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The New Definition of Wealth: Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Family w/ Steve Eckert 💪 EP 146

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The New Definition of Wealth: Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Family w/ Steve Eckert 💪 EP 146", an episode of The Money Mondays Podcast published November 17, 2025 (31 min, about 7,513 words). It mentions 13 people, works and ideas, including Operation Blacksite, Steve Eert, Money Mondays, Butterfly effect, Manufactured adversity.

What this episode is about

This content centers on redefining wealth by emphasizing the importance of a strong body, strong mind, and strong family. Guest Steve Eckert shares his experience and insights from years of supporting personal development through fitness and training, advocating for a holistic approach to investing in oneself to foster better individuals who can positively impact their communities.

Key takeaways

  • Discipline beats the couch: Consistent daily workouts trump doubters' overtraining claims; couch potatoes, take note!
  • The family that trains together, gains together: A daily ritual turned wealth beyond dollars.
  • Ripped at 50: Leading by example shows wealth isn't just monetary; it's multi-generational and relational.
  • Fitness over TikTok: Kids mimic parental engagement, not screen time; true wealth is time, not tech.
  • Study shock: 89% of millionaires hail from non-divorced homes; togetherness breeds success, both financial and familial.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Butterfly effect, Money Mondays, Open carry, Operation Blacksite
  2. – 15:00: Money Mondays, Operation Blacksite
  3. – 20:00: Manufactured adversity, Operation Blacksite, American Heart Association, Butterfly effect
  4. – 25:00: Squire Program
  5. – 30:00: Steve Eert, Operation Blacksite, Competence leads to confidence

Notable quotes from "The New Definition of Wealth: Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Family w/ Steve Eckert 💪 EP 146"

  • Why do you invest into yourself? This guest today, Steve Eert, has been with us here at Operation Blacksite for the last half a decade since we first started. You can check it out at operationblacksite.com.
    about Operation Blacksite · at
  • Out. and we've seen it in Dallas, Texas where there's not that much crime when people know there's open carry. And anyways, we're gonna get into all these topics. So, this…
    about Open carry · at
  • Let it happen because mainly for that reason. I know those little eyeballs are on me. George Patton said, You're always on parade. When he's talking about like in the military…
    about George S. Patton · at
  • Yeah, they it's it's manufactured adversity pretty much. They I do everything I can, like I said, to break the cycle to give them an awesome life.
    about Manufactured adversity · at
  • And appreciate and not just be entitled for and we've done them before for Big Brothers Big Sisters for American Heart Association for Autism 24-hour workouts all the time…
    about American Heart Association · at
  • Achieve a thousand times more than I ever could. So you also train with squire program with Bedro Koulian.
    about Squire Program · at
  • Competence leads to confidence. The smarter you are about topics, the more you practice shooting, fighting, escaping, etc. You will feel better in those type of situations. Hopefully,.
    about Competence leads to confidence · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Steve Eert — Person · 4 mentions · first at
    Why do you invest into yourself? This guest today, Steve Eert, has been with us here at Operation Blacksite for the last half a decade since we first started. You can check it out at operationblacksite.com.
  • George S. Patton — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Bedros Keuilian — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

Concepts & topics

  • Butterfly effect — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
    By doing that, I believe in what's called the butterfly effect. If we make better humans, we make them more skilled, more competent, more trained, they will help their families, their communities, their staff, their family,.
  • Manufactured adversity — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
  • Open carry — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • Competence leads to confidence — Concept · 1 mention · first at

Sponsors

Full transcript with timestamps

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Mondays podcast where we cover three core topics. How to make money, how to invest money, how to give it away to charity. But today, we're going to dive into topics about your body, mind, and soul. Why do you invest into yourself? This guest today, Steve Eert, has been with us here at Operation Blacksite for the last half a decade since we first started. You can check it out at operationblacksite.com. Steve was there at day one. He's actually the only instructor that's been at every single event every single day from 4:00 or 5 in the morning uh leading the optional workouts that he's going to explain what that means when I say optional to the very end of the night where we're here. You know, it's 10:00 at night after we just gone through the first couple days of training and we're here. So, he's been with us morning, noon, and night because he passionately

