This Blind Entrepreneur Built a Billion-Dollar Company | Sean Callagy 💵 EP137
38 min
•Sep 1, 20258 months agoSummary
Sean Callagy, a blind entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar company, discusses how to make money through mastering value creation and integrity, investment strategies balancing risk with index funds, and his philosophy of tithing 10% to charity. The episode covers his multi-company portfolio, mindset shifts around disability, and his commitment to breaking world records in toy drives.
Insights
- Success in business is fundamentally about mastering the ability to create value and cause 'yes' through integrity, not about having the perfect idea or being laser-focused on one thing
- Building multiple successful companies simultaneously is possible by viewing all ventures as the same business: creating relationships with exceptional people who can deliver value
- Wealth accumulation is primarily constrained by lifestyle inflation and overhead rather than income level; maintaining low expenses while increasing earnings creates exponential capital for investment
- Effective investment strategy requires balancing conservative index-based investments (S&P 500) with strategic high-risk investments in people and relationships that create ecosystem value
- Disability and adversity can be reframed as competitive advantages when paired with certainty, confidence, and mastery of available capabilities rather than focusing on limitations
Trends
Entrepreneur mindset shift from single-company focus to portfolio approach with multiple revenue streams under unified relationship-building frameworkGrowing emphasis on personal brand and platform building as primary wealth creation vehicle rather than traditional business scalingIntegration of charitable giving and impact investing as core business strategy rather than separate philanthropic activityReframing disability and adversity as entrepreneurial advantages through capability maximization and mindset positioningIndex fund and passive investment adoption among high-net-worth individuals as foundation strategy, with selective active investments in relationship-based opportunitiesOverhead consciousness and lifestyle discipline becoming competitive advantage in wealth building among entrepreneursTithing and structured charitable giving models gaining traction in ultra-high-net-worth individual wealth managementPodcast and social media as primary platforms for thought leadership and relationship capital building in professional services
Topics
Value creation and integrity-based sellingMultiple business ownership and portfolio managementLifestyle inflation and overhead controlInvestment strategy: index funds vs. speculative investmentsS&P 500 historical performance and long-term investingDisability reframing and mindset masteryCharitable giving and tithing philosophyRelationship capital and ecosystem buildingWealth inheritance and estate planningPersonal brand and platform buildingDisposable income allocation strategyBody spatial awareness and adaptive capabilityToy drive philanthropy and record-breakingLaw firm and medical revenue recovery business modelsTony Robbins mentorship and influence
Companies
Unblinded
Sean's platform for training, consulting, and coaching on financial abundance, time freedom, and impact creation
Calgary Recovery
One of eight business units within Sean's law firm portfolio focused on medical revenue recovery
Integrist Financial
Financial services company within Sean's portfolio of business units
American Dream Mall
Venue hosting the December 21st toy drive event with capacity for semi trucks and thousands of children
Mall of America
Minnesota-based mall owned by same operators as American Dream Mall
Trina's Kids Foundation
11-year-old charity co-founded by Dan and Vince Ritchie focused on toy drives for underprivileged children
American Foundation for the Blind
Charitable organization Sean has worked with on advocacy and disruptive legal change for blind individuals
Aspire
Organization where Sean's headquarters is located in New Jersey; hosts Tony Robbins events
SoFi Stadium
Venue where Dan previously distributed 118,000 toys in a single day, setting previous toy drive record
People
Sean Callagy
Blind entrepreneur who built billion-dollar company; expert on value creation, investment, and charitable giving
Dan
Podcast host and co-founder of toy drive charity; mentor figure and investment partner to Sean
Tony Robbins
Influential mentor to both Sean and Dan; challenged Dan on self-funding toy drives instead of asking wealthy friends
Vince Ritchie
Co-founder of toy drive charity with Dan; manages logistics and operations for annual toy distribution
Adam Vagino
Co-founder of Unblinded platform alongside Sean Callagy
Brandon Valencia
Co-founder of Unblinded platform alongside Sean Callagy
Nicole Malo
Co-founder of Unblinded platform alongside Sean Callagy
Sage Robbins
Emotional reaction to Sean's $100,000 charity bid at Tony Robbins' 2018 Platinum Partnership event
Dean Graziosi
Co-host of Zenith Mastermind event where Tony Robbins challenged Dan on toy drive funding approach
Quotes
"The first thing I'll talk about is the second point in fun energy. And that is the fact they don't know how to make money. And when people wanna learn how to make money, they often think of it's the idea, it's not the idea. It's the mastery of causing yes."
Sean Callagy•Early in episode
"Every time you don't text or call someone like me, that's rich, they can donate. And you don't push me to donate, less children get less toys."
