Building Wealth That Outlives You with Robert Siciliano | Protecting Your Legacy, Identity & Digital Assets

Beautiful, in this powerful episode of Beyond Elevated, Dr. Kimberly Dunlap sits down with Robert Siciliano, Creator of The Strategic Human Firewall™, cybersecurity awareness expert, good guy hacker, and private investigator, for a conversation every wealth-builder needs to hear.

Because building wealth is one thing.

Protecting it is another.

And if you are building income, assets, influence, intellectual property, digital systems, a business, a brand, or a legacy, you cannot afford to treat protection like an afterthought.

This episode connects cybersecurity, identity, wealth, leadership, and legacy in a way high-achieving professionals need right now. Dr. Kimberly Dunlap and Robert Siciliano discuss why humans are often the deciding factor in security, why denial is dangerous, why trust without verification can cost you, and why protecting your wealth must include protecting your systems, your data, your decisions, and your digital footprint.

If you are building wealth that outlives you, this conversation is not optional. It is strategic.

In this episode, Dr. Kimberly Dunlap, Wealth & Career Elevation Strategist, welcomes Robert Siciliano, Creator of The Strategic Human Firewall™, cybersecurity awareness expert, good guy hacker, and private investigator.

Robert is known for helping leaders and organizations understand the human side of security. His work teaches people how to move beyond security theater and build real behavior change in an age of AI deception, deepfakes, scams, identity theft, and digital vulnerability.

In this conversation, we explore:

Why wealth protection must include digital protection
Why trust and denial can quietly sabotage legacy
Why security theater is not enough
What The Strategic Human Firewall™ means for leaders and families
How AI deception is changing the risk landscape
Why your identity, reputation, data, and decisions are wealth assets
Why high-achieving professionals must stop separating wealth-building from wealth protection

Guest Information

Robert Siciliano
Creator of The Strategic Human Firewall™
Cybersecurity Awareness Expert
Good Guy Hacker
Private Investigator
Website: https://protectnowllc.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertsiciliano
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CyberAwarenessExpertSpeaker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertsiciliano/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Yeah. Beautiful. Welcome back to She's Beyond Elevated. So today's episode is titled Building Wealth That Outlives You. Right. And I want to start with this. Making money is one thing. We we all know that. Keeping it, protecting it, and building systems that truly allow us to make the money, and the money outlives the life that we've created here on Earth is truly the goal, right? So that's a completely different level of wealth. And of course, here we talk about building wealth, right? So because real wealth really doesn't just come from the income or your income itself. Real wealth is an infrastructure. It's protection, it's sustainability, and its legacy. Beautiful, I am joined today by Robert Sisleyano, right? A cybersecurity awareness expert, a private investigator, which, and when you see him, ladies, he does give you private investigator, security analyst, also a best-selling author and the creator of the strategic human firewall. Robert has appeared on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, Anderson Cooper 360, and has even been featured on in the Wall Street Journal, right? The New York Times and even Forbes. So his work really, he really precedes the work that he's doing. His work focuses on helping organizations and individuals such as yourself understand something many people overlook. And that is the greatest threat to your wealth and security often isn't in technology itself. It's human behavior and unprotected systems. Robert, welcome to She's Beyond Elevated.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

So happy to be here. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Thank you. Thank you. And I'm so glad that we are sitting down and having this conversation because a lot of people truly don't think about the they just think about making the money. But you can make the money, but if you lose it, what have you really gained? You've gained nothing, right? So Robert, I think many people truly define wealth only as the income and the assets, right? What you have, what you've been able to accumulate. But when we look at risk itself, cybersecurity, protection, things like that, wealth takes on a completely different meaning, right? So how do you personally define wealth that actually endures?

