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(Speaker 12)
Some shows don’t need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show does. In a world filled with endless opportunities, why would two men who have built 13 multi -million dollar businesses altruistically invest five hours per day to teach you the best practice business systems and moves that you can use? Because they believe in you, and they have a lot of time on their hands. They started from the bottom, now they’re here.

(Speaker 9)
It’s the Thrive Time Show, starring the former U .

(Speaker 45)
S.

(Speaker 12)
Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark, and the entrepreneur trapped inside an optometrist’s body, Dr. Robert Zilner.

(Speaker 2)
Two men, eight kids, co -created by two different women, 13 multi -million dollar businesses. You are aware that the man who runs the Trump Organization happens to be a man by the name of Eric Trump.

(Speaker 17)
How many of you know that?

(Speaker 2)
Now think about the profundity of this idea. Eric is 41 years old, but eight years ago, could you imagine being a 33 year old man and your dad says, Hey, by the way, I’m going to run for president. Uh, so you’re going to have to run an organization with 4 ,000 employees, billions of dollars. of assets. Could you imagine handing over your business to a 33 -year -old son? Could you imagine that?

(Speaker 2)
So it’s like, okay, step one, dad, go save the free world, son, go run the business. And through the Reawaken America tour, I really gravitated towards Eric Trump, because we keep a very similar schedule, and we have a very similar philosophy, which involves to -do lists, calendars, relentless follow -up, and he’s really become a friend, and I could not be more excited to introduce our next speaker. So Sean, hit the intro music, everybody stand to your feet. All right, Sean, crank it up. And now, ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, without any further ado, we have got the husband of Laura Trump, an incredible father, a great American, my brother from another mother, and the son of the 47th president of these United States. I think he’s here.

(Speaker 2)
If he’s not, it’ll get very awkward. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand to your feet and greet the man with the plan, Eric Trump from the State of the Union. Eric Trump is in the house.

(Speaker 23)
Tosarusalam.

(Speaker 20)
I’ll give you the hot mic.

(Speaker 1)
Here you go. Months ago, three months ago, none of this was built. This is incredible. The amount of work you did in here is like wild. And by the way, in typical Clay fashion, he sold every square inch of this place, right? So he’s a hell of a businessman.

(Speaker 1)
I’m very impressed, Clay.

(Speaker 2)
Well, we’re going to do kind of a Q &A. So you guys can grab a seat if you want here. We’ll do a little Q &A.

(Speaker 1)
And why I told Eric, because I said, Eric, I really wanted to have you come talk about business. And so we’re going to try to do today. The ground rules are, although we all may have geopolitical concerns, we’re going to focus on just business.

(Speaker 31)
And I’m going to tell you a story.

(Speaker 2)
to tap into your brain. We’re going to try to tap into your brain. During a 90 -minute, we’ll do two 45 -minute sessions, and then we’ll let you get back to saving the free world while running the company. So question number one, question number one I have. What time do you typically wake up in a typical day as you’re running the Trump organization?

(Speaker 1)
About 5 every morning. Typically, I’m up at 5, in the gym somewhere around 6, work out for about an hour. Grab as much protein as I can, eat it, and go over to the office. So that’s generally my morning. So then how does your day look? A typical day now.

(Speaker 1)
You’re 41 years old.

(Speaker 31)
You’re running the organization.

(Speaker 2)
You got kids. You got an incredible wife. What does it look like now?

(Speaker 1)
I think days morph over the years. I think schedules change. And I think that’s a positive and maybe a negative in certain ways. I’m a person who actually believes in great consistency. I try. But I was on a campaign trail for six months.

(Speaker 1)
So now for the first time, it’s kind of nice to come home and take your kids to school once in a while, pick them up once in a while. That’s important. You got to get a little bit of family time in there. Before kids, I was in probably the office a lot earlier than I ever was. Now, you try and give back to them a little bit, especially when for the first five and seven years of their life respectively, that’s probably a way a lot more than I think you’d want as a parent. I think that’s something that every parent probably grapples with.

(Speaker 1)
How can you be successful here? How can you be successful here? How can you give them time? How can you give your company time? In my case, thousands of employees that we have all over the world. You know, I always lived in almost a state of guilt, which was, you know, if I was with my kids, I was away from our team.

(Speaker 1)
If I was with my team, I was away from the kids. Right. And that’s probably something that everybody in here balances in some way, shape or form. But I do. I try and make the time to take the kids to school, hold my son’s hand on the way there. And it might be 10 minutes to take him, 15 minutes to take him.

(Speaker 1)
But I think that means a lot. And so if I get to the office at 830, that’s typically why, because I’m typically trying spend a couple minutes with them. But family is super important. And oftentimes that jives with small business and just business in general. It really does.

(Speaker 1)
There’s only so many hours in a day. It’s impossible to be everywhere and everything to every person. And it’s probably the things that the people in here struggle with the most.

(Speaker 2)
Now, your dad, my understanding is, and I don’t want to butcher the story, but I believe your dad still messes with you by calling you sometimes like at 5 a . m. or pre -5 a . m.

(Speaker 1)
just to see if you’re awake. Walk us through, what is that like, having Donald J. Trump as your father? Well, it got really bad, right, for a while, because there was like a cold war in our family, and he would do that. He would call me at like 4 .50 in the morning. Honey, are you awake? Well, yeah, I’m awake.

(Speaker 1)
I’m freaking speaking to you, right? Yeah, I’m awake. And then that same night, it’d be like 11 .30, and you call up, hey, are you awake? And I’m like, yeah, I’m awake. And so a couple weeks later, he’s doing this almost every day just to test me. And a couple weeks later, I was dead asleep.

(Speaker 1)
And I pick up. And when you pick up the phone and you’re not quite awake, yeah, I’m awake. He’s like, you’re not awake. You’re not awake. I’m like, you’re right. You caught me sleeping.

(Speaker 1)
I’m sorry. It’s 11 .45 at night, and I wake up at 5. So no, he’s remarkable. He’s a guy who’s always operated on very little sleep. I’m actually a guy who believes in sleep. There are days where you just don’t get enough sleep, and you drag, and you’re not nearly as motivated, and you’re not nearly as productive.

(Speaker 1)
We all have those days. But he’s always been a guy who could just run 1 ,000 miles an hour on no sleep. I’ll never forget the last night of the campaign coming back. Our last stop was in Michigan. Literally, we landed at 5 o ‘clock in the morning, and there was no sleeping the entire time. Guns N’ Roses was on the The TV, right, like music video, November rain, I’ll never forget it. So you’ve got Stephanie Seymour and Slash, and you’ve got this whole thing, the music’s blasting, you’re coming back, no one’s slept for like 72 hours, and he’s just going strong.

(Speaker 1)
And it’s amazing. Certain people have that kind of genetic. This guy has those genes. This guy never freaking stops. I mean, he never stops. But you know, a lot of that I think comes out of love and passion for whatever you’re doing.

(Speaker 1)
I think if you ultimately like what you’re doing, you’re going to be fired up and you’re going to run hard.

(Speaker 2)
And if you can’t stand what you’re doing, you’re probably going to be unmotivated and you’re probably not going to run hard, right? And that’s probably a good lesson as to, you know, pick the things you love doing in life and run at them. Now, a couple of things that I really, and this isn’t like an infomercial for Eric Trump, this is just real. This is real conversations with my wife and I. How many of you meet someone for the first time and you as a couple talk about it afterwards? You go, you know, what was that?

(Speaker 2)
We’re having dinner with you and General Flynn, first time we’d had a meal together. And you said, hey guys, just for a second, I need to take this call. And you got out, you made a call and you didn’t make a big deal about it. And then you came back and, uh, I didn’t ask you who you were calling, and you’re like, hey, I’m sorry I had to get up there. I just went checking with the wife and kids. Then General Flynn was like, what were you just doing?

(Speaker 2)
And you go, well, every night I call my wife and my kids, no matter where in the world I am, and I pray with my kids. Can you walk us through your routine? Because I was moved by you didn’t mention why you were getting up.

(Speaker 1)
General Flynn was asking what was happening there. Can you walk us through that daily routine? So most of my life I’ve been on the road 200 days a year, right? I actually feel like the last six weeks kind of coming off campaign. I’ve actually been the most sedentary I’ve ever been, which is kind of nice. You’re trying to like get back to the normal.

(Speaker 1)
But typically my average year is, you know, 200, 210 days on a, on a plane. And if you multiply that, I mean, today I’m doing four flights, you know, so you multiply that across a year on a, on a busy year. And so many of my projects for our company, all over the world. I’m heading to all over Europe next week and you know back to the Middle East in a couple weeks. And so we’re all over the place. But I mean I grew up.

(Speaker 1)
I’m getting to the answer your question. This is that the weave the weave the weave. But what ends up happening is you’re away from home again. amount. You end up using FaceTime as a way to connect with your kids, right? It’s awfully nice when the last thing that you can see before they go to bed is your face.

(Speaker 1)
And they can call you in the morning. And it’s a great kind of connector. For as much as I hate certain technologies, because I think they perverse and pervert the world, FaceTime is actually, if somebody is busy, Facebook Time is a great way to actually see your children in a way that You’re present with them in a way that they probably understand in this age during a time when you otherwise wouldn’t be present. Go back 20 years ago when you had to call 1 -800 -COLLECT. This would not have worked, and that’s actually a benefit. But we came up with a thing.

(Speaker 1)
We started saying prayers every single night with our kids. We’d always say the Pledge of Allegiance first, and then we did three little prayers, two of which I said as a kid. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. So we’d do that one. daughter loves, there are four corners.

(Speaker 1)
She calls it the four corners prayer, but there are four corners on my bed, four inches overhead, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. God bless this bed that I lay on. So my daughter loves that. And then they do the Lord’s prayer. And honestly, it’s been like an amazing thing. And then last but not least, and as they’ve gotten older, I’ve kind of incorporated this.

(Speaker 1)
I always ask them, what’s one nice thing that you’ve done for somebody today? And what’s one nice thing that somebody has done for you today? I ask my son and I ask my daughter that. And it’s really interesting to see their kind of answers develop over time. But it’s been an amazing transformation for them. I mean, first of all, if you just look at the Lord’s Prayer, it’s not like an easy thing to get through when you’re two years old.

(Speaker 1)
So I think, you know, from a kind of vocabulary standpoint, I think it was kind of amazing for both kids. Second of all, we have never had a problem with our kids sleeping. It’s like, you know, we do the Pledge of Allegiance, we do the prayers, and like, that is their instinctive light switch, that it’s, you know, it’s game over. They’re down, they’re going to bed. There’s no more fun and games. And so in a certain way, there’s almost this like, you know, psychological discipline that’s that’s been created, I think.

(Speaker 1)
And we always do this typically 8 .45 every night.

(Speaker 2)
And you’re right, you’re with me that one night and Laura called up or I’ll call her and let’s do prayers quickly. Sometimes it’s an abbreviated version, but it’s one of the greatest things that I found with my kids and with Laura in terms of trying to keep us together in a world that sometimes it’s not always easy to be together. There’s a print piece I put up over there by my desk and it says, I have not approved this message, but I might after I’ve looked at it, Eric Trump, because that to me is sort of what you would say. You’re a very high standards guy. You have very high standards, but you’re also a very compassionate guy. And I just want to say my little Eric story.

(Speaker 2)
I met you at one of the golf courses there where you live. And your valet gentleman, he parks the car, and he was anticipating us being there.

(Speaker 33)
He said, hey, Mr. Trump’s looking forward to meeting you.

(Speaker 2)
And I’m thinking, that’s interesting. You’re communicating. I grab a seat. The waitress, very nice lady, she says, hey, Mr. Trump looks forward to meeting you. And then what impressed me is that you came in to grab your seat, and you knew her name, and you knew the valet guy’s name. And I’m going, you have 6 ,000 employees.

(Speaker 2)
How long can this game continue? So throughout the meal, everyone, you’re like, hey, Carl, hey, Sarah, hey, whatever. You knew everyone’s name. And I’m thinking, That’s wild.

(Speaker 1)
But you’re also the guy who’s fastidious about the bushes being cut immaculately, the light bulbs being perfect, everything. How do you balance that follow -up where you’re following up with the employees over some tedious, high -expectation things, but yet you still have that rapport? To me, that is awesome. Well, it’s kind of why we never want to be a Marriott, right? I never want to be a Hilton. I never want to be one of these big companies because you simply can’t have control of, not even control, but you can’t have those interpersonal relationships.

(Speaker 1)
And, you know, if you look at our company, the average tenure, if you haven’t been in our company for 20 years, you’re literally, you’re like a newbie, right? Once you come into our organization, you just never leave. And, you know, I think that’s a beautiful thing, but it’s unlike so many of the Fortune 500s. you know, and everybody says that they’ve got great corporate cultures. They all, you know, write these pamphlets about it. We don’t have any pamphlets about corporate culture.

