Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Overcover podcast. You guys. I am
Speaker 1: your host Jennica Lopez. Thank you guys so much for
Speaker 1: choosing to listen and watch to this this episode today,
Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. You guys are probably already know by the
Speaker 1: title and the thumbnail you very familiar face. We got
Speaker 1: the one and only Dominic you last name if you
Speaker 1: guys don't know him. He is part of the fools.
Speaker 1: These fools, the group of you know, twenty guys, how
Speaker 1: many is it? Eight?
Speaker 2: Eight?
Speaker 1: A bunch of cool guys have such a well, you know,
Speaker 1: we have an ongoing friendship relationship here, really cool. We've
Speaker 1: worked together before and I wanted to take the opportunity
Speaker 1: to just have a little, you know, comfortable, little chit
Speaker 1: chat with Dom and see where he's at. And like
Speaker 1: I told him before when we start, before we started,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, no one really knows
Speaker 1: much of about Dom, about his life. You know, you're
Speaker 1: the quiet one. Everyone else is loud. Everyone's cool, like,
Speaker 1: so shout out these fools, everybody. I fuck with y'all,
Speaker 1: Like everybody, you know, I don't even know what your
Speaker 1: I don't know I'm not even you know, but whatever. Anyways,
Speaker 1: you guys are dope and cool. But if I could
Speaker 1: pull you guys apart and do one by one or whatever,
Speaker 1: I would love to. And I love that I got
Speaker 1: to start with you because you know, you're dope, You're cool,
Speaker 1: You're I don't know. I want to see what you're about.
Speaker 1: How you grew up your childhood. I feel like nobody knows.
Speaker 1: I want to know how you got into the fools,
Speaker 1: how did that start? Obviously, well, you know you don't
Speaker 1: have to answer all of that right now, but but
Speaker 1: like you know your journey, Like I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: how was your childhood, growing up, your relationship with your parents,
Speaker 1: all that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like I am pretty private
Speaker 3: with my life. I don't really post a lot of
Speaker 3: the stuff that I kind of do, but I have
Speaker 3: like a podcast myself too, but I haven't done anything
Speaker 3: like year just because we moved offices, but kind of
Speaker 3: talked about my story on there, like the hardships and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, what we kind of dealt with. I
Speaker 3: don't know if we're going to get into that one today,
Speaker 3: but not growing up, I had a real father, I guess, right,
Speaker 3: but he got locked up when I was like three
Speaker 3: or four, and I had a stepdad as well.
Speaker 2: So my dad actually got deported back to Mexico.
Speaker 3: He actually came back when I was like twenty one two.
Speaker 3: So now he's kind of like a part of our
Speaker 3: lives and he wants to be there because a lot
Speaker 3: has kind of changed within like that what fifteen year gap, right,
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 2: Grew up with my stepdad and my mom.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like patri I guess I have
Speaker 3: my half sister and my other full sister. We grew
Speaker 3: up in a way we kind of saw like what
Speaker 3: it was like to like, you know, experience a lot
Speaker 3: of things, and then we also grew up where it
Speaker 3: was like everything can be taken away in just one second,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of what happened.
Speaker 3: We like we were able to experience a lot like
Speaker 3: growing up, and then when it came into high school,
Speaker 3: it's like when everything kind of just I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's when I actually started working for my like working
Speaker 3: for like myself, like I need I need money. My
Speaker 3: mom asked me for gas money, and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 3: like this is the time I need to just like
Speaker 3: focus up. And I was like sixteen at the time.
Speaker 3: Parents were just fighting divorcing. They officially divorced, ended up
Speaker 3: moving out like to my grandma's garage, just feeding for myself.
Speaker 3: Since I was like kind of like sixteen, I was
Speaker 3: thankful enough to like my parents actually buy me, Like
Speaker 3: it was like a thirty five hundred dollars card, like
Speaker 3: a Prius, like two thousand and two Prius, and.
Speaker 2: That was like my pribadely enjoy. You know. I would
Speaker 2: look at my.
Speaker 3: Friends and like, damn, my friends have camaros and like whatever.
Speaker 3: Because I don't know if you're familiar with Alimani, but
Speaker 3: like I had a lot of friends from Alimenyi and
Speaker 3: private school, so like, you know, I would always hang
Speaker 3: out with them on the off days, and they always
Speaker 3: had like nice cars.
Speaker 2: They're like some of their kids, the kids that go
Speaker 2: to that school pull up in like porsches and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. You know. So I'm like, damn, like why
Speaker 2: don't I have this? Why don't have this?
Speaker 3: And like I don't know, I take it as a
Speaker 3: blessing because I didn't want any handouts and I didn't
Speaker 3: get any handouts, so it was actually really good.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: My dad had to do what he had to do
Speaker 3: to survive. My mom did what she didn't to survive,
Speaker 3: and then we all kind of had to feed for
Speaker 3: like ourselves.
Speaker 2: So that's what kind of like I feel.
Speaker 3: Like molded me to like start doing things on my
Speaker 3: own and be, yeah, a man basically.
Speaker 2: Like at sixteen.
