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Jan 30, 2022

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, host Peter Voogd, an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Husband talks with Brad Lea about how to be successful you need to get around the right people.

Episode Highlights: 

  • The first thing Peter tells everyone is that you got to understand who you are and who you're not and get around the right people that are already at that level.
  • Peter found a way to reach out to people; he would reach out to people every day.
  • It pisses Peter off that he was in school, for 15 to 20,000 hours in his life and he came out of school broke, knowing nothing.
  • Everyone should have their own business and try to work it, thinks Brad Lea.
  • Brad states that there are always people out there with excuses.
  • If you can't figure out how to make six figures, you got to look in the mirror and realize you're missing something, mentions Brad.
  • Sometimes Brad questions himself thinking that if he is an idiot because he didn't graduate high school.
  • Brad wants to be in meetings with these extremely powerful people to know the inside plan.

3 Key Points:

  • To get around the right people Peter made a target list of his growth friends, his maintenance friends who were pulling him back and a list of people who were doing things that he wanted to do in his company at the time.
  • Peter realized the first thing most people ask for successful people is their time, and at the same time, the number one thing people value when they're successful is their time.
  • People need to realize that when the economy is down money doesn't disappear. Instead, there's more money than ever, because the money just transfers hands.

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “My professors never ran businesses, so I dropped out.” - Peter Voogd
  • “Put your money where your mouth is.” - Brad Lea
  • “They don't teach anything that has to do with the real world.” - Brad Lea
  • “I like the people that share tactics and make people think and are polarizing.” - Peter Voogd
  • “When there was a recession, in a way I thought there was no money to be made.” - Peter Voogd
  • “There are a lot of weird things that make zero sense in this society.” - Peter Voogd
  • “Why would the people with the shot get affected if the shot worked?” - Brad Lea
  • “Making a million from your phone is the ultimate hack.” - Peter Voogd

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Jan 30, 2022

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, host Peter Voogd, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Founder of the prestigious ‘Game Changers Academy’ talks with guest Mr. Michael J. Saylor, CEO of The Business Analytic Software for MicroStrategy. He is deep-diving into Bitcoin, sharing facts, and strategies to buy it. Michael is talking about it from a political, social, economic, and legal standpoint.

