The Money Mondays
The Business of Live Events & Tony Blauer's Self-Defense Philosophy 💰 EP112
Mon, 10 Mar 2025
What does it take to manage an event? In this episode, we dive into the business of live events (or events in general) and explore Tony Blauer's unique self-defense philosophy. This will be a 2-in-1 episode, and I hope you'll enjoy it!---Tony Blauer is a self-defense expert and the founder of the Blauer Spear System, a comprehensive training program focused on real-world safety and survival tactics. With over four decades of experience, he has developed innovative methods for personal protection, blending psychology, biomechanics, and proven defense techniques. Blauer's approach is widely recognized for its effectiveness in both civilian and professional training contexts.---Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇How to SELL OUT Live Events & Make MORE Money Doing It: https://youtu.be/DAXz4aeHU1EWhy Investing in Self Defense Is the Best Decision You'll Ever Make w/ Steve Eckert: https://youtu.be/Ta5dKvcWNUgMy Honest Advice To Someone Who Wants To Learn How To Network: https://youtu.be/7j6MnJuhxKwBoost Your Profits by Building Connections (No Investment Needed!): https://youtu.be/74E_xUFTG6AWatch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k---The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money.If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1Dan Fleyshman,The Money MondaysLearn more here: https://themoneymondays.comWatch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6kLet’s Connect...Website: https://themoneymondays.comPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondaysLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondaysFB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/
Chapter 1: What is the 100 Million Mastermind Experience?
Whenever you might be listening to this, it might be a little bit after the fact, but you'll be able to see across my social media what I'm talking about in real time. So let me walk you through real life. First of all, it's in Miami. I'm throwing what's called the 100 Million Mastermind Experience. I started the hundred million mastermind back in 2019. So we're going into our sixth year.
It's $100,000 per person to attend for the year, three weekend events. So March 11th to 13th is the next weekend called the fulfillment event for the first one for 2025. Now, Why would someone pay a hundred thousand dollars to be part of a group? And why would they, some of them do it for year after year after year. Some of them have been in the group since 2019.
It's because the other members in the group are typically doing 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, 50 million, a hundred million dollars in sales. And the instructors have either done over a hundred million in revenue, spent over a hundred million on ads or been seen by over a hundred million people.
So the a hundred million mastermind experience is a way for people to surround themselves with other entrepreneurs and business owners. Now, Literally the same night, I'm throwing a completely free event called Elevator Night. I've thrown Elevator Night 56 times completely free. No tickets for sale. No sales on stage. I don't even bring in sponsors. I just pay for it. What is that?
Like year 13 or 14 now. This will be the 56th time of Elevator Night. So I'm going to walk you through expensive events and free events. And I'm going to go through the rest of the next three days. Okay, so the 100 million mastermind, I'm creating an experience. That's why it's called 100 million mastermind experience. The experience is an important word.
A lot of masterminds are in a local ballroom at a hotel or they're at someone's house or at someone's office, which is fine because people are getting the learning experience or the networking experience. I'm trying to create an experience that people remember for the rest of their lives.
So I'll bring in Mark Wahlberg and Floyd Mayweather and Kevin Hart and celebrities, entertainers and performers for these experiences. Or I'll go get crazy venues. I'll go get the Diamondback Stadium or the Dallas Cowboys Stadium or places like that to create experiences.
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Chapter 2: Why host free events like Elevator Night?
Even though it's less than 100 people in this group at all times, I will create this experience because people create memories that will last them a lifetime and build relationships. But with this group creates a lot of power. I always am able to raise a lot of money for charity through this group, which is really, truly important to me.
Each time that I throw this on the second night of the event out of a three day event, we do either a charity poker tournament, a charity dinner, something to raise money for an orphanage, something to raise money for the toy foundation, homeless, things like that.
And so I'll tie in whether it's my charities, friends' charities, or respected charities, a way for us to raise a couple hundred thousand dollars in these environments. Why? Well, if I'm gonna bring in 70 to 100 people that have either access to capital themselves or access to capital from friends, I want to use that power for good.
