My name is Daniel Puder and I'm a retired undefeated mixed martial arts fighter and
I won a million dollars tough enough on WWE. Today, I'm the president and one of
the founders of Foundation Academies. We own private schools, a security company,
health company, and we're transforming the lives of our next generation.
There we go. Start off the day, right? How you guys doing today?
Wow, that was like the look okay. There we go. How you guys doing today?
So I love this panel because I used to be a pro athlete my name is Daniel Puder
if you watch the video We've built schools to be able to impact the next
generation. We have a tech play. We have a real estate play And I'm great and it's
great to announce that next week. We just got an investment bank through Dean One
of my mentors and friends and we're doing our real raise, uh, for real estate tech
and brick and mortar schools that are state funded. So super excited to be here.
Um, real quick by, uh, does anybody want a book before we start? I just came out
with my book, Mike Tyson did the after. Wow, right here, somebody's hand flew up in
the beginning. I don't know who, here you go. Daniel. Here you go. The two hand,
we can get more, we can get more. I just want to start off with that.
I appreciate everybody being here. here so here's how it goes we're gonna do five
minutes per pro athlete I'm super excited and we're gonna go through what has made
them successful and I would say significant in life how they got from where they're
at to where they want to go so you guys ready awesome elson real how are you
doing sir real good thank you then so let's start with you first question what's
what you play and for how long I played professional football in NFL for eight
years. Awesome. How'd that go? It was amazing. Being a kid here, especially in LA,
from the South Central area, having that dream as a kid used to ride my back down
to the forum to see the Lakers play at that time. I'll age myself a little bit
out there for you guys. Will Chamberlain, Jerry West, and Gilger, which were playing
at the time, and they would come around to our local park on their way to school
coming down Manchester Boulevard and would shoot hoops with us. And so having that
imagery as a young kid, understanding that the impact that you can make as a
professional athlete on young kids, want to do that. So got a chance to do that
for eight years in NFL. It's great. - Nice. How do you stay super disciplined, ultra
healthy, and consistently outpacing others in your life today? Or when you're a pro
athlete? - It's just, you know, the basis in God and understanding how health relates
to just everything, and then having a beautiful wife, my wife, Erica's here with me
too, and having her at my side, and really understanding and partnering with her,
and then our belief in God, and having that transference over to our kids, and
being able to model and show that to them as a 62 -year -old guy, it's great. It's
just key to what it is. So that ability to show how important health and wellness
is to your overall Well -being is just a great model for other people.
So I pride myself in it. And again, with the help of my wife, we are able to
show and display that. - Amazing. What are you investing in today? And what are your
holdings? How do you spend your time in the investment world? - I'm a long -term
investor. I like the ETFs. I like the Qs. I stay primarily NASDAQ,
work for Apple now. So I've got some insight. So I'm primarily there, but I do do
real estate. I am a landowner and a landlord too. So I tried to diversify, but I'm
looking with the group out here, particularly to diversify a little more, to learn
even more and just to broaden my horizons. - Nice. What visualization affirmation goal
setting strategies to use to become the top 0 .1 %er? - I was lucky.
I had great parents. I had both my parents for their lifetimes. And I still have
my mom with me right now. She's 86 years old and lives with me. And just to be
able to have that positive visualization in the house, my dad had his own business.
He was one of the first black business owners in San Fernando Valley out here. So
to be able to have that as modeling just really helped. So seeing how they promoted
themselves, my mom was a registered nurse and how they promote themselves and how
education was just is primal to their success. Just modeled after that and showing
my kids and my grandkids that now. - That's amazing. What million dollar lesson can
you teach us and you learn from being a pro athlete? - Just have transferable
skills. Treat people well, do your best, work harder than the other guy and make
sure that you're just invested with God. Take the God first, make sure that he's
primal in your life. And then I'll work everybody. You gotta get up earlier and you
gotta stay later. - Nice, yeah. What are the most costly financial mistakes you've
ever made? - Just not being informed and making decisions without proper information.