Speaker 3: I moved out completely at eighteen with like from my
Speaker 3: family and everything. Just my friend was actually able to
Speaker 3: bring me in with him. I stayed in one of
Speaker 3: his uh one of his rooms at his house, which
Speaker 3: I'm thankful for that when I used to work at
Speaker 3: like La Fitness and stuff. But yeah, I've just always
Speaker 3: feel like I feed for myself and I'm still like
Speaker 3: I'm still not where I want to be.
Speaker 1: But you've always been like fight or flight, yeah, like
Speaker 1: surviving basically, yeah, like living your life. I feel that
Speaker 1: because my parents also got divorced when I was like five.
Speaker 1: My dad also got locked up. He was away in jail,
Speaker 1: so it's like I never really had that father figure either.
Speaker 1: So it's like that image of like, Okay, how is
Speaker 1: a man supposed to be? How am I supposed to
Speaker 1: grow up or how like? And I've seen it in
Speaker 1: my brothers too, because they don't have their dad in
Speaker 1: their life. So it's I see it it, Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: you see how important is that a father figure is
Speaker 1: a part of your life and what it does to
Speaker 1: a man obviously, like now that you're older, like have
Speaker 1: you seen how it affected you back then and now
Speaker 1: to this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've always like I've always thought like back then
Speaker 3: like them, you know, what was it like to actually
Speaker 3: have someone that like taught me certain things? You know,
Speaker 3: like even the sex talk was like with my mom,
Speaker 3: like just make sure like use condoms.
Speaker 2: Like stuff like that, you know.
Speaker 3: And I even like I didn't even know what a
Speaker 3: barber was until after high school. So even like looking
Speaker 3: back in like my high school pictures, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, why how did I get these ugly haircuts? Like damn?
Speaker 3: But I just see that and I'm like, I know
Speaker 3: what I want as a man, as a father and
Speaker 3: as a husband, you know, to be like for my
Speaker 3: future wife or whatever the case is. Like I feel
Speaker 3: like I've learned a lot, and like I don't know
Speaker 3: when that time comes, Like I know I'm going to
Speaker 3: be a great husband, a great father, you know, Like
Speaker 3: that's what I want because I don't want my kids.
Speaker 1: To go through I kind of like you don't want
Speaker 1: them to miss out on what you didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, so get that.
Speaker 1: That's dope all right. So okay, wait back to the
Speaker 1: high school thing. What high school did you go to?
Speaker 2: Gernada?
Speaker 1: I went to Birmingham for like two years.
Speaker 2: Okay, Birmingham solid, not too far apart.
Speaker 3: Always been in the valley, always been in the actually
Speaker 3: moved every two years in my life. Okay, Like since
Speaker 3: I was like seven, I lived in Sherman Oaks and
Speaker 3: then I went from Sherman Oaks to Palmdal Palm del
Speaker 3: to Silmar, and Silmar.
Speaker 1: To just always Valley.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just literally always valley. But I'm ready for like
Speaker 3: a home home, you know. But we'll see whenever I
Speaker 3: have kids and stuff like that. I was finally settled
Speaker 3: down maybe yeah, whenever.
Speaker 1: So how did it? What happened with the fools? How
Speaker 1: did that happen? Who'd you meet? Who? Like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually met Brian first? So Brian was he
Speaker 3: used to cut hair at the time. Okay, I actually
Speaker 3: met him through like a mutual barber. I guess I
Speaker 3: had a barber that knew him. They used to cut
Speaker 3: the same the same barber shop. And then I like
Speaker 3: he started like talking about Brian what he's doing and stuff.
Speaker 3: And I had a sneaker star at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I had a sneakerstar on Melrose and it was
Speaker 3: like really popping off of like TikTok.
Speaker 2: Yeah cookies and Kicksies. Yeah, so I had that and
Speaker 2: it was really popping off of TikTok.
Speaker 3: Like I had a lot of people like come, like
Speaker 3: a lot of TikTok stars and stuff like that. And
Speaker 3: then I got introduced to Brian, started going to Brian
Speaker 3: for like my haircuts, and we would just kind of
Speaker 3: talk and like I've always been like on the I've
Speaker 3: never really wanted to have like social media like followers
Speaker 3: or like anything like that. I just wanted to be
Speaker 3: low key, like, you know, I'm doing my thing, but
Speaker 3: ended up being you know, not being that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we.
Speaker 3: I met him and then I like I just believed
Speaker 3: in the journey division. I was like, Okay, I see
Speaker 3: what you're what you're doing. I like, I believe in
Speaker 3: you percent and he knows that, like, you know, I
Speaker 3: believed in them like the very beginning. I think it
Speaker 3: was like their first year into social media, and I
Speaker 3: had a lot of connections, so anything that they needed
Speaker 3: I was just like, Okay, let's figure it out.
Speaker 2: Boom boom, I got you.
Speaker 3: Don't even worry about it, Like you know, I literally
Speaker 3: didn't charge them for nothing, you know, Like I think
Speaker 3: the day they had their first ever pop up at
Speaker 3: my store and I told them, I'm like, hey, let's
Speaker 3: just have a pop up. Let's see how you engagement
Speaker 3: really is, right, like, let's see how it go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: cut the waters, and it fucking it went. I mean,
Speaker 3: can I cuss story?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: It went, It went crazy.
