Lessons - The Wealth System That Transformed My Side Hustle Into a 7-Figure Empire | Adrian Brambila - Financial Freedom Expert

In this lessons episode, you'll dive into the deeper meaning of what it truly means to think rich, far beyond just financial wealth. You'll learn how adopting a rich mindset rooted in abundance, ownership, and internal control can transform how you approach business, relationships, and personal growth. It also challenges limiting beliefs and offers a powerful framework for building lasting success. I want to talk about just some of the lessons that are coming from the book. So when you say start thinking rich, we've gone in and out of some of those lessons already. But what does that mean to somebody who wants to read this book? What does start thinking rich mean and how they invest and how they live and how they build a business? Just as like a theme. I'm just going to say something that might be controversial. So I want to be super clear. We talk about poor people and rich people and actually has nothing to do with money. So I'm going to say poor people rich people. Poor is a way of thinking. Rich is a way of thinking. Broke is having no money. I've been broke. And why I didn't stay broke is going to start to think rich. Rich people do things differently. Successful entrepreneurs do things differently. But we can just put this in broad term that rich, a rich is something that you want to be. It's a way of thinking. There's different rules that rich people operate in that poor people don't that they don't know about. And people that are poor, like one terrible poor mindset that people have is rich people in order to accumulate grow company, you have to take advantage of other people. Or in order to make a lot of money, you have to be greedy. Or this one bothers me so much. When you hear of Warren Buffett or someone, a billionaire that donates millions and millions of dollars should an amazing cause, like a poor mindset would say, well, it's for tax purposes. Like they didn't really want it. So they're dismissing like everything it takes like like operating from rich standpoint. If you have these nasty thoughts about rich people and how you run your company, this is what you think, it's going to always on a subconscious level prevent you from growth and success. So rich is a mindset that you need to adopt. You need to think like this. And it's really switching from scarcity to a bunch. I know we talked about that a bunch already, but it's a way of thinking. And it applies to like, I think also relationships and health and business. And it's something you want to adopt. And a lot of the times the reason why we like most people aren't born rich, I wasn't born rich. And so we get these scripts on how the world works, how money works, how business works from our parents, more things we can blame our parents for. And most people don't have great examples of how to use money and what money means. Even if you are born rich on paper, you go out into the real world and you just saw your parents just you always had stuff and money just comes and goes. And then when it comes to managing your own money or your company's money, you're almost irresponsible. Like you spend money because you don't assume responsibility. So everyone has to work through their money scripts. But how you think like how I run my business, how I also run my personal finance the same. I'm conservative in this as a entrepreneur I think. It's wild to me that I have, you know, understanding rich, I think just put a button on it. There's a difference between like a rich skill set and there's also like a well skill set. Entrepreneurs are really great. Typically those success ones on a rich skill set, their ability to earn, create. But then when it comes to having that money stay and then also having that money make money, they're terrible at it. They're terrible at it because as an entrepreneur, we make money in the riskiest way. But also we have to we have to like get stomach muscles where that risk becomes normal. And then we lose. We forget that actually what we're doing is very risky. It just is our baseline. So then when it comes to like investing that money, like like money into wealth. Yeah, wild. Yeah. But tip like I'm always very surprised when I meet entrepreneurs and they tell me what they're investing in. And it's it's so risky. Like they and they lose it all. But it's because their baseline is so much higher. And again, a rich, a rich person, their thought is like diversification. Like how how they preserve their money and how it become legacy money. So again, rich way of thinking is totally different from I would say poor way of thinking. I actually, you know, you can make a lot of money and still have a poor mindset. You can make a lot of money and still be fearful that you're going to lose it all or take high risk or or be greedy or hate other people that made money. It's it's tough to get out. It's tough to move from scarcity to to abundance. I like it's it's tough to talk about because it seems like such like non-conquery terms like scarcity. Like what does that mean? Like how do you like this people want to I think when you say scarcity mindset, people like yes, I didn't I didn't have a lot growing up and now I'm making some money, but I still can't shake those beliefs in my that my parents had that probably are sort of things that have been instilled in me. And I think that it's tough to talk about those two terms because people don't have a very clear way of changing their mindset from scarcity to abundance. Like what's the point? And I don't think if you don't have a maybe you do have a idea or or advice for people, but I don't know how or why some people are always so angry with money and the concept of money and making money and people will look at somebody like they're almost like just the look at the world through this pessimistic lens. I don't know why they do I don't know why that is, but say somebody doesn't want to look at the world that way or they want to have a healthy relationship with money. What's the what's the what's the way they achieve that? What's the the path they can go on the tactics, the framework because I couldn't tell someone hey just switch from scarcity to abundance and you know you do these five things a day and don't worry you're going to have a healthier relationship with money. I don't have that that path, but I do know that there's people that are definitely in camp one and camp two. Yeah, I there is a framework that it's in psychology, we successful people, they have an internal locus of control. And what that means is this is something you could put on literally right now as a framework and how you operate and think about the world. Do you believe right now that most of what's happening to you is because of you and do you also feel or believe that you have the ability and control to change it, change your circumstance for better for worse. That is what we define as internal locus control. I can change, I have the ability to make change. So if you are operating in a world where you have an external locus of control, then then everything else is happening to you. You can't be you can't create success because whoever is who whoever is the president. Or if you're at a nine to five, like, I can't make six figures because my boss, you're you're always pointing externally. So I think how you view the world is it is the first step into making sure all the tactics are executed and and and you're consistent. You have discipline all that stuff. To me, the tactics like I assume most people actually know the tactics, but this internal psychology is what prevents them from consistently executing them or or giving up when they get started is because of first how they view the world. Do you have an