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I Was Broke at 25... This Changed Everything (9 Money Moves)

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On this episode of The Table with Anthony ONeal, we’re getting real about what it means to be one emergency away from broke. If you’re living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to make ends meet, or just unsure what to do when money’s tight, this show is for you! AO shares his personal story of being broke at 25 and the exact 9 money moves that helped turn his life around.

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Transcript

[SPEAKER_00]: I get messages every single day from people telling me, they just don't have enough money saved. [SPEAKER_00]: They're stretched to their absolute limit. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're living paycheck to paycheck right now, this video was going to be for you. [SPEAKER_00]: This is not going to be your typical, you know, pay off that type video. [SPEAKER_00]: No, many of you are feeling like you're doing everything right.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're working hard, you're showing up, you're paying your bills, but you still can't seem to get ahead and I understand that, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Distress of checking your account before you even swipe the card. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been there, I understand you. [SPEAKER_00]: But here's what nobody is telling you about being broke. [SPEAKER_00]: I was twenty something years old, living paycheck to paycheck, making every single financial mistake in the book.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then I discovered [SPEAKER_00]: these nine money moves that changed everything for me and family when I say this. [SPEAKER_00]: If I can go from checking my account balance in the grocery store line to never worrying about money again so can you if I can go. [SPEAKER_00]: from putting in my debit card at the gas station hoping that it will get pre-authorized for a dollar to never ever question and can I get guys against so can you?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is passionate for me because I've been there and I know what it feels like to be working on two jobs, three jobs, just two survive. [SPEAKER_00]: So today I want you to dial in and I want to walk you through exactly what to do when you do not have enough money. [SPEAKER_00]: When you're stuck in that paycheck to paycheck cycle and the nine moves that would change your financial life forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be honest, most people are stressed and stuck in the paycheck to paycheck cycle because they were never taught of money actually works. [SPEAKER_00]: That is exactly why I built this channel. [SPEAKER_00]: Every week, my team and I are breaking down how to master your money, how to get out of that safe, invest, and build wealth without borrowing a dime. [SPEAKER_00]: No fluff, no hype. [SPEAKER_00]: Just real money content actually helps you win. [SPEAKER_00]: financially.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, because money impacts every aspect of our lives, our peace, our relationships, and even our future. [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't take control of it, it will look control you. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're tired of just surviving and you're ready to build wealth guys way, you're in the right place. [SPEAKER_00]: Over nine hundred thousand people have already subscribed to our YouTube channel with over millions of downloads and our applicants, Spotify, podcast.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we hit a million on YouTube, we're giving way, thirty thousand dollars to help you get out of debt in the start building legacy. [SPEAKER_00]: So listen, don't just watch. [SPEAKER_00]: Hit that subscribe, family. [SPEAKER_00]: Join this community. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's build real wealth. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's build real financial freedom together. [SPEAKER_00]: It's your boy. [SPEAKER_00]: Hit that subscribe. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get back to the show.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get straight to it. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_00]: Move number one. [SPEAKER_00]: Stop accepting broke as your identity. [SPEAKER_00]: Stop accepting being average as your identity. [SPEAKER_00]: Stop accepting. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like everyone else as your identity. [SPEAKER_00]: Because we gotta start right here. [SPEAKER_00]: I know it sounds so cliche, Anthony, but mindset really is everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: You may not have any extra money right now, but you still have power and you still have God on your side. [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible says, all things are possible through me. [SPEAKER_00]: So if all things are possible through me, I gotta believe that I can't be wealthy. [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta believe that I can't be that free. [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta believe in here first. [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta accept what the Word of God says about me inside of here.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have the power to change your mindset. [SPEAKER_00]: You have the power to make choices that shift your financial future. [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to me, listen to me, listen, listen, listen. [SPEAKER_00]: You're not done. [SPEAKER_00]: You're not even broken. [SPEAKER_00]: You may have experienced life, you may have made some dumb decisions, but you're just in a tight season. [SPEAKER_00]: But staying broke will no longer be your choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once you understand how many really works, once you go from being a piece of the game to knowing how to play the game. [SPEAKER_00]: And today, on this show, I'm not here to beat you up. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here to build you up. [SPEAKER_00]: So today is the last day, you say it is what it is. [SPEAKER_00]: Every time you get an argument, every time you just want to go in the towel, man, it is what it is. [SPEAKER_00]: No, I bumped that.

