➡ The speaker is expressing confusion about how single people can be broke, citing his own personal methods of managing finances, working hard, and taking multiple jobs for extra income streams. The speaker emphasizes the importance of good work ethic, responsibility, consistent effort, and efficient use of time as crucial factors for financial independence. He critically views excuses made due to societal or historical injustices as invalid reasons for personal financial deficiencies.
➡ The speaker emphatically advocates prioritizing quality time for self-improvement and leveraging opportunities to advance one’s career. He emphasizes continuous effort, resilience, consistency, and the necessity of taking proactive measures in one’s life to be successful rather than solely relying on luck or expecting handouts. The speaker also critiques those who misuse their time and resources without meaningful progress and expresses admiration towards successful entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Charlie Munger, and Warren Buffet, who continuously strive despite their wealth.
➡ The speaker emphasizes the importance of self-dependency and hard work over relying on others. They encourage people to invest in hobbies that could be turned into lucrative businesses, foster a mindset that prioritizes productivity, and learn to live below their means to invest in future wealth. They highlight the importance of working ethic with examples from the entertainment industry.
➡ Inspire yourself to rise to greatness by capitalizing on visibility and working diligently. Avoid the trap of being defined by your past or recreational choices, instead focus on productivity and hustle.

One thing that I’m trying to figure out, and I can’t figure it out for the life of me, is how are single people broke? Think about that for a moment. How are single people broke? I cannot figure it out for the life of me. Tia, I appreciate you. I’m definitely gonna be reading that super chat shortly. And I know it’s a rhetorical question, but I genuinely am curious and so I like to interact with the chat.

I will be looking at the chat and reading your messages as we continue to go through this show. But I’m curious. I don’t understand how single people are broke. I’m so confused, especially my guys. And I got to get on my guys right now because I am a man. And so as a result, I know what it takes in order to be successful. And I know what you guys schedules are looking like because I coach all on a regular basis and I have conversations with y’all all the time.

Jameson said, housing costs. Daniel says, bad money management, mismanagement, high inflation, high rent priorities is not straight because being a couple is a amplifier. I always wonder about that circumstance. Ego and mismanagement, lack of knowledge. Shout out to my guy Maximus. I’m going to be reading that super chat shortly. No budget equals being broke. Great question. How single people broke, simping out, living a life, folks going to debt, trying to impress people that they don’t care about them.

Okay, I’m hearing you all. Let me read a couple more because I want to understand, and I like to interact with the chat before I give my thoughts. And I like to be educated, not stable, job hopping, no budget drugs, single women looking for a sugar daddy. I could never understand how a person with no spouse of kids could be broke. I never understood it. Me either. Shout out to my dog, dad, Jay, I’m going to read that super chat shortly.

Lifestyle choices, irresponsible. No excuses blowing money. Tricking delusion work ethic, seeking comfort with the responsibility to need to be better, trying to embrace lack of discipline. Okay, so let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about it, right? Because I have bad habits. I mean, if you want to use that as an excuse, let’s break it down line by line based off of the things that I remember that you all communicated to me inside of the chat, right? I have bad habits.

If you want to talk about it from a financial perspective, even when I was 1819 years old, I would spend a lot of money on cars and trips and blowing it. And so I invested like 25% of everything that came in meaning whether it was my 401 or brokerage account or whatever, and those are the things that I didn’t touch. But I was still largely irresponsible as a young man in that I was out here spending money, buying and doing anything that I wanted to do, to the point that when the 2008 recession hit, the one thing that I did right, actually two things that I did right, I went back into the basement of my parents home, and I refused to tap into my reserve, or what it is that I had put up all that time in order to maintain my lifestyle, and I was willing to lose everything and just start from scratch and act like it didn’t exist.

But the thing that I’ve always had, regardless of my life circumstances or choices, was work ethic. And so as I called for a black car and I sent Rita to the airport, she just texted me and said, hey, I’m getting on my plane or whatever, so on and so forth. And she’s going to visit family down in Florida, and she’ll be down there. Know, my brother moved down there and stuff like that, too.

And so it’s going to be a fun time for her. She needs some time to get away. Me and my daughter is here back at the crib, and so we’re going to be chilling, having a good time. We might even go to the game tonight. I might not because I’m very disgusted with the pistons right now. So I’m probably going to sell my tickets or give them away to somebody that work for me or anything like that.

