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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  This is the Jocko Underground Podcast, number 191, sitting here with Echo Charles, EC, in the house. We got some questions from you all, and we will do our best to provide guidance, courses of action that you can take, and answers in some cases.

• 0:16Speaker 01

  It's true. Yeah, life is a maze. Can be.

• 0:20Jocko Willink?

  There's choices.

• 0:21Speaker 01

  Got some directions.

• 0:22Jocko Willink?

  Left, right, or straight.

• 0:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, sure.

• 0:25Jocko Willink?

  Sometimes you gotta backtrack a little bit.

• 0:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, which is no problem.

• 0:28Jocko Willink?

  Nope, no big deal. We don't like to do it, we want to avoid it if possible.

• 0:32Speaker 01

  Possible.

• 0:33Jocko Willink?

  So we're here to tell you, maybe you can go left, maybe you can go right, maybe you go straight.

• 0:36Speaker 01

  It's true.

• 0:37Jocko Willink?

  Maybe you need to backtrack, we'll let you know.

• 0:38Speaker 01

  Improve your chances of success. All right, first question. I'm a big fan of podcasts. Always wisdom that connects whatever challenge I'm facing, and I'm grateful for that. Okay, I'm 23-year-old, I'm a 23-year-old male, recently went back to college for engineering. I work as an electrician now, and hope to move up in the field, possibly becoming an engineer. I enjoy it, but my real passion is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts. In a world of, okay, in a world full of distractions, partying, girls, etc., Jiu-Jitsu and MMA have kept me focused, disciplined, and on the right path. Over the past three years, I've transformed from a skinny, out-of-shape guy into a warrior.

• 1:22Speaker 01

  I even made my amateur MMA debut recently, winning by first round rear naked choke. Since going back to school, I've, I had to cut work hours and lost income. I'm okay living simply, but I'm struggling to afford training and quality food. My diet has been a key part of my progress, and I worry losing that will set me back. What's your advice for making extra money on the side, or maintaining top-level training and nutrition on a tight budget? Thank you again for all the guidance and wisdom.

• 1:54Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, check. Awesome, man. Sounds like you're on a, on a good path. Uh, let's talk about food. I think at this juncture, low on money, you gotta get in the meal prep game. You got a hundred percent getting the bulk buy meal prep game. Ground beef. Didn't you have some ground beef combo?

• 2:11Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:11Jocko Willink?

  That you got going on?

• 2:12Speaker 01

  I have more now.

• 2:13Jocko Willink?

  Go, go, go the quick ground beef recipe.

• 2:16Speaker 01

  Ground beef, rice. You can buy huge sacks of rice, by the way.

• 2:20Jocko Willink?

  For not, for next to nothing. Pennies on the dollar.

• 2:23Speaker 01

  Pennies on the dollar. Uh, seasoning of your choice, ground beef, uh, some salt and pepper in there, whatever. But like I said, season of your choosing. Ground beef, rice. I put spaghetti sauce, but you can put whatever kind of sauce, soy sauce, if you want, whatever. Um, and I put honey mustard. And then sometimes I put salsa. There's a bunch of different ones, but that's the base, base one.

• 2:43Jocko Willink?

  For me, uh, chopping up onions gives ground beef so much extra flavor. You know what I mean? And the other thing is you throw a little bacon in there. There's just so many options. So anyways, you get meal prep, you cook a bunch of it. And you're just eating it, dude. It's just, it's just no factor. So that's one. Tin chicken is one that I, has always been a friend of mine. Basically, because I don't really like tuna fish in a can, but you can get tin chicken at Costco. Like it's, I forget how many grams of protein in there, but it's a lot of protein.

• 3:12Speaker 01

  Forty-ish.

• 3:13Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, it's like forty-ish grams of protein and some a little bit of fat, no carbs.

• 3:17Speaker 01

  Very little fat.

• 3:18Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, yeah, not a lot of fat, like very low fat. Um, so get those kinds of things meal prep all day. And then go to the right stores, like there's stores that have discounted stuff, man. Either big giant box stores like Costco or Walmart, or you go to a place like Grocery Outlet, where you're getting stuff that's like gonna go bad in three days, but they had it in a big store for six days and it didn't sell. So they moved it over here for a day, three days, two days, something like that. You can get some really good deals on that stuff. Cook it up, put it in the freezer. That three days just went out to a month, bro.

• 3:57Jocko Willink?

  Another thing you can hit, so you know, you hit the grocery outlet types called Lindy, I think, or Liddy. There's a store called a Winco Food. There's a bunch of stores depending on where you are regionally. And then you got your grocery stores. You go into a regular grocery store, HEB, Meyer, like you will get, you get the bulk activity in there, but you gotta go in there with the right mindset.

