This is the end of my own show. Okay, welcome back to Matt's Out, everybody. Very excited to bring my good friend here to share him with you all today. I think the time is perfect because some of the things going on in the world, he needs no introduction, but I'll give him one.
For me, first, he's the greatest baseball player I've ever laid eyes on. And millions and millions of people would agree with that sentiment, but he's also an incredibly successful entrepreneur, broadcaster. But my favorite part about him is I've gotten to know him as a friend over the last many years, he's the type of family man he is. And that really is the thing I admire the most about him.
So I couldn't think of a better person to share with all of you during these times than my friend Alex Rodriguez. So Alex, thanks for being here today, brother. It's a pleasure to be here. We've been playing this for a while, but I think you're right.
This is the perfect time to hopefully shed some good energy to all your great listeners. Thanks, brother. So speaking of that, we won't talk all about just the timing we're in, but we, if you're listening to this at a different time, we're watching it, we're filming this during the coronavirus pandemic, and obviously that's created a lot of anxiety, fear, worry, and people. Someone like you and Jen, millions of people look up to you guys, and I'm just curious, any advice you would have for people to cope and maybe even thrive during this time, anything you can do or you think other people should be doing?
Yeah, I do. I think, look, this is a crisis. There's no way around it. And I feel for so many people that work so hard and do the right thing and mother and father and children, and they're just going through a difficult time, and they really do not deserve that.
But I'm always been a guy that tries to make lemonade a lemon, and turn a crisis into a positive. And I think with this given time, you have an opportunity, a lifetime to get yourself in better physical condition, to be able to read more, to be able to listen to podcasts, look at YouTube, double down on your set of skills, create content, tell your stories. And I do feel that when we come out of this, if you do the right things now and you plant the right seeds, you will be able to come out better, more grateful, more frugal. I think we're going to think about consumer spending a little bit differently, and I think that if you take this opportunity, you'll be better when you get to the other side of the lake.
Yeah, I've been saying that too. Great advice. It's almost like you could really use this as preparation time, almost like a separator. And when we do get launched back into the world at some point, there's going to be a separation for those that prepared, prepared mentally, physically, they grew themselves, and those that sort of took the sweatpants Netflix every single day approach.
And when we get out of here, there's going to be a separator, because we're probably going to have to be better, stronger, more capable than you were before, just to get to the same place, never mind Excel. So I'm with you a million percent on that. I want to talk a little bit about you and what you just said on that, because when I got to know you, I was fascinated by it, I knew you were a successful entrepreneur, but the genesis of it sort of blew my mind the way you grew up, and then your interest into entrepreneurship, just share with them. Because I think there's a lot of people right now, Alex, and a lot of people, you might be in their 30s or 40s, but they're sort of where you were when you got into entrepreneurship, meaning you're playing baseball.
And there in this other career, but right now they're going, I need to reevaluate. I can't just have this career. This isn't going to give me to the promise plan. So tell them a little bit about that with you.
Yeah, I think like baseball, business is something that's kind of in my blood, is in my DNA, I love it. But I've always been process driven. And my superpower hasn't been my incredible IQ, because God knows I don't have a lot of that. But what I do have is I have world-class work ethic, and I'm a black belt when it comes to resilience and grits, and never giving up.
I also love team, and I love bonding and collaborating, and is interesting. Magic was one of my favorite basketball players, and he was great at feeding the ball. And I think that when you feed the basketball versus always shooting, like being a ball hog, I think that you serve yourself better as well, because as you serve the world, and you're so wonderful at this, and you give back, I would be nothing at it. If it wasn't for the boys and girls club, if it wasn't for my mother who worked two jobs, if it wasn't for people that took a liking towards me when I was a young kid, I'm a scholarship kid, and I realized that I had to do three things.
A young man, I had to get good grades. I had to play good baseball, and I had to behave in a certain manner to maintain my scholarship, or else those parents would not pick me up and drop me off because they wouldn't want me around their kids. So I was always two strikes right behind the eight ball, and I had to make sure that I kept myself ahead of the game. So that's what I love about business is I love it.
I like to study it. I'm a lifelong student, and I like to teach. And I love, love, love when people on my team, when they make their first million dollars, oh my God, it's like winning the World Series. To see others succeed is pretty awesome.
