Why Most People Never Build REAL Wealth (and How to Change That) 💵 EP147

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money, Money, Podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give it away to charity. Normally, this podcast is done inside of an RV motor home, a travel around the country, but then over 200 episodes in that fashion. The podcast today is number 40 in the world out of 5.4 million podcasts because of you guys liking, commenting, subscribing and sharing. So I appreciate you guys for doing that. We've been keeping this commercial free. I'm spending around 70,000 a month just to keep it commercial free for you guys. We have a 93% listen to it because of this. We keep these podcast episodes short, sweet and straight to the point. Why is this one not an RV motor home because we are inside the Merit Bank Arena. Today, we hosted the main in the arena tour, part two. At the first one, we had an amazing line of speakers including our guest who's here with us today, who then spoke again for us here in Florida today. Literally a few hours ago, he just crushed the stage. And hopefully we'll have him at number three, number four, etc. as one of our few repeat speakers. Now, as you guys know, we keep this very focus, very pointed and the whole point of it is it's not just for you. This podcast episode might be for your friends, family and followers. It might be for someone from your past, present and future. Don't just listen to our rule, the things he said for you, it might be for people around you again from your past, present and future without further ado. Rauw, can you give us a quick two minute bio so we get straight to the money. Love it, love it. Thank you, damn man. The 40th podcast of the world, love it, man. I can't wait for this to be number one. We're going to get it there. So make sure you click on the link, share this podcast. It's when I continue to bring value into the world. I don't know if I can be Joe Rogan, but we're going to try. We're going to try. We're going to try. We're going to try. So my name is Robert Laszas. I built a brand called the Edge. It's a man empowerment movement. I work with men who somewhere in their lives have lost their edge because that happened to me. I built a real estate company. I'm a million dollars and I went to depression. I started drinking every single day and I knew that I had to find some help. So I spent half a million dollars in my personal development to find my edge back. So when I did that, I went to do a seminar to raise capital for real estate because my back was in real estate. But guess what? Everybody wanted to talk about. How did you break through depression? How did you find your edge back? So I had all these as managers, all these investors, picked my brains about how to find your edge. And from there, I built a brand called the Edge, helping men find their edge back. All right. So on the make money side, why do you think that most men are not good at making money? I think a lot of us were very good at making money, but we suck at keeping the money. Right. Because I speak to guys all the time, make millions of dollars. How do I keep the money? So my mentor, when I started real estate, gave me this book. He's a row. Read this book. It's going to make you a millionaire. Okay. This book hands down. We read it from the first page, the last page you're going to make millions of dollars. That book was the white pages. Some of you guys know what the white pages is. You're probably too young. And where you have all the numbers, four numbers, names of every person who lives in New City. Because he says, start calling, call calling. I was selling real estate, call calling. So he was right. Two years into real estate, I made millions of dollars, call calling. But I didn't know how to keep the money. So the second book I read was Rich. That poor that. Nice. And that's when he said, make the money invested in my real estate. So I bought my first property. I flipped it. I made $100,000. I thought I was rich. Yeah. So I did what most men will do when they make some money. Go to the dealership. Again, I'll be. That's spending. Of course, I didn't finish reading the book. I was only halfway through. I came back, finished the book. And I said, the worst thing you could do is buy a car. Sure. So I went back to the dealership. I said, man, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. Can I just get my deposit back? They said, well, we have BMW. We brought ourselves in customer service. Here's your money back. And I went and I bought another real estate property. And that's what we continue to do by real estate. Flip, hold. And eventually that's what we made millions of dollars. So on the investing side, what do you think holds people back? What are they so scared of about investing into real estate, stock market, cryptocurrency, angel investing? There's so many options. What do you think holds people back from making that first investment? It's fear. Fear. Fear holds everybody back from doing something that they know deep in their heart that they should do. We all know that we should invest. We should save money. But the fear, when I look back and I teach my son this, like he's 19 years old. I said, if you broke in your 20s, that's fine. As long as you take risks, you got to teach with, I see these young kids, they're just waiting for the new opportunity. Everybody wants to have a safe risk. There is no risk is risk. The way I look at it is like at the end of the day, if you are a producer of you make money, take their risks. By the same time, don't take a risk that you're not gonna come back from. I did, I made that mistake. So that's what I'm speaking from experience. I put everything on real estate. I thought I was