And so that's why I try to forcefully get them excited to want to raise money through either a charity poker tournament, a charity dinner, et cetera, through an experience to be able to raise money for, like I said, orphanages, toy drives, things like that, or the homeless.
This has been truly important to me to incorporate it because the butterfly effect of what happens if during a live event I can raise money for a charity,
also they've got their phones out they know other people that might be able to donate or share on social media etc the butterfly effect is very powerful if i can use that mastermind for good all right so then that night tuesday night march 11th is elevator night in miami we have a venue that can hold hundreds and hundreds of people again it's totally free to attend you can visit elevatornight.com depending when you're listening to this you could actually send people to that event if you're listening to this on monday or on tuesday
Now, why do I throw a free event 56 times? This free event cost me 20 to $60,000 on average to host. Why would I do that? You can do the math. 20 to 60,000 times 56 is a lot of freaking money, a lot of time, a lot of energy. It is my way to get entrepreneurs together in each city. I've thrown this all over the country.
I've done a couple overseas because I want to get entrepreneurs into a room to meet with investors, meet with my local friends, local ballers, local influencers,
they can all network with each other these events are very short they're just a four hour event typically it's about two and a half to three hours of content so speakers on stage the rest of the time people are networking before in the middle and afterwards but through this we've been able to help raise money for companies been able to create a lot of jobs create a lot of investments create relationships that led to people creating babies
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Chapter 3: How does the Aspire Tour bring entrepreneurs together?
You can send your friends, family, followers, etc. The free code elevator for AspireTour.com. This event has A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gary Vee, Cody Sanchez, Dave Meltzer, Andrew Cordell, the founder, Eddie Wilson, the co-founder. You have a lot of powerful speakers up on stage like Tim Story, etc. Aspire Tour goes once a month all throughout the country.
This is, I think, number 20 or 21 or 22 since the company started. Aspire Tour is a very powerful tour that helps bring entrepreneurs together to learn in a one-day format event. It runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aspire Tour was started by Andrew and Eddie.
And then five months later, I came in to help bring in influencers, celebrities, speakers, et cetera, marketing, different venues, different people, different characters, sponsorships, et cetera, to help with the brand. Andrew and Eddie had already built a machine and I just added my gasoline to their fire. So then that large fan event happens. So let's call it 2,500 to 3,000 people.
That night is a dinner. We call it the VIP dinner with Dave Meltzer. Dave Meltzer often travels with Aspire Tour to speak at the events and to host a VIP dinner after the fact, typically for with 50 to 100 people. Those networking dinners have happened all over the country. I've known Dave Meltzer for many, many, many, many years.
We went to the same high school together called Patrick County High School. Different times, obviously. But Dave Meltzer has built up a very, very impressive career. You should check him out on social media. And these VIP dinners are a great way to network as well. You can notice the theme. Masterminds, Elevator Night, Aspire Tour, Dave Meltzer Dinner are all about networking.
Bringing people together, stuff happens. Magic happens, deals happen, and everything in between. Thursday, March 13th. In the daytime, we're gonna be taking over Garrett White's mansion. Garrett White is my partner on what you might have seen me recently post about for May 17th called Man in the Arena Tour. We're taking over the Maverick Center.
I've done events at the Maverick Center twice with a guy named The Muscle. We threw what's called Limitless Arena together at the Maverick Center. We had over 7,000 people, over 6,000 people on the two events that we threw there. Coming up with Garrett White is going to be called Man in the Arena Tour is also going to be at the same Maverick Center venue coming up May 17th.
I'm very excited about it. So we'll hopefully get around the same 7,000 people into that facility. You should check out Garrett White on social media because he's been doing fantastic content. He has trained over 70,000 men over the years through his programs and coaching programs.
