"Nurturing the Next Generation: Justin Benton on Teaching Entrepreneurship" Justin Benton discusses his entrepreneurial journey on The Prodigy Kid Podcast, beginning with his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in various entrepreneurial activities like snow shoveling and telemarketing. He highlights the influence of his upbringing and family values on his work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit.
"Nurturing the Next Generation: Justin Benton on Teaching Entrepreneurship"
Justin Benton discusses his entrepreneurial journey on The Prodigy Kid Podcast, beginning with his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in various entrepreneurial activities like snow shoveling and telemarketing. He highlights the influence of his upbringing and family values on his work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit.
Justin Benton shares his experience with starting 101Hemp.org, a company that emerged from his quest to heal his son’s severe autism through the use of hemp and cannabis juicing. This journey into the world of CBD and hemp led to significant personal and professional growth for Justin, as well as collaborations with notable figures like Russell Brunson. He delves into his participation in the ClickFunnels community and the Inner Circle program, emphasizing the importance of mindset and personal development in his success.
Throughout the conversation, Justin emphasizes the importance of teaching entrepreneurial and life skills to children, advocating for experiential learning and exposure to diverse opportunities. He reflects on the limitations of the traditional education system and the need for teaching soft skills and people skills to better prepare the next generation for success.
Justin also discusses the significance of personality profiles, particularly extroversion and introversion, in understanding how individuals interact and recharge. He shares insights into how his extroverted nature has helped him in his entrepreneurial endeavors and highlights the value of understanding one's personality for personal and professional growth.
Overall, the podcast provides an inspiring look at Justin Benton’s entrepreneurial journey, the challenges he faced, and the lessons he learned along the way, with a strong focus on the importance of mindset, personal development, and nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit in children
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[00:00:00] To take action. And like right now we're doing a podcast because I threw it out there to the secrets of success community. Hey, I'm going to do podcasts until the May 8th of the take and grow rich challenge who wants to do it. And you're one of the very first person that raised your hand. And here we are doing the podcast and just like, Hey, who wants to go play golf with my, I don't even remember how I put it out there, but you just made it happen.
And so that's the reward for me. For you for making it happen and action takers are moneymakers and they get whatever they want.
Welcome to the miracle plant podcast, the show that inspires, promotes, and gives you a daily dose of inspiration from the people who have used cannabis to change their lives in extraordinary ways. Here's your host, Justin Benton.[00:01:00]
Welcome to the prodigy kid podcast, where we interview successful entrepreneurs and find out what they were doing as kids entrepreneurial. And when they had their entrepreneur, aha. And now if they have kids, what are they doing? Their kids to teach them about life success and making money. So today we've got Justin Benton on the line.
He's, um, he's with us and, uh, I appreciate it. Welcome to the show, Justin. Thanks, man. Great to see you again. Last time we were playing golf with Myron Golden in Orlando, Florida, but here we are now in the, in the confines of, of the virtual world and happy to be here. I love talking about the entrepreneurial journey.
I love talking about kids, so I can't wait to get in it and, uh, you know, help your audience. Yeah, that's, that's awesome. I appreciate it so much. So. I just want to give a little bit of background about you. You're a successful entrepreneur. You've got hemp one Oh, it's one Oh one hemp. org. Is it, you got it.
Okay. So that's your website and you went on a whole journey with that and I'm doing very [00:02:00] well and you found yourself in the ClickFunnels world and you found yourself in the inner circle, which is a program that's 50 grand a year. And next thing you know, you find yourself. Um being partnered with russell brunson on his latest project secrets of success and that that's you know russell brunson for those that don't know a lot of people listening probably will know but he's he's like a an oracle when it comes to marketing and you're kind of like in a way you remind me of steve larson because he you know You have a once in a lifetime opportunity to partner with him with and something that is is extremely important for Not not you know for humanity never mind for the online marketing world.
