Ask a billionaire how to make 1,000,000 dollars

Introduction

In our last video, I set out on a mission to hitchhike on a private jet. After getting rejected a bunch of times, I pushed through and met some incredible entrepreneurs. However, I couldn’t convince anyone to take me on a flight with them. Until this happened.

Meeting YouTubers

We’re YouTubers, our dream is to get a tour of a private jet. He was apprehensive at first as he was running late for his flight. But her persistence paid off. Oh, is there any way, is there like, are you sure that guy said yes? YouTubers, and they wanted to go tour the airplane.

Getting on the Private Jet

Okay dude, this is sick. Do you know why he bought it? I mean, why’d you buy a jet? He made a ton of money last year and excited. You know what kind of work you’re doing or what kind of stuff you did to make all the money? He’s trading.

The Cost of the Jet

How much does a jet like this cost? As we were getting off the plane, exchanging details, to our complete surprise, James said yes for us to fly with him to Boston on his 34 million dollar private jet. Greatest Friday ever. We’re going to Boston.

Interview with the Millionaire

So, this is the full interview I recorded with the self-made millionaire who was a former nuclear engineer in the Navy and made his fortune trading energy commodities. Like, how has having this changed your lifestyle? On the other hand, time is energy, and so it’s a great multiplier.

Career Path

Were you always doing trading like all along, or was it something you got into more recently? No, I got… I was in the Navy as a nuclear engineer, and I got out and got into finance. And then I wanted to learn about money, and I earned my MBA. And so, I wanted the engineering side of things and the finance side of things, yeah. So, good in the power marketing. So, I trade the most Baltimore markets in the world. They’re more involved in crypto. They’re more balls. There’s any commodity out there. Electricity is the number one most… of all developing world. And they’re the most reliably predictable because they follow the laws of physics, which is a conundrum. Right? The most predictable and the most volatile.

Advice for Aspiring Millionaires

For someone young that aspires to have a jet like this, what would you recommend to them? Find a niche and crush it. Deliver more value than anybody else. And how did you find yours? Just by trying to solve a problem and help, help out as much stuff.

Financial Comfort

Do you recall when you felt like you made it financially, that you felt more comfortable or like, yeah, I’ve always felt comfortable. I was making good money in the Navy, making forty thousand dollars a year.

Financial Decisions and Happiness

But I was going to sea half the time, so I couldn’t really spend any money. So I’d actually put most of it in the stock market, which was doubling and tripling at the time, so I did really well there and gave myself the opportunity to get out of the Navy without having to depend on, you know, reenlisting and taking all the extra money they throw at you to stay in. So I realized very quickly that was the value of my happiness. They would have offered me a hundred thousand dollar re-enlistment bonus to stay in. It wasn’t worth my happiness. When I realized that I put a value on my happiness, and it had a dollar number. I was like, okay, that’s the number. A few years later, it might have been a bigger number. I’d be like, no way, you have to pay me a million dollars to do that again. That would be like, how much would you have to pay me to do that again? You’d have to pay me a billion dollars to be out of here. I’m gonna take six years of my time, and it’s worth more than a billion dollars. [Music] Easily.

Cost of Running the Plane

How much does it cost to run the plane for a year? You were saying about a million bucks, um, uh, Break Even costs. I mean, that doesn’t include usage, really. That doesn’t include using it. Yeah, what do you mean? Well, I mean, a million… well, I guess a million bucks still just kind of get you, yeah. I guess I guess a normal usage would be about a million a year or light usage. And that’s not even flying a lot, not even flying a lot. Let’s say that, yeah, they flew a fair amount, and maybe a little bit more than that. So like this flight to Boston, like what, what does that cost? [Music] Um, it’s probably going to be about direct operating costs [Music] are going to be to me would be about seventeen thousand dollars. Give me a Venmo. You like 100 bucks? I’ve had me like 20 cash apps. Yeah, uh, send me some Dogecoin before we get into the best part of the interview.

Promoting the Course

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Living a Normal Life

I think when people think of someone owning a jet, like, I don’t think if I saw you at the store I’d be like, who’s this guy? You’re not like Louis Vuitton, and you have like some fancy bag. It’s dressed like a normal person, which I think we all judge way too much. I know I do, so I like I like reminding myself and the audience of that, just like trying to be a little like less judgmental about who we see and what we think they are. Yeah, I like to surprise people. I can do it either way. You’re trying to retain who you are. You don’t need to impress anybody. There’s a [ __ ].

