Brandon Bowsky
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77 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah, I just didn't spend them for like a year or almost two years, but 1.8 million points. And it was coming up to Thanksgiving and a lot of people were really depressed at that point. It was, you know, it wasn't even a bad economy. They just couldn't go see their families and whatever.
And I just discovered this pocket of people online that were like veterans or just random people that couldn't afford to see their families. So to me, I was like, how many of these people can I use a million points to help? So I took a million points. I think I ended up using 890,000. And I sent people to go see their families. They weren't all like veterans.
I'm not saying everybody was a real charity case, like that actually needed the charity. Some of them were just people that like couldn't afford to see their families. But I got thank you letters from moms. I've gotten like moms adding me on social media for years to come and messaging me like, Hey, here's a picture of that time. You never forget. You changed our life.
So every year I try to like find individual causes where not somebody's dog got sick. Go fund me is not like, Oh, my cousins, cousins, best friend from college is sister died at 30 years old. Let me donate. Like, I don't know these people. I want to know where my money's going.
So when it's somebody who's like, yeah, I haven't seen my kids in two years because I can't afford to go see them and their mother has custody. I want to pay for that guy. For the guy who's like, yeah, my parents are getting really old and they're not going to be around much longer and I can't afford to go there. I want to be that guy's helper.
So that's my philosophy on charity is just try to help others. And the other thing is I run my companies like a socialist, like a socialist dictatorship. Everybody gets a lot of money. Everybody earns a lot of money. And sometimes that's burned me and I've had people screw me.
But watching people buy their dream houses, their dream cars, whether it's exotics or, you know, my COO is making seven figures a year and bought a BMW five series. That was his dream car. Cool. Actually, at least it. But whatever people's dreams are, watching them achieve them is really powerful and it makes you feel good.
And so being able to provide those dreams to other people in need, that's kind of where I like to do my charity.
To me, bury your head in the sand and don't pay attention to it. I try to avoid the news as much as possible. Nobody is writing news to tell you good things. They're writing news to get you to click, to get you to feel something, and it's often a negative emotion. I don't want to be subjected to that. I stay in my little bubble. I keep a tight circle.
I have good friends and I try to spend good time, meaningful time with people I care about and spend the rest of my time working on projects that I think will either better my life, lives of others, or, you know, just having fun. That to me is how to win. I don't think people should be consumed by what's happening in the market because the reality is you have no control.
And a lot of people think, oh, well, if I just joined this activist group, we'll have control. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about your picket sign. Nobody cares about your opinion. You don't matter. Not even if there's a million of you, you don't matter.
So stay in the world that you can control with your friends, with your family, do meaningful things that make you happy and try to just continue to get ahead because we live in a capitalist country where the best thing that could ever happen and a weird tangent and an anecdote to end this.
But when I was really broke and I was living part-time with my grandparents and I ended up living in my car full-time, I was like, man, I've got to figure out a way out of this. And I had a job, and I was doing sales. And I went to work every day. And I worked eight to 12 hours, bell to bell. I would stay late, whatever.
And people that knew me were like, how do you just work knowing that everything is collapsing on the outside? And for me, it was compartmentalization. And I think it's one of the greatest skills that anybody could have, whether it's as an entrepreneur, as an individual, in a relationship, anywhere.
Because if you can put aside all the fires that are burning and just put up a wall, you can make it through anything. Most people, they let the fire burn down the house while they're trying to make dinner. And that was the number one skill. So to me, compartmentalize the outside world.
If people are negative, remove them from your life temporarily or distance yourself, be less responsive, even if it's family or friends. And they will eventually come around and not be so negative, especially when you're on like an entrepreneurial journey or something like that. But I think the number one thing people can do is just shut out the outside world. Don't pay attention to the news.
Don't look at the stock market. Even if you have money in it, don't look at it. You put it in there to stash it away and not pay attention. Don't pay attention. If everyone's crying about it, don't even look. It's just going to upset you. What good is that going to do? It's Schrodinger's cat. You don't know if there's money left or not. Don't open it.
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