The One Truth About Money That No One Teaches You In School

0:00I'm thinking back to a time when I had nothing. I was financially scarce. Emotionally, I acted like I had it all figured out, but emotionally, I was just kind of scared actually deep inside, but I didn't want to let anyone know this about me. And I projected an essence of kind of false confidence in the world. And this was a time when I was just really unsure of myself because I didn't understand money. I didn't understand how to make it. I didn't understand how to manage it. I didn't understand how to multiply it. And it seemed so far out of my reach. It just seemed like everyone who had money and who had built a successful career or business or had figured out how to turn their money into working for them, instead of being in debt and struggling all day living in stress.

0:54It just seemed like these people were so unattainable, because I didn't understand any of it. And it was a very confusing time for me. And in this episode, I sit down with Daniel Priestley to talk about the three mindset shifts that are going to unlock wealth and success for you, something that is more scalable for you. So you don't have to live in stress and confusion, and just be feeling uncertain about the future. And it really does start with the mind, understanding your mindset. And so we go deeper into the life lessons beyond business beyond making money in what it truly means to live a successful fulfilling life.

1:33Because now almost 20 years later, after that time, so much has shifted and changed internally for me, and mentally for me. Back then I was driven to prove myself at all costs, I was driven to be the best in the world or what I could do. I wanted to be number one. I wanted to make sure I destroyed people in the business world. I was just like, so driven by different things that caused a lot of insecurity and a lot of stress inside of me. And it doesn't mean I'm not driven still to succeed and accomplish my goals and my dreams and generate more wealth and all these different things. Yes, I'm still driven.

2:12But there's a lot more peace. And again, it starts with the mindset and how to unlock this mindset to go deeper. We also dive deep into what we hope to pass on to the next generation, not just money, but the values that are important, how to understand self-worth for yourself and the ability to thrive in a world that's changing fast. Talk about in the last 20 years. I remember 20 years ago, being one of the first people to get Facebook when it was called the Facebook just for college kids. I remember being on the waiting list at our college, like it's coming in the next months and us, everyone being excited as college students.

2:56That was 20 years ago. So much is changing with how to navigate, understand social media, AI, the stock market, money management, world economics, all these different things. but what you should never pass up is the ability to go deeper on your values and learning how to master self-worth no matter what's happening on the outside of you it's always good to reflect and transform the inner world so you can navigate the uncertainties of the outer world and make conscious decisions with your money and with your wealth we're going to talk about the different life lessons that Daniel Priestly wants his kids to master that have nothing to do with money as well and so much more that I share from my personal life and Daniel's.

3:45I'm very excited for this episode. I hope you enjoy it. So let's go ahead and dive in. What are the three things you want your kids to know that has nothing to do with money? Definitely health, right? The physical body. I overlooked the value of health for a long time. Really? Yeah, I envy the fact that you got so into sport. And like I was just into business that whole time. and you know when you're young you just kind of think oh yeah I'll be fit forever and all that sort of stuff so like understanding the human body understanding health understanding a bit of psychology so I definitely think it helped the the value of relationships and how to build relationships how to invest in relationships how to preserve them protect them how to mend them when they break so like all of those relationship skills you know what you know what I want to do I just want them to watch the 1 ,700 episodes of School of Greatness.

4:44I mean, actually, if you thought about it, if you just got rid of school and replaced it with the School of Greatness, that wouldn't actually be a bad... Well, that's why I started it, because I grew up very dyslexic. I was always in the bottom of my class. I always felt insecure, dumb, not enough. And going to school was like the hardest thing to do. Every day was just like, I don't want to be here. because no matter how much I study or how hard I try, I'm failing. Yeah. Homework, quizzes, tests, finals. It was just like every day felt like failure, but it wasn't an enjoyable failure where I'm learning and developing.

5:20It's a fish trying to walk down the street. Exactly. When I go into sports after class, it was like, okay, I'm failing every day, but I'm seeing the improvement. Like I'm learning and I'm getting better and I can see the growth. I wasn't getting better in school. Yeah. So it was just like, how do I get out of here? How do I wait till the clock hits 2.30 or whatever in the afternoon so I can be done? Because it's just making me feel less than. It's a confirmation that no matter how hard I try, everyone in this classroom is smarter than me, better than me, more talented than me, more resourceful than me.

