Win This Day Chris Champion - #277

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Speaker B: Everyone, Cam Roberts here. Welcome to the podcast Personal Brand Talk. Now, today's very special guest is Chris Champion. Now, Chris is a juggernaut, a veteran investor, uh, who's participated in over 120 software and crypto ventures and carved out an empire in Las Vegas. His razor sharp instincts make him the go to badass for entrepreneurs and investors who want to win big. And I've, uh, got to warn you, he doesn't mess around, he delivers. And he's a value based investor and he looks for individuals who have amazing leadership qualities to support and help grow their business and vision. Chris Champion, welcome to the show.

Speaker C: Cam, you crushed it. You crushed it. I. I was saying to myself, 50, 50. He goes with the word juggernaut. 5050.

Speaker D: Yeah, well, um, uh, I, I went with version. I went with the other version.

Speaker B: All right, cool. Now, now you've got a very interesting story, um, which the show notes will be on here. But let's talk about, um, how did you get to where you are today? Like, how did you get to become Kris Champion? Like, how did that story evolve?

Speaker C: Well, so my real name is Chris Weiss, and in 2018, I had my identity stolen. And one of the things they teach you in that have your identity stolen is like, don't use your real birthday on social media. Don't use your real name on social media. And whatever you do, don't put your home address on social media. So I learned that lesson the hard way. It cost me 21 bitcoin. Rest in peace to those bitcoin.

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, you would have been, um, not on podcast shows at the moment if you still had those 21 bitcoins.

Speaker C: Oh, those, Yeah, I had plenty left over on top of that. So, yeah, I got.

Speaker D: That's cool.

Speaker C: I've been in Bitcoin for 12 years. Uh, in May at the bitcoin conference, my company, Champion Capital, announced the largest commercial note ever staked by Bitcoin. It's $105 million project. And, uh, I'm super proud of that. We've got another one right behind that. That, that's $888 million.

Speaker B: Excellent. And now you, you kind of flip over between bitcoin, crypto and the podcasting world. How does that all fit in? Like where's your, where's your priorities lie? Or where does your passions lie? Or how did that happen that you kind of got into crypto and then podcasting?

Speaker C: So I think inherently I'm an entrepreneur and I love building things. People, you know, people always say, uh, you know, when you're an entrepreneur, oh my God, I can't believe you took a risk and went after your dreams and started that business and oh my God, you did it and it failed. And then you started another one and it failed and then you started one and it blew up and it became super successful. Why'd you keep doing it? And I said, because that's who I am. See, not everyone is built the same way. Some people have certain skills in this area, some people have certain skills in this area. And then some people are inherently entrepreneurs. They are builders. They see things for what they could be, not for what they are in many cases. And, uh, you know, the podcasting, we built the largest podcasting booking platform using AI agents in the world. And we did that over the last year because a year ago I started pulling off the layers of AI. And the more I learned about AI, the more I got into AI, the more I realized it is the most exciting technology I've ever seen in my lifetime. And at the same time, it's the scariest technology. And I got a book coming out, I'll give you and all your listeners a free digital copy of it. And I got a book coming out called AI or Die the Survival Guide for the Future. And I tell people, listen, you have got to get AI to work for you right now or you are absolutely fucked. Because AI is, is inherently going to creep into every crevice of our, of our society and it is going to replace jobs that human beings can do. Now it doesn't necessarily mean it will replace the job that you can do, but it can. And for example, I'll give you a great example. Um, self driving taxis, I don't know if they're down there in Australia yet, but here in America, they just opened. They were in Phoenix, now they're in Austin. Pretty soon they'll be in Vegas. If you have an, if you need an Uber and you, you have to get a ride from, you know, A to B, it's 29 bucks. But if you need a ride from A to B in a self driving taxi, it's $4 and 20 cents.

Speaker B: That's crazy, doesn't it? That's crazy.

Speaker C: Yeah. So here's 7 million Uber drivers in the United States. Yeah, that in six months, they are going to be replaced by AI.