Episode Highlights

  • Michael says, when you evaluate economics, you have to be able to think from first principles, what does currency mean? What is a bond/stock/property? How do you value property/stock/ bond/currency? 
  • When you think about inflation, you realize there isn't one inflation rate; a million inflation rates are changing everywhere all the time for every product.
  • Peter enquires why don't more people think for themselves and try to get the first principle.
  • If you had the right teachers, and they poked you the right way, then that's helpful. So not everyone has the benefits of the best education.
  • If we simply just wiped the deck clean you could be anywhere and do anything you wanted. That would allow you to move very aggressively. 
  • We need more independent thinkers to push this culture forward.
  • We need to find a Crypto Asset that looks like gold on a big tech network that you can move at the speed of light.
  • If you look at the experience of Bitcoin from 2018 to 2020, the entire asset class hardens institutionalize and stabilize. It was pretty clear that Bitcoin was going to be the dominant winner proof of work, not Bitcoin cash, and not Bitcoin Satoshi vision. 
  • It's challenging to develop the gold or generate yield on gold. 
  • They're all forms of property but they're all 20th-century property that's expensive to maintain, slow to move, and hard to develop.
  • Bitcoins are a 21st-century property, we can move to the speed of light. 
  • If you want 8 billion people to do business with each other and 100 million companies at the speed of light with no friction across 20 or 30 or 40 billion mobile devices across every political domain. 
  • Bitcoin fixes everything because it's pure energy. 
  • A lot of times people that are promoting gold own gold miners. 
  • If you move too fast, you generate sparks and friction. 
  • If we fixed all this tomorrow Bitcoin would be trading at $10 million a coin and you wouldn't be able to afford it as it is right now.
  • Peter says you're still not sure if it takes you 30 years to notice something which is a dominant network, and then your career is over.
  • Michael has been pleasantly surprised by the support coming from regulators and politicians.
  • The one thing that's certain in the crypto sphere is Bitcoin is digital property. It's not security, and it’s okay to own it. 
  • The debate was, is it a currency or is it an asset, and so, people have established it is an asset it's not a currency. 
  • The world is waiting for clarity from the regulators on what is the security, and what is property, says Michael
  • The Safe Harbor is a digital property on the Bitcoin network as a store of value.
  • If you're an individual, you can't carry more than $50,000 worth of capital outside of China, it's a capital control thing.
  • It'll be a problem to own Bitcoin in a country where you have no property rights; you're not allowed to own any property.
  • When you understand it as property then you figure out what kind of property you want to own, what jurisdiction you're in, then you can kind of figure it out.
  • If you're a saver, and you have pesos, convert them to dollars, that's a stronger asset and if you have dollars, convert that to Bitcoin, that's a stronger asset
  • If your choice is starved to death, or own something in the gray market or the black market, you've got to do the right thing for your family.
  • Some are trying to crack down on Bitcoin mining was a scare but Bitcoins come back roaring better than ever.
  • Peter asks, what is that strategy of borrowing against the assets?
  • Michael points out, as long as the appreciation rate is greater than your expense ratio, you can borrow forever.
  • You need an asset that's going to appreciate, what will appreciate scarce desirable assets.
  • There is competition and Bitcoin banks are coming online, there'll be more competition. 
  • If Bitcoins go up 100% a year it cost you 5% to borrow the money. Borrow $1,000,000 of 5%, loan it out to Bitcoin for 100% scrape the 95% arbitrage you make $950,000 a year off of a million-dollar loan.
  • You should raise capital as cheaply as you can and invest in a business that's growing that is going to appreciate.
  • Peter says when I first watched that it did open my eyes to a different way to build wealth, and I feel like that's the right way in this new economy.
  • The opportunity would be different if the money supply was inflating at 0% a year and the interest rate was 6%.
  • When the rates go low, and when the money supply expands faster in an inflationary environment, it's very important.
  • You would get a 200% return if all you did was borrow a million pesos and buy dollars because the peso went from one to the dollar to 200 to the dollar. So, if you understand that frame of reference, then you realize that certain things make a lot more sense.
  • How do you think we could best deliver that to include people in the process?
  • Michael mentions a lot of education is to be done. One thing you can do is you can create specific education for certain constituencies.
  • Bitcoin uses real energy and real technology because that gives it thermodynamics substance and political substance in the real world.
  • Bitcoin turns out to use maybe $4 or $5 billion worth of energy a year to create something that's got a $1.1 trillion value. 
  • If you look at Bitcoin, you say that we can upgrade analog energy to digital energy.
  • You need to keep the proof of work on energy to be politically and thermodynamically sound and unique.
  • What is the most efficient strategy to convert payroll for a large company into paying them in Bitcoin? 
  • If I paid you in Bitcoin that I had acquired a year earlier, I would have capital gains tax on it. So, I would be accelerating the tax bill. But if I pay you in US dollars, there's no tax bill.
  • As the governments expand the currency supply, there is inflation. 
  • If you have a billion dollars of Bitcoin, you can move down at the speed of light anywhere in cyberspace. 
  • Peter asks, is there anything you can share what you predict the end of year Bitcoin and then two-year Bitcoin and maybe 10 or 15 years down the road?
  • Michael says, it flips gold, and then it replaces real estate, and eventually there's no reason why it can't become a multi 100 trillion-dollar asset.
  • Bitcoins are going to appreciate because of a. inflation, b. adaption, c. utility, and d. productivity. And by that he means in your frame of reference, states Michael.
  • If you want to get rich and stay rich, you have to own high-quality property forever.