5:55And it's just like, this is sucking the life out of me. Sadly, millions of kids are experiencing that right now. because the contrast is becoming so much wider. The contrast of what's out there and what's available versus what they experience at school. I mean, my kids aren't homeschooled. They're in normal schools, and they come home and they go, like, you know, they struggle with it. And I struggle with it as a parent. Why have kids in school and not homeschool them? It's a real trick, isn't it? Because, you know... Especially if you have the financial means and you have resources. there's some look there's something about the experience that they're not hating it to the degree that i've pulled them out but there's something about the experience of being around a big group of their peers um and that school that shared school environment but can't you get that from somewhere else from it's from classes and sports teams and music classes and tutoring and yeah developing public speaking or whatever it is like i'm you know the truth is i'm wrestling with that i'm to i'm toying with that idea um i was saying it's a right by the way i went i went through a pretty rough schooling system like i i did not go to great schools um and like you know 40 children per teacher no there was no teaching assistant or any of that sort of stuff and we kind of you know ran uh feral across our teachers and all that sort of stuff um and and yet there was so much like they're not playing any teachers because no no what they can do and i wouldn't be able to manage 40 kids they're within a they're within a system that that doesn't a lot of teachers really resonate with these messages um yeah like me personally i just i did get a lot of value from just like the friendships i made this like the sports does have like a lot of sports do happen around the school but you can still go on sports team even if you're not in that school fortunately my kids their school is not it's not horrific it's pretty good like it's it's it's um it's not the ideal system that i would design from scratch today but i'm lucky enough that our kids go to pretty good schools based on the traditional system and also we do invest a lot like our kids go to coding camp they go to jujitsu like all of those kind of things they're getting all of that and when my kids come home and they say i didn't do so well on this test i go it's totally fine it's just a test like it doesn't mean anything and they go oh okay i say it's just one way of just like checking in to see whether you got got it or not it's not going to dictate anything about your future um you know so we have a good dialogue going yeah but i am i am still wrestling with it if my wife watches this podcast maybe we'll we'll it'll spark the call well i mean isn't ai AI, get to teach kids better than teachers?

8:48AI, our kids are taught by AI, so they have access to an AI tutor, and it's phenomenal, and it's wild. And it goes at the same speed that they want to go at, and it speeds up when they want to speed up, and it slows down when they want to slow down, and it can switch analogies, or it can switch examples. It's pretty wild, and it talks to them. I mean, the reason why I started the School of Greatness was because I feel like there were so many things that I didn't learn in school growing up that I learned later in life that were the real skills, the real tools, the real lessons I needed to learn.

9:22Now I'm still learning and developing. And you said two of them, learning about health and learning about navigating relationships. Yeah. Sure. Then maybe they teach some health in school or there's 15 minutes of recess. And sure, you're intertwining with other human beings, adults, figures, authority figures, and peers but it's not teaching you how to manage relationships yeah manage relation or deal with heartbreak or deal with bullying or deal with your feelings your emotions or how to give a speech in front of your peers like it doesn't teach these skills that I had to start learning in my mid to late 20s because I didn't learn any of them in school now it doesn't mean I didn't learn some things in school and the interactions throughout the day and I wonder with socializing sure but you can't can't you get that yeah in other areas of life wonder if anyone who's homeschooling their kids gets their kids watching school of greatness oh i'm sure there are i'd be curious to know if anyone has watched every single episode there are people people people tell me they have that would that people have told me they have and it's a lot of content we should we should have a mastermind just for those people i would do it the people who have i would do who have sat through that someone is i mean the challenge is how do you know if everyone has but But people will post like every episode on social media.

