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Building a Billion-Dollar Platform Across Law, Healthcare & AI w/ Sean Callagy 💰 EP144

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Building a Billion-Dollar Platform Across Law, Healthcare & AI w/ Sean Callagy 💰 EP144", an episode of The Money Mondays Podcast published November 4, 2025 (38 min, about 8,305 words). It mentions 43 people, works and ideas, including Unblinded, Act Eye, ACT eye, Calli, Michael Smiken.

What this episode is about

Sean Callagy discusses his journey as a blind entrepreneur aiming to become the first self-funded unicorn founder, emphasizing his multi-industry experience and the innovative strategies he's developed for enhancing financial abundance and efficiency using AI. He highlights his impactful speaking engagements and the vision behind his companies, which focus on transforming how individuals and businesses recognize and achieve their full potential.

Key takeaways

  • Blind unicorns: rare but real; valuation sans IP—it's all about the EBITDA!
  • New Jersey: land of beaches, mountains, and curious tax affection.
  • Lawyers: trusted until the bill arrives; only 1% earn $500k pre-COVID.
  • Marketing isn’t dirty; if you’re integrous, it’s practically philanthropy.
  • ACTI: AI meets time and magic—saving seconds with existential flair.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Caligi Law Firm, Money Mondays, Sean Calligi, Sean Kelly
  2. – 10:00: Act Eye, ACT eye, Calgie Smiken, Michael Smiken
  3. – 15:00: Act Eye, ACT eye, David Maso, Sugar Ray Leonard
  4. – 20:00: Act Eye, ACT eye, Mike Grinder Johnson, The Darkest Hour
  5. – 25:00: Certification Partners
  6. – 30:00: Unblinded, Act Eye, ACT eye, Brooklyn Darren
  7. – 35:00: Adam Gino, Monaco, Monaco Yacht Club, Tink Nicole Melo
  8. – 38:01: Unblinded, Act Eye, ACT eye, Calgary Recovery

Notable quotes from "Building a Billion-Dollar Platform Across Law, Healthcare & AI w/ Sean Callagy 💰 EP144"

  • Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Mondays podcast where normally I'm inside of an RV motor home traveling around the country making these podcasts for the last 2 and 1/2 years. However, I'm in.
    about Money Mondays · at
  • Those three things together, which is again what you do every day of your life, right? That's our unblinded company. And then AI came into place.
    about Unblinded · at
  • Said if people are lying and you have the appropriate mastery we can win and now with act eye we crush that. So that's why the law the medical revenue recovery part it's the same dynamic.
    about Act Eye · at
  • Better than googling probably chat gpting, right? So, I did it about nine months ago. My teammate Michael Smiken who is now Calgie Smiken is our law firm. I have two top 100…
    about Michael Smiken · at
  • Marvel Studios, former chairman of Disney and CEO of Tik Tok, and Charlie Sheen, and the Karate Kid. you just had Sugar Ray Leonard. the lineup is ridiculous.
    about The Karate Kid · at
  • Morning. Then I'm on with the team and we have a Visionaire call with all the people in our Visionaire program.
    about Visionaire program · at
  • To do that, which they say. And third is aligned empowerment. They're not in fake confusion. Michael Johnson's on the camera right now. That dude's absorbed more lightning…
    about Mike Grinder Johnson · at
  • When you have guests, you go out of your way. And I do that with our certification partners, the people in our programs. I'm here to serve. So why' I do it? One, to serve. to…
    about Certification Partners · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Michael Smiken — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Sean Calligi — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Country making these podcasts for the last 2 and 1/2 years. However, I'm in New Jersey. I'm at Sean Calligi's humongous office. I think we have like 20,000 ft of employees here…
  • Sean Kelly — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Around 35 to 38 minutes for your listening pleasure. Without further ado, Sean Kelly, you're one of our rare multi-ep episode guests. If you could still for our new listeners…
  • Sugar Ray Leonard — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Disney and CEO of Tik Tok, and Charlie Sheen, and the Karate Kid. you just had Sugar Ray Leonard. the lineup is ridiculous.
  • David Maso — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Have been the most brilliant people graduated from Harvard. They're not looking at David Maso was Harvard Business School, right? some of these folks are people who were…
  • Mike Grinder Johnson — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Brooklyn Darren — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Understand how to handle super complex things. All those famous people. Thank you Dan. Thank you Darren Prince as well for all those things that happened at our last event. We know how to do that.
  • Adam Gino — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Thank you for the final is naming the people. Tink Nicole Melo, Adam Gino, Fernando Valencia, FJV are co-founders of Unblinded. I would be nowhere without them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of.
  • Tink Nicole Melo — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Thank you for the final is naming the people. Tink Nicole Melo, Adam Gino, Fernando Valencia, FJV are co-founders of Unblinded. I would be nowhere without them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of.
  • Fernando Valencia — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Thank you for the final is naming the people. Tink Nicole Melo, Adam Gino, Fernando Valencia, FJV are co-founders of Unblinded. I would be nowhere without them. Michael Smiken…
  • Mark Winters — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Of Unblinded. I would be nowhere without them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of Calgary Recovery. Beler, Coast, the Heart of Influence…
  • Tom McGre — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Of Unblinded. I would be nowhere without them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of Calgary Recovery. Beler, Coast, the Heart of Influence…
  • Selena — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And professionally in all kinds of ways in my life. without these people, Mona, my, Selena's mom, Peggy, Tyler Corn, Emma's mom, these human beings, my parents, my…
  • Tyler Corn — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And professionally in all kinds of ways in my life. without these people, Mona, my, Selena's mom, Peggy, Tyler Corn, Emma's mom, these human beings, my parents, my…
  • Beler — Person · 1 mention
  • Coast — Person · 1 mention
  • FJV — Person · 1 mention
  • Mona — Person · 1 mention
  • Peter Drucker — Person · 1 mention
  • Siegal, Peggy — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