But as soon as she hit the plane or as soon as she hit the. I walked her down into the uber and then I sent her over to the airport. As soon as she hit it, the only thing that I can think of was dog. I could work an unlimited amount of hours right now, meaning that I ain’t got to worry about what time I’m getting to the crib.

Well, yeah, I got to take care of my daughter. I got to make sure that she gets to and from school. But she’s pretty much self reliant in that she going to be a taekwondo and she’s going to be doing whatever it is that she do and doing her homework, and she’s self sufficient as a 1516 year old right now. She doesn’t need me to feed her and do the bottles and all of that stuff.

She’s not a little child. But even with me and my daughter, the only thing that I can think of is, man, I got at least 16 hours throughout the day to be able to do whatever I want, and the only thing that I want to do is go and get it. I mean, I work at least twelve to 14 hours a day, every single day alone, seven days a week.

You guys know that. I do not miss even to the point to where I remember a couple of years ago there was, and I’m not going to say no names because I’m off to any of that beef type stuff. It was some youtubers that basically said, man, Anton can’t sustain this. Anton is going to stop or whatever. And it was some financial youtubers that said that I was going to get burnt out.

But they didn’t even realize and people had, just because they started first recognizing me and I started becoming a little bit more popular as a content creator, people didn’t realize that. I’ve been being consistent with what I do as a content creator, just from a visibility perspective and the type of content that I put out for at least the last eight to nine years. I’m technically an OG when it comes to content creation.

And so a lot of people will say, well, Anton is new to this particular space, but I’m not new to work ethic. I’m not new to content creation. I’m not new to the hustle and the grind. I got my computer right here. As far as corporate America, why would Anton get another job? Why would Anton take another corporate position and know if he got money or now to be a content creator or he showed these receipts or whatever? Because it’s another stream of income and what else do I have to do other than go and get it and then have a whole lot of fun doing it.

I don’t understand it. It confuses me. It confuses me how your personal time then becomes something that’s less productive for your personal life. I’m so confused at that. There should be no man. And again, I’m an equal accountability smoke giver. So this is what I do and it just is what it is. There should be no able bodied man that is walking around in the United States of America telling me that they’re broke or that they’re confused as to how it is that they are in the situation that they’re in, or blaming it on the system, or blaming it on white man, or blaming it on this person and blaming it on all of that.

Because I’ve literally done it, lived it, came from it, went back into it, pulled myself back out of it while I had a wife and a child at the same time in the top of the recession. You ain’t never even seen none of that. You blaming it on slavery. You don’t even know what slavery is. You don’t even know where it came from. You don’t know the history of it.

You don’t even know anybody in your family that’s ever been discriminated against. But you’re using it as an excuse as to why you can’t get to where you need to be, even if it’s something that affected you or somebody that held you back at one point in your life, that is no excuse. As to you not becoming the man that you supposed to be and be working at it relentlessly, religiously, you are going to do something every single day.

The question then becomes, how are you utilizing your time effectively? Or are you just using it and wasting it? And another person could have leveraged that opportunity in order to continue to be successful. Look, I have a world of opportunity to get way ahead. And this is no knock on my wife or no knock on the fact that she’s going out of town to go and have some fun or whatever, so on and so forth, or to go and visit family, or whatever it is that she do.

This is no knock on her at all. But let me tell you something. The very idea that I’m not focused on spending quality time means that the quality time comes back into my pocket. I could leverage that time to get ahead, take care of business, make sure that I’m proactive, be on top of things, build new businesses, maybe get another opportunity, network more effectively. I am going to pour every single moment and minute into my craft.

I am so excited, not for her to be gone, but for me to be able to leverage whatever opportunity that I can to make sure that I continue to exceed whatever expectations, meaning that no matter what state that I’m found in, whether I got a woman that is next to me, I’m going to be incredibly excited to be able to spend time and be in the moment for that particular time.

But every opportunity that is in front of me, it is something, and Kojak could tell you this, that my assistant principal has always beaten to our head, and it stuck with us for the rest of our lives. Success is when opportunity meets preparation, meaning that your time is always going to come. If you’re a content creator and you only got a few views or you do. Listen, I’ve been there.

