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Already folks, as you know at ORAT number three, we had some teenagers there, about 22.

It turned out to be a wild success, and I'm looking to create a track for upwards of 50 teenagers.

For free, I'm paying for you. For free to come to the event because I want to help you see

what is possible. I'm going to share with Mr. Coach Carson what I'm thinking about the current

structure of an agenda and get his feedbacks, his tweets, his suggestions. How you doing, Coach?

Good. Well, good to see you, Michael. Absolutely. So, Coach, I tried something crazy at year

number three where I said, hey, if you have any teenagers, bring them because I want it to be about

them. We had two Gen Zs open the sessions at 24 and 25 year old day one day two. And then after

day two's opening, we sent them off into a private room just with, it was Dylan, Cody, and Ashley

all around 24, 25 years old. And what I really liked is they were in there for almost three hours.

I didn't expect it to be that meaningful. But it went for three hours, got a lot of great feedback.

So next year, I want to make it more structured. So I'm working on an outline that I want to share

with you. And I'm doing this because I want you to poke at it, prod it, ask questions, and frankly,

make it better because I know you do this all the time. You ready? That's cool.

All right. So we do have some limitations on the rooms. So we're going to have to break this up

into three different sections. It's going to be morning of day one, afternoon of day one,

and then morning of day two. So this is the current structure of the current idea.

From nine to 11, Saturday morning, the teenagers will go off into a separate room,

and they're going to be creating a vision board. Now the vision board is going to be structured,

right? All of them are going to be the same. It's like, where do you want to live? What's the house?

What's the car? What are your vacation? What's your family? Look like just all the basic stuff.

Ideally, we're going to have a bunch of glossy magazines, you know, car magazines, house

magazines, just a bunch of there so they can cut up and get crazy with it. Well,

probably also have some printers so they can go online and print if they're more comfortable.

But basically, you know, day one morning is, we'll probably have somebody open with, you know,

who's kind of done there, had a vision board and achieved the nice cars, and you know,

it's got some swag with them. And then basically, it's helped inspire the kids to think big.

Then day two in the afternoon, probably for one hour, we're going to take those vision boards again,

and then try to estimate what they cost, probably maybe per year, per month. I don't know how

we'll do that, but basically, what's it cost? And then Sunday in the morning, we're actually going

to try to make the connection by playing the cash flow game, the board game from Robert Kiyosaki,

likely going to have to get members to bring the board games. We'll probably need 10 in the room.

But the whole idea is to give them something they can take away. Also, we'll be creating what's

called a one-pager. Like, these are the things we hope you took away from these, you know, three sessions.

We're also going to give that one-pager to their parents, so they have topics to talk about.

But that's the rough idea I'm playing with. Poke at it, ask questions. Let me know what you think.

I love it. Gosh, I'm trying to think of some feedback to give you constructively, but I really like

the beginning with the vision, breaking it down into what the vision cost. And then I'm a big

cash flow game fan. I've played that. I have two teenagers. So, my younger daughter, she's okay

with the cash flow game. Her attention gets a little distracted. How old would you swine now?

I'm a 13 and a 15-year-old. Yeah, but we've played cash flow game, and I find that to be really,

it has enough detail as enough, you know, meat in there that you really do learn the concepts.

I find it very, very applicable to the real world. And yet, it also kind of takes that vision idea,

and it teaches you some of the skills of how to do it. So, I find games to be excellent.

For any, really, any age, but I think my teenagers would really resonate with that. I think getting

physical and cutting out stuff in the first session is helpful, because then you're participating,

you're not just sitting there. I think just sitting at a lecture, listening to people in a room,

yeah, extend off the list. You've got to have something here. You're doing and participating in.

So, those are all the points I really like. I think the only, you know, something about vision,

I did make a vision board when I was in my early 20s, and it was very helpful, and I did the cars,

I did the house. So, I think that's great. I would also just offer to think a little more broadly

about a vision board, and to think about what kind of person you want to be.

Like, I find that to be even more inspiring, and I have, I don't know if I can get this,

so you can see it, and our YouTube audience can see it. I have a board of here. You can see it

way in the background there. I have circles, I have pictures of people that I've cut out,

so I have Fred Rogers, I have Walt Whitman, I have John Wooden, I have my wife and my two kids

and my parents, because they're, they really inspire me, but these people want to be perfect people,

and there aren't a perfect people. But like, what people inspire you to be a better person to,

maybe it's a skill they have, maybe I have Warren Buffett on there, I think he's an excellent

investor, Charlie Munger, I have SD Lauder on there, I heard a podcast about her on the Founders

podcast, and she's just an amazing entrepreneur, and she was so patient, and she kept at it,

she had just a vision and a passion for her craft of cosmetics, and she just stuck with it,

and she created this empire out of it. So who are those people? Ben Franklin, he inspires me,

so I look at those people, and I think about that, and saying that aspect of them really inspires me,

and so at least me personally, like people and your character and the kind of person you are,

is as exciting or much more exciting to me than just the cars are not that school,

like that's fine, I think it's age appropriate, maybe that's me maturing as a,

with the age I'm at, but I do think younger people too, they think about, hey, I'm a teenager,

like who don't want to be when I grow up? And if we only give people the cars and the houses,

that's going to be the thing they go after, whereas I think what sets you apart in my community,

apart too, is that we're about like doing what matters and things that the money in the houses

and all that stuff is just a tool to get you to doing what matters, and if you just get the pile

of the houses and the cars and all that stuff, and then you're like, all right, what now?

