[00:00:00] Speaker A: Alright, in this money episode, we tell the story of a couple whose videos have blown up on YouTube, uh, with their relatable advice and tips on being in good health and establishing a nutrition and fitness plan. And I would venture to say that over the past year, if you've seen somebody online working out next to a tv, they are probably watching one of the videos of this couple.
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[00:01:03] Speaker A: All right, juice and Toya, welcome to the new Money New Problems podcast.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: Appreciate you for having me.
[00:01:08] Speaker D: Thank you for having us. I'm excited.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: Thank you for being on. For those who know, uh, me well, you know, my best friend is Brandon Middleton. And, uh, Juice and Toya have known him for a while and made this connection. So I would love to get started with talking a little bit about before you were juice and Toya. When you were juice and Toya separately, tell me a little bit about childhood. Where'd you all grow up? What was life like?
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Yeah, you.
[00:01:41] Speaker D: Me.
[00:01:41] Speaker C: Got it.
[00:01:42] Speaker D: So I was born in Bitburg, Germany. I lived there till I was seven. And it wasn't military. I am half german. Probably got, like, 60% fluency of speaking. My mom married a man from Kansas City, and that's how we ended up in Kansas City. And so from seven until I went to college, I grew up in a small town near Kansas City. And, yeah, childhood was rough. I had a very rough childhood. And then kind of going to college, that was the first time I was like my own person, essentially. Um, I went to school at University of Missouri. Shout out to Mizzou football for killing it this year. Um, but we don't get to say that often, so when we do, I take advantage. And so it wasn't until I went to college that I really got exposed to more of the world, essentially. I met people from all over the world. When you go to college, it's like people from everywhere. So that's really when I first was like, I don't want to live in Missouri anymore. Why am I still here? So, graduated college and then literally packed up my car with a friend, and we drove to Los Angeles on a whim. M got an Airbnb for 30 days until we found an apartment and been here ever since.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Oh, wow. So when you got to school, in addition to meeting new people, getting exposed to new types of education, were you interested in fitness even then?
[00:03:07] Speaker D: Yeah. So, growing up, I was always an athlete. Um, and looking back now, I feel like some of that was by default of, I like to run, but I ran to be out of my home a lot of times. And so, um, I kind of got a love for fitness because running was something that was, like, mental clarity for me. Um, and then once I got into college, I did like running clubs. I didn't play for mizzou, but I did just clubs. And I liked how it introduced you to new people. You could make friends that way. It kept you active. But then, additionally, my mom was always very sick with colon cancer. And so probably from teenage years on, she changed her eating habits, and I did it with her. And it made me also, as I got into athletics and more sports, for me, it was more. I understood how diet and lifestyle affects your health, watching my mom go through it. So once I got to Mizzou, initially, I wanted to do physical therapy. I had knee surgery, went through physical therapy, and was like, I'm not doing this the rest of my life. So it was really boring to me. And so, uh, that year, I changed my major to nutritional science. And with that, it was kind of an open book to allow you to go into more of a nutrition field, which could look like anything from dietetics to working in hospitals, working with schools, whatever. Um, but then junior year, I started bikini bodybuilding competitions. Um, and once I did that, that's what led me to personal training. Um, I'd never had a personal trainer before that. It was all just like coaches. Um, but once I got into bikini bodybuilding, I won my first competition, and then I was like, all right, I'm hooked. And so that got me into personal training, because I saw how consistent exercise and consistent nutrition changed my body. And then friends around me were like, how'd you do that? So that kind of led me to helping others do, and that's kind of how I got into personal training.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Okay, so we have the plus toya. Let's get the juice to LA. How did you get to LA?