Financial Mindset

How do you think about your finances? You said like some of the stuff like crypto hasn’t done well. Like how, I guess how have you thought about your money and spending it or like doing this kind of trip? I think of the economy in phases and what cycle I think they’re in. I think we’re entering or have been or entering into a winter. And I think winter time is when the strongest come out and survive the Wolves, the Bears, whatever. Not the… I guess the Bears were sleeping. But, you know, I… I feel like winter time is when there’s a lot of rebirth, there’s a lot of death, but every time there’s death.

Economic Phases and Innovation

There’s rebirth; you can’t have one without the other. So you look at the depression in the 1930s or any of the worst economic recessions we’ve ever had, that’s typically been when we’ve had the most Innovation coming out of that. So it usually is happening as we were going into winter. We were going in, it went into winter because it seems to be probably the old ideas were just weren’t working too good anymore. Yeah, it kind of like kind of burned out [Music] whatever energy that had, and we were going to be shifting into something new, you know, these different phases that people are trying to figure out in our macro, macro, macroeconomic Trends, right.

Preparedness and Abundance Mindset

But I think that the people do the best homework and are the most patient and are the most prepared, meaning they have cash on hand ready to sweep in and get some good deals, are the ones that always succeed the most because they know that when we’re going through contractions, there’s always going to be fear, and fear always causes fearful thinking, which causes us to think a scarce mindset instead of abundantly. So suddenly everything is worth a lot less than you thought of before.

Handling Market Downturns

But like, well, not, but you were mentioning that, like, Crypt… you had a crypto thing that went down. Like, how do you not panic? How do you still say, okay, I’m gonna make this decision to take the jet out or instead of like Southwest, you know, I want to get away fare? I don’t get to test any one thing too much. I could sell this thing tomorrow and fly commercial and be fine. I, you know, I’m more about where I’m going and what I’m doing. My experience is not… I could take this way, it doesn’t change my life at all.

Frugality and Being Cheap

What are you cheap on, man? There’s sometimes I buy something, and they charge you a price it’s so extreme and outrageous you’re like it’s insulting, it’s like somebody slapped you across the face. What’s the story of that? I don’t know, I just like… I used to work at Subway when I was 19 years old, I made…

Valuing Money and Spending

5.75 cents an hour, and if you know that 5.75 cents an hour could buy me a certain amount, maybe a meal, I can take a girl out on a date, you know? How much like how many hours at the work to buy a chicken 100 meal? You know, 100 meal is a big meal. I go to a restaurant now I get a steak every single state. It’s now 60 bucks. Now, yeah, it better be a damn good steak because, in my opinion, people don’t make steaks very good anymore. Great. Now it’s like I’m getting a half-ass steak out in town for an insane price, you know? Yeah, things, that’s when I start getting cheap. Like, I’ll cook it at home.

Importance of Good Food

Do you have a staff at home because, again, food’s the most food’s one of the most important things, right? I agree. Why wealthy people should eat the best food. I think the cool thing is no matter how rich you are, we’re all eating the same kinds of things. Hopefully, if you get rich, I think it’s imperative that you eat nothing but the best food. And it’s unbelievable, and in fact, it’s indicative of our moral decline that the richest people, who you could presume or some could presume, are the best thinkers, are the least healthy people. They’re the most stressed out. They eat the worst [ __ ] food. They hang around with people that are questionable, you know. With money comes great responsibility or you could just do whatever the hell you want. Which way do you want to go? I’m trying to lead it by example, but Sean, that I still want to eat the best foods, and I still want to be healthy. I still want to hang around healthy people, young healthy vibrant Minds that know how to solve real problems that can contribute. People are helpful.