10:38And the people that have found the podcast will go back to episode one and get called all the way up to where I'm at now. And it's every week for 12 years. Three episodes a week for the last 10 years. That's wild. So it's putting out information from some of the... What's that done to your head? What's it like to... It's true for my life. Because if you were an AI... I literally... Have you seen Don Quixote? Yeah. Have you seen the movie Don Quixote? ages ago it's like this you know guy who gets sent to a prison for not doing a crime like he didn't commit a crime oh yeah sent to prison and he's pretty much he can't read he can't write he doesn't understand the world he doesn't know math but he's like a really good kind soul naive yeah and um he's in prison for a crime he doesn't commit because he was naive because he didn't have the skills that are resourceful enough to kind of stand up for himself or people are taking advantage of him and he just kind of gets sent in this prison for life and one day i don't know seven years in when he's about to take his own life he hears a voice and it's like another prisoner who's there for life trying to dig a tunnel to escape and it's this old wise mentor who essentially says you help me dig a tunnel to our freedom and i'll teach you about life i get chills thinking about it's a beautiful movie but i mean it's a book originally but the movie is powerful and he studies with the mentor for like a decade while he's in the dirt trapped in prison setting himself physically free he becomes spiritually mentally and emotionally free and physically free yeah he learns like swordsmanship he learns mathematics he speaks seven languages like he this is you this is you you feel like I'm telling out I feel like you know i'm not as gifted as he became but i feel like it has given me a wealth of information that is unlimited that has created a such a sense of inner freedom yeah and inner power of resourcefulness that i wouldn't have had without going through this journey imagine sitting across someone like yourself 20 years ago 10 years ago when you didn't know what you were doing you know and sitting across Kobe Bryant and billionaires and therapists and health experts.

12:59I'm learning from all of them. I'm curious for you. If you're at a dinner party and you're talking to people, you must have to bite your tongue a little bit because you've sat down with some of the world's top experts on every topic. It must be a very strange feeling to have a little bit about so much. I mean, it's a superpower. It is a superpower. But it's also, you know, I'm still the student. The reason I'm doing it 12 years in is because I have so much more to learn. I don't feel like I've mastered something. I've maybe been able to get beyond certain limitations. You've become a high agency generalist.

13:37Exactly. And now it's like I need to keep evolving and keep learning new skills. Of the 1700s, because thinking about my kids, if there were three brackets that you said teach the kids about these three topics, is health relationships and it's and really money mind health relationships and the ability to manage money it's like money mindset and it's more because money is such a i would say more it's health relationships and mind mindset which is evolved around purpose you know having a fulfilling life yep overcoming adversities dealing with challenges but money is such an important thing in the world because of how people live that my money interviews and episodes do so well.

14:23It's also a good way to test mindset because it's in the presence of money that our mindsets get revealed. When I had this mentor, John, one of the things he did to me that was really strange was he asked me the question, how much do you think is a lot of money? What did you say? I said a grand, a grand a week. So he said, how much is a lot of money to earn? You've got to remember this was 2000. And I said a grand a week. I said, I remember the exact words. I said, there's not much you can't do on a grand a week. Right? So that was my thing. And he says to me, Dan, you're going to be on my sales team.

14:58You need to be making a hundred grand a year or I'm going to fire you. So yeah, what is that? Two grand a week, right? It's like, yeah. So I had this kind of like weird look on my face. And he said, you've got a problem with money. He goes, you're not going to make 100 grand a year. You're not going to succeed because you think 100 grand is so far out of your reach. You know, you think 50 grand is out of your reach. So 100 grand is like, you haven't even considered that. So your mindset needs a shift around it. Yeah, he's like, why don't you think you can do it? I'm like, well, I'm only 19. He's like, we've got to shift that.

15:29So one thing he got me to do is I had to carry$2 ,000 in my pocket at all time. That's cool. He said, you need to believe that two grand is just pocket money. so i good that's a good like social experiment yeah so i had to carry this wad of cash in my pocket now all my emotions came up so carrying this two grand if i lose it or whatever yeah what if i lose it if someone steals it what if someone steals it what he asked me to do was to write down in my journal what are all the emotions that come up around the money carrying the money so by carrying the money the emotions come up so i had stuff like what if someone sees it and judges me that's my money he said the australian in you yeah he said yeah being judged for it yeah in america it's like cool australia it's like what's what are you doing come back down to earth why have you got that um i had what if someone steals it so he he said to me you have a belief that if you had money someone would attack you for it you'd of course physical danger to you um i said um what if a girl sees it and then she thinks that i'm just like she wants to date me and like has all these expectations of money right so then he's like you you feel that money would get in the way of having an authentic relationship right so he listed i listed out all the things that came up as my fears and then he translated that to these are your core beliefs around money that have to change and it was like it was very transformational and see if you didn't learn that you maybe would have made a bunch of money and one day but probably sabotaged it totally That's the whole reason I wrote Make Money Easy.

