In this episode, the boys recap their 2024 experience and share the biggest lessons they'll be carrying with them into the new year.
They cover advice around how to design your environment for better outcomes, why it's worth paying money to make your life more frictionless, and when you should double down on things that are working well.
They also share that they'll be going on a break for an indeterminate amount of time while they focus on other projects, and show appreciation for everyone who has listened over the past 50+ episodes.
Tune in if you're a current or aspiring entrepreneur who wants to design a business that fits around their lifestyle, instead of trying to fit your lifestyle around your business.
“The cost of inconvenience is really expensive... I'm just trying to make my life more convenient because by doing things that are not convenient, compromising my effectiveness and my happiness.”
– Chase Dimond
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:
How Your Environment Influences Your Outcomes – Mason shares why he likes to be surrounded by beautiful landscapes, objects, and people because it lifts his mood and makes him more productive.
How To Use The "Bull Whip Effect" To Your Advantage – The boys discuss why your success today was dictated by actions you took weeks or months ago, and how your actions today will influence your future.
Why It's Important To Have Non-Work Outlets – Chase emphasizes the importance of having hobbies, interests, and social circles that are completely unrelated to work, so you can blow of steam and protect your mental health.
Why "Trust" Is A Serious Word – Mason shares some sage advice from his dad. He explains why, "Trust, but verify" should be a guiding principle for you and your team.
KEY MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:00 – Ranking The Year From 1-10 00:03:20 – How Your Environment Impacts Your Results 00:07:48 – Why Inconvenience Is Expensive 00:12:50 – The "Bull Whip Effect" For Marketing 00:17:02 – Why You Need Outlets Outside Of Work 00:21:27 – Creating A Great Life Takes Work 00:23:15 – The Importance Of "Trust, But Verify" 00:27:36 – When To Go All In On Something 00:30:34 – Closing Thoughts & Resources
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Welcome back time and download, you know, it's crazy chase every single time that countdown timer is going on Riverside
I always hear the song bump bump bump, but put it up up. Yes our song. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny
I sometimes I think I hear it too. That's funny. It plays in my head
Welcome back everybody. Welcome back chase man. What's going on?
Dude, I'm very bittersweet. This is our last one at least for the time being
I'm I'm excited to get a little bit of time back, but I'm sad because I'm gonna miss you and our listeners
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I you know, it doesn't sound like a lot of time like 40 minutes a week is like or 40 minutes
Uh, it's really a month. I think it's really do like two episodes
But no, I I think here's okay. So for everybody we talked about this for a while
Um, we went back and forth trying to figure out like what's what's best for the boys chase got his podcast and i'm trying to go
Hard on my own content and we have a bank of
How many episodes have been like in the 60s or 70s
Probably. Yeah, it's probably been a couple years worth of doing a couple a month
Yeah
Yeah, I think 60 or 70 episodes together
There's a lot of content hours and hours and hours that you guys can go through
I would say if you get if you get sad and you miss us just walk them all again. Okay
today
I want to do uh, I mean considering it's the last one of the year and then the last one I guess ever
I wanted to do like the top three things we've learned in 2024. So
I mean
I don't know about you chase. This year flew by how do you feel about 2024 in general?
Yeah, it's crazy. I think for me now that I have kids
I relate everything to like my kids ages and my youngest daughter is almost two for me. That's just like oh my god
I feel like she was just born and I feel like she was just one so it's it's flown by
crazy
Crazy crazy. Yeah, I what would how about this before we go into like what we've learned? What would you rate the year?
Out of 10
If you could give it a ranking
10
For you
Yeah, I mean I made the most amount of money i've ever made and worked the least amount and had probably the most fun
So i'd say it was a 10. What about for yourself?
That's interesting. I would say like a 7 or an 8. Um, I think 2023
Would be like a 9 or a 10. I try to not rank things 10
ever like food people
Years, I try to not rank things 10 I would say honestly 2024 was like a 7.6
had a lot of high highs a lot of low lows a lot of things that you know, just
Whatever like I learned a lot. I think this is a very formative year for me. I'm 25 now, dude. I'm getting old
Actually look younger today than you did the last episode
Yeah, I shaved and showered. I don't know. I'm getting younger. You're getting older. I'm getting younger
Yeah, how is this happening dude anyway, maybe I need a daughter or two to like to bring me back to like 21
um
But yeah, no, okay. I yeah a lot of growth this year a lot of things that maybe I would have done different
Whatever it is what it is. Um, you want to jump right into it? You care if I go first?