Speaker 3: It was really good. Everybody got lit. It was a
Speaker 3: fun time for everybody. And that's when I knew. I
Speaker 3: was like, damn, like you know, it's real, real motion,
Speaker 3: like like I believe in them and whatever they needed,
Speaker 3: you know, I was just there, like I didn't even
Speaker 3: charging for that pop up, not that I needed to,
Speaker 3: I wanted to. It's just like it was more so
Speaker 3: me as a homide just like let's just see where
Speaker 3: this goes, Like let's see if a pop up is
Speaker 3: actually like going to do something. And even that day,
Speaker 3: like I think I lost like fifteen twenty grand that day,
Speaker 3: just because like when you have pop ups at a store,
Speaker 3: nobody buys anything to be basically like you just do
Speaker 3: it for like engagement, and like at the time, we
Speaker 3: didn't need like we were pretty read like two point
Speaker 3: something million on TikTok like as a store, so it's
Speaker 3: like we didn't really need it. It was just more
Speaker 3: so like me just wanting to Yeah, I'm like a
Speaker 3: people pleaser. I like to please people. So it's like
Speaker 3: I would do a lot of things for someone without
Speaker 3: asking for anything return, you know. So it's like I've
Speaker 3: always just helped these foods with anything. They used to have,
Speaker 3: like an intro. I used to rent like sling shots
Speaker 3: out like in front of my store, and then there
Speaker 3: was they needed like an intro video, so I give
Speaker 3: them all four steam shots like oh go rite and
Speaker 3: whenever you want. Obviously it's going to help the business too,
Speaker 3: but yeah, just any time I was able to help,
Speaker 3: I was just like boom, and I never asked for
Speaker 3: anything in return. And then slowly but surely they're like, hey,
Speaker 3: let's just like you're always around us, You're helping us
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 2: I help them with their business side. To this day,
Speaker 2: I'm still.
Speaker 3: Helping like with a lot of the back end stuff,
Speaker 3: and I'm okay with that, you know. Like I want
Speaker 3: them to succeed, be organized and and see them prosper.
Speaker 2: And I'm a part of the journey. Why not, you know.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's how everything went down, and I'm still
Speaker 3: helping to this day, which thankful for you know.
Speaker 1: That's top though, No, because honestly, like obviously, I mean
Speaker 1: as a valley girl, like everybody knows who these fools
Speaker 1: are like. But then but that's what I'm saying. It
Speaker 1: was a valley thing and then it just went crazy
Speaker 1: like out of nowhere, which is again, I congratulations to
Speaker 1: you guys, like again, like I fuck with y'all, Like
Speaker 1: you guys are so cool, each and every one of
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know everybody, but the ones that
Speaker 1: I do know, like you know, it's cool, like you
Speaker 1: guys are you guys are dope, and I can see
Speaker 1: the genuine and the authenticity, Like you guys are just
Speaker 1: fucking random ass like.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you can just do anything, and it's
Speaker 3: just like I don't know, there's some characters in these foods,
Speaker 3: so it's like I'm not really much of a character,
Speaker 3: I feel like, because.
Speaker 2: No, you're always like I'm just to myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you are No, they're just like they're loud
Speaker 3: and knowing they'll just say.
Speaker 1: Whatever they to bring that balance.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Literally, so I've been I mean, lately, I feel like
Speaker 3: I've been coming like just trying more in the vlogs
Speaker 3: and kind of show my personality because I don't really
Speaker 3: like to show my personality.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. It's just a thing about me
Speaker 2: that you know, I don't know, I just don't. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: There's so many people looking at you in your life.
Speaker 3: You know, you say the one wrong thing, it's over with,
Speaker 3: you know. So I'm overthinker, So like I can't just
Speaker 3: be screaming dumb shit up.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna go on a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back with more of dumb Welcome back,
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 3: But now they're funny even off camera. I have an
Speaker 3: amazing time with all of them, Like they're they're just
Speaker 3: cool guys in general.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think everything obviously has like a reason.
Speaker 1: Obviously I know that you know, you go to church
Speaker 1: and your.
Speaker 2: Face to the same church.
Speaker 1: We go to the same church.
Speaker 2: You guys, you see each other all the time.
Speaker 1: No, but it's cool and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: people need that people need like influencers, and like obviously
Speaker 1: it's cool, but it's also cooler to influence people to
Speaker 1: like guide them to something good and great and that's
Speaker 1: also like concrete and that will not fail them. And
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I've seen and we've been around each other,
Speaker 1: and I've seen you at church and you also got
Speaker 1: baptized there. Yeah, and which is huge because people have
Speaker 1: this like stigma on guys, like you know, like it's
Speaker 1: just you know, the whole motions things and like God
Speaker 1: and whatever, and I kind of want to like hear
Speaker 1: your perspective or like how you felt in that moment,
Speaker 1: what made you, you know, lead that to that decision,
Speaker 1: like because a lot of guys don't get it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's just more so so I grew
Speaker 3: up Catholic, Okay, so I was actually like a peer
Speaker 3: leader for my church. So it's crazy to like kind
Speaker 3: of like make that switch.