Tony Robbins•Mid-episode
"Your overhead is too high. The biggest killer of businesses and personal lives is your overhead is too high."
Dan•Investment segment
"I invest in two ways. I invest in one way, so I can't lose, and I invest in a second way, or I can't lose. The second way that I can't lose is I'm a big fan of just index tracking."
Sean Callagy•Investment discussion
"If you relate to your disability as a disability, then other people will relate to you as such. People don't believe I'm blind because of how I carry myself."
Sean Callagy•Disability mindset segment
Full Transcript
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very, very, very special edition of the Money Mondays podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. This gentleman for our guest today has mastered all three of those things, so we're going to dive deep into each of those topics. What's cool is normally I do this podcast inside of an RV motor home that I've traveled around the country with for the last 200 episodes. Today, the podcast is number 36 in the world, our highest ranking ever. This episode is coming out extremely fast in a couple days on my birthday. When you're listening to this right now, it is my birthday Monday, September 1st. Because of that, I want to do a special episode. This guest is my most consistent and biggest donated to the toy drives. He's about to break a record, which we're going to get into for the toy drive coming up December 19th weekend. Yesterday, he absolutely crushed it, filling up half of the room at a spire tour here in New Jersey where his headquarters is. We're inside of his 20,000 square foot office in New Jersey. Without further ado, I'm going to have Sean Kelly give a quick two minute bio so we get straight to the money. Well, Dan, happy birthday first of all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Okay. but we've been across the threshold already. And I was, I failed freshman high school geometry for the year. I was introverted and ate lunch in my car. A lot of my sophomore year of college by myself, I've had now the blessing and privilege of speaking on Tony Robbins stage 19 times. Thank you, Aspire, that would never happen out then. And I'm gonna stand in the world for this. There's a formula that's controlling the money, the time, the magic, the impact that people create in the world. And I wanna bring that forward in the world because I was petrified at 27 years old of going blind and being broke. I had no idea to make money. I was not from money. And it was a remarkable journey for me. And of course, Dan, all of it with heart and integrity at the core. Easy words to say, harder words to live, but with specific heart center definition. That's what I've saw about. I'm the proud father of four. Super grateful for being in the space with you. I learned from Dan. I'm grateful to Dan and brother. I'm here to serve. All right, so this podcast will be under 40 minutes because the average workout is 45 minutes. The average commute to work is 45 minutes. So this episode will be under 40 minutes for your listening pleasure. And the reason I say that is we have a 93% listen-through rate because people know with intention how long this is gonna be. So they know what they're in for. And they're in for a very special treat today because of the special episode. So Sean, on the make money side, what do you think is holding people back from making more money? I think two things, Dan. The first is their relationship with money, which I'll talk about second. But the first thing I'll talk about is the second point in fun energy. And that is the fact they don't know how to make money. And when people wanna learn how to make money, they often think of it's the idea, it's not the idea. It's the mastery of causing yes. There's endless, simple, powerful, exponential ways to make money. People need to understand and learn how to cause yes. And then Dan, people say, oh, you mean sell? I don't mean sell. I mean, integrously, masterfully create value for people, find out what they want and need and cause yes. I mean, the power of integrist influence. And once people have that power of integrist influence, then a recreation of their relationship with money, which is nothing more or less than exchange of value between people, which is the foundation of our relationship. And so many beautiful relationships, they change of value with integrity. Once you've shifted your relationship with money to a value exchange between people, just like a hello, a door opening, a handshake, and you know how to create those yeses masterfully. It's not like yes I can or no I can. It's with great mastery from those two places. People can control and exponentially grow the amount of financial abundance they enjoy and are privileged to share. So at what point did you decide you were capable of doing multiple companies? A lot of times people were like, you gotta be laser focused and do this one thing for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, or you gotta master this one thing. But you've created two very, very large companies, one with your law firm and one with medical revenue recovery. You have two very large paths going on. You probably have other companies that I can't even realize or think about. You probably got a bunch of investments. But these two main companies, just because I'm sitting in your headquarters, at what point did you decide, you know what, I'm ready, go for it, I'm gonna do two separate, very large companies. Yeah, so by learning how not to do it. So I- Hiring operators, you mean? Yeah. Okay, good. Yeah, so I built my first law firm and from late 1997, mid-1997 to 2002, and all I could think about was wanting to sell it, exit it, so I can go and build, bring the formula, the work to the world, have to do the things I do now with them, why I did, and I look back now, it was such a silly decision. I sold it for a couple million bucks. If I kept that law firm, I would have made an