[SPEAKER_00]: From now on, it is what I decide it will be. [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. [SPEAKER_00]: You all gotta say that with me. [SPEAKER_00]: From today moving on, [SPEAKER_00]: We're not saying it is what it is. [SPEAKER_00]: I need you to repeat after me right now. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're driving in your car, if you're watching this live, type it inside of the chat section.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're watching this on the replay after his live, I want you to type it inside a comment section. [SPEAKER_00]: But right now, I want you to speak it out loud. [SPEAKER_00]: From today moving on, it is what I decide it will be. [SPEAKER_00]: Why? [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Bible says, speak it. [SPEAKER_00]: Speak it. [SPEAKER_00]: I will be wealthy. [SPEAKER_00]: I will be debt-free. [SPEAKER_00]: I will change my family future. [SPEAKER_00]: My children will be wealthy.

[SPEAKER_00]: My children will be able to have shoes. [SPEAKER_00]: My children will be able to go to any college that they desire to go to. [SPEAKER_00]: I am changing things through. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's moving number two. [SPEAKER_00]: Learn to money rules. [SPEAKER_00]: They never taught you. [SPEAKER_00]: Learn to money rules. [SPEAKER_00]: Your parents never taught you. [SPEAKER_00]: They church never taught you. [SPEAKER_00]: The schools never taught you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, nobody taught us this stuff growing up. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you weren't raised around wealth, chances are you never learned how to manage money. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in school completing my MBA. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be done here in a couple of months. [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot believe still to this fact that [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I went back to school. [SPEAKER_00]: I got my bachelor's in finance and banking. [SPEAKER_00]: I got my executive MBA and church management.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then I start my doctoral program here in the fall. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in October, man, to get my doctorate of my DBA and my DBA in finance and investing. [SPEAKER_00]: And what I was in my class, I had to do a presentation on my company. [SPEAKER_00]: I had to do a SWAT analysis. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna do some lessons on SWAT analysis, just so you all can learn this.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's well, I had to do a SWAT analysis on my company, while I was presenting to my particular class man, I had several people. [SPEAKER_00]: who were in their forties and fifties and watched this. [SPEAKER_00]: I even had young man in his twenties. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I love my class and a lot of my peers, my classmates are watching this right now and I love you all. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement here on this past week.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there was that man, Anthony, thank you for what you're doing because I never learned this. [SPEAKER_00]: I had a fifty-five year old young lady who transitioned from being married to out of her own. [SPEAKER_00]: She said, believe it or not, Anthony, at fifty-five years old, what you're teaching, I do [SPEAKER_00]: Not, no, and I need to know.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then I had a twenty-year-old tell me, my man listened, and I grew up in the home, and my parents never taught me to sub that, that you just presented to us of what your company is about. [SPEAKER_00]: So thank you so much. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't take financial literacy serious within our age bracket. [SPEAKER_00]: So if we were not raised around wealth, if our parents were not financially intellectually there, chances are we never learned how to manage money and respectfully.

[SPEAKER_00]: My parents didn't teach me how to build wealth. [SPEAKER_00]: You know why? [SPEAKER_00]: Because they weren't wealthy at that time from a practical standpoint. [SPEAKER_00]: But let me tell you right now, it may not be your fault that you didn't know, but it is your responsibility to learn. [SPEAKER_00]: Here are the five money rules that would change your life moving forward. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, put this up there, Ed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, money roll, it's been less than what you make. [SPEAKER_00]: They sound super simple, but most people fail here. [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, give each dollar a job, aka have a budget. [SPEAKER_00]: Before you spend it, give that dollar an assignment. [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, save before you spend it. [SPEAKER_00]: pay God first, pay yourself next. [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, debt, consumer debt, specifically, is not your friend.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's stealing from your future. [SPEAKER_00]: Number five, you don't need to look like you got it to build wealth. [SPEAKER_00]: This whole fake it till you make it is keeping us broke. [SPEAKER_00]: No, be you until you make it to the next age. [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the five simple money rules that I live by. [SPEAKER_00]: I spend less than what I make, why? [SPEAKER_00]: Because that creates margin. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's built when you have margin.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was teaching at Fifthville State University a month ago, and I was teaching these high schoolers. [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, man, do you understand what margin is? [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what is margin? [SPEAKER_00]: And I told them on a day one, I told them to go home and ask their parents. [SPEAKER_00]: Mom and dad, what does margin mean financially?

