Fast-Track Yourself to Unstoppable Success Using the Same Tool as Spielberg, Pixar, and Elon Musk

Ever wonder how the biggest names in business, film, and innovation achieved mind-blowing success? In this transformative episode, we dive deep into the hidden power behind masterminds — from blockbuster filmmakers to Silicon Valley titans, to Pixar's creative genius. You’ll learn why surrounding yourself with the right minds can supercharge your journey as an entrepreneur and unlock possibilities you never imagined.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The surprising natural mastermind behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic movies
• What happens when a small group of brilliant founders band together—and why it reshaped the internet as we know it
• Why Pixar believes "every movie sucks" and how that fuels their record-breaking success
• The critical difference between a real mastermind and group coaching (most people get this wrong)
• How "brutally honest feedback" can be the secret weapon for breakthrough growth
• What magic unfolds when brilliant, growth-focused individuals collaborate without ego

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Transcript

 Hello! Hello! And welcome back to the show all right. Today I'm gonna try something a little bit different today, something I haven't done in quite a while, which is, I'm gonna use some notes. Use some notes. So if you're watching the video version of this, you get to see some pieces of paper in my hand, and maybe you see me reading from time to time. But you know I've kind of gone back and forth on this whole idea of using notes, you know, for the podcast because I really love just the freedom to flow, to share what's on my mind share. What's on my heart to share what comes up naturally.

 and that's great. I think that's wonderful. It's been amazing just to be able to express myself like that. But then there are a lot of times, too.

 when there are subjects that there are specific pieces of information that I want to be sure to share with you, and I'll forget about them, because I get so caught up in what I want to talk about and so I'm trying to find that balance of the 2. And also

 specifically, if you're watching the video version of this.

 then I don't really like the idea. People see me read things, and sometimes I can really struggle to read. If I know somebody's watching me. If I know I'm on camera, if I know I'm being recorded, because then I get in my head about. Oh, my God, it's got to sound natural. It's got to sound real. It's got to sound authentic, because that's who the fuck I am. That's who I believe myself to be. And so when I

 when I hear something from somebody, and it sounds like they're reading something, it always just drives me insane. I never want to be that guy. So it literally. I feel like it. Short circuits my brain when I try to read something while I'm being recorded, because I don't. I just don't like the sound of that.

 So let me just go ahead and apologize ahead of time. If, as I'm reading something. If it sounds like it's being read. I do apologize, but it's

 you know, it's it's what I share on here all the time. It's trying to evolve, trying to learn, trying to grow and trying different things, seeing what works, seeing what doesn't work. And I'm still again trying to find that balance of.

 you know.

 making sure I share everything that I want to share with you, but also being authentic, being true to myself, being real and just being, you know, myself

 on here and express myself in any way that I can. But I I think we're gonna figure this out. I think there's this happy medium that we can find in here somewhere. And what I want to talk to you about today is Masterminds, you know, if you've been in the world here of mine for a little while, you know, elevate is a mastermind that I have created for early stage entrepreneurs. People, you know, making less than $100,000 a year in that 1st couple of years of business, you know, not really getting traction.

 you know, in their business. Maybe the way that they want it to and can really use some help in that. And that's what I've built is a mastermind. I'm in the process of putting it all together, getting the 1st team members in it. You know the 1st group members in it. And I want to have a conversation about masterminds, because maybe you've heard of a mastermind. Maybe you haven't heard of a mastermind. Maybe you've got an idea of what it is. Maybe you have no clue. What the fuck it is, and you know I can only share so much on social media

 before you're still just, you know. I don't get it, James, and maybe a conversation. Maybe if I go a little deeper, you know, in this, in this conversation here today, I can share with you what a mastermind is. Help me might be beneficial to you. How elevate might be a great benefit to you. I know my myself. How amazing masterminds can be, because I've been in a couple of them. I I've gotten some extremely great value out of them, and I've also had some, you know, issues with them as well.

 And so I want to kind of share with you.

 What? Where? The idea of masterminds came from? You know what masterminds are all about, what the benefits of them are some very famous people that you already know, who maybe haven't been in what you would call a formal mastermind like elevate, but have had their own version of them that they have created with people around them, and you know some of the success

 some of the success that they've had through that teamwork, through that collaboration, through working together with others. Because that's really at the core of what you know, a mastermind really is. It's it's collaborating. It's working with people and pooling your resources and your knowledge base. And we're gonna dive a little bit more deeply into that here in just a minute. But let me start with, where did the idea of a mastermind come from?

