Is this worth your investment?

worth hearing. And I think more people need to hear about stuff like this because in a climate when there's just so much confusion on the Internet and everyone's trying to get a piece of everybody, and everyone wants you to do something, it's really hard to get an understanding on where do I go from here? And I think I have the best answer for that. And maybe that's saying a lot, but I truly think it is. And

so today I recruited my brother slash my manager. Sometimes he's my only my brother and sometimes he's only my manager, depending on the day. In the conversation, Tyler Smith is here. We got permission from The Bachelorette to have him on here so he could actually talk. He's been handcuffed by that show for he wouldn't say that that's my words, not his. Since he was on the show, I've been wanting to get him on this podcast just because he's my brother and I think you guys would love his advice.

He's a really smart dude. He reads a lot, he knows so much about self development, and he could give really good advice. He does to me all the time. I rely on him for good advice. So it only makes sense that we should have him on this podcast. So I got him. I got him wrangled in. We're going to talk about your questions, including what do I do with my investment? Like how do I even start? Where do I go? We got the answer for you. I think it's really good one. I think it's the

best one. That's my opinion. So welcome to the podcast. Ye yee did chant and decent mus and school, long line of five, fool of up and down on Back's rangy cool wage Yeah you gation. So as long as I've been doing this podcast, I've been trying to get this elusive guest, and I've been going through all the right right channels to try to get you. And finally I'm so happy, man, I'm so happy I finally got you.

Finally said guests to be a guest on this podcast, my one and only middle brother, Thank you and Tyler what thank you for having me? Yeah? Can we talk about the show you're on. Is that something we can't talk about? Yeah, I can talk about certain things. Okay, Tyler was on recent season of the Bachelorette, and we don't have to talk about specifics of that show, and you might not even be able to, but that's interesting how you went into the Bachelorette, how you were picked

for the Bachelorette, and how you approached it. And people listening to this podcast might not even watch that show, but it's interesting how you approached that whole project. And for those of you all that don't know, and most probably don't, Tyler is just a vocious is that a word? Vocious? Ferocious reader? You have? You have an entire wall in your office that's nothing but books, and most of the books are related to succeeding in life in some way,

whether that's physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Most of the reading right all right? Well? And self yeah, personal development, personal development. So because of you read so much, you have become just a walking encyclopedia of self help advice. And whenever I need something, you'll usually throw out some one liner that's I'm like, man, what or did you hear that that's incredible. And you'll say, I don't know some one of these books. Sometimes you even you don't even remember

where it came from, which is awesome. You kind of like Bernie, who we had last week. You have a You're very regimented in your life, and your success has come because of the discipline that you grew up with playing football. You played college football at Rice, and you took that discipline into life in a lot of ways, and you have a You are very uncommon amongst most humans that I know. I promise I'll let you talk. But in the ways in terms of you wake up

at what time? Five? You wake up five every day, seven days a week. Yeah, well sometimes on the weekends I don't, but I'm trying to. And you go to bed at what time? Which is probably what this is what makes you more uncommon. It depends. Last yesterday, for whatever reason, I was really tired, so I went to bed at eight. I just listened to my body. But usually he went to bed at eight, And usually it's usually I'm in bed by nine, fall asleep by nine thirty.

But it's never when I'm on my routine, it's never later than ten. Yeah, so I don't. I don't think anyone listening to this podcast. I'd be willing to bet that anyone besides the people that have a job that works all night. I don't think anyone went to bed at eight o'clock last night that's listening to this podcast except for you. Not unless you're four years old. Three years old. Yeah, Oneon and Lincoln stay up later than I do. Yeah, my kids stay awake later than you do.

So you approached a batcheorette with this mentality of I'm going to I'm going to attack this opportunity as a as a way to grow as a man, as a person, and some people might be listening on what like that. That doesn't even make any sense. You can go to a bachelorette, this reality show to become a better man, and that's not really the way you approached it. You approached it as I'm going to I'm going to really put myself and test myself at the limits of my

social capacity in that kind of environment. Right, m So, how did you including COVID and the quarantine, how did you how did you approach the bachelorette? How did I approach it or why did I go well? For for instance, I told I told everyone, you're a huge reader. You have this schedule, extreme schedule that you keep. You time block your day, Like even to get on this podcast, like I had to get it to the minute because I know you and you you have your time blocked

and then certain time you you do certain things. And so to go into a show where you're not the boss of anything was a huge mental challenge for you. So you didn't have your books, you didn't have your routine, you didn't have your meals you eat the same thing every day. You didn't have your everything that you have. So how did you how and why did you approach it that way? Or why did you even accept it at all? I mean, obviously it wasn't a good wife, No,

that was part of it. Yeah, of course it was. You know, if I'm being honest, you know it's I went on there because you know, I'm I'm single and I'm looking right. So I didn't know Claire who was a bachelorette personally obviously, but she was a bachelorette and I was like, well, let's go see, like maybe maybe this could work, right, So that's one of the reasons

I went. But the other main reason I went was to get out of my comfort zone and to experience and experience, right, you know, experiences in life are a big deal to me, and you know, twenty twenty, that was my experience, was being on the biggest TV show in the world, Right, So I'm looking for that experience for twenty twenty one, kind of have something that defines each year, and that was kind of a big part of twenty twenty for me. So that's why I went.