Yeah, why don't you go you go first, right?
Yeah, sure
So we each have three things that we've learned in the year 2024 that we want to share with our beloved diamond downloaders
Okay, first one that I got
Is to invest way more time into building and mastering your ideal environment both physical and social
so
um
I
Have really leveled up
This sort of like aesthetic and social game
in 2024
Um, I think I I think I look better. I think I dress better. I think the people i'm around are better
I think i'm, you know actively trying to do more kind of in my community
there are a couple things so like the first side of that is like the aesthetic thing where it's like
I know it's rich coming from me where I have literally two pieces of furniture in my
in my apartment here
um
but I think aesthetically like
Making like okay. So I bought a ferrari this year. I started to get into fashion and looking good
Um, I have lost a considerable amount of weight
Um again, I i've done it twice now
Um, and I I feel like everything around me like I love the city i'm in I love the view that I have
I just feel like the things around me are beautiful and I like actively try and make that
Happen, you know what I mean? It's not by accident
I like really tried to go above and beyond with like what my eyes get to see every day
No ugly people on the team. No ugly sales guys
Um, I try and make everybody on the team is beautiful
um, and it's just it makes life really nice, you know, I mean like it's I I really don't ever get that like
Disgust feeling of like oh, like where am I?
Like even when I spend time in toronto like I I go pretty high end on the hotels
Um, i'm not like splashing crazy money, but I I really try to like make sure that i'm in a place that looks nice
I'm booking a trip right now
Um to go to mexico soon for like probably 10 days
Um, like i'm sparing no expense on the villa that I want to get because I want to shoot content in it
I want to just wake up and feel wow. This is amazing. So that's the one thing the second thing the sort of like social environment
I have made a lot of connections this year
met a lot of people
Done a lot of cool things and i'm i'm sort of like taking all of this like I guess potential that I have this year
and in 2025
I kind of want to make like a real name for myself like in the city
like there's a lot of stuff that I want to do to sort of become like that's
That you know the guy that does this thing or throws these parties or hosts these events or like, you know, whatever
I really do want to like start to build up
mason in miami
and um
like I said
Between all the connections that I've made this year and like the things i've learned about like what is doable
Um and how people like to go to events and stuff like that
like I really want to sort of start to build that up and I think like
That's something that most people kind of are in the passenger seat of
Where people
you know are in the environment they're in because like they're in
apartment they can afford and they drive a car that they can afford and they kind of they go to work and then they
Go to the gym that is just like closest to their house. It's like they don't really think about like how to sort of like build their
Entire space that they take up. Yeah, uh both, you know social and physical and that's one thing i've been very conscious of this year
dude, I love the part about just being known for something right like
I don't know if you just get a cardinal at your at your crib and you throw something once a month where people come play
Cards or something and I don't know right the whole new molly's game. You see that you see that movie all these games
I know what you're talking about
yeah, like I don't know I think doing something right that like whether it's a restaurant that you partner with and you throw some kind of
Really cool event that maybe it's a fundraiser for something that you're really passionate about and you know
Once a month once a quarter a couple times a year
You get like the coolest people together to just raise money for something that you're really passionate about right
And then your identity and the identity of whatever you're passionate about kind of form this life
I don't know. I think that's really cool
I don't know what that is for you
But I don't know if it's cars and coffee that you host in miami or whatever it might be
I think there's something cool you could do for sure
Yeah, I think it's also kind of inspired by the conversation. We had last week where we were talking about basil
and um cool stuff that people are doing and like
I'm assuming it'll probably be like we find an event space and just kind of throw parties just like private little you know
cool high-end parties
um, because we want females there too chase i'm not playing poker with a bunch of the boys, you know, I mean like
I would love to have some some women there
um
But yeah, no, I mean i'm thinking about it. I'm talking to some of my buddies like promoters i'm talking to ben
I think ben wants to get involved same with jimmy. But yeah, I think that that's been huge for me this year
sick, I love that one the one that I was thinking about for me was
The cost of the inconvenience is really expensive
um, and what I mean by that is like i'm just trying to make my life more convenient because by doing things that
