Elena Cardone started her career in Hollywood and soon became a successful model and actress of TV and film fame. A lifelong competitive sport shooter, and now wife, mother, author, businesswoman, empire builder, event producer, mentor, public speaker, and visionary.She is the author of the best-selling book “Build an Empire: How to Have it All.” She is the executive producer of the massively successful events that include 10X Ladies, Operation 10X Badass, Build an Empire Mastermind and her own show, “Women in Power.”Drawing upon her vast experience, Elena has developed her own curriculum to assist aspiring empire builders. In her Build an Empire course, she lays the groundwork for both men and women as she trains them how to create, grow and defend an extraordinary career and marriage. Additionally, she mentors hundreds of women with personal, one-on-one coaching sessions.
Elena’s most recent endeavor has been to partner up with EXP Realty. She is now a licensed Realtor who plans on building the largest real estate team across the globe helping thousands of people create generational wealth through real estate powered by EXP.
Elena has been happily married to Grant since 2004 (July 4th to be exact – and the fireworks have never stopped) and lives with her husband Grant, their two daughters, Sabrina and Scarlett, along with their two cats, Cash and Flow in Miami Beach. Together they have created a real estate portfolio of $5.2 Billion.
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Travis Chappell (4s):
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Eric Eskwarczynski (41s):
Hello everyone. And. welcome back to the Travis Makes Friends podcast. My name is Eric, I'm Travis Chaps producer. In today's episode, you're gonna hear an interview that Travis and his wife Jackie, conducted with ELENA CARDONE. This was recorded for a separate podcast, but there is so much value we wanted to share it with you. On today's episode, on the show, they talked not only business, but how to juggle family life. In addition to business. They talked about juggling business, marriage, parenting, and so much more. Elena Cardone started her career in Hollywood and soon became a successful actress and model of TV and film fame, A, lifelong competitive sport shooter. And now author, businesswoman, empire builder, event producer, mentor, public speaker, trainer and visionary.
Eric Eskwarczynski (1m 27s):
She's the author of the best selling book, Build an Empire How to Have it All, as well as the executive producer of the annual 10 X Ladies event. And Build an Empire Mastermind Events Drawing. upon her vast experience, Elena has developed her own curriculum to assist aspiring empire builders in her Build, an Empire and kingmaker courses. she lays the groundwork for both men and women as she trains them how to create and maintain both an extraordinary career and marriage. Additionally. she mentors hundreds of women with personal one-on-one coaching sessions. ELENA currently hosts her own show, Women in Power and the 10 X Ladies Network, along with co-hosting the g and e show with her husband, grant CARDONE, who, who is also a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and real estate investor, Together.
Eric Eskwarczynski (2m 14s):
they have created a real estate portfolio of several billion dollars and they have been happily married since July 4th, 2004. She lives with her husband Grant, their two daughters, Sabrina and Scarlett and their two cats, Cash and Flow in Miami. Beach. Enjoy today's episode with ELENA CARDONE.
Travis Chappell (2m 33s):
All right, here we go. Let's jump in. So we're just a quick recap for the, you know, three people that are listening that may not know you guys. Can you just give me a quick 20, 32nd catch up on what you guys have been up to really in the last year, year and a half? Because a lot of things have changed for you.
Elena Cardone (2m 50s):
Quick recap since Covid, when Covid exposed some vulnerabilities in our organization to having to release people at the worst time ever receiving massive amount of criticism and hate to, knowing that we were gonna get through it, we were gonna fortify Refortify, come together as a unit, not only as husband and wife, but as an organization, we're gonna make it stronger so that we could come back bigger, better batter. You know, I was determined at that point to make it everything that we had been doing look like child's play as kind of the answer to the hatred and whatnot.
Elena Cardone (3m 34s):
And so since that point we've come back, we've, we've grown, we've expanded, we hit a billion dollars, not that anybody would care about that except for, it's a major accomplishment for those who understand what that takes and what that means and what you had to sacrifice and all the right decisions that you had to make and everything that goes into that. Also proving that if the little people from Lake Charles and New Orleans, Louisiana can do it, anybody can do it. And so that was a major milestone. We also went to 12,000 apartment units and we were just in, in collaborating with other powerful entities to build and reach a heightened level of success, not just in business but in, in all dynamics, in relationships and mindset.