the man. I got a letter from my account when I was 30 years old as a row. You're a multi-millionaire. Congratulations, you made it. And then a year later, I was foreclosing my property because the market crashed. So because I thought I did everything right, but it was a wrong timing. So that fear of losing is what holds you back. Those stories, they hear it. Like I don't wanna be like, oh, why don't I wanna be like this guy? So that holds them back. So there's so many different options to invest into. You've chosen the real estate path. But within real estate, there's Airbnb, Spix and Flip, small-time family, commercial storage, RV parks, mobile homes, so many options in the real estate space. How can someone study and try to figure out what part of real estate they should dive into? Again, like I'm teaching my son right now, he just bought with me his first multi-family. Cash flow properties. I know you probably hear this all the time, but multi-family is a safe as investment in a way because you depend on tenants to pay the rent. So for me, I always look at a property that if it's cash flowing, I could maintain it through the recession, through the oppression, people still don't need to live in a property. So the mistake that I did when I lost millions of dollars because I started developing properties. I had my cash for properties. It would paint the bills, but then I got too greedy and I started building properties, commercial, and I got out of my lane. If I were to stick to multi-family, if I were to happen. All right, so what about the charity side? Why do you think it is important for a household? Let's just go with fathers in particular. Why do you think it's important for them to have some type of charity component for their wives, children, parents, friends, community, and employees to see them doing some philanthropy? The most important thing that I teach my kids is the value of money. I teach them that money is not meant for you just to keep. Money is meant to circulate. It's what's called currency. The value of money is necessary for them to learn early age. So my son, when he was eight, nine years old, he came to me dad. My friends are having allowances. Should I not have an allowance? How much is my allowance? Interesting. What are you talking about? I'm allowing you to live in my house. That's your allowance. I'm allowing you to eat my food. Right? So if you're talking about making money, I could help you through a transaction, bring value. So my kids have always, I've never given them allowances. They always brought something to the table. What are you gonna do in order for you to earn money? We also taught them you also have to give back. So every holiday is what we do is we could do around around our properties. We look for the tenants who don't, they're not doing so well. We look for other neighborhoods and we go for run. Things given, we actually, that's one of the most fun times for us to actually give back to the community, giving gifts and then once you learn what they want, we also go back in Christmas and we give the kids gifts. And we were doing that since they were 19 years old and they remember that from all the holidays. That's the magic moment. It's like that, you know, with that kid, when we give them that bicycle, when we give them that scooter, like a lit up, they actually love doing that as opposed to just receiving presents. So I think part of us a family, so important for you to teach your kids that money's not just meant for you to keep. Money's supposed to circulate. You have to give back. What about as a business owner or a brand? Why do you think it's an important component to have some type of charity for land to be tied into a brand or just for the employees, the clients, the vendors, the customers to see you as a leader of this company have some type of charity component? At the end of the day, every entrepreneur is focused on making money. But if that's all you want to do, you're going to have a short-term life. The biggest opportunities that I've had to be in rooms, actually my first event, I was in a farm razor and there was a movie producer, I don't know if you know the author, Eckertolley, of the book, The Power of Now. I've never heard of him before, so for me, everything was brand new, but we're raising capital to raise money for the movie. So the guy comes out of the stage having this conversation and he tells me, so what do you do? I said, I'm always the company, but I'm putting in a seminar. Maybe you want to speak in my event, I could help you raise money, so absolutely, he's my card. I had no seminar, I don't know where that came from. I looked at my wife and she was like, what are you talking about? I don't know, I just came, I put a seminar on that. I got a seminar. So I said, you know what, I have nobody, the guy probably just forgets about me. He's a big producer in Hollywood and then he said, he calls, we met, I'm interested in knowing more about you seminar. All right, like I ignore him. He calls me every single day for a week. Come on. I don't know, I was so embarrassed at the moment, so you probably didn't interested about your real estate guys, very unconscious behavior, not like I could totally, we drank, like we talk about money, because when I met you, something told me that I have to support you. So whatever you do, I'm there. Wow. So I had to put up a seminar. Yeah, for sure. Now I can't look bad, because that's, you know, that's all this guy. So I looked around and I said, well, where does everybody go to put seminars? That's Vegas, that's Vegas. That's Vegas, that's Vegas. Pick a place over there. I called the way and I said, do you have these dates? I look him back now, I was constantly trying to sabotage my first events. I