On today's episode of Gathering The Kings. People believe with The arbitraction, you track what you want. I believe it's a caveat to that. You attract who you are. Yeah. Yeah. The first become a person of kindness of servitude of something that's worth Gathering, and then people attract to you and people bring money. Right? That's how that works.
You are listening to Gathering the Kings with Chaz Wolfe Gathering fellow 78 and even 9 figure business owners who have real battle scars from business and life, but have prevailed as the king that they are designed to be. We welcome high performing entrepreneurs to the stage in order to reveal the real of the real on what it takes to build a successful business today.
We dissect good and bad decisions they've made along the way Chaz give a true and accurate picture of the journey of success and how you too can get there. Through this dialogue, you will learn the value of growing your network and surrounding yourself with power players and Kings like today's guest Grab your pen and notebook because we're about to dive in. What's up everybody? I'm Chaz Wolfe. Gathering the Kings podcast.
I've got a super special guests here today from a naming perspective, we've got Christopher King here at the Kings table. He goes by Kings also So Kings, my brother. Welcome to the Kings stage. How are you? I'm doing great, Jazz. Thank you for having me on your podcast. It's an honor to privilege to be here, and I'm looking forward to The. Dude, I, you know, I gotta I gotta tell the listener because when you came up, you know, in the in the schedule for show.
And, obviously, you've gone through, you know, some of the initial calls and, you know, qualification stuff that we go through with my team, but I was like, dude, Is your name really Kings? You're you're on the Gathering the Kings show. What is this? Who is this guy? So, dude, I I love it. I love the energy that you're that you're bringing, even just with the name. Tell us what kind of business do you have? Well, I have a business where I'm a business consultant, The more so a business connect.
And I build connection with children tribes to do things that you can't do as a individual business that's too greater. So it has to be a higher purpose by I bringing the businesses together. And in doing that and having a higher purpose, It's a great way to build connections relationships with folks who are in alignment with your higher purpose.
And so I help businesses to identify who their strategic partners are, build those connections, and once they make those connections, generate social capital, and The social capital generates financial capital. You know, financial capital to provide financing for larger projects. Love it. I love it.
We were talking off air just a little bit, but, basically, you're looking to connect with entrepreneurs who have a greater calling, a greater purpose, and and to use those connections in in bigger opportunities to take care of people let you get into some of that here as we get into the show, but you're it's like a it's like a it's like building blocks. You're you're starting with good people, who are well intentioned, and they wanna use their money for good things.
And then you're providing these amazing opportunities to invest in building projects different parts of the country. So we're gonna get into some of that. But before we do, why? Why are you doing this? Like, you've obviously been successful. You've been doing this for a while. You've been doing business for a while. Why why are you still pushing? Why are you still in the game? Well, that's a great question. And I Wolfe say, It all started with my coming up.
When I was eighteen, nineteen years old, I was at Wakewood Youth. Wasn't doing anything criminally wrong, but it just out The, not a band, my parents, out there living life, and did graduate from high school. It wasn't until a friend of mine gave me a book, which was Michael Metz's autobiography. And when I read that book, it gave me a higher purpose. It finally in line with I have a purpose in my life. And Yeah. I began to look at The different.
Fortunately, for me, my parents, they instilled in me the habit and love for reading. So reading was there. I just wasn't applying myself in school because no one in my neighborhood and put my parents had a job, and I was actually interested. Right? Like, why go to school and do what you do? Right? I have no interest. Right? But it gave me a purpose And The purpose really changed things for The. Really grounded me. And so I really began to assume education with intensity for that.
If this is back in 98, 89, and one thing I was really good at, my mom had asked me, what do you like to do? It was computers playing an Atari video game. So The led me to, well, put me a text through, lady text through, And I started a computer career Chaz I went into a computer career where I was able to travel the world and started to see things in a different way. And that really educated me that grew my awareness to how life really was.
And it was a trip to Brazil that really opened everything for went to Brazil. I got a chance to see real in my eyes, poverty, from a contest. We have groups of children who are 5 to 10 in their pack, and they're walking Kings streets begging. And for me, A lot of people I went with, they ignored them treated, like, we treat homeless people here, you just, pleasure. These are kids. So they long story short, I came back and quit my career. I said, I wanted me to travel more.