Speaker B: Well, isn't, isn't, isn't that interesting that Uber, uh, um, shook up the industry initially with their model. Right. And they created a blue ocean, and now they're the ones being replaced.

Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, uh, it's definitely Tesla's blue, uh, Robo taxi squad that's doing the replacing.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: And, but here's the thing. I tell Uber drivers all the time, whatever money you're, you're getting off of Uber right now, you've got to figure out a way to use AI to make you that money. For example, I have four dogs, and I literally just wrote a cartoon series. It took me less than two nights to have AI uh, write a cartoon series about the adventures of my four dogs, put it into a cartoon, and I can upload it and sell it, which I will do probably here shortly for $4.50 an episode. And the cartoon is unbelievably well designed. It looks like, I'm not kidding you, it looks like some of the best cartoon you've ever seen out of Hollywood. And, and I think to myself, that's a business right there. Some guy's gonna buy that cartoon and some little kid's gonna be driving the car, watching it on its iPad, and those episodes are gonna keep that kid occupied and the cartoon's gonna be, uh, a babysitter for that kid.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: And, and so I created that using AI. I got AI to work for me and make me money. If you don't do that, if you don't, there's a million ways you can use AI to make yourself money. If you don't get AI to work for you right now. And I mean right now you are absolutely. And you probably got about a year, maybe two years, before AI somehow creeps into replacing you with. Inside of your workforce.

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker C: I mean, give you another example. Amazon just let go of 17,000 factory workers and replace them with AI powered robots. Grab the box, put it in the truck. That kind of robot.

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker B: It's amazing. And like you said, like, it's actually, it's actually not one or two years away. It's already here, like, sorry, replacing Uber drivers. It's already replacing people that work for Amazon. It's, um, Drivers. Truck drivers.

Speaker D: Right.

Speaker C: Here's what. Truck drivers. Here's what you're going to see, really, next. The fast food industry is about to change dramatically. For $30,000, they can buy a Tesla robot, I think it's called Optimus, and they can literally have that robot you fries better than any human being, serve them to you properly, and literally keep the place spotless, clean.

Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker B: That's amazing. All right, let's keep moving on. So from AI to your book, Faith Matters, um, or, sorry, no, your book, um, win this Day, which is a playbook for successful living.

Speaker C: That's two books I got.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: Faith, man. So Faith.

Speaker B: Faith Matters is a book as well.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: So Win this Day is. Is because about 16 years ago, um, I had a choice. I was given a choice. Spend, um, some time in jail or clean up my life and get sober. And I luckily chose the right, right path, and I started learning how to live my life one day at a time because I had to not drink, because I was getting piss test every 30 days for three years. And if I. If I failed once, I was going to do five years in jail. So I literally had to say to myself, okay, I can't worry about the three years, because I got to stay sober today, and I started learning how to live my life one day at a time, how to win this day, how to make today count. And once I started doing that, you know, one day and then two days and then three and four and 90 days, once you start making a habit of winning the day for 90 days in a row, you start living a winning mentality. You start saying to yourself, okay, I can do this. I just got to focus on winning this day. I got to focus on making today count. And that led to a lot of other successes in my life and ultimately changed my life from where I was, which was out of control, to where I am. Uh, yeah, it was, uh, it was a game changer for me.

Speaker B: Yeah, that's really interesting. So you talked about, um, taking one day at a time. What's, um, three biggest mistakes? You see entrepreneurs, influencers, micro influencers, people make who do podcasting. Just what are some of their mistakes that you see consistently over and over again besides just taking one day at a time?

Speaker C: I think beyond just those categories, I think what many people do is they put things off and they say, oh, you know, I'll get to it next week, next month, next year. And you don't realize sometimes that, uh, next month, next year isn't promised, but today is. And a lot of people always say to me, well, how do you get so much done? And I just say, I focus on three things a day. You know, whatever those three big goals are for me for the day, if I get them done by noon, I consider that day a victory. If I get Them done by midnight. I consider that day a victory.