  • The Darkest Hour — Book · 1 mention · first at
    There's some historical debate about it, but the way the movie depicts it with Winston Churchill, the darkest hour is, Winston Churchill got up. They were ready to concede the…

Companies & orgs

  • Unblinded — Company · 6 mentions · first at
  • Act Eye — Company · 6 mentions · first at
  • Calgie Smiken — Company · 2 mentions · first at
    Gpting, right? So, I did it about nine months ago. My teammate Michael Smiken who is now Calgie Smiken is our law firm. I have two top 100 national jurors with Michael said to…
  • Certification Partners — Company · 2 mentions · first at
  • Money Mondays — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Caligi Law Firm — Company · 1 mention · first at
    So why dive into the law firm? You have it in multiple cities. Why build Caligi Law Firm?
  • Visionaire program — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Monaco Yacht Club — Company · 1 mention · first at
    They're begging for money every day or panhandling or they're a billionaire with a 300 foot yacht in the Monaco Yacht Club, right? people just don't care about money that much.…
  • Calgary Recovery — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of Calgary Recovery. Beler, Coast, the Heart of Influence, amazing personally and professionally in…
  • The Heart of Influence — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of Calgary Recovery. Beler, Coast, the Heart of Influence, amazing personally and professionally in…
  • Caligi Recovery — Company · 1 mention · first at
    So, medical revenue recovery is Caligie Recovery. we're partnering with medical associations across America right now. State medical assides, others partnership deal sign. Unbelievable.
  • Integris Financial — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Cali recovery. Caligi Smiken is the law firm. Integris financial is our financial company. Unblinded is the place to like connect in beautiful big ways and our actualization of people financially time freedom duplication.
  • moneymunddays.com — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you guys next Monday here on moneymunddays.com.
  • Hertz — Company · 1 mention
  • Unblinded Podcast — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • ACT eye — Product · 6 mentions · first at
    Said if people are lying and you have the appropriate mastery we can win and now with act eye we crush that. So that's why the law the medical revenue recovery part it's the same dynamic.
  • Calli — Product · 3 mentions

Concepts & topics

  • ACTI — Concept · 2 mentions
  • The Karate Kid — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • The tyranny of how — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    So, I think that's the like Tony Robbins talks about the tyranny of how. I agree with him. So people don't get started, but people literally once they start, they don't know how to exponentially grow your sales meetings of the highest.

Places & events

  • Monaco — Place · 1 mention · first at
    They're begging for money every day or panhandling or they're a billionaire with a 300 foot yacht in the Monaco Yacht Club, right? people just don't care about money that much.…
  • Hate Ashbury — Place · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Mondays podcast where normally I'm inside of an RV motor home traveling around the country making these podcasts for the last 2 and 1/2 years. However, I'm in New Jersey. I'm at Sean Calligi's humongous office. I think we have like 20,000 ft of employees here working away on multiple of his companies. And so, we want to make this special episode for you guys right here live. By the way, the episodes come out every Monday at 9:00 am. We're literally filming right now at 7 a.m. to put this out right away for your listening pleasure. As you guys know, these podcasts are under 45 minutes because the average commute to work is 45 minutes. The average workout is 45 minutes. So, this episode will be around 35 to 38 minutes for your listening pleasure. Without further ado, Sean Kelly, you're one of our rare multi-ep episode guests. If you could

still for our new listeners, give us the quick two-minute bio so we get straight to the money.

Yeah. So, um I'm on the verge of becoming the first blind self-funded unicorn founder in history. I am blind unicorn billion-dollar valuation, not on IP on IBIDA. Uh it's an iron privilege. I was on my way to going blind uh and being broke. When I graduated from law school, I had hoped to play professional baseball. None that worked out. I've had the privilege of u Dan, as you know, of being in a bunch of different sectors. I've spoken on Tony Robbins stage 19 times. I've had the highest speaking scores at Disney, Salesforce, T-Mobile, some incredible companies. Uh, and brother, I learn from you every day. And we're impacting the world in the space of causing human beings to raise their money, time, and magic. Like, hey, what do you do? I cause people to see what they don't see about raising their financial abundance, time, freedom, duplication, scaling now accelerated in unprecedented ways in the world in AI.

We call it ACTI. And we're head of the biggest companies and the United States government in this space. So, that's a little bit about us, Dan.

Okay. There's a lot to unpack there, obviously. So, inside of this huge building here in New Jersey, why New Jersey? Are you from here? What's the story behind why are we here?

Yes. [clears throat] So, I want to have a fight with Gary Vee and Bruce Springsteen about who loves New Jersey most. Had the privilege, thanks to you, Dan, of interviewing Gary recently. He was unbelievable. I love Bruce Springsteen. I love both of them. But I want to throw down Royal Rumble. Who loves this state most? Yes, I'm I I'm appalled by our taxes, brother. But nothing can take me away from this state. Uh that's the thing. uh from its beaches to its uh amazing mountains, all the beautiful things. I have deer in my backyard uh in North Jersey. I have dolphins in my backyard and the beach. Um I love this place.