So on Thursday, March 13th, we will be taking over his mansion and we will be hosting the 100 Million Mastermind Experience in his backyard where people can learn, have some amazing speakers, some networking sessions, and what's called breakout sessions We take small pods, let's call it five to 10 people from the group, and they go venture off into different parts of the house.
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Chapter 4: What is Operation Blacksite and who is Tony Blauer?
It doesn't cost you anything to do, but if there's a certain sport that you like, or a certain game that you like, or a certain thing that you like to do activity-wise, It could be yoga, breath work, whatever, surfing. You can get people together and you can start to build your network. It is fascinating what happens when you build your network.
The fastest way to success is through working with other people. It's through relationships. Let's say you needed to find a manufacturer. Right off the top of my head, I know, oh, Paul Schrader, Minimus. That's a great warehouse. It's a 3PL warehouse. They have over 100,000 square feet. You should talk to him. He knows everyone here. Oh, you need a clothing manufacturer?
Oh, you should talk to Verid. Her family, Verid Nisim, they have an amazing company, downtown LA, 300,000 square feet. Every word that I say out loud or you say to me, I know someone that fits. Warehouse, manufacturer, real estate, design, website, accountant, lawyer, anything, any topic that you bring up to me, I've got someone in my mind and you probably do too.
Now, what I'm trying to do is become closer with those people. I'm sending them deals, inviting them to events, building relationships, posting on social media, texting them memes, texting them when things are relevant to them, texting them happy birthday. I'm trying to build relationships with all the things that I'm doing.
So as you see me go crazy with six events in three days, just understand the basis behind it. I want to build my network, I want to build my social media, I want to bring people together, I want to create deals, and I want people to be introduced to each other for the butterfly effect, for them to go off and do things. Because that to me is almost like a form of charity.
If I can create investments and deals and partnerships and friendships and they go off and do all these other things, the butterfly effect stem from me. And it can literally change the world. I have watched friends go off and do amazing, amazing companies and businesses by meeting each other at elevator nights.
I've obviously watched people at the 100 Million Mastermind create big businesses together, huge partnerships, help them fix things and make them more efficient. And also, as you're thinking like, dang, did he say $100,000? I also have a $20,000 mastermind with Tai Lopez called the 20 million mastermind or 20 mil. So we call it 20 mil mastermind. You can see the website, 20milmastermind.com.
For 100 million mastermind, it's 100mme.com. So 100mme.com. You can also see the social medias for all of these. For Operation Blacksite, which Operation Blacksite is going on right this second. I'm here at Operation Blacksite. You're going to hear on this episode, Tony Blauer. Tony Blauer has been teaching for over 40 years self-defense.
So he's one of the instructors at Operation Blacksite, which is literally happening while I'm sitting here talking to you right over there. It's a three-day experience. We've been doing it for five years. So we do it every month here at Blacksite Ranch.
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Chapter 5: How can fear be used as a tool in self-defense?
go to sporting events, go to music concerts, etc. And make sure to check out Tony Blauer for the rest of this episode. And we will see you guys next Monday on TheMoneyMondays.com. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Money Mondays. This podcast is taking place right here at Blacksite Ranch. Some people know it as Wild Jungle. There's over 200 animals over there to my right.
And on my left, right this second, is what's going on. It's called Operation Blacksite. Operation Blackside is going into its fifth year where people learn how to shoot, how to fight, how to escape. And as we sit here right now with our next guest, they're actually learning how to do tourniquets and deal with blood and trauma. It's very intense. It's very useful.
That's why I've been doing it for half a decade. And hopefully we'll keep doing this for many, many decades because it's important for you to get training.
to learn how to defend yourself and become a human weapon since i just said that you might be leading into who our guest is today he has over 40 years of experience teaching people teaching the military teaching government teaching ufc fighters teaching trainers teaching civilians and everyone in between how to better improve their skills whether they're beginner advanced intermediate or even at the championship level how can they get better
And so without further ado, I'm going to have our guest, Mr. Tony Blower, give a quick two minute bio so we can get straight to the money.