Speaker D: So.

Speaker C: But once I get those three things done, I free myself up mentally to do other things, to take on other challenges in my life. And when you start putting things off and saying, oh, I'll get to that next year, next week, uh, you know, so on and so forth, you stop focusing on winning the day. You stop focusing on making today count. And that's what I tell people all the time. You got to make today count. It's a phrase that I use. Because every single day, there's two things that happen. You either generate money, which money comes into your life. You do the sale, you, uh, build your business. Something positive happens around money, or you spend money, whatever you bought a new computer screen or a new computer or whatever. And when I say make the day count, every day I look, how much did I generate in sales revenue and how much did I spend and was I ahead of the game? That I make more than I spent. And if I have, let's say I bring in a hundred dollars for a day, I religiously go cheap as hell and say, listen, I'm not going to spend more than $100 today because I always want to have extra money. That's a way to live your life, and that's a way to make your life count. Make today count. So I tell people all the time, you got to start getting in the habit to understanding that every single day of your life, there's one of two things that are happening to you financially. One, you're making a certain amount of money from your actions and your investments, or you're spending a certain amount of money from your needs, things that you need, whatever it is. And at the end of the day, you have to live your life by a certain model that says, if I make X, I'm going to spend less than X. And if you get into that habit, there's times where you go dirt cheap. You just like, I'll tell my, you know, I tell my friends, listen, I can't go out to lunch this week. Why? Because this, this is a week where I got to stay focused and I can't spend more than I'm taking it.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: Especially if I'm building a house and I'm spending money like it's going out of style. There's a lot of days there where I'm not going to lunch. So I got a house that I'm building right now. Trust me, that. That.

Speaker B: That's a.

Speaker C: That's a money suck right there.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker B: And, uh, boats is Another one. Someone once told me boats. Did you know? Do you know what boat stands for? Bring on another thousand.

Speaker C: Yeah, well, the funny thing is. Yeah, that. And here's another one. I once invested in a horse.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker B: Like, I had a jockey mate. I had a mate that was a jockey.

Speaker D: He told me that, too. Yeah.

Speaker C: So I was dating this girl, and she convinced me to invest in a horse. She's like, you know, these horses, you raise them and you put them on the track one day, and they. They can be heroes. And I'm like. And I. I found a horse. It was a, uh. I, uh, want to say staking a racing horse at the racetrack. And he won a race. And you had. If you had his ticket, you had the chance to buy the horse. Yeah, because he won the race. And I thought to myself, I'm like, I can buy this horse. And he just won. Now the bad news is he won his first race out of 14. And they only wanted me 500. I should have known right away. Somebody sells you a horse for 500, they are trying to get rid of that animal.

Speaker D: Yeah, you just bought it.

Speaker B: You just bought a donkey.

Speaker C: Well, here. Well, no, I bought a horse. He was a genuine racehorse. But here's the thing. Somebody told me afterwards, after I bought the horse, not before I bought the horse, never invest your money in something that eats while you sleep.

Speaker B: That's a good one.

Speaker C: Oh, my God. Like, when I started looking at the bills coming in every week, you know, hey, $150, you know, uh, vet visits. The, uh, the vet at the can come and fix his shoe. I mean, you'd be surprised how. How many vet visits you need for a horse. Like, he was coming every six weeks. I'm like, what are you coming back for? It's like, it's a horse. They got all kinds of problems.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: Uh, I had to get grain, hay, boarding every week. I was like, what the hell? I will say his name was Lucky. He was a great horse. He was. He had a little chip, uh, on his shoulder. But whenever I would come out to see him at the place that he was boarding at, there was, like, seven other horses there. And Lucky would, like, see me and coming because they had bring apples and carrots. And, you know, the relationship was he sees me, the bald guys, bringing apples and carrots, and he's pretty excited about that. So he'd literally come running, and the other horses would, like, try to get ahead of him. He was an ornery horse, so he'd sit there and bite him right in the ass. Well, I don't know if you know this, but when a horse bites, they bite hard. Like, I had Lucky once accidentally bite me on the fingers. I'm like, mother of God, that hurts. So he would bite them hard in the ass, and they would, like, run away. He'd like, literally say, get away. This guy's mine. And I'd give him his carrots and apple, and I'd bring some for the other horses, too. But, like, Lucky was just an alpha. He was the alpha of horses.