extra, as I've calculated this, $40 million more. What's 40 million bucks, friends? What's 40, exactly. And it was all because of what you said, brother, which was I felt like there were two different things. So the first way to do it is to say it's all the same thing. And Einstein said, make it as simple as possible, but not simpler, so let's see things as the same, not different, and the part of that that makes that a reality is to be in the business that Dan, you're in, which I fancy myself in, I think everybody should be in, which is to build relationships with people that can masterfully and integrously cause yes. And if we realize that we're all in the business of creating relationships with masterful, integrous people that can cause yes, then it becomes very easy to see as all the same thing. You have platforms everywhere. You create relationships, you create all these different massive values, and I learned how to do that. I didn't learn that how to do that from Dan. I've learned how to optimize that from Dan, but I, and nobody ever told me it, but by watching Tony Robbins became very apparent to me, like he has a platform, he creates value, and it gives him the ability to create all these different companies with scale leadership. So my simple answer is build companies, build relationships, and you have everything you need if you relate to yourself as one business, the creation of relationships with incredible people like yourself, brother. So are you still in the law firm game? I am, so I actually own a law firm. Within that law firm is about eight different businesses. I have Calgary Recovery, I have Unblinded, I have Acti, I have Integrist Financial. So if you count it, I mean, it's one LLC, the law firm, but it really is eight different business units. So if you count up, it's eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, it's actually 13 legitimate companies. Every one of those companies is a seven figure plus a year company. One of them is an eight figure company. Another is crossing the actual earnings to nine figures as it's a billion dollar valuation. Yeah, so that's the current state of the unit. So what is Unblinded? What does that mean to you? Yes, so Unblinded is designed to bring forward the formula that I want to quest to discover to help people in their financial abundance, their time, freedom, duplication, scaling, and the impact and magic they create in the world, like you and toy drives and all these magical things that people want to create. So when I realized I didn't know how to do that in 1997, I went in search of it. My first law firm was the test case of figuring all this good stuff out, and then I codified it. And Unblinded is how I renamed it in 2020, because I didn't want to call it Sean Callagy. I want to call it something magical, critical, and important that it was going to do with other remarkable humans. I've got to do with my co-founders, Adam Vagino, Brandon Valencia, Nicole Malo, Massa Gratitude, and it's a platform that trains, consults, and coaches. Three different things, actualizes people in their money, time, and magic through a dynamic paradigm of virtual and interactive experiences that occur, believe it or not, brother, on a daily basis, now leverage and enhance your actualized intelligence. So a lot of people, when they're watching online, as you've been growing a lot on social media, you finally decided, you know what? I'm going to go onto the social media platforms. Hopefully you're going to launch your podcast soon. I'm going to keep pushing to do that. So I'm saying it publicly right now. Everything to do with Adam Vagino, and we are working right now to do that. Thank you. But they're watching you, and you're on stage, in front of, you know, there's actually thousands of people, and you're on your own stages with thousand people in the room, but technically you're blind. How are you working these stages? Then you're going off and I'm watching you, I hear about you snowboarding and surfing, like, what's up with my gips? Yeah, so thank you. A lot of people think I'm lying, and they don't think I'm blind. Other people think I'm a psychic. I'm not lying, and I'm not psychic. So first, I have the blessing and privilege of having developed a high amount of certainty and a high degree of body spatial awareness. That's super helpful. I do have a pin prick of peripheral vision on both sides. So I can't see anything in front of me. I have a little bit of peripheral, and I've learned to use everything I have. And so that the, if I have, the difference calculated, let's say I have two or 3% of vision, I use that two or 3% with incredible skill and mastery. So it looks like I have sight, and I'll have all these context clues, I'll organize structures, so I'll be scanning, turning my head back and forth, picking up things peripherally, so to very directly answer your question, if I'm going on stage, and I could have easily at a spy area today, falling off the stage. Me and the security was so ready. I was like, I don't know. You were so passionate. You got 2,000 people screaming at you. I'm like, he's just gonna get two in the mode. I'm gonna do this diving catch. I had it all planned out in my head. You can see it on video. I'm literally standing on the edge of the steps the whole time. You and some other people, like when I've already catch me, but was real, no joke, was so difficult yesterday, is the lights were so bright, it cut my peripheral to almost zero. So I was struggling to see, usually I could see a context contrast differential in the edge of the stage, usually I was like some color, some metal, that might show up differently. So I'll be tracking that my peripheral, I have my body spatial awareness, my skill. I wasn't tracking that. So I was in the beginning, if you would note yesterday, I stayed within like five or six feet of a space. And then I saw a little bit peripherally, and that gave me just enough to believe I knew where the edge of the front