But yeah, I was. I was in the middle, like of my longest streak of personal development as far as you know, every day five am and working out really great shape. And it all had nothing to do with the Bautrurette. I was just that's just how I was living. But yeah, I was on like one hundred and twenty seven days or one hundred and twenty nine days in a row on a streak of doing my meditation app called Calm, Right, So when they took the phone, that

was kind of a hard deal for me. I of course continue doing meditation, but there's something weird in the human mind with streaks. You don't want to break the streak. Yeah,

it's just weird how that it works. If any of y'all listening, or if you ever had a streak of doing meditation every day and and you physically actually like you know, I think Jerry Seinfeld had like a calendar of something he was doing, and his philosophy was, if you cross it out every day, you see that visual of that streak, and you don't want that streak to stop.

And so when that stopped, that was a little hard for me to break that yeak, you know, when I got my phone back and I was like, I got to start over from day one, even though I was still meditating, it was, Yeah, it was hard. Yeah, I have a my speaking of day one. You said day one, But that's the name of my app I use for journaling, and it tells you every time you pull it up whenever you finish a journal it says, congrats, you're on a forty three day streak and has a little little

fire emoji. And I have a lot of things that do that. My cameo app, like when I do for other people, it always tells me. The first thing it tells me is the streak I'm on, the streak of cameos that I've done without mit letting one skip. Yeah, I'm on today's day fifty four for seventy five hard Andy Forsella's challenge. So what is seventy five hard? I think last time I was on the podcast, I was doing it, and it's every day for seventy five days.

It's more of a mental challenge than anything. That's the most important thing for people to realize that it's not a physical challenge, although you'll definitely see dramatic physical results. But it's shout out to Andy Forsella for this. If y'all are listening, go check it out. But it's every day for seventy five days in a row. You do

technically six things, technically five, but at six. It's drink a gallon of water every day, work out for forty five minutes inside every day, work out outside every day for forty five minutes, no cheap meals, no alcohol, and a progress picture every day and if you skip or forget any of those then you have to start over from day one. So it's literally it's just a mental

it's just a mental challenge accountability, you know. So Parker, for instance, was on day like fifty and when I made him do it, finally got him to do it. I can't stress enough that everybody should do it, but not everybody will and that's why it's, you know, uncommon. But Parker missed his progress pick forgot to take a picture, so Hey stopped and I was like, dude, when you gonna do it again? You can't just stop at day fifty. You'd be like, well, I didn't do it, you know,

So did he? I don't remember, didn't when he missed it, so he had to start over from day one, and he didn't start over. So I'm trying to get him to do it again. So in order to achieve extraordinary goals, you have to be able to do extraordinary things in your daily life. Really misunderstood for a lot of people just want success or they want to they want to know, like, what's the secret to success? Well, it's it's in every minute of your day doing things that are uncommon. Why

do you choose to live like that? Because you've done this for years now. Yeah. To someone that would say how about this, someone that says, dude, lighting up? Man? Yeah, just RelA man, have a cheeseburger. Come on, man, live a little bit. You ain't living. One of my biggest fears is mediocrity and average. It's one of my biggest fears. So every day I try to do things. One of my ultimate goals, like life purpose is the real, relentless pursuit of my ultimate potential to be become everything that

God intended me to be. So you know, whenever I do look and that doesn't mean that I don't know how cheeseburgers are sleeping where I'm human and I've gone through streaks of doing that. After the Bachelorette. You know, it was hard when I came back, you know a lot of things emotionally and mentally, like you know, not expecting to come back when I did. And you know, because I'm I want to win and I want to

be number one and everything whatever that means. So as you're wearing a shirt that says I am second, right, right, Yeah, I struggled. I struggled with my ego all the time and my faith and Christianity. That's a whole nother conversation of trying to put God first always. But yeah, it's it's just a decision every day. You know, I don't

want to get up at five am. It's really hard, right, So doing hard things builds self confidence, you know, keeping the promises you make to yourself, and belief in yourself, and grit and perseverance and consistency and all those things that essentially I study, like you said, successful people, you know, from Jesus all the way to you know, modern day

successful businessmen and singers, and I try to. I'm a big advocate on habits, good habits and replacing bad habits, and just basically, you know, the cheat sheet to life is what is that guy doing that I admire and copy what he's doing, you know, and then success shows up in your life in different ways. Yeah. And I've been on the other side too, you know, the drinking and that eating whatever I want. And I'm just saying that I've done both, and I prefer this version of

me like so much better. But it's easy. It's like, yeah, man, I wish I could have a drink tonight, and I wish I could have three or four drinks right and play video games or something. And you know, of course I will again, you know, but not right now. I'm doing seventy five hard and it's the majority of my life. If I can do this, then I'm going to do it for sure. Is that kind of what encompasses your take a cold shower theory two. Yeah, it's the hard things, man.