Are not convenient doing things that I don't want to do
Um, i'm not happy about doing them or you're basically paying a price for something that isn't fulfilling
so everything from like dude every
Time I get my blood drawn someone comes to my house now to do it versus me driving
And leaving my house because I don't like to leave my house and going and waiting 30 or 45 minutes to get my blood drawn
Um, you know, I didn't realize i was going to the dentist every three months
I didn't realize they had me on a quarterly plan. I've now switched that to
uh, you know
One time every four months right and even just something simple like that
I go to the dentist now one less time per year, but my teeth still stay really healthy and clean
So i'm just thinking about like all the little things and even the big things. I don't like to do
I don't like to cook right. I don't really like to do dishes
I don't like to do a lot of these things
So it's like I just told my wife like let's just we're just doordash people or we're just uber eats people
That's just who we are like every day every night
Whatever it is
Like I just want to wake up and whatever we're feeling like we're gonna do we talked about the private chef thing
We realized that that's probably more inconvenient because they're in your space
You're having to figure out, you know groceries and tell them what to do and whatnot
I just want to look at a menu and order things
So for me i'm really leaning into the fact that I don't want to be inconvenient. I really want to be convenient
I really want to have that time that energy that mental capacity that i'm spending on silly things being stressed
Just really focus on
Work fitness family, etc. So for me, that was kind of the first one that came to mind for me
dude
1000% agree with that you're preaching the choir here man. Like I know I know I knew you'd like that one
I'm pissed because I gotta fly commercial back to canada when I go back on sunday
i'm not excited for it man, like i'm gonna have to like
Look at myself in the mirror and really question like who I am before I go
Like all kinds of stuff one of my favorite things to spend money on is convenience
I like things that happen fast. I like things that are easy and frictionless. Like I love that. I love that always like prioritize like
Getting things done faster and easier
Yeah, they don't have to cost. Yeah, they don't have to cost a lot of money, right?
Obviously the the private jet that's the one that costs a lot of money. That's not one that i'm doing
That's one that obviously you you really enjoy but a lot of these things i'm just like I just want to save time like even
For example, I was going once a month to get a prescription
Like I was driving. I don't know 10 minutes each way to get a prescription once a month. I called the doctor
I was like, hey, can you just give me this on a quarterly or semi-annual basis? And they're like, oh, yeah for sure
And now i'm driving one less time to the pharmacy right like each month i'm driving once a quarter
It was just silly small things like that. They don't sound
That big but when you save one trip each month and you save one less doctor visit each time you say one less census visit
Like in the aggregate you're saving a lot of time. So it's really interesting
100 and it's just like the mental effort of like yes
I want to do this. It kind of feels like a flex like it feels good to have stuff brought to you like doordash
Who reads like snog don't get me started. Do you have like your spots where it's like?
You have I order from like the same like maybe three to five places
For all of my like I guess 10 plus meals per week. Like I don't really change it up too much
Do you have like your same spots where you eat the same thing kind of every day
Yeah, more or less like what kind of like what kind of more like be like, all right on tuesday
We do taco tuesdays. We order mexican. We'll kind of rotate between a few different mexican spots. So we have like
categories we like
Taco tuesday tonight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly
Exactly. Uh shay is obsessed with chipotle. I'm so sick of chipotle at this point
Like she loves it so much that we get it for her all the time
Um, but we have like certain days where like we'll do mediterranean and we pick from a couple spots
So we have a lot of different I think we probably order from 15 or 20 spots depending on the day depending on
What menu we've selected whether it's american or italian or you know, mexican whatever etc
Man, you guys are the best parents ever. Do you know what I had to do?
Back in 2005 to 2008 to get my dad to order us a pizza
What would you have to do I have to beg like on my knees like dad
Like I would have to cry to get a pizza now. Oh my god
Your kids are spoiled. They don't even know what we had to go through because i'm sure like when you were a kid
And you're a 90s kid parents were not like
Chipotle's at the door like it was like you had to you had to pay with blood sweat and tears for pizza
You had to earn it
Oh, yeah, I mean for us
I think we got to have pizza once a week when we went to uh blockbuster on fridays
like our thing was like after school on fridays, we go to blockbuster get a movie and order pizza, right but like
Outside of that, you know, and we had to go pick it up, right?
