Hey everyone, welcome back to Build. On today's episode, I'm going to condense a decade of

brutal business truths into two podcast episodes. Brutal business truth number one,

going 100 miles per hour towards your goals will likely lose you many friends and many

supporters. Do it anyways. You will likely find better ones at your destination. The reality is,

is that there's nothing wrong with people who aren't growing when you're growing, but it is very

hard to grow quickly when the people around you are stagnant. And if anything, what I've learned

over time is that it's better to have friends who expect you to grow than friends who wish you to remain as is for forever or indefinitely.

For me, the first time that this became real for me after reading books and listening to Self-Help Podcasts and tapes when I was a teenager was when I decided to move out to California to pursue my career

and fitness. And I didn't really have a lot of money. I didn't really know anybody out there.

And none of my friends were taking big risks like that at the time. You know, they were all

planning to stay in my hometown, work there, build careers there, get married, have kids, the traditional path,

which by the way, there's nothing wrong with. It just wasn't the path for me. And what I realized

was as I was pursuing this path that was so different to all these people I was hanging out with,

even just talking to them about my dreams and about my goals was slowing me down. And the reason

of slowing me down is because all they did was tell me the reasons why my dreams and goals

were not realistic. They weren't going to be able to be accomplished. Why it made no sense

for me to do what I was doing. And, you know, what I realized over time was that

the reason that they did that is because me chasing my goals benefited them in no way because

they weren't busy chasing their goals. And so all it did when I was chasing my dreams is it

took me away from them. And they had lives that they wanted to

fill with my time and with spending time with me and with doing extracurricular activities,

as I would say. And the life that I was building was one where pretty much all of my time was

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