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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a

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Speaker 1: very special guest. I'm very excited about this guest because

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Speaker 1: I traditionally have like a little bit of a bias

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Speaker 1: against younger folk. But this this is Skyler Paycheck, entrepreneur, franchisee,

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Speaker 1: owner of Smoothie King for franchises. Let's go self made.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's on the show. We are about to eat

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Speaker 1: an Eating while Broke dish. But I'm really excited to

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Speaker 1: have you food all the way down from Texas. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to be schooled. And you know, potentially

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Speaker 1: we can all learn how to potentially own a Smoothie

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Speaker 1: King franchise. But you also do other stuff outside typical entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: What other businesses do you have?

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Speaker 2: I got my hands in everything, franchises in the stock market,

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Speaker 2: like crazy, call me mister Flippick because I'm always flipping something.

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Speaker 2: I'm always finding ways to make money. That's why I'm

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Speaker 2: here to educate you guys on how to make money

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Is that why your name is Skyler Paycheck? Hey?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm all about that paycheck.

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Speaker 1: I was like Scaler we're going by your last names. Like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's paycheck. So what are you gonna have me eating today?

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Speaker 2: Man, We're keeping it real simple, real broke. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna have tacos with beans, Mexican rice. We're gonna have

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Speaker 2: a little avocado. You gotta have the Friedo's. You gotta

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Speaker 2: crunch those in there with the saucer, real broken.

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Speaker 1: And you got some avocado, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, you know, Hey, avocado's going up, by the way.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, but you know what I've learned, even on

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Speaker 1: this show, you can actually eat healthy on a budget.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad you threw some avocado in there. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't too sure about the friedos. Guys, don't judge me,

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Speaker 1: but I was in the store asking like, is Friedo's

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Speaker 1: like a special term? Are we talking Frido's chips? And

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Speaker 1: then I actually had to like Google. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I ain't seen fredos in so long.

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Speaker 2: Got in there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm excited, so go ahead, start cooking. Oh and

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Speaker 1: then he has the corn. Is the corn tortillas usually used?

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Speaker 2: I mean flower, but we're gonna rock with corn today.

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Speaker 2: It's all good.

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Speaker 1: I love flower tortillas. But I was up in the store,

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Speaker 1: asking people like were you people go better with his tacos?

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Speaker 1: There's like cord all right. So while you're going ahead

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Speaker 1: started these guys, he's pouring the olive oil up in here.

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Speaker 2: Gotta add to olive oil.

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Speaker 1: And then he's got the refried beans on the stove.

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Speaker 1: So there's no meat, is there? Is there no meat

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Speaker 1: because it's affordability or is it like you don't eat meat?

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Speaker 2: No meat because I'm vegan man la la style vegan

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Speaker 2: oka And yeah, I've been like that for quite some

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Speaker 2: time now actually, and so yeah, man, it's all about

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Speaker 2: health reasons and I'll get into that later on down

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Speaker 2: the line. Certain things happen in my life to make

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Speaker 2: make me go vegan.

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Speaker 1: And how long have you been vegan for?

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Speaker 2: And I've been vegan for about twelve years.

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Speaker 1: Now, twelve years. Isn't that like half your life?

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Speaker 2: It's a lone part of my life. But but I

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Speaker 2: mean he's starting early. Yeah, it's it's because it's very

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Speaker 2: important again, health reasons in my family and everything like that.

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Speaker 2: So I have to get to it.

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Speaker 1: So just because you're young, I want a good picture

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Speaker 1: of your family life. How many siblings, parents, married, divorced, so.

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Speaker 2: My parents are married. Rest in peace to my mom.

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Speaker 2: She's no longer here. But my parents, it's all good.

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Speaker 2: My parents were married, and I have two siblings. Rest

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Speaker 2: in peace to one of my brothers as well. And

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Speaker 2: we'll get into.

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Speaker 1: All that lady trauma going on here.

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Speaker 2: Say it was not easy. Let me tell y'all. Nothing

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Speaker 2: comes easy. And even though you get knocked down, you

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Speaker 2: gotta get back up and you gotta keep going.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So, so you have two siblings living right now.

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Speaker 2: So one's living in one of them. He's no longer here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you and your pops now.

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Speaker 2: Well me, my pop's in one of my other brothers,

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Speaker 2: my oldest brother.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you your pop okay, got it? Got it? Wow? Okay.

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Speaker 1: So we're starting out right out the gates. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: take me back to what was going on during this dish.

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Speaker 2: So this is this is high school scholar here, and

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Speaker 2: what I mean by that is I always again been

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Speaker 2: about that check. I always been about that money. So

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Speaker 2: back in high school, I had the same mentality I

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Speaker 2: have now. I had it all the way. Back in

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Speaker 2: high school, I was a straight hustler the legal way.

