Luke Belmar - A Glitch In The Matrix (E020)

quality over quantity wins every single time I don't want to be the thumbnail guy I don't want to be chasing likes I don't want to be chasing follows anybody can go out and make 10 grand the last thing you want to be is a person that pumps cash that has no ability to retain it even the richest most successful person in the world they have something that they're lacking if you have nothing to provide why am I going to waste time with you bitcoin's a little bit of a crazy situation right now yeah what do

you think this future holds through Bitcoin is no longer what it used to be what's up guys and welcome back to first things first I can't even pronounce my own show [ __ ] right that's a good start it's been a while but we are back with the one the only Luke Belmar how are you doing brother it's good to see you uh finally first time meeting I've been a big fan of your work for a long time I don't look like it but eventually you're one of those guys who's like he's been you've been

on my radar for a while we have like mutual friends in common yeah you're doing the social media thing you popped up and you've been you're an intriguing guy an international Man of Mystery like you brother except I'm not as Ultra influencer like you bro yeah but you're getting there though yeah I mean I kind of started off the the entire influencer Journey or at least posting content my entire premise behind it was I wanted to develop my business and establish it in a situation whereby I could actually focus on content full-time you probably know

it better than anybody like content is a full-time job so I appointed a CEO inside Capital Club I got my entire team set up and if that would you start this 2019 okay so 2019 I launched Capital Club after doing e-commerce got into crypto kind of rolled over did a couple things there went well and I was like I want to do the content thing because my entire premise with content was I wanted people to see what it was like to live as an entrepreneur but in an authentic way because so many people are like

hey hear the cars hear the women hear the travel but a lot of people don't talk about the grind they don't talk about the hardships they don't talk about the what I like to call the data sets that you actually unlock in business and my entire philosophy was very simple I wanted to be the best version of myself and not fake what I would put out on the internet I want it to be a version of myself that I would be proud of and once I was in that situation where I'd be like you know

I can showcase this version of myself to the world I turned on the camera did you find it weird being on camera for the first time no because I was doing Instagram lives back in 2018 with like 14 people watching me 13 people watching me 10 people but it was like the Ecom guys back in the day it was a small kind of Niche so I was kind of used to it I would do four hour Instagram lives like they would have the one hour resets and I would just reset them and reset them and

reset them to 14 people 14 people bro yeah because it was like my small little Ecom community and that just kind of grew now it's like four or five six thousand people watching on an Instagram live so it's pretty I have no idea with your following you have a very good ratio with the people that are engaging unliking new stuff and watching new videos as well because you haven't even with YouTube it's not like you put out loads of content but it seems to be very much high quality I want quality over quantity wins every

single time because quality I don't want to be a [ __ ] to the algorithm you know I don't want to be the thumbnail guy I don't want to be chasing likes I don't want to be chasing follows I want to incorporate this into my life and I don't want this idea of having to be a slave to posting on YouTube or posting on Instagram every single time and I think people resonate with that it's not because I'm creating content to acquire new Subs new subscribers and new followers I'm creating content for the people I'd

already subscribed so I've kind of Taken YouTube an entire different approach instead of being like okay let me grow my channel I've been like let me honor the people that have actually subscribed to my content and give them the best version of myself that's why I think people return yeah I mean I've seen so many people they they're almost selling their soul just to get those likes and get those shares like I've seen it happen on YouTube especially with Instagram like since the introduction of reels people are literally just copying other people doing this like

stupid stuff they would never normally boring themselves yeah yeah and like sometimes it does work like you get the likes you get the comments and the shares but it's just like at what cost I don't want to be an actor bro acting is so [ __ ] tiring and expensive I want to just be me and in that refinement of being myself I want people to resonate with it I want to be authentic and I think with that authenticity I think that's the new meta when it comes to content and what people are actually looking

for people are looking for authentic people out they resonate with they don't they don't want Idols they want people that they can share something in common with yeah you sure of course can have people that inspire you and stuff like this but if you can have somebody at levels with you it's like you know what homie like I got you like I resonate with what you're doing but here here's another level of the game you know like I can sit down with you and I'm like okay perfect I need to develop my health in a

better aspect I need to develop my physique but when I perceive you I perceive you as a homie I don't look at you like oh here's this influencer Mike Thurston like 1.1 million oh crazy I don't perceive that because I perceive you just human yeah because you're human and you come off that way so it's also the Persona that you've built online it's not a person that you've built it's you and I think that that's what resonates with people is the fact that you are the best version of yourself and you're showcasing that on a

daily basis without having to [ __ ] for legs without having to post [ __ ] little dancing videos together and I think that that's what attracts high quality followers and people that that [ __ ] with us was there was there a point in your life where you became fully comfortable with who you were and you're like you know what I get it like I understand life I'm happy with who I am was there was there an aid I think it's a process I think it's it's a a process of maturity and understanding that

you're always growing and that you're always learning and that you have to treat yourself with Grace and compassion because if you're not a lover of yourself if you're not a fan of yourself who else is going to be a fan of you if I can't look at myself in the mirror be like you know what Luke you have shortcomings but you also have great things I treat myself like I would treat somebody else right because I'm in a relationship with me it's not like oh I'm just myself I'm in a relationship with me so I

go through hardships I go through difficulties but when I interact with myself I try to cheer myself up like hey dude you're doing well like you're crushing even if I'm not crushing right like this week I had like a big tax bill come right big [ __ ] tax bill you know I can't big [ __ ] textbooks those are the tax bill from a couple years ago right so this is you you Canadian American American I have my American citizenship I'm originally from Argentina but I have my American citizenship but the situation that arose

was like I think taxes that are due or whatever it was like almost a million bucks and I'm like ah [ __ ] in Texas in taxes yeah so it was I so I get the call from my account you wouldn't have to experience that because you're here bro you're here in Dubai like good job oh it's good for now yeah what's gonna happen in the future I moved to uh Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is now four percent uh income tax so it's the only tax Haven for Americans or people that have U.S citizenships but

can you escape it fully if I give up my citizenship yeah yeah but that's also like a situation whereby I need to have multiple passports which I have a couple but I'm working on them but I was like my tax my uh CPA calls me and I'm like okay it gives me the the good news it's like almost a million bucks in taxes for whatever the year was and I'm like okay I'm sitting there and I could have done things better I could have appropriated money in different ways but instead of beating myself over the

head and be like you idiot like you [ __ ] up or you you could have done this better I look at myself I'm like all right it's part of the game if it wasn't fun if it wasn't interesting then life wouldn't be worth it so I treat myself with Grace and compassion and I think if people can sense that in them that you know what you're learning you're developing you're growing that if you mess up if you [ __ ] up if you fall that it's okay it's the same thing I guess you you

would say with experience in the gym when you mess up on the last set or like when the weights you don't hit your full set right and you're you finish at eight instead of 12. you don't look at yourself oh you idiot you didn't finish you're like okay perfect it's part of it's part of the process and I treat life the same exact way I look at my shortcomings and my difficulties and I'm like I'm comfortable with that like I'm okay with that my process is very simple I plan I execute and then I iterate

so I plan my process I execute my process and then I iterate and the iteration is where I become better and unless you have that mental framework of I'm getting better and better and better and better like you were training 14 years bro like when you looked at yourself 14 years ago maybe you could have imagined who you became today but in the process of becoming who you are today you don't look back at who you were 14 years ago like ah this was a nobody this is nothing it's that journey and I look at

my personal development who I am as a person the same way maybe 20 years from now look at myself today and be like oh I was a kid I was a chunk yeah the same thing I think I would look at myself exactly so I'm like fully yeah so it's that process and I'm like but it's okay it's the part of the journey it's the process and I enjoy it you seem very self-aware have you always been self-aware I am I think it's self-realization I I like to I like to realize instead of being self-aware

being like Oh I'm aware of my surroundings I like to Andrew says Andrew has a famous word he calls it perspicacity right the ability to perceive that which cannot be seen so I like to be in a state of self-realizing things so I'm constantly aware of my habits I'm constantly aware of my mental thoughts I'm constantly aware of people that I hang out with and in that you kind of develop an awareness for the world it's not an intuitive awareness it's a proactive awareness that is actually you realizing that things are kind of taking place

I'm not going to steal Andrew's word but it's a good word so going back to when you were growing up I wanna I wanna figure out this journey this process of how you've got to where you are today you say you grew up in Argentina Argentina what was that like [ __ ] yeah I can't I've been there before I was there on a rugby tour when I was 16 and I thought that there are some affluent areas but the majority of it is not yeah so we grew up in a rural town I think

like 15 000 people uh parents normal regular people never had a ton but never like was lacking things but you know the framework in South America is very much like family driven it's kind of like the Middle East so it's all about family it's all about you know your circle in the west like North America it's very much like oh [ __ ] your family kind of do whatever you want I don't know how it is in the UK but in South America it's very much like family and loyalty but at the age of 16