What you guys are doing is You and bringing all the old knowledge. Like, if you look at the books behind me, I appreciate it. Like you have no idea how many times I've read thinking grow rich. You have no ideas how many times I've given that book away because I know. You know, those books were given to me when I was young.
I'm talking teenager, and it just it's wild to know that you guys are going in [00:03:00] and finding all those classic books from 18 50 to 19 51. The new thought movement came around and And people started realizing like, Oh my God, you can think and actually change your life and become rich. So you guys, Russell was collecting all this stuff and you guys are creating this huge library of all these antique and classic books and you're slowly bringing them back to To the, to the forefront of, of, of people where they, they were for once forgotten sitting in people's collections and closets.
And, and you're kind of like, you know, Russell was an idea guy, but you're kind of a finisher, a doer, a guy putting stuff together and it's just amazing. The opportunity you have. And I just, I love exactly what you're doing. So I just wanted to give people an idea of where you're coming from and what exactly you're all about.
So. It truly is awesome. Um, and what I wanted to get into is with you having all this success. And of course you didn't just, just jump into that and raise your hand. And he said, [00:04:00] okay, I'll pick you. You obviously have had some really, really good success and, and. Things that made him realize like, okay, this guy is my guy.
So as a kid, what were you doing entrepreneurial? Were you shoveling driveways, mowing lawns? Was there, you selling stuff? What were you, what, what would have led you to know that this was going to be where you ended up? Well, I was, uh, I was the oldest of six. I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and, um, you know, hard work, work ethics, salt of the earth type folks.
I mean, uh, my old man had a, uh, um, snow shoveling business in the winter. So we were expected to get up at four in the morning and put on our, uh, you know, snow suits and we went out and shoveled all, all morning and until the afternoons and. You know, I, uh, you know, things, I guess things are, seemed a little bit different these days, but I mean, we had chores.
I mean, I literally thought that, um, my parents had me just so we could keep the house clean and the lawn [00:05:00] mode and the, and the, and the leaves raked up and vacuumed and we did the dishes in the bathrooms. I mean, it was, so, I mean, I don't know. I mean, it was, that's just the, the reality that I grew up in and obviously looking back on it, that, you know, that teaches you responsibility and you can take pride in your work.
Uh, as far as my entrepreneurial journey starting, I mean, my first job was when I was 16 years old and I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, as I said, And for whatever reason, Omaha was the direct marketing capital of the world. And for those of you that are old enough, remember long distance was based on how far the call was made with your landline.
If you know what those things are, rotary phones, um, that we, so in Omaha. They, they don't have, um, accents so people could understand everything everyone was saying from around the country, you know, like there's Boston in the South and, you know, even maybe California. And so anyways, for whatever reason, when I was 16, I had a telemarketing job.
So. Sorry if I call, I called you and I [00:06:00] closed you on some new long distance program. I think I was selling MCI or it was actually called LDDS back in the day. So literally I got my, um, you know, bitch and Camaro. I was 16. I had to pay for it and I, and uh, I was really good at, um, inside sales or telemarketing, helping people switch over.
And so that was where my entrepreneurial journey started. And, and I know it's not, I was, I was an employee, but. It was sales. And so I just really took to communication. Uh, I really enjoyed, um, writing my own paycheck. I was like the youngest kid in the, in the company, but I was winning all the awards and, uh, that really just kind of set me up.
Like, you know, we all hope to find our thing, especially for our children. I have four kids and, um, you know, like my oldest is 14. She's, uh, a volleyball player and, um, you know, we, I grew up with athletics and, oh my gosh, I played every single sport and so did my wife. And so, um, there was obviously some DNA athletic ability there.
And [00:07:00] so my, my daughter found volleyball and now she's doing the club thing. We're flying up to Reno for an event, uh, this weekend. And so that that's the, where the pride just, you want to find something for your children. I believe as parents that. Our job is to expose them, show them new things, whether it's arts or music or sports or academics or whatever it is.