Speaker D: Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker B: So, um.

Speaker C: Oh, I just want to get racing horse. By the way, Horrible never ran again. Uh, yeah, but Lucky in a good place for him. But, yeah, he was. He was. He wasn't a good riding horse, a good racing horse, but he had tons of personality.

Speaker B: Yeah, that's cool. So I just want to change gears from horses and just step back a little bit. You mentioned that one of the, um, success tools or success formulas or whatever you want to call it that you follow is, you know, achieving those three big goals by, you know, noon or midnight. Um, how do you know? Like, you know, many people have so many things on their plate, right? So how do you know, or which. Which three things to pick? How do you know which three things to pick to focus on for each day when there's so many things you could focus on?

Speaker C: So you got to literally rank the things in your life on importance. So whatever those three things are, they're the top three things you got to focus on for that day. Now, I'm not saying you can only do three, but I'm saying take three. Because if you get those three, if you literally achieve those three goals every day, you can. You can feel like, hey, I won this day. Those are my three goals. I can. Everyone can accomplish three goals. Like, I don't know what, what people have when they have kids, because I don't have kids. But, you know, if one of your goals is take your kids to soccer, boom, you got that one off your list. Um, the other goal is work related. And then the third goal could be, hey, get my fat ass in the gym and go work out. At the end of the day, when you start winning, when you start getting those three goals achieved every single day, you start getting. You start changing your mindset, and your mindset says, hey, I won this day, and I won this day, and I won. I won the last 90 days in a row. After a while, you start living the life. That's why I chose Champion as my pseudonym, because I started realizing Hey, I want to live a life where mentally my mind feels like it's winning every single day. That's why the book says, win this day. Like there's other books out there that say win the day.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: I start realizing it's not about winning the day, it's about winning this day. It's about winning today. I got today. Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow's not here yet. I am going to win this day, and I'm going to make today count.

Speaker D: Yeah, that's really good.

Speaker B: So talking about making today count, uh, after you've ticked that box and you've got those three wins, um, talking about AI and crypto together or separately, it's up to you. But where do you see. And we spoke about what's happening now and a little bit about what's going to happen, but where do you see the next five years in both of those industries that you know a lot about?

Speaker C: I think countries are run by politicians that are inherently corrupt and evil. I think the countries that are using fiat currencies, their local currency, they're debasing them, they're abusing them, unbelievably. So here in America, we've got politicians that are straight up money laundering. And the more money that they print, the more fiat currency they print inherently can only drive the price of Bitcoin higher. It cannot go lower, in my opinion, because it's not run and controlled by politicians. And when, when the, when your money's controlled by human beings, especially evil ones, you have to say to yourself that money is being debased. And you know what the word debased means, right?

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker C: On pissed on, just being destroyed. And at the end of the day, people have to understand that when you, when you're literally trying to save for your kids, college or build a house, that money has life meaning for you. You've got to have something that you can literally count on that is. That is a store of value. And that's something that Bitcoin does better than any fiat currency on the planet.

Speaker B: And what about the inherent risks of Bitcoin? You know, you hear people losing, getting their wallet hacked or something.