 The the term was coined by Napoleon Hill. Now me, I know him by think and grow rich. That is his most famous book. That is the

 I don't want to call it the Godfather Book Personal Development. But it is one of the key foundational books that

 really, I mean, this was written back in 1926, 30 something, I mean, it was like in the twenties, 30, something like that. I can't remember exactly when it was, but it was

 early, early, early, little over a hundred years ago, probably at this point, or really damn close, if not there. But it's it's 1 of those that if you look at so many successful people, they will cite that as one of the books that they read early on in their journey to help them get to where they are now, because it really lays the foundation for what a lot of people now call the Law of Attraction, you know, or just.

 you know, personal development, personal growth, the the key foundational components of everything that you need to be successful are found in that book. And so in that book. Actually, it wasn't in that book. It was in a book he wrote before that which I don't think it's called the Success Principles.

 I've never read it. But in that particular book he coined the term Mastermind, and I'm going to read to you, hey? Tell you ahead of time what he described as a mastermind. Mastermind is 2 or more minds coming together in a spirit of harmony for definite purpose.

 And so what does that mean? What does that mean? I mean, it's pretty straightforward. But it's 2 or more people coming together.

 They have a spirit of connection, of supporting one another. And they're working towards a definite purpose together.

 That's really what a mastermind is. You know, it's it's just a group of people to get together.

 They have commonalities. They all have this

 same direction that they're kind of going, and they just want to support each other and help each other and guide each other through this process.

 And I mean really to stop and think about how could that possibly be a bad thing? Well, of course my brain always likes to argue both sides of this, and where it can be a complete clusterfuck is when you go into. If you look at something like politics. But here's where politics and we talk about like, you know, Congress and the Senate. These in in theory, are masterminds, but where they've gotten so perverted. Where they've gotten so twisted is.

 if you go back to my definition, there are 2 or more minds coming together in the spirit of harmony in the spirit of harmony towards a definite purpose. What you what you see in the Senate and the House, and you know, government is, it's the Democrats. It's the Republicans, you know. It's the Conservatives. It's the Liberals. They're they're fighting each other, you know. They're both on opposite sides of each other. So not in the spirit of harmony. They're not truly working together for the benefit of our country.

 So that is where a mastermind can get completely twisted, completely fucked, because if you look at it at its core, you know principles. That's what

 the government is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a group of people coming together, working together on a common cause in the spirit of harmony, to make the United States of America the absolute greatest country on the face of the planet.

 Obviously, as we've seen, it doesn't really work that way. Unfortunately.

 So that's why masterminds for entrepreneurs for individuals are so critically important, because then we can

 take the spirit of these things, we can take the idea of what a mastermind truly is supposed to be, and use it for our benefit on a much smaller scale, much more intimate scale, and then apply that to our lives and not have to worry about what the fuck the government's doing. Yeah, we're still going to pay attention. Yeah, we're still going to worry about. You know the money of ours that they're trying to take all the time. But as part of a mastermind, we can learn how to deal with those in a much better fashion, and how to benefit our lives much, much better through that use of common knowledge.

 So that is the basic premise of a mastermind. It's a group of people coming together

 towards a common cause cause. And I want to share, you know, some of these notes I've got here. You know. What are some of the benefits of a mastermind that I've jotted down here. It's collaboration.

 So how I look at this idea of collaboration is.

 you can go on to Google. I can. I can go on there right now.

 Google, pretty much any question I have and find an answer for it. Right? I mean, I can go on there, or I can do a Youtube. Search. I can read a book I can find the answer to just about anything that I have a question for, and that's nice.

 But how many times have you gone on to Google, or Youtube, or wherever, and gotten a book and searched for an answer? And there was an answer in there, and it was kind of what you needed to know. It kind of got you where you needed to be. But it wasn't exactly specific to your set of circumstances that you were going through

 it left just this little bitty piece where you're like. Well, this says, for you know ios 10.5,

 and you're like, but dang it, I got Ios 10.3, and so I'm not quite up to date with what this is telling me. The answers for on my operating system. So damn. Now, what do I do?

