From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 EP121

What this episode is about

The conversation features boxing champion Andre Berto discussing his journey from a troubled childhood to becoming a two-time world champion and Olympic athlete. Berto shares insights into his early life, his aggressive nature, and how the influence of his immigrant parents and father's MMA background helped channel his energy into boxing, ultimately leading to his success in the sport.

Key takeaways

• Boxing stardom isn't handed out; it's earned through relentless hustle and a punchy backstory.
• Social media didn't exist for early pros—today's fighters must navigate a crowded inbox to grab attention!
• Finding a savvy manager is crucial; without guidance, even the best punches may land in obscurity.
• Boxing's financial hurdles mean success often starts with mowing lawns and washing cars—not just gloves and rings.
• In a sea of talent, charisma and strategy can be a fighter's best weapons—who needs a knockout?

Who speaks in this episode?

• Andre Berto (Guest) · 19 min speaking
• Unknown Host (Host) · 8 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Andre Berto, Bob Arum, Oscar de la Hoya, Eddie Hearn
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Holly Holm
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Canelo, Chavez Jr.
4. 20:00 – 25:00: Andre Berto
5. 25:00 – 27:14: Andre Berto

Notable quotes from "From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 EP121"

• Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of the Money Mondays.

  about Money Mondays · at 0:00

• Me? Yeah. Hell yeah. Oh, yo, what's going on? It's your boy Andre Berto. We are here in the building. a 2004 Olympian, two-time boxing world champion, and I've been smacking people for a very long time. That's pretty much.

  about Andre Berto · at 0:49

• Mean who has plugs you know when it comes to all the big you know network there's only like a half a dozen main guys in boxing still like decades later Bob Arum over here yeah…

  about Bob Arum · at 4:08

• Rousey. Mike Tyson went through it as well. So, she was 11 to1 favorite against Holly Holm.

  about Holly Holm · at 8:19

• So, we're going to see how he's going to continue to move forward. So, it's a tough game. So, we got a big fight coming up with Canelo and Crawford. Yes, sir. Really big. What are your thoughts, man? Man, it's a tough It's a tough one.

  about Canelo · at 10:30

• The 28th against Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's fighting against he's fighting against what's his name? Chavez Jr., Yeah, which he's another guy that us within the fighting community. Yeah, you don't respect. What does Jake need to fight?

  about Chavez Jr. · at 14:16

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Andre Berto — Person · Main guest · 6 mentions · first at 0:27
  Primary interview subject; discusses his boxing career, how fighters make money, the mental game, and post-retirement business/charity.
• Canelo — Person · Referenced elite boxer / benchmark opponent · 5 mentions · first at 10:33
  Discussed as the elite standard at 168 lbs and as a hypothetical/rumored opponent for Jake Paul; also central to the Canelo vs Crawford talk.
• Bob Arum — Person · Referenced boxing power broker · 1 mention · first at 4:18
  Cited as a top promoter illustrating how boxing careers often depend on a small number of influential promoters and networks.
• Oscar de la Hoya — Person · Referenced boxing power broker · 1 mention · first at 4:20
  Named as one of the small set of key boxing decision-makers/promoters that fighters need access to for major opportunities.
  Guys in boxing still like decades later Bob Arum over here yeah Oscar de la Hoya like there's main characters that are like they're main characters you got the Bob Arum the top…
• El Heymon — Person · Referenced boxing power broker · 1 mention · first at 4:26
  Mentioned as the key figure behind PBC, illustrating the small set of gatekeepers controlling major boxing opportunities.
  Characters that are like they're main characters you got the Bob Arum the top rank you got Golden Boy you got PBC with El Heymon now you guys got guys like Eddie Hearn over at the zone on.
• Eddie Hearn — Person · Referenced boxing promoter · 1 mention · first at 4:32
  Listed among the current top promoters shaping boxing’s business landscape (Matchroom/DAZN era).
  Rank you got Golden Boy you got PBC with El Heymon now you guys got guys like Eddie Hearn over at the zone on.
• Holly Holm — Person · Referenced athlete / upset example · 1 mention · first at 8:24
  Referenced as the underdog who beat Ronda Rousey; used to emphasize overlooked credentials and the mental aftermath of a shocking loss.
• Chavez Jr. — Person · Referenced upcoming opponent · 1 mention · first at 14:19
  Mentioned as Jake Paul’s scheduled opponent and framed as a fighter the community doesn’t highly respect, reinforcing the matchmaking/credibility debate.