Key Decisions and Leap of Faith

Can you pinpoint key inflection moments or key decisions that change James’s life? Key decisions that changed James’s life. That’s a leap of faith. I think some of the most spontaneous decisions I’ve made sometimes have been the best because it was such a [ __ ] yes. It’s like, oh yeah, while otherwise, why would you get on a plane to come to Boston? It’s not a [ __ ] yes. It was a hell yeah. I don’t do like, yeah, okay, kind of things, you know? Yeah. What are some of the other [ __ ] Yeahs or spontaneous big things? Like it sounds like quitting UPS to go join the Navy was a massive leap of faith. U-turn, yeah, that really, you know, doing something extremely difficult was really gave me the confidence that oh wow [Music] I could be like considered the best of the best, you know? That’s a very tough school I went through. It was very difficult. So then another thing was getting a good job out of college, just I don’t know, a series of things. If you just look for gifts, they’re there, you know? Yeah, I’m curious yours because it’s definitely, I think you have to have some magic ones in there.

Getting Fired and Driving Success

Getting fired changed his life because I demanded that I’d be paid what I was worth. I demanded I actually get paid for doing somebody else’s job, which I was doing. I was doing the job of three people, and I wanted to get paid maybe five percent more. So I was fired for that, and that gave me the initiative and the drive to be like, I’m going to show up these people how this is done, you know? Because I ended up competing against Sexual Energy, and I believe I did things better than they did, even though they’re a huge Fortune 100 company, you know. Big companies aren’t invincible. I think when you analyze a lot of the big companies or people who have money or whatever, you pierce the veil of um invincibility. Like, I guess they’re just normal people doing normal [ __ ] thing. They have the same problems that we got, like realize why not me. Like, I’m pretty sure I could do exactly what you’re doing 10 times better, you know what I’m saying? Yes.

Tax Benefits of Owning a Jet

How about I just buy your business and uh, you know, that’s what you should be doing. How does someone have a jet as a business expense? How does that work? How to have a jet as a business expense? You’re saying there’s tax thing. I’d be curious to hear a little bit more. In the United States, there’s lots of tax laws for um, for depending on your tax status. If you are an entrepreneur, you can take advantage of these tax laws that defer capital gains, great, yeah, you defer basically like say if you bought a plane for a million dollars, you could write off the first year, right up a good chunk of it, almost 50 percent the first year, okay, depending on the acceleration schedule you’re on or the depreciation schedule you’re on. And then if you say, okay, well, I’m getting a loan for, you know, eight hundred thousand dollars, I’m putting 200,000 down, I’m saving, you know, I’m not I’m not paying, you know, 40 something percent taxes on my 500,000 that I wrote off. I just got a loan from the government, that’s effectively what it is.

Tax Benefits and Business Growth

So if you look at, okay, well, I’m I’m tax flow positive the first year, I’m net positive 200 Grand. I think I did that right, yeah, so or whatever it is, but I’m that cash positive the first year, it probably rolls into the second year too. You wouldn’t actually be paying cash outway until a year or two. But if you can say, well, hey, my business booming, I I just doubled my business last year, 100 growth, what can you do with that 400 Grand, see what I’m saying? You can if you’re smart about it, if you’re growing, and if you’re confident and you use the machine as a vehicle to success, to further success, you can build a business with these planes, and it happens all the time. Not possible to create a nationwide business without being able to travel.

Importance of Travel and In-Person Meetings

around and meet people it’s not possible as much as we think we can be remote doing this Zoom [ __ ] it’s not happening. It’s not going to work. It’s the same thing as electric vehicles. It’s all Pomp and Circumstance. It’s not going to last long term having, and then are you able to expense, you can expense trips, so like when you’re flying to a business trip in Boston, yeah. But I think the IRS changed expenses. I’m in Puerto Rico; the tax laws are completely different there, so they’ve changed the expense rules on that quite a bit. So it’s you have to keep really good records of which trips or work trips, which ones are personal trips, who’s on board for what purpose and that kind of thing. That’s what the aviation management stuff does that’s happening so.

How the Jet Boosts His Net Worth

How much do you think of your net worth and like wealth has been generated from having the kind of jet from being able to go and see people and do the meetings? No, honestly, because it’s like it kind of keeps me sane, you know? It allows me to be able to do it [Music]. It’s hard to say it’s just one of the same, man. It kind of gives you the fuel, the air in your lungs, like okay, I want to do something bigger thing. I mean, I never thought I’d fly a jet before, and it’s like, and then you have always, you know, and I came from very humble means, so I was like lower middle-class income family. I did; I had two paper routes when I was 12 years old. It’s a little over 120 newspapers before 7 A.M., you know, my parents get thrown in jail for that if I was out delivering papers 12 years old that’s six in the morning. So, I know. I think it just kind of gives you this incentive to do bigger things and these are obviously they look.