I'm gonna open orphanages in Brazil. I wanted to learn more about real estate, and The just kinda put me on that path of understanding how to build connections, how to build relationships, understanding the importance of Gathering. The led me to Kings where I was at. Yeah. I love it.
Obviously, there's so many layers of purpose when you're talking about you know, helping people succeed in the people that you connect with, but then you're talking about helping kids or other greater purpose endeavors that I know your products are are connected to, but, I mean, wow.
Not many people, like you said, travel to a specific area like Chaz, and then even of the ones that do come back with such, like, fire around, like, a conviction to go after, solving the problem or helping those individuals. Why why do you think or what do you think was about seeing those Kings? That, you know, that made the switch for you of, like, I need to I need to devote my my life. I'm gonna change over my career. Like, I mean, that's a pretty big deal. That's a big decision. What was it?
Well, you know, enough, the people I went doing a trip with were all very successful men, doctors, real estate, investors, and they told me the rules. Whenever you do do not listen to them, don't give them any money, ignore them, walk past them, etcetera. Well, I wasn't expecting kids. I was expecting homeless people, right, homeless men and women. So I was prepared for that. Well, one kid came up to me and it was asking for money.
And I had money in my pocket The I was gonna use for the vacation for the trip. So I said, Alright. I'm gonna, you know, to give you money, but I'm gonna walk him over to a kiosk, and I brought some food where I came in as friends, hamburgers, and all that. It didn't cost me anything 1 to 25 hours. Right. And so back in that time, Brazil had they were behind us in technology so that you had to rent a cell phone. They was Reynold's big cell phones, and we had gave, Wolfe, 5 years early freight.
They're huge cell phones, but they charge you a $500 deposit because then, you know, it was you get lost or you get stolen. Yeah. For sure, I'm feeling the The after I gave the kids the money. And I'm being a typical American. I'm involved in a conversation now. We that growth. I got the phone next to me instead of sitting in front of And out of the corner of my eye, I saw the phone get pushed towards me. I looked down quickly. The was one of Kings who I said they'd fired.
He's telling me because he spoke Portuguese, so we couldn't communicate verbally. Right? Don't have your phone sitting here. It was telling me push it closer to you. Yeah. And so in doing that, I realized that I had created a bomb. Wow. Looked at as criminals and thugs and all that, but they were just trying to survive. So Yeah. And I'm not paying them to ignore them at and done the things that I was told to do. The went to your phone. My phone. Grand Island Beach.
I wouldn't have caught him, and I would have been out out of more than 25 So Right. That to me showed me that if you take your time, show kindness, show compassion The anyone particularly in that situation, you know, Kings for an opportunity. So I came back committed to saying, well, what I'm learning, I wanna hear other people create opportunities. The same way. Dude, that's such an impactful story. I I I can only imagine being in that moment and having the reciprocation Right?
Because that's what it was. I mean, that's what we do in business in general is we try to reciprocate. We try to, you know, if someone adds value to us, then we have one add value to them and or vice versa. We're trying create value so that we can get value back. And but, dude, that's like real life real deals reciprocation right there. I love it.
And from an innocent person as well, from a from a from a human who, like you said, wanted to survive, how how Chaz that played into the greater purpose. Now, obviously, you wanted to build orphanages and and you and you're start you're starting to build stuff, you know, here in the US and, like, what That's a big gap to go from beach. He didn't steal my phone to now I have this greater purpose, and I wanna x yz all these things that are in the clouds. Like, how do those things connect?
Well, that's a great question. You're absolutely right. It is a big gap. Well, fortunately at that time, I was working for a low extra soaking firm, making quite a bit of money. And a friend of mine told me my first pizza real estate in DC. This is the 4 at the big housing boom. And this is again, 88.89 time frame. And he was saying D. C. Has gone through a mouth to change. Will say there's no x flow. No one else was hearing Chaz.
So, you know, the model was combining old hundred year old homes in DC, renovate them, and, you know, you make your month. Well, I did that. Didn't wanna live in neighborhood that I brought my home because neighborhood didn't change. And but he had so many property. He had so many and everything that can possibly go wrong with the deal went wrong. He did a horrible renovation. He did equity Gathering, which meant he but then you can get the appraiser to work with the investor and a lender.
