Video summary
The video centers on a powerful call to action for individuals to stop settling and instead strive to become the absolute best version of themselves across all areas of life. The speaker argues that relying on past successes or "skating by" is no longer viable; true growth requires putting in more work every single day. He illustrates this mindset shift by sharing his personal journey from weighing 170 pounds during college football to currently carrying around 215 pounds, a weight he attributes largely to muscle mass gained through intense training rather than fat. His goal is not to lose all that weight but to reach an ideal of 185 pounds composed entirely of muscle, demonstrating that one must give more to life if they want more out of it, whether aiming for billionaire status or simply building a meaningful legacy.
To achieve this next level, the speaker emphasizes the necessity of absolute faith and rejecting "halfway thinking" or excuses like "maybe." He details his rigorous daily routine, which includes red light therapy, infrared saunas, slow walks to tone legs while working on upper body strength, and dedicated time for reading and spiritual reflection. A significant portion of his vision involves creating a community center within housing developments that mandates residents attend classes on financial literacy, reading, writing, and math. He points out that modern billionaires are often tech innovators rather than traditional business owners, citing examples like Canva selling for billions, while noting that many people remain stuck in the "cookie cutter" mindset imposed by traditional schooling. Breaking free from these limitations requires identifying one's specific strengths, weaknesses, and genetic makeup to tailor a plan that works uniquely for them.
The speaker also addresses the importance of self-knowledge regarding finances, health, and emotional needs, urging viewers to understand their own tipping points before pushing too hard. He explains his approach to business deals, preferring working lines of capital over selling equity so he can reinvest profits directly into growth rather than paying high interest rates. He contrasts investing in oneself with conservative market returns, suggesting that betting on one's own brand and business can yield significantly higher returns, such as turning a ten-thousand-dollar investment into fifty thousand within a year. Furthermore, he shares his commitment to serving others through a summer program for boys in Nashville, where he mentors them despite the financial cost of canceling coaching calls, teaching them life lessons alongside basketball skills.
Ultimately, the message is one of disciplined consistency and spiritual integrity in the pursuit of greatness. The speaker acknowledges that nothing comes easy and that people must be willing to grind through discomfort, whether it is sweating through a workout or managing finances carefully. He warns against laziness in certain areas while maintaining discipline in others, noting that his African heritage has given him a body built for war and endurance, but everyone must know their own limits and needs. He concludes by encouraging viewers to live right, avoid willful sin, and allow God to use them as they build their brands and help others, reminding supporters that every video is intended to be a word of encouragement and that the journey requires unwavering dedication and trust in the process.
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Hey. Hey, Tony. Got here now. I'm on
here. Tread me up now.
I ain't got too long.
Got to do my little slow walk. Got a
coaching call
in a little bit.
But yeah, I want to get on here and talk
to you while I'm walking. So,
did me a little bit of red light
therapy, then did the infrared sa. Now
I'm doing me a little walk. When I
finish this walk, I got to coach.
And then might have to coach back to
back. Then after I coach,
then I'm do me some bench press and some
curls.
already got thick legs,
glutes, calves. So, I get to skip leg
day. A lot of guys don't get to skip leg
day, but I get to skip some leg day. Got
to do my little upper body. And they're
walking. Ironically, they walking to
tone my legs up. Yeah. Walking. My my
body is muscle muscle bound. So, I'm
more muscle
than fat. And so that's how you could
see me in person. And you might see a
little chest and arm, but I weigh about
215
at 510,
which when I was playing college
football, I was 170.
So I done put on 30 to 40 lbs. And guess
what? I don't want it all off, but I'm
going to get about 185. Really where I
want to be. Round 185. All muscle.
Yes, sir. Be right where I want to be
cuz I can't be preaching 3Bs and I ain't
got all my 3Bs all the way now. I got to
have that all the way.
And so that's what we going into right
now.
Space we going into
is
getting what you can get. Don't pitch a
fit.
And what that mean is
it's time now
to become
the best version of yourself.