Elena Cardone (4m 25s):
And so, huh, that's what we've been up to and there's so much more in the works. It's, it's really, really an exciting time over here. Not that it's easy, but it's exciting times nonetheless.
Travis Chappell (4m 37s):
So just a couple of things then. Just one, two, yeah, yeah. I don know, if you remember this ELENA, the first time I had you on my show, this was 2017 now, which is, which is crazy. But we talked about that. We talked about how you were kind of pushing Grant to go for that billion dollar mark and how at the time it was just a crazy, crazy goal to throw out into the universe and that he was actually a little bit upset when he first brought it up because of how much work he knew had to go into making that happen. And now here you are a few years later with a couple billion dollars in assets under management with CARDONE Capital and then 4.8
Elena Cardone (5m 17s):
4.8
Travis Chappell (5m 18s):
Who's counting oh oh 4.8, 4.8, 4.8
Elena Cardone (5m 22s):
Assets under management. Yeah, that's, that's the 4,000 units now.
Travis Chappell (5m 26s):
There we go. Okay. So, awesome. So just in that short period of time, you guys have exponentially grown, and that's not to discount any of the work that you did beforehand because you were obviously busting it for decades prior to the last five years. But it seems like the last five years have been just like a hockey stick level of growth for you. And I'm wondering, because this is figuring it out and we like to talk more than just about business here, I'm wondering what that stress did to your guys' relationship and what type of practices maybe that you put in place to, you know, work through this kind of stuff together as you grew in this tremendous period.
Elena Cardone (6m 8s):
2020 was our hardest year. It was extremely stressful. He was doing undercover billionaire. There was just everything coming at us, the unpredictability, the assets, the people, the, you know, ugh, it was just a lot. It, it, there was a lot of friction on our marriage. There was, you know, I, I was at a place where, where I'm doing something new, which is different, you know, and, and, and I had to have a discussion and a new unit of time with him because we had to reorganize the, our relationship as we kind of knew it, meaning I usually do all the behind the scenes and I'm always there.
Elena Cardone (6m 48s):
And now I wanted to go out and help a part. I, I'm doing my own thing, which is I'm now a licensed Realtor with EXP. So it's interesting that you say exponential cuz it stands for exponential. But I saw 2000, 2020, you know, I saw all these people losing their jobs and I wanted to get into a model where I could actually help people grow their businesses like I did with Grant, like by offering mindset, infrastructure and support. And I found EXP this model, which actually grant brought to the table and, and I said, look Grant, this is my opportunity now to not only be the woman behind the man beside the man, which I'm very proud of and, and but my s heroism and my superpower is that, and now I want to bring that, now I've mastered that role.
Elena Cardone (7m 41s):
I wanna bring this to other people and see how far I can go as a legacy play to help other people, you know, and so can I have your support in this? Because if you don't have the conversation, then you have to, you could look at it two ways. You could look at it, well I'm not getting support. Or you could look at it from his point of view, which is, okay, now she's leaving our stuff to go off and do her thing and she's excluding me. You know what I'm saying? There's two different viewpoints. So we have to come back together. I had to get on the same page and say, look, I wanna restore the family dynamic to society. You know, I wanna bring financial literacy just like you do.
Elena Cardone (8m 22s):
I'm gonna continue to support you. There's gonna be some bumps along the road as I'm doing the juggling act with you, but I have that pretty well grooved in, but I might drop a ball because now I'm adding this new thing that I've never done that does require more attention. So, you know, can you support me? Can you show active interest in the success of me by helping all these other people? Does that align with you and us? Yes. Okay, great. So now getting his buy-in and his agreement that I'm not just wandering off to do my own thing cuz I need to be, be mis independent and make my own money or, you know what I mean? Like whatever cobwebs or misunderstandings that he may have had, I'm not saying he did, but may have gone off for him, need to be hashed out and talked about.