Speaker 2: But in all.
Speaker 3: Reality, it's just like a real closer relationship to God
Speaker 3: at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: So at the time, like as a Catholic, it was
Speaker 3: more so like now that I look back at it,
Speaker 3: because I went to a Catholic school for like my
Speaker 3: fifth fifth grade and then just like one year I
Speaker 3: think I think it was fifth or sixth grade something
Speaker 3: like that. But that's when I like believe got like
Speaker 3: my confirmation, I already I was already baptized, and then my.
Speaker 2: Communion the order.
Speaker 3: I did all those three in order to get married
Speaker 3: or whatever the case was, right, that's always like the thing.
Speaker 3: But the church was just so structured where I knew
Speaker 3: when to scene, when to sit down, went to stand up,
Speaker 3: Like it was just you know, and I kind of
Speaker 3: left that in a way and just believed in like
Speaker 3: obviously manifestation like stuff like that. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: but for me, for me, I didn't really believe in
Speaker 3: like a God. And then recently I just went through
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of shit, like two years ago, a
Speaker 3: lot of like money was just everywhere, and I just
Speaker 3: had like not necessarily evil thoughts, but like just like yeah,
Speaker 3: I was just like hey, like I don't think like
Speaker 3: you know, certain things is like I'm like happening for
Speaker 3: a reason, you know. And it was like a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff going on. So I was like damn. My
Speaker 3: friend bought me to church, which was freedom and it
Speaker 3: was a Christian church. So I was like, Okay, I've
Speaker 3: never been to a Christian church. Well I have, but
Speaker 3: like not that type.
Speaker 1: Of Christian ch know, it's not as different from a
Speaker 1: cad Yeah.
Speaker 2: Different.
Speaker 3: So I went and I just like I ended up
Speaker 3: liking it. I loved it, and then I kept going
Speaker 3: back and it's just like I would go by myself,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm mean using me, I likely to
Speaker 3: go by myself. I'm just like whatever, like I don't
Speaker 3: need validation, validation from like anybody to like, you know,
Speaker 3: come with me or like you know, make something like that.
Speaker 3: Like I like going by myself because it's just it's
Speaker 3: just me and you know, the pastor and we're just
Speaker 3: was just hearing his the sermon and I'm just there
Speaker 3: like it feels good, you know. And I actually I'm
Speaker 3: doing I don't even think like nobody knows this, but
Speaker 3: like I'm doing the Monday boot Camp Spiritual. So the
Speaker 3: last like two weeks I've been doing like a zoom
Speaker 3: call with Pastor Justice and everything.
Speaker 2: So it's been good.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I've just I was I felt like
Speaker 3: I was lost and I had just like a lot
Speaker 3: of thoughts in my head that I wanted to it
Speaker 3: was just a bad investment gone wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I just decided.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, I don't want to
Speaker 3: be thinking about like my bad thoughts that I was thinking,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna just get baptized. And I was already
Speaker 3: going to church. And when I got baptized, it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, you leave the olde you.
Speaker 2: And becoming the new you.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, I want to keep continuing this path
Speaker 3: that I'm on and I don't know, I just want
Speaker 3: to be a man of God and as much as
Speaker 3: I can, even like they're drinking and stuff, like, I've
Speaker 3: been trying to cut it out, especially with these fees.
Speaker 3: It's not easy. But yeah, I just I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get closer and hopefully.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, No, I feel I completely
Speaker 1: agree and I and honestly, I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: I feel like it was you or somebody else. But
Speaker 1: I think I started going because you posted it solid
Speaker 1: and I was just like and I was like, and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, it's down the street
Speaker 1: obviously now I mean you nowhere I live or whatever,
Speaker 1: but like it's down the street. It's easy and it's
Speaker 1: so good good, Like every time, I'm like, I love
Speaker 1: them so much. Like there, it's it's an hour and
Speaker 1: it's they get to the point and you feel something.
Speaker 1: You leave feeling better, and it's like, damn, like that
Speaker 1: is that's what a church is supposed to feel like,
Speaker 1: especially like growing up in like a Catholic church or
Speaker 1: other churches that make you feel like like this didn't
Speaker 1: feel good.
Speaker 2: Even like when I would go to the Spanish churches.
Speaker 3: Yes, like I was honestly like I felt not to
Speaker 3: be mean, but I felt like just bored there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you weren't connected, Yeah, it wasn't connected guys
Speaker 1: in like a home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this I feel more connected.
Speaker 3: And I feel like obviously, like you know, the Bible
Speaker 3: is the Bible, so regardless, like as long as we're
Speaker 3: hearing the words in the Bible, then yeah, as.