It just really like nobody wants to do a cold shower, nobody wants to get up at five or early. And if you do it, then that little trigger in your minds like I'm doing things that other people aren't doing, and so I'm going to get things that other people aren't going to get. Right. It's pretty simple. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. I want to answer some questions if you can from people, and these aren't specifically to you, but I kind of found several that I think are

relevant to your life. And it's just really cool because you know, I sit in here and then do this podcast every Monday and answer people's questions, which, by the way, it's if you have a question, email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. Anything could be any topic. But it's interesting because I sit in here and then the one office over is you every day, and you're a guy that has so many resources to be able to answer all these questions, and it's rare that you're actually on

the podcast. One you're just uh, you time block and you're you're busy and two we we've been kind of worried about the Batcheorette for many months. I don't worry, just making sure we do the right right protocol and and all that. So I need to make sure we clear it with them. Yeah, so let's jump into h question number one. This comes from Marshall Warren from Tacoma, Washington. Shout out to Tacoma, man, I wish I'm missing Tagoma Dome was one of Tacoma Dome, man, probably my favorite

show you've ever done, maybe, so I agree. That was just such an incredible venue. Incredible. We were on tour with Florida Georgia Line. We had all our buddies there. Yeah. Right, that's when you wrote happens like that. I wrote happens like that. Yeah, it's uh. That was Andy Albert's birthday co writer friend. We're in the parking lot, which we wrote never too Old and happens like that with Tyler

Hubbard FG. Yeah, Jordan, Andy and Justin right. Yeah, and that that venue, Takoma Dome is all wooden, like the Wooden Dome, oh man. And it was so loud in there. I missed Washington State good fans there. So shout out to you, Marshall. Marshall says, I've been a fan for a long time and saw you once in Human Claw, which was the Wolf Show. Right maybe, so yeah, he says, I hope that you get to I hope that I get to go see you more. I wanted to ask for some input. I have a great job, but I've

been thinking about wanting to make some investments lately. And I'm not talking about just some stocks. I just I want to go to more small I want to go more into a small business. But I have no idea what. I have an eighth month eighth month old son, and my fiance is a stay at home mom, So I can't just leave my job and take any big risk right now. I would love to hear what you have to say, thanks, and I hope to hear back from you.

So he's looking to keep his same job and he's wanting to make some investments on the side, and I already know what you're gonna say. You do. Yeah, So it's one hundred percent, without a doubt. Books knowledge read every day. That's an investment in yourself. It's an eight dollars book, twenty dollars book, whatever it is. But it

could be priceless. I could give you, you know, what you'll find in books, you know, not only building all those character traits and and you know, belief in yourself and self confidence, but you know, seek out what you think you might want to do. If it's not stocks, if it's real estate, invest in you know, businesses, whatever it is. Find books that cater to to where you think you might be leaning, and just dive in man every single day. So where would he start? What book

would he start with? What? It's hard to tell if he if he's not calling out that he wants to do real estate or or not, but probably Miracle Morning, right, Miracle Morning by how l Rod started it all For me, I would definitely I recommend Miracle Morning. Marshall, Poor Marshall's like, that is not what I was asking. What investors when you make an investment and you're asking me to invest in myself. But it's the right advice, right, it's the

right advice. You invest in yourself first. Yeah, nothing happens without you know, investing in yourself first. Yeah, I believe Tyler's right. And so it's a backwards way of answering your question. I know, it's not the answer you're looking for. But if you're here, you are. You got your fiance, you got a baby at home, you've got a good job. You're probably pretty young. I would assume you're in you're

in your twenties or low thirties. And Tyler's right. The best investment you could make is the time donating time back to yourself. So where do you find the time. I'm already busy. I go to work at seven am. Then you got to wake up at five. That's where. That's where the early mornings, and that's why why most success askful business people wake up early. The usual reason is you're getting up before your your kid and your girl, and that's when your phone is not being bombarded by

text messages yet or phone calls or emails. So you have time, uninterrupted quiet time to invest some way or form in yourself. So, whether that's literally, whether that's reading reading the New Testament, or or studying real estate, or heck, even even reading some kind of fiction is good practice for you setting aside time and investing time in yourself. And then what's going to happen, Marshall, is this opportunity that you're asking for financial advice is what I'm thinking

you're asking for. I know that's what you're asking for. So investing in yourself will open doors that you didn't even realize. And it might maybe it's real estate. And by reading, by reading, or in investing time in yourself, suddenly you're going to find the opportunity to meet somebody that's maybe the fixer upper or you know, that does construction and homes and they're like, man, I got this got this apartment complex and I'm looking to looking to

sell a few units. Would you be interested in investing in a few units and then and I could manage it for you and I could fix it up anyway. That kind of opportunity you could be You could have already been reading and preparing and then you go, you know what this is. This is exactly what I need to be doing right now. So yeah, I'm going to echo Tyler Miracle morning, how you're actually hopefully he's going to come out to the farm and shoot some guns.