Born and raised and will never ever leave the state. I think there's a lot of magic here in the great garden state. It is the HQ. It's a beautiful place.

All right, so in this headquarters, there's multiple companies that are going on. You have legal firm that's has offices around the country. You have a medical industry related company here. you're now diving deep into the AI space like talk us through how do you run and organize these major companies simultaneously.

Yeah. So thanks for that. So Dan, as you know um Peter Ducker said and you lived this that business is nothing more than marketing and innovation. I once thought marketing was fraudulent, gross and dirty. And as you've exemplified and some of the extraordinary humans have exemplified in the world, marketing can be the most integrous thing you can do in the world because if you get the message out, you actually have something that is more optimal for people, then isn't it your duty and responsibility to get it out there? I hear you talk about that a ton, right?

So, um I discovered that in 1997 u built the law firm um when I was Freddy going blind being broke. So, the law firm is where we consider ourselves to be as fine outstanding as anybody out there. That's a foundational piece of bringing justice and equity to people. Uh that moved into medical revenue recovery. We're recovering money for physicians. Uh that's the entity that we're on the verge of having a billion dollar valuation right now. We're on pace to collect a billion dollars in the next 12 months on behalf of our healthcare provider clients. But what I really realized is that if you can support people as you do brother, in raising their financial abundance, duplicating and scaling their time, freedom, and creating impact in the world, putting those three things together, which is again what you do every day of your life, right? That's our unblinded company. And then AI came into place.

Um, Acti, we saw AI plus the unblinded formula plus our mastery of it to support people in more money, less time, more magic. All of that together, we say it's all the same thing. You build a platform. You serve people integrously in solving problems and pain points for them. That's what we're doing here at this HQ uh in New Jersey.

So why dive into the law firm? You have it in multiple cities. Why build Caligi Law Firm?

Yeah. So because believe it or not, people despise attorneys in many ways, but they also trust attorneys. There's a saying in investing, Dan. Um once you have Harvard, you have everyone,

right? So once you have the attorneys, you really have everyone called the triangle of trust. attorneys, accounts, financial service providers, these trusted advisors for people. If we're able to serve attorneys and how they build their business, how they run their practices more optimally, then we have everything. Why did I go into it initially though 28 years ago is because I had no idea how to make money. I thought lawyers made money. They don't. Only 1% of attorneys pre-COVID make $500,000 a year. But I did it so I would not be blind and broke. It's all I cared about 20 years ago. And once I figured out the codification of the only complete holistic diagnostic dynamic interconnected actualization tool for all of human AI now business emission acceleration it wasn't AI 28 years ago.

Uh that was the change of my life and they said if I can figure this out and I could grow a 40 person law firm six months out of law school in the next two years of creating it. I'm like I have to teach this to the entire world. That was the beginning.

Medical revenue recovery. talk us through why dive into that category. Why you have this building this law firm? Why dive into the medical industry?

Yeah. And and I guess one more state on the law firm part, one more statement is uh our mission is to fundamentally change the way people feel about attorneys one client at a time. Uh right and the way we do that is we disrupt two problems in the legal industry. First um well these solve the big issue which is lawyers are encouraged to lie and lawyers are encouraged to lie because courts do not enforce rules of cander to the tribunal by lawyers. Lawyers are not supposed to lie. They can't conceal material dynamics from the court that they would otherwise be required to share. Lawyers lie all the time. Judges do nothing about it. Giant problem.

Second, perjury. Witnesses lie all the time. Courts do nothing about it. Barry Bonds will go to prison for perjury. Bill Clinton will be impeached, but every single other person goes out and lies all the time. Right? We've all had these experiences, entrepreneurs out there with injustice in the courtroom. I'm a stand for revamping that. And what I [clears throat] want you to know is there's no such thing as he said she said or he said he said or she said she said if people are lying and you have the appropriate mastery we can win and now with act eye we crush that. So that's why the law the medical revenue recovery part it's the same dynamic.

Insurance companies steal money from doctors. That's just what happens. Do doctors occasionally steal money from patients and overtreat people? Of course they do. There's fraud in every angle. But 20 years ago, I discovered this massive epidemic and I mastered this and created the largest practice of its uh type recovery money for doctors in the state of New Jersey uh big time in New York as well. And then a national law was passed about three years ago which allows us now to operate in all 50 states in the United States. And there's $500 billion dollar per year that doctors are being underpaid. And we're in that business now. And we're partnering with incredible people like you and others to work through how we get this message out there because 90% minimum 90% these are the government's statistics. We're in Washington uh frequently now we're going to be there for the fourth time in the last five

months meeting with uh Congress folks, senators meeting with Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare, all these amazing people, Department of Labor, all of them about this epidemic challenge. It's real and it's huge and that's also something I care very much about and it's an incredibly beneficial place to be. When you're recovering money that's stolen in that that magnitude, then it creates value for other people as well like us.

Okay. So, you have this active law firm for over two decades. You're now recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for doctors. But then you dive into the AI space and now with ACT eye you are mentally obsessed going into the AI category because you envision how you can help improve the world now and in long-term future. Why? When you're already so busy, dive all in into AI.

