Chapter 1: What inspired Elan Gelfand to start his podcast journey?
What were you doing with your life at 20 years old? What promises were you making? What decisions were you living out? I promise, you were doing nothing like my guy, Elon G. If you're an employer, what is the modern employee you really want out of your company? I promise, it's not the traditional things that you're thinking, which is probably why you're struggling to recruit young talent.
Ladies and gentlemen, This has been an amazing conversation, and I can't wait for you to listen to it. So here we go. My guy, Elon G. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of McUnplugged, and today I've got a gem. We're talking about the host who has taken over 100 episodes and counting to turn ordinary mindsets into breakthroughs.
Chapter 2: How does personal hardship shape one's purpose and resilience?
He builds environments, breaks judgments, and ignites passion in all who listen. He is the voice behind abundant thinking. He is the thriving, the inspiring, the relentless, my guy, Mr. Elon G. Elon, how are you doing today, brother?
I'm doing good, Mick. Thank you for asking and thank you for the amazing intro. I really appreciate it.
No, always, man, always. So we were literally just chatting and you were talking about how wild, crazy, cool and insane it is to like to meet someone with a similar passion, a similar story, a similar purpose. So, you know, I kind of want to open that floor and open that door. Let's talk about Elon G, man. Like for those that don't know, like what's your because? What's your purpose?
What's your drive? What's your mission?
I would say my because is my mom.
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Chapter 3: What role does consistency play in achieving long-term success?
So when I was about, I'd say eight years old, my parents got divorced and you know, my dad, he had a good job. He was working very hard working person and he always, he went after what he wanted, right? When my parents got divorced, my mom was kind of left on her own. Obviously she was never really the one with the job. So she took care of my brother and I, she worked minimum wage and
You know, I have memories of, you know, waking up for middle school and, you know, she would have to wake up my brother. She'd like feed him. She'd get him to school. Then she would come back just to let me sleep for like 20 extra minutes. She would take care of us, get us to school. Then she'd have to work her job or she was earning minimum wage, pay for all the stuff, pay for food.
I have no clue, Mick. I have no clue how she did it. But that is 100% my, because I think a lot of my life revolves around the idea that I want to make sure that my mom, A, never has to go through that again, but also in the future with my kids, my wife, my family, that I can be the person there for them to be able to get them out of financial burden.
Chapter 4: How does learning from others contribute to personal growth?
I saw I was very hard on my mom and I had to make a hard choice, especially the last couple of years with The idea that, you know, I have the power, in my opinion, to help her, you know, have the conversations on the podcast, learn new things. You know, I'm young. I think it puts me in a good spot for people to want to teach me things, right? To mentor me.
So just being able to learn from people, get as much as I can, you know, squeeze the sponge of information out of people. I think that I am able to dictate the results of my life. And although I have zero proof, Mick, it's funny because I was thinking about this. I got some coffee today and I was thinking about it.
You and I are very similar in our upbringings and our background of wanting to help our mom, right? But unlike you, you've done the thing. But right now, I'm in the progress. I'm trying to do it the process. My apologies. I'm trying to do the thing. And although I have no evidence that this thing will work out, I think it's my obligation to help my mom.
Wow, brother. One, that's touching. Two, you say I've done the thing. But for those that don't know, Elon, tell everybody how old you are first, bro.
Chapter 5: What mindset shifts are necessary for young entrepreneurs?
I'm 20. I'm 20 years old.
Yeah. So at 20, dude, I hadn't done the thing either. At 20, I was in college at the University of North Carolina, and I was trying to do everything in my power to make sure that I was the blueprint for my mom, my sister, and my brother, right? My brother was... Two years old at the time, my sister was 16, so a junior in high school. And so I was working jobs to make sure that they had, right?
I was making sure that I was creating a standard that everyone could be proud of. But I hadn't done the thing or figured the thing out. I mean, I'm 47 now and I probably still haven't figured the thing out. It's just working towards fulfilling that promise that I made to everyone. And so now that promise has evolved to my wife, kids and my tight circle.
So I don't want you to feel like you have to have the thing figured out because you are doing much more at 20. than I was. You've got a hard-reaching, far-reaching podcast. You've created a mindset framework. Dude, I was just trying to make sure I was surviving at 20. So kudos to you for continuing to do that.