I was talking to his buddy, part of a mastermind called Go Abundance today and he was telling me how he lives in Austin, so hopefully we'll get him out here yeah, but it's really quick to add to that. It's all about action, like Marshall, Like, you know, I'm I do real estate. Those are the investments that I do, some of them, but you know I did. It's all about action. You have to take action and you'll figure out along the way, along the journey, and never the

journey never stops. Like you know, I have a commercial unit and I have you know, a quadplex and some single families and that sort of thing. But I was like, I don't really like commercials, so I'll probably sell it, you know, But I didn't know that when I bought it. But I wouldn't have known that if I didn't buy it and take action. So and then the morning, like Grangeer was saying, is is important for me because like all the all the reasons he mentioned, but also because

you will power you lose it throughout the day. You know, we're all guilty, we're human. You have the most will power right when you wake up, right and so that's when that's my miracle morning. That's that's the time when I'm most productive. You know, when four three, two three, four o'clock rolls around and then the end of the work day five o'clock dinner. All I want to do, and what I do a lot of time is watched

my favorite show. And then that's why I go to bed early, because I know that just watching the next episode of Netflix isn't going to be productive for me ultimately, so I'd rather go to sleep early and wake up early. So yeah, Tyler always kind of pushes me on that too, that no decisions should really be made. I would say after four pm because your brain is just not it's

not ready. It's tired. You know, it's a muscle like anything else, and it's tired from all the decisions you've made during the day, and it takes more effort to make decisions after four pm. So you'll do yourself a favor if you actually set set guidelines for yourself and saying hey, whether it's your boss, your friends, coworkers, whatever, just say hey, after X time. It could be five o'clock, could be six o'clock, could be four o'clock after it

could be noon. If you get all the stuff you need to get done for the day, it could be noon. So after that time, I'm sorry to take calls. It's not rude, that's looking after yourself. So that you could be better for everyone else. We're building amor and I are building a house right now. And my project manager, Rob, who manages the whole building process, he told me in the first conversation when I met him, he said, you

could text me, call me, email me anytime. I'll be available to you to help you from nine am or excuse me, eight am until six pm Monday through Friday. After six pm, I don't answer. I don't return calls, I don't text. And this guy has a job that he's in demand, and they have ten or twelve homes they are working on, and people will have emergencies, they have things they need, and he just sets the boundary right at the beginning, like, hey, I'm very available, that's

my job to be available to you. But after six pm, it's family time, it's Rob time. Everything shut off. And guess what, since he told me that, I never forget. I've never forgotten that he told me that, And every once in a while, I'm thinking, Oh, are they bringing the whatever materials tomorrow? I need to be able to

meet them to open the gate. I look at my watch and it's six o four, and I guess what, I don't text him because I remember the dude set boundaries, and so instead of texting him at six o four, now I got to text him at eight am because that's the rule. That's what he established. And I don't dislike him because of that, you know, I actually respect and respect him more. Yeah, and he doesn't have that's great that he told you to that. But you don't

even have to tell people that. You just set the standard, like you just don't respond. Yeah, and they get the hint after a while that, hey, I can't call Tyler at seven pm because it's you know, that's his never that's not word time or whatever. Yeah, all right, let's take a break. We'll be right back. Podcast is brought to you by Scouts Honor as pet parents. Working from home is giving us some more time to spend with

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twenty two years, three kids, twenty nine one sixteen. My question is, are you and your two brothers, Tyler and Parker all named for Texas towns? We love your T shirt of the month, Thank you very much, Lord Nicks, Ye think so. Yeah, but Parker's a county. Yeah, so Parker's a county in Texas. Tyler and Granger are both towns and Texas for us. Yeah so, mom, Mom, and dad. I don't think that's why they got her names, but

it just happens to be. We're all towns. So and actually, funny thing is Tyler is in Tyler, Texas is in Smith County. Yeah, so Tyler and Smith County, so your whole name's covered. And then by chance, amb and I ended up moving close to Granger, Texas, so of all the places in Texas, and by Martlett, yeah, One town is Bartley, which is Amber's maiden name. In one town is Granger, which is very I could get there in

ten minutes. And so when you're in the town of Granger, you see, like the all the fire trucks say Granger, and the water tower and everything's Granger. It's cool. Here's a question from Mason that says, Hey, my name is Mason from Wisconsin. Just wondering about two of your albums, Pockets of Pesos and Don't listen to the radio. I want to add them to my collection, but they're not

available on your website. I'll definitely take your advice from the yege Nation livestream and buy them from I won't buy them from Amazon or anywhere else that's not you. When will us hEDS be available again? And this is a great question for Tyler, because you're kind of in charge of all my inventory. That's up to you. I don't really know. We had so many for so long, just sitting on the shelves, and then we finally sort of found them and said, hey, why are these not on?

