Anthony O'Neal
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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And this is what I love. It puts them back at the head of their table. Yes. Because now it's like, wait, we're now controlling our life. Now she went from having to be a school teacher to wanting to be a school teacher. She went from having to work to, you know what? I love what I do. Yes.
And that's the freedom that you have when you're at the seat at the head of your table is that you get to decide what you want to do in a direction or wherever you want to go.
You know, there is a there's a lot, you know, it's not just what I'm like, but it's so many Lewis and I could say. But I think the number one financial advice that I would say. and I talk about this inside of the book that I would ignore, is that everyone has to be an entrepreneur. Ignore that. Ignore that. Yeah. Because that's not the case.
I think everyone should have an entrepreneurial mindset, but not everyone should be entrepreneur in the world. Because if you want to be, when they say be an entrepreneurship, what they're talking about is they're selling you, hey man, I could work on the beach. Hey, man, I'm flying in the private jets.
Hey, man, you know, I'm able to go buy this G wagon and ride off 100% of it because it's over 6,000 pounds. They're lying to you. I've been doing this for four years. I mean, you know, I had several conversations offline. This entrepreneurial world is not for everybody. And it's frustrating. And I have not, to this day, worked on a beach.
Because you worked in a career before, and now you're an entrepreneur now. Yes. And if I'm being honest, in the corporate America space, in the corporate space, Man, I'm working harder today than I was then, right? So I'm not flying on private jets and just not working for a month or two. That's not happening. And so I think some of the worst advice is looking at these enforcers
And they're selling you on, hey, I can coach you to be your own boss and you'll be working at the beach. And I said it can't happen because have I gone on vacation and work? Absolutely. But what I am saying is out of 365 days a year, these people say you only got to work 20 of them. That's a lie.
And so I think for me, it's it's really we got to start teaching how to how to have the entrepreneurial mindset. But not everyone is called to be an entrepreneur because I think I need a real good assistant if I'm gonna be effective. And I think people are made, as a Christian, I do believe people are made to be the number two, the number three, the number four, to be the team player.
Because an effective business cannot run without effective team members. And you can be just as wealthy, you can be just as successful if you are living the authentic life of yourself. I think one of the greatest mistakes that I see in people, especially this younger generation, they want to rush to be their own boss, but they haven't really done anything to learn how to be an effective boss.
And I'm so grateful that God put me through the seasons of serving in the church world, serving in a corporate America space, because I would not be successful today if I didn't learn up on any different people. And I think for me, I think that is one of the dumbest mistakes that I've seen people make. And I think another mistake I saw online and it was so frustrating to me.
It's take your student loans and go buy real estate with it. I was like, go borrow money. Take out a parent plus loan. Oh man. Have them sign on it. Have them sign on it to go buy real estate. And the real estate was just a down payment on all. It's not the whole house. I got to pay double interest now? High interest on the student loan, high interest on this? I'm like, wait a minute.
Wait a minute. So there's so many different things, man, that I can really adjust to. But I think one of the things I learned for you, man, I gotta give you credit for it. I think it was like a year and a half ago, Louis, because I'm always watching your shows and always growing from you, your advice and the people you had on. And man, because of you, I have an interchangeable seat at my table.
I have an interchangeable seat between my therapist and my emotional coach. And you talked about that like a year and a half, I wanna say. And what I learned was that my emotions, I was making financial decisions based upon my emotions. When my emotions shouldn't be making decisions, I should be managing my emotions. But my emotions should not be managing me.
And I've made bad financial decisions because of how I felt off of my emotions. And if I'm being honest and vulnerable, I've lost out on great relationships and friendships because I didn't manage my emotions. And I'm like, whoa, so when I heard you say that, like, bro, I got convicted. I was like, look at Lewis over here preaching.
So I really stepped back and started looking for emotional coaches because I realized, man, if I'm being honest, Lewis, to this day, I still meet with him. And to this day, it is still a struggle for me to control and manage my emotions. Because when you have that feeling, you got to be like, no, this is my emotions. I cannot make a decision in this state. Yeah.
And I've made decisions in that state that has cost me a lot of money. That has... I probably lost out on an amazing woman because of that. I probably lost business relationships and even friendships because of that. But I think... I hear this often within the world. And man, if you're feeling bad, man, just go to the mall and just do some window shopping. That's your emotions talking.
You know what, man? We tend to go by things when we're feeling a certain kind of way. That's your emotions talking. And so I would encourage people, man, to get that interchangeable seat between the therapist and emotional coach and they work together. My therapist helps me understand the practical reason of why I made the decision.
My emotional coach is helping me understand why I'm feeling the way that I'm feeling and how to control that.
This is a school of greatness.
I don't have to jump on the scale to know that I'm in a bad situation. I need to change my life. The scale is just going to confirm what I already know. Yes. And I think when I hear people say that, oh, man, I got to do all this. I said, okay, cool. Don't do that. Live this for the rest of your life then. lived a life scared to look at your checking account.
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