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What's up, money makers?

Welcome back to the Travis Makes Money podcast.

Today, I'm giving you a sneak peek of this week's episode of my main show Travis Makes

Friends, a podcast all about the most valuable asset that we have in our lives, our relationships.

So whether we're talking about your network, your marriage, your friendships, or even your

relationship with yourself, these conversations are designed to help you grow, connect, and

level up in all areas.

I've sat down in person with everyone from world class athletes and entertainers to best

selling authors, entrepreneurs, and even former presidents.

And you're going to love the snippet from this week's episode.

So take a listen.

If you're feeling it, go check out the full conversation over on Travis Makes Friends.

Let's get into it.

You also went in for the ask, which obviously we talk a lot about relationships, networking

friendships, and stuff like that on the show.

And we kind of revisit the idea of, you know, always be the person that's adding 51%

of the value to relationships and give, give, give, give, give, don't take and don't

ask and things like that.

However, there comes a point where you need to actually go in for an ask.

How do you manage that in these types of, especially these types of like really high quality,

very coveted, almost impossible relationships to develop?

How do you manage going in for an ask with those types of relationships without feeling

like you are taking advantage or trying to, you know, just tell them somebody a story

this morning, a business partner in this square made popcorn company that I'm a part

of, that we're asking about leveraging a lot of relationships.

And I'm like, I don't really leverage the relationships, that's a thing because I never

want to climb to feel taken advantage of what I'll do is if it's convenient at something

where it's a business opportunity that we created.

A lot different.

Yeah.

And to bring somebody that could be bringing more value to an opportunity versus inconvenience

in them on their schedule to get on a call to a FaceTime, meet somebody in person in

LA.

I'm very mindful of that.

I think that's also why the relationships have gone on the way they've gone on.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

There's like a, there's like a unspoken bank account that exists in relationships, you

know.

And that's why I have the relationship capital that I do.

They all know that, now look, I think my book was different.

I think that was life and death and magic, you know, showed me again.

The big brother that he is, he wrote the forward.

He hosted a major event with Vayneric City, you know, Genie Bus came through Mark Cuban

was, you know, email him about, you know, you want it on Twitter, you want it on Instagram,

you want it everywhere.

So proud of you, D.P.

His brother Brian's in recovery, I mean, that was different.

You know, that's something that I had no problem following up with people because every

single one of them knows somebody like this is why I think it's suffering from addiction.

Yeah.

And if somebody, I didn't have any, there's nobody I've ever had, I'd think, Oh, Darren

take a man, because I don't write the book to make money.

I wrote the book as a form of therapy to me and then to help save so many lives and

it's still doing it.

So that was like my springboard to get the message out that a show people, it doesn't matter

if you're part cabin or part bench or yell or jail, addiction will take you to your

knees.

Yeah.

So, you know, it's kind of like picking and choosing.

So if there's anything that has to do with my aiming high, found a show where we scholarship

25, 30 people who you had a treatment, that I have no problem asking.

Yeah.

That's different.

But when it's something that, you know, business related, I think people have to understand

if, you know, for your listeners, if it's a big time busy executive, like, just want

to make sure you don't inconvenience some, you know, and more importantly, I mean,

to hear me talk about this a little time, stop talking about business all the time.

Find out their likes, they're just like, find out about their family, find out where

they went to college, where they grew up, find out their hobbies, you know, what I like

to do when they're down time, where they like to go on vacation, like, speak my language

back.

And stuff.

First, the business part will come organic, like, yeah, and easy, like he's like, I don't,

like, when you go in for the ask, it doesn't feel like an ask when you're, when you're,

when you're in that type of a position, you know, two people that are entrepreneurial

or if you're in that same world or it's the same lane, it's just going to flow at some

point.

That's right.

You know what I'm saying?

But if you start that foundation based off a trust and that personal vibration to get

to know everything, you know, their wife, their kids, like, that small talk is everything

because it's separate from every single other person that just wants to go in there,

get a PO, get a check, get that business, what's in it for me person, you know, and you

don't have many opportunities, right, especially in today's world, you mess up once with the

right person, and you do it wrong, guess what, word of mouth travels really, really fast

that you're not authentic.

This wasn't organic.

You're not sincere.

You're a time wister.

Yeah, you've got, you've got one thing that you're looking to get accomplished and just

doesn't feel good.

That pick up on people right away, obviously still happens to me, but, you know, I'll have

people within, I'm not a guy that asked me about some, I forget some great preacher the

other day and wants up, you know, the end of the conversation asked me for a favor for

one of my clients, and I'm like, you know, I say, like, I wanted to see this preacher

and then he brings up this thing about Gog and so I'm like, yeah, well, you just automatically

put them in a different bucket, you know what I mean?

They just, like, it goes through the filtration system in your brain, and now it's better

done.

It's way to a couple weeks.

Exactly.

Exactly.

You know what I'm saying?

Mm-hmm.

And a couple of taxes.

Yeah.

And how do you do it?

You know, it makes small talk.

And thin.

Yeah.

If you're putting it up, where, you know, I hope this isn't like an inconvenience or if

you don't mind me asking, it's a light of word it.

Yeah.

Right, right.

Everybody's trying to get ahead, but you know, I think our generation works so much harder

than this young one that just has social media and the ability to DM, like at their fingertips.

