Elevate With Eli

Eli Santiago
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Welcome to the Elevate With Eli Show — Elias Santiago created this podcast to help & serve the many with meditation, mindset-hacks, business tips, leadership tips, relationship tips, and to help others reach their greatest potential! Follow My Instagram For More Content - @elevatewitheli

  1. 3d ago

    EP. 10 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — THE CLIMB: WHY MOST PEOPLE STAY AT THE BOTTOM

    The series finale of Own Your Economy. You don't have a strategy problem. You have an identity problem. Most people fail because they never decided who they were becoming. The climb isn't a program. It's a decision. Most people never make it. Information is free — but transformation costs you your old self, and most people aren't willing to pay. Jay's story: arrested four times in college, sitting in the timeout center next to real criminals, asking himself where am I headed — and what if nothing ever changes. He didn't get motivation. Motivation is temporary. He got understanding. He shaved his head, changed his clothes, cut every friend, and prayed. Two months later he was on tour teaching financial literacy. - From my mentor Jay Awal Of 10,000 people Jay has coached, 2,000 are still in it. The other 8,000 got close enough to see the income potential but not close enough to endure the timeline. They wanted to skip the steps. You can't jump four or five. Neither can you. Pride is the most expensive thing most people will ever buy. The stepdad who wouldn't take the $70K job because he used to make $170K — unemployed for two years, burning through savings, selling his house. Pride kept more people from the climb than any lack of information ever did. Ego isn't your amigo. Ego stands for edging God out. When I was waiting tables at Olive Garden, I felt overqualified — and that ego made me spill an entire tray of water over a table of kids. I couldn't see the job as a stepping stone. If you're comfortable right now and just working a job, be building something from five to eleven. Growth is slow. A bamboo tree takes five to seven years before it sprouts — but once it sprouts, it grows at warp speed. Be patiently aggressive. Who are you becoming? Information is free, but transformation costs you your old self. I'll see you at the top — because the bottom is way too crowded. 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://t.me/+urVBhWCkzIphNjBh 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads CHAPTERS: 00:00 — You don't have a strategy problem. You have an identity problem. 00:07 — Welcome to the Own Your Economy series finale 00:51 — Jay's rock bottom: arrested four times, the timeout center 01:49 — The 8,000 missing students 02:26 — You can't jump steps 03:24 — The stepdad, the $70K job, and pride 03:51 — The hood hibachi guy 04:16 — The bottom is crowded, the climb is a decision 04:31 — Olive Garden: the tray of water 06:12 — Ego isn't your amigo (edging God out) 07:20 — Build the base — and build something from five to eleven 08:17 — The bamboo tree: 5–7 years underground 08:52 — Be patiently aggressive 09:29 — Who are you becoming?

  2. 4d ago

    EP. 8 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — THE RESIDUAL INCOME BLUEPRINT

    Active income keeps you alive. Residual income sets you free. Active income is a ceiling. Residual income is a foundation. While you're clocking in, someone just earned $3,000 from a system they built two years ago. You don't need more hours — you need a system that doesn't require your hours. My mentor Jay Awal breaks his income stack down clearly: community, JIFU residuals, credit card processing residuals, speaking events, his own consulting firm — multiple streams of income. He lives in Puerto Rico, goes to waterfalls on weekday afternoons, and the money is still coming in because the systems are running. "Jay's mom spent 25 years building call centers for a Florida college — bachelor's, master's, running the admissions team. Then she called him scared, because AI is making the phone calls her team makes. Six-figure income, but a single stream. No backup. So Jay walked her through it: crypto, credit card processing — two new streams of income. Not at her income level yet, but now she has a foundation to build from instead of a cliff to fall off." - From my mentor Jay Awal The framework: four streams of $1,000 versus one stream of $4,000. If one of the four disappears, you still have three. If your one stream disappears — and COVID proved things can disappear overnight — you have nothing. And Jay's honest rule: don't quit your job when you hit your first $1K or $2K. Only quit when you've doubled your income and you have six months of expenses saved. I learned that one the hard way — sleeping in my car, showering at Planet Fitness, no savings, just hunger. Now I'm building the baseline: well over $10K in savings, $1,000 in the bank at all times. Don't get too big for the little things. Because if you get too big for the little things, eventually you become too small for the big things. If you're looking to build residual income — trading, crypto, UGC — and you want a community building it with you, shoot me a message on Instagram. I'll show you what I know, who I know, and how we're building these streams inside Alpha Society. See you at the top — because the bottom is way too crowded. 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://t.me/+urVBhWCkzIphNjBh 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

  3. Oct 1

    EP. 7 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — BUILD YOUR BODY LIKE AN ASSET.

