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Look, I think the rich are going to get richer, the poor are going to get poorer.
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Unknown
You guys know that. I believe the middle class is being eliminated. It is so clear that the middle class is being eliminated and so I do believe there's going to be more people that can afford the high profit, low volume items. But once upon a time, middle class people could do that. I don't think any middle class are going to be there anymore.
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So you're going to have to if you're going to do high product, low volume, you're going to have to make sure your network includes those people.
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This is secrets for success.
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Unknown
Welcome to The Secret for Success podcast. I'm your host, Greg Todd. Thank you, as always for joining me. I'm going to discuss Trump today. Yes, I know some of you are going to be pissed off me, some.
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Unknown
That's whatever. Come on, just calm down, all right? You're grown adults. Let's figure out how we can make some money here. Let's figure out what the market is doing. Let's make sure that you can take care of yourself. You can take care of your family, because there are lots of things that are happening. It's been about 45 days since his inauguration.
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Unknown
He's signed a lot of things into executive order and he's made a lot of executive orders, I should say. And I think I think there's enough that what I'm good at is just seeing, okay, this is what's happening in the marketplace. This is how it's going to directly affect some people. This is going to indirectly affect people. Okay.
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Unknown
What do what do you need to do? What is it that I need to do? Okay. I have a responsibility to serve my audience. I have a responsibility to prepare you guys, you guys, you know, trust me for that. And so let's let's just talk about it, you know? So let's talk about what's happening now. If you are a big Trump supporter, you're probably happy because all the things he said he was going to do, he's doing right then on the other side, it's affecting a lot of people in a very negative way.
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Unknown
But I understand this. I understand the law of polarity. And the law of polarity means that for every action is equal and opposite reaction. By the way, that's that happens all the time, right? So, like right now, all these government based programs are being cut like crazy. Okay, So I don't think it's hit Medicaid yet, but they say that that's that's probably next in line, right?
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Unknown
They say no Medicare and no Social Security stuff is going to be hit yet. But, you know, these are politicians. We will see. All right. But there's a lot of government funded programs that are being cut like crazy. Now, will this eventually help us? I don't know. But I do know that there are people directly being affected in a very negative way.
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Unknown
Okay. And it's a lot of people because there's like I remember when I was growing up, having a government job was like the dream because government jobs, you know, you're safe, you're Kush, they're not going to touch that. Well, a lot of people that have bids in their government job for many, many, many, many, many years, like they're getting torched and they're unemployed and they probably have it created new skill sets as fast as we have done in the private sector.
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Unknown
So there's probably going to be a really tough time for them to get reemployed. So you're like, well, that ain't meat. Well, it's going to directly or I should say indirectly affect you, because if those people you got money, a lot of people, your customers, a lot of people, the people that were going into your clinics, okay, so they can't afford you anymore or they can't afford, but they are paying you, right?
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Unknown
25, 35, $50 co-pays. It's kind of tough to come by when you got a job, Right. Are you charging 200, 250, $375 for cash based services that are a bit more difficult? Okay. I mean, I know I have some clients who are in the Washington area and people are putting up their homes for sale like crazy in the DMV area because a lot of people had federal based jobs.
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Unknown
Their jobs are gone. So, okay, great. It might affect us in a positive way in that maybe they're going to take this money and maybe it's not just going to be for Trump and his and his boys and the posse. Maybe it's going to eventually allow us not to pay federal income, you know, you know, federal taxes or maybe property taxes.
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Unknown
So I'm going to be as much a responsibility. Maybe it will directly, positively benefit us. But again, with everything that there's a reaction, there's an equal and opposite reaction. So I just want everybody to understand this is what's what's going on. And there's more to come, Right? We don't know what's going on right now with Russia and Ukraine.
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Unknown
And we know that Trump was got a little heated with the boy Zelinski that it okay. Look, at the end of the day, here is what I am. See, what I am seeing is that government is going to continue to be downsized at a very, very high level. Okay. I have known this from when I became a physical therapist.
