The One Truth About Money That No One Teaches You In School

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! At 44, serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley received a Christmas Eve phone call that changed everything - his doctor warned him about dangerously high pancreas levels, forcing him to confront the health he'd taken for granted while building seven companies. This vulnerable conversation reveals how a successful entrepreneur making millions discovered that true wealth means nothing without vitality, and why he believes comfort is the enemy of greatness in your forties. Daniel shares his raw journey from overlooking health as "self-indulgent" to understanding it as the foundation for everything else, while exploring the deeper lessons he wants his kids to learn beyond money. If you've been coasting in your comfort zone, wondering what skills your kids actually need for life, or feeling like something's off even though your business is doing well, Daniel's brutal honesty will hit you right where you need it. ScoreAppDaniel’s book Entrepreneur Revolution: How to Develop your Entrepreneurial Mindset and Start a Business that WorksDaniel’s book Key Person of Influence (Revised Edition): The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your IndustryDaniel’s book Oversubscribed: How To Get People Lining Up To Do Business With YouFollow Daniel on InstagramIn this episode you will learn:Why Daniel believes carrying $2,000 cash in your pocket will reveal every limiting belief you have about moneyThe three core subjects Daniel thinks should replace traditional schooling: health, relationships, and mindsetHow a Christmas Eve medical scare forced a millionaire entrepreneur to completely restructure his prioritiesWhy wanting less money is actually more greedy than wanting more, and how this mindset shift unlocks abundanceThe vitality test: how to know when you're in perfect alignment with your life's purpose and when you're notFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1795For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Daniel Priestley – greatness.lnk.to/1776SCJim Curtis – greatness.lnk.to/1755SCRobert Herjavec – greatness.lnk.to/1729SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  I'm thinking back to a time when I had nothing. I was financially scarce, emotionally, I acted like I had it all figured out, but emotionally, I was just kind of scared actually, deep inside, but I didn't want to let anyone know this about me. And I projected an essence of kind of false confidence in the world. And this was a time when I was just really unsure of myself because I didn't understand money. I didn't understand how to make it. I didn't understand how to manage it. I didn't understand how to multiply it. And it seemed so far out of my reach. It just seemed like everyone who had money and who had built

• 0:43Lewis Howes?

  a successful career or business or had figured out how to turn their money into working for them instead of being in debt and struggling all day, living in stress. It just seemed like these people were so unattainable because I didn't understand any of it. And it was a very confusing time for me. And in this episode, I sit down with Daniel Priestley to talk about the three mindset shifts that are going to unlock wealth and success for you, something that is more scalable for you. So you don't have to live in stress and confusion and just be feeling uncertain about the future. And it really does start with the mind, understanding

• 1:24Lewis Howes?

  your mindset. And so we go deeper into the life lessons beyond business, beyond making money, and what it truly means to live a successful, fulfilling life. Because now, almost 20 years later after that time, so much has shifted and changed internally for me and mentally for me. Back then, I was driven to prove myself at all costs. I was driven to be the best in the world at what I could do. I wanted to be number one. I wanted to make sure I destroyed people in the business world. I was just like so driven by different things that caused a lot of insecurity and a lot of stress inside of me. And It doesn't mean I'm not driven still to succeed and accomplish my goals and my dreams

• 2:08Lewis Howes?

  and generate more wealth and all these different things. Yes, I'm still driven. But there's a lot more peace. And again, it starts with the mindset and how to unlock this mindset to go deeper. We also dive deep into what we hope to pass on to the next generation, not just money, but the values that are important, how to understand self-worth for yourself and the ability to thrive in a world that's changing fast. Talk about in the last 20 years. I remember 20 years ago, um, being one of the first people to get Facebook when it was called the Facebook just for college kids. I remember being on

• 2:48Lewis Howes?

  the waiting list at our college, like it's coming in the next months and us everyone being excited as college students. That was 20 years ago. So much is changing with how to navigate, understand social media, AI, the stock market, money management, world economics, all these different things. But what you should never pass up is the ability to go deeper on your values and learning how to master self-worth. No matter what's happening on the outside of you, it's always good to reflect and transform the inner world so you can navigate the uncertainties of the outer world and make conscious decisions

• 3:32Lewis Howes?

  with your money and with your wealth. We're going to talk about the different life lessons that Daniel Priestley wants his kids to master that have nothing to do with money as well and so much more that I share from my personal life and Daniel's. I'm very excited for this episode. I hope you enjoy it. So let's go ahead and dive in.

• 3:51Lewis Howes?

  What are the three things you want your kids to know that has nothing to do with money?

• 3:57Daniel Priestley?

  Definitely health, right? The physical body. I I overlooked the value of health for a long time.

• 4:03Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 4:04Daniel Priestley?

  Um, yeah, I I envy the fact that you got so into sport and like I was just into business that whole time and um. You know, when you're young, you just kind of think, oh, yeah, I'll be fit forever and all that sort of stuff. So like, understanding the human body, understanding health, understanding a bit of psychology. Um, uh, so I definitely think it helped. The the value of relationships and how to build relationships, how to invest in relationships, how to preserve them, protect them, how to mend them when they break.

• 4:35Daniel Priestley?

  Um, so like all of those relationships, because you know what I you know what I wanna do? I just want them to watch the seventeen hundred episodes of School of Greatness. That would that would, I mean, actually, if you thought about it, if you just got rid of schooling and replaced it with the School of Greatness, that that wouldn't actually be a bad.

• 4:51Lewis Howes?

  That's, well, that's why I started it because I was, you know, I grew up very dyslexic. I was always in the bottom of my class. I always felt insecure, dumb, not enough. And going to school was like the hardest thing to do. Every day was just like, I don't wanna be here because no matter how much I study or how hard I try. I'm failing.

• 5:09Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 5:10Lewis Howes?

  Homework, quizzes, tests, finals. It was just like, every day felt like failure. But it wasn't an enjoyable failure where I'm learning and developing.

• 5:20Daniel Priestley?

  It's a fish trying to walk down the street.

• 5:22Lewis Howes?

  Exactly. When I go into sports after class, it was like, okay, I'm failing every day, but I'm seeing the improvement. Like, I'm learning and I'm getting better and I can see the growth. I wasn't getting better in school.

• 5:35Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 5:35Lewis Howes?

  So it was just like, how do I get out of here? How do I wait till the clock hits two thirty or whatever in the afternoon? So I can be done because it's just making me feel less than. It's a a confirmation that no matter how hard I try. Everyone in this classroom is smarter than me, better than me, more talented than me, more resourceful than me. And it's just like, this is sucking the life out of.

• 5:58Daniel Priestley?

  Sadly, millions of kids are experiencing that right now because the contrast is becoming uh so much wider. The contrast of what's out there and what's available versus what they experience at school. I mean, my kids aren't homeschooled. They're in normal schools and they come home and they go like this, you know, they struggle with it. Um, and I struggle with it as a parent.

• 6:19Lewis Howes?

  Why have kids in school and not homeschool them?

• 6:21Daniel Priestley?

  It's a real trick, isn't it? Because you know. Especially if you have the financial means and you have resources. There's some, look, there's something about the experience that they're not hating it to the degree that I pull them out. But there's something about the the experience of being around a big group of their peers. Um, and that school, that shared school environment. But can't you get that from somewhere else? From it's from classes and sports teams and music classes and tutoring and. Yeah. Developing public speaking or whatever it is like. I'm, I'm, you know, the truth is I'm wrestling with that. I'm to, I'm toying with that idea. I was saying it's a right. By the way, I went, I went through a pretty rough schooling system. Like I, I did not go to great schools.

• 7:06Daniel Priestley?

  Um, and like, you know, forty children per teacher, no, there was no teaching assistant or any of that sort of stuff. And we kind of, you know, ran uh feral across our teachers and all that sort of stuff. Um, and and yet there was so much like. I'm not playing any teachers because they're limited with what they can do and I wouldn't be able to manage forty kids. They're within, they're within a system that that doesn't, a lot of teachers really resonate with these messages. Um, yeah, like me personally, I ju, I just, I did get a lot of value from just like the friendships I made. This like the sports does have, like a lot of sports do happen around the school.

• 7:50Daniel Priestley?

  But you can still do my sports team, even if you're not in that school. Fortunately, our, my kids, their school is not, it's not horrific. It's pretty good. Like it's, it's, it's, um. It's not the ideal system that I would design from scratch today. But I'm lucky enough that our kids go to pretty good schools based on the traditional system. And also, we do invest a lot, like our kids go to coding camp, they go to jujitsu. Like all of those kind of things that they're, they're getting all of that. And when my kids come home and they say, I didn't do so well on this test, I go, it's totally fine. It's just a test. Like it doesn't mean anything. And they go, oh, okay. I say it's just one way of just like checking in to see whether you got, got it or not. It, it's not going to dictate anything about your future.

• 8:35Daniel Priestley?

  Um, you know, so we have a good dialogue going. Yeah. But I am, I am still wrestling with it. If my wife watches this podcast, maybe we'll, we'll, it'll spark the. Well, I mean, isn't AI.

• 8:46Lewis Howes?

  Going to teach kids better than teachers?

• 8:48Daniel Priestley?

  AI, we, our kids are taught by AI, so they, they have access to an AI tutor and it's phenomenal. And it's wild. And it goes at the same speed that they want to go at. Um, and it speeds up when they want to speed up and it slows down when they want to slow down. And it can switch analogies or it can switch examples. Um, it's pretty wild and it talks to them.

• 9:07Lewis Howes?

  I mean, the reason why I started the School of Greatness was because I feel like there were so many things that I didn't learn in school growing up that I learned later in life. That were the real skills, the real tools, the real lessons I needed to learn. And I'm still learning and developing. And you said two of them, learning about health and learning about navigating relationships.

• 9:29Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 9:30Lewis Howes?

  Sure, then maybe they teach some health in school or there's 15 minutes of recess. And sure, you're intertwining with other human beings. Adults, figures, authority figures and peers. But it's not teaching you how to.

• 9:46Daniel Priestley?

  Manage relationships.