Books & papers

• Money Mondays — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 0:05
  Mentioned as part of the podcast's branding and theme, focusing on financial discussions.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:05 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of the Money Mondays. Normally, we do this podcast inside of an RV motor home for the last 125ish episodes, but my friend is in town. He's about to host a big boxing event going on right outside of the W Hotel in Hollywood. So, I'm here with Roger and Freddy, content CEO inside the studio. So, I decided, why don't we make a podcast real quick before Andre Berto, the legend in the boxing space, goes downstairs and hosts this big event. So, as you guys know, we cover three core topics. How to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. But today, we're going to we're going to make some moves because we got Andre Bird in the house. So, if you can, Mr.

0:45 Andre Berto, give us a quick two-minute bio. So, we get straight to the money. Me? Yeah. Hell yeah. Oh, yo, what's going on? It's your boy Andre Berto. We are here in the building. Um, a 2004 Olympian, two-time boxing world champion, and I've been smacking people for a very long time. That's pretty much You boxing from a kid? Yes. Yes. Yes, man. I was a troubled kid growing up, man. You know, my parents, they were immigrant parents from Haiti. Uh, so they were working all the time, so they just gave us a lot of of time to be outside and get in trouble. And for some reason somehow um you know I was just a very aggressive kid. You know what I'm saying? Very aggressive kid and and and I just didn't take any type of [ __ ] at all. So um you know so I used to put my hands on a lot of kids growing up. Um and you know it got to a point man got to a point my teachers um you know I used to call my parents all the time

1:41 like this. You got to do something with did it again. Yeah man. You got to do something with this kid man. He's he's he he has a lot of energy. He has a lot of [ __ ] to him. you guys need to take him somewhere progressive so he can let a lot of his energy out of my dad you know he was an MMA fighter. So um you know so he trained in a lot of different you know me spaces and disciplines and she started taking me to the boxing gym with him and ever since then man just fell in love with it. So on the make money side of the podcast. Yes sir. At what point can a boxer make money?

2:10 Because the first one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 years kind of hard to make money right? You're just living off of sponsor money but boxing is expensive. You got to get trainers and coaches and food and supplements and gym time. Like there's a lot of money that goes into it. How do you make money? Um I me myself, I was, you know, I was a little bit, you know, fortunate as a professional. I'm not going to say fortunate because I put in a lot of work, right? You know, just coming from the amateurs. Um you know, I went to the Olympics in 2004. So turning pro, I had a lot of I have a lot I had a lot of eyes on. A lot of big promoters, a lot of big managers. uh you know, but a lot of kids, man, they they're not as fortunate and they want to turn pro, they want to box just in general. Um you know, so I mean, so as an amateur, I had to do, like I said, I had to work. I had to, uh, you know, cuz I was mowing

2:59 yards. We had car washes. We did everything we could just to get a dollar just to move around and go to these, you know, I mean, local tournaments just to be known, just to be heard. And um, you didn't even have social media back then. They didn't even have social media back then. A smartphone 2004. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So I had to make my iPhone, you know. So I had to make a point every time I went to a tournament. My name is Andreto. My name is Andre Berto and y'all going to see me. I win that thing. Just had to really, really, really make sure my presence was known every time. So you know, you know, like you said, we didn't have social media.

3:30 So the people I had to go out there and knock out, they everybody else had to go out there and talk, right? And that [ __ ] spread like wildfire, man. It smell like wildfire. So when you go from amateur to pro Yeah. Do you need a manager, an agent? Can people do it on their own? What has to happen to people? Yeah, people can do it on their own. Um, you know, but you're going to be playing a long game at that point. Uh, you mean like boxing doesn't have a union, so you really can turn pro if you want to, but but most likely you're going to be fighting it properly. Like local bar is fighting for 200 bucks. um you know so it's great to find you a great established manager you know you mean who has plugs you know when it comes to all the big uh you know network there's only like a half a dozen main guys in boxing still like decades later Bob Arum over here yeah Oscar de la Hoya like there's main