Yeah, the thing about you that shocked me was because I think you're a confident person. You, me, you, I think you got this very confident man. The people that I know that are the most successful and happy have this, they eventually arrived to, I don't know if you had this one year in your 20s or not, but I didn't know you then. But they have this amazing combination, and I could name you lists of people that have been on my show or that are friends of yours and eyes, of really high self-confidence combined with humility.
And that humility of yours, everybody in Alex's case manifests itself in his preparation. This man doesn't show up to a meeting without a notepad. Writing notes, I think that requires humility to want to be a student after art. I kind of consider you sort of meticulous in that regard.
Was that baseball and business talk a little bit about preparation for you? Is everyone right now that you got an opportunity to be doing that? How important is preparation to your self-confidence in your performance? It's been one of the big nuggets of my career to be, you know, I played 25 years at 25 years of professional baseball.
It's hard to believe. And I never played, I had over 15,000 of bats in the Major League. And I never had one game that I did not do my pregame routine, not one. And on those days that there was games sometimes played extra innings, 15, 16 innings, and the game ended at 2.30 in the morning.
We had a day game at 1 o'clock in the hot summer at Texas or something. And my routine wasn't, you know, 30 minutes. It may be 30 and a half minutes. It was condensed.
It was concentrated. But I never, never, and that's incredible. That's one of the things that I'm most proud of. People say, oh, well, you know, 696 runs, RBI runs scored.
To me, that little data point that I told you is what I'm most proud of because, again, I am process driven. I am obsessed with the process, doing things the right way, working on your fundamentals. And every day there's a way that you can get your fundamentals a little bit better. You can get a little bit smarter.
And today in 2020, there's so much access. I mean, you don't have to go to a library and drive down to downtown to go to the library building. Now you can just Google and YouTube. And there's so much information that that's what I get my highs from.
Yeah, brother. I think it's separated you and does to this day in business. And everybody's most people there work ethic or preparation level can be bought. So with a certain amount of success, they get a little lose.
You know exactly played with guys like this, right? We know them in business, little bit of success. They get to a certain income level of business. And there's, they get bought for really big time players.
I think their preparation and focus level increases the more successful they become. But I'm always fascinated because I wasn't kidding for me. You're the greatest baseball player that I've ever seen and arguably guys and they'll just go from making it out of the south. But he could potentially go down because the greatest player in two positions, which no one else can claim here.
Short stop and third base in the history of sport. There's gonna be the greatest shortstop or third baseman or both. It's just unbelievable what you achieved, especially if everybody knew where you came from, if you don't have time to get into today. What moved you more and does today?
The fear of failing or the desire to succeed and win? Like really what moves you? I'm curious. Like even to this neighborhood or is it different from when you were 25 years old?
I think what I'm scared about is going into something, any project and not being prepared. I remember having nightmares that I would be playing in New York a day game. Of course my boss is George Steinbrenner. But I always had this fear that I would oversleep and miss the game.
And I've always wanted to be, look, if I went to a college, it certainly wouldn't have been Harvard or Yale. I'm kind of the middle of the school guy. But again, if you have the heart and you have the passion and you have the will, there is no limits of what we can do in this country. There are no limits.
And I mean that. And if you're working 9 to 5, the guy that's working 9 to 9, even though the 9 to 5 may be higher IQ or anything like that, the 9 to 9 ultimately is gonna have an advantage. And you compound that over days, weeks, years, decades. And the one thing I can tell you about Jennifer and I, we are either gonna win or we're gonna die.
But we're not gonna give up. And I play against people like that and so have you added. You just rather just go to the next person because that person that won't give up, there's a Rocky Bobble and a Rambo-esque that is pretty admirable. Yeah, I learned that too, brother, from losing my dream.
Obviously, I wasn't as talented as you that I wanted to play in bigs too. And I don't know that I gave it everything I had when I was in college or when I first started to play. And I have a dream. And I share this often with people.
I'm 50 years old next year and I've done pretty well in business and in life. But when you don't give everything to a dream, I think one of the things you're most proud of is saying I gave everything I had to that sport, right? I know through being with you and watching Jen, like you just can't work. I mean, it's just unbelievable worker.