The Perks of Being Wealthy

like toys they perform like toys. I mean, you can have a party on this thing, you also have a meeting on this thing we can also do a business deal on this thing we could also sign a climate accord or we could actually sign a treaty this decides that we’re not going to use nuclear weapons ever again we could do it right here right now on this plane. So that’s the importance of having an airplane that’s what the president United States has Air Force One, you know, you have to have it. The cost of doing business, you know, yeah, it’s inspiring.

It makes me think bigger like even here when you talk, you’re not like where you’re going, how you think about things, the problem it’s like you’ve got to be, I think as an executive, as an entrepreneur executive, you’ve got to be Iron fisted with your time and be extremely defensive if anybody trying to get any more of your time than you already give because you already work too hard so when it comes to your travel or whatever like I would I would be like no it makes me I don’t have to waste time in airports do all that [ __ ] I guess it made me quite be way more efficient time-efficient and I’m gonna be more inspired to travel, bottom line.

The Perks of Being Wealthy (Continued)

You’ve worked your ass off what are some other perks besides the jet like I think people are always curious like hey you worked super hard you’ve earned it right so relax being able to relax is knowing that you can solve any problems knowing that you always grow to overcome any obstacle and even if it’s gonna suck and you can see in advance sometimes we see problems coming like a slow-moving train and we know it’s not going to be fun we step in there and start working on it um no I’m saying do you have like I guess people are curious probably if you have houses or like what’s it like to have this level of wealth I think is what people are curious about and like what’s the advantages or disadvantages of that um I think the advantages is that I have more resources to fix problems in my life which are just as meaningful as everybody else’s everybody’s got the same problems oh yeah I promise it probably had more problems but have the patience to know that I can fit and fix things and in due time take my time get the resources fix the problem but I can also take breaks and I can live my life and be happy doing it in shocks here and there wherever I happen to be whether I have to be visiting family or friends I have friends all over the place you know so my ability really connects socially is probably the biggest benefit of all that.

Raising Kids and Maintaining Balance

Good for you because treat everything as a different entity, this business is trying to invade on my relationship, you know, that’s the way your wife thinks about it or your girlfriend will guarantee you, yes, everything’s got his own, his own energy, so you got to balance things right. It’s just constantly balancing out. It’s hard sometimes, but the other thing is you can’t please everybody, you gotta please yourself first. If you’re not happy, nobody’s been happy, it’s number one, take care of yourself, help yourself, fall into a codependent run where you’re helping other people really, you need to be helping yourself.

Raising Kids with Money

How do you keep your kids grounded when you’ve had money, especially that you came from humble beginnings? Just monitor their language [Music] like, uh, my first daughter, I heard her one time talk about, uh, this is years ago and she’s kind of going through an early teenage phase and getting a little bratty. I heard her say something about, “What, my Daddy’s got a jet, we’re gonna take my friends somewhere, like to New York or something like that.” Or something like she was bragging, and I said, “If you want to learn how to be really unpopular in school, just keep saying that. Nobody likes to hear that kind of stuff. I didn’t when I was in school. So just don’t be that way, you know, my kids are grounded though, they’re great kids.”

Regrets and Work-Life Balance

I guess I was wondering for you, do you ever regret working so much, like was it worth it, like all the work and all the sacrifice? Yeah, because it, uh, it placed a heavy toll on my family life, and when my, my first marriage fell apart, um, what I was left with is that I have three beautiful children, and my time with my family was the most important thing in the world to me, way more important than any money.

But after my, my divorce, I would have given everything away because I can always make money, but you can’t get back time with people, you know, or you can’t prepare certain things, certain things have permanent lasting consequences, you know, um, yeah, I do regret working so hard without, I regret not having the right balance, and that balance really was lacking because I didn’t help help myself and take care of myself physically at some points when I get stressed I put on weight a lot of stress the white everything I’m trading my my net worth is completely at risk so I can lose everything I’m completely bankrupt if I do the wrong things a lot of stress there yeah but it’s the same kind of Cutting Edge thrill you get you find the jet we’re like a thousand feet above the ground where you know we want to make sure things are working right right yeah same thing if you’re flying your own business or you have to lose the more attention you’re going to pay make sure things don’t go right that’s why I think that you’re the risk you take the more you get rewarded that that’s how it works you can’t do it safely you got to punch through your comfort zones so a lot of people are very comfortable below their glass ceilings and that’s fine but we’re starting to realize that our glass ceilings are in different areas of Our Lives not just money not just jobs or career but now we’re starting to realize that there’s glasses we’ve had our entire lives on our Health the well-being of our relationships with our friends and our families I think we’re starting to look more on the bigger holistic picture after the last few years.

