WEBVTT - Private Life, Social Media, and Business Mindset with Dominiq Sotelo 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.400 Welcome back to the Overcover podcast. You guys. I am 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.960 your host Jennica Lopez. Thank you guys so much for 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.720 choosing to listen and watch to this this episode today, 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.480 Happy Tuesday. You guys are probably already know by the 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.480 title and the thumbnail you very familiar face. We got 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:28.200 the one and only Dominic you last name if you 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.680 guys don't know him. He is part of the fools. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.120 These fools, the group of you know, twenty guys, how 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:35.920 many is it? Eight? 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:36.320 Eight? 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:42.080 A bunch of cool guys have such a well, you know, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.200 we have an ongoing friendship relationship here, really cool. We've 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.080 worked together before and I wanted to take the opportunity 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.720 to just have a little, you know, comfortable, little chit 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.600 chat with Dom and see where he's at. And like 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.560 I told him before when we start, before we started, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.480 I was like, you know what, no one really knows 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.120 much of about Dom, about his life. You know, you're 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.320 the quiet one. Everyone else is loud. Everyone's cool, like, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.399 so shout out these fools, everybody. I fuck with y'all, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.920 Like everybody, you know, I don't even know what your 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.120 I don't know I'm not even you know, but whatever. Anyways, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.520 you guys are dope and cool. But if I could 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.400 pull you guys apart and do one by one or whatever, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.080 I would love to. And I love that I got 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:28.119 to start with you because you know, you're dope, You're cool, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.600 You're I don't know. I want to see what you're about. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.559 How you grew up your childhood. I feel like nobody knows. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.600 I want to know how you got into the fools, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.600 how did that start? Obviously, well, you know you don't 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.479 have to answer all of that right now, but but 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.120 like you know your journey, Like I feel like, you know, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.360 how was your childhood, growing up, your relationship with your parents, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:48.680 all that? 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.080 Yeah, I mean I feel like I am pretty private 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.800 with my life. I don't really post a lot of 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.040 the stuff that I kind of do, but I have 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.760 like a podcast myself too, but I haven't done anything 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.240 like year just because we moved offices, but kind of 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.760 talked about my story on there, like the hardships and 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:07.680 stuff like that, what we kind of dealt with. I 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.480 don't know if we're going to get into that one today, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:16.200 but not growing up, I had a real father, I guess, right, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.320 but he got locked up when I was like three 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.440 or four, and I had a stepdad as well. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.760 So my dad actually got deported back to Mexico. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.320 He actually came back when I was like twenty one two. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.360 So now he's kind of like a part of our 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.480 lives and he wants to be there because a lot 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.400 has kind of changed within like that what fifteen year gap, right, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:39.919 But I. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.400 Grew up with my stepdad and my mom. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.120 It was kind of like patri I guess I have 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:50.120 my half sister and my other full sister. We grew 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.960 up in a way we kind of saw like what 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.640 it was like to like, you know, experience a lot 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.480 of things, and then we also grew up where it 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.239 was like everything can be taken away in just one second, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:02:59.680 you know. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.280 So that's kind of what happened. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.360 We like we were able to experience a lot like 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.680 growing up, and then when it came into high school, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.079 it's like when everything kind of just I don't know. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.840 That's when I actually started working for my like working 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.840 for like myself, like I need I need money. My 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.720 mom asked me for gas money, and I'm like, damn, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.280 like this is the time I need to just like 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.160 focus up. And I was like sixteen at the time. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:23.760 Parents were just fighting divorcing. They officially divorced, ended up 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:28.160 moving out like to my grandma's garage, just feeding for myself. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.000 Since I was like kind of like sixteen, I was 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.920 thankful enough to like my parents actually buy me, Like 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.000 it was like a thirty five hundred dollars card, like 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.480 a Prius, like two thousand and two Prius, and. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.800 That was like my pribadely enjoy. You know. I would 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.160 look at my. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.440 Friends and like, damn, my friends have camaros and like whatever. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.440 Because I don't know if you're familiar with Alimani, but 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.000 like I had a lot of friends from Alimenyi and 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.960 private school, so like, you know, I would always hang 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.720 out with them on the off days, and they always 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:52.560 had like nice cars. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.120 They're like some of their kids, the kids that go 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:55.960 to that school pull up in like porsches and stuff 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.680 like that. You know. So I'm like, damn, like why 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.840 don't I have this? Why don't have this? 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.400 And like I don't know, I take it as a 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.480 blessing because I didn't want any handouts and I didn't 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.520 get any handouts, so it was actually really good. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:08.760 You know. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.440 My dad had to do what he had to do 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.920 to survive. My mom did what she didn't to survive, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:14.560 and then we all kind of had to feed for 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:15.200 like ourselves. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.560 So that's what kind of like I feel. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.240 Like molded me to like start doing things on my 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.039 own and be, yeah, a man basically. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:23.320 Like at sixteen. