Lessons - So You Got Fired, Now What? | Grant Cardone - CEO of Cardone Capital

What's the, you know, I don't mind asking you this because now the Cardone University is free. So, you know, high level, what's the playbook for people out of a job playing field leveled? What do they do? What's what's their next step? Number one, number one, you just lost your job. If you're losing it right now, don't walk away from the job. If you just lost it this week, call the guy back and say, hey, I don't mind losing my pay, I don't want to lose the job. Don't lose two things. Don't leave. Just because you lost your job, don't lose your title, too. You know, people get all hurt, man, like, you know, if you don't want two losses, don't walk away from the job. If somebody, if a company fired me right now, I'll just tell you what we did. We have, like, I work for a lot of people, like a lot of people think I work for myself. I don't work for myself. I work for a lot of people. We have a 50, 1800 people right now that pay us every month. I'm like, let's call the 1800 before they fire us. Let's call them and work for nothing. So we started calling our clients, hey, what can I do? Before you fire me, fire my services, before you cut us off, what can we do? Does it need to be free? Do you need three months? Do you need to go half ease? Do you need, what do you need, man? I'll do whatever. Don't get rid of me and humbly plead it bag, if you have to. Please don't let me, okay, like, this goes back to what I was learning when I was a kid, man, I was 25 years old and I wrecked a car and a car dealer says, you're fired, okay? And I'm like, okay, and I went, before I left, I sold somebody else another car, and he forgave me. So I had a guy, yesterday, give me his resignation, he had the works for us. He's in one of our departments, he's like, man, I got, I'm like, what are you crazy? Dude, you don't quit a job right now. You work for nothing if you have to. I've been working for nothing, 80% of what I do every day is for nothing. That's why we did card on you. Card on you is free for everybody. I'll get, people will sign up for it later. Like if you were playing for the NFL right now, or in your case, in a hockey league, NHL, right? You're like, just give me a shot, just put me on the ice, man, you're not going to pay you to do that. It's going to be for free at first. People got to put their ego aside, work for nothing for a minute, so you don't lose your job and your pay. That's what people have the hardest time doing, it's the ego that screws everybody. Man, I'm not going to work for nothing, I'm worth more than that. You're not worth anything right now, nobody's worth anything. People are freaking terrified right now, okay? You got people at Facebook losing their jobs. You got people that had million dollar. I had a hundred and forty million dollar deal under contract. Be associated with that deal, loss their job. Get over it, okay? You're a rapper, a comedian. You are going to tell jokes for free. You can't even get an audience to show up in Manelay Bay because Manelay Bay shut down. The entire city was shut down, everybody was fired. Like we let 40 people go, everybody was like, Grant Cardone let 40 people go, okay, was that make me a bad guy? We have 500 and everybody. It's happening everywhere, Disney let 100,000 people go. Guess what? That won't be the first time or the last time they let people go in Disney. So people right now, number one, don't leave your job. Number two, if you left your job, decide you're going to go get one. Number three, go work, go trade your time with someone, don't go home. Don't go home right now unless you're going to start your own business unless you're ready to go start your own gig and get to cranking, do not go home. Go work for someone for nothing right now so you can stay connected to other people. That's really good. If you haven't already, if you're listening to this and you want to check out, it's just like practical advice. It's just, I think common sense is in common, to be quite honest. And the shit you're saying is like, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that you shouldn't, you know, quit, shouldn't walk away from jobs when the world's coming to an end. But like you said, people are doing it. So like, you know, put the ego aside, keep the relationships, right? Because you need, you need people of the way out of this whole deal. There's not an idea that you're going to have that's going to get you out of this situation. Yeah. Everybody's going to get through this. Nobody's getting through it alone. I'm not, you're not, nobody, nobody gets through this alone. You need people right now. You don't need to go home and sit in your living room. The biggest problem with this quarantine thing is that people are left alone with themselves. You know, people like, man, people hate on you, Grant. I ain't worried about them hating on me. I'm worried about me hating on me. I don't need their approval or disapproval. It doesn't change how I feel about myself. Nobody can love me and to love me. And nobody can hate on me enough that I start hating on. And so, so right now people need to stay connected to people. I was just told here that a couple of my departments here think that they're more effective from home. I'm like, I don't care if you are. You're not. We got to get back together. I think, I think that if you're sitting at home, you've just been laid off. The biggest detriment to yourself is going to be your own thoughts. You don't want, you don't feel like taking action. You're just, you're just beating yourself up like you said and all that stuff is just mental. There's no, there's no, you know, there's no pandemic that's causing you to, like you said, not go out, get a job, work for somebody. Maybe it's maybe you're, you know, for free to start or whatever it looks like, build those relationships, like a million things, but I see people sitting at home. I saw a tweet the other day, some guy, we got, we, a whole bunch of students got handed out, like I don't