believes in helping people change their minds, their bodies, and their actions. By doing that, I believe in what's called the butterfly effect. If we make better humans, we make them more skilled, more competent, more trained, they will help their families, their communities, their staff, their family, their friends, etc. And the more people that are trained, I believe that less crime will happen because people will hopefully be more scared to commit crimes as we've seen in certain countries or states where they know if they [ __ ] around, they're going to find out. and we've seen it in Dallas, Texas where there's not that much crime when people know there's open carry. And anyways, we're gonna get into all these topics. So, this podcast will be much different. I want to dive into this because I want to cover this topic. So important. I'm actually doing this like a rush episode. This is coming out

literally this Monday. Uh we're filming this right now, you know, this weekend. And for me, I've just been obsessed with this because I've been seeing so many situations happen across our society. We see it on the news. We see situations on subways. We see tragic situations where people are getting hurt or worse or getting killed that could be prevented if people were competent and not just pulling out their cell phones and recording these trip terrible terrible situations that are occurring in our society. And so without further ado, Steve Eard, if you can give us the quick two-minute bio so we can get straight to the money. Well, I think this has to do this is about money, about taking care of yourself. And that's really what I do is I what I consider myself is just a husband and a father. If I do those things right, all the things fall into place. That's the ultimate currency right there. taking care of myself,

taking care of my family, that is wealth. I I I'm probably the least rich person that's been on this podcast, but I guarantee I'm the wealthiest that's ever been on this podcast for those reasons because that's what I consider my profession is a husband and a father first. And I know if I do that, get my house in order, all the other pieces are going to fall into place in business, in money, in the community, in being a leader, in impacting the community to the better ways that you're saying so that things start shifting for the positive in in the country. So your wife and kids and yourself have been working out how many days in a row?

We've we've lo My son keeps track. It's now over four or five years. Like not a single day off talking

four or five years. Years. Yeah. Oh my god. It might even be longer than that by this point. We've lost track. It's

We don't take a day off. We just It's It's a daily win. It's a guaranteed win every day. And if that's the thing that we're addicted to, there's far worse things we could be addicted to. People like, "Oh, you're overtraining." And yet they're sitting on the couch and their kids are freaking fat and eating. Exactly. So, if that's the worst thing I'm doing all day is working out, like I'll take that any day of the week. But it's also showing my kids consist I've had injuries and torn muscles through all this. It's been through corona and ups and downs. We do it every day no matter what. It's not even it's not even a decision to make. It's a but it's a guaranteed win. But it's also showing them how to be disciplined, how to be consistent. They love it. We do it together as a family. There's no better way to connect to me. That is wealthy.

That that's why with the wealth I'm talking about. We train together seven days a week. We eat dinner together for seven days a week. We come to events like this all the time all across the country. Like that's to me that's the new wealth. That's the new flex as a damn near 50-y old man to still have abs and be in shape and lead my family and hang out with my family, not neglect my family to go and and be successful.

So, a lot of 14-year-old boys like your son are scrolling through TikTok. They're avoiding school. They're avoiding situations and they're just kind of figuring out life in their own fashion, their own way. How do you inspire him to want to be here at these events and want to be working out and want to be around his dad so often?

He sees us doing it. He says, "We're having fun. We're doing all kinds of cool [ __ ] We're fighting, punching people in the face, shooting guns, getting tied up, escaping." Like, this is cool [ __ ] This is like a a playground for a young man, but when they want to go and do it in real life.

Also, he sees uh parents that are doing it. Two parents that are doing it. Do you know I did I saw a study that 89% of millionaires come from families where their parents didn't get divorced. [ __ ] It's wild when you think about that. So, they see that and they're just following the success. Success leads clues. He wants to be like his father because I'm there hanging out. We're having fun. We're doing everything together. When I was a kid, I looked at my father and I I've got all my discipline and success and everything I've ever learned from my father cuz I looked at him and said, "I want to be nothing like that man." So, I decided to break the cycle and do things complete opposite. The blueprint he showed me, do everything the opposite.

My son sees that. My family sees that. He wants to be like me. My be be the type of man that my daughter would one day want to marry if if I allow her to get married because who knows? There's not much of a selection out there. But that that's that's like a big fear of mine.

