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It's crazy, crazy 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.600 event that we got planned for this coming Saturday and Sunday, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.560 the twenty fifth and the twenty six. We have a 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.880 live podcast on the twenty fifth with PTG Boy shout 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.160 out to Brandon Metford and his whole crew. We have 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.160 mister and Missus two weeks. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.040 Out first Family of Fitness. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.760 Yeah Atlanta, they running Atlanta with Fitness game right now. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.800 We have Keanu Watson Celebrity Relta and then after the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.760 podcast we have it is catered open bar situation in 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.520 private networking event, all of our alumni and all of 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.120 the guests. A lot of time people like want to know, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:45.640 like how do I meet these people? How do I 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:46.280 network with them? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:47.920 This is how Yeah, a lot of people have been 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.200 asking like are they going to be there after the pocket, Yeah, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.000 they're gonna be hanging out with. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.080 Well, everybody's gonna be there. And then Alex Good Energy's 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.600 gonna be Everybody's gonna be there. Our guest today will 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:56.280 be there as well. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:57.920 Yeah. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.880 And then the next day we have of our workshop 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.440 with Alex good Energy truck and Google Andy from WAT 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.200 two K Credit Solutions, Max Maxwell talking about wholesaling and 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.639 MG the mortgage guy Mortgages. So and then like I said, 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.520 We're gonna have Greg Barnett, NFL agent will be there 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:19.840 and his business will be there. Uh, Mandy, it's gonna 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.280 be a bunch of people there. Man, it's gonna be 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.679 a lot. It's gonna be a whole vibe party. So 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.120 earn your Lesion dot com events tab, snatch up your tickets. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.400 Uh and yeah. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.360 We'll see you. Then we see you. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.040 So all right, we're gonna jump right into this episode. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.960 This is something that we're extremely excited about, and I 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.720 personally think that this might be the most important episode 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.639 that we've done so far. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.880 It's something we've been talking about since. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.680 Like we started, it was like, yo, we need to 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.000 do something that's major for majority of people. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.200 Now, this is something that's gonna be extremely Like I said, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.800 this might be the most important episode. So no pressure, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.040 you got you gotta right now. But you know, it's 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.359 crazy because it's a business podcast, so you know, we 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.880 teach about entrepreneurship, investing things of that nature. But like 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.880 Ash Cash once famously said, your job is your first investor, right, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.760 So what we love for everybody to be an entrepren entrepreneur. Sure, 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.639 why not, But we know that ninety percent of Americans 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.480 are not entrepreneurs. Ninety percent of Americans work in the 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.760 work force. So this this is going to be an 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.160 interesting conversation because we cover a few different topics. So 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:32.480 our guest today Brandon Mitchell. He's he is an entrepreneur, right, 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.400 but he's his business's resume writing along with other things. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.560 So career advancement, career, career advancement. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.720 So that the interesting part is that he left his 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.400 corporate job to become an entrepreneur. So that's one story, right, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.440 as far as like, how do you start a business? 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.360 And he's young, twenty twenty three, right, twenty three years old. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.560 He left us a six he was getting paid six figures, 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.480 six figure corporate job, and. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.280 So who signing up for that? Any twenty year old 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:01.839 you make six figures, They're like no way. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.240 Yeah. So that's that's one story, right, That's one story. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.480 And then the next story is to say, okay, his 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.680 what he does now for a living is to help 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:14.360 people make more money as far as improve their their career. Right, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.839 So that's another story as far as you know, to 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.000 make more money, because the whole point of it to 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.120 have multiple streams of income. So nobody says that you 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.040 cannot work a job, but you should optimize your situation 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.080 if you are working a job. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:26.640 Right nine to five? 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.600 I think, uh what Shanna Scott posts that, right like, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.440 you're nine to five is your first investor, you're six 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.479 six to ten is when you build your empire? 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:33.279 Yeah. Fact. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.160 And then the other side of the story is that 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.320 for self employed people and business owners, they have to 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.440 hire people. They have to know the inner working So 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.680 that's something that employment is not something that's really talked 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.080 about a lot, but it's very important not only from 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:47.840 the employee but from the employer. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.360 Who to hire, how to hire, what to be looking 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.120 for when you hire. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.960 Two sides of the coin. So all right, So Brandon 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.200 is twenty three years old. He had a very quote 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.359 unquote good job in corporate America and he quit his 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.640 six figure job to start his own business five months ago. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.200 You started. So we started the business on May ninth, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.440 twenty nineteen. It's about six seven months in so. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.520 Far, six sixty six seven months in. What's your revenue now? 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.440 So as of today, we're about one hundred and forty 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.839 thousand dollars in revenue one hundred about seven months or. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.719 So, so one hundred and forty thousand, forty or four 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.000 one hundred and one hundred and forty thousand dollars and 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.120 seven months. It's just a phenomenal story. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.360 And it's just about the month of May. That's when 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.120 he DM's us. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.359 He dm us in May and reached out and I 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.080 didn't even know who he was, and then he hit us, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.159 hit us up on Patreon. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.599 He's a patron too, Yeah, shout out the patreo. So 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.440 we had our phone call and we're like, Yo, this 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.200 guy's solid. We gotta we gotta really sit down. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.440 And see what happens when you become a As a fact, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.159 he was a patrons heer five Patren. We had a 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.599 FaceTime conversation and we liked his story so much, and 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:52.919 now he's actually on the podcast. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.080 That's dope man, that you're the first patre to be 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.560 on the podcast for sure. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.680 So thank you man, Thank you for your support. First home, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.599 if you're joining us, all right, we're gonna jump right 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.560 into it. So can you tell us the story about 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.200 you were working at Price Waterhouse Cooper. Yes, that's a 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.800 Big five accounting firm, Big four before Big. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.720 Four firms, So the big four acounting firms. You have 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.880 Price Warehouse Coopers say number one, so shout out to PwC, Deloitte, Ey, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.560 and KPMG. So at PwC, I was a technology consultant. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.480 And it's pretty interesting because PwC it's a global counting 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.119 and advisory firm, so they do everything from audit, tax, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.440 and advisory, so advisories where you get a lot of 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.400 the consultants. So if you ever heard of you know, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.640 people going in and tress up in suits traveled around 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.599 the US, that's kind of what I did. So I 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.560 primarily focus on the technology consulting side. So we would 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.320 go in do something called operating model assessments, so you 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.120 go in and look at a business and say, okay, hey, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.200 like how is your technology, how is your marketing, your operations, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.240 and essentially give recommendations for the technology teams to do better. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.000 So typically we would manage projects and I was really 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.880 involved in making sure that the companies like their end 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.200 products were and technolo just being delivered on time and 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.680 on budget. So essentially a project manager, you're doing this 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.960 at like nineteen twenty years old. Yeah, So I kind 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.480 of started as an intern, which is pretty good, and 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.720 I think a lot of times people say how do 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.720 you get into these big corporations and the best way 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.000 is through the internship program. So I was blessed that 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.480 when I was in college, I was able to go 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.840 to a conference called NABA, so shout out to NABA 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.200 stands for the National Association of Black Accountants. And through NABA, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.160 they had like a whole bunch of networking events and 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:26.560 I was able to get my first touch point. So 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.160 fast forward, you know, I did the internship. It was 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.200 great experience, but really rudimentary. So back as an intern, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.720 kind of don't do too much. You kind of get 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.040 a little bit of exposure to just like what it 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.760 means to just see the corporate world. So after that, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.480 you know, I was able to land a full time 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.120 job and then then I. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.560 Started So all right, so you're working at PwC and 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.400 start off, the rip you're making are over one hundred 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:50.960 thousand dollars. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.560 No, so first year was seventy five thousand dollars right 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.360 out of college and for any college student, and it's crazy. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.240 So you're like twenty one, yeah, so twenty one, yeah, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.920 twenty one seventy five thousand, which was a blessing, you know, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.160 because I didn't grow upsolute, you you know, too many 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.360 people make twenty, you know, seventy five thousand dollars around me, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.640 So it was it was great, you know, and just 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.760 just knowing that, you know, I'm making this much, it 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.720 had a little bit of a weight on my shoulders. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.760 But yeah, So started first year seventy five thousand, and 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.360 then they bump you up like eighty and then straight 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.080 to like ninety one. And so when you incorporate like 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.280 the bonuses and the conversation, you're looking at way over 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:23.679 one hundred. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.960 So all right, so you're working there for like two years. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.360 Two and a half. So I was there for about 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.120 two years. About too much yourself, all. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.680 Right, So you're there for two and a half years, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.520 you're twenty two twenty three at that time, right, you 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:34.920 left you with. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.360 Twenty three twenty three back in October October twenty fifth. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:39.320 I'll never forget the day. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.640 You're making like one hundred how much you made hundred 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.520 and ten, one hundred and that one one hundred and 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.080 one thousand, six figure at twenty three. So you know, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.760 that's something that a lot of people over fifty and forty, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.960 lot of parents, yeah, a lot of yeah, exactly, So 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:59.160 what makes you want to start your own company when 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.959 you're already making one hundred thousand dollars at twenty three 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:02.440 years old. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.560 Yeah, no, absolutely, And that's a really great question. So 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.640 for me, my entrepreneurship journey really started back when I 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.200 was in college. So I was in college back in 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.120 I graduated from high school twenty fourteen, started in college 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.400 and so for me, when I was in college, I 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.880 really wanted to do the most right. So I went 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.120 in there as a finance major, so all people don't 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.440 know that that started in finance and quickly went to 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.560 double and triple major, so people know how Yeah three 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.040 things you had triple major? Yeah, got that much? 