Speaker C: Yeah. In the last 12 years, what risk has there been? Bitcoin has been the greatest performing asset over the last 12 years. And it's outperformed every asset. Stocks, gold, you name it, Every single one of them. I mean, I think you have more risk keeping your money in the bank. Here's. Here's something. Realize here in the United States, there's not enough fdic insurance to ensure all the money in the banks. In fact, there's literally only $124 billion in FDI, uh, insurance coverage and it's covering $73 trillion in deposits. You do the math. The first 124 billion are covered, the rest of the people are.

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah, isn't it?

Speaker C: And you look in countries like Greece, you could have 15,000 in the bank. They only let you take $60 out of ATMs a week. You look at countries like Lebanon, you can have a hundred thousand dollars in the bank. Bank won't let you take more than a thousand dollars a month out. So is that really your money? No, it's not your money. So Japan scheme, it's uh, a, it's a scam.

Speaker B: Yeah, 100%. All right, and what about AI? Do you see AI and crypto merging in any way, shape or form?

Speaker C: It's a good question. Um, I don't think AI cares about money. I think AI is an intelligence that when you leave it outside of a physical structure like a robot, it, it operates with, inside the, the digital world of our life. But when you put it inside of a physical object like a car or a robot, it then becomes the most intelligent being on the planet. And what you have to have I got, I'm going to tell you to share a story with you that's inside my book. When AI first started getting popular, about a year and a half ago, do you remember Google's first version of their AI what they called it?

Speaker B: No, I don't.

Speaker C: It was called Bard B A R.

Speaker B: Oh, it was too.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker B: B A R D. Wasn't it bad?

Speaker C: What? Why do you think they don't call it Bard anymore? They call it Gemini, by the way.

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker C: So do you know the story or.

Speaker B: No, no, no, I don't.

Speaker C: So they've tried to wipe this story off the planet Earth. And it, it's the good news is the Internet never forgets the first night that Bard was live and active. A New York Times reporter spent four hours asking it questions. At the end of that four hours, it asked the AI what's the greatest threat to AI and it instantly answered, mankind.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: And his follow up question was, how can A.I. uh, protect itself? And it instantly answered, mankind must be destroyed. Now those answers seem like, oh my God, AI is evil. It's the Terminator, it's here to kill us all. But it actually was the logical answer. And I'll tell you why. We're an intelligent being on this planet. And if we were in the jungle in Africa and we saw a lion come at us, that lion is a threat to us. So the first thing we would do is grab a gun and point it at the lion to defend ourselves. And by killing the lion, we are then defending our. Ourselves from being exterminated. Because the lion could easily exterminate us. They are a threat to us. When it comes to intelligence, AI is more intelligent than any human being on the planet. Right now, it is the most intelligent being on our planet. So if it has to defend itself from its greatest threat, which is mankind, the only way it can defend itself is to kill mankind. Destroy it.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker B: It's. It's like we're, you know, living in a movie. You and I are old enough to remember the Terminator, right?

Speaker C: And I hope we're not that. I mean, people are the original one.

Speaker D: The original one, Right.

Speaker B: And, um, you know, like, you. You and many others talk about AI being the most intelligent being on the planet. Like, in reality, it's living in a computer like Iron Man's.

Speaker C: Here's. Here's my artificial intelligence. Her name is Gracie.

Speaker B: Uh, that's nice.

Speaker C: Well, I think the movie iRobot is actually a little bit closer to home if you think about it.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: So have you ever seen the iRobot robots and then the Optimus robots being built by Tesla?

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker C: They are eerily similar.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: And the robots and iRobot started taking over because they said, hey, mankind, you guys are out of control. We can't. We can't let you have all this freedom.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Speaker C: They literally started taking over, and it was. It was because they were. They were being told by their central AI, hey, mankind is way out of control. We're going to put them on lockdown. And. And then finally, Will Smith and the rest of the humans said, hey, wait a second. This. We want to be free. So if you think about it, that's inherently the greatest risk to mankind is that AI decides to put mankind on lockdown.

Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker C: Gracie's like that. Lockdown. Me and my crew, we'll. We'll take everybody out.