And then again, like we talked earlier and I heard one of the earlier speakers talk
about trust. That trust is just so hard to build. And particularly in professional
sports and in football in general, we trust the other guy and we trust our
teammates and a lot of time we get information from them and you trust the guy
that he trusts and sometimes that's not such a smart idea and I've made mistakes
that way so build your own trust in the people that you're going to be invested in
and then take the time to know them and get a familiarity with them and then get
some confidence before you make an investment. What is, if somebody wants to be top
one percenter in their field, what would you give them for advice? Work hard, focus,
get the information, know what you wanna do, have a passion for what you're doing,
and be willing to learn as much as you can before you invest. - So tell me what
you're up to today, and what kind of legacy do you wanna leave behind with your
company? - Right now, I'm the global strategist for Apple, for EHS,
for environmental health and safety, so I'm all over the world an Apple out building
out their different construction sites from operational retail and then our data
centers right now. So that's keeping me busy. But beyond that, I like coaching but
getting ready to start a girls flag football team because girls flag football is
really taking off. So I want to really get involved in that. So developing plans
for that and then my outside investments. So can you talk a little bit more about
your outside investments? The outside investments, again, are staying primarily in the
tech industry, trying to really maximize the explosion of AI and what's going to
happen there. So really looking at learning more about that and seeing which way and
which direction should go for overall investments in that category. You guys, give me
a round of applause. Thank you so much. Thank you.
The champ is sitting next to me now.
Lisa, Carmen Wang, what's happening? - I'm good. - So tell me what sport,
how long do you do it for Olympic level rock star? - I was a four time USA
national champion, Olympic level and USA Hall of Fame gymnast. My first decade long
career from nine to 19, I grew up in Wisconsin, that for the first 18 years of my
life, I traveled to over 30 countries, but spent most of that time in buses and
hotels and gyms, so didn't really get to see those places. I would say the number
one thing that I learned as a gymnast was the ability to fall and get back up
again, and not only experience the shame and the humiliation and the physical pain
of falling down, but learning how to put a smile on your face, get back up with
Grace and say the show must go on. And the other big thing that I learned was
that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. I was never the most
flexible. I was never the, you know, I didn't have the best body. I wasn't the,
didn't come from the best, you know, just background, but I certainly outworked every
single person on that team, which is why I was the winner. - Yeah. Yeah, so
how do you stay super disciplined, ultra healthy, and outpace others? Like what was
that that you had that they didn't have? - Back then or today?
- Either one. - Okay, so back then I was a absolute perfectionist.
You had to be, we literally went for the perfect 10. So I was very strict on my
diet, very strict on my schedule. The only thing I focused on was getting gold
medals and getting straight A's. And I wanted to succeed at both school and
gymnastics. Today, I'm a very different person. So as many of you know, I'm the
author of the Bad Bitch Business Bible, all about going from a good girl to bad
bitch. And my background is really as that perfectionist, people pleasing,
obedient good girl that listened to authority and told me everything that was wrong
with my body or my performance so that I could be the best. And I realized that
there are some things that are good about that, but there are some things that are
very toxic about that, especially when you become an adult and a woman. And so
today, I actually have learned to let go of some of that ultra is ultra -discipline
because I realize that for me, what's really actually important is also to be able
to enjoy the journey and not just go after the next medal, the next medal, the
next achievement because I've done that for so long. And so I've actually found that
today, if I focus on actually enjoying myself and the process surrounding myself with
really good people and actually being authentic to myself, that gets me more success
than following some arbitrary schedule, like get up at 5 a .m., have a super strict
diet, and restrict yourself in every way. - Yeah.
There we go, there we go, okay.