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Well, for me, it's it's um wealth that I can pass on to my loved ones. Uh it's uh having enough that I can live sustainably and comfortably, right? And and and at the same time be able to uh provide for those who outlive me, which uh, of course, that is the goal, at least for me. And um that means you know, giving my um children who right now are in their late teens and early 20s um the ability to pay off student loans and uh to set themselves up um in housing with what they need in order to prosper. So they're not struggling as much as they need to. I don't necessarily think that I think that struggle is actually a good thing. I think it's good to struggle.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Build character.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Yeah, absolutely. It truly does. You know, those who who don't understand or know struggle, I don't know that they experience gratitude. I don't know that they understand hard work. Um, and without you know, gratitude and without hard work, I don't know that you build character at all. You know, I just I think you expect. And um, you know, I think that's problematic. All that being said, uh, you know, my wife and I were in our late 50s and we have a nest egg and we are looking at, you know, um enough that we likely will be able to live out our lives without issue. Uh our children are already, you know, um massing debt from student loans. And we paid for their um primary school education for uh what like 15 years, private school, right? And now college, that's a big deal. And we said to them, at some point we gotta start saving for ourselves too. And so so we paid for primary education and we're uh saddling them with um uh college uh debt, knowing that once we retire and they determine their next steps uh once they uh graduate, um we will likely have something left over in order to begin to pay down their debt, but not until we know where we're gonna be at.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Exactly. Right. That's that's that's that's the name of the game. And I mean, after so long, when you've taken care of the children, you bought them here, you took care of them and took care of them well, at some point you do have to worry about yourself. So, what is my next step? What am I doing? You know, how am I protecting myself in the future as well? So, why is protection such an important part of building a wealth strategy?

SPEAKER_00 5:50

So you are likely familiar with uh, and if you're not or your audience isn't, there is currently a um 124-ish trillion dollars in wealth that is um owned by the baby boomers, the silent, andor the greatest generation. So basically, like our parents have amassed $124 trillion. And that's a trillion with a trillion with the T.

unknown 6:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah, and they're calling that money the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. So essentially, like, we'll use my dad as an example. Okay. My dad is the bluest of blue-collar workers, he was a union pipe fitter for 40 plus years, and in those 40 years, vacationed very little, saved everything, understood compounded interest ever since he got his first job. And from there, he socked his money away, paid off his mortgage, and watched his money grow through compounded interest and all of his various investments. On top of that, annuity, pension, the whole thing. So with his mortgage paid off and all of his wealth that he built over a lifetime, I don't know exactly how much he's worth, but with a home that is um over an acre, uh 20 minutes north of Boston, in a very nice um, you know, at this point you would consider a wealthy neighborhood, which it it wasn't when he moved in.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Um, I think he's probably worth somewhere between, I don't know, 2.5 and 3.5 million, is what I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Correct.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

As a blue-collar guy, which no one expects.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

No, like people really truly don't expect, you know, but that generation, you're exactly right, they amassed a huge amount because the focus was different then than it is now.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Yeah. He he would be the definition of the millionaire next door, you know, and so that money, his wealth, will likely be dispersed amongst me and my siblings when he passes. Right, you know. It's gonna happen. I mean, meaning he's gonna pass. Exactly. And um, you know, I I I understand that he has a trust, and I understand that his home who that is paid off is in a trust along with his most of his investments and such. Right. And um smart guy. That's yeah, and that money truly is the target of organized crime today. So you you you asked about protection, and so I know that my dad's getting phone calls and emails and text messages on a regular basis, pop-ups on his computer on a regular basis from criminals worldwide whose full-blown intention is to get every dime that he's ever worked for and every dime he's ever done. I know that that is exactly what they intend on doing. And because I study this and and I and I engage with these criminals, these organized criminals. Wow. Not not just, you know, the the the the tactics, but the individuals themselves. I've met them and I and I know how they function and I know what their motivations are. I I know that every single phone call, email, text message we get is planned out. And my dad calls me, he's like, hey, I just got an uh a pop-up message with the phone number in regards to my PayPal account, and I called the number. I'm like, dad, like I literally raise my voice and yell at them. And I'm like, oh, I I didn't mean to yell at you. I'm sorry, I just got you know excited. And and like you, you dad, you can't call those numbers. Like you can't react like that. Like you have to basically do nothing like when it comes to responding to the to the urgency of these requests, because that's what they want you to do. They want you to pick up the phone because once you get on the phone, they know exactly how to pull at your heartstrings, they know exactly how to affect you emotionally, they know exactly what to say and what to do to get you to click a link to allow them to remotely log on to your computer. And once they do that, now they're gonna install viruses on your machine that allows them to see every single website you visit, every keystroke, everything. Yeah. And that protection today means understanding all of that.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

So that when they do get to you, because they're gonna get to everybody, and when they do get to you via telephone, email, text, pop-up, etc., that you have to be able to recognize risk so that you can protect everything you've ever worked for.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Gotcha, gotcha, got gotcha. That's great information. It reminds you of that movie. What was it called? The Beekeeper, I think it it was. Did you see that movie?