Speaker 1: Long as you're feeding yourself whatever, and it's just you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't have you brought any of your friends there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I brought in No, not these foods, but I
Speaker 3: brought in like a couple of my friends that are
Speaker 3: close to me there. My mom as well, she was
Speaker 3: she was raised Catholic as well, and she actually has
Speaker 3: like a different religion that she's on, but slowly she's
Speaker 3: actually been she's been going to shepherd a lot too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've seen that one. I've for good things
Speaker 1: about that one, but I like it, and I like,
Speaker 1: so thank you obviously, you know, for posting it and
Speaker 1: sharing it your journey and all that, because I just
Speaker 1: feel like when it comes to guys talking about it,
Speaker 1: like they get a little bit weird, and especially when
Speaker 1: you post your boats, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's dope,
Speaker 1: Like you know, like you don't have to do that
Speaker 1: because you're also an influencer with a bunch of guys,
Speaker 1: and like they perceive you as something like they see
Speaker 1: you like oh like and then they think you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like the most holiest person and like completely change.
Speaker 1: It's like you could be, but it's like no, like
Speaker 1: you're being realistic to who you are and being true
Speaker 1: and like you know, obviously the drinking, Like we're not perfect.
Speaker 1: We're not like obviously like once we make that decision
Speaker 1: or whatever, like it's not crispy clean like right away,
Speaker 1: like you're meant to fail, Like we're born sinners and
Speaker 1: that's okay, and like we're meant to learn and obviously
Speaker 1: that's why God has grace and we're able to learn
Speaker 1: and whatever. Even for me, like I decided this year
Speaker 1: I don't want to smoke as much, like smoking heavy
Speaker 1: really yeah.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I stopped smoking too, well, not completely, but
Speaker 3: like I was socially smoking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what. And that's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm not gonna buy it anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna like, you know, I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: did it because I was anxious a lot, Like I
Speaker 1: had a lot of anxiety. I'm like, no, like I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. My body can't be dependent on this, like
Speaker 1: I need to like change the shift, Like what am
Speaker 1: I going to do?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: You know, I started going to read the Bible more
Speaker 1: or like listening to worship or something else that like
Speaker 1: leads me to do something better other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: so I get it where it's like it's not the
Speaker 1: easiest thing, but it's like it's better. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think when you go through it, you understand it more.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, so it's like I don't know. But anyways,
Speaker 1: you guys, if you guys. Yeah, if you guys want
Speaker 1: to go to a church, freedom church is where it's at,
Speaker 1: but you know it is it's also our home, like
Speaker 1: that's a home space, like it's our little at least
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 3: Like no, for me too, Like I had a problem
Speaker 3: with someone else going on. I was like, bro, this
Speaker 3: is my home, Like why, like you know, I was like, no, no,
Speaker 3: I just want to be here.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, that's but exactly like if you guys go, please go,
Speaker 1: like you know, but also like respecting each other's space
Speaker 1: as well, like obviously like I'm cool, I'm cool with
Speaker 1: saying hi to people. Yeah, like whatever, but and if
Speaker 1: you were a church and you'ready saved, that's even better.
Speaker 1: But it's like you know, like you know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's a Sunday, like we don't want to you know,
Speaker 1: at least for me. I'm just like, let me have
Speaker 1: my little Sunday. Okay. So obviously you mentioned that you
Speaker 1: had your business, Yes, Cookies and Kicks, but you also
Speaker 1: have solar panel. Yea calla Maxon Paxon? Is that because
Speaker 1: of the street Packson?
Speaker 3: No, my partner's dog is named Paxson, so like he
Speaker 3: actually names his dog after it was a five point
Speaker 3: zero supercharger, so Pa and then his dog. And then
Speaker 3: when we're thinking of a name to name the business,
Speaker 3: we're just like, we love Woolf Wall Street.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, the movie, right.
Speaker 3: And I think it was like a lion like the
Speaker 3: image had it was and it was Stratton. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: was like straightened something. And we're like, what's the cool
Speaker 3: name that we do, and then we just like, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll just do Paxson for now.
Speaker 1: And it was just stuck.
Speaker 3: And it just stuck. And then we used to have
Speaker 3: a logo like a silhouette of like, yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to know more about it, how you
Speaker 1: got into it because it's random solar padel of business.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, yeah, I mean it's dope.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean in our society, I feel like a
Speaker 3: lot of people believe in like the sexy business. Right,
Speaker 3: you got to have a like clothing brand or you
Speaker 3: got to have I don't know, something just cool that
Speaker 3: people like look up to and like that's not really
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot of people are doing it
Speaker 3: and it's like you gotta be careful with that. But
Speaker 3: this I got in because of my partners. Literally there
Speaker 3: my best friend, which is like I've been friends with
Speaker 3: for like fourteen fifteen years maybe more. He wanted to
Speaker 3: start it because his little brother was actually in it.
Speaker 3: So shout out Alex and Daniel. His little brother was
Speaker 3: already selling solar and while he was in the military,
Speaker 3: right and then he would call him and be like, hey,
Speaker 3: like I made this much money off of one deal,
Speaker 3: you know, like it actually, like it's good because it
Speaker 3: helps people save money, you make money, and like everybody wins,
Speaker 3: you know. So then I started looking into it and
Speaker 3: was like, okay, like you know, I think we can
Speaker 3: do this like on our own. We don't need a
Speaker 3: middleman basically to like take ourselves and get a commission off.
Speaker 2: We could do it ourselves.