It's time to become the absolute best
that you can become
across the board
because
you're not going to be able
to keep just
skating by.
You're going to have to do more.
You're going to have to get better
and every single day putting in the
work. So it's like listen, if you want
more out of life,
you got to give more to this life.
If you want to be more, you got to do
more.
So I want to be a billionaire.
I might not get there. I might I might
only get to 100 millionaire.
No, I want to be a billionaire. So what
I'mma do,
I'mma live my life like I want to be a
billionaire.
If I want to be a billionaire,
I want to be able to change the world
with that money. The Bible say money
answer all things. Even God know it take
money to do things.
So, I want to build my community center,
houses, housing developments,
all of that. Whole thing might be
section 8 housing development. But
inside that housing development, you got
the community center where if you live
in there, you got to attend a minimum
one or two classes a month to live in
there.
Them them classes on financial literacy.
You go to community center, get on that
computer, put the headphone on, learn
how to read, learn how to write, learn
how to do math,
all that resource center. You go there,
get on the computer, monster.com,
nd.com.
I'm on handshake.com looking for some
marketing interns for dates.
It's time to do more. So, that's what I
want to get to.
How are people becoming billionaires
today?
Tech.
You really ain't seeing nobody
restaurant sell for a billion dollars.
You ain't seen nobody clothing store,
online boutique sell for a billion
dollars.
Kylie Jenner did makeup and with her
brand didn't even get a billion dollars.
Got 600 million.
didn't even get a billion
and big as her brand is. But then here
go the lady with no brand,
no TV show, nowhere near Kylie Jenner
sell Canva for 26 billion.
26 B's now. The man who started
Instagram
sold it to Facebook for one or two
billion.
The man who started
WhatsApp
was denied by Facebook and now WhatsApp
bought by Facebook. I can't remember if
it was hundreds of millions of billions
but that might have been a 26 billion.
LinkedIn
come on now. LinkedIn boring.
LinkedIn they got a app now but I think
it was a website maybe. I don't know.
LinkedIn just a bunch of corporate
profiles.
It's a corporate Facebook sold for 26
billion. Come on now.
Come on now. That's the thing.
So,
and I'm shifting to this place right now
on this video. I'm shifting to a new
place. Let me tell you what that place
is.
Absolute faith. Absolute faith.
No more
halfway thinking.
No more halfway thinking. No more I
might.
Maybe. No. We're going all the way.
We're going all the way. You want to be
a billionaire? Say you want to be a
billionaire. You want to be a
millionaire? Say you want to be a
millionaire. You want to be a
thousandaire? Say you want to be a
thousandaire.
You want to be a business owner. You
want to have a nonprofit that change
lives. Say that. Say that. But then make
sure your life equal that. See me, I
done carved out my mornings to where
most people they at work 9:00 a.m. I
done carved out my mornings where I
could sleep to 9:00 a.m. Then I could
get up and come have a slow morning in
my gym. So I done carved it out. But
that's my that's my schedule. I might
have to work till 8:00 though when other
people get off at 5. So you got to carve
out your day
and you got to figure out
what you going to do. You got to figure
out
where's your soft where's your soft
morning. Even if you got a hard day,
where your soft morning? Where your soft
night?
What's your reading time?
What's your feeding time? What's your
sleeping time? What's your workout time?
Like, that's what you got to figure out.
You got to figure that out. Then once
you figure that out, okay, boom, mom, we
got something. Now we can go. Give me a
second here.
When you working out,
you done worked out hard. You done sweat
a lot. Ain't nothing better than that.
Lemon perfect.
Lemon perfect. Send my check.
Ain't nothing better than that Lemon
perfect.
Woo. When I tell you that thing tastes
so good. It only really tastes really,
really, really good
when you done exhausted yourself. When
you done sweat a bunch and you parched
and you thirsty. Boy, that thing. Woo.
Thing good. I might have me three of
those in a day when I'm working out
hard.
ain't so good.
So listen,
you got to do more.
I had to pause. I don't drink on camera.