Dealing with Pressure

How do you deal with the pressure or work on your mindset for that stuff? Yeah, always thinking about what could mess up, that’s what causes the stress. This is the cost I’m scanning here, what did I not check, you know, where are my blind spots, who did I not talk to, what questions did I not ask, what assumptions brought me here?

What He Reads

I just read all this, I just read all the stuff Paula Grace put up, Tony Robbins, Ray Dalio, a lot of good people. I’ve learned from Keith Cunningham out of Austin. I love Keith, putting any better, you know, we’ve got one of our guys went to his workshops, okay, his books are funny, I love it, it’s better than my real-life video. I would rather do four days with Keith than 18 months at a business school, hands down. You’ll learn more in four days with Keith Cunningham than any Ford in any MBA course in the world, Harvard included.

The Chip on His Shoulder

Now admittedly, I have a chip on my shoulder against Ivy League schools and people that have their, you know, academic credentials because I learned the hard way. I learned by doing it, you know, the Navy’s history, how to do things. If you can’t do it, you don’t deserve that job. So and again, you could pull some pipeline. They don’t grade on a curve, they don’t care about your feelings, they don’t care that you’re really, really trying hard and you really, really tried to get up for that test you had to make. They don’t care. If you don’t show up, you’re fired. If you don’t have the grades, you’re fired.

That is what the United States of America needs more of. It needs more of that Cutting Edge, raw risk-taking mentality where there is downside, real downside, not these imagined things that we come up with, threats around the world or pathogens that may or may not kill the entire human race or whatever the new thing is going to be. We’re always looking so far away from us. Always last people to come and look right here.

Do you know your neighbor? Do you know both of your neighbors? When’s the last time you had a picnic in your neighborhood? Do you know who, I mean really like coming back into the Locale of where you live, so the micro, micro level, your HOA, student board meetings, I don’t know, whatever it takes to get connected at your roots, your home. Because it shows how ill we are as a race when we’re constantly looking for things that we have zero control when we don’t do anything to fix things we have 100 controllable, which is in here. And so we’re an extremely unhealthy society. We know what it takes to fix the problem, nobody’s done it yet.

People Limiting Themselves

Are things changing, are we shifting? What’s going on, you think people are limiting themselves too much about what they can do and what they can think and what the abilities they have? Yeah, I think they’re limiting themselves, not for a variety of reasons, one of which is interpersonal relationship or, you know, maybe generational trauma or maybe it’s PTSD, maybe it’s trauma from a rape or incest, there’s a lot of trauma in the world these days.

If you think about somebody who’s trying to make it in this world, they start off as a young pup trying to get through high school and college or whatever they’re trying to do to be able to navigate this world and avoid all the collateral damage from fill in the blank. It’s slim odds, the people, there’s, there’s, it’s a tough world. And so when you accumulate stress and trauma, you have a more effective way of living or balancing, better put. Imbalances never get eliminated, or energy never gets eliminated, it always shifts. So I think better we can come together and learn where there is polarity and one person is different than another, we can serve each other’s needs, help each other.

The Economy Shift and Self-Reflection

In some way that is unanticipated and helps us fill our blind spots, it’s a win-win. I think the economy is going to start shifting from a materialistic economy in the United States. It’s more of an interpersonal economy where people are filling each other’s needs, not so much momentarily. It could be emotionally if you don’t understand what was going on recently.

Turning 50 and Self-Reflection

What James is doing at 50, said stuff, just like life going on recently. I just turned 50, and I was having some revelations and going through some. I’m doing a lot of housekeeping in my mind and my soul. I’m trying to get my wife in an organized state where I feel like it’s like I just cleaned my desk, and I feel really good about wherever, wherever right. Stored everything doesn’t mean everything is resolved; it means everything is got at home, you know what I’m saying. That’s just what I was trying to do. That’s to me what stretching allows me to do is clear my mind.