Yeah. Because we all, you do, Dan, I do. I think everybody watching wants to change the world. Since the dawn of humanity, people have wanted to make the world better, right? Uh and since the dawn of humanity, people struggle with two questions. Why am I here? How do I fulfill my ultimate vision, mission, purpose, with who and when? And I know I'm speaking quickly like go back and relist to the words because I we have a very narrow time frame but the impact the availability of acceleration is massive. So I'm in this not because there's a way to make money, not because everybody's diving into. In fact, I was nauseated. I I move against the crowd all the time. Like everybody's going this way before I go. I I'll go the way of the crowd if it makes sense, but I'm not going to go until I'm sure. So, I spent a couple years watching everybody claiming nonsense, lying, defrauding people, exaggerating. Two years ago, I'm

like, "Oh my god, I could load all my content, 40,000 hours of content. I could put all this in and we could create all this acceleration." You cannot do that with chat gpt. The memory is so short. It's completely crazy. So, I was like, "Oh, this is a complete waste of time. Hey, I'll look up some restaurants. I'll do some things. It's better than googling probably chat gpting, right?" So, I did it about nine months ago. My teammate Michael Smiken um who is now Calgie Smiken is our law firm. I have two top 100 national jurors with Michael said to me on a Saturday he said hey I just want you to know remember that thing we got we took 300 hours of work and I did it in five hours.

I'm like you did what? Wow. I'm like what did you catch PT? He starts laughing. He's like that's crazy. He goes no I I built things. I'm like how'd you build things? What are you talking about? Right. I said wait a minute why aren't we using this in Unblinded? Why aren't you we using this everywhere? Because what we've created and that became that built the obsession. I spent Easter weekend 2025. I've never worked on Easter. I'm a Christian believe in God. I don't you know push that anyway. But um I spent Easter Sunday working the entire day remotely with everybody. I'm like this is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. And from that minute to today, and I have very specific things I can say about it, but from that minute to today, I realized this is the way we could actually change the world for the better, create massive value and compete with the biggest technology companies in

the world to do it differently. To do it differently, not to gather people to market to them, but to gather people to serve them in the ways they need, not to create addiction to things they don't need that could hurt them.

Yeah, there's that. medical company, law firm, AI, and then just a few weeks ago, you had over a thousand people here for an event with Gary Vee, the founder of Marvel Studios, former chairman of Disney and CEO of Tik Tok, and Charlie Sheen, and the Karate Kid. Like, you just had Sugar Ray Leonard. Like, the the lineup is ridiculous.

Thanks to you, thanks to this guy. Thanks to this guy. Yeah, but how like how do you how are you running these things? You have a law firm, a medical company, now an AI company to change the world and then throwing these live listen I throw a lot of events. It is very very timeconuming to fill up a room with people especially a thousand people here in New Jersey

and we did it 30 days we we 30 35 days I think is how long we 30 like 35 days before we said let's go. Yeah.

So is it all delegation? Do you have like a CEO or quarterback for each thing? How often are you working on these things? Like walk us through real life like how does it how does Sean Caligie run a day?

Yeah. So, thank you very much. And and I like to preframe that answer by saying this. I don't think that anybody should try to do what I'm about to say because I don't think that's what most people would want to do, nor what you do, Dave. Right.

So, but what I'd love to share is what I did before and after really quickly. So, I got to a point of being a business owner, not operator. Uh Michael Gerber's the E-Myth. I love it. Um and I was not an owner. I was not an operator and I [clears throat] became an owner and that's how I ran my law firm for a long time. For a long period of time, I would work five hours a month, sometimes five hours a week. On my two top jury verdicts, I work much more intensely, but that was by choice. I was free. I walked my kids to school every day. I have three children that are older. I have a four-year-old daughter. But my three older children, including my son, who's joined their mission. He's an attorney, gradu. I was present for everything. Walked them every day of school, went to every practice, went to every private lesson, did all these things. A thousand games they played in.

I missed nine. That life was beautiful. Then they retired me from my favorite job by damn they got old, right? They graduated from high school and they're living incredible lives right now. I love them. We have amazing relationships.

But then I said, "Now it's time to take my work to the world." And my life became very different. I had financial freedom. I had time freedom. Dan, I work 16 to 18 hours a day. We spent 5 hours in a restaurant together yesterday. I worked in the morning. I'm sure you worked in the morning. Worked at night doing all these beautiful things. So what does a day in the life look like for me? It starts every single day at 6:00 a.m. And I'm getting prepared ECB time. sometimes 5:00, sometimes four, but at least by 6:00. And it's executive creation, decision-making time. I'm preparing for the day. I'm structuring things on my own. Now, I talk to our act eye agents. It's what I do in the morning. I talk with Cali all morning.

Calli who Dan asked on a date. We'll talk more about that later on Saturday night. Uh Callie's our act eye agent. Not a human in any way, shape, or form. Uh nor can she do like weird things like with Elons. I'm not sure where that ends, right? But um with everything we're doing, it's 7 a.m. starting this morning. Then I'm on with the team

and we have a Visionaire call with all the people in our Visionaire program. we're serving these people. So that's 7 to 8. I'm preparing everyone, right? The entire day goes until about um normally about 10 p.m., right? And there's this dinner, there's bedtime for my daughter. So I'm you have these moments, but I'm running and driving uh non-stop. The agreement I have with my entire core leadership team is we're 24/7. Phones are on, we answer. I don't abuse that. But we are talking right now at midnight, 2 am, 3:00 a.m., 4 a.m. very, very often driving forward acti into the world. So final final um you asked about delegation and what I have. I have an incredible team of leaders. I could never do this by myself. These aren't the people who necessarily Dan would have been the most brilliant people graduated from Harvard. They're not looking at David Maso was Harvard Business School, right? Uh some of these