Speaker 3: Then we all started just like learning scripts, learning how to.
Speaker 3: We kind of just took the model that they were
Speaker 3: learned or that they had learned and brought it to
Speaker 3: Pacson and just started teaching other people how to do it.
Speaker 2: We used to meet as Starbucks.
Speaker 3: That's kind of where like our meetings were, and then
Speaker 3: from there we went to my friends living room. From
Speaker 3: our friends living room, we had an office and then
Speaker 3: another office after then now we're at like our third office,
Speaker 3: which is like it's nice, Like I don't just see
Speaker 3: where it's you're.
Speaker 1: Doing like seminars and stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, now we're doing seminars. So we're doing seminars
Speaker 3: to kind of recruit. I'm using the following that I'm
Speaker 3: getting now to help the business. We're actually one of
Speaker 3: the I look at a lot of solar companies and
Speaker 3: see like their views like engagement and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: We're one of the biggest ones that have the most engagement.
Speaker 3: Like I'm using it as a tool.
Speaker 1: To just go to manage.
Speaker 2: So the business.
Speaker 3: The business is like it'll start five years ago, but
Speaker 3: the goal was always.
Speaker 2: To sell it.
Speaker 3: So that's like what we're doing right now. It's we're
Speaker 3: just keeping everything organized. And it's cool that like my
Speaker 3: business partners are also in the military because we landed
Speaker 3: like pretty big contracts right now with the government, and
Speaker 3: if you're in the military and you're a veteran, you
Speaker 3: actually get like a certain percentage more so, like like
Speaker 3: of the deals in like in California and stuff. So
Speaker 3: that's going to be happening this year. So I feel
Speaker 3: like a lot of it came from in like the
Speaker 3: engagement and like seeing our logo everywhere, which which is
Speaker 3: what I want. I want our logo just everywhere. Like
Speaker 3: my one of my putners about a raptor an hour
Speaker 3: and a half away, he's like, hey, I've seen that
Speaker 3: logo before, Like where's it from.
Speaker 2: It's like a solar companies, Like oh damn Packs Energy
Speaker 2: and like that, like that's fire. You know, that's cool,
Speaker 2: Like that's what that's what it's all about. You know,
Speaker 2: people are going to see the logo.
Speaker 3: They're gonna we're gonna start selling stuff like that, like
Speaker 3: you know, and we're very like keen Onto.
Speaker 2: Like just like our culture here.
Speaker 3: So it's like we won't just hire anybody. We have
Speaker 3: to have people that like have their head on the
Speaker 3: shoulders want to make money. Like we have core values
Speaker 3: in our company, where like we have a sign that
Speaker 3: like literally lists all of our core values and we
Speaker 3: try to live by those all the time.
Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You have a good ass head on your shoulders, yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: Like and I think, I mean I'm gonna I feel
Speaker 1: like I could speak into it because I mean I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sure you know some of my life,
Speaker 1: but not all of it. It's where it's like, it's
Speaker 1: where where you're living to you're surviving. So it's like
Speaker 1: your next what are the next moves? Like you're and
Speaker 1: you're placed in the space where it's like you're forced
Speaker 1: to mature more like mentally and like in your life
Speaker 1: as well, and you have no other choice. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you're twenty eight, twenty eight. Are you turned twenty nine
Speaker 1: this year? I am Huh, I'm twenty twenty eight this year,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Are you turning twenty eight?
Speaker 1: Yes, But like I feel like I have the mind
Speaker 1: of like a thirty five year old. Yeah, I too,
Speaker 1: like and I feel like because of our life circumstances
Speaker 1: and everything that you know that I've personally been through,
Speaker 1: like I've had no other choice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to make sure quick exactly like.
Speaker 1: You know, And I feel like certain people can tap
Speaker 1: into that. And I'm sure that you know, you've you've
Speaker 1: grown and you have also been in situations that weren't
Speaker 1: ideal and oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. I made a lot of mistakes
Speaker 3: in my life. But it's not about how you like,
Speaker 3: you know, take it. It's just how you bounce back
Speaker 3: from it. Yeah, I made a lot of mistakes in
Speaker 3: my life, and do I regret it. No, it was
Speaker 3: a lesson, Yeah, but you just got to learn from
Speaker 3: the lessons. You know, you can only learn from your failures.
Speaker 3: So I took it as a as a big jump.
Speaker 3: I did a lot of things in my life where
Speaker 3: a lot of people at my age weren't doing.
Speaker 2: That's for sure. And I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't take that back, you know, at least try.
Speaker 3: I haven't worked at like actual job since twenty seventeen, twenty.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not for you. I'm saying, that's not your businessman,
Speaker 1: like you have the tri business man. Okay, we're going
Speaker 1: to go on a quick break and we'll be right
Speaker 1: back with more of dumb Welcome back you guys, packs
Speaker 1: and sells. What are we doing next? What do we
Speaker 1: feel like?
Speaker 3: I'm going into real estate heavily, heavily. Yeah, that's one
Speaker 3: thing I've always wanted. I read books on like wholesaling
Speaker 3: and all this stuff. So it's like, yeah, section eight properties,
Speaker 3: like Josh, Josh probably Yeah.