Like it wasn't being delivered to us the click of a button on an app like it's it's yeah
The kids nowadays are definitely
Spoiled or blessed if they want to look at it. What's yeah, what's your what's your second tip?
I was gonna say that was a lesson that we learned in 1999
Or something like that. That's a whole different
My second one
Is um, I have the bullwhip effect is very real. So this is pretty simple
We talked about the bullwhip effect before I kind of got the term from jeremy haynes
But it's kind of like a universal thing that you deal with in business and just kind of in life
The stuff that you're doing now
Does it doesn't really show the fruit of its labor until months later?
so like for you could do three months straight worth of work that you have no idea if it's like
Working or not or like what the plan is and then it's like three to six months after that. You're like, oh
That's what that was. Like I noticed that with um
with tiktok and this is sort of like the inverse effect too where it's like
We were so I basically kind of paused tiktoks. I I grinded all year in 2023
Made like an average of like a video and a half a day. Yeah, uh for from like from january to december
and then for most of like the first half of 2024
I lived off basically royalties of those tiktoks like those customers that we made in 2023 like
We were able to eat off that
For you know months after and I think it's important to remember that like that build up
Like you can't let it slip and also like it will feed you for a long time
So like that's kind of like the motivation everywhere. It's like if you want to work hard now
It's the same thing when I started freelancing, bro
like I I a lot of like networking and outreach and pitching and grinding and stuff like for the first like probably six to
Eight months and then after that
All of it was inbound because I'd done so much work to build up my reputation in the industry
You were throwing me deals other guys were structuring me deals like people found me on twitter
And it was just like a spiderweb effect where it's like I didn't really have to do that much hard work anymore
Because I had a full pipeline because of the work I did at the beginning
and so
Um same thing with with social life. Um, i'm talking about that a lot these days because it's like super important to me
I don't know if people like really care. I do my email list and on instagram and whatever but that it's like a big thing
I think people should care more about
um, like
Yeah, the work you do now the friends you start to make now the connection starts to make um will blossom and at 10 x's
over time the bullet effects kind of
Yeah, essentially. I didn't I didn't know that was the term for it
but i've been talking about that same thing for a long time where like
I would tell
Nick and jake and other partners and other team members that like the reason that we're doing well today
Isn't because the stuff we're doing today. It's because the stuff that we did over the last 3 6 12 months, right?
A lot of things they don't they're not short, right? They're not like immediate gratification
There's like this long tail to it, right?
If you think about marketing, you know kind of the I guess the bullwhip is more like the seo, right?
the fruits your labor's kind of planted today and you're going to see whether that tree or that kind of
flower blossoms in 3 6 9 or 12 months and if it does
Like it's going to pay dividends for a long time, right?
Like you're going to have this fruit tree that produces avocados or oranges or whatever it might be for
Years and years to come because you planted the seed today and you did the work on upkeeping it, right?
So yeah, just having like the conviction to see things through having the conviction that although you know
It might be a gamble
that it could really pay off and it's going to need some consistence and persistence and
You'll kind of know when you know and until then you just need to have faith
yeah, and like even the stuff like you were saying like the marketing stuff that you do net like
Yeah, like a blog or okay. Let's let's use email for example, because that's pretty immediate, right?
Yeah, let's say you're doing an email a day for like
Four months and like every time people are buying stuff like that
You could probably stop doing emails and you would be remembered
For the fact that you were like you had banger emails every single day for four months though. Like that is then your brand
like in that whole cohort
even if they didn't buy then off those emails they're gonna be like
Chase's brand like that brand that did all those emails like they're so dude. We're not really strangers
I haven't gotten anything from them in a long time
But the the lasting effect that their marketing had on me from way back in the day because they were consistent and good
Lasker, you know, I'm in it like it really does sort of like brain itself in your mind
so
Yeah, good stuff. What about uh, what about you? What's your second one?
Uh, i'd say my second one is more kind of general kind of more about life and enjoyment and whatnot
is that you need outlets you need channels to kind of
Get away from the screen get away from the noise get away from the chaos, right?
