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one of them. Thank you so much. Everybody that's been over there don't
know why we can't see it's weird. I want to throw a shout out.
I have been seeing Russ over here. He has been diligently throwing great
stuff in here that lines up with Corey and the whole mentality that's over at CMA. Breaking down an acronym. We love our acronyms. Okay, but
that look standing for laboring under correct knowledge. Corey went to work sat and
was a student under great tutelage under great people showing the way to build up your life and is moving in the right direction. And some can call it
luck and say that yes, oh everything just worked out for him or they can actually see that there was a journey of him humbling himself so that he could be elevated, so that he could see the path to growing up.
And trust me, there's a lot of checkered past people in the auto industry that are so grateful that they have the chance to become professionals connecting to all walks of life. I'm one of them, Scott's one of them. We're
all. I mean, we all have something that could say you're not worthy.
But when you get with people that say, wait a minute, no, there's something inside of you. Yeah, I want to help make it
glow bigger. I want to help it grow bigger, and I mean keeping
it on the biblical flow. We have to allow ourselves to be pruned on,
to be cut upon right in order for better growth to come. And
that's where great mentorship comes in. And you guys provide that. I mean
that. I think that's the middle m of CMA, right, is mentorship.
That is crazy. That's a right way putting it, that's fantastic way
of articulating it. And I will say this, Fred, you brought up
something earlier. Not to interrupt you, lou no, I every yearly I
spend about one hundred thousand dollars in self development. Mm hmm. Even where
I'm at now, I'm in the Rita Syndicate with Ed Malette and Andy Furcilla, both have turned out to be good friends of mine. Seventy five Hard,
I see you out there killing it, bro killing it phase one right now, brother, killing you are killing it something I've never done before.
I've never done. I've did seventy five Hard once and I failed it twice.
But anyway, and it's life changing. I still do some of the
things with it. It was actually life changing. But self development never ends.
And I spend over one hundred thousand dollars and I'm in APEX with Ryan Stum and I'm in Lines. Then I'm working on some things too that I'm
going to bring out to get a community together. But yeah, it's never
it's a never ending it's an infinite gain. It's a never ending trying to
be the best versions of us possible in all aspects of life, knowing that we're going to have setbacks. Wow, it's so true though, But that's
the thing. Like the more you invest into yourself, like just like you
do your community, you have to make sure that it's even. There's this
thing called the will of life, and I believe and I know Tony Robbins talks about it a lot. And you have to be balanced in all those
things. You have to find those things that are important that you're gonna constantly
be working on. But you can't just work on one thing and let another
fall, because then your will will be unbalanced. So you have to make
sure that everything is balanced, that you're constantly working on yourself, your finance, is, your friends, your family, what things that are important to you that you want to constantly grow, work on those on a daily and focus on those and being able to work on yourself like you talked about, those things are so important. He just said one hundred thousand dollars. A
lot of y'all will be like, WHOA, he's crazy. No, he's
not, because the return he gets on that investment is huge, huge, folks, It's gigantic. And I guarantee this isn't something that he came up
with himself. Well, he's had some mentorships and that leads me to my
next question. And we've been getting into mentors That's great for the m for
CMA, right, we as adults, we as kids, we as people.
We have people who've helped us along the way, whether it's our parents, and it just becomes our professors, and it goes on, so on and so forth, our leaders. Who in your life has helped you get
to the next level, Who has shown you the life? Who showed you
Hey, Scott, this is what you do and you can get to where you want to be? Who have been? Some of those people are that
person? Whichever way you want to answer that, Yeah, my dad was
my first mentor. Obviously, I wouldn't be where I'm at today if I
one for my mom and dad. They sacrifice so much for me. I've
always looked up to my brother. When he graduated with his four year degree
in three years, I had to beat him by doing it two and a half. So I've always looked up and admired my brother for the man that
he is, the dad that he is. Mentors to me over my automotive
career, Grant Cardone. I'm an investor with Grant. I've known him for
over twenty years. A lot of my financial strategies I learned through Grant.