[00:05:18] Speaker C: Um, so I'm born and raised, Houston, Texas. Started playing sports when I was man, as young as my mom would let me, I remember being, like, five or six years old. I started playing basketball, and I love watching football. I always wanted to play my mom's like, he's not ready. So I played football starting about eight years old. Was really good at a young age. My dad put me in plenty of position to be great. He put me in all these camps and just kept me active year round. So I was just addicted to sports, playing any type of sport, it didn't matter. High school, going to college. I ended up, uh, getting a scholarship to go to Rice University, is where I played four years, played football there, and that's kind of where I got introduced to just traveling, because when you play in college, you travel every week or every other week to, uh, go to different cities. So we went to the mean, we played in Tennessee for the first time. I went to Memphis and had Memphis barbecue for the first time. So we went all over the country. And then even we were fortunate enough to go to Hawaii my senior year for a bowl game. So that was like, even we had never been far west. We kind of stayed, like, midwest to the east side. So that kind of opened me up to travel. So I graduated college, and I was like, man, I've lived in Houston. Rice is in Houston. I lived there my entire life. I just wanted something different. So I'd never really been out west. I was like, I want to go to know you see it on tv. I want to see the Hollywood sign, all the cliche stuff. And when I tell you, when you get to California for the first time, especially at a time where the weather is, yeah, it just kind of captures you. So it's like, I remember going to the beach.
Houston has beaches, but everybody knows it's not it isn't it? And I remember going on a hike and just seeing just the nature and the weather, and I was hooked. So my first time was, like, january of my senior year, I went to California. And every time throughout that last semester, I was like, I have to go back. Then I went back again, and I was like, all right, next time I'm coming back here, I'm living here. So I moved on a whim. It kind of threw my parents off. My dad thought I was coming home after I graduated, and at first it was kind of disappointing to him, but my parents have always kind of let me fly. Whatever I felt, whatever I was passionate about, they always let me just kind of pursue that. So that's what kind of led me here. And initially, I was actually training to try to go to the NFL. I was still an active free agent trying to find a place, find a home somewhere. And honestly, it was about two or three months of living here, where I felt for the first time in my life, I felt, like, healthy, because football beats you up over time. And that was the first time I had an opportunity to really heal. I always played hurt, so I had to make a decision, like, do I want to really put my body through that trauma again, or do I really want to try to create a career, feel healthy for once, and try to pursue something else. So that's kind of what led me to LA.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: Uh, I always ask people this when they tell their money story. At some point, either having money or the lack of money, or just the recognition of the power that it has, like, you become aware of it. At what point in you all's childhood development did you recognize the power of having or not having money?
[00:08:33] Speaker D: Yeah, I think for me, probably like 910 years old. Like I said, my childhood was very rough, and it was a lot of single mom of seven children who also suffered cancer five times. So as, uh, you can imagine, with cancer aside, that's a financial challenge. And then you throw not being able to work, having hospital bills, all of that. So probably from eight or nine years old, immediately, I knew what it meant to have financial struggles. Um, I knew the power of money, because I saw what happened if you didn't have it, and then when you did get a little bit of it, the excitement that it brought or what it could fix, essentially. Um, so from a very early age for me, I'm also the second oldest of seven siblings, so a lot of pressure kind of comes to help out at a very young age, too. So once you are able to start working, um, you know, you got to help with the bills and help with groceries and things like that. But, yeah, very early for me, for sure.
[00:09:40] Speaker C: For me, it was also pretty early, too, and it was more credit to my parents. I was able to see just to kind of transition from where we started when I was like a young kid versus when I was in high school. So I want to say I was like six years old. We live in a city called Missouri City, Texas. It's a suburb in Houston. And, uh, we had a two bedroom house, I think it was two or three bedroom house, very small house. And then I kind of gradually saw us move from one house to a slightly bigger house and then to a house, their dream house, you know what I mean? So for me, I kind of saw the grind of, like, I obviously didn't see the physical money, but I saw the hard work that went into really transitioning and having a better lifestyle, because my parents always I feel like they did everything for me and my brother. They wanted us to move us to a new district, to be able to go to better schools and have better opportunities. And it all paid off at the end of the day. So I was able to see just sort of that transition and transformation over time of what money could actually do for our family and opportunities.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Okay, so you both get to LA and it sounds like neither of you particularly knew exactly what you were going to do when you got there. Uh, how did you all meet?
[00:10:55] Speaker C: Um, cliche. We met at a gym.
[00:10:58] Speaker D: Yeah. The story is so significant and it's like we were going to meet at some point in our life. God was going to make it happen. The way we met was just like, we met at the gym that we both worked at. But the gym situation was he worked at a gym first coming to LA and was like this, I have a college degree, I'm not working.
[00:11:20] Speaker C: And I only worked there to stay in shape.