I looked at what my parents were doing working regular jobs and I was like I don't want to do this my brother was working in a gas station I was uh working in a hotel you know like mopping floors that was my job like that's what I was doing I cannot do this and through a family member I actually got a flight for free sitting uh where the flight attendants sit uh and that's that was my flight to America right so I didn't get a like a coach I didn't sit like whatever it is where

people said I sat where the flight attendants sit and I was like at the age of 16 with 200 in my in a suitcase that my parents gave me I went to America and started working pressure washing basketball courts got gigs cleaning toilets uh worked at a Buffalo Wild Wings uh flipping the wings in the back and eventually I think it was part of the self-realization I always knew that there was more so I was always studying I was always about self-education I was always reading and at the age of I think 19 or 20

maybe one a little more 21 I was doing side gigs I eventually got introduced with e-commerce in crypto through a series of friends and events and it kind of panned out yeah do you uh I've done a bit of research and you've you made quite a bit of money off crypto yes a lot and some other Investments as well yes so you're basically you're good would you say that was more look or like a well executed and planned action I think it's a combination of both this idea of luck is can only be perceived as

a person that may not have the right information right so yeah I may got maybe got introduced to the word Bitcoin when Bitcoin was 600 bucks that was lucky but actualizing and taking action on what I did with that information wasn't luck so I started studying researching buying books on the stock market buying books on finance understanding what was this ecosystem investing money into it I remember dude uh so in the United States when you're buying uh at a restaurant you get a waiter you get cash tips right so somebody buys a meal they have

like 10 15 20 tip for the waiter usually that tip isn't cash right that's how it works you get to take that home every single day you don't have to wait for like a paycheck at the end of the month that's the cool thing about waiting tables I never worked a job where I got paid a salary I was always like I got it hunt kill and whatever I make that day that's what I have so I would take that cash I would go to the ATM and you get your basically your direct cash deposit

so it shows up in your bank account that same day and I would go to an exchange called bitstamp which is an OG exchange and I would go that same day and buy crypto right that's what I would do what year was this 2015 whoa yeah you were living a very humble lifestyle and you once I was I was sleeping on my brother's couch paying him 200 bucks a month uh to sleep on his couch yeah brother but what do you think the situation with crypto now because I I've said this before I've actually not

put any money in crypto and I'm kind of glad I didn't because when I was about to that was when it was like it was at his Peak and everybody was doing it and it was too late that's the exact point is when the taxi driver is talking about crypto when your grandmother's talking about crypto that's when you're not supposed to be doing it yeah everything that is unpopular is because it's not known and how the markets tend to work is the people that are intelligent the VCS the market makers the hedge funds the people

that actually have money that move the markets they establish their layers they establish establish their Market buys their orders they build out their portfolios and then they go to the the news anchors and then they go to the Publishers they go to Forbes they go to CNBC they're like okay run this article run this publishing because they direct what liquidity so they're the ones that conduct liquidity to drive up the price and then they exit on that liquidity so my news was very simple it was I think 2020. I posted on Instagram I had like

8 000 followers back in the day and I said uh Bitcoin is going to go to the Moon why well because the FED started buying assets so that basically means the Federal Reserve started buying into the market so they printed money started dumping into the market they're driving liquidity so at that point everybody that's already positioned is positioned they use the government right and this idea of coveted relief money to drive up the market print money out of thin air use that liquidity to boost every single Market you talk the stock market you can talk

crypto you can talk real estate everything went through the roof and everybody that wasn't informed it wasn't positioned they ended up being the exit liquidity so the cycle is very simple and it repeats itself time and time again it's everybody gets positioned early the ones that understand there's some sort of liquidity surge whether it was uh the FED printing new money or some sort of great news about market conditions they run news to bring the newbies in right use their paychecks or their coveted relief money they check whatever it is their stimulus check because it

was crazy the whole stimulus check was like hundreds of billions of dollars all that was getting deposited into accounts like Robin Hood or getting deposited into uh was a cash app and people were using that to literally buy and Gamble and at that liquidity exit most of the big players were out of the game and once the FED said we're stopped we're stopping we're no longer buying assets it was literally the top you can price chart the bottom of Bitcoin people like oh it's the Bull Run no no I was talking to the head of

the Central Bank of Albania you said if you correlate the price of Bitcoin or of any market and you correlate it with what I would call the policy of of the Fed it matches the movement of the market so people think that crypto is its own individual asset class Bitcoin having whatever and those things are valid but simultaneously it's driven by not just market demand but by people that move the markets and Retail does not move markets retails the exit liquidity so good thing you didn't get out we're gonna get in in the first place

but that doesn't mean that there's not going to be another cycle so yeah what do you think this future holds for it so you know bitcoin's a little bit of a crazy situation right now you know they're they're having ETF approval so black rocks in I think Fidelity's in and a couple other uh big organizations are filing to kind of get involved with Bitcoin but Bitcoin is no longer what it used to be so Bitcoin was this idea of autonomous Anonymous peer-to-peer transactions and payments especially in the US in some countries it's probably a little

bit better like here in the Emirates it's probably better or if you're in Hong Kong you kind of have a little bit more freedom but in the US they're kind of cracking down on it I think it's kind of just like every Market but with a little bit more volatility so high risk High reward and with that high risk you know when you don't have a lot sure you can do a little Moon shot but you can also lose it I like to play with it but simultaneously there's a ton of scammers in the crypto

space and that kind of gave me like a little bit of a bad taste yeah it was it was crazy if you see like the FTX [ __ ] and all that I was like bro like this shit's the psyop this this is ridiculous when it was when it was like as Peak price you get all these people coming out of nowhere saying the crypto experts well yeah it's like you're a crypto expert in in crypto's been around for for what a decade they're not really a crypto expert I wouldn't consider myself a cryptographer by

no means you'll never see me sell a course on how to buy and sell crypto because most of the information is free on YouTube uh but at the same time it's literally just understanding Market cycles and understanding risk and reward so if Bitcoin is 69 000 or 64 000 or 60 000 and it's never been that price and it's been you know 20 000 multiple times is it ever going to reach twenty thousand dollars again yes no potentially but is your objective when you're kind of trading to gamble or is it to invest and allocate

your money to grow your money and I think the situation that a lot of people found themselves in whether it was nfts or buying all these [ __ ] meme coins is they wanted fast money and easy come easy go yeah and that's why you see a lot of people leaving Dubai their bags are empty bro yeah yeah so Uranus let's say you're in this situation you've you've made the money off the crypto other Investments you're sitting on a lot of cash what do you do most of the cash I'm sitting on 95 cash right

now really yeah so you've not no property no no no property so no property my simple reason for no property right now is twofold one is and this might sound a little bit conspiracy theory but in the United States you don't technically own your real estate you own the right of use it's the same thing with the UK right like you don't own your real estate the government can come and seize it at any moment that's why I kind of like Bitcoin if I own my Bitcoin I kind of have it and at the same

time yeah you can get somebody that manages your money or manages your property and things of this nature I don't like to be tied down by things yeah I could go out and buy a boat yeah I could go out and buy a ton of cars yeah I could go buy a ton of properties but these are all things that don't give me the flexibility to do what I love which is what travel hang out with people I don't want phone calls of hey this broke down oh hey you got to fix this property management

and as much as you can say yo you got a property manager I don't [ __ ] want a property yeah dude I'm [ __ ] 28 like I don't need a bunch of real estate let me sit on my cash I want to be liquid I want to be movable flexible and I like the Marcus and that's kind of my reason approach as well like I I don't want to do anything that is going to give me more headache exactly bro it's mental real estate that's what people don't seem to understand it's like you

only have X amount of things that you can think about during the day perfect let's say I buy some property how much time do I have to spend allocated towards thinking about that property getting a tenant making sure the tenant's happy even if I live there okay perfect I make some sort of money but all that mental real estate sure I make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year on some real estate Investments whatever it may be all that mental real estate I can make so much more money building things dude the internet is the

best place in the world to make money why would I want to go to the real world like honestly speaking and I'm not saying it's not a good thing but at the end of the day bro I had a 400 I had a four million dollar house I got rid of it how much four mil I got rid of it why because it was [ __ ] [ __ ] I had a headache all every month I'm in Puerto Rico every month pipes breaking every month humidity every month people in my house big ass 5