What am I going to do now? And it had thought about like, who do you want to be as a person?

That could be a missed opportunity, I think.

I will definitely get that added, I love that, and I love the fact you shared,

you know, what you have and what you're using it for. It's always good to see

somebody look up to and see what they're really doing, so I love that, you know, what people inspire you.

I actually need to think about that, I may adopt that as well, I've actually never thought about that,

when did you do that? It's pretty cool.

I got inspired by another guy named Brian Johnson, he's like, he's got a heroic

app and he does a lot of, he does philosophers notes where he talks about people and

biographies, so he inspired me because he had a board similar to that, but I've really gotten

into this biographies and people, and so over the years, those have been, but it was probably

three years ago that I actually cut it out and said, who are the people and why? I think even more

importantly, why? Like, I have Alexander Hamilton on the board, and this part of him, I'm like,

you know, if you ever watched the, you know, the play of Alexander Hamilton, a res biography,

like, you know, the guy was a pretty trouble in a lot of ways, like a troubled person, and

but I'm really inspired by him because early in the United States, he was a, really, he was an

intellectual thinker, he set the tone among, he had a couple other people, like they were the ones

who kind of create, there's a vacuum of ideas, and like, they were the ones who stepped up and said,

here are the ideas that matter, here's the framework, here's the things we should be discussing

in the early, early United States, and I find that really interesting, and so I've kind of translated

that to my own community, saying, you know, what are the ideas that matter in our community of

Clemson, and I'm trying to write, I'm trying to be, you know, inspiring and or inspiring other

people to participate, so those are just an example, like I take that one idea from a person

who have studied and thought about and try to translate that to my own life, like how can I be more

like Alexander Hamilton in that aspect in my life, and how can I be more like John Wooden, like,

for my coaching, and to be very much channel, try to channel John Wooden, because just the fundamental

of the detail, like college coach ever. Yeah, I find him so inspiring, not only is, not only

as a coach, but also just you look at the character of the person and what what they're all about,

and how they, there's different kinds of leaders, there's the Bobby Knight basketball coach,

which he was a good coach too, but he was more of a dictator leader, whereas John Wooden was a,

hey, Mike, your potentials up here, and yet you're playing right here, like, let's go, like,

you have a gap between who you could be and who you are, and he would, he was very fierce about that,

but he was his, his team's like always like, we're trying to reach their potential, so I find that

very, so there's just, those are specific examples, I think we can, you could take every aspect

of your life and make a, make a goal to study people who are doing better than you at that,

and how can you, they can be dead or alive, you know, that's a cool thing about books, there's,

there's people from, you know, thousands of years ago, you can study, who wrote it down,

and Marcus Aurelius is one for me with Stoicism, so anyway, that, those are, those are some ideas

that I think we can challenge people to, to think about. Yeah, because when I really think about what

I'm, what I hope happens when the teenagers leave in Sundays over, and I'm back home thinking

about the weekend is we have 50 kids who now have thought about the life they want,

they now understand what that life may or may not cost, and then hopefully they understand

how to use investing to get there, and then oh, by the way, they have a one sheet, the one sheet

idea is really cool, because we'll give it to the kids and we'll give it to the parents, so they have,

you know, take away, take away, and they can talk about it, right? Yeah, you know, I don't know,

whatever is going to be on there. That's amazing. I think that's, I love to take away the worksheet,

to go home with something, you know. Yeah, and they'll get to take home, ideally, hopefully,

they don't leave them, but they'll be able to take home their vision boards, right, fold them up,

roll them up, get them on the plane, go home. Yeah, it's exciting Michael. What a, what a cool idea.

Yeah, yeah, it's, you know, it just feels like this is going to be, it could be, I mean,

let's be real, the chances that if it's impactful for all the teenagers is unlikely, but

it might set five of them up on an entirely new path, and that'll be cool all by itself.

If there's 50 in the room and they're all doing that, I would, I would vote for even higher

percentage, but even if it's five, that would be, that'd be amazing, right? Yeah, exactly.

All right, any other thoughts that you've done tried helped to, that you, you seem very,

very successful with teenagers. Yeah, I'm, I'm a, I'm still in practice here. So I, I feel like

as a dad of teenagers, I feel pretty beat down and like, I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I

have no idea what I'm doing. I know what that is. I'm just in the mode, Michael, where I'm just

like, all I can do is be present. I'm just going to be present. I don't know, I don't know how to

respond to these, these things they're doing and this other thing they're asking. Six seven, six seven,

whatever, you know, my daughter just turned 50 and then we, you know, we got, we got her an

iPhone for the first time. She, we kind of like ease their way into like social media and

other stuff. So I don't know. It's, it's, it's fun times being a parent of teenagers these days,

for sure. Really cool, very cool. Well, coach, I appreciate you, man. You're always there for me.

Thank you for letting me, you know, you know, brainstorm with you. Thank you for making this

better. I love that idea of adding, you know, who inspires you. I think that's, that's a nice

tweak because again, you're right. If you make it all about stuff, that's not what we're trying to

do. We're trying to make you have a great life and a lot of that is who you want to become. Not

only what you want to have. Yeah, 100%. Happy to, happy to brainstorm anytime. Thanks for what you're

doing and congrats on the event. I heard so many, so much good feedback from people I know who

went and it's you're setting a, you're setting a really high bar. So thanks for what you're doing.

We're trying. All right, coach. Thank you very much. Have a great day. You too. See you.

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