"Every day when I walked into school during my practicum, I walked in there and felt amazing.

I got to interact with students, I could have fun with them, I got to teach them about what I'm passionate about like theatre and literature and English.

That just lights me up with passion and energy and that was something I'd never really got from a corporate position of any kind. 

I had moments of it in sales but I didn't in production. It was something that always stressed me out more than anything else.

I find it with school I can handle kids being ornery or whatever and I think that I could actually have a tremendous impact on some of these kids - and I hope to have that!" - Gabe, on his awaiting career path in education. 

Listeners, what passions, talents, or inclinations have you sacrificed to try having the financial impact, you hope to have?

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It's really difficult to coordinate 20 people.

Especially for meeting and specifically, for a sense of team camaraderie - although this can also be achieved by making sure individual crews feel like they're a part of a unit instead of focussing on crew to crew relations. Jocelyn helps out with this on John's team by getting everyone lunch - which takes about a week to get done lol

Another thing that really attracts employees is "Profit Sharing". 

Many people have negative connotations with Peace Rate but no one has this type of connotation to Profit Sharing. Also, Profit Sharing is incredibly simple! 

You can just say "hey, I charge a flat rate to my clients, I have a certain amount of hours budgeted for a job, if you do that in less time, I will share that profit with you, assuming you qualify."

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I played the game so differently for so many years because I had to.

I had very good mentor habits – which have now led me to have very good decision making that aren't necessarily how I can make the most money.

Looking at the re-organization of my sales structure, I looked at how much the sales department was making, and I wasn’t sure it was truly worth it for them to be taking such a large percentage of the profits.

When I hired this one guy that had all this experience, I was truly weary about things that seemed guaranteed about this person.

I also had other influences asking me “at your level, do you really need to be mentoring another person?”

These conversations made me appreciate some things that I wasn’t looking at before for example - work ethic.

If I can’t duplicate myself - I thought I’d be able to teach one of my skills to someone who would take it as an entire role. And I expected them to be better than me because of it and and that’s a bias, that’s just not true.

You need to be able to sit down with an individual and say:

1. these are my expectations
2. this is how you can meet them
3. and this is what it looks like when you’re winning

and then put that on an employment agreement.

from the Wise Words of Tristan

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Hot Takes from John: “When I die I want all my loved ones to go work HARD that day, go MAKE SOME BREAD. The last thing I would want when I die is to have a big funeral where everyone ends up taking a day off for John the Capitalist so they’re gloomy and sad.”

Let’s put this into a better translation: To make it seem that a funeral is about the person who has passed on when you are actually experiencing sadness over your own loss in loving this person, would be selfish.

Now, we could also argue that John is being a little selfish for not letting his loved ones go through whatever process they need to say goodbye and move on from their relationship 😂

Listeners, we would love to hear your opinion on this one!

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I went outside my comfort zone on Friday.

“I went out on Friday and two great things happened, I was getting outside of my comfort zone where I was open to being rejected, and so I was open to approaching girls that I find very attractive. And that’s been so great stepping outside of my comfort zone there I definitely suffered more in my mind than I actually did in reality.

The second thing was that I was waiting in line to get into this place on Friday with my friends – I’ve been going out more on Fridays because I think I need to start becoming more social and actually start going for rejections - it’s my goal now that I need to get rejected by at least two women that I think are extremely attractive in a night.

So in line, I approach this bouncer to ask if we could be let in since we genuinely just wanted to go grab a bite in there - this place had awesome pizza. And while this is happening, this guy behind me just started straight harassing me… and I found that it didn’t affect me at all… I looked at him and saw that we were cut from the same cloth, he has a spirit like my own he’s probably going through some shit. ” - AA

Ladies and gentlemen this is the new found a Amer Abu Shakra that’s been indulging in meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Consider the possibilities for you after picking up this book 😎 possibly an attractive female?? 👀

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'I got a text this week from a foundation called "The Gift of Life Marrow Registry":

“Hi Austin, this is Jacqueline from the gift of life registry. You swabbed your cheek in 2018 and have been identified as a potential match to a patient.”

I filled out this health questionnaire and then they called me immediately and they go "Hey, this is Austin? This is Zach from The Gift of Life Marrow Registry, you are a perfect match for a patient with leukaemia in the US. Okay so, what this is all about is you either donate stem cells or bone marrow depending on what the needs of the patient of which is currently unclear – there’s a huge process to understand that.'

If you were given an opportunity, would you be willing to save a stranger's life?

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Everyday I would wake up...

I would be anxious while waiting for the bus...

When I got to work, I would be anxious thinking to myself "fuck, what am I doing with my life?"...

Then after work, my friends and I would get in one truck, go to a park, get insanely high, and play grounders on a playground. 

My life didn't feel easier back then having less responsibilities than I do now. That to me, was a way harder life than what I'm living now. At the time, the drive that I had to have to just escape that part of my life, is a lot more than the drive I have now to achieve the next level of my business. 

Listeners, what are the parts of your past that you're fighting?

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“I know for a fact that at any given moment I have a year’s worth of expenses fully covered no matter what the fuck happens” - John Morgan III

Other than the government mandating the need for driving insurance which by the way John does not agree with, make no mistake – John is completely unwilling to incurred the costs of possible damages which may occur while driving without insurance.

Here is then a challenge – can the same peace of mind not be accomplished through stoicism and mindset.

Is it fair to say that your peace of mind is dependent on the amount of money you have in your bank account? Cash is a method of weathering storms in today’s society. Listeners, at what point do you feel like you’re sacrificing peace for preparedness?

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How come there’s businesses out there that have shitty employees? Oh… You’re telling me that these businesses haven’t been going through hiring processes that include interviews? Okay! Well no wonder!

And now, we are seeing single mothers and broken families on the rise… oh! And you’re also telling me that none of these people had a sit down dinner with the family before having babies all willy-nilly?!

Father’s Day is indeed an interesting date to have this conversation.

Listeners, how many of you can relate to Amer saying that he only uses social media to post his own content but feels guilty knowing that his friends are going to show him love and he doesn’t do the same back!

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Ladies and gentle lads! This week we get to witness one of the glorious perks of a position on The Weekly Call Podcast team... to be roasted to char whenever you slip... thank GOD it wasn't a GAME... it was JuSt PrAcTicE...... when these burn wound recover, I'll be grateful...

On another note, John's been having some fun doing adventurous personal investigation work to figure out what investors are most optimal for his business. He points out that there's certain tasks where the anticipation of the task sucks A LOT MORE than just doing the task!

• For John, it's doing a sales call… because the first one's pretty good, then we might be able to do some more that could be a lot better! And if the first one kind of sucked… Then we got to get one and that's a good one before we close off the task!
• For Amer, it was getting his butt to the gym!

Amer also shares an interesting story about how in spite of practising basketball very frequently in his childhood and being ambitious to make the NBA, the distribution of time spent on developing certain skills wasn't exactly optimized in hindsight. This is probably a scenario that lots of us run into with just not knowing enough about how to improve certain skills!

Listeners, let us know where you've audited your strategies and discovered something drastically different!

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