4:23 characters that are like they're main characters you got the Bob Arum the top rank you got Golden Boy um you got PBC with El Heymon um now you guys got guys like Eddie Hearn over at the zone on. Yeah, those are probably like the main four to five. You me like top guys now. But now you guys have you know Turkey Alashik over there in Saudi Arabia, you know, paying he is paying come on over paying the big bread to get all the kids over, man. And uh and like I said, he paid his way to get into the game. Sure. And you know, he's like I say, he got a chance just to shake it up within the last few months, within the last year.

4:58 And um yeah, I I mean I I mean I say right now he's the man in boxing right now, but I think he's bringing in as you can see my man Dana White as well. So yeah, I mean so I'm looking forward to see what they're going to do. Well, things are different now. There is social media. Yes. But there is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe a million boxers around the planet. Yeah. Only a certain amount of thousands that are actually good and can actually go for it. What can you do to stand out if you're actually good? I'm not saying for the bad ones. You actually you actually have a chance, right? You're you're 10 and you're 10 and three. You got a shot at going thing. How can you stand out from all the other 10 and three boxers, man? Just right now, just like you said, like we have social media now. You guys need to utilize it. I see a guy like like Ryan Garcia. Exactly.

5:43 You know, like I said, all of us had to go through the go to the Olympics and blah blah. We had to, you know, I mean, just try to use all these different things to be hurt. But you see a guy like Ryan, he's good, but he really speed tracked his situation with social media. So I tell a lot of I mean I tell all these young guys now, man, if you're good, if you're saying you're as good as you are, continue to train, fight, but you need to document everything. Document everything. Put it out there. Let these people see who you are. You know, pick up that phone and make sure to talk to you. Let these people understand your story and continue showing these guys that you're knocking everybody out of your training hard. You need to use social media. Yeah. I mean, like I can say to your benefit cuz ultimately boxing is a show. Of course it is.

6:26 That's why the the why the weigh-ins happen, right? That's why the the [ __ ] talking happens. That's a fact. That's how you sell tickets and pay for sell tickets, man. You have all that old school [ __ ] Just sitting back promoter. Nah, it's all over. Go out there, promote yourself. You I mean, train hard. Continue to post. Continue to document. You mean knock these guys out. Continue to post. Continue to document. You're going to have your own You mean that press conference see your room. You can have your own, you know, promotion.

6:53 Promote yourself, train hard, and go out there, make it happen. That shit's going to fly. So, quick non-money question. The mental game. Yes. Speaking of Ryan Garcia, both those fights seemed like he lost before he walked in. Yeah. I mean, it's a dear friend of mine, but it feels like he's got the skills to beat both those guys, except Well, not all the time, but let's say out of a hundred times, he could beat them some of the time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But in those situations, he couldn't because of and something was going on his mind like he went down with that kidney shot. It looked like at at the 8:00 he stood right up. Like he could have actually stood up. He could have stood up. He's like, "Ah, I don't know. I don't know if I want to." You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

7:32 That's one thing about it, man. This fight game is so mental. It's so mental. That's one great thing about this event tonight that I'm going to about the mental health aspect of boxing because you have some of your highest highs in life and you have some of your lowest lows, you know, when it comes to this fight game just like you said about, you know, I mean, like Ryan Garcia, you know, he just went where he just had another loss. So, you know, I mean, I'm going to be looking forward to see how he's going to come back mentally now.

8:01 You know, physically he has the skills for sure. A lot of guys, a lot of guys. I mean, I even went through it myself after my first loss. Of course, I still had the skill, but mentally do I still have the confidence walking there and do it again. I've seen it happen over and over and over again to a lot of the greatest fighters. Ronda Rousey. Ronda Rousey. Uh uh you know, I mean, Mike Tyson went through it as well. So, she was 11 to1 favorite against Holly Holm. Yep. But people forgot Holly Holm was like a seventime boxing champion. And that's a fact. That's a fact. when she lost that fight, that was it for Holly.