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Awesome movie was exactly what's happening.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

Yeah, but it really shed light on the things that criminals are doing, and they are waking up earlier than you to figure out how to bankrupt you, basically. That's that's that's what they're doing. They're waking up early for it now. Robert, you often talk about the ideal that humans, not hackers, are frequently the biggest vulnerability, right? So, how does human behavior itself quietly put people's businesses and finances and even their future wealth at risk?

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Yeah, so humans uh experience what I call the human blind spot. We were born with it, we're gonna die with it. And the human blind spot is the psychological, biological need, want, and instinct to trust each other. Okay, we are what is considered an interdependent species. We are dependent upon each other. Man needs woman, woman needs man, primarily and fundamentally to procreate, to further the species. And the basis of that is that we need to trust each other. And as a result, uh throughout the day, week, month, year, everybody that you come in contact with in the physical world, you want to and essentially need to trust that A, they have your best interest in mind, but B, that they don't mean to hurt or harm you. Right. So we want and need to feel that pretty much everybody is worthy of our trust. And that includes phone calls, emails, text messages, and even pop-ups. Yeah. We we want to believe that those who we are interacting with are good. And like the reality of it is in this life, I've come to the conclusion, and people can research themselves, and I think they'll come to the same conclusion, that 97% of all the people that you will ever come in contact with in the course of your life are essentially good, that they're worthy of your trust. That they're trustworthy, 97%. Yeah, I agree. But when you do your research, I think you're gonna find that as many as 3% and as much as of women and as much as 6% of men worldwide are what the medical communities would consider sociopaths and psychopaths. Essentially narcissists that don't experience empathy, sympathy, guilt, remorse. These are the human beings amongst us that truly have no shame. And they make a lot of noise, and they're the ones that ultimately do harm, meaning hitting, harming, hurting, stealing from others is with no conscious, with no conscious, it's their nature, and so they are the predators amongst us, they are the wolves and the lions, and they consider us the gazelles and the rabbits. And truly, as like weird and wild as that might sound, we need as the 97% of the good to know and understand their motivation, how they choose their victims, and ultimately what we need to do and what we need to be and how we need to think so that when they engage us in the physical world or virtually, we understand what's happening. We uh sense what's occurring in front of us, we see that text message that comes in that is saying it's coming from your state's registry of motor vehicles and that you didn't pay a ticket or a toll, right? And you're gonna lose your license unless you click this link, yes. And that that lose your license unless is a form of manufactured urgency, exactly, exactly, and so our job as that 97% is to see what the 3% are up to and truly recognize risk, okay, so that we ultimately can protect ourselves and our money and our legacy.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Okay, well, Robert, I'm gonna stop you right there, okay? So, beautiful, just stay with us, okay? Because when we come back, we're going to talk about how high-achieving people unintentionally leave their wealth exposed. Stay with us while we're right back. Before we get into today's episode, let me share something with you that I use personally in my business. Today's episode is sponsored by Go High Level. And yes, I am a proud affiliate because I don't recommend anything that I don't use myself. If you're a coach, consultant, service-based entrepreneur who's tired of juggling five, six, seven different platforms to try to efficiently run your business, then Go High Level is for you. Go high level helps you centralize your systems, CRMs, emails, text messaging, calls, um, calendars, webinars, even automation, all in one place. For me, time freedom is non-negotiable. Legacy doesn't require burnout. And Go High Level helps me build a business that works with my life and not against it. If you want to explore for yourself, you can learn more by using the affiliate link in the show notes. Now let's get back to the other. Okay, so Robert, many people focus heavily on earnings. And this conversation uh I am just hype about because of course we talk about building wealth here, but I don't think, and I think where a lot of things fall short is that once we teach you how to build it, we don't teach you how to keep it. And that is the specific, the main reason that I really wanted you to have this conversation because I was so intrigued about what you teach. So many people focus heavily on earning, right? But not enough on the systems, meaning how they keep their money, whether they have a will versus a trust, all of those things. People don't really focus on those things. And it's just been here recent and recent um that these conversations are even coming about because, like you said before the commercial, we have an inherent feeling to trust people. That's that's who who we are. So what does it actually look like to build systems that allow your wealth to survive beyond one paycheck or one person or one season, even one generation?