Had to fall. You got to do more.
It's time to create
your vision
and curate
your days. So I'm telling myself, hey,
what billionaire
do you see, Tony, that's out of shape?
You got to get in shape, man.
Then you got to know yourself. You got
to know your life. See me, I had a lot
of concussions in college. Had six
recorded concussions. You supposed to
retire after three. I recorded six in
college. Might go back and sue the
college. Recorded six in college.
And
that wasn't, you know, that was hard.
brain felt crazy every day. In the midst
of it, I became a different person. I
was I was way more
unruly than I am today.
Like I was gone, boy. Can't even tell
you some of the stuff I used to do. I
was out there. That brain trauma though,
people think that it's always delayed.
No, that brain trauma could affect you
instantly. So, what's so what's the goal
in this stage of life?
Regenerating the brain. How you
regenerate the brain?
Exercise,
movement.
Got to.
So that what I'm working on.
So I talked to a client. I'm getting
ready to open back up Lord Will
Publishing Company
and publish her book.
She in Portugal
and talked to her
and she got a story.
Got a story to tell. If you got a story
to tell,
then you can submit yours. We probably
only going to publish one one book every
6 months or so.
At least at the most one a quarter cuz I
got to promote it and interview the
author. So, if you got a story, send
send old onepage synopsis in. We might
get you in line. I might need to choose
one person to run the run the publishing
company cuz I really ain't got the time.
But
think about cranking that on up and
going on building that publishing
company, putting some people in place to
work. Volunteer now till we got money
coming in. Volunteer now. Get you a
little piece. get you a little piece of
what we getting for the book. A little
piece. But
that what we getting ready to do. She
got a story.
But her knowing her trauma,
she got to do a certain type of
therapist.
And guess what she did? She became a
therapist.
Most therapists
have trauma.
Most life coaches have trauma
because we try to become the solution
that we need.
That's what I mean by know yourself.
You got to know yourself.
So
when you know yourself,
now
you can start to build.
Now you can start to curate
your days, your plan,
how you going to move,
what you going to do. See, I'm in here
right now. My clock say it's 93° in
here. It's hot. I feel it. I feel like
passing out.
93° in here. We ain't got no AC on. This
the war zone. Where you come to work? It
ain't you don't come to look cute in
here where you come to grind.
I grind in here. My son grind in here to
grind. So listen, when I lose me 10, 20
lb, you know, I'm going to start going
to Pilates. I'm going to go to Pilates.
I ain't going there with no gut, though.
You got to know what you want.
Cuz let me tell you something about
yourself right now. You're lazy.
you lazy. I already I just could tell
you that cuz I'm a human, you know. I
That's how I know you lazy. You You
discipline in a area,
you lazy in the other areas.
I can just say that cuz I know humans.
Cuz I'm a human. I'm the same way.
This is the area right here that I'm
lazy in. I'm disciplined on that
workforce. I'm disciplining in that
purpose and working providing for my
family. Oh, I'm disciplin I know how to
get it right there now. But this right
here
where I'm lazy at being consistent right
there lazy in that
trying to tell you right now I'm doing
no carbs.
No carbs.
Sugar comes from fruit.
Eating breakfast and dinner.
got the grind. Unless avocado carbs, a
little carbs from the from the fruit,
from the avocado,
but no rice,
no bread,
no beans,
no none of that shocking the body. You
got to know yourself. And see, for me, I
got to be all in cuz see, I'm I'm I'm
Nigerian.
So
us Nigerians,
see I'm Nigerian and Cameroonian. That's
where my blood from before being a slave
in America. So us Nigerian and
Cameroonian,
we Hey,
athletes.
Athlete, strong,
muscular. So I can't come up here and do
no little 15, 20, 30 minute. No, I got
to be in here for hours. I got to break
the body down cuz my body built for war.
I got to break the body down. You got to
know yourself. What can you handle?
What is your
tipping point?
What is your breaking point?
What do you need the most?
What do you need? Do you need love?
Do you need companionship?
Do you need money?