Like she's used to being around her brother who's a a capable young man and all the all the people I bring around here. She sees all these men in black sight.

There's not that much out there going to be much out there. That's what she's going to be expecting. She's going to have pretty high standards when it comes to it. So we need to shift the way things are going in this country so that there are more young men coming out there so she has someone worthy of even marrying when she gets older.

So where did this come from for you? Like when what point do you decide I'm going to become this disciplined beast? Like when did it happen?

All all through my life, little stages. I mean, I could say it's from a horrible childhood seeing my father and and I literally never had a single conversation with my father. I lived with him in the house until I was 19 years old. So I left for the Marine Corps. Never had a single conversation. He never told me about girls or how to change a car tire. Nothing. Like literally not a conversation. Never threw a football to me. Not a single time. So I knew something wasn't that's not the way it's supposed to be. It didn't feel right as a young boy. like where is my positive male role model?

So, I could say it's that. I could say it's when I was in jail and said I needed to turn things around. I could say it when I went to the Marine Corps and I saw started seeing what positive male leadership and discipline was like. I could say it was when I became an entrepreneur. That's probably when it came close. When an entrepreneur, you start like, "Oh [ __ ] this is what resilience is. This is how a man deals with pressure." But probably not until my first son was born. And now that you're like I always think good more good men have to have kids. I think that's our our purpose is to have children. Uh, so I was running a business in New York. I was working 7 days a week doing everything, cleaning the toilets, training all the clients, doing all the sales, the marketing, the follow-up. And I came home on a Sunday, one at like 10 p.m. And I didn't see my son. He was only a few months old. And

he happened to be awake. And my wife was like, "Oh, he's awake. You never get to see him. He's awake cuz you're working all the time." And she handed it to me. She took a picture. And she put the picture on the fridge. And she saw that as like this cool thing. But for me, that was like that snap, that aha moment saying, "You know what? Even though I'm trying to build this empire, all my kid knows is there's neglect. a father that's not home. Just like my father wasn't there, he's just going to see that. A father's not here. He doesn't give a [ __ ] if I'm going to make millions of dollars if I'm not there to lead him and spend time with him. So that moment when she took that picture, I was like, oh [ __ ] I got to start shifting things and do things a little different. Not just, yeah, I want to be obsessed and make a [ __ ] ton of money, but I'm not going to do at the expense of neglecting my son and my family. And

that was like the where the trajectory changed on the discipline side. So, you've had tens and tens of millions of views, if not hundreds of millions of views on social over the years because some of your videos go very, very viral. uh creating this content about your real life in a lot of situations and even when your kids are going through training here at Operation Blackside, you have a lot of options. You could be working on a lot of different things in the personal training space. Why this? Why Operation Black Side?

Because of the things we just talked about, it's so meaningful. Letting my kids, they experience this and see their parents go through this and and be around just amazing people all the time. Like we we we come into the ranch. Someone said it yesterday in the in one of the speakers. It's like a sacred event. It's like a sacred place. It's a different feel, a different vibe, a different aura. Like you show up here, it has that like that gravitas feeling when you when you come to operation black. And my kids could feel that. Then they know this is how man operates. This is how successful people operate. These are the things to think about to become not just a provider, but a protector, but a disciplined, purpose-driven human being that just makes everyone around them better. That's what a leader is.

That's what a father is. Working on yourself every day to get better, but making all the people around you better. And they see that. And I know that they're going to they're going to far surpass anything I did like when they're older. Like a hundred times more they're going to accomplish than I ever did. So that right there doing events like this like it's it's just amazing. Like you can't beat it.

So today I noticed that there's exactly 50% members here for Operation Black Site that are women and men. Why do you think it's important for women to go through training like this to learn how to shoot, how to fight, how to escape?