[00:11:22] Speaker D: That was like my free membership.
[00:11:24] Speaker C: Free membership. I'm going to stay in shape. If I get a call, I'm there.
[00:11:27] Speaker D: Yeah. So he quit that gym and then probably like the two days after he quit, I didn't know him. A couple of days after he quit, I came to LA and I was like, I just need a job. Until I figure out what I'm doing here, I'll work in a gym. I've got my CPT, went and applied to this gym and they're like, oh, we had someone quit. When can you start? And he was the person that quit. Still didn't know him two years after the, uh, fact. And so I get in the gym and I'm like, oh no, this is not it. I have a college degree. I'm not going to be working here. So I'm trying to look for a better gym, better opportunity, and supposed to have an interview at one gym. It fell, um, through and all of this run around. So I was like, you know, I'm going to apply in Westwood. He did the same. Had an interview at another gym that he showed up and they were like, oh, it's 30 minutes m.
It's crazy.
[00:12:14] Speaker C: They gave me a time. They told me 1230. The interview started. I got there at, uh, no, it was supposed to be at 1230 and it actually started at twelve. They told me wrong. I showed up, the interview was over and I missed that opportunity. So I applied at another chain, uh, it was a chain gym and ended up. That's kind of where we, and we got hired together. So it was 40 people. It was four rounds of interviews. Um, started at 40 people. That cut it down to like 15, cut it down to five. And then we were the only two to get hired together at this particular gym.
[00:12:52] Speaker D: So we could have met at the first gym. We could have never. So then we get hired together. And when you work at a gym, it's like you're building a business. As a trainer, that is. Yeah. Uh, uh. Getting clients is like building a business. And so when you first start, you pretty much live at the gym. You're there all day long because you could have a client at 06:00 a.m. You could have a client at 07:00 p.m.. M. If you know, la, the traffic leaving in between clients is not worth it. By the time you get home, it's time to turn around. So you're pretty much packing a bag at 05:00 a.m. And, you know, you're there all day. You spend a lot of time together. And not just the two of us. The people we worked with, they, um, pretty much become your family.
If you don't like the people you work with at the gym, you're not going to be very successful.
Um, yeah, we met at the gym and then found out our birthdays were two days apart. And we were like, oh, let's celebrate our birthdays together. I ended up having a birthday party at my place, sent him the address, and he's like, oh, I live two minutes away. So for six months, he lived right down the street. I had no idea. No idea. So then we start carpooling to work together, and then you just really start to like each other.
[00:14:04] Speaker C: M we were best friends because we had so much in common. We just understood each other's grind. We had the same. We both moved on a, uh, know. So we just kind of understood each other.
[00:14:13] Speaker D: Both new to LA. Figuring it out now, y'all can say.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: You'Re best friends, and it may be true, but somebody made the first move. Who made the first move?
[00:14:22] Speaker D: I'm going to be completely honest, it really was mutual.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: I feel like, as much as I would like to say it was kind of mutual, because it got to a point, we were both like, yeah, we spent every day together.
[00:14:35] Speaker D: It's just like one day, we just never left.
And from the beginning, it was always like, you two are together. And we really were not, like, for a whole year, we were just friends and we would make fun of people.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: And we both had significant others beforehand at the very beginning, too. So it wasn't like, yeah, it was.
[00:14:53] Speaker D: Just like you had to be close friends with the people you worked with, and there were other people that would be with us all the time. But it just got to a point where it was just like, when you miss being around someone when you're not around them. But he wasn't my boyfriend, but I wanted to be around him all the time. That's kind of when you're like, oh, I guess we are together then. And then it just happened from there, I guess.
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[00:16:26] Speaker A: Well, how long after you become a couple, uh, do you decide to start making content together?
[00:16:34] Speaker C: Um, we got together summer of 2016, and it was not until we started our business one by the alliance. At the end of 2017, we left the gym. We were like, we don't want to be kind of limited to the ceiling. We want to really, uh, generate other opportunities and have more time for other things. So we started our business, and, um, that's when the content kind of started. We were just kind of throwing stuff at the wall, seeing what sticks, um, and trying to really just market ourselves. And I remember asking my dad, this was might have been 2017. 2018. Yo, can I use your camera? Because I knew he used to take pictures of me in college, and I knew it was collecting dust at home. So I was like, if I can use this camera, we can have quality pictures for our website. We can do, um, videos, tutorials, whatever we need to do to get our business off the ground. That's kind of where it started, stemmed from, and again, it was a lot of different things that kind of led us to the content that we create today. So I'll say about late 2017, early 2018 is when we really started to.