Elena Cardone (9m 9s):
So how we do it is we don't take for granted that we are the way that we were a year ago, a month ago, five months ago. If something new comes into the scene, we each have to include each other and get buy-in in the mission in order to help each other reach a heightened level of success. Otherwise it's, you know, it's, it's gonna cause problems of, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. There's tension there for you. You're not there for me. But really it was just a misunderstanding. If, if you as the husband or wife are not taking responsibility by getting the buy-in, it's my responsibility to get his buy-in and understanding.
Travis Chappell (9m 50s):
Yeah, no, Jackie was listening to a couple of interviews that, that you did before we jumped on here and I know she had a question for you kind of regarding how you balance those things because we have two small kids, I don't even know if you remember this, but Jackie, we, we, we flew out to Miami a few years ago cuz Jackie was interviewing to be grant's executive assistant. And it was a kind of rollercoaster of emotions that happened because I, so we got back from Miami, I left to go to Dallas with my dad to look at a couple properties out there. And then while I was in Dallas, Jackie FaceTimed me one night and she has this like, kind of weird look on her face and I was like, what, what's going on? What's happening?
Travis Chappell (10m 30s):
Turns out we, we found out we were pregnant when I was gone. So find out we're pregnant. We were talking about it, we were just like, just in shock and disarray, just like, how, how do we, you know, what, what are we gonna do? You know, how do we move forward here? And then, and then like the next day is when she got the offer letter from Sherry to, to come out to, to be Grant's executive assistant. So then it was like, yeah, we're gonna do this. And then it was like, oh, we have, we're gonna, we're expecting now, like we can't put on this big workload on Jackie when she's expecting. So we basically ended up, you know, long story short, had to turn, turn the job down, which was, which was a bummer for us at the time. Cause we were looking forward to coming out and working with you guys.
Travis Chappell (11m 11s):
Obviously she, now obviously we have our son, he's almost three. We have a daughter now. She's one, one and a half. And she also works a full-time job and also manages me and my crazy thoughts and, and in my life and, and is supporting me and all of that. So I know that she wanted to ask you a question on kind of how to balance some of those things.
4 (11m 30s):
Yeah, I mean that's just basically that I just, I feel like that is the constant struggle as a mom is trying to find that balance of, obviously the kids still take my priority and everything, but I also, it's very important for me to have a career that I'm proud of. So obviously you've done an incredible job at balancing those two and I would just wanted, you know, some input on that, on how you've chosen to do that. Do you have certain checks and balances for yourself that you give yourself with your kids at a certain amount of time? Just how do you navigate all of that?
Elena Cardone (11m 56s):
I don't balance, I juggle, you know, I'm a you gotta know what you are. I'm a juggler. So, so there's a couple things that I do. Number one is I've, I've also included the children into what it is that I do what papa does, who we are as a family. We wanna help people, we wanna make a difference for the better. You know, this is what we do. Sometimes we work late hours, we're not here for certain things sometimes, you know, but when you allow us to be gone, do you realize that you're actually contributing to the people that we help? Because when you're not pulling me, I can be there and we're helping change the world, you know, and we get to be superheroes. Do you wanna be a superhero? You know? Yes. Okay, well this is how you can contribute rather than the perception of we're leaving you or you're not there.
Elena Cardone (12m 40s):
You understand that if you're staying home and gardening the fort and taking care of that, you're contributing, you're helping people by doing that for us. So they understand that they're actually contributing in their role, even if their role is being left behind. Yes. So it's multiple conversations like that. So they're bought in. Then it's also where I, I prioritize, you know, if I'm, if you know the jugglers that you see at the circus that have the chainsaw, the ping pong, the tennis ball, like I'm doing all of those, right? Yeah. And so when I throw 'em up, I just focus on the one that's about to land in my hand. So the one that's about to land in my hand is the one that gets the priority.