8:33 Sorry, that was it for uh Rhonda. And that was it. And I mean, the movie star after that and just walking into the next fight, I could literally see it on her face. She was trying to blind it out and try to walk in there, focus, but like I said, I went through it myself. So, I got a chance to really see her demeanor coming into that ring and I was like, "Oh [ __ ] man. It's going to happen." It's like you're walking back into a nightmare. If you're not getting your mind right, it seems like you're walking back into that same nightmare that ruined your life the last time. So, it's definitely a mental out of there.

9:03 You just want to get out of there. You know what I mean? So, it's it's a you know, I mean, it's a wild ride. Can anybody beat Deon Haney right now? Oh, yeah. I mean, as you can see, like even um you know, I mean, last fight with Deon Haney um you know, he went through a situation with Ryan, he lost to Ryan. Very embarrassing time. Um, you know, he got a chance to see how he was on top of the world. He got embarrassed by Ryan Garcia in front of the world and he had to sit out for a year to deal with that in his house alone. Now all these people that praised you now talking all the [ __ ] talking to you crazy, saying you're a bum and making memes and all that.

9:44 Social media just made it worse, of course. You mean memes everywhere and and like I said, just me just being a fighter now for like 20 21 years. I wanted to see how he was going to come back, you know, mentally. I I mean, it didn't matter to me that how hard he trained, the pictures that he took, looking like he was in shape. I wanted to see how he was going to react once he walked back into that same squirrel circle where he got embarrassed the last time. And you know, he showed up, but a lot of people said, "Okay, you know, he fought. The fight was boring. It looked like he had like some type of like PTSD.

10:16 He was fighting very, you know, I mean, like very skittish. Um, you know, I think he just wanted just to get that under his belt and uh, you know, I mean, just to come back for a win and process it and and uh, you know, just move on. So, we're going to see how he's going to continue to move forward. So, it's a tough game. So, we got a big fight coming up with Canelo and Crawford. Yes, sir. Really big. What are your thoughts, man? Man, it's a tough It's a tough one. Um, [ __ ] Terence Crawford, I mean I mean I love both guys, but Terence Crawford is doing something very extreme and I don't think people realize how tough that is to jump up two to three weight classes. Sure. To fight a guy.

11:04 Um, you know, he's daring to be great. Um, it's a lot of money on the line, so of course that, you know, I mean, that added Yeah. to the fire and why he wanted to do it. But, um, I mean, it'll be great. It'll be amazing if he's able to go in there and have the skills that he needs to beat Canelo, which everybody believes that he does. But like I said, Canelo fights in 168. He's been there for the last, I don't know, five, I mean, four or five to six years. He's nice. He's settled. He's strong at that weight class. And I think it's going to be a complete different feel than what Terrence is used to. Now, we have to wait and see, you know, once he gets hit with one of those shots, you by Canelo how his body is going to react. That's going to be the question. That's going to be the main thing. If he's able to withstand it, okay, we got us a fight. If he's not, it's going to look ugly, right?

12:00 Yeah. So, also on the make money side, there is one in particular character that helped make boxing famous again. Yeah. That has a ton of drama, [ __ ] talking. all time. And but he's brought in hundreds of millions of views. Yes, sir. Sold out arenas and stadiums. Yes, sir. Sold out pay-per-views and broke records. Like, what are your thoughts on Jake Paul and the concept of influencers coming into boxing? Jake Paul, my guy, you know, good friends with Jake. Um Um I think it's great for the sport, man. I think it's great for the sport.

12:36 It's definitely, you know, like I said, it's definitely put a lot more eyes on the sport, you know, when it comes to just like casual fans. Um, and a lot of people that didn't that wasn't really into boxing, especially the younger demographic. Of course, like younger demographic. But one thing I do respect about Jake is is he's taking it serious, right? He's really training. He's really training. He really put a real team around him. He's going through real training camps. I know a lot of people in this team, you know, he's hired the best of the best within boxing to train them and work with them. You know what I mean? Just like all the way across the board. So, that's one thing do I love about Drake.