• 9:46Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, manage relationship or deal with heartbreak or deal with bullying or deal with your feelings or your emotions or how to give a speech in front of your peers. Like it doesn't teach these skills that I had to start learning in my mid to late twenties. Because I didn't learn any of them in school. Now, it doesn't mean I didn't learn some things in school and the interactions throughout the day and.

• 10:07Daniel Priestley?

  I wonder whether.

• 10:08Lewis Howes?

  Socializing, sure, but you can't, can't you get that?

• 10:11Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 10:11Lewis Howes?

  In other areas of life.

• 10:12Daniel Priestley?

  I wonder if anyone who's homeschooling their kids gets their kids watching School of Greatness.

• 10:17Lewis Howes?

  I'm sure there are.

• 10:18Daniel Priestley?

  I'd be curious to know if anyone has watched every single episode.

• 10:21Lewis Howes?

  There are people, people, or people have told me they have.

• 10:23Daniel Priestley?

  That would.

• 10:23Lewis Howes?

  People have told me they have and it's a lot of content.

• 10:26Daniel Priestley?

  We should, we should have a mastermind just for those people.

• 10:28Lewis Howes?

  I would do it.

• 10:29Daniel Priestley?

  The people who have.

• 10:30Lewis Howes?

  I would do it.

• 10:30Daniel Priestley?

  Who have sat through that.

• 10:31Lewis Howes?

  Someone is, I mean, the challenge is how do you know if everyone has, but. People will post like every episode on social media and the people that have found the podcast will go back to episode one and get call the way up to.

• 10:43Daniel Priestley?

  Wow.

• 10:44Lewis Howes?

  And it's every week for 12 years. Three episodes a week for the last 10 years.

• 10:49Daniel Priestley?

  That's wild.

• 10:50Lewis Howes?

  So it's putting out information from some of the.

• 10:53Daniel Priestley?

  What's that done, what's that done to your head? What's it like to?

• 10:56Lewis Howes?

  It's transformed my life.

• 10:57Daniel Priestley?

  For like, like, cause if you were an AI.

• 11:00Lewis Howes?

  I literally feel, have you seen Don Quixote?

• 11:02Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 11:02Lewis Howes?

  Have you seen the movie Don Quixote?

• 11:03Daniel Priestley?

  Ages ago.

• 11:05Lewis Howes?

  It's like this, you know, guy who gets sent to a prison for not doing a crime. Like, he didn't commit a crime, he's sent to prison. And he's pretty much, he can't read, he can't write, he doesn't understand the world. He doesn't know math, but he's like a really good, kind soul, naive.

• 11:21Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 11:22Lewis Howes?

  And um, he's in prison for a crime he doesn't commit because he was naive. Because he didn't have the skills or the resourceful enough to kind of stand up for himself or people were taking advantage of him. And he just kind of gets sent in this prison for life. And one day, I don't know, seven years in, when he's about to take his own life, he hears a voice. And it's like another prisoner who's there for life, trying to dig a tunnel to escape. And it's this old wise mentor. Who essentially says, you helped me dig a tunnel to our freedom and I'll teach you about life. I get chills thinking about it, it's a beautiful movie. But I, I mean, it's a book originally, but the movie is powerful.

• 12:02Lewis Howes?

  And he studies with the mentor for like a decade while he's in the dirt. Trapped in prison, setting himself physically free. He becomes spiritually, mentally and emotionally free and physically free.

• 12:18Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 12:18Lewis Howes?

  He learns like swordsmanship, he learns mathematics, he speaks seven languages, like.

• 12:23Daniel Priestley?

  So this is you, this is you, you feel like tunneling out.

• 12:26Lewis Howes?

  I feel like, you know, I'm not as gifted as he became. But I feel like it has given me a wealth of information that is unlimited. That is created a such a sense of inner freedom.

• 12:39Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 12:39Lewis Howes?

  And inner power of resourcefulness that I wouldn't have had without going through this journey. Imagine sitting across someone like yourself 20 years ago, 10 years ago. When you didn't know what you were doing, you know, and sitting across Kobe Bryant and billionaires and therapists and health experts. I'm learning from all of them.

• 13:00Daniel Priestley?

  I'm curious for you, if you're, if you're at a dinner party and you're talking to people. You must have to bite your tongue a little bit because you've, you've sat down with some of the like. You've sat down with some of the world's top experts on every topic. Uh, it must be a very strange feeling to have a little bit about, a little bit about so much.

• 13:19Lewis Howes?

  I mean, it's a superpower.

• 13:20Daniel Priestley?

  It is a superpower.

• 13:21Lewis Howes?

  But it's also.

• 13:24Lewis Howes?

  You know, I'm still a student. The reason I'm doing it 12 years in is because I have so much more to learn. I don't feel like I've mastered something. I've maybe been able to get beyond certain limitations.

• 13:35Daniel Priestley?

  You've become a high agency generalist.

• 13:37Lewis Howes?

  Exactly. And now it's like I need to keep evolving, keep learning new skills.

• 13:42Daniel Priestley?

  Of the seventeen hundred, if you like, because thinking about my kids, if there were three brackets that you said, teach the kids about these three topics.

• 13:52Lewis Howes?

  Health, relationships, and it's and really money mindset.

• 13:56Daniel Priestley?

  Health relationships and the ability to manage money.

• 13:58Lewis Howes?

  It's like money mindset and it's more because money is such a, I would say more it's health relationships and mindset, which is evolved around purpose, you know, having a fulfilling life,

• 14:10Daniel Priestley?

  Yep.

• 14:11Lewis Howes?

  overcoming adversities, dealing with challenges. But money is such an important thing in the world because of how people live.

• 14:18Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 14:19Lewis Howes?

  Um, that my money interviews and episodes do so well.

• 14:23Daniel Priestley?

  It's a good, it's also a good way to test mindset. Because it's in, it's in the presence of money that our mindset, our mindsets get revealed. When I had this mentor, John, one of the things he did to me that was really strange was he said, he asked me the question, how much do you think is a lot of money?

• 14:40Lewis Howes?

  What did you say?

• 14:41Daniel Priestley?

  I said a grand, a grand a week. Uh, so he said, how much, how much is a lot of money to earn? You've got to remember this was two thousand. And I said a grand a week. I said, there's not, I remember the exact words. I said, there's not much you can't do on a grand a week. Right? So that was my thing. And he says to me, Dan, you're going to be on my sales team. You need to be making a hundred grand a year or I'm going to fire you. Um.

• 15:03Lewis Howes?

  So it's eight, yeah, what is that? Two grand a week, right? It's like.

• 15:05Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah. So I had, I had this kind of like weird look on my face and he said, you, you've got a problem with money. He goes, you're not going to make a hundred grand a year. You're not going to succeed. Because you think a hundred grand is so far out of your reach. You know, you think fifty grand is out of your reach. So a hundred grand is like, you haven't even considered that.

• 15:23Lewis Howes?

  So your mindset needs a shift around.

• 15:24Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah. He's like, he's like, why don't you think you can do it? I'm like, well, I'm only nineteen. He's like, we've got to shift that. So one thing he got me to do is I had to carry two thousand dollars in my pocket at all time.

• 15:35Lewis Howes?

  That's cool.

• 15:35Daniel Priestley?

  He said, you need to believe that two grand is just pocket money. So I

• 15:41Lewis Howes?

  It's a good, that's a good like social experiment.

• 15:43Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, so I had to carry this wad of cash in my pocket. Now, all my emotions came up. So carrying this two grand.

• 15:50Lewis Howes?

  If I lose it, or what if I, yeah.

• 15:51Daniel Priestley?

  What if I lose it?

• 15:52Lewis Howes?

  If someone steals it.

• 15:53Daniel Priestley?

  What if someone steals it? What he asked me to do was to write down in my journal. What are all the emotions that come up around the money? Carrying the money. So by carrying the money, the emotions come up. So I had stuff like, what if someone sees it and judges me? That's my money shit. He said.

• 16:10Lewis Howes?

  That's the Australian in you.

• 16:11Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, he said, yeah, being judged for it. Yeah, in America, it's like, cool. In Australia, it's like, what's, what are you doing?

• 16:16Lewis Howes?

  Come back down to earth.

• 16:17Daniel Priestley?

  Why have you got that? Um, I had, what if someone steals it? So he, he said to me, you have a belief that if you had money, someone would attack you for it. You would cause physical danger to you. Um, I said, um, what if a girl sees it? And then she thinks that I'm just like, she wants to date me and like, has all these expectations.

• 16:37Lewis Howes?

  Because of money.

• 16:37Daniel Priestley?

  Because, right? So then he's like, you, you feel that money would get in the way of having an authentic relationship. Right? So he listed, I listed out all the things that came up as my fears. And then he translated that to, these are your core beliefs around money that have to change. And it was like, it was very transformational.

• 16:54Lewis Howes?

  See, if you didn't learn that, you maybe would have made a bunch of money. And one day, but probably.

• 17:00Daniel Priestley?

  Sabotaged it. Totally would.

• 17:02Lewis Howes?

  That's the whole reason I wrote, Make Money Easy.

• 17:03Daniel Priestley?

  Totally would.

• 17:04Lewis Howes?

  It's not about like investing or entrepreneurship. It's about the mindset and the beliefs we have around money.

• 17:09Daniel Priestley?

  So I feel like it's so important to actually physically confront these things. Like to come up against it, like carrying money for me did, did it. Um.

• 17:18Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 17:19Daniel Priestley?

  You know.

• 17:19Lewis Howes?

  So everyone needs to go carry a million dollars right now with them at all times.

• 17:22Daniel Priestley?

  If that's pocket money.

• 17:23Lewis Howes?

  It starts to feel like, yeah, this is nothing, you know?

• 17:25Daniel Priestley?

  Walk around with a briefcase.

• 17:26Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 17:27Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, exactly. Um, so yeah, it's that feeling of, of readjusting your thermostat around money was, was really powerful. So like psychology and money are so intertwined, they're so linked. Um, like when you receive an amount of money that you feel is too much, you have guilt and shame come up. And you go, oh, am I deserving of this? Do I need to give it away? Do I need to split it with people? Like, what do I need to do? Because like suddenly this money has hit my account. You know, like, and, and, and.

