HeyJaredThe First Or The Last with Jay Awal
“The First or The Last” is the podcast for those done waiting on the world to change… because they were born to lead it.I’m Jay Awal, college-dropout turned entrepreneur, speaker, and builder of systems that help people multiply their income, influence, and impact.
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You Are Not the First to Carry This (opens the original)
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You've been carrying something that started before you were born. And until someone names it, it just keeps moving. In Episode 77 of First in Legacy, Jay Awal digs into the invisible weight people carry from the generations before them, and what it actually takes to stop passing it forward. There is a pattern most people never examine. The survival habits. The emotional silence. The way money gets handled, or avoided, or feared. The way conflict gets buried until it explodes. These things do not
What Did You Actually Leave Running (opens the original)
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What is still working when you stop? If the answer is nothing, that is the thing worth sitting with. In Episode 75 of First in Legacy, Jay Awal gets into the difference between a life that runs on your presence and a life that keeps running after you. Here is the real problem. Most people are building things that only work when they are in the room. The business stops when they stop. The income stops when they stop. The peace at home stops when they stop holding it together by sheer force. That
The Version of You That Already Existed (opens the original)
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I noticed something this week. The people building the most are not the loudest ones. They are the ones who already decided who they were before anyone was watching. In Episode 74 of First in Legacy, Jay Awal breaks down why legacy does not start with a big decision but with a quiet identity that you carry into every ordinary moment. There is a version of you that the people who come after you will inherit. Not the version you planned to be. The version you actually were on a regular day when no
They Told You to Work Hard. That Is Not Enough. (opens the original)
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They told you to work hard. That is not enough. Working hard inside a broken system just builds a bigger version of the same problem. In Episode 73 of First in Legacy, Jay Awal breaks down why effort alone is not a legacy plan, and what the people who came before you actually needed to get right first. Here is the thing nobody wants to sit with. You can be the hardest worker in your family and still leave your kids with nothing that lasts. Not because you were lazy. Because hard work without a c
What Are You Passing Down That You Cannot See (opens the original)
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2019. Last paycheck. And I still had no idea what I was actually building. Because the thing I was passing down had nothing to do with money. In Episode 72 of First in Legacy, Jay Awal digs into the invisible inheritance. the patterns, beliefs, and behaviors you are already handing down, whether you mean to or not. Here is the thing nobody checks. You can spend years focused on what you want to leave behind. the business, the house, the bank account. and completely miss what you are already pass
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