1 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing. 2 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm wilmer about the rama. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 3: Welcome to the DOOS podcast where all of our dreams come. 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: True, All of our dreams come true. 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 2: Today we have another great episode. 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 3: Very excited to tap into some inspiration keeping giving all 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 3: of our dogs community, uh more things too. I realized 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 3: that you got what it takes to actually live a 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 3: happy life. 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: I guess that's right. And a real third amigo. 11 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 2: Yes, I like to introduce everyone to Joe Huff. 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 4: Joe. 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 3: Joey is a very dear, very dear friend of mine. 14 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 3: We've known each other for many, many many years and 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 3: I we'll dive right into it. But above it all, 16 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: he's an author, he's an entrepreneur, he's an incredible father, 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: he's a you know, like a C plus friend. It 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 3: kind of goes yes, but he's very good Chicago. And 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 3: I will also say, you know, he is the godfather 20 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: to my daughter and I kind of very interesting. I 21 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: hope is that it's something happened to me that they 22 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 3: pick it up where I left off. 23 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe be would have to be. 24 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 2: Joe, Welcome to those podcast. 25 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 3: I'm very excited to have you finally have look, we 26 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 3: we as we were continuing to talk about, you know, 27 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: the themes of this season, you know, which is like 28 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 3: what are we living on the table, like what are 29 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 3: we letting. 30 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 2: Go of ourselves? 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: But also how we building a more uh uh you know, 32 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 3: a space that makes things possible, you know, and more 33 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 3: and more and more possible space. 34 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 4: You know. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 3: I think the idea that you can find happiness and 36 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 3: not just who you are, but the strengths that you've 37 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: yet to recognize, I think is really interesting. 38 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 2: You've had quite an amazing. 39 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: Story, and I would love to share your heart and 40 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: your spirit with everybody that listens to those amigos. But 41 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 3: starting from scratch, wouldn't you tell us a little bit 42 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 3: about you. 43 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: Know, where you're from. I know you guys were talking 44 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: about Chicago. 45 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: You were shutdown, baby, shutdown. 46 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 5: First of all, I didn't know there were going to 47 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 5: be hard questions. I'm probably gonna dip out starting off 48 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 5: hart Yeah. Yeah, originally yeah, from Chicago, but we moved 49 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 5: when I was a kid to Sokel and I acclimated 50 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 5: too well. I think it's why the sunny weather every 51 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 5: time I go back to Chicago and it's not fall 52 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 5: or spring. Yeah, I remember why my parents decided moving 53 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 5: was a good idea. 54 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: But no polar vortex for you. 55 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,839 Speaker 5: No, yeah, yeah, I was just back actually in Minneapolis 56 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 5: for some work and there's like negative seventeen. It's like 57 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 5: almost like eighty four degrees in LA when I left. 58 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 5: But yeah, so it's it's great to be a so 59 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 5: cal person with perspective. I feel like that's important. You 60 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 5: know a lot of people you hear say things like 61 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 5: I just want to live where there are seasons that 62 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 5: have never lived where there are seasons. It's a little 63 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 5: bit yeah, it's a little bit of a statement, but uh, yeah. 64 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 5: I I grew up in Sokeel, not too far from 65 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 5: the LA area, like thirty forty minutes away, and you know, 66 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 5: I had a kind of crazy adolescence where. 67 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:28,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wasn't going to go into that. But now, yeah, 68 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:29,839 Speaker 3: I don't know where we're at. 69 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 5: You got it. 70 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 2: I got that exactly where we're at now, you got No. 71 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,839 Speaker 3: I'm happy that you bring that up because they think 72 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 3: that that adventure is like, let's get it down. Mentality 73 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 3: comes from somewhere, and you definitely cultivated it at a 74 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 3: very specific time of your life. You know, Joe had 75 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: very long heavy metal hair really. 76 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 2: For those who are going to be watching that picture 77 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: on the screen also that at some point. But yeah, 78 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: he uh. 79 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 3: The first time I met him, he said, Hi, I 80 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 3: am Joey. 81 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 4: Does What year was it? 82 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: That was his go to? I don't remember. We both 83 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: like tequila back then. 84 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was actually about twenty six years ago, believe 85 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 5: it or not. 86 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, we were both ten something like that. 87 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 3: And yeah, but so, do you have any brothers? You know, 88 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about your family. 89 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 5: Two older brothers, you know, they're there West Coast, once 90 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 5: in San Francisco, the other ones in Irvine, kids, wives, 91 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 5: the whole shebang. I'm the youngest, and yeah, typical kind 92 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 5: of sokeel stranger. 93 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: Fairy, typical upbringing. 94 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: You know, a lot of BMX bikes, you know, right 95 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 5: around on trails, kind of lack of supervision, latch key. 96 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: Kids come home and the lights go turn straight up 97 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: and maybe yeah, maybe your mom's scream if it was 98 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: too dark, Like, yeah, wait, how did you two meet? 99 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 4: Though? 