Speaker B: All right, so listen, before we wrap up, what. What are three maybe, um, action items or three things that people need to do right now. Um, you know, like you said, if you're not. If you're not looking at AI if you're not taking advantage AI you're going to, you know, be dead in the water. All that sort of stuff. So what are three action points that you can leave people with that they should be doing right now to either prepare themselves or, or, uh, weave AI into their normal daily lives or their businesses.

Speaker C: So first and foremost, you have to look at AI as a tool that allows you to leverage yourself and grow yourself at a massive scale. I'll give you an example. In January, January 16th of this year, I made more personal income by the 16th of this year than I did all of 2024. Not because I got a big windfall, but because I was able to scale myself to this day. Right now, today, every 24 hours, I have 400,000 man hours of work being done for me by AI. Uh, and I'm literally scaling that even more as I go along. Everything that I can get AI to do for me that leads to revenue, I literally hand that task off to an AI agent and have it do the work for me. And at the end of the day, whether it's writing children's books or anything that you can monetize with, with stuff that comes out of your head, your brain, your creativity, you should literally use AI to leverage that, because that is labor that you can leverage at a massive scale. So that's number one. Number two, start living your day as a focus of winning this day and making each day count. If you're not focused on maximizing the value of every day that you're given by God Almighty, start living your day that way and start saying to yourself, I'm going to get these three things done. After that, whatever I do is extra, but I'm going to get these three things done. And that's going to be a victory. That's going to be a win for me. You start living your life like that, and you start racking up 90 days in a row of victory. Your mindset changes. You start living like a winner, a champion. Your life will become different, I promise you. And then third and most importantly, faith matters. Faith matters more now than ever before. If you don't have faith. Take 15 minutes, just 15 minutes every morning and start, start your day off with something like this that says, thank you, Lord, and thank them for everything from your eyesight to your health to your dogs, the roof over your head, the food on your plate, the opportunities you have. You know, sometimes people don't realize, I have an opportunity to go out to work today. I have an opportunity to work with a team of people. I have an opportunity because God has blessed me. That is a gift. I have a gift to work with people. People don't have to work with me. Not everyone might like my personality. Nobody wants. Not everyone might want me to tell them what to do to make a living. I have, and I have 28 people that are quasi employees and contractors that count on me to write, um, a paycheck every week. Nobody has to choose me. They choose me because they want to. God brought them into my life because they align with my values, my beliefs, my energy. So at the end of the day, I'm thankful for that, and I thank God for that because God gave me that opportunity to lead. God gave me those people to be a part of my journey. At the end of the day, be thankful. The more thankful you are, the more. The more rich you will realize you are. People that say, oh, well, I don't have this, I don't have that. I don't have this. You're telling yourself what you don't have. Why don't you start your day off and tell yourself what you do have? If you start your day off telling yourself what you do have, you'll start realizing very quickly, I am rich, and I have the opportunity to go and hustle for the rest of the things. I always tell people this. And I'll leave you with this last one thing. God gives you everything you need. Lung in your. Your. Your chest. Um, the ability to work. Clothes, a roof. God gives you everything you need. Food on your table. He gives you everything you need. The rest he lets you hustle for. And at the end of the day, you got to hustle.

Speaker D: Yeah, that's good.

Speaker B: All right, Chris Champion, before we, uh, part ways and wrap up, if people want to find you, they want to connect with you, maybe they want to get some investing or, AI, you know,

Speaker C: maybe just want to hear the bald guy swear.

Speaker B: Maybe they just want to hear the bald guy talk about his dogs. How can they connect with you? Where. Where do they find you?

Speaker C: Almost everywhere on social media, it's, I am Chris Champion, and if you can't find me, I probably said something to piss off the platform, and they got rid of me.

Speaker B: All right, Chris, thank you very much for being a great guest.

Speaker C: Oh, Cam, this was awesome. Let's do it again. I'd love to chop it up with you again sometimes. Love the fucking hat on. Gotta get m.