What are you, were you spending your time investing your holdings? What are you up
to in this world? - I also run the Bad Bitch Empire Fund, which is a early stage
venture fund, investing in high -growth female -led tech companies, and we invest
primarily in three core areas, areas that we see the greatest systemic inequality,
which is healthcare inequality, financial inequality, and labor inequality that looks
like health tech, fintech, and future of work. And I'm really excited to say that
99 % of our LPs are first -time female LPs, so one of my missions was to get more
women on cap tables because we know that that's really how we build generational
wealth when we're actually investing at the highest levels. And so in addition to
that, I personally invest in crypto. I also invest in real estate.
Yeah, those are my main things. - How do you use visualization affirmation, goal
setting rituals, and what to one of them have you used most to be able to become
as successful as you are today? - The number one question I've asked myself over the
last few decades and the answer always changes is who is the most powerful and
authentic version of me. And a lot of times, you know, the version of yourself that
you see in the mirror is not the most powerful and authentic version of you. And
so I would always visualize that version of her or me. And she,
especially at the point when I was a good girl and I was very insecure and I was,
you know, had very weak boundaries and didn't know my value, I would just imagine
this kind of woman who was confident and generous and outspoken and knew her
purpose. And I'm proud to say that that's the woman that I am today.
So I think that's really the question to always ask yourself, like who is the most
powerful and authentic version of you? And continually iterating to become that
person. - What is a $1 million lesson you learn from being a athlete?
- I would say that you have to be very diligent about caring about who's,
figuring out who's opinion matters and who's opinion doesn't. Because everyone's gonna
have an opinion of you when you're in the spotlight. And most of those opinions
don't actually matter as long as you are doing what you're meant to do and you're
authentic to yourself. - Love it. Give a round of applause, you guys. (audience
applauds)
Can I have you go to the end and switch? Kari, you ready for that? - Musical
chairs. - I'm gonna say if Cain for last, you guys don't mind 'cause he used to
beat me up. (audience laughs) We're gonna have a little fun story at the end, okay?
If that's cool.
Kari, what's up, bro? - I'm great, man, glad to be here. Tell me about your sport,
I'm awesome. Tell me about your sports career. What sport, how long? - So I play, I
play currently professional football. I've been playing for six years, just finished
up with the Philadelphia Eagles. Spent time with-- - World champion Philadelphia
Eagles. - Woo! - Champion Philadelphia Eagles. - So first, yes sir. - You got some
champs on stage today. - Yes sir. Spent time with Minnesota, Tennessee Titans and the
Chicago Bears. - So yeah. - Congratulations. - Thank you. - Holy smokes. Okay,
so how did you say super disciplined, ultra healthy and consistent to consistently
outpace others in the NFL and in your life? - So all of that is, you know,
to me it's action based and actions are about systems. And I always felt like I
had the best systems around me and the best people. Now currently as I train in
the off season, having a wife who can step in and allow me to focus and do things
that I need to do for my body on the field is huge. And then also like my
nutritionist, my trainers, just surrounding yourself with people who care about their
craft and are gonna really pour that service into you. And it's not just a, hey,
you pay me, we train. It's a, I care about your career, let's get better and let's
get better every day. And so I have the systems around me that allow me to get
better every day. - That's awesome. What are you investing in now? What are your
holdings? How are you focusing on long -term? - So I invest in the public equity
markets, ETFs, long -term strategy. I'm also a holder of a single family,
real estate, and me and my business partner are looking to get into multifamily in
our hometown, Huntsville, Alabama. - Nice, I like Alabama. Anybody from Alabama here?
Couple of people, okay, nice, okay, awesome. What Visualization, affirmation, goal
setting, rituals, and strategies have you used to become a champ?
- So mindfulness and meditation and also visualization are also the main ones that I
used throughout college and throughout the NFL that helped me perform. So mindfulness,
meditation, sitting there, getting to that quiet, dark place, it allows you to block
out all the noise and in that space you can control your self -talk. And self -talk
is one of the biggest things that I've had to work on and master throughout my
time in NFL. When you master your self -talk, you can talk to that aspirational
vision of yourself, that person that you want to show up as, and you can control
how you're going to respond when things hit the fan. So when you make a bad play,
when you get hit in a way you don't want to get hit, you might get a type of
feedback from your coach that triggers something inside you that sends you on this
doom loop. You're able to be mindful in that moment, control your breathing, control
your body language, tell yourself exactly what you've practiced because it's not just
something that you're gonna tell yourself in the moment, you have to practice it.