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say about seventy five percent of the kids came back and they said the parents didn't understand margin. [SPEAKER_00]: And margin simply this if I make five thousand and I'm only spending thirty five hundred dollars a month. [SPEAKER_00]: I got fifteen hundred dollars in margin. [SPEAKER_00]: That margin is what I use to build wealth. [SPEAKER_00]: That is what I'm investing. [SPEAKER_00]: So those five simple money rules. [SPEAKER_00]: This is the foundation.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is going to help you build wealth. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to help you build on it. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to move number three. [SPEAKER_00]: Move number three. [SPEAKER_00]: You got to enter into the financial survival mode. [SPEAKER_00]: What do I mean by survival mode? [SPEAKER_00]: Simple terms. [SPEAKER_00]: Cut the fluff. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're struggling to breathe financially, it's time to enter financial survival mode.

[SPEAKER_00]: That means cutting everything that isn't a true need. [SPEAKER_00]: Example, I am on this journey of becoming healthier. [SPEAKER_00]: Forty-one years old and, man, I was sitting down my nutritionist and my coach. [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, man, we gotta cut the fluff out. [SPEAKER_00]: We need to cut out sugars. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not helping you. [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, we gotta cut out bread. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not helping you right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta get into fat burning mode. [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta get into feeding you things that you need and cutting out things that you necessarily do not need right now. [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you can cut out the fluff, you'll get to your weight goals quicker. [SPEAKER_00]: Sprinets back over to money. [SPEAKER_00]: What are your needs? [SPEAKER_00]: Rent utilities, groceries, transportations. [SPEAKER_00]: What is the fluff?

[SPEAKER_00]: Netflix, door bags, gym memberships, Amazon splurges, mall runs, emotional spending, excessive dating. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I said it. [SPEAKER_00]: Cut the dating, brothers, sisters. [SPEAKER_00]: Cut going to the diagonal and hair and now spot every other week. [SPEAKER_00]: Pause the Netflix. [SPEAKER_00]: Council that gym membership, you ain't going every single day anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if someone says yellow, you only live once, tell them, I'm trying to live well for as long as I can. [SPEAKER_00]: Not just flakes one time and stay broke for the rest of my life. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to live for today. [SPEAKER_00]: And then when I'm seventy five freaking years old, I still gotta be at McDonald's, starting your day on grandchildren and getting cut out because they didn't have cheese on their burgers.

[SPEAKER_00]: At two o'clock in the morning, after they went to the club, I want to be in the bad sleep. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to wake up. [SPEAKER_00]: When I want to wake up, I want to go bad. [SPEAKER_00]: When I want to go to bed, and I want to get my grandchildren. [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever I want to get my grandchildren, and I want to spoil them and I crazy them. [SPEAKER_00]: Send them back home to their parents. [SPEAKER_00]: I want them to come over here and get cavities at my house.

[SPEAKER_00]: Send them back home. [SPEAKER_00]: And because listen to me, temporary sacrifices, bills, permanent freedom. [SPEAKER_00]: And if we could put that on the tweet on the screen somewhere, well I'm loving this, I'm loving this season that I'm in, temporary sacrifices, build permanent freedom. [SPEAKER_00]: Alright family, let me keep it real with you. [SPEAKER_00]: Right now. [SPEAKER_00]: You see, most people avoid talking about life insurance because it's uncomfortable.