• 4:17Speaker 01

  A right attitude.

• 4:18Jocko Willink?

  Right attitude. Farmers markets too, you can find some little, you can get a connection, you can build a relationship with somebody that is gonna bring chicken. You build that relationship or, or they, you make a, make a relationship with the butcher. You're like, hey, man, I gotta buy like, start buying massive, like all the ground beef that they have. They'll give you a good discount, dude. Uh, protein powders, let's face it, protein powders. When you look at it, what it costs to buy protein versus protein powder, you go, go and get some of that milk. You're getting good, clean protein and it's not expensive. So add that in there and then you just gotta get your meal prep on. That's what we're doing.

• 5:01Jocko Willink?

  As far as side money goes, there's a bunch of different options right now. You know, you got Uber, you got Uber Eats, you got Lyft, you got a Instacart, you got all those things. And those are all little moneymakers. However, you're an electrician, bro. You have a skill that is, you could hopefully make more money, handyman activities, uh, emergency work for other electrical companies. Like there's problems that happen in people's houses where they need someone to come in, not as often as plumbing. Cause let's face it, people have plumbing problems all the time and plumbing problem, you need help immediately. You know, power goes out, yeah, but that's, that doesn't happen as often where an electrician is gonna come in and handle it. You know, you don't short circuit stuff as often as plumbing, plumbing issues. But general handyman stuff, if you're an electrician, you know how to do all kinds of stuff.

• 5:46Jocko Willink?

  So you throw that ad on Craigslist or Facebook, uh, ads or whatever. And you can go to start making that little bit of money on the side, doing little projects on the weekends. Check in with a big contractor, cause big contractors, they might have some stuff that they didn't get caught up on. They need someone to come in on the weekend, you can get that work done. It's a way to look, make a little bit of sign money. Then you got the doorman slash bouncer activity. Echo Charles, very skilled in this arena. How much you make on a Friday night?

• 6:15Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, depends on the club obviously, but yeah, yeah, you can do, yeah, a few hundred dollars in tips.

• 6:21Jocko Willink?

  A few, meaning three hundred dollars.

• 6:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, ish.

• 6:24Jocko Willink?

  Three hundred bucks in a night, dude, that Friday and Saturday night, that's six hundred bones. Plus you've got that minimum wage rolling. Do they pay you minimum wage on top of it? Oh, you legit?

• 6:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 6:32Jocko Willink?

  Legit.

• 6:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, cause only the front door, it's, it really depends on the club, but yeah, look into that a hundred percent.

• 6:37Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, cause you're training jiu jitsu, you're training MMA, you got a skill, put that skill to work.

• 6:43Jocko Willink?

  So those, that's what we're doing there for side money. And then also you, you know, the price of the gym. Well, this is where we go and we talk to the gym owner. We say, Hey, man, listen, I wanna, what can I do to get my, I need to save 50 bucks a month, you know, you're charging me 150 bucks a month. Like, can I save 50 bucks a month if I sweep up? Can I, can I get a free membership? I'll sweep up, I'll be here, I'll help with the kids' class, well, you know, whatever, whatever you gotta do. You can't, you know, maybe helping out with classes is a bit much because then now you're all of a sudden, you're dedicating time to be an instructor. But sweeping up the mats at night, uh, sweeping up in the mats in the morning or whatever, cleaning up the place, doing some electrical work around there. Dude, I got a big ass gym. We need electrical work sometimes. You know what I'm saying?

• 7:26Jocko Willink?

  You gotta roll with the light goes out, even if something simple like that, you're like, hey, lights go out, I get it. You need some rewiring done? I got it. You just put yourself kind of on retainer.

• 7:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:35Jocko Willink?

  You know? And you know what's, so then, then you can save some money there. So those are the things I would do. Epic food prep, bulk, buying in bulk, cheap places, epic food prep. Side money, there's a ton of side gigs you can do. Hustle, what do they call it? No, they don't call it hustle economy. Uh, gig economy, gig economy. We're doing little side projects, whatever that is.

• 8:01Jocko Willink?

  But you're, you got skills, put those skills to use. And then, um, see what you can do around the gym, form that relationship. By the way, all these things, good relationship stuff. Butcher, butcher has leftover cuts, dude, sometimes. They wanna get rid of. You know, if they got your number, you come by, pay half price. You know what I'm saying? Build some relationships. People used to just barter for things. So that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jocko Underground Podcast. So if you want to continue to listen.

• 8:35Jocko Willink?

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• 9:20Jocko Willink?

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