100 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: What was the what was the long hair? And the. 101 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 2: So how do I say this? 102 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 4: And it was delicate for him. 103 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 3: I was doing my first movie ever, cool summer catch 104 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: starting Freddy Prince Junior and Jessica Biel, Matt t. Lillar, who, 105 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 3: by the way, shout out to Matt de Lillard. He 106 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 3: was a major class act. On on that said, he 107 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 3: was like just an amazing nurser and friend, incredible man 108 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 3: Mark Bluke, Cedric Pendleton, Christian Kane, Brian Denahey, fred. 109 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: Ward just like. 110 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,679 Speaker 3: It was so fun and was same producers Baschadory Blues. 111 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 3: It was this beautiful baseball movie. We were in South Polk, Okayland. 112 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 3: And at the time, you know, Joe and and Freddie 113 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 3: Prince Junior, which I have been remained really good friends 114 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 3: this whole time. Uh, they were best friends and I 115 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 3: think were you guys roommates. 116 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 4: Roommates for like five years. 117 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 5: I met Freddie when he first moved from New Mexico 118 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 5: to La before he had ever acted in anything, and 119 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 5: he was in my other roommates acting class and he 120 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 5: needed a place to live and we had an extra room, 121 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 5: so I was like, yeah, sure, you got a friend 122 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 5: that wants to move in. He moved in, and then 123 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 5: he got a couple of jobs, and then one of 124 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 5: them turned out to be a number one movie. 125 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 4: Right it was I know what you did last summer? 126 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: Oh wow, were you? Were you all actors? 127 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 4: Yeah? 128 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 5: No, I was just trying to figure out life still 129 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 5: at that time. 130 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 4: Voice. 131 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was acting like a bartender mostly and a waiter, yeah, 132 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 5: a mover all kinds of things. 133 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. 134 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 3: When did you get the first bug to entrepreneurship when 135 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 3: we were like, oh, you know, I like to start 136 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 3: this aster that, you know, I like. 137 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:51,119 Speaker 4: To build things. 138 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 5: I just always felt one thing I think I got 139 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 5: from my parents which was really helpful, is my dad 140 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 5: specifically always maybe believe I could do anything. 141 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 4: And I think that's really powerful. 142 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 5: And it wasn't that my dad was like some super 143 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 5: successful person, but he really instilled in me that. 144 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 4: If you think you can do something, you do it. 145 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 5: Go do it. You could do it, why can't you? 146 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 5: And that mentality really stuck. And I really had a 147 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 5: couple of key moments though, you know, as I alluded 148 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 5: to earlier, but I had like a crazy adolescence that 149 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 5: got really this exclamation point where I just started to 150 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 5: figure things out. 151 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 4: I got and kicked out of high school. I figured 152 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 4: out how to get back into high school. 153 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 5: I started figuring out that maybe the decisions I was 154 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 5: making were actually terrible yeah, and I was looking at 155 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 5: my friends. A lot of people were going to jail, 156 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 5: and a lot of other terrible things were going on. 157 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 5: And I started to turn my life around, got back 158 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 5: into high school, and right before I graduated, my dad 159 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 5: had a heart attack. I came downstairs. He's white as 160 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 5: a sheet and dreshed in sweabs. This really crazy moment. 161 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 5: Oh my god, my dad's having a heart attack, and 162 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 5: we turn him the hospital. But it turned out it 163 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 5: wasn't a heart attack. He actually had advanced stage heart disease, 164 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 5: and so it was failing and he wound up going 165 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 5: on life support and needing a heart transplant. And it 166 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 5: was this period of a couple months of just this 167 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 5: just intense fear of Wow, like all the things my 168 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 5: dad always wanted to do, he's not going to get 169 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 5: a chance to do those things. He was only forty 170 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 5: eight years old. It was just crazy and it just 171 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 5: woke me up. That was like this really powerful moment 172 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 5: of life can change in an instant. Yeah, and you know, 173 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 5: the most important thing is our time. And we all 174 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 5: talk about it, but do we really get especially when 175 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 5: you're young, right, we all think we're going to live 176 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 5: forever and all that and really what happened was my 177 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 5: dad got the transplant and immediately had to like change 178 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 5: his entire life around because he realized he had done 179 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 5: all these things he wanted to do with his life, 180 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 5: and that watching him just kind of go after his 181 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 5: dreams and goals really inspired me to take action, not 182 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 5: just think I could do things, but like, I should 183 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 5: figure this out and start trying. And that was really 184 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 5: the impetus. I think to, like, what do I want 185 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 5: to do with my life? And I literally tried my 186 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 5: first company. I graduated high school and immediately great side story, 187 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 5: moved to the beach with two girls I met at 188 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 5: a party the week before. 