I want to be worthy of obtaining a billion dollars not get a billion dollars, I want to be worthy of it, which means being a great leader having employees and team members that their lives are enriched by us.
I mean, it’s every time you hire somebody, I’ve been telling this story the last couple of weeks over and over, had an employee named Alyssa sends me a group chat with all of our leaders.
She says in the group chat with, you know, hundreds of people, she says pace, thank you for dreaming so big that my dream can live with inside yours. And I was like, wow, that’s, that’s powerful. So when people say, What are you trying to do? I’m like, I have a responsibility. I have plenty of money. I have plenty of assets. I don’t need to make another dollar. As long as I live. I’m good. I mean, we have $450 million in real estate in our portfolio.
Hey, you’re good. I’m good. Yeah. So the goal obviously changes because you want to hire more people and help more people and all that kind of stuff. But you realize you were put on this earth at some point for a purpose. And the purpose was not just to take care of your family at some points, like that box is checked.
I’m done. Yeah, what do I need? My wife can only drive one car. She can’t drive for cars. That’s okay. So we don’t need more cars. We don’t need more houses. We don’t need more whatever. And really what it was, is realizing people are making decisions to have babies get married, buy their own houses, go on vacations, invest their own money and other things. Because your stability in your business that you built. Yeah. And you okay, I have a purpose here on this earth.
Somebody put me here, take care of your family as quickly as possible, then quickly go out and try and take care of other people’s. So when I have a family meeting and my family, my kids are 16 years old, five years old, one, a two year old daughter, she has no clue what’s going on. We are talking about other families that we’re impacting.
And our goal next year, for example, for my kids is we’re our goal is to get 50 families off the street that are homeless because there’s all sorts of crazy statistics talking about how one in 30 kids are on the street in the United States, one in 30 kids are homeless. These aren’t drug rattled, like fentanyl situations.
These are families that are working at Walmart target single mom who’s making 18 bucks an hour who can’t afford rent. Okay, so how do we go after that our job is to go buy real estate, figure out how to make it affordable work with charities that a couple of charities we’re working with one’s called Family Promise, they help working families, non drug related situations to get into the houses that we as investors go and get.
And that’s, that’s definitely a mission.
It’s a mission. It’s a mission. It’s a mission. And so I think our community, our real estate community will probably get close to 2000 families off the street next year by working with this charity. And when you show your kids this is what we’re doing. This is why we’re buying real estate is to benefit other people, like cash flow is no longer the goal, right?
So I just want to become worthy of that thing. The billion dollars would have changed my life will open up other doors. Yeah, I think to a certain degree.
Yeah. It’s interesting what you’re talking about. Because when you say billion, I think of the money but you’re not thinking it doesn’t seem like you’re thinking about the money. You’re thinking you’re saying what could that help accomplish when I get that like kind of, but like also, the best people I’ve acquired on my team and attracted to my team were when I did some sorts of sort of personal development, I learned how to be a better leader.
I learned how to do this, I got rid of a bad habit. I got rid of some bad branding or something that wasn’t really in alignment with other people. And I fixed things in my ecosphere. And all of a sudden, magically, the best people start going, Hey, do you have any open positions? And like, why was it so hard to hire people for the all these years and now it’s like people are clamoring to come work for us personal development.
Yeah. And as we work on ourselves, personally, all of these other opportunities that you didn’t even think existed start coming to you. So really saying I want to be worthy of a billion dollars is just saying I want to be worthy of being a leader that attracts amazing people amazing opportunities, open doors, I don’t I don’t even know exist. It’s basically unlocking a secret level in a video game you don’t know exist.
You know, there’s the secret level. Yeah, but you don’t know what it looks like. And so I know there’s a secret level that I’m not aware of. I just am not worthy of that level yet. And people I had I was on a flight Steve Harward, who is a mutual friend between us. He’s got a jet calls me up.
He goes, Hey, do you want to be on this jet? I’ve got a bunch of like heavy hitters on this jet. I go, okay, cool. Jump on the plane with him. We’re flying, you know, maybe a two hour flight and I’m talking to the guy across from you. What do you do? He was I’m the guy that’s behind some of the biggest deals you’ve ever seen in your life and like real estate deals, kind of.
He’s like, I’m the guy that’s taking the Anaheim Angels and getting them to move to Vegas. I’m like, what? That’s a big deal. That’s like something you learn. Is that a job? Exactly. Right, even though that exists. And he said he’s here in Utah. That’s amazing. And I go is that all? He goes? No, I’m also I’m negotiating with this Senate Senator to do this for this state that will allow for this big thing to be built and bubble by Mike.
So what’s your job title? He goes, I guess I’m like the fairy godmother to a lot of people. I go Where have you been my whole life? They went to great, amazing relationship that I’ve been able to obtain today. Thank you so much. I’m so glad we bumped into each other. I go Where were you my whole life? He goes, you probably are going to be offended by this. But here’s the answer. You didn’t deserve to meet me until today.
He said that to you. Oh, yeah, straight up. He said what not not with pride. I’m assuming he was really humble guy said You must have been learning or working on your leadership that allowed somebody to invite you to be on this plane. They thought you were worthy of this that then put you in the same situation.
He goes, I’m asking the same question like, how am I, you know, so lucky to meet you. He’s like, because we’re personally developing and we finally showed people leadership and showed this and showed consistency and wherewithal long enough to do Oh, that’s somebody I can invite to a thing in a gala in a charity thing and a bah bah, bah, next thing you know, you’re in rooms that have nothing to do with real estate because somebody invited you because you showed them some thing that you developed on yourself leadership, you went to a seminar, you read a book, you got better at this, you acquired better people, you solve the problem and then all at one point, I was like, I’m just getting in this because I just want to get a deal. Yeah. You know, it’s amazing.