Speaker 1: Here's a friend I know, Josh, but yeah, yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be cool though, And I don't.
Speaker 2: Mean, you could do it, but we can do it
Speaker 2: again too.
Speaker 3: So the goal is if we do sell, would probably
Speaker 3: open up another solar because we have maybe like about
Speaker 3: fifteen years to we run up solar till it becomes
Speaker 3: like everywhere, and every year more and more people just
Speaker 3: want solar like it just it's making more sense for people.
Speaker 2: Back then, I get it.
Speaker 3: It used to be like a scam and a lot
Speaker 3: of businesses like went down because they would install on
Speaker 3: people take the money and just like they went out
Speaker 3: of business, which we literally like, it's hard, it's hard,
Speaker 3: like you know, but yeah, everything is electric. People are
Speaker 3: getting electric cars and then they charge at home and
Speaker 3: forget that their bill is going to go up and
Speaker 3: you know the only way to do that.
Speaker 1: So okay, So as a businessman, head of a businessman
Speaker 1: mindset over here, what are your three or let's say
Speaker 1: two things you could tell somebody that like are looking
Speaker 1: into opening a business or guiding them.
Speaker 2: Consistency for sure, number one. That's like the main thing.
Speaker 3: I feel like, if you're not consistent, it's not going
Speaker 3: to really go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and always.
Speaker 3: Always be learning. You always got to just keep learning.
Speaker 3: You don't know enough, like you just don't. If you're
Speaker 3: not learning, you're not doing yourself any favorites right there.
Speaker 2: For sure. You always got to either.
Speaker 3: Read, find something interesting and just learn from it. There's
Speaker 3: news every single day that stuff is happening around the world,
Speaker 3: and if you're not caught up, then you're gonna get
Speaker 3: left behind.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: You guys heard it here. I mean he's been managing
Speaker 1: businesses his whole life, basically. Literally all right, So I'm
Speaker 1: asking for the girls dom, What is your love life
Speaker 1: like my love life.
Speaker 3: And go right now, just enjoying, enjoying life. Whether someone
Speaker 3: comes into my life and I want to take it
Speaker 3: seriously cool, if it happens, I probably will take it.
Speaker 2: Seriously, all right.
Speaker 1: What are you looking for to take it serious?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What does a girl have to have or to be
Speaker 1: to be serious to take it serious?
Speaker 2: I don't know. She's just.
Speaker 1: She.
Speaker 3: I don't want like a like someone that's just always
Speaker 3: outside doing stuff. She needs to go to church, doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if you're Catholic Christian, just like have. She just
Speaker 3: needs to have a good head on their shoulders, you know. Literally,
Speaker 3: that's all I already asked.
Speaker 1: For, you know, simple man. Yeah, Well, let me think.
Speaker 2: And she got to understand my lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Too, honestly, because it's complicated.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: But I feel like in every relationship it's just about communication,
Speaker 3: like at the end of the day, like that's one thing.
Speaker 3: Like I used to be hard on it. It's just
Speaker 3: like I would never really open up. It's like who
Speaker 3: I was like talking to. But now it's like if
Speaker 3: I going to work things out, just like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, like update, update her, like you know, update
Speaker 3: each other. Just make sure like there's no gray areas
Speaker 3: if something's wrong, like what's wrong, let's fix it. Let's
Speaker 3: not like dwell on it the next day, two days,
Speaker 3: three days, whatever, you know, and then just let it
Speaker 3: sweep it another sure about it, but yeah, just talk
Speaker 3: about it, like you know, I'm at that age where
Speaker 3: it's like we got to be just mature with things.
Speaker 3: If things aren't going to work out, like let me know, now,
Speaker 3: let's rip the band, new job and focus on you know,
Speaker 3: like finding somebody else, because you know, I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to waste time anymore.
Speaker 2: We're dating to marry, Yeah, dating to marry.
Speaker 1: Because the time is sticking. I feel it because it's
Speaker 1: like I get it because it's just not. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't want to waste our time anymore. It's like we're
Speaker 1: way too grow. We have too much on our plate,
Speaker 1: responsible mature over here, Like I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to be dealing with a girl that's like
Speaker 2: outside where you at stuff.
Speaker 1: Like no, dude, no time.
Speaker 3: You still want to be going out on private jets
Speaker 3: and doing all these things like oh, that's not the
Speaker 3: good for me.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, there you guys go. I mean you guys
Speaker 1: know where to find him. Okay, So speaking of social
Speaker 1: media and everything, like obviously you mentioned about understanding your
Speaker 1: lifestyle and whatever and completely get in respect it. Do
Speaker 1: you feel what do you feel is like the misconception
Speaker 1: about you that people like, hm, like domb is this
Speaker 1: or people what is one thing that we're like, oh dumb,
Speaker 1: I thought you would be like this, or like I
Speaker 1: don't know, they probably got wrong about you.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like I I portray myself pretty well, like
Speaker 3: how I how I really am on Instagram? Yeah, or
Speaker 3: like social media, I don't really try to hide anything,
Speaker 3: or like like I don't know you.