And I think folks that are listening to this that are my age will tell you, dang, Elon, you're doing it, brother.
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Chapter 6: How can parents support their children in finding their purpose?
So pat yourself on the back, accept these small victories because you are doing it. So kudos to you, man.
Oh, dude, I appreciate the words. Thank you so much. And I know, I think you can attest to the idea that, you know, sometimes it's very tough and it feels lonely because you don't see the results right away, right? They're not, I've been doing this thing for a couple of years.
I think even when I was like junior in high school, same sophomore, like I always knew that this is going to be the thing, but it was a little bit hard for me to accept because I knew how hard the road would be, if that makes sense. Like I wanted to do it the ethical way and I wanted to make sure that I learned from the right people as well.
So it was like, I had to make a choice and it sounds kind of like cliche and dramatic, but I really had to make a choice between me just, you know, I'm in college right now. I can just go get a normal job, get my degree, whatever. And it's good. And you know, my mom, like she's got her thing and she's going to be fine. Or I just dig my heels in and
Literally every single day work towards something. Every single day just work as hard as I can. So the decision, you know, I made it. I'm going forward in one step at a time. And I think over the long term, I can do it. I really do, Mick.
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Chapter 7: What does the modern employee value in the workplace?
No, not can. You're going to do it. It's all about one foot in front of the other, one day at a time, focused on the right thing. Not the most popular thing. Right. Not the low hanging fruit thing. A hundred percent. Oh, yeah. Right thing. Life is never going to be easy. Now, I tell folks all the time as business leaders, we create, you know, these business plans and these business strategies.
And if they were all perfect, everybody in the world would be billionaire. Right. But life happens. And it's all about how do you adjust? How do you fight through? How do you reorganize? How do you create new momentum? And that's what life is all about. So keep doing that because you're doing amazing.
Chapter 8: What are the essential qualities of effective leadership?
So, Elon, I want to go to abundant thinking. And when you decided that this was the message that you wanted to send out and share with the world because you felt like you had something to Dude, one, I'm proud of you for doing that. Two, when did you know that that's what you were called?
Yeah, great question. I would say kind of like I mentioned earlier, in middle high school years, I kind of made a decision that I wanted to do more. And I tried out a lot of different things. There were a lot of small little side hustles I was doing. And I was like, maybe this is going to work. Maybe this is going to be the thing. But
I had a realization that a lot of times people pitch an idea that's not true. A lot of times you see people like get rich quick schemes, all these things. And you might be able to make some money in the short term. That's not my goal at all.
So after trying, and I wouldn't say failing, but just trying a bunch of different things out, I was like, okay, what is something that I can do that will be very worthwhile in the long term? Maybe even I've had a deep-rooted belief in my life that no matter... The people that get the good results in life do it for a reason. I used to look at Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos.
I'm like, okay, there's no way they just got lucky. I mean, maybe some people, they were born into a good family, but there's just no way that every single person who's ever done something amazing just got a good hand dealt. So I started looking into it, and I really established the belief that, you know what? There has to be some good insights out there on how I can be the person to...
you know, achieve these high level things. And that's what I set out to do. And I thought about it. I had some different ideas, but I was okay. One, I like talking, as you can tell. Two, I always value wisdom from people. I mean, every single time my grandpa would sit me down, he'd tell me something. My dad, I always keep it in the back of my head. Like,
A lot of people, they'll hear something and it's like, oh yeah, I mean, that's a cool insight. They don't really take it to heart. For me, I was always listening to people, always trying because listen, especially like I started when I was a freshman in college. What do I know? I don't know anything.
And there's people who've had careers that are like four times longer than my entire life at that time. You know what I mean? So I wanted some really good wisdom from people and it gave me a good excuse to reach out to people. I think that I was thinking what I would want it to be. If I had a podcast, what would I talk about?
And the idea of a podcast that is kind of more like Joe Rogan style, where you kind of just talk about your life, you make some different touch points, never really appealed to me too much because I wanted to know very certain things. It's like, okay, listen, you train, you're a UFC fighter. How did you get there? What's your mindset? How do you do that? That's insane. You're a top level coach.
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