They jack appraised up, prades value to the mats. Gave me a little capital in front of you, which I didn't realize was my capital with appraisal. So in other words, I was The, bad property, and then I had to pretend it's And that was a nightmare. So my background training was being a system engineers. I'm a very logical Kings person. Yep. So for me, I've I've never let that happen again. I said, never do I wanna go through a real estate transaction that was so painful Chaz such a bad experience.
So I began just The file everything I could on real estate. Because now The orphan issue was my using analogy, but I if I live in DC, I wanna go to California. The orphanage was California. Right? Didn't know how I was gonna get The. But for me, I had to start looking at little ways to get there about buying property, understanding real estate, and begin to build that process pathway that So that really got me more focused on real estate Chaz the incident.
It's made me take it seriously and really understand the game of real estate. I The and they really began to look at how can I bring a system to real estate? Because real estate is one of those industries where it feeds off your ignorance. Right. Culture of the business. You know, they put The in general feeds off our ignorance. Absolutely. Absolutely.
So for me, that was just The way that I got started, my first property, The bad experience, but it led me to start to say, I wanna create a system, a structure, and I wanna look at how I could buy Chaz. Just one property. How can I buy a block of properties? How can I Transformer City?
The questions began to The, and that's where I began to understand the importance of collaboration, good and what I call conditionally tell the tribes and connecting with individuals to achieve those favorite high purpose goals. Yeah. The the biggest thing that I heard you just say that I wanna point out for the listeners this.
You you had this where you were and then this huge picture of what what you wanted, you know, the orphanage, helping others, Chaz higher purpose, and we already identified. There was this huge gap. And for you, it wasn't because this is where most people live. Right? They live in Oh, wow. I want all of this. And then and then that they stay there. They stay in the cloud. They stay in the the up here. You came back down and goes, okay.
How can I practically start building the steps all the way over to California, or in this case, to the orphanage, to what you wanted so that the steps, it's the action? It's the it's the, okay, I've got the vision, but I've gotta come back down to where I am now, and I gotta start building a plan and then taking action steps be able to get what I want. So the listener today might say, well, I wanna build a 7 figure business. I wanna I wanna make a million bucks. I wanna become a millionaire.
I wanna buy real estate, or I wanna grow my business. I wanna hire a key person, these things that we say that we want Chaz maybe seem like, is that really tangible? What I'm hearing you say is figure out what that thing is. Identify it. Identify a plan to get there, and then start taking steps. Would you add anything to that? Kings?
Absolute. I I said, when I'm sharing you with my my original origin story, what reading The book of Malcolm might talk about, it actually forced me to do is read more. So if you have to become if you wanna be a millionaire, you have to become an avid reader to the point where it's something that you like, like, you seek You stick your information. Like, I might read 3, 4 books on a monthly basis, and I can assume that verbally by reading a book I actually listened to audio books.
I actually watched YouTube of the authors that wrote those books. Right? So I'm consuming information for writing different ways. And I love it. It's not worked. But that's the first step is number 1 Kings once you have a plan is you have to figure out what's my level of competence The was my commitment to making it happen. Those two things you have to figure out for yourself because no one else can assess that for it. Right?
And your confidence can grow out, which your commitment has to be there. So it goes back to The why? You know, why am I doing this? And for me, it can be much Right? Can't just be some people can be motivated by money. I just want more I want want. And to me, I believe that never again, it's like a truck. It's like, you know, when people smoked crack for the first time, they said the high, the The highest, the greatest, they chased it high forever, and they never get back to that very first hot.
And I think that's where if you lay by money as you're motivated, that's how that is. You're never gonna have enough. Right? I mean, you start doing a scoop of The things in order to get it, where if you have a higher purpose, which is I wanna make an impact in the world. Like, for me, I always like this analogy. When you look at people like Bob Morelli, you look at other individuals whose name, whose face can be of a t shirt with nothing else. It's just their face, and it conveys.
For me, that's the legacy I wanna do. Yeah. When you look at my face, it represents I live a legacy. And so instead part of my ego, but by the same token, I'm committed to that service of executing and creating value. And that's the next step is you gotta create value. Once you have a plan, it's like next Kings is I have to create value in what I do, and you don't create value, The no one's really gonna purchase your product more than once, and you definitely Wolfe get referrals.