Three Key Points

  1. You need to think from the first principle; it is that philosophy that has allowed you to understand Bitcoin when you first started consuming that and studying it.
  2. Bitcoins are digital energy; it's the basis of 21st-century civilization. You just got to think hard about it and once you start thinking hard about it what you realize is, that this is just the profound opportunity of the century.
  3. The first thing you want is a scarce desirable asset. The second thing you want is a bit of monetary inflation. The third thing you want is a low-interest rate, and the fourth thing you want is a bank that you trust.

Tweetable Quotes

  • “People need to adapt to conceptualize that idea first principle because that was eye-opening to me.’ – Peter Voogd
  • “I think that the United States traditionally has encouraged more independent thinking than certain other cultures around the world.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “You're oscillating; you're vibrating at different frequencies. Right and that way there's some balance to the way that society adjust to new ideas.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “I think the war on COVID was accompanied by a war on the currency.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “The goals were $10 trillion. And if I take a billion dollars and I buy gold, I have a 30,000-pound lump of gold sitting in a vault in the basement of JP Morgan in New York City.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “I can take 1000 room hotel I can decompose it into 1000 virtual rooms.” - Michael J. Saylor
  • “I can use Bitcoin over the Lightning Network to provide Cyber Security to everybody on Twitter and Facebook and WhatsApp and YouTube.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “I can't find a single person that it's that supports gold that has more than 50% of their portfolio invested in it.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “You don't want everybody to move too fast, right because Bitcoins going up 170% a year for a decade.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “If everybody understood it, you wouldn't have any opportunity.” – Peter Voogd
  • “If I had a million dollars in Argentina, I couldn't just wire it out of the country tomorrow.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “If it's illegal to own Bitcoin in a country, but it's legal to own the dollar and I'm holding the Bolivar I'm swapping to the dollar right.” – Michael J. Saylor
  • “What's the worst thing? China crackdown on Bitcoin mining. What was the result? Hundreds of billions of dollars of capital flow to the US and Bitcoin became embraced by the Western world.” - Michael J. Saylor
  • “Find long term loans at low rates, invest in something intelligent and wait, why to wait, this is the basic principle of all businesses everywhere.”- Michael J. Saylor
  • “If you have all these books, and they're written in English, and then you go to Brazil, and they're not in Portuguese, right, you're not going to reach a lot of the people.’ – Michael J. Saylor
  • “If you're going to stop the burning of oil or coal, then 99.9% of all of that energy usage is something other than Bitcoin.’ - Michael J. Saylor
  • “When you have excess cash flows or Treasury balances, you immediately sweep that into a treasury asset and convert it to Bitcoin.” - Michael J. Saylor
  • “If you have a billion-dollar building in New York, you can't move it. If you have a billion-dollar company, you can't move the either.’ - Michael J. Saylor
  • “I expect it to go up by a factor of 100 to 200 or more.” - Michael J. Saylor
  • “It's an appreciating asset. That will be progressively less volatile, progressively slower growth, but it'll be high growth an entire decade.” - Michael J. Saylor

Resources Mentioned

Jan 24, 2022

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, host Peter Voogd, Founder of the prestigious ‘Game Changers Academy’ talks with guest Mr. Michael Franzese, one of the only high ranking officials of a major crime family to walk away publicly from the mob and survive. Peter dives deep into Michael’s life, who he was, and how he is an inspiration to a lot of young entrepreneurs, young CEOs, businessmen and women.