know, like 17, 50 a month for, for a stipend. And some guy, he was offering jobs to students and they're saying, no, I rather just sit at home, take the money. Yeah. And it's just like, listen, that's not the way to be. This is going to be over. There's going to be an economy after this. It's going to be, you know, there's going to be business after this. You got to figure out how to, how to ride the wave, ride out the tough times, but then you want to excel when, when stuff's good and things are going to change for the better always. Yeah. So, no, that's, that's, I really like the, the insight, man, I like seriously appreciate it. That's really, really good. What do you, what do you think is, I want to, I want to just ask question about COVID, your thoughts on just very, very high level, and then just like some like life lessons you learned and everything else is awesome. So, I appreciate it. Where do you think, where do you think we're going to be after coronavirus? How do you think it's going to change business, the way we do business, the way we interact? Well, you know, I mean, it's definitely going to change. It's going to be, it's going to be a rebirth of industries, ideas, new ways of doing things. People are now more, more open to, to pivoting and figuring out how to do their business different. Yeah. I think there's going to be tremendous opportunity on the other side of this, but it's going to be extremely painful while we go through this. I think a lot of people are underestimating just how long this goes. I asked people on Twitter last night, how, how many of you think this is three to six months, six months to nine months, nine months to a year or 12 months to 18 months? Like, majority of the people thought it was going to be over in six months. I'm like, I don't, I don't think so. This thing could be, yeah, this could be two or three years before this is over. I don't know. The world is definitely going to be different on the other side of this. And the good news is we all get through it. Everyone gets through this deal. The question is, how do you get through it? You know, you're going to have a bigger policy around you or smaller. Are you going to, are you going to be better off or worse off? That dude behind me, he don't go any place. He's always got, he don't, you don't pay him anything. He's still not going any place to loan. He's going to hang with this tribe, he's going to, he's got, he's only as strong as the, the group he's with. And so I know that everyone watching your show is going to get through this. They just got to decide right now on the other side of this, because we survive everything. Somehow, the human species, we're like, we're like roaches, man. It's like no matter what, we just keep coming back, right? The question to know is, how do you come back? How does your family come back? How does your business come back? Does it come back better or faster? It won't come back to sign. So that's seven billion people. Everybody's going to go through this transition right now. And either get better or they're going to get worse. See it, you see it already and is to sort of reiterate that point that in Wuhan, everybody's free to do whatever they want right now. Everybody's going to restaurants. Nobody's doing the things, acting the way that they thought was normal before. So there's a living breathing example of a city that was the epicenter now. I don't think they have any more cases, but everything's all screwed up, all business all screwed up. Restaurant owners aren't, they're not selling, no one's going anywhere. It's like a layer of fear that's almost just surrounding. So that's going to be, that's going to be a thing too, like through the aftermath. What's next for you? What do you want to do if this didn't happen? If this didn't happen, you know, what was in the, the game plan for, well, we would have just kept doing what we were doing now. Now, you know, this is a blessing to the skies, like we're, we're forced to pivot now. We're forced to, the way my business was built, we would do another big event every year. We would slowly add people on card on university. This is going to be a massive expansion for us. When you go, you take a $20, $30,000 product like card on university, all of a sudden you offer free to the public, you start promoting this free, you know, 20, I should be able to get 25 million people on this product that are unemployed, just in America. It's just how well can I tell my story to get that information out? Because nothing else is going to help you get a job. An unemployment check doesn't help you get a job. It just gets you through for a minute. So sooner or later, you have to go back and get a job. You don't have to do the interview, do the pitch, find an industry to pick. So that, that video content is going to help people, it's going to help business owners that want to start a business, it's going to help people that want to start over. We're helping people figure out how to get their money from the government, how to figure out whether it even works or doesn't work, how to get on the other side of this, how do you actually make money, fund the project, how do you cash flow a business? All that content in Cardone University, I think we look back out 10 months from now, we'll have more people three or four times more people on Cardone University. The real estate, my real estate portfolio, we should be able to double that here in the next 12 to 18 to 24 months. I could have never done that in that period of time without this, without this crisis, if you will. Just got lean into it, man. Just like when I was a young salesperson, I'll finish with this. When I was a young salesperson, I hated my job. It didn't get better until I committed to it. I had to commit to not liking it. I don't like what's going on right now, I hate this. I hate being quarantined, I hate not being able to expand, I hate everything about it. I need to lean into it and hug it out with it until I figure out how to make the most of it and turn a crisis truly into an expansion.