now, I worry about my kids and their kids living in this country, living in this system.

How would that impact them negatively? That's what I worry about. So the guy like me is never happy, right? But that's okay.
I'm not fragile. I don't break apart easily.

I told you, I had a tough life. I'm a tough guy.

I get up. I don't think about food.
I don't think about vacation. I don't think about sitting in a nice car, driving around.

I get up like a machine. I work harder than most people do half my age.

I saw a problem.

To the last minute of my life, I will do all the things to be remembered as a good person.

Right?

After that, I did my best. My conscience is clear.
You gave it all. I gave it all.
I give it all. And I enjoy giving it all because the fact that you invite me to come talk to you

makes me happy. because you recognize me as someone that can add value to your show.

Someone that can say something that your listeners will say, oh my God, I learned something. I'm motivated by it.
I'm going to be a different person.

I'm going to go work now, go school after, get another job.

And always surround yourself with successful people.

Always. There was interesting.
I was in Egypt and in the museum, in the museum.

just four months ago. I went to the museum and they had the, back then there was no books, but they used to write their lessons in the stone.
So there was a stone for the

school teaching the school. And back then, the only people could go to school were the people that were in military or very wealthy people.

So they find one of those stones that basically is a daily teaching. And it says, find a friend that is stronger than you, smarter than you.

In every aspect is better than you.

Because the only impact that person will have on you is positive. Wow.
Where you can create your own standard to be equivalent to them.

So if you have a friend that drinks too much, stay away from him. If you have a friend that wants to sit down and play Nintendo all day, stay away from him.

Because they are not a good example you should be so close to.

I love that. So even back then, they were teaching your network as your network.
Absolutely. It's very important.
It's very important. I mean, networking, learning from people,

right?

When I was

working at big companies, like a General Motors, General Motors also had electronic, General Motors also used to make a

jet aircraft. General Motors back then also used to make military tanks, right?

They don't do anymore, but they used to back down.

And I used to always go to different divisions, trying to learn the turbine technology for the aircraft,

right?

Ballistic missile deployment off of the tanks.

I always mixed with people that they knew something that I didn't know.

So I could learn from them.

I could learn from them. Yeah, you were hungry for knowledge.

And it's funny, if I go someplace, I'm giving a speech or something, you find a few gap people, men or woman, will approach me, will ask me 50 questions, you know, in a row. Good question.

And you find also people approach me and ask me questions that I question why are you asking? Is that important?

You know, what's my favorite movie? Who cares what's my favorite movie?

Who cares,

you know, where I go vacation? which I haven't had a vacation in many, many, many years. But that's beside the point.
So you have to, you know, you say you play basketball.

Part of the playing basketball, you go to this unbelievable process of running, jumping, exercising, right?

And every day you measure yourself versus the last practice you had day before or two days before. Did I shoot better? Did I run better? Did I score better, right? You do that, right?

Why don't we do that with other aspects of our life?

Why only we pick and choose what we like, like sport, right? What do we do it with the way we live, with the way we make money, with the way we spend it,

with the way we feel about ourselves?

Right? Yeah. So I think if you get in that thought frame, there will be many Zaya Yonans in this world.
There will be many successful people in this world.

And they will be the one who they will find a defect in our culture, in our society, in our country. And they will be the one that fixing it.
I love it. Yeah, you got to improve every day, right? 1%.

You got to prove minute by minute. Every day I go home when I'm on the way going home.
I'm thinking, did I work today better than yesterday?

And sometimes, because maybe I'm tired or whatever, I actually feel bad

that I didn't perform as well as I should. Wow.
But a lot of people in my position say, who gives a fuck, right?

I won the world.

I didn't work. I didn't work, right? I'm the second largest golf course owner in Europe.
Wow.

And I always wanted to play golf, and I never did. Sometimes I stop on the second hole.

Too long for you? Too long for me. Don't have a patient.
I get phone calls all the time.

And every time I get phone calls, do you think is it good news or bad news? Bad news. Exactly.
So if I hear a bad news, How can I relax, spend four hours, five hours finishing a game?

You have to be responsible on life. You have to be responsible in life.

You know, sometimes as a human, we

expect

others to be more responsible toward us than us being more responsible for ourselves.

And that's the third lesson of today that you should always remember. Wow.
Accountability. Huge.
Yeah, that's deep. A lot of people like that too.
Huge.

They don't want to admit it to themselves, right? Always admit, it's okay to make mistakes, right? I make mistakes, right?

I make mistakes. God knows I make mistakes.

A lot of them. I'm thinking about them.

But we make mistakes, but it's not the process of making the mistakes because we all do it. It's a process of self-correcting it immediately and moving forward.

And moving forward.

Yeah.

So I, last question, man. You've accomplished a lot in life.
What is your proudest accomplishment at your age right now? The proudest accomplishment is my family, right?

I've been married for 34 years. I have five kids.
And

every day I see them and I look at their eyes and I feel their soul. I know I did something right.
When I look at my child and I can't feel their soul, I know there is disconnect.

And I know there is a flaw and a weakness

in our way of communicating or working with each other. So my goal has always been, Sean,

number one priority, to be the best father I could be and put my children and their livelihood and their joy ahead of myself. Wow.

Ahead of myself. I always thought that.
I never eat before they eat. Never.

You know, I always wait for them to take the first spoon in their mouth. And then after that, I pick up the the spoon when we're having dinner together.

And humanity, I love humans.

I feel for humans. I feel bad when children are hungry, when children are getting sick.

And I know there are things that could be done to

impact it positively, reduce it positively.

when they're not done, I get upset of myself. And my wife always said, it's not your problem.

I said, you're right, it's not my problem, but it's a system problem.

And I'm a member of that system.

So if I cannot do anything about it,

that's the limitation I have, not in life, but in my character.

Yeah.

And that's one thing I don't want to have. Because there was a character who guided me at the age of 13 by myself,

you know, work,

paint bicycles, buy my ticket, get my passport, get my visa, come to America, educate myself,

and work as hard as I did.

That

I never questioned it because I knew it was going to result in something very well. And it has.
And I want to thank God for it.

I want to thank America for it because it is the greatest nation nation in the world. And I hope that never changes.
Thanks for your time today, Zaya. I learned a lot.
My pleasure. Yeah.

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And we'll link your Instagram and your social media handles. Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.

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