[00:17:35] Speaker D: Experiment, really get into content, for sure. Yeah.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Um, my wife and I, we're both very type a, and, uh, we both think we're right more frequently than we probably are. So to me, working together is a boundary that's probably best to not cross.
I'll ask, how is that process of working together? But in addition to that, you're also building a business that earns money, and you bring different philosophies, different backgrounds on money to that business.
How do you navigate those two topics?
[00:18:13] Speaker D: I think, for sure, at the beginning, working together was tough because we're also villagerry type a, and it wasn't. You're right, I'm wrong. It was a lot of like, well, I want to do it this way, but he wants to do it another way, but there's only one way we can do it, so we got to have some common ground.
Um, and this kind of stems from the separate background, leaving the gym and starting our own business that was bumping heads, because I've always had secure income for myself. Every two weeks, I'm getting paid because of my background. He was terrified, terrified to have to do it on my own, where he had always had an entrepreneurial mind, where he was like, no, all we got to do is this, this, and this. And to me, I'm like, yeah, but on the 15th, there's no paycheck. It was just like that separation. So I really had to, um, kind of understand where he was coming from and really trust in the business that we were creating, which meant I really needed to trust him also. And so that was hard at the beginning, but once we started, it was a lot easier because we realized, like you said, we were creating our own content, um, and working for yourself, it's so much fun because you're in control of everything. And so if it failed, it was because of what I was or wasn't doing, so it's all on me. And I like that pressure. So that kind of made it fun, um, in a sense of really kind of getting the business off the ground and then doing it. Like you said, we were best friends, so it was someone that I was used to working with and being around all the time anyway. So it was easy from that standpoint, but we definitely. There was some head.
[00:19:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it made having those conversations a lot easier because we worked together, so we had experience, um, just working together as a team.
[00:20:08] Speaker D: I knew he was a hard worker, and I knew he also didn't like failing that Texas competitiveness. So I knew starting the business was going to be a success. It was just that, ah, fear of leaving. I guess the comfortability of a paycheck is really all it was for. Yeah.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: When you have those marital conversations that are now business conversations about what you want the end result to be like, what do those conversations look like amongst the two of you? And then where do you see yourselves headed in the progression of your business?
[00:20:48] Speaker D: Um.
[00:20:50] Speaker C: I'd say it's been an evolution of what we thought the business, because what we did when we first started, um, or what we thought of when we first started, is not what we're currently doing now. So, of course, we have aspirations, um, of being this, but we kind of just. Especially when Covid happened, that was a real shift. Not just for us, but I'm sure, obviously for everybody. Um, so when we first started, especially our YouTube channel, it was just about tips and tricks. Um, just helping people around the gym navigate certain learning, uh, how to use certain equipment, what, uh, exercises work, what muscle groups. It was just simple stuff. Not follow along, not follow along, nothing like that. Just stuff that we thought people wanted to see. And a lot of it was, um, just ideas we got from clients and just being around, um, in the fitness space. So when Covid happened, it was like, we don't have a gym, they don't have a gym. We don't have any equipment at home, because we use equipment at gyms all the time. So that transitioned our whole idea of what we wanted the business to be, what we wanted our, uh, YouTube channel to be. And at first, I was against doing follow along workouts. I was like, I don't want to do this p 90 x stuff. I want to really give people. But then you don't have gyms. Everybody has to have a way of working out. So we gave it a shot and we put the first one out. At first, we sent it to our clients to do, just say, hey, test this out. We were thinking about putting this out. We put it out, and we started to get some traction, even off the first one, the second one, because at the time, it was the most searchable thing on YouTube.
[00:22:21] Speaker D: No one had a gym.