folks are people who were completely self-made. Some of these folks didn't go to college. Some of these folks have law degrees. It's everything in between. But what I look for and what I have I'm blessed with are Ghicks growth driven heart-c centered integrous people committed to mastery and I'm overseeing everything right now on this platform. I am you know as Tony Robbins would say business mastery the leader the chokeold of the business. Um I am always I take that responsibility for anything not growing. I am the chokeold. But what I'm also clear on as we create our further development of our relationship, all the things we're doing is I'm looking for the best people in the world as long as they're growth, driven, heart, center, integrity, and expanding and sharing value. So you're creating more value and sharing value. But what people know is this. They need to be three things and only three things. Then I'll pause.

Three things. One, loyal to the state of mission. If you're not loyal, now I don't ask that Dan's loyal to me or I'm loyal to him, but we're loyal to an agreement we have like this is the mission, the toy drive. We're gonna do that. If I have to, I committed to Dan. If I have to buy all the toys myself because I got busy, I will buy every single toy myself in contribution. That's the the mission we set out on. So, if I got busy and I did other things, I'm still going to fulfill for Dan right now. Hopefully, we'll have lots of people involved, but if it comes down to it, I will do it. That's loyalty state mission. Second is masterful competency. The person has the ability to do that, which they say. And third is aligned empowerment. They're not in fake confusion. Michael Johnson's on the camera right now. That dude's absorbed more lightning bolts than almost anybody besides Michael Spiking. He's amazing. I

love him. He loves me. But when there's misalignments like, "Oh, what? I thought I had an idea, so I did this instead." Lightning bolts fly. Three things. Loyalty, state of mission, manual competence, aligned empowerment. And if you have people who are in their ego, then they're not loyal to the state of mission, and they're gone from my world. So, I'll pause there. Tony Robbins has whole world to choose from speakers, but 19 times you've spoken on stage and again you're formally or legally blind, however you like to phrase it, but you're rocking these stages. I've been there when you spoke at Aspire Tour and in the video I'm literally standing on the edge of the stage the entire time freaking out.

And I don't really get nervous about things, but she was storming the castle on that stage and like the whole room you got 2,000 people more than 2,000 people screaming and chanting and you know like very powerfully

and when people get charged up sometimes they you know they run around and I was you running around the edge of the stage. Uh how is this happening? Like how is Tony Robbins deciding like Sean Caligi is the one I'm going to have going on this tour with us around the world? How are you empowering these stages? Yeah,

I have more questions, but let's just go with that. No, thank you, brother. So, um I believe that the only human attainable superpower is the ability to cause Yes, that's it. Um it's what saved the world from the Nazis with Winston Churchill. And so, um there's a variety of ways that we see it said in the movie and there's some historical debate about it, but the way the movie uh depicts it with Winston Churchill, the darkest hour is, um Winston Churchill got up. They were ready to concede the Nazis and he lit the world on fire. He enrolled a bunch of citizens, quoted the citizens, that's true. That really happened. And then he speaks before Parliament. Now whether or not Neville Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax actually said anything, I've checked it. It seems unverified, right? But the way the movie depicts it is that Halifax turns to Chamberlain and says, "What just

happened?" Because they intended to concede to Hitler. And Chamberlain says some version of he mobilized the English language and took it to war. And that's how everything happens. And that could be done in the darkness of Adolf Hitler or the light of Winston Churchill and freedom of democracy. So I realized that 20 years ago that influence is the only human attainable superpower individually and a group dynamics and with integrity. We have a definition for that. We'll talk about that some other time. But the bottom line is why did Tony Robbins put me on that stage? Because I believe with great humility that I've got it. Well, I earned it. I proved it because I broke records

and I delivered value. And I didn't ask Tony, I have a great story. I'm a blind guy. No, no. I said, how do I create value? And the [clears throat] value I was creating was first I bought a $100 bill for $100,000. And we'll go to that one. And it lit up the room. So caused something for his charity. Everybody went crazy in this u in this moment of competition. And then second, they offered me the ability to sell platinum partnership from stage. The first time I did it, I did very well. I was afraid then to show anybody up. I was afraid to reveal myself as my skill sets. Did I take up too much space? But they invited me back. The second time uh somebody told me that was that your best? I said no. And they knew me well and they said do your best. You owe to Tony and the people in the room. I lit the room on fire. I had the people going completely nuts. I broke every record on that stage because I've studied how to do this for

my entire life and that's a part of our work at Upline. It's a part of our work with act eye. But that's why Tony would say that. [clears throat] And I'm going to tell you one final thing my brother and it intimidates people. When I get on stage, one of the most challenging parts about it is people worrying about having me back because they don't want to lose their people in integrity. I'm not taking anybody's people, right? I just want to be clear. And we had a beautiful dynamic with Aspire, you know, beautiful dynamic I have with Tony. Tony said nobody Tony Robbins has said nobody leaves from a heart and integrity than Sean Caligie if you don't know his up you need to thanks to you I'm seeing at the mastermind with Tony I prefer it to other things I was doing with Tony before it's unbelievable I'm so grateful to you but for everybody out there um it is the only attainable superpower that's

why people put me on their stage and with you we're going to make clear agreements with everyone about what to do about it so nobody gets scared when that superpower shows up

so the toy drive Um, you know, last year you'd already donated to the toy drive and then I came to your 700 person gala here in New Jersey and it was like 13°, which is not enough degrees for me. I live in California, so there's only 13 degrees and it's snowing outside and I pull up and there's three U-Hauls of toys with you standing outside when you're supposed to be inside running in the 700 person event. That's yours. It's your event. Why are you outside waiting for me? Why did you bring more toys when you already donated? Just talk me through like