17:03Totally would. It's not about like investing or entrepreneurship. It's about the mindset and the beliefs we have around money. So I feel like it's so important to actually physically confront these things, like to come up against it. Like carrying money for me did it. Wow. You know. So everyone needs to go carry a million dollars right now with them at all times. If that's pocket money. They start to feel like, yeah, this is nothing, you know. Walk around with a briefcase. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. um so yeah it's that feeling of of readjusting your thermostat around money was was really powerful so like psychology and money are so intertwined they're so linked um like when you receive an amount of money that you feel is too much you have guilt and shame come up and you go oh am i deserving of this do i need to give it away do i need to split it with people like what do i need to do because like suddenly this money has hit my account you know like Like, and if you earn over 55 ,000 US dollars per year, you're in the top 1 % of the planet.

18:05Wow. Right? So it's like, oh, you know, maybe it's evil that I've got this, or maybe it's unfair. And then if you get millions, oh, okay. That's, you know, that's pretty weird. How does someone shift their mindset in believing they are deserving of creating financial abundance? I think the thing that shifted it for me was I was asked once by a mentor. He said, can I do the activity on you? Let's do it. And see how you go. Yeah. Bring it. All right, I'll bring it. So next year, 2026, you're going to earn an amount of money that satisfies all your needs. And I don't want you to be greedy. I want you to tell me what number comes up.

18:54so an amount of money don't be greedy don't be greedy i want you to a number and i look like i'm in school and this is a test i always fail tests so see okay so a number is going to come to me yeah and i i want you to pick a number that satisfies all your needs and i don't want you to be greedy just pick the number that comes to mind a little bounced around but is it to me personally or my business it's for you personally for me personally um Um, the first number I don't know why came to my mind was$20 million. $20 million. Okay. But I'm also trying to beat the game of this test. Okay. Okay. So I'm like, okay, you know, what is not - So$20 million came to mind and then what happened?

19:37And then you saw - And I was like, is that greedy? Is that not greedy? But I'm thinking of how can I serve people with this money? Interesting. I'm thinking of$20 million wouldn't be greedy because I'm just thinking about how I can make a bigger difference with this money. How can I serve people? You know the game, right? you've clearly you know how well how can i you know how can i generate more so i can hire more people to create livelihood within people how can i that's it you know give to my team more money because now i have more money to give them how can i so what happens is i asked this of some people but then i was like well originally i was thinking 100 million but i was like okay for me personally you know it's like i'm gonna be giving a lot of money so i said this to a young guy a couple of days ago yes and his number that he said was 250 grand yeah and I said that number is really greedy and he said why do you say that and I said because that number only satisfies your needs you're one person you're one person I said I said let me ask you a question I said if you had three kids would your number be bigger or smaller and he said it would be bigger I said okay so that means because you're thinking about somebody else I said what happens if you had sick parents would your number be bigger or smaller he goes bigger I said okay so the more people you start to think about the bigger the number i said so is it greedy to want more or less less yeah less is greedy so it's like oh you got to flip your script here the people who were very very powerful a long time ago they wanted to completely install an idea into people's heads that it's greedy to want to have more isn't that interesting uh-huh they because they said uh we're going to have all this, you're going to have a little bit, and you're going to be greedy if you want what we've got.

21:15Easy.

21:20But it's been conditioned in so many of us, right? Like, just be happy with what you have. Exactly. Now, but there's also a flip coin, the flip side of the coin, which is like just the, you know, the fisherman story. You know, it's just like, why go get more boats and have more teams? and book more fish to make more money when at the end of the day, you just want to be on your island and fish every day and be with your wife and your kids and relax. This is a problem of alignment. So we have to choose seasons. Seasons of life. And we have to choose what is it that we want to be in alignment to.

21:57So we have to be in alignment with certain outcomes, certain goals. There is an algorithm that's kind of built into us that is make the most of what we've got while taking care of self and others. So imagine this kind of like line, and it's like if you've got this power to make hundreds of millions, and for you that's fun, and you're in alignment to making 100 million, which some people are, then you have an obligation to explore that as your life path while looking after self and others. so it's like I so it's like I need to make the most now the truth about the fisherman story is that the fisherman never had alignment to floating companies on the stock market they have the desire that wasn't his life's path no so he wasn't waking up every day going this is something I'm capable of this is something I should be doing this would be my way of maximizing myself and others he was sitting there saying hey based on my life's path being a fishermen and providing for my village by going out and fishing and taking other people on that journey and having that experience.