    Build Your Body Like an Asset. Your body isn't a temple. It's infrastructure. Treat it like one. The most expensive thing you own isn't your car. It's your health. You don't wait until you have $10K/month to start managing your money — and you don't wait until your body breaks down to start maintaining it. "Jay maps his core financial argument straight onto physical health: both require systems built before you need them. Then the commission breath concept — when you're running on stress, cortisol, no sleep, no recovery, your decision-making degrades. Jay admits every bad financial move — the Maserati, the alt-coin bets, the identity attachment to numbers — happened during high-stress periods when the nervous system was running hot. The screen time moment says it all: Jay pulls up his phone, catches 12 hours of Instagram in a week, and asks himself what he gained from comparing his life to other people's highlight reels. That's not a productivity problem — it's a nervous system problem. And the Elevate Wellness stack — juicing, IV therapy, float tanks, CBD integration — isn't self-care. It's maintenance for a high-performing asset. Warren Buffett has lived in the same house for 50 years. Jeff Bezos drove a Camry when his company hit $1B. They protect their most important asset: their mind. Your body is the machine that runs the mind. Maintain it." - From my mentor Jay Awal IV therapy, float tanks, cold press — this isn't luxury. This is maintenance. Start investing in the asset that runs everything else. --- 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://t.me/+urVBhWCkzIphNjBh 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

  4. Sep 30

    EP. 6 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — THE MULTIPLICATION HACK THEY DON'T TEACH IN SCHOOL.

    The Multiplication Hack They Don't Teach in School. Wealth is about money working in multiple lanes simultaneously. Not harder. Not longer. Simultaneously. One dollar working in five places beats five dollars sitting in one. They taught you to save. Nobody taught you to multiply. Here's the difference. "Jay walks through the Parable of the Talents in detail — a master hands three servants money before a long journey. Two put it to work and multiply it. One buries his out of fear. The master doesn't praise the fearful one for keeping it safe.Jay's application hits home: most people are praying for $30K/month income while the money they already have is sitting buried — doing nothing. You're not stewarding more until you multiply what you've got.Then he breaks down the Jar System — five bank accounts, money automatically transferred every Monday after every paycheck. Every dollar has a lane. Every lane is working.And the life insurance angle most people miss: in the right hands, it isn't just protection — it's a wealth transfer and multiplication vehicle." - From my mentor Jay Awal Life insurance isn't protection. In the right hands, it's a multiplication vehicle. They taught you to save. Now learn to multiply. --- 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://t.me/+urVBhWCkzIphNjBh 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

  5. Sep 30

    EP. 5 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — FROM CONSUMER TO OWNER: THE ONLY SHIFT THAT MATTERS.

    From Consumer to Owner: The Only Shift That Matters. You've been a customer your whole life. It's time to become the brand. Every app you open daily — someone owns it. Why isn't it you? The wealth gap was never about income. It's about ownership. Consumption is comfortable. Ownership is generational. "Jay opens his Alpha Society training with a question: how many of you want to be business owners? Then the harder one — how many of you are already operating like one?He draws the ownership path on the slides: Understanding → Skill → System → Income. Most people try to skip straight to income — and that's exactly where it breaks.His analogy hits: buying an iPad and jumping straight in the pool with it because you wanted to read underwater. You don't understand the tool yet. Ownership without understanding isn't ownership — it's expensive consumption." - From my mentor Jay Awal The episode closes with the social media visibility piece — Jay points to Cobby Lynn, the African-French creator, as proof of what's possible when you let yourself be seen. Consumer or owner. Pick one. And see you at the top. --- 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://t.me/+urVBhWCkzIphNjBh 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

  6. Sep 28

    EP. 4 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — TRAVEL IS NOT A REWARD. IT'S A STRATEGY.

    Travel Is Not a Reward. It's a Strategy. I didn't travel because I made it. I traveled because it made me. “December 2017 — I'd just gotten out of trouble. Cut my dreadlocks, changed how I dressed, stopped moving with the same crowd, started praying for a direction. And then I got hired as a cameraman on a world financial literacy tour. I was in the back of the room running the camera, watching people's lives change in real time. Standing in the back of that room, I thought: I need to be up there. That one trip shifted my trajectory more than any course, any book, or any YouTube video ever could have. The people I met on that tour built the network that eventually became the foundation of my business. You can't replicate that by watching a webinar from your apartment. Right now I'm heading to Portugal — 5,000 entrepreneurs in one room, from all over the world. The calibration that happens when you're surrounded by builders at that level is something that has to be experienced. Your sense of what's possible expands. Your standards recalibrate. Your network compounds. And here's what most people miss: the trip is a write-off. The suit I buy for the event — write-off. My wife coming with me — write-off. When you build a business, travel stops being a reward you earn at the end and becomes a tool you use to build faster.” - From my mentor Jay Awal Every retreat we run is built around this same principle. It's a content machine. A network event. A funnel accelerator. A lifestyle proof point. All at once. The investment isn't the flight — the investment is who you become when you step into rooms you didn't previously belong in. The flight is cheap. The room is everything. --- 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://t.me/+urVBhWCkzIphNjBh 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