picked two weeks before Christmas. Oh boy. They actually had available. I called, I got back, said, hey, these are the dates he goes, I mean, I mean, fuck, so now, have to consider. There we go. So now, how to get speakers, because I've never spoken before. So guess what, who is my first speaker, do you think? Now knowing me and this in this arena, who do you think I call first to be a speaker? Another thing with Gary Jay White. Gary Jay White. I really, I just met Gary about a couple of weeks before that event in a stage. Oh, my God. And I said, hey, where is this guy wants to speak of my event? I called him up, say, hey, I'm gonna have an event in Las Vegas, would you come down to speak? Yeah, I can't say you have been. I have an event there, so I'll be there too. Wow. Fuck, so now, see, all these words are colliding, right? I'm stupid of this. Yeah. So at that event, one of the things that we had to do is I took them, they attend these, to a hospital for Christmas, to visit kids that had cancer, that had an illness that, you know, that they were hospitalized. That was the most impactful thing that we could have done. We took a couple of hundred people into the hospital giving gifts. Wow. Like, imagine Gary, you know, for sure. Like interacting with kids, all that speakers, and that event created such a magical pivot in our lives that every speaker wanted to support me because I had that component, the component of giving back, the component of actually doing something, not just a seminar, not just like listening to our lives, but now we're actually gonna do something for the community wherever we went. All right, so there's only one question I've asked on all 200 plus episodes, and I've never gotten the same answer before. Hopefully, it's not until 100 or 200 years from now when you finally passed away. What percentage of your net worth do you leave to your children? I look at net worth not just in money. My net worth that I like to think that the value is more the time. We're empty nesters now. My wife and I would look at each other like we have, like people say I'm an empty nester because my kids are in college that they moved out. But I feel like a full nester. I don't know if that's even a word because we gave time to our kids. We spend time with them. But I wanna let my kids know that they can depend on me to provide for them. They have to go there and create their own, I'm gonna provide opportunities. I'm gonna create, I'm gonna live an opportunity for them to create, but I cannot stop them from doing their own lives. So my kids know, like what that leaves, that's it, is done. That's it. I want them to know that they have to work to create their own legacy. I wanna create my legacy, but I have to create their own legacy. So ideally, I would like to give my kids the net worth of knowing their value, their capacity to produce, but at the same time, the opportunity to provide for themselves. So working people find you on social, working they find the edge, working they find everything about your ecosystem. I'm very active in Instagram. They could just send me a DM and Instagram, Raul the Edge. We also have a podcast. We did a podcast actually a couple months ago. Yeah, yeah. Great, great feedback to Kingscore Podcast. But right now, we're focusing on supporting the movement of the men of the arena. I wanna see this, this event with 10,000 men. Oh, man. That's my vision, 10,000 men. So I know it's coming. And I know we're gonna need every single one of you to start supporting because it's not about competition. There is billions of people in this world. Men are dying every single day because they don't have a brotherhood. They don't have connection. I am convinced that the reason that I gotta put a carrot a knife together is for moments like this. We're creating a movement, a global movement, a man going into the arena to find their edge to get this shit together. Because I believe that this is the moment that men need to fucking step up and lead because you are the fucking problem, but you also the solution. I appreciate you for being here. As you guys know, these podcasts, it's very important for you to like, comment, subscribe and share. When you hear the things today, there might be someone in your life that you should forward this to, and it might not just be today. You might think back in this episode two, three weeks from now, two, three months from now, and want to forward what Rural said. So check them out on social media, where I will with the edge, make sure to like, comment, subscribe, and we will see you guys next Monday here at the moneymindays.com. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of the Money Monday's podcast, where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away the charity. Normally, I do this podcast inside of an RIV motorhome that I travel around the country in, and normally I only have one guest at a time. But tonight, we are inside of an arena. A Merent Bank Arena, we just finished a man in the arena tour. We had Tim Story, Trent Shelton, David Goggan, so many amazing speakers. This is the event I do with Garrett J. White. This was the second time we throw in it. First time in Salt Lake City, this time, out here at the Merent Bank Arena in Florida. So, as you guys know, these podcasts are typically around 30 to 35 minutes because the average workout is 35 minutes, the average commute to work is around 40 minutes, so we keep these episodes to around 35 minutes for your listening pleasure. Without further ado, can I get both of the guests to give a quick two-minute bio? So we get straight to the money. All right on. Well, thank you. Appreciate you. Let me come on here. My name's Aaron Chapman. I am an author. I'm into the real estate