Elena Cardone (13m 21s):
And then, you know, and sometimes I throw up like, let's say the kids, right? But the business lands in my hand right here because that's the one that's most important at that time. Not, not in life, of course my children are more important in life, but you have to distinguish when is your child bored and just wants attention or, and, and, and at that part you have to skillfully, you know, be willing to pass them off to the nanny and not feel guilty about that because you've hired somebody that you trust in that role who's gonna do an amazing job to take care and to, and to distract them. Now when you know you owe family time, I always know when I owe family time, I can feel it, I can see it, the, you know, the kids start fighting things, start getting a little outta control, then my business has to take a backseat cuz I'm catching the family hat or the ball, whatever you wanna call that.
Elena Cardone (14m 21s):
I'm, I have to focus on that to get it good viable, okay, it's good again, let me throw it up and now I gotta catch the business. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Or now I gotta handle Grant and I gotta put all this aside, but it only depends on what is most eminent at the moment. It's like putting out the fire what needs to be handled. And, and lastly don, don't compare myself to other people. That's when I get into trouble. Like when I get this idea that it all has to be balanced, I get the idea, don don't know what you get, but I'm a visual person. When I have the idea that I'm supposed to be balanced, I think everything's supposed to be smooth. I'm supposed to be happy. I'm supposed to be running this perfect show.
Elena Cardone (15m 1s):
And then I look at my life, which is chainsaws, tennis balls, ping pongs, basketballs, and it's going like this. And I go, oh my God, something's terribly wrong with me cuz I don't have humm A hummina balance. Yeah. And, and I just accept that I'm not humm a hummina balance. Go get that from whoever does that. I don't do that. I do what I do really well. I'm not gonna compare my picture to you. I just know that I'm like, when Cirque du Solei calls and they need the juggler, that's me. I'm the best at that, you know?
4 (15m 32s):
Yeah. That's awesome. Do you have any certain than like actual like, measurable things that you try and hit every month? Like, do you have a certain, like do you guys go on weekly date nights? Obviously your, your lives are crazy, but do you try and do any of that or one-on-one time with each of your daughters or anything like that that you implement? I,
Elena Cardone (15m 46s):
Yes. I, I, you know, the kids, they, they schedule, they call my
4 (15m 50s):
Assistant
Elena Cardone (15m 50s):
Now and they schedule mom and daughter time. They get it on the schedule, which is really cute. But yeah. You know, like we do family night and we watch movies together and you know, you think that as busy of a life as Grant and I have that the kids suffer and take a toll, but they really don't. I have enough help around us so that when I'm home I can be with the kids because somebody else is doing the, the dish or somebody else is cooking the food so that I can, we have a little trampoline so I can be on the trampoline bouncing with the kids and I get 30, 45 minutes of quality time with them.
Elena Cardone (16m 31s):
That's good. Yeah. Like don don't need to spend hours with the children. They don't at a time. Yeah. You know, to to, to somehow be glorified as mom of the year, I need to put in the fun, the great time, the quality time, and then I get to go do something else and then I can pop in and pop out. So we're always together, they're homeschooled. So even when I'm working from my office at home, like I might not be able to focus on them, but when I'm taking a break, getting lunch, they're there. So it always feels like they're around, like yeah, they're part of the group. When we travel on the road, they're always with us. So they, I don't think they feel like they're suffering at nighttime.
Elena Cardone (17m 11s):
I try to put in more nighttime, you know, and it's a sacrifice because I have all these business things that I gotta catch up on, but I just make the decision right now. I know I need to put in family time. I'm a mother and, and and, and if I'm gonna go say and lead the charge for women and say I wanna restore the family dynamic, I gotta hold myself accountable and show up and be a good representation of a mother. Yeah. At the same side. I don't have to feel guilty when my children think, you know, they think I should cook for them and that represents a good mother to them. Then I have the conversation. I'm like, if y'all wanna judge me and say I ruined your life cuz I'm not gonna cook for you.
Elena Cardone (17m 53s):
That's your decision. You're gonna get all these other things that I can do and be amazing, but I'm not gonna cook for you every night. But if you want, we can pick one night a week where y'all get a recipe, y'all get order the stuff and we cook together. I'll give you that. You know what I mean? So it's about finding the thing that works.