[00:22:22] Speaker C: No one had a gym. So, um, we realized that, and we was like, we got to take advantage of this now. Let's try to do our best to put these videos together. So now our idea of what we want to be is completely different than what it was before. But we built this community of people who trust us with their bodies. And that's huge, because with a lot of other content that you see on YouTube, it's not often that you get to affect people's lives in the sense of their health. You might affect their mental health with entertainment, you might affect their, um, nutrition or whatever, but rarely do you just. We've had people say, I've, uh, canceled my membership, I've lost 75 pounds with just doing your videos, and it's kind of transitioned, um, what we want to view our future as. So in the future, we'd love to keep this up. So many people have benefited from the content that we've put out. We honestly don't want to stop because the times where we've stopped, they let us know. They're like, yo, where you been?
[00:23:19] Speaker D: M? I will say, too, the reason we left the gym and started our own business, our whole goal was to, um, reach more people. So when you're at a gym, you train one person for 1 hour, and there's only so many hours in a day that you can train at the gym. Even if you trained all 24 hours, every single day of your life, that's impossible, right? So you're at a cap of, uh, how many people you can really impact and reach. And we both had bigger goals than that. So our initial goal with one body LA was more in person, more group training. We wanted to go to build a community, homes. At one point, we wanted to go to apartments and host classes at apartments. We just wanted to do more than just one on one and then leave the one on one for just like, more exclusive times. Um, and then our YouTube. The reason we started that was because our Instagram at the time was only 15 2nd clips, so you couldn't post what you wanted to post on Instagram, especially in this type of field. It's like you can't really explain yourself if you're really trying to give advice. So we started the YouTube and reach that broader audience, too. And we always said we didn't want to start the YouTube unless we can be consistent at it and make the content different. So then when Covid hit, we didn't have the time initially to post consistently like we wanted to on YouTube, because we were training from 06:00 a.m. To 07:00 p.m. All day. We were never home together. Then when Covid hit, we were like, oh, we've got two weeks. Because gyms are only closed for two weeks. What can we do? Let's shoot some YouTube content while we have the time. Then two weeks turned into a month and three months and a, you know, it kind of forced us to. If we're going to do something over know or if we're going to do something productive. Um, so, thankfully, we already had that YouTube in place. It just went in a whole different direction than we intended to. But it was a blessing in disguise, because I don't think we would have ever quit training one on one. So when would we have ever had the time to consistently film, record, and post like we do? And then, like you said, our whole goal was to help other people, and now we're helping literally millions of people. And that was the goal. So we ended up doing what we wanted, just in a path that we never saw would impact.
[00:25:40] Speaker C: And in that time, our back was against the wall because our income got cut, probably about, what, 60% for sure, just not having the gym available. So we were like, we have to.
[00:25:48] Speaker D: We did zoom training, but you don't charge as much.
[00:25:52] Speaker C: It was new to everybody, so everybody wasn't feeling it at the time. So, yeah, that's kind of how it transitioned. That's kind of what we want to continue in the future, is continue to build this community, continue to build a community of people who want to just grow together, get healthy, and spread just helpful information. That's another thing, is so much good and bad information online, we want to just kind of clear the air, um, make it simple and understandable for everybody to understand.
[00:26:17] Speaker D: Yeah. And where I see it kind of going in the future, like you said, we can say one thing, but I just also see, like, we didn't expect from the beginning of where we were 2018 for it to be here now. So, to me, it's also kind of cool to see with the Internet now in the world, it's like limitless possibilities. And so there might be a new platform that comes out next year that you can help even more people. Like, YouTube isn't available in some countries, and so there are people who still aren't being impacted by the workout. So I feel like, for us, just what we're able to do, there really isn't like a limit or a ceiling to the potential that we have.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: I look back on my life and the careers, lives of people who I work with, and a lot of times I can trace those big jumps in their income to trials like the ones that you guys had in Covid juice, uh, like you tearing your acL, putting a different type of content out there that speaks to people who are trying to train with injuries. Sometimes those things, like, in the moment, it sucks. But you look back five years later and you're like, man, that's the best thing that ever happened to me.
When I look at you all's content from somebody who works out at home, there are little things that just make them phenomenal videos. Juice to follow along. Even though you fought it, having the preview video of the move before the move starts, saying what weights you're working with.
Just giving people a guide so they're just not just picking up random dumbbells and hurting their back or something like having modifications. This person's doing this, just these little things that if you're just watching, you're like, oh, this is a cool video.