finance game and doing that since 1997. Also a grandfather, which is an interesting environment to be in. Husband and now author, published author, and I'm excited to come on the show and talk about business, talk about the book, and also introduce my brother, Eric Chapman, who illustrated this piece of art. Brother, tell us. My name's Eric G. Chapman, and father, husband, illustrator, now book illustrator. I'm gonna find out oil painter is more what I do, but this opportunity came to me and it's been an amazing experience to do so. Tell us, there's sound busy. You got a lot of things going on in your world. Why decide to write a book? I was at an event much like what we had here and Robert Allen spoke. What we all know who this man is, a powerhouse in real estate author. One that New York Times best sellers way back when you couldn't manipulate it, right? And he was speaking not on real estate, like he normally did, he was talking about books and how to write a book. Well, I had published other books, but everything he said you shouldn't do, I did on the other books. So I corner him, say, okay, I'm gonna need your help. I'm gonna pull these back from the publisher, I'm gonna finish them. He's like, no, you're not. And the longer we talk to him, you're gonna write another book. From scratch. From scratch, I'm like, I don't wanna write another book. I've already written it again, I've already got 800 pages that I need to correct. So I had this crazy idea, I had my 100 pages, another publisher of that said nobody gives a shit, makes something that somebody will give a shit about. Now I was on a call with one of my brother-in-law and he said, hey, you should actually break up your chapters in the individual little books. I published those kind of like the dime novels of the 1800s. They were kind of cool. But Robert, when he described what I did, I did it wrong and I asked him to fix who wouldn't let me fix. I said, okay, so what's this book gonna be about? Cause you tell me, well, I'm not the one wanting to write it. So then we got talking, talking, talking more, and then we hit something. And he said, I'll help you with the outline, but you go from there. So after we did the outline, I still started writing and it started to just flow and in five months it was done. And I would send him a chapter at a time and he'd say, this is perfect, keep going. I couldn't mean perfect, you're Robert Allen, you're the most critical. Some bitch I've ever met my life. When he sees a book that's crappy, he'll tell you, this is crappy, he'll throw it. I'm your perfect, go, get another one. Hit another, hit it, then we're 13 chapters in. He says, you need to illustrate this book. Am I probably gonna illustrate this book? Who do I get for an illustrator? Do you have an illustrator? He goes, no, I've never illustrated in my books. Like, okay, so what do you think I do? He says, call an artist. I'm like, I only knew one. So I called Eric up, said, you illustrate books? He's like, no, I don't know, illustrate books. But, yeah, illustration was, I mean, I did one book before. I mostly do, you know, oil paintings for people's homes for what not, portraiture and landscapes and all that. But I kind of didn't like the process when I did it the first time. It was all right. But after I kind of got Aaron's vision of what was going on, it really intrigued me. This was gonna be a different approach than anything I'd ever done. And, you know, how can I say no to that, right? I love a new experience. So on the painting side of life, some people paint for money, some people paint for passion, some people paint for their livelihood and to pay the rent. Some people paint and make extravagant prices and some people make it for $50 and $500 or $1,000. How do you decide as a painter what's a charge for your work when it's typically up to the value that either you perceive or your customer perceives? For me, I charge based off of size and medium. And there's a certain element where, you know, over time, I've kind of developed an idea of how long something's gonna take, how much effort is gonna be involved in there. But so as to not feel like someone's getting, like if you had two paintings, the same exact size, some exact medium and one cost more than the other, you know, clients, you know, they scratched their head about that. So I try to keep it that way, just based off of that. So, and it also started out to be a lot cheaper endeavor. I mean, we were going with 14 paintings. It was actually 13 paintings. It was a 13 chapters. And then after he read Robert's Ford, because after Robert finished the book, he wrote a Ford that was unbelievable. I still can't believe the man like that would write a Ford like this. Where did he wrote the Ford? Robert wrote the Ford, Dolph DeRus wrote my afterwards. He's illustrated the book. So then Eric, we are driving down the order of my dad's place. I said, you should illustrate the Ford. He's like, what do you mean? I say, no, do the same thing you did with the chapters. He took like the illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s, you know, the religious books. And he red-necked it up for the cover of every chapter. So every chapter in your read it, it's painted into the cover art for the chapter. Well, then I wanted the book to look like something you pull off the Vatican wall and old beat up leather bound book. And I said, you should actually illustrate the Ford too. So after reading the Ford, he painted what his mind had for the Ford. Well, then we went to find an editor. And his wife as a professional editor, she was too busy, so he called these three guys. I reached out to them and said, I've got a book that Robert Allen wrote the Ford for. And I need somebody to edit it. I call it