Just show them everything, give them everything. And another great thing to do, if you can, I highly recommend it is travel with your children, you know, not just in this country, which is wonderful, but go overseas and see different cultures and different values and learn. But when you help your child find the thing that lights them up.
It's so cool. Cause they can find their confidence. They can find how to overcome adversity. Uh, and for me it was sales, like when I was 16 years old, I mean, I was, I was, I was a really good baseball player. Growing up. But, um, you know, I walked on in college, but I didn't, you know, that wasn't, I was, I'm not playing, I never played third base for the New York Mets, which was the goal.
So when, when the sales thing came along for me, that's when [00:08:00] the light bulb went off and I was like, wow, I can control my own paycheck. Um, you know, I can listen, um, and just talk to people and understand where their problems are and solve them, whether it was getting a better deal on their long distance or, or what have you.
So that's really where my entrepreneurial journey started. And you, and back in the day, all your friends are probably getting jobs, making eight, 9 an hour. And now you're, you're buying a Camaro and making, winning all these awards. And at that point you realized that maybe you had been lied to with the traditional system where you have to be a broke teenager and, and, and get an 8 an hour job and whatever you just, the windows opened up.
How are you with like school? Were you like a good, good student? Or were you kind of like the not so good when it came? Well, that's funny because. You know, um, my, my mom who's very into, uh, um, academics, she was one of 15, uh, children growing up in the Midwest, you know, the true baby boomers. And so going to school, going to college [00:09:00] was very, very important for her.
So all of us, um, you know, graduated and I went to a good school called Creighton university. And, um, You know, but in high school, my, my, we went to a public school and in this little small town called Platt Smith, Nebraska, and it was, you know, I mean, there wasn't, there was a couple of good teachers. Mrs.
Smith was a good English teacher, but it really was just kind of like a walk in the park. I think I got like a three, five GPA or something, but I didn't hardly work at all. Um, and, and then when I went to Creighton, because I didn't really, you know, learn how to learn. Um, my, I really struggled because this was top top academics.
They call Creighton like the Harvard of the Midwest. It's very, very prestigious school. And so I really struggled, but again, I also struggled not because, um, you know, I didn't understand the concepts. I didn't understand similar to Russell Brunson. I didn't understand what. The point was, because this is back, I graduated in college from 1990 in 1999.
And so, [00:10:00] um, I didn't understand the point. My, my old man was a successful, um, businessman working in New York city. I just wanted to get out into the real world. And back then you were expected to get good grades in high school. Graduate from college and then, uh, uh, somebody would give you a good job and, and take care of you for 20 or 30 years.
You'd retire with a pension and that's how you did it. Well, that system's broke. It was broke back then, but I still went through the motions cause that's what we were taught. That's what our parents were taught. And so then I graduated from Creighton kind of by the skin of my teeth. And, uh, but I also did a semester abroad in Dominican Republic.
So check that out. If you get a chance, kids. And parents let your children go for a semester abroad somewhere. And so anyways, I go out and I move out to Charlotte, North Carolina, and I'm going to get my first real job with my 50, 000, 60, 000 education or whatever it was, and I find a job and I get a job. I interview, I get a job that this was 1999.
So there was the Y2K movement, right? So I get a job [00:11:00] in MIS, which is management information systems, which is computer sciences, which is like me programming. And like, this is the last thing I should ever be doing, but I got the job and I, you know, smoothed my way in there. I'm making 50, 000 a year. I go in for a yearly update and they, and they give me like a 4 percent raise, which is basically like what inflation was.
And so then at that moment, I knew corporate America was not for me. And that's where the lie came in. I was like, okay, I was in sales. I controlled my paycheck. This is not for me. So I actually moved back to Omaha, Nebraska, and I took over the family business of real estate. Uh, some commercial and some residential.
And so that's when I, my entrepreneurial journey really began. And, um, and so after that, I got back into direct marketing, believe it or not. Uh, and started a company and I was, uh, at first I was, um, you know, kind of in charge of sales and, and I built out a big sales team, again, similar to Russell. We would go to, um, you know, success magazine, watch Zig Ziglar.