 Or you know, if you're looking at a you know something

 else in your business, or if you're looking at, you know, Crm program. And it's not quite the one that you have. But it's similar. So again, you're getting the basic concept, getting the basic idea of what you need to know. But it's not the exact thing that you need to know. And here's what's beautiful about a mastermind is, because then you have real life, people who are going through the same types of things that you're going through. And ideally in each mastermind. We're going to have people who've gone through

 and used some of those exact programs that you're using. Some use some of those exact tools that you're using, and or maybe even considering using, and then give you real life examples like, well, here's what I loved about. Here's what I didn't love about it, and you can ask them, and they can answer you right back in real time

 and give you real life feedback on what it is that you're trying to learn. This is one of the beautiful, beautiful pieces of being a part of a mastermind is that collaborative effect.

 And another piece of the collaboration is.

 think about any problems you've got to solve. And again, let's toss out government, because that's where it all gets twisted, because not everybody's working together on the same page. But if you have a problem you're trying to solve. Is it better to try and figure it out on your own?

 Or is it better to have that pool of resources, that pool of people that you can call on and say, Hey, I've got this question. I've really been thinking about this. Can you guys give me some feedback. Here's what I'm thinking about doing. What do you guys think? Let me let me know what your thoughts are on. Does this feel like a good idea to you, and of course you can take that any way you want to, but at least having that sounding board to bounce ideas back and forth off of is so so critical, so important. To have.

 Second

 second piece of the second benefit, I believe, to any mastermind is just that supportive environment. I just talked about having that group of people that you can bounce ideas off of. But in a mastermind, what you have is a supportive, encouraging, loving, caring.

 empathetic environment. You've got a group of people who are on that same path as you are a very similar path, as you understand what you're going through. And the challenges that you're facing and what you're trying to do. And so they're going to be supportive. Not like.

 you know, we've got loving family members who are going to say things that they feel are supportive, which is hey? You should probably give this up, you know. You should probably go back to your 9 to 5, you know. It's very steady paycheck. You got health insurance, you got benefits. You really should probably give up this whole entrepreneurial idea and go back to that, because that's that's the smart thing to do. That's the safe thing to do

 now in their mind they are being supported. They feel like this truly, is the best thing for you, because that's what they've seen, and they're afraid to follow their own dreams, and they don't realize that. But they've seen other people go out and try to, you know, try to follow their dreams or try to build their own businesses and failed at it, and they just don't want to see that for you. They want to see you succeed.

 But their version of success, not what our version of success is as entrepreneurs as the trailblazers as the go getters, the people who want to put themselves out there and trust in themselves to create something amazing.

 so

 that supportive community is so so important to have, because there are going to be hard days. There are going to be challenging days. There are going to be times that you want to give up, you're going to want to just lay it down and say, Fuck this man, it's just not worth it. But having those people around you who were like, Hey.

 man, you know I've been there. I've seen those dark days, and I've gotten through them, and I know you can, too. I believe in you. I see you. I know you can do this, and we're here to help you. So what can we do to help support you and help you get to that next level and get you through this dark day, because there is going to be a brighter day if you just keep going.

 so that is one of the other additional benefits of having a mastermind to be a part of

 the 3rd one.

 This kind of goes along with that as well is accountability, you know.

 as an entrepreneur, as a business owner.

 you are the person who gets to set the rules. So if you set a challenge for yourself if you set a deadline for yourself and you don't hit it.

 Well, who the fuck's gonna call you out on it? Nobody. You're just gonna move it just like, well, you know, maybe I don't feel like doing that work today. Maybe I don't feel like doing this today. And I know. I said I was gonna get this program out by, you know, the end of the month, but

 nobody knows. Nobody knows. I just said that to myself, nobody knows about that. But if you're in a supportive, encouraging environment, they're also going to nudge you and challenge you and hold you accountable to the things that you said you were going to do, and nobody's going to come in here and jump your ass and tell you you're a piece of shit and tell your trash, or your your louse, or anything like that. But what we're going to do in a mastermind. And what happens in a mastermind is

 you get held accountable. You get held to again what you said you were going to do, and you can't just keep pushing things off. I mean, you can, but as part of a mastermind, we're lovingly going to hold you to what you said you were going to do, and we're going to allow you to continue to keep pushing things off because you have said, this is what I want in my life, and we're going to challenge you. And we're going to say, hey.

 you said you're going to do this this week, and if you want, if you truly want what you say you want.

 we need to get you back on track. You need to be doing this, and you know, maybe the next week you get it done. But if the next week after that you don't get it done, and the week after that you don't get it done. Then we're gonna start questioning you like, wait, is this truly what you want, and we'll dig into that a little bit. We'll we'll find out.

 you know. Maybe you set up something in your list of goals, your list of quote unquote dreams, these ideas that you said that you wanted. Maybe you set something up in there that you truly didn't want, or that you know you thought you wanted, but it was only because somebody else really wanted that for you. Maybe it was societal expectations. Maybe it was your parental expectations.