Robert Allen wrote a Ford. He'll take a look at it. But then they start bastardizing my book. They would rewrite it to thou, they would write a book. I'm like, that's not my book. Well, that's how I edit. Like, well, then you're not my editor. So I called another guy. He might know him, Allen Stein, Jr. He wrote, raise your game and sustain your game. I'm like, buddy, I need some help. I need an editor whose balls are attached and not there for decoration. He's like, what do you mean? I said, every editor I've talked to wants to bastardize my work. I need somebody who will dig in and just do it how I did it. He gave me a name. So I reached out to this guy who goes, send me the manuscript. The guy read it within a week, got back to me, goes, I'll publish your book. Wow. It's like, what do you mean, publish my book? I mean, your editor, he goes, and he sent me his information. He was a CEO of a publishing company. Wow. Says this book needs to get published. And everybody's going to like it. And everybody needs it. But the people who do need it badly. What's the title of the book? What's the name of it? Red economics. Explain. It's basically the economy of an ass beating. Just like Goggins talks about, just like White talks about, just like what you talk about. Life is a series of beatings. And it's going to sort you. You're going to step up and take the beating and get what it's going to give you. And then plan the next beating you're willing to take to achieve what you want to get. Or you're going to let it just push you down into the ground. You're going to fade into nothing. This is me giving people the formula to plan the beating you're willing to take. And being that group, we brought up cattle ranching together. We've been through the beatings and how it is to be successful in that type of environment, really any environment. And it has me taking those values and applying this here. And then other people putting their name behind it, Robert Allen, Dolph DeRus, that publisher, and other people who have read it and put their endorsements on that to me is monster. And I still sometimes can't believe that they would put their name behind it. But now we're out trying to end yourself, allowing us onto your podcast to talk about our work that we pray has a dent just in at least one listener's life. Yep. So we talked a little bit about the making money side. Let's talk about the investing side. Once someone starts to make money in their career, they want to invest into real estate. How would they decide I'm going to invest into Airbnb's or I'm going to buy short term fixed and flipped, or I'm going to buy multi-family or commercial or storage units or RV parks. There are so many options. We'll just say to someone how to figure out what might be right for them. So I'm talking to the individual and find out what's the point. Why do you want to get an investing? What's investing in a due to you? A lot of times people think that when it comes to real estate, it's a very passive thing, just like going to stock market. I put it down payment, closing costs, and it just pays you money. I was like, no, you're not becoming a business owner. This real estate is a business. You have to create the business. So instead of selling them on, hey, go to this guy and get the real estate. And I'll do your financing. That's dig down to where you're heading. Most of the time it's because people want to leave a legacy to somewhere. A legacy has been defined as money, but it's actually leaving behind a process, systems, thought processes, leaving behind what you did to create that. So I take them all the way to bread better, let's figure out how you're going to put that capital together. That's your entities in place. It's your trust. It's your holding company. They start the LLCs and they start working on the financing for that. But let's understand what's going to create the most value in the real estate itself. You can go all kinds of direction, as you just said. But let's look at what I believe is the most valuable per square foot real estate, which is a single family home. They're not making much more of them. It's becoming scarcer and scarcer and scarcer. And if I want to get my 10-fold hat on, we can go all the way back, pre-crash, and all the things that have happened that led to the hedge fund that hold the bulk of the real, the single families out there are turning our society into a subscription-based economy. If they don't get in on that subscription, providing part of it, then they're going to miss out. So I want to get people into that part of it, because it's easiest to get into, easiest to get out of if things get bad. But also understanding the thought is the biggest value and that is the leverage itself. We have grown up in an environment where people who want to tell you that the mortgage is debt, and that you're going to be holding to this thing for 30 years, so put extra in and pay it off. Do the debt snowball, and I'm trying to tell them to stop quit listening to that. That's the banking world trying to program you. When you have an environment where somebody's willing to come in and give you 80% of the capital for your business, but take no stake in the business. Let you keep that business. Yet somebody else pays them back at a small percentage every month for the next 30 years, and you get to keep the asset that appreciated. You get to keep the asset that somebody else paid off. You get the tax benefits. You get the cash flow who wins. It definitely at the bank, and it sure is hell-enthered. The other thing that's awesome about the bank, what people don't understand, is that you're paying it back with the US dollar. I like to illustrate something to people with this. Let's go back 30 years ago. It's actually a little more than 30 years ago. I walked in my first Taco Bell in 1994. It's Moses Lake, Washington. About two crunchy tacos, two bean brewers and a drink for $1.99. What does that cost right now? Now you probably don't go there, right? Somebody in this room might know, but right now it's 14 bucks for those items. For two tacos and what? Two crunchy tacos, two bean brewers and a drink. It's $14. It was a $1.99 back then. Of course. In 30 years, it swung over at 800% in the buying power of the US dollar. 