Um, there's a lot of I feel like lately there's been a lot of toxicity on social media in particular twitter
People just calling each other out people starting to beef whether it's um
I don't know whether it's called for or not. Not really my place to say
I don't really know what happens beneath the surface, but there's certain things i've seen them just like why is this happening?
Like it's just so unnecessary. So I think for people to have outlets is super important whether that be
You know daily walks or daily meditation or
um, you know for me lately it's been golf like i've been
you know for a long time I thought i'm gonna golf a bunch when i'm retired and was like
You don't know what health is gonna look like when you're 50 60 70 80, right?
You might as well do the things that you enjoy today and find ways to kind of wean them in with other things you like
so
For me with christmas coming up and hanukkah coming up and whatever other things people celebrate
My brothers and I are like hey, we're not doing gifts. We're going golfing, right? We went golfing on thanksgiving
Um, you know, we take each other golfing for one on their birthday
That's been a really cool thing for us to be able to spend four five six hours
just messing around and making fun of each other and being competitive and
just removing ourselves from like the
Phones and the device and it sounds crazy
But like they have more control and power over us than we think like just having that separation so important. I went golfing
Um, I think on sunday. Yeah a couple days ago
And I hadn't touched my phone from 8 a.m
When I got to the driving range sold 3 p.m when I got home and I felt great man
It felt so nice to just disconnect and be out there with some buddies and hang out
so I think having like channels and outlets where
Whether you're stressed or not stressed just making it a part of your routine
Like i'm gonna start adding golf hopefully to my weekly calendar soon
whether it's 9 or 18 holes just trying to find someone new or someone that I like to go golf with and
Just get out get some fresh air and we're lucky here in california where we don't have seasons like dude
It's the middle of winter some places. We're out golfing. It's like 67 degrees. It was fantastic
Awesome, dude. Yeah, I I love how much you love golf because I think it's so important to have something like that
like
Yeah, you're right people do need people are tense man
That's one thing I've realized
Like
Okay, you're you're still young enough to kind of probably remember like what you thought of adults when you were like, maybe 17 18 19
I didn't feel like an adult yet when I was that age
I looked up to older people and I was just like that's just the way adults are they're adults
They're a different species than me
And then I got here and now they're kind of my peers
Where it's like I have a lot in common with like a 30 year old or a 35 year old
Even if there's like a huge generational gap there
Yeah, and I think like oh we're the same like why are you so grumpy all the time?
Like what's what's wrong with your life that you like
Could do like when I had like teachers and stuff like that
Like, um, there's this math teacher who was what a pill he was
Mr. S i'm not gonna say his full name
um out of respect for him because I think he's deep down a nice guy, but oh what a terrible like
He was so grumpy all the time and just tormented like students that were even a little bit bad
And I was like this guy is miserable and it's like it used to be like
Oh, well, he's just an adult but it's like if I knew
Knew someone like that now i'd be like, how do you live? Like how do you exist like that? I think like
so few people
Really have that like balance and like a life that they enjoy because they have
Work that they enjoy people around that they're like whether it's family or friends
And like a hobby like you have which is golf to like really kind of keep them just like
Normal in their brains, you know, like a lot of people just like it's crazy
How people just lose it at a certain age because they don't have that
yeah, yeah, it's it's so it's so important right like i've noticed like
yeah, you know you have to be aware of when you're happy and what gives you energy and what doesn't and
You know if you're fortunate enough to understand and realize those things
and you can make it a priority just shift around the schedule the priorities and
Things that you know take energy from you and kind of bring you down
Just try to do less of that and try to do more of the other things easier said than done. I know but
what's
Yeah, what's your third one i'm i've got my third one coming up right after this has been fun
Yeah, are you enjoying this? Yeah, I want to hear your third one add to yours. I think that's such a
Um
I think
Did I think I tweeted this?