I’ve been there. And the only thing I did was I continued to work. I revised how it is that I did things. I made adjustments, and then I worked, and I worked, and there is never going to be a substitute for work. And for all of you, all fake pump fakers that think that you all know rich people well, rich people don’t do that. Well, how come you’re not rich? What’s your bank account look like? What’s your net worth look like? People always telling me a rich person what rich people do and why I shouldn’t do what I do.

Let me tell you something, bro. Charlie Munger worked until he was 99 years old, and he did it because he loved to do it, because that’s the inherent nature of who we are. Warren Buffett right now is grinding. Elon Musk is literally the richest man that we have visibility into, and this dude’s run at least four companies, and God knows what the fuck else he’s doing. Excuse my french.

SpaceX, Tesla, neuralink, Twitter. If it’s good enough for him because he’s passionate about what it is that he does as a man, then what makes you think that it’s not good enough for me that I can’t leverage whatever opportunity that I have in order to make this world a better place and then be fairly compensated as a result of it? I don’t understand it. Listen, when I see a broke grown man, and I’m not even talking about a person that went through something, because let’s be clear, life happens to everybody.

Even the Bible says it reigns on the just and the unjust. When I see people that are broke for no reason, meaning that a life event didn’t happen, a hospital bill didn’t take them out. It wasn’t some crazy layoffs for an extended period of time, and then you had to go back at home and take care of mom or something when you just show up and you just say, yo, I’m broke, just because I’m broke.

You ain’t got no wife, no kids, no nothing. No life events, no circumstances. And all you going to tell me is that I’m just broke because I’m tired? And you tired every day. And you smoke, and you got drink, and you got a PlayStation five and you got an Xbox. You telling me you broke with video games in your house? How are you going to be broke with a game in your house? How you gonna be broke and gaming? How you gonna be broke? And, yo, you too broke to have vices.

Anton is insensitive. Anton don’t understand what we going through. Anton is privileged, and he got lucky. No, I work my butt off, yo. Only rich people can have vices. Oh, Anton is all your shaming the regular man. No, I’m shaming people that don’t utilize their time effectively. More men than women. Because listen, don’t start feeling offended because I get on women all the time too. More men than women.

If you have, let me tell you something, bro. If you have time and you don’t have anybody even pulling on you and you single and you not getting it, you not every year making progress and I ain’t even say you got to be there. That’s the thing. I’m not even asking you to be there. You don’t have to be a complete package because we’re all going to continuously evolve, move the goalpost forward and become greater.

If you don’t have less debt this year than you had last year, if you still working on your student loans and your balance is still up here and it’s not down here, if you still trying to figure out how it is that you can get an idea off the ground, but you don’t already have things that you working and then reiterating and revising and maybe I failed on this and now I’m going to continue to push on that.

But you still waiting on somebody to hook you up. If you still waiting on your man’s to get on, if every single moment that you have is not dedicated to mastering and putting in your 10,000 hours so that you can then manifest that greatness. I was talking to my dog freezey yesterday and I’m going to just tell you, freezy don’t have a lot of people that be tuned into his live streams, but freezy is doing a great, phenomenal job.

Shout out to my dog, no captivity. With freezy. Go and check out his channel. I watch his channel on a regular basis. Freezy at this point of the recording of this video of this live stream is approaching 4000 subscribers. But Freezey puts in the work every single day. And so I was talking to him, right? And I like to motivate people and I like to push them because a lot of people will be one year, two year into their journey and they’d be like, hey man, I ain’t quite hit it yet or whatever.

You figuring it out. You figuring it out. But as long as you continue to revise, take instances or examples of what it is that you can do differently and then put it into your own version and continue to grind and work, you going to get there ain’t nothing and nobody that can stop you. It is an endurance race. It is not a sprint. There is a lot of people that blew up, went viral and all of that stuff, we don’t hear from them today.

It’s not about that. It’s about mastering your craft and understanding that your time is going to come. I didn’t sit here and I didn’t wait for or wish harm on somebody else or was envious of this guy because he had an audience already. I know that my time is coming because it’s nothing that you can do to stop me as I continue to progress and grow into my greatness, but you got to put the work in.

Listen, at the end of the day, when I go through your life with a fine tooth comb, when you call me for a coaching call or we having a conversation, and if I can start to find gaps in your life and in your schedule where you’re not leveraging and doing a thing that’s going to continue to pour into whatever it is that you think that your dream is, then that’s all it’s ever going to be, is a dream.