800% in the buying power of the US dollar. And it's not because they made bigger brewers and bigger tacos, and it's not because RFK Jr. now discovered it's a super food and he's telling the whole world. It's because the dollars buying less. I'm going to pass this to you. Tell me what that is. Well, it looks like a Susan B Anthony, but it's gold version. It's a gold liberty. And it tells you the domination on the back is an 1888 gold US gold coin. It tells you how many dollars it's for. I don't see it. It's in the band kind of. They'll tell you it's 20 bucks. It's kind of hard to read on that one. Yeah. That means it's the same as this. Will this buy that? Well, $20 by a $20 coin. Yeah. Will it buy that $20 coin? This $20 coin? Not today. What's the price of gold? Gold. So it's over 4,000. This, this 20 bucks won't buy my socks. But in 1888, actually up until the year of the 1900s, that gold coin would get you a hat, a hand-tailored suit, a shirt, a tie, a pair of socks and a pair of shoes. Like I said, this one would buy my socks. So why is it that that 20 bucks is not this 20 bucks? What's interesting about a loan to people to be able to buy real estate? You get to pay it back with this, not that. So that means when you get a $200,000 property and you put 20% down, you're financing 160,000. You're paying them back every month for next 360 months. And the math tells you you're gonna pay 420,000 for that $160,000 loan. But when you look at what's happening to this, you're actually paying $152,000 or less. You pay back less than what you borrowed. So that's why the banking world is convinced people, you need to pay it off faster, that you need to do the debt snowball. That's you need to take your extra cash flow and pay them back. They want their money back faster so they can put it into somebody else's hands. The longer you take the pay, the less you actually pay. And when you refinance for rate, you're being taken advantage of, because it's not about the dang rate. How much is that coin now? That coin right now is about $4,700 to $5,000. That coin? That coin. That's a lot more than 20 bucks. A lot more than 20 bucks. Because this is backed by nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you look what's happening in the world today, you look back at the interest rates, people keep wanting to know who the rates are gonna go down, the rates are gonna go down, the rates are gonna go down. They're not gonna go down unless we started doing quantitative easing again. That was started on, it was announced for the first time at the end of November of 2008. We all know what happened in 2008. And that from that point on, November 25th of 2008, all the way up until the end of 2021, there was a lot of capital that was printed shoved into the economy, keep our rates down. What's interesting about that date, if you look back, after you had quantitative tightening, where we went down the rate spiked up in 2022, every time we've hit the level in the mortgage-backed securities that was set up that day in 2008. Every time we hit, we bounced off it, bounced off it. We're presently right now at the lowest rates that we should have unless moved upon by more quantitative easing by the federal government. And I think they're gonna do it to crash the US dollar to get us into a digital currency. All right, on the charity side of things, talking about making money, investing money, or giving it away. Why do you think it's important for a family household to have some type of charity component, whether it's financially, emotionally, or taking the kids out, taking the parents out, taking the friends and neighbors out to an actual give back, feed the homeless, clean up the beach, go to a senior citizen home. But when it's commanded, it's biblical. So money is a resource. I look at it just like a river. Has it flowing? All the big cities started growing up around rivers, correct? But then when it gets dammed up, what ends up happening? When it pulls up, it becomes corrosive, right? It'll eat things. It will kill things. It needs to move. And it doesn't just need to move for the purpose of you because then you become a corrosive person. If it's just for you, it needs to go to something bigger. And we need to be able to do that charity. I think that if we as humans became more charitable, we wouldn't have a lot of the problems that have in the world today, right? And I think that as far as the charities are concerned, it gets us out of ourselves, it gets us to become aware of more things around us than what's in our own heart. And we don't become corrosive people. Yeah, if communities don't give to communities who will, no families don't give, then you've left it to the government to do it. And that's not helping anybody. Well, they use that for slavery. People giving it to people is to elevate, become more. I think we become more by giving. What's interesting about that is the more I let it flow into source of giving, and I don't worry about that source of where it's coming from, more just teams to come. I've never had to worry where the core capital's coming from when I'm giving it. What I have to worry about it is when I'm keeping it. So there's only one question I ask every single time on every single episode, it's been 200 and something in 240, I think, episodes. And I've never gotten the same answer before. And I'm definitely not gonna get the same answer tonight. 