And so we put them all on and they sold out, And to be honest, I don't even remember how or who we ordered them from yeah, back in the day that those pockets of pesos and don't listen to the radio are so old that goes back. Pockets and Pesos is like two thousand and four or two thousand and five, don't listen to the radio like two thousand and nine. So really, pockets comes from a time when we don't even remember who how we ordered it, or who we ordered it from, So we have to figure out it's

it's harder than it is now. If we want when the good guys Win or Remington, you know, any of the newer, newer albums, than it's super easy. So plus, not many people buy music anymore, let alone physical So if so, comment below. If that's something important, let us know. Comment below if that's something we really need to address. This question says Hello, my name is Caleb. I'm from North Carolina. I have a few questions. Where do you

see yourself in ten years with your channel and your family. Also, when you were a child, did you ever dream about being a singer songwriter? And if not, what were your dreams as a young boy. I'm fourteen years old. I love watching your videos and my dream is to be a sheriff in the small town I live in. And I pulled this question because I just thought it's cool for me and you Tyler to talk to a fourteen

year old boy that's actually a podcast listener. It seems crazy, right, but I know there's a lot of young people that listen to this podcast. There's all demographics that listen. But it's pretty cool that a fourteen year old I was listening to a podcast like this. And it's also cool because when kind of relevant to your question, Caleb, and by the way, shout out to North Carolina. I was fourteen when I started playing guitar. That was a big

age for me. That was impactful. What did you do when you're fourteen that you still that still matters to football? For what thing? That's a hell? So that was probably seventh or eighth grade, right, that's where you started. I think it's eighth grade. I think it's eighth grade. So what could we tell Caleb if he's fourteen now and his dream is to be a sheriff in the small town he lives in. Because dreams are kind of crafted at this age and reality really that starts the motion

at this age, you know. Then The reason I say is because you're nine or ten or eleven or twelve, like, yeah, you could be wanted to be a pro baseball player, I get it. But when you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, your life is starting to take shape, and decisions you make now start to matter, not saying that you could make bad decisions and not recover, but they start to matter. And I say a lot here that I don't believe in hard, clear cut goals ten year, five year, twenty

year goals. I believe not that they're not important, but I believe more in setting your highest intention day by day. So you say, Caleb, I want to be I want to be the best version of me right now here, today, this year, in the course of twenty twenty one. And as you as that culminates and months go by and years go by, and you're always striving to be the best version of you, striving for the highest intention, then your goals and your dreams evolve and new opportunities open

that you never would have thought. So then you say, what does that even mean? Like, what is that some philosophical mumbo jumbo that it means that when you brush your teeth and the toothpaste hits the floor. You get that little paper towel right then, and you wipe the floor on that toothpaste and you make it perfect again, right. I mean, like that's is when you make your bed, you make the corners, you take that extra five seconds

and tuck the corner in a little tighter. And if you apply those little, those little details to your life at fourteen, Caleb, you're going to be the greatest sheriff your little town has ever seen by the time you're older. Yeah, I think my advice would be the most important thing I would say is don't listen to anybody but yourself. You know. You know I've been lucky to and I think the reason that I'm where i am and same with you being a singer, is so many people throughout

your life. You know, when we're all young, we want to be a sheriff or a fireman, or an astronaut or a police officer, you know, all these big dreams of whatever. You know, a professional football player, whatever you want to be. Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do that. You know, stay strong in your convictions and listen to your gut, because you know society will try to conform you you know, to go to school, get a nine to five job, do this, and do that.

And I was lucky enough ever since I was little, to not believe in all those things and take the other road and be different than what everybody else was doing. So be different. And you know, don't let anybody tell you. Don't let them say, you know, you can't be a sheriff in this town because you know, this kid is grandfather di in when his grandfather was sheriff, and he's going to get it like no, like you go get it.

You know. Please tell them about crabs in a bucket. Yeah, Crabs in a bucket is basically an analogy where you know, if you're ever fishing on the beach or something. I don't know if any of y'all can relate, but we used to fish, like in South Padre and all these places, you know, with our dad when we were younger. But if you have a five gallon bucket and you put crabs in there, you know, and we used to go catch them at night. They all try to get out, but you don't ever have to put a lid on

it because they won't ever get out. And the reason they won't get out is because the other crabs, when one's about to get over the lid, will always reach up, grab it and pull it back. And so it's a cool analogy with that's what people try to do to you and your dreams. If you try to get out and go say I'm going to go be a sheriff, you know, there's going to be a lot of people that tell you why you can't do that or you can't follow your dream and you just can't listen to them.