189 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 4: The roommates didn't last. 190 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 5: They only lasted a few months, but I had already 191 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 5: made it to the beach, so I got new roommates 192 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 5: that yeah, exactly, I got different roommates and wound up 193 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 5: staying at the beach, and one of those roommates inspired 194 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 5: me to start my first clothing company, which was T 195 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 5: shirts that were grabbing T shirts that we made with 196 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 5: a credit card, my first ever credit card that I 197 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 5: maxed out immediately, and that company, as we all not, 198 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 5: turned into one of the most successful T shirt companies 199 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 5: of all time, which is I'm just kidding on My 200 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 5: lasted about a year, way more shirts than we sold 201 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 5: our friends all had. 202 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 4: Sure, turns out that's not a good business. 203 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 5: Plan, but it was a great experience and to me 204 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 5: it kind of gave me the bug of like, oh, 205 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 5: I should try to build something after it. I pay 206 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 5: off this credit card. But what was. 207 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 1: The one thing that you saw after your dad got well? 208 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: Because you said something interesting, you said, you know, my 209 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: dad got well and he decided that he was going 210 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: to change things around and follow specific goals that he 211 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: wasn't following before, Like what was a goal? What was 212 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: the one thing that stood out the most that he 213 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: did once he got well. 214 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, there's a couple That's a great question 215 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 5: because there's a couple different answers in that question. And 216 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 5: really he was also part of the story that I 217 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 5: left out. He got out of the hospital and he 218 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 5: was on permanent disability, like he had like this crazy 219 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 5: limited income of like seven hundred dollars a month. 220 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: And. 221 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 5: He could have easily just kind of curled up in 222 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 5: a ball and just said, yeah, I'm just gonna stay 223 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 5: close to the doctors and the hospital and all that stuff, 224 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 5: but he knew because of what had happened, right, this 225 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 5: is like, this is this crazy risk, this is my 226 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 5: one and only life. So he not only had to 227 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 5: make decisions, we had to make decisions with these extraordinary constraints, 228 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 5: both financial and otherwise. Right at the same time, my 229 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 5: parents actually wound up getting divorced, and there was just 230 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 5: this whole mess of situation. And my dad up and 231 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 5: moved to Mexico, to this small beach town where he 232 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 5: could afford to live on this beach in this tiny house. 233 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 5: And it turned out to be like this, you know, 234 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 5: extraordinary decision because it changed this entire last chapter of 235 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 5: his life. He called his last chapter his bonus round, right, 236 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 5: and that was like the kickoff moment to just this 237 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 5: entirely new chapter. I really truly believe it was that 238 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 5: last chapter of his life that changed his life story, 239 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 5: his own eulogy into like the one he was proud of. 240 00:11:58,440 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 4: He did. 241 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 5: He did all kinds of like kayaking and mountain biking 242 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 5: and about to sale and dancing and all kind of stuff. 243 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 5: I never thought my dad, if you knew my dad 244 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 5: before that, my dad got up at four thirty or 245 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 5: five in the morning, went to work, put a suit on, 246 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 5: went to work, came home at like seven thirty and 247 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 5: I ate dinner, went to bed, repeat, you know, Monday 248 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 5: through Saturday, Sunday. 249 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 4: Did the crossrod puzzle, watch some football. That was it? 250 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 4: Like he I don't, Sadly, I don't. 251 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 5: As much as my dad inspired me by telling me 252 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 5: I could do those things. He didn't go to a 253 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 5: sporting event or I don't remember him in any activity 254 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 5: taking me doing it. There were no moments like that 255 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 5: because he was just working all the time. He was 256 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 5: just trying to get to this imaginary finish line that 257 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 5: maybe doesn't exist. 258 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 4: Right. So that's kind of the lesson. 259 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 5: That I took away from it, Like everybody's planning for this, 260 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 5: you know, let's let's plan for this future that just 261 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 5: might be an apparition. 262 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 4: So that's why I invested in it. Today it's pretty 263 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 4: cuy wow. 264 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 3: So going back to your investments and going and what 265 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 3: you learn from there, what do you said your launched 266 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 3: that a teacher company, and then and then what took 267 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 3: cute to that? Then you started kind of trying to 268 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 3: find your plays again because I remember you just started 269 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 3: doing a little stand up well again, I. 270 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 5: Moved actually So I was still living at the beach then, 271 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 5: and this went on for a few years, and I 272 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 5: was just trying to figure out how to survive and 273 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 5: get by and figure out how to scrape up enough 274 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 5: money to actually start something. Again, I didn't have like 275 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 5: a access to capital or anything. I didn't even know 276 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 5: anybody that had any access to capital or anything like that. 277 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 5: So I was just trying to figure out how to 278 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 5: make enough money to start something that could work. And 279 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 5: after a few years, I just realized the beach was 280 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 5: kind of a smaller environment. I didn't want to get 281 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 5: involved in, like the serve for action sports community, so 282 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 5: I said, you know, I think I'll move to LA 283 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 5: And there was one guy who from high school that 284 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 5: had moved to LA after high school and he lived 285 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 5: in Hollywood, and I told him and he was like, 286 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 5: I need a new place. 