50 years from now, 100 years from now, it's time for you to finally pass away. What percentage of your net worth be end up leaving your children or your grandchildren? Well, at that time, it'll be 100% of the net worth that's left, whatever it is. The intent I have right now with the family trust, and with the holding companies and the LLCs and everything, a single member of my family is living in a house that's owned by the trust. They pay the trust, and my children and all beneficiaries of that trust, I will use up all the cash capital that I have available to me, but the life insurance policies and all things go to them. What legacy I leave to them is what to do with it. I'm not leaving them capital because the money never really leaves the trust. It's how do they perpetuate it? How do they ensure that the next generation has something as well and the generation after that? There are certain rules in place that they all have to abide by to be able to sit on the board of the trust to decide what the money is done with, or what's done with the money. If they don't meet those obligations, they don't get to vote, but they don't get to take it out either. They get to perpetuate it. And that's the job. That's the goal is to make sure that the next five, six, seven, eight generations are still perpetuating that. And it's not for the sake of the family name or Aaron Chapman, right? I'm the first in my family to have ever created this. And start perpetuating. I'm teaching that to my clients. I'm showing that to every single client I'm created, a software to help them to track it and manage it. So something happens to them, their family can log in and see it. It's not paperwork locked up in a safe. It's not looking for keywords in a Google drive. It's literally built in the way they can click and see everything and they can access every point and they know exactly what it was drawn to. Because I'm tired of seeing generations being left behind. I watch my grandkids. I got three little grandkids and they walk up. I see them and they don't have a chance. And unfortunately, their parents have not been given a chance. It's up to me to create the chance for both. And so the legacy that I am leaving is the knowledge of what to do. What they do with us up to them. What do you think? I'm an artist. I'm supposed to be starving, right? Isn't that, isn't that how it goes? Well, eventually your paintings may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, it's possible. Anything's possible. But what are 50 years from now? You've sold 100 paintings and there are tens of thousands, 50,000, 100,000 each and you actually have a master wealth from this passion project that you had on the side and becomes something that builds fortune. Mostly bought by the Fleischmann family. Yeah, there we go. I'm not sure. I'll be honest, it's not something of actually even thought about. You see in my family, whenever somebody died, there was a big fight. You know, we're talking about when a grandparent on both sides of our family, and it was a massive, the rubble. My father right now, he's just coming to us directly and saying, you want this? You want that? You want, you know, and so it was kind of one of those things where it was in my mind, that thought was kind of a pariah. And maybe I haven't addressed it because of that, because I saw my own family get broken up by it. Yeah. It was interesting to watch on both sides. My father's side and my mother's side, but it's interesting they have lost contact with their siblings over that kind of stuff. Fragment. Absolutely. My dad's trying to keep it all together. My dad has more money now than he's ever had in his entire life. He's 78. He's turning 79 here real soon. He has more money than he's ever had in his life. And we finally got him to put together trust and put it all together for my siblings. I did not want to be part of it. I helped him put it together. I helped him get, collect what we need to get and get all the stuff in place, but made sure I was not written into it, through it into it for my siblings. And if he were to write me, if I wasn't included, I wouldn't care, because I don't want to fight my siblings. Yeah. We're not going to perpetuate that. Yeah, and I'm not going to cut you off. I guess I'm playing with you. No, that's OK. No, that's OK. But it's something that I see my siblings struggle. I see them fight through things. I've been blessed monetarily to not have to fight those. But I still fight. I mean, let's just be honest. That's where we're here for, because the battles and the hell and the destruction of theirs it's around slaying the dragons all the time. Sometimes you can't even come home and take off your armor, because you need to keep it on there, too. And it gets exhausting. But resources I have, resources I can use, I'm not going to take from others. And that's one of these things I think is probably, one of my Achilles heels are also my greatest strengths that I take from no one. I'll go earn everything that I get. And I'll make sure to whatever it is I do people benefit from. But it's also something that is also Achilles heel, because I ask from nobody. I will suffer. I will walk a hundred miles for a call for a ride. That's true. And I don't let people's lives be blessed by helping me and it's wrong. Damn it, I'll go bless other people's lives. But I'll go walk a hundred miles to carry them to the hundred miles that they would have walked by have to. All right, so where can people find the book? Find you, find you guys on social, tell us everything. So you can go to AaronChappen.com