[SPEAKER_00]: I've shared this story several times, but I want to tell you about a night I had $6.32 to my name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every single dollar I had left.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have many bank accounts, only have one.
[SPEAKER_00]: But every single dollar I had left.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've told you all bits and pieces of this story before, but today, I want to sit with you and tell you the whole thing, because if you've ever felt the specific kind of shame, I would say, that comes from having almost nothing and having a smile, like everything is fine, anyways, I need you to know something before we even go further.
[SPEAKER_00]: This and before we get into it, this is the table daily.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's your boy Anthony O'Neill, where we talk about one truth, one move, with then 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna have a real conversation today.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, I was 20, maybe 21 years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just pulled into the local gas station and the Wednesday evening and man, I literally pulled down in my car turned off right when I got to the gas station.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was scared to even press the gas pedal too hard because I was like, man, I don't know if it's gonna come back on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was right around the time banking apps were just starting to exist, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But I didn't have one yet, I didn't have the iPhone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I had to call my bank and check my balance the old way through an automated voice system on the phone, I'm old.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I called, that voice told me exactly what I had $6.32 to my name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I didn't want to count.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, well, I would say not in several accounts.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, just in one particular account, that was every dollar that I had.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it gets worse, because it was Wednesday evening and I didn't get paid until Friday at lunchtime.
[SPEAKER_00]: That meant I had to make it through the rest of Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of Thursday,
[SPEAKER_00]: up until lunch on Friday before another dollar sold up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was about to be completely broke for the next 48 in some change hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need a gas.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was hungry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need a fuel on my car.
[SPEAKER_00]: and I needed fuel for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought for a minute, it came up with something.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see back then gas stations only authorized a small amount on your car before the fuel, but not fuel, but before the full charge processed, I say about a day, day or two later, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I knew most stations would only authorize about a dollar.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I filled up my tank that night, knowing the fuel, full charge would hit later.
[SPEAKER_00]: And knowing I would probably get an insufficient funds fee of about $35 because of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember thinking, it's a problem for another day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll deal with that on Friday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I was hungry.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what was left after that dollar, I drove to McDonald's, or at two double cheeseburg and two sweeties.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the time, right, I came up to about like four dollars of some change because of taxes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was officially broke, less than a dollar left to my name, like right around 80, some sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I got back to my apartment, I got a lot of stick to my stomach.
[SPEAKER_00]: I took out kitchen knife and cut both that those burgers in half.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was my fool for the next two days.
[SPEAKER_00]: I put water in the iced tea just to make it go a little bit longer, so I can have a little bit of sugar over the next two days.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the first bite of that half of a burger when something in me shifted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said it out loud, I remember it like it was yesterday.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't even afford a kneel at McDonald's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over the next two days, every time I reheat it one of those half burgers that filling got louder on the inside of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I kept thinking about how I was up every day at six in the morning on the job by 745, working hard all day long and then spending my whole lunch break on Friday just to cash a $900 check.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only to be nearly broke again by that next Monday.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember thinking there has to be a different way to live than this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was 20 years old with exactly $6.32 to my name.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember specifically cutting up a cheeseburger in half, because it wasn't just dinner, it was dinner for two nights.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought being broke and living paycheck, the paycheck was normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: But looking back at it, I wasn't just broke.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have a system in place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything changed when I learned how money actually worked.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the roadmap that I specifically put inside of my brand new books that I've lived in page at the paycheck.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're tired of surviving and you're ready to start thriving and building, go to anthonyoneo.com for a slash book and order your copy today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, that's anthonyoneo.com for a slash book.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's go from surviving to thriving instead of your kids up to really have work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm working eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes 10 hours a day
[SPEAKER_00]: And so for a long time, I thought I was just normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that's what being young and working hard looked like, but it's not normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if any piece of what I just told you sounds familiar, rather your number was $6.32, or $600, I needed to hear me clearly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm said, it's one more time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need you to hear me clearly, it's not normal for you either and it's not who you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's something I've come to understand deeply since that night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Freedom free is better than being rich.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have the language for that yet at 21, standing in that gas station parking line.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that night is where I started learning it.
[SPEAKER_00]: One heart lesson at a time, freedom is better than being rich.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be honest with you about something else to today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't share this story so you'll feel sorry for me back in the days.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I share it so you'll know Wherever you are, I would say right now, whatever your vision of that Wednesday look looks like I say it can't say vision Whatever version.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry of that Wednesday
[SPEAKER_00]: night looks like in your personal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It does not have to be the end of your story either.
[SPEAKER_00]: It can be the exact place where your story actually starts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to give you a calculation today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to give you something harder.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to tell you the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: as you are about to go into your weekend if you're watching us when it first came out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Out loud to yourself, to your spouse, to a trusted friend, or maybe go to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop calling your current situation normal if it isn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop smiling through it like, I use a smile through mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I use a smile through it every single day.
[SPEAKER_00]: People use to ask me, how are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing good on the inside.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I'm not doing good.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then, I want you to write down one sentence, just this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The scribe in the future, you're choosing to move forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: I moved toward, I would say, starting today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not someday, today.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is the future that you desire to walk into?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is the future that you desire for your family that you're going to start today?
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been telling you all for a rest of this month, man, I'm really dive again
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I wrote the book, stop living page at the paycheck, because it isn't this because of the gas station.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every phase inside of this book, every step, every piece of this gay plan is the road map.
[SPEAKER_00]: That I was somebody with a hand at me and drilled into me every single day to avoid the wins at night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have anyone sitting across from me to say, hey, here's exactly what you need to do with your check that you get for $900.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, if you got a check for $900, why in the world are you paying $850 a month and rent?
[SPEAKER_00]: This book, I wrote it for the person I used to be standing in the parking lot with $6,32 cents to my name.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was written for whoever is listening to me right now and they're saying I'm sick and tired of bustling my rear end every single freaking day and I'm still struggling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop living paycheck to paycheck walks you through the entire journey.
[SPEAKER_00]: From the first honest look at your finances with love all the way through building lasting wealth and leaving a legacy that your family will carry long after you're going.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't a book about saying, this is not even a book about money.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a book about the exact next step you need to take to get to financial freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: And today, all you have to do is go to anthonyno.com for a stage book right now in order your copy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because whatever your version of my gas station moment has been, this book was written to make sure it's not where your story ends and watch this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not where your children's stories will begin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you're going through a divorce, you just got out of a divorce, man, this book is going to help you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're about to get married, this book is going to help you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I don't want you all thinking about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something special is about to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel it, but remember for freedom is better than being rich.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means Anthony O'Neill, go to AnthonyOno.com for a size book order your copy today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Order two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give it to a friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have a blessed day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you soon.