Turning 40 and Self-Reflection

I turned 40 this year, and like I was pretty sad for months. I was just like I was turned 40, and I was like I’m not married; I don’t know what kids like; I’m what’s happening. I don’t know. It was definitely kind of threw me off tilt. I was a little staying, like 16 pounds in 10 days, and I was planning on doing the opposite for my 50th birthday, you know. I was planning on showing up all ripped, good shape, and I don’t know. Just I’ve been doing a lot of work, and I probably just needed a break. I’m part of myself; they were way too early to ourselves. So yeah, I learned to have empathy for myself and realizing okay, everything I’m doing, I’m doing great. I’m healthy; my body’s moving great. I have no restrictions right now; everything’s on track. I’m gonna go walk the beach here every single day from here for a week, get my feet in the ocean and being grounded as long as we have a way. I think we just, I think us humans don’t really understand how we best health.

Rebooting Health

When I say reboot, I mean you can reboot your health in 10 days, no matter where you go if you have the right resources, you have the right food, you have the right people, you have the right conditions, you have the right preparation or squeeze you’re not bringing bottles of Jack and PBR, you know, whatever it is, whoever you’re with, you can set it up to be a health trip. You can get a massage therapist there to share among four or five people, couples, whatever it is. You get massage therapy, acupuncture, some basic stuff, a chef that cooks organic food, whatever it is. 10 days is a lot of time where you can get off the grid, detach, detox electricity, information, people stress and see how your body is affected and literally watch how you walk differently. You’ll literally, your brain is literally, have more capacity to physically move around. But that’s what I’ve learned from stretching. That’s what I learned from because I’ve been pretty high tech when it comes to what muscles do what in the golf swing, exactly what muscle groups need to come into balance for me actually any offer biomechanically to be the basically a robotic golfer. I’m building a machine that all it does is generate success.

Noah’s 3 Takeaways

Basically, I want to learn golf, so stretch and join the Navy after hanging out with you, those are like my three. Like I need to get underwater and do submarine things cool for like 30 minutes after that it’s like what the [expletive]. But I would say one thing to come back on. I mean my word of the year is be kind to Noah because then I could be kind to others, but I’m just shocked in general how mean I am to myself on the regular and then how much everyone else is doing that too. And I do have one or two friends that I love being around because they are so nice to themselves. I didn’t need a piece of chocolate two nights ago, and I texted my buddy Tynan, I said, “Hey man, I thought of you because you would probably tell yourself I’m so proud of myself.” He’s like, “Dude, I just did that yesterday.” And it just makes me kind of remember that, like for you, for me, all the people, I don’t just like be a little nicer. Like it’s okay; you can’t, okay, you’re gonna get back; it’s not over. I think in general, what do you mean it’s really good place? There’s some badasses right on the menu first, and I’ll water it down, make it last; you always want the fast first.

How James Spends His Days

What’s the day in the life like now for you because it sounds like before your day sounds stressful as hell? Like I, most of my days have been stretching. It’s stretching, yeah. I have found the path to my physical, my psychological development has been stretching directly. It’s helped me a lot; it’s helped me become more patient, less stressed, way more relaxed, able to breathe better. I’m an inch taller than I was three years ago as I stretch my central hamstrings enough to where I got the cathartic curve out of my lower back, got a straighter spine, better posture. All is good; always other benefits. So the more I invest in myself physically, the more benefits I get out of myself financially. Financially, I would say, it’s not happier, and life seems a lot easier; the noise just falls away.

The Cost of Professional Stretching

Spend a day for stretching, like you pay someone to help you stretch, and you’re spending like $2500 a day. I guess how do you… These are very highly experienced people, though. It’s like getting surgery without a knife, honestly. It takes a little bit more time, you know. How do you decide what’s worth it, like what’s valuable? Like, that’s worth it for you to spend $2500 a day or something like that. I just see the results; how I feel.