[SPEAKER_00]: It takes forever to get approved and honestly, it feels like you're planning for the worst. [SPEAKER_00]: Totally kidding, right? [SPEAKER_00]: But I see an exact same thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what changed in my mind. [SPEAKER_00]: You see, forty percent of Americans don't have life insurance at all. [SPEAKER_00]: The ones who do, their policies are usually worth just two times their annual salary.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's nowhere near enough money to protect your family, to protect the people who you say you love. [SPEAKER_00]: Can you know me? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't partner with just anybody. [SPEAKER_00]: But when I found ethos, I got my own two million dollar policy because they made it extremely simple. [SPEAKER_00]: No medical exams, no blood tests, no waiting weeks. [SPEAKER_00]: I literally got covered in ten minutes from my phone. [SPEAKER_00]: Note life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The same policy I got a few years ago will cost me way more if I buy today. [SPEAKER_00]: Your family's financial security should never depend on your paycheck alone. [SPEAKER_00]: That's not building well. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't wait until it's too late. [SPEAKER_00]: want you to visit anthonylo.com for us as ethos to get a free quote today. [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to apply a minute. [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to get covered today.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to protect your family's future. [SPEAKER_00]: We're counting on you. [SPEAKER_00]: Go to anthonylo.com for us as ethos. [SPEAKER_00]: Which leads me to move number four. [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to stack your first one thousand dollar emergency fund like yesterday. [SPEAKER_00]: Before you start tackling your consumer debt, [SPEAKER_00]: Before you start investing, I need you to stack cushion. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? [SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because one flat tire, one medical bill, one miss check can take you out to gay. [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to start with just a thousand dollars. [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't aim for five thousand. [SPEAKER_00]: I know why Tish have at least three to six months of your net pay saved inside of a Hollywood savings account. [SPEAKER_00]: But right now, I need you to get a small win. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you have to sell old clothes on Facebook Marketplace.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually selling a treadmill right now on Facebook Marketplace. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you've got a babysitter on the weekends. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you've got a flip furniture. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you've got a drive Uber on Saturday mornings. [SPEAKER_00]: Friday evenings being get off the work.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do whatever you've got to do to get that thousand dollars inside of your high yield saves account fast like yesterday. [SPEAKER_00]: And the key here is, this money move is you have to have this in a separate account. [SPEAKER_00]: Do not put it inside of your checking account because you're gonna be tempted to spend it. [SPEAKER_00]: Do not even put it attached to your savings. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't even put it inside of your savings account.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a task to your checking account that you see every single day. [SPEAKER_00]: No, this needs to be on a whole, another higher savings account. [SPEAKER_00]: Out of sight means out of sight. [SPEAKER_00]: out of sight means out of swipe. [SPEAKER_00]: That one thousand dollars is your shield. [SPEAKER_00]: It is your backup plan. [SPEAKER_00]: It is your very first quick win.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you get this thousand dollars, you're going to put this inside of your highest savings account. [SPEAKER_00]: And we personally recommend so far here. [SPEAKER_00]: Go to anthemunil.comforce. [SPEAKER_00]: That's so fast. [SPEAKER_00]: It should be a lower third up on the screen right now. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're listening to this on podcast, we'll make sure to have that in the side of the side of the show knows.

[SPEAKER_00]: What I love about so far is if we're saving, if we're getting a thousand dollars, what they're going to give you three hundred dollars just to open up a check and then save as a count today. [SPEAKER_00]: So now you really only need to set aside seven hundred dollars. [SPEAKER_00]: For some of you all, that's the other maybe two or three items and you're at a thousand dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just like [SPEAKER_00]: Which moves me on the move number five, because I think a lot of you all are gonna have to really find some hidden money. [SPEAKER_00]: It's there, our promise. [SPEAKER_00]: You said, Anthony, we're gonna come up with seven hundred dollars. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we gotta find a money size budget. [SPEAKER_00]: You can't just save your way to what thousand dollars. [SPEAKER_00]: You just can't save your way to wealth.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to create the margin. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's how, it's simple. [SPEAKER_00]: And we won't get a bunch of bills. [SPEAKER_00]: call your providers in negotiate. [SPEAKER_00]: I saved two hundred thousand month just by making phone calls. [SPEAKER_00]: I actually saved. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be honest with you. [SPEAKER_00]: I saved six hundred dollars. [SPEAKER_00]: By calling around, I left State Farm.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was charging me about twelve to thirteen hundred dollars a month to ensure my cars. [SPEAKER_00]: Then I called, not called around. [SPEAKER_00]: I went online. [SPEAKER_00]: And I just put all of my information out there. [SPEAKER_00]: And all state came back and said, hey, we'll give you full coverage on all your cars for six hundred and twenty six hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't mirror these at mouth. [SPEAKER_00]: Like six hundred fifty bucks somewhere around there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's in the six hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: When I was like, wait, what? [SPEAKER_00]: So this is what I did, y'all. [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't finish the application. [SPEAKER_00]: Within a matter of an hour and a half, all of a sudden they called me. [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, hey, man, this is what I need. [SPEAKER_00]: This is what state farmers offer me. [SPEAKER_00]: I need the exact same coverage on my cars. [SPEAKER_00]: Is this the correct quote? [SPEAKER_00]: Lady came back.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was like at first like six hundred and like eighty bucks. [SPEAKER_00]: She said, yeah, and obviously, if you're willing to do a higher deductible, I said, what's the highest deductible? [SPEAKER_00]: Right now you have about a thousand, but you can put it at twenty five hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: If you put your height, if you put your deductible, twenty-five hundred dollars, then we can go down to save the boomer money. [SPEAKER_00]: I said, not a problem.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got the money inside my savings account. [SPEAKER_00]: Man, go up to the highest deductible. [SPEAKER_00]: Watch this because I have two cars. [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, well, we can take out roadside assistance because if one car goes down, you can use your other car. [SPEAKER_00]: I said, bet, take roadside assistance out. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't need it. [SPEAKER_00]: Not rose side assistance? [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, I'm sorry, rent the cars. [SPEAKER_00]: Negotiating.