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Elena Cardone (21m 3s):
Yeah, I love the, I love this framework as well just because it seems like there's a lot of parents and entrepreneurial parents out there who, who take, who use their, their lack of success and drive in their business and, and they, and they use their kids almost as a crutch or as an excuse as to why their business isn't doing really well or why they're not reaching as many people or impacting as many lives or why they're not reaching their mission or their calling.
Travis Chappell (21m 35s):
And it's, and it's, they kind of put it off. I'm like, well, you know, it's, I have a par I'm a parent and I, and I have kids and so I, I have all these other responsibilities and so I can't do that and I can't do this. And this framework kind of pulls you out of that and gets you back into, into what I think is a higher calling in parenting, which is setting an example that your kids can follow. And it, it's really interesting to me how we as parents can sometimes look at our kids and be like, you can do anything that you put your mind to. You can do anything. You can, you know, we want, we want our kids to live their dream life and yet we limit ourselves because of our kids and prevent ourselves from living our dream life or reaching our goals or, or accomplishing what we set out to accomplish.
Travis Chappell (22m 15s):
And it's all under the, the guise or the excuse of, well, I'm a parent so I just can't,
Elena Cardone (22m 22s):
It is an excuse and grant. And I heard earlier on when the, when our children were really young, we heard somebody making an excuse like that, that they, they have kids and they blamed it on the kids and Grant. And I said, we're gonna put in a policy that we are never blaming our kids for something that we don't wanna take responsibility for. Yeah. Like how unfair is that? Like the kid can't even def defend himself and you're blaming a problem on a child, especially if he catches wind that you blamed the problem. Like how would you feel as a child if you overheard your parents say, I can't because my kid, like, how worthless would you feel? Or guilty or like, oh, I'm a burden.
Elena Cardone (23m 3s):
Like why would you wanna do that to a child? Yeah. So it's just a matter of a matter of perception. It's like, no, if I'm not gonna do something, own up to it, but I'm not gonna blame my child for my shortcomings. Like be real and honest. Like you, you at least owe that to your family. I agree with you a million percent. And, and, and you know what, I'll go one step further. Like why are you in a situation where your kids or your excuse to holding you back, why aren't they your motivation for going further Yes. And being better and more.
Travis Chappell (23m 37s):
Yeah, I, I completely agree with that and I, I love the way that you guys have kind of included Scarlett and Sabrina and all the things that you guys do. They're clearly just young, ambitious, well-behaved kids who have a lot of confidence, which is something that is extremely lacking these days, especially in advent of social media has done a lot of really great things for the world and a lot of really not great things for, for the world, especially this younger generation of people. And it seems like you guys have done a great job combating that. I wanted to ask you specifically around the religious aspect, cuz again, this is figuring it out. We like to talk about these types of things. How, how, how has the church played a role in the kids learning and their confidence in their clarity when they get up in front of people?
Travis Chappell (24m 24s):
How has that or, or has that affected their ability to, to communicate and be confident at that young age?
Elena Cardone (24m 30s):
Well, I mean, I can just give you my opinion about it, but I, you know, don don't wanna ever speak for anybody. But I can see, you know, my kids have done a communication course. They, they understand a communication site, which is simply somewhat, you have an intention to get a a, a thought across. So you'd have to have the intention first, right? And then it would have to go through a distance, right? Because I'm here and you're there, so it has to travel a distance, then it has to go to receipt point, which is, you, you have to comprehend what I'm saying. And then you have to duplicate what I'm saying. So if I say black cat, right, I had to have the intention for you to understand a black cat communicate it. You have to say, you know, black cat, did you duplicate Black Cat?
Travis Chappell (25m 14s):
Yes, yes.
Elena Cardone (25m 15s):
Good. So now I saw and looked that you duplicated black hat and then you gave me a response back. Something very basic is understanding a communication cycle, which is not taught in schools. Then how, you know how to, how to overcome ups and downs in life. How to do the basic study. How do you study learning how to learn? Did you learn how to learn? There's an actual tech, a tech involved with learning. And, and, and one of the barriers to study is going past a misunderstood word. If you go past a misunderstood word, the rest of the page goes blank because you went into non comprehension because you didn't duplicate what the author was telling you.