(Speaker 1)
We just truly love the people that work in the company and they love us. I mean, we went through the hell of politics for a 10 -year period, and I don’t think I lost a single person, right? I mean, they were in there fighting every day. the political apparatus where every single day somebody is coming out with a tell all book. We didn’t have any of those in our company. And it was just it was a beautiful thing.

(Speaker 1)
But it’s because we know everybody. They were growing. They were born in the company. They typically work their way up. We hardly ever promote from outside. And I know that’s so contradictory to so many businesses.

(Speaker 1)
But we’ll we’ll give somebody the opportunity who’s three tiers down that ladder over the person who’s you know the greatest general manager from the Ritz Carlton because the young person will sit there, and they will fight, and they will work, and they’re appreciative of the opportunity, and they want to grow. If all of a sudden, you’ve got this organization where every single time a new job opportunity comes up, somebody from the outside who’s never worked for the company, who’s never spilled that blood, shit, and tears, who have never put in the hours, who have never tried to go the extra yard, if every single time they’re usurped for a person from the outside that doesn’t have that camaraderie, You know you grow a lot of disgruntled people and they end up leaving because they realize that you know their time frame is short or they’ll never get to ultimately where they want. Right. And so it actually creates greater turnover. And you know so many of the people in the company you ask how do you know them all. You know I know them all because they’ve all been with the company for for 10 15 20 years.

(Speaker 1)
They’ve all grown from So oftentimes you know a maitre d or a hostess in a restaurant to food and beverage manager to clubhouse manager to assistant general manager to general manager. I mean we have drivers in the company. People that used to literally drive us to school you know drive my father around New York who you know are in charge of some of the biggest buildings in the world. And I’ll give you an example of Trump Las Vegas. There’s a named Brian Boudreaux.

(Speaker 1)
He literally, when I was six years old, used to take me to school. He’d drive my father around and we started building this project. And we needed somebody to bring architects out to Las Vegas. And guess what?

(Speaker 23)
This guy always had his hand up.

(Speaker 38)
You know what?

(Speaker 1)
I’ll take them out there. You know, Brian, you sure? Yeah, sure. I’ll go. I know where the site is. I’ll tour them around the site. No problem.

(Speaker 1)
I’ll take great care of them. Make sure they have a great time. You know, two weeks later, he’s taking the bankers. You know, yeah, sure. I’ll take the bankers. the people who are going to finance the construction of this project, I’ll take them out there, right?

(Speaker 1)
He always had his hand up. And, hey, you need to go find contractors to build this thing? Oh, I’ll go line up all the best contractors. No problem. I’ll show them the site. I’ve already been in touch with the architects on how to put all the pieces together.

(Speaker 1)
They just always had their hand up. And so long story short, we built that building. Brian Boudreau started as driver. No college education. On paper, everybody, any Fortune 500 company would have overlooked him. He had street smarts.

(Speaker 1)
He had drive. I mean, he just never, ever stopped. People loved him. Finished a building ahead of schedule, you know, ahead of budget. And I’ll never forget, it was the one time though, and it’s one of the reasons I use that analogy about bringing the person from Ritz -Carlton, but it’s the one time that we brought in a general manager from the outside world. The person lasted about three months and it just wasn’t working.

(Speaker 1)
They just weren’t, you know, the pocket square and it just, it wasn’t working. They weren’t fast enough. They weren’t responsive enough. They didn’t have that grit. They didn’t have that fortitude. And Brian put his hand back up.

(Speaker 1)
He goes, listen, I know nothing about running a hotel. I’ve never done it. But I guarantee you, I’ll figure it out. Let me handle this. I’ll take care of it. And sure enough, Brian became general manager.

(Speaker 1)
And here we are 15 years later, and he’s still managing the hotel. And it’s one of the most successful projects in Vegas. And we do that across the board. But I mean, there’s two lessons there. Always ask. Always have your hand up.

(Speaker 1)
And so long as you’re willing to work, forget about the resumes on paper. I can’t tell you how many great resumes we see on paper. where the people ultimately absolutely.

(Speaker 2)
let you down.

(Speaker 6)
Um, you know, it’s easier, easier to make something look great on, you know, black and white.

(Speaker 26)
Um, that’s, that’s very different than character and grit and work ethic and street smarts, probably more than anything.

(Speaker 2)
It’s a big part of our company. Now, again, I did, this is not an Eric Trump infomercial. It’s just real. You know how I am. I’m sort of irreverent. I just say what’s on my cranium here, but as I was researching you and how, uh, you quickly you’ve expanded the Trump organization since you took over at the age of, what, 33 -ish.

(Speaker 2)
And I was thinking to myself, like, you know, Eric, you’re 40 years old. That’s about the time your dad wrote The Art of the Deal. And I remember reading The Art of the Deal, and I remember reading the book going, he wrote this when he’s 41 years old. And so as you’re working on your book and the whole thing, I’m just so excited for people to learn about these stories that are in this book. And it’s just so exciting. But one of them that stands out, one of your stories, was you and your dad are driving in the car.

(Speaker 2)
And your dad’s like, that is a hell of a wall. That’s a great wall, Eric, or something. He’s like, we got to pull over and go look at this wall. And can you tell everybody this story?

(Speaker 1)
Because I’m reading this manuscript for this upcoming book, and I’m going, Eric and his dad are excited about the guy who builds the wall. I, too, am excited about the guy who builds the wall. Tell us about the guy who built the wall. So this is such a great story. So I was 9 or 10 years old. We were driving in Westchester, New York.

(Speaker 1)
And there was this guy. They’re kind of a lone farmer. stonemason. This guy’s name is Frank Sanzo on the side of the road.

(Speaker 31)
And I’ll never forget, he looks at me, he goes, that’s the most incredible stone wall I’ve ever seen.

(Speaker 1)
And this is like the hard granite. This is kind of like East Coast, hard granite stone, tough stuff to work with. It doesn’t break very easily. But it’s beautiful. And he pulls over and he starts talking to the guy. And they start talking about, obviously, the wall where he came from.

(Speaker 1)
He came from Italy. He came over as a really young boy. He came over with nothing in his pocket. And it just became a great you know, stonemason effectively, and they start talking about, you know, whether or not you want to do that. walls or you want a wet pack walls, right? Whether or not you want, you know, wet mortar or dry mortar, you know, how he cuts the stones, what is that?

(Speaker 1)
They speak for 45 minutes. And he goes at the end of this, he goes, you got to come work for me. You know, I want to give you all my business, but you got to, you got to come work for us. And, and so I started working at 11. I started working under Frank Sanzo on, on job sites. And he was just, this guy was truly, truly incredible.

(Speaker 1)
And this guy ended up building The vast amount of properties that we have, I mean, a big part of his soul is in all those properties and he really became family to us. He became a second father to me. I grew up on construction sites with him, but no, those are the opportunities, right? I mean, this is a guy who literally pulls over to see the lone stonemason. And what’s really amazing is, you know, I’m not sure Frank at the time really understood his true talent. So not only did he kind of come work for an organization that like, you know, kind of pushed that talent, but I actually think my father built up his personality. You know, Frank, you’re the best.

(Speaker 1)
This guy is the greatest stonemason I’ve ever seen. ” He would hear that over and over and over and actually made him believe in himself because he went from building residential stone walls, kind of home stone walls to building some of the greatest patios, some of the greatest really icons in the hotel world and so many other things. I’m not sure if he didn’t have that kind of encouragement, if somebody wasn’t sitting there being almost a cheerleader for him, if he would have ever actually developed the true skill that he ended up with 20 years later. This guy, he was amazing. I mean, I remember we had a pool at Trump Doral, and he’s been to Doral, but it had this massive waterfall. It was a little gaudy, right?

(Speaker 1)
We bought the hotel. We had to put a lot of money into it. And no one was willing to take down this waterfall. It was a solid piece of concrete that cantilevered over the pool. And you’re trying, like, how do you get that out of there without, like, small cuts, a crane to take out a piece? And every bid was coming back.

(Speaker 1)
It was either astronomical, or they’re coming back saying, it’s not possible. Like, you’re just going to destroy everything around the pool. And I’ll never forget. Frank goes, I’ll take care of it. And I literally left. And he had a backhoe, like a big excavator with a stone hammer on it.

(Speaker 1)
And he is hitting this pool. And I’m sitting there. And he’s smoking two Marlboro Reds. My lungs are still polluted from this grab. I mean, literally, my lungs still ache from Frank Sanza’s Marlboro Red. He’s got this pot of coffee, this track hoe.

(Speaker 1)
It’s on tracks, right? But It’s literally off of one track. The thing’s bouncing all around. We’re sitting there saying, first of all, the pool deck is done. It’s not going to be salvageable.

(Speaker 31)
Second of all, there’s no way the pools go hold water because he’s going to drop about 50 tons of concrete right into the bottom of the pool.

(Speaker 2)
All the piping is going to be busted. There’s a good chance that Frank Sanzo is going to be dead by the time we come back a couple hours later. Sure enough, the biggest piece of concrete, cantilevered over this thing you’ve ever seen, It’s in the bottom of the pool. Don’t get me wrong. The pool is half the story. But he got a job done that no one else was willing to do.

(Speaker 2)
And that was just, you know, again, it spoke to kind of grit and tenacity. But so many people in the company are grown that way. You know, again, guy on the side of the road. Wow. Amazing stone wall. You know, you see the talent.

(Speaker 2)
He always had the ability to see talent in people and then actually take that talent and almost make them better. by kind of reassuring them and building up their own confidence. And I always thought that was an amazing trait. Now, one thing that I’ve noticed about, there’s principles that we’re distilling here, but one is you don’t read resumes. There’s somebody out here, people always ask me, Clay, how can you read resumes and know who’s the best fit? Again, look it up, Sean, pull it up on the screen.

(Speaker 2)
Inc Magazine now says that 85 % of job candidates admit to just making up what’s on their resume. So I would just say free yourself from the jackassery, interview people, and then just see what they can do and promote from within. Just free yourself from the jackassery. Stop reading resumes. The second thing I noticed is that you’re very kind to people, but you have a high expectation. You’re kind, but you have a high expectation.

(Speaker 2)
That’s a principle I’ve witnessed. Third thing I’ve noticed is that follow up constantly. As an example, for Laura’s birthday, I think she was turning 25 again, and you had lowered your standards and you invited me. And so I’m here, and I’m kind of going, I don’t know anybody here. I know Eric.

(Speaker 2)
That’ll be my wingman. I’ll find him.

(Speaker 44)
We’ll be fine here.

(Speaker 2)
My wife and I are there. And it was a great event. Wonderful people were there. Unbelievable first -class accommodations. Everything was great. But then the next morning, five, probably 10 a .

(Speaker 2)
m. , I get a text. It’s you texting saying, how was it? And I’m going, I didn’t text myself, did I? Because I normally text people at four in the morning, five, myself? Did I text myself to ask myself how the party was?

(Speaker 2)
No, it’s Eric Trump. So I call you and I’m going, hey, brother. And you’re going, was it good? Did you have a good time? Did your wife meet some people?

(Speaker 43)
Were their accommodations okay?

(Speaker 2)
Do you guys have fun? I’m going, that level of follow -up is awesome. It’s just this obsession with making.

(Speaker 18)
Could you talk about that mindset that you and your dad both have?

(Speaker 1)
Because it is so prevalent, just the follow -up, the follow -up of making sure that even a guest at a birthday party has a great time. Where’s your wife, by the way? She is. Was my wife, is she hiding somewhere? James, call my wife. She’s probably here hiding somewhere.

(Speaker 1)
By the way, how he landed her is, like, beyond me, right? I still… Isn’t Vanessa the absolute greatest? She’s the absolute greatest. You know, honestly, I… I actually think follow -up is almost one of the hardest things for me. I get bombarded.

(Speaker 1)
Every single person here does. This is not a problem unique to me, but every single one of us gets thousands of text messages. We get thousands of emails. Half of it’s spam. Half of it’s junk. Three quarters of the time, if you’re in business, there’s somebody asking you for a favor, which they probably wouldn’t pay back to you.

(Speaker 1)
You deal with this every single day. I think given how many different medians there are of social media now, then you’ve got people asking you for things on Twitter. and Instagram and Facebook. And then you have Signal and you have WhatsApp and you have all the different chats. And then you’ve got Facebook Messenger. And it’s almost become so dilutive to time.

(Speaker 1)
I think one of the hardest things in modern day life is actually trying to keep up and be responsive, all because you no longer, back in the day, OK, you could call somebody. And that was the expectation you’d call. But now there’s 50 different forms of getting in touch with people. Are you on WhatsApp or are you not? Are you communicating as a high school friend through Facebook or not? Do I have to go check nine of these things every single day?

(Speaker 1)
All while people are living an incredibly busy life, of which they can hardly keep up with to begin with. But I think for people that matter, I think at the end of the day, it comes down to not that everybody doesn’t matter, but you’ve got to prioritize what’s important to you. I’m actually a very big list person. with a very big list. And half the days, I think you end up getting frustrated because the list grows longer than the things that you’re actually able to accomplish. But what I always do is I always take an arrow and I always put objects at the top of the list that actually matter to me.