I think it's a few parts of that. And on the surface we think it and it is because they see crazy things happen like the girl in the subway that the little the utter training girl that's just so they see things like that like I need to be more learn how to be more situationally aware and when I'm going through a parking lot by myself like one of the women said she works in Vegas and walks through a parking lot it's just dark and rows of cars like how does she navigate that so much stress and anxiety and they see these things happen on the news. I think that's the surface level the the kind of real tangible. I think it goes deeper than that. I think it's because men in general have gotten weaker and softer and the women have to become the man of the either of the family or maybe they're a single parent because the divorces are so high like I said earlier and they have to take the role of a man. They might not even want

to. They should learn these skills too, but they should be learning alongside their man as a unit. You rarely see them. They come with their husbands. One did and and he stayed at the hotel. M that's and I'm just I'm just someone that's not going to pull any punches and tell it like it is. She showed up with her husband. He should be going through this with her. So

she stayed in the hotel under the warm covers while she was out here in the rain crawling in the mud. So that right there is the answer right there. Like they're forced to step up into this role

and and it's that even in a marriage, even some that are married, but then of course with divorce rates and single mothers, they they're they have to like who's going to do it? they they need to they're forced to be in that masculine role unfortunately and they can't really be their true womanly feminine self all the time. So they're forced to do it. But on top of that, they should do it, but I think with as a family unit like we do, we try to show them this is possible for a family. It's possible to do [ __ ] like this together. It's possible to not get divorced. It's possible to be happy and have fun and live a life you don't need a vacation from together as a unit with your kids, with your spouse, with your family all together. Then now you have now we have a [ __ ] army. We're we're four of us thinking like this in the family, not just one person. It's a it's a superpower coming to something like

Operation Blacksite. So, there's people out there that are listening over the years that are wealthy and they've built up wealth, they've invested, they've built their businesses, maybe they've sold a business, and they've got this career, they've got this capital, but when they go home, their kids don't respect them or their wife doesn't respect them. What can they do different to try to earn that respect? Yeah, it's the respect is huge and and it needs to be reearned every day. In the Marine Corps, we say you have to earn the right to be a Marine every day. You have to earn the right to be a husband every day. You have to earn the right to be a father every day. Just because you have kids doesn't make you a father. Just because you have don't don't have kids doesn't mean you can't help father and lead other kids. Like I think Grant Cardone said it one time and of course he's massively successful. Everyone wants to

be rich like him and have the private jets. But he said one time that he only needs like one day a week with his daughter. And then I heard someone recently say it like some one of the big gurus online and big a lot of followers very successful said he's only 20 minutes with his kids and after that they're telling him to kick rocks and that's all he needs a day. Like if I only spent 20 minutes with my kids a day

I it makes me sick to my stomach to think only spend 20 and and if they wanted to only spend 20 minutes a day with me that tells me I'm doing something wrong. I'm not I'm not leading them and not

connecting with them the way they should. Like are you kidding? They want to hang out all day. Like I judge my success yet not on the bank account only. That helps of course, but that's I judge my steps on the footsteps of my kids when I come home and in the door or even in my office. My daughter knows when the do not disturb is on the on the sign on the on the room in my office. She hears when my door opens up and I hear those footsteps running like a machine gun. That's how I judge my success. How fast are my kids footsteps running towards me when I come home from an event if they're not with me or I come out of my office, I come back from work. So, it's really that intentional attention that they're giving. Attention is the new currency. Our time and attention is more powerful than any money. I know so many successful rich, if you want to rich people that are very poor when it comes to the

wealth of their family. They're out of shape. They're unhealthy. Their kids look at them and be like, "Yeah, the money's cool, but I want to be nothing like that [ __ ] person cuz they're out of shape. They're fat. They're not spending any time with me. I don't like I don't necessarily want to be like them." The money doesn't mean [ __ ] I have a saying FYP PJ, [ __ ] your private jet. Like that's the way if I if in order for me to get a private jet, do I believe I can work hard enough with my work ethic and discipline to get a private jet? Abso freakingutely I can.