This kind of started when or the first time I heard that analogy from Tyler is when I got an hateful a hateful email to this podcast, to Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. I got a hate email and what was that about? I don't remember what subject that was about why he was hating them. Basically, I think he was saying that you're getting too big for your briches. You know, you know you oh, oh, it was it

was an email. It was a hate email about why am I collabing with big YouTubers to make videos when I should be remembering my roots and with small, small town people, you like, people that don't have a YouTube channel instead of trying to grow the channel and getting with like the Demomats and the Kentucky Ballistics and Fishing with Flair Whistling Diesel. Stay away from those guys that are actually having success and go to the people that don't have anything going on. And I did, he was saying.

He was claiming, I was doing this because I'm too big for my bridges now, and I showed it to Tyler and because I always feel like and you guys could definitely comment below correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm always wanting to hear criticism and hear advice. But you know, I truly try to build this the best content I can for the entertainment of my viewers. And guys like Demo Maat and Lunkers and Whistling Diesel, you know,

like them or not, like their personalities are not. They have built from nothing from they were at once nothing. They were nobody's that built a channel, like like we all came from nothing. They built a channel to encapsulate a greater audience and keep growing to give people quality entertainment. So that you know, my goal when I make a funny video or an Earl Dibble's video is to take your mind off the world for three minutes that's my I want to contribute so that you can go man.

For three minutes, I watched this video and I laughed, or I watched these guys mudding in a truck and I thought it was great, and for three minutes I forgot that I actually am really stressed today. So I look at that as a positive thing. So it's funny because I was showing Tyler this email of this guy that's like, you're doing it all wrong, You're too big for your breeches, and Tyler goes, a guy's a crab in a bucket, and I was like, he's a crab

in a bucket, what do you mean. It's such a cool analogy that as soon as you in life you start you start getting some headway and you're like you're almost out, people always want to drag you back to the bottom of the bucket again. And there's certain personalities.

There's always those personalities in every town. And we all know you're probably as you're listening, you're thinking of somebody right now, some guy or girl that always wants to drag you back down with them, because that's where you belong, at the bottom of the bucket. So yeah, Caleb, what Tyler is saying is don't worry about those crabs and a bucket, buddy, you keep on climbing. Fourteen awesome age

and shout out to North Carolina. Thanks for writing it in And ironically, just like that, here comes another one. Cody from North Carolina says, I've been listening to your podcast, really loving it. I've been taking notes on how to make it, especially just starting one like this for myself. This podcast has been a blessing and inspiration to me. And there are so many questions I have, but I want to ask just one. How do I convert my life, family way of living to be a full time musician?

I understand it takes time, but bills don't stop, and I have a family to take care of, but overall I have a dream. Yee ye. Cody from North Carolina once again shout out to North Carolina. That's two in a row. I did not mean to do that. So Tyler, very successful music manager, what would you tell Cody who has a family and a dream at the same time, how to balance it? Two? What was the question? His question is? How do I convert my life, family way of living to be a full time musician? I understand

it takes time, but the bills don't stop. And have a family to take care of. But overall, I have a dream. Yeah, I mean that's you're you're going to answer that one what you always tell people with amber, like if that's his dream, like it's your dream and your calling, and you know the road is where you find purpose, like your wife needs that and once you wants that for a man, like a man needs that

drive and that person that purpose in those goals. Right, And so if that's what his dream is, then he has to go do it. And his wife understand and you want that, she must want him to stay there and be a prison of not pursuing his dream. That's exactly where. So yeah, that's what i'd say, Cody, is that first, there's two parts of this question to two ways for me to answer it. And the first way

is you owe it to your family. Unlike you're probably thinking, you owe it to your family to be able to pursue your wildest dreams because if you don't, you become a prisoner of a life that you didn't get to live. And you're you're going to be more absent minded with your family. You're going to be a little distant. It's not a good example to your kids for you to say I once had a chance to chase this and I never did. Well, why is that going to make them inspired to ever do that in their life if

dad didn't do it. And so, regardless of if you succeed or not, in any kind of dream, you have to go in and do it to fall your heart. And once again it goes back to a book we reference all the time called Wild at Heart. How a man in his heart, in the in the in his essence, he wants to follow an adventure and and your wife, your girl are more attracted to the man. That's that's

actively chasing that adventure. That's attractive. That's that's who you are instead of being a slave to your current job. All that being said, this is the bad part. This is the second part of the answer, and this is the this is the depressing bad part. Cody, you can't do it. You can't convert your life in your family, we have lived to be a full time musician. Unless you go all in. You can't go halfway or you're never gonna make it. You're never gonna do anything if

you go halfway. Because there's no time. You couldn't You couldn't have told Tom Brady when he was starting that he wants to be an NFL quarterback and he also wants to keep another job, and so he needs to just work out half the day. Work is other job half the day. Unfortunately, you can't do that. You gotta go. You gotta start now. You got to get up early. You got to grind, you gotta network, you gotta write songs.