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.520 Wuss are three majors. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.840 So I did finance, which was great because I gave 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.800 me a lot of exposure to like investing, so some 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.760 of those fundamental concepts. Then I did economics, which is 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:41.559 huge because you get a look at the world from 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.400 a macroeconomic perspective, right, like how does the world work? Inflations, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.720 interest rate, all that great stuff. And then you know, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.160 my mom at one point she was like, you know 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.560 what if you really check out this thing called Mis 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.960 And at that time, it was really when MIS was 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.680 starting to blow up in the stands for management information systems. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:01.040 So essentially you learn about databases, database manage and how 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.000 to you know, look at technology from like a business perspective, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:05.480 per se. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.839 So you have finance economics and man was it. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.040 Through management information systems? Yeah? What school did you go to? 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.520 So I'm a proud of them. From Plattsburg State University. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.240 South of Platsburg. We drove fast twenty Platsburg, Platsburg. So 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.719 all right, so social life at all? Yeah, So it's 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.560 funny enough on campus. I mean a lot of people 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.800 knew me as like the guy who was definitely like 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:31.760 at most of the parties. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.079 But at the same time, I took school and my 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.960 education really seriously. So you know, it's funny enough. Even 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.800 with graduating in three years, I was taken about like 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.440 twenty seven credits a semester while still managing a social 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.000 life of fraternity club. That's a full year for most people. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.200 Yeah yeah, okay, twenty seven creditor semester. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:52.320 Do they even love? 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.280 Well, the thing is, so I graduated in three and 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.480 a half years and I took the most I ever 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.840 took was twenty credits a semester. It's probably, But the story, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.080 my story is different from your story because. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.400 A lot of Yeah. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.680 So I was, I played basketball, and I was a 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.959 communication major. First I was American Studies major, then I 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.400 was communication. I just wanted to do the easiest thing possible, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.920 to be honest, full transparency, and so I learned shout 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.400 out to my mansion. Well, I learned to hack the system. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.480 So I always taken the easiest classes. So my twenty 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.920 credits was like six credits because I was taking like 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.760 community involvement, like all kinds of nonsense, like, so. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.600 Good education. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.640 Well you was actually taking real classes. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.800 Yeah, So I kind of flipped the script a little bit. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.400 And it's interesting because when I started, I jumped right 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.280 into my major classes, so full transparency. When I got 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.040 to college, already had twelve credits. So high school from 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.920 high school. OK. So back in Union they also shouts 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.560 Union the high school, they were able to offer these 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.560 things called superclasses, and essentially, if you took them your 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.400 senior year and you obviously passed like a B or A, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.280 you were able to get three credits. So I took 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.040 a few of those. When I went to college, I 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:02.680 was already a semester ahead per se. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.040 Yeah, twelve, so you needed to tel to be a 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:09.680 full time student, so you always do the house prodigy. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.120 We might not even know who dogee house it is, 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:16.080 bro you know do there? I do? Not? Right, generational. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.160 There's a lot about the time generational. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.880 So all right, so so so yeah, obviously extremely intelligent. Right, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:26.000 so you have three degrees. You have three degrees, three 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.440 degrees in three years. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.319 In three years. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.600 Okay, So then you start your first business while you're 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:32.560 in college or. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.439 While I was in college. Right, So my first business 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.680 I launched my second semester freshman year, so back in 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.440 twenty sixteen, and it didn't really work out too well. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.200 But it was called idea yet dot com. So Idea 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.160 dot com was a social media platform for buying and 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.520 sharing ideas with equity crowdfunding components. So I mentioned that 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.720 I was a finance major. So in my studies I 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.520 started learning about like, you know, equity crowdfunding, just like 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.920 all types of finance concepts. And at that time, I said, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.880 you know what, it'll be really great to you know, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.199 a platform. So around that time, I was doing a 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:03.760 lot of research and I was looking at things like 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.720 go fund me, what's huge back then Kickstarter? So I 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.080 was look in a lot of ways in which people 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.520 were getting ideas out there. You know, you kind of 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.160 bring a product to market, and let's say you don't 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.960 have all the money yourself, you can literally crowdfund and 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.360 that's a great way of getting exposure, brand awareness and 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.160 things like that for your product. So I said, you 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.800 know what, like just looking looking at the traction that 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.760 like Facebook has, I said, well, everybody loves social media. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.640 You get on there and you can you can do 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.920 all that interactions, you know. So so I said, you 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.320 know what, let's combine it too. So the real premise 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.720 was that people can go on there and literally comment 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.360 on your idea, to ideate it and to help you 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.080 develop it out, and then they would get some equity 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:40.520 in exchange. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.839 So I put up an idea, somebody says, you know, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.280 I like it, let me help you develop it. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:44.880 Exactly. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.880 That's dope. So that's like, all right, I want to 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.400 I want to do. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:50.600 I got a podcast? 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.440 Yeah, yeah, you got to a podcast, and now you 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.640 put it out there, and then somebody said, I want 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.440 to help with the podcast, and then you sell an 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.480 equity for five percent exactly, get five dollars, and now 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.840 they have equity for really helping you build, but they're 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.880 really helping you build it step by step, right, Yeah, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.200 so you can get on there and just learn about 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.560 people's ideas. Idea yet dot com exist? It doesn't exist, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.920 and the slogan was the idea yet. And you know, during. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.080 That life, it's pretty interesting because I realized the power 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.680 of just ideas in general. You know, everybody has ideas. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.360 They're in an abundance. But the thing is that a 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.200 lot of people are really scared to share their ideas. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.440 That's fact. They're like, oh, I tell someone you know, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.040 like I don't really know what's going to happen, to 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.240 take it round my idea. And you know, at that 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.600 time it was donning hummy is like, everybody has ideas, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.400 why not just share them? Because what I have in 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.160 my head doesn't mean what you have in your head. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.920 My vision, my marketing strategy is how I want to 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.480 execute will be a lot different than let's say you 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.240 you know or someone else. And so I said, you know, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.400 you shouldn't you shouldn't hold it to yourself. Put it 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.400 out there and see what like what like what you 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:51.840 could build it. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.680 My brother told me something very important, like in my 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.080 summer staff He was like, listen, man, only hire people 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.560 with ideas, right, You can't be the only one with ideas, 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.840 because what you become is the guy at the club 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.440 who has the bottles and everybody's drinking of them. At 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.400 some point, people got to get their own bottles or 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.200 start sharing drinks. And I was like, damn, you're right. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.120 So I was like, you know what if you don't 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.600 have any ideas, so was what we're doing. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:12.760 You can't come back. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:18.680 Straight up that bottles situation. That bottle situation is serious. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.680 You gotta here. Okay, Well, so that didn't work out, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.720 So work out what happened? Why didn't it work out? 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.000 Because that's actually a really good idea. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.120 No, absolutely, And I feel like it didn't work out 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.800 because of the team. So at that time, you know, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.520 I was really young, so I didn't really know how 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.840 to really execute on it yet and my team around 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.400 how were you? I was about twenty at that time. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.920 so it was like nineteen twenty and I had the 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.640 great idea, but I just didn't have the good team 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.080 around me. So I was looking on campus for like support. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.920 So I was like I was literally on LinkedIn back 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.560 then saying hey, like who can I find on campus 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.640 helped me develop to develop this thing, But yeah, I 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.280 just didn't have a good team and so, you know, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:57.720 it didn't really work out. But what was cool is 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.560 that I did get to pitch it, and back then 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.680 I was really heavily involved on campus, so I was 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.320 in some of like the business plan competition. So we 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.960 pitched it, raised a little bit of money, but again 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.400 it just didn't take, would you. So we pitched it 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.120 to on campus. We have like business plan competitions, so 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.520 they would get like local angel investors from the Plastward community, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.360 from Plastward in Clinton community. You know, I got a 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.000 lot of people around there who's just sitting up there. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:21.720 They were retired and they're like, hey, like why not 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.160 no support? So if you won these competitions, you would 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.080 get about like a thousand dollars, two thousand dollars to 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.600 kind of work on your idea twenty four hours in 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.000 a day. This guy's triple major and pitching business plans, no. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:37.160 Excuse, Like this is crazy, triple major. Triple mame, we 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.720 don't call you triple major. What what's your what's your background? 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:40.640 West Indian? 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.640 So yeah, yeah, yeah, accident but yeah, yeah, So I'm 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.600 Jamaican and Western and Italian for sure. Yeah. Another Jamaican 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:50.960 on the on the podcast. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.480 Leave it up to the Jamaican. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.720 You know, yes, that has three jobs. Yeah, it is, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:00.800 it is. Yeah. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.600 Oh man, I know it. I know it all right, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.760 So okay, so that doesn't work out, but you don't 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.680 get discovered, so then you start another business. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.000 Right absolutely, with all the business. So after well, it's 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.040 kind it's kind of interesting because because with the idea 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.879 dot com, right, I realized back then that's when I 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.840 kind of started resume writing that you know, I can 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:23.360 take this experience and put on my resume and with that, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.840 that's actually how I got my first internship at Grand Thornton, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.080 which was before PwC, which is Grand Thorton is a 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.000 number five accounting from the world, so you got the 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.960 big four and then you kind of got like everything else. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:36.119 So Grand Thorne was number five. So to answer your question, 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.160 after the experience with Idea, you know, I was pitching 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.359