• 18:00Daniel Priestley?

  Uh. If you earn over fifty five thousand US dollars per year, you're in the top one percent of the planet.

• 18:05Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 18:06Daniel Priestley?

  Right? So it's like, oh, you know, who, maybe, maybe it's evil that I've got this, or maybe it's unfair, or. And then if you get, if you get millions, oh, okay, um, that's, you know, that's pretty weird.

• 18:18Lewis Howes?

  How does someone shift their mindset in believing they are deserving of creating financial abundance?

• 18:25Daniel Priestley?

  I think, I think the thing that shifted it for me was I was asked once by a mentor. He said, he, can I do the activity on you?

• 18:36Lewis Howes?

  Let's do it.

• 18:36Daniel Priestley?

  And see how you go.

• 18:37Lewis Howes?

  Uh.

• 18:39Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 18:39Lewis Howes?

  Bring it.

• 18:40Daniel Priestley?

  All right, I'll bring it. Um, so next year, two thousand and twenty six. You're gonna earn an amount of money that satisfies all your needs, and I don't want you to be greedy. I want you to tell me what number comes up.

• 18:54Daniel Priestley?

  So an amount of money.

• 18:56Lewis Howes?

  Don't be greedy.

• 18:56Daniel Priestley?

  Don't be greedy. I want you to, a number.

• 18:59Lewis Howes?

  And now I think I'm in school and this is a test. I always failed tests, so see, okay, so a number is gonna come to me.

• 19:04Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, and I, I want you to pick a number that satisfies all your needs, and I don't want you to be greedy, just pick the number that comes to mind.

• 19:13Lewis Howes?

  Well, bounced around, but is it to me personally or my business?

• 19:17Daniel Priestley?

  It, it's for you personally.

• 19:18Lewis Howes?

  For me personally.

• 19:21Lewis Howes?

  Um. The first number, I don't know why it came to my mind.

• 19:27Lewis Howes?

  Was twenty million dollars.

• 19:28Daniel Priestley?

  Million dollars, okay.

• 19:29Lewis Howes?

  But I was also trying to beat the game of this test.

• 19:32Daniel Priestley?

  Okay, okay.

• 19:32Lewis Howes?

  So I'm like, okay, you know.

• 19:34Daniel Priestley?

  Twenty million came to mind, and then what happened? And then you thought.

• 19:38Lewis Howes?

  And I was like, is that greedy? Is that not greedy? But I'm thinking of how can I serve people with this money?

• 19:43Daniel Priestley?

  Interesting.

• 19:43Lewis Howes?

  I'm thinking of twenty million and wouldn't be greedy because I'm just thinking about how I can make a bigger difference with this money.

• 19:49Daniel Priestley?

  Oh, you, you know the game, right? You've, clearly, you know.

• 19:52Lewis Howes?

  Well, how can I, you know, how can I generate more so I can hire more people to, to create livelihood within people? How can I?

• 19:59Daniel Priestley?

  That's it.

• 20:00Lewis Howes?

  You know, give to my team more money, because now I have more money to give them. How can I?

• 20:04Daniel Priestley?

  So what happens is, I asked this of some people.

• 20:07Lewis Howes?

  But then I was like, well, originally I was thinking a hundred million, but I was like, okay, for me personally, you know, it's like, I'm gonna be giving a lot of money.

• 20:13Daniel Priestley?

  So I, I said this to a, a young guy, uh, a couple of days ago.

• 20:16Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 20:17Daniel Priestley?

  And his number that he said was two hundred and fifty grand.

• 20:19Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 20:20Daniel Priestley?

  And I said, that number's really greedy. And he said, why do you say that? And I said, because that number only satisfies your needs.

• 20:26Lewis Howes?

  You're one person.

• 20:27Daniel Priestley?

  You're one person. I said, I said, let me ask you a question. I said, if you had three kids, would your number be bigger or smaller? And he said, it would be bigger. I said, okay, so that means because you're thinking about somebody else. I said, what happens if you had sick parents? Would your number be bigger or smaller? He goes, bigger. I said, okay, so the more people you start to think about, the bigger the number. I said, so is it greedy to want more or less?

• 20:49Lewis Howes?

  Less.

• 20:49Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, less is greedy. So it's like, oh, you've got to flip your script here. The people who were very, very powerful a long time ago, they wanted to completely install an idea into people's heads that it's greedy to want to have more.

• 21:05Lewis Howes?

  Isn't that interesting?

• 21:06Daniel Priestley?

  Uh huh, they because they said, uh uh, we're gonna, we're gonna have all this, you're gonna have a little bit, uh, and you're gonna be greedy if you want what we've got.

• 21:15Lewis Howes?

  Crazy.

• 21:21Lewis Howes?

  But it's been conditioned in so many of us, right? Like, just be happy with what you have and.

• 21:25Daniel Priestley?

  Exactly.

• 21:26Lewis Howes?

  Now, but there's also a flip coin, the flip side of the coin, which is like just the, you know, the fisherman's story. You know, it's just like, why go build more boats and have more teams and

• 21:38Daniel Priestley?

  Well, this is a question.

• 21:38Lewis Howes?

  Book more fish to like, make more money when at the end of the day, you just wanna like.

• 21:42Daniel Priestley?

  Just wanna be fishermen.

• 21:43Lewis Howes?

  Be on your island and fish every day and be with your wife and your kids and relax.

• 21:47Daniel Priestley?

  This is a problem of an alignment, alignment. So we have to choose.

• 21:51Lewis Howes?

  Seasons, seasons of life.

• 21:53Daniel Priestley?

  And we have to choose what, what is it that we want to be in alignment to? Um, so we have to be in alignment with certain outcomes, certain goals. There is an algorithm that's kind of built into us that is make the most of what we've got.

• 22:10Daniel Priestley?

  Uh, while taking care of self and others. So um, imagine this kind of like line and it's like if you've got this power to make hundreds of millions and for you that's fun and you're in alignment to making a hundred million, which some people are. Then you have an obligation to explore that as your life path while looking after self and others. So it's like I, so it's like I need to make the most now. The, the truth about the fisherman's story is that the fisherman never had alignment to floating companies on the stock market.

• 22:44Lewis Howes?

  He didn't have the desire.

• 22:45Daniel Priestley?

  That, that wasn't his life's path.

• 22:47Lewis Howes?

  No.

• 22:47Daniel Priestley?

  So he wasn't waking up every day going, this is something I'm capable of. This is something I should be doing. This would be my way of maximizing myself and others. He, he was sitting there saying, hey, based on my life's path, being a fisherman and providing for my village by going out and fishing and taking other people on, on that journey and having that experience. That's my life path.

• 23:08Daniel Priestley?

  Whereas the person who perhaps went to Harvard and did a finance degree and has found themselves commanding

• 23:17Daniel Priestley?

  a knowledge of how to, how to do these kind of amazing transactions and deals. It's probably, especially if it brings them alive, if they, there's this word called vitality. Vitality has two meanings, which is life force, energy and irreplaceable. There are certain moments where you have irreplaceable life force energy. And what that feels like is no one could be here other than this is me. This is what I'm meant to be here. In this situation, I'm irreplaceable. Um, and life force energy is I'm bringing this to life. If I leave, this dies, right?

• 23:50Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 23:51Daniel Priestley?

  So the fisherman's vitality is to be on that boat, bringing in those fish. If I leave, this dies. This is what, where I'm meant to be. This is my, this is where I'm irreplaceable.

• 24:02Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 24:02Daniel Priestley?

  The bankers in the story, his vitality is floating companies. If I leave, this doesn't float, you know? And trying to take someone else out of their life force energy to, to replicate your life force energy is not where it's at.

• 24:16Lewis Howes?

  Unless that person is meant to do something greater than where he's at, or it's.

• 24:21Daniel Priestley?

  When you're out of alignment, when you're out of alignment, then you know you're out of alignment and you go, hey, wait a second. What am I trying to do here? Like, I'm not in alignment with my, you know, there's a life story that's unfolding. There's my origin story, my mission and my vision. My origin story is everything that led up to this point. My vision is where I wanna, what I wanna do with my life. My mission is the highest value work that I could be doing at any given time. And when we're in alignment, it feels like this straight line between past, present and future flowing through us. Yes. And it gives us this vitality. So. Hmm. So this is what I'm talking about and it's a magical ingredient. And when that is in alignment, everything flows. The right people show up, the right conversations flow.

• 25:05Daniel Priestley?

  The, the people who weren't meant to be there leave, the money attracts, like you, it just starts piecing together. So there are definitely times where you sit there and go, what am I doing here? Like this is, if I leave, this doesn't die. If I leave, they, they get on with it. I'm not in my vitality here. This is not my past, present and future expressing itself. Um, I need to go find something else. That's fine. That's, that's because you recognize you're out of alignment. But sometimes you recognize you're in alignment and it's, it's. The, the thing about vitality is you can't get someone else to do it because it's you. It's your thing. That's where you're meant to be. Where do you feel like you're out of alignment in your life right now? Where am I out of alignment? Um, my biggest area of out of alignment is my health, my, my fitness.

• 25:49Daniel Priestley?

  I, um, see I've got my little bit of a, uh, uh, uh, over forty chin going on over here and so. Over forty is a mindset. Yeah, over forty is a mindset. I, um. Yeah, I, I mean, my, my thing is I've never been great at, at fitness and I'm resourcing the situation, getting all of that. But yeah, there's a, there's a, there's an out of alignment. I feel like I could do more for the world if fitness was a bigger priority. And if, if I, if my, uh, if my outcomes matched, you know, my values around fitness. Cause my values have now shifted. That's definitely happened. I had a health scare and it really shifted my values. And then my. What was the health scare? It was Christmas time, this Christmas just gone.