(Speaker 1)
So the first things you get to are the things that ultimately either influence your life or what you want to accomplish or the things that are ultimately important to your company. Those rise to the top. And the stuff that slides down, well, guess what? It’s just less relevant, less important. And that’s okay, as long as you’re taking care of the things that, again, are really kind of accretive to your lifestyle, accretive to your company, accretive to your family, accretive to whatever you’re trying to accomplish. And so I really do think that, I mean, listen, you’ve got a nominal amount of time in a day.

(Speaker 1)
You’ve got 24 hours. You could sit there and you could check every single meeting to every single of the thousand text messages you have. And guess what? You’re not gonna see your kids. You’re not gonna see your wife. You’re probably gonna get divorced because of it.

(Speaker 2)
There’s gotta be some level of balance in terms of being responsive to and finding that balance. And it’s tricky, because no one wants to insult people. No one wants to not be that person for every single person. But at the same time, you have responsibilities in your own life. And I try and get to the people who I love the most first.

(Speaker 2)
Is Dr. Zellner here? Dr. Zellner, are you here? Dr. Z, is he here? Dr. Z? One of the things is he’s here somewhere. He’s lurking.

(Speaker 2)
Dr. Z has been a big mentor in my life. And one of the things he told me, he said, Clay, don’t overestimate people’s curiosity. Like don’t take 30 minutes to explain what can be explained in three minutes. And that’s one thing I’ve tried to do is respect your time as we’ve gotten to know each other.

(Speaker 1)
And I think you have this balance that you have figured out where you’ve probably watched your father, you’ve seen. your dad. You’re not building Legos with your dad but you’re actually building buildings with your dad at a young age like your dad. You know you weren’t probably you know your dad wasn’t at your basketball games. But yet you’re playing video games with Michael Jackson while your dad’s talking about building a building. Could you maybe just talk about the Trump experience of just being raised.

(Speaker 1)
Like what was that like having him as your dad. So much time you have. Yeah, I mean, listen, I wasn’t, you know, I say this kind of tongue in cheek, but not really. I mean, I wasn’t, you know, it was it was less the the wiffle ball in the backyard. But, you know, I was flying with Michael Jackson to and don’t go there. People out there, you sick, you sick, twisted human beings.

(Speaker 1)
But, you know, we’d be performing at the casinos, you know, and you’d be flying down, you’d be flying down with Mike Tyson, right, with Don King, with with Michael Jackson, with all these very cool people. So in a certain way, you’d be walking through a casino and it might be all business. But you were a very, very small, young part of this kind of entourage. And so for me, there was less Whistleball. but there was much more of that. You go to a 70 -story building that’s coming out of the ground in New York City, there’s guys walking on I -beams, 20 floors above your head, concretes being poured, rebars being put down.

(Speaker 1)
You’re walking through these job sites as a little kid, just looking out, no windows, no anything, just looking out over the skyline of New York. I wouldn’t trade any of those memories for the other. And I understand how important the other is. I try and play pig with my, does everybody know what pig is? I try and do that every night with my kids, with my son before he goes to bed. It’s a little basketball game. It’s like, if you make a shot and he doesn’t, you get a letter and whoever spells pig first.

(Speaker 1)
That stuff, don’t get me wrong, is super important, but it was very unconventional for me. I mean, so many of the unique kind of experiences I had in my life were in just situations that couldn’t be duplicated. Um, you know, I put almost more emphasis in my life on those situations, um, than some of the conventional, right.

(Speaker 2)
Knowing that this was a guy that, that ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He wasn’t, he wasn’t screwing off. He wasn’t taking vacations. This is a guy who was literally never taken a vacation in his life. He was working really hard. And those, those times you had together actually made it almost more special, um, you know, than, than kind of the ordinary.

(Speaker 2)
Now, this is a question I have for you. I want to share a little story. You know, one thing this just into those who aren’t aware, I represent the far right regions of Christianity. OK, so I’m like a very literal Bible guy. And you joined the reawakened tour and you were open to we had Dr. Rashid Bitar on the stage. He was Muslim.

(Speaker 2)
You had Dr. Zalinko, who is Jewish.

(Speaker 5)
Your brother in law is obviously Jewish.

(Speaker 1)
You now have an international company all over the world, all different faiths, all different backgrounds. What What is your approach to dealing with all the different faiths, all the different backgrounds? Cause I am like this unapologetic Christian guy, but I can’t. get along with people that have different faiths and different backgrounds, and your organization is all over the world. What is your approach to just in the workplace, dealing with different faiths, different worldviews? How do you approach that?

(Speaker 1)
It’s very simple. I like good people. You know, for me, it’s clearly I’m a Christian. I just told you about the prayers I say every night, but I can’t tell you how many, you know, great Jewish people we have in our organization, great Muslims we have in our organization, great Christians, great atheists, a lot of it. But I just care about good people. I like people with heart and soul.

(Speaker 1)
I like people who truly care. And you can flush that out in a person very, very quickly. To me, it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever. In life, I believe in happiness in society. At the end of the day, it’s kind of my guiding force. And that’s the political view of mine, but that’s also just probably a moral view and maybe a religious view.

(Speaker 1)
If people are happy in society, you’ve got a great society. And at the end of the day, I think we should tailor our actions toward happiness. And how do you have happiness? Well, you have a great job. You have a great work environment. You have a great government.

(Speaker 1)
You get great education. You’re safe. All those things determine happiness in society. And I think that’s actually what wins the day for me. If you’re a good person, if you’re happy, if you can work hard, none of the other things matter to me. Why should I care how you go home?

(Speaker 1)
and pray if it’s meaningful to you.

(Speaker 2)
And so I literally don’t think about that question. I’m not sure if I’ve ever thought about that question. And again, and this is coming from a guy who’s clearly a good Christian. And so I just, I like good people. I like. Very good people.

(Speaker 2)
Now, when I was on the this is true story. We were in Oregon together and they’ve been in Oregon. We you were there in Oregon and we rented a venue and the venue canceled because it was too political or something. Then another venue canceled. So we had to rent a parking lot and then put a tent. It was like a six hundred thousand dollar semi -permanent structure.

(Speaker 2)
had to erect outside. Vanessa couldn’t come to this one. There’s Vanessa. She couldn’t come. So I found myself basically alone in Oregon with our team, but my wife wasn’t there and she’s kind of my security blanket. So I’m going, I don’t know what’s happening.

(Speaker 2)
Then Antifa showed up. They shut down the local Target in protest. They gave kids the day off at college in protest. They shut down the phone stores. And I just remember thinking, This is a, they closed all the shopping centers. I’m going, this is wild.

(Speaker 2)
And so I’m talking to you backstage and you’re like, you know, so I flew commercial, I flew in. And again, the people around me are going, he flies commercial.

(Speaker 1)
I mean, what’s it like to be the son of the man who’s trying to save the free world, knowing that, you know, maybe 45 % of the people on the plane don’t agree with you or whatever that is. Cause you’re, you’re just so used to being in that plane. It was very, you were a very calming, steadying voice to a lot of the speakers behind the stage, telling them, guys, this will be fine. Don’t worry about Antifa. We’ll be fine. But what’s it like just living through that every day?

(Speaker 1)
Well, by the way, go back a little bit. Clay calls me about three days before. He goes, yeah, we’re going to have Antifa all over this event. Are you sure you want to come? I told you I was going to be there. I’m going to be there, Clay.

(Speaker 1)
Now, Secret Service, by the way, we love the men and women of the Secret Service. They’re the greatest. They would not have been thrilled about this event that literally and Tifa was trying to march. This was in Portland, right? Let’s let’s put this. Yeah, this was in Portland in like the height of like the madness and I go play I told you I was gonna be there.

(Speaker 1)
I’m gonna be there. And so anyway, they start leaving a little spike strips. Remember the parking lot? Yeah, a couple puncture tires. Yeah, a couple other things, but I finished up the speech was unbelievable. I mean when you when you go to a when you go to like a very blue district that gets no attention paid to them, right?

(Speaker 1)
You wouldn’t believe the love that comes out. I know that sounds it’s like. they had never seen a Republican come through Portland before and literally the masses showed up. This tent was like overflowing. It was such an amazing event. Anyway, people loved it.

(Speaker 1)
People had the greatest time. I had an hour to kill before the flight. So we go to this little restaurant. I’ll never forget. It was this German bratwurst place. It was funny.

(Speaker 1)
And he has this great security guy that would always take me to and from the airport named Jay. And Jay was at Special Forces. And Jay’s sitting there looking. He goes, Yeah, these people are surrounding this like a little German sausage place. And he goes, we better get the hell out of here. I go, Jay, we’re going to finish our bratwurst or whatever the hell we were eating that night.

(Speaker 1)
And he goes, no, no, no. We really need to get out of here. I’m like, I don’t care if we have to personally fight off every one of these.

(Speaker 17)
I won’t say it because somebody is filming us, but I don’t care how bloody and torn our shirts get.

(Speaker 2)
But we are not leaving this damn place. I’m not succumbing to the freaking Antifa people in Portland. But by the way, I think a little bit of that to me was it was you know if you say you’re going to do something do it right in life if you say you’re going to do something do it. And I think three quarters of the speakers bailed from that event because of it was happening and it wasn’t it wasn’t perfect. But hey we had a great you and I had a great time. Now the other.

(Speaker 2)
I mean there’s been a few emotional moments that we had there. And I’ll bring my wife up here. But I was on the phone with you and your dad was given this little talk in Butler and I’m on the phone with you. And we’re talking, and I’m driving to Grand Lake, and I’m on the phone with you. And then you go, what the? And then the phone dropped, and I could tell the phone was still on.

(Speaker 2)
And I’m going, uh, and I have no idea what’s going on. And out of respect, I just hung up. My wife sends me a text and said, someone just shot Eric’s dad. And I remember, I just pulled over. James, you were in the car with me. So I pulled over in my van, and I just couldn’t stop weeping.

(Speaker 2)
Because I was, I mean, I felt like I was there with you. I’m on the phone. Next thing you know… I hear you go, what the, and you put the phone down. And then I hang up. My wife texts me says, you know, uh, president Trump’s been shot and Eric’s dad’s been shot.

(Speaker 2)
And I’m just like, I don’t know what to do with these emotions. So I pulled over. And I just told James, I like to cry alone. That’s my move. Like a cat dies alone in the woods. So I pulled over and I was just like, dear Jesus, please be with President Trump right now.

(Speaker 2)
I didn’t know he was alive. I didn’t know about the victory, the painting right there of that moment. I didn’t know about that. All I knew is that you’re my friend.

(Speaker 1)
And I was just going, please be with my friend. And I probably should have been praying for your dad more, but I was praying for you because I knew you. Could you talk about that moment and what that was like watching that? Because I was just praying with you. Everything was in me. And I want to ask you a follow -up question there.

(Speaker 1)
Yeah, I remember. I was actually in New York. I had my kids on my lap. We were watching it. I was actually working on an email. And I was talking to this guy.

(Speaker 1)
And I grew up doing a lot of competitive shooting. That was always my thing, a lot of long -range rifle, a lot of competitive shotgun, and a lot of other things. I understand the sound of gunfire, right? It’s kind of something I know very well. And so it came as a, you know, let me actually rephrase this. I’m not sure if it came as a shock because about three weeks before I was on Fox News, and I said, they’ve tried everything they can to try and destroy a man’s life.

(Speaker 1)
I’ve sat in a courthouse with him every single day for I don’t know, seven weeks, but really going in and out of courtrooms every single day as they tried to wage illegal lawfare stuff on him. And I actually said to Sean Hannity that night, I go, I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to kill him. And I’ll never forget. And Kim, who’s kind of, where’s Kim? She’s the greatest over here. She’ll remember the incoming that she got in the company.

(Speaker 1)
Eric says that they’re going to try and kill him. And I go, honestly, it’d be like the least shocking thing that I, right. I mean, they had tried everything else to take him out of the race. They’d gone after him. They had smeared him. They had lied.

(Speaker 1)
They had made up the Russia hoax. They had taken him off of the ballot in Maine, Colorado. They had done everything they could. They tried to subpoena us into oblivion. They tried to literally bankrupt our company. I said that that day.

(Speaker 1)
I go, it would be the least surprising thing if they tried to whack him. And that’s exactly what ended up happening. And, you know, it’s deeply personal. A lot of people on that stage are people that are very, very close to me. Aside from my father, you see a guy that has blood running down his, you know, his face, coming out of the competitive kind of rifle world, 120 -yard shot that’s a chip shot. I mean, a lot of people in this room will do that with a pistol, right?

(Speaker 1)
And so you’re sitting there saying, how lucky did he actually get? You know, we lost Corey that day. In fact, his wife and his two daughters were sitting next to me at the State of the Union two nights ago. We’ve gotten to know them very well. You know, at the same time, it was a moment that I do believe that God was there. You know, the flag, right?

(Speaker 1)
And I’m not really a sappy person. I’m kind of like over the sap in life.