 Maybe it's just you've seen, you know that elsewhere something something made you think that's what was important to you. But it really it really wasn't.

 You know. We'll help you kind of dig in to that a little bit deeper, and figure out, what do you truly want

 now, if we keep, you know, go through that process, and we figure out that, hey?

 This is what I truly want, and you're still not showing up. You're still not doing the work. Well. Then there's going to come a point where I have to have a conversation. You might have to be removed from the group until you get your shit together because we are a group of people who are working towards you know our goals and our dreams. And yeah, we want you to be a part of that. But if you're sabotaging yourself.

 you may have to step out for a little bit and kind of check yourself and make sure you know that you're really committed to this process, and if you're not, hey, no harm, no foul. That's okay. But being part of that group, we are all swimming together. We are all swimming towards a common goal of creating the life of our dreams. And you know, if you're not going to put in the work.

 then you're gonna have to ask. You know, we're gonna have to ask you to be. Step outside the group in the most loving way possible, and you can come back when you're ready to do that work. But that's what we're here for is to hold each other accountable to what we said we were going to do, because again, it's way too easy as an entrepreneur when there's nobody looking over your shoulder just to keep pushing things down the road, and I will admit this. I have done this

 way, the fuck too much in my life.

 This is where I go back to my divorce story. You know that second divorce.

 almost having this like what? The fuck moment? You know, finding myself getting that second divorce, having to raise my second kid in a second split home

 something I swear I would never do after the 1st one, and I didn't think that would ever happen, because I had been on this journey of personal development or personal growth. Reading all these books and listening to tapes and thinking, I had all my shit together, but I had nobody else in my life on a direct basis that was checking me on my shit. Yeah, I could talk a good game, but I wasn't really living up to a lot of the stuff that I was talking about.

 So when you have those people in your life on a recurring basis.

 they can call you out on this you're like, Hey, I know you keep saying, this is what you want to do, or this is what's going on. But I don't really see that in your life, you know. Is, is there something missing here? Am I just not seeing it? What's happening here, you know, so to have that group around you. You can't keep pushing things off year after year after year, month after month, or whatever it happens to be

 without them noticing it. And so you're going to be more accountable to yourself, even without the group calling you out. You're going to be like, damn man! I can't show up next week, and not not tell them. You know I did some work, and I tried this, and it's not about

 if you accomplish the goal necessarily, as long as you're doing the work. That's really what it comes down to is, are you putting in the work week after week after week? And you're going to put your you're going to keep yourself so much more accountable when you have that group of people around you who are supportive and encouraging

 and helpful, you know, to get you to where you need to be, because you'll know if I show up. And I didn't. I didn't hit my goal. It's like, damn it, man, I tried this. This didn't work. What can you guys help me out here? What? What was I missing? What did I not see here? What have you tried, help me out, and you get further and further and further along on your goal.

 And what the last, the last piece of

 at the last. What am I trying to say here?

 The last benefit? Yeah. Last benefit that I have in my notes here that I want to share with you is it's a healthy competition, you know.

 Healthy competition is such a good thing. And this is where it really comes into play. You know, if you're if you're following people on social media. We can kind of get in that comparison comparison itis. We're looking at what they're doing. We're seeing what they're doing. And we're trying to compare ourselves to that, and it can be a little scary. It can be a little intimidating. We might might not, you know, want us to

 might might not be the best thing for us. But in in a mastermind in this specific mastermind, you know that I've got put together, we're gonna keep it in a fairly tight knit group. And you know, in terms of where our scale is in terms of where we're at financially and what we're we're

 what level we're at in our business.

 And there's going to be some healthy competition.