Do you need exercise?
What is it that you need the most of?
You got to know yourself.
If you need love, a lot of people come
to me, need love. How you need love, but
you ain't working on yourself.
How do you want to attract love, but you
not working on yourself at the highest
level?
You don't want no love. You just want to
talk about love.
Love requires sacrifice.
You got to work.
You got to grind. You want love. Oh, you
got to grind.
Oh, yeah. You got to grind.
Ain't nothing going to be easy.
Ain't nothing going to be handed to you.
You got to grind.
That what you got to understand.
So me, I'm going to be up here. I'm
going to do a whole day. That right
there where they say life pro, that's a
vibration plate.
I'm going get on that. I'm going get on
that. We did the infrared light and the
sauna. Now I'm on the treadmill.
Vibration plate. You got to get some of
it. Go shower. Come back up here. Get in
the massage chair. Listen.
Listen, man.
You got to be able to do what you need
to do.
You got to
got to be able to do what you need to
do.
Got to be able to
go to that next level.
Got to
got to tell you that now.
Listen, thing ain't going to be easy,
man.
Ain't not going to be easy.
Not going to be easy.
It's going to take a lot. I'm sitting
here thinking about everything it's
going to take. That what I want you to
start thinking about. And see the thing
about it too. See a lot of people they
YouTube videos they sitting down.
They sitting down at the desk. All the
editing, all the music.
I might be the only person on YouTube
that just come to you any kind of way.
Whatever I'm doing, you you in it. If
I'm driving, if I'm in the sauna, if I'm
on the treadmill,
whatever I'm doing, you in it. If I'm on
the infrared,
you in it. That's a lesson.
If I make more money than you, that's a
lesson. If you trying to build a brand
and my brand bigger than yours, that's a
lesson. You got to get the lesson. You
got to get out that cookie cutter. Cuz
see, this the thing.
School put you in that cookie cutter.
School put you like a rat in the maze.
You got to break free from that.
You got to get out of that. You got to
look and be able to see and realize
like, hey, I got to come out of this.
Got to come out of this because a lot of
people don't understand that.
They don't understand it. They stuck in
that.
They stuck.
So being that they suck,
it's one of those situations of where
what you going to do about that?
Like how you going to do it? If you
stuck, how you going to get to where you
trying to go?
Break it down into bite-sized pieces.
You want to lose weight, start by
walking 30 minutes a day.
After two weeks, your legs stronger,
your back stronger.
Go to 45 minutes.
Do that two weeks. Go to an hour. You
won't need more than an hour a day.
Take your paycheck,
cut your expenses down.
Stop eating out so much. Stop shopping
so much.
Take you 10% of your check,
invest it back into yourself, put it
over in savings. 10, 20%.
A dime on the dollar. Put it in saving.
Next thing you know, got enough for a
treadmill.
Too hot outside,
raining outside, too cold outside. Get
on your treadmill.
Do your 30 minutes. Do your 45. Do your
I'm on two and a half speed. I ain't
doing the most. I'm I'm talking. I'm on
two and a half speed. For some people,
that ain't no workout. For me, it's
better than nothing. My body respond
easier than other people cuz I'm
African. Africans built different. So,
you got to know yourself. If I was
European, if I was Asian, I might need
more because they body not as muscle
bound. They body hold more fat. African
hold more muscle. You got to know
yourself. So, I'm not f to get on here
like my son. He do
crazy workouts
and he don't even look his body don't
look as good at 19 years old. My son
body don't look as good as my body
looked at 19 years old when I was 19.
And why his genetics different? His mama
is part Indian. She Indian Jamaican and
black Jamaican, but her mama look like
she got a little bit of European in her.
And so she might be European, Asian, and
African.
So that genetic mixup, that mix going to
make you different. I got probably a
little bit of European in me. So that's
why I ain't all the way as athletic
like a pureblooded African.
And so you got to know yourself. Know
what you need. Some people on GLP1.
I don't need it. I'll be around here
emaciated.