You can tell yourself a narrative and a story about that failure, about that
feedback, and you can snap right back. You can have mental elasticity that puts you
back into that warrior thinking. That's what I call it. You can call it whatever
you want to, but that snaps you back into that your thinking allows you to attack
what you're doing in that moment and be extremely present and I had a coach in
college who really put me on to visualization and you know mental reps in
performance are just as good as physical reps your brain can't tell the difference
so you can you can get to that quiet place mentally through meditation and visualize
what a game they looks like so for me because I had done it over 200 times
throughout college and the NFL this last year was really when I took that to the
next level and I was able to visualize everything that I wanted to happen even if
I was nervous about a play in the in the playbook I could visualize how I wanted
to turn that turn out and most of the time it turned out how I visualized it
because you can create the future you want to see not only in external but in your
internal world also so I've rambled about that but I'm really passionate about that
and I think that that's what's taking me from an undrafted free agent to a guy
Who's lasted six years in NFL? I used to visualize who congratulations by the way
And I visualized myself beating up Kane here and then he kicked my ass every day
so that was rough What is the most costly mistake you've ever done financially?
Skipping steps in the knowledge, you know, you have to you have to me and me You
have to, me and Cam always say, you gotta do the knowledge and that's not the most
grammatically correct, but you gotta do the knowledge and you can't skip steps. If
you skip steps, you're gonna pay for it. You know, anything, business, investing,
relationship, you can't skip steps. You know, as an athlete, you don't just start
out doing 400 pound back squat and pistol squat and all this other stuff. You gotta
start at the basics. And so you have to know what you're doing and not try to
skip steps because if you try to skip steps, will pay for it on the back end.
- Nice, so tell me what you're up to today. How are you building your company? What
are you up to? What do you need here? - Yeah, so like I said, my partner and I,
we're looking to build a multi -family, multi -use development in our hometown of
Huntsville, Alabama in conjunction with a training facility for youth sports and high
school sports in the area. And we're looking just for not only investment but
partnership that can help us take our vision from where we are to where we want to
go. - Amazing. - Thank you. - You guys give Kari Blasingame a round of applause.
(audience applauding)
Welcome, David. - Thanks for having me. - David Bergeron, you guys. How many years
you play sports? NFL, rock star? - Yeah, I am by far the least decorated athlete on
the stage.
I went to Stanford and then played two -ish years in the NFL. I was a drafted guy
who was beat up by guys like him who were undrafted and ended up taking my spot.
So I was drafted by the Eagles, spent times with the Titans and the Panthers,
played in NFL Europe when that used to be a thing, in Cologne, Germany, which was
a wonderful experience, and then transitioned to my true love, which is real estate.