Carter Myers, which is to Myers Automosive it's Liza's dad. I've always looked
up to that man, and even before I went to work for him, I said, man, one day, I'd love to work for that man and that company. And then of course I met through Carter his daughter Liza,
which is the CEO of our company, and she's the one that provided me the opportunity. And the last person I ever want to disappoint, much
less my dad, is Carter and Liza. I never want to disappoint those
people. I want them to be proud that they brought me in as a
partner. And I'm very critical of myself and the performance of these stores because
I don't take that chance. I don't take that opportunity they gave me lightly.
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brow Also, though there has been times in my career that I was winning personally, personally, I was going toward my goal was before I got with Carter Myers Automotive Group, but all I cared about was myself. I didn't
care about my fan, I didn't care about my wife. I mean,
I came first, and when you come first, you're going to end up last. You cannot when you put other people ahead of you and with their
goals. And something that we do here is we ask for if there are
three personal and three professional goals of every associate, and we want to know what's important to them, then we use that to manage them because it's not what's important to us, it's what's important to them, and how can we get them to where they want to be. If we get them where they
want to be, they'll help us get us to where we want to be.
So that's all the concept of moving lives forward, which came from Carter Myers, it came from lies of Borses, my mentors. So yeah,
I've been blessed with a lot of really good people in my life, and for Sela and my Leat obviously are people that are mentors and now they're friends of mine, and sometimes that takes you. You got to spend some money.
You've got to spend them some money to get in those groups. But
if you read my bio, all those investments are from the original investment that I put in Rita in Apex in lines Den. Like I just invested in
a project in Montana. I'm a burried in it announced with Aaron Wagner,
one of my RTA brothers. But that's because I saved my money and invested
it in relationships and went and served first and then just asked if there's any opportunity in the future that I would be a good fit for, either as a partner or investor, please let me know. And that's where all those
opportunities came up. But I had to be present. I had to show
them that I cared about them first. And then when they called me and
said, Scott, we got this project in Montana, I've got to wire a large amount of money. I'm sitting in the Credit Union parking lot ready
to puke because I'm bouried to wire this money out because I don't care or what it is. Whenever you wire that money and when you walk in and
say I need to hit this wire, you get this wanting to put feeling no matter what, no matter how much wealth you build or whatever you got.
Sure, but you still have that feeling. But that's based on relationships
and mentorships. That's created by having a vision of being in those spaces I
envisioned and then paid and then earned the right to be around Andy Forursella and my grant Crime people like that. I've had that. Man, I've been
fred I've been so blessed in lod to have so many great mentors in my life. That's part of my big part of my success story and the success
that I've had so far. It is are your network? Is your net
worth? We've all heard that, show me your five closest friends, I'll
show you your future. And these things are so true. So surround yourself
with greatness. What's so beautiful about that, Scott, and as you've been
working so hard, is that there's going to be tons of people that are going to say the same thing about you. And I know that there's already
people doing that. I've met them, and that's something that's super special.
The idea of mentor e is to become a mentor one day to pass that on. That's part of their legacy. Now it's your legacy that you're passing
through, but that is part of the legacy of others too, because they have poured into you. Their cup was overflowing, so they decided to pour
into your cup because your cup was empty, because you allowed it to be empty. That's one of the things I love about Bruce Lee. Bruce Ly
is a really good philosopher too. A lot of people don't realize, and
he talks about that you must have your cup empty because when your cup is full and you think you know everything right, So always, even when you have a lot of knowledge, empty your cup. Allow it to be filled.
And when you're able to do that, you're going to find that you're going to learn so many things, even if it's something you didn't even expect to learn, that's going to help you grow to the next level. A
lot of people think, oh, man, I got to invest in order to grow, Yes, you do. You got to put some skin in
the game because when you don't have any skin in the game, you don't really find like the energy you might have. Excuses come really quick. When
you have no skin in the game. So that is what's so lovely about
what Scott's doing. That is what's so great about the mentorship that he's had.