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Unknown
Whatever government does, other bigger companies tend to follow suit. You take out DTI, the other companies take out the you take you don't do this. The other companies stop doing this right. It kind of gives them an out because at the end of the day, this is America. America is all about the mighty dollar. That's what they're about.
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Unknown
And so we just have to understand that things are going to get cut. Now, let's also talk about the tariffs. Okay, I get it. Some people think it's wonderful. Some people think it's awful. Right? At the end of the day, what I can say is this things are going to get more expensive today. They're going to get more expensive.
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Unknown
There might be more American made things. These companies, if they're going to get taxed with tariffs, guess what they're going to do? They're going to make us pay tariffs as well. So that means that everything on a whole is just going to get more expensive. So I say that to you all because I believe people like always will have discretionary money.
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Unknown
I just don't think it's going to be near as much as what it was in, just like how in 2024 compared to what it is in 2025, Just like how in 2024 it wasn't as much as what it was in 2023. In 2023 was still good, but it wasn't as much was in 2022. Okay. I think 2020 was kind of like it was crazy times, but there was a good influx of money.
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Unknown
I think, you know, buying was very low. I'm talking from a standpoint of like interest rates, etc. I don't see that changing any time soon. So so what does that mean for every single one of you? I think this is what it means. I think most of you need to create a low price, low profit, high volume service.
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Unknown
You're in health care. You are trading most of your time for money. I'm assuming if you're following me, you're trying to not trade your time for money. I teach low profit, low volume. I teach low profit, high volume, which means you're seeing a crap ton of people. Like you're doing it in a way that people are coming into your information, coming into your community.
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Unknown
They're getting accountability from you. They're getting some of your tools or they're not paying a lot of money. They're not having the discretionary income of 300, 400, $500,000 per month. It's just getting tighter, man. So you get off to create something that's low price, low profit, and it's a high volume, very valuable service. Can you do that? Well, if you're going to do that, it's going to have to not be directly attached to your time.
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Unknown
I think this is going to get really, really popular over the next few years just because I think people's this discretionary income is tightening up. I do think that there's going to be room for HPLC, which is high profit services, low volume.
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Unknown
Look, I think the rich are going to get richer, the poor are going to get poorer.
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Unknown
You guys know that. I believe the middle class is being eliminated. It is so clear that the middle class is being eliminated and so I do believe there's going to be more people that can afford the high profit, low volume items. But once upon a time, middle class people could do that. I don't think any middle class are going to be there anymore.
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Unknown
So you're going to have to if you're going to do high product, low volume, you're going to have to make sure your network includes those people.
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Unknown
And then there's high profit, high volume. And I don't think a lot of you are going to be able to do that yet. But I do think that that's definitely another avenue you want to look at.
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Unknown
And I think that those are going to be the bigger establishments. So I think that there's going to be a lot of people that in health care that are going to start to help other businesses. They're going to help other businesses with some big problems that they have. I have I'd say I'm one student right now that's helping universities and getting paid sizable amounts of money to help universities.
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Unknown
Okay. They're paying like in the five figures for one client I'm talking about in 60, 80, 90, K for one client. Okay. I think those opportunities are going to be readily available and I think those are opportunity to capitalize off of you guys. This is what I'm seeing in the market. Okay? Now I know we're 45 days in and things can change a lot in the next 90 days.
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Unknown
So versus this podcast a year later, you're going to go, you're totally wrong. Well, look, man, I'm always just looking at what is happening right now, what's going on now, and what we need to be doing right now. And so as of right now, that's what I see. And I'm always going to do my best to give you guys what you need to do now to win, because I know that there's just too many of you that are losing and you're losing like profusely.
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Unknown
You're losing aggressively. You are you are so good at losing. And I don't want you to be going to Ted anymore. I want you to be as good as you are losing. I want you to change that to just being really good at winning. I think in order to be good at winning, you have to you have to be in front of something before everybody else moves to it.
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Unknown
So take take it. For what it's worth, what I said on today's podcast and I hope that helps you and serves you much love. See you guys. So next time