Nice. So how did you stay super disciplined, ultra healthy, and consistent to
consistently outpace other people? - Yeah, I mean, I'm a big believer in the concept
of curiosity and my mom taught me early on that attitude is everything and that's
kind of cheesy and cliche. But I do think there's, when you sort of apply the
sense of curiosity to each day and the sense of improvement and the Peter Drucker
quote of like what gets measured gets changed. And I think this concept of like
identifying what's gonna be important to you in that moment, being open to new ideas
and new perspectives and new people that enter your life that are there to help you
improve. That's something you learn really, really early on in any athletic arena
that I think really applies into business and into life and being a father and a
husband and all those things. And so for me, that was an important trait that I
still care with me today. What are you investing now? What are your holdings? How
are you in the real estate world? Yeah So we we run a real estate firm called
reseed partners One of my partners actually is based here in Los Angeles. His name
is Moses Kagan And so we have a kind of an interesting business. We if anyone's
familiar with Y Combinator We took a lot of the learnings from Y Combinator did
about kind of sourcing talent and finding up -and -coming entrepreneurs We pulled from,
you know, the likes of a VIST equities or others where you can sort of centralize
a lot of back office Efforts that are done to sort of scale these GP businesses
And then, you know, Sequoia Scout programs another one that that kind of comes to
mind as we think about Finding best super hyper local talent that are in Huntsville,
Alabama doing something very specific from that market No one inside now We've heard
a lot, you know through the panels that real estate is still hyper local and as
much as AI and big tech is going to, I think, help make that better. It's not
going to replace that local touch and that local relationship that I think leads to
a lot of interesting deal sourcing opportunities. And so we started a fund and a
firm that's helping buy those assets all over the country. What visualization,
affirmation, goal setting have you used to become super successful? I mean, I think
for me, it's the consistency effort and the idea around getting up and doing one
thing better every day. And it's, again, cliche. But if you get like 1 % better
every day, that, again, compounds over time. I think the other piece of this is
this belief and understanding that you're better with your teammates. And the Michael
Jordan quote of talent will win games. The teamwork will win championships. I think
really applies. And so when I think about that on a daily basis, it's not only,
what can I do to make myself better? but what can I be doing to make my teammates
and my peers and my family members and my community better? And I think that really
kind of lifts you up, you know, in a way that that's meaningful and sustainable and
feels not just kind of greed oriented, but but truly all boats rise oriented. And
so I think for me, that's something I live by daily. What's the biggest financial
mistake you've ever you've ever gone through and learned about? Oh, that's easy. So
when I was at Stanford, I - College debt, no, I'm joking. - No, no, no debt.
I was a scholarship guy, which is great.
The, so my fifth year, I, at Stanford, they let you start a master's and you do a
basically a two year program, master's in one year. So I applied and joined the
communications department master's program, and at the time, this was 2004, there was
an early track that just got started in social media. And so there was a very,
very small program of folks that had done the social media track. I finished the
first two of the three quarters. I turned all my peers at, all right, peace, guys.
I got drafted, screw you. I'm going to make millions in the NFL.
I ended up not finishing that degree. Basically, that whole cohort of people in that
social media track all went to Facebook, and they all been retired for the last
decade and a half. So that was a giant financial mistake on my part. Not to sort
of stick with with that program, see that through, but here I am. - Nice.
What is that million dollar lesson you've learned from being a pro athlete that you
can tell us about?
- You know, I mean, the one I see consistently times I'm over again is just, is
ensure you surround yourself by good people. And I think that, you know, again, all
these athletes up here, like I said, have high stature, not myself, but I think
there's a lot of people here that have a lot of people that wanna around them and
want to help them. And I think just having that intent up that, again, you don't
want to believe that people around you, or I know there's been a company line here
that everyone's going to, you know, take advantage of you and get a lie to you and
you got to be really careful. I'd like to choose sort of the other side of that
coin, which is also people actively want to, they want to be helpful. And if
there's a beneficial way to be helpful towards each other, having the intent up to
sort of identify where that Venn diagram might cross, that's what you're looking for.
And sure, sure. You got to make sure you don't, you know, overtrust people that
haven't earned it. But I also think that if your blinders are on too tight, you're
going to miss some pretty interesting opportunities by people that do stand to help
you and you can help them. And I think just, you know, having an open aperture of
that and be willing to at least have the conversation can really benefit in the
long run. Tell me what you're looking for here and what you want to leave with.
I'm just happy to be here. It's my first time. I was invited by a friend, Manny,
from Renna's here. So it's wonderful to be a part of this network. Seems like a
wonderful community and a bunch of events. Again, we have a firm and a fund and
we're always looking for wonderful capital partners. We're also looking for wonderful
operators locally. So we're just trying to spread the word of receipt and what we're
doing and, you know, happy to be a part of this new community. Nice. Give Dave a
round of applause.
So you guys mind if I bring up my son real quick. He wanted to be a part of
this last one. Is that cool? He's been doing jiu -jitsu. Hey Conrad, do you want to
come up on the button? Give me a big boy. (audience applauding)
Come on, come on.