(Speaker 34)
But, you know, the flag folded up, looking like a perfect angel about three minutes before, right above his head.

(Speaker 1)
You know, that doesn’t just normally happen, right? This big, big, massive flag that’s the size of this room that was hung between, you know, two fire trucks in their ladders. And there was a lot of interesting little signs that day. But no, there’s no question he was kept on this earth for the purpose that he’s in right now. I think there’s a lot of people in here who would agree. But crazy.

(Speaker 1)
It’s really amazing talking about always being there. I think I was the first person that spoke to him. I spoke to him literally in the hospital seven minutes later. They got him there very quickly. But the last thing he said to me after cracking, actually, surprisingly, a couple mild jokes, right? Because he was just trying to do anything that he could to defray how uncomfortable he was.

(Speaker 1)
whole situation was. But he goes, nothing changes. We’re going to Milwaukee exactly when we said we were going. We’re not changing the time whatsoever. Listen, you’re in the hospital. You just got shot, right?

(Speaker 1)
And you’re really talking about going to the convention the day before the convention even started. Remember, conventions are like four days long, and it kind of builds up to the final day. And exactly 48 hours after that incident, exactly 48 hours on the very first day of the convention at about 5, 536 o ‘clock at night. I was the guy from the state of Florida who was the delegate who ended up making him the Republican nominee for president of the United States.

(Speaker 2)
And so when you look at the pendulum of life, it’s like, you’ve got these highs, you’ve got these lows, and it’s amazing sometimes how fast they come, right? Oftentimes you think the highs and lows are spread out over years. And honestly, I think that was a great example that they’re oftentimes not.

(Speaker 1)
You had the worst low, followed by almost the greatest high, if you can think about it, because it’s like they didn’t get him. And now we’re going to get you that we’re going to win.

(Speaker 3)
We’re going to get you guys.

(Speaker 2)
Now, one thing I want to let my wife ask you, by the way, you asked, where’s my wife? There she is. That’s my wife. Do you know what I said before? I said the fact that he landed you was like beyond shocking to me. I think he’s wonderful. He’s wonderful.

(Speaker 2)
Now, I will say this as far as adults that I pray for, I pray for you. I pray for all my clients I work with, but I, what I do is I, I’m driving in my car. I just try to pray. And you know that God Ephesians chapter one, verse 16 through 18, but the God supposed to pray without ceasing, that God would give you wisdom, revelation, knowledge, and understanding. And I really obsessively pray for you.

(Speaker 42)
And I pray for my wife and, and I probably should express my feelings more, explain that I, I’m like really obsessed that Jesus works a big work in your life because you are, uh, you’re, you’re, you’re father’s cupbearer.

(Speaker 3)
I mean, you run the organization and I know my wife shares that same. We, we pray for you. all the time. And so I just want you to know, before my wife begins asking you passive -aggressive attacking questions, we pray for you. I’m just kidding. But here you go.

(Speaker 3)
I don’t even know what I’m asking. I just want to say that we appreciate you guys. You know, when I look at earlier today, I know Clay randomly called me up. I wasn’t expecting it. And I just want to say that, you know, Clay and I could have never imagined to be in a position where we’re even speaking to, you know, you, the president’s son, and somehow as small business coaches in Tulsa, Oklahoma, We were thrust into this position, and I’m very, very, very thankful for it. And I know that God has his hand on you, on Laura, on Vanessa, on Don Jr., on Ivanka, on Jared, on Melania, and on your dad.

(Speaker 3)
And it’s to fulfill the plans and purposes that God has. And I was just listening to Clay say that he prays for you, but you don’t understand what a miracle that is, because this the same guy who, when our son was born blind, banned me from praying because he thought I was crazy. And he said, any God who allowed an innocent baby to be born blind, either A, isn’t all powerful because he couldn’t stop it, or B, isn’t good because he could have stopped it and didn’t.

(Speaker 1)
And he goes, and any God like that, I will not pray to. And he goes, and you don’t need to pray to him either. You need to go enroll him in the school for the blind. My kid, there was a waiting list. So all I’m saying is that God, I know for a fact, is working through your family. And when there is a moment, whatever that is, that your dad, you, anyone in there is called to do something, you all will know and will not be able to miss it.

(Speaker 31)
So.

(Speaker 1)
Amen. You know what?

(Speaker 2)
I have to say one thing though, Vanessa, you totally minimized it.

(Speaker 1)
right? So you called yourself just small business coaches.

(Speaker 2)
Let me put this in perspective. These guys spent, I don’t know how many years, at least three years of your life.

(Speaker 1)
Four years. Four years of your life. Putting on 25 reawaken events. 25 events, yep. I think I spoke at like 19 of them, right? I mean, I met these guys, they were a couple into it and I started speaking at them and I religiously went to, I think I only had to miss one because I was hosting like, And you subbed out your brother.

(Speaker 1)
You said, can I sub out my brother in exchange? I said, we’ll accept the trade. Which wasn’t nearly as much fun, all right? Don’s like the second child. He’s the first child, but he’s kind of the second. The impact that these two guys had on the political landscape in this country, I cannot tell you how meaningful it was.

(Speaker 1)
And by the way, I also can’t tell you how uncomfortable it was. They went after Clay like he was a dog. They went after the family. They went after the organization. They went after Reawaken. They went after the speakers.

(Speaker 2)
as if it was a group, and these were the most beautiful events that you’ve ever seen. I mean, 25 events, thousands and thousands and thousands of people at each one of them. These guys are miraculous. They put their life into it. He never took a plane to any one of them. He drove from here to Portland.

(Speaker 1)
If Clay ever asked me to drive from Oklahoma to Portland, I was like, Clay, I’m going to miss one of your events. That much I can promise you. I tried to sell. I called Laura. I said, Laura, you haven’t really lived until you’ve driven from Oklahoma to Portland in a white van. It’s got 150 ,000 original miles on it.

(Speaker 1)
You’re going to love it. And you were turning me down. Guys, he got nothing. Well, you know what he did? He got one great thing out of it. He got an unbelievable friendship out of me.

(Speaker 1)
And he got an unbelievable respect out of so much of the country who loves him. But these were the most well -attended events. But they suck the blood and life out. They went after these guys. and he never ever stopped because he really believed. And honestly it cost him much more than he made from it.

(Speaker 1)
This wasn’t a money making.

(Speaker 8)
I mean Clay really believed he wanted to see this country saved and he just was relentless in this pursuit.

(Speaker 1)
And Vanessa was the same way. I mean relentless in this pursuit. And you know I think it’s a great lesson. Whatever you believe and go after and go after unabashedly. Go after with all the energy that you possibly have in your body. Don’t let people deter you.

(Speaker 1)
Don’t listen to the word. No. It’s almost the thing that you can credit Elon Musk with the most. Right. You know how many people made fun of his little idea of flying rockets to Mars. Every single one.

(Speaker 1)
You’re never going to do that. It’s too expensive. You can’t do it. They’re never going to let you do it. They never give you the permits.

(Speaker 2)
Right. And he just didn’t care to hear the word.

(Speaker 15)
No.

(Speaker 2)
He only believed in what was ultimately his dream and he sprinted toward it. And there’s no question that this is exactly what he did with Reawaken and it made a difference. It made a massive difference. There were so many followings that you had that were so left behind, so left behind. People that literally didn’t have a voice anymore who wanted to have a voice and Clay gave those people that outlet. And so, Vanessa, please never call yourself little small business owners from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

(Speaker 2)
You guys were pivotal and hopefully what will turn out to be one of the greatest Victories in American history appreciate that. Um, eric now uncomfortable. No, you’re good. You’re good. I just it’s a weird thing because I You know, I just remember when I watched General Flynn, the stuff he’s gone through, I’m just like praying for you guys relentlessly. To Vanessa’s point, I really didn’t believe in the power of prayer until our son was healed at all.

(Speaker 2)
And so, you know, it’s wild to meet you guys in the flesh and then to meet you. And I think you’re just, you’re the real deal. And I love that about you. I want to get into the energy thing, the energy thing. The Trump family, you have a certain energy. Your dad is famous for pointing out the lack of energy that certain people had during debates.

(Speaker 2)
And I actually interviewed Dr. Carson on our show. And so we’re off air and I can share this enough times past, but I said, Dr. Carson, I want you to know, sir, I actually voted for you, but then Trump beat you. So I ended up voting for Trump for president, but you were my guy. And then Trump beat you. And he’s like, yeah, yeah. I told him the other day, I’m really cool.

(Speaker 2)
This is when Trump was in the white house.

(Speaker 16)
Ben Carson says, Dr. Carson says, and I’m actually, I told him the other day, I’m so glad I didn’t win.

(Speaker 41)
And I said, you already said, I don’t have the energy.

(Speaker 2)
Because it’s an energy. There’s a certain energy. I want to talk about the energy that you try to bring to the workplace. And that is felt within your whole team.

(Speaker 1)
Kim over here. Kim is a superstar. Kim, I know my position. I can’t see.

(Speaker 17)
There you are.

(Speaker 1)
That’s Kim. She’s great. Everyone on your team, they bring this energy. And you don’t seem to put up with people with low energy. Talk about the energy, what that means, energy. Listen, energy is everything, guys.

(Speaker 1)
And by the way, maybe the two greatest defeats of all time was using that little energy line, right? I mean, the first one was Jeb Bush. Do you remember that? Yeah, I do. Oh, look, Jeb has some energy tonight. It’s really great.

(Speaker 1)
Look, the guy showed up. Jeb, if you move any further to the right, you’re going to fall off the stage. I was sitting there just laughing front row. And it was a little awkward. I was kind of friends with his son. And it was hard to sit next to a guy that you’re friends with as this happens on the stage.

(Speaker 1)
The second one was obviously Joe Biden, the least energy of all. Listen guys, first of all, energy is contagious. I think people are attracted to people with good energy. I can’t tell you, there was a flight attendant on Delta coming up here today. She had the best energy you’ve ever seen. I literally said that to her.

(Speaker 1)
I go, you’re amazing. People are attracted, I think, to good energy, to positive energy. And then second of all, I think energy is excitement. They’re parallels to one another. And I think if you’re excited about something, you’re more convincing about whatever that is. If you’re excited to fight the war, if you’re excited to to rep something, to talk about something.

(Speaker 1)
If you’re passionate about something, if you’re excited, it makes you more excited about whatever topic it is. You can take a person that has a different hobby from you, a hobby that you will never enjoy. Take somebody who’s really excited about basket weaving. They put enough energy into it. At least you can draw a little bit out of that, out of their soul. It’s like, this is cool.

(Speaker 1)
The person is really into this. They’re inspired by something. And I think all of us can appreciate that. Listen energy is critical.

(Speaker 17)
It’s critical to small business is critical to what you do.

(Speaker 2)
It’s critical to all your customers. And by the way I really do feel I don’t think energy can be faked. Like I don’t think you could just go around faking the fact that you’re into something when you’re truly not. There have been plenty of politicians who have tried to do that and they’ve all failed. There have been plenty of business leaders who have tried to do that. And guess what?

(Speaker 2)
They start missing days, and they start doing this, and they start doing that, and they don’t commit themselves the same way. You’ve got to have energy for whatever you’re doing. And I think that’s been a big secret to success. Now, sales. Sales. By the way, we’re going to open up for a little Q &A session from specific people here as well.

(Speaker 2)
So sales.

(Speaker 1)
Your family doesn’t apologize for selling something? And we have your website pulled up there, the Trump website there. And you guys have, I mean, properties all over the world you’re developing. And under your leadership, I think the organization may have doubled in size. Maybe I’m getting those numbers wrong. There’s almost 6 ,000 employees.

(Speaker 1)
And you guys are hard charged and you’re putting up a new tower in Jeddah. I mean, you guys are moving and you don’t apologize for sales. So I want to just first, you can just share with us a little bit. How large is the Trump organization? And then what’s sort of your mindset to unapologetically selling the vision of the new or the new project, or just tell us about the organization. Part of it’s believing, right?

(Speaker 1)
And if you’re doing something, we always want to do the best. It’s kind of part of our brand. It’s either going to be the best, or we just choose not to do it, because there’s kind of no point, right? It’s otherwise dilutionary toward who we are and what we do. But we have an amazing company. I came in in early 2006, and we were largely residential buildings, right?

(Speaker 1)
was our bread and butter. We had a couple of hotels, but largely residential. I saw the greatest two years. 2006, 2007 as a developer was amazing. And then 2008, everybody remembers what happened. Countrywide folded, Bank of America stopped doing end loans, so did Chase, so did everybody else.

(Speaker 1)
And you saw the greatest two years of prosperity in the real estate world, followed by arguably probably the two worst we’ve ever seen in certainly two of the worst we’ve ever seen in our country’s history. You couldn’t get end loan financing. Good luck if you had a house in Phoenix, or if you had a house in Las Vegas, or if you had a house here. There was just no market for it. It was actually great at the beginning of my career to see how good something could be quickly followed by how bad something could be. We really doubled down at that time.