23:05That's my life path. Whereas the person who perhaps went to Harvard and did a finance degree and has found themselves commanding a knowledge of how to do these kind of amazing transactions and deals, it's probably, especially if it brings them alive, if they there's this word called vitality vitality has two meanings which is life force energy and irreplaceable there are certain moments where you have irreplaceable life force energy and what that feels like is no one could be here other than this is me this is what i'm meant to be here in this situation i'm irreplaceable um and life force energy is i'm bringing this to life if i leave this dies right right so the fisherman's the vitality is to be on that boat bringing in those fish if i leave this dies this is what where i'm meant to be this is my this is where i'm irreplaceable yes the bankers in the story his vitality is floating companies if i leave this doesn't float you know and trying to take someone else out of their life force energy to to replicate your life force energy is not where it's at.

24:16Unless that person is meant to do something greater than where he's at or it's like... When you're out of alignment, when you're out of alignment, then you know you're out of alignment and you go, hey, wait a second, what am I trying to do here? Like I'm not in alignment with my, you know, there's a life story that's unfolding. There's my origin story, my mission and my vision. My origin story is everything that led up to this point. My vision is where I want to, what I want to do with my life. My mission is the highest value work that I could be doing at any given time. And when we're in alignment, it feels like this straight line between past, present, and future flowing through us.

24:51And it gives us this vitality. So this is what I'm talking about. And it's a magical ingredient. And when that is in alignment, everything flows. The right people show up, the right conversations flow, the people who weren't meant to be there leave, the money attracts, it just starts piecing together. So there are definitely times where you sit there and go what am i doing here like this is if i leave this doesn't die if i leave they they get on with it i'm not in my vitality here this is not my past present and future expressing itself um i need to go find something else that's fine that's that's because you recognize you're out of alignment but sometimes you recognize you're in alignment and it's it's the the thing about vitality is you can't get someone else to do it because it's you it's your thing that's where you're meant to be where do you feel like you're out of alignment in your life right now where am i out of alignment um my biggest area of out of alignment is my health my fitness i um see i've got my little bit of a uh over 40 chin going on over here and so over 40 is a mindset yeah over 40 is a mindset i um yeah i i mean my my thing is i've never been great at at fitness and i'm resourcing the situation getting all of that but yeah there's an out of alignment.

26:12I feel like I could do more for the world if fitness was a bigger priority. And if my outcomes matched my values around fitness, because my values have now shifted. That's definitely happened. I had a health scare and it really shifted my values. When was the health scare? It was Christmas time. This Christmas just gone. Yeah. I did a blood test and the doctor rang me the night before Christmas and said, your pancreas is producing an enzyme that is in a very high level and it's something that's associated with not good things. And he said, I'm calling you before Christmas because I don't want you to drink alcohol and I don't want you to have a big Christmas dinner.

26:50I want you to just eat modestly and don't drink alcohol. I mean, it's that high of importance, it sounds like, where you couldn't have one more weekend. Yeah, well, he said Christmas is a time where you could easily indulge and you could really do some real serious damage to your pancreas. Wow. Yeah, so that was a... He gave a wake-up call. Charles Dickens, the ghost of Christmas Eve. That was my ghost of Christmas Eve moment. Literally. Yeah, literally. So I spent the week between Christmas and New Year talking to ChatGBT endlessly about pancreases. Wow. And how old are you, 45 then? I'm 44. 44?

