The Money Mondays

Bill Perkins wrote a book called Die With Nothing. Oh. Right? Is that the title of it? Well, I'm definitely reading that book. Yeah. I think it's called Die With Nothing or Die With Zero. That's what it is. Die With Zero. Yeah, because I can't take it with me.

Bill Perkins has that book called Die With Zero.

The book. Yeah. And I read the book, Bill Perkins. Die with nothing. Die With Zero.

I don't know if you know the author Eckhart Tolle of the book, The Power of Now. I've never heard of him before.

First book for me was The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

So whether I'm reading Think and Grow Rich or Atomic Habits or I'm watching a Kobe Bryant interview when he was alive on YouTube, ... I study two hours a day.

I read Think and Grow Rich at 18 from cover to cover.

So everything else here is just icing on the cake. So fun fact, that Wolf of Wall Street line is one of my favorites ever. Yeah. I did podcast number one for The Wolf of Wall Street. With Jordan Belfort. Yes. Amazing. I kept pushing him to you got to start a podcast.

Because you might have Jordan Belford call you up, try to sell you a pink sheet, and you get ripped off and you lose 20 grand. And you're like, I can't take this chain anymore. Shout out to you, Jordan Belford. Show me 70 grand. I'll quit my job or work for you.

cause he is, he's in school and, and he's, you know, in town on a, or in, in the U S on a student visa and has to like, remember that scene of Wolf of Wall Street?

This is not like the secret, right? It's great to have visualization. It's an important book. And I love the movie, The Secret. It's important for you to visualize.

So whether I'm reading Think and Grow Rich or Atomic Habits or I'm watching a Kobe Bryant interview when he was alive on YouTube, ... I study two hours a day.

You go to the book of Genesis. He was the only, God is the only being that ever created from nothing.

You, me, everything, all of us have all created from something. God creates from nothing. Verse three.

Verse three in book of Genesis chapter one, God says, let there be light.

If you go back to the beginning of Genesis, I love Genesis. God creates the world. He creates everything. Creates man, puts Adam and Eve on...

or read The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil.

So you mean like the Shoe Dog Phil Knight type books? Yeah, I love those.

He right now has a best selling book that you can find on Amazon, which we'll get into and it's ranked in the top 10 on the whole planet.

So when you wrote this book and you came up with this title, was it something that was part of your journey?

Amazon is where people can get the book. I read the audio book myself at a bonus chapter.

But when you actually offering value and Adam Grant wrote a book called Give and Take. And Robert Chardina talks about the law of reciprocity.

I'm reading an interesting book called Pivot.

I was reading Unreasonable Hospitality and you talked about one of the best espresso pulls in New York City.

I wasn't on my list of things that I wanted to do and somebody approached me, my literary agent and said I really wanna think you should write a book... I wrote the book with the tactics and tips on making sure that people, no matter where you are in your career or your life, you always have the ability to get up once more.

Check out her book Radical Confidence. I'm sure it's on Amazon everywhere else.

He is releasing his new book called Protect Your Peace.

This is the third time he's put out a book and practice makes perfect.

Trent Shelton, as you're going through your career, why have you written a third book? Why did Protect Your Peace come out?

I was looking to write this book for a long time, even before my first book; it reflects my lifestyle since 2009 and what changed my life.

Get protect your piece.

And then it dawned on me that I'm based on Maxwell Maltz his book many, many years ago called psycho cybernetics. Cybernetics is the control and response mechanism that happens in machines like a thermostat. If there's too much air or cold air in a room, the heat may come on. If it's too hot, the air may come on. That's a cybernetic mechanism.

In fact, my first book, my autobiography is called The Change Agent.

I have, you know, my new book, Mistakes that Made Me a Millionaire, is all about the mistakes I made.

This book will change your life.

The guy read it within a week, got back to me and goes, I'll publish your book... What's the title of the book? What's the name of it? Redneckonomics.

Just to explain. It's basically the economy of an ass beating. Just like Goggins talks about. ... The formula to plan the beating you're willing to take.

He's written a book about it.

That's why I wrote a book. My book is called It's Not Enoughness. The Not Enough Voices. Because I was motivating myself by negative feedback.