GLP1 might kill me cuz you got to
realize I don't work out at all and I'm
not overweight.
The weight that put me over the weight
is muscle weight. Cuz when I do work
out, I'm I'm on the bench press. So I
carry muscle. I'm on the bench press.
I'm doing squats. So, you got to know
yourself, how much you need to put in,
how you need to manage your finances.
I'm bad with finances.
I ain't nowhere near the best with no
finances, but I got to Oh, what is this?
The bird. What the bird eating? Bird
catching a little bug.
Like the bird about to try to catch him.
A little lizard.
bird got going on.
Bird over here eating good.
Lost some screen
from the storm and then all of a sudden
everybody who do two story screen went
out of business.
So if you know somebody in the Tampa,
Florida area do twotory screen, let me
know.
Everybody scared to get up there. I
guess somebody fell to their death or
something.
So listen, what we got to realize,
understand,
you know who you are.
Start putting in the work based on who
you are. So I'm about to do a little
business deal. About to do a little
business deal. So what I'm going to do
out that business deal,
you got to instead of selling equity,
it'll be like a little working line of
capital.
So with that deal, you get a certain
amount, you pay back a certain amount.
Me knowing my business model, I could
take a little piece,
take a little piece. Let's say I take
50,000,
boom, invest it, invest it in the dates
to me.
And then the rest I can take and front
front front load bills, pay up bills and
then just focus on building dason. Then
boom when d taking sale when it taking
uh go live then now that's a revenue
stream
and then it ain't an empty or baseless
revenue stream cuz I'm helping people
find love. It's matchmaking. So, what
that tit does
is
serve two purposes.
But then here's the thing.
Let's say I get $12
per person.
Well, you get a,000 people. That's
$12,000 a month.
Got to pay your team.
Let's say I walk away with 6,000 a
month. 7,000 a month. That's a stream of
income.
So after 10 months
them gross 120,000 that well that's the
net
um cuz Apple get they cut after 10
months of that you had 120,000 if I
invested 50 to market it and got out
there
then now it got the revenue coming in at
a,000 people
12,000 a month then what about when it
get 10,000 people, then that's 120,000 a
month. So, that's how you got to look at
it. So, if I got to take and do me a
deal and let's say I'm going to pay
crazy, let's say I'm going to do a crazy
interest, boom, I'm paying 15% interest
on
uh investment or or line of credit or
whatever it is. You take and look at,
okay, well, what's my return? If I could
turn 50
into 500,
50,000 into 500,000
in the same amount of time,
24 months,
now I done 10x my money. Now I got a
500% return cuz it's over two years.
One year, you do it over 12 months,
that's a,000% return. So, what is paying
15%.
That's how you got to think. What it's
going to take for you to get to that
next level. What do you do? How do you
do it? Do you know yourself?
And that's the same thing you have to
look at. For example,
you might have a retirement account. You
might have a 401k,
savings account, whatever it may be.
You got to take a look
and see.
Take a look and see and be able to say,
"Okay,
if I take and invest in this business,
invest in my brand
and
I can invest
10,000.
I invest 10,000
and then in 12 months
I make 50,000.
You just 5x your money.
You 5x your money.
Whereas that same 10,000
sitting on
that 401k
on a slow bad market,
it's not going to 5x
at the most. You might get 6 to 10%.
But you got enough time to take and bet
on you,
make your money back,
and then you put more money on there,
increase your contribution.
They your job increase their match.
They say, "Oh, you got to pay a 10%
penalty." Okay. When you bet on you, the
return on your business
is far greater than the return on the
market. The market is a lot more
conservative and it's longterm.
When you when you stretch out when you
map out
that business plan,
that's intended to flip.
That's intended to go way up.
That's intended to where that business
plan,
your business, you looking at least
get a 20% return on your investment
cuz you invested in you.
But hey, this Tony Gas coming up on my
30 minute walk and 30 minutes on here
too. Got to get on this little coaching
call, sit outside, do this little
coaching call.