Elena Cardone (25m 57s):
You went into blank. And everything from that point on is blank. So now they read their books when they don't understand a word they go to the dictionary wasn't taught to me in school. So, you know what happened to me when I was in school, I thought I was stupid. I thought I was dumb. I was putting the lower reading group. No one told me, look up your words that there's nothing wrong with you. So I mean, do I see the benefits? Absolutely, I do. You know, my kids, they take little courses, they learn, they train, they study, they can confront people, they can look into somebody's eyes and have a communication cycle. I mean, this isn't taught. I mean, and people look at me and say, your children are just, they're just, they're just so different.
Elena Cardone (26m 38s):
And I'm like, well, yeah, they've had training, they've had technology. They, they take classes, they, it, it's an applicable science. It's a, it's an applicable religion. It's not a faith-based religion. So it's not a threat to other religions. It's just, I was reared, I was raised Catholic, I'm still a Catholic, you know, and Scientology doesn't tell me, don't believe in God. They don't tell me what to believe. They say, which true for you is true for you. Here's, here's some data. This is how you apply it. So the Catholic church didn't teach me a course on a marriage. I I I did a marriage course in Scientology. It helped me in my marriage. I did a course how to rear productive happy children.
Elena Cardone (27m 21s):
You know, like the Catholic church just didn't offer that to me. So it's made a tremendous difference in my life and, and personal values and integrity. They've taken these courses. It's, its, it's, it's just, it's data that the school systems aren't gonna teach. And religions don't teach because they're not an applied religion. They're faith-based religions.
Travis Chappell (27m 46s):
Yeah, yeah. Where, where are you guys? Are you guys homeschooled? Is that right? Okay. Is that, is that something that you plan on doing for like their entire time in school or is Yes. Ok. Yes. Okay.
Elena Cardone (28m 0s):
They've been homeschooled for four years. This is their fourth year because we travel around the world and because don don't want them indoctrinated in, into the, into the schools. And, and you know, I have nothing. This isn't a war against teachers. And no matter what, you know, they may think of me, don don't know. I heard if you homeschool now you're, you're a domestic terrorist. But aside from all that political bumbo jumbo, we've been doing this before. All of that went down and, and, and I just don don't want my children indoctrinated with false information. You know, wrong information. I know for a fact the school system indoctrinated me with wrong information.
Elena Cardone (28m 44s):
And the, and the root word of deri, the derivation of information means a formation of the mind. That's what information is doing. That that is a formation of the mind. When you get the right information, knowledge is power. When you have the wrong information, what would that mean? Right. That would mean a deformation of the mind. Yeah. Right. Yeah. When you have a deformation of the mind, what are you gonna be? Knowledge is power. What are you weak, useless, can't get anywhere. Think something's wrong with you can't get out. That's what the school system did for me. They did not accept people like me, visionaries, artists. They want me to stay in my little box and be this academic student, but didn't tell me to look up my words.
Travis Chappell (29m 30s):
Didn't tell that back. Yeah. That, that's, you know, when I
Elena Cardone (29m 32s):
Asked what a word is, they said hand to God, they said, I would say, what does this word mean? And they would say, whatever you think it means, just fill it in and continue reading. Why do I want my child around that? I want my child to know. They have the right to know. Yep. Give them the right information. Tell 'em what the word means. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I don't wanna go to a school system or have my children in a school system. And because they go past a word they don't understand and the teacher doesn't wanna tell 'em what it means. Cuz that's happened to my daughter before and then my kid doesn't understand the rest of the page and then starts doing this, you know, in the chair because they're bored. Cause because they can't understand what they're reading.