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Speaker 2: I was the person in school that was selling CDs,

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Speaker 2: I was selling candy. I would buy shoes water shoes

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Speaker 2: to school, have everyone saying, man, no, shoes look nice.

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Speaker 2: Then I would sell them to them and go buy

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Speaker 2: more shoes.

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Speaker 1: Now, but how are you selling them to mark them

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Speaker 1: up if they could buy them from the store.

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Speaker 2: So I look at it this way. I had to

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Speaker 2: fly your shoes, you know what I mean, the shoes

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Speaker 2: that you can't get in them all, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean. So I was doing that, and this is

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Speaker 2: the big part. While all of this was going on,

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Speaker 2: I also created a music group and so I was

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Speaker 2: the creator of that. We would sell CDs there. We

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Speaker 2: did R and B slash rap kind of like pretty

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Speaker 2: Ricky Alls. So we were doing that. But the biggest

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Speaker 2: thing is we were throwing parties. We had merch. So

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Speaker 2: we were doing.

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Speaker 1: All in high school.

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Speaker 2: All in high school.

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Speaker 1: Now, is this when you had a dual.

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Speaker 2: Parent home or yeah, dual parent home?

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Speaker 1: So how are your parents handling like their hustling son?

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Speaker 1: Are you keeping your grades up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Kid? Oh yeah, my mama was a principal, so

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah, and so yeah the school the principal in

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Speaker 2: the all the principals knew about my mom and everything

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Speaker 2: like that. So yeah, education was a must in the household.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, they were chill about it because again I

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Speaker 2: kept my grades up and I'm a good kid, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I never got in trouble.

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Speaker 2: And so, no, I'm the youngest, I'm the youngest.

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Speaker 1: You're the youngest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so yeah, I'm the I'm the youngest kid.

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Speaker 1: Where does this entrepreneur but come from, because usually, you know.

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Speaker 2: You know, it comes from my pops. My pops was

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Speaker 2: still is. He He's the man, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: He's the man when it comes to hustling and and

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Speaker 2: and just knowing people. He knew everybody in the in

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Speaker 1: You may't want to turn that stove up, man, it's

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Speaker 1: not yeah, it's not you hot to turn that you know,

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Speaker 1: we taking you all the way back to last then

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Speaker 1: things look like they just soaking up. Just turn it

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Speaker 1: all the way up, man. Yeah right there, Okay, so continue,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're trying to save you so.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, so that's going on. I'm paying it.

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Speaker 2: I'm paying attention to my dad as I grow up

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Speaker 2: as a kid, and again everyone in the city of

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Speaker 2: But here's the kicker. He was also a movie credit

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Speaker 2: movie critic. So think of it like a food critic,

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Speaker 2: but you but you do movies.

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Speaker 1: But he was at a radio station doing that.

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Speaker 2: So he would he didn't work for the radio station,

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Speaker 2: but he was like a little segment that they were Friday. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so he would call up there and he would review,

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Speaker 2: review movies and all of that good stuff. So as

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Speaker 2: And my dad was actually a pivotal part in helping

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Speaker 2: me as well on my journey.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you saw him do that. Now he did

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Speaker 1: the movie critic as his own thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as his own thing. The other hustles, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: for sure. Man. My dad was kind of just like me,

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Speaker 2: just always hustling, always just finding the way. He would

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Speaker 2: throw boat parties, swing out parties.

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Speaker 1: He and you would see him do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh so I would see him do it and

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things he never never necessarily taught me.

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Speaker 2: But I'm just paying attention. You know, kids watch everything,

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Speaker 2: so they pay attention to everything that you're doing. So yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: I made these a little but that's all.

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Speaker 1: Okay, keep trying them. It's because the heat wasn't up high,

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Speaker 1: but it's about to get hot. You got time.

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Speaker 2: But my point in saying all this is that was

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Speaker 2: as far as man, this this one just thinks, but

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Speaker 2: we're gonna keep it rocking. But anyway, but that was

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Speaker 2: kind of the startup thing. So music ended up kind

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Speaker 2: telling myself, Okay, plan a was always to get a

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Speaker 2: big record deal like everybody and buy a franchise from there,

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Speaker 2: because this is something that I've always wanted to do.

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Speaker 2: So all my days, I always said I was going

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Speaker 2: to own a wingstop. And it's a whole funny story

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Speaker 2: to that bottle way. But all my friends and everybody

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Speaker 2: Things don't work our way. So I end up telling

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Speaker 2: my dad, like, hey, I want to own a franchise?

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Speaker 2: What do I need to do to get there? And

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Speaker 2: my dad was saying, Hey, I know the perfect person

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Speaker 2: for you, because again he networks with everybody. So he said,

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Speaker 2: I know somebody at Wingstop. I want you to go

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Speaker 2: talk to him. So he sets up the meeting.

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Speaker 1: And how old are you at the time?

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Speaker 2: I am, what seventeen?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So your dad's taking you very serious something like

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Speaker 1: that because.