(Speaker 1)
We went out, we had done very, very well. We were under levered at that time. All of a sudden, people started coming to us because we’re really good at what we did. They started coming to us in the golf world saying, hey, we’ve got this incredible piece of land. We don’t know how to manage it. Our golf club, it’s an equity club, but all the board members are fighting.

(Speaker 1)
We don’t know what the hell we’re doing. Will you come in and take it over? All of a sudden, we started just golf course after golf course, hotel after hotel, buying property after property at $0 .05 on the dollar. We took this portfolio and we literally doubled it in a couple of years and then tripled it and quadrupled it. We’ve never really stopped. The company’s got bigger and bigger.

(Speaker 1)
It’s gotten more diversified. It went from a really residential high rise to hotel to resort, golf course, golf course resort, meaning with hotel components, wineries, some of the biggest commercial buildings in New York, California and other places. So big office buildings, a lot of residential projects, a lot of retail. And it’s just been fun.

(Speaker 2)
We’ve been adding and adding and adding. And more recently, we’ve really gone into the crypto space in a very big way because there’s no question that that’s kind of the new front. I’m glad my man over here likes But there’s no question that’s become the new trend. And I’m probably spending 30 % of my time in that space. And we’ve got 23 projects around the world that are under development right now. It’s going to be a busy year, a bunch in the Middle East, a bunch of Vietnam, a couple in India, all hotels, golf courses, residential towers.

(Speaker 2)
And so we’ve been kicking butt and it’s been a lot of fun. We’re trying to keep our heads above water, but it’s been amazing. And we’ve got a great organization and everybody’s embraced it. Yeah, we’re doing great. Now, Eric, with about the 25 minutes we have left with you, what I’m going to do is I’m going to bring up a few people that I have certified as being not crazy. I hope they don’t let me down.

(Speaker 2)
And they’re going to be able to ask you a question. The way it’s going to work, if you don’t want to answer the question, you can punt, and then I’ll throw myself under the bus. But they should ask reasonable questions. So I’m going to bring up Randy Antrican. Can you come up here, Randy? Randy runs a company called PMH.

(Speaker 2)
It’s a home outdoor living.

(Speaker 10)
He builds pergolas, pavilions. This is Randy Antrican. It’s a very successful company.

(Speaker 1)
He’s grown, I think, eight times since we first met. He’s rocking and rolling. PMHOKC . com. What question? I’m going to pass the mic to you.

(Speaker 1)
Just make sure you eat the mic. What question would you have for Eric Trump, sir? Wow, on the spot, really. What’s your style of managing people? I mean, how do you handle a tough situation with employees? Well, I think it depends.

(Speaker 1)
It may be the toughest question. What we try and do is we try not to micromanage. If you have somebody who is immensely competent, that’s the person you want in your organization, and let them do their job, and let them do it well. Not to say that you can’t look over budgets, not to say that you shouldn’t be present, and we’re incredibly present. You should set very high expectations. We get very good people.

(Speaker 1)
and try not to micromanage very good people. I mean, very good people don’t want to be micromanaged and very good people don’t need to be micromanaged. And that ultimately gives you a lot of bandwidth. And it’s been probably the biggest key to me, especially as we got into the political stuff and I was trying to run a massive company while trying to campaign every single day and you’re just running out of hours. If you had to make every single decision on a property level, you couldn’t do it. There’s a certain point where you have to let go.

(Speaker 1)
And it’s hard.

(Speaker 10)
Every single one of us is a control freak. Every single one of us in our minds can do something better than the others. You want to be the person that makes that decision. But at the end of the day, you hold somebody down who’s otherwise incredibly competent. You’re making them worse. You’re making yourself worse.

(Speaker 1)
You’re making it impossible to grow. So much of that equation is you find a great person and you let them you inspire them, you build their confidence, you set really high expectations, but you let them fly. And if you’re not willing to let them fly, you’re going to lose them. That becomes very, very old every single day when you’re listening to a boss, when you’re arguably in a better spot to know the details of a project, of a business than they are, because you’re closer to the ground, as that person has to fly high in managing a company, and you’re managing a specific project. So great people. Yeah.

(Speaker 1)
Follow up question too. You know, you said you like to promote from within. That’s kind of my philosophy too. How long do you need to see someone kind of just like crush it and stay consistent before you’re like, man, I’ve seen enough. I know they’re the right person. Ideally as long as possible, but unfortunately in the real world, you don’t have that luxury, right?

(Speaker 1)
Sometimes you see somebody absolutely crush it for a year and then you give them that opportunity because you need a position filled and you know, that’s better than going from the outside. Take the person who’s absolutely crushing it every single day for a year over the person who gives you a nice resume that you’ve never met before, right? Every single time, every single time, don’t even think twice. It’s really nice if you see somebody who crushes it every single day for five years and you know absolutely everything about them and that whole variability is out. Unfortunately, that’s not always how the world works, right? And so you’re probably seeing that.

(Speaker 1)
I imagine you’ve got project managers who are great and I imagine you have project managers who are bad. I imagine you’ve got guys who are detailed and will leave a job site every single night

(Speaker 2)
and it’s immaculate when they do. And you probably have guys that are slobs and you’re constantly trying to fight them. There’s probably guys that ruin your work truck and there’s probably guys who will go get them washed at the end of the week. Take that in and promote the good ones and try and build the other ones. Try and set an example to build the other people.

(Speaker 39)
Some people just can’t get there.

(Speaker 2)
And take really good care of the people who can. and let them manage some of the other ones, because they’re also going to set expectations that you don’t otherwise have to as a boss, right?

(Speaker 15)
So sometimes your people can actually help others grow faster in the organization than you otherwise could, because you’re always going to be the guy who owns a company, and you’re going to come off as the curmudgeon, right?

(Speaker 2)
And it’s all about your bottom line versus allowing a co -worker to otherwise inspire good habits. That’s at least how I look at life. Now just to kind of set the pace, we’re going to do six more questions. And Vanessa, if any of our kids want to sneak in a question, we can pull that card. So you can feel free to do it. Randy, thank you so much, brother.

(Speaker 2)
I appreciate you very much. All right. And now I’m going to bring up Dr. Whitlock, or the Whitlocks. The Whitlocks. So the Whitlocks. Where’s Brian Gibson?

(Speaker 2)
Is Brian Gibson here? Brian and Jesse, are you here? Okay, let’s bring up Brian and Jesse, you can ask a question. Chakalani, you in the house, Chakalani?

(Speaker 27)
No one can pronounce your name, that’s Chakalani.

(Speaker 40)
Come on up here for a question.

(Speaker 2)
Bronson, come on up here for a question, come on up here.

(Speaker 13)
And again, any question you want to ask, but if it’s a bad question, it means that I did a bad job in selecting who gets to ask the questions, okay? So, if it’s a bad question, you go, that’s a weird question, just to absolutely rebuke it. Brian Whitlock, he’s a cosmetic surgeon, long time client, great guy, and one of my, our daughter, Leia, got bit by a dog. And her on her eyelid, craziest thing ever.

(Speaker 1)
We immediately called Dr. Whitlock because we knew that he and his wife would take care of our daughter. She’s you can’t tell she ever got bit. So that’s Leah right there. And that’s Dr. Whitlock, the one who saved the eyelid. Seriously. Unbelievable.

(Speaker 1)
Dr. Whitlock, what question would you have? Well, just a few minutes ago, you were talking about the future and that you’re expanding and you’re having you know, hotels and now golf courses, but then you threw in something about crypto, I believe. And you didn’t say anything after that. So what were you meaning by that? Yeah, it’s awfully hard to explain crypto in a concise way that – Rapid fire.

(Speaker 1)
Yeah, you can’t really do crypto in rapid fire, but I’m a big believer that traditional finance is dead. The big banks are dead. There’s no way a home mortgage should take 120 days to get. There’s no reason that you should be able to pull out 500 bucks from an ATM machine Monday through Friday, nine to five from your bank. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s not real in the modern day era.

(Speaker 1)
Every single week, I chase wire transfers that are coming in at 4 .30 in the afternoon or that you’re sending out to a vendor or contractor or whatever it might be, a patient. Why does a swift wire transfer take two days to come in. Again, this is not our best. This is not our brightest. The banking industry has left us behind. And beyond that, the banking industry has hurt so many people in this room.

(Speaker 1)
And unless you have a lot of zeros on your balance sheet, you have zero advantage in the banking industry. They leave everybody behind. Go to JP Morgan Chase and try and get a $10 ,000 loan because you want to start a dog grooming business, and they’re going to laugh at you. So they are discriminatory. They’ve hurt a lot of people. They’re not good at what they do.

(Speaker 1)
They charge you massive fees. They are slow as hell. They’re antiquated. They’ve got big buildings in every city around the world that have JPMorgan Chase at the top of them.

(Speaker 18)
Every single one of those buildings has thousands of people that are pushing paper unnecessarily when all of that stuff could be done in DeFi, where all of it could be done on blockchain.

(Speaker 1)
And I can promise you, mark my words, I think you’re taping it. If you look back in 10, 12, 15 years, those banks, if they don’t catch up with the real world, are going to be gone. They’re going to be gone. I’m not, you know, I’m less into the, you know, the nonsense projects, just playing around. projects in crypto. I’m really a believer in two things.

(Speaker 1)
I’m into the you know kind of Bitcoin because I really do believe that’s gonna be a great store of value long term.

(Speaker 2)
And I believe in proper utility which is how do you make this world more functional. How do you make it faster. How do you make it fairer to the to the average person. You know what. Why is it that you know every single banker is getting massive fees. Right.

(Speaker 2)
They’re getting I mean, they’re taking your money at the end of the day. I mean, if you can save all the fees, if you can save all the rent, if you can save all the electrical bills and all these buildings, congratulations, you’re gonna be paying lower interest rates, right? Like, isn’t that kind of a nice thing? You know, so why do they exist? And how do we do it better? And I think crypto is on the forefront of making that happen.

(Speaker 2)
Also, Spurl from Canada, who’s maybe our 51st state. We don’t know. He’s going to come up here. He has a question. Spurl, come up here.

(Speaker 6)
And then Leon, where’s Leon at? Thank you, Dr. Whitlock. Let’s hear for Dr. Whitlock. Great job, sir.

(Speaker 1)
OK, Leon Benjamin, come on down here as well. Also, Amanda Grace. Where’s Amanda? Amanda, come on up here. OK, so Brian, here you go. You and your wife, Jessie, you run a church, a very successful church in Amarillo, also a church in Amarillo, Texas, also a church in Kentucky.

(Speaker 1)
You run a ministry. What questions would you have? Yeah, we’re looking at the most subpoenaed man in American history. We ought to give him a hand clap for taking a shot in the jaw for MAGA, for America, for his family. Also, you’re parenting, you’re running big organizations. Tell me, what is it like and how did you deal with the lawfare and the business and the family and all of it at the same time?

(Speaker 1)
By the way, this guy’s seen a lot of lawfare as well, as has he. You got to compartmentalize things, at least this is what I do in my head.

(Speaker 32)
I’m not sure, maybe I’m a sick, twisted individual and maybe it just works for me, but You got to compartmentalize life as a game, right?

(Speaker 1)
Sometimes they’re ugly games. Sometimes they’re not nice. But at the end of the day, it’s all a game. And, you know, when you see Nancy Pelosi sending you, you know, subpoenas, when you see Pocahontas send you subpoenas every three days. By the way, did anybody watch State of the Union the other night where he goes? look, Pocahontas, I’m so glad you want to give another $300 billion to Ukraine.

(Speaker 1)
That’s really great. She sent me more subpoenas than you could possibly imagine. But you got to understand it was all a game, right? And that’s how you have to compartmentalize. It’s not a personal thing. Is it nice?

(Speaker 1)
No, of course it’s not nice. It’s actually horrible. It’s not what our system should be. But sometimes unpleasantries in life, you compartmentalize as a game. And you just need to realize, hey, that’s high stakes. You better believe they would have thrown me in the gulag for doing absolutely nothing wrong had we had lost.

(Speaker 1)
They would have done the same to DJT. Now Hunter would have gotten away with absolute murder because you have two scales of justice. But you’ve got to compartmentalize life as a little bit of a game. And at the end of the day, you need to win that game. It’s not fair. Sometimes it’s not fun.

(Speaker 1)
But that’s how I always, once you start thinking about, oh, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry for myself. I mean, how could they possibly be doing this? I, I think you go down in a bad place. And, uh, and so I always just tried to take the raw emotion out of, out of the nonsense. I think the early ones probably heard a lot more than the later ones.

(Speaker 1)
Like I became so numb and desensitized to it. Right. Like, you know, at first, the first subpoena I ever got, you know, scared, you know, scared to death, you know, subpoena, it’s a big word. It’s coming from the United States Senate, you know, about, about 10 into it, they became like, you’re eating Tic Tacs. They were like pez, right. All right, shit.

(Speaker 1)
I’ll deal with this, this crowd on Monday. It is what it is. Right. And so, um, yeah. No, listen, I think you have to develop a backbone. You have to compartmentalize it in the right way, and then you just have to deal with it.