For you to create a life that you really love which we are both so fortunate to have
It takes so much work
and this is kind of like tying in what you just said and then the bullwhip effect where it's like
A lot of people think that it's like it's just you know
Getting a little bit in shape like dropping 10 pounds
And um, maybe you know spending a little bit more time outside and like, you know
Maybe change your career like dude. It's a lot
It's a lot of work for people to really really change from like being deeply unhappy to like being deeply fulfilled
like
Like it's it's taken us so long
to like
To build the businesses that we have that fund the stuff we love to do it's taken us so long to like build
um
Like hobbies and stuff that we're good at in social circles like you have your like we both have brothers
So we're we're kind of good kind of got that built in but like
Making friends and like having those like deep friendships takes a long time like ---- takes a long time
Yeah, and like I think people
Underestimate how easy it is. They think about it. They're like I can do it and then they kind of just never do anything
But no man like
if someone's like really unhappy right now, I think it's it's a
It's gonna take like two three years for you to fix everything, but i'm telling you
Especially if you're like under 40
like that's the majority of your life that will be better if you are able to go through and just like
Change small things and like go and build yourself up so you can not be unhappy like that sucks
I can't imagine living like that
I like it. Yeah, I agree
four percent
Okay solid, um, okay last one for me
Is a short one. My dad used to say this to me all the time
And um, it was never really relevant because I was a child
My dad had all these fired little tidbits when I was a kid that I like never really
Like cheated, but this one is he used to say trust but verify
And it was always like when people like kids my age would tell me stuff where it's like
Did you know that the moon actually has like arms and legs or something?
I'd tell my dad that I'd be like dad, you know moon has arms and legs and he's like
And then he would tell me like trust but verify and i've so I mean dude like we've grown
You know in terms of the business like a lot like we started the year with like I think six people and now we have 20
Wow, like new coaches and sales guys and stuff like that. Um
a lot of friendships and like little
relationships and stuff that i've kind of been through where i've just realized that like
most people
In general
Are liars not because they're inherently bad but because they're ashamed and they they always feel the need to like save their own ass
um
like
I've had a lot of like I guess employees or contractors or whatever like
Just like not hold up their end of the bargain
And like make me look bad and make everyone else look bad like everyone else on the team and the customers too
and like
And it's just like I I used to just be like a very like trusting person like and I I used to like that about
Myself where it's like anytime someone said something I was usually gone on their team and be like, all right
This person's being honest. I've usually taken a face value
I've learned now that that it's like actually rare
For people to like be a hundred percent truthful about like what is and what isn't and like maybe this is kind of a sad one
but I don't think it's sad I think it's good because like
I think it's part of maturity to sort of like really be able to discern like what is real and what's not
and um
it's also made me more honest because i've
Been confronted with the fact that if other people are doing that like I probably am too and I realize that without even
Thinking about it. I tell little white lies and I just like leave stuff out and just like, you know, I mean
and so like
2024 is where I feel like i've
Become sort of like radically honest
Whereas like when people ask me my opinion i'm gonna be straight up like I don't mince words anymore
Really? I'm gonna try and tell you in a nice way, but i'm gonna tell you what I really think
Because like you asked me so i'm gonna tell you and like, you know
If there's something uncomfortable that I have to talk to somebody about
I'm, just gonna be real about it
I'm not gonna like, you know
Try and it's too it's a lot of mental energy to like be shifty and sneaky and stuff like that and I hate it
I hate it. But um
It's also taught me like the flip side which is like most people are doing that too
and so anytime i'm dealing with an employee or a girl in my life or a
Friend of a friend like my boys i'm lucky are super super solid like I know they're good
but like mutual friends or whatever just people I have to deal with on a day-to-day basis like
I always
Try not to be too trusting of like what they say
and um
I think it's it's a good sort of like self-defense
mechanism that uh
Has actually made my life better. You think that like, oh you have trust issues like that can't be fun. It's like no I actually like
I I operate better in this mindset because i'm operating in reality. And so i've taken that with me
So like yeah, I always heard growing up, you know, take everything with a grain of salt, right?
There's a lot of truth to what people are saying and there's probably some underlying things that aren't as factual and
I don't think people do it. Like you said intentionally. I think a lot of it happens
Just because it happens and someone's kind of compensating for something so
Yeah, it's hard to know though on the surface like who and what is or isn't accurate
So I think for me it's like I try not to make decisions when i'm having conversations with people
I've just met on the fly
Because I want to be able to take time to reflect on well, how did that conversation make me feel?