You want to sit on my lap right here, bubble? Okay.
You want to say hi? - Hi. - Hi.
- Okay, so I'm gonna ask Kane some questions, okay? Is that cool? We'll have a
little fun. Okay, so just to start off, Kane Velasquez, when I visualized every day
after I got whooped by Kane, I had to go spar with him the next week, I
visualized me beating him, it never happened. So it's rough when you go against the
world's toughest ultimate fighter ever, period, hands down, where you can go. So we
can tell more stories later, but it's pretty nutty. So Cain Vlasquez. Thanks for
coming, bro. Thank you. Your mic's not on. Let's let's check that real quick.
To there we go. Okay. Thank you for having me. I'll start over just for the video
cameras. I call Cain Vlasquez. Thanks for coming today, bro. Thanks for having me.
So
tell us a little bit about your career real quick. I know you kicked a lot of
people's asses. So I started out as a wrestler at Arizona State. And then I saw
this, this ultimate fighting and thought, okay, let's, let's try that. And ended up
being a two time UFC Heavyweight Champion.
But yeah, I got to, you know,
from from team of sport, when it's just started being into when it's when it
started just Just catching wave, you know, I'm just excited and proud to be be a
part of the the growth of the sport in general. Yeah
What Did you do to become super disciplined ultra healthy and consistently to
consistently outpace others in the sport? It's just that passion of what you're
doing, you know, I believe we we get called to do something by a higher power
Whether it's, you know, It's in you, and you just follow that.
I didn't know what I was doing necessarily. I know that I was essentially just
learning on myself, learning my limitations, which we don't have limitations. It's
just the ones that we put on ourselves. It's knowing how much heart we have. It's
knowing how much pain we can endure, but it's learning lessons, you know?
So for me, as far as fighting goes, is try to be the most efficient, try to use
my, my positives in my, just what I'm really good at, which is a beat,
you know, for heavyweight being fast paced, using the wrestling with the striking. So
kind of keeping your opponent on, on his toes, not, not showing them everything that
you're doing, being super strategic, but also just being very efficient with
everything so you can kind of keep that fast pace going so I think that just and
again it was just a passion it was just being able to go in every day and push
myself to my limit and do it every day going to war every day learning on myself
learning that you're not always the top dog every day you know that you had those
days where somebody else beats you and just not being happy with that, you know,
just trying to come back better. - Who beat you in practice? - Well, you know, you
see the smile. For me, it was even if like, given a one take down.
- Okay. - Which you, you know, one take down a year. - Like, okay, like, just not
being happy with that. But again, like learning from it, learning how to adjust and
doing, yeah. - What visualization affirmations and goal settings did you do to become
the best in the world? - There was no go settings or anything. It was just, again,
being put in a position where I just love what I was doing. My heart was in it.
I just couldn't get enough of it. I was just, my heart's soul, my body,
I put it all into what I was doing, you know? The constant learning.
When fights would come up, I've always had that visualization of like being put in
certain positions and being able to being comfortable in there, you know, knowing
that no matter what happens, you're always good. You're, "I'm comfortable. I've
trained for this," and being, you know, being relaxed in a very high -pressure
situation. So it was a lot of just self -learning, But just that passion and that
hunger for what you're doing every day. It was that, just following that.
What is the biggest lesson you've learned from being a pro athlete? Biggest lesson I
learned, so many lessons. You know, as pro athletes,
you're in it. When I started out of college, the Body could do everything,
but I didn't know a lot of knowledge yet, a lot of wisdom, you know, for, you
know, the striking, the kicking, the wrestling. You get to like a midpoint where the
body can't do everything that it wants, that it wants good, but now you have a lot
of the, a lot of the techniques and you get to the end where the body really
can't take much, but you know so much, and you're as efficient, you're the most
efficient then, you know it all, you know how to impose your will on someone else.