It is something that is fictional that you will never, ever be able to capture because it’s not real. You might as well go out there like the rest of the population and play the lottery thinking that you’re going to hit one out of every 3 million, 300 million people. You know why I don’t play the lottery? Because I don’t believe in luck. I don’t believe in that type of.

Listen, I play life. I’m intentional. I can do what I want. I can buy what I want because I make my own luck, I make my own circumstances. And anything that I cannot buy, I do not deserve it. Anything that I did not earn, I do not deserve it. Anything that I did not work for, I’m okay with. I don’t need no handouts. I don’t need no help.

All I do, I don’t even ask for people contributing to the platform. You know what I do? I say, listen, I’m going to appreciate anybody that sees value that I add into their life. And then I’m going to highlight you, meaning that I’m never going to ask you to do anything unless I believe that I can add value into your life first or provide a service that ultimately you can reward me for.

But I don’t want no handout. I don’t want nobody to give me nothing that I can’t automatically take care of or make sure that you’re taking care of on the back end and get interest on top of your stuff. I don’t even want to take loans from a bank. You know why? I don’t take loans from the bank because I don’t need them. I want to basically provide a blueprint for people to live their life off of.

I don’t need to take chances with other people’s money. I need to be the bank, not look for the bank to help me out. And it ain’t nothing wrong with financing, depending on the deal or whatever, so on and so forth. That’s context, that’s nuance. I’m talking about a mentality, a mindset that you have to have going forward that fosters productivity. And the only way for you to change the dynamics of the circumstances is not how many different loans or, oh my God, they don’t lend it to black people or whatever.

It’s not if you get up and you got hands and you got feet, you in your right mind, you have the ability to work every single day. Go out and get that shit, man. Go get. Stop waiting on somebody to give you something. Put yourself in a position to where you then are needed, and you can fill a void while you’re also working on whatever it is that you’re doing from a hobby perspective, that you’re going to turn into a business.

That’s where you put your 8 hours in, you put your eight, your 9 hours into your regular job. That’s what you need in order to make sure that you’re taking care of your business and substantiate and be able to maintain your lifestyle. Which also means that you need to lower your lifestyle so you can add value into whatever it is and invest into the thing that’s going to make you rich on the back end.

And you work your ass off, you grind on your hobby, you put your 8 hours in there, you come home, you put your 8 hours in on whatever it is that you got to take care of. If you single, you ain’t even got to worry about no chick that’s on your back asking you, can you go and bust her down and quality time. Forget that hole, man. Ain’t no listen, bro, they going to be there for you 20, 21, 22 years old that think that you’re missing out on something.

Life is much greater when you turn 40. I’m telling you, when you got everything and you can buy whatever you want to buy whenever you want to buy it. When you can spend a quarter of a million dollars a month and I ain’t even close to where I think I should be spending. I want to get to the point where I’m spending a million dollars a month. I want to get to the point where I’m spending a million dollars a month tell me that it’s not possible so that I can go ahead and do it.

I have a plan to where I can get to the point to where I can spend a million dollars a month. I’m going to work my ass off. I’m not trying to have the soft life. What am I, a female? I don’t need a soft life. What is a soft life? The only time that I start to hire people is when I need to replace myself so that I can spend more time doing a thing that’s actually even more productive for the company.

That’s how I determine who it is that I’m going to hire and putting together positions for my company, meaning that the time that I have to allocate towards that is not worth the time that I could be using to get more resources on the back end. I’m not doing it just so I can live this. Oh, man. I keep talking to you all on the phone. I just want to be able to live on a beat when I’m 30 and drink mimosas.

What are you, a female? What are you, an Instagram model? What are you, a bad chick? You sexy red. Sexy red outworking you. Sexy red ain’t successful just because the industry wanted to promote her. Sexy red got to actually show up, too. You know what? One of the most aggravating artists that I’ve ever seen in my life, and then we’re going to move forward. You know what? One of the most aggravating artists that I’ve ever seen in my life is Jewel Santana.