• 26:32Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, I did a blood test and the doctor rang me the night before Christmas and said, your pancreas is, uh, producing an enzyme that is in a very high level. And it's, um, it's, it's something that's associated with not good things. Um, and he said, I'm calling you before Christmas because I don't want you to drink alcohol and I don't want you to have a big Christmas dinner. I want you to just eat, eat modestly and don't drink alcohol. I mean, it's that high of importance, it sounds like where you couldn't have one more weekend. Yeah, well, he said Christmas is a time where you could easily indulge and you could really do some real serious damage to your pancreas.

• 27:04Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 27:04Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, so that was, that was a, um, you know this.

• 27:07Lewis Howes?

  He gave a wake up call.

• 27:08Daniel Priestley?

  Charles Dickens, uh, The Ghost of Christmas Eve. That was my Ghost of Christmas Eve moment.

• 27:12Lewis Howes?

  Literally.

• 27:13Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, literally. So I spent the week between Christmas and New Year talking to ChatGPT endlessly about pancreases and.

• 27:20Lewis Howes?

  And how old are you, forty five then?

• 27:22Daniel Priestley?

  I'm forty four.

• 27:23Lewis Howes?

  Forty four?

• 27:23Daniel Priestley?

  Forty three at the time, yeah.

• 27:25Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 27:25Daniel Priestley?

  So, um.

• 27:26Lewis Howes?

  When's your birthday, March?

• 27:27Daniel Priestley?

  January.

• 27:28Lewis Howes?

  January.

• 27:28Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 27:29Lewis Howes?

  Forty four, okay. So forty three, you get the wake up call, Christmas Eve.

• 27:33Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 27:34Lewis Howes?

  That, hey, don't have alcohol tonight.

• 27:36Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 27:37Lewis Howes?

  Don't have a big dinner and desserts tonight.

• 27:39Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 27:39Lewis Howes?

  But a doctor, if it was a mild case, they wouldn't call you.

• 27:42Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, no, he said, no, you're, you're sky high on your pancreas levels. So I like, and also, one of my heroes is Steve Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer.

• 27:50Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. So I was. How old was?

• 27:52Daniel Priestley?

  He was only fifty six, you know, and like horrific, so.

• 27:56Lewis Howes?

  And he went through like cancer treatment probably ten years before, five years before, it was like.

• 28:01Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 28:01Lewis Howes?

  So this is the time.

• 28:03Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 28:04Lewis Howes?

  Where.

• 28:04Daniel Priestley?

  So I'm sitting there.

• 28:05Lewis Howes?

  That was for him essentially, like if he didn't catch it sooner, yeah.

• 28:08Daniel Priestley?

  So, so.

• 28:09Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 28:10Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, so for me, that was like the wake up call I needed. Shift of values, shift of behavior. So now I'm a few months into really that journey.

• 28:18Lewis Howes?

  What was your values before that phone call?

• 28:21Daniel Priestley?

  Uh, probably taking health and fitness for granted. Um, uh, it's always come, like, I've always been healthy enough. I've, I've always, I'll tell you the negative beliefs. That people who put so much energy into their health and fitness are self indulgent.

• 28:36Lewis Howes?

  They're greedy.

• 28:37Daniel Priestley?

  They're, they're greedy.

• 28:38Lewis Howes?

  Selfish.

• 28:39Daniel Priestley?

  They're.

• 28:39Lewis Howes?

  They're making it about them.

• 28:40Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, they're vain. Um, and that I'm better because I pour myself into projects that add value to teens and people.

• 28:50Lewis Howes?

  This is so interesting because, you know, when my wife, when we started dating, like almost three months in, we still weren't officially committed. But we were like spending all this time together, right? So it was kind of limbo, but we really liked each other.

• 29:04Lewis Howes?

  She asked me the, uh, what are your priorities in life question, which I think every guy probably gets from a woman at some point when they're dating, like, what is it you really want? What are your priorities?

• 29:12Daniel Priestley?

  Job interview question.

• 29:13Lewis Howes?

  Exactly.

• 29:14Daniel Priestley?

  It's like, hey, wait a second. All right.

• 29:15Lewis Howes?

  I thought we were having fun here.

• 29:16Daniel Priestley?

  I'm being weighed up right now.

• 29:17Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, I was like.

• 29:20Lewis Howes?

  And I remember I go, what do you mean? She goes, it's like, what are your priorities in life? And what is a priority to you? And I told her in that moment, I was like, do you want me to be honest with you? Or do you want me to kind of like? Give you the vanilla version? Give me what you want to hear. Yeah. Because up until that point, I was 100% honest about everything. Past. Yeah. Stuff I was ashamed of, stuff I wasn't proud of, like everything. And so I was like, all right, do I start lying now? Or, you know, like a little white lies? Or do I give it to her? And I said, listen, I'm going to tell you the truth. But this may be our last conversation. You know, we're probably going to stop dating after this point. Because no one's been able to handle the truth about what my priorities are. Wow.

• 30:05Lewis Howes?

  Up until this point. It's always been like an issue. He framed that up powerfully. Framed it. And so she was like, oh, you're going to say something crazy, right? Yeah. And she goes, what are your priorities? I go, well, you know, it's been good knowing you. And this is a fun three months. But again, you're not going to want to be with me after this. And I'm okay with it. I'm sad because I'm really enjoying this, but it's what's going to happen. And she goes, okay, what's your priority? I go, you will never be my number one priority. And no woman wants to hear that. No woman entering a relationship with a man wants to hear that they are not number one. And I said, there's a reason behind this. Number one needs to be my health. It needs to be my health. It doesn't mean I need to spend eight hours a day on my health. It just needs to be a focal point of taking care of my energy.

• 30:49Lewis Howes?

  And my health includes spiritual health, my relationship with God, uh, emotional health and physical well-being. It's the whole health. Why is health need to be number one? Because I need a strong foundation for my second priority, which won't be you either. And no woman wants to not be number one or number two in a relationship. I said, my second priority will be my, my service to the world. Yep. My purpose. Yeah. Which is the ability to serve people at a high level. And I don't know if this is going to be my purpose for the next five years or 50 years. It's seasonal. It may be over at some point. But if I feel like I'm meant to do something, if I have a calling to serve people greater,

• 31:32Lewis Howes?

  and I'm being held back by it, by one person, because they feel insecure, I'm going to resent it. And I'm going to feel like I'm doing a disservice to God. And so I want to make sure that I'm living in alignment with my calling and on that path. And

• 31:48Daniel Priestley?

  So how did you react?

• 31:49Lewis Howes?

  And I said, my third priority will be our relationship.

• 31:52Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 31:52Lewis Howes?

  If we're in this, our marriage, our family, like it's not going to be not a priority. And I said, if you can receive that. And you can understand that my health, mental, physical, spiritual is number one. My purpose, number two. You will feel like number one.

• 32:09Daniel Priestley?

  Mm hmm.

• 32:09Lewis Howes?

  Because I will be present with you. I'll have all my efforts and energy.

• 32:13Daniel Priestley?

  And you'll be, and you'll be with the real me.

• 32:15Lewis Howes?

  You'll be with the most authentic, happiest me.

• 32:18Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 32:19Lewis Howes?

  And an unhealthy me is not happy in a relationship.

• 32:21Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 32:22Lewis Howes?

  Uh, a person who's not, uh, me who's knows I'm supposed to be living, uh, a purpose, but I'm doing something else. Out of fear, I'm not going to be happy in the relationship.

• 32:31Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 32:32Lewis Howes?

  I'm going to resent.

• 32:32Daniel Priestley?

  So you're going to be the guy that she fell in love with anyway.

• 32:34Lewis Howes?

  Exactly.

• 32:35Daniel Priestley?

  And, and, and the, the trick would be is if you rearrange those two priorities, then she'd fall in love with one guy and then end up with, you know, the sale rack.

• 32:43Lewis Howes?

  Exactly, exactly. Like a discounted version of yourself.

• 32:46Daniel Priestley?

  That's what I mean.

• 32:47Lewis Howes?

  Not stepping into the highest version of me. And, and she goes. I'm so happy to hear this because I've never dated a man that had a purpose.

• 32:55Daniel Priestley?

  Or that had the guts to say what it was.

• 32:57Lewis Howes?

  And they always wanted to make me their priority.

• 32:59Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 32:59Lewis Howes?

  And I was like, that's great, but what's the thing you want to do in life? Like, what are you meant to do?

• 33:04Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 33:05Lewis Howes?

  And even if you're not doing it at the highest level, at least if you're like trying to do it.

• 33:09Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 33:09Lewis Howes?

  You know, failing at something you're supposed to do is better than.

• 33:12Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 33:12Lewis Howes?

  Nothing. And so she was like, you're the perfect guy for me.

• 33:16Daniel Priestley?

  I had a similar conversation with my wife.

• 33:17Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 33:18Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, we had a very similar conversation. Didn't have the health one in there. But, but I, I said, my number one priority is, is my, uh, contribution to the world. Like it's my purpose. Um, and sometimes that's going to take me on. Uh, you know, take me on.

• 33:33Lewis Howes?

  You're traveling, you're going to be this.

• 33:35Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, I'm just going to have to be knuckled down and, um, yeah, but I, but I also said, that's, you know, that's big. If you like who I am, that's who I am.

• 33:43Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 33:43Daniel Priestley?

  You know?

• 33:44Lewis Howes?

  Now, here's the thing, Daniel, you know, you've got an interesting name. We talked about this before, Daniel Priestley.

• 33:49Daniel Priestley?

  Bless you, my son.

• 33:50Lewis Howes?

  You know? What do you feel like? The meaning of your name is for your life. What is the meaning of it meant for you throughout your life?

• 33:59Daniel Priestley?

  You got me thinking about this. So I'm Daniel Stephen Priestley. Daniel is, you know, biblical character, courageous and a good judge. He's the divine judge is the name, is the meaning of the name from the Bible. And, and he's in alignment, right? That's why the lions don't touch him, uh, cause he's not fearful. Yeah, he's, he's, he's there to be who he wants to be. So nice, that character.

• 34:26Daniel Priestley?

  My mom named me that because of Elton John's song, Daniel's Travelling Tonight on a Plane. I do a lot of travelling tonight on a plane. So there's, that's a little bit baked into the, into that.

• 34:37Daniel Priestley?