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.880 I moved out completely at eighteen with like from my 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.839 family and everything. Just my friend was actually able to 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.320 bring me in with him. I stayed in one of 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.839 his uh one of his rooms at his house, which 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.480 I'm thankful for that when I used to work at 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:41.400 like La Fitness and stuff. But yeah, I've just always 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.320 feel like I feed for myself and I'm still like 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.039 I'm still not where I want to be. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.880 But you've always been like fight or flight, yeah, like 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.520 surviving basically, yeah, like living your life. I feel that 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.240 because my parents also got divorced when I was like five. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.920 My dad also got locked up. He was away in jail, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.720 so it's like I never really had that father figure either. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.240 So it's like that image of like, Okay, how is 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.400 a man supposed to be? How am I supposed to 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.839 grow up or how like? And I've seen it in 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.120 my brothers too, because they don't have their dad in 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:17.120 their life. So it's I see it it, Yeah, Like 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.920 you see how important is that a father figure is 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.640 a part of your life and what it does to 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.320 a man obviously, like now that you're older, like have 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.640 you seen how it affected you back then and now 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:27.919 to this? 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.520 Yeah, I've always like I've always thought like back then 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.000 like them, you know, what was it like to actually 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.279 have someone that like taught me certain things? You know, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.120 like even the sex talk was like with my mom, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.240 like just make sure like use condoms. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:41.680 Like stuff like that, you know. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.919 And I even like I didn't even know what a 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.560 barber was until after high school. So even like looking 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.360 back in like my high school pictures, I'm. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.360 Like, why how did I get these ugly haircuts? Like damn? 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.120 But I just see that and I'm like, I know 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.919 what I want as a man, as a father and 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.159 as a husband, you know, to be like for my 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.800 future wife or whatever the case is. Like I feel 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.640 like I've learned a lot, and like I don't know 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.080 when that time comes, Like I know I'm going to 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.919 be a great husband, a great father, you know, Like 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.480 that's what I want because I don't want my kids. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.560 To go through I kind of like you don't want 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.080 them to miss out on what you didn't happen. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.800 Yeah, literally, so get that. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.840 That's dope all right. So okay, wait back to the 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.360 high school thing. What high school did you go to? 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:20.880 Gernada? 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.559 I went to Birmingham for like two years. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.880 Okay, Birmingham solid, not too far apart. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.919 Always been in the valley, always been in the actually 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.239 moved every two years in my life. Okay, Like since 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.400 I was like seven, I lived in Sherman Oaks and 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.720 then I went from Sherman Oaks to Palmdal Palm del 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.440 to Silmar, and Silmar. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.760 To just always Valley. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.279 Yeah, just literally always valley. But I'm ready for like 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.159 a home home, you know. But we'll see whenever I 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.400 have kids and stuff like that. I was finally settled 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.520 down maybe yeah, whenever. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.760 So how did it? What happened with the fools? How 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.719 did that happen? Who'd you meet? Who? Like? 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.320 Yeah, I actually met Brian first? So Brian was he 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.200 used to cut hair at the time. Okay, I actually 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.479 met him through like a mutual barber. I guess I 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.320 had a barber that knew him. They used to cut 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.080 the same the same barber shop. And then I like 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.640 he started like talking about Brian what he's doing and stuff. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:14.800 And I had a sneaker star at the time. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:15.120 Yeah. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.240 So I had a sneakerstar on Melrose and it was 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.360 like really popping off of like TikTok. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.600 Yeah cookies and Kicksies. Yeah, so I had that and 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.000 it was really popping off of TikTok. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.000 Like I had a lot of people like come, like 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.840 a lot of TikTok stars and stuff like that. And 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.960 then I got introduced to Brian, started going to Brian 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.480 for like my haircuts, and we would just kind of 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.360 talk and like I've always been like on the I've 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.880 never really wanted to have like social media like followers 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.240 or like anything like that. I just wanted to be 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.880 low key, like, you know, I'm doing my thing, but 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.480 ended up being you know, not being that. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.200 Yeah, but we. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.560 I met him and then I like I just believed 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.400 in the journey division. I was like, Okay, I see 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.280 what you're what you're doing. I like, I believe in 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.200 you percent and he knows that, like, you know, I 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.480 believed in them like the very beginning. I think it 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.080 was like their first year into social media, and I 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.880 had a lot of connections, so anything that they needed 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.200 I was just like, Okay, let's figure it out. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:11.200 Boom boom, I got you. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.559 Don't even worry about it, Like you know, I literally 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.760 didn't charge them for nothing, you know, Like I think 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.680 the day they had their first ever pop up at 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.680 my store and I told them, I'm like, hey, let's 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.320 just have a pop up. Let's see how you engagement 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.520 really is, right, like, let's see how it go. Yeah, 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.080 cut the waters, and it fucking it went. I mean, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:27.840 can I cuss story? 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:28.440 Uh? 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:29.880 It went, It went crazy. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.880 It was really good. Everybody got lit. It was a 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.920 fun time for everybody. And that's when I knew. I 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.800 was like, damn, like you know, it's real, real motion, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.880 like like I believe in them and whatever they needed, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.560 you know, I was just there, like I didn't even 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.959 charging for that pop up, not that I needed to, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.600 I wanted to. It's just like it was more so 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.640 me as a homide just like let's just see where 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.199 this goes, Like let's see if a pop up is 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.679 actually like going to do something. And even that day, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.600 like I think I lost like fifteen twenty grand that day, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.480 just because like when you have pop ups at a store, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.120 nobody buys anything to be basically like you just do 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.840 it for like engagement, and like at the time, we 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.880 didn't need like we were pretty read like two point 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.800 something million on TikTok like as a store, so it's 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.560 like we didn't really need it. It was just more 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.160 so like me just wanting to Yeah, I'm like a 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.360 people pleaser. I like to please people. So it's like 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.760 I would do a lot of things for someone without 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.280 asking for anything return, you know. So it's like I've 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.160 always just helped these foods with anything. They used to have, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.920 like an intro. I used to rent like sling shots 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.000 out like in front of my store, and then there 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.959 was they needed like an intro video, so I give 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.599 them all four steam shots like oh go rite and 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.560 whenever you want. Obviously it's going to help the business too, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.319 but yeah, just any time I was able to help, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.199 I was just like boom, and I never asked for 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.120 anything in return. And then slowly but surely they're like, hey, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.000 let's just like you're always around us, You're helping us 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:42.280 a lot. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.080 I help them with their business side. To this day, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:44.640 I'm still. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.080 Helping like with a lot of the back end stuff, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.720 and I'm okay with that, you know. Like I want 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.120 them to succeed, be organized and and see them prosper. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.720 And I'm a part of the journey. Why not, you know. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.880 So yeah, that's how everything went down, and I'm still 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:00.840 helping to this day, which thankful for you know. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.679 That's top though, No, because honestly, like obviously, I mean 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.520 as a valley girl, like everybody knows who these fools 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.400 are like. But then but that's what I'm saying. It 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.760 was a valley thing and then it just went crazy 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:20.200 like out of nowhere, which is again, I congratulations to 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.560 you guys, like again, like I fuck with y'all, Like 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.679 you guys are so cool, each and every one of 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.440 I don't I don't know everybody, but the ones that 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.960 I do know, like you know, it's cool, like you 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.600 guys are you guys are dope, and I can see 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.320 the genuine and the authenticity, Like you guys are just 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:36.800 fucking random ass like. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.120 I don't know, you can just do anything, and it's 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.720 just like I don't know, there's some characters in these foods, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.960 so it's like I'm not really much of a character, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.040 I feel like, because. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.280 No, you're always like I'm just to myself. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.080 Yeah, like you are No, they're just like they're loud 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.240 and knowing they'll just say. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.679 Whatever they to bring that balance. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.040 Yeah. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.000 Literally, so I've been I mean, lately, I feel like 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.680 I've been coming like just trying more in the vlogs 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.120 and kind of show my personality because I don't really 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.160 like to show my personality. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:06.800 I don't know why. It's just a thing about me 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.360 that you know, I don't know, I just don't. I 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:09.600 don't know. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.760 There's so many people looking at you in your life. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.520 You know, you say the one wrong thing, it's over with, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.680 you know. So I'm overthinker, So like I can't just 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.520 be screaming dumb shit up. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.480 You know, we're gonna go on a quick break and 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.559 we'll be right back with more of dumb Welcome back, 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:25.320 you guys. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.280 But now they're funny even off camera. I have an 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.960 amazing time with all of them, Like they're they're just 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:32.840 cool guys in general. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.160 Yeah. Yeah, And I think everything obviously has like a reason. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.120 Obviously I know that you know, you go to church 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:39.680 and your. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:40.679 Face to the same church. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:41.560 We go to the same church. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.040 You guys, you see each other all the time. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.520 No, but it's cool and I feel like, you know, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:52.120 people need that people need like influencers, and like obviously 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.280 it's cool, but it's also cooler to influence people to 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.480 like guide them to something good and great and that's 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.400 also like concrete and that will not fail them. And 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.560 you know, obviously I've seen and we've been around each other, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.960 and I've seen you at church and you also got 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.440 baptized there. Yeah, and which is huge because people have 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.880 this like stigma on guys, like you know, like it's 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.400 just you know, the whole motions things and like God 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.480 and whatever, and I kind of want to like hear 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.120 your perspective or like how you felt in that moment, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.080 what made you, you know, lead that to that decision, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.679 like because a lot of guys don't get it. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:25.080 I don't know. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.760 I feel like it's just more so so I grew 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.719 up Catholic, Okay, so I was actually like a peer 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.079 leader for my church. So it's crazy to like kind 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:33.400 of like make that switch. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:34.440 But in all. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.120 Reality, it's just like a real closer relationship to God 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:37.800 at the end of the day. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:38.080 You know. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.720 So at the time, like as a Catholic, it was 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.160 more so like now that I look back at it, 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.880 because I went to a Catholic school for like my 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.640 fifth fifth grade and then just like one year I 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.400 think I think it was fifth or sixth grade something 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.440 like that. But that's when I like believe got like 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:59.559 my confirmation, I already I was already baptized, and then my. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.640 Communion the order. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:04.960 I did all those three in order to get married 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.920 or whatever the case was, right, that's always like the thing. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.120 But the church was just so structured where I knew 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.800 when to scene, when to sit down, went to stand up, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.000 Like it was just you know, and I kind of 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.080 left that in a way and just believed in like 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.760 obviously manifestation like stuff like that. And I was like, okay, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.920 but for me, for me, I didn't really believe in 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.160 like a God. And then recently I just went through 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.200 a whole bunch of shit, like two years ago, a 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.240 lot of like money was just everywhere, and I just 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.400 had like not necessarily evil thoughts, but like just like yeah, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.320 I was just like hey, like I don't think like 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.640 you know, certain things is like I'm like happening for 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.199 a reason, you know. And it was like a lot 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.640 of stuff going on. So I was like damn. My 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.199 friend bought me to church, which was freedom and it 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.120 was a Christian church. So I was like, Okay, I've 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.120 never been to a Christian church. Well I have, but 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.600 like not that type. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.360 Of Christian ch know, it's not as different from a 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:02.000 cad Yeah. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:02.520 Different. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.840 So I went and I just like I ended up 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.520 liking it. I loved it, and then I kept going 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.200 back and it's just like I would go by myself, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.959 and I'm like, I'm mean using me, I likely to 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.280 go by myself. I'm just like whatever, like I don't 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.160 need validation, validation from like anybody to like, you know, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.160 come with me or like you know, make something like that. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.520 Like I like going by myself because it's just it's 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.680 just me and you know, the pastor and we're just 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.800 was just hearing his the sermon and I'm just there 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.840 like it feels good, you know. And I actually I'm 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.760 doing I don't even think like nobody knows this, but 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.720 like I'm doing the Monday boot Camp Spiritual. So the 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.640 last like two weeks I've been doing like a zoom 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.000 call with Pastor Justice and everything. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.280 So it's been good. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.240 I don't know, I've just I was I felt like 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:40.920 I was lost and I had just like a lot 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.720 of thoughts in my head that I wanted to it 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.080 was just a bad investment gone wrong. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.120 Yeah, and yeah, I just decided. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.320 I was like, you know what, I don't want to 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.560 be thinking about like my bad thoughts that I was thinking, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.360 and I'm gonna just get baptized. And I was already 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.960 going to church. And when I got baptized, it's like, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:58.400 you know, you leave the olde you. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:59.480 And becoming the new you. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.280 I'm just like, I want to keep continuing this path 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.680 that I'm on and I don't know, I just want 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.600 to be a man of God and as much as 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.720 I can, even like they're drinking and stuff, like, I've 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.800 been trying to cut it out, especially with these fees. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.800 It's not easy. But yeah, I just I'm trying to 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.000 get closer and hopefully. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.440 You know, I don't know, No, I feel I completely 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.560 agree and I and honestly, I'm gonna I'm gonna be 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.080 I feel like it was you or somebody else. But 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.960 I think I started going because you posted it solid 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:31.800 and I was just like and I was like, and 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.360 I was like, you know what, it's down the street 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.480 obviously now I mean you nowhere I live or whatever, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.160 but like it's down the street. It's easy and it's 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.280 so good good, Like every time, I'm like, I love 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.360 them so much. Like there, it's it's an hour and 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.440 it's they get to the point and you feel something. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:52.200 You leave feeling better, and it's like, damn, like that 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.000 is that's what a church is supposed to feel like, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.080 especially like growing up in like a Catholic church or 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.240 other churches that make you feel like like this didn't 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:00.800 feel good. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.520 Even like when I would go to the Spanish churches. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.600 Yes, like I was honestly like I felt not to 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.160 be mean, but I felt like just bored there. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.280 Yeah, and you weren't connected, Yeah, it wasn't connected guys 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.000 in like a home. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:12.600 Yeah, this I feel more connected. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.720 And I feel like obviously, like you know, the Bible 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.160 is the Bible, so regardless, like as long as we're 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.480 hearing the words in the Bible, then yeah, as. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.800 Long as you're feeding yourself whatever, and it's just you know, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.840 maybe I don't have you brought any of your friends there? 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.640 Yeah, I brought in No, not these foods, but I 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.760 brought in like a couple of my friends that are 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.600 close to me there. My mom as well, she was 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:40.400 she was raised Catholic as well, and she actually has 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.400 like a different religion that she's on, but slowly she's 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.520 actually been she's been going to shepherd a lot too. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.680 Yeah, yeah, I've seen that one. I've for good things 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.520 about that one, but I like it, and I like, 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.720 so thank you obviously, you know, for posting it and 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.080 sharing it your journey and all that, because I just 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.720 feel like when it comes to guys talking about it, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.360 like they get a little bit weird, and especially when 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.040 you post your boats, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's dope, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.600 Like you know, like you don't have to do that 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.440 because you're also an influencer with a bunch of guys, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.320 and like they perceive you as something like they see 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.480 you like oh like and then they think you're gonna 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.920 be like the most holiest person and like completely change. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.040 It's like you could be, but it's like no, like 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.200 you're being realistic to who you are and being true 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.440 and like you know, obviously the drinking, Like we're not perfect. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.840 We're not like obviously like once we make that decision 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.520 or whatever, like it's not crispy clean like right away, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.119 like you're meant to fail, Like we're born sinners and 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.040 that's okay, and like we're meant to learn and obviously 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.400 that's why God has grace and we're able to learn 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.959 and whatever. Even for me, like I decided this year 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.040 I don't want to smoke as much, like smoking heavy 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.000 really yeah. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.719 Like yeah, I stopped smoking too, well, not completely, but 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:48.719 like I was socially smoking. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.480 Yeah, that's what. And that's where I'm at right now. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.360 I'm like, Okay, I'm not gonna buy it anymore. I'm 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.159 not gonna like, you know, I don't want to. I 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:56.879 did it because I was anxious a lot, Like I 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.439 had a lot of anxiety. I'm like, no, like I can't. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.480 I can't. My body can't be dependent on this, like 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.199 I need to like change the shift, Like what am 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:03.639 I going to do? 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:03.840 Then? 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:05.960 You know, I started going to read the Bible more 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.560 or like listening to worship or something else that like 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.439 leads me to do something better other than that, you know, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.359 so I get it where it's like it's not the 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.280 easiest thing, but it's like it's better. I don't know. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.520 I think when you go through it, you understand it more. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.400 Like yeah, so it's like I don't know. But anyways, 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.800 you guys, if you guys. Yeah, if you guys want 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.000 to go to a church, freedom church is where it's at, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.760 but you know it is it's also our home, like 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.640 that's a home space, like it's our little at least 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:39.920 for me. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.119 Like no, for me too, Like I had a problem 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.679 with someone else going on. I was like, bro, this 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.640 is my home, Like why, like you know, I was like, no, no, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:50.240 I just want to be here. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:50.680 I don't know. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.400 No, that's but exactly like if you guys go, please go, 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.520 like you know, but also like respecting each other's space 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.480 as well, like obviously like I'm cool, I'm cool with 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.879 saying hi to people. Yeah, like whatever, but and if 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.880 you were a church and you'ready saved, that's even better. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.439 But it's like you know, like you know, it's just 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:10.880 it's a Sunday, like we don't want to you know, 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.679 at least for me. I'm just like, let me have 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.840 my little Sunday. Okay. So obviously you mentioned that you 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.200 had your business, Yes, Cookies and Kicks, but you also 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:25.720 have solar panel. Yea calla Maxon Paxon? Is that because 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:26.560 of the street Packson? 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.359 No, my partner's dog is named Paxson, so like he 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.520 actually names his dog after it was a five point 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.639 zero supercharger, so Pa and then his dog. And then 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.919 when we're thinking of a name to name the business, 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.600 we're just like, we love Woolf Wall Street. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.000 Okay, yeah, the movie, right. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.520 And I think it was like a lion like the 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.720 image had it was and it was Stratton. Yeah, I 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.000 was like straightened something. And we're like, what's the cool 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.920 name that we do, and then we just like, okay, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.200 we'll just do Paxson for now. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.440 And it was just stuck. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:02.840 And it just stuck. And then we used to have 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.800 a logo like a silhouette of like, yeah, it was bad. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:07.919 Okay, I want to know more about it, how you 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:12.280 got into it because it's random solar padel of business. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.120 I'm like, okay, yeah, I mean it's dope. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.520 Well, I mean in our society, I feel like a 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.159 lot of people believe in like the sexy business. Right, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.399 you got to have a like clothing brand or you 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.399 got to have I don't know, something just cool that 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.320 people like look up to and like that's not really 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:28.480 I don't know a lot of people are doing it 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.399 and it's like you gotta be careful with that. But 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.720 this I got in because of my partners. Literally there 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.560 my best friend, which is like I've been friends with 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.240 for like fourteen fifteen years maybe more. He wanted to 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.280 start it because his little brother was actually in it. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.480 So shout out Alex and Daniel. His little brother was 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.800 already selling solar and while he was in the military, 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.600 right and then he would call him and be like, hey, 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.160 like I made this much money off of one deal, 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.439 you know, like it actually, like it's good because it 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.800 helps people save money, you make money, and like everybody wins, 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.000 you know. So then I started looking into it and 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:02.920 was like, okay, like you know, I think we can 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.399 do this like on our own. We don't need a 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.480 middleman basically to like take ourselves and get a commission off. 