287 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 4: So we were found this house and moved up to LA. 288 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 5: And when we got to LA, I was just kind 289 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 5: of trying to figure out things that I like. And 290 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 5: I had always been kind of the comedian, funny friend 291 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 5: or whatever. 292 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 4: You know. 293 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 5: People were like, oh, you should try comedy, and first 294 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 5: of all, absolutely terrifying. One of the most terrifying things. Ever, 295 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 5: there's a great lesson in that though too. But so 296 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 5: I was still I was. I started doing personal training, 297 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 5: all the typical stuff that you hear like people that 298 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 5: are living in LA trying to do. 299 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, if anybody noticed that, you know, 300 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: the season three of that seventies show, fest was a 301 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: little buffer than usually. 302 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: It was this guy putting the first time. 303 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 3: But you know what, I also got to say thank 304 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 3: you because you were the first one to say you 305 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 3: got to train now for whatever life you're going to 306 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 3: have after that seventy show. 307 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: And I needed to look like who I. 308 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 3: Wanted to play next in the movies, when the TV 309 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 3: shows and all that stuff, and if it wasn't for him, 310 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 3: like transforming the way I thought about my physical appearance 311 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 3: and all that stuff because I was gonny, skinny you 312 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 3: know kid, you know get well. 313 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean it was I just love 314 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 2: ranch stressing. 315 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 4: I mean. 316 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 3: You craft services was like corn dogs every Friday. But 317 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 3: I think that the thing that really that really uh 318 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 3: stuk might be is like making this long term decisions 319 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: at a time where you are coherent enough to understand 320 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: that you know you need the runway to get to 321 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 3: the most ambitious version of yourself and you come in 322 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 3: full circle to that moment in time where you started 323 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 3: personal training and all that. And I remember you even 324 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: launch another T shirt company. 325 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 2: You know, you learned your lessons from the first one. 326 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 5: Wasn't enough I did. I did not none the lesson 327 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 5: and uh, I was doing the comedy. And by the way, 328 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 5: the actual wardrobe folks on seventies would actually tell me 329 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 5: when you'd go to the taping, they would say, stop training. 330 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 4: Because it's close anymore. They're actually getting mad at me. 331 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in their defense my bell bottoms. 332 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 3: Where as they said back then, juicy mo better juicy 333 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 3: against stand up company is really hard. Yeah, So I 334 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 3: started this other T. 335 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 5: Shirt company and I'm doing comedy, like, you know, poorly, 336 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 5: probably just it was fun and it's funny. This is 337 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 5: I like to say that it's a great lesson because 338 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 5: the first time I did stand up, you know, I 339 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 5: was I was plausible as passable, and if people laughed, 340 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 5: I was like, that was really fun. It wasn't like amazing, amazing, 341 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 5: but as hard as it was, it was actually so 342 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 5: much fun that I was like, oh, I could see 343 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 5: doing this more. And I did it more and more 344 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 5: until I actually got good enough that I was performing 345 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 5: pretty regularly, and I grew to really love. 346 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 4: It, and I loved like the whole process of it. 347 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 5: And I think that's a great example of like doing 348 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 5: things you're afraid of and that you're not good at 349 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 5: naturally and seeing what happens, because most people aren't good 350 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 5: at things that are worth doing, you know, the first 351 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 5: time around. Most people start as beginners. Surfing is another 352 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 5: great example. Always say like, I'm a terrible surfer, but 353 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 5: I love it. But if everybody that you know was 354 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 5: a terrible surfer never served, that, no one would serve 355 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 5: because you start off terrible, right. But yeah, So I 356 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 5: started this next T shirt company with a really a 357 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 5: good friend of mine, and you know, it's the same 358 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 5: kind of thing the T shirt companies. It takes off 359 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 5: at first, and it's really hard. It's not really getting anywhere. 360 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 5: We have this small garage a couple thousand square feet, 361 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 5: and we're trying to figure out how to make this 362 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 5: thing survive. And a friend of ours comes over and 363 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 5: looks around and he's like, you know, you got a 364 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 5: lot of extra room here, wy, don't you help me 365 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 5: ship my company's products? Since you're not using all the space, 366 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 5: which again I feel like was a nice way for 367 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 5: him to say, it looks like your T shirt company's failing. 368 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 5: But yeah, so we we wound up helping him ship 369 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 5: his inventory. And some other friends were like, oh, you 370 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 5: know you you actually are helping Rob ship his inventory. 371 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 5: We were not that good, I don't want you to 372 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 5: help us, and okay, and slowly but surely we turned 373 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 5: this T your company that was failing that we loved, 374 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 5: by the way, and absolutely, Ya's such a great brand. 375 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 5: But you know, after like three years of trying to 376 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 5: get it somewhere, the shipping company was like take skyrocketing, 377 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 5: and his teacher company was like stagnating or decreasing. 