But if it means having to only spend 20 minutes a day with my kids, [ __ ] your you could keep your private jet. I don't want it. I don't need it. I I spend more time with my kids than anyone I know and still are able to come to events like this, run my business from home. I personally homeschool my kids. So, it's the attention they're giving their kids with intention, the presence. Presence is a currency with your kids. I'm investing in my kids. This is the money Mondays. I'm investing my kids by coming to things like Operation Black Site and letting them see it and feel it and experience it. Like, that's an investment right there. People don't invest in their kids enough. They invest in the Yeah. the the investments that you talk we need to invest in the money and and make a [ __ ] ton of money. Also, they invest in their employees and their team and their sales team and all this other stuff and marketing, but they're

not investing in their kids. They need to take that, flip that script and bring orderers to the chaos in the house and get their house in order and I guarantee everything else just is elevated and becomes better for that. Like their their mind needs to be totally reframed about like my number one business. So I said when when I said what do I do is I'm a husband and a father. That is it. That's my number one job. There's no more meaningful and now you know it too and I love it that that you're experienced in it. There's no more meaningful impactful career you could have as a man. Like that is our purpose on this planet as a man is to have kids and lead them well and leave this spinning rock better than we found it. So I think they're just not giving them attention. Their priorities are just out of whack. They think providing is enough when it's really the attention and intention they need with

the time they're spending with them. Yesterday I flew 16 hours from Dubai and I had Ariana on my chest and her sleeping and I just put my phone on her butt and I was boom typing typing typing typing typing typing for must have been four, five, six, seven hours of the 16 hour flight. She just slept on my chest and that was my favorite moment of the whole

Just going to say it doesn't get any better than that. Nothing doesn't get any better than that. Like

like I don't need to bring a baby to a wedding in Dubai, but I need to bring a I need

I need to bring I don't need to, but I need to. Yeah, that is amazing. I want her around all the time. I'm obsessed with it. Okay, so a woman's out there and she's married to a successful man, but he's lazy. He doesn't work out. He does definitely doesn't know how to fight. He's never shot a gun in his life. What can she do to get her man to go out there? Whether it's go to something like Operation Blacksite or at least go to the gym or go to martial arts studio or gun range in their local town.

Yeah, crazy that we have to now say it from that. Usually it's like the man has to try to bring the woman along for the ride and the roles are reversing which is crazy. But she needs to be straightforward, direct, and honest with him about the losing respect that she's having. Like, and imagine imagine a a woman tells a man that she's losing respect for him. Like if that's not enough

to make you get your [ __ ] together and stop being fat and go and take care of your go read a freaking book, come to do something like Operation Blacksite, like she needs to be straight forward with him and let him know like what what she expects as a man, what she should rightfully so expect from a man that's the leader of the of the home and of the house. It's just a communication and they don't do it because they're it's causes too much friction and too afraid to rock the boat. But why would you like if you are not happy with something do something about it, communicate it, bring something up. And if he doesn't do something about it, then that that kind of gives you your answer right there. So tomorrow morning, it's 4:15 a.m. The alarm clock goes off. It's raining outside and you're under the warm blankets. What motivates you to not push that snooze button to take those blankets off and to go outside and work

out in the rain? Those footsteps that I said I know and it's right there alongside my kids. They're right there. And guess what? If I didn't get up, you know who's going to say, "What are you doing?" My kids. First one. My son will be there if I ever tried to. It would I would never let it happen because mainly for that reason. I know those little eyeballs are on me. George Patton said, "You're always on parade." When he's talking about like in the military, how how you conduct yourself, there's always eyeballs watching you. [ __ ] When you are a father, you are on parade 24/7, whether your kids are with you or not.

Even if they're not with me, I'm going to get up and do the same thing. I'm going to I'm going to train my ass off even more because I know sometimes. All right, no one's going to know. I can get away with it. That's what leadership really is. That's what integrity really is. Who are you when you're by yourself? How do you deal with [ __ ] when you're by yourself? When it's easy when the eyeballs are on you and your kids are making you go and do it. That's easy. What about when you're by yourself? It's that same mentality thinking, "All right, I I'm not a big woo woo treehugging freaking person, but I believe if I'm not doing the things I'm telling my kids to do when just because I can get away with it and no one's going to know about it, and they won't know if I don't train my ass off today."

I'm a believer that the universe will send that little butterfly effect out there and completely change the trajectory of our relationship and the trajectory of their life off of some stupid little thing like that. Like, I have to, I must because those freaking kids are my legacy. If I don't be a if I'm not a man of my word, I deserve all the worst that's going to come to me.