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:08.359 We could do it ourselves. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.359 Then we all started just like learning scripts, learning how to. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.000 We kind of just took the model that they were 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.240 learned or that they had learned and brought it to 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.719 Pacson and just started teaching other people how to do it. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.040 We used to meet as Starbucks. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:25.920 That's kind of where like our meetings were, and then 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.959 from there we went to my friends living room. From 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.120 our friends living room, we had an office and then 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.240 another office after then now we're at like our third office, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.800 which is like it's nice, Like I don't just see 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:36.560 where it's you're. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:37.800 Doing like seminars and stuff. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.280 Right, yeah, now we're doing seminars. So we're doing seminars 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.640 to kind of recruit. I'm using the following that I'm 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.040 getting now to help the business. We're actually one of 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.040 the I look at a lot of solar companies and 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.320 see like their views like engagement and stuff like that. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.240 We're one of the biggest ones that have the most engagement. 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:55.800 Like I'm using it as a tool. 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.080 To just go to manage. 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:58.399 So the business. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.960 The business is like it'll start five years ago, but 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:02.640 the goal was always. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:02.720 To sell it. 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.040 So that's like what we're doing right now. It's we're 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:09.000 just keeping everything organized. And it's cool that like my 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:13.240 business partners are also in the military because we landed 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.800 like pretty big contracts right now with the government, and 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:19.320 if you're in the military and you're a veteran, you 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.280 actually get like a certain percentage more so, like like 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:25.879 of the deals in like in California and stuff. So 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:28.640 that's going to be happening this year. So I feel 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:30.359 like a lot of it came from in like the 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.119 engagement and like seeing our logo everywhere, which which is 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.399 what I want. I want our logo just everywhere. Like 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.720 my one of my putners about a raptor an hour 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:41.000 and a half away, he's like, hey, I've seen that 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:42.280 logo before, Like where's it from. 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.680 It's like a solar companies, Like oh damn Packs Energy 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.479 and like that, like that's fire. You know, that's cool, 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.280 Like that's what that's what it's all about. You know, 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:50.440 people are going to see the logo. 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:54.000 They're gonna we're gonna start selling stuff like that, like 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.240 you know, and we're very like keen Onto. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.960 Like just like our culture here. 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:03.560 So it's like we won't just hire anybody. We have 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:05.440 to have people that like have their head on the 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.399 shoulders want to make money. Like we have core values 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:10.320 in our company, where like we have a sign that 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:12.880 like literally lists all of our core values and we 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:14.320 try to live by those all the time. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:15.520 So it's like, I don't know. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:18.240 You have a good ass head on your shoulders, yeah, honestly, 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.440 Like and I think, I mean I'm gonna I feel 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:24.480 like I could speak into it because I mean I 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.840 don't know. I'm sure you know some of my life, 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.679 but not all of it. It's where it's like, it's 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.000 where where you're living to you're surviving. So it's like 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.159 your next what are the next moves? Like you're and 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.080 you're placed in the space where it's like you're forced 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:44.359 to mature more like mentally and like in your life 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:47.119 as well, and you have no other choice. So it's like, 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:50.800 you're twenty eight, twenty eight. Are you turned twenty nine 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:55.760 this year? I am Huh, I'm twenty twenty eight this year, 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:56.720 So I'm like, yeah. 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:57.320 Are you turning twenty eight? 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.360 Yes, But like I feel like I have the mind 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:01.480 of like a thirty five year old. Yeah, I too, 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:03.840 like and I feel like because of our life circumstances 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.360 and everything that you know that I've personally been through, 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:07.680 like I've had no other choice. 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.320 Yeah, I had to make sure quick exactly like. 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:14.040 You know, And I feel like certain people can tap 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:16.680 into that. And I'm sure that you know, you've you've 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.480 grown and you have also been in situations that weren't 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:20.200 ideal and oh. 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:21.919 Yeah, one hundred percent. I made a lot of mistakes 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:25.040 in my life. But it's not about how you like, 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:26.760 you know, take it. It's just how you bounce back 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:28.159 from it. Yeah, I made a lot of mistakes in 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:31.200 my life, and do I regret it. No, it was 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:33.600 a lesson, Yeah, but you just got to learn from 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.880 the lessons. You know, you can only learn from your failures. 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:38.720 So I took it as a as a big jump. 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:40.280 I did a lot of things in my life where 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:42.440 a lot of people at my age weren't doing. 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.160 That's for sure. And I don't. I don't. 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:47.240 I don't take that back, you know, at least try. 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:51.600 I haven't worked at like actual job since twenty seventeen, twenty. 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.600 Maybe it's not for you. I'm saying, that's not your businessman, 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:57.320 like you have the tri business man. Okay, we're going 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.160 to go on a quick break and we'll be right 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:02.560 back with more of dumb Welcome back you guys, packs 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:04.800 and sells. What are we doing next? What do we 0:25:04.800 --> 0:25:05.159 feel like? 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:08.520 I'm going into real estate heavily, heavily. Yeah, that's one 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:10.639 thing I've always wanted. I read books on like wholesaling 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:14.720 and all this stuff. So it's like, yeah, section eight properties, 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:20.320 like Josh, Josh probably Yeah. 