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Well, from my perspective, it begins with personal protection. You know, certainly um from a wealth perspective, it's obviously bringing in more than you spend. Exactly. It's compounding interest, it's engaging in a financial service professional whose uh job or or perspective full-time is focusing on, you know, managing your financial risk when it comes to the markets and such, uh, and making sure that um, you know, your money's building wealth versus, you know, um in poor investments, right? And part of that is uh when I mention, you know, of course, using a financial service professional, like I come across individuals all the time who uh get a phone call, an email, a text message in regards to a cryptocurrency investment. And while I've you know dabbled in crypto and invested in crypto, um, I've run all of that through my financial service professional. Uh, but it's like a very minimal, like just a tiny, tiny segment, a portion of my financial investments. I would never, you know, uh stake um my investments in mass amounts of crypto because A, I don't have that much B. Um, it's just not a solid investment. But I would never do it without the advice of my financial service professional. But I meet a lot of people who do, and they lose almost, if not everything. Often because when they're engaged in these investments, usually because of an inbound request or an inbound communication, it's always a scam. I mean, it's just it's just always a scam, you know. It's one thing if you do your own research and you're in Forbes and USA Today and Wall Street Journal and New York Times and you're doing your research and you're making your investments and you're making your own purchases. It's another thing if you're involved in some type of a scam where somebody contacts you via text message or email and it's like a wrong number text message and they say, Hey, and you're like, Oh, who's this? And next thing you know, you're engaged in a dialogue with somebody who you don't know who they are. But now over the course of days, weeks, months, you're actually in a relationship with this person. And that person you're you're in a relationship with is in fact a criminal. But you have no idea because you've spent hours and hours and hours engaged in back and forth communications with this human being that's making you feel satisfied, yeah, in regards to you know who this person is and that you trust them and that they have your best interest in mind. And they've taken up hours and hours of your time with various relatively mundane dialogue that adds up to you feeling satiated in regards to you no longer feel lonely. That's a big deal. And and that is what organized crime is up to today. They're going after everybody, knowing that 25% of all humans are lonely on a regular basis. They know this. It's a proven fact. And when 25% of us are lonely, that is a huge, huge, massive population.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

And so I don't go into any investments without consulting my financial service provider. Too many of us are engaging in the transfer of funds for one reason or the other with people that we barely know. And it sounds so ridiculous, uh, but it's true and it's happening. And when and when and when we lose everything, I hear it all the time from victims. All the time. The first thing they ever say once they've lost all their money. How could I be so stupid? They they say the exact same thing and they wonder, how could I be so stupid?

SPEAKER_01 22:07

So, Robert, why do you why do you think so many successful people still lack that type of protection? Do you think it's truly attributed to that 25% that you were talking about that's lonely and and and vulnerable for the influence of criminals like that?