as part of the easiest way to place to find me. The book itself will be being sold on quitjurkenoff.com. It's also gonna be on Amazon. It's gonna be on Barnes and Noble. It's gonna be on other places like that. SGOC underscore Aaron. It's where you will define me on Instagram. And that's me. My Instagram handle is at EricJChappenArt. I know it's long. ERIC. And then I have a website, ejc-art.com. I will have a piece in a group show over at the Brennan Gallery in Scottsdale come December. That's for the month of December. It's a 12 by 12 show. So if you're in Scottsdale, December, I believe the 11th is the, Grand, or the reception for that. All the pieces of for sale, of course. And last year, I mean, my piece sold before the show. We've been started. So to another artist, which is amazing. One of the guys that this guy has been looking up through for decades bought his piece, which is complete. He has quite a collection. It's, it was, I was very flattered. It was amazing for me to walk in and see that, see the whole situation. I'll just tell you about this thing here. It's not going to get released to July 13th or this next year, actually, my dad's birthday. But this piece here, this, this book, I have an enormous amount of capital tied up in this book. And he gave me, it was like 61 illustrations in there. And he gave me an enormous discount, even at $47,000. So a person buys this for $28, you're getting $47,000 worth of artwork to hold in your hand, which is to me, an amazing bargain just in that, even if you don't like the words. And then quite frankly, even tell you right in the first paragraph, you know, the sunbitch away if you can't stand it. But somebody's going to read it and somebody gets something. But I will say everyone that's looked at that book, especially if we've been at this event, oh my gosh, nothing but positive. Everybody that has, you know, the thumb through it, read through it, check it out. It's, the feedback has been incredible. Well, then we're extremely appreciative to be here, by the way. And as far as the time I'm not sure where we're at in our 35 minutes, but I do need to share, I didn't let my parents read the manuscript. I intentionally don't want to read the manuscript. My mother has a lot of influence on me. I mean, she's 73 years old. I'm a 51 year old man, she'll still chase my ass around the house with a chocolate. Now I have a Hispanic mother. I finally let her read the book after her is in print. And she asked me when it was getting close to the end of print, she goes, could you read this to the savior? I say, he's already read it five times, Mom, I don't know what to tell you. She finally approached me after reading. She goes, yes, you can. And she goes, let me tell you one more thing. I wish I had this to give you when you turned eight. Now she read it five times. She called me the other morning, but actually the morning before I came here, before you guys invited me out here. I'm working out, my phone rang, this is my mom at six o'clock in the morning. And in the morning, she goes, can we talk about your book? I'm like, oh, she finally found something. She's gonna bust my chops over something here. And she goes, I just finished your book for the fifth time, which blew my mind. I asked her, how many books have you read five times? She said, only scripture. She's read thousands of books, but never anything else five times. And she sent me a picture of the last page where she wrote in it. So on that fifth time, I thought I'd finally have decided to give, I finally found this strength to forgive myself for the failings as a mother. I don't remember a whole lot of failings. I remember a lot of volatility in my life. My mom's a very passionate woman, but for my own mother to be able to do that. Then I looked at the picture of what she read, what she sent me, as I read the page where she highlighted above where she started to highlight. And it says in there, if you've gotten this far, you're only 20% done, you got four more reads. I don't know why I wrote that when I wrote it, but now I know it is for my own mother. So interesting. Let me tell you something. There's something special about being able to create something that does something for the most important woman in your life that raised you. Now, aside from my wife, there is nobody more important to me than my mother. And it changed her. And it gave her some strength that she couldn't find somewhere else. And if that's all I got out of this book then it's worth every day and send I put in it. All right, guys, you know what to do once you guys are checking them out across social media platforms, check out the book, check out the websites, check out the art. When you hear episodes like this and not just about yourself, there might be people in your past, present, and future that should be hearing these things, hear from guys like this that have built businesses, gone after their passions, writing books that change their lives and change open up people's eyes to different things and aspects. And too often we just think about ourselves. We have to be able to talk about money. We have to be able to talk about business. We have to talk about these things that go on in our world because it's part of our daily life. Money is not the root of all evil. It helps pay for your family, for your hospital bills, for situations, for groceries, for electricity, and all the things that go on in your world. There's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny subsection where the evil part comes in. The other 99.99% of money is used for good. It's used for a useful tool. And so we have to have these blunt discussions about it. So like, comment, subscribe. 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