You got to learn an instrument better, perfect it. You got to go hound your local venue and start getting open mic nights and booking them and playing relentlessly. If that's what you're talking about in this question, there you go. If that's not what you're talking about, if you don't want to give everything you have to this, then dude, there's nothing wrong with music as a major hobby and a big piece of your life. There's nothing wrong with

what we call weekend warriors. That's that's guys that they have a life, they have a job, they have a family, but on the weekends they have a band and they go play sets for you know, door money or tips, and they do it because they love music. They have a passion for it. They love playing, they love performing, and they get everything they need uh back from that passion through being playing Fridays and Saturday nights. So hey,

that's those are two very different things. But if you're talking about being a star or a full time musician, meaning you don't have any other income but music, dude, I hate to break it to you, but it's like it's like saying I want to drive a NASCAR and how do I start? Well, you start in the pit crew right now. You quit everything and you go go in the pit. You know, you know what I mean. It's like I want to be an NFL quarterback, I want to be a I want to be a brain surgeon.

Brain surgeons devote their whole life to do that. There's you know, so, so do you want to do it? Do you want to do it as a hobby, which is awesome and admirable, or do you want to just go all in? And I think that's pretty much how you say it. Yeah yeah, uh yeah, we got we got got space for one more. Here it says, hey, grangdeer, I'm thirty six years old. I've been working in it at a university for thirteen years. The money and benefits

have always been great. Salary has allowed us to pay off all our debts, including student loans, cars, credit cards, and mortgage, so we're in a great financial position. However, I'm a little I felt little satisfaction from this work I do, and I want a new path to find meaning. The longer I stay, the more disgusted I get with the university and what it stands for. I don't want to support it any longer, but I find it tough to leave. For lack of a better word, it is

very financially safe. I don't want to continue my current job for the rest of my life, just working because the money's good, when my greatest satisfaction comes from making things with my hands. I'm incredibly grateful for God that He's provided for me with this job, but staying because the money's good just seems shallow. I've never been the

kind of person who knows their purpose or calling. I just kind of feel like I'm at a ten way intersection with no information on which road I should take. Should I stay with it because it's safe, or should I leave. I've never it was never my passion, and this job was never something I wanted. It just fell into my lap. So my question is what is your advice on how to find one's purpose and how do

you find the courage to pursue it. That's Ken. Well, the first thing I'll say is don't leave your job right now, you know, especially you know, or you'll start racking up that debt again, you know, pretty quickly. But you just got to try new things. He said he works with his hands or likes to work with his hands. We'll keep doing your job and start working with your hands. I don't know what he does, but start to It's almost the same answer to the first guy that was

asking for investment advice. It's almost like your first investment is a book. Yeah, I mean his first investment like it should be action, like do whatever he likes doing with his hands, Go do it like when he gets

before he goes to work or when he gets home. Right, take care of your family, keep paying the bills, and then see what happens and if you really enjoy it, you know, the money will the money starts coming in the then reevaluate in a few years, like you know, when it makes sense for you to leave and start doing that full time. Yeah, I don't really know what

you mean. By working with your hands. But say, for instance, you're talking about building custom furniture, which by the way, is a really awesome market right now, like on Facebook Marketplace, have you looked, I mean, custom furniture is through the roof right now. You could go on Facebook Marketplace and say like rustic desk or bedframe, and there's a wood worker, many of them on Facebook Marketplace, within thirty miles of you wherever you are. Yeah, pretty much. It's never been

easier than in our time. So for instance, like I said, I don't know what you mean by hands, but say that you're calling you're you can, you're really good at woodworking, Then keep your job at it. It's good money. And get up a little bit earlier, give yourself an extra hour and set up your garage, set up your space, and begin like start like that's the that's the greatest advice for so many things, like how do you run a marathon? You start? You start, You put on your shoes, right,

you tie your shoes, yeah, John Wooden? Yeah, So so how do you how do you start a Facebook marketplace company of custom wouldwork? You go to Facebook and you hit start new begin new page, and you get you put your info on there, and then and then you go and sharpen your saw and you set up your little workspace. And then on the third day you walk in and you get your block of wood and you

build your first piece. And then when you get that first piece, you take pictures of it and you put it on Facebook marketplace and you put a price on it, and then you see if you could sell it, and then you sell it, and then you make a second one. All the while you're still working it until you reach a tipping point where you go, man, actually this Facebook business is actually starting to make more money than it.