SPEAKER_00 22:25

Why do you think that's so so uh loneliness is a is a massive, massive, massive problem. It that has been around since the beginning of time. So think of it like this, right? They they call it the loneliness loophole, and they call it the pain and the ache of loneliness. So when you think of like hunger pains, hunger pains are there inherently in you and I, so that when we're hungry, we forage, we find food to consume, ultimately to extinguish the pain in in the ache of those hunger pains. Right. We do that so that we would live another day ultimately to procreate when you think about it. Okay? That's the that's our entire motivation as a species. We have to continually procreate to further the species. That's what we're designed to do. And our instincts are designed for that. Same thing with thirst. When you're thirsty, thirsty, thirsty, you you you need fluids. Why? To nourish your body, to live another day, to procreate. Well, the pain and the ache of loneliness, same thing. It's there so that you would find another human ultimately to procreate. I mean, that's what how we're wired. And criminals have figured this out. And so you could be the smartest person in the room, but if you are basically experiencing the pain and the ache of loneliness, and you you your default is to trust others, and you connect with this human being virtually, and they convince you that they are worthy of your trust over the course of days, weeks, even months. They start to bring crypto up, they start to bring forex and gold up, and they say, Oh, I just made 80% on my investments. You might want to think about that. I can show you how. And you're like, Whoa, yeah, like, you know, that sounds great. Like, I trust you because we've spent hours together virtually, right? And next thing you know, they're dropping a thousand and then five thousand and then ten thousand, and that money turns into twenty thousand overnight almost. And you can see those investments grow in fake AI-generated apps and websites. And so your trust now is through the roof. And next thing you know, that really, really smart person that was lonely, who's no longer lonely because this scammer has satisfied that ache, has invested 600 grand, and now they go to cash out, and that scammer and that money is gone.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Wow, Robert, this is such good stuff. Wow. Okay, so now let me ask you this. So as our lives become increasingly digital, you know, you can order food online, you can most some banks don't even really have a physical infrastructure anymore. There are so many online banks and things like that. So as our lives become increasingly digital, legacy and security are becoming deeply connected, right? In this digital age. So, how should people actually start thinking differently about protecting their digital assets, including bank accounts and things like that, even their businesses, but most importantly, their personal information, because identity theft is rampant at this time as well. So, how do how do they start thinking about that?

SPEAKER_00 26:08

So I look at it as first and foremost, all security is personal, meaning it begins with you. It beg personal security begins in your physical world, right? Personal security fundamentally is like violence prevention. But like when you think personal security, what's more personal than your identity? Exactly. Right? And so when you think about like protecting your physical being, you think self-defense, you think you think home security, you think locking your doors or installing a home security system. And you'd be amazed how many people don't lock their doors and how many people don't have home security systems. And and when I get in front of a live audience and I ask them, like, okay, so you know, how many of you have the home security system? If I get 15% of the room to raise their hand, that's a lot, which means 85% of the public doesn't have a home security system. And in the US, most people don't know this, between one and two million homes are burglarized every single year, which means like in the next decade, that's 10 to 20 million homes burglarized, right? So not locking your doors and not installing a home security system puts you and your family, your physical being and your stuff at risk. Okay. So when I ask that question, like, well, why don't you have that home security system? It's very telling in regards to why people don't engage in security practices in both the physical world and the virtual world. This is kind of important because it it kind of defines or exposes our um our understanding of risk and our rel our relationship to security. Because most people don't truly want to engage in security, and I'll explain. So, for example, like, you know, why don't you have that home security system? The most common answer, like, is like, oh, we don't have one because we have insurance. As if insurance is gonna protect you at 3 a.m. from an intruder, exactly. You know what I mean? While you're sleeping, or we don't have a home security system because my husband says, if they're gonna break in, they're gonna break in, what are we gonna do? And basically, he is justifying not engaging in risk management by utilizing fatalism. What are we gonna do? We can't protect ourselves, anyways. Frankly, I say I would divorce that guy. That don't work for me. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

I I I I agree wholeheartedly with that one.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

I mean, really? And then, but truly, the most revealing answer of everything is well, we don't have a home security system because I don't want to live like that, they say. And I say, Well, what does that actually mean? And they say, Well, I don't want to have to worry, I don't want to live in fear, I don't want to be paranoid, they say. And that's the problem. Yeah, we don't often engage in basic one-on-one managing risk like locking our doors or engaging in healthy password management because we don't want to have to worry or live in fear or think that others are out to get us, which ultimately is paranoia. We have, especially in our culture here in the US, a very unhealthy relationship with what security truly is versus what we think it is, what it isn't. We think of security as a form of paranoia. People who engage in security practices, they must worry, they must look over their shoulder, they must think people are out to get them. I don't want to live like that. Which truly is just silly and wrong, is what it is. And as a result of that, when it comes to security, many of us do nothing. So the next question I ask them is okay, so how many of you can honestly say, like I'll speak in front of a room of a hundred people, how many of you can honestly say that you use a different passcode across all your critical accounts? Different passcode across all your critical accounts. If I get 10% of the room to raise their hand, that's a lot, which means 90% of them are using the same passcode across multiple accounts. And what then I tell them, well, did you know that there has been about 300 billion of our records compromised in the past 10, 20 years? And of those 300 billion records, about 20 billion of them are our passwords. Meaning that like your passwords are likely on the dark web. And if you're using the same passcode across multiple accounts, that means the bad actors just they don't hack you, they just log in to your accounts because your credentials are out there. And so now you see like, okay, they're not locking their doors, they're not installing a home security system, they're using the same passcode across multiple accounts, they're just vulnerable and they're not doing anything because they don't want to live like that. So the first step is to recognize your own relationship to security. The fact that we trust by default, the fact that we look at security is kind of actually a bad thing. Like it's about paranoia. No, it's not paranoia, it's managing risk, it's no different than putting a seatbelt on and clicking it to give you control over the vehicle should something swerve in front of you. You don't put a seatbelt on because you worry, or because you live in fear, or because you think it's paranoia, you put it on because it is the smart thing to do that gives you control, and that's all security truly is designed to give you a degree of control over that 3% of the population that truly does mean to do you harm.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

