Break Free from the 9-5 and Build Magnetic Wealth | Codie Sanchez EP 812

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.

0:12I started to determine there's three things we need to make a lot of money, and I wish somebody had told me earlier, so I'm going to share my lessons with you. The first one is mindset. Kind of straightforward, you think? Except most people don't have it. The second is zero to one. How do you actually break through whatever your wealth level is? The last one's really important, which is contagion. How do you become so good that your money becomes magnetic and it keeps going back and bringing friends with you? This one's really important today because I think actually we live in a time of massive abundance.

0:43Think about it. It's never been easier to build a business than it is today. In fact, more businesses have been built since 2020 to today than ever in history before. Think about that for a second. We have massive abundance. It's just that we've kind of become a cog in a machine instead of even the machine or learning how to own the machine. And that's where I want to get to. There is one word that is more near and dear to my heart than anything else, and that is this word owner. So I heard something the other day that stuck with me. Somebody said to me, when you hear the truth, you don't just hear it, you feel it.

1:20It's like a tuning fork. You guys ever felt that? Inside of you, right? And so when you hear something that you think sounds like truth today, I want you to yell it for me. We'll get a little gospel up in Los Angeles. What do you think about it? So when you hear something that you think sounds like a little bit of truth, I want you to go, truth? Cool. Because we are in a world where people have forgotten the word. It is a five-letter word that has become a four-letter word. And I want to bring it back and own it for us. All right. So let's talk about that. We're first going to start with mindset.

1:53So I don't know about you guys, but for a long time, I worked for other people. and they determined my worth based on hours sat at a desk. You guys ever sat in a job that you hated so much that you wished your life would end like a minute or two earlier? So it was five? Just me? Okay. And they're like, truth? Yes, right now. I, in my first job, made$37 ,000 a year. I know. And at that time, I actually thought I was super, super, super rich. And I was compared to what I was earning previously. But one day, I was at a financial firm and everybody else was from fancy schools like USC down the way and Stanford.

2:31And I went to the Harvard of the West, which is Arizona State. Anybody else throw that to school with me? All right. You're not supposed to laugh at that. Yeah, but it's not known for its academics. And so I was struggling. I was like one of those ducks where I seemed calm on surface and under the waters paddling like. And I remember I came up with this idea for a business, for our company, and was like, All right. I was at a big company called Vanguard. And I came up with an idea. And I was like, God, I think the company should do this in Latin America because they weren't yet. I brought it to my boss.

3:03The boss came back to me and said, this is a good idea. I think we're going to move forward with this at the company. I thought, amazing. And I said, well, if you like the idea, you know, can I be a part of the implementation? He said, of course. So he comes back a week later, talked to the bosses on high. And he sits me down. And I'm excited. I'm like 21 at the time. and sits me down and says, instead of Cody, you got the job. He says, Cody, what do your colleagues, what do you think your colleagues think of you? And I was like, I'm not sure why this is relevant, Ron, but I don't really know.

3:36And he said, they think you would leave dead bodies behind you to get ahead. I was like, well, that's not great. Like physically, because I'm kind of tiny mentally. And what he said was, well, we expect you to show up at the parties to when people come to your desk, hang out, go out to lunch with the group. But if you guys ever been struggling quietly or like the idea of doing anything besides working, you couldn't even fathom because you could barely do the thing you're supposed to have already known how to do. That was me. Truth. And I was there in that moment. And that's when I realized when I told him that, He said, well, because of that, we are going to implement your idea.

4:18But this woman, April, gets it. I was like, the f*** does that work? But at that moment, he did me a huge benefit. Because what he taught me in the moment that was super painful, let me leave a company that would have stopped me. And I did something that a lot of people don't talk about today, but which I think is true. Do you guys see how many years I was at most of these big institutions? Right, about two years, right? That's what they say about us youngsters. We don't stay. We don't work hard. We don't whatever. I left the moment I knew they weren't going to let me promote any faster. The moment they said, our speed, not yours.

4:55I said, no, no, no. I'm the architect of my fate. You're not. Truth. And people will not tell you this. They will say that you're ungrateful, that you should stay, that you're selfish. And you have to say lovingly, bye. Bye. And that's my first truth.

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