And I would take the guys out. We, I, Jeff, [00:12:00] Jeffrey Gittermore is a friend of mine. Now we would, the little red book of sales and we would take him, take, take them to that. And so that's when my, I really start to kick it up. But here's the one good thing that I learned from, uh, Going to corporate America.
The best thing that I learned other than I didn't want to be there is the, the three days before you started. And it was a good company. It was called DST interactive and they, they were responsible for all the software for direct TV. And so, uh, before you started, you had to take a three day, um, off campus.
You're not even started yet. I mean, you're hired, um, but you're not going into the office. So three day. Uh, webinar, not webinar, seminar on, um, how to, uh, not, yeah, what is it? Seven habits, a highly effective people by Stephen Covey. And so that was the first book that I've studied deep for three days. And it blew my mind.
Like how to like, you know, worry about focus on things you can control and expand your circle of influence, begin with the end in mind, [00:13:00] uh, different quadrants of the four quadrants of, and it was the first time, and I had gone to a really good college. And my mom was a, you know, smart, great mom and school psychologist.
My dad was a successful businessman in New York City. No one taught me that I could control my mind and have those kinds of, uh, mindset. That was your gateway book into a different world. Personal development. What do you think when it comes to the, because you went, you went the traditional route, of course, and you were one of those ones that should not have gone the traditional route.
Now, what do you think the school system would be like if, if like people skills 101. Was actually like one of the, one of the curriculum classes right up there with finance and maybe entrepreneurship. How do you think, like, what do you think that would do for the country? Well, I mean, I think at this point, um, you know, our school system, I believe it was started by Rockefeller, um, it's, it's, it's, it's basically, it's training human beings to be workers.[00:14:00]
And, and the, you know, you, the bell rings, you sit down, you shut up, you don't talk to your neighbor. Um, you don't collaborate. Um, you know, it's not set up for the world that we live in. Um, I think they say the average person goes through 7 career changes now and only like 20 percent of the people are using their college degrees.
Um, I'm not a big advocate of traditional school. Now. I do have my kids. My oldest is an 8th grade and they go down from there. They are in a nice private little Catholic school here, uh, in Ventura, California. I like the values they teach. I like the principle of small. They, I mean, I it's, it's good for them.
Um, and there are really what you're trying to do is learn how to learn, but where, where are we teaching our kids? These soft skills, these people skills, these entrepreneurial skills. Um, all of my children know that there's no pressure to go to college whatsoever. Now, if you want to go to college, great.
And you know, I want them to earn it and have some type of scholarship or have some, you know, meat in the game, uh, you know, and whether that is academic or, I mean, if you're going to be a [00:15:00] doctor, great, go to, go to school. If you're going to be a lawyer, great accountant, um, you know, something where you actually get a license or there's something that's tangible from going, if you're just going to get a marketing degree or a business degree, or just to get a degree, it's pointless.
I forget who it was. I think it's Google. I just read the other day. They're not even looking at where you went to college. They're not even asking for it on the resume. And I know Russell's the same way. Russell doesn't even look at a resume. He looks at your personality profile test and see it sees if your personality profile test looks the way, um, for the particular job that you're hiring for.
So right now it's on us as parents, podcasts like yours, which are great to, To teach our children to this. And, and, and that's what I know we're going to get into the think and grow rich challenge, which is coming up. That's what this is all about is getting this information into the hands of the next generation.
Yeah. To know that, like, don't judge the fish on how, how I can climb a tree. Like if you're a fish, you need to learn how to [00:16:00] swim better. And don't worry about climbing the tree because we get the monkey for that. One thing I want to make an observation and this is my and I appreciate this totally like so we we did play golf and we we we we hung out for a while but The impression I got from you is you're the type, like I felt better being around you, you know, like you, you didn't really know too much about my background or who I was, but I was a VIP to you.