  Stephen was my uncle who died shortly before I was born. He had a car crash and so I carry that legacy with me. That this guy whose life was cut short at 24, um, he's, he's part of me. Had he not died, I wouldn't be here.

• 34:52Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 34:52Daniel Priestley?

  Which is kind of weird, um, because he was, he was the catalyst for my mom and dad

• 34:59Daniel Priestley?

  getting their relationship together.

• 35:01Lewis Howes?

  Someone had to sacrifice.

• 35:03Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, that's just how it worked.

• 35:05Lewis Howes?

  For your parents to meet.

• 35:06Daniel Priestley?

  That's just how it worked, yeah. So, uh, so, so there's, there's that. And then, um, Priestley, obviously there's a couple of different meanings to that. It's obviously my paternal line. And I'm from a, you know, I'm from some soldiers who, who fought in wars. Some people had very, very good spiritual faith.

• 35:29Daniel Priestley?

  And entrepreneurs. Strangely, I'm from a long line of people from London. Would the weirdest thing happened that when I arrived in London, having never been above the equator in my life, having no idea of London, I arrive and I set up an office two blocks from where my grandfather was born and two blocks from where my great grandparents were buried in a cemetery.

• 35:52Lewis Howes?

  You didn't know?

• 35:52Daniel Priestley?

  I had no idea. And where I live today is like a short distance from where multiple generations of my family

• 36:00Daniel Priestley?

  were, were born and, and raised. So it's, yeah, it's strange, all those priestly connections. But yeah, the, the, um, the funny thing about priestly is a lot of people say that I preach a little, I'm a little bit too preachy. So perhaps, uh, perhaps that's built in there as well.

• 36:22Lewis Howes?

  Well, you're forty-four, right?

• 36:24Daniel Priestley?

  Yep.

• 36:24Lewis Howes?

  Which four, for me, the number of, it's a foundational number. It's also a number of love. But really, you know, you're an eight, you're an infinity right now. Which is, your forty-four is, four plus four is eight. And so you're in a, a cycle with your number. And I, I believe that numbers and names have meanings.

• 36:42Daniel Priestley?

  Interesting.

• 36:43Lewis Howes?

  And you got a phone call, Christmas Eve. Like, all these signs and synchronicities are lining up for you to be in alignment with your health. And I get kind of chills just thinking about it. You know, you have a daughter, you have two sons. Again, you know, my thought is, what does fifty-five-year-old Daniel look like? Based on the decision you make today? And over the past few months that you've been deciding?

• 37:10Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 37:11Lewis Howes?

  Like, what would fifty-five-year-old Daniel?

• 37:14Daniel Priestley?

  Fifty-five-year-old Daniel's gonna be in the, in the best shape of his life. And he's grateful to forty-four-year-old Daniel for doing fasts. Because I really like getting value from fasting, which is really good for the pancreas and all that sort of stuff.

• 37:27Daniel Priestley?

  And four personal training sessions a week. All processed foods out the door, alcohol and coffee gone.

• 37:36Daniel Priestley?

  You know, so those are, those are some of the big, big shifts.

• 37:38Lewis Howes?

  What are the, what would fifty-five-year-old Daniel preach to you about today and say? All that is nice, but what's really at the core that you need to be doing, thinking, and behaving differently? So that you take us to the promised land. Literally, that we're still here, not just surviving, but I'm actually living in full alignment with our health. So that our kids can look at us in ten years from now, eleven years from now, and say, dang, dad really did this. Like, dad actually stepped up and owned the courageous parts of themself that were really hard to do. What is your future self truly preaching to you to do? And stop hiding behind?

• 38:23Daniel Priestley?

  The big one is, um, is around trying to take a more active role in the schooling system.

• 38:32Daniel Priestley?

  Because I know it's broken and I know what's coming because of the technology. Um, so you know, not just in the lives of my own kids, because they they're gonna grow up in a pretty reasonable family. But figuring out how do we, how do we do this more widespread? How do we, how to create a system that is, is gonna work for a lot of people? So so many people at the moment are in pain, lots of pain. Um, they're playing by the rules and it's not working for them. Um, you know, the, the society is splitting. We've had, we've had almost a hundred years of a middle class after the war, eighty years of the middle class after World War Two. Um, and we took it for granted and now the middle class is in decline and we're getting rising rates at the bottom and rising rates at the top.

• 39:17Daniel Priestley?

  People are moving from the middle either up. But do you know there's more wealthy people than ever before?

• 39:23Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 39:23Daniel Priestley?

  Wealth is, wealth is definitely taking off. Um, if you happen to be on this side, boom, it's happening here. But we're also getting rates of people who can't keep up with inflation, can't keep up with the cost of living, blame themselves. Um, so like for me personally, hugely aligned to my mission is being on these kind of big platforms to just talk about what's happening, um, you know, uh, and talk about what is the, what? Cause we have this technological edge singularity where we've either created artificial general intelligence or it's about to come. We've hit the singularity. Life is not going to be the same again, so everything's up for grabs and people like yourself, like myself,

• 40:06Daniel Priestley?

  need to shape the world in a positive direction or else it'll just fall into chaos.

• 40:11Lewis Howes?

  If you had to sell every business in the next thirty days and you got ten times more than the number that you wanted for every business and you have hundreds of millions in the bank.

• 40:20Daniel Priestley?

  Yep.

• 40:21Lewis Howes?

  And you are only allowed to focus on one thing for the next decade, one thing only. Put all of your time and attention into solving a problem, serving something, optimizing, transforming something. What would that opportunity be?

• 40:34Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, so I run this entrepreneur accelerator called Dent. And if I had to sell it, I'd just start a new one, right? But Dent is developing entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up, and make a positive impact in the world. The origin of this was that I got into the idea of like wanting to do something for charity. And I did an amazing trip to India. I did an amazing trip to Uganda. I explored environmental stuff. I explored humanitarian stuff. So I really got into this about 15 years ago. Had some profound experiences, like two or three very profound experiences. And I was trying to think, like, how do I make enough money to do all these things that I'm interested in?

• 41:18Daniel Priestley?

  And then I realized, if I create an accelerator that is about developing entrepreneurs who can stand out, scale up, and make a dent in the universe. The Steve Jobs quote is to, entrepreneur's job is to make a dent in the universe. I thought, if I can develop thousands of people who can make a dent in the universe, maybe I can solve a lot more problems than if I try and do it directly and try and be the one who does it. Maybe I can enroll thousands of people to be part of this extended thing. As it stands today, we do now have thousands of entrepreneurs who have committed their business to make a positive impact in the world. So we have, you know, one of our entrepreneurs, Sebastian, has created the Warrior Academy where he teaches martial arts in Kenya and Nepal

• 42:01Daniel Priestley?

  to, I think, five or six thousand kids a week. And he had a martial arts school in England, right? And he set up his foundation. His foundation is now spread across the UK and Dubai. And he's used that to actually, and through some connections of mine, we created a patrons program. That patrons program now allows that company, that foundation, to teach thousands of kids. They get, they're all orphans. They're fed, they're taught, they're given life skills under this umbrella of the Warrior Academy.

• 42:35Daniel Priestley?

  You know, I'm I'm very good friends with Paul and Masami, who uh they created something called Buy One Give One. And Buy One Give One is a charity that um allows people that every time you buy something, it's automatically factored in. So as your business scales, your your impact scales. It's like the Tom Shoes model, yeah. Yeah, but like it's it's created a platform for, they've now had three hundred and seventy million giving impacts. Wow. Um, it's really cool. So all of our businesses, they sign up to B one, G one, and they use their business as a force for good. So like that to me is is pretty powerful.

• 43:12Daniel Priestley?

  But what's the one problem, if you could only solve one, that you would go after? I see, I I know you it's like letting every entrepreneur kind of solve their own problems. Well, this is the problem. The problem is that we now live in a world where the biggest problem in the world at the moment is that people feel displaced. They feel that they were brought up for a world that no longer exists. And they feel this sense of mission and meaning, but they don't know how to express it in the world. So I want like, I'm very aligned to teach entrepreneurship. I I'm not doing this for the money, to be honest. Like, I I enjoy creating software companies and software companies create a lot of money. Um, but all the software companies I create are also about developing entrepreneurs and and doing that.

• 43:50Daniel Priestley?

  Like, Score App has allowed eight thousand entrepreneurs to generate hundreds of leads a month, which allows them to grow and scale and allows them to fulfill their dreams. That's great. Um, so like every software business that I'm building is in alignment with this idea that people feel displaced. They want to make an impact in the world. They want to uh have a career that's meaningful. They they want to explore this way of showing up called entrepreneurship. And that we're mapping out the step by step. So like, there are actually probably ways I could make money better and faster, but I'm really aligned to that. You feel. Yeah, I I don't know. Do you pick up from me that I do stuff because I want to make a lot of money? And that I've got seven companies because I want to make a lot of money? No.

• 44:34Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, because because that's, yeah, that's not where I I come from. Like, it's it's very much I'm building a mini empire because I want to see a transition happen in the world. Yeah. Yeah.

• 44:44Lewis Howes?

  Is there a number you're looking to hit though, like a financial goal?

• 44:48Daniel Priestley?

  There will be moments in my life. No, like I'm financially sweet.

• 44:52Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, you know, like, how do I get it to this net worth?

• 44:55Daniel Priestley?

  It's fun to play those games. It's fun to play the game like, like Score App.

• 45:01Daniel Priestley?

  It would be, it will not be surprising if in the next few years, sorry. Well, this year or early next year that we sell it for close to a hundred million dollars. If that goes ahead, it's because the company that we sell it to will be a better fit for it to go on and become even more successful to scale up. So it'll be like selling it in partnership as its next evolution.

• 45:25Daniel Priestley?

  Will a hundred million dollars totally transform the way that I live? Not really. Like honestly, I would go to work the next day.

• 45:33Lewis Howes?

  Solve the next problem.

• 45:34Daniel Priestley?

  Do what I'm doing. I would live in the same house I live in now.

• 45:37Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 45:38Daniel Priestley?

  I would drive the same cars that I have now.