As a person who owns a business, I know that each part of that is a very conscious decision.
And the thing that probably a lot of your audience doesn't know that I know from Brandon is that you all are self taught and you record and edit on your own.
So where are you getting those tips, those ideas? Because it's not like there's somebody over you saying like, oh, here's how we do it here.
[00:28:33] Speaker C: Yeah, um, a lot of it has just been trial and error and just listening to your audience, um, that's a lot of things that we've been recommended. People want this, people want that. And our first year, or I guess after Covid, we responded to every single comment.
[00:28:52] Speaker D: Every single one.
[00:28:53] Speaker C: Every single one. We spent probably 2 hours a day responding to comments what people wanted. If somebody said, oh, this is a great workout, I love it, we would respond to it. So we got really connected with our audience from the jump and they pretty much, um, molded our channel. And then of course there are a lot of other great channels that I took inspiration from that were in the game well before we were, um. But I was like, how can I do this and make it ours? Make it something that's unique and different.
[00:29:23] Speaker D: In our style and something that we want to do consistently. Because if it's not fun for us and you can't do it consistently, then you do it a few times and then we get bored with it or you're not consistent with it. And that's the whole name of the game there. But I think too, as ah, we grew in the channel, we were able to um, just if you go back to the very first follow along workout that was in an old apartment where we didn't have the space to film together, so I had to do mine, he had to do his. And the editing was literally split screen. So that took us 4 hours with.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: A computer that wasn't at the time, I didn't know anything about specs and Ram and all that stuff. So it was super slow. It took me probably a week to edit this 20 minutes workout video. From the very beginning, we had trials of just trying to just put this content out. So over time, when we got more recommendations, when we got, um, a lot of constructive criticism, we didn't take it personal. People are like, yo, this timer sucks.
[00:30:25] Speaker D: Where they would say, we need another view. And I'm like, we don't have one camera.
That's the other thing. We were able to buy another camera which allowed us to give another view. Um, we were able to find a space that we could consistently rent and also afford. When we first started, spaces were like 300 an hour. And so it's like if you're spending 4 hours just to film one workout, that wasn't going to be cost effective. So once we figured out a workflow, we have a space we can consistently run. We were able to get faster computers, more cameras, to be able to grow with them. It's like the recommendations we are giving, we are able to provide because we are able to grow within it.
[00:31:08] Speaker C: And with all that, I do majority of the editing as far as the YouTube, and she's getting better at it. I've been teaching her, um, and it's helped over time just because now that she's learning, it's allowing us to be more efficient with the content we put out. But YouTube university, man, that's what I call it. You can learn anything, literally anything. When I learned how to make, uh, graphics, um, for the Channel, the timer, everything is.
If people ask for it, I tried my best to figure out how to do it and put it, um, on the, uh, channel in a way that it gave me an efficient workflow because that's another thing. There were some things I wanted to include, but it just took so long, um, to put the videos out. So I kind of found a common ground of like, what can I learn and what can I continue to put out to where it's giving people what they want and I can continue to add on and make it better.
[00:31:56] Speaker D: And also the last thing, we are married, but we do have business hours, so we do take time every week to meet as if we're coworkers to say we write all of our own workouts too, and they're not just like, we don't just show up and just shoot the workout. We program this stuff and we're like, okay, do we need more dumbbell? We haven't done much strength. Like they need a refresher on this. Someone might say, hey, I don't know how to do deadlifts. So we might say, hey, let's do a video just on that.
So we do meet and brainstorm what's needed, what we think would be successful, and, um, how we can execute it, essentially. So we do treat each other as coworkers during business hours.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: We're getting to the end of this episode, so I'm going to ask you some questions that we ask of all our guests, but especially couples. We've talked about the things that you bring from childhood with you, when it comes to money, when you are operating at your best, and you think about how you are with money, what are some of the behaviors that you're showing?