All right. So, on the podcast, we normally talk about, you know, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. On the charity side, why do you think it's important for the family household to see you, the man, do some type of philanthropy? Doesn't have to be financially, but go out there and whether it's helping the homeless, helping at a children's shelter, an abuse shelter, a senior citizen home, etc. What is it about doing some type of philanthropy that is important for the household?

Yeah, they it's it's manufactured adversity pretty much. They I I do everything I can, like I said, to break the cycle to give them an awesome life. But if all they have is an awesome life and they don't know about adversity, they don't know about like homelessness and things like that. When you teach them about all that, they're not going to appreciate [ __ ] They're not going to they're going to be entitled little brats like the majority people out there. So, I push them and press them and expose them to things like this.

Like we're actually doing a 24-hour workout a week from a week from today. Next Saturday, 24 hours. We're lifting weights for 24 hours straight. No breaks.

What? 24. Yeah, it's the third time we're doing it. Explain this. You do a set chest press just like you would at the gym. You're not going to You put it down. You go do your set of squats with the weights. You put it down and we keep track of our weight. We do it for 24 hours. No sleep.

24 hours. Yeah. We've done it three times. This is the third time. And we're doing it for a fundraiser. a young guy that we know just died and his family now he he needs we're doing a fundraiser to raise money for the family and this is how we do it and show them like we you must suffer and appreciate and not just be entitled for and we've done them before for Big Brothers Big Sisters for American Heart Association for Autism 24-hour workouts all the time different variations of it we have one coming up a week week from today it's to show them like you have to you can't you have to realize what adversity is you have to teach them adversity I call it manufactured adversity otherwise they'll grow up and when if kicks him in the freaking teeth, they're not going to know how to deal with it. They're going to be used to just, "Oh, daddy just will take care of it. Daddy will hand me. Oh, hell no.

You're going to you're going to earn that shit." All right. We are in the wealthiest society in history. Gold is up. Bitcoin is up. Stock markets up. Real estates up. Trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars have been pumped into our society because math and time compounds. A father and wife have raised their two kids and they're wealthy. and now they're 18 years old. How can they instill some toughness into that child before they turn 18 so they don't go off and face reality out there in society and they were just soft the whole time because they lived in a mansion and had, you know, fancy caviar all the time.

Yeah. Like I said, they're going to earn everything. My kids when they want something, yeah, birthdays and that, they'll get little things here, but they want something in between, they're going to earn it. [clears throat] They're going to work for it. They help. They help me where they're homeschooled. So, they do their regular things to learn that we consider their homeschooling, but they help us with businesses. They run payments. They run P&L reports. They do all kinds of [ __ ] like that. They create sales pages and social media content and reply to messages and things like that. They're constantly in the business, so they have to see what it's like, how what is the struggle like?

They see when you get refunds and what it [ __ ] stings, and they're like, "Oh shit." They need to know what that feels like. and they they feel it because now they know they're not going to get rewarded if you all right. Well, why' they get a refund? What do we do to make that refund come in or whatever? What do we need to do to make more money? Well, we didn't create good enough content. We didn't send out good enough emails. We didn't have good enough follow-up and they see what I'm doing. And and so they're they're coming right along for the ride. Again, we're manufacturing adversity. They're working in the business. I think that's a superpower when and my wife, we all work together.

The whole family technically works in the business. We all come here together. If you can have a business, entrepreneurship with your spouse and and then also get your kids involved, like I think that is a superpower. I really have nothing to ever worry about. You can have a bad month, a bad year, a bad decade, but knowing that your family has your back and they're all in it together. They feel it. It's something it's something that they have some pride in and they take ownership in. And when they become adults, they already it's just another day at the office dealing with the adversity like I talked about today that the different seasons of life and holding the line through the success and the failures. They're seeing it.

They've seen me do go through tons of failures regularly like and they see how oh this is how a man deals with setbacks and adversity. He doesn't crumble under pressure. He doesn't start acting like an ass. He doesn't they don't get divorced. They come together and figure it the [ __ ] out so that they can now go back into that harvest season and go back to dominating. And they know it's going to come around again and again. There's going to be the ups and downs. We cut the peaks and valleys. They're right alongside with us. When they become adults again, they're going to achieve a thousand times more than I ever could. So you also train with squire program with Bedro Koulian.