13:12 Um, you know, but like I said, this is a tough game. This is a game that you really have to put in a lot of years, uh, to really try to, you know, I mean, try your best to try to master it. Um, I know he's trying to fast track it, but, you know, but with this [ __ ] I don't think you can really fast track, you know what I mean? He's doing a great job. um you know I said marketing himself and fighting the type of guys he's fighting to continue to build that uh you know I mean that interest for him as well and he's generating a shitload of money but when he really gets in there with some real fighters you know we may see a big difference I mean the only you know real boxer that he fought was uh was Tommy Fury. Yeah. And and neither one of them really did anything that fight. Exactly. And you know, like to be honest, you know, when it comes to the boxing, you know, fraternity, we don't really

14:04 really see Tommy as a real boxer, but he does have, you know, he has skills and he beat Jake, you know, so uh you know, so we're going to see, man. I think, like I say, just overall I think it's great for the sport. Jake's fighting on the 28th against Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's fighting against he's fighting against uh what's his name? Chavez Jr., Yeah, which he's another guy that us within the fighting community. Yeah, you don't respect. What does Jake need to fight? Uh fight Canelo, but that that shouldn't happen, right? Yeah. I mean I mean I heard it was going to happen though. I did hear about that. Yeah, I heard about it, but I can't see how I mean he's bringing the money.

14:41 That's bringing the money. You making the money that sound I mean [ __ ] I was on talking about even me. I was caught off guard with it, man. They almost really made the fight happen like this. Like the papers were signed. Okay. If that fight happens. Ah, no. I mean, and again, I love Jake, but on what plan does he beat Canelo? No, it ain't happen. That ain't happen. No, not at all. No. Ever. Ever. You know, Jake's my guy, but for sure. Of course. But that's not happen. That's not happening. Um Um Well, I have a question. Four years from now and he does 20 more fights, can he fight Canó? Or does that not matter because Canó's done it for 20 years, 30 years? Yeah, I mean I mean I think I think you like I said I've been a Brown, you know, a boxer for a very long time.

15:26 You can see you can see if somebody has the stuff to compete on that type of level. But at the same time, like I said, he's still growing in the sport. Maybe four or five years, his skills may advance in a way that uh that I mean that we can sit back and say, "Okay, you know, maybe." But right now, no. So, you were the last one to ever actually professionally fight with Floyd Mayweather. Yep. Flight number 50. Mhm. Logan went in there and that's a humongous size difference. Huge. Humongous size difference. Logan's a big boy. Do you think that Mayweather ever actually fights Jake?

16:03 Yeah, he could. I mean, at this point, at this point in the game, Jake has came in. Jake has shown people that he can generate a lot of money. So at that point, I mean, I believe he can fight anybody. You I mean, it doesn't I mean, it doesn't matter if if the true hardcore, you know, boxing fans might respect it, but but it's entertainment. Especially right now, it's entertainment. They got a chance to show you that, you know, where the whole Mike Tyson Mike Tyson, you know what I'm saying? I mean, everybody started crazy.

16:36 It's [ __ ] But I was at that fight. That [ __ ] stadium was packed. You know what I'm saying? Matters, right? Yeah. had like 6 billion views on you know I mean on Netflix so it doesn't matter at this point a lot of this [ __ ] now in boxing is entertainment so he's able to do whatever he wants all right so we talked a lot about boxers making money fame etc now let's say you've made the money right you fight Floyd Mayweather it's time to retire there's a lot of options you could do you know hosting on boxing shows you build gyms you can build supplement companies how do you take the next chapter once you've retired from the sport you know that's one thing about it I It's uh I mean it's extremely hard, you know what I mean?

17:14 Just me just being in the space and and just me just really uh you know, kind of stepping away um to just focus more on business and um and just even for somebody like myself that that I've always had a great network of huge uh you know, I mean just I'm just like somebody everybody, you know, to a point I've sat in masterminds. I've learned so much about, you know, just overall just business, but it's still a transition that can be pretty tough. Um, like when you're at the events, what percent of you wants to jump in the ring? All the time, right? All the time. And and you know, it got I mean, it got to a point I kind of got tired of a little bit because every time I went to every event, you know, everybody just wanted to talk to me about boxing, right?