378 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: What were you doing in your shipping company that was 379 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: so different than everyone? How come they couldn't? 380 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 5: You know? 381 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 4: It was a couple of things. 382 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 5: I think that shipping as an industry was just dominated 383 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 5: by massive players and with like old like Italian guys 384 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 5: in like the New Jersey Meadowlands. 385 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 4: They're smoking cigars. 386 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 5: Go let me tell you how, I'm gonna put your 387 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 5: stuff in the corner and it's going to go next 388 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 5: to some vacuum cleaners and mayonnaise jars, and we were young. 389 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 5: We were like young friends of all these people going 390 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 5: to all these trade shows, like apparel and fashion trade shows, 391 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 5: and they're like, I want my stuff to go in 392 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 5: the cool you know place with all the other guys 393 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 5: cool stuff. 394 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 4: You know, Like it was all a premium apparel brands. 395 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 5: So it just became like the place for it and 396 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 5: just grew and grew and grew here every year. So 397 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 5: that was like my first real successful right. It was 398 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 5: probably already my fifth company at that point of attempts 399 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 5: of things that I had tried to start. 400 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 3: So you eventually sold that company, yeah, right, and then 401 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 3: you went into something. 402 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 1: Sold the shipping company. 403 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, and made up pretty good on that add and 404 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 3: what with that successful organisation that so, you know, selling 405 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 3: the company, he decided to go into a more humanitarian, 406 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 3: you know journey, and he started thinking about other companies. 407 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 3: I don't want to paraphrase it, but I think I 408 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 3: were saying that his heart has always been the thing 409 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 3: that people you know, really connect to. He's he'll he'll 410 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 3: always be there, he'll he'll always show up, and translated 411 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 3: into you know, I think the next chapter of his life, 412 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 3: which was the you know, giving a piece of himself 413 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 3: to humanity in a way that came in a form 414 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 3: of different you know, humanitarian moments, you know, And maybe 415 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,919 Speaker 3: talking about listening will be a really because listen is like, 416 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 3: you know, what you were able to see in humanity, 417 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 3: you know, and how you travel the world would listen. 418 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 2: I think there's something that was very inspiring. Do you 419 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 2: mind talking a little bit. 420 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 3: About listening and you started listening and what listen eventually 421 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,239 Speaker 3: went out to do? 422 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mind, I definitely mind talking. That was 423 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 5: no questions day. 424 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 4: Yeah. 425 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 5: So you know, there's all stemmed again, you know, not randomly, 426 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 5: but you know, I think it's important to point out 427 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 5: it's stemmed again from my dad. What happened was my 428 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 5: dad actually after fifteen years of his bonus round, he 429 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 5: passed away. And when my dad passed away, at that moment, 430 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 5: I remember those last moments I was with him, and 431 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 5: I remember thinking, what does he care about? 432 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 4: What is he thinking about right now? What mattered to 433 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 4: him in his life? 434 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 5: And he even told me some of the things that 435 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 5: were the most important things those last few days. And 436 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 5: it was just this like great realization again of like 437 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 5: what am I going to care about? 438 00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 4: Like at the end of my life, what am I 439 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 4: really going to care about? 440 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 5: And that's what, you know, inspired me to sell, to 441 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 5: basically sell the shipping company, And I said, if what 442 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 5: I'm going to care about? And really what the conclusion 443 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 5: I came to is what I did to have an impact, 444 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 5: you know, what I did to make the world a 445 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 5: better place in whatever way. 446 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 4: And you know, people do that a lot of ways. 447 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 5: People do that through their craft, through their business, and 448 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 5: you know, philanthropy doesn't have to be the only way. 449 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 5: But I remember thinking at the time, what am I 450 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 5: waiting for? Like, am I going to like do something? 451 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 5: You know, maybe I'm not going to be Bill and 452 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 5: Melinda Gates or whatever and have some foundation. 453 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 4: Why don't I start something now? 454 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 5: And I sold my shares in the company and started 455 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 5: first a T shirt company again third one that was 456 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 5: dedicated to giving back. And then that led I started 457 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 5: doing some work with a water filtration providing clean water 458 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 5: and some building schools and things like that that I 459 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,120 Speaker 5: cared about. But then a friend of mine called, she said, hey, 460 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 5: you know, Joe, I see you're doing with the T shirts. 461 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 5: It's really cool and you're doing this charity work. But 462 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 5: I just saw this video of this girl hearing for 463 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 5: the first time, and I did looked it up. There's 464 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 5: all these crazy statistics, hundreds of millions of people don't 465 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 5: have access. 466 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 4: And I basically heard. 467 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 5: Her ideas goes, what why don't we sell headphones and 468 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 5: try to get people hearing aids? 469 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 4: Like it's a way better idea than my T shirt. 