God bless you. All the important links
in the description. Make sure I notice
we got a lot of haters. We got a lot of
single haters on here cuz this video
getting way more views than the amount
of people we got on that weight list.
That hate in your blood.
That might be part of your problem right
there. That hate in your blood right
there. But hey, this Tony Gasman
really can't even do no cool down cuz I
walking so slow. Really don't need no
cool down.
The Lord been good to you. We show need
for the boys summer program.
Listen, we got a trip to Nashville,
Tennessee. We fly out of Tampa, Florida
or Orlando, Florida. Sometime we got
different groups. So we fly out of both
of those airports to Nashville.
Got to stay there. I think four or five
nights
we have up to 20 boys
and I feed them three meals a day. So I
and my wife, my wife and I, we come out
of our pocket heavy and I'm also coming
out of my pocket because I have to
cancel all my coaching calls while I'm
with the boys. So that's costing me
money cuz I got to move those to another
day and time and then move those to
another day and time. But I'm there
mentoring the boys, talking to them
every day, giving them life lessons.
They playing basketball, but I'm
teaching them life. And then we got uh
the next week
we finish on it's it we in Nashville
June July 8th to the 13th.
We come home, get about two nights at
home probably, I think it is.
And then we right back. We flying to
Chicago.
Flying to Chicago.
And that's uh
July
I think 15th to the 20th or 16th to the
20th, something like that.
Crazy little amount of time. So yeah, it
ain't easy. So to my supporters on here,
I see you. I love you. And the Lord, I
thank you. It's because of you that I've
been able to do this. And when the Lord
call you to start your own and you build
your brand and you you raising funds for
yours, I totally get it. There's been
people reaching out to me like, "Hey,
Tony, raising fund 51c3 raising fund."
And I'm like, "Hey, right now I'm behind
on mine." Sometime I still donate like
$100 or something. We just donated
$2,000 to another fundraiser, two
different fundraisers. And so we still
donate even though we behind. I learned
that from my mom. Give from your lack.
So I try to do that. I try to give from
my lack. And so and just trust God in
the process.
So we appreciate you. We need you. And
if you can't be part of that, if you
single, least you can do it. get on our
weight list cuz that help us with our
approval from the app store when they
see we got demand
just being on the weight list. Even if
you don't end up signing up for the site
and you still can sign up for the site
even if you don't like online dating,
you could be a free member. So that way
you could be a part of the classes,
you're a part of the events. So I want
every single person on there. So if
you're single, click the link in the
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join the weight list.
We about to we got to pay for the weight
list now cuz you only get 2500 people
free. But hey, God bless you. Keep your
head up. Keep going. And I'm going to be
on here. I'm I'm going to be shooting
videos as often as I can when I'm not
filming. I mean, when I'm not coaching,
I'm filming. So, my videos may go up to
about three videos a day. It's
summertime. So, just may need to unset
and reset your notification bell. And
don't just pick and choose titles.
Listen to every video because sometimes
I don't know how to title it. But every
video is going to be a word for you.
Every video. So know that. So if you
watching this, then I want you checking
back every day looking for them videos
because I'm going just be letting the
Lord use me.
And it's not a lot of us out here that's
letting the Lord use us without sin.
Meaning we we would all we all with sin
because if I mess around and look at a
woman walking and booty jiggling that's
that's sin. So we all with sin and got
to repent. But what I mean is willing
sin. Some people out here willingly
intentionally
going and fornicating,
adulterating,
whatever it may be, pornography,
whatever they into. And so for those of
us that's actively trying to live right
and do the right thing,
it's few and far between because when
you when you live it, you know what it
look like. So I could go to somebody
page and listen to them talk for 5
minutes and I could tell how they
living, if they living in sin or not.
And so that's what you got to realize.
And ain't a lot of us out here. And if
you one then I want you to start living
right. I mean, I want you to start
teaching and preaching
and and doing what you need to do.
Teaching what you need to teach.
Let the Lord use you. But hey, this Tony
Gaston, God bless you. Keep your head up
and we'll talk soon.