Like I was a CEO of a hundred million dollar company, like, like, and, and your ability to, to move around, like some people like, like Russell, Russell and, and, and others, they're, they're kind of not really wanting to talk or whatever, but it seems like. You have this, this way of, of working and dealing with people.
Now, is that something that kind of comes naturally to you? Cause you said it was kind of later in your life, you found seven habits, or is that something that you've really worked on and focused on honing a skill? Is it just because of the sales and knowing. The tactics of the training that you went through, [00:17:00] or is it just something you've always, as a young kid, even been like real charismatic and, and, and then that kid that had a lot of friends or whatever, maybe it was because you were like, maybe where you're the middle child and you always had to like, or the youngest, maybe where you had to be like on your best behavior with your brothers and sisters and not get beat up.
Like, what's the background behind that? I appreciate it here. Yeah, no, and it was fun playing with you and I, um, I genuinely care about people. I know maybe people say that. I mean, I really care about people. I'm, I'm very high on ROI. If you take the disc profile, uh, both again, Russell and I are now ROI.
Most people think of money, but I think of what's more important than money, uh, your time and your energy, you eventually will always figure that out. Especially when the time starts to run down. Yeah. Um, and so, but, you know, obviously we were out of the great event, funnel hacking live, uh, Myron was there.
I like to, um, reward and encourage people to take action. And like right now we're doing a podcast because I threw it out there to the secrets [00:18:00] of success community. Hey, I'm going to do podcasts until. The May 8th of the think and grow rich challenge, who wants to do it. And you're one of the very first person that raised your hand.
And here we are doing the podcast and just like, Hey, who wants to go play golf with my, I don't even remember how I put it out there, but you just made it happen. And so that's the reward for you for making it happen. And action takers are moneymakers and they get whatever they want. Why am I that way? Um, I think it's nature versus nurture.
I mean, again, if you take the personality profile tests and not just to be plugging everything, but go to understand. me where you can take your personality tests. Um, I'm an extrovert. I'm not a crazy extrovert. I'm like a 65, 70 percent out of a hundred extrovert. Russell is an introvert, so he's like a 30 or 35%.
Um, introvert. So it's just a matter of, so extroverts, that's the, that is the. Uh, the nature part. So literally, and again, since my mom was a school psychologist and she spoke and understand that me, um, how our brains hit as extroverts is that we actually get a little bit of a dopamine hit in the [00:19:00] front part of our brain and that cortex.
So when I have a conversation with you, it literally charges my battery, like having solar. So every time I talk and you talk, we act, my energy, my vibration lifts. So I'm charging my battery when I talk now, an introvert on the opposite side. Uh, when they talk, it's like their batteries being drained on their phone.
And so they literally have to go to a quiet room, um, like a hotel room or an office and plug in, and that is how they, they recharge their batteries. So when I'm talking to you and we're going back and forth, my, my dopamine's hitting and I'm, I'm charging my batteries. And, and when, when, when Russell or other introverts are talking, the information doesn't hit the front of the brain, it travels all the way through the brain so they can think about.
Their response, think about what they're going to do. And then it comes back up and then they speak and that just takes more energy. Believe it or not, you can burn. I forgot where I read it, but somewhere around 50%, believe it or not, do your research, 50 percent of your [00:20:00] calories can be burned from your brain.
That's crazy. Isn't that crazy? Blew my mind when I saw that. Yeah, it is. It is kind of wild. And you know, the thing with when it comes to parents and kids, like if you're an introvert, like it's gonna be hard to become an extrovert. You have to, you have to play the cards that you were given. And know how to operate on those levels and, and, and, and understand who you are.
Understand. me like, you know, understand. me is where you can, you can figure all that stuff out. So as you, as you progressed, you started like a, um, uh, a company that you were, you were doing sales calls and selling things for people. And then all of a sudden you got led down the trowel to something that is, I don't know, you, you still don't have that going on.
