The Hustle Behind WallStreet Trapper with Wallstreet Trapper

Speaker 2 This is Wake Up to Wealth, a podcast dedicated to helping you change the way you think about wealth. And now, here's your host, Brandon Brittingham.

Speaker 1 What's up, everybody? I am here today. I'm super excited because I'm happening to be in your studio.
Come on, man.

Speaker 1 I'm here with Trap, Wall Street Trapper.

Speaker 1 And man, I'm excited. I'm excited because,

Speaker 1 you know, all the stuff you've been doing, but I'm super excited to have you on the show today. And I thank you for taking your time with me.
Yeah, man. Yeah, man.
I just,

Speaker 1 you know, when I first met you, man, you was open and just sharing information with me, seeing what you could do to help. So, you know, anytime I can...

Speaker 1 bring any value to whatever you got going on, man, I'm here, man. So I appreciate you for having me for sure.
Thank you, man. Yeah.
So

Speaker 1 I don't want to talk about success right away.

Speaker 1 Okay. I want to, just because like

Speaker 1 what I always kind of go to is like people will see somebody, see you on social media. They'll see me on social media.
And they think, you know, it happened. We woke up and we were successful.

Speaker 1 And I also, I've just seen over the years, some of the most successful people I've ever met.

Speaker 1 It was because of the adversity they had gone through, right?

Speaker 1 So if you wouldn't mind, because what you've done is remarkable, but I really want people to hear like what happened to get you to this point.

Speaker 1 So I always say that you can't negotiate like the necessary, right? The adversity is needed to

Speaker 1 add

Speaker 1 seasoning to your life. You know what I'm saying? So just born and raised in New Orleans, I saw my mama get shot when I was about nine.
She survived.

Speaker 1 At 13, my mama went to prison. My grandmother passed away.
so I was homeless for a couple years.

Speaker 1 At 16, I went to prison for attempt murder. And that's when I learned about the stock market while I was in prison.
This guy I met and that he told me, he was just like, man,

Speaker 1 y'all playing the wrong game, bro. You know what I'm saying? And then

Speaker 1 from there.

Speaker 1 It wasn't that he told me about the stock market. He just said, wealthy people do three things.

Speaker 1 They know how to stop working for money, learn how to let their money work for them so they can buy back their time and give value to people.

Speaker 1 And then he said, the number three ways to build well was invest in stocks, create a business, buy real estate. And I was about maybe 18 when he told me that.

Speaker 1 And then so the rest of my time in prison, I really spent a lot of time just learning about the stock market because I felt like, you know, just being a dude from the hood, man, black, like, I ain't see success.

Speaker 1 You know, the only successful people I saw was really like the hustlers. You know what I'm saying? So that's kind of what I looked up to.
I was too short to play football, basketball.

Speaker 1 So I was like, all right, this is my way out.

Speaker 1 And I think during that time, man, you really don't put too much value on your life. You know, you just won't survive.

Speaker 1 And we get equipped with the tools to survive, but not the tools to be successful. And so in prison, I just had time to study the game and it made sense to me.

Speaker 1 The market literally was a reflection of the streets. Same thing.
Product, service, marketing, branding, supply and demand. And I was like, oh,

Speaker 1 I get that.

Speaker 1 It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 my idea was initially, I could use my street money, clean it in the stock market, and I'll be all right.

Speaker 1 You know, you always try to think about how you can outsmart the game. You never think about getting out the game.

Speaker 1 It's just how can I outsmart the game and so i came home and i was you know telling my homies about it like bro like

Speaker 1 we wearing polo and we win timberlands like that's owned by a company called vfc corp we wearing fendi that's owned by louis i'm aware at hennessy we wear nike like we drink you know hennessy so all that's owned by certain companies.

Speaker 1 And I was like, bro, like,

Speaker 1 yo, we can really own this. And then the idea of ownership started like clicking in my head.
Like, yo, the only way to be wealthy is you got to own some shit.

Speaker 1 And so that was it. It just clicked for me.
But then around 2014,

Speaker 1 I had caught another charge in 2012.

Speaker 1 And they kicked my door and they got 10 pounds of weed, $10,000, a 223, a 40,

Speaker 1 extended clip, and 100 X pills.

Speaker 1 And so I was just like, all right, it's over with for me.

Speaker 1 I got blessed. They kicked in the door with no search warrant.
And I got found out guilty because of the fruit of a poisonous tree.

Speaker 1 And that means anything you come in my house and you don't have a legal right to be there, everything is null and void.