 And it's gonna challenge each one of you. And it's gonna challenge you to like. Well, hey? They did that. I can do that man I want to be. If they had this launch, I want to have that launch, and not from a I'm better than you or I suck if I don't do better than you or whatever, but just in a fun, playful mode of if you look, I'm I'm a football fan, you know. So if I look at Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, you're going back and forth at each other like they respect the hell out of each other, but

 they're always trying to be better than the other one. And again, not from. I can't really think of the at least, I've not been able to come up with a great word for how that competition is in a negative sense. But again, they just have a they had a very healthy competition of Damn it, man, I got to beat Tom and Tom's doing this, so I gotta do this

 it drove them to be the best that they could be. And you see this now in football with Joe Burrow, and you see Lamar Jackson, and you see Patrick Mahomes. And

 you know these guys, they

 I've linked on Josh Allen. I was like, I knew there was a 4th one I wanted to get in there. But, like these guys, they push each other because they're so damn good they push each other to become better than they are now, and they're so much better than they ever would have been if they weren't in this little core group of people that are, you know, really, in a great space, right now they're playing capabilities.

 You see this so often in any kind of sporting or not even just sports in business in general, there's always like there's Pepsi, and there's Coke, there's Nike, and there was Adidas.

 actually, Adidas. But that's a whole different story. We can talk about later. But you you see, this Walmart and Kmart, and of course Kmart's gone now, but, like Walmart and Target, or whatever. But you get the idea. Pc, Mac, you know

 these things drive each other, they they drive each other to be the best they can possibly be, because they know there's competition.

 They know that if they don't step up their game. Then this other person's gonna like be doing better than them. And again, it's not. Sometimes you see it in competition or like in business where it's true rivals, and they truly despise each other. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about just seeing what other people doing like. Well, damn man, if they can do that, I can do that. That's the environment that we build inside of a mastermind is.

 if they can do it, I can do it. I literally have watched them build this from this from ground 0 up to where they're at right now, and so I know that I can do it as well, and they're there to help you. You know we're there to help each other. That's what this is all about in a mastermind. So those are some really great

 benefits to being a part of a mastermind.

 and I want to give a couple of examples of not.

 I wouldn't call them specific masterminds per se, because they weren't formal masterminds in the sense of like I've created elevate. And this is going to be, you know, where you can come in and you can support yourself or be, you know, part of this specific group, but these are just masterminds that naturally formed inside of friend groups, business environment, or something like that. And the 1st one I want to tell you about is Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola.

 they created their own little mastermind it. What what happened was.

 each of them went to Usc. Film school, and so they all kind of went through that

 Francis Ford Coppola was just a little bit ahead of Spielberg and George Lucas, but he wasn't so far ahead that they didn't necessarily have some connections and ties to each other.

 And so what ended up happening is, they ended up supporting one another, and, like Francis Ford, Coppola had Spielberg and George Lucas, both working on a couple of his films at different times, and they were able to bounce ideas off of each other and support one another, and I pray that you already know you know who these guys are and the movies that they've done. But just in case you don't know

 Francis Ford Coppola to the godfather, Steven Spielberg. Oh, my God! Et oh, man, I'm going to blank on Indiana Jones, I mean you know who that is I mean George Lucas Star Wars, I mean, Dude. Come on.

 So these guys have all been extremely, extremely, extremely successful in what they did. Oh, George Stoback! Spielberg jaws! Close encounters of the 3rd kind, you know. But I mean, all these guys like massively, massively successful in

 in film.

 And a big piece of that is because they had each other to lean on. They had each other to go back and forth with and have that little bit of a healthy competition, but also to help each other like, hey, what have you ever have you thought about this? You tried this? What do you think about this? This would be a great idea. And here's what I did on my film. Have you thought about trying that? So they had that network of those 3 guys that could come together.

 you know, randomly, they did it a little more sporadically again. This was just a natural situation. It wasn't a formal mastermind, but they would get together from time to time or talk to each other and and share ideas, and that helped each one of them become better directors than they ever could have if they tried to do it by themselves.

 Now, the second informal mastermind that I want to share with you is the Paypal mafia. So this is something I just learned about recently, you know, we all know Paypal. I use it from time to time. I don't use it a ton, but we're all familiar with it, and the the one person you probably know from Paypal was Elon Musk and love him or hate him. The dude's the richest fucking guy on the planet. So there's a lot that you can learn from him. And so if he doesn't fit into where you are politically.

 let that go. Don't worry about that. Just look at this from a business perspective of how successful he has been.

 but in terms of the Paypal mafia. So this the Paypal mafia is a term that was coined around a bunch of the founders and co-founders of Paypal. I don't remember the exact scenario and how Elon got in there, because there's been some I've heard, some back and forth on. If he was an original founder, came in. I don't think he was originally a founder, but he was part of that initial group of people.