Um, what kind of research can I do on the person?
um, you know, was there anything that when I said it my mind was like
I've never heard that before that doesn't really sound true
So I kind of when I meet people for the first time
I always assume that they're good and great unless they prove otherwise, but I always try to
If there's any asks that are happening from that side, it's like hey, cool. Sounds good. I've heard you
Let me get back to you, right?
Just so that way like you have more information you can kind of see how you feel before you commit to something
100
Cool, it's hard growing up, man. Yeah for sure. I'd say my last one. Uh
Is when you find things that are working when you find things that you're passionate about like
Just doubling down and being all in um, and I think earlier this year
I think it's been almost a full year and we were talking about like the linkedin business for example
And you're like dude, why don't you just go harder? I'm like, I don't know. I'm lazy
I'm, whatever
um, and a I wish I'd gone harder sooner and b i'm glad I went harder when I did right like
And I think like I own a lot of businesses. I do a lot of things you own a lot of business do a lot of
things
Um when you're all in on certain things, it's pretty obvious what things you shouldn't be doing, right?
um, so
a couple of my business like two of my businesses are pretty much getting all my love and everything else is kind of like
Falling by the wayside not that they're failing or doing poorly
But just kind of allocated other leadership there and kind of have been really transparent about
This is what I can and can't do like if you want me a part of it still great
If you don't i'll walk away like no no harm no foul
um, just really being all in because when you're all in on a few things like
A you're giving it your best and it has the best opportunity of succeeding and b
It makes everything else that you're not all in on
You know pretty apparent and obvious no's or not right now's right and everyone says right if it's not a heck
Yes, or a hell. Yes, or you know an fps whatever it might be. It's a no
um that I think when you're all in really shows you the things that you should be saying no to because it's so easy just
to feel suckered or feel
um
Kind of like you have to say yes to someone or say yes to something
And really, you know kind of do yourself and do that person a disservice
so for me i'm just trying to focus on these two or three things that i'm all in on right now and
Everything else is just like if I get around to it sure maybe but realistically probably not
I agree, man. Yeah. No you killed this year. I think like
Everything kind of like came together. I love how your personal brand is evolving too
Because like and this is one thing this is probably the the thing that I think has made you
That one of the best in the game
is that like
I remember all the personal brands that lived and died in 2020 to like 2022
People that started on twitter or wherever else they had newsletters. They had linkedin whatever
And then they were like 2019 2020 and then just fell off and you know, I don't know what they're doing for money now
But you have found a way
To evolve everything you're doing
Like so many different times
Like you're in the middle of doing it again, like you're you're branching into like a new form of media
that you
were like previously not familiar with
um, and I think that's dope because you're like rare that you're
This much bigger now than you were in 2020. A lot of people have like the nostalgia factor
a lot of people that started back then that are just
That like are still even trying to go but there's like no one cares to listen to them anymore
You're still relevant. You're still doing your thing and you're growing which is unreal, dude
Much love. I appreciate that big time man. This was I don't I guess hell of a season
This obviously was a great episode. What a what a run what a season
um
Let us know if you guys are listening to us if you're gonna miss us or not. Hopefully hopefully you do
Um, I had told you the other day shout out to um, chris lang
He was the one that posted on linkedin his top listen to podcast and I believe we were number two
I don't remember what his number one was
I think it might have been maybe it was alex ramosi
But we are his number two most listened to podcast for all of 2024
And a couple other people, uh shared that with me as well
So that was kind of cool that our podcast just two dudes with
A lot of random opinions and thoughts on things. Um happened to be people's most listened to so that was really cool
Yeah, yeah for real shout out everybody who like has tuned into this like chase and I
I mean i'll speak for you on this one. Like we've had a great time doing this
um, like these these podcasts are super chill and like
I don't want to say low effort because that makes it sound like we don't trial
But I mean like no we get to hop on and just talk some ----
Like it's not like a whole production. Like this is us just being us
This is what we talk about if the cameras were off
So if you do enjoy it, obviously we got chase on twitter linkedin his you know his email
I'm sure you're gonna start going hard on youtube econ chase diamond
Uh, no a and diamond and then we got cardinal mason on twitter tiktok and youtube
And if you want to follow me on instagram, it's at cardinal mace m a s e
And we will continue to provide value in ways. Um that you may or may not be able to imagine
All right
Much love brother and thank you everyone again
Cheers, dude