was. What I didn't know was there was like a hole in the side. That was where I was working, yes. Easily cutting on that. So it's context clues, peripheral vision, same thing with skiing, I use audio, surfing, same thing. I can have a little bit of contrast. I could see a wave forming against the horizon, the background peripherally. I mean, and my pop-up, I've worked with a lot of surf instructors, so they've never seen anybody pop up on a board, professional surfers. I mean, I'm a very, very good surfer, I'm not a world-class surfer, but they said they've never seen anybody with a faster pop-up, because it's a developed skill set based on all of this. So it's adapted using everything I have, which is really what life's about. So I'm gonna ask you a blunt question. Yes, sir. There's a lot of people in our society that have different handicaps. Yes. They could be in a wheelchair, they could have lost an arm to being a veteran, or maybe they're blind or deaf. Why do you think most people use that as a crutch to go through life and use it powerfully, and how can they change their mindset? Sure, thank you, brother. I really appreciate that, and I couldn't agree with you more. So I've worked with a lot of charitable foundations, Dynamics, and including the American Foundation for the Blind, and a lot of these folks are really incredible advocates for something important, which is disruptive legal change, regulation, lawsuits, and yeah, there does need to be changes, regulations, and protections, but what I see is a massive disempowerment, Dan, and everybody, of human beings. So what I'm gonna stand for is people realizing that every human being has massive challenges. Everyone does, whether it's mental, past trauma, all of it, and so many of the things that we have is physical limitations and disabilities, including my blindness, have created a massive benefit for me. I listen better. I have better body spatial awareness. I can sense energy differently. Everything that's taken away from us creates an equal, and even potentially, if we position it this way in our mind and our heart, greater opportunity for acceleration. So I would say that anybody who's blind in a wheelchair, anybody who is struggling massively is to take all of this and realize there's a way, a mechanism, a formula to generate certainty, to find, and if you relate to your disability as a disability, then other people will relate to you as such. People don't believe I'm blind because of how I carry myself. It's a common thing, Dan, final, final, that people say to me is you don't look blind, right? And I go, what does a blind person look like? And what the answer really is, is they usually look more sad, less confident, less certain, less physically present, and it could be the same thing if you're in a wheelchair. I mean, set up straight if you can use everything from your waist up. Whatever you have, use with love, heart, and certainty, and people will forget very, very quickly that you have those disabilities and challenges. All right, so go to the investment side of the three main topics here. When do you go from, okay, I'm earning income, I'm making 80 grand a year, I've got to 100 grand, I got to 150, 200,000. You start to make real money as being a lawyer or whatever profession someone's listening. When you decide I'm gonna invest some of this money into something else, whether that's real estate, stock market, cash flowing businesses, whatever the other things are, when you decide I have enough capital to start investing in other things. I love it. So I talk about a principle called disposable income, which is the differential between your business income, I'm sorry, your business income, business expenses, and personal expenses. And so I'm a huge advocate of people making more money, so I'll start there, but with what's left over from that, anything that's left over from that, I would recommend two people to start investing massive percentages of it immediately. So let's say that you create a disposable income of $1,000 a month, I would recommend to people not to start spending and change your lifestyle, I would put 90% of that money away. So I wouldn't give everybody exact percentages of all the pieces. But I would take that initial piece, develop a tremendous habit of putting that money away, and then set super specific goals of when you can earn your way to a lifestyle change. So all of a sudden you say, hey, I wanna buy first class. So once you hit a certain savings outcome, you put that much money away, now you could upgrade your lifestyle to start flying first class, final, final. Is I also believe, and I would be remiss if I didn't share this piece, and it may be more important than anything I say, is people have a really big challenge of reinvesting all of their income from their business or their life. So if you love a business, they'll like to reinvest, reinvest, reinvest, reinvest. We gotta take money out and put it away, meaningfully with an intentional plan, and we need to make massive reinvestment into ourselves, our identity which you teach, you live, you've shown me even more massive ways to do it, so grateful. So it's a balancing between putting the money away and I would start with getting like very base goals, discipline, decision making, not emotions making decisions, not opportunities making decisions, but an intentional structure making those decisions of putting the money away, then increasing lifestyle and investing yourself. Those three pieces and intentional stare, step, back and forth structure will be my heart and my recommendation. So I'm gonna say something very blunt to the audience that's listening, whether it's on the YouTubes, on social media, or right now on, you know, here with the podcast, your overhead is too high. The biggest killer of businesses and personal lives is your overhead is too high. You watch someone go from 40 grand, 50 grand, 60 grand, they got a big raise, they made some extra money to 80 grand, 