And I didn't. Everyone just want to share this with you as I ask Alex another question too. I have nightmares and 50 years old. And when I give my talks to sports teams, I tell them it.
The nightmares, I had it regularly. We all have that nightmare we know we're in but we can't get out of. And mine is I can hear them announcing my name. Starting in San Rafael, number eight, hey my lab, you're...
And I can't get in the stadium. I'm locked out. I've got my uniform on. I'm telling a security guard.
Let me in. Let me in. They just called my name on the starting center fingers. And it's me at 50 years old, 30 years later wanting that dream and regret it so deeply that I didn't give everything I had.
That it's to this day, honestly. And that's why I went and wanted this. I never again, if I fail, it's going to be going out with everything I've got. I'm never going to have that nightmare knowing of wondering the rest of my life.
What could have been? I'm never going to have that. And it's something obviously an expert you don't have to worry about. But I'm curious to ask you, brother, I want you with the preparation part.
How important have your mentors been? I mean, I see you with Warren Buffett. I see you with these other people. You've got access to some of the best of the best.
But talk about that. I think everybody listens to find their mentor even as virtual through a podcast or something like that. How about that element for you? How critical has that been?
It's been vital in paramount in so many ways that because I'm someone that I never sit around saying, I can't do it because I came from a single mother or I can't do it because I didn't graduate from college or I can't do it because I was too busy playing baseball. I've always figured out a way. And I love playing chess. And in many ways, it's a microcosm of life.
There's chess pieces and you have to be able to play them strategically. I'm a big, big believer in the long game. And if you believe in the long game and at the short game, mentors and allies are going to be a ginormous part of your business trajectory. And I think young people do not spend enough time building out their network, watering the plants, calling in.
I mean, right now is a quick time to live in your black book and reach out to 10 to 20 people daily on email. Say hello, send good energy, thinking of you, sending positive energy. You're going to be great. If you need anything, I've sent out probably 15 emails a week to people that are not, let's just say in my first team, their second layer is just secondary and tertiary kind of relationships is there anything I can do to be helpful?
Just offering yourself. And I think in times like these is where you have an opportunity as a friend, as a mentor, as a business associate to spread a lot of goodwill and also help someone when they need you most. So mentorship has been a huge part of my life. And you pay it forward.
Asha said, it's huge. I'm so glad we're doing this, but obviously it's not the last time. If you're feeling helpless, get helpful. As he just said, you can't simultaneously feel helpless when you're being helpful to other people reaching out, offering assistance.
And the other thing everybody through a time like this is you don't have to believe everything you think. Not every thought you have is true. We all have these thoughts running around our heads. Take time to be intentional about your thinking.
Don't buy everything you're saying to yourself. It's not all true. We all have a BS meter. We get ourselves as well.
And so speaking of that, thinking, I was thinking about you this morning. Baseball, your sport is in a very interesting time right now. And obviously, you're at the center of the sport especially now. And the season may look a little bit different.
The sport going forward. If I could make you commissioner for a day of the MLB, what would you do? I think that this is an interesting question and I'm so passionate about it. I hope I don't get myself in trouble.
But I do think that baseball has an opportunity of a lifetime. And we're obviously not going to play 162 games, which is the regular season amount of games. We may play 55 or 60 games and we may do it in a condensed season. You know, I remember growing up that my father, he loved baseball and he watched baseball and boxing.
Those were the two sports. And my father would pass away a handful of years ago. There was no NBA. There was no NFL.
So baseball was king. And that's why I love baseball so much because I just grew up with Phil Rosuto and Ralph Kiner's Corner and all of that. And I think baseball has an opportunity this year to tell the traditionalist, I'm sorry, 2020 is not your year. The minute that we think about doing anything to show up there, they start screaming, not this year.
2020 is going to be a year for Pylee, for Pylee. And in many ways, over the last decades, baseball has had a little bit of a straight jacket. And the NBA and the NFL have flown by us. And I think they have flown by us because it's going to be great.
We have an opportunity this year that any thought, any disruptive, naughty, radical thought that we've had about baseball, we should let it fly. One example, I mean, is there should be every game played this year that should have a handful of players from each team might give us that access, right? Open up the floodgates. 60 of the most valuable assets in our game today, we hide them.