Hey, Tony Blair. Thanks, Dan. I love doing this. I love coming to Blacksite. And the, you know, the bio at turning 65 years old, you know, how do I do a two-minute bio? But I, you know, I start off, there's two things that are unique about our system. One is it's the foundation of understanding the psychology of fear, how to turn fear into fuel. and I grew up afraid of everything.
I was a really good athlete, but I was afraid of every single sport. I didn't want to strike out. I didn't want to let my team down. If I was grappling, what if the guy breaks my knee? And I would worry about all the wrong things, so I never hit flow state. In spite of that, I figured out a system to manage fear so I could excel as a parent, as a dad, as an athlete, as an entrepreneur.
The other part of that is I was scared to death of violence, and I grew up in the 60s, and so that was batman and manix and the wild wild west and and it was wild so i'd watch all these shows and this this fear connection is so important because i was so afraid that all that was going to happen to me that when i was watching the tv shows i was going if i learned to fight all that fear will go away
So I started to learn how to train martial arts, grappling, and all that stuff. And when I got into fights as a kid, as a teenager, the fear didn't go away. I was like, what is wrong? And I realized that we look at self-defense incorrectly, and I spent my life transforming and reimagining how people can protect themselves.
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Chapter 6: What lessons can we learn from George St. Pierre's approach to endorsements?
Same thing. And it's interesting because if you talk to Tyson or De La Hoya when they were fighting, they might not have had that same answer. It was when they matured and evolved that you realize, oh my God, fear was my fuel. We have a program called No Fear and it's spelled K-N-O-W. And it's just this reframe of... that if you get to know fear, that's the stress inoculation, that's the reps.
If I asked you a question about business, about betrayal in business, an entrepreneurial thing, and I've seen you teach and talk so many times, your answers are like, you're like, but it's because you've had so much experience with it, When we're kids, nobody mentors and tells us fear is a good thing. Fear is there to keep you alive.
Fear releases these chemicals that make you stronger, that make you faster. But if you've got a negative relationship with it, you know, if your coaches, your mentors, your parents don't teach you, it's okay. You got to lean into fear. But so George St. Pierre, one of the greatest MMA guys. I was, so I grew up in Montreal and George was a Kyokushinkai fighter.
In Montreal, he used to bow to me in the gym before he was Rush St. Pierre, before he did MMA. And what was wild, we became friends. But he never talked about fear and psychology until after he got much older. And now he talks about it. I just saw a clip of him saying,
he wouldn't have been a champ if it wasn't for fear so i think part of that is you as you get older you go like i think now that i'm in my 60s i think of people when i was in my 20s or 30s telling me business advice or mobility or or any type of advice and i'm thinking that doesn't apply to me that doesn't apply to me so i i really think that um
I look at fear as a psychological tool, as an organic fuel. We like to tell people, you can't be brave if you're not afraid. So it's a reminder that if I use that fear, it can be empowering. The hard thing is when you have an experience of fear, whether it's business, health, entrepreneurial violence,
the physiological change like the blood rushing to extremities feels like you're like like that and your heart is racing and you get vertical breathing and your palms are sweaty if nobody teaches you that that's okay that's what your body's doing autonomically that can freak you out and so that's why a lot of people hyperventilate or they get that freeze response
So I'm going to tell you guys a fun story about George St. Pierre. He actually changed my entire mindset on sponsorship and endorsement deals. He sent me a pitch deck many years ago and he had won like back to back athlete of the year, not just in fighting all sports. And in this pitch deck was a photo, an image of his entire body head to toe.
And then it showed price points for each part of his body. So the hat, it said $100,000. Sunglasses, $250,000. Mouth guard, $50,000. Shirt, $500,000. Watch, you get the point, shorts, et cetera, down to his shoes. And it had a side note for stomach, and it showed drinks, Food, snacks, protein. Different things that he would consume. On the left, it showed travel.
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