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.800 Here's a friend I know, Josh, but yeah, yeah, that'd 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:24.960 be cool though, And I don't. 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:26.280 Mean, you could do it, but we can do it 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:26.800 again too. 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:28.959 So the goal is if we do sell, would probably 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:31.200 open up another solar because we have maybe like about 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:34.000 fifteen years to we run up solar till it becomes 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:37.879 like everywhere, and every year more and more people just 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:40.480 want solar like it just it's making more sense for people. 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:41.680 Back then, I get it. 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:44.159 It used to be like a scam and a lot 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:46.720 of businesses like went down because they would install on 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:48.959 people take the money and just like they went out 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:53.000 of business, which we literally like, it's hard, it's hard, 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:55.399 like you know, but yeah, everything is electric. People are 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:57.240 getting electric cars and then they charge at home and 0:25:57.320 --> 0:25:59.760 forget that their bill is going to go up and 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:01.480 you know the only way to do that. 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:05.400 So okay, So as a businessman, head of a businessman 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:09.720 mindset over here, what are your three or let's say 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:11.920 two things you could tell somebody that like are looking 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.800 into opening a business or guiding them. 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:17.320 Consistency for sure, number one. That's like the main thing. 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:20.159 I feel like, if you're not consistent, it's not going 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:21.240 to really go anywhere. 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:23.399 Yeah, and always. 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:25.680 Always be learning. You always got to just keep learning. 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:29.560 You don't know enough, like you just don't. If you're 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:33.479 not learning, you're not doing yourself any favorites right there. 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:35.520 For sure. You always got to either. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:38.880 Read, find something interesting and just learn from it. There's 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:41.280 news every single day that stuff is happening around the world, 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:43.919 and if you're not caught up, then you're gonna get 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:44.359 left behind. 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:45.160 For sure. 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:50.480 You guys heard it here. I mean he's been managing 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:54.920 businesses his whole life, basically. Literally all right, So I'm 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:57.920 asking for the girls dom, What is your love life 0:26:58.160 --> 0:26:59.800 like my love life. 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.679 And go right now, just enjoying, enjoying life. Whether someone 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:07.479 comes into my life and I want to take it 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:11.359 seriously cool, if it happens, I probably will take it. 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:11.919 Seriously, all right. 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:14.359 What are you looking for to take it serious? 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:14.680 What? 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:16.520 What does a girl have to have or to be 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:19.080 to be serious to take it serious? 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:24.120 I don't know. She's just. 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:26.119 She. 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:28.320 I don't want like a like someone that's just always 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:31.680 outside doing stuff. She needs to go to church, doesn't 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:34.560 matter if you're Catholic Christian, just like have. She just 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:37.600 needs to have a good head on their shoulders, you know. Literally, 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:39.240 that's all I already asked. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:47.040 For, you know, simple man. Yeah, Well, let me think. 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:49.200 And she got to understand my lifestyle. 0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:51.959 Too, honestly, because it's complicated. 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:52.440 It is. 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:55.520 But I feel like in every relationship it's just about communication, 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:58.440 like at the end of the day, like that's one thing. 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:00.280 Like I used to be hard on it. It's just 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:02.280 like I would never really open up. It's like who 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:05.600 I was like talking to. But now it's like if 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:07.360 I going to work things out, just like yeah, yeah, 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.200 you know, like update, update her, like you know, update 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:12.960 each other. Just make sure like there's no gray areas 0:28:13.000 --> 0:28:15.080 if something's wrong, like what's wrong, let's fix it. Let's 0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:17.240 not like dwell on it the next day, two days, 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:19.600 three days, whatever, you know, and then just let it 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:21.880 sweep it another sure about it, but yeah, just talk 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:23.960 about it, like you know, I'm at that age where 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:26.240 it's like we got to be just mature with things. 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:28.080 If things aren't going to work out, like let me know, now, 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:31.040 let's rip the band, new job and focus on you know, 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:33.520 like finding somebody else, because you know, I'm not trying 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:34.520 to waste time anymore. 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:37.080 We're dating to marry, Yeah, dating to marry. 0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:40.280 Because the time is sticking. I feel it because it's 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.760 like I get it because it's just not. Yeah, we 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:44.920 don't want to waste our time anymore. It's like we're 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:46.720 way too grow. We have too much on our plate, 0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:49.400 responsible mature over here, Like I. 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:50.640 Don't want to be dealing with a girl that's like 0:28:50.680 --> 0:28:53.040 outside where you at stuff. 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:54.440 Like no, dude, no time. 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:58.280 You still want to be going out on private jets 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:01.080 and doing all these things like oh, that's not the 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:01.480 good for me. 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:02.040 Don't do that. 0:29:02.440 --> 0:29:05.280 I mean, there you guys go. I mean you guys 0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:10.520 know where to find him. Okay, So speaking of social 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:14.520 media and everything, like obviously you mentioned about understanding your 0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:17.960 lifestyle and whatever and completely get in respect it. Do 0:29:18.000 --> 0:29:20.720 you feel what do you feel is like the misconception 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:25.280 about you that people like, hm, like domb is this 0:29:25.560 --> 0:29:27.760 or people what is one thing that we're like, oh dumb, 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:31.400 I thought you would be like this, or like I 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:32.920 don't know, they probably got wrong about you. 0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:34.200 Maybe I don't know. 