He's named some big names out there, folks. He wasn't doing that
the show off. He was doing that to show you that you have.
That's he's trying to get to that level and he's using his resources. The
people that he's connected with, that he's worked to connect with, shown that he has the faith, that he has the work ethic that he has the ability to be part of this type of group, to be part of this type of mentorship. So men, honor to you, looking forward to being
mentored by you. Something myself. I'm going to reach out to him to
hey man, hey, one thing too I had to learn, which I'll share with everybody. The people that are in your circle. Support them financially,
Yes, if they got something, don't ask for a free ticket to that event. Don't ask for what they can do for you. Support them.
So, if you've got a product and your friends or product or service financially support them. You've got to do something for somebody else before you can
ask them to do for you. And guess what if you do for them.
You don't even have to ask, They'll do for you, yea.
And it's so many times. Trust me, I was a person that wanted
to go and ride the cottails of someone in tend events for free and hey, what can you do for me? And let me tell you that is
a losing formula. Yeah you'll be alone, which at one point I was
so I agree, Wow, so powerful on that. So if you all
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support these guys absolutely part of the party. I love that, Scott,
thank you so much. That is a great plug. And man, you've
said so many things that are like incredible commercials for the auto industry. Your
entire story of how you came into the industry is an example of what should be shown for somebody that's trying to do career planning. Guidance. Counselors at
high schools should have this clip, and I'm actually I'm going to try to make sure at least our local area does have that because it's that important that people get focused on this industry the way that you are and that would help them to not be twenty thirty years into the industry and in the same place that they started. That's facts, that's so facts. You've had some of
some great mentors in your life that have paid the price to speak into your life. Right. You don't just let anybody pour into your cup. Right,
It is important to empty the cup. It is important to fill it
up. But not anybody pours in this cup. And you're very being ready
to puke when you're getting ready to send a wire. But you understand the
intention and the importance of the sending that wire, making that investment. That
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You know, I don't ever want to get comfortable. Our great friend
Glenn Lundy says that we're most comfortable before death, and that's why we do the things that you know, Fred, you're doing you know phase one?
Why do you do that? Why do you torture yourself like that? Why
do you choose to do what you do? One? It's to challenge ourselves.
When when I go look at my bank account, my wife goes, honey, where's our money? Honey, it's invested, will be getting checks
back. Just have faith. And there's times when I completely invest everything and
I don't have two Nichols to run together because I'm investing that going to pay future dividends, and I don't get comfortable. And anybody can do it at
whatever level that you're out that saving your money, being financially smart with your money and paying yourself first is extremely important to be able to build what freedom first, freedom and then build wealth in a secure financial future. I love
that when I love that you said that, because it is cool. Pay
yourself first, because you need to do that. Folks, a lot of
people they get so caught up in so many things that they don't realize that, Hey, there is a twenty years from now there is what are you what is it going to be like? Then you need to start right now.
This isn't Oh I could wait till next year. I could wait till
I get a better check. No, do it right now. Sacrifice now
so that later you don't have to right. And that's the thing. Like
it may seem and I hate to even use the word sacrifice because it may seem like a sacrifice. But like he said, he understands. He has
faith that he's gonna get his return on his investment. He's gonna take his
last two pennies and he's gonna make sure that it goes somewhere that it can multiply. When it able to multiply, then you'll see why it's so important
to do that. Then we all been there, man. I wish I
would have just done I wish I would have bought bitcoin ten years ago, and none of us did. We all heard of it, but none of
us did when and things change, things grow, things become more. But
believe in your intuition. A lot of times, our inner voice is telling
you the right thing. If it says don't do it, don't do it.