(Speaker 1)
And by the way, talking about the most subpoenaed man in American history, I actually want to see if I can get this certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. I’m not sure if they’re fans of ours, but again, if I’m at 116 subpoenas, and by the way, these aren’t like little baby subpoenas from like little state AGs. I mean, these are from like the United States Senate. I mean, you couldn’t have somebody stay in one of our hotels without sending me a subpoena. And the reason they did that was, you know, he had executive branch protections as president. and it’s very hard to get the president because of the constitutional protections that you’re afforded.

(Speaker 1)
Guess who didn’t have constitutional protections? This guy, right? And so in order to get to him, they just subpoenaed the hell out of me and, you know, made our lives miserable and cost us, you know, again, don’t cry for us, but hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees. So, I mean, they wanted to take down the business. They wanted to bankrupt us.

(Speaker 2)
They wanted to find one email that had a comma that was out of place.

(Speaker 12)
and throw us away forever.

(Speaker 2)
And they tried to do it. And by the way, they had a lot of crooked judges in there. You guys all saw those court cases every single day. Believe me, guys, they would have done it until it pissed off every single American. And Americans started really, you know, in life, be careful what you wish for, right? You know, that old adage, be careful what you wish for.

(Speaker 2)
You know, if they could go back and do it all again, you better believe that they wouldn’t have wanted Donald Trump to have non -consecutive terms.

(Speaker 1)
You know, I mean, they would have had a president that didn’t have the House, that didn’t have the Senate.

(Speaker 2)
And instead you have a president that not only has a substantially better cabinet of all killers, but you have the other two branches of government and you have the support of the majority of Americans by far, obviously the popular vote, having won all seven swing states. I can promise you they’re not happy campers right now, but I digress because this is a business conference, right? Oh, no, you’re great. You’re great.

(Speaker 1)
And again, I don’t want to get the hook from Kim.

(Speaker 2)
So Kim, I’m watching that clock here.

(Speaker 1)
So we have time for about five more questions.

(Speaker 20)
But real quick, I’m not going to ask you because I’ve been studying your father.

(Speaker 2)
So this is something that your father might say.

(Speaker 3)
I’m not going to ask you about buying a hotel in Tulsa and when you’re going to buy a hotel in Tulsa. We don’t have time to talk about that kind of thing or even suggest that kind of thing. But some people ask me what the hell is the name of that hotel? The Mayo Hotel.

(Speaker 1)
I keep saying just buy the Mayo Hotel, put the Trump name on it, replace the Mayo. How many of you want that to happen? I guess I’d just do that. By the way, he was pushing this so hard that the last time I was here, I guess exactly where I stayed, I stayed in like the nicest room in the Mayo Hotel because it was like, it was part of Clay Clark’s pitch. How many of you think it would work? Trump Hotel, Tulsa?

(Speaker 1)
It would, boom. Okay, so Jesse, question, what do you got? Okay, so we’ve watched your family as you’ve gone through this process for the last however many years, and we see things like work ethic and family culture and legacy and those kinds of things makes you think that you want that in your kids. But when you look at it all, What, when your dad, because I feel like we didn’t just get a president, we kind of get like a presidential whole family, you know, of people that are working and we’re grateful for that. When you get done, what would be your number one thing that you would want America to say about your family? Like if you could pin it and it would absolutely happen, what would be the number one thing you would want them to say about you?

(Speaker 1)
Well, I think maybe that we’re a great all -American family who legitimately cared and didn’t try and grift off the system like the rest of these kind of losers have for years and years and years, right? I mean, this whole endeavor has cost us a hell of a lot more than it’s made us, right? And again, all we want to do is save that right there, red, white, and blue. That’s all we care to do. And the first rule in politics, guys, the first rule, kind of the unspoken rule is you keep family the hell out of politics. You talk to any campaign manager over the years, and that’s the rule.

(Speaker 1)
Keep the family the hell out of it. Guys, we didn’t have any friends. I mean, legitimately, we didn’t have a single surrogate. There wasn’t a single senator that endorsed DJT in 2016. We had to fight like hell to win the primaries against the RNC, against the mainstream media. I mean, we had no friends.

(Speaker 1)
The only friends we had, family. And so it was really largely DJT. It was my father. It was Don and myself. And then Laura came in a little bit later on, right? She got thrown into she didn’t know a damn thing about politics either.

(Speaker 1)
And so, you know, we were forced to defend, you know, kind of depend, you know, and defend ourselves. And isn’t that kind of a beautiful thing? Isn’t that kind of what family should actually do if you zoom out? I know it’s in a different context, but we never, we never broke. And I had a, I had a friend and like the kind of the matriarch of the family, you know, very old, she was in the hospital bed.

(Speaker 1)
And I’ll never forget the story, this true story. She asked all the kids to bring her pencils, right? These were like her dying days. And she collects all the pencils from everybody in the family. And she gives one to one of the kids and says, hey, I want you to break that pencil. And he just snaps the pencil in half, right?

(Speaker 1)
And she goes, OK, do this. Take all the pencils, put them in your hands, and try and break them. And the kid couldn’t break all the pencils, right? Which is, together, you’re a hell of a lot stronger than you are apart. And you better believe that they tried to break us apart. I mean, they tried to break up his marriage.

(Speaker 1)
They certainly tried to break up siblings to parents. They literally went to my mom, God rest her soul. But they would tap. Anderson Cooper and those guys would tap on her door every single day. Hey, what do you have to say about the president? Tell me anything.

(Speaker 1)
I mean, they would literally goad her to say anything, anything negative about the president. She had the coolest thing. Even she wouldn’t break. She had the coolest thing. She goes, he might not have been the greatest husband, but he’ll make the best damn president that you’ve ever seen in your life. And by the way, she loved him to death.

(Speaker 1)
I thought this was like the coolest statement. Terrible husband, but will make a damn good president. Something along those lines. But they had deep love and affinity for one another. And this country needs a lot more family. It needs a lot more family.

(Speaker 1)
You have families that are broken apart every day. You have families that lose touch, no longer care about each other, or are so ingrained in social media. We all are, frankly. But we need the family apparatus back. We need to have a lot more kids in society. We need a lot more faith.

(Speaker 1)
So if there’s one thing I could write on that poster, I think that, hey, we’re probably each unique in the contribution. I’m not sure if my father could have done this without somebody being able to take over the company and run it effectively while he was away. He probably wouldn’t have taken the job, right? So I contribute in a big way. Don’s contributed in a big way.

(Speaker 17)
Ivanka’s contributed.

(Speaker 2)
I mean, everybody in the family has contributed in a big way. And I trust that that will be appreciated, because I really do think it’s the first time in American history that, I don’t know, maybe not American history. I mean, the Kennedys. certainly kind of fought for themselves, right, defended one another. But there haven’t been many good examples of it over the course of politics, and certainly not in the situation that we were in.

(Speaker 1)
And again, as people who knew nothing about this, we didn’t know anything about immigration.

(Speaker 11)
Guys, I built hotels my whole life. Like, you know, and you’re on Megyn Kelly trying to battle seven illegal immigrants about DACA rules. You’re sitting there saying, what the hell am I doing here? How the hell did I put myself in this? But guys, it’s been an amazing voyage and one that I wouldn’t have changed for the world. Final four questions.

(Speaker 11)
Thank you, Gibson. We’re going to bring up Amanda Grace.

(Speaker 3)
Amanda Grace, what question would you have for Eric Trump here?

(Speaker 1)
We’re going 90 miles an hour. I want to respect your time. We don’t want to get the hook from Kim. Hello. I just want to say, Eric, it’s amazing to continue to watch the work the Lord is doing in the life of you and your family. It’s just incredible, incredible to watch this just enormous transformation we see that will continue.

(Speaker 1)
And we will continue to pray for you for that. Twofold. One, what was one of your most favorite moments from your father’s historic joint address to Congress last night that you experienced? And two, what are some specifics we can keep in prayer for you and your family that everybody can just continue to intercede for you and your family? Because you’re all anointed to do this work. Your father is, but you are, your brothers, you’re all anointed to do this work.

(Speaker 1)
You know, I sat up there on the balcony and, you know, the room is not much bigger than this in terms of length. And you’ve got all the senators, you’ve got all the congressmen. And I think my favorite part was watching America look through the true evil that some of those people are. I’m actually a relatively sane, rational human being, right? I mean, there’s a lot of things that can be argued one way or another based on belief and kind of sound logic. When the animals on one side couldn’t clap for a 15 -year -old kid that had gone through 13 brain surgeries, and battled pediatric cancer.

(Speaker 1)
That’s the opposite of what you’re asking for. You’re asking for one thing that made you proud. But honestly, I think it’s one thing that really showed people’s true colors is that. And that there’s a real sickness out there. And honestly, maybe the only beauty to that situation is in that moment, they lost all of America. They lost every sane, rational person.

(Speaker 1)
And so it was fun watching how uncomfortable they were. Again, they lost the popular vote by a lot. They lost all the swing states, right? They lost the Senate. They lost the House. They lost everybody on that dais.

(Speaker 1)
They were all firmly in DJT’s camp. Everybody up front was firmly, I mean, the cabinet is super effective people. The Supreme Court has six Republicans on it, right? They have lost this battle. I mean, they tried to win it, but they’ve lost it. And I think You know Amanda a little bit to see to see the other side scream based on on everything that they tried to do to us was was amazing.

(Speaker 1)
But then also to see somebody who actually cared about putting this country first. Like what do we fight for. You actually break down what we fought for. It’s just we want a country that’s not going to be used and abused. We want to have the greatest business environment in the world. By the way Americans are the greatest capitalists ever.

(Speaker 1)
But what do we need. We need low regulations. We need government to stay the hell out of our lives. We need low inflation, low interest rates, and then just leave us the hell alone. Stay out of our families, stay out of our businesses.

(Speaker 1)
Give us safety. We want to have the safest country in the world. Give us law and order. Give us the best competitive work environment and stay the hell out of our lives. And I don’t know why that makes so many people uncomfortable, but it was so nice to see that. And it’s also so nice to see somebody who has backbone who’s not going to get rolled.

(Speaker 1)
It’s so nice to see somebody who can actually get through a sentence without stuttering. Do you think Joe Biden could do what I’m doing right now? I mean, like, I don’t have any notes.

(Speaker 5)
I promise you, these are, these are, these are clays, right?

(Speaker 6)
Just FYI, right?

(Speaker 1)
That’s a, that’s a substance problem. All right. But, uh, but, um, I was really proud of him. Right. I mean, he’s had to fight through unthinkables and, and, and again, he, he won and, um, there’s a lot of pissed off people in that room, but I also think that they need to do some inward reflection of how they got it all wrong. No different than we all have to do.

(Speaker 1)
Every, every single person in this room has made a bad business decision. gotten something wrong. And once in a while, we have to have enough hubris to look at ourselves and say, where, where did it go awry? You know, what did I screw up? How can I be better next time? And, uh, and I think, I think you have a big part of that room the other night that needs a little bit of hubris.

(Speaker 1)
And how can we pray for you? She wanted to, how can we pray for you? God, you really, that makes me blush, Amanda. Amanda is one of the finest people you’ll ever meet. She actually, we’re the only two New Yorkers in, in, in this room, probably right now. Actually, I’m no longer in New York, right?

(Speaker 6)
I left I left the people he left us I left the People’s Republic of New York to move down to a free state of Florida, which has been amazing Amazing, you’re allowed to like own firearms.

(Speaker 11)
You’re like, you know, like You’re not paying $16

(Speaker 25)
extra in taxes, only so attorney generals can absolutely kill you every single day. So now it’s been a great move.

(Speaker 2)
But Amanda’s been a friend for a very long time.

(Speaker 39)
And she was pivotal in the whole faith movement as well.

(Speaker 2)
I can’t tell you how many times she’d call up and, hey, we want to do an hour of prayer for the Trump family. And we’re going to have tens and tens and tens of thousands of people on it. And she’d bring in great people. I spoke at a ton of them. My wife spoke at a ton of them. She’s a big part of this movement.

(Speaker 2)
We love her to death. And the fact that you’re here is very special.

(Speaker 38)
All right.

(Speaker 5)
I love you and your family. God bless. Thank you. Next question, rapid fire. Thank you.

(Speaker 37)
Pastor Leon Benjamin.

(Speaker 5)
This is a great guy. I love this guy. He flies in every single Thursday night to teach the gospel here. So tonight he’ll be teaching the gospel here at the Remnant Church at 630 PM. So if you want to watch Pastor Leon Benjamin flies in every single Thursday night here. Pastor Leon, what question do you have here?

(Speaker 5)
Rapid fire. All right.

(Speaker 1)
Look, it was amazing. We missed our flight last night. And so we had to stay over. and catch another flight and guess who was on the plane that me and my wife was on. And so I said, Eric, he said, he pumped fist me. Boom.