90 grand, 100 grand, and they wonder why they have the exact same savings in their savings account. They went from a two bedroom apartment to a three bedroom, to a four bedroom, to a five bedroom, and they've never even seen the fifth or fourth bedroom. They've never gone in there once, they think their friends are coming over to stay over, they're not coming, they're not subbing it, there's no slumber parties happening. They have a guest room that still has plastic in it, like they don't use the fourth and fifth bedroom, they're just getting it to keep up with the Joneses. They have a third car, they have a third watch, and all these things they're spending the extra money on instead of taking capital. Imagine if you make that 60 grand, 70 grand, 80 grand a year, but your overhead still stayed with a 2K apartment, and you stayed with that one watch and the one car. All of a sudden you start to accumulate 20, 30, 40 grand a year, and after three or four years, you've now deployed $100,000, and now you're making five, 10, 15 grand a year in interest and business and income and things like that, you can change the whole entire course of your life by skipping a couple extra bedrooms, please. I've watched that happen way too many times, someone has a third car and they have a third watch and they have the fancier clothes and the fancier clothes, that's very expensive too. And so just watching people's overhead, it can literally change your life. And if you do the same thing with your office, we watch people go raise $2 million for their company and then go spend $200,000 on fancy TVs, laptops, couches, artwork for their office, and nobody goes to your office. I was outside of Sean Callagher here because there's an event space, no one's going to your office, and you don't need to spend 200 grand on the artwork and the freaking fancy 60 inch screens for your work. You don't, I've watched that happen too many times. People have this super high overhead on their rent, super high overhead on their office space, super high overhead and all these other things, and they take away from the core business or the core income that they had of why they got the money to begin with. Okay. Amen. With so many options of what to invest into because you are bombarded with people, you have hundreds and hundreds of employees here, hundreds of people coming to your events, sometimes thousands of people at your events, you are bombarded with pitches. How you decide what you're going to deploy your capital into when it could be real estate, Bitcoin, angel investing, your friend's 17th restaurant, this guy's got this deal, that deal. If so many deals that you could be into, how do you decide? The only way I decide now, and I've made so many mistakes, I've lost millions of dollars in investments, right? Is I now invest, so I can't, I invest in two ways. I invest in one way, so I can't lose, and I invest in a second way, or I can't lose. The second way that I can't lose is I'm a big fan of just index tracking. Like putting money in the market, leaving it alone, and just doing that over and over and over. Yeah. The first way I can't lose is I invest in incredibly speculative, risky, crazy investments, right? That have a strategic purpose that's going to create other value. And so I've had the blessing and privilege, and not that I'm saying that your investments are crazy and weird, but to invest with you in things, because there's going to be a positive outcome by being a part of your ecosystem, and there's massive value that I've done this over and over throughout my life. It's changed me from being an obscure attorney who is financially well off to going into all these different spaces and building incredible relationships with remarkable people, because you're investing in what they're excited about. And it's not like a tit for tat, like, oh, if I do this, then you'll do that. You had given me a massive blessing of these opportunities. You didn't say, hey, invest in this, and then I'll do this for you, right? You did that, and I'm like, dude, I want to invest in what Dan's doing. I want to do these things. So the relationship capital, like Danny at Dan has, there's access to it by being closer to him and being excited about it. And I've done that continuously. So unless you have a complete death wish, don't just take all of your money and invest speculatively, like really invest in conservative investments. The rest, you're really investing in yourself and a relationship. And truth, I invested a million dollars with Dan. I believe it's going to be an incredible investment. And if I never get a dime back, I know that will be one of the greatest investments of my life if none of the principal ever returns because of all the other remarkable things that would come as a byproduct to that. So one of the first things that he mentioned about the indexes is really interesting. A lot of times you're not sure what to invest into. There's a couple of things that are no risk or low risk. CDs at your bank are now offering 4% to 5% interest. They may not sound like a lot to you, 4% to 5%, but you're just battling with inflation and you're doing it with a household name bank like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase, et cetera, where that capital, if you don't know what to invest into, at least you've got some interest happening, 4%, 5% on your 50,000, 100,000 saved up, for example. It does compound over time. The other thing is the S&P 500. S&P 500 typically sounds like medium risk or high risk because it's the top 500 stocks on the stock market. But over the last 92 years, it's averaged 11% a year. 11% a year through depressions, recessions, wars, so many crazy things have happened and it's still over 11% consistently over the last 92 years. Over the last 25 years, it's only had four losing years and none of them were big. And so from a consistency perspective, S&P 500 is very interesting. Can it have a losing year? Of course it can. Can it