Speaker 1 So that was like,

Speaker 1 ah,

Speaker 1 but I still ain't won't give up the street.

Speaker 1 So I was like, all right, I'm broke. So I went to.

Speaker 1 Just robbing dope dealers. That was the new lick.

Speaker 1 That was the new, because you, again, it may sound weird, but you never think of getting out the street because all you really know is what you feel comfortable with. Right.

Speaker 1 And it's hard to tell somebody who from the street from that magnitude where I was to go get a job.

Speaker 1 Because I felt like that was the next thing to prison to me. You know what I'm saying? Of course.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 me and my homie got in a situation and I almost got killed. And then I told my homie, like, bruh.

Speaker 1 That's a rap. Like, I ain't doing this no more.
I done already did time.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I done got shot.
I almost got killed. I done got found out guilty.

Speaker 1 Ain't nothing else for me to do in the streets but go back to prison or get killed. And, you know, I was like, nah, bro, I don't want to do that.
So I gave him whatever we made from that.

Speaker 1 And I just started working. And I just said, at least I could just go in on the stock market.
Right.

Speaker 1 So that was about 2014. So from 2014 to...
maybe 2018, I just took it really, really serious.

Speaker 1 Started talking about it on Instagram from a friend of mine was like now you need to teach people on Instagram I'm like I didn't think nobody wanted to hear about it right like nobody want to hear about no damn stocks you know that when we doing Instagram man we show off and we yeah so got on the gram started talking about it and people started gravitating to a pandemic hit everybody was inside yeah everybody wanted to learn how to make money yeah

Speaker 1 And people had been rocking with me and then it just got, it just started growing from there, man. Wound up doing the LN show, wound up doing the breakfast club, wound up doing sway in in the morning.

Speaker 1 All of that came from me just consistently putting in work. And then initially I had my first million dollar trade.
And so, you know, it kind of just consistently just

Speaker 1 taking over the market, but also just

Speaker 1 being transparent,

Speaker 1 like really showing people the wins and the losses and not a lifestyle. But that was a byproduct of where I was from.

Speaker 1 Like where I was from, you hesitant about showing lifetime in New Orleans because you become dinner. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? You become the thing that everybody won't eat because so many people starving.

Speaker 1 And so the lifestyle thing never was for me. It was just showing people that.
And so, bro, here we are now, bruh. You know, some years in the game.

Speaker 1 And, man, it's just, I find so much joy and not in seeing people make money because that's the goal. Like,

Speaker 1 this could be the ticket to your freedom for me. So that's why I'm just all in on it, bro.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 you you prompted two questions i'm gonna ask you the first one yep so a lot of people when it comes to social media uh and i tell people all the time how powerful it is but a lot of people we're we're so manipulated by instant gratification for social media right so you started

Speaker 1 And, you know, how were you posting once a day? What were you doing? And like, when did you see traction? Because it wasn't the first fucking day you went on social media. Hell no, right?

Speaker 1 And now, i mean now your is crazy yeah right so but there was a gap in between and how long was that gap so one of the things i did was in the streets taught me this was always before you go into anybody hood and hustle you got to pay attention to like who the hustlers are who the robbers are who the jackers are um

Speaker 1 excuse me who hustling what and so what i saw on instagram was There was a bunch of pages that had information,

Speaker 1 but nobody would show their face. No face, yeah.

Speaker 1 nobody was talking nobody was going live so I was like you know what

Speaker 1 I'm gonna just go live every day yeah

Speaker 1 I had a friend of mine that knew how to work canva and so I would tell her what I wanted to put on it right right so she would go make the canva little things for me I'll give her like five or six ideas and she'll make them for me and it wasn't the best yeah but I would use them And then I would write down what I wanted them to be in them.

Speaker 1 And then I would go live and talk about it. And so probably

Speaker 1 that first year, again, you start the page with no followers. Right, yeah.
So that first year, I think I gained about maybe 15,000 followers. Which that's still

Speaker 1 rapid. That's still a lot.
That was a lot.

Speaker 1 I think that first year

Speaker 1 I gained about 15,000 followers, but I was going live like.

Speaker 1 In the morning, so I would do stuff like when a bell, when the opening bell come on for the market, I would go live. So you were consistent?

Speaker 1 Super consistent. That was it.
Every day I would post and then I would go live when the market opened. It would be called Open and Bell with Trap.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 I would use like what they use on CNBC. It would be at lunchtime.
I'll go Lunch Money with Trap. It was more than once a day.
Yeah, it was Lunch Money with Trap. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then at the end of the day, it would be closing Bell with Trap. And then sometimes two o'clock in the morning, I'll show people me researching a company.