000 square foot house cleaners every day gardeners every single week uh people in and out of my house dude I'm like I have no it's not even my house I'm living in a hotel room and I have like people that I don't even know coming and leaving out of my house all day long I'm like dude I don't like this let me get my own crib chill you had someone managing it though and that was still but it's the management thing but when I lived there now I'm in a situation where I have cleaners come

every single day I have three cleaners come to my house I have three strangers dude now have people my pool guy my Gardener I don't want people there so it's kind of like a situation where yeah you want people managing certain aspects of your life but at the same time like you like I like my privacy I like because I ask you why don't you carry like take your video guys everywhere you go because you can because I kind of want to do my own thing sometimes I want to just go dark I don't want

people snooping over my house making sure like oh what's this guy doing I don't care about that the cleanest come to mind I'm just like the [ __ ] out please that's the whole thing it's like I don't have my privacy and some people may be like oh well it's not a good investment but most of you guys aren't rich like the people that are commenting the people that say stuff it's like oh this is a liability this is an asset at the end of the day people said the dollar was going to zero right

the dollar was going to crash but at the end of the day the dollar was kind of the safest investment to be in in the last two years so I like to be liquid I like to be flexible and maybe when I get older I will all settle down maybe buy a ranch in Patagonia Argentina go go buy some horses or cows chill out there who knows self-sustainable yeah self-sustainable a nice Organic Farms bro if you had to invest in something like if you just put half of your money somewhere where would you put it

immediately like today yeah in like 20 next 24 hours [ __ ] probably Bitcoin yeah yeah the price will probably fluctuate a lot but if it was to stay somewhere it would probably be in Bitcoin yeah I don't know you you said you're not a crypto expert what would you say you know the most about like for me I would still say the bodybuilding body recomposition and teaching that is probably still the thing I know the most about yeah it's funny because when I do like podcasts and stuff now nobody really asks me about it

anymore I'm like this is kind of like you guys know that you guys just assume you guys just assume or like you don't even ask me about this [ __ ] are people ask me other stuff now but in your situation what would you say your your strongest skill set is digital entrepreneurship so how to build and scale businesses online okay 100 I've been doing it for almost eight years now because a lot of businesses they have the same fundamentals right so you need to understand it's the same thing right plan execute iterate every business

operates under three premises it doesn't matter if you're building a fitness app it doesn't matter if you're building uh an influencer page it doesn't matter if you're running meme Pages it doesn't matter if you run e-commerce stores supplement lines clothing lines you have to always plan execute and iterate and there's a process to those things right so I've developed my internal process and my systems my kpis my teams and those things have allowed me to iterate time and time again and in that iteration you can just take these models and cross-pollinate them throughout different businesses

I would say that's something I'm trying to learn more about now I got you bro I have like I have the clothing company I have the app the app could be doing way it's doing well but it could be like for sure you know the potential because that's the thing I was speaking to Chris Williamson about this like there's some people who have this amazing skill of building the following like building an audience with the terrible at monetizing it whereas other people are actually very good at making money but they just have no idea how

to actually build an audience so I'm trying to I did I built the audience first all I did is provide value provide value didn't really I didn't really ask for much in fact I still think to this day I don't sell as much as I should do um with the content that I upload what's the what's the mental framework as are you like afraid that like yeah I think it's annoying like when I'm making my content I'm just I'm either making it to help or entertain people and I think there's there's a very fine line

where if you sell too much it starts to get annoying if you keep pushing it down people's faces and I remember you know back in the day when I used to work with a load of sponsors every time I had to do a promotional advertise that stuff I used to die inside I was like [ __ ] this because you don't want to do it first of course you don't want to do it you're only doing it because you're getting paid so like when I see all the influences like pushing stuff now it's like they

don't want to do this they're doing it because they need the money so I made a promise myself this was early no this was last year I was like I'm not working with any other companies anymore I'm just pushing my own stuff because at least then if you're promoting your own products or service it just feels more natural and more authentic authenticity like that is the key to anybody that wants to build a business because first of all especially I would say as an influencer there's two types of ways to make money one let's let's

consider money butterflies for the sake of the illustration right so let's say you want to catch butterflies butterflies equate to Dollars there's two ways that you can gather butterflies the first way is build a net right build a massive net it doesn't matter how optimized the net is it doesn't matter how sophisticated it is you always have to swing in order to catch butterflies that's most people hustling right they have to clock in they have to post they have to uh sell a promo in order for them to make money in order for them to

catch butterflies that is not efficient that is hustling why that's where people most people start but you need to develop a second second skill set which is how to attract butterflies how do you attract butterflies by building a garden now it might sound like a Fufu concept but if you build a garden that means you need to build an ecosystem you're building an ecosystem now your goal is to figure out how to make it all congruent and how to make sure people buy into that ecosystem and they don't leave to other Gardens you look at

Amazon that's a [ __ ] Garden bro that's a self-sustaining Garden they run it's not just the Amazon platform they run a plethora of platforms Amazon AWS IMDb they have the Amazon Amazon Prime ebooks it's an ecosystem of what attracting money so the concept of going from hustle to boss is instead of working in your business and catching the butterflies once you have enough is working on your business which is kind of what I've been mastering which is how to build and scale digital businesses and in that situation it's a completely different level of skill

set completely completely different and the big thing that I learned when I started making my money was I was saying it took some buddies today I said my big Epiphany my big humbling moment was I was a poor guy with money and what I meant by that was my mental framework was the mental framework that I was brought in which is you need to hustle you need to work you need to get a job and I was taking that same philosophy but just as a self-employed individual because if I stopped working the money would stop

coming that's the realization I had like the money is good but that's only if I'm pumping out the content on all the platforms what happens if I stop making content and that's where working on the business and building a garden that is kind of self-sustaining because you have different aspects to it that cross-pollinate comes in so you build the loyal following whatever if it's a product if it's a clothing line if it's a subscription whatever it may be it applies for a plethora of niches you work on it take gymshark by for example Jim shark

is a business they're not a clothing line they're a business they have a loyal fan base but they have what pop of events they have their clothing lines literally bro they have an entire what ecosystem and it's in that ecosystem that you no longer have to be present in order for money to what flow and that's kind of where I've been transitioning so it's not oh this I'm a poor guy with money okay I'm broke it's I had a poor mentality of limiting myself because if I went to the hospital money would stop coming in

and that's not the situation that I wanted to be in so to answer your question once again the biggest skill set that I've developed or that I would say is my top tier kind of skill set is building and scaling digital businesses what do you think is the number one mistake that a lot of these entrepreneurs are making when they think oh you know they watch all these videos they're watching you a few other people like all right okay when it's started Drop Shipping business or an agency one of the biggest mistakes they tend to

make they don't learn the fundamentals it's so easy bro it's so easy to bank money you know this online anybody can go out and make 10 grand a month literally but who learns taxes who learns budgeting who learns Human Resources who learns product and inventory management who learns uh scaling and operation who learns systems building nobody learns those things because they're the boring parts of the business and if you don't learn them you're gonna crash the last thing you want to be is a person that pumps cash but has no ability to retain it so

you don't want to be that guy if you don't understand how to file taxes if you don't understand how to budget your business I always tell I was talking with a guy in Singapore uh he was the he's the son of the former president of Singapore probably worth a couple billion dollars he's done over he's in real estate development he's done over 2500 real estate development projects in Singapore super big guy it's crazy so he's like he's like proper balling so I I was having a conversation with them and he's like you know what the

biggest issue is between the elite and people that make no money like what financial literacy he said most people are financially illiterate and it's a language what do you mean it's the language she's like yes Finance is the language of the elite just like Latin used to be the language prior to the peasants being able to have access to read the Bible they would have to go to the elite the popes the the the Deacon of the church or whoever was in charge in order to get what in order to get the wisdom because they

couldn't read nowadays most people are financially illiterate and it's in that Financial lack of literacy that people get [ __ ] yeah why do you need a lawyer because you don't know the law yeah why do you need a tax attorney because you don't know tax yeah you don't need to know all of it but if you don't know the basics anybody can finesse you and I think that's the biggest issue up like up up and coming entrepreneurs and even developed entrepreneurs make and end up getting screwed on is they have not developed financial literacy

because it's not sexy yeah and it's no tool in school either literally bro like for example in school what do they teach you about law what do they teach you about accounting what do they teach you about business in general or managing your your financials or budgeting nothing bro why nobody asks why it's on purpose even when I went to University I did economics and business management and I was still like what the [ __ ] is this like the whole reason I did that degrees I thought I will surely learn how to run a

business when I do this degree no chance love I agree bro so essentially it's it's really up to you to go out there and learn yourself I tweeted the other day I said self-education will never betray you self-education will never betray you you have to sit down you don't you don't like to read books nobody gives a [ __ ] the marketplace doesn't care dude you're not going to learn everything on YouTube like that's what people don't seem to understand you're not going to learn everything on YouTube sometimes you have to crack open the book