• 45:39Lewis Howes?

  You can only eat so much food.

• 45:40Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 45:41Lewis Howes?

  You can't like buy more food to eat like when you're, it's like.

• 45:44Daniel Priestley?

  It's it, right? So, so if we do that exit.

• 45:47Lewis Howes?

  You can only be at one house at a time. You know, it's like, you don't need ten houses.

• 45:50Daniel Priestley?

  No, there's, there's, there's like, you know, uh, yeah, very, very little about the way I live would change. I, I pretty much, the, the funny thing about selling a company, by the way, is that by the time you can sell companies, it is actually genuinely neither here nor there. Because, um, like, if you sell a company for a hundred million, it's probably because it makes four or five million profit. And by that stage, you've got four or five million a year.

• 46:16Lewis Howes?

  You're making, you're making bank.

• 46:18Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, like I'm already in a situation where every single month our bank account goes like that. Because we've got so many subscribers and all of that sort of stuff. So I'm already in that position.

• 46:26Lewis Howes?

  You only need so much cash flow for your lifestyle.

• 46:28Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, yeah. And a lot of stuff is not as fun as actually building stuff. Like I, I enjoy building stuff. Um, so I would just go straight into, into that next, like I.

• 46:38Lewis Howes?

  Project.

• 46:39Daniel Priestley?

  I'd still be developing entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up and make a positive impact in the world in one way or another.

• 46:44Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. What do you want your kids to think about you? In terms of what they learned over the last, you know, ten plus years growing up, what do they, what do you wish they learned, knew about you as their dad?

• 46:56Daniel Priestley?

  I would love it if they don't spend any time at all thinking about me. If they're focused on their life, their future, their kids.

• 47:05Daniel Priestley?

  And if they don't feel any sense of obligation, any sense of, uh, like, you know, I think the term legacy can mean many things, but the way I think of it is to pass something on. And to pass it on fully means that it's, it's fully yours. Um, like if I leave you something, it's fully yours now. That's yours. Um, so my dream for my kids would be that they spend absolutely no time thinking about me. Um, I don't want them reminiscing or any of that sort of stuff. Be future focused, be focused on your wife, your kids, your family, your husband. Uh, and you know, your career and

• 47:46Daniel Priestley?

  maybe if they stop and think about it, they go, oh, I had a really good upbringing, like, you know, I got good mentoring from, you know, and my parents were a good role model for us. But only if they really stopped and thought about it. Yeah, I don't want them sitting around thinking about me.

• 48:02Lewis Howes?

  If you could only teach your kids one lesson, what would it be?

• 48:05Daniel Priestley?

  Uh, one great lesson would be you, you speak things into existence. You get what you pitch for.

• 48:14Daniel Priestley?

  That

• 48:17Daniel Priestley?

  that words are creative, not descriptive. So we create with our words, not describe things with our words. So the way you get a hundred million dollar business is you pitch it into existence. The way you have amazing people join the team is you pitch them to join the team. Um, you speak stuff out there and it comes and you, so it's speaking, it's the power to speak things into existence. So it'd be a lesson on how to do that.

• 48:40Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, I call, I call it enrollment.

• 48:42Daniel Priestley?

  Enrollment conversation.

• 48:43Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, how do you enroll?

• 48:44Daniel Priestley?

  Enrollment.

• 48:44Lewis Howes?

  Vision.

• 48:45Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah. King Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, the words and the tones. All right. It's the, it's the, the, the, the message of that story is that he became king when he got the words and the tones, not the sword and the stone. But it's the, this.

• 48:57Lewis Howes?

  What did he do with the words and the tones? What was it?

• 48:59Daniel Priestley?

  If you rearrange sword and stone, it's the words and the tones. Um, it's the ability to have words and tones, the ability to command an army through, through, through the power of speech. So it's speaking things into existence.

• 49:10Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 49:11Daniel Priestley?

  As entrepreneurs, we call this pitching. Enrollment conversation is another great way of describing it.

• 49:16Lewis Howes?

  Besides getting in the best shape of your life this year, what else do you need to enroll yourself in?

• 49:22Daniel Priestley?

  Gee, I didn't know I was coming here for the hard questions, man. This is, uh, um.

• 49:28Lewis Howes?

  What else? The meaningful questions.

• 49:29Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 49:31Lewis Howes?

  You can talk about how to make money on any show.

• 49:32Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, true. I like it. Um.

• 49:36Lewis Howes?

  But what's the?

• 49:36Daniel Priestley?

  I'll tell you, I'll tell you what comes up for me when you say that.

• 49:42Daniel Priestley?

  This is first world problem, but I find that I'm incredibly comfortable in my life. And the downside of.

• 49:52Lewis Howes?

  There's a problem to comfort as well.

• 49:53Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, the downside of being incredibly comfortable in my life is that, um,

• 49:59Daniel Priestley?

  it's, it's, it's, you know, at forty four, I'm here to play a big game. I'm, I'm, I'm just hitting my stride.

• 50:05Lewis Howes?

  This is the decade.

• 50:06Daniel Priestley?

  As an entrepreneur, this is, this is my decade. So to continue to enroll myself in, play a big game, take the family with, you know, take the family with, uh, you know, honor and respect the fact that I only get to do this because my wife and my kids are on board with it, right? So honor that relationship, honor my team, respect my team, um, my co-founders, my, my investors, uh, you know, those relationships. But keep playing, like, keep playing the bigger game. Even though, even though it's super comfortable, if I want it to be super comfortable, it's like, no, no, let's, let's keep that hunger. You know the Steve Jobs quote, stay hungry, stay curious? Um, so it would be stay hungry, stay curious.

• 50:56Lewis Howes?

  Did I see you hanging out with our friend Dan Martel recently?

• 50:58Daniel Priestley?

  I did, yeah.

• 50:59Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, I mean, he's, uh, it seems like he's taken the call to adventure in the last twelve months of like health first.

• 51:06Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 51:06Lewis Howes?

  And it's exploded his business.

• 51:09Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 51:09Lewis Howes?

  It seems like by going all in on health as the priority.

• 51:13Daniel Priestley?

  He looks so good. Like he, he walked into the restaurant the other night as an athlete.

• 51:17Lewis Howes?

  He probably didn't eat anything.

• 51:20Daniel Priestley?

  Chickened with salt.

• 51:21Lewis Howes?

  That's it. Right. Yeah.

• 51:22Daniel Priestley?

  No.

• 51:22Lewis Howes?

  I mean, it's a level of discipline to be at that level. I'm not saying you have to be that extreme, but look how much, you know.

• 51:28Daniel Priestley?

  But he, he looks like.

• 51:29Lewis Howes?

  He's ten X his business in twelve and a half months or something.

• 51:32Daniel Priestley?

  Yes.

• 51:33Lewis Howes?

  By going all in on obsessing over health. Yeah. And you could say one thing's extreme or not. I'm not here about what is or what isn't. It was inspiring to see what he's done. The belief and confidence that stems from optimizing health. Yeah. I'm not at that level, you know, and I train hard, but he's like obsessive. Yeah. And I think he's got more of an addictive personality. This is his current addiction, health addiction. Yeah, I mean, it's like he's been on the other side where he went to jail and alcohol addiction and drug addiction. So this is like, he's using it for good, but it's all in one way or not, it seems like. But it only seems like it's made him a greater leader. Oh. Made him more money, made him impact more people, made him more focus. Yeah. And probably created a sense of

• 52:16Lewis Howes?

  a deeper sense of appreciation for what he's able to do for himself. Again, I'm not saying that's what you need to do. No, but it's. But uh, I am enrolling you in a, in a, a graver

• 52:32Lewis Howes?

  challenge than what you've even put on yourself. Because I think you're focusing on it, and this is our first time hanging out. But I don't think you've gone all in on health. I think you're like, yeah, I know this is what I need to do and then three, four days a week and this and this, and I'm going to cut this out. But you haven't fully said, I am health. And what is health represent to me? Not just being comfortable, like you said. But getting so uncomfortable that you set up the rest of your life for decades. Not just, well, we'll see where I'm at at 55. If I do this three, four days a week thing and then, you know. And again, I'm not saying you need to be fully obsessive, every grain of salt like Dan Martel.

• 53:14Lewis Howes?

  But um, what would your life look like if you unlocked at an even greater level of health? And making it the priority above every business, above everything else. So that you can serve at higher levels in business. Yes. Because of that behavior shift. Yeah, well, I think.

• 53:33Daniel Priestley?

  I think it sets a great example to my kids to start with. That success and health go hand in hand, not they're not at odds with each other. Um, and it would just be a massive uh move towards being a role model on multiple fronts.

• 53:47Lewis Howes?

  For your kids.

• 53:47Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, that that alone would be great. It'd obviously take relationship up a up a notch. I think too, it'd be just more inspiring to if I'm sharing a message, it would be easier to hear that message. If the person delivering it is clearly.

• 54:00Lewis Howes?

  You would be more enrolling.

• 54:01Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, yeah, I'd enroll.

• 54:03Lewis Howes?

  Your businesses would 10x just by you going all in on health.

• 54:06Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I agree.

• 54:08Lewis Howes?

  So what would it look like for you to fully create the systems process? And vision inside of you that this is the number one versus it's a high priority. Maybe not ready for that right now, but I'm just challenging.

• 54:22Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, I know. To make it number one priority. Um, cause it's right up there like since Christmas. Like personal training sessions every week and um, you know, I completely cut out coffee, cut out all alcohol and coffee. Uh, which has been great, by the way, like sleep is phenomenal uh without coffee. Um.

• 54:44Daniel Priestley?

  I'm just trying to think like.

• 54:46Lewis Howes?

  So it's been four months. It's been four months of this journey so far.

• 54:48Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, and I'm loving it.

• 54:49Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 54:50Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, really enjoying it. Uh, I enjoy training with a trainer.

• 54:53Lewis Howes?

  That's great.

• 54:53Daniel Priestley?

  Uh, my grandfather wouldn't understand, but but I do enjoy training with a trainer. Um. I think probably the the one thing that's missing is a health challenge. So like what I haven't done is I haven't said like I'm committing myself to doing them. Like cause Dan is doing, Dan Martel is doing uh.