Explain squire program and the whole concept behind it. Yeah, it's a fatherson experience. We just administer it. It's just to help get the help the fathers to connect more with their sons so that we can my really really the real reason why I am so invested in squire program is that my daughter hopefully one day will have someone worthy to marry because again like we said before there's not gonna be much of a selection

and I didn't have that connection with my father as a kid at all. zero. So to go in there and instill some of this stuff in and kind of wake some of these fathers up sometimes.

They think it's they think they're bringing it their sons there for their son. Yeah, he's whatever troubled. We don't really connect much and he's whatever, not disciplined. And they come in

fat, out of shape. You see the way they interact with them, the little side hug. They're kind of the that body language that's not there. And it's really just as much for the fathers as is the sons. We want I want to I want a more father to experience the father and and child connection especially the father-son bond and connection that me and my son have because there's no again no greater profession in the world as a man and a lot of men miss out on it. They're absent in the home even when they're home they're not there. They're stressed about work. They're stressed about money and it's running running and ruining their their their life and their and their marriage and their family.

So you have one of the best mindsets I've ever seen in my life and I interate view and interact with so many thousands of people over the years. What can someone do to incorporate a little bit of Steve Eard into their mindset? Get their house in order. Get your house in order, your family in order. Set a date night. Like I have a date night set every week with my wife. Then I have a one-on-one meeting like actual like work meeting, professional meeting with my son every week on the calendar recurring every week. I have a one-on-one meeting with my daughter. I we have a family meeting every Sunday. It's like one of my favorite part parts of the week. I sit there for an hour and plan my week.

Then we get together for another hour. The whole family have a family meeting. We go over our gratitude. We go over our victories. We go over our struggles for the week. We give feedback to each other. And then we set our plans and what's upcoming for the next week and we start planning and preparing for the next week. So getting that's getting the house in order to me. Getting the house in order, getting the family on board, taking them along for the ride. If I go just to things like Blacksite by myself and read and study and get coaches and mentors and don't take the family along for the ride, I'm going to start outdeveloping them. Now we're speaking different languages and things just crumble and fall apart. So, they need to take the family along for the ride.

Start the one thing they could do right away that's free. Have a family meeting every freaking Sunday with the family. Go back on a date night. How many men don't go on date nights anymore with their wife and they wonder why like there's just friction and tension? They're not just doing the basic simple things. [ __ ] is free. Go spend the one-on-one time on the calendar with your kids. They know no matter how busy I get at work, that stuff is non-negotiable. It gets done no matter what. If we're at an event or something, we'll reschedule it. But those things are getting done. So, getting the house in order and showing up in the home with presence, with fire, with energy, with the same enthusiasm and passion and obsessiveness they put in the business.

Treat your family like the business. Show up like the leader you show up in your office. we go and and work and then we come home and they bring the they get the leftovers. So, show up with the intention there and it will change the whole rest of all other areas of your life. It'll just elevate all the other areas of life. All right, guys. This is one of those podcasts that it's not just about you. It's your friends, your family, your followers. There's people in your ecosystem, in your circle that also could be from your past, present, or future that you forward an episode like this. We want men, women, parents to become better version of themselves because by default if the parents become better, the kids become better. If the man becomes better, the household becomes better. If the couple becomes better, the community becomes better. It helps their staff. It helps their office. It helps their co-workers. It

helps all the people around them again from their past, present, and future. And so, when you see things like this, it's not just for you. There may be people that you want to experience and hear from Steve Eert. So check him out across social media. Consume this type of content because a lot of times people are listening to so many random people that don't live and breathe what they're talking about. I've watched Steve over the last 5 years. I've seen him at 4:30 in the morning. I've seen him at 11:00 at night. I've seen him do the thousands of push-ups. I've seen him work out even when freaking bone is sticking out of his arm because he wants to make sure that his kids see him in action. I've seen him in real life. Consuming content like Steve Eert compared to a lot of the noise, drama, random gossip sites and things that a lot of people are following on social media. Consuming better for you content is what I'm you