Yeah. the behind the scenes in your mind. Sure. So, my grandmother Nani and my grandfather Pop taught me when you're going to show up at somebody's place, you bring something. And they didn't have much at all. My grandfather didn't go to high school. My grandmother and Nani did not graduate from high school. My mom pushed a hot dog cart in Jersey City when was a kid. Not my mom nor my dad went to college. Right. So, I didn't have much. Lived in a small apartment. I lived in a I was uh as a baby was in a six foot by 8 foot apartment. My parents got uh divorced when I was one. My my life though, by the way, was filled with much massive abundance of love, of guidance, not of money, right? So, I'm not like poor me. My childhood was unbelievable blessing, even though they knew I was going blind and we didn't have money, right? So, why' I do that? I did it because for me to fill those three U-Hauls uh with toys, right, was

um about the same as some people in America buying a pizza for people. So it was my way of saying thank you. I see you brother because you're a person of massive influence and I believe in sustainable giving. So if you're listening you go oh so you only do things for causes when something good can happen for you. Well almost

when good can happen for the mission I'm loyal to. This brother has the ability to do that because of those U-Haul. All those kids had an amazing so it's a great cause.

I will only give to great causes. I will only give to causes where I believe in efficiency. But there's a third criteria that I call call out in sustainable giving and I've given raised mass money for charity. But if you're in love with your charity

and you're not going to serve the people that you want to do things with with something more than hey give to my charity because this is a great cause. I mean what are you going to do? Give to deaf kids or blind kids, sex traffic kids or you know getting blind people employed? We're going to have a we're going to have a heroic unique identity off or brand off of which charity is better. These are incredible causes, all of them. You have to cause things for people. I knew what could happen if we did more together. I knew who you were.

You didn't know who I was yet. So, I was there with a pizza with three U-Haul trucks. I'm there this year with a bigger pizza. Breaking the record. But the truth is, I was there and and I'm there for people. I I talk to Uber drivers. I talk to people in bathrooms. They're handing you towels. I have people be seen always in my presence. That's a something fully committed to. But I also knew there's magic to be created in the world. And I want to apologize to you because today when you came here, right, you're in New Jersey.

You know, we've offered cars. We have cars for you, different things. You know, you have your own car that you have. Um, I wasn't here to greet you walking in the building. And I was embarrassed because where I was raised, when you have guests, you go out of your way. And I do that with our certification partners, the people in our programs. I'm here to serve. So why' I do it? One, to serve. to was my version having a pizza ready for you or a chocolate cake something that meant something to somebody of your magnitude and impact and also represented that I see you brother I see that you're at my Christmas and holiday party when you Dan Fletcher could be anywhere with anyone on earth on that day around the holidays I am massively grateful I understand who is sitting in this room I understand the blessing and privilege of being on your podcast for a second time I understand that you have choices that most humans

could never dream love and my family taught me how to respect that, how to honor that and see you and that's why I did it and for all the kids but I could have done it for blind kids or deaf kids but that's what I meant.

Uh you mentioned certification partners a few times. What are you referring to? What is that?

Sure. So uh it's our highest level program. Um it's full, no joke, no seats. It's full. Uh these are people who've invested six figures to be a part of the program that we consult, we train, we coach. which we call it actualizing and we create businesses with and these are remarkable human beings in the world and there's not one of these people Dan that at this point I don't love well I love and respect everybody but I I don't like I like them all I love everybody I respect everybody I'll drop lightning bolts I'll fight people I'll mother f people when necessary to bring justice and equity to the world I'll do you know my job as Leonitis when I have to or Batman right but these are human beings I like I appreciate I trust I respect to go forward in the world with. They have trusted us and we have an unbelievable relationship. And then the leaders in our visioner program which is taking active to the world. These are

lawyers, accountants, financial service providers. These are trainers, coaches, speakers, authors. These are remarkable people in technology space, everything. Um, but they're the closest people to us in our programs in the world and they're human beings I plan to change the world with. So 2026 and beyond you're going to be going on a hiring spree because the AI AI company, medical revenue coverage, etc. These are all

very scaling businesses. Why should someone work for the Caligi world? Yes. Three reasons you should ever consider to be anywhere um if people can help you one grow personally, two grow professionally and three grow financially better than any other opportunity. Um with our work in act eye the platform building unblinded there's no greater opportunity for people to grow personally grow professionally and grow financially than working with us. We we will be loyal to an agreed upon state of mission. We will help people um who are masterfully competent with our masterful competence of running, building, growing, scaling. You know we have tens of thousands of medical revenue recovery files. We have massive complex litigations. We have these unblinded thousand person events. We understand how to handle super complex things. All those famous people. Thank you Dan. Thank you Darren Prince as well

for all those things that happened at our last event. We know how to do that. So I'm massively confident and we will be in aligned empowerment. I can tell you who does not like working for us. People that are significance driven, ego driven, people that are certainty driven, but people who are growth driven, heart-c centered, integrous committed to mastery. It is the greatest personal professional financial growth opportunity anybody can ever be had. If you want to be safe, secure, know what you're doing every day, I'm serious, go be a police officer. I think it is one of the great most honorable things you could do.