470 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 5: And by the way I sung it selling shirt, it's like, 471 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 5: I'm clearly not great at this. And yeah, we actually 472 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 5: started that company Listen together, and we had this, you know, 473 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 5: crazy dream of helping one person here for the first time, 474 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 5: just like in this video that we saw. 475 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 4: And you know, but. 476 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,479 Speaker 1: How did you discover that that that headphones and hearing 477 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: aids could be synonymous? 478 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 5: Well, because we wanted it's story, Like you know that 479 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 5: everything's about the story, and people that appreciate and love 480 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 5: music that use headphones. The idea of not being able 481 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 5: to hear is very easy to explain to someone and say, hey, 482 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 5: imagine if you couldn't actually hear, whether you couldn't enjoy 483 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 5: music or rain or laughter or any of these things 484 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 5: that we all take for granted. So tying it to 485 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 5: a hearing related thing that not only was something that 486 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 5: everyone understands what was global, Like the thing with the 487 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 5: T shirt. Companies were doing things like water filtration that 488 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 5: doesn't affect everyone, or maybe it was for schools or education, 489 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 5: but hearing loss actually affects everyone around the world. So 490 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 5: it was something that we could tell this story that's like, hey, 491 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 5: we'll sell headphones and we'll use the proceeds. 492 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 3: We are about the statistics in that because I think 493 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 3: they find them really interesting. 494 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 5: When I started listen that was twenty twelve. Actually there 495 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 5: was over three hundred million people globally that have severe, 496 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 5: too profound hearing loss that just need access to hearing 497 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 5: aids that don't have access, and now it's actually over 498 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 5: five hundred thous. 499 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 4: Half a billion people. 500 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 3: And the craziest part is that, you know, since they're babies, 501 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 3: they just say, oh, he can't hear, Oh she can't hear, 502 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 3: and all they realized come to realize later later in life, 503 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 3: after their last two decades or even three decades of 504 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 3: their life, they realized that all they needed was a 505 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 3: hearing it exactly. 506 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 5: And so this is our mission statement was selling enough headphones. 507 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 5: We literally maxed out our credit cards again, bought some inventory, 508 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 5: built the website, we're gonna sell enough heaphones, so we're 509 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,959 Speaker 5: gonna give somebody hearing. Just like in that video we 510 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 5: saw get out there. We don't even get the product 511 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 5: in yet. We build the website and we get an 512 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 5: email from the Today Show before we even get product, 513 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 5: and we don't know how they found us, and they're like, hey, 514 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 5: we're going to feature you on the show. Like what 515 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 5: we literally they feature us. We sell like one hundred 516 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 5: thousand dollars in headphones before we even have products. We're 517 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 5: like sending your emails, so it's gonna ship soon, et cetera. 518 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 5: But we wind up, you know, striking this chord with 519 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 5: all these people, and this dream of ours, of like 520 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 5: helping somebody hearing for the first time, you know, happens 521 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 5: in like eight months. We wind up going on a 522 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 5: mission in Peru and in front of this young girl 523 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 5: and then Maria who had never hurt eighteen or she 524 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 5: was like fifteen, and I had never heard before, just 525 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 5: never had access, and we get to see this girl 526 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 5: here for the first time. And then that just kind 527 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 5: of went on to us traveling around the world for 528 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 5: a decade and helping over fifty thousand people get hearing. Aids, 529 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 5: and we got to like see that firsthand's volunteer and 530 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 5: work on the ground. 531 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 4: This is again this this. 532 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 5: This kid that barely graduated high school, that you had 533 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 5: these failed attempts at all these other things. I was like, 534 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 5: I could again, I could do things if I just 535 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 5: keep trying and taking action on things that matter. 536 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: It is the hearing aid integrated into the headphone? 537 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's like we're selling. Like that's the 538 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 4: confusing part of the business. For sure. 539 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 3: It's like Tom's shoes, right, Tom claim at the beginning, 540 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 3: it's like you buy a pair of shoes. 541 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 2: We provide a pair of shoes too. 542 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 5: We sell actual consumer products like a Beats headphone, and 543 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 5: then we use the proceeds from the sales to give 544 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 5: hearing aids now people. So we fund our charity partner, 545 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 5: and then we go work with them and actually fit 546 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 5: people with hearing aids. 547 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 3: Got them which and then and then you know the 548 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 3: next chapter, which I also think is one of the 549 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 3: most it's a major moment of legacy. If you become 550 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 3: an author and you know, you guys wrote a book 551 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 3: that I thought was one of the most prolific hacks 552 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 3: for life. Uh that anyone could discover. So I want 553 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 3: to make sure that we talk about this book because 554 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 3: I want everybody to get this book. This book kind 555 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 3: of realigns not just priority, but what you invest in. 556 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 3: And when I mean investment, I'm talking about how are 557 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 3: you investing the hours and the days that you have 558 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 3: in life to get the currency that actually really is profitable, 559 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 3: which is happiness and you know, health, which is living 560 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 3: in a life. 561 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 2: Full of experiences. And I think. 