go down tonight? Sure. But over the course of time, you're betting on the household name companies like Apple, Google, Netflix, et cetera, that they should go from 1 trillion to 2 trillion, 2 trillion to 3 trillion. It's not guaranteed, but what we've seen over the last 92 years, it's a good bet to consider and do some research about. All right, for the last segment, oh please, of course. So I couldn't agree with Dan more and I've watched people, especially in the entrepreneur space, who make consistent, insane investments to super high-risk vehicles because they wanna feel excited. Instead of feeling excited about massive high-risk investments, what if instead you get excited about building your own platform? It's a lot easier to put money into things and sit back and gamble versus taking the yeses, the noes, the cortisol, the drips. If you can tolerate that and put it invest your energy, your time, your resources, the platform building like Dan did, that's what will profoundly change your life. Don't change, don't chase wealth through investing in high-risk things. Invest only in high-risk things if it's done strategically with people who are gonna create massive value in your life like Dan. So last segment is the charity part, the philanthropy part that Bullshawn and I are very passionate about and I've watched Sean last year, have 700 people come into his gala, but when I got there to his gala last year in New Jersey and 700 people are all dressed up and there's this fancy party going on and he doesn't tell me that outside in the valet was three U-Hauls full of toys in the snow. And so I pull up to this thing, I see three U-Hauls, which kinda stands out because everyone's in fancy suits and fancy dresses and there's Sean in the snow in this fancy suit and he opens up the back of one of the U-Hauls and I'm like, wait a minute, are all three of these things full of toys? And he'd already donated six figures right beforehand, so it didn't make any sense why is there three U-Hauls outside of his party, which he's hosting inside by the way and he's outside in the snow with me. Why is philanthropy important to you? I've watched you on random Zoom calls, donate $50,000 to that charity last week. Like you're constantly donating, not just money, you're putting your time and energy, it's not easy to fill up U-Hauls and be outside in the snow when you've got 700 of your employees and staff inside. Why are you so passionate about charity? Yeah, so I believe, but for the grace of God, go I. I believe in God, I'm a Christian. I'm a non-judgmental Christian, I believe in unconditional love of people. I hang out with the prostitutes and tax collectors. I don't use the prostitutes and tax collectors, I'm just kidding, but I am a huge advocate of loving people and God has been good to me and I'm committed to not bury or squander, but to exponentially multiply the talents and gifts I've been given as much as humanly possible in this world and I believe in tithing. So all of the things we're talking about then that happen is I have a tithing pool of resources from the abundance I have. And in the same way I'm using my private capital to invest, I'm using my tithing God's money, I'll give this God's money to be a steward of it and by investing in causes that mean things to you and mean things to other people I love and care about very much and develop in relationships with them, it creates a cycle of abundance. There's four components of value, identity, relationship capital, monetary capital and unique skill sets. Those four things make everything happen, it's the building of the United States, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, everything we have and don't have, dot, dot, dot, right? So for me, I love people and I'm serving God and so I said this this morning actually and speaking with a mutual friend of ours and he said like, hey, how do you decide about charitable investing? I said this, I decide that I'm building relationships with people and if a cause is important to them, it's gonna be important to me and I want to make a meaningful difference at it. So I'm giving 10% period, like that's God's money and then how I move that 10% and what I do with it and where I put it is so more can come from it. So as long as it's a call sustainable giving, so as long as it's a real charity, as long as I believe the money, meaning it's there's a cause, right? As long as there's gonna be the money efficiently used, then the deciding factor of where all goes from me is is there things that are gonna help us advance the mission of doing more good and more good and more good in the world? And that's my brother, I intend, we intend to break the Guinness Book of World Record Toy Drive. Now I'm locked in on the birthday podcast and the episode that I'm gonna do whatever I need to do to make this a reality. Now just in super fun energy, that means I'm either going to have to like give all the money and all the toys myself because I don't raise my Calogy Christian Foundation, I don't take outside donations, it's all my tithing. So it's either I'm gonna do all myself or I'm gonna roll a whole bunch of people with me, but I'm telling you on this podcast, we are breaking that record, period. Okay, so let's give you guys context. A few weeks ago, Sean was hosting a Zoom call with 200 doctors and lawyers on this Zoom call and he brought on this very famous producer director of some of the most biggest movies of all time. And he randomly donates, Sean randomly donates 50 grand to that guy as well, it's a history that he cares about. And during the podcast or during the Zoom call at the very end of it, I was doing my little speech and then at the end, Sean says, what's the most amount of toys over the last 11 years that you did in one day? And I said, well, SoFi Stadium, 118,000 toys. And he said, okay, well I hear by declare. I'm never forgetting, it's burning in my head. I think I've told the story 30 times though. He's like, I hear by