If it says do it, even if it feels uncomfortable, matter of fact, do it, especially if it feels uncomfortable, because that's where real growth happens. I love that that you're on that mission, that you're talking
about that and you're sharing that with our audience, because I believe that our audience needs to hear those types of things. We have a lot of card
people out there that are listening right now, watching right now, and ones that are watching on the replay and then hear it on the podcast later in the future. Invest in yourself, my friends, listen to Scott Simon.
I'm telling you, Scott Simons has a recipe for success. He's been there,
he knows it. He could tell you shortcuts, he could show you
this, he could tell you what's not to do and what to do.
You could also even give him advice. Now, Scott is not one to
just tell people things. He listens, He observes every conversation. There's something
to be learned it's every perspective matters. And that's something that Glenn Lundy said
recently to me during one of our car church things that we did. And
when I heard him say that, I've been saying it like crazy, and I've really it's it clicks something in my brain to always understand every perspective does matter. Even if it's to me completely ignorant, it's still a matter.
It does matter, and I need to learn something from that. So,
hey, afraid, did you notice at that conference I set up front the whole time? Yep, you did, because you know what I was there
to learn. Yes, you were. I was there to learn. And
how many times do you see a speaker come and speak and leave they're not there at all. Now, I had to leave a little bit early.
And I'll tell you what. The one of the more proud moments in my
recent life, besides my children being born and of course getting married and et cetera, was when we left Brian Hess and I left the lunch room and we got to stand innovation when we left the last day to go catch a flight. Yeah, to get that standing ovation. But yeah, I was
there taking notes, old school notes, and I've got them all in here, dates and everything. When I fill this book up, I put it
in the corner. I'll go back and reference, I get another one.
But I was there taking notes because you know what, I was there to learn from those speakers. So yeah, it's life. The learning cycle is
never ending ever never. I love that, Scott, love that. Let's
keep on that in taking notes for those of you that are taking notes of this incredible solutionary that we're brewing with here, and let's figure this part out because we've talked about a lot of victories. We talked about a lot of
things that have panned out and worked out well, great lessons that we've learned, and being even available for the right people to speak into our life and then for us to speak into others' lives. But what is, for Scott,
what has been the hardest lesson you've had to learn? The hardest lesson
that I've had to learn is is when I was winning, I was achieving, I was marching toward achieving my goal, but I was felling everywhere else, and I was putting myself first above everybody else. And you may win
that way, but when I looked in the mirror, I was two hundred and sixty five pounds. I was so ashamed of the person that I had
become that I shaved in the dark. And I don't know how low a
human could be when they can't even look at themselves in the mirror, but that was me. So I would shave in the dark, and I would
go and I'd have cuts all over my face and people work, and of course my face is substantially bigger than it is now, looked like a blowfish, but anyway, and people would be like, what happened? And I
was too embarrassed to tell them. But I was so ashamed, I wouldn't
even look in the mirror, and I would have to shave. Because I
believe in personal like the Yankees, I do believe in that, and I never had facial hair really, so I would go in. But I was
in such a dark place. That was a big turning point for me.
One typically we only make those changes when we have to. And my blood
pressure was so high they thought I was either having a stroke or a heart attack. But what I would ask people would be, don't wait till it
gets to that point, because it could have killed me that day. I
literally could have died I was rushed to the er was I was right off the showroom floor, was given night your glitterering. They're like, you're either
having a stroke or a heart attack. And I'm like, all, y'all
need to chill. I'm cool. I need to get back to work.
Like y'all. I don't know why y'allre freaking out. They're ripping shirts off
of me, smacking me on a gurney, rushing me back, giving me a night your glittering, and I'm like, they're like, are you Yeah, yeah, They're like, are you How do you feel? I said
I was feeling pretty good, so I got here. But obviously y'allre freaking
me out here. I'm good. You know you're in building the show.
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We're tough, that's right. But that was a low point in my
life. That was the lowest point of my life. And I finally said,
I'm not gonna I've got to make changes both in my health, both my relationships, and I've got to be a better a much better husband, a much better dad, a much better friend. And man, that's that's
when my career blossomed. And that's when Carter Meyers years later came and gave
me the opportunity to come partner with them. I always could produce, producing,
pushing, that's performance. I'm very critical, but I was performing.