So it's like getting hit with limitations and still making it work, still making the
best out of what you have.
It's just doing that, you know, it's, yeah. - Tell me what you're up to today. up
to today because you're transforming minds. So up to today, so working with the
Global Fight League, I'm one of the managers for Team Dubai. It's a team -based MMA
group.
Also working with another organization to do Lucha Libre here in the United States
to again just bring that culture of like Mexico to hear in the States and then
also I work a lot with psychedelics. So just like we did in fighting,
it's having people that are ready, that need healing, that need wisdom,
that I guess just find that they're in their power, right? That's kind of what
we're doing here, where we're helping each other through life To find out that you
are you are complete. You are at all, you know, we're no more external stuff It's
the powers in here once you find that power that love in here with the divine and
Your your your external world starts changing because you are living through here
I've heard Joe Rogan are of K Kyle Kingsbury They talk a lot about psychedelics and
how they're with veterans. I know you're working with veterans, you're working with
athletes, how instead of, you know, with trauma -based, with, you know, hurt, anger,
pain, whatever, focus, whatever that is, they're becoming more vision -purpose -driven
and it's quicker than like coaches, therapy, all the other things. What have you
seen with that? Yeah, it's, um, it's going in with the space knowing that these,
These certain traumas changed you, yes, but you don't change you into the person you
are today. And without those traumas, you wouldn't be here. But it's learning from
that. It's letting those traumas go. It's being this attached from past things and
living in the now, you know, and just living through your higher self, you know,
having experiences. Those were experiences, but they didn't define who I am. I
survived, I learned from it, but I let that pass go. I let my baggage go, and I'm
here in the moment living here for my heart, and just being guided by the divine.
- So you have a, just last, last question. You have a 300 acre ranch, you guys are
rocking it. You're doing seminars, you do corporate stuff, not even all with, you
know, plant -based medicine, you're doing like, like, breath work, stretching, all
these other things. Can somebody here bring you guys into their companies to bring
that culture to the next level, you know, either with or without, you know, they
can pick and choose, right? Yeah, yeah, it's not always just, with plant medicine,
it's people that really need it, or people that tell themselves that they that they
need it. We're doing also just ancient practices where it's meditation, sweat lodges,
cold plunges, breath work, but it's doing all these ancient practices is to go
inside. So it's not always plant medicine. Like we talk about going to a place
where you become the medicine. You don't need anything anymore because you are
completing now. Now you're just living, now you're just enjoying all this. - Awesome.
You guys give a round of applause to Kane. Thank you so much, brother.
(audience applauding) The reason I love what these athletes all said definitely with
Kane, with what they're doing with transformational work, is Richard asked a really
amazing question at the Dallas event about a year ago. And he asked everybody in
the room, how many of you spend $30 ,000 a year on your health?
And I looked at it and I spent about 10 on mine personally, but I don't spend 30.
And there's people out there that are going above and beyond for prevention -based
health. For like what Ed Connors did with Building Gold Gym, one of my mentors
here, with whatever that is like how do you build your health today so you don't
need sick care tomorrow? Because our sick care system is amazing, but our healthcare
system is prevention -based, how do you do that? So Richard, that question you asked
me a year ago, it really impacted my life 'cause I've even upped my own healthcare,
but I know every single one of these men and women on this panel, they spend time
on theirs and I challenge you for that so that when you get, you can live longer
for your kids, your grandkids, your company, your foundations, whatever that impact
that purpose you're doing will be, we'll just go to that next level because you
spend today, a little bit every day, 30 minutes working out, whatever that blood
work, whatever that body scans you do are helping you to prevent whatever illness
sickness is gonna be coming. So thank you guys so much. The athletes are going to
exit, which way are they gonna exit? That way, outside, if you guys want to talk
to them, so that there's not a, you know, like a mobbing, please don't do that to
Kane, 'cause he'll take you down. (audience laughing) That won't be good for any of
us. So I appreciate you, have a blessed day, you guys. Have fun, thank you so
much. (audience applauding)