562 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 3: That that that philosophy was so incredible, so obtainable in 563 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 3: this book. I felt like was you know, and anybody 564 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: comes across this book, it's just like like their head 565 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 3: explodes because they're like. 566 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 2: This is what I was missing. 567 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 3: I was missing this part of perspective that allows me 568 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 3: to kind of now read this triviu how I lived 569 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 3: my life? 570 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 2: You know this versus Dad? How many of that? How 571 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: many of this? 572 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 3: And what are you doing for yourself that actually keeps 573 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 3: you making memories? Or or what are the memories you 574 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 3: take with you when you're no longer here? 575 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 4: What? What? 576 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 2: What one? 577 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 3: What expired inspired this book? And talk a little bit 578 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 3: about the name of the the of the book and 579 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 3: and and what is it about? 580 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, so the book, which is called Experiential Billionaire. It 581 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 5: was born because we were traveling around the world giving 582 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,959 Speaker 5: all these hearing aids and doing all this travel at 583 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 5: the same time. Of course, so people started coming up 584 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 5: to us and saying, well, you guys must be so rich. 585 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 5: The reality was we were donating most of the money 586 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 5: to the chair because it's a charity's work, right, you 587 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 5: donate the money or there's no work done, And so 588 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 5: we would just laugh and go, we're more like experiential billionaires. 589 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 5: And then people would always laugh and say, well, I 590 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 5: hope you can teach me how to become an experiential 591 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 5: billionaire because I want to travel and do these things 592 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 5: you're doing. 593 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 4: And that led us going, maybe we can. 594 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 5: Help people because we realized that after like myself, especially 595 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 5: after twenty five years of building these companies and working 596 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 5: with all these people and doing all these things on 597 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 5: the ground, that like, really there was one thing that 598 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 5: all the people that felt like their lives were successful 599 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 5: all had in common. And to make sure that we 600 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 5: weren't just crazy or egotistical about our opinion of it, 601 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 5: we decided to write the book. But to write the book, 602 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 5: we ran a study of over twenty thousand people around 603 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 5: the world where we asked them, what are the most 604 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 5: valuable things in your life your biggest regrets? Do you 605 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 5: feel like your life is successful? 606 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 4: Why or why not? 607 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 5: And the study just made it crystal clear, literally at 608 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 5: that direct center of our happiness or our regrets is 609 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 5: whether or not we're taking action on the things that 610 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 5: matter to us. And that taught us that our dreams, 611 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 5: they're not selfish, they're so important they actually lead to 612 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 5: our greatest contributions because when we're living fulfilled, we actually 613 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 5: show up better everywhere. We lead better, we're better friends, 614 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 5: we're better relationships and collaborators and all those things because 615 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 5: we have passion about the things we're doing. And it 616 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 5: was just this moment of like, how do we capture 617 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 5: this in a book to teach people that it's not 618 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 5: about traveling and you know, doing all these exotic, bucketless things. 619 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,719 Speaker 5: It's about identifying what you care about and just trying 620 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 5: and taking action. Because what the book shows, I think 621 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 5: hopefully well, is that it's not about succeeding. And in 622 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 5: the study this came out so clearly because a third 623 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 5: of the people's most valuable experiences in their entire life, 624 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 5: we're negative experiences like my dad probably right, or something 625 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 5: gave them some huge value and maybe they tried something, 626 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 5: it didn't work, it go as planned, but it unlocked 627 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 5: something else or so it was just really this powerful moment, 628 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 5: and the book is just this memoir story to try 629 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 5: to help people believe that they can do those things. 630 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: Do you feel that the hearing aid aspect in regards 631 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: to all of the businesses that you started, do you 632 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: feel that that's been the most fulfilling part? 633 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 4: You know, I think that anytime. 634 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 5: Any interaction I've ever had with someone that led to 635 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 5: their life getting better is just so rewarding. The hearing thing, obviously, 636 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 5: it unlocks a lot of potential for people, especially in 637 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 5: a lot of parts of the world where things might 638 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 5: be more limiting if they don't have the ability to 639 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 5: you know, communicate like you know, through normal hearing conversations. 640 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,239 Speaker 5: But I think that there's a lot of you know, 641 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 5: a lot of other things as well. I've the book 642 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 5: has probably been the I hear the most direct fee 643 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 5: back of how people have changed their life in extraordinary 644 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 5: ways from reading the book because they stopped and took 645 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 5: action and started to realize The book is really the 646 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 5: core message is what I learned from my dad, which 647 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,479 Speaker 5: is that life is short and uncertain and it's important 648 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 5: to make the most of it. And by the end 649 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 5: of the book, people, I think get that pretty clearly. 