But man, I was just not a good person. I just i'd lost
myself. I don't know if you've ever done that before, where you have
you don't even recognize the person in the mirror, and that's a pretty low feeling. And I asked people to make those changes before they get to that
point, because you may not get that second chance that I got. Man,
that's so true because you're right, because at a second, your life could be over, your career could be over, everything could be done, and your heart could stop, You could stop breathing. And that's the thing.
It doesn't matter how healthy you are either. That can happen to today.
So every day is an opportunity to be the best version of yourself.
Fred I think the reason why my heart didn't stop is because I didn't have one at that time. That's deep. That's super deep, Scott. That's
like emotionally deep. That's yeah, that's a mic drop moment. And you're
so right on the money on that and I and man, I'm glad you added that little two cents there because I think people need to hear that.
Wow, it wasn't his heart didn't stop because he didn't have one. Now,
folks, that's because what I love about that is self reflection beyond others.
That is self growth beyond it when you realize that and you can be critical of yourself enough to say, hey, I could honestly say that wasn't who I was. That's who I was then and who I'm not going to
be ever again. And you made a change, and that change did big
things for you for one. It extended your life. You lost weight,
your blood pressures dropped. You look great, Scott. I don't know why
you don't look in the mirror. I would look at myself in the mirror
if I look like a day right. I'm glad that all changed for you,
because that is a depressing place to be. I was up at one
point, I weigh about one eighty I'll walk around one eighty one to seventy five, depending on what I how much water I drink right then. But
the but I was up to two thirty two thirty five at one point, and for me, that was very unhealthy, very uncomfortable. And I was
a very similar spot as you. I was very depressed. I didn't realize
I was selling cars, I was doing great, but I was very selfish at the time. I thought I was the closer and I was all these
things I was doing. Everything I was doing was for the wrong reason.
Once I flipped the script and I started doing things that were more productive for other people, I started getting myself in shape, making it more of an example for others, being a mentor to other showing people this is the lifestyle you want to be, and this is how I have the energy, all these things all come together to be able to become the best version of yourself.
I'm glad you shared that with us, and that is that's some pretty deep stuff. And that's really deep. As far as hard lessons that we
all have to learn, that is often the one that we could lock up our shoulders on and not forgive ourself for being so stupid. We know better,
and in a lot of cases we've been taught better, right. I
mean, you've had a hard lesson at the point of saying, Dad, let's park up the block so that I don't have to be seen being who it is that I am. But that dad, that father corrected that into
you. Now you know what I mean to where you're not ashamed of who
you are. Now you're not in the dark anymore trying to cut on yourself,
right, that's not happening anymore, And you're bringing hope to other people because you took what was support. What we keep getting lost in is thinking
that it's all about us, especially in the luxury that we have and being in an incredible country where we can do and be anybody that we want to be. We have incredible blessing inside of this country. But we are speaking
to people that are outside of this country too, right. But we all
have the opportunity on this earth to create an incredible life. But it's not
for us alone. It comes through us right to other people. And that
is the legacy that we should be investing into. Your father may not have
been the one that gave you all of the mentorship to get you to where it is that you are automotive wise, but he planted a seed in you I of true love that said, don't be ashamed of who you are, son, you be that you be them. And all that you did by
shaving off for all of that other person that was on you right is cut away everything that wasn't you to start to discover and see who it is that you actually are. And then you started to see your life glow, blossom
and actually have fulfillment. But that glimpse of I could have been dead,
I could have been dead right there helps you now to every bite of something that you love to eat, every sip of water, everything is appreciated differently.
That level of gratitude at another level because of your appreciation for not just the life that you have, but the people around you. The blessings that
keep finding your way, you know what I mean, and you keep operating in faith. And that's something that a lot of people need to see,
is that your greater rewards come more that you invest utilizing not just your finances and your resources, but your faith. Where you invest your faith, folks,
it pays back, dividends way beyond dollars, and and it really does.