So that helps me are the key ingredients We have a plan, create value, and then find a way to be of service to others. Yeah. I love it. I love it. Hey, Chaz Wolfe here. As many of you know, I have been on an absolute mission to help entrepreneurs from all across the country in many different industries level up their game and grow their business and intentionally connect with other entrepreneurs.
We do that obviously through the podcast, but we also have a peer to peer mastermind group specifically for 7 to 9 figure business owners.
We are bringing some of the best and most successful entrepreneurs and minds together in a regular and a super intentional way to not only grow our network, but to be able to leverage And at a certain point in business, success becomes about leverage, leveraging time, leveraging resources, leveraging key relationships, The is exactly what we're doing inside of the peer to peer mastermind group called Gathering The the Kings, specifically
for 7 to 9 figure business owners, So if that's you, if you're ready to level up your 7 to 9 figure business, even to the next level and get around other big hitters just like you, I want you to go to gathering the Kings dot com, flood a short application, and, it'll come to an application, call with me and I wanna chat with you to see if it might be a good fit. Talk soon. Okay. Let's talk about a good and bad decision here.
I wanna know something along the way in this in this you know, plan and steps and stuff that you're talking about. You're taking in commitment and all this all this analyzing that you did. What was the actual decision that you made that literally catapulted you to where you are now that you're looking back that you can share with us. Essentially, I made The catapult of me was moving to Baltimore City. I live in Deep Washington DC. Not born raised, but grew up. My adult years in Washington DC.
And I decided I want to started investing in real estate in Washington DC because I felt a growth. I'm not sorry. Baltimore, I thought a growth happened in DC. I felt that a similar market to the growth. So I pretty much moved The DC on my I mean, Baltimore on my own. Didn't know anybody, just with the goal, with the plan, and the strategy. And I came here with the goal of buying blocks of real state and create a movement around buying real estate and transforming neighborhoods.
And that dream that vision led to folks just really Kings introductions. And every time I had a conversation with somebody I ever shared with them, here's what my vision is. Here's what I wanna do. Every conversation I always ended with You gotta meet session sessions. I need to connect you to session sessions. And rapidly, I began to get connections to institutional leaders Congress individuals, successful business leaders in a Baltimore City.
Good thing about Baltimore City is Chaz it's a big city, but it has a small city vibe where Everyone knows one of them. And that's a good thing that can leverage your benefit. And when you have a higher purpose and you wanna do something that improves conditions of others, The is an important lesson where I share the listeners is that your your purpose should always be The of the benefits of this. No one wants to help you make money. You're right. People will help you make others make money.
Right? So the moment your goal is that people wanted to do what they can. And it always starts with social capital, and those relationships led me to other connections Folks, I created a company that was a membership based organization. I taught more about that. People began to join more organizations. They had the same mission I Chaz.
And they began to see how it was assembling my team The build the infrastructure The led to raising capital or raised about a $1,000,000 and began to start buying property up. Yeah. Buying property up up with residents. I call developer at this place. Buying residents, putting residents, a current living community already, appointment on our properties in a rent to own model, provide education, financial literacy so The they Chaz actually can purchase that property from 8 to 5 years.
Puts them in the process of doing Wolfe, as well as homeownership. So I've always been around financial literacy and real estate as mechanisms for building wealth. And that's what I advocate, and that's what I always deal with in every company that I work I'm gonna I'm gonna take 2 things for the listener there to write down. Number 1, I heard you say you took a leap of faith. You moved. You didn't know anybody. It was probably really nervous. Or nerve Kings.
It's a little bit scary, but you you knew where you needed to go, and you went faithfully. The second thing I heard you say is that The connections, the relationships, helping others is always gonna be forefront for you, and that money will follow. And I would agree with that. The relationships it's so hard sometimes because especially when you're in the place of where the listener is right now and they're just kinda stuck in the daily grind, and they gotta go one job to the next.
Extra one client to the next just to kinda keep it going. But I'm telling you right now, what what King is talking about, which is that social capital, if you can start projecting energy into the social capital, even in your own network, deals, and opportunities for your business, and opportunities to serve other people The start coming because you've you've put people as a as a trajectory of where you're going. King, I wanna switch over to a bad decision, bro.