Episode Highlights: 

  • At one point, Michael was making 6 to 8 million per week, which a lot of people can't get over that, reveals Peter. In 1986, Forbes magazine ranked him as number 18, on the list of the 50 most wealthy and powerful mob bosses.
  • Michael says he was very driven when he was 22 or 23 years old. Not so much to have the greatest of everything but just to be able to survive and have money and do what he wants.
  • Michael reveals that his dad was a very high profile figure and he was convicted of a crime that he never did. He was allegedly masterminded a series of nationwide bank robberies, and it was a frame up.
  • What was it that drove you to become one of the most powerful people in that life at that time? Asks Peter.
  • Peter asks what was it that made someone gain Michael’s respect back when he was 35 or 36?
  • If you ever had a challenge of confrontation with John, you had to know that he would never settle for anyone thinking that he lost an argument.
  • Michael states that even though his father was a famous personality, and had a lot of respect, it didn't matter. Michael was at the same level as any other guy.
  • There were times when Michael would give in a little bit, but not to a point where he had to compromise his position.
  • Peter enquires, is there any tactics that Michael can give on how to be successful at a young age?
  • Kevin Eastman says one of the best things he ever learned that he teaches athletes is big eyes, big ears, and small mouth.
  • Michael gives some of his insights, and tactics in terms of negotiation. He says we are negotiating every day in our life about something.
  • I gained a lot of experience in these negotiations and I never lost my pool, says Michael.
  • Michael says a lot of things that they did were as a result of their political connections as far as law enforcement. He had political connections to get them otherwise he couldn't get licensed.
  • We were bringing in at one point time $6 to $8 million a week in tax money and it just grew. We ran an operation for over seven year.
  • Michael tells that he was the youngest guy at one point in time and now he’s the oldest guy but we shouldn't be worried about that.
  • A lot of young people today are soft; they don't know what it is to come up the hard way. They don't know what it is to really work hard and value.
  • Michael feels so blessed right now that to change anything that went I would say I'm snubbing my nose at the blessings that I have because I'm comfortable in my life.
  • Peter questions, is there any strategies or tools you've used to help people acquire emotional intelligence to not be triggered by one newscast or by one statement?
  • One of the most attractive qualities that I find in people is humility, especially with people who have power, money, and control and they are being humble.
  • Networking really changed my life as well being from a small town, says Peter.
  • Peter asks Michael, did you never have fear because of how you were brought up.
  • There was an article that came out in the newspaper that said that I was becoming powerful enough to bring away from the Colombo family and start my own family.
  • In any organization, when you have a number of people working under you, you got to know how to manage them properly.
  • Peter asks Michael about his favorite and most accurate movie?
  • I think a lot of people are going to be watching Gaudi or Casino or Villas after this, says Peter.
  • Peter mentions that there were some interviews where it was straight mob stuff, but in his head he thinks why he didn’t ask questions that could actually inspire the audience.
  • By writing the book Michael just wants to make people aware of what's going on, so that they understand and they make up their minds in the voting booths the right way.
  • Peter thinks that right now, in the current landscape, the world needs more people like Michael.

3 Key Points:

  1. Michael says if you're not a risk taker in life, you're not going anywhere. But you should be taking calculated risks. When you figure things out, and you know you’re going to take a calculated risk, the chance of your success is good.
  2. One thing that Michael is really focusing on helping young entrepreneurs with is the auto negotiation. He learned the ability to negotiate early on, and it's something that he shares quite a bit with people. When you keep your mouth shut, and you listen until the appropriate time, then talk, it's a powerful tool.
  3. I believe that young people today, especially the young men, they should all serve in the military. So many of them have become so soft, and softness is not good for society. Maybe the military will toughen them up, show them what it means to be disciplined to respect authority to accept authority. You can't accept authority in life; you're not going to have a good life.

