In this episode, Phil emphasizes the power of community. He says that being the dumbest (least experienced) person in a room full of more accomplished individuals is a good thing, as it pushes you to learn and grow. Phil shares personal experiences, including his military background, to highlight the value of facing challenges with a supportive group rather than alone. He criticizes the idea of solitary success and encourages us to form or join communities of like-minded individuals who are committed to growth and improvement. Phil insists that surrounding yourself with people who are more successful or knowledgeable in various aspects of life can significantly accelerate your personal and professional development.

Welcome to The Phil Bohol Show, hosted by USMC veteran, mindset coach, sales expert, self-made entrepreneur, husband, and father, Phil Bohol. On this podcast, we don't just offer strategies — we offer a war cry, a call to arms, a challenge to rise, to break free from the shackles of mediocrity. You’ll learn the raw truth on how to break your limitations, scale your business to 7-figures, and level up every area of your life. Together, we won't just face challenges. We will crush them. Relentlessly.


Timestamps:

(01:14 ) - Going Solo Isn't the Only Way

(03:14 ) - The Accelerating Power of Community

(06:56 ) - How Shared Wisdom Makes Problems 'Too Easy'

(08:43 ) - Surround Yourself with Giants

(11:03 ) - The Reality Check of Expanding Your Network

(13:30 ) - How To Fast-Track Your Growth

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Transcription:

[00:00:00 ] You want to be the dumbest person in the room, you want to be the person that's like the smallest, the lowest earner in the f*cking room. 

You can be in a room with like 7 figure earners, and you think you're hot sh*t, and everybody's an 8 figure earner, 9 figures, Jesus. 

And you're just like, “Oh sh*t, I don't know sh*t, I thought I knew sh*t. In comparison to like the six figure earners, I thought I knew sh*t.”

If you're a six figure earner, and you go in a room with a full of five figure earners, you're gonna be like, “Damn, I thought I was the sh*t. I make the most here.”

And then to them, they're making more money than the part timers. 

[00:00:30 ] Part timers are making more money than people that don't got jobs.

Everybody is the top of their game until they're not, until you enter the next room, until you get to the next level.

[00:01:00 ] What's going on you guys, it's Phil Bohol, and welcome to the Phil Bohol Show, where we have real talk about family, fitness, finance, and everything that would hold you back from leveling up in every area of your life. 

And more importantly, how I personally got through them. 

Everybody else in this world wants to bullsh*t you.

I'm here to give you the truth.

I don't know why so many people think that they have to go through this life alone. 

And I get it. 

You got pride, you got ego, you have things telling you that you got this. 

But like, why does that have to be normal? 

[00:01:30 ] Why does that have to be the way that you live? 

I remember when I was really coming out, when I was on my own.

10 years old, family split apart, started going on our separate ways, parents did stupid sh*t. 

And I was always looking for that, that pack. I was always looking for that tribe. 

So many different companies that I've tried to start at the beginning of my journey, many years ago, had to do with a pack had to do with the tribe had to do with wolves and the pack mentality and all of these things.

[00:02:00 ] And every time I had friends, I had associates, people, I'd always try to bring everybody together. 

And for some reason, people really do believe that you have to go through this life on your own, but why? 

Why do you feel like you have to go through this life alone? 

I don't give a sh*t where you're at, what level you're at.

Life is so much more fun when you have cool people to do cool sh*t with. 

Especially when they're on the same wavelength as you. 

[00:02:30 ] Now I'm not talking about doing life with people that say, “Hey, let's go f*cking smoke weed. Let's go drink. Let's go party all the time. Waste our time. Let's not do anything productive with our time.”

I'm not talking about those people.

I'm not talking about doing life with those people.

I'm talking about doing life with people who want to grow, want to evolve, that want to see what they're made of in this world, to see what type of change can they create in their own lives, in the world, for other people.

[00:03:00 ] When you surround yourself with people who just have this mentality of truly wanting to self actualize, truly wanting to see what they can accomplish in this one life they have to live, why would you want to just do that on your own? 

It's such a lonely path. 

And I think so many people have success all types of screwed up where they think that they have to like climb this mountain on their own.

And I've done it both ways. 

I've gone the route where it's just like me and myself and I'm just gonna keep trudging along. 

And I've done it where I've been part of a pack. 

And 10 times I'd rather do it with a pack. 

You still can achieve success 100%. 

[00:03:30 ] But there's kind of no point. 

You actually accelerate growth when you grow with other people.

It's one of the reasons why I built my tribe. 

I built my community because I knew that life alone is so much harder because what happens is when you're on your own, when you're out in the world by yourself and you have no community, you have no people, you don't have a tribe of people on the same path as you.

It's a lonely path. 

It's a dark path. 

And you're more likely to go into these like negative mental states. 

[00:04:00 ] When I was in the military, one of the biggest things I always felt grateful for was having my brothers. 

Always having people who understood what it meant to really embrace the suck together. 

To know that, as I suffer, I know that, like, all of these other men are suffering too.

And that suffering is what brought us together. 

And so what happens in this life, civilian life, people don't feel that way. 

[00:04:30 ] People are like, have so much ego and pride that they think that they have to go after things alone, but it's like, no, when you're a unit, when, when you have people, when you guys are like attacking a problem together, it's so much more fun.

And I don't know why people don't want to have fun in life. 

I think that people really do choose to live a miserable life. 

[00:05:00 ] Because if you were to drop all the bullsh*t that doesn't serve you, the ego, the pride, the vices, everything, the anger, the wrath, the spite, the sloth, the lust, all of it, you drop all of it, and you're just like a student to this game of life again, and you just absorb everything that life has to offer, you're still going to have to suffer.

You're still going to have to go through the hard times. 

You're still going to go through the darkness. 

You don't have to go about it alone. 

Think about, like, Lord of the Rings, okay? 

I don't even remember what the f*ck their names were. 

But there's a f*cking little guy that had a ring, and he had to go f*cking do something with it.

[00:05:30 ] Imagine if that whole movie was just him, by himself. 

How boring would that whole f*cking saga, or whatever that's called, how boring would it be?

What made it interesting was all the sh*t that happened with all the other people that he surrounded himself with, all the different scenarios. 

But what happened by the end of it is, I think, they crushed it.

I don't know how many more movies they made, but they crushed it. 

They crushed their goal together. 

They solved the problems together. 

[00:06:00 ] They accomplished the same mission from the different backgrounds they came from all together, and that's what made it easy to win. 

When I say easy, I don't mean that the path to winning was easy.

It was easy because they couldn't give up on themselves because they had other people they held themselves accountable to. 

They had other people inspiring them to move forward. 

And there's gonna be some stupid f*cks that say, “Hey, no, that means you're weak, that means you can't do it on your own.” 

Blah, blah, blah.

I've done it on my own, and I've done it with a pack. 

You can be strong enough to do it on your own. 

[00:06:30 ] And you can choose to enjoy the process with a pack, it doesn't, it doesn't take away.

It's like anytime you guys hear that, I want you to understand those are the smallest people that say sh*t like that because they don't get it.

That's why they're losing.