can hear the passion of my voice is super important for your life and the people around you. Now, over the last two and a half years, I've been running this podcast commercial free. I finally took on a sponsorship deal with a company because I actually work with them for years called GoHigh Level. GoHigh Level is powering courses, creators, brands, websites. You can go to them. I'm not doing a discount code or anything like that. This is a very straightforward. I want go high level for you in your life because it helps for me my entire backend. All my companies, all my live events, my charity, so many of my businesses are all backend is through go high level. So check them out on website. Go look at them up on Google or chatbt and see if it's a good fit for you. with Steve Eert. I really want you to check out his social media because you'll see the content that I'm talking about. You'll

see why it's important to follow his type of content. And when we talk about Operation Blacksite, you can visit operationblacksite.com. As you've noticed, we've been talking about men and women. A lot of times people hear about training for fighting, shooting, and escaping. They think it's just like a all men's thing. We've designed this for the last 5 years. For like example, for today, it's 50% women that are here of all ages. So, we want you to go through these experiences. If you want to come out to operationblacksite.com, you can register and apply there. Or in your city at least, go to the gun range, get comfortable with a gun. Go to martial arts studio, get comfortable with fighting. Go out there and get skills for fighting, shooting, and escaping.

These things are mission critical as our society gets crazier and crazier. A lot of things happen politically, emotionally, on the media, etc. You've got to get training for yourself and for your family and for the people around you. Competence leads to confidence. The smarter you are about topics, the more you practice shooting, fighting, escaping, etc. You will feel better in those type of situations. Hopefully, they never arise, but if they do, you want to be prepared for it. Steve, any final words?

Yeah, just as we were saying, be work on getting better every day. Come things like Operation Blacksite, following all the instructions from Operation Blacksite, getting better every day as a man, making the people around you better, and being able to control your emotions. Those are really the keys to a successful life as a man. Cuz a man, we have to provide for the family. We also want to stay in shape and stay fit and learn how to shoot and learn how to do all these other things. But then we also have to give our wife attention. And now we also our kids want to spend time with us. Boo [ __ ] who. That's the burden of a man. That's the kind of things we do at Operation Black. I show you how to mold all those things together and actually just be a human weapon, but also how to create that life that you don't need a vacation from. So, this podcast is number 50 in the world today of all 5.4 million podcasts that are out

there. And it's all because of you guys liking commenting subscribing and sharing. So, we appreciate you for doing that. If you haven't commented, subscribed, please make sure you do that because it helps us get this message out there to the world about money. We grew up thinking it's rude to talk about money. I have to remove that from people's minds. I want to change the society norm that it's rude to talk about money. We've got to talk about it's part of your daily life. You pay bills. You pay for your parents. You pay for hospital situations. you pay for electricity and food and all the things that go on in your world with money. So, we got to remove this concept that it's rude to talk about it. We have to talk about it. And by being number 50 in the world, it is obviously resonating with people. We're having the topics and discussions. People are sharing, commenting, but I need more of that to

keep this going because we're up against obviously a lot of major podcasts that are out there that are trying to take away attention for their own agendas. My agenda is to talk about money. That's it. I want to talk about charity. That's it. I want to talk about things that are part of our real lives because it's important for you guys to do that. So, learn how to fight, learn how to shoot, learn how to escape, learn about money, investing in charity, and how to be a really manly man for your household, how to be a better woman for your household. By doing those things, we can help make this a better society and a better world. I appreciate you guys for listening. We'll see you guys next Monday here at the moneymunddays.com.

Questions about this episode

What is "The New Definition of Wealth: Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Family w/ Steve Eckert 💪 EP 146" about?

This content centers on redefining wealth by emphasizing the importance of a strong body, strong mind, and strong family. Guest Steve Eckert shares his experience and insights from years of supporting personal development through fitness and training, advocating for a holistic approach to investing in oneself to foster better individuals who can positively impact their communities.

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13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Operation Blacksite, Steve Eert, Money Mondays, Butterfly effect, Manufactured adversity, Open carry. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "The New Definition of Wealth: Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Family w/ Steve Eckert 💪 EP 146"?

The episode runs 31 min; the transcript is about 7,513 words in 67 timestamped sections.

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