• 55:10Lewis Howes?

  75 Hard or he's doing like ultra marathons.

• 55:12Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, he's training for an Ironman right now. So he's actually put a put a.

• 55:16Lewis Howes?

  You don't have a carrot.

• 55:17Daniel Priestley?

  No.

• 55:17Lewis Howes?

  You don't have something you're like, all right, this is happening.

• 55:19Daniel Priestley?

  Or a stick.

• 55:20Lewis Howes?

  Let's see, you know, anything. You're just like, all right, I'm gonna do this.

• 55:23Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 55:24Lewis Howes?

  So it's creating something, I'm gonna run a half marathon or I'm gonna run a marathon.

• 55:27Daniel Priestley?

  So a health challenge would definitely would definitely be something.

• 55:29Lewis Howes?

  So that's one thing.

• 55:30Daniel Priestley?

  That would be one thing.

• 55:31Lewis Howes?

  Health challenge.

• 55:31Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 55:34Daniel Priestley?

  Um.

• 55:35Lewis Howes?

  Cause I, again, I feel like what's blocking you from making a greater impact is health.

• 55:41Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, right.

• 55:42Lewis Howes?

  When I see Dan Martell's impact.

• 55:45Daniel Priestley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 55:45Lewis Howes?

  Talking about financial.

• 55:46Daniel Priestley?

  And you also see his.

• 55:47Lewis Howes?

  Impact.

• 55:48Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, you see the photos of how he was before health was an issue, was a focus. And you wouldn't take that guy as seriously.

• 55:56Lewis Howes?

  Well, and I knew Dan back in 2009, I met Dan.

• 56:00Daniel Priestley?

  Interesting.

• 56:00Lewis Howes?

  Back when he was like Flowtown, you know, and like creating these other software apps back in San Francisco when no one even remembers these companies that he was a part of. I remember being in the San Francisco office in 2010 with him and it was like, you know, eight people startup world. I remember we used to spend time at South by Southwest every year. We were in that kind of world and it was, it was fat Dan. You know, it was fat Dan life and, but he was extremely talented and fun and he was the same character.

• 56:26Daniel Priestley?

  Same guy, but.

• 56:27Lewis Howes?

  But he didn't have the obsession. And again, this is not a right or wrong.

• 56:31Daniel Priestley?

  No, he, he does seem to have an addictive personality and this is, he's channeled it into the right place.

• 56:36Lewis Howes?

  He's putting it into, but all I'm saying is the outcome.

• 56:39Daniel Priestley?

  The hard thing, the difference for me is I've always been quite a generalist. So I, I've, I've, I've enjoyed like.

• 56:45Lewis Howes?

  A hundred percent.

• 56:45Daniel Priestley?

  Spreading myself a little as a generalist.

• 56:48Lewis Howes?

  This is, you know.

• 56:48Daniel Priestley?

  The intensity of Dan on that one thing.

• 56:51Lewis Howes?

  I'm not saying you need to obsess like that.

• 56:53Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 56:54Lewis Howes?

  But what I'm saying is.

• 56:55Daniel Priestley?

  What are your views on fasting?

• 56:57Lewis Howes?

  I fast different times. Yeah. I'll fast for 24 hours. I'll fast for two, three days.

• 57:01Daniel Priestley?

  Have you ever done like a, a seven day fast?

• 57:03Lewis Howes?

  I did a four and a half day.

• 57:04Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 57:05Lewis Howes?

  And it was hard.

• 57:06Daniel Priestley?

  Cause I did two seven day fasts.

• 57:07Lewis Howes?

  That's impressive.

• 57:08Daniel Priestley?

  And those two is like nothing but water for seven days.

• 57:10Lewis Howes?

  That's impressive.

• 57:11Daniel Priestley?

  And this was, this was quite a while ago and um, I've never felt so good.

• 57:19Lewis Howes?

  That's good.

• 57:19Daniel Priestley?

  After that.

• 57:20Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 57:20Daniel Priestley?

  So like right now I'm mentally gearing up for a fast, uh, as in like this week.

• 57:25Lewis Howes?

  That's great.

• 57:25Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, cause I just.

• 57:26Lewis Howes?

  I like it.

• 57:27Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 57:27Lewis Howes?

  You know, and again, I'm a.

• 57:29Daniel Priestley?

  And I feel like that's also a bit of a turning point that it's like, that I'm, I'm back to that level of commitment.

• 57:36Lewis Howes?

  That's great.

• 57:37Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 57:38Lewis Howes?

  I, I am at the point where like, listen, I want to enjoy life. I don't have to be so strict on myself either. I'm not like, I have to have a six pack, otherwise I'm like worthless, you know?

• 57:48Daniel Priestley?

  Well, you have a six pack. It's just.

• 57:49Lewis Howes?

  It's not, there's a little fat still.

• 57:51Daniel Priestley?

  It's just buried.

• 57:51Lewis Howes?

  It's a little fat there.

• 57:52Daniel Priestley?

  Buried treasure.

• 57:53Lewis Howes?

  But um. But it's for me, it's not about I have to have a certain look or a certain results physically to feel like I matter or I'm enough or it's okay.

• 58:02Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 58:03Lewis Howes?

  Like I can live in eighty twenty and be okay with it. Where it's like I have sugar, I have like desserts every now and then, but I know my mind that if I eat too much of it.

• 58:13Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 58:13Lewis Howes?

  My body reflects that.

• 58:16Daniel Priestley?

  Would you say health is still your number one?

• 58:18Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, but I also look at it as spiritual, emotional, physical.

• 58:20Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 58:21Lewis Howes?

  It's not just.

• 58:21Daniel Priestley?

  Holistic.

• 58:22Lewis Howes?

  Physically, I need to be perfect.

• 58:24Daniel Priestley?

  How old are you now?

• 58:26Lewis Howes?

  Forty two.

• 58:27Daniel Priestley?

  Okay, yeah.

• 58:30Lewis Howes?

  And it's more of like, am I spiritually at peace? Am I emotionally in good relationships?

• 58:34Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 58:34Lewis Howes?

  Like, do I feel good about me?

• 58:37Daniel Priestley?

  How are you with phone addiction?

• 58:39Lewis Howes?

  A lot better.

• 58:40Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 58:40Lewis Howes?

  I mean, I think I've gone through phases, but I have, I have the Opal app on, which is like blocks me after five minutes.

• 58:46Daniel Priestley?

  Uh huh.

• 58:47Lewis Howes?

  From checking something.

• 58:48Daniel Priestley?

  Yep.

• 58:48Lewis Howes?

  And constantly reminds me if I'm like in a loop.

• 58:51Daniel Priestley?

  This is the thing because AI is very good at, without something like that, you've got to use AI against AI.

• 58:56Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, so I use that as like a blocker, um, because I'm also in a media world. So I'm like, oh, I want to research what's happening.

• 59:04Daniel Priestley?

  And dashboards. Humans have never had such dashboards.

• 59:07Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 59:07Daniel Priestley?

  Like, consider that, uh, you know, if you went back a few hundred years ago, if you planted crops, you didn't find out how those crops did for three months.

• 59:17Lewis Howes?

  No, no, we're seeing data all day long.

• 59:19Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 59:19Lewis Howes?

  So refreshing the data.

• 59:21Daniel Priestley?

  Your brain can just be like.

• 59:22Lewis Howes?

  What's working, what's not working, testing, analyzing.

• 59:23Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, and oh, that got, that got a million views and now it's at one point two and now it's at one point three. You want to refresh that.

• 59:29Lewis Howes?

  Fresh, refresh.

• 59:30Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, and oh, some negative comments. Some, some stranger on the other side of the world on the internet is like not happy that I recorded this episode, right? Oh, you know.

• 59:40Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, so it's managing all that. I think, um, I can definitely be better. I mean, I'm not, uh, Cal Newport.

• 59:47Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, well, no, for, for me, that like.

• 59:49Lewis Howes?

  I'm not like deep work and there's, I'm not zero app and just like I only do deep work.

• 59:54Daniel Priestley?

  Part of my holistic thing is I've, I need to like. Like I I find the pull towards the phone is is strong.

• 1:00:01Lewis Howes?

  It's hard. Yeah, I do detail. I do seven day fasting, no phone.

• 1:00:05Daniel Priestley?

  Phone fasting.

• 1:00:06Lewis Howes?

  Phone in a safe.

• 1:00:07Daniel Priestley?

  That's got to be a new thing.

• 1:00:08Lewis Howes?

  I've done seven days in a safe.

• 1:00:10Daniel Priestley?

  I love it.

• 1:00:11Lewis Howes?

  Not even taking it out to like check messages.

• 1:00:13Daniel Priestley?

  Wow.

• 1:00:14Lewis Howes?

  And so that's something that I like to do. Uh, I try to do that once a year, you know, where it's like a phone fast for.

• 1:00:20Daniel Priestley?

  Phone fast.

• 1:00:20Lewis Howes?

  Certain days, because I think it resets me spiritually.

• 1:00:23Daniel Priestley?

  And you end up with creativity and stuff bubbles up to the surface.

• 1:00:26Lewis Howes?

  My nervous system relaxes.

• 1:00:27Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:28Lewis Howes?

  I'm, and I think the the greatest wealth is inner peace.

• 1:00:32Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:32Lewis Howes?

  At the end of the day, people are creating things because they want to feel enough. Yeah, they're creating something to feel loved, worthy, deserving, accepted, acknowledged.

• 1:00:41Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:42Lewis Howes?

  That they matter.

• 1:00:42Daniel Priestley?

  Yes, and there's another element to you, which is I've got a cat. And if I get my laser pointer and shine the laser pointer on the floor, the cat just springs to life and chases it because it's instinctual. There's a lot of human behavior that is just instinctual that if you like, and and this is the stuff that these systems hack into. Like a lot of these TikTok is a laser pointer.

• 1:01:07Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 1:01:08Daniel Priestley?

  Um, it it's just, it it just fires off all the dopamine stuff.

• 1:01:12Lewis Howes?