17:57 Because you still look fresh. You still look like you're ready to go. Exactly. You know what I mean? But it gets to a point, it gets to a point that, okay, cool. Um, you know, I need to just have one win outside of the ring. I mean, business-wise, so I can have start having some different conversations. And that's what and that's what I've been at, you know, for some time. And I had a great, you know, conversation with my boy Shaq. Um, you know, he said the same thing. He's like, man, you know what? I hate when people talk to me about basketball. I want people to respect me for my business sense. Now when you come to speak to me, yeah, I did that [ __ ] way back then, but talk about all the companies I own. Talk about this, talk about this. I want to be able to have those different type of conversation. So I think that's a different type of source of respect. I already have all the belts on the wall. I already have

18:43 all the titles. Not too many people can make that transition. Sure. And jump in and be respected. Mhm. So, so most times when people retire from any sport or retire from acting or retire from anything, they kind of fade away into oblivion, right? That's a fact. How do you stay so relevant? How do you stay out there? Um, you know, for me, man, I think, you know, I've always been, you know, I love media, you know, just like you say, um, yeah, I love media. Um, I have a great yummy network of great friends that are heavy in a lot of different uh, you know, yummy spaces. I was never one of those guys that that that only thought of himself as a fighter. I'm a boxer.

19:25 You don't need to talk to me. You're not talking about boxing or training or coming to a fight. You know what I mean? I was always one of those guys like, "Okay, cool." You know, I want to dive into this. I want to talk about this. I want to I want to jump in this business. I want people to see me and see all the different, you know, I mean, and all the different, you know, sizes and layers of me and all different aspects. So, um, I think it's really been the main thing that's really kind of been keeping me, you know, relevant this long and being able to continue to speak because a lot of these fighters, a lot of these athletes period, they think that we're just dumb brutes and we don't know [ __ ] you know, outside of the sport. A lot of these guys don't talk. They don't get off I mean I mean they don't get on social media and actually talk and let people Yeah. I mean let people in know

20:09 who they are you know like I say just as people. I think that's a big flaw but it's always been one of my big big benefits. Yeah. The professional speaker athletes are the wealthiest in the game. When you think about Magic Johnson billionaire Shaquille O'Neal A-Rod has 19,000 apartments. Crazy, right? Like crazy. These are legends from sports, but they transition to becoming professional speakers and investors into companies. So, when you get all these different options, because you know so many people, yeah, you can invest in cryptocurrency, the stock market, private businesses, real estate.

20:43 How do you pick when you're bombarded with so many different options? Oh, man. I mean, you got to sit back and study up. You got to be able to learn again. You know, I think that's one thing, too, man. A lot of, you know, a lot of great, you know, I mean, athletes, they do not feel like they should go back and be students. And I believe that you should, you know, especially outside the game. You need to, you know, put yourself in a space to humble yourself enough to be a student again. And a lot of us don't, you know, I mean, we put a lot of work in for a lot of years. We've been respected and always been seen at a certain level. So, how do you tell a guy with all this money and all of this fame and success to try to humble himself, sit in the crowd and listen? I mean, try to listen to I mean, try to listen to something else or sit down in the seat, you know what I mean? like at a mastermind and try to learn something

21:29 else. You understand what I'm saying? And a lot of guys, you know, even though you know, you know, outside of the game, if they haven't, you know what I mean, like made the right decisions, you know what I mean? And just knowing that they need to do something, they're not humble enough to sit back and try to be a student again or learn again. And it's always been a downfall. The video I posted a few hours ago was that I said, "Even though I speak at 100 events a year, afterwards I sit front row and listen." There you go. Because there's Ed Mlet. There you go. Gogggins. I want to learn from them. There you go. Like even though I book these guys, I'm friends with these guys. I sit front row and listen to them because I can then help the people that are coming to my mastermind coaching with me. I'm learning from them. I want to know things in real time. I'm listening. I'm studying all the time. That's a fact. I

22:14 mean I mean just like you like you I mean like I said like you've seen in real time with me. I'm sitting at these masterminds. I'll be there by myself, right? And people are around me. They're taking pictures. They want to sign out. I'm like, "All right, cool. Thanks. Let me sit down. You know what I'm saying? I think I think I think that's the great thing, you know, about me is the fact that I've always want to learn. I've always been a sponge. I've always been sponge and and like I say, that transition. I want to be a I'm like a strong example of that transition, right? I wish more athletes were doing this. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, man. But like I said, um you know, I see it.