(Speaker 1)
Yeah. But I’m telling you, look, this is 77 million people voted overwhelmingly. A lot of it, the black community made a decision to leave the Democrat party. And I’m saying like this, black, brown and white unite. What what needs to happen now is to force the momentum. I want to ask you the question, how can we force the momentum?

(Speaker 1)
Don’t lose any no sleep, no dust under our feet to keep communities keep coming in the way of core values, the family, economics, education, Come on, safety. Come on, standing with the police, standing with the military, building the wall. How can we keep the momentum going for you and for your family, for President Donald J. Trump? Well, first of all, he walks on the plane. He’s wearing full Trump garb, right? I actually

(Speaker 1)
mentioned you in the other speech over at the Pastor Jackson Church. And I mean, he comes on, it’s literally like Trump fans, 2024, make America great again, the American flag on the shoulder. I’m like, love it. You need to stop using people as props. That’s the answer. You have a party that’s used people as props and taken them for granted for years and years and years.

(Speaker 1)
And they haven’t done a damn thing to help them out in any way, shape or form. And they’ve taken them for granted and people aren’t falling for it anymore. The African -American community, they’re not falling for it anymore. You saw that in the polls. The Hispanic community, they are not falling for it anymore. And you see that in the polls.

(Speaker 1)
We won Miami -Dade by a significant margin.

(Speaker 36)
A Republican has never won Miami -Dade County before.

(Speaker 1)
And that’s because people are sick and tired of the crap. They’re sick and tired of communism. So many of them, at least in that market, has escaped it for themselves. Look at the Venezuelan community. Look at the Cuban community. These people are saying, I’ve seen this show before.

(Speaker 1)
I’ve seen this movie before. It did not work, and it’s not going to work here, and it’s going to take down the greatest country in the world, and arguably, the only place that still gives our world hope. Guys, I go over to other countries. I travel the world all the time. I’ve had people come up to me, and they’re giving me hugs in other countries saying, You know thank you. You restored a sense of belief.

(Speaker 1)
You restored it. And I’m saying they’re saying oh you’re acting you’re not you’re not American. No no no. You restored hope. Not not not just to America. Forget about America.

(Speaker 1)
You’ve restored hope to the entire world. All right. But the problem is you have a party on the other side that can’t. You know they have to put everybody in buckets. They have to. They create race wars every single day because they think it’s going to benefit them politically.

(Speaker 1)
When the thing you should really do is just prop every single person up, create the safest streets, create the greatest economy, create the lowest unemployment across every class, right? Create the very happiness of society that we are talking about. before. You know, give people the best schools, give them the best infrastructure, you know, allow them to live the American dream. Don’t crush the American dream. You know, but instead, every day we get to hear from one of these, you know, on both sides, frankly, oh yeah, we’re going to rebuild Baltimore.

(Speaker 1)
They win and they never look at Baltimore again. We’re going to go take care of Detroit. They never look at Detroit again. Guys, they’re full of, you know what? And Donald Trump was the first guy who wasn’t. He wasn’t based on the fact that you had the lowest unemployment in every category that you would ever had.

(Speaker 1)
You had the fastest job creation in every single category. You had more people lifted out of poverty than ever before in the country. And I think people just stop believing the nonsense. Right. They stop believing you know the rhetoric. And So we’ve got to stop.

(Speaker 1)
I mean you know for my for my father you know the only color that that really matters is is green for the United States. He wants our country to be wealthy. He wants our country to be successful.

(Speaker 35)
And that solves everything else.

(Speaker 1)
That solves everything else. And that keeps us as the number one superpower in the world which ultimately ensures that the United States reigns supreme forever. And you have a lot of countries around the world, I know I’m going off because I’m passionate about this, but you have a lot of countries in the world that don’t want us to be in that number one spot. You know, sure as hell China doesn’t want us to be in the number one spot and they’ll do anything they can to take us out of it, right?

(Speaker 5)
There are people with really bad, you know, motivations that are coming after us. And instead, you know, we’re debating whether or not, you know, a six foot five man, a person my size should be swimming in women’s collegiate, you know, sports. It’s insane. We’re sitting there talking about transgender bathrooms. You know while you know China wants to become the you know the worldwide currency the worldwide language and control all enterprise globally take the Panama Canal do so many other things. And we’re sitting there messing around.

(Speaker 2)
And you know my father came out said you know we’re done with these games. We’re done with this nonsense. We’re not we’re not doing this anymore. We’re going to do things based on merit. Whoever’s best is going to ultimately win. Whoever works hardest is going to win.

(Speaker 2)
You know. And that’s what’s made us into the greatest melting pot. That’s what’s made us into the greatest system anywhere in the world. And so that’s what we need to focus on.

(Speaker 1)
Please.

(Speaker 21)
I’m going to say this.

(Speaker 1)
God is not going to leave your family.

(Speaker 34)
God is going to stay with your family forever.

(Speaker 1)
He proved it this time around. It is a sealed deal. Your family is in the palm of God’s hands.

(Speaker 33)
All right, final.

(Speaker 1)
We got final final. We got the final five minutes. We got to go faster. Ninety miles an hour. OK, where is Josh Pearl? Josh here, Josh.

(Speaker 1)
He’s from Canada, America’s 51st state. He traveled down here to talk to you about his governor, Josh Pearl. What question do you have there about for Eric Trump? Eric, thanks. He’s a CPA. So, Eric, do you predict that the U .

(Speaker 32)
S.

(Speaker 1)
government will buy Bitcoin, new Bitcoin in 2025? And if so, what does that strategic reserve look like 10, 20, 30 years from now? You’re killing me. He’s a CPA. Listen, there’s no question my father’s policy on cryptocurrency is one that is incredibly positive. We either embrace it or we get left behind and the rest of the world will leave progress as an economy.

(Speaker 1)
It’s just very simple. You go over to the UAE. They’re buying Bitcoin like it’s going out of style because they believe in it more so than just about anything. You go over to Asia. They really really believe in it. They believe in digital currencies.

(Speaker 1)
We have to be on the forefront. We need to revolutionize banking. We have to be on the forefront of this entire movement. So as to whether or not you know how how we buy it is a little different. Right. So many of these

(Speaker 1)
around, in so many countries around the world, right, they’ve got these sovereign funds, these private wealth funds, and they can go out there and they can actively buy Bitcoin. We have a little bit of a different system in this country where it’s a little bit harder to effectuate going out and making massive purchases. If you look at the UAE, you know, they turn on a little spigot, oil pops out of the ground, they have nothing to do with the money, and there’s a lot of oil that’s coming out of the ground. So what do they do? They take that and they invest it all over the world. That’s very smart.

(Speaker 1)
It’s one of, you know, And we got to get to that point where we’re doing the same thing.

(Speaker 2)
We’ve got so much inflows. We’ve got so much revenue creation that we can otherwise go invest in assets. What’s very clear is my father is going to be the best crypto president there’s ever been. He’s going to embrace it in in a very very big way. He’s been tweeting about that almost every single day. You know this week which is beautiful.

(Speaker 2)
I think it’s already been publicized that David Sachs has come out and said you know we’re not selling any of the nation’s Bitcoin. Unfortunately, Joe Biden did. He sold 190 ,000 Bitcoin, which would be equivalent to like $37 billion today. And he sold it for equivalent of like $337 million over the last couple of years. It’s such a travesty because it would have been such a great asset. But no, crypto is here to stay.

(Speaker 2)
You have got the most pro -crypto administration in history.

(Speaker 1)
And I think we’re in the dial -up phase.

(Speaker 2)
Do you remember AOL?

(Speaker 4)
Do you remember the little dial -up?

(Speaker 2)
That’s the phase that we’re in in crypto.

(Speaker 4)
And I think what you’re going to see from the world of crypto is going to be absolutely significant in the next decade.

(Speaker 31)
Eric, five minutes.

(Speaker 4)
We’re going to get one question and a group photo, and then we’re going to let you get back to what you have to do. OK, so we’re going to bring up. I’m so sorry, Bronson. I’m sorry. I can’t weave in your question. I’ve got to weave in Steve.

(Speaker 4)
I’ve got to do a group photo. But you’ll get in the group photo.

(Speaker 1)
It’ll be a trade -off, OK? So Pastor Steve, come on up here, Pastor Steve. Final question, rapid fire. Pastor Steve, what say you? OK, what question do you have? Rapid fire.

(Speaker 1)
All right, first of all, I wanted to tell you. One question. One question. Yes, sir. Okay. I believe that Trump has been called as an agent of justice.

(Speaker 1)
That’s why he’s been put in power. A lot of people don’t understand that. And everything he does with justice, he just gets grace. So I wanted to know, what is the strategy for reconstructing Gaza? And if I can add, one thing that he hasn’t mentioned that I wish he would and that other people have mentioned is family justice. It’s the biggest issue in the church.

(Speaker 1)
Is there anything going on in that area? Listen, Gaza is a very long conversation, and whether or not we should even be the ones responsible for that, I think my father’s taking a very America first approach. It should never happen. What happened over there is an absolute travesty. What Israel’s had to deal with on every front has been absolutely horrendous. But at the same time, we’ve got serious problems in this country.

(Speaker 1)
We’ve got $36 trillion worth of debt, and we better take care of our own before we start rebuilding foreign countries. And I think every American wants to see that now. And again, I’m not saying it’s nice. I’m not saying it’s fair. The whole situation stinks.

(Speaker 27)
But I think we need to prioritize our own.

(Speaker 30)
And I think my father is of that same ilk and mindset, not to say that he wouldn’t want to see something beautiful happen there and absolute positivity in the region.

(Speaker 2)
Hey, listen, we had no wars. We had peace in the Middle East under our first administration. You better believe we’re going to have peace in the Middle East one way or another under this administration, simply because you finally have somebody in office that has a backbone and won’t tolerate the games that have been played. The games I’ve played there in the last couple of years would have never, never, ever happened under Donald Trump. As to the family, I mean, I think I spent a little bit of time talking about family before.

(Speaker 1)
That nuclear family, there’s nothing more important.

(Speaker 7)
Nuclear family is what’s going to hold this country together. We need to do a better job having kids.

(Speaker 16)
We need to do a better job having family, standing behind family, supporting family.

(Speaker 7)
It’s the greatest support structure that we can have. And it’s critical. It’s critical to religion. It’s critical to our society. It’s critical to the United States of America. And it’s critical to keeping us a world superpower.

(Speaker 7)
It’s why I try and prioritize my kids as much as I can.

(Speaker 9)
why I try and maintain a You know a very stable family, but um, I don’t think of all the subjects that we talked about tonight I don’t think there’s anything more than more important than the family unit Now we have just limited times. We’re gonna do a group photo. Is that okay? So folks, let’s hear for eric trump. Thank you folks. Once more time.

(Speaker 2)
Let’s stand to our feet Thank you eric for joining us here in tall. So let’s hear for eric trump Oklahoma, we love you. Thank you guys so much. My name is Daniel Connell and my company is DC Pro LVA for lighting, video and audio. Real simple for our website, it’s dcprolva . com.

(Speaker 2)
I’ve started with you, I’ve actually looked, it was two years ago this month. Gross revenue has grown two and a half times since then in our company. Beyond that, We are standing at the door right now of another major push. I can see it. I can see it coming. The pieces are getting into place.

(Speaker 2)
So have this conversation with me again a year from now, and I bet I can say the same thing again that we’ve grown two and a half times just between now and then. My name is Kevin Thomas and the name of our company is MultiClean. We are a commercial janitorial service and we serve the entire state of Oklahoma and Kansas and soon to be Arkansas. We have probably grown probably five times. I think when we first started with you, we had 60 to 65 employees, and now we have a little over 300 employees. Before we got involved with Thrive Time, we didn’t really have any systems or processes in place.

(Speaker 2)
In six, seven years, I’ve probably been to 12 to 13 business conferences and Amazingly, each time I go, I learn something new and I’m so excited to bring it back and show the team about marketing and how to implement. Okay, Aaron Antis, September 25th and 26th. Guess who’s coming back to Tulsa? I will give you a hint. His first name is Eric. And his last name is Trump.

(Speaker 2)
And his father is the 47th president of these United States. Yes, Eric Trump is joining us once again here, September 25th and 26th in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the two day interactive Thrive Time Show Business Growth Workshop. But Eric Trump is bringing friends. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Alina Haba will be joining Eric Trump right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Amanda Grace will be in the place. Dr. Stella Emanuele.

(Speaker 2)
will be here in T -Town in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Julie Green will be on the scene. Mel K will be here to say hey.

(Speaker 19)
Dave Scarlett from the HisGlory team will be here.

(Speaker 2)
It’s going to be a blasty blast right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

(Speaker 6)
If you want to start or grow a super successful company, if you want to make your wallet great again or make your wallet great for the first time, if you want to learn marketing, systems, scaling, human resources, accounting, social media, branding, search engine optimization, sales training, financial management and more, get your tickets right now at Thrivetimeshow . com.

(Speaker 14)
Once again, it’s Thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 29)
com.