sometimes you have to study yeah but people think that studying is what what you used to do in school no go study a topic that interests you you can't be out here scrolling on Tick Tock 24 7 with dopamine hits thinking that you're going to get financial literacy off of a tick tock short yeah maybe it may give you some insight and information but what are you gonna do with it it's the foundation or it may be a data set or a clue to continue learning but what you're relying off of a piece of tick

tock information even with our own content to build your life upon it no you have to become self-educated because most of the education that we have is education of the system it's not self-education it's indoctrination and we despise that in most people at the age of six they're not good at math and they get told oh you're not good at math do you just [ __ ] sticks so they they grow up their entire life saying I I'm not good at math I'm not good at reading so their entire life they don't develop foundational skills

to live their life you need a foundation unless you have a foundation you cannot build anything sustainable on top of it yeah it's crazy if if you had to go back to zero but you still have all your skills and the experience which you've acquired what's the first thing you would do the first thing I would do is plan execute and iterate so develop a plan what do I want to do what are the skill sets that I have because if I have nothing doesn't mean you don't have anything it means you have yourself right

so what are the assets that I have I may not have Assets in like hard assets like cash or connections but what what assets do I have what am I good at right and you need to start at that basis point that's the first thing I would do the second thing is connections and relationships figure out the people that are going to help you execute so how do you get into the room with the people that are going to facilitate your execution right so let's say I start from zero first thing I would do plan

a way to make money online and that doesn't mean that you know there's a lot of people that have brick and mortar businesses and they're like oh not everybody can make money online okay perfect then you won't make money online like but my first thing would be plan plan what plan my ability to make five or ten thousand dollars a month how am I going to do that most likely online why low friction low cost high traffic volume of people very simple what would my execution be whatever the execution of the plan would be how

would I how would I create a plan first very simple what am I what can I be the best at this is I'm giving the equation for how to make money what can I be the best at you need to figure out what you can actually be the best at based off of your skills if you're not the best develop the skill sets to become the best the second thing is I need to be in high demand right you can't be doing something that's not in high demand you're in a great space you're in an

Evergreen space you're in the fitness space you're in the health space that shit's only growing only getting bigger and bigger and bigger and then finally I need to be able to do something that I'm irreplaceable in so I need to be the best at what I do I need to be in high demand and I need to be Irreplaceable you look at all these guys that got fired from Amazon Facebook Google why replaceable so if you want to make money right make a plan to make money figure out how you can be the best at

what you do how you can be Irreplaceable and figure out how you can be in high demand then execute on that plan what does that mean you need to develop a business plan you don't know how to develop a business plan look it up very simple and execute on it that means you said I haven't missed a week in 14 years training same thing it should be with business right I'm not going to miss a single deadline of everything that I've told myself I was going to do and finally iterate go back look at the

business plan figure out what can I do better and Implement that change and that's the cycle brother would you say it seems as though you've got the business aspects and the making money on lock what about your your health and your Wellness how's that going so I actually lost you'd be surprised I lost like 40 pounds I was actually like super overweight I was eating Chick-fil-A every single day with that [ __ ] peanut oil and I was super unhealthy and then was it was just because you were just so focused on making money and

then I had my first mushroom trip and my mushroom trip was like dude what if the food's poisoning me like what if it I I I I looked at a photo of myself and I had massive bags under my eyes and I'm like the [ __ ] am I doing I I had like a chin like a double chin and I'm like whoa is this the best version of myself and then I kind of ignored it and then I went to a nice steakhouse and I couldn't I know it sounds crazy now but I couldn't

button up my jeans and at that moment I was like something has to change like I can't continue like this lifestyle is absolutely ridiculous so for better for worse I did a year of vegan diet so I went on Liberty juicing and fasting and I think it was a what is it like the raw diet it wasn't sustainable because I I lost a lot of weight and I wasn't super strong muscle as well yes but it helped me cleanse right so I think everybody should kind of implement dietary restrictions I think dietary restrictions are one

of the best things that people can actually do for their health why because it's a conscientious understanding of how you eat and I think if people can't control what they put in their mouth what can you actually control in your life if you can't control what you eat what can you actually control brother nothing so that's the first building block the second one is mobility so food essential I master that bro you'll never see me eating junk food a day in my life even drinking a little bit of this water I'm like I feel guilty

because I'm like okay plastic bottle has potentially has a little bit of fluoride in it I'm like I'm feeling a little bad but I was a little bit thirsty guilty the second one is mobility I stretch every single day so yeah I may not be the biggest guy but I'm bro I feel super good I feel super healthy and yeah of course building block your skeletal muscles the building block for longevity we know this but you're gonna help me with that so there's [Music] there's so many things that you know you should be doing but

sometimes it just takes something for you to just [ __ ] do it I like with you made me that trip and you just look at yourself you're like what the hell is going on I think it's the cell it like we talked about the self-realization of self-sabotage um we [ __ ] ourselves up bro like people talk about the system people talk about the people that are against them people talk about you know oh they're printing money out of thin air oh money's not worth anything or they say I have no opportunity but how

many actions in our life are self-sabotaging all day long we self-sabotage so why can't we turn off those self-sabotaging habits and replace them for positive habits what I've realized that people do is they want to cut something out okay I'm gonna cut out smoking I'm gonna cut out drinking but you're not supposed to cut out something you're supposed to replace it because there's a quote that says an idle mind is the devil's workshop so if you're not thinking about anything if you're not doing anything if you're not being productive then you're most likely going to

go back to what your Tendencies and your old habits that you've formed over a long period of time so if you want to change those habits if you want to change those Tendencies then you need to be in a situation whereby you're replacing them with a positive feedback loop and I feel a little bit hypocritical talking about health and [ __ ] in front of you but no but like I would say I think the most important thing is discipline yes because that is going to determine what you do on the days that you're not

motivated and I have those days as well there's plenty of times when I wake up and I'm like don't want to go to the gym especially if it's like if I if I know it's going to be a horrible session like a leg session I don't want to do that but it's the I always have this thing where I visualize how I'm gonna feel after I do it I have that with training but I also have it with food as well so even though there could just be this delicious you know Burger Cinnabon whatever in

front of me I know it's going to provide me with temporary happiness for maybe 20 minutes and then afterwards it's kind of like shame and regret and then you know you have to deal with all the negative side effects that come with eating something like that and then usually what I always find is eating something like that you just it becomes way easier to continue to eat like that yes it's like okay you permit it one time but it's okay I'll permit it a second time and to add to that it may not even be

temporary happiness it may just be temporary dopamine like you're craving the dopamine of that past experience of how that made you feel and if you look at the vibrational frequencies of how people operate on a higher spectrum of vibrational frequency like you have Enlightenment but underneath that you have love joy gratitude and at the bottom you have shame yeah so you operating at your lowest form of vibrational frequency you are operating in a state of what shame so when you do something that you know you're not supposed to do you go into your lowest form

of vibration AK the lowest form of yourself and most people live in a state of what what I like to call quiet desperation they live in a state of quiet shame so they're ashamed of their habits they're ashamed of what they do but they don't change AKA they're always living in a low state of vibration and you see them walking around they walk unhappy they operate unhappy when they interact with people they are unhappy why because they're not the best versions of themselves yeah I was in that state I think it was in 2000 18

I was in a long distance relationship where I barely got to see my girlfriend I literally had no social life I I was I was I was bored and I was thinking to myself there must be more to life than this and because I was bored because I wasn't doing anything that was providing me with Joy or happiness I would just resort to food and that was my temporary happiness that was also keeping me at this very low level vibration and I noticed that when I decided to sort my life out and be like right

that's me more to life than this I'm gonna go out I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do that I traveled a lot I moved out of London and I realized I naturally would just became a hell of a lot happier and when I'm in a happiest day I have like no interest in eating bad food yes and for many people eating is a is a is a is a form of coping A coping mechanism they have you fasted you've gone have you done like something pretty long fast I've never done ugh I don't think I've

ever done a 24-hour fast no the longest one I did a few times where I've done it during Ramadan yeah and I think the very longest one was when I did it in the UK because I had a client when I was back when I was a personal trainer he was doing it so I was like you know what I'm gonna do it as well because I'm curious to know what it's actually like and how I would train if I'm going to be fasting all day and not drinking any water so I think that it

was in the middle of summer so the sunset was at 9 30. yeah so that was a full day yeah pretty long no food no water not eating the food was doable I think since I started intermittent fasting to begin with it's like really weird and you're just thinking um like I I need to eat I'm not gonna survive but you will of course you will you have so much stored energy it's just like impossible if he's not survived yes but not drinking the water was that was more of a challenge have you done like

water fast that are just like or no no okay so people that do water fast and I experienced this two days into your water fast you start roaming the kitchen you start roaming the kitchen imagine how much mental real estate is occupied by eating yeah oh okay I have to eat breakfast eat lunch eat dinner dude that's a [ __ ] huge psyop I've talked about it before people think that breakfast is this normal thing that was just everybody has always done but it's not Edward brene who's known as the father of propaganda he's I