Right. No, no, no, no, no, the one before where you were selling, like, other people's stuff. I mean, that's direct marketing. So that was like mailing list, Dan Kennedy style. Um, that's not really in business. [00:21:00] I I've exited a couple of those companies over the years. Um, and the reason why I had to exit the last one was I had to figure out how to heal my son.
Yeah. Who had developed, he was a healthy child and he developed a severe autism, which is when I started the one on one hemp. org because we found out that juicing hemp or cannabis, uh, just like broccoli or, or celery juice, um, actually helped detoxify his brain and he's no longer on the spectrum, uh, or autism is what it's called as well.
So that's my, that was a huge pivot in my life. Um, when I went from, you know, direct marketing sales to, um, hemp and CBD. And that was, you know, six, seven years ago now. And, uh, that's when I met Russell is because, um, we were opening stores. I'm actually at one of my stores right now. I have a backdrop here, but I'm at one of the stores in Ventura, California.
And, uh, And COVID hit well before COVID, we were open in stores like popcorn because it was so hot and everyone loved it. And it's great for pain and stress and sleep and other chronic [00:22:00] ailments without side effects. It's just plant juice. Kind of like when you think of aloe vera on a sunburn, you had given me a few bottles, but I bought a few hundred dollars worth.
And you know, I take a little bit every day. I think you have to be consistent every day. You take a little dose, a little dose, and I've been doing it. I I'm actually like, I need another round. I've got about half a bottle left. But, but yeah, I think I'm, I'm more, the one you had given me, it's not the citrus, it's the other one that more of the pain, but it has such a good flavor.
Like it's amazing. You like blackberry cobbler as the most popular flavor. Yeah, it's just so ridiculous. And it's pretty cool that you guys will. Well, coal, everything is cold press. So you're not heating it up and destroying the chemical value at it. And that's where the magic comes from. And it's just what you guys are doing is so more intensified.
There's a lot of, you see CBD everywhere, the gas station and here and there, but you really don't know what's in it, but you guys are growing your own hemp and stuff, right? You got it out here in california and and uh, it's it's been a miracle that literally that raw hemp The cold press [00:23:00] is up to a thousand times more effective Uh because our bodies know what to do with raw plants and vegetables We've been eating them for tens of thousands of years And this this particular plant just happens to be the superfood of superfoods So i'm super excited that it's uh helping you and just so how it pivots into russell kovat hit and like You know Everything went online.
17 percent of Americans shopped online first before March of 2020, meaning you were already getting your groceries delivered. You were already using Uber eats. You were already, um, you know, shopping primarily on Amazon, 17 percent of the country. U S that number quadrupled. When it happened with COVID, grandma is getting her groceries delivered now.
So we were conditioned as a country and this is around the world too, but just focusing on the U S we were conditioned to shop online first. So that's when I knew, cause I was, I was, uh, you know, already exposed to Russell. He had started mastermind. com with Dean Graziosi and Tony Robbins. So I knew of [00:24:00] him and I loved his passion about, you know, serving those you're called to serve.
And so soon as COVID hit. I knew that that was going to be the guy. And as soon as he opened up the inner circle, which is his mastermind, uh, it was an October of 21, I believe at FHL when they had the first FHL, I w I knew I had to get in the room, which I think is so important for, for anyone who's looking to level up their life.
Just like you jumped on that golf course, um, Myron charges 350, 000, um, and up to a million, but I know there's a, there's a package 350, 000 a day to spend a day with Myron and you. Got to golf with Myron for three or four hours or however long you were there for green fees for a couple hundred bucks. He calls himself Myron Gelden.
That's it. Whoever you was doing. Yeah, it's funny, man. So yeah, it's, it's wild. And, and, you know, you talk about action takers now, now when it comes to Russell Brunson and your once in a lifetime opportunity, um, you happen to hear through the [00:25:00] grapevine that someone was selling a, a collection that might've interested him because there are a lot of old books and that's kind of, will open the door for you, right?