They're called 60 batting cages. Tell me what human being, whether you like baseball or not, you're not going to want to see Aaron judge hit the ball every day at 4.30 before he gets ready for batting practice. And if we can put some technology behind that and actually see how hard and how fast the boss coming off his back of the low exit, it's an extraordinary opportunity. And I would watch on my phone every day.
The kids are phones and iPads. So Aaron judge is in your box every day at 4.30. I think you get a massive audience for that. And really engage.
I would put cameras, the umpires, I would put cameras on the basis, special sound effects. I would just let it fly this year. If you want to, I think you maybe go with 27, 28 men roster, make sure that we do play these double headers, seven games, seven innings, seven innings that we make sure that these young pitchers are. Seven games.
I mean, they're thinking about it, right? Because that's a good way to get two games in one day. So you may want to expand the rosters a little bit. So anything that's disruptive, not just let it fly.
And I think what you'll find is that as much as you being disruptive, you think is going to be just right. And that's what NFL and that's what the NBA are doing. And I think it will be an awesome, awesome year. And I got to tell you, the reason why you do that is because we have to pay back to the fans.
And it's a little more complicated. MLB owners and PA have to come to an agreement. But I would just say to all the lawyers, put your pens down this year. Because the two series of the game, the shareholders, which are the fans, let them access, let them into the bedroom, let them into the living room, the batting cages are the biggest assets.
We want to see them. Let the fans see the batting cages. Oh, man. I love those ideas.
Also, just in this day and age and social media, allowing some of the players to be brands, Mike Trout shouldn't be able to go anywhere and people not know who he is. When I was a fan, people knew who A-Rod was. They knew Cheetor. They knew Rocket Clovins, right?
They knew all the stars of the game and the NBA and the other sports have this advantage. So I love that. I love those ideas. And I want to just say on my topic for a bit, I was going to ask these about entrepreneurs in general.
I think this type of economic is favors the small guy. Most big economies when they're booming, big companies have an advantage. When it's small like this, they're not as nimble. So a lot of you entrepreneurs are there, maybe capitals type, but you can innovate.
You can be disruptive to use your terminology right now as a smaller business person. Would some of that same conceptually vice be stuff you give to entrepreneurs in general, like in this time, get a little disruptive, get innovative or what are your thoughts on that? Well, there's no question about it. You and I talked last time, there's an opportunity that we're going to look at together.
You have to understand that being an entrepreneur is a being a good poker player. You have to be able to play good cards well and bad cards better. And what I mean by that is, where's the opportunity today? The stock market has never been lower in the last 10 years.
There's a lot of volatility. There's a lot of fear in the streets. Warm buffettottas be greedy when others are fearful, be fearful when others are greedy. So what that means in today's day and age is to be able to calm your mind down and getting your pocket.
And there's more opportunities today than there were six months ago, six weeks ago, three weeks ago. And over the next six months, there's going to be some epic opportunities and there's always going to be people that have wealthy and have liquidity or wealthy and have liquidity. So if you're able to bridge the gap and say, okay, I know that Ed loves trophy properties. I know that he likes hotels.
I know he likes entertainment. I bought a, there's a great entertainment company that was trading for $10 million. And for whatever reason, I can get control of it for about $3 million or $4 million. I'm going to call Ed and say, I just found a Delta of $6 million.
You can buy that $0.40 cents a dollar. Would you be interested? Well, two things are going to happen. Ed is going to say, yes, thank you.
I'm going to kiss you. I'm going to buy it and you make a nice commission or be you're going to get some very valuable data that he's going to say, no, I don't want to buy it. And here's why. And the why is the most important thing because now you're starting to build a relationship with Ed by bringing him something, he respects you because, and thankfully you're bringing him something, but be you're getting something in return of why not.
And then that why not helps you go get what Ed really wants. That one would be thinking. Very, very good. I don't talk to a lot of people.
I've not heard that said that way. I was really, really good stuff. I think sometimes people, a couple of things, I don't want to ask you a family question, but I'm curious. A couple of things, I think people don't move forward when they're, that idea like that is criticism dealing with criticism.
I've never even asked you this personally. But since I've known who you were, and since we've been friends, you get your share of criticism in your life, right? And anytime you're climbing in life, you're going to get criticism, right? Some of the stuff we do, you and I both in our lives, we're pretty self-imposed.