And I just don't think they, I just don't think they know.

They think the connection is the end goal when the connection is just the starting point.

The relationship is the end goal.

Yeah.

It's just, exactly, exactly.

You can't build a relationship unless you have the connection, but the connection is

not where, you know, it, I was liking it to like dating and stuff, you know what I mean?

It's like, you're not, you're not asking your girl to marry you on your first date.

Exactly.

And for some reason, it's just okay in the business world, people do it all the time.

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I'm well, which is one reason, you know, I think the last time you came on the show was

called Build Your Network.

We rebranded it to Travis Mix friends because that was always like through the years of

researching and all the people I talk to, that was basically my main takeaway.

It was like networking kind of sucks because of people who like look at it as networking

and do it so terribly.

It makes you feel gross when you leave the interaction.

You feel used, you feel like a pawn on their chess board and it's just like, I no longer

feel the immediate need to respond to your text message when you shoot me a text, you know.

Just any start prioritizing, it's everything's an energy sucked up, you know, I talk so

much about my personal development protocol and everything I do from grounding meditation

in the morning, you know, my ice bath, cold shower, hydrogen, water, you know, prayer,

I do an LP, you know, I'm a handful of sessions every year, my 12-step meetings.

And I think when you're in and helping serve as many people as possible, working out, dieting,

I think, red light therapy, all that stuff, I think when you're in that vibration, you

feel it and you feel it, you know what I'm saying, like that, how unauthentic, you know,

people could be.

That's why as we get older, we got to keep our circle tighter, I was on the phone with

my boy Michael, yes, I've had 45 minutes, we do a lot of business, it does a lot of

business, I think for Larry Bird and there was nothing about business, it was just 45 minutes

about like recovering and now he has somebody near and dear to them, that's got three years

and, you know, he just admire so much of him coming on 18 and how every single day I

tack it even more passionately than I ever did before and, you know, that through all

of this and then the way that I've been living, like wealth means something completely different

to me than everybody else, like I'm a trillianer in the world of healing, like the amount of

time, money, energy, effort, that's what makes me feel like I'm on the lottery, you know,

because I've seen that people actually listen to me and take my guidance, so what do I do?

I don't have drugs and alcohol issues, but I have, because I know God works through

me and, you know, I never, when I had that white light moment, I'm going to rely second

two thousand eight on my knees and I screamed out to God in my apartment in New York City,

take the money, take the business, take the notoriety and use a single day of freedom,

if you take me out of hell, I'll spend one day at a time taking others out, you know,

with me, I had a white light moment, like I felt the shock go through my body and something,

something left me and something changed to me, and so I love speaking, especially through

our audience, because you have such a great following, like the younger generation, like understand

about the power of relationship building, understand what we have to do, to stay on our own

healing path and what really valuable in life, you know, we all have trauma, we all have

undress off shit, I guess I can say it on the show, and it's never ending, I'm not fully

healed, new character defects might pop up, but I'm consciously aware of it, and I want to,

you know, I give you all these nuggets, when I was on last time, I strive every day to say what I

mean, mean what I say and not say and mean, because I think that keeps you in a frequency of

peace, in a heat of confrontation, put your ego aside, don't send the text, don't send the

email, don't open up your big fan mail, try to understand them, instead of you being understood,

yeah, and it's better to feel all right than right, because you might, at the right,

you might make a right point at the end, but your frequency and vibration is now off for several

days, or you might have just jeopardized a friendship, that sort of thing could have came out wrong,

yeah, like you pat yourself on the back because you're like, I, I want one, you know, you know,

yeah, well, you want what exactly, yeah, exactly, you know, and like, you see so much,

you know, but the cars and the jets and that the bling, and it's like that, that's not,

that's not fulfillment, like I love this fact that God touched me to be a voice on all this stuff,

because I mean, all my friends, so am I in my late teens and 20s, and, but the cars and the

girls, and first one to buy my own, you know, big condo, and the diamonds and the bling, and I

was just like, wow, I can't believe I won't point. That's what, you know, valid data may,

from an external space, yeah, because the, the inner little daren on the inside was so broken,

and was crying out for attention and validation, until I started doing the work, what did you notice

in your external relationships, so relationships outside of just you, when you fixed a lot of these

things internally. I think I, I think I started manifesting better quality people into my life,

yeah, and the real ones that were always there started looking at me differently, and there was

a different level of respect, and I didn't do it to get a different level of respect, I did it,

because I wanted a lift. That's right, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying, but now they're almost

talking to me about maybe some challenges they have, or they have family members that

they need me to speak to, or a coworker, or a colleague, because, you know, people in recovery,

man, especially ones that do the deal right, with the 12-step fellowship, do I mean my spiritual

brothers and sisters do it, when we're qualified, then any doctor on earth, you know, and it gives us

some sort of enlightened superpower ability that I could break through that wall, yeah, one-on-one

with somebody that's been at the disaster for 10 years, more than an interventionist, more than

doctors prescribing all these medications, because I know what you're feeling, I know what it's like

to be high, I also know what it's like to want to be high, which is even worse, and not have what

you need, and that discomfort, and the adipody experience of, I'm not going to survive this,

being up in your head, not getting the noises to stop, but I also found a solution. So, to me,

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