You want to talk about that a little bit? Just. Yeah. So I was in the inner circle, uh, we have a private Facebook group and we kind of help each other and we have, you know, celebrate wins or we have asks or gives and things like that. And, uh, I also subscribed to Russell's newsletter, the no BS newsletter, um, that he had bought from Dan Kennedy.
That is a marketing newsletter for small businesses. That's been running since 1992. And so in the back of one of the newsletters, um, it was an article about. Napoleon Hill wrote it actually, I should say. And he said, there was no such thing as education. There's only self education, you know, kind of talking about what we were talking about earlier.
It's a great article. Basically, he's just saying life experience, overcoming adversity. The only way you're going to learn anything is to go do. And I, so I posted that picture of that article in the Facebook group and said, are you guys reading this? Like, this is [00:26:00] crazy good. And then I put at the bottom of the, uh, of the post, I said, Oh, by the way, Um, a billionaire in Hollywood Hills is having a private Napoleon Hill auction and Don Green, the president of Napoleon Hill Foundation, is going to be there.
So if anybody wants to go with me, uh, hit me up and I'll shoot you the deets. Now, in the back of my head, maybe in the front of my head, I was really just Shooting for other inner circle members out here in Southern California, so we could go, but maybe subconsciously I knew I was planting a seed for Russell because he always he'll read through this through the inner circle stuff and literally I'm talking eight seconds later, chirp, chirp on the voxer because that's what Russell uses to talk.
It's basically like leaving voicemails for each other. And he's like, Hey, dude, what's the deets? And that was it. I mean, as soon as I told him I was going, he said, Hey, could you help me out? Like, I'm just bought a boat for my family. I'm going to take it out for the first time. And so I got him everything that he wanted.
I got him a great deal on all this stuff. I was his his proxy to get at the auction. [00:27:00] And instead of mailing it to them, I, I, I flew out on a plane. So it was an idea that I had and spontaneous and trust your instincts. You know, those are the whispers from God. Just go with it. If you hear. And so I immediately, I was like, why would I FedEx this?
Number one, it's worth more than 10, 000, which I think that's insure stuff up to. Number two, if it got lost, you can never replace it. These are like first signed edition. Like there was like checks and books and all kinds of stuff. And number three, what a great way to, um, to, to connect, to genuinely connect.
So I, I boxed Russell and said, Hey man, I got all your stuff. Do you want me to deliver it this Friday or next Friday? And Russell of course said this Friday, right? So I flew out. It's actually in the documentary that's coming out soon. Bibliomania. And I flew out and I handcuffed myself to a click funnel suitcase and the camera was there and we had all kinds of fun with it.
But then after we went through everything and this was the thing that lit Russell up, I said, Hey man, is there anything else I can do for you? And he said, Hey, I'm, you know, I'm really, I'm not connecting with the foundation. Maybe you could help. And that was [00:28:00] it. I flew out on a plane to meet Don green on my dime.
It was my idea. I figured out everything that Don wanted. I knew everything that Russell wanted. We did a handshake deal, like a good Southern gentleman had an iced tea and it was iced. And so that was how we began our relationship. Um, and now we have secrets of success where we're featuring the greatest personal development book, the most sold of all time thinking grow rich.
And, uh, yeah, the rest is history as they say. I love watching from afar and it's going to be awesome to be part of it. I'm looking forward to it. Just, you know, my passion. Like I said, I've given dozens of that book away, copies of that book. And you've just been instrumental in my life. I actually, there's, I don't know if you know or not, but inside of that book is a They call it the the self confidence formula.
I don't know if you know what that is, but I read that every day. I know I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life. Therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action towards its attainment. I [00:29:00] hear now promise to render such action. And that's like the number one. And I read that every single day.
I mean, it's like, hold on a second. I just got a mantra, baby. I don't want to tell you that I have to prove my case, but hold on. I believe your brother right here. That's it. I read that every single day and it's, it's, it has been crazy for me. But I, I'm going to ask you one last question. We'll wrap it up.