declare in front of all my constituents that I'm gonna donate 119,000 toys, December 19th weekend. And so literally three hours ago before this podcast, I went to the American Dream Mall. So my friends own that mall. They also own the Mall of America in Minnesota. Love it there by the way. American Dream Mall is amazing. There's literally like Sea World in Legoland and like theme parks and roller coasters. And it was amazing. And they have a big toys arrest there and the big giraffe and everything. It was like, so I just went there a couple of hours ago because they were nice enough to give us that location for December 21st. So you're a gal as on the 19th, Saturday we need to arm the troops and get ready to deliver and distribute toys. I had yesterday, last night I had dinner with a semi truck company that have 1 million square feet here in New Jersey. And I'm fully prepared to execute because I don't want you to have to lift a finger because of what you're already doing. And so I've got trucking company, American Dream Mall. I already texted like Tom Brady's whole crew because his car store is right in front of where we're gonna have the toy drive. I'm like, I'm literally gonna call Gary Vee because he's a New Jersey guy. Like every stop, I have to call Russell Wilson, quarterback, everything I can do, I'm gonna do from my side because of what you're doing. But we are definitely going to make the biggest splash in toy drive history and it's not gonna be close by the way. And I thank you and I love it. And all the ideas and identities that you want around it. And in my heart, cause I'm a, you know, I love a blind and I love everything. And we have a beautiful studio audience, Chuckling, cackling, laughing, thank you, Bella Rita. Is I love New Jersey. So I also want to do this. Definitely putting on the map, that's for sure. Jersey on the map for the heart, the power, the passion, Jersey strong and here we come brother. Yeah, December 21st in the afternoon, we will be in the American Dream Mall and there's gonna be thousands of kids, maybe more than that, thousands of kids in line. We've got it all structured. Vince Ritchie, the co-founder of what's called Trina's Kids Foundation, it's triniscids.org. Vince's mom is Trina that sadly passed away. We started the charity together 11 years ago. And we just literally a couple hours ago mapped out how we're gonna fit semi trucks of toys inside of the mall, literally right at the base of the escalator and we're going to, and there's a Lego Land right there and we're literally calling toys arrest in Lego Land. If you guys are listening, we're calling all of you guys to try to chip in on that with the toys. And it is going to be a sight to see. I can just tell you that. No, I mean this all my heart brother, thank you for that, because that's not my favorite thing to do is forget the logistical dimension. You don't do a thing. I think he's worried, don't do a thing. It's amazing brother and Dan, this, no false edification. No, like this guy, it is remarkable what Dan, you built and how he's built it because he's found how to create value between people. Dan wasn't raised with money. Dan wasn't raised famous. Dan built insane value with famous people, people with massive ecosystems, online influencers. He found them. He found how to create value for them. And this is why these folks want to do things with him and thank you brother, for it's an honor to be even on the periphery of your incredibly good system. I appreciate that. You were in the room at Tony Robbins and Dean Graciosi's Zenith Mastermind where Tony Robbins basically yelled at me for 12 minutes in a way that pushed me and it's in my mind, not every day, but literally every hour. And what he said was this. And I posted the video a little snippet of the 12 minutes I posted on my Instagram a few weeks ago. He said, why are you self-funding the toy drives for the most part every single year? Because it's very expensive to do this and we're a 0% charity, meaning Vince and I, we're not, no one gets a salary, no one gets employed. None of the, it's all volunteers. Vince has 44,000 square foot office, so we have space. So there's no cost, everything goes to the toys. And if there is a cost for marketing, travel, renting venues, et cetera, Vince and I pay for it ourselves. And he's like, why do you put in $1 to $2 million a year, a year after year for this toy drive when you've got a lot of rich friends like me? And you were there in the room. And I looked at him and gave him the egotistical answer of like, oh, I don't want to ask my friends for it. I can do it myself. And he said this sentence that has burned into my mind and now you guys are gonna hear it. He said, every time you don't text or call someone like me, that's rich, they can donate. And you don't push me to donate, less children get less toys. And I literally, he's so right, he's so right. And it's like stuck in my brain. And I can't stop thinking about it. And I'm gonna probably think about for the rest of my life because now I'm going to text my friends. I am gonna call it. So if you're listening, I'm going to text and call you about this toy drive and not necessarily for money part. You can bring the toys, you can volunteer, you can roll your sleeves up, you can post on social media. There's multiple ways to donate to a charity. But what it pushed inside of my soul is like, you have to call everyone to get as many toys as possible. Cause every phone call you don't make means children are literally at home with zero toys or less toys because of you, Dan, your own ego, not calling them because I don't want to bother Sean or I don't want to bother Tony Robbins. I don't want to bother them to donate. Why? Why not? And now it's stuck in my head that I have to do it. All right, so there's only one question that I ask on every single, absolutely. It's the sample giving model that I realized, birthed. I can't believe you brought up Tony, who is an incredible mentor