Then you're you're no longer at a ten way intersection, like you said, you're at a one way intersection, and you go, hey, this is the way, this is this is the path. So so yeah, your your questions. So my question is what advice would you have for one finding one's purpose and how do you find the courage to pursue it. You're you're looking at purpose as if

it's some massive, universal global plan. That's It's Caleb, our warehouse manager, always says, it's like you're looking at an elephant that you need to eat, and how do you eat an elephant. One bite at a time, you just take a little bite out of that g massive purpose and start with the bite, and then after that bite, you take a second bite. So as Jordan Peterson, a great writer and philosopher, always says, aim low, aim low, don't aim so high. The world wants to always say,

ame big, have big goals, big dreams, big ambitions. That's cool and that looks awesome on a coffee mug. But sometimes you just got to aim low and go, I'm gonna tomorrow, I'm gonna go in the garage, in that corner that's got all the junk piled up, I'm gonna clean that corner, and that's gonna be my future workspace

for this new furniture business i'm starting. And then on day two, when you walk in there and you see the perfectly clean corner in your garage, you feel more inspired to maybe I'll go to the rustic wood shop and buy buy some boards. You know, it's it's basically one small bite at a time. And congrats that you have a well paying job and you even have this dilemma, because that's you're in a really good situation. Any more, purpose,

purpose driven pieces of advice. How about a book? Well, yeah, I think he also you know, he also does need to have big goals though at the same time, or a vision of where you think that this could take you. Right, Like the most important thing, like Granger said, was to take that first step. You know, if you're running a marathon, you know, the first step is putting your shoes on. Yeah, but you also need to visualize and take some time to think and really concentrate away from everything and no

distractions and be like, what could this be? What you know and listen to your heart and your gut and what it's telling you, Like, do I want to be you know, do I want to open a furniture furniture store? Do I want to be the number one furniture store in the world. Do I want to open just a local furniture store. Do I just want to sell on mark get places? Do I want to just start asking

you all those questions? Do I just want to do this as a hobby and then you know, and kind of create a vision of what you think you might want to do in the end goal and then just work backwards from there. Yeah, You're totally right. And to be clear, I feel like people. When it comes to big goals, it's overwhelming and you're getting paralysis when you look at it. Like certain I think this country suffers.

Maybe this world suffers from goal paralysis, meaning you set a goal, you look at it and you go, oh, that's really big. Yeah, we all do. I don't even know where to start. I do every day in real estate. How am I supposed to do this? Well, maybe I can call a friend that knows somebody that knows how to do it, and I'll ask him, and then maybe he knows somebody that you know. So don't don't get

big goal paralysis. Don't let the big goals scare you and you don't even know where to start, because then you then it's worthless to even have the goal to begin with. So again, set your highest intention daily, take small bites, aim low, and pretty soon that mountain you're climbing get smaller and smaller and smaller. So that's all the time we have. Dude, Thank you for being on here, Thank you for having You're back into another meeting after this, Yeah,

I gotta go real estate meeting. It to fifteen. All right, Well we'll get we'll get Tyler. If you want to seymore Tyler comment below More Tyler more Tyler. So yeah, this has been a good podcast. Thank you guys for listening. So, y'all, before we get off here, I want to end this with some shout outs. I've got a lot of people that email in and want to shout out on the podcast, and I got to appreciate those just as much as a question. So if you want to shout out on

this podcast, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. And we have Nathaniel Hall from Kerrville, Texas, sixteen years old, shout out to you, buddy. We have Andre Cooper and she says I wanted to know how to get noticed. I've been practicing. I've practicing singer for three years or more, and if I ever become famous, I wouldn't be able to meet you. So good luck to you, Andy. I hope you just crush it on social media and putting on as many songs as you can, and I hope

to meet you one day. This question says, hey, I'd love a shout out. My name is Maddox Bradbury. Awesome name, Maddox. Shout out. This one is from Braxton Walden says hey, Grandrew you're the best country singer. Thank you so much. Appreciate you, Braxton, shout out to you. I have Caleb Harris from Arizona. Shout out appreciate you being a fan and hanging with me for so long. And shout out

to your beautiful wife, Brie. This says, Hey, this is Rodney Holme or haul Me he pronounced it, from Davenport, Washington. Shout out to Rodney Nolan hal Meey from Davenport, Washington. They must have been together when they did that. And Ricky from Missouri, what's up, Ricky? Shout out to you, buddy. And Parker Phillips says, Hey, my name is Parker Phillips. I'm from Plainfield Whisky. Shout out to Wisconsin and Parker. And Hey Granger, I was wondering if you could do

a shout out for my daughter, Mia Blackwell. She's turning five on February twentieth. I slightly missed that date, but shout out to Mia, Happy birthday. Thanks for listening. This one says, Hey Granger. My name is Ryan six from Knoxville, Iowa, and he wants to propose to his girlfriend. And Guthrie River Ruckus in Iowa at the end of July. So, dude, I need you to hit up my tour manager Chris

at Grangersmith dot com. Okay, and hopefully you're a girl is not listening to this podcast because I just read that. But chi Grass buddy, we'll do one more. Said Hey, Granger, my best friend Wyatt Allan is a really big fan. You think you can give him a shout out? So what's up, Wyatt. I appreciate all of you guys, and thanks for thanks for even wanting me to give you a shout out. That means a lot to me. Thanks for joining me on the Granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate

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