What have you done that should been almost derailed the whole Kings. Give us some detail on what we can stay away from. Well, that's a great question as well. You know, happened. We looked in the same context within Baltimore City. You know, as I said, I came in very successful. This is back 2017. Buy a property, accumulate property, take a lot of debt, a tremendous amount of debt, and that's what you're gonna do.
We can talk about faith you well, I I said it's a difference between good debt and bad debt. Right? That's what I think a lot of people understand. Good debt is debt that makes you money. Bad debt is debt. It just takes money from you and depreciating The. So I think people need to be aware of taking all good debt.
So my point is I had about 30, 40 properties under my portfolio, at people saying this property system called Gray, and The COVID, right when I was in the process of bringing it $50,000,000, to really expand my model at a higher level and great discussions. Capital is, like, 2 weeks away. COVID hits, shuts everything down.
Yep. Pointless I learned, though, along this journey was that, see, my I think it's a gift and ability, and it's sometimes the curse as Wolfe, and the ability to see talent in other people and potential in other people. Because of that, I have soft heart. So when I meet someone and it's saying the right things, I'm like, okay. Well, I wanna work with you. I wanna help. So I was putting people in my property who have bad credit and those Kings. And I'm like, well, I can work with them.
Like, I have a program, the infrastructure, And the minute then you have to pay rent, by law, and I couldn't evict The, they chose not to pay rent. Yeah. That put me in $1,000,000 worth of bad debt immediately. Right? I had to pivot from The, and I'm still processing activity from that now, but I've actually now got to the other side of the horizon, but that bad decision of trusting people who I had internal relationship with and making those bad calculations along those lines.
It's something that I tell folks, you gotta be mindful of having a discern process in place. That's where I am now.
If how do you really discern anyone you're gonna do business with to make sure to their who they said they are, number 1, that they're committed to what they said they're gonna do, number 2, and that they're committed to growing their cock I go back to those 2 things, and that's what I realized Chaz people will say, hey, man, all day long when you're offering something, but very few people are really committed to following through that process.
Yeah. So The bail lesson for me cost me a $1,000,000 and and a pivot. But fortunately for me, I was able to build great source of capital, and that's why I really stressed importance, though, Building relationships with people, map transactions, because when transactions go bad, a lot of times, they will go bad. The relationships was always gonna interfere. And from a relationship, you get a multiple transactions.
But if you just file from a transaction, you gotta get a long lawyer involved and don't trust The another, and it becomes stressful. And that's a whole other way to navigate business when they're having a whole you know, you're making money, but you're at a point where you The stressed because you don't want anything to go wrong and everything goes wrong in the business.
It's just how you navigate and people you work with, can we work, do it Gathering, and can we make The decision to say, we're gonna solve this problem. Right? I love what you said there that everything goes wrong. And it's not from a negative, you know, Nancy perspective or, you know, you're you're trying to shun people and get them out of business. You're just being real. You're saying, hey. Look. Here's the here's the real deal. Is that you can plan.
You can take action, and a lot of things are gonna go your way because you've done write things, but there's a lot of things that don't go your way. Just not a lot of people talk about it, and that's Kings partially for the show here and and why we do this, but you know, here you are, you you lost a million bucks, and and my guess would be that there wasn't a whole lot of people who knew about it because you don't seem like a complainer type.
It's not like you went, you know, asking for for, some sort of a handout. It it was okay. Let me get back on the grind. Let me get some capital raise. Let me pivot. Let me figure out the problem, man. Let me solve the the problem with a solution. And so I think that that's the biggest takeaway so far that I'm hearing. I mean, obviously, I think every listener knows this. But I just wanna, like, really hit it home.
That the place that they're in right now, the frustration, the overwhelm, the things that they feel like, I was like, oh my goodness. I'm a good person. Why is this happening to me? It's because this is how business goes. And so, therefore, you have to go back to what King was talking about. You have to create a plan. You gotta put commitment, obviously. There's systems. There's processes. There's people. He's talked a lot about people.
You gotta have these things in place, and you're constantly improving them. You're constantly working on them. You're constantly building the thing and people inside the Kings so that it doesn't and maybe there's less and less of these these moments, these catastrophic moments, but they still happen. It's it's not like anything that you've done wrong per se, but there are things that maybe you're missing. And I think that's probably the the the thing that that he's communicating.
King, would you would you add anything to that little synopsis there? Yes. I think you did a great job of summer, but what I would also add The it is understanding that everything Kings in it the other day. You know, Einstein said, images, everything, and everything is in it.