Elena Cardone (30m 12s):
So they get bored cuz they're hyper, cuz they're energy and they're full of life, you know, because no one's suppressed them yet. Oh. Until the teacher says, guess what? Your child's too hyper in the classroom and we wanna put 'em on psycho psychiatric. So psychotropic drugs that can physically change the makeup of their chemistry. But you know what, we want that because we want them to sit still and be a little zombie so we don't have to take care of your little hyper children because we don't know what the definition of the word is either. So I'm not sure. I'm not, why would I wanna do that? If I'm gonna mess up my kids, if my kids are gonna be messed up, it's gonna be my responsibility.
Elena Cardone (30m 55s):
I'm not gonna be able to say it was a teacher's fault or it was that person's fault. I'm gonna raise my hand and I say, I messed him up. I messed him up and I take responsibility.
Travis Chappell (31m 4s):
Yeah. And that's, I think the problem with the education system as a whole is that it only teaches one type of student and all other types of students are labeled as uneducated or dumb or ignorant or, or they're, or they're bad. It even worse to me is telling a kid that they're a bad kid at when they're that age. And then you start, you just start teaching 'em all the things to, to tell themselves every day when, when they wake up and go back to school. And then that starts to form the thought patterns that create the person that they become all because they learn in a different way than that kid learns. You know? So, yeah. I I was just curious to, to ask you about that one because obviously our, our kids are getting up to school age and we're trying to decide, you know, what, what we're supposed to do in that type of situation.
Travis Chappell (31m 50s):
So I appreciate you being, being candid about that. Moving into a little bit of the, the, the business side of things, ELENA, I know that you guys have a ton of stuff going on all the time, so I'd love to hear what you guys have coming up next and how we can kind of continue to help support you and send our audience over to what you guys got going on.
Elena Cardone (32m 11s):
Okay, well that's a loaded question. We have stuff going on every weekend. This coming weekend is my 10 X Ladies event. I'd love for you to come out. It would be amazing. Yes. We're
Travis Chappell (32m 23s):
In Vegas. It's in Vegas, right?
Elena Cardone (32m 25s):
No, it's in Miami. Oh, okay. I thought it was in Vegas. Fifth. Okay. And then the sixth and seventh is Build an Empire Mastermind. That's a separate workshop that I do led just by me. So that's coming up. And then I have this EXP thing where I'm building the largest, most successful real estate team in the world. We're acquiring new businesses with CARDONE Ventures. We are, we're gonna 10 x we wanna go for acquiring 9,000 more apartment units this year with CARDONE Capital. So it opens up the door for a lot more unaccredited, non-accredited and accredited investors an opportunity to, to be a part of that asset.
Elena Cardone (33m 8s):
And we have CARDONE events all the time. And growth con, I mean, there's always something going on because we put our future, you know, we, we place events in our future that pull us forward and we wanna be around other like-minded individuals that we can be normal and, and, and we can, and it's okay to be too much. And we don't have to feel like we have to lessen down to make the normal people feel. Okay. So this is why we put events in the future, so many of them is because people need a place where they can go and be around other like-minded, accountable, ethical people that will pull them forward, that support them, show active interest in the success of them that support them, the derivation of support you see now, you can't stop me from looking up words, the derivation of support, it means from below plus the word to carry.
Elena Cardone (34m 8s):
So that's what we are, we are support for you from below to carry you to a heightened level of success. Imagine if you had an army of people behind you carrying you, lifting you up what your Empire would look like.
Travis Chappell (34m 26s):
Love it, love it. I saw also something about moving to Scottsdale. Is that, is that right?
Elena Cardone (34m 32s):
We opened a headquarters in Scottsdale. It's already open. The 10 x headquarters is in Scottsdale, Arizona. It's a beautiful facility. That's where CARDONE Ventures headquarters out of.
Travis Chappell (34m 43s):
Okay, gotcha, gotcha. But you guys are still in Miami?
Elena Cardone (34m 46s):
Oh yeah, I'm in the studio right now in Miami.
Travis Chappell (34m 49s):
Okay, cool. Cool. Just checking. Just checking. Oh yeah.
Elena Cardone (34m 52s):
Oh yeah, but we're bicoastal now. See,
Travis Chappell (34m 55s):
That's there you, that's true. That's true. I mean, success. We're successfully, we're going
Elena Cardone (34m 60s):
Travis.