27:2343 at the time, yeah. Wow. When's your birthday, March? January. January, yeah. 44. Okay, so 43 you get the wake up call Christmas Eve. Yeah. Hey, don't have alcohol tonight. Yeah. Don't have a big dinner. the deserts tonight yeah but a doctor if it was a mild case they wouldn't call you yeah no he said no you're you're sky high on your pancreas levels so i like and also one of my heroes is steve jobs who died of pancreatic cancer yeah so i was he was only 56 you know and like horrific so and he went through like cancer treatment probably 10 years before yeah five years before it was like yeah so this is the time yeah where i'm sitting there was for him essentially like if he didn't catch it sooner yeah so so wow yeah so for me that was like the wake-up call i needed shift of values shift of behaviors so now i'm a few months into really that journey but what was your values before that phone call uh probably taking health and fitness for granted um uh it's always come like i've always been healthy enough i've i've always i'll tell you the negative beliefs that people who put so much energy into their health and fitness are self-indulgent they're greedy they're greedy selfish they're making it about them yeah they're vain um and that i'm better because i pour myself into projects that add value to teams and people this is so interesting because you know when my wife when we started dating like almost three months in we still weren't officially committed but we were like spending all this time together right so it's kind of limbo but we really like each other she asked me the uh what are your priorities in life question which i think every guy probably gets from a woman at some point when they're dating like what is it you really want what are your priorities job interview questions exactly it's like hey all right i thought we were having fun here i'm being weighed up right now yeah i was like and i and i remember i go what do you mean she's like what are your priorities in life and what what is a priority to you and I told her in that moment I was like do you want me to be honest with you or do you want me to kind of like give you the vanilla version give me what you want to hear yeah because up until that point I was a hundred percent honest about everything past yeah stuff I was ashamed of stuff I wasn't proud of like everything and so I was like all right do I start lying now or you know with like little white lies or do I give it tour and I said listen I'm gonna tell you the truth but this may be our last conversation mm-hmm you know we're probably gonna stop dating after this point because no one's been able to handle the truth about what my priorities are well up until this point it's always been like an issue or the you framed that up pal framed it and so she was like oh well you're gonna say something crazy right yeah and she goes what are your priorities I go well you know it's been good knowing you and this is a fun three months but again you're not going to want to be with me after this.

30:21And I'm okay with, I'm sad because I'm really enjoying this, but it's what's going to happen. And she goes, okay, what's your priority? I go, you will never be my number one priority. And no woman wants to hear that. No woman entering a relationship with a man wants to hear that they are not number one. And I said, there's a reason behind this. Number one needs to be my health. It needs to be my health. It doesn't mean I need to spend eight hours a day on my health. It just needs to be a focal point of taking care of my energy and my health includes spiritual health my relationship with God emotional health and physical well-being it's the whole health why is health need to be number one because I need a strong foundation for my second priority which won't be you either and no woman wants to not be number one or number two in a relationship I said my second priority will be my my service to the world.

31:13Yep. My purpose, which is the ability to serve people at a high level. And I don't know if this is going to be my purpose for the next five years or 50 years. It's seasonal. It may be over at some point, but if I feel like I'm meant to do something, if I have a calling to serve people greater and I'm being held back by it, by one person because they feel insecure, I'm going to resent it. And I'm going to feel like I'm doing a disservice to God. And so I want to make sure that I'm living in alignment with my calling in on that path And so how'd you react and and I said my third priority will be our relationship Yeah, if we're in this our marriage or family like it's not going to be not a priority And I said if you can receive that And you can understand that my health mental physical spiritual is number one my purpose number two You will feel like number one mm-hmm because I will give it be present with you I'll have all my efforts and energy and you'll be and you'll be with the real me You'll be with the most authentic.

32:17Yeah happiest me. Yeah, and an unhealthy me is not happy in a relationship. Yeah a person who's not Me whose knows I'm supposed to be living a purpose, but I'm doing something else out of fear I'm not gonna be happy in the relationship. Yeah I'm gonna resent so you're gonna be the guy that she fell in love with anyway exactly and in the the trick would be is if you rearrange those two priorities then she'd fall in love with one guy and then end up with you know the sale rack exactly exactly like a discounted version yeah so that's what I mean not stepping into the highest version of me and and she goes I'm so happy to hear this because I've never dated a man that had a purpose or that had the guts to say what it was and they always wanted to make me their priority yeah and I was like that's great but what's the thing you want to do in life like what are you meant to do yeah and even if you're not doing it at the highest level at least if you're like trying to do it yeah you know failing at something you're supposed to do is better than yeah nothing and so she was like you're the perfect guy for me i had a similar conversation with my wife really yeah we had a very similar conversation didn't have the health one in there but but i i said my number one priority is is my uh contribution to the world like it's my purpose um and sometimes that's gonna to take me on uh you know take me on uh journey traveling you're gonna be this yeah i'm just gonna have to be knuckled down and um yeah but i but i also said that's you know that's big if you like who i am that's who i am yes you know now here's the thing daniel you know you've got an interesting name we talked about this before daniel priestly um bless you my son you know what do you feel like the meaning of your name is for your life what is the meaning of it meant for you throughout your life you got me thinking about this uh so i'm daniel stephen priestly daniel is um you know biblical character uh courageous and a good judge he's he's the he's a the divine judge is the name is the meaning of the name from the bible um and um and he's in alignment right that's why the lions don't touch him uh because he's not fearful yeah he's he's he's there to be who he wants to be um so nice uh that character um my mum named me that because of elton john's song daniel's traveling tonight on a plane i do a lot of traveling tonight on a plane um so there's that's a little bit baked into the into that um uh steven was my uncle who died shortly before i was born he had a car crash and uh so i carry that legacy with me that uh this guy whose life was cut short at 24 um he's he's part of me uh had he not died i wouldn't be here wow which is kind of weird um because he was he was the catalyst for my mom and dad getting their relationship together um so someone had to sacrifice like yeah that's just how it worked that's your parents to meet that's just how it worked here um so uh so so there's there's that And then priestly, obviously there's a couple of different meanings to that.