Some of the stuff we've done is unfair. How have you dealt or what advice would you give to people on dealing with criticism? And some of that could be within their own family. They're trying to do something great.
They're trying to be coming on to the front of you. You're crazy. It's not for our family. What would you say about that?
How do you deal with it? I'm curious. You know, this is the subject that I actually have a PhD in. Criticism of getting booed.
So I'm like a world expert here. And I have a lot of experience. But you know what? I think the best way for me to communicate and articulate that to you is twofold.
One, when I served the longest suspension in major league baseball history for PDUs, I learned a lot of lessons. Now, that could have gone one or two ways. I was fortunate that I took that opportunity to take full accountability for my mistakes and then to turn the lens inward and do a lot of work on myself. And what I realized then was that I needed to mend in a way physically, mentally, and spiritually because I had gone so hard with this battle with major league baseball.
And what I realized was Alex pre-suspension and me post-suspension were two different things. The pre-suspension was I wanted to be like a gladiator. I felt that being a champion was more money, bigger contracts, home runs, blood, sweat, and tears. And I thought that was like the winner.
And I realized after that being a champion was, you know, being loving at home with your family, having others around you be champions, being the mentor and at the mentee. And what I realized was that the number one key in my life was bringing levity and humor and humility to my life is when people criticize you and you beat them to the punch and you have self-deprecation and you don't take yourself so seriously, it sounds simple, but it is a very powerful thing. And I remember I would say before my suspension, well, Alex, you had a tough game and you shook out three times, I would say, yeah, but my fourth time, I hit the ball hard, you know. And after I did my therapy and I realized I gave myself some time to mature as an adult.
I mean, look, I was in the major leagues just a few months after my high school prom and I went on this incredible sprint at a very late age of 39, I started to suspension. So I was like, I got slapped in the head a little bit too late, right? But I made the best of it. And then post suspension, if you came to me and said, Alex, you had a really tough game and you were over four, I would say tough game.
That was a brutal game. I struck three times. I don't even know why coaches put me in there. But tomorrow is another day and I'm going to come out and do the best I can.
And it was so liberating to have a little fun and have some levity and self-deprecation. And what I realized was I would wake up in the morning and what's it called? PTSD? PTSD?
That's how it was. I would wake up and I'm like, oh man, the New York Post, they're going to blast me in nothing in the paper. And I had a terrible game. And I want to realize is that our attitude determines altitude.
And when we're comfortable in our own skin and we're able to have some levity and not take our social seriously, people will also give you a break. And that's an important factor. 150 shows, that's one of my favorites I've ever heard on anything ever. That affected me.
Because I see you doing that too. What a beautiful answer. Speaking of that, family, you brought it up. And I just want to say this to you.
I told you this probably with you either. But obviously, you and I both know a lot of people that are successful and I admire success. I don't know. It's part of the course in some case for me.
And what I've observed about you and Jen, both the blended family that you're building together, I so admire the way you are with your family. Both you and Jen from what I've observed. And one of the things Alex, it's very ironic that I noticed about you and I want to ask you about what you do to build strong family. Because everybody, you've got a huge life, Alex.
Jen has a huge life. Most of the people listening are very busy people as well with children in school and thought her games under normal life. And it's ironic, brother. I got to share this with you.
I'm not so excited as privately. I've noticed two men in my life that did something I didn't do well with as a dad. You're one of them. And ironically, and there's nothing to do with the fact that you have to do with the family.
And one was Kobe Bryant. Both of you, the week before Kobe passed away, I was with him at volleyball. And I happened to watch him walk out of the arena that we were in. We had the end.
It was eight to 10 pm tournament. There were three matches left in this big arena and our daughters were playing. It's 10 pm. So it's only about five dads left to survive today, Kobe was one of them.
And I watched him for some reason, walk out with Gigi that day because other daughters, for some reason I did. From the other end of the arena, I'll never fight on the why. And I watched how affectionate physically he was with his daughter, hugging her, kissing her. And I took note of it, Alex.
I went I love Bella, but I don't know that I tell her or hug her or kiss her enough I just be affectionate enough and I'm not kidding you wrote when he did that I thought of you because of all the man I've known I've watched you with both of your children and you're so loving with them And it looks to me like almost intentionally so it's not just I love you But you're hugging and kissing and you're wonderful with these babies man. These beautiful children years Is that something you're sensitive because the way you grew up? You know talk about that a minute because I just so admire the way you built your family I don't I did just acknowledge you for that because it's not doing baseball or muck. Just as a dad.