 And so you got Elon Musk, you know. He started Tesla. He started Spacex. He does the boring company, BORI, NG. Not like boring, but it's like boring holes into the ground.

 but all kinds of stuff. Starling. He's got all these all these things that he's been doing like literally the richest man on the planet. Now he also in that Paypal Mafia he was friends with Reid Hoffman, who went on to found Linkedin.

 Steve, Chen, Chad, Hurley, and Jawad Karim apologize. Jawad, if I mispronouncing your name here they founded Youtube. Jeremy Stoppelman, he founded Yelp so these guys were all this core network, this core group of people who, you know, were that group that started Paypal got it up and running. And

 from that experience. They built this network of people who they could lean on and ask questions about and talk to. And they've all all these people.

 I shouldn't say everybody from that founding group. But these people, all that I've just listed went on to be extremely successful in what they did after Paypal, which in itself was already extremely successful. But it's because they had that network. They had that group of people that said, Hey, here's what I tried. This is what worked, hey? This didn't work. Well, maybe you should try this, or you know they had. You know, people they could go to and say, Hey, I'm thinking about this. What do you think about that?

 This is the power of a mastermind. I mean, it's

 they didn't have Google. Maybe they did. They did have books. They did have tapes. They had all these other things, but having that network of people that they could reach out to all the time, and they could really connect with made their success so much easier, so much faster. So that's that's the second

 example

 of an informal mastermind that I'm going to share with you. And the 3rd one here is Pixar's Brain trust. That's something else I just learned about recently, as I was doing research for this episode.

 Pixar has what they literally call a brain trust, and so this would I would almost consider a formal mastermind. But not really. But Pixar. We all know, Pixar, I mean toy story. Finding Nemo a bug's life, the Incredibles what else? I mean? We all know Pixar, I mean. It's

 the I mean. It changed the world of animation forever.

 And, oddly enough, it was founded by Steve Jobs.

 So or yeah, I think he founded it. Anyway, he was heavily involved in the beginning of it. I am almost positive he founded it. But anyway,

 reading, you know, and doing the research on this and learning about this, I found it really, really fascinating. So Pixar, when they start putting together a movie, they literally they believe every every movie sucks.

 They think every movie sucks. And so their job is to move it from sucks to, not sucks like that's kind of like one of their mottos is, we want to make this movie move from sucks to not sucks.

 which I think is pretty cool, but what they do is they have what they call the brain trust. And this is a group of you know, it's like the director and a group of the creative team. You know, these are very trusted people. People in this very specific group will get together, and they they start talking about ideas, and they come from a very honest place. They come from this place of

 candor where they're just telling people. This is what I truly feel, and they don't do it from a mean and nasty way. It's from an empathetic way of

 you know. Hey, man, I've been there. This is

 this is something that I've seen, and I feel where you're at. But let me share with you my idea. Let me share with you my vision. There's no, there's no posturing, there's no grandstanding. There's no doing anything for an agenda. It's all for what will make this movie better. What will make this the best movie it can possibly be. They have these ideas, and they have to have that open, honest, hard conversation, because the truth is what we all need to hear.

 You know a lot of times we like to hide behind this idea that you know, telling somebody the truth is mean. No man lying to somebody and not telling them the absolute truth of how you truly feel is probably more mean. Now, again. This can always be construed the wrong way, and could be

 shared the wrong way. Because this doesn't mean I'm going to come out here and like you look like dog shit. You look like trash. You're terrible. That's not what people need to hear. That's not what anybody wants you to share. You can come out and say, Hey.

 I watched this, you know, for Pixar, let's say, like the storyline when it goes over here. I don't care for it, you know there was a movie that I just watched last night. I'm not going to tell you what movie it was, but well, I will tell you what movies. I watched Joker 2 last night and there was a I mean, I I thought it was a decent movie. It wasn't great, didn't love it, but I thought it was a decent movie didn't. At least it didn't deserve the bashing that it got

 in the beginning. But when it got down to that last 15Â min. It took this hard, right turn in one specific part of the story, and it I was like, oh, what the fuck is this? Oh, my God! So for me! If I were part of you know the creative team

 for Warner Brothers, I would have said, Hey, this is what it meant to me when you guys did this this kind of ruins it for me. I what? Why, why are you doing this

 now? That's not to say anything bad about Todd Phillips, the director of the movie, and I think he may even written it. You know I'm not nitpicking him as a person. I'm just saying, Hey for me! This is what happened when you did the story. You took it this way. It made me feel this way.

 so that might be something to consider now the beauty of this brain trust and how they work is. It's just suggestions. It's not saying you have to do this. It's not saying

 anything like that is just saying, Hey, here's this feedback.