Jewel Santana had all of the talent and none of the work ethic. Some of your greatest artists are not the artists or the richest artists are not great just because they were the most talented. The reason why I respect Drake so much is not because, oh, man, he just the most talented. No, he has an incredible amount of talent, but he’s consistently, consistently working on his craft, evolving, growing, looking for the next hit, looking for the next thing, looking for the next wave, aligning himself with the right people, posting on Instagram, posting on social media, getting active.

He not gearing up for his next thing. He never turned it off. He never off. And so when I look at inspirational people, even when it comes to an entertainment perspective, the people that I look up to are the people that you call simps. You know why? It’s not that I actually look to take relationship advice from them. It’s the fact that they have a work ethic that will, no matter what regardless of how you feel about them, is going to prevent them from becoming successful.

The Steve Harvey’s work ethic, the Kevin Hart’s. I don’t look at the favorite, funniest comedians. Some of the most talented comedians, Kevin Hart, in my opinion, and Steve Harvey are probably the least talented, successful comedians, but they the richest. Think about that for a minute. There is no bigger controversy in the comedian world. I just seen Faison love talking shit. Sorry, I’m sorry. Pardon my language. I seen Faison love on a regular basis talking about country Wayne.

They asking him about another comedian. Instead of asking him about what it is that he got going on, he’s sitting there hating on Wayne. Oh, his Netflix special, ain’t that great? Country Wayne is killing it. Kevin Hart, who people largely argue. I see him in the comments all the time. Oh, man, he ain’t nowhere near funny. Kevin Hart is probably the richest comedian. Steve Harvey, regardless of how you feel about whether or not he’s a simple not or whether or not he majorly Harvey.

The one thing you can’t argue about is the numbers in his bank account. Regardless of whether or not he had lost it. He went and got that work ethic popping and he got it back on. It’s a lot of people on a regular basis, industry through industry, we’re just looking at comedians or whatever right now. As far as to emphasize a certain point, it’s a lot of people in a lot of industries that’s going to be more talented than you, but they will never be able to touch you.

You know why? Because you’re a master. Not at necessarily being whatever it is that you great at as far as the industry that you in, but you’re a master at the work ethic that then makes you much more marketable, much more likely to be worked with. You’re cultural fit and that you’re not a person that people don’t want to be around and all of this other type of stuff.

And it’s going to translate. It’s going to hit every single time. It’s going to hit. It’s the people that got the work ethic. It’s the people that can’t miss. It’s the people that’s relentless. It’s the people that’s always on your doorstep. They always visible you, always talking about them on social media. You always got to figure out what it is that they got going on when they start asking you about other people instead of asking you about yourself, that’s how you know you got to grind.

That’s how you know you ain’t big enough, you ain’t did it good enough. You ain’t as great as you should be because they so busy focused on what I think about somebody else instead of asking me what it is that I got going on and trying to interview me for me. Think about that for a minute when I see Gene deal, right? It’s cool. Listen, hey, we talking about Puffy.

Gene is the hot man at the time. Every single question that I see asked to Gene deal, who was the former bodyguard and worked for Puff or whatever, so on and so forth, every single clip and question comes as a result of asking him about another man. I don’t want my legacy to be defined by what it is that I felt like or who it was that I just so happened to be standing next to.

When I am a grown man and I can define now, that’s cool in the beginning, but once you get the spotlight, what you going to do with it? All eyes is on you. So for the next 25 years, all of the questions that’s going to be about puff, that’s your legacy. Oh, you stood next to, or you was the bodyguard for. How did you leverage the spotlight to then use that in order to promote or propel yourself into your own greatness? Or is your entire legacy going to be defined by who it is that you were having sex with? Oh, man.

You were such and such former bodyguard. You was this person’s former dude. Ain’t nothing wrong with getting known and getting the visibility, but what you gonna do with it when you got it? Work, work, work. That’s what it is. Work. Grind, hustle, hustle, hustle. Go get it. You single? You chilling? You mean after you get off of work today or you cut off this live stream, you’re just going to pick up the remote control, and that’s the end of the conversation.

You’re going to be watching Netflix. Listen, I’m expecting for y’all, while y’all watching the millionaire morning show, to be also multitasking. Had me in the headphones, had me on the tv. But I also want you to be being productive and just hear me talk to you while you doing something productive at the same time. I’m cool with that. As long as you got me on the screen, I’m with it.

Just keep me on the screen. But work. Keep me up and work. .