internal or external locus of control when you look at your own journey. What was the what was the moment when that pivoted for you when you felt like okay, the world is not something that happens to me. It's something that did something I can influence. I by the way, I love that concept. That's actually so one of the first interviews that I ever did when I did not know this concept and I and I didn't really understand the difference between internal and external locus of control was with Anthony Scaremucci who was ironically Trump's like director of communications for like 12 days, something like that. And then they got into like a fight when his first presidency. And then he quit. Many ways, he's a big he's a big finance guy. And and I think I asked him again, this was like very early on. So these were not like for find questions. And I was like, what makes you so confident in your day to day something long or what or what makes you so sure that you was there ever a point when you were sure you could be successful. And he's like, well, there wasn't like one point. But if I go back to if I if I lost everything and all I had was my apartment in Brooklyn and like the shirt on my back and no relationships, no money, he's like, I with a hundred cents or any could do it again. And he was describing that concept like exploit like that was what he was describing. He didn't say it. He didn't say locus of control, but he was describing that concept. And that was one of the most that was a very eye opening lesson for him. Like yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Like you can't impact the things you can impact your outcome. You can have agency. You can have like extreme ownership. Was there was there a moment in your career when you felt that switch or in your life, so this is I think a blessing of growing up in my with my my parents. So my dad immigrated here when he was 13, which really means my grandma is the one that brought us here. My dad my dad's dad was murdered when he was like five years old. So my parent my dad and my grandma they they face like tragedy and adversity that I'll never face and they face the worst kinds. But when I was raised, I had I was raised with the belief that we left the bad place. It was Mexico like like dangerous Mexico. And we came to the good place, which was the USA. Now, whether you agree or disagree with this, this is a mindset shift. And the belief that I was that I was given was like here in this country, we can make change. We left the place where we could not. And so now it's up to us. And that's something like my parents always instills me. If I want to I can actually make it happen. I can work hard again, work hard and sacrifice. These are these are things I had to work through. Not everything was amazing. But I I I never had the belief that that the world or the system was rigged and I we weren't going to make it. We immigrated here. So we could make it. And so this is I think I'm not an immigrant. I was born here, but I have an immigrant mindset that I can make it make it here. And you don't have to be an immigrant to adopt an immigrant mindset. Why do people come to the USA to try to make it happen? The American dream is still alive. Like my parents are example. I'm an example. And it's a belief set that you have is the is the system perfect in America? No. But again, where where's your focus of control? Am I going to I'm not a politician? So I don't try to focus on changing the system. And right now is is an election, you know, it was election year and like politics are super hot. And I think a lot of people waste time. If you're a politician, it makes sense to spend hours and hours each day keeping up on all the policy changes and stuff like that. But if you're if you're not again, are you happy with your circumstance? Do you believe you can make it happen? And and here in this country, we can make it happen. And that's why, you know, people are here and my family tree is like we we now are the most successful we ever been since moving here. You know, it's something that I've thought about a lot because obviously it's on Canadian. And I'm living through like a US elections, right? And a lot of a lot of animosity and anger and anxiety. And I think that a lot of that is people focusing on the wrong thing like you mentioned, right? I would hope that everybody in this audience because I fully believe this. It doesn't matter who is in office. You have the ability to figure out how you want your life to end up. And yeah, maybe there's there's and it's so interesting because even growing up, I think Canadians look at politics a lot differently than Americans. So Canadians, I remember growing up, my parents would vote for who was best for the municipal government. And then I guess state would be would be provincial and then federal and they weren't always politically aligned. So you could have like a left leaning municipal leader who was, you know, committing to putting X amount of dollars into fixing roads and infrastructure. And then you could have a right leaning maybe federal like at a federal level. And it was really about it was really about who's going to be best for our day to day life. And I think that what I've seen is I see that people skew all the way one way or all the all the way the other way. And they just all the way down. They vote one way or the other way, which I don't actually think is the right way to vote. I think you should actually vote for the people that are going to best serve you. But regardless of that, I think that I think that most people in this in this audience, I would hope understand that no one's going to serve you as well as you're going to serve yourself and your own family. It doesn't matter how aligned people are, you do have to take responsibility for for your own happiness while you're on this earth. And I think that it's a great and empowering and scary fundamental shift all at the same time. But when you lean into it, it's so freeing. It's so freeing because it doesn't matter who's in the White House. I'm going to figure out my business. Okay. Fine. You know what? Taxes are not as great or taxes are better or whatever. I want to move to this state or that state or red state or blue state. But at the end of the day, I'm going to take accountability for and you know what? There's a lot of there's a lot of people that are struggling in red states. A lot of people that are struggling in blue state. A lot of people that are rich as hell in red and blue state. So I mean, at the end of the day, you can you can have your politics and you can have your preference one part or the other. But your day to day life is going to be entirely dictated. Maybe 99% of it is going to be dictated by your own actions, not by the actions of a government. And I mean, it's a very empowering idea. Anyway, so it's true. I believe it. One of the chapters of her book is actually your political party doesn't give a shit about you. Oh, is that it's it's it's worth it. It's solely aligned. It's solely aligned. Like it doesn't matter who's in office. If they actually did have the power to control our life in full and some governments have in our history, their idea of what what how our lives should be is never what you would want. It's scary. So you like we live in a world today where you you have the ability to change. And again, it comes down to internal versus external locks control, whatever the government does, it's not going to affect me. That's again, I'm saying that as a mindset, not like if they if they can at least in this free world. Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. And if you want to dive deeper into this conversation, check out the links in the description to watch the full episode. 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