Speaker 1 So I just was doing what none of the other pages was doing. Right? They had information and their graphics looked amazing.
But it was a faceless page. But it was a a faceless page.

Speaker 1 So now people are asking questions. And another thing I would do is I would go to people's pages that had all the followers and I would go answer every question in the comments.
How smart. All day.

Speaker 1 That's all I did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I had to unquit the job. Yeah.
So I was like, this is what I'm doing. So I would just answer all the questions in the comments.

Speaker 1 I had a list of like 15 pages from CNBC on down, Bloomberg, you know, the faceless pages. I'm in everybody's comments all day.

Speaker 1 And then the the name was wall street trapper so it kind of was like a good name yeah it stuck out yeah it stuck out so that was that was at least that first year was just grind work yeah all grind work and still to this day i follow the same method because people still don't go live so you just one thing you just said that a lot of people

Speaker 1 in the journey of being an entrepreneur, where I think people fuck up, is they get away. Like what you just said is such a valuable piece of advice.
You didn't stop what worked. No.

Speaker 1 You found that it worked and you kept doing it. For some fucking reason, most entrepreneurs, including myself, I've done it.

Speaker 1 You do something that works really well, and then we feel that we got to change it. And you didn't, and that's worked really well.

Speaker 1 But one of the things that you said for everybody listening to this is like you put in the grind, you put in the work, you were consistent. The hardest thing for any human being to be is consistent.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I wonder why that is because

Speaker 1 if you really want something, you know, the goal is to always just outwork everybody. Right.
Right.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 in your consistencies, you got to be paying attention. Yeah.
Because you can consistently be doing the wrong shit. Facts.
You know what I'm saying? That's why you ain't getting no movement. Right.

Speaker 1 If I'm consistently working out the wrong way, you know, not eating, and I ain't going to see no results. Right.
So for me, and I think my greatest advantage is because I'm from the streets, bro.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie. Because the streets always make you pay attention.
Like you always on alert. You always on guard.
And you know somebody is always going to take you out.

Speaker 1 Somebody coming on a block trying to outgrind you or outwork you.

Speaker 1 So for me, it was like, I'm not going to let nobody go live more than me.

Speaker 1 Like I would do stuff like

Speaker 1 a company would have an earnings call.

Speaker 1 I would go live listening to the earnings call. and break down what's being said in the call because I know that I knew that the average person, they don't understand that.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? So I would do it it with CNBC. I'm watching CNBC.
I know the average person don't understand what's going on. But guess what?

Speaker 1 If I get on there and I start breaking down what's going on, it's like, oh, that makes sense to me. Yeah.
So,

Speaker 1 I mean, another key, you know, serious gem you gave is, you know, you, so when did you start like offering something to your audience to buy? Was that right away? Nah, I waited a year. So

Speaker 1 for everybody listening to this, that's why I asked that question.

Speaker 1 So you gave value away for a year. For a year.
A year straight, just gave value. Yep.
I thought it was. So you just, I'm just going to deposit a fuck ton of education to the market.

Speaker 1 Then I'm going to come back and ask for the sale. It's like the streets.
Yeah. Sample packs.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, most people would not be willing to do that for that long. Yeah, a year.
A year. And then when I did drop something, it was an e-book.
The shit went crazy. It went crazy.

Speaker 1 And I still didn't understand. Again, I didn't even understand how the internet thing worked.
Right. You know what I'm saying? So I had an e-book with

Speaker 1 a PayPal link attached to it.

Speaker 1 I had an e-book with the PayPal link attached to it. But I did that for a year straight.
Once you sold a rack of a lot of it. I saw a lot of them.

Speaker 1 And then before I even dropped the course, I dropped four e-books. Right.
And then I, here's the crazy part. This evolution.

Speaker 1 I had dropped four e-books, Walsh Trap 101, Walstreet Trap 102, Walsey Trap 103, and then Pay Me in Equity. And then

Speaker 1 I was like, all right.

Speaker 1 Now let me take it to another level. I still didn't have the course idea in my mind.

Speaker 1 It was get all four e-books in a phone call with me for $297.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 1 Back in the day, did people get that? What? Did you give that away? I was doing 10 calls a day. Bro.
I promise you. You gave away a lot of value.
I promise you. I was doing 10 calls a day.

