Money is villainized by much of the media and society today, and it's easy to see why only a select few have managed to build a sizable network and the fact remains that the majority of the population are living a life of anything but wealth and abundance.

But that doesn't have to be the case. In fact, much of what my guest Cole Hatter talks about today is the mindset and rules for more abundance in your life.

If we talk about living a life of significance, what money truly is, the value of capitalism and more importantly, how to make money matter in your life and the lives of those you care about.

And after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

This show is pretty fitting considering the day that we as Americans are celebrating. It's about independence. It's about the freedoms that come with the voluntary exchange of money and services that we call capitalism.

And more importantly, it's about our responsibilities, our responsibilities as men to use those freedoms that so many men and women have fought for to serve ourselves, our families, our loved ones and our neighbors.

We're going to get into that. But first, a couple of quick resources to know about. I've been talking with you about this for a while and as much as I like communicating with you through the podcast and the blog and the website and everything that we're doing in the Facebook group.

There's nothing that can replace the power that comes from meeting face to face. We are going to be hosting our very first regional order of man meetup. I'm so excited about this. It's coming up August 12, 2017 and that's in Kansas City.

So Stephen Mansfield, the author of Mansfield's book of Manly Men is going to be there. I'm going to be there. We've got a copy of his book, building your band of brothers available for the first 50 men to register.

And I think we might only have a couple of those spots left. So make sure you register registered for the event register for the conversations that we're going to be having the involvement, the opportunity to meet me. Steve Mansfield and so many other great men.

And you can do that at orderamand.com slash event. And the other resource I wanted to share with you is our exclusive brotherhood. It's the iron council to master my group. This is again about building your band of brothers. This is a digital band of brothers, but it's so much more than that.

These guys are forming real relationships. They're holding each other accountable. They're doing some incredible things in their relationships and their finance and their money and their businesses.

And if you want to learn more about what we are up to, you can do that at orderamand.com slash iron council. With that said, and out of the way guys, I do want to introduce you to my guest, Cole Hatter. I'm sure a lot of you familiar with Cole and what he's been up to. But if you're not, you are going to be blown away. I'm telling you with what he is up to and who this guy is as a person. He's an author. He's a speaker, an entrepreneur, so many other things. But at the end of the day, he is striving to live life to the fullest. And that may have something to do with the fact that he has

escaped death not once, but twice at which point he lost everything and even the ability to walk temporarily. But he's taken those experiences. He's used them as a catalyst for growth, which all great men do when they're faced with adversity and trial and his life and the lives of tens of thousands of people across the planet. Today, he's here to talk with us about his unique perspective on money, where these ideas come from and how to use the medium of money to make our lives actually matter.

Cole, what's up, brother? Thanks for joining me on this show today. Thanks for having me, Ryan. Yeah, we got connected. Man, it's been, and I told you this just briefly. It's been cash three years since I was introduced to your work and honored to finally have the privilege to talk with you. Yeah, dude, it likewise. I've been admiring your beard from afar. I have beard envy. Nice to find sexy stubble, right? You've got a little bit of facial hair. Yeah, so it's kind of like I shave it clean and then don't touch it for a week. So depending on where you caught me, I could be clean, shaving or a week worth of growth. But I don't know. Maybe you can talk me through this. You can mint.

I can't get past like day 10 because it's just so bad. It's oh my gosh. It's miserable. Yeah, I've been there. I know what that's like and quite honestly you just got to bear down through it and get over it. It was about three weeks for me. And once I got past that golden man, everything set from there. So I think the longest I've ever had facial hair without cutting it. It's like maybe two weeks and it was just excruciating. So I got over. I'm just not quite the man you are, but hopefully an aspiring to be someday next time you catch me with a long sexy

beard. You'll know that you were in my inspiration. Well, I've heard from past guests that once the show's over facial hair started sprouting immediately. So there's something to be said for that too. Perfect. If you could sprout some on the top of my head, I'd be stoked there. There you go. Well, hey, let's just jump into this conversation, man. You're an investor. I'm a financial advisor. We can talk about the logistics and the numbers and crunch numbers and do all that stuff when it comes to money. But the the angle that I really want to talk with you about today. And I think it's going to be valuable for anybody who might be

listening is actually leading a life of significance and making money matter in your life and the lives of those you serve. Can you walk me through your philosophy about why it's so important to build wealth in your life? Everyone has a different relationship with money. And since, you know, you are a financial planner by trade. You have financial conversations with people. And I'm sure you see this firsthand. If you go through the entire history of what money and currency really is, it's just for trade. You know, back in the day when we all lived in caves.

You don't have to trade you my spear for your snowshoes or whatever, right? You know, and then we started mining precious metals and jewels out of the earth. And then we started trading commodities like gold, silver pieces and rubies and diamonds for things. And that became inconvenience. So we eventually created what we now have today is called fiat money, which is just paper. Actually, it's technically cotton, which has no actual monetary value. It's just a representation of something that was.

But if you go through the whole history of our barter system, what we call today capitalism, it's just for exchange. That's all money is. And so I think so many people where they get it wrong is they get emotionally like their identity is in their money or lack thereof and they get emotionally attached to having or not having it. And I think the first healthy thing to do is just step back and look at the history of why money even exists. And what it's used for it's just used for exchange. You have a product good service or experience that I want. And so I have to exchange.

And I think that's the next amount of dollars for that product service or experience. And as soon as there's no longer an emotional connection to money, it's just currency, which is all it really is. Then I believe that people can start acting more emotionally intelligent around it.

So I think that's step one. And that's a conversation I like to have step two is, okay, now that we can acknowledge that all money is for is options really options for what we can exchange a foreign. And again, you said, why is there so much value in creating wealth. So clearly the more money you have, the more options you have. Right.

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