think the uncle to the founder of Netflix another propaganda machine he created a campaign based off of breakfast the meat industry came to him and said hey we're missing sales on sausages and bacon we need to boost the sales of sausages and bacon so he created this entire campaign and went to all the medical professionals and said hey let's start pushing breakfast being the healthiest most essential meal of the day and guess what happened to the sale of bacon and sausages skyrocketed he did the exact same thing with what cigarettes he was the guy behind

cigarettes empowering women so he built an entire campaign we're talking about these myths of Health right and he said okay the cigarette companies came to Edward Renee and they're like you know what we need to boost our sales I think it was lucky lucky was the company back in the day that you've probably seen those old commercials like lucky and the entire premise of the campaign was cigarettes to women are torches of freedom so the entire campaign was if you are a woman and you want the empowerment of being a woman and the freedom that

comes with being a woman smoke a cigarette so what now health is correlated with breakfast women's empowerment is correlated with cigarettes so how can you differentiate those so you need to evaluate in my opinion the source of the information that's telling you what you do instead of just adopting that philosophy in those belief systems and always asking what is the source of the information why are they saying this and is it true yeah nobody does any critical thinking anybody Brother people are just they whatever they see they believe and I don't know when I kind

of came to the realization that this was not the way to think I think before covert were particularly around covid I used to I started questioning everything I was like why why have I why am I being shown this on the on the news sites it's like why are they choosing to talk about this and not the other things like why were they not talking about just going outside being more active getting all your vitamins and being healthy why were they just saying oh hide cover up and avoid people I mean it's the answer is

very simple you just have to look at who owns the companies yeah right so if you look at who owns CNBC who owns Fox who owns CNN at the top of the shareholder list you have Vanguard and BlackRock then you look at the manufacturers of the jobs okay Pfizer Johnson and Johnson moderna who are the top shareholders of those companies Vanguard and BlackRock now you look at the flight companies that band all flights no flights unless you're taken care of who are the top shareholders Vanguard BlackRock you look at the food okay who are the

top shareholders of all this junk food Vanguard and BlackRock so it's this ecosystem of how to print butterflies out of thin air so the media is controlled the food is controlled the narrative is controlled the transportation is controlled who owns meta who owns Snapchat who owns well used to be but still kind of does Twitter uh who owns uh Google they're pushing the same narrative the media is pushing oh it's the same company as BlackRock it's Vanguard profit driven companies so this idea of breakfast right Edward Renee cigarettes Edward Bernay is the exact same play

but at a macro global scale at this point why because they have access to the internet and the distribution of information is a lot more simple and effective at a mass viral scale as opposed to newspaper and billboards like it used to be back in the day what do you think about AI AI is going to replace a lot of people brother and in 2019 I had the privilege to sit down I can't disclose the names but with some people that were working on some top-tier uh AI companies and recently had the privilege of talking

to some people that are Executives or high up people at open AI in 2019 when I set out to build Capital Club my entire premise was based off my conversations with these people was I need to build an AI proof company and as I sat down with these people I said there's two things that AI will never be able to replace personal development and community so AI will never be able to eat healthy on your behalf it'll never be able to go to the gym on your behalf and Community they'll never be able to have

this right on your behalf yeah that may be 30 40 50 years down the road it doesn't really matter it may not replace construction workers at this time that may be 100 years down the road but all these white collar skills dude I had uh one of my lawyers my retainers 500 an hour that's why I have to pay I'm assuming my lawyer knows the [ __ ] that they're talking about I cross-referenced that with chat GPT some Puerto Rican tax law whatever my lawyer was wrong I fired that [ __ ] really yes brother

yes so now I'm like okay what about 10 years down the road this thing that's gonna understand and read all the tax law that's going to understand all the criminal like playground am I going to need a lawyer potentially not am I going to need an accountant when AI can literally run my books most likely not and you're seeing now with the editing softwares right ai's literally chopping up and editing [ __ ] instantly am I gonna need a video editor oh yeah but you're going to need a video editor for movies yeah but that's

short-term thinking what about 10 years down the road so I'm building companies of tomorrow because technology is advancing so quickly there's a concept known as Moore's Law I think Moore's the more is the guy that created I think Belle Company don't quote me but I think it's Dell and he created this concept of Moore's law that technology advances super quickly and it becomes cost efficient so the processing power doubles and the cost happens every single every like two years or something like that so stuff is ramping up and people are still going to University people

are still doing traditional jobs maybe fine but 10 years 20 years 30 years down the road how are you going to be positioned so in 2019 I was like I need to build an AI proof company build Capital Club focus on developing this concept of entrepreneurs building and scaling uh digital businesses and Community like this interaction Irreplaceable yeah and it's playing out just according to plan I've seen some people say it's going to become so smart that we will literally not even be able to understand that brother just wait till somebody creates an AI that

puts Jesus Muhammad the Buddha all into one and people start worshiping the Church of AI just wait for it bro watch it clip this no wait for it bro [ __ ] in Japan already have virtual girlfriends in the metaverse what do you think what do you think people are not a big thing come on girlfriends well they can actually figure out like the how to make the physical bro a virtual girl that is that's powered by AI that knows your personality that caters to you that has a sort of Personality don't give you any

[ __ ] Brother come on like it may not be today but remember 50 100 years ago people were talking about cell phones very few people were talking about cell phones 20 30 years ago people were talking about the internet changing the world and everybody called them freaks everybody called them idiots and that's what we use it today we you we're basically cyborgs bro you we don't go anywhere without our phones nowhere now wait till ai's integrated into every aspect of Humanity game over brother do you ever worry the this potentially worrying future that we're

about to enter is not a place where you would want to raise kids or have kids of your own I'll just like I told you bro get a property a little ranch we can we can go 50 50 on a ranch you cut the logs yeah give me a nice shot box I'll get to work yeah well that yeah so my plan is very simple be liquid be able to move but yeah no plans for kids bro honestly yeah there's plenty of kids out there maybe uh raise some orphans and uh that's kind of one

of the things I want to do okay plenty of children to take care of I was gonna ask you as well because you said you managed to get yourself into some of these situations where you're having some pretty amazing conversations with pretty important people how how do you Nestle your way into these places and create these opportunities for yourself I think you use the right word create opportunity I think before you create an opportunity you need to identify the opportunity so most people for example you probably get a [ __ ] ton of DMS right

oh yeah every single day oh let me come edit for you let me come do this for you or let's train together or hi I'm in Dubai or ham and whatever you get hundreds of DMs same thing with me but nobody ever comes to me and says hey Luke I identified this need this vulnerability in your business I know how to increase your returns by x amount of money I know how to make money for you I know how to do this for you I'll do it for free here it is what I wouldn't respond

to that DM we read our DMS people don't seem to understand bro so what I did is I study people the same way that I study markets people have needs people have vulnerabilities people have necessities even the richest most successful person in the world they have something that they're lacking it may not be money but they may be lacking health they may be lacking in connections they may be lacking in a specific resource your goal is to position yourself in that situation to supply that need and come in as what the Irreplaceable most experience in-demand

person so not just to make money but to capture the opportunity I mean I'll give you an example because people always ask me how I met Andrew Tate right so I met him when he had 80 80 like 83 000 followers on IG what had happened he'd gotten banned right so I came in with my team hey I got you I got you I got you what year was this this was before the Big Bang Yeah of course so you've gotten banned like you know he gets banned multiple times it was it was it was

a it was a rough one but I would I hit him up hey I can get your account back within 24 and I paid for it right cost me I think like ten thousand dollars I paid for it so yeah he will I can respect that yeah and it's just like and I did it because I was like okay I I [ __ ] with this guy I like what he's talking about I didn't think he was going to be doing three five billion views a week on social platforms I didn't but I wanted to

be in connection with people that I respected that people that I had Synergy with so I took care of them then that led to business opportunities with him right then he got banned again who was there who was the first person that person that got the call me right so having direct access to individuals is directly correlated to your ability to supply their what their needs solving rich people problems yeah solving brother you know sometimes I have friends that are doctors right in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico's full of billionaires crypto billionaires hedge fund billionaires BC

billionaires and these guys do like in-house calls right houses that I could never get into these are buddies of mine so they get a call let's say it's like a top guy top VC guy top hedge fund manager worth a couple billion dollars hey I need you to come do like a checkup on me in-house these guys are not going to go to a clinic guess who's walking right behind the doctor me brother they don't want to [ __ ] talk to me they don't care if I'm wearing a 50 000 Rolex a hundred thousand