And when you really begin to be an entrepreneur, you really understand what that really means when you begin to that intellectually understand it, but how to apply And what I mean by that is The, how would you greet someone from a call, this image? If I start The call off and I'm how are you doing, Katie? I'm a Right? Right there, and you and my, you think, well, I'm gonna make sure The stays within this 10 minute parameters.
I'm gonna wait and get off this call because I don't wanna waste my tile with someone with that engine. Right? Yeah. The is in. You attract people believe with The law of attraction. You track what you want. I'll be using a caveat today. You attract who you are. Yeah. You're the first become a person of kindness of servitude of something that's worth attracting and then people attract to you and people Kings money. Right? That's how that works.
It's just not just you walk outside and say, man, and money just tries to track. You know, The attract people and those referrals in that social capital is what keeps you afloat. So for me, One of the greatest lessons I learned was I made up known as a person of service and known as a person of giving, yeah, I stumbled. But people knew that I was committed. So it was more like, well, Kings, how are you gonna handle this? Yep. Right?
And now the questions that was asked me, and I take it upon myself and say, I tell folk, when you really become an entrepreneur entrepreneur, you can look at it this way. You don't get days off. We get hours off. You start to say, okay. I'm off for a few hours. I could eat. I could read. I could relax. But then you gotta get back when you're groggy. Right? But you wanna do something that is in your soul to do. And that's why I say it can't be make about making money.
Cause if if my business, I'm not judging anybody who has these businesses. But it's just not for me. Like, I can't open cleaners, a line of dry cleaned. Right? I don't know. Passion behind it. Somebody might someone may have. Yeah. My passion is really building houses and creating communities through The natural Italian tribes. I'm passionate about it.
So I have some school information build connections, make an alignment, and I make great people like yourself, Chaz, who I can be getting a look at, and here's the keyword. I just really want folks to take away Always look for the opportunity to co create. What can we do together that didn't exist prior to us, me? Right. Yeah. You can have that kind of mentality, then you can build some brake relationships and generate social care. Yeah. I love that. Alright.
Let's transition to the speed round king. I think you've given us already more than we bargained for, but I wanna jump in here. If you could dwindle, everything that you've talked about, this raising capital, un to buying real estate, unto building communities, and and and doing the higher purpose thing. If you're doing it at all down into The trackable metric, what is it? I Wolfe say, again, it would have to be purpose and image. K? How do you track Chaz, or how are you tracking that?
You track that through how people respond to you when you reach out to. Like, for example, if I was to call you at 3 The, right, And that's what I call this the Oprah Repacket. K? Where you know if it's Oprah calling you at 3 in the morning, you could be tired. You gotta take that call. You might say, Oprah, I'm tired. Chaz I call you back? But you take that call and acknowledge that fact, you're not let Oprah go to voice mail.
Right. So my goal is I wanna get to the point where anyone I call I can get you to answer The phone at any given time, but at least now that's the fact that it's, you're taking my call and you call me back. Right? And they call back. Right? Right? How did they commit? So to me, that's when you know that you are operating at at a level of integrity that people want to connect with you, and they would've already connected to you.
And if you can get to that level, then to me, you would never have any You always have issues, but you'll never be defeated when he's saying Chaz. Love it. I love it. Okay. Next question is what book Wolfe you recommend that a 6 figure business owner reads specifically who's trying to get to that 7 figure $1,000,000 mark? Well, books there's several books. I'm sure people always do that answer. But the one book that I would say is this. This is my bible that I read religiously every day.
The sale of the habits of how they affected people by Stephen Or Tupper. Chaz book changed my life, and it's a book that is not a book to read once and say I read it, It's a book to live. It's livable, actionable, principal center goals. It's living your life according to principles and being a principal center. And that's not something You just read and reply. It's something you got to live and go through that junk. Love it.
K. Do you intentionally network or mastermind with other entrepreneurs. Well, I don't like to turn on network, but I Wolfe say I intentionally connect There you go. And that's The difference between networking is more like here's my business card calling me, and you're looking for something. In that image, you call creating your building. So Absolutely. That's a part of my entire. I divide my day into revenue generating activities and relationship building activities. Yep. I love it.