[00:33:04] Speaker C: That's a good question. Yeah, I think, honestly, not necessarily a behavior, but I think we both have this mindset of not forgetting where we came from, because a lot of times when things get hard, we kind of go back to say, like, man, we've been through so much together. It's been a journey. Um, all the struggles that we went through to get to this point. So when things get hard, we kind of tap into that past, tap into the times where things weren't so great or we were just grinding. Uh, I remember saying, I remember the days we just prayed for this, where we are now. We were hoping that the stuff that we were putting out would pay off and get to this point. So I think, like I said, it's not necessarily a behavior per se, but it's more so just understanding. Like, we put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, literally, to get to this point. And, um, as long as we kind of never forget that and keep that in our minds, I think the sky is the limit, honestly, for us.
[00:34:04] Speaker D: Yeah, I think, honestly, one behavior we had to learn was how to appreciate the blessings, in a way to where we didn't feel guilty. Um, and like you just said, we put a lot of work into it, so understanding that you deserve it. And because this is such a grind, like reminding ourselves it's okay to take a vacation, you still can take time off. But I think for us, we didn't.
[00:34:29] Speaker C: Take a vacation to, like, three, four years in our relationship. It was year round, nonstop.
[00:34:33] Speaker D: Um, but because our childhood relationships with money, they're completely different, but they're the same in a sense that neither one of us were just handed things. We both had to work hard for everything, which I think kind of makes our relationship in terms of money so strong, because we both, like I said, understand what it takes to work hard for money, regardless of the amount. We understand the value of a dollar and what it took to get that, and knowing what it's like to not have it, and also knowing what it was like when we were back in our gym days, like, grinding for a much smaller amount and the amount of work we put in for that, too. It's like not taking for granted any amount of money and understanding the work that you put in to get it. Um, but also that you're deserving of it. I think that was something that was hard for me to, uh, learn, honestly.
[00:35:26] Speaker A: Now, there's another part that says there's a behavior financially that I would like to leave on the shelf, but sometimes it crops up and it doesn't serve me well. What are some elements of your personality, of your relationship with money where you're aware this is something that's not beneficial?
[00:35:46] Speaker D: Um, I don't mind.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:35:52] Speaker D: Leaving it in my checking account.
[00:35:54] Speaker C: Oh, gosh.
[00:35:55] Speaker D: So what I mean by that is not investing. Or, like, I used to have this fear of letting my checking get under a certain point, and he would be like, put that into savings. Put it at like, yeah. And I was always like, no, I'm scared, I'm scared. And he was like, no, it's still your money. It's just in a different place. Um, and so for me, again, kind of going to that fear of not having money, I was like, no, because if it's in the checking, I can see it. I don't want anyone else to touch it. I don't want anyone to be responsible. I don't even want it in a savings. I want it right here where I always have access. So for me, the investing, like, releasing control of it and things like that, that was hard for me, and I need to leave that behavior.
[00:36:40] Speaker C: I guess, for me, early on in our relationship, it's kind of contrary to what I preach, but I kind of put my health on a back burner for the grind. So she would tell you I'd stay up 02:00 in the morning. I'd have a 06:00 a.m. Client just on YouTube trying to learn different things, because I want to be able to do this for our video coming up. So being with her, she doesn't play about her sleep. So ultimately, I had to learn that this is going to affect everything at some point. And it got to a point where I'd do this for two weeks and I'd crash for four days, and then it's going to pretty much be the same thing. If you just limit yourself to a certain time, really grind it out, but also give yourself time to rest, give yourself time to focus on your body.
[00:37:21] Speaker D: So, investing your money in the right ways, in your health.
[00:37:24] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:37:24] Speaker D: Into savings, into markets, whatever.
[00:37:29] Speaker C: Seven to 8 hours.
[00:37:31] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: That's good counsel. Well, I can tell you this, uh, from somebody who, at least from afar, uh, has seen the progress from ten to 20 to 50 to 100 to 500,000 to a million, now creeping up on 1.5 million, uh, and get online and seeing Tabitha Brown working out, uh, watching your videos, I can say that I truly hope that you all appreciate the journey, uh, because from afar, the people who've been following you and are appreciating it. Uh, so I thank you all for being willing to come on new money new problems.
[00:38:09] Speaker C: Of course.
[00:38:10] Speaker D: Absolutely. Thank you.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: From new money, new problems. This was the new money, new problems podcast, a show for successful professionals searching for the tools they need to navigate financial opportunities and obstacles, uh, they've never seen.
[00:38:34] Speaker D: Let's get some work.