dollar Rolex they just want to figure out if their health and their blood work is in check but guess who got access to the room the person that supplied the need which is the doctor in that situation so you don't have to have money people are always like oh I don't have money I don't have anything to provide to you you know I'm a small guy then they'll [ __ ] talk to me if you have nothing to provide why am I going to waste time with you yeah you need to come in as a

the most experienced Irreplaceable and high demand individual so that you can get access to the room and if you position yourself correctly you can get access to literally any room and if you say no you can't perfect you can't but I am a walking Testament that it's possible now if people perceive you as immature unprofessional unprepared then that's a response that you're going to get so once again become the best at what you do become Irreplaceable and be in high demand by developing your skill sets position yourself properly and with enough iteration eventually somebody will

say yes most people send one dm and expect that person to respond no sometimes you need to follow up consistently and you need to be what like you said consistent discipline discipline of Outreach okay perfect you want to get in the music industry how many producers how many musicians have you messaged how many people have you tried to help you want to get in the fitness industry how many Fitness influencers you want to lift it how many people have you said hey let me let me take care of I got this kit of whatever whatever

the need may be I'm an entrepreneur I can help you grow your Revenue by this amount that's how I got started my entrepreneurial Journey I helped the company in Wall Street with Facebook ads right and I did it for free for two months free service doubled the revenue with Facebook ads after the two months I called them like hey I want a contract like I want a contract they're like okay we'll talk about it next month the next day I turned off their ads the next day they called me fly up to New York yeah

they gave me I think a six thousand seven thousand dollar a month retainer right so that's the entire premise is you need to be able to provide a value ahead of time and you can get into the rooms what would be your advice when it comes to building a community because I think you from the looks of things you're pretty good at that and you have what's this the club you've created Capital Club is that like live now or is that is it's live yeah it's live uh so it's divided into two categories the first

one is for high-end entrepreneurs so people in the seven to nine figure range we have about 300 members and it costs about it costs fifteen thousand dollars a year right so it's a high ticket uh product but all these people come back every single year so it's the ability to network connect with people uh gives you access to deal flows and Investments that nobody really can get access to in the marketplace then we have our our subscription which is a dollar a day for people to be able to network and connect with experts at a

community level so that's available but the big thing that I've learned from community is authenticity I tell my people what I mean and I mean what I tell them people trust me because they know I'm not going to lie to them and that's the foundation of everything it's the relationship that you have with a girl it's a relationship that you have with your parents with your friends with your business partner and also with your community if they can't trust you they're not gonna [ __ ] with you and the best way to trust somebody is

if you know that what they're telling you is the truth and the best way to be truthful is to be authentic that the truest version of yourself so that's why people [ __ ] with me is because what I say I actually mean it I think that's one of the biggest things that a lot of guys struggle with they they might hide away which is fair enough but they just focus on acquiring skills building a business making money and if they do it properly and they focus over time they achieve that goal but the problem

is they don't have any friends they don't have any other men in a similar situation who they can speak to and socialize with so I think there is this trend of these private members Club these communities even like the war room where it's an opportunity for people to almost they buy in but then they just will have access to all these other amazing people who have made a load of money and everybody's because when you get into a position where you have a lot of money you're you're not afraid to keep a secret to yourself

yeah like you you just want to help everyone else out because they all understand that everybody can make money it's not scarce exactly there's plenty for everybody to go around and like you said it's it's the scarcity of mindset of bottlenecking your information dude I tell my people everything everything they hold back nothing but like you said I agree 100 with you brother you said men especially people that are you know dude men are [ __ ] lonely bro people don't seem to understand that 77 of suicides men every five minutes a man commits suicide

dude like who's gonna [ __ ] step up and be like yo I got you guys like hey you know there's a couple guys but obviously they're getting censored Community is extremely important and people bash and [ __ ] on communities but communities that are oriented towards the development of self and authenticity will will stand the test of time I think there's three types of relationships that every man should have one is they should have a mentor something that they look up to that they can learn from that they can be tutored by that bro

look at every King in history they all had tutors they all had mentors look at Homer look at Socrates look at Aristotle's all of them had mentors every single last one of them look at Plato all of them had what mentors you need somebody to learn from that is a senior that is more developed in areas that you want to grow in and you'll have different mentors for different things the next one is you need what an equal you need Community you need somebody that is at your level that what resonates with you a Brotherhood

so you need a mentor you need a Brotherhood and finally you need a mentee every person even if you're a scrub you need a mentee maybe it's your little brother who are you mentoring why because that person keeps you accountable to continue developing why because they're there so you need to take care of somebody you need to be equals with people you need to have a mentor every man needs one of at least one person in each one of those three relationships in order to what avoid this feeling of isolation and loneliness but it requires

what two things proactiveness actually going out and seeking these people they're not just going to show up and to intentionality what are you doing with that relationship are you giving are you asking every relationship is a give and take you need to be able to provide value and receive value and in that you build what reciprocity it's the reciprocity principle it's the back and forth It's the ping pong business right even with the I've already done two masterminds but I mean particularly the last one I did in Marbella I mean obviously I was doing my

thing how was that it was really good I was providing value for my end but because obviously there's a buy-in the amount of stuff that I learned that weekend was crazy because everybody had come from different backgrounds but ultimately the one thing we all had in common was we were all making money but a skill set which I had which they like I say one of my biggest skill sets when I compare myself to all of them is I must I must say I've mastered the out of social media but I built a following that's

one thing that they struggle with but some of those guys were really switched on when it comes to like business or email marketing or all these little things and we were just talking and discussing and they were like oh you should do this or you should try this and I was just like what I never even thought about that and I've walked away from that weekend where where everybody's better off and not only that like I'm sure we made some long-term friends and overall it was a great experience you got mentored by your mentees yeah

and it's true like that's the exact and then you had some equals and then you have people in the fitness space that you look up to and those people Mentor you and now that's why you have that compatibility and even though you're on a lone wolf you have those three relationships balanced every man needs that but most men are isolated in the room with the with their little [ __ ] LED lights and on their computer playing video games and they assume that people are going to come to them and reach out to them if

you want to become a high value man it's not just to get a high value woman is to find other high value men that will what be in Synergy with you because a mastermind this concept of a mastermind is when many Minds come together to form a mastermind so Mastermind isn't an event a mastermind is when many brilliant people come together to form literally a Super Brain have you done them before yes yeah have they been for you huh how have they been for you incredible yeah I think masterminds I think people should go to

masterminds I think people should become extremely skilled and build their own masterminds whether it's at a mentee level or at a peer level I think you can do a free Mastermind if you're in business an aspiring entrepreneur if you know aspiring entrepreneurs in your area it doesn't have to be the same business maybe you're in digital marketing maybe the other guy runs a lawn mowing business maybe the guy runs a roofing company maybe maybe the other guy runs a tourism company but what can you learn from each other and in that relationship you build what

a mentorship group you build a an accountability group it doesn't have to be paid but usually the paid ones come with structure more experience things that you can count on but every man should be involved in groups of accountability in groups of mentorship 100 it's undeniable most of the successful people I'll give you an example live in Puerto Rico the Ritz Carlton the membership 100 Grand to get in right if you want to be part of the club at the Ritz Carlton it's a hundred thousand dollars that's the buy-in okay why did I pay for

my Ritz Carlton membership because of the members that are there it's my buy-in there's places where you have to pay to play there's rooms that we will never be able to get into because it'll cost you [ __ ] 50 million dollars what do you think people that go and pay those you know people go to Charities and they'll go and drop 25 million dollars on a charity do you think some of these guys are doing it out of Goodwill no because they realize that they're who they're giving the charity to whatever that organization that