  Well, it's keeping us in comfort. You said at forty four, comfort's the thing you're trying to battle the most.

• 1:01:17Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:18Lewis Howes?

  And it's going against comfort. It's like, how do I stay uncomfortable where I'm still not overly stressed and exhausted? But I'm not lazy.

• 1:01:28Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:28Lewis Howes?

  It's like, where is?

• 1:01:29Daniel Priestley?

  Finding that balance.

• 1:01:30Lewis Howes?

  The balance where at the end of the day, I feel like that was a good day, but I'm not just like mentally and physically, I'm like spent and I can't recover from this.

• 1:01:37Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, and you're feeling totally, yeah, wrung wrung out.

• 1:01:40Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, and so it's learning how to have that psychological test and emotional test where at the end of the day, like even a couple of weeks ago, just so much has been going on this year. Where like my test is like, oh, my eyelid starts twitching.

• 1:01:54Daniel Priestley?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:01:55Lewis Howes?

  It's like, oh, it's telling me I need sleep or I need to slow down.

• 1:01:57Daniel Priestley?

  The body is giving you a little.

• 1:01:58Lewis Howes?

  It's like a little signal and that could turn into something greater if I don't actually listen to it and slow down.

• 1:02:03Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:04Lewis Howes?

  So I was like, okay, I actually need to rest or what do I need in this moment? And I think if I'm too much in a loop in any area, I need to find how to get back in alignment again, activating the alignment in us. You talked about vitality and when you're not in alignment, you're out of vitality. You lose vitality.

• 1:02:22Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, you do. Yeah, you lose life force.

• 1:02:24Lewis Howes?

  You're fighting against.

• 1:02:25Daniel Priestley?

  You can't create. Yeah. Yeah. And if you if you experience that, that's a signal. That's not how it should feel. Like it like building stuff should feel joyful. Should be fun. I think fun is a word that we've lost a lot. You know, like things should be fun. Um, you know, fun is a biological signal that flows through the body that says, this is great. This is what you're meant to be doing right now. You know, I think we've lost. You know, one thing I've noticed um in the US, especially when I'm here, is that so much of all friendships and relationships really center on work and what we could do for each other and how we could partner and all that sort of stuff. You know, like when you're in Spain or when you're in Europe,

• 1:03:08Daniel Priestley?

  friendships are friendships. They're there for it's for traveling through life together. It's through it's for being it's it's for being there like. It's sharing food and it's for having conversations.

• 1:03:20Lewis Howes?

  And talking about life ideas.

• 1:03:22Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, and very little to do with work. Um, and a lot of friendships could have absolutely, they could go years without talking about work related stuff. Um, but yeah, fun. I think we we lose we lose track of, we we lose track of the fact that fun is a really good signal. It's a great signal.

• 1:03:39Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 1:03:39Daniel Priestley?

  If something's fun, explore that. Explore fun more.

• 1:03:43Lewis Howes?

  Hundred percent. Uh, it's been powerful, Danny. I've got a couple of final questions for you before I ask them. Um, I want to send people to your work. Where should people connect with you online and follow your work? You've got a lot of great books and.

• 1:03:55Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, so on on Amazon, there's all my books. I think I've got five or six different books that are out. Um, and the entrepreneur revolution is a great place to start. Key person of influence. Um, my software is scoreapp.com. Um, and this is a software that allows you to build a a quiz or a scorecard. We should build you a school of greatness scorecard.

• 1:04:17Lewis Howes?

  I mean, I think we have a few quizzes already, but I'd love to.

• 1:04:19Daniel Priestley?

  I'll get my team to build for some. And they're really fun. And like you can, you could actually do one for some of the top episodes that you watch an episode and then take the scorecard to see where you need to focus.

• 1:04:29Lewis Howes?

  That's cool.

• 1:04:30Daniel Priestley?

  Um, which would be really cool. So our team will, will build you some of those. So scoreapp.com is a super easy way to build assessments if you're launching with lead generation, if you're wanting to launch a waiting list, or if you're wanting to

• 1:04:44Daniel Priestley?

  increase your sales conversions with a diagnostic, you can build all of that on scoreapp.com. Bookmagic.ai is, is good for writing a book.

• 1:04:52Daniel Priestley?

  And dentglobal is the, the entrepreneur accelerator. Yeah.

• 1:04:56Lewis Howes?

  Awesome.

• 1:04:57Daniel Priestley?

  And also connect with me on Instagram or LinkedIn. Yeah, I spend a, yeah, those.

• 1:05:02Lewis Howes?

  Your full name, right?

• 1:05:03Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, Dan, at Daniel Priestley.

• 1:05:04Lewis Howes?

  At Daniel Priestley. If you want to have more courage and be preached to, make sure to follow Daniel Priestley.

• 1:05:11Lewis Howes?

  This is a question I ask everyone towards the end. Um, it's called the three truths. Imagine hypothetically, you get to live as long as you want to live, but it's your last day on earth. You can pick the age, but you gotta call, call it quits. And you get to accomplish all your dreams. And anything you think about comes true, you manifest what you want, you actualize your ideas, you make, serve billions of people. For whatever reason, on the last day, you gotta take all of your work with you. Every piece of content you've published, every book, every interview, every platform you've developed, it's gotta go hypothetically.

• 1:05:46Daniel Priestley?

  Yep.

• 1:05:47Lewis Howes?

  But you get to leave behind three lessons to the world. These three truths. And this is all we would have to, to be reminded of your content and your wisdom. What would those three truths be for you?

• 1:05:59Daniel Priestley?

  This is what comes, this is what comes to mind. And it was similar to what I said to my kids, which is you get what you pitched for and you're always pitching. You speak your life into existence.

• 1:06:09Daniel Priestley?

  So be very careful about what you pitch into existence. Be intentional about pitching.

• 1:06:21Daniel Priestley?

  Influence flows from output. It's it's the creating not consuming that makes the difference, right? So create, not consume. Um, and and a link to that is like prolific beats perfect. Just put stuff out in the world, create. Uh, create, not consume. Um, and the third one would be that you're in partnership with everyone. You're in partnership with everyone. You come in contact with. So what does it mean to be in partnership? Well, it means you care about their needs, they care about your needs, that you communicate with each other and you get into alignment. Um, and that if you can, if you can be in partnership with more people.

• 1:07:05Daniel Priestley?

  If you can have the spirit of partnership with more people, then amazing magic happens.

• 1:07:10Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 1:07:11Daniel Priestley?

  So this idea that. Um. This idea that every day, any resource that you could dream of already exists on the planet. And you just need to be in partnership with the person who's already got access to it.

• 1:07:26Lewis Howes?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:07:26Daniel Priestley?

  You know, so if you want money, be in partnership with people who've already got money. Um, if you want fame, be in partnership with people who've got fame. If you want creativity, be in partnership with people who who have a lot of creativity going on. So it's it's it's that essentially your life gets better. The more people that you have established good, clean, empowering partnerships with.

• 1:07:47Lewis Howes?

  That's beautiful, man. Um, I want to acknowledge you, Daniel, for this conversation, for having the courage to answer some of my questions that you probably didn't think I was gonna ask you about.

• 1:07:57Daniel Priestley?

  I did.

• 1:07:58Lewis Howes?

  And I want to acknowledge you for being on purpose within your entrepreneurial journey and thinking about how can you serve other people to be entrepreneurial? To make problems go away in the world, to solve problems, to be a solution in the world versus a problem to people. And to be thinking in ways that are service oriented. And I want to acknowledge you for constantly having the conversation with yourself about how you can be of higher service through taking care of your health in deeper levels. Not being perfect and obsessive necessarily, but just going deeper and deeper and seeing how can I serve greater in the world? Through being more greedy with myself, um, through the health journey.

• 1:08:39Lewis Howes?

  And really taking advantage of the moment to transform your life over these next six months.

• 1:08:48Lewis Howes?

  So that this time, Christmas Eve, you are reflecting 12 months back and seeing how much you transformed, and how far you've come, and how much greater of an impact you've been able to make in the world, and the father you are becoming to your kids through this partnership of your future self. So I want to acknowledge you for the courage you're having and the steps you're taking. Not perfect, but progressing in a beautiful way.

• 1:09:19Lewis Howes?

  And then I'm excited to see, I want you to text me, maybe not Christmas Eve, but sometime in the holidays and say, here's where I'm at.

• 1:09:25Daniel Priestley?

  Here's where I'm at.

• 1:09:26Lewis Howes?

  After the last 12, 12 months.

• 1:09:28Daniel Priestley?

  Yeah, done.

• 1:09:29Lewis Howes?

  And I want to see, that's, that's your challenge for me.

• 1:09:31Daniel Priestley?

  I like it. I feel like I've got the school of greatness experience here.

• 1:09:34Lewis Howes?

  You've gotten a taste of it, man.

• 1:09:37Lewis Howes?

  Final question, what is your, what is your definition of greatness?

• 1:09:43Daniel Priestley?

  My definition of greatness is that you made the most with what you've got, that you make the most with what you've got for self and others. So that you, because we're all, we're all born with different circumstances. And that you can truly, you, you look at what, you look at what you did and said, all things considered, I made the most with, with what I've got. And that I, I played a role in being part of this tapestry. You know, this tapestry that's, that's unfolding.

• 1:10:13Lewis Howes?

  Make it a dent.

• 1:10:14Daniel Priestley?

  Made, I made a dent in the universe.

• 1:10:15Lewis Howes?

  Made a dent. Daniel, appreciate you.

• 1:10:17Daniel Priestley?

  Cheers, man. That was great.

• 1:10:18Lewis Howes?

  Thanks so much. I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life, and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make it easier, you want to make it flow, you want to feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneeeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going to help you transform your relationship with money this moment, moving forward.

• 1:10:50Lewis Howes?

  I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad-free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Share this with a friend on social media and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts as well. Let me know what you enjoyed about this episode in that review. I really love hearing feedback from you and it helps us figure out how we can support and serve you moving forward. And I want to remind you, if no one has told you lately, that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter.

• 1:11:34Lewis Howes?

  And now it's time to go out there and do something great.