Wow. Wow, Robert. This is yeah, and and and I yeah, this is this is this is great. Okay, so don't disconnect here, beautiful, okay? Because what we're gonna discuss next could completely shift how you think about your wealth, how you think about protection, and the long-term legacy that you're attempting to build. We'll be right back. Beautiful, before you go, I want to invite you to take the wealth asset archetype quiz. Because here's the truth: you don't need more information, you need clarity on what you already carry. The quiz will help you identify the exact strengths, skills, and patterns you already have and how to translate those into income, influence, and real wealth. No guessing, no overthinking, just alignment. You can find the link in the show notes. Take the quiz and start building from who you already are, where expertise becomes wealth. So, Robert, this episode being called Building Wealth That Outlives You, what mindset shift has to happen to someone to stop thinking about just making income, right? And actually start about start thinking about how to make that sustainable, how to build systems and how to build a legacy that you know that your work that you've put in to earn this wealth pays off. So if your first step is to think about your relationship, your personal relationship with security and things such as that, what mindset set mindset shifts have to happen in order to put you on the trajectory of getting there?

SPEAKER_00 34:10

So, from my perspective, once you understand that managing risk is like putting a seatbelt on, it's just being smart and making better decisions, uh talk to your financial service professional before you invest in cryptocurrency.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

Right.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Uh lock your doors, change up your passcodes, set up a password manager, use what's called two-factor authentication, be able to recognize scams every time the phone rings, an email comes in, or you get a text message, right? This is what I call developing yourself as uh a strategic human firewall. So technical firewalls are designed to block internet traffic from getting into your device, they're designed to protect your computer from outside forces. That's a a firewall is designed to stop uh intruders from getting into your machine. A strategic human firewall is designed for you and I to block deception. Meaning that every time the phone rings, an email comes in, you get a text message or a pop-up, that you look at that inbound communication as okay, what is this communication's intention? What are they trying to accomplish? Are they really who they say they are? Should I be providing them my information, clicking that link, downloading that file, visiting this website?

SPEAKER_01 35:48

Or is it something I even solicited? Is it something that I even asked for? So yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

So so as you are navigating the world or your digital life, by becoming a strategic human firewall, you are actively engaged in and participating in managing risk by blocking deception. Essentially, it is a proactive mindset, it is a governance that turns everyday people like you and I, right? Your clients, my clients, right, from passive targets, which many of us are, we're just kind of passively banging through life, not worrying or thinking about these things, basically doing nothing to protect ourselves. We go from essentially passive targets who trust by default to active detection layers looking for it.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

And it almost feels like taking the human aspect out of the transaction and looking at it strictly as business. Why what are you contacting me for? What is it that you desire for me? Did I even contact you? So it's almost like, and that and that's a different aspect of looking at it versus saying you're paranoid. No, I'm looking at every transaction for exactly what it is, taking the human feelings out of it and deciphering it.