Speaker 1 So if you're listening and you got one of those calls, you got a fucking deal. What?

Speaker 1 But here's the thing. I still have people with me.

Speaker 1 They'll tell me, they'll be like, I've been with you since the the phone calls right yeah because they stay with you because you gave them so much power they're like bro i'll be with you i'm talking about real phone number yeah

Speaker 1 real phone number and then zoom dump jumped off so it was okay phone number and a zoom call

Speaker 1 so you had you had all

Speaker 1 yeah that's wild so that was my that was it like that was and i was doing eight mind you i had stopped working

Speaker 1 Because I in my heart, I'm a I'm a husband. Because you still had another job.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was doing I was I i was doing iron working well then got it so i stopped doing that i stopped doing this no more right i do this right here and to me

Speaker 1 i in my mind man just talking on the phone with people is that ain't hard as going work 12 i was working 10 12 hours a day no doubt about that seven days a week you're doing something you love oh man i understand i was excited so now i was going live saying

Speaker 1 dm me the word phone call and I'll send you a PayPal link.

Speaker 1 Mind you, I didn't know how this was working. I'm sending you a PayPal link.
You pay the $297. And then you get on the phone with me.
I send you the full e-books. This is me manually.

Speaker 1 And then I don't know nothing about how this thing go, but all I know is I'm doing $1,000 a day.

Speaker 1 The thing that's remarkable about that is

Speaker 1 most people

Speaker 1 would eat, would...

Speaker 1 would so overthink that whole process that they would never get started.

Speaker 1 And I think that what's crazy about that is you just said, fuck it, I'm going to do it. I'm going to leave.

Speaker 1 And then, so that just built this, just, you know, you built this groundswrail of an audience and gave away so much value that then it's like, they'll buy anything you put out because you've already

Speaker 1 over delivered on so much value. On everything.
And that was the whole, for me, and here's the crazy part. It's supposed to be a one-hour phone call.
You was going over an hour for me.

Speaker 1 I was going two hours. Yeah.
I got another call. Let me, don't talk about you catch me where I got.
two hours between a call. You might get a three hour phone call out of me for $2.97.

Speaker 1 You got four e-books and you like bruh

Speaker 1 yeah when you dropping this and so i met a friend of mine that said um

Speaker 1 he was like

Speaker 1 you need to stop doing the phone calls

Speaker 1 he said the next like 20 phone calls you do write down the questions that they're having you or is on a zoom and then you create your course behind that

Speaker 1 yeah and then that becomes what you do and if you still want to do the phone call now you charge a thousand dollars

Speaker 1 you know the number is different so i was like all right cool.

Speaker 1 And so I did that for a while. And I didn't do the phone call.
I wanted to over-deliver. Right.
So I started charging $2,500

Speaker 1 for one day with me. Jesus.
So I would fly out to you. That's cheap.

Speaker 1 All I know was I ain't working and I ain't hustling no more.

Speaker 1 So it was $2,500. It was called Meet the Plug.
Right.

Speaker 1 It was called Meet the Plug. And I was doing like three of those a month.
Right. Man, I felt like I was winning.
Right, of course, yeah. I'm winning.
So I was, I was, it would cost, it would be $2,500

Speaker 1 plus the hotel fee. Right.
I would book my own flight. And so I was.
So you weren't even netting $2,500. Nope.
Right. Nope.
So it probably was netting depending on the flight.

Speaker 1 Like the first I went was California. Yeah, that shit wasn't cheap.
That was not a cheap.

Speaker 1 And I was staying in, I wasn't standing in no big dog hotel. Right.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So it was like, all right, but you was getting a whole eight-hour day out of me.

Speaker 1 We started like, we'll start at 9.30 when the market came on.

Speaker 1 And we would leave when the market go off. That was my day.
That was the day predicated. 9.30 to 4.30.
4 o'clock when the market go off. That was the day.
That was the session. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll do a little lunch, but we would go eat lunch together. Yeah.
And I would treat the lunch. Jesus.
But in my mind, man, I'm winning. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 following you built by doing that, money can't buy it, marketing can't buy it. Do you know what I mean? Yep.
And people would, and I would go live.

Speaker 1 I would ask the person, like, could I go live for a little bit? Yeah. And I would go live while I'm doing the one-on-one for like maybe 30 minutes.
Right.

Speaker 1 That's content gold. Yeah.
It's like, man, look, y'all want to get one of these? DM me the word. Right.
And get signed. The plug.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And at the end of the day, I'll send them a PayPal link with a Canada invite.