 Here's here's all of our thoughts, our collective thoughts. We're all people who are your peers. We're people who are in very similar situations have gone through similar situations, who've done similar things that you've done. This is our perspective. This is our thoughts is how we think we can help you, and if it works for you, awesome if it doesn't, hey? No harm, no foul. There's I'm not here to change anything that you want to do. If you feel strongly about what you're doing and how it's working.

 then you do that. That's awesome. I just want to give you a different perspective, because sometimes we can get too close to the things that we're trying to build and that we're trying to create. And we can't see the tree, or we can't see the forest from the trees.

 You know, we're too focused in on something, and it's nice to have that outside perspective of people who can say, Hey.

 I I get what you're trying to do. But it's not coming across that way, or I don't get that from what you were saying or what you're what you're telling, you're trying to do. So let let me just give you that feedback, and then you figure out how to work it.

 So those are a few different examples of how.

 what essentially our masterminds have created some amazing, incredible things in the world, you know, if you look at picture like, say, it's Pixar, I mean, they've created some of the best movies in the world.

 The Paypal Mafia, you know they have created some you know, some amazing websites, amazing apps, some amazing things that we use in this world. You've got some incredible movies that have come out, you know, through the trifecta of directors, you know who

 Scorsese? I kept want to say Scorsese earlier, too, Francis Ford, Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, you know, we've had some amazing, incredible moves come out of that group of guys getting together, and that is the power of mastermind. You know, I shared with you earlier all the other things that come out of being a part of a mastermind. And I really really want you to consider if it's not elevate. Then go find a mastermind somewhere, find one that you feel like fits you

 the best again, whether that's elevated, whether that's something else somewhere, I promise you becoming a part of a community like that becoming a part of a network of people who are on a common path, who are aimed towards a common goal

 will absolutely transform you. It'll transform your business, it will transform your life. There's 0 question in my mind. I know it. I've seen it. I'm part of it. I've been there, and I want that for you. And so that's why I've created elevate. That's why I've put this together. It's been a mission of mine for years, and it's just taking me a while to kind of realize that's where it needed to go.

 I've been creating groups for years and years and years, and it just keeps slowly, naturally, evolving over and over and over again. And this is where it's come to today. And I know this is who I've always meant to really connect with.

 So I want you to be a part of this. I want you to be in this group. If it's a good fit for you, if it's not, then go find another group, but find a group somewhere.

 you know, and one of the things I want to point out. You know, I talked about being part of masterminds, and one of the challenges that I had, and what I feel most masterminds get wrong is that they tend to focus solely on the leader of the mastermind or the organizer of the mastermind, being the person with all the information

 I feel like they have the best of intention, and they do. They give great, incredible information. They give valuable information. People get a ton out of that.

 But that's a group that's a group coaching program. That's not a mastermind. Okay, if everybody's coming together once a week, or once a month, or whatever it happens to be, and all the questions are directed strictly to the leader of the group or the organizer of the group. That is a group coaching session. That's not a fucking mastermind. A mastermind is the group of people coming together, sharing ideas, giving feedback.

 workshopping, your ideas of what you're trying to do and how you're trying to do it and giving their perspectives again from a loving, caring place. An honest place, you know, giving that true, sometimes hard feedback, but giving that true, honest feedback of what they feel, what they see, what they're hearing, how things are coming across to them.

 When you've got that group, you've got that community all working together. Holy fuck, man, holy fuck! Magic is just. It's it's right there the whole fucking time. So if this sounds like something that you

 could benefit from, and I know you could. But again, if you feel like elevate is the place for you. If you feel like I am the person to help kind of get you in the room with that specific group. I would love to have a conversation with you. And so I'm gonna drop a link in the show notes.

 you know, for you to reach out to me and connect with me. And and let's have a conversation, you know, if you still have questions, you know. If you want. If you're ready for the application, I'll I'll I'll drop that in the show notes, too, you know. I'll put that right there. But seriously, seriously, consider

 getting into a mastermind, I know for a fact, it will absolutely transform your life. It's been magical in mine, and will continue to be, and that's exactly what I want for you. So until next time, my friend, get out there. Have amazing fucking day, and I'll see you then.