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Building Your Legacy
Ep. 84 Building Your Legacy
What will people remember about you when you're gone? Your car, your house, your money? Or the person you were?
In this deeply personal episode, Jake and Braxston tackle the challenging topic of legacy building—specifically, how to create lasting impact without sacrificing what matters most along the way. Drawing from their own experiences, they explore the disconnect between outward success and meaningful living that so many high-achievers encounter.
Braxston shares his observations of successful CEOs who reached their professional goals but regretted the corners they cut with family and relationships. "Once they finally get there, whatever 'the top' looks like to them, they realize how much they've messed up along the way," he notes. Meanwhile, Braxton candidly reveals his behind-the-scenes hustle—door dashing between deliveries to fund his dreams—demonstrating that real legacy building happens in those quiet, unglamorous moments nobody posts about.
The conversation offers practical takeaways for intentional legacy building: writing your own obituary to clarify priorities, keeping journals or video messages for your children, and consistently evaluating if what you're building is worth what it's costing you. As Braxston powerfully summarizes, "Legacy isn't what you leave in your will—it's what you live." If you're working to build something meaningful that outlasts you while navigating the daily grind, this episode provides both the inspiration and practical framework to stay the course.
What parts of your life speak louder than your words? We'd love to hear your thoughts on legacy building in today's comments.
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Welcome back to the Go All In podcast. I'm Jake Fine.
Speaker 2:And I'm Braxton Cave. In today's episode we're going to be talking about building your legacy and the idea of this one is, you know we were talking before the show started of you know, when I was coming to the end of my NFL career and starting to jump into the business world. You know, I kind of took a look back on you know the, the kids I grew up with, and you know their parents and the movies you watch and and the different things that you see in it, and it almost always seemed like not a hundred percent of the time, but I would say the greater majority the the parents or the people who were most successful had like these crazy stories or disappointments that they've come from.
Speaker 2:Or, yeah, my, my, I don't ever see my dad and it was usually the kid who came from had the biggest house and the nicest stuff and, um, it was always like a big deal to me, like I don't, that's not who I want to be, that's not the way that I want my family to be raised. And so you know the idea of going through business and building a legacy and doing it the right way. I've had many conversations with you know successful CEOs of whether it's a you know single digit million dollar company to a billion dollar company. Majority of them will. You have a conversation with them and they'll be like, yeah, I just I didn't do things the right way early on and I, but I think when they're, when you're chasing it, you don't pay attention to a lot of that.
Speaker 2:Right, it's the grind and you're hustling and you're doing whatever it takes to get to the top, and then once they finally kind of get there, whatever the top looks like to them, then they're like man, how much do I have to prepare that? I messed up along the way and so you know there's there's just so much that goes into the daily life and the grind of that that I think, like I said, it's a lot of oftentimes people miss some of the most important things that happen along the way.
Speaker 2:So I want to we can kind of dialogue back and forth today about what that looks like and maybe some of the instances that you've seen, I mean.
Speaker 1:I can.
Speaker 1:Just, you know I work a full-time RV job, you know, and that's my normal full-time gig that I do and that's that funds everything that I do with my business and you know it helps with this.
Speaker 1:And you know people don't see like the other stuff that I do, like you know what she does and it's like you know, when I I don't like to sit around, I like to get shit done and I feel like if I'm sitting around and not accomplishing anything, I get really anxious and I just pace and it's like I need to make my time wise. And you know, lately I've been. You know people don't know I do this but I door dash when I'm like waiting for deliveries. If I have stuff ordered from you know my apparel that I need to get into so I can start making stuff and I know what deliveries coming, I won't go door dash and wait until it gets there. When it gets there, then I'll stop door dashing, because that time that I'm, because I have money right there that I made instant, because they pay you right when you're done right instantly.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing I I think is crazy, because people are like, well, I don't know where to work. I mean, dude, there's so many things out there you can get paid quick. Now, technology's insane and I've been doing that and it's just, it's, it's fun, but it's interesting as well. Um, the stuff you run into, you know, locally here, but yeah, it's, it's and it's just doing the extra stuff to go the extra mile to get, you know, to build my vision.