I Gotta tell you, you know Thank you for that and thank you for noticing is the single most important thing in my life is my family and my faith And I have a lot of faith in and the good Lord. I have a lot of faith in my family But I got to tell you that growing up without a father. I think has inspired me to be a present father and to You know raise now for great great great children that were so fortunate to have but you know when you think about what is the ultimate Championship, but what does heaven look like for me? It was what we did last night I finished my last card at 11 30 a night I come to my bedroom and I just think it's Jennifer and I have five kids in our bed and Jennifer sits right in the middle and We were watching when we was that Women we watch a little woman and I was like oh my gosh Let me just take a quick shower And I'm just gonna jump in this party and we sat there We watched the movie for like the next hour and I was asking all time You know dumb questions I was trying to catch up there halfway through they're all telling to be quiet and I'm like This is what will real wealth looks like.
This is what real happiness looks like in the middle of this, you know Crisis to find happiness with love and respect from your family. There is there's nothing like it. I'm so happy for you Bro, I really am that's beautiful. I want people to hear that by you so And Jennifer my observation to just two people.
They're so loving with their children together building such a beautiful family So congratulations, okay last question and then anything you want to tell us that you're up to that we need to know about too But there's a lot of people watching this and they're hearing About the success you have in your family and the insights you've had through your humility and the self-deprecation dealing with criticism and advice for entrepreneurs And you know advice from a Julie baseball. There's a lot there But we've got to unpack in a little quick window here But when I think of you the other thing I think of after your family life is a comeback and in the last four or five years and every Weight-shaped sense and form you've come back and I know you're still coming back I know you don't feel like you're all the way there yet So that other things you want to accomplish and achieve some of them are some huge things But there's a lot of people right now because of what's going on they're gonna need to make a comeback There's gonna be a point here where they got come back as a family they're gonna come back financially emotionally Some of them physically so what's the elements of a comeback? What advice would you give for millions of people who are listening to this? several hundred thousand I'll watch it they're saying I gotta make a comeback and Alex Rodriguez did a pretty good job of that What would some of your advice be to them?
How to do that? I think you know confidence is a really big thing and that's why I'm such a an advocate of Working on your set working on yourself working on yourself skills getting more educated You know what made me a very good baseball player was I had great fundamentals People thought about the home runs or that but you mentioned about being a shorts on a third baseman I spent hours and hours physically and mentally always trying to hone my skills just like you know Bruce Lee home discills as a karate expert or Roger Federer on the tennis court or Jordan in the basketball court I felt that if you look at the great great players great athletes in the history of the game when you look at the great business people They all have one thing in common Steve Jobs Warren Buffett, you know Barry Stern Let whoever these guys are the fundamentals are off the charts And while everyone looks at the big home runs and the big championships the core of it is there they're smarter than you But they usually have better fundamentals in you and so I always go back to that That is the core of anyone who's successful you and I can you know someone sees you know you buy a house But ultimately if you take it all away We have these fundamentals that are really strong and the strongest fundamentals the better you are so that's number one Then it's self-awareness, you know, we're not gonna be good at everything like my superpower is baseball. I understand that very good I'm fairly good at business, but then you take me outside of that and then I'm gonna have to call my counterpart Jennifer It was really good at a lot of things I don't recommend you a lot of things I'm gonna have some late night offer changes that I want to recommend either But you know if I go to technology I go to our four kids I mean our boy maxis a wizard and he can just fix any computer like you know, it's just unbelievable So I think that's really self-awareness again. I go back to humility not taking yourself so seriously and And to take small wins as big wins go small wins add up I always say don't think so big think about one step one win and one advice that I would give and by the way I'm not giving anyone advice I'm just sharing ideas and nuggets that have worked for me and what hasn't worked for me So I'm always very aware of not giving anyone advice because that's not I'm not up as there to give anyone advice But I like sharing some of the principles that I've learned over the years.