of both of ours. And Tony said to me that, well, he offered to sell a hundred dollar bill in a room, a bidding contest in suit. I bought it for a hundred thousand dollars in 2018. Everybody thought it was crazy. It was the greatest investment in charity because it went to his foundation I've ever made because no one knew who I was in that room in Platinum partnership, a hundred thousand dollar year program, I am blind, sitting the last row with 400 people in this room in Sun Valley, Idaho. I buy the hundred dollar bill, I'm up on stage, Sage Robbins is crying, the most anybody ever bought it for before was like $14,000. It changed my life forever. That's how you want to be giving. And then you can give more and more and more and more. And let's race in both call Tony and get him to be doing this. Absolutely. All right, so there's only one final question I ask on every single episode and I've never gotten the same answer before. And I'm definitely not going to get the same answer today. So Sean Callagay, as you've built this unicorn valuation company and you're probably going to do that two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 19 times more of other companies you invest into and build on your own. At some point, finally Sean passes away. But you have these four beautiful children and people around you. What percentage of that multiple billions of dollars do you leave to those children? It's an amazing question, my brother. A question I've been wrestling with a lot lately. So your timing is remarkable. My simple answer would be, I'm not a hundred percent sure to be in transparency, but how things are set up now is to create an estate where the money, not to create half an estate, where the money lasts forever. So my homes, including our vacation homes that are a sacred soulful heart place inside a family, they're never actually going to get. They're going to stay in our family foundation forever. And I'm going to have the money inaccessible forever generationally, so there's a certain income amount. You go, what's that income amount? That's going to be based upon a couple of different things. One of my children, one of my daughters is a wildlife ecology major. They're all checked and the box is hitting the marks. I am blessed. Sometimes you have children. I raised my kids in middle class public schools, blue and that, right? Nobody knew we had money. There's a whole philosophy around that. But I want my children to be able to pursue their passion and dreams and they are pursuing them. Wildlife ecology, women, women, daughters and actress, I mean, they are hitting hard. And my son's graduate from law school has come to work with me. So I'm going to balance out all of these different pieces. So there's incentive structures for all of it. But like, dude, if you're like, dude, just give me a simple answer, here's a simple answer. It's not going to be all of it. It's not going to be none of it. And it's not going to be more, my kids are not going to get more than a million bucks a year. So they could have access to a million. It's not going to be more than a million from there. They're going to have to like make magic happen. But at a million, they're going to have the ability to live the lifestyle that I've been, I've provided. And if they want to screw it up and mess up their lives completely, at a million a year, that's going to be their choice, their challenge. But I want to provide the base because my children have demonstrated to me that they're not going to use the money and not be massively productive. That may be different for people who are listeners based on where their kids are. So that's my best answer. I told you guys it was not going to be the same answer as any of the last 200 episodes. Sean Callagy, where can people find you across social media? Where can they find unblinded? You've got masterminds, you've got events, you've got all these things. Tell us about everything. Yeah, so I go to unblindedmastery.com and find out what our next event is. And we are committed to delivering something remarkably different for you. And of course, Sean Callagy, C-A-L-L-A-G-Y, Instagram, Facebook, and unblinded, Instagram, Facebook, all of it. Come check it out. We are here and we are different. We are not coaches, we're not consultants. We are not trainers. We're not speakers, motivational speakers. We're not the best of all of those things. And thank you, my brother. So as you guys are listening, keep in mind, there's certain things that you're listening on these episodes that are not just for you. It could be people that are in your lives from your past, present, and future. Your friends, family. Because we grew up thinking it's rude to talk about money. I think it's ridiculous that we don't talk about it because it's part of our daily lives. We have bills, we have insurance to take care of, we have card notes, should I lease, should I buy, should I rent, should I do this, should I do that? My friend borrowed 400 bucks, so I can't get it back. How do I talk to them about it? Like, these are real life discussions. It's part of our daily life. We have to be able to talk about it. That's part of why there's such a financial crisis in our society, because people don't understand credit. They don't understand loans. They don't understand FICO scores. They don't understand their taxes because who are we gonna talk to about it? We're not allowed to talk about it. And our households, we need to start talking about it. We need to have these discussions with your children, with your friends, with your family, from people, of your past, present, and future. So I appreciate you guys. Check us out on themoneymondays.com. Make sure to like, vote, subscribe, share, et cetera, because all that helps get the message out about money. We will see you guys next Monday on themoneymondays.com. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. I'm gonna go get my phone. 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