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:37.520 I feel like I I portray myself pretty well, like 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:40.480 how I how I really am on Instagram? Yeah, or 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:44.479 like social media, I don't really try to hide anything, 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:48.520 or like like I don't know you. 0:29:48.720 --> 0:29:50.440 Well, let me tell you. I'm gonna be honest with you. 0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:51.600 Why you heard some stuff about me. 0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:53.760 I've heard stuff about everybody, but I'm not you know, 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:55.520 I don't. I like to get to know the person, 0:29:56.040 --> 0:30:01.000 not based off that. But that's side note. But first impression, 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:04.400 I I thought you were mean. 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:06.280 I thought you oh you know what? Okay, I get 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:07.920 that a lot, but I have like a like a 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:09.520 god of them here, just. 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:10.680 Like you have your unrest. 0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:14.400 But yeah, literally I just be like, yeah, I almost 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:15.400 got into fights because of it. 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:17.400 Really, like literally like what are you looking at? Like 0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:19.280 bro the soun's eyes, Like what do you want me 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:19.560 to do? 0:30:19.760 --> 0:30:21.880 You know? But now I get that a lot. 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:24.080 Actually, you're right, You're right. I actually get that a lot. 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:27.040 Everybody thinks I'm an asshole or like yeah. 0:30:28.280 --> 0:30:29.160 You're really nice. 0:30:29.320 --> 0:30:31.640 No, you're really really nice, like you're dope like I said, 0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:34.320 like you're dope in like you're kind. But yeah, that's 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:36.080 what I'm saying. Like when you first like meet. 0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:39.960 People, Yeah, especially guys, guys really think like I'm an asshole. 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:43.440 Like I don't know, not to be like rude or anything, 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:45.239 but like if they're like with their girl whatever, and 0:30:45.240 --> 0:30:48.240 I'm like, yeah, I'm just like I'm just a happy 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:48.680 person too. 0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:50.800 It's like like hey, how are you? Like? How nice 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:51.440 to meet you as well? 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:55.040 You know, like girl, it's like, bro like, I'm not like, 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:56.840 I'm not even like that, Like I like even if 0:30:56.840 --> 0:30:58.000 like a girl would hit me up and she has 0:30:58.000 --> 0:31:00.120 a boyfriend and I see it, like, I'm like, but 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:02.280 what are you doing? You know, like, it's just weird. 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:04.600 It's weird energy. I just don't I believe in karma. 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:06.200 So it's like if I do that to a girl 0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:07.840 and they have a boy or a guy that has 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:11.400 a girlfriend, it's kind of fucked up, right, I wouldn't 0:31:11.400 --> 0:31:11.920 want that to meet. 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:14.840 You, wouldn't want to be on you either. All right, 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:17.480 well let's look back. We're looking back on our whole lives. 0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:21.680 Your whole life dumb, right, Obviously it's a lot, even 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:24.160 through a lot, but you've also succeeded on a lot 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:28.360 of things, and I'm sure God has been a foundation 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:32.320 in that. What is something that you could say that 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:35.920 overall your life you've just learned and that you could 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.080 just share and maybe give hope to other people. 0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:41.560 Bouncing back is real, It is real. It's one hundred 0:31:41.560 --> 0:31:45.880 percent real. I've been at the lowest of the lowest, 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:51.080 and even back then, I knew that. I'm just I'm 0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:53.160 gonna get I'm gonna get through this. I'm going to 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:56.800 get through this even when I like, I shouldn't feel 0:31:56.800 --> 0:31:59.080 that way, because, like I'm telling you, if I had 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:02.560 some like some stories to tell you where like I've 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:06.000 seen like the irs take every dollar from my account, 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.880 like my business accounts, everything just because I didn't pay taxes. 0:32:10.040 --> 0:32:11.479 And I don't know. 0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:14.160 It was just like a big big deal that time, 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:17.680 and we had lost like I think it was like 0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:19.920 one hundred and something thousand, and it was just like 0:32:20.480 --> 0:32:23.680 I had zero money, zero, zero money, and then I 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:25.680 didn't know what to do. I am glad I have 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:29.479 like my partnery for Solar because I just like everything 0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:31.400 was just not going. I forgot what else was it, 0:32:31.440 --> 0:32:34.520 But like something happened here, and then the money here, 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:36.640 and then another thing happened here, and it all happened 0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:38.320 at the same time, and I was like, bro, like 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:40.000 how am I going to do this? Like how am 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:42.080 I gonna come back from this? And I just believed 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:44.680 in I have the right people around me too, but 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.240 I just believed in I will bounce back, and I 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:48.040 did bounce back. 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:51.480 Bounce back is freaking real. You just got to believe in. 0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:54.000 Yourself to be honest, that's really all it is. I'm 0:32:54.000 --> 0:32:55.560 not where I want to be, but I know that 0:32:55.680 --> 0:32:56.720 regardless someone you get there. 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.680 Yeah, maybe even when you get there too, Like you're 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:01.960 just like, is not what your ideal your plan with 0:33:02.320 --> 0:33:04.239 at the end of the day, and maybe better than 0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:06.520 what you have or whatether you're dreaming though you know, 0:33:07.400 --> 0:33:11.760 we don't know, We don't know the plans God, But honestly, 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:15.760 thank you so much. I really appreciate like diving in 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:17.800 and getting to know you, and I think that it's 0:33:17.840 --> 0:33:21.200 important because obviously vulnerability is not easy, but it's also 0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:26.240 powerful and like to share, and I'm happy and I 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:29.400 have the pleasure in the honor, you know, because honestly, again, 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.000 like you're really really cool, Like I could see your 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:35.520 authenticity and you're a genuine guy. And I ultimately just 0:33:35.560 --> 0:33:38.000 wish you the best and everything anding that you do 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:41.320 and succeed. And I know that God's not going to 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:44.040 fail you and your family and you know, whatever the 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:47.720 case may be, and I just pray that everything goes well. 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:53.120 Please share your socials so that everybody can find you. 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:59.040 YEAHMB cop on everything dumb Underscore copp On literally everything, Instagram, Snapchat, 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.360 TikTok made it easy for everybody. 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:04.920 Dumb cop I like it. Well, thank you so much. 0:34:05.040 --> 0:34:08.640 I appreciate you so so much. Again, God bless you 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:09.839 and everything that you. 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:09.719 Thank you. 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:12.680 Thank you guys so much for watching and listening to 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:15.840 This episode makes you guys like common. 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