What is a tip? Let's say you have, you have kids and what's your, your big tip for other parents for a kid that they can tell their kid, like, Hey, this is the tip from Justin about what you should do as a teenager coming up, you know? Yeah. I mean, I think the biggest thing we can do as parents is, um, is find what lights our children up.
Now, whether it's baseball for me, or which became sales and then entrepreneurial ship. Um, just continue to expose your Children to, to new things, you know, whether it's martial arts or poetry or music. And I mean, just give them an opportunity to [00:30:00] try anything. And then when there's that spark. Then you just go all in and you support them.
And you never know what that spark could be and what that spark could lead to. Cause you know, at the end of the day, we want our children to be happy and we want to give them, you know, the greatest, I believe our job is to set our children up for success. So whether it's teaching them these principles that we know that it worked, um, or, or whether it's, you know, supporting them in whatever passion that they have, um, cause, and again, like a lot, there's a lot of helicopter parent stuff kind of going on.
It's a different, uh, world. It's just remember, like. When your kids turn 18, you know, they're going to either, you know, they're going to go off and live on their own and, you know, hopefully go to college and, and, and, and live their life and you're not going to be there. So if, if you're like doing things that, you know, are, makes you feel good, or you're trying to like, you know, whatever, protect them and things like that.
That's not doing them any justice. Like my, my kids, they always know. I mean, I, I [00:31:00] I'm, I'm teaching them tough lessons. I want them to be prepared and to be able to make good decisions when I'm not around. Now, of course, if I'm still physically on this earth and you can. You can give me a call or shoot me a text anytime or come home and do the laundry and all that kind of stuff But i'm preparing them to be adults Set them up for success so they can be happy do the things that they love make good decisions understands There's consequences for bad decisions Uh, but and and not be a you just because you failed at something doesn't mean you're a failure It's just a stepping stone in the process to success And, you know, one of the great questions I like, we have dinner every night is like, you know, we always ask, like, what are you grateful for?
Or what was something that you did to help someone else having these dinner questions? Another one is what did you fail at? Cause if you failed at something, at least that meant you tried. Right. And then what was the lesson that you could apply the next time that you try something? So that would be my two cents.
Also, it just doesn't have to throw it out there. We got to talk about the take and grow rich challenge. Exactly. No, that was going to be my next [00:32:00] thing. Like everybody know what's coming down the line the next couple of weeks. Yeah, well, I mean it's may 8th is going to be the live may 8 may 9 may 10 We're going to have the greatest speakers and personal development.
We're going to have insiders form. They can grow rich Make sure you go to jeff's link I'm sure he'll have a link in the show notes or wherever you're watching or listening to this get signed up It's totally totally free um Just all you have to do is enter your email address and you can watch three days of deep dive.
Just like Jeff has talked about how this book has changed his life. Uh, there is like a 47 upgrade where you get 30 day free access to the secrets of success membership, which is incredible. We mail you three books, two unpublished, um, you know, Napoleon Hill manuscripts, including one. Think and Grow Rich hardback book that is actually put on by Russell.
Uh, and you get all the recordings and you get access to the VIPs and all that kind of stuff for like 47 bucks. It's a steal. It could change your life. I know think and grow rich has changed my life. It's changed Jeff's life. It's changed millions of people's lives. Even if you've owned it, [00:33:00] even if you think you've read it, if you haven't studied it and applied it, come join us May 8th, May 9th, May 10th.
We may even have it on an evergreen. I'm not sure. So if you're listening to this in 2025 or whenever, still go to wherever Jeff's link is there, uh, for the think and grow rich challenge and sign up because it could change your life. I know. One book changed my life and, uh, this could be the book that changes yours and your children's.
Absolutely. Well, Justin, thanks for your time today and look forward to chatting again. See ya. All right, brother. Thanks for having me. We'll see you on the golf course soon. All right.