650 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: And do you feel that people also share stories with 651 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: you of how they're it? Almost and correct me if 652 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: I'm wrong here. It almost seems like you're you found 653 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: this need to be of service, right is would that 654 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: be a correct way to to categorize it? Right? Like? Here, 655 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: you've done well? Right, you started companies, some have done well, 656 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: some have failed, But at the end of the day, 657 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: you've been of service of service to people. And so 658 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: do you find that that's when people read your book, 659 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: that that's mainly what they get out of it, and 660 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: they're sharing stories with you about how they've been of service. 661 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, Actually I don't. 662 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 5: I think think that that's one possible component. But I 663 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 5: think one of the beautiful things about taking action on 664 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 5: things that matter to you is you unlock a ripple 665 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 5: effect of more action and inspiration that you might not 666 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 5: even see or know about. For instance, my dad, right 667 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 5: my dad passed away, and part of the reason that 668 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 5: I started the charity work is because my dad had 669 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 5: started a charity with one hundred dollars when he was 670 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 5: in Mexico that by the time he passed away had 671 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 5: already led to hundreds of underprivileged children going all the 672 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 5: way through university. 673 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: Wow. 674 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 5: But that inspired me to take action and try something right. 675 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 5: So here I've helped fifty thousand people all around the world. 676 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 5: My dad doesn't know that. You never saw that. So 677 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 5: what are you going to do when you take action 678 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 5: on the thing that matters to you? Who are you 679 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 5: going to affect? Just by proxy, like someone that just 680 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 5: happened to see you and you gave them permission to think, 681 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 5: maybe I can take action on my goal or my dream. 682 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 5: So it doesn't have to be direct aid. I think 683 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 5: it's more about just letting people signaling that we all 684 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 5: can do these things. 685 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: Right, as opposed to sort of the hamster wheel. You 686 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: describe your pop being on every day just sort of 687 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: putting on the suit and going to work and coming 688 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: home and doing something that really matters. Yeah, that's interesting. 689 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 3: And now Joe is uh, you know, traveling the country 690 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 3: giving speeches to thousands of people, making sure that he's 691 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 3: preaching you know, really the the urgency to start living 692 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 3: the life that you want well, and that. 693 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 5: Was spurred on by the event of the personal nature 694 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 5: that happened to us when I finished the book. If 695 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 5: we finished the book, turned in the book, which was 696 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 5: a huge lift. 697 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 4: It was so hard. 698 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 5: Uh, you know, writing a book, as you know, is 699 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 5: just extraordinarily difficult. You ever written a book forty I haven't. Yeah, 700 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 5: if you do, call us for support, yes you're going to. 701 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 5: But uh, you know, we finished the book and my 702 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 5: my h my second son was just born, and we 703 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 5: got all these plans for the next few years and 704 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,479 Speaker 5: literally turned the book to the publisher, and my wife 705 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 5: is suddenly and unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer. You're very aware, well, 706 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 5: and yeah, that just kicked off a year plus of our. 707 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 4: You know. 708 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 5: She she went through chemo and immunotherapy and radiation, all 709 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 5: this stuff, and when she finally got her cancer free 710 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 5: diagnosis after the treatment, she was like, you got to tell. 711 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 4: People this message. You got to get out and share 712 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 4: this message. 713 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 5: More So, that was really kicked off this urgency to 714 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 5: like the book school, let's start speaking about it, and 715 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 5: let's start really trying to hammer this home and get 716 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 5: as many people to just kind of shake them awake 717 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 5: and start living their lives kind of thing. 718 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 2: And when she's an inspiration, she's she's incredible. 719 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 3: And I mean, I'm so grateful that you were able 720 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 3: to be here and tell the world, you know, have 721 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,759 Speaker 3: you been inspired? Because everybody has a story there at 722 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 3: beginning in middle and yours est that is anywhere near 723 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 3: your last chapter. And you've done so many extraordinary things. 724 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,839 Speaker 3: So thank you for being here. 725 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: Joe, Absolutely, thank you, Thank you. You know, my dad 726 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: passed away a few years ago, my mother passed away 727 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,879 Speaker 1: of breast cancer, so I could very much relate sort 728 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: of the trajectory that you've been on. And uh, and 729 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful. And I've met you before through 730 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: Wilmer and he speaks so highly of you, so. 731 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 2: I can't wait for you. 732 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 3: Beautiful read his book man, Yeah, really great, Absolutely absolutely, 733 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,319 Speaker 3: I got one in the car. 734 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 2: Awesome. 735 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 3: Thank you very much, my brother, Joe, godfather, my child, 736 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 3: Yanks for having me. 737 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 4: Guys. 738 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 3: I'm Wilmer Valdorama, I'm Freddie Rodriguez. This is Amigos Podcast 739 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 3: and Joe Houff. 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