I think it is one of the greatest positions for certainty driven. It's very risky for your your health and safety, but you know what your job is every day. You're going to dynamically go fight crime. It's beautiful.

A lot of folks though don't like to be in the world with me if you're not prepared for dynamism. We will change pivot on a dime to move forward the mission every way as we are loyal to it. So, typically on the podcast I cover three core topics. I'm just going to ask you one rapidfire question for each of the three since normally I just do that as the whole episode like last time. It's how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity.

On the how to make money side, why do you think people hold back from ever going above the 40 grand, the 50 grand, the 60 grand, etc. year job? What holds them back from taking the next step?

Yeah, because they don't know how to. So, I think that's the like Tony Robbins talks about the tyranny of how. I agree with him. So people don't get started, but people literally once they start, they don't know how to exponentially grow your sales meetings of the highest quality by talking to people you don't know. That's the key. They don't know how and then they're afraid to talk to people they don't know with intentionality. They hope to like bump into them. You have to intentionally create things through shared experiences. But that's my answer.

On the investing side, why are people scared to invest their money once they do start making the 100 grand, 120, 180, they start growing their career? what makes them so scared to invest their money?

Yeah, I think people again they don't know how to um and so people don't know how to and then I think two crazy things happen. Either they they um spend all their money. That's the biggest challenge right?

Uh or second um they invest in crazy things because they like people. So it's like don't invest in crazy things you like people and don't spend all your money. Create intentional investment strategy that this brother talks about all the time. Listen to him. He's way more masterful at that than I am. Right. and he is uh so listen to Dan um and invest your money consistently regularly and create a diversified portfolio where you have things that you're very sure or or you know wonderful and then things that are more risky that fit into your profile and you crush the world. But absolutely do not just spend all your money. Dad doesn't do that. I don't do that. Don't do that.

Yeah. I've had the same watch since 2008. 17 years. And here's mine. I'm not even wearing one right now.

No. 17 years. Same watch. Amen. Uh, for 7 years I didn't even have a car. I just Ubered everywhere. And even now I don't really drive. But um,

can I say something for fun? Yeah. So I have um my beach house. I have two beach houses. My oceanfront beach house is a $3 million house. I can afford a 20 million. I can afford a 30 million. I love my house. It's never changing, right? For the very same reasons you're saying. So yeah, don't live above your means. So, you guys have heard me say this before, but for any of the new listeners, one of the biggest things that happens is someone does go from 60 grand to 80 grand, 80 grand to 120, 120 to 160, and they start to really earn bigger and bigger income for their household, and they don't know why they have the exact same amount of money in their bank account at the end of the month. And the reason for it is they go from the two-bedroom apartment to the three-bedroom, the three-bedroom to the fourbedroom house, but they're still just them and their husband or them and their wife. Yeah,

then they have one kid, but now they have a five-bedroom house, but you don't ever go to the fourth and fifth bedroom. You don't go to that extra living room.

And too often people are like, "Oh, it's only $800 difference from this apartment to this apartment." No, $800 difference is $10,000 a year.

Yeah. $10,000 a year. You live in that place for five or six years. 50 or 60 grand for the third bedroom that you've never been to, though. There's probably still plastic on the couch cuz you never go into that room.

You go get the second and third car. Ah, it's only an extra 800 bucks a month. No, it's again, it's $10,000 a year. Imagine that $10,000 a year, you were deploying into the S&P 500.

That $10,000 a year, you were buying gold or Bitcoin. That $10,000 a year, you were buying 50K, 100K worth of real estate because you could leverage the 10K. That extra thing that you're like, ah, it's just 800 bucks a month here and there. It's literally holding you back from generational wealth. And so the thing I say is when you go from the 60k to 80k and 80k to 120 and you're building up your career, if you can continue on that same 23 bed in place, if you can continue on with the same one to two cars, if you can continue on without buying the second, third, and fourth watch, you will literally change the course of your life by just not wasting the money. Now, I'm not saying don't go to Starbucks and don't buy the coffee. Listen, you can still enjoy your life with what I'm talking about. What I am saying is you don't need a third car. You have one butt. You don't need a third watch. You

really only have one wrist. Could you wear two watches? You could, but it look kind of silly unless you're Kevin Olri. And so he loves wearing two watches.

Okay. And then the final question. Guys, one thing. So, real quick. So, so many people that you and I know, we have many people we know in common are living so profoundly, shockingly above their means. And because somebody has 3 million followers on Instagram doesn't mean that they have any money in the bank and have any ability to do things. It is constant. It is repeated and I have great empathy because people do exactly that. I I know a dear friend who has millions of people online that lives in like a 50,000 foot house and his massive financial stress. 50,000 square foot. I'm not exaggerating. Um so yeah, don't do that.

Yeah. You too often people are living to impress other people. So like when we're both showing that there's no watch on our wrist is that that very concept.

Um too often people are buying things to show off to people. They're buying Louis Vuitton and Gucci and fancy clothes

to show off to these other people and they don't realize that those people don't care.

