Anthony O'Neal
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Aug
Anthony O'Neal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Number one thing is chores, you know, like we're going to pay you and give an allowance for just being my son. That's good or bad. That's bad. OK, no, we shouldn't teach our kids that the world is going to reward them for just being who they are. No, we need to teach our young people, hey, the world is going to reward you by actually producing and by working. By offering a value. Exactly.
Just by waking up. Because what does that teach you if you're just going to give someone money consistently without working? Exactly. It doesn't teach you nothing. And then it's like, why are you paying your kids to make up his bed to make up her bed? Why are you paying your kids to wash dishes? No. Pay them to go wash cars, not your car, but your neighbor's car.
Pay them to go cut other people's grass. Pay them to go walk other people's dogs. Pay them to walk around the neighbor and pick up trash. Teach them the true value of working in exchange for finances. So that's number one, is we gotta stop teaching them that, hey, The only way you can get paid is, you know, make up your bag. That's misleading our young people.
Number two is, you know, I wrote the book Debt-Free Degree while I was with Ramsey Solutions, is that the only way to go to college is to finance it. You know, we gotta stop telling our young people, hey, your Harvards and Yales and Princetons are the best schools out there.
No, I know a lot of prestigious people who went to community colleges, but I know a lot of people who went to a Harvard or a Yale, a prestigious school, but they're not prestigious individuals. And so what we gotta start teaching young people is, hey, go to college if that's the route that you wanna go, but trade schools are actually in right now and it's less expensive.
Hammering some nails up in here. Nobody wants to do the ugly work. Nobody wants to be hot. Nobody wants to be cold when it's 30 degrees outside. He can rack up. We got to start teaching our young people. Start asking them, hey, what do you want to do? What is it that you feel as if you can do in the world and actually enjoy it? Parents have to stop telling their kids what they will do.
You have some parents saying, hey, I want you to go to this school and become this when you get older. And then they grow up growing envy of their parents because their parents didn't give them an opportunity to say, you know what? Hey, let's work hand in hand. Or resentful or whatever it is. Exactly. So it's like, how do we do that together? So that's number two.
And then number three, this is going to be an unpopular one, but we've got to stop teaching our kids that the only way to be successful financially is to have a high credit score.
You gotta stop saying that.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. But that came from the teaching of your father, though. Yeah. Because he didn't have a flashy car. Exactly. And nowadays, and then too, growing up, because we're right around the same age... Social media wasn't big back then. So we didn't see all the flashy stuff. You just saw your neighbor maybe had a nice car and that was it. Or your friend or whatever.
Or whenever you go to church or something like that. So like now this generation of kids are seeing the flashy stuff. Oh, you got to have the nice car to be perceived as successful.
Yeah.
And it goes back to the core. When you really know who you are, you operate and you walk differently. And that is something that over the last few years I've really mastered and really keep drilling into myself. This is who you are. This is where you're going. I like cars. I am a car guy. So it's your thing. That is my thing. But you know what?
I'm really coming to value a whole lot more than cars is I want a wife. Right. You know, I want kids, you know, and it's like I value that more. Yeah. And when I when I say I value that, I mean, I didn't go to Disney World. You know, I haven't been to Disney World yet because, you know, growing up, my family couldn't afford it.
I haven't been to Disneyland. And I've been to Six Flags. Yeah. You know, but we couldn't afford... The stepchild of Disneyland. Exactly. You know, we couldn't afford the family trips, the spring breaks. And it's like, man, when I think about it now, I'm trying to steward and maximize my single season so that way when I do have a wife, I do have kids,
I can say yes to my wife because I steward this season well. And it's like, one of the things that I'm really teaching myself is as a young man dating right when it comes to my money, is I would rather tell my girlfriends no today so I can tell my wife yes tomorrow. You know what I'm saying?
It's like, I don't have a problem telling them, hey, I'm not gonna spend $100 on a date on you right now, you know, because you may not be my wife. But I refuse to tell my wife no because I told all of them yes. And as I'm maturing and as I'm growing, I'm realizing that the caliber of my financial future and the caliber of my future family's future is depending upon the choices that I made today.
And so I have to be willing and be strong at my core to say no to things that will set me up for my future. And I want my wife to be like, thank you for telling them no. I want my kids, because I remember my mom and dad, unfortunately, I have great parents, but I remember wearing shoes that had holes at the bottom of it and we had to put tape on the bottom of it. I don't want that to be my kids.
And the decisions that I made today impacts that. You know, I want to be able to take my kids to Disney World. That's the only reason why I haven't been. I've dated ladies with kids. Let's go to Disney World. Nope. Mm-mm. Why not? I wanna go there with my wife and my kids. I don't wanna go there with my girlfriend and her kids. I wanna go there with my wife and my kids.
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