  7. Apr 6

    EP. 3 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — CRYPTO ISN'T THE PLAN. IT'S A LANE

    Crypto Isn't the Plan. It's a Lane. Crypto made people rich. It also wiped people out. The difference between those two outcomes was one thing: whether they had a system, or just a feeling. Look at the Bitcoin cycle chart. Every major peak — $19K in 2017, $64K in 2021, current highs — came back down to the previous support zone. Every time. Almost exactly one year later. And every time it recovered, it went higher. I call this the "late friend" pattern. If someone is always late, you can bet on them being late. You build that into your planning. “I started buying $100–$150 a week in 2018 when Bitcoin was at $3,000. Not because I was certain. Because dollar-cost averaging removed my emotion from the equation. It didn't matter if the price was up or down that week — the machine kept running. By 2021, that $20,000 investment hit a quarter million.” - High level convos with my mentor “Then I made the mistake. When the numbers started multiplying, I started chasing — high-risk alt-coins, bigger potential returns. I lost $180,000.” The lesson isn't that crypto is dangerous. The lesson is that the moment your identity attaches to the number, the system breaks down. You stop thinking like a builder and start thinking like a gambler. Right now, we're in what the chart suggests is an accumulation phase — roughly 400 days from the next potential major move. That's not a guarantee. That's a pattern. And the play isn't to bet everything on a pattern. The play is to put 10% of your income into a systematic position, let the machine run, and build the other four lanes of your financial life in the meantime. Crypto is a lane. Not the plan. Know the difference before you put real money in. --- 🛍️ Shop Elevate Bay: https://elevatebay.shop 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbYXP7Ee7t6jBJN9/ 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

  8. Mar 30

    EP. 2 | OWN YOUR ECONOMY — NERVOUS SYSTEM FIRST MONEY SECOND

    Nervous System First, Money Second Every bad financial decision I've ever watched someone make — including my own — happened while their nervous system was running hot. In sales, they call it "commission breath." You need the deal too badly. People feel it. You chase the wrong opportunities. You buy at the top because you're excited. You hold too long because your identity is attached to the number. You make decisions from fear or greed, never from clarity. Here's the anchor story: in the 2021 Bitcoin bull run, I made a quarter million dollars. And then I let it get to my head. Miami. $4,500/month rent. Maserati. Two-bedroom condo. I was performing the life instead of building it. When the market turned, I made the decision that confused everyone around me. I downsized. Went from the two-bedroom to a one-bedroom. Sold the Maserati, bought a Mazda. My friends thought something was wrong with me. I called it the Art of the Pivot. “Compare that to another story — a friend from Washington Heights who hit $250K/month at peak. Bought a Lamborghini on a balloon payment. Carried a diamond tester everywhere to check if other people's chains were real. When the income dropped, the identity required the lifestyle to stay. He couldn't pivot. Burned bridges, sold everything, back to under six figures. No stability. No foundation. All of it was temporary because it was always performance, never infrastructure.” - high level mentorship conversations The difference between those two outcomes wasn't intelligence. It wasn't work ethic. It was whether the identity was attached to the outputs. This is why wellness isn't a luxury — float tanks, IV therapy, cold press juicing, nervous system recovery. These are maintenance tools for a high-performance decision-maker. When your body is in fight-or-flight, every financial call gets made from survival mode. Fix the hardware, and the software runs differently. --- 🛍️ Shop Elevate Bay: https://elevatebay.shop 🌐 Join Elevate Nation: https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbYXP7Ee7t6jBJN9/ 📲 Follow @ElevateWithEli on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Threads

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Welcome to the Elevate With Eli Show — Elias Santiago created this podcast to help & serve the many with meditation, mindset-hacks, business tips, leadership tips, relationship tips, and to help others reach their greatest potential! Follow My Instagram For More Content - @elevatewitheli

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  • Creator
    Eli Santiago
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    35
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    © Eli Santiago
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