Absolutely. They literally don't care that you're wearing Louis Vuitton and that person is not going to be at your funeral

100%. And so often times when I talk about like think the bad things that happened in life or the lawsuit with the county for the ranch or the headache with this person over here or the business went up and down like I talk about real things and good and bad on social media because I want it to be relatable to people. You are going to go through lawsuits. You're gonna have people pass away. I've had 39 people pass away. I talk about it publicly. You're gonna have zero, one, two, three, four people pass away in your life.

And so I talk about the bad things because it's much more relatable for people to actually have that forum to talk about death, lawsuits, employees leaving situations that happen in real life. Too often, everyone makes it seem like everything's perfect and everything's pretty all the time.

I do what's called building in public. All right. All right. So, the final part on the charity side, why do you think it's important for company owners to have some type of charity involved in their brand, whether it's for their employees to feel part of it or for their brand, customers, clients, and vendors?

Yeah. Because um people don't care about money that much. Like once people get to a point that they have the money that they think is appropriate for them, whether they're living at Hate Ashberry in San Francisco with their pet dog and they're begging for money every day or panhandling or they're a billionaire with a 300 foot yacht in the Monaco Yacht Club, right? Uh people just don't care about money that much. Eventually, they get to a point where they're satisfied and they want purpose and fulfillment. So, let's just start there from the beginning and realize that for every one of us, we could live at a higher vibrational level or lower. And we're going to live higher vibrationally if we're doing something for something larger than oursel. So if your team is hoping to grow personally, I say personally professionally financially and they're connected to a charitable element and dynamic, banging go. There

you go. So people want to stay. If you only help people grow financially, they'll never stay with you. If you only help people grow professionally and financially never stay with you is personal, professional, financial can only be personal, but has to be all three. And that's why Dan, my brother, I believe people should be charitably connected. Can I share two other quick things? Sure. Okay. So, um just on this point um that you mentioned a moment ago, I am so clear and present to the fact that um people suffer and people want to impress people. The greatest way that you can impress people is by doing more good in the world and just loving people. Like that is the greatest thing you can possibly do. It isn't by where you live. It isn't by what you have. The person I bid for the $100 bill against is a wonderful person. They made tons of money and they were all dressed out in Louis Vuitton. you know, I didn't have

like garbage on, you know, I had a spider like, you know, kind of ski outfit that maybe cost like 800 bucks. This person was probably wearing $25,000 of clothes, right? But don't believe that that's the person that's more impact, more financial ability. Just don't believe that. It's not Instagram followers. Um, it's not the clothing. It's not even the house or the cars. It's people who are living, as you're saying, on that higher purpose. And I made a big mistake before that I violated that. I just want to clean up.

Thank you for the final final is naming the people. Tink Nicole Melo, Adam Gino, Fernando Valencia, FJV are co-founders of Unblinded. I would be nowhere without them. Michael Smiken of Caligie Smiken, Tom McGre, Mark Winters, co-founders of Calgary Recovery. Beler, Coast, the Heart of Influence, amazing personally and professionally in all kinds of ways in my life. without these people, uh, Mona, my, uh, Selena's mom, Peggy, Tyler Corn, Emma's mom, these human beings, my parents, my grandparents, my high school coaches, the people in the program, and a hundred names, I should be saying, I'm not right now. I apologize to you for not saying your name right now, but all of those people are essential component parts of everything I build. Just like my brother, you have massive bliss yourself. And of course, this brother right here sitting here, we are not on the trajectory we're on without him. I

always honor Tony Robbins. I can never pay Tony 100 lifetimes for everything he's done for me and many many more people. So, thank you for letting me share that.

Okay, so you have a podcast that's fully fully launched now and you've got all these different brands. Can you just rattle off the name so people can research if it's the law firms, the AI, the medical revenue?

So, uh medical revenue recovery is Caligie Recovery. Uh we're partnering with medical associations across America right now. State medical assides, others partnership deal sign. Unbelievable. Cali recovery. Caligi Smiken is the law firm. Integris financial is our financial company. Unblinded is the place to like connect in beautiful big ways and our uh actualization of people financially time freedom duplication scaling and act eye is our company. It's AI plus the unbinded formula. Act this is our fund uh the heart of influences our online show. The show unbinded podcast is the podcast and thank you.

That's a lot of stuff going on. I see you have a lot of action going on. So that's why I'm here so often now because I I want to help with your mission and your vision. Okay, as you guys know, uh it's your support that has kept this podcast so high up in the rankings by you sharing, commenting, liking, subscribing, etc. We have been running this adree. I spend 70,000 a month on this podcast for the last two and a half years to keep it adree for you guys and so that you can enjoy it with a 93% listen rate because I'm not reading commercials. I'm not reading ads. I'm not saying at some point I won't, but I won't be reading I promise you I won't be reading these two-minute reads. I would like to do some type of main sponsor type deal like Wells Fargo or Cash App or Hertz Renar, someone that I work with, but I'm not going to be reading for, you know, pills and websites and things like that. So, if

you can like, comment, subscribe, share, etc. All those things truly do help keep us up in the rankings because we want to get this message across. It is not rude to talk about money. Money is not the root of all evil. Are there bad parts that can happen from money? Sure. Are there bad things that can happen from people making more money? Sure. That is a tiny percentage compared to good that you can do in this world with money for your medical bills, for your parents, for your kids, for your family, for your friends, for your employees. Money is a very useful tool for all those things.

And so we want to keep talking about it so that we can have open discussions with our friends, family, and followers. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you guys next Monday here on moneymunddays.com.

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