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “Today is the he's the only man right now on that list that's not currently deceased, or in jail.” - Peter Voogd
  • “It was just something inside of me, I saw it, it clicked, and I said let's go for it.” - Michael Franzese
  • “I love my dad respected him very much, went all out to please him as often as I could.” - Michael Franzese
  • “It wasn't about proving me because I was my father's son. It was just about being successful.” - Michael Franzese
  • “If there was one guy that I would say he's the model guy, it would be, Castello. - Michael Franzese
  • “What can you share with young entrepreneurs that are doing well, at a young age?” - Peter Voogd
  • “So staying mentally unshakeable, that is a decision you have to make.” - Peter Voogd
  • “In a legitimate world, I just draw my own line.” - Michael Franzese
  • “There's a lot that goes into having that confidence in yourself to make you move forward.” - Michael Franzese
  • “Again, going back to my former life, you weren't allowed to lose your composure.” - Michael Franzese
  • “Talk about what that scheme was, how it came about, and how it ended.” - Peter Voogd
  • “Are there any lessons that you learned that could help businesses legally from that operation?” - Peter Voogd
  • “I am so frustrated and disappointed with the way our government is managing the economy at this point in time.” - Michael Franzese
  • “Keeping your composure I think is such a powerful key that you all should understand.” - Peter Voogd
  • “Because when you're humble you really know yourself.” - Michael Franzese
  • “Networking has been a powerful tool in my life.” - Michael Franzese
  • “Valuing your goals and what you want over the fear is a huge tip right there.” - Peter Voogd
  • “For the last 25 years it's been all about encouragement to me, sharing my experience in a way that could have a positive impact on people.” - Michael Franzese
  • “People have massive respect for you.” - Peter Voogd

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Jan 10, 2022

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author and Husband interviews Zuby. They discuss why COVID is hyped so much when there are other diseases that kill more people, globally every year. All of this has happened over a virus with a 99.9% plus survival rate for most of the population.

Episode Highlights: 

  • Peter says that cancer, heart disease, suicide, mosquitoes and smoking, these things kill more people than the COVID but none of those are talking about.
  • Zuby asks why people are getting backlash for supporting concepts like freedom, basic medical autonomy and the ability for adults to make their own decisions.
  • Peter questions that why is there no talk about not eating fast food, or not smoking, or protecting your own system, or working out or going to the gym because that should be talked about at least a little bit.
  • Zuby mentions that if you're really infringing upon people's rights, and you're claiming you're doing it in the name of public safety, than anyone who opposes you or criticises you in any way, you can make them look psychotic.
  • The guest reminds people that all this is over a virus that has a 99.9% plus the survival rate in the majority of the population that puts it in the perspective.”
  • A significant chunk of population has been programmed to fear another human being smiling with their face uncovered, breathing fresh oxygen and that is disturbing, says Zuby.
  • We haven't massively evolved over the past 100 years where all the bad stuff that happens even adjusted the 20th century, we're totally over that.

 

3 Key Points:

  • Zuby says that there's literally been a mass brainwashing which has taken place, where you've converted a certain percentage of the population, who are now openly pushing for very authoritarian, notions and policies and there's been this inversion, where your health is your responsibility. When you're a child, maybe it's your parents, but if you are an adult, your health is your responsibility.

  • If you got sick in 2018, the notion that you would like, blame that on everybody else, that would be absurd, or the notion that you're going to go around acting like, when you're not sick or treating other people as if they are sick, you have no reason to believe that there's everything has been inverted.

  • Zuby states that every single Mr. Leader now, Biden, Trudeau Ardern, Boris Johnson, Macron, all of them, now have power that they never previously did and what happens when they get that. We've suddenly got a whole bunch of mini dictators. All of a sudden, you can't even tell the difference between some of these leaders and people who previously were calling authoritarians, fascists and dictators.

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “Everyone's still moved in fear of when mosquitoes kill more people. Why aren’t people talking about mosquito spray?” - Peter Voogd

  • “It says a lot about the human psychology which is the notion of a transmissible disease that transfers from person to person” – Zuby

  • “It was always healthy into innocent until proven guilty. Now, it's guilty until proven innocent, it's sick until proven guilty.” – Zuby

  • “So I would like to assume the masses have, like are somewhat intelligent.” - Peter Voogd

  • “Just explain this like has anyone ever lost a friend because they didn't take a flu shot?” - Zuby

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