Foundation is will give them access to that club that group of people and then my maintenance fee every single month is a thousand bucks why do I do that because I know that when I go to the pool area it's full of rich people why because I know how much it costs them to pay there so I know it's no [ __ ] but it's a pay-to-play game just like in a video game do you want to get into the high places you either need to be super experienced super skilled super prestigious or you got

to pay um who uh who's your mentors or who are the mentals you've had in the past that have had the biggest effect on you I have two one that is no longer alive and then one that is still alive one that is no longer alive Leonardo da Vinci I studied DaVinci a lot uh because at his time he was considered a crazy man now we Revere him as a genius but he was a polymath that means he was a man of many skills so he was a mathematician he was an engineer he was an

artist he was a sculptor he was a businessman he was actually a freelancer people see all the paintings and the things that he was doing he didn't do that for free he was getting paid to do those things but at the time he was considered a freak by many people you look at for example the the painting of uh the last supper right it was actually painted in a church or in a building it was a commission piece of piece of work it wasn't painted you know for his Good Will in that uh ended up

turning into a stable like where they would put horses so this piece of art that we Revere as a massive uh part of humanity in in the Arts and it was once you know the graffiti of a stable and it's absolutely crazy to think about but at the time he was misunderstood so I studied da Vinci Da Vinci has this incredible quote he says it's a famous quote he says to develop a complete mind study the start let me say it again when I when I think of Da Vinci it's just [ __ ] crazy

but anyways Da Vinci famously said to develop a complete mind study the science of Art study the art of science learn how to see realize that everything connects to everything else what does this mean this means that he understood that he could study art in a scientific way and he could study science in an artistic way in that what he was told reality was wasn't the way that it was maybe we perceive Reality by the constructs that we've been given and not for what reality actually is if you want to develop a complete mind you

need to develop multiple aspects of your life that's why the same thing with your Mastermind you went and you developed a more complete mind because you learn from people from aspects that you'd never even recognize were reality learn how to see realize that everything connects to everything else so how you do Fitness is how you do business how you take care of your girl is how you're going to take care of your customers how you're honest with yourself is how you're going to be honest with others everything connects to everything else so Leonardo da Vinci

massive inspiration mentored to me the second one is an o-g-o-g-o-g digital marketer he's no longer kind of like on the Pinnacle but his name's Jay Abraham he was uh doing dollar masterminds back in the 90s when it was like actually like balling he was doing like Million Dollar Days uh he's a digital marketer probably like a pioneer of business those would be the two guys that I would Revere at the top of my list would see someone who you were actively speaking to or just yeah so he was a he was I was a big

fan of his work and then I got introduced to him and I speak to him on a weekly basis he's like a top dog you pay for that no free okay yeah relationships rather nice thank God so you you speak about reality what do you what do you think this reality is that we're in right now I think it's a matrix bro for sure I think it's uh I I genuinely believe so here's my premise God creates the universe right uh but the universe has a creator and the creation is obviously a construct so how

we perceive reality isn't really how reality is so let me kind of break this down in a simple format the way I perceive you is only the way that my brain allows me to perceive you through my receptors my eyes but that doesn't mean that that's what you actually are you're just a composition of what atoms and cells that are kind of meshed together and held together but maybe that's not just all a reality maybe I closed my eyes right and I'm speaking to the soul version of you and the construct version of you couldn't

actually be there so this aspect of physical reality isn't actually real it's just how we interact with it in the three-dimensional Realm it's a it's a concept that I like to kind of play with but uh I like the idea of there being a Creator and a higher power that we are accountable to for our actions and for our uh way of living and to keep that create a happy what do you think you should do just be a good person be obedient to them to the truth explain I think people know what to do

and they don't do it um I think many people lie to themselves they know what truth is and they avoid it they know what good is and they avoid it uh we live in a world where there's no such there's people that do not want to be held accountable to this idea of there being an absolute truth right everything is good everything is bad but you know there's things that we can all unanimously agree to that are bad you know if you go out and rape a woman that's bad unanimously yeah some cultures May accept

it doesn't mean it's good so what is it what is that moral trigger inside of us that tells us that that action is bad you are you religious no I religion to me is a construct of how other people have been in relationship with God I am a so so a couple years ago I had a conversation with god I I believe it to be a genuine conversation and I was reading have you read have you read the Bible by chance I recommend everybody's saying I should do it okay then some so maybe that's God

telling me to read it so there's this have you heard of King David you've heard of the Star of David So King David King David has son his name is Solomon there's a story in the Bible where Solomon uh is dreaming he goes into dream state and God comes to him and dreams day and he says God says to Solomon anything that you want I will give you if you want wealth I'll give you wealth I'll make you the richest man if you want kingdoms I'll give you the kingdoms tell me whatever it is that

you want and I'll give it to you in Solomon didn't ask for riches then ask for kingdoms he asked for one thing he said give me wisdom and God gave him wisdom and after that the riches came the kingdoms came and every other thing that comes with it so as I read that I sat there and I was like God give me wisdom I don't know what it looks like I don't know what this means but give me wisdom and allow me to be a person that makes decisions not out of spontinuity not out of

reactiveness or out of emotion but out of a state of mind in which I can be wise and from that everything else will come so my relationship with God is now a Pursuit Of Truth in a pursuit of wisdom and I think it's working seems like it is do you have anything about yourself that you're not happy with or you feel like is holding you back or get in the way because I don't feel like you're the type of guy that has many bad habits but I feel like everybody has some yes I have skeletons

in my closet brother [Music] uh but I don't think I have addictions I think sometimes I'm disobedient to yourself or look at the truth okay to knowing what you need to do and not doing it but I don't like to be this person that's attached to things you know at that point I was smoking weed I've been sober from it why because I realized that that thing was controlling my life and it's not that oh it's a good thing or a bad thing but it's realizing that if it controls me then and I'm not controlling

it that I'm being disobedient why because I don't need anything controlling me I don't need anything dictating how I operate waking up and smoking a joint or waking up and drinking alcohol or whatever it may be it could even be a good thing that you overdo but this entire concept of kind of being in a situation whereby I have addictions I would say I've steered clear from a lot of those but I do have times where I'm disobedient to what I know I'm supposed to do and I choose to not be obedient to those things

that I've committed to myself sometimes you get a bit of a kick just like being Disobedience yourself yeah yeah I mean sometimes you gotta let loose but at the same time it's like I would say another thing consistency you know this principle of I there's different people that operate in different ways I I consider myself a polymath of sorts so I like to study different things at different times so I'll study mathematics I'll study uh I'll study architecture I'll study business developing a complete mind right under this principle of Da Vinci of course I'm no

Da Vinci by no stretch of the imagination but I like to study multiple things in that creative mind you often find spurts of Genius here here here here whereby for example you you've developed that consistency compounding effect clearly it's visible with your [ __ ] arms uh whereby the consistency compounds right and then that consistency that compounds uh you have the building process and there's two ways of you know doing great things you can have spurts of success or you can have the compounding effect in my life I've had these spurts of kind of just

massive wins uh because I go into a massive win and then kind of like I chill or I meditate or I Vibe and I kind of just hang out kind of like what I've been doing the last two years uh and then I'll have like another spurt I would like to develop a sense of continuity I would like to experience that I wouldn't say it's a good or a bad thing but there's definitely things in my life that I that I can uh be more consistent it seems like you're very consistent at learning yes brother

learning learning is so important brother how many hours a day every day I read every single day I read how long for an average a book A Week okay yeah a book every single week what about podcasts and other things or you just focus on the books uh so yes yes and no so so for example the question is the host of the podcast why are they making the podcast are they making it for AdSense are they making it for growth are they making it for their own personal gain are they doing it for some

reason to like give I love Joe Rogan I think he's a G right he brings in a ton of guests that I like to listen to but I want to gain an advantage in the marketplace by uncovering the information and the knowledge that is not mainstream so I'll go to like I'll go to Yandex which is like a Russian version of Google that is uncensored and I'll go and like uncover books about the central bank and the history of of money and things that are kind of banned and not allowed or censored or things of

this nature and I'll kind of study those things to have an advantage if everybody's no offense right if everybody's out here reading Rich Dad Poor died by Robert Kiyosaki what advantage do you have if everybody's reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie which is a great book but what advantage do you have yeah so you need to be able to acquire information and knowledge that will be able to set you apart and that means that you have to explore for that information like a library right you can't just go to the

most like the trending section if you want to go to specific knowledge you have to search how can you decide okay this is this might be legit or no this is just the ridiculous conspiracy theory because there is I've kind of gone down that Robert Hall a bit where I would watch a few videos on conspiracy theories I'm just think like as some of these people just making up these theories just to tell a good story and get views yeah I mean I think it's two-sided like there's conspiracy theories that I won't even entertain why

well for the simple fact that they don't benefit my life in any way shape or form right so people are talking about oh the Earth is this shape or that shape okay perfect if it doesn't matter if I live on earth that's this that's the shape of a [ __ ] Dorito chip is it gonna make any difference to my finances is it going to make any difference to my relationships no okay so it doesn't I don't care about that right I don't care about how the Titanic sank or this [ __ ] submarine nonsense

that was going on on Twitter like I don't care why because it has no foundational difference in my life how money Works has a big impact on my life how the educational system was conjured up which is based on the perusian school system to create workers and basically slave minded Bots that's a conspiration that ended up actually being true uh so I want to study the things that will actually have an a direct impact to the well-being of my life without rabbit trailing too far into you know tinfoil hats and the frogs being gay which

by the way you know you know what I'm talking about which by the way ended up being true uh because they they're there's actually like chemicals in the water that are a feminizing uh frogs which are probably also feminizing women but that's they're men but that's a conversation for her yeah yeah that's a conversation for dinner um I imagine you're a pretty well traveled guy and you've been to a lot of places 55 countries 55 all right I like to travel as well I don't think it's your favorite country bro I think I've not been

there yet I think I would really like Japan bro you would [ __ ] go you'd make some badass content yeah every day would be a different video yes um I would imagine the places I like the most are the the not the mainstream places not the okay all the tourists go here because it's all been documented and you already know so much about it I like I like going places where I think this this is different what's your favorite country in Europe because you've traveled Europe pretty heavy huh there's still a lot of I've

not ventured into Eastern Europe um I've done a lot of Spain Portugal Portuguese Germany Croatia was cool crochet was nice brother Corsica was interesting have you been to Greece I've been to a place Crete uh Chinese that was nice as well you should go to Greece bro super sick that's where all the ancient wisdom was that's where all the that's where all the the Greek gods that's where you belong my brother Hercules this this guy you messaged me like hey bro I'm back in town I'm like you're like who's back in town I'm like what