22:48 Understand? Want to save these clips for later on when I make a billion and you know what I mean? sitting with Dan and really talking about this [ __ ] So, on the charity side, y why do you think it's important that athletes have some type of charity component for their communities or for their life? Um, you know, I really think uh, you know, when it comes down to it and you know, like the whole sports aspect and the fact that that you've been chosen, you've been blessed to be part of this small percentage of people, the small percentage of people to compete at such a high level and to be, you know, looked at and admired at such a high level.

23:31 me myself, you know, I don't believe that all of that is just for you. I believe that you've been you've been you've been exalted to a point to give and spread to everybody else as well. You know what I mean? I think I think I think you need to be able to find something that's a little bit, you know, I mean, like greater than yourself to really, you know, motivate you and to put those good, you know, I mean, jujus out to the world as well. God has blessed you to be I mean at a really I I mean at an amazing point in your life, you should always get you should always That's the way I've always looked at it. So there's one question that I ask on every single episode and I've never gotten the same answer before. What's that? Andre Berto, you end up making a billion dollars. Billy on that next company, supplement company, a chain of gyms, all these investments start to happen. Billion dollars. But unfortunately at some point

24:30 you pass away. What percentage of the billion dollars do you leave to those three kids? Ain't going to leave nothing. I know that's what I'm saying. I'm rich. Yeah, I'm rich. They ain't rich. They got to work for it. Uh [ __ ] I don't know. Two degrees to get money from me. Yeah, man. I mean, [ __ ] I don't know, man. I don't think I've I got to that point yet. I mean, I understand what everybody's saying. Um, you know, I've heard zero. I've heard 100% of Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, you know, I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure. I I have to I have to still, you know, relook at that question because, you know, like on one hand, I want my kids to work for everything that they get.

25:14 Um, you know, but then again, I want to be able to leave, like they said, like in the Bible, like I said, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. I want to be able to leave them something. So, so with that being said, I may leave a a good portion, say 50 or maybe 60%. But I'm going to put together such extensive and a crazy trust. Oh yeah. You know what I mean? Trust in place with requirements to be able to unlock this [ __ ] And if you're able to do it, [ __ ] is yours. I like that. You know what I'm saying? I want to I want to put them through the gauntlet. You know what I'm saying? So by the time they get this thing, man, they're just going to be transformed to completely different people. And once they get it, you'll know to do it. All right, we know you got to get to work.

25:59 You got to host this mental health event for Boston downstairs. Where can people find you across social media? Across social media, my name Andre Berto everywhere on Instagram, on Twitter, on on, you know, spaces, Tik Tok, everything. Andre Berto, man. Y'all holl at me. We got a lot going on. I'm excited. Um yeah, it's Money Monday. All right, guys. As you know, this podcast is designed for you to have real discussions with your friends, family, and followers about money. We grew up thinking it's rude to talk about money.

26:29 But I believe it's really the true reason that there's so much stress and anxiety and problems and credit card debt that's happening in our society is because we can't have open discussions about money. If you think about being rude, we have to have discussions. And so when you're out there with your friends, family, and followers, talk to them about leases and payments and salaries and cars, saving money, have real life discussions because it's part of your real life. There's nothing rude about it. We need to change the entire sentiment in our country and in our planet so that people can be educated about money. That's super important. So, as you guys know, follow Andre Berto across social media. Check us out on the moneymunddays.com. And we'll see you guys next Monday.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 EP121"?

Andre Berto (Guest), Unknown Host (Host).

What is "From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 EP121" about?

The conversation features boxing champion Andre Berto discussing his journey from a troubled childhood to becoming a two-time world champion and Olympic athlete. Berto shares insights into his early life, his aggressive nature, and how the influence of his immigrant parents and father's MMA background helped channel his energy into boxing, ultimately leading to his success in the sport.

What is mentioned in this The Money Mondays Podcast episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Andre Berto, Canelo, Bob Arum, Oscar de la Hoya, El Heymon, Eddie Hearn. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 EP121"?

The episode runs 27 min; the transcript is about 5,822 words in 40 timestamped sections.

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