Speaker 1 PayPal loved you. It was loving me.

Speaker 1 That's all I knew.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I tell people all the time,

Speaker 1 what you don't know is not a reason for you not to do something. Facts.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Like, I didn't know how to maneuver around, but I knew if I kept it simple, eventually I'll grow into it. I'll bring somebody in that can show me, okay, no, let's do this.
I mean,

Speaker 1 you went out and did it. You did it.
You didn't overthink it. Nope.
And

Speaker 1 that's probably a good part of your genius. Yeah.
You know what I mean? mean? Yeah. I think people always overthink stuff.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Something you

Speaker 1 just listening to you, I'm going to go off script a little bit.

Speaker 1 I just want to ask this question because this is something that I'm a huge believer in. So

Speaker 1 at any time in your journey of what you went through, did you ever feel somebody, a higher power, whatever you believe in, was trying to tell you,

Speaker 1 bro, you're meant for something else.

Speaker 1 That's why I'm putting this shit in front of you yeah to stop right yeah so i believe did you did you have a turning point where you found that yeah so i always believed in god because um

Speaker 1 a lot of stuff that i've been through

Speaker 1 i felt like if it was just me i would have been messed it up sure right

Speaker 1 and the ability and i'll be honest i don't i didn't think that i was smart enough to connect the two Sure like the stock market and like the streets, like who does that?

Speaker 1 And so I always which is genius by the way yeah marketing and and

Speaker 1 if i was to say i did it by myself i'd be like nah bro i ain't had that right but i know that when i think when i look back and look at all the stuff i overcame i was like nah i did i had to go through all of that to get here facts like this is what makes it relatable and so when i look at the market i always say there's nobody that makes it relatable to that class of people that still wants to be wealthy that that that wants to retire, right?

Speaker 1 Right. And the market is, the market is just not designed to speak to those people.
It's designed to sell them a full 1k. It's designed to give them an annuity plan.
No doubt.

Speaker 1 It's designed to, hey, get on this social security. That's the way the market is designed.
And so I was like, nah, I can, I just got to keep learning, but I can also.

Speaker 1 Put it in a way that they can understand. And I just think that was the gift God gave me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The ability to navigate through the minutia of, you know, the jargon and be like, nope, here's just what you need. So what's crazy about that is when you think about it like this, right?

Speaker 1 So this is what I believe. This is, I say this on stage almost every time I speak, is that I believe there's certain people in this world that are chosen ones.
You're one of them.

Speaker 1 I'm one of them, right? Thank you, brother. So we and you get put through more shit.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because it's for us, it's the classroom to teach other people how to get through it.

Speaker 1 So if you think about it, because you came from the streets and you were exposed to stocks that's how you were able to parallel it yeah you know what i mean yeah and think about it if you hadn't gone through that you wouldn't have been able to make the connection no for sure and that's why

Speaker 1 you've for sure been chosen yeah i i know for a fact uh that

Speaker 1 that That is the relatability factor. Facts, for sure.
And so I always tell my team, like, yo, this is who we are. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, authenticity is our superpower yep you know what i'm saying absolutely it's our superpower we don't have to be we don't have to do and i think the thing about that too is now i go against everything

Speaker 1 that traditional finance teaches yeah well for sure i go yeah

Speaker 1 which is great yeah i go against everything that and because it just started making me understand like

Speaker 1 all right

Speaker 1 Wealth doesn't care like what color you are. That's correct.
Right? But poverty don't care either. What we just talked about before we got on here, money's the equalizer.
And it's the equalize.

Speaker 1 And I was like, you know what?

Speaker 1 Let me take away, let me show you for a fact. And it's

Speaker 1 seeing my mama get shot, not finishing school, not knowing my father, going to prison, but yet here I am. You can still be successful.

Speaker 1 100%.

Speaker 1 Right. And I was like, all right.
And so something came to my mind and I looked at it and they said, when I started looking at the most successful people in the world, they all broke the blueprint.

Speaker 1 They don't follow the blueprint that is set for people, right? And you got to be an outlier, right? You got to be willing to say, nope, I'm going to get out the line and I'm going to go over here.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go down this path that not many people go down, but it's going to be some adversity. But if I can get past that, it's some gangster shit on the other side of that.
For real.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? And so for me, I'm like, nah, I won't just, I won't go meet the adversity because if I play it safe, if I stay here, I'm going to keep,

Speaker 1 I'm going to keep allowing them to feed me and giving them permission to stall me. 100%.
Right. And I never wanted that.
So it was now how do I get people to adapt to that belief system?