I live and dive on my list. I always have like Like a notebook, right and I have like my 10 things to do and then By the end of the day I can hear the like everyone's a brighter computer I have to write it down and when I'm done and I have all my check check check check man I feel so good so good and there's one that I missed then I just rolled over to the next day and done It's been great for me. I'm I don't know. I just want everyone to just unpack two things He said there and then how about I'll tell you where to find him now Everybody who said two things are the good I do the same thing I have a written down to do this that I cross them off Why do I do that I do that because it's it's an indication that I'm intentionally doing things Not everybody's willing to do and I'm tricking my identity and myself hop into believing if I can sissy do things other people are willing to do I'm gonna get things other people aren't gonna get and self-confidence everybody is the process of keeping the promises you make to yourself And so that list is an indicator.
I kept that promise I kept that promise I kept that promise and that transforms self-confidence the other thing When you see someone like Jennifer or Alex or in a much smaller way myself that has had success They stacked small wins because those small wins create momentum and momentum is a magnifier I guarantee you there's been a time in your life for gens or my weird work even sometimes go How did I get here? You know you wonder that and one of the things is Momentals a magnifier you see that in baseball not every year is the best I'll be came when the world series. It's the hottest fishing staff for the hottest backs right hockey It's the hottest gold tender right so momentum can magnify Average ordinary people into doing great things and I know that at least in my case. I'm just average But I've got momentum I built self-confidence.
I've done so many things Alex talk about today So if you speak about it in such a far more in depth and eloquent way, but this I knew we would do good I knew this would be awesome, but it exceeded my expectations big time I want to say one thing I think is a point I wanted to share with you because you know when people You know think about my career And what I'm gonna tell you is about how to handle what I think is the toughest thing for any entrepreneur any human being is How do you handle the word no or rejection? And when people think about my career to think about all the big wins right the home runs 2001 score 2000 RBI numbers are fabulous But they forget to tell you that I'm fifth all time fifth and all time in the history of strikeouts so that means you know, I have a PhD in failing but also tell people have a master in getting back up and That type of failure at that level at that degree with an average fan base of 40 or 50 thousand people watching these strikeouts That means there's only four people in the history of mankind. I'm gonna struck out more than me It brings me great pride to say that one of them is my good friend Reggie Jackson. So that's a really good thing I'll never catch him there But but why I say that it is that you and I get told no more than the average person that'll be watching this because We take more chances and what's interesting is the word no a Rejection can destroy our kids can destroy the next generation can destroy someone who may be fragile to me The word no is the greatest vitamin energizer that anyone can give me it doesn't mean a damn thing to me if someone says no to me It's like okay work that much harder.
It reminds me where I come from it reminds me of being a boys and girls Alum, so is Jennifer reminds me of a single mother who had two jobs No is like the greatest you one step closer to yes to a win to a championship Remind people out there that nine out of ten entrepreneurs fail and their ideas with entrepreneurship But it's those ones that get up dust themselves up get back to bat and say this time I'm gonna do it and if you fail get back up again If you fail get back up again trust me fifth all time in the history of the game and I just keep getting back up wow I Encourage everyone to just believe themselves and go for it powerful brother Because that's what you see 3,000 hits and 700 chats basically and you forget to get there. It took fifth all time in case That's awesome stuff. Jeez. That's good.
Not that they don't know where to get you But if you wanted someone listening to this big old find you if they'd been living under a rock somewhere Where should they go find more of you every single day? Well, you go to page six every day and you'll find me there Gender they was a fun anyway that was You can find me at a rod on Instagram You can try the court is my podcast bar still and I would love to have you one day you'll be amazing You have so much to offer and that's it I'm out and about and I'm usually around my kids somewhere Brother I'm so grateful for to have you. I'm a sick talk now Jennifer reminds me. I'm on TikTok A rod 13 take 13 and if they go is the other dance videos because that's worth literally going this minute click off the podcast guys Yes, but watch at your own risk Thank you so much, but hey everybody speaking of that I run the max out to me to drill every day on Instagram I want to engage with you.
I give giveaways every day We pick whatever day I can make a comment or make a comment on people's comments or comment every day with it winners Come see me speak my book one-on-one coaching for me fly on the jet whatever we do We pick winners every week and give them cool stuff and I'd love to engage with you more so God bless you everybody Alex Thanks so much brother you got a man. Thanks every take care