This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 203 sitting here with Echo Charles and we have received quite a number of questions from you, the troopers in the field.

Yep.

And we will provide to the best of our abilities answers, possibly, recommendations, guidance, or at a minimum, some courses of action that you can follow in order to move forward. And that's what we're doing. So let's get into it. All right. First question. Hi, Jack Occo. I won the lottery a few years ago in my state. Literally won the lottery. Yeah. Not the, you know, any other kind of, the real lottery. Okay. Long story short, there are family members and friends coming out of the woodwork asking me for money.

They ask for loans and also just asking me for money directly.

I'm fully aware that they believe I don't deserve this money and that I that it was all one big freebie.

Two relationships that I've had are already completely gone because of this, just from me saying no.

And a few are strained at the moment.

Part of me doesn't mind, but how do you suggest I handle my situation when people that are close to me and others not

so close ask me for money loans and or quote unquote help in my situation yeah well uh congratulations

i guess right win the lottery good job and that being said did have you not heard of like all these kind of I don't know if they're urban legends

But I don't think they're just urban legends that like people win the lottery and

Everything goes to shit in their lives have you heard that that kind of urban legend before? Yeah from my understanding

All the people that talk about it this is it's a factual thing so they do like the study on like lottery winners and stuff. And yeah, I think it's like, it's like 80 something percent of them. Yeah, they're worse off after a certain amount of time. All right. So it sounds like you might be feeling just at least a little bit of that, right? Starting to, yeah. So I think just out of the gate, like setting boundaries and just telling everyone know sort of is kind of what you're going to have to be and get that reputation out there where people just, bro, you give money to one person, they're all coming for it. Maybe too late for that. that you know you might have already given it you know

you loaned your mom some you loaned your brother and then your brother's friend came over and then

his brother's friend's sister was also in a kind of a bad situation and it was just a few thousand

but you see what I'm saying you know where this goes and so I think that's one of the best things to do

it's a little late right now, probably.

But you can still start being like, yeah, no, I can't give away any more money.

But nope.

And you don't even, even that reason, you don't even need to give a reason.

You know, when someone asks you for something and you say no and then you give them a reason it's almost like

that reason that you give is something that they can negotiate with right so hey can i hey do you mind

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