Hercules is back in town so I went to the Parthenon in Greece and I walk up the staircases there's olive trees to my right olive trees to my left the the breeze from the ocean kind of hitting the back of my head and that's where the stoics used to sit and they would Converse and I would go up the stairs and the sun would beam through the big marble pillars and I sat there and this is where like the ancient Greeks and the philosophers would sit down and and Converse and they would argue and philosophize

the intricacies of life there's an energy there that's Immaculate you should go that's on the list there's a big list yes we're probably um just quickly for a wrap-up what's your situation with women in relationships because I imagine being the way you are you would have extremely high standards of picking a potential partner is that something you're entertaining or you just like tunnel vision focused at the moment because I I know from my own experience yeah what's your opinion what's your what's your what's your take on that so I think Jeremiah 20 is particularly my

late 20s when I finally like I was content with who I was had the confidence had the chat had you know you got age on your side as well like you're feeling more mature more importantly you got the money you got the status I did everything which I wanted to do and I entertained like I spent a lot of time going on dates gone on holidays like just time with women and I've come to the realization now that that is not an efficient use of my time and I think I'm in a position now especially

with the way things are going the momentum that's built up the opportunities that are coming my way I don't think I it's a good time to be in a relationship and I think it's it would be unfair to try and be in a relationship with someone who maybe you know wants a boyfriend who can spend more time with them and go do this with them do that with them whatever it might be I think I might just have to go off and do my own thing at this point in time I was asked earlier today

by by somebody I was sitting with and said they they just recently uh they had a trade job or an electrician and they're like hey you know what I'm thinking about getting into the dating scene maybe have like ten thousand dollars to their name five thousand dollars I'm like is that on your list of priorities right so it all comes down to priorities it's not whether it's a good thing or a bad thing but it's what is it that you're trying to accomplish in life like what is your plan is a woman right as as

beautiful as they are as as fun as it is to have them around is that on your list of priorities as a man or are there things that top that list of priorities that uh are more important so for me I've only been to and on one date my entire life uh I've only been with one woman my entire life uh and I've been with her for for quite some time but you're still with it yes yes and the reason being and I've never shared this and the reason being is uh I'm a person that

that's content you know I rather I get DMS every single day you know what I mean but I don't want to entertain the divisiveness of energy you only have X amount of time and energy in the day right so I want to make sure that the energy that I'm inputting is returning in some way shape or form people go on dates okay what do you get from it okay you get some [ __ ] okay perfect okay you get some exhilarating fun perfect you also ruin some people's lives in the process but what are you

gaining from that okay okay there might be some people have different philosophies you can go pick up chicks or people can do whatever the [ __ ] they want like I honestly don't care but I also know the level of distraction and the amount of effort that is required to be in that scene to be doing those things and to me it's just not on my list of priorities not whether it's a good thing or a bad thing it's just on my level of priorities that is so far down the totem pool that a good

thing at the wrong time can be a bad thing it's like giving a razor to a baby and expecting the baby not to get cut is the problem isn't the razor the problem isn't the dating the problem isn't the woman maybe the problem is you maybe you're in a situation where you can't handle a relationship maybe you're in a situation where you need to focus on yourself maybe you're in a situation where you need to develop you need to become a man so I have a friend who's um he's in a similar situation he like

has no money struggling to make money but he's having the time of his life and he is in a relationship and he's also trying to pay for her as well everything it's [ __ ] Madness and he's like he's he's trapped absorbed yeah he can't he's living with her spending far too like just way too much time with her any money that comes in half of it has to go to her and they didn't get any time to himself to build something that's actually going to earn in money I think brother I think the important

thing is number one boundaries people get into relationships and they assume that they have to be with somebody the entire day all day long dude I travel for four five six months out of the out of the Year by myself do my own thing I don't need to be out here on a couch watching Netflix hugging and cuddling every single what the [ __ ] is that [ __ ] I'm not I'm not doing that if you look at you found someone who is stable because you set the parameters ahead of any sort of interaction

in relationship setting the boundaries and letting people know hey this is my life this is what I do and and welcome to welcome welcome on board and if you're not on board like sorry but that's the name of the game and that doesn't mean I need to find 90 different girls 10 different girls that just means I need to understand what's my mission what's my purpose what's my priority and based off of that Spectrum do right like we talked about obey that list of priorities that you're in that's the first part the second part as

a person with a lot of money with a lot of connections with a lot of resources this concept of being a Playboy this concept of uh going and sleeping with a ton of women or being unfaithful uh is popularized per se but it's not for me I believe in loyalty I believe in integrity and if trust isn't there right and if I can what's the point and if I can't be in a situation whereby I can be an honest person then how can my community expect me to be honest with them if I can't honor

the person that I sleep in bed with how can I honor everybody how am I going to honor my business partner I was once sitting with a a guy we went golfing I didn't golf I was just watching I don't play golf and he had just canceled 100 million dollar deal that he had because he found out that the guy who was going to do the deal with uh had cheated on his wife and he sat there and he looked at me I was like dude you canceled 100 million dollar deal it's just business he's

like it's not just business if he cheated on the person that he sleeps with there's a high likelihood that he'll cheat on me yeah and it's like it's not that it's going to happen or not it's the fact that there is character flaws that can be changed that a person needs to work on so it's a personal taste it's not on my list of priorities I like to hang out with the boys I like to do my thing but uh I'm a digital stoic brother I got my uh Sexual Energy under control I think that's

that's so important yes to I'll speak to Chris about this um being in control of your desires or actually choosing what it is that you want to desire because if you desire the wrong things then you're naturally just always going to be unhappy until you get whatever it is that you want I think Naval said something like that he has a quote and living in the Primal State everybody wants to live in the [ __ ] and eating State like those are the two most Primal states that you can be in [ __ ] and

eating that's what most people just do all day and if it's not having sex it's jerking off like it's the two biggest dopamine hits there's more to life at some point sex gets old no it doesn't get older dude some of the conversation but at some point brother like there's other things to accomplish in life and that's kind of the things that I'm trying to pursue so find a good relationship find a person that allows you to live your life that allows you to be you uh set the parameters that give Freedom uh but do

it in a sense of respect be loyal have integrity and ultimately understand where this idea of relationships or dating falls on your list of priorities but if you're a broke [ __ ] bro maybe you you can't be chasing the the women maybe you got to be chasing the paper bro yeah you have to you have to make that priority you have to Bro from my experience you have to sacrifice yeah if there's anything which I become obsessed with and I'm like right that that's on the top I want to make this happen usually it

happens because that's all I'm thinking about yes so if you're not becoming like for example my physique if I was just obsessed I wanted to have the best physique I go and make it happen yes if I get obsessed with oh I want to sleep with those women I go and make that happen yes if I'm obsessed with making loads of money and building a business you'll make that happen so you just need to decide okay what is the thing that's going to be a priority there's a verse in the Bible that says as a

man thinketh so is he so whatever you're thinking about that's who you will become because thoughts lead to actions actions lead to habits habits lead to Lifestyle and that lifestyle is what dictates who you are brother man I've learned a lot from this podcast me too bro I had a great time that was good where can people find You Luke Belmar all platforms you go to Instagram you go to YouTube and uh Twitter Twitter Twitter we're out here writing some digital Stoke tweets on uh are you on Twitter which I don't like because it's not

me but then I don't want to get too caught up in that because there is a lot of negativity in Twitter right I don't I don't ever you just tweet tweet I don't even read like quote on people's stuff like I just my thoughts it's like a journal for my own things Naval you know Naval yeah he has a great book The Almanac yeah most of that book is a compilation of his tweets which is [ __ ] G so hopefully someday somebody collects my tweets and there's a little book that we can all reminisce

on and hopefully he puts out more content he's a zebra an absolute G he needs to get more podcasts I know he doesn't like to repeat himself but that one he did with Joe Rogan was so good I listened to it like three or four times I'm like please do another one but he has his reasons I guess yes bro awesome man thank you brother cheers bro