[SPEAKER_00]: I started cutting bills. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, listen, the thirteen hundred dollars a month wasn't hurting my pocket. [SPEAKER_00]: There may be honest with you. [SPEAKER_00]: But why paid thirteen hundred would I be paying six hundred? [SPEAKER_00]: What did that just do? [SPEAKER_00]: It created margin. [SPEAKER_00]: Another one is, you can sell some stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: That old iPad, those old shoes that are collecting dust, some of them dresses you have with tags on them, man, sell that stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: Another one is, bullshit income. [SPEAKER_00]: Take a weekend shift. [SPEAKER_00]: Deliver groceries, sell a digital product, start a stop hustle. [SPEAKER_00]: Start a YouTube channel. [SPEAKER_00]: Figure out a way to boost your income. [SPEAKER_00]: If you can find even just a hundred dollars of margin a month, that's the game changer.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's twelve hundred dollars a year. [SPEAKER_00]: That could fully fund your emergency account. [SPEAKER_00]: Pay it out, credit card. [SPEAKER_00]: Give you a little bit of breathing room. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not alive. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit. [SPEAKER_00]: And do not think small. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you are one idea away from a six-figure business. [SPEAKER_00]: You're one idea away from a extra twenty five thousand dollars a year side hustle.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're one idea away from your next breakthrough and to help you find this money. [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I want you to go to Anthony onel.com for slash twenty one day. [SPEAKER_00]: You should see it coming up here in the screen on low or third. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, if you're listening to this on the podcast, please go into the show notes. [SPEAKER_00]: For twenty one days, we're going to send you an email.

[SPEAKER_00]: every single day for two new one days and we're gonna walk you through how to go through your budget, how to negotiate, where you can find some things. [SPEAKER_00]: And I guarantee you by the end of these two new one days, you will find at least two hundred and fifty dollars up to a thousand dollars a month inside of your budget, simply by following this game plan. [SPEAKER_00]: So go to Anthonyondil.com for slash twenty one days.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every single day when you wake up, you will have an email from me walking you through [SPEAKER_00]: on what to do today to cut yourself home build, to cut your electricity bill, watch this, to even get some free airline miles while also saving you money. [SPEAKER_00]: So again, go to Anthony on theo.com for us. [SPEAKER_00]: That's when we went there. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, I got like three more things. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll get it out of here. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's move number six.

[SPEAKER_00]: Use a written budget. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it in the side of your head. [SPEAKER_00]: Trust me on that. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think I got it. [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, wait, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's keep it real. [SPEAKER_00]: You cannot win with money by guessing. [SPEAKER_00]: A budget is honestly not a punishment. [SPEAKER_00]: It is honestly permission to enjoy your money. [SPEAKER_00]: It gives your money direction before you even touch it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I use as your base budget format. [SPEAKER_00]: Every dollar gets assigned. [SPEAKER_00]: Every expense is intentional. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't win it. [SPEAKER_00]: And what I've learned is financial winners, wealthy individuals, not rich people, wealthy individuals, they have a game plan for their money. [SPEAKER_00]: You can go to anthonyl.com for us at store. [SPEAKER_00]: You can download our budgeting tool there, our wealth tracker.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll put that inside of today's show notes as well. [SPEAKER_00]: There's so many products and resources, y'all. [SPEAKER_00]: I can keep saying this for days and after every single point, but a lot of content and a lot of tools and resources are at anthonyl.com. [SPEAKER_00]: You can go there and you have access to all this stuff that we're mentioning inside of today's show. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, move number seven. [SPEAKER_00]: Keep it real with your friends, aka your circle.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's no shame in saying, hey, I can't afford this right now. [SPEAKER_00]: What's worse? [SPEAKER_00]: Flexing like you're good, trying to keep up, and still being broke a year from now, or telling your friends you're on building. [SPEAKER_00]: I've got some financial goals that I need to meet. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm tired of struggling. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm tired of living page of the page eight. [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, it'd be real to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm tired of looking like I got it all together. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready to have it all together. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna have to catch up with you a little bit later. [SPEAKER_00]: because your real friends, they will totally understand. [SPEAKER_00]: And the rest, man, let them talk about you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let them call you broke, let them call you cheat, let them call you whatever they're gonna call you, man, because I guarantee you half of those friends are broken cheap and they need to be doing the same thing that you're doing. [SPEAKER_00]: You'll be too busy living your best life financially free while they're still struggling and looking good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Trust me, I had friends who had the Mercedes who had the BMWs when I was growing up when I was on my journey of fixing my life. [SPEAKER_00]: I had friends who were no longer my friends today because I just told them I was like, yo bro, I'm tired. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm tired. [SPEAKER_00]: I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of my own gag on life. [SPEAKER_00]: And if I want to change that, I gotta make some decisions. [SPEAKER_00]: To this day they do not talk to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: But to this day, I know I have a, I don't wanna say a better light, because I'm not, I'm not a better individual, but I think I have more freedom. [SPEAKER_00]: Moving number eight. [SPEAKER_00]: Celebrate every single win. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have who watched my show, I'm gonna say either the most recent show or some of the most recent shows. [SPEAKER_00]: I talked to you how to save ten thousand dollars and fifty two weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: And on each, every four weeks, I wanted you to celebrate. [SPEAKER_00]: because going from two hundred to five hundred to a thousand dollars and four weeks, that's massive. [SPEAKER_00]: Because here's a truth. [SPEAKER_00]: Some months are going to get messy. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of your budgets are going to blow up. [SPEAKER_00]: Some weeks you might feel like giving up, but I don't want you to. [SPEAKER_00]: Someone to celebrate every single win.