I feel better. If I feel better, life’s an emotional experience. Life’s about the quality of your emotions, which requires you to have good thinking, obviously support the emotions. Yeah, and go hand in hand, but I’ve been learning this, you know, especially the analyzing my stress levels and how my body seems to perform best, how I thrive in social situations the best where I’m not necessarily wanting to get my energy all the time. I like to look at physically how my body’s holding up, and I can see no better place to invest my money than right back into my physical health. I was thinking about…

Physical Health and Mental Health

Physical health is mental health. Stretching, like you mentioned really early on about internal conflict, which we all have, and it seems like that helped alleviate the physical tension as well as maybe the mental tension. If you’ve ever read the book “The Body Keeps the Score,” it talks about different vectors that trauma, stress, any kind of toxic emotions, relationships, and physical injury can take to get into your body and manifest itself as locked-in trauma.

You got hit by a car; your bag went off, and you had a concussion; that trauma’s locked in the body at that moment. So we’re starting to learn more about that kind of stuff now, and role fashion plays and being able to map wherever that trauma is in the body and what kind of downstream effects they could have.

You know, I think the next wave of business is the next phase business of the United States is going to be shifting to more of a postmortem of what happened during the pandemic, what’s wrong with the scientific community in the world, what we’re going to do to fix it. Am I having plans to do that? Not going to do it. And how are we going to get the data to do that? Takes some data, takes some information, and it takes an openly transparent repository to be able to do that so that the government can’t get its claws on things.

The government should have nothing to do with investigating itself and how it’s conducting itself to make our nation a healthier country. I want to go back to the day where we have the Presidential Fitness Awards, you know, yeah, yeah, we did the running tests, climbing the rope, and if you did all these things, you got a letter from the President of the United States of America, you know. That’s what you need to go back to is our physical health relates from mental health one-to-one.

Why James Let Noah on the Plane

What made you say yes, why James let Noah on the plane, to even letting us see the plane and then he has to, like, you know what’s going on, why not those empty seats [Music] right, game-changing, it’s so epic. Just like a lot of what we try to encourage others, just like not to go stand outside airports but just to ask, like you never know, right? And the fact that you’re super cool, I got to connect with you, and like I think we’re gonna be friends for a while, yeah, I agree, and uh, it’s like the ability of that. Yeah, I just think that the more that we take care of each other, the more we can help each other. That’s what’s truly going to create more value in our society. It’s something we don’t quantify; we don’t measure because we consider GDP to be one of the only measures of economic activity. Like I said, we haven’t had any activity in the United States in a long time. Zero will improve the [expletive] thing. I was born in 1972. I was born in a time when these people were a lot more proud.

Being Proud of Actions and the Direction

To be American, I’m a lot more proud of our actions on this planet than we are now, and I just, I don’t like the way our direction’s going, so I want to be part of the solution. How can I be part of the solution? Get healthy. Why? I just turned 50 years old.

Future Vision at Age 60

Who James will be when he’s 60, what’s gonna… Who am I gonna be when I turn 60? I can tell you I’m going to be when I’m 60. I’m going to be a lot more [expletive] rich. I’m gonna be a lot more handsome, I mean a lot more powerful. I want to be a lot more [expletive] connected. I’m going to have a lot more capacity to solve more problems. I’m gonna have a bigger [expletive] plane. I’m gonna have more resources. I’m gonna employ more people, and I’m going to fix [expletive] problems. If rich people who fly these [expletive] planes actually did something with their money with that mindset, we wouldn’t have any problems; we’d have less problems. The problem is everybody thinks that the goal isn’t to keep money; the goal is to make it and keep it. It’s not; that’s not the priority. The universe, God, whatever you want to call it, doesn’t reward people and give people nice things because they deserve it as a reward and just say, “Hey, send you off in the sunset.” It does, obviously, at times; people get lucky. I think more often than not, there’s a system to why certain people percolate to a position where they say, “Why not me?” and they get pulled into the tractor beam of Entrepreneurship, and they start realizing, “Oh, I can solve problems, and this is fun; this is like a spiritual endeavor to me. It’s like if it’s fulfilling, you know, that’s when business can become like easy, yeah; it’s life-fulfilling instead of detracting; it’s not, it’s not a, it’s not a job.”

Creating Life and Lifestyle

I was thinking about like if you can create life, if you can create your work to be your lifestyle, and you also want to live a nice lifestyle with great people, that’s a pretty powerful combination. If you make that happen. If you’d like this conversation and you want to watch another interview I did with the billionaire founder of Kinkos, check out this video right up here, and if you haven’t already, make sure to like and subscribe. Uncle Noah loves you, and I’ll see you out there.