Speaker 1 So someone who's listening to this and the stock market scares them. Yeah.
They're like, fuck, I don't know what to do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Give them a piece of advice. You know, they're starting out.

Speaker 1 Obviously, they need to come learn from you. That's one thing.
For sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 But how about the person that's like, shit, man, I'm scared to even buy the course from you or any of your education because I'm just scared of it in general. The market, yep.
What would you say?

Speaker 1 So one of the things is,

Speaker 1 so we do a show every Tuesday called Trappin' Tuesday. And I think that show is free for three hours.
If you're listening. Three hours.
Yeah. Every two hours.
We just hit our 100 episodes.

Speaker 1 Congratulations. Man, that was big.

Speaker 1 But just to get in the game,

Speaker 1 I want you to have some type of education on it. And the reason why is because the game don't got no feelings sure

Speaker 1 it don't care if it's your rent money it don't care if it's your your education money it don't want it don't it's not gonna give it back to you right right so i'll i never want nobody to just jump in i want you to go listen to something to somebody preferably me that can

Speaker 1 i always say i anybody that listens to me i let them borrow my confidence sure

Speaker 1 Because confidence, like just how we said, money is the great equalizer.

Speaker 1 Confidence will be second to that yeah because when you're confident about something you disregard the option of losing right and there's so many there's so much data inside of the loss your confidence makes you say hmm what did I learn from that right oh I'm about to get that's how I am like I lost a hundred and twenty thousand dollars that put me in position to go make a million dollars so for anybody that hold on say that again that is this data and a loss I had to lose a hundred and twenty thousand to go make a million facts you you you cannot expect to gain without embracing the loss.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. You can't negotiate the necessary.
Yep. Right.
And what happens is the losses allow you to build that capacity up to go to the next level. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 1 So for me, anybody, like, I'm not going to tell nobody, just jump straight in. I need you to get educated because once you get educated, there's not a move you cannot make.
Right. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 There's not a move you cannot make. Like I can tell you, yeah, go buy Apple, go buy Microsoft, go, but you wouldn't know how you buying it.
Right. And I'm not a believer in buy what you use

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 you can buy, I use AT ⁇ T. I wouldn't dare buy that stock.
I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. You know what I'm saying? I wear Nikes, but I wouldn't buy Nike stock.
Right. Right.

Speaker 1 Stock just plummeted today, 18%. Why? Because the company said we are losing our customer base verbatim.
Yeah. Right.
So I'm not a person that's going to tell you, yeah, just buy what you use.

Speaker 1 No, go get educated and you'll understand that what you use is where your understanding level is and it doesn't have to be the company you use but it can be that industry so like i don't like nike but i understand like deckers i understand lululemon i understand these new up-and-coming companies that's outperforming nike right right i don't eat mcdonald's but i understand the fast food area but guess what i like chipotle i like kava they outperforming

Speaker 1 McDonald's and all these other fabs. So it's not so much of investing in what you use, investing what you understand.

Speaker 1 That's the pivot. Got it.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's the pivot. So I end the show every time the same way.
I ask everybody the same question.

Speaker 1 So I named the show Waking Up to Wealth.

Speaker 1 You've already learned it. You've been taught about money wrong.
That's why I named it Waking Up to Wealth because I bring smart people on here like you to teach people about money

Speaker 1 better. Come on.
So your answer can be whatever it is to you. Okay.
But what does waking up to wealth mean mean to you? Waking up to freedom.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 there was a time in my life where every day I woke up in a cell and I wasn't always in prison. Damn, that's powerful.
You feel me? Yes, I do. Yeah, you feel me? And so

Speaker 1 I was confined to whatever construct based on my ignorance. Right.
You know what I'm saying? You can only go as far as you have the wisdom to move.

Speaker 1 And so waking up to wealth means now waking up to freedom. And that means I've acquired a certain type of wisdom that allows me to have full control of my life.
Facts.

Speaker 1 So that's for me, waking up to wealth would be straight up waking up to freedom. Well, man, I cannot thank you enough.
I mean, the amount of wisdom and shit you dropped. Oh, man.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 This one might hit $100,000 down. Come on, man.

Speaker 1 I really appreciate you taking the time with me. I know you're a busy man.
Nah, anytime. A lot of people gave a lot of value out of what you dropped today.
Thank you, brother. I appreciate y'all.

Speaker 1 Thank you, brother.

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