Speaker 1:And you know a lot of people don't see that part and you know it's just like what you were saying. You don't want to be that person. You know the story that you were just talking about and it's just, I feel like it's. You know, like you used Blindside the movie. You know it's like that type of story. That was just. You know it's an amazing story. I mean how far he came and how that family took care of him. You know to get to where he's at and how he repaid him afterwards.
Speaker 1:But you know it's just a lot of people don't see, behind the closed doors, the extra stuff that you're doing, right, um, but yeah, I mean just to throw that in there. I, I, yeah, that's what I do with the time to get extra cash, to get, you know, put it, put towards my, my vision, because it's, it's, it's, it's freaking hard, dude. It is hard, especially with RV that I'm in in. You know, during the july season, it there's we're shut down for the fourth. You know we're not working, so it's a lot of time. I can, you know, work on the brand and create new things and, um, you know, figure things out and yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:You, just gotta use your time wisely yeah, you know, during this stuff, yeah, I think it's interesting to think, like when you think legacy, you know it's not, your legacy isn't built like on what you post on social media. You know it's all in what you practice. And I think kind of what you were just talking about. It's like the loudest lessons are taught in silence and it's the there's always so much more to the story than what people see, and I think oftentimes what people see isn't really the story.
Speaker 2:and so the you know the moments, the early mornings, the late nights, the things that happen in the quiet. You know the private disciplines like those are part of the legacy that you'll eventually leave behind one day, and and to me it's your legacy is your name. Like no one gives a shit about your car, the money, the houses, like at the end of the day, when you're dead, people are going to tell stories about the person that you were, not the things that you had, especially like your kids and your family. And so, um you back to the idea of you know some of the most successful people. You know, ceos, like the conversation of you know once, the once you finally made it.
Speaker 2:Then you want to focus your attention to the things that matter most, and sometimes it's too late, and I think that, depending on everyone's, obviously everyone's got a different point of view on what faith looks like and what their foundation is, but I just truly believe, at least for myself, that faithful men build generational impact, and I think God put us all on this earth for a reason and we all have a certain calling. It may take one person longer than others to to find what their calling is. But at the end of the day it's like are you living a life that's going to honor the name you'll leave behind, like that's legacy? I mean, there's probably a million different. Everyone's going to have a different definition for it.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've mentioned this in an episode a long time ago. When people come to your funeral, are they going to remember what was served for food? Are they going to tell stories about you when they leave as well? Yeah, so yeah, it's, it's, it's important, man, I mean that's the way I want to leave a legacy as well, to sleep this, you know, with my glass name and that's that's what I want to do. But I mean, if you just stay focused on what you're gonna do, what you want, you know what you're here to do, I mean, I think anybody can leave a legacy if they, you know, accomplish what they want to do. Um, I just want to help as many people as possible, get them on the right path and um, cause, you know, society's changed a lot since you know, when I was a kid, you know, and um, just the direction that it's going. You know, I've mentioned to her it's the people that get more likes and views are like all this funny shit you see on.
Speaker 2:Instagram.
Speaker 1:You know it's like they're all. You know, they're all planned, they're all staged, but they get the most likes and attention. It's like you don't get like the transparency and the real stuff that gets that. You know it's frustrating.
Speaker 2:It's funny, you know, going off of that, my wife has a friend who she's, um, she's going through like a fitness journey right now fitness transformation journey and she set a goal for herself and she had one of her reels go viral last week and natalie was texting with her about it and she's like nat, I post like consistently every day the same stuff and she's like I made this one video.
Speaker 2:It's so stupid and it went viral and it really doesn't have anything to do with like her fitness journey I think the last I look it was like 1.6 million yeah, and it's um, so shout out to courtney. Yeah, it's pretty cool that that she's, you know, being consistent. I think it was a hilarious, great idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the way she did it, because I mean all the women you know, being consistent, I think it was a hilarious, great idea. Yeah, the way she did it, because I mean all the women, obviously, you know loved it and connected with it you know I'm like damn Courtney, you're going to have all these women come to your house now. Because there's a lot of comments on here, Right, but yeah, I mean shout out to her for doing that. It's just being creative and that's being creative.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, but I mean she thinks that's stupid. No, that was being creative, because it was very intelligent of her to do that, so but yeah, it's just. But I'm talking like stuff can, can you know, get kids hurt. You know, I see a lot of gym stuff that you know. I'm seeing kids now do I'm? You know I'm seeing kids now do I'm like, okay, stop this. These guys are doing that because they're trying to get attention and get likes and follows. Um, you're doing it and you're going to end up getting hurt and not going to be able to pick up a weight right.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it's just, and the weights are probably fake. That too, yeah, that's another thing too.