[SPEAKER_00]: You put fifty dollars away this month. [SPEAKER_00]: A celebrate that. [SPEAKER_00]: That is a win. [SPEAKER_00]: You paid off a bill. [SPEAKER_00]: You paid off one of your debts. [SPEAKER_00]: That is progress. [SPEAKER_00]: That is a win. [SPEAKER_00]: You made it through the month without borrowing without swiping your credit card. [SPEAKER_00]: That is a win. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be honest with you all.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I go a whole week and I eat one hundred percent clean, I celebrate. [SPEAKER_00]: How do I celebrate? [SPEAKER_00]: I'll open up a spray. [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm back on it. [SPEAKER_00]: I celebrate wins because you're not feeling your building finances security for your future. [SPEAKER_00]: And here is the last move that changed my life. [SPEAKER_00]: I give you eight moves. [SPEAKER_00]: Why have all eight of them if you don't activate it and start right now?

[SPEAKER_00]: Do not wait for the perfect time. [SPEAKER_00]: I remember when I was telling my coach, I was like, man, I started right before my graduation. [SPEAKER_00]: I said, bro, I work hard. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like a celebrate. [SPEAKER_00]: Then when I look at that, I said, oh, man, and the memorial days come to come to come. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, Junting's all that, oh, man, my birthday is coming up. [SPEAKER_00]: And I kept giving him these days when the perfect time of start.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Anthony, you would never find it perfect time because you're always finding the excuse and the reason to start late. [SPEAKER_00]: Start. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, your birthday comes. [SPEAKER_00]: Menace celebrate. [SPEAKER_00]: How you celebrate it may shift a little bit, but you'll be able to indulge a little bit. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, fourth of July, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: You can still go to the barbecue.

[SPEAKER_00]: You just may not be able to eat the pork. [SPEAKER_00]: You can get maybe some barbecue chicken. [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, we're talking about mindset. [SPEAKER_00]: And your mindset is the very beginning of everything. [SPEAKER_00]: You're not a failure. [SPEAKER_00]: You're starting. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's something most people never do. [SPEAKER_00]: They do not start. [SPEAKER_00]: So today, I want you to make a decision to do something different.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't wait for a raise. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't wait for me things calm down. [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to start today. [SPEAKER_00]: And what you do have, use it. [SPEAKER_00]: You got God. [SPEAKER_00]: You have strength, you have power. [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't take luck. [SPEAKER_00]: it just takes a determined mindset and consistency. [SPEAKER_00]: You can do this y'all. [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, made that one decision, make that one paycheck decision to start today.

[SPEAKER_00]: One dollar at a time. [SPEAKER_00]: I went from being broken by twenties to never worrying about money again using these nine money moves. [SPEAKER_00]: If you implement even three of these, your financial life will change, but if you implement all nine, [SPEAKER_00]: you'll be unrecognizable within the next twelve months. [SPEAKER_00]: By this time next year, you will not be the same person.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, drop a comment and let me know which move you're starting with today. [SPEAKER_00]: And this helped you through my favorite hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, and come back for our next show. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you soon. [SPEAKER_00]: Peace out.

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