And all that stuff added together, We've talked about your why, we talked about what drives you. We talked about what got you in this business.
We talked about your mentors, right, we talked about failures. Now,
this last question I have for you is it's really important, and it's something that I think that we all need to shine on. It's what has
been your greatest reward for all the hard work that you put together over the last forever years, right, all the work since the day you were born?
Really, what has been your greatest reward? A couple of situations.
My daughter, when COVID happened, right, she worked in a nursing home, and both of our children have worked. She's now a freshman in college.
And my wife called me and said, hey, I don't know if you know it or not, but there's COVID issues at where our Morgan is working, and she's not going to go back. And I said, wait
a minute, I said, hold on, I understand your concern. I'm
concerned, but have we talked to Morgan about this yet. We're making a
decision for our daughter, right and we raised her to make her own decisions, to be independent. So we had a meeting with her daughter, made
her aware of the COVID cases and I just said, Morgan, it's up to you. You don't have to go back there and work. There's COVID
cases there. What do you want to do? And she said, Dad,
I wear a mask and I feel safe and I want to go back to work. And that made me really proud. I know that sounds a
hokey, but that was a chance in life where I think she could have chose to back down or chose to She stood up and she said, I'm not afraid. Some people say that's crazy, take your daughter out of there.
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Come on now back to the show. My son by living through example.
He up until this last year was a blow average wrestler who lost most of his matches, and we got him in MMA and some things, and we invest in him. He plays football and something clicked and he won seventy five
percent of his matches. Oh, let's go. And there was a time
where he wrestled two matches and they call it a like a marquee matchup.
I don't know what they call it different areas where they picked two wrestlers and they just it's a bonus wrestle. He'd already wrestled twice and the best kid
that stepped up is the best kid around and he had beat my son before, and they said, hey, Dawson, do you want to go?
He'droady wrestled twice, and he said, and he knew who he was wrestling.
He looked across, he strapped up his helmet. Nowt now he lost.
That's not what matters back down, when you see your children make those decisions, those are the greatest rewards when I see people that from not even wanting to look at myself in the mirror to wanting to take pictures with me to leave in the lunch room and getting a stand in ovation for the people to say all the kind things about me. When I was a human that
didn't deserve that, I forget that person is not alive anymore. I'm not
going to act like it never happened, because it did happen. It made
me to who I am today. So if you're out there and you're dealing
with diversity and you're not where you want to be in life, you too can make changes. You've got to really want to make those changes, and
it starts with you, not anybody starts with you, and you got to take action. And that's what I'd like to leave everybody else on the greatest
reward is I was blessed with the second opportunity, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let it go in vain and you don't have to be where you are either. You don't have to shave in the dark. Wow, you
do not have to shave? Oh come on now, Wow, Scott,
goosebumps broo, goosebumps over here, literally goosebumps facts. Wow, Wow,
wow, Wow, just the story of your daughter doing that. Then you
hit us with your son stepping up after wrestling two matches, going against the best one there and just didn't even second guess it, put his headgear on and said let's go. That is exactly what you're talking about. That isn't
exactly what it feels like to have the greatest reward happen when you see people you've poured into, especially when it's your blood, your children, and I know that to you, it's beyond that. It's your children, yes,
but then your team members and so on. So far. I know you
can probably name a million stories, but those two stories there gave me super goroosebumps, like massive, like very proud of. I felt like there were
my children and I witnessed that happen, and I can imagine that feeling of just that it's more than pride. It's wow. They are adults, they
make decisions that are beyond what the average person would walk away from. That
is powerful, and that is cool. And that is seed that you've been
laying for a long time, that you've planted, that you've been watering and fertilizing, and you're finally starting to see harvest from it. That is beautiful.