(Speaker 6)
A lot of people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. There’s not 50 employees. The Trump Organization, again, most people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. And while Donald J. Trump was the 45th president of these United States, he needed a competent man to run and execute his business plans. Showtime! So the man that runs the Trump Organization for Donald J. Trump as he was the 45th President of the United States and now the 47th President of the United States is Eric Trump.

(Speaker 6)
So Eric Trump is here to talk about time management, promoting from within, marketing, branding, quality control, sales systems.

(Speaker 14)
workflow design, workflow mapping, how to build. I mean, everything that you see, the Trump hotels, the Trump golf courses, all their products, the man who manages billions of dollars of real estate and thousands of employees is here to teach us how to do it. You are talking about one of the greatest brands on the planet from a business standpoint.

(Speaker 6)
I mean, who else has been able to create a brand like the Trump brand?

(Speaker 28)
I mean, look at it.

(Speaker 6)
And this is the man behind the business. this for the last, pretty much since 2015, he’s been the man behind it. So you’re talking, we’re into nine going into 10 years of him running it. And we get to tap into that knowledge.

(Speaker 4)
That’s going to be amazing.

(Speaker 2)
Now think about this for a second. Clay Clark, man. He is one character. It’s a good word for character. Yeah, that is it. Good, driven, smart.

(Speaker 27)
And I’ve never met a guy who was so hyper all the time.

(Speaker 2)
He’s doing so much good. And then I met his mother and she just says, she just lets him be Clay Clark. I mean, so he’s endorsed by his mother and he’s doing magnificent work. So it was great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with. His Clay Clark starts his days at five o ‘clock in the morning. Oh, it’s incredible.

(Speaker 2)
Yeah. He’s, he’s like, he’s, he’s a machine. He’s a machine. But his, you know, I got, I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock. Yes. But hundreds of people showing up at 5 a .

(Speaker 2)
m.

(Speaker 1)
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

(Speaker 17)
Man, he’s a leader of a leader.

(Speaker 1)
He’s a fantastic young man. No, he is. The lineup continues to grow. And this is how we do our tickets here at the Thrive Time Show. If you want to get a VIP ticket, you can absolutely do it. It’s five hundred dollars for a VIP ticket.

(Speaker 3)
We’ve always done it that way.

(Speaker 1)
Now, if you want to take a general admission ticket, it’s two hundred and fifty dollars or whatever price you want. to pay.

(Speaker 2)
And the reason why I do that and the reason why we do that is because we want to make our events affordable for everybody. I grew up without money. I totally understand what it’s like to be the tight spot. So if you want to attend, it’s $250 or whatever price you want to pay. That’s how I do it. And it’s $500 for a VIP ticket.

(Speaker 2)
Now, we only have limited seating here with the most people we’ve ever had in this building was for the Jim Brewer presentation. Jim Brewer came here, the legendary comedian Jim Brewer came to talk and we had 419 people that were here. 419 people. And I thought to myself, there’s no more room. I felt kind of bad that a couple people had VIP seats in the men’s restroom. No, I’m just kidding.

(Speaker 2)
So I thought, you know what, we should probably add on. Clay Clark is here somewhere.

(Speaker 26)
Where’s my buddy Clay?

(Speaker 2)
Clay’s the greatest. I met his goats today.

(Speaker 25)
I met his dogs.

(Speaker 22)
I met his chickens.

(Speaker 24)
I saw his compound.

(Speaker 2)
He’s like the greatest guy. I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs. So this guy’s like the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right? His entire life, Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing. So again, if you want to get tickets for this event, all you have to do is go to thrivetimeshow . com, go to thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 2)
com. When you go to thrivetimeshow . com, you’ll go there, you’ll request a ticket, boom.

(Speaker 23)
Or if you want to text me, if you want a little bit faster service, you say, I want you to call me right now.

(Speaker 2)
Just text my number. It’s my cell phone number.

(Speaker 22)
My personal cell phone number.

(Speaker 2)
We’ll keep that. private between you, between you, me, everybody. We’ll keep that private. And anybody, don’t share that with anybody except for everybody. That’s my private cell phone number. It’s 918 -851 -0102.

(Speaker 2)
918 -851 -0102. I know we have a lot of Spanish -speaking people that attend these conferences. And so to be bilingually sensitive, my cell phone number is 918 -851 -0102. Zero two. That is not actually bilingual. That’s just saying Juan for a Juan.

(Speaker 2)
It’s not the same thing. I think you’re attacking me. Now, let’s talk about this. Now, what kind of stuff will you learn at the Thrive Time Show Workshop? So, Aaron, you’ve been to many of these over the past seven, eight years. So let’s talk about it.

(Speaker 2)
I’ll tee up the thing and then you tell me what you’re going to learn here, OK? OK. You’re going to learn marketing, marketing and branding. What are we going to learn about marketing and branding? Oh, yeah. We’re going to dive into, you know, so many people say, oh, you know, I got to get my brand known out there, like the Trump brand.

(Speaker 2)
You want to get that brand out there. It’s like. How do I actually make people know what my business is and make it a household name? You’re going to learn some intricacies of how you can do that. You’re going to learn sales. So many people struggle to sell something.

(Speaker 2)
This just in, your business will go to hell if you can’t sell. So we’re going to teach you sales. We’re going to teach you search engine optimization, how to come up top in the search engine results. We’re going to teach you how to manage people. Aaron, you have managed, no exaggeration, hundreds of people throughout your career and thousands of contractors, and most people struggle with managing people. Why does everybody have to learn how to manage people?

(Speaker 2)
Well, because, first of all, you either have great people or you have people who suck. And so it can be a challenge. Learning how to work with a large group of people and get everybody pulling in the same direction can be a challenge. But if you have the right systems, you have the right processes, and you’re really good at selecting great ones, and we have a process we teach about how to do that. find great people. When you start with the people who have a great attitude, they’re teachable.

(Speaker 2)
they’re driven, all of those things, then you can get those people all pulling in the same direction. So we’re going to teach you branding, marketing, sales, search engine optimization. We’re going to teach you accounting. We’re going to teach you personal finance, how to manage your finance. We’re going to teach you time management. How do you manage your time?

(Speaker 2)
How do you get more done during a typical day? How do you build an organization if you’re not organized? How do you do organization? How do you build an org chart? Everything that you need to know to start and grow a business will be taught during this two -day interactive business workshop. Now let me tell you how the format is set up here.

(Speaker 22)
And again, folks, this is a two -day interactive 15.

(Speaker 2)
Think about this, folks. It’s two days.

(Speaker 21)
Each day, it starts at 7 AM, and it goes until 5 PM.

(Speaker 2)
So from 7 AM to 5 PM, two days. It’s a two -day interactive workshop. The way we do it is we do a 30 -minute teaching session, and then we break for 15 minutes for a question and answer session. So Aaron, what kind of great stuff stuff happens during that 15 minute question and answer session after every teaching session.

(Speaker 17)
I actually think it’s the best part about the workshops because here’s what happens.

(Speaker 2)
I’ve been to lots of these things over the years. I’ve paid many thousands of dollars to go to them. And you go in there and they talk in vague generalities and they’re constantly upselling you for something trying to get you to buy this thing or that thing or this program or this membership. And you leave not getting your very specific questions answered about your business or your employees or what you’re doing on your marketing. And what’s awesome about this is we literally answer every single question that any person asks. And it’s very specific to what your business is.

(Speaker 2)
And what we do is we allow you as the attendee to write your questions on the whiteboard. And then we literally, as you mentioned, we answer every single question on the whiteboard. And then we take a 15 -minute break to stretch and to make it entertaining when you’re stretching. It’s a true story. When you get up and stretch, you’ll be greeted by mariachis. There’s going to probably be alpaca here, llamas, helicopter rides, a coffee bar, a snow cone.

(Speaker 2)
I mean, there’s just… You had a crocodile one time. That was pretty interesting. You know, I… I should write that down. And I’m sorry for that one guy.

(Speaker 2)
We lost the crocodile. We duct taped its face. So that’s right.

(Speaker 7)
We duct taped a baby crocodile and duct tape. Yeah, duct tape around the mouth so it didn’t bite anybody. But it was really cool to pass that thing around.

(Speaker 20)
I should do that.

(Speaker 7)
that.

(Speaker 2)
We have a small petting zoo that will be assembled.

(Speaker 7)
It’s going to be great.

(Speaker 9)
And then you’re in the company of hundreds of entrepreneurs.

(Speaker 2)
So there’s not a lot of people in America today. In fact, there’s less than 10 million people today, according to US Debt Clock, that identify as being self -employed. So if you have a country with 350 million people, That means you have less than 3 % of our population that’s even self -employed. So you only have 3 out of every 100 people in America that are self -employed to begin with. And when Inc. Magazine reports that 96 % of businesses fail by default, By default, you have a 1 out of 1 ,000 chance of succeeding in the game of business.

(Speaker 2)
But yet, the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double the size. No hyperbole, no exaggeration.

(Speaker 19)
I have thousands of testimonials to back this up.

(Speaker 2)
We have thousands of testimonials to back it up. But when you work with a home builder, when I work with a business owner, we can typically double the size of the company within 24 months. And you say, double? Yeah, there’s businesses that we have tripled. There’s businesses we’ve grown 8x. There’s so many examples.

(Speaker 2)
see it thrivetimeshow . com. But again, this is the most interactive best business workshop on the planet. This is objectively the highest rated and most reviewed business workshop on the planet.

(Speaker 18)
I was looking to learn how to take my business, like they’ve said today, from being very successful to being systematic.

(Speaker 17)
I’ve got a very successful practice in three different cities, make good money.

(Speaker 2)
I just want to take it to the next level with systems and processes to where I can drive my cars more. Paul Hood. I’ve been a CPA for 33 years. And what kind of growth have you and your great team had here over the past, let’s say, five, six years? When I met you five years ago, we were doing $3 million. This year, we’ll do $24 million.

(Speaker 2)
and you say clay i still i’m not gonna get a ticket unless you give me more okay fine we’re gonna serve you the same meal both days true story we have we cater in the food and because I keep it simple. I literally bring in the same food both days for lunch. It’s Ted Esconzito’s, an incredible Mexican restaurant. That’s going to happen. And Jill Donovan, our good friend, who is the founder of Rustic Cuff. She started that company in her home, and now she sells millions of dollars of apparel and products.

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That’s rusticcuff . com. And someone says, I want more. This is not enough. Give me more. OK. I’m not going to mention their names right now, because I’m working on it behind the scenes here.

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But we’ve got one guy who’s giving me a verbal.

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to be here. And this is a guy who’s one of the wealthiest people in Oklahoma. And nobody really knows who he is because he’s built systems that are very utilitarian that offer a lot of value. He’s made a lot of money in the it’s the It’s where you rent. It’s short. It’s where you’re renting storage spaces.

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He’s a storage space guy. He owns this. What do we call that? The rental? The storage space? Storage units.

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This guy owns storage units. He owns railroad cars. He owns a lot of assets that make money on a daily basis.

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But they’re not like customer facing.

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Most people don’t know who owns the mini storage facility or most people don’t know who owns the warehouse that’s passively making money. Most people don’t know who owns the railroad cars. But this guy, he’s giving me a verbal that he will be here. And we just continue to add more and more success stories. So if you’re out there today and you want to change your life, you want to give yourself a incredible gift.

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You want a life changing experience. You want to learn how to start and grow a company.

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Go to Thrivetimeshow .

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com.

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Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow . com.

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Request a ticket for the two day interactive event. Hey, how’s it going? I’m Thomas Croson, owner and founder of Full Package Media in Dallas, Texas. I’ve been a coaching client with Clay Clark since the beginning of our business. We started about a year ago, August of last year. I had no clients, no idea what we were doing, no clue really what was going on.

And now we’ve grown to where we’ve got six photographers, we’ve got office space here, I have an admin sales person that works for us full time, developing an online system and a lot of that growth we attribute to Clay helping us and there’s so many things that, I mean his stuff is not revolutionary, it’s not this crazy walk on hot coals and all this stuff, it’s just real stuff. It’s going to be a blasty blast. There’s no upsells. Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event. I think it is incredible. And there’s somebody out there right now, you’re watching, and you’re like, but I already signed up for this incredible other program called Smoke Your Way to Thin.

I think that’s going to change your life. I promise you, this will be 10 times better than that. like i picked the wrong week quit smoking don’t do the smoke your way to thin conference that is i’ve tried it don’t do it yeah chain smoking is not a viable i mean it is life changing it is life changing if you become a chain smoker it is life changing best weight loss program though right not really so if you’re looking to have life changing results in a way that won’t cause you to have a stoma. Get your tickets at Thrivetimeshow . com. Again, that’s Aaron Antis.

I’m Clay Clark and reminding you and inviting you to come out to the two day interactive Thrivetimeshow workshop right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I promise you it will be a life changing experience. We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. What kind of growth have you had since you and I’ve been working together over these past few years? 3 .45 million. I got those stats before I got on here.

So you’ve grown by 3 .45 million? Yeah, 3 ,450 ,000. Would that be like if you took the combined revenue, maybe doubled it? Have we gone up by? About almost three, not quite.

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