Speaker 1:So it's like you don't know. You don't know what to believe anymore. Yeah, you know, and that's with everything.
Speaker 2:So I'll give listeners a couple things to take away maybe some homework that they can do. That have been very meaningful for me. And one is a mentor of mine that I've had for a long time. I work with him as my kind of like a business and life coach hit. One of his biggest things that he does is he has you write your own obituary and if you ever sit down, spend some time writing your own obituary, like that'll change your perspective real quick on on where you're, where you're headed and what your priorities are. And, uh, you know a good friend of mine. Him and I have a lot of conversation about you know legacy and who we want to be and what we want to leave behind. And you know, one of the biggest things I've been able to take away from that is like when it comes to my kids, like when I'm, when I'm no longer here, I want them to look back and be like man. How did dad do it?
Speaker 2:mm-hmm like he was at all of our games, all the dance recitals like loved, took mom on dates, like how, like that's what I'm chasing for legacy, like not all the stuff, um. The other thing that's been super meaningful for me and I'm in a little bit of a transition period of it is, um once a quarter I have a journal for each of my kids and every quarter I'll write in their journal and just like what's going on in their life funny things, quotes, maybe they said stuff we've been doing um stuff that they someday can look back on and be like and laugh about or whatever. I write them like little love letters in there and stuff like that. But I was recently challenged to start um doing like a vlog so they can like see dad, oh nice, as I'm talking to them and then like my, my plan is to do this and give it to them, like you know, when they get married or when they graduate college, something like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe I'll just continue doing it and just leave it behind after I pass. I don't know what that's going to look like, but for two things. One, like I want them to be able to see dad and hear my voice and like the emotion behind it rather than just reading it on paper.
Speaker 2:The other thing that I think is cool is like I want them to see me age yeah like this is what dad looked like when he was, you know, 35, and he I was, you know, when I was eight years old. Look at what dad looks like here now that I'm 25. And I just think that there's some meaning to that and something they can hold on to forever.
Speaker 1:That lasts forever.
Speaker 2:Yeah you know, those are, I think. Yeah, I mean obviously like once you upload a video and it's in the cloud.
Speaker 1:It's here forever. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you'll find it a notebook could very easily be lost, or or whatever. So those are just a couple things for listeners, like if you're looking for something to you know, bring into the fold of um your life and your legacy, start writing stuff down. Start taking videos of yourself talking to your family. I don't think you realize we all have a lot of thoughts in our head Until you verbalize it and put it out there.
Speaker 1:Don't feel stupid, it's literally you in front of a camera by yourself Just talk.
Speaker 1:Trust me, it takes a long time. Many reps I still hate it In front of Many reps, I still hate it. So, in front of a camera, I still hate it. But, yeah, I mean me closing out. Um, you know I'm still early in this journey. I'm not even close to where I want to be, you know, successful wise, and um, I'm still figuring it out and I know a lot of people listening are still figuring it out and I know a lot of people listening are still figuring it out and um, but, like, I'm very committed to building something that's real and, you know, without breaking the parts you know of me that matter the most, and um, yeah, I mean basically. I mean, if you guys are listening, you know I've been there, I know Braxton's been there and I know you guys are probably going through it. You guys can reach out any questions or anything like that, but always make sure what you're building is actually worth what it's costing you. So I'll end on that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I'll just say this. I mean, the quote I wrote down here is that the legacy isn't what you leave in your will, Right, it's. It's what you live and it's what what you're doing when no one's watching. You know what you're building, and you're building it in private, but you're living it to the fullest and you know you let your life speak louder than your words. It's all we can do, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:All right, man, that's it. We're out of here Till next time.