35:16It's obviously my paternal line. And I'm from some soldiers who fought in wars. Some people had very good spiritual faith and entrepreneurs. Strangely, I'm from a long line of people from London. The weirdest thing happened that when I arrived in London, having never been above the equator in my life, having no idea of london i arrived and i set up an office two blocks from where my grandfather was born and two blocks from where my great-grandparents were buried in a cemetery you didn't know i had no idea and where i live today is like a short distance from where multiple generations of my family uh were born and and raised so it's yeah it's strange all those priestly uh connections But yeah, the funny thing about Priestly is a lot of people say that I preach a little bit too preachy.

36:14So perhaps that's built in there as well.

36:22Well, you're 44, right? Yep. Which four, for me, the number of, it's a foundational number. It's also a number of love. But really, you know, you're an eight and you're an infinity right now. Which is, you're 44 is, four plus four is eight. And so you're in a cycle with your number. And I believe that numbers and names have meanings. And you've got a phone call Christmas Eve. Like all these signs and synchronicities are lining up for you to be in alignment with your health. And I get kind of chills just thinking about it. You know, you have a daughter. You have two sons. again you know my thought is what is 55 year old daniel look like based on the decision you make today and over the past few months that you've been deciding yeah like what would 55 year old daniel the 55 year old daniel is going to be in the in the best shape of his life and he's grateful to 44 year old daniel for doing fasts um because i really like getting value from fasting which is really good for the pancreas and all that sort of stuff.

37:26Um, and four personal training sessions a week, uh, all processed foods out the door, alcohol and coffee gone. Um, you know, so those are, those are some of the big, big shifts. What are the, what would a 55 year old Daniel preach to you about today and say, all that is nice, but what's really at the core that you need to be doing thinking and behaving differently so that you take us to the promised land literally that we're still here not just uh surviving but i'm actually living in full alignment with our health so that our kids can look at us in 10 years from now 11 years from now and say dang dad really did this like dad actually stepped up and owned the courageous parts of himself that were really hard to do yeah what is your future self truly preaching to you to do and stop hiding behind the big one is um is around trying to take a more active role in the schooling system because i know it's broken and i know what's coming because of the technology um so you know not just in the lives of my own kids because they're they're gonna grow up in a pretty reasonable family, but figuring out how do we do this more widespread?

38:47How do we create a system that is going to work for a lot of people? So many people at the moment are in pain, lots of pain. They're playing by the rules and it's not working for them. You know, the society is splitting. We've had almost 100 years of a middle class after the war, 80 years of the middle class after World War too. And we took it for granted. And now the middle class is in decline and we're getting rising rates at the bottom and rising rates at the top. People are moving from the middle either up. Do you know there's more wealthy people than ever before? Wealth is definitely taking off.

39:25If you happen to be on this side, boom, it's happening here. But we're also getting rates of people who can't keep up with inflation, can't keep up with the cost of living, blame themselves. so like for me personally hugely aligned to my mission is being on these kind of big platforms to just talk about what's happening you know and talk about what is the what because we have this technological edge singularity where we've either created artificial general intelligence or it's about to come we've hit the singularity life is not going to be the same again so So everything's up for grabs and people like yourself, like myself, need to shape the world in a positive direction or else it'll just fall into chaos.

40:11If you had to sell every business in the next 30 days and you got 10 times more than the number that you wanted for every business and you have hundreds of millions in the bank. and you are only allowed to focus on one thing for the next decade, one thing only, put all of your time and attention into solving a problem, serving something, optimizing, transforming something, what would that opportunity be? Yeah, so I run this entrepreneur accelerator called Dent. And if I had to sell it, I'd just start a new one, right? But Dent is developing entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up, and make a positive impact in the world.