Both children facing physical threats I mean literal physical threats to themselves and stepping up like that dad powerful. This is not something that you would necessarily see
as statistically lining up the dad the one being afraid to shave in the light.
Then having children that are stepping up to what is a physical threat to them. That is not just a testament to what great leadership, great mentorship,
great access, and the great submission is that you allowed yourself to also submit to the decision of your own kids to make the choice for themselves.
And that, folks, is truly living. Seeing your children doing things like
Scott just described, that's where we truly feel the glory. Again. You
can't put a dollar on that. You can't put you can't put a calculation
to the level of joy that you have for that. And as a dad,
I totally attached to that and appreciate that. I mean stories for days.
I'm sure that you can explain of other events of your kids stepping up like that. But that's what we do it for, folks, for the
next generation. And you may not have children, right, and you lead
people, and you see your salespeople do things that they were once scared to do. You see any of your other workers inside of the dealership world do
things that they were once intimidated by, step up to the plate and accomplish great things. This is part of the life legacy that you can be part
of, sowing seeds into well man. Scott is a true example of a
solutionary doing those things. I can't wait to grow and learn more. But
folks, we've already gone through an hour. I know Scott is a busy
time, you know, but it was a lot of fun. The one
thing I want to say, the one big word I want to say right now to Scott is thank you, right, I want to thank you for your time today, thank you for coming on the show, sharing your story, uplifting us. Man. It's very been very impactful. I've already got
a few quotes from you that I just absolutely just oh, I'm going to be. I wrote them down like much like you, I take notes every
time I interview somebody, much like you, I take notes when I go to these events because to me, that's where growth is. To me,
I'm going to learn something from every conversation that I possibly can. Even if
I don't agree with it, I'm still going to learn something from it.
So thank you so much, you know, for having me on. Thank
you for pouring into people in the auto industry that we all love and beyond.
Thank you for being a positive light to people, and it can be in a very dark world. I respect and amy both of y'all, gentlemen.
And if there's anything I can ever do for you, you make that one phone call and not sure I'll answer, and I believe you on that.
Well. The one thing I want to point out real quick the whole
show, folks. If you guys haven't noticed, behind Scott's head it says
growth. Make sure that you it's just coincidental, right. What I can
say is this, that's right here you go. He's always looking for growth.
Keep looking for growth, my friends. Keep being inspirational, and if
you have any questions, please reach out to us. We're at three two
one, Fredlu that's our phone number. Of course, you can reach us
at Fred at Cargui Cooffee dot com, Lou at Carguy Coffee dot com.
Now, Scott, if they want to reach out to you, send you a message of encouragement. What's the best way to get hold of you.
It's I'm on Facebook, also on Instagram. Scott E. Simon's at Gmail,
and I'm at Scottisimon's at gmail dot com. But yeah, just send
me a message through Instagram. Unfortunately, I think my Facebook I got to
get a I've got to do a business page. I keep putting it off
because I'm at a friend's max. But guys, thank you so much for
having me on. In my respect both of you. I love your energy.
I love what you do for this auto industry that we love and beyond anything I could do for y'all, gentlemen, reach out and thank all for tuning in and please share this out. These gentlemen, they give us,
our their time, a very valuable resource by pouring in and spotlighting us.
And the best thing we can do is support them. Oh wow, Scott,
thank you so much and we honor that and we will make sure we keep honoring that those words. Folks. If you guys want to get a
hold of him, go to Facebook, go to LinkedIn. It's Scott Simon's
at gmail dot com. If you want to send him a quick message,
let him know you love him, because I love the guy. I'm so
excited that he is my friend. I love this so excited. Thank you,
sir, appreciate you. A great day, guys, Straight Show with
the one and only Scott Simons. I am Learner as the Car Guy and
I am Fredlin Arts the Subprime Hero, and you have been brewing solutions on the Car Guy Coffee podcast. Make sure that you share and pass this all
around. Light up Scott with love and we cannot waite to brew more solutions
with you. We will see you soon. Love you all, Peece
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