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Dean, Greciosi. As you may or may not know, economic winter is here. And my goal is to get you the information you need to ease your anxiety around the recession and learn the skills and mindset you need to thrive in this time.

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All right, Dean, you and I have about 60 minutes to deal with the fact that we're either headed into an economic winter or we are already there.

I have a massive amount of paranoia around that and what that's going to be. I think 1% of people are going to thrive, but 99% of people are going to get just battered. They're really going to struggle.

And there is a quote I hear you say a lot from Tony Robbins, which is in the winter, some people freeze and other people ski and snowboard.

So my question is, what is the mindset that allows somebody to snowboard instead of freeze?

I think to start, it's preparation and anticipation rather than reaction. Right? Wayne Gretzke, I love that quote. It's been overplayed, but it said how is he so good at playing hockey?

I said, most people skate to where the puck is. I learned to skate to where the puck was going.

And I think if we anticipate and know, so many people we both know have been in business for 15 years or less, they really don't understand it.

So they're more scared of the unknown. And if you're a study of history, you can understand it's a cycle. It's happening and winter is here.

I think winter is here. We just all haven't felt the effects yet.

And when you go through a time like that, the reason Tony and I are working together and doing events and helping people is because there's some industries, like you said, that are going to be at the springtime.

They're going to exponentially grow. And if you saw Warren Buffett in his yearly presentation, I don't know if you saw it probably four weeks ago, he said inflation is here.

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