SPEAKER_00 37:20

That's it. Exit. That's it. It is it is the it is the fundamental shift from I automatically trust what I see, I trust everybody, I give the benefit of the doubt, I don't want to worry about these things, to I verify everything.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

I am paying attention, I am aware, I am alert, I am engaged in situational awareness in my physical world. I'm looking to the to the front, behind me, to the right, to the left as I'm walking down the street. I'm looking for people paying unwanted attention to me in the physical world and in the virtual world. Every phone call, email, text pop-up. What is this? What is its intentions? What could be the result of me clicking the link, downloading the file, reacting and responding? And basically from there, we develop what I call security appreciation. Essentially, that is a shift from basic awareness, which is knowing, to appreciation, which truly is caring. Okay. And when people appreciate how security protects their lives, that's when behavior changes permanently. I call this the security appreciation gap. It's that chasm between a person's intellectual understanding of risk, which is awareness, and the emotional commitment to act on that knowledge, which truly is appreciation. And ultimately the desired outcome is what I call the kitchen table effect, which is the multiplier effect where successful training, let's say, like if I'm giving a training, ends with like that employee or employees teaching those concepts to their family at home, cementing those lessons for life.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Right. And that awareness is truly one of the foundational steps to building wealth, that you have to have that awareness. Wow, Robert, this conversation has been so eye-opening because it truly, because when you think about security, the first thing that you really think about is more cybersecurity. No one puts a human aspect on it. So I am, I was um, this this conversation has been great. Now, if you could just tell our listeners how they can connect with you and learn more about the work that you're actually doing.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Well, so thank you for that. Um, just make sure, parting words, everybody should change up all their passcodes. And to do that, set up a password manager. They're free, they're not going to get hacked. Don't worry about it. Sometimes you pay for them. I pay for mine. Just search Password Manager on Google. Set up two-factor authentication for all your critical accounts. Just Google two-factor Gmail, two-factor AOL, etc. You'll learn how to do it. From there, right? Make sure your devices are relatively newer. Update your operating system, update all your software. And generally, all of you should be pretty good. You can be in the top 10% just by doing those things. For me, I am online at LinkedIn. Uh search Robert Siciliano, S-I-C-I-L-I-A-N-O on LinkedIn or go to my website at protectnowlc.com. That's protectnowlc.com.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

Right, great, great, great. Now, beautiful. You can actually learn more about Robert and his work at his website. Again, that is Protect P-R-O-T-E-C-T now, N-O-W-L-L-C.com. We'll also have all of Robert's information available in the show notes as well. Now, if this conversation has you truly thinking about your own wealth building journey, I welcome you to take the wealth asset architect quiz. Now, it it it what it does is it actually helps you to identify the strengths and your weaknesses and the assets that you already possess and how they can actually leverage not only your income but your influence and how you build long-term wealth. Those links will be in the show notes as well. Now, beautiful, I want to leave you with this. Income creates comfort, right? But systems create um continuity. It they truly do. And the real wealth is not just about what you earn while you're here, but it's about what continues because you were here. Robert, thank you so very much for joining us today. Um, I this is this has truly been a great conversation. Wow, I could talk all day about this because you just really don't think. And and the other part that really is scary to me is that a lot of people don't even know all of the scams, like even a portion of the scams that are going on. You know, I I was on the phone with um the driver's license, the the toll office, and they actually have a message that says, we will never contact you via text to pay your tolls. The toll department had that. So I'm like, wow. And then I start to think about some of the text messages that I've received, and I was like, you know what? Good thinking, Kingdom, because that was a scam. I you know, so this this conversation has truly, truly, truly been eye-opening. So again, I thank you. I thank you so much for jumping on with us and giving just just small tidbits, those things that you gave, like a two two two-factor authentication system, those are just small things that you can do. It's not a huge, huge undertaking, but that just doing those few things you said puts them in the top 10 percentile, which is which is absolutely crazy. So it just really makes you know how many people are out here vulnerable, right? So beautiful. Thank you so much for tuning in to She's Beyond Elevated. Now, if this episode resonated, share it with someone who's focused on making money, but is ready to start having conversations about living bigger and leaving a bigger legacy for the ones you love, for the work that you've done, for the wealth that you built. Now, until next time, you weren't born to blend in. You were born to break ceilings, break out of boxes, and break generational curses. Stay bold, stay brilliant, stay beyond elevated, where expertise becomes well. Help me, guys, give a Robert a wonderful round of applause. Robert, I can wait to invite you back to the show to have some more in-depth conversations about these because again, this was truly eye-opening, and we don't have those. We don't have those. So thank you again for joining me.

SPEAKER_02 44:22

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

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