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 2: Why you heard some stuff about me.
Speaker 1: I've heard stuff about everybody, but I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I like to get to know the person,
Speaker 1: not based off that. But that's side note. But first impression,
Speaker 1: I I thought you were mean.
Speaker 2: I thought you oh you know what? Okay, I get
Speaker 2: that a lot, but I have like a like a
Speaker 2: god of them here, just.
Speaker 1: Like you have your unrest.
Speaker 2: But yeah, literally I just be like, yeah, I almost
Speaker 2: got into fights because of it.
Speaker 3: Really, like literally like what are you looking at? Like
Speaker 3: bro the soun's eyes, Like what do you want me
Speaker 3: to do?
Speaker 2: You know? But now I get that a lot.
Speaker 3: Actually, you're right, You're right. I actually get that a lot.
Speaker 3: Everybody thinks I'm an asshole or like yeah.
Speaker 2: You're really nice.
Speaker 1: No, you're really really nice, like you're dope like I said,
Speaker 1: like you're dope in like you're kind. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like when you first like meet.
Speaker 3: People, Yeah, especially guys, guys really think like I'm an asshole.
Speaker 3: Like I don't know, not to be like rude or anything,
Speaker 3: but like if they're like with their girl whatever, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I'm just like I'm just a happy
Speaker 3: person too.
Speaker 2: It's like like hey, how are you? Like? How nice
Speaker 2: to meet you as well?
Speaker 3: You know, like girl, it's like, bro like, I'm not like,
Speaker 3: I'm not even like that, Like I like even if
Speaker 3: like a girl would hit me up and she has
Speaker 3: a boyfriend and I see it, like, I'm like, but
Speaker 3: what are you doing? You know, like, it's just weird.
Speaker 3: It's weird energy. I just don't I believe in karma.
Speaker 3: So it's like if I do that to a girl
Speaker 3: and they have a boy or a guy that has
Speaker 3: a girlfriend, it's kind of fucked up, right, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: want that to meet.
Speaker 1: You, wouldn't want to be on you either. All right,
Speaker 1: well let's look back. We're looking back on our whole lives.
Speaker 1: Your whole life dumb, right, Obviously it's a lot, even
Speaker 1: through a lot, but you've also succeeded on a lot
Speaker 1: of things, and I'm sure God has been a foundation
Speaker 1: in that. What is something that you could say that
Speaker 1: overall your life you've just learned and that you could
Speaker 1: just share and maybe give hope to other people.
Speaker 3: Bouncing back is real, It is real. It's one hundred
Speaker 3: percent real. I've been at the lowest of the lowest,
Speaker 3: and even back then, I knew that. I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get I'm gonna get through this. I'm going to
Speaker 3: get through this even when I like, I shouldn't feel
Speaker 3: that way, because, like I'm telling you, if I had
Speaker 3: some like some stories to tell you where like I've
Speaker 3: seen like the irs take every dollar from my account,
Speaker 3: like my business accounts, everything just because I didn't pay taxes.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was just like a big big deal that time,
Speaker 3: and we had lost like I think it was like
Speaker 3: one hundred and something thousand, and it was just like
Speaker 3: I had zero money, zero, zero money, and then I
Speaker 3: didn't know what to do. I am glad I have
Speaker 3: like my partnery for Solar because I just like everything
Speaker 3: was just not going. I forgot what else was it,
Speaker 3: But like something happened here, and then the money here,
Speaker 3: and then another thing happened here, and it all happened
Speaker 3: at the same time, and I was like, bro, like
Speaker 3: how am I going to do this? Like how am
Speaker 3: I gonna come back from this? And I just believed
Speaker 3: in I have the right people around me too, but
Speaker 3: I just believed in I will bounce back, and I
Speaker 3: did bounce back.
Speaker 2: Bounce back is freaking real. You just got to believe in.
Speaker 3: Yourself to be honest, that's really all it is. I'm
Speaker 3: not where I want to be, but I know that
Speaker 3: regardless someone you get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe even when you get there too, Like you're
Speaker 1: just like, is not what your ideal your plan with
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and maybe better than
Speaker 1: what you have or whatether you're dreaming though you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know, We don't know the plans God, But honestly,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I really appreciate like diving in
Speaker 1: and getting to know you, and I think that it's
Speaker 1: important because obviously vulnerability is not easy, but it's also
Speaker 1: powerful and like to share, and I'm happy and I
Speaker 1: have the pleasure in the honor, you know, because honestly, again,
Speaker 1: like you're really really cool, Like I could see your
Speaker 1: authenticity and you're a genuine guy. And I ultimately just
Speaker 1: wish you the best and everything anding that you do
Speaker 1: and succeed. And I know that God's not going to
Speaker 1: fail you and your family and you know, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, and I just pray that everything goes well.
Speaker 1: Please share your socials so that everybody can find you.
Speaker 3: YEAHMB cop on everything dumb Underscore copp On literally everything, Instagram, Snapchat,
Speaker 3: TikTok made it easy for everybody.
Speaker 1: Dumb cop I like it. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so so much. Again, God bless you
Speaker 1: and everything that you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
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