Travis Chappell (35m 1s):
What's that?
Elena Cardone (35m 2s):
I said we're going global. We're first bicoastal, you know, and, and then who knows where we pop up.
Travis Chappell (35m 8s):
Hey, I'm once you, once you get an office in Dublin, let me know and I might move out there for you. So
Elena Cardone (35m 15s):
Nice. I like Dublin.
Travis Chappell (35m 19s):
All right, ELENA, I I want to get you outta here. I know you got a bunch of stuff going on real quick. There's one quick segment we wanted to run you through. So this is a new show. We're testing a few different segments of the audience and seeing what people like and what they don't like and stuff. So this one is called Truth or Myth. Okay. So I just want you, we're gonna just say one word and then you tell me if you think it's true or if it's a myth, if it exists, or if it's ok.
Elena Cardone (35m 45s):
Deal, deal, deal, deal.
Travis Chappell (35m 46s):
Okay. All right. Destiny,
Elena Cardone (35m 49s):
Myth,
Travis Chappell (35m 50s):
Law of attraction.
Elena Cardone (35m 51s):
True.
Travis Chappell (35m 52s):
Love at first sight.
Elena Cardone (35m 55s):
Myth.
Travis Chappell (35m 57s):
I only have eyes for you.
Elena Cardone (36m 0s):
One to say truth. No, realistically myth. You gotta create that.
Travis Chappell (36m 5s):
That's Pax. Okay. Let's see. Psychics.
Elena Cardone (36m 10s):
True. Yeah,
Travis Chappell (36m 11s):
Demons
Elena Cardone (36m 12s):
True. I mean, they're all fake. They're myth. I mean, but you, you think they're real. So they, so you create them and thus they're real, but in, in, in reality, no.
Travis Chappell (36m 21s):
Okay, great.
Elena Cardone (36m 22s):
In reality, you know what I'm saying?
Travis Chappell (36m 24s):
Yep. Yep. Perfect. Cool. I think that's, I think that's everything we got. Do you got any, anything else, babe?
Elena Cardone (36m 30s):
No, I think we covered pretty much everything.
Travis Chappell (36m 32s):
Sweet. Well, if you're listening to this right now, please go check out everything that ELENA and Grant have going on. I know that 10 x Growth Con is right around the corner. Elena's doing these 10 X Ladies events all the time. And I know that you're coming out with a new book as well, right?
Elena Cardone (36m 46s):
No, not a new book. Build A Build. an Empire. Mastermind, though I have the Mastermind on Year. Build an Empire, and those are their own workbooks each each
Travis Chappell (36m 56s):
Course. Got it. Got it. Perfect. So if you're looking to get a little bit more from ELENA and from Grant, please be sure to go follow all the stuff they have going on. You literally cannot miss them if you go online and you're in the business world at all. So go check out some of the stuff they got going on. I just wanna say this before we take off, Lena. I've been following you guys since, I wanna say 2016, since like the first year that I've ever dove into personal development. Just I think, I think I was following Gary V and then I saw Grant and Gary do something. And then since then I've been following grant's stuff and I've heard a lot of people over the years saying some positive things and some negative things about you guys. And every time, every, every time I've, I've heard somebody say something negative, you guys have always proved them wrong and have always just outworked the belief that other people had in you.
Travis Chappell (37m 47s):
And so I just want to acknowledge you and, and applaud you guys for leading the way and showing people what to do with haters, which is let them flourish, say whatever they're gonna say, and you just outwork them and and show them what possible flourish and
Elena Cardone (38m 1s):
Prosper. That's our policy, flourish and prosper.
Travis Chappell (38m 4s):
Love it. Love it. Awesome. Thank you so much, Lena. Really appreciate you coming on.
Elena Cardone (38m 7s):
Thank you for having me. You guys are awesome.
Travis Chappell (38m 11s):
All right, we'll chat soon. Awesome. Yeah.
Elena Cardone (38m 12s):
Okay. See you.
Travis Chappell (38m 14s):
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