Travis Chappell

Like now it's like whenever I say yes to an opportunity or say yes to a business or say yes to something in this world, I'm saying no to time with my kids.

So it better be a hell yes.

It better be like this is what I need to be doing or else it does not make sense for me to take that time away from spending with them.

I'd rather just hang out with them.

So it just it made me it made me just second guess and ask deeper, better questions about how I was spending my time, what I was spending my time doing.

And and if my and then and then really interrogate the goals that I had set up for myself and ask, are these goals still in line with the person who I am today?

And sometimes they're not.

really is because to me that's what drives you and propels you through the success that you've had yeah so for me man it was almost again kind of chip on my shoulder moment because i kind of grew up in this bubble tight-knit kind of community uh through through my church and

When I left that world behind, I also was sort of starting my network from scratch.

Nobody in that world really followed me.

We had now completely different goals.

We had completely different lifestyles, made different decisions.

And even the people who I'm still cool with,

weren't going to be a part of the new world I was creating for myself, if that makes sense.

It's like, they were like, hey, you know, you do you, Travis, but also we're not aligned with the same mission anymore.

So good luck and I'll text you on your birthday and we're good, you know?

But then when I was getting into business, it was like, it just made sense to me at the time that if you want to do something that you've never done with a skill set you've never acquired or knowledge that you've never known, then the fastest way to acquire all those things is to go get around people who have already done the thing that you're trying to do at the highest level possible.

So it was more of like a personal mission for me when I started just to like, I don't even know, like I wanted to be successful in business.

I wanted to have a successful podcast, whatever, but I didn't know a single, like I never even met a millionaire at that point in my life at 23, you know?

And so let alone had the ability to text one as a friend and get a text back and ask a question, you know, I'd never even met, like shook hands with one.