- Buenos dias, millennials.

And welcome back to another

Advanced Lesson in Millennial Money.

I'm your host, Alexandra Gonzalez.

Today, we have an incredibly special interview for you guys.

Where I sat down with Robert,

and saw a side of him I've never seen before.

One that was honest, truthful, raw,

and it got a little emotional.

But in this episode, we find out

why a millionaire like him does what he does.

What guides him and what drives him.

So let's use this episode to enlighten us all

on how to find out true purpose in life.

- I just know that, like your father,

he went to military school and I went to military school,

and noticed the people that have had

really tough mental, emotional,

physical and spiritual training, they're tougher.

So I came out of the academy, like your dad,

he went in the Navy, I went in the Marine Corps,

and we come out tougher, internally stronger.

And I don't know how you guys get that.

I call it spiritual intelligence at this point.

Let me draw this (mumbles), you guys have seen it before.

But again, if you look at it this way,

this is intelligences,

and this is what makes us human beings.

We have mental intelligence.

we have physical intelligence,

you know, like Tiger Woods is a fantastic golfer.

I suck, you know.

And then you have emotional intelligence,

and emotional intelligence, they call it EQ,

is the most important.

Because I get my feelings hurt all the time,

I get angry, I hallucinate in my head,

I think things that aren't true,

but the biggest one of all is the spiritual.

Difference between mental and spiritual, it's very simple.

Mental causes two.

So man, woman, good, bad, up, down.

Where spiritual is one, so I'll give you an example.

Why do I do my work?

Yesterday, I was driving down the road

and I saw this young guy, just broke my heart.

He's standing there in the hot Phoenix sun,

he says "unemployed, need money

to feed the kids," and all that.

Now, mentally I could say get a job, you idiot.

But spiritually, I am him.

I feel for him.

So in my work, I work for this.

I don't need the money.

My teacher was R. Buckminster Fuller,

and he says "I don't work for me, I work for everyone."

And that was one the biggest lessons

I got from the military, from the military

was very high spiritual intelligence.

That's why you dad and I get along so well.

Because when we went into combat,

which is a horrible experience

of good and bad people, enemy and friends.

But when we climbed into our aircraft,

it was a crew of five, we became one.

It is the best feeling, as horrible as it is,

flying into combat, because we might not come back.

But it was the highest feeling of all, it was spiritual.

And I'm afraid, as not just millennials,

as as human beings, well is this good, is this bad?

Is this the best Vuitton shirt?

Can I get it at a better price?

Or he's cute, or she's cute, but is there somebody better?

Right?

- Yeah, I mean that's exactly what's going on.

- So you guys are stuck in your head,

and I think you should get more into your spirit.

Like saying what can I do for my fellow human being?

What can I do for the environment?

And I think the biggest secret of my success

is I have all, and we all have these.

We all have some degree of physical things we do,

emotionally I'm a basket case a lot of the time,

I get upset, I get angry, I get sad, I get my feelings hurt,

and I'm always this is good, this is bad.

You know, you watch politics, it's all good and bad.

It's a bunch of BS.

But what keeps me going is this, and it's spiritual,

is how can I serve others?

How can I serve the planet?

How can I fix this problem?

Millennials, it's not just millennials,

it's just human beings in general,

if you can get back to being one.

Being compassionate.

You'll always have idiots here,

you'll always have idiots here and idiots here,

but just stay in your spirit.

It's like when I saw that guy,

he's probably 45 years old, I couldn't imagine

being a father saying I need money for my kids.

I gave him a few bucks, but it doesn't help.

When I gave him a few bucks, I was saying

hey, we're one, I feel your pain.

And so what's happening I think,

it's not just millennials, it's human.

Human beings are idiots, you know?

We inflict a lot of pain,

but this is spiritual intelligence.

Is how do we make it one?

Like my love of trees, when I see people

cutting down trees, I wanna kill them.

(laughing)

And then the oceans, it just breaks my heart

because I grew up in the oceans.

So when we're in our spiritual,

in our hearts, in our silence of the brain,

of the mind, that we're most effective.

- And I think you nailed it there Robert,

because I think a lot of us haven't made the shift

from being just in mental to spiritual.

And so we're so concentrated on me, me, me,

and it's because of the era we grew up in.

Just all these platforms are just about me.

And so I think if a lot of us

made the shift from mental to spiritual,

and concentrated on the greater good,

we'd do a lot better in life, be more successful too.

It's sad that we have lived our lives so small,

instead of thinking bigger.

And I think what you said too,

is what really pushed you are these critics,

and when your feelings have been hurt.

And I grew up and I had a hard time

because my dad, the Marine, he grew up with four brothers,

and here we are four women, growing up with a soldier,

and he would push us in a very hard way.

And I don't think I understood until now why that.

And I took it very painfully, but it also,

I understand now that it was for the greater good.

And that's what pushed me, and I think

we need to use these platforms that we have

to develop that, and find that pain,

and create into something good.

- Yeah, go here.

- Go spiritual.

So when I see these comments, what helped me

know that they have a little bit of truth behind them,

and help them make me into a better person.

- And so the compliment I will pay to millennials,

I think your generation is more socially conscious.

You wanna take on these challenges,

you wanna right the wrongs of the past,

so you're more stepping up to, hate to say it,

but what the military was.

Where we're here not for us,

we're here for a higher cause.

And I noticed that with the millennials,

you guys are more looking for a spiritual purpose in life.

And that's the difference.

You find that spiritual purposes,

like the reason I teach, I don't need the money,

I just need to teach what I was taught.

And it wasn't taught in school.

So anyway, if you can stay, there'll always be idiots here.

A hundred years from now,

there'll still be idiots out here.

- Yeah, and I think that's what keeps you going.

So many people are like whoa,

Robert has all this money, what is he doing?

Why is he giving us all this free information?

And I think that it's your spirituality

that just keeps you going and won't let you stop.

- I used to remember my teacher said

"I do not work for me, I work for everybody."

If you work for everybody, whether saving trees,

or the environment, or the oceans, picking up litter,

like I don't know if you see me

outside our building here, these guys,

bunch of drunks out here all the time.

- All the time, it's scary.

- Lot of good bars, but a lot of drunks too, you know?

But they just throw trash around the place.

I wasn't trained to do that, I'm trained to pick it up.

And so if you pick it up, you're spiritual.

If you criticize, you're mental.

- Wow, I'm so glad we got to see another side of Robert

we don't get to see that often.

And I know we teach a lot about money,

but it's not just about that, it's so much more.

And while being successful is important,

we also have to be proud about what we do.

So I hope this episode guides you

towards your true passion and purpose in life.

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