And and just a little plug here, King, you've got your own podcast, and it's called Kings Connections. And so this this idea of connecting, not just network working or looking for something, but specifically building social capital is something that you actually believe you're doing this. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Love it. Okay. King, if you only had 1 hour each week to work on or in your business, how would you use that 1 hour? To operate your business successfully like you do now.
I will work on my systems because once you have ones that you develop very well, then systems can actually be modified. They could be expanded. They could be measured. They could be changed. And the whole world operates our system. That's what folks The realized. We live off the education system, the criminal justice system, the traffic system, you know, all these systems that we operate within financial banking systems, real estate system.
So the system is the core component Chaz was spent my time on. Because you Chaz hire people to fit within that system. You can let people go from within that system. The system is gonna help you grow and expand and make sure that you stay on track. Yep. Love it. K. Last question here for you, Kings. If you lost it all, What would you do? Well, I have lost it all previously. And that's why I can tell you exactly what I had to do. And that's why she build yourself up.
Again, understand everything's energy. Yeah. You Chaz go back and do a deepest perspective analysis, deep introspective analysis to figure out what I did wrong. What can I do better? Take ownership of it. It's never external. It's always you. What can you do to make better? And then once you make that modification, you make that change, you go back out, and you continue to keep building. You never stopped. Yeah. I love it, man.
You obviously you lost it all, but then you've you're you're back at it here today. And so your living testament that of what you just said, you just you you never stop. You have to keep going. I love your reassessment piece. I think extreme ownership as a book or just as a principle. Of looking at it as it's always you. I think Kings great. I think it gives us a self awareness to be able to go, okay. What's the bottleneck?
Even though I haven't lost at all, the listener should be thinking this right now. I haven't lost it all. I still have a good business. I gotta I'm doing 3, 4, 5, 7, 800,000 dollars in business. I haven't lost it all like King did. What can I do right now to identify the bottleneck that can be honest with myself, take ownership of it, everything that he just said and be able to move forward in a specific way that's gonna bring results, and and and get you to the next level?
So Kings, how can someone connect with you? They they like what you're saying. They wanna maybe even get in on some of The social, you know, capital you're talking about. Maybe some of the projects you guys are gonna start building. How can someone find you and connect? Absolutely. Well, my website's 1st source Kings connections.org, and that's Kings connections with The s dotorg. They can find me on LinkedIn, Christopher Kings. They can find me on Facebook. Conscious Kings. You know?
So those are the three sites that look for me on YouTube as well. You can actually just kinda watch content. I create And just one last little pizza where The add to that, don't be afraid to lose everything. Right? And I mean, not not that you seek But if I drive in The car, right, don't be you're not afraid to have an accident, which you you're concerned that I'm mindful of not having an accident, but you're not afraid. You don't let that stop you from driving a car.
So once you understand business and you understand how to make money, if you lose everything, you'll you can get it back. That's all I wanna get people done I love it. I love the perspective. Your mindset is impenetrable. You've obviously done things over the course of time that have been incredible Chaz have not only impacted you, but many others around you. So thank you for that. Thank you for being a good example. Thanks for being here on the show, man. We wish you nothing but success.
It's, yeah, thank you for having me on your show. I look forward to the if there are possibilities that we can do. Hopefully, we can curl create some things together in the future. Co create. Here we come. Thank you for listening to Gathering the Kings today. I hope that you were able to pull out a few nuggets to go apply into your business right away.
More importantly, though, I hope that you're realizing that it takes more to be successful than just being by yourself Kings it all on your own, carrying the weight all by yourself. What I have realized, not only in my own journey from multiple businesses and multiple different industries and now interviewing over 2 or 300 The very successful 7, 8, and 9 figure business owners is that it's tough to do it alone. And so gathering the Kings exists to bring together successful entrepreneurs.
In fact, we are putting together 1000 Kings specifically who are grateful, but not done. We're intentionally assembling kings who fight tooth and nail for their business, family, and communities, and here's what we believe Chaz in the pursuit of excellence in those areas, that it ignites within us The responsibility to govern power and forge a lasting legacy.
So if that relates and and resonates with you, and you know that you need people around you, sharp, qualified The very successful business owners. I want you to go to Gathering The Kings dot com. Want you to take a look at what we're doing and see if it makes sense for you to be part of our pursuit to 1000 kings. Talk soon.