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Speaker 2: He always knew. I was always a person again with money,

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Speaker 2: so he knew.

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Speaker 1: And what were you doing with the money though? You

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Speaker 1: were just reinvesting in.

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Speaker 2: Or reinvesting in saving. I'm a big savior and love that.

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Speaker 2: Like this meal. I ate this meal the other day

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Speaker 2: because I never want to go broke. So I am.

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Speaker 2: I don't spend a lot on close. I don't spend

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Speaker 2: a lot on anything really okay.

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Speaker 1: I like that. So you're not like flashy cars, flashy

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Speaker 1: any of that. Wow. So and then I would assume

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Speaker 1: based on that your credit is really good too. What school?

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Speaker 2: Yo? So let me tell y'all, get a secure credit card.

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Speaker 2: Go to your bank. If you don't have credit, get

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Speaker 2: that secure credit card. Spend They're going to give you

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Speaker 2: like a two hundred three hundred dollars limit. Once you

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Speaker 2: get that secure credit card, keep it at about ten percent.

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Speaker 2: Don't go any higher than ten percent. Pay that bill

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Speaker 2: on time. Never let any interest build up. That credit

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Speaker 2: is going to go up over time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But so at the so back to the Wingstop things.

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Speaker 2: So my dad only takes me there. I sit there

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Speaker 2: and talk to the dude. Little little did I know

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Speaker 2: that not only is he a franchise owner for Wingstop,

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Speaker 2: but he is the actual person that bought franchising to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.

435
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 1: Let's do What do we have to do? Is hot?

436
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 1: All right? So take us to how we're doing this?

437
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:48,880
Speaker 1: What are we doing?

438
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:49,159
Speaker 2: All right?

439
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 1: I take a taco.

440
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can take whichever one I know at Okay,

441
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 2: you want to go Crispy.

442
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,439
Speaker 1: I want to go Crispy. Okay, all right, there, I

443
00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,399
Speaker 1: got my two tacos. All right, did you do three?

444
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 2: Go here, go for it.

445
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: I'm not taking a little I'm taking all your best ones.

446
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: No, you're good.

447
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 1: Here we go, three tacos. What do we do next?

448
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:13,880
Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna get the beans and then well,

449
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 2: I'll let you do the beans.

450
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 1: You tell me how to do it, all right, because.

451
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 2: I don't know if you like a lot a little.

452
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 1: I've never done this before. I'm doing it the way

453
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 1: you eat at home, all right. All right, So we

454
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 1: got the beans on it, so.

455
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 2: You just want to kind of mash those in.

456
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 1: So this is what you be doing at home.

457
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 2: Yo, straight up. But I do flour. So it's a little,

458
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger, a little bit easier.

459
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 1: Oh the bigger taco.

460
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. But now we're gonna rock with this though.

461
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we got the tacos, all right, No

462
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 1: cheese because we're vegan.

463
00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 2: No cheese because we're vegan. Okay, all right, so do

464
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:01,640
Speaker 2: we have us?

465
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 1: They play us shout outs to the producers today.

466
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 2: I just want a little bit of rice.

467
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: There you go, Spanish rice for a reason.

468
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 2: I mean Spanish rice is just clutch. I mean Cilantro

469
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: was cool too, but Spanish rice is.

470
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 1: Now all right. So now I'm hungry.

471
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,919
Speaker 2: Now we can do you want some avocados? Are they

472
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 2: so risky? You like? I don't know.

473
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 1: I'll do it all right, No, man, some of them

474
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: look risky. Nah that look that looks let me see

475
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 1: you really nice skylet I'm gonna tell you right now,

476
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 1: you're not going for it. Yeah, yeah, I'll skip the avocado.

477
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: How is guys? He's not an a that has a

478
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 1: little bit.

479
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 2: Of All right, I'm gonna do a little bit of saucer.

480
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Speaker 1: I can't believe you even did that. No, they look sketch.

481
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 2: You wanta saucer?

482
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, them avocados look, I don't know. It's

483
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: nice to know you're not a Oh I'm spilling this.

484
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: I'm doing a really bad Nah.

485
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 2: You good? You could all right? Then you gotta get

486
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 2: a little Frido's to get that, to get that crunch.

487
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were gonna crunch it, crunch it.

488
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,120
Speaker 2: I do that as well, But again it's it's it's

489
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 2: so small.

490
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 1: The taco shell. Yeah, okay, I just recently started eating

491
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: chips on sandwiches after eating all broke because someone didn't

492
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 1: on the show. I can't remember who. Okay, taco tasting time. Okay,

493
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: we got the beans, Spanish rice, freedo, crunchy tortilla, tacoma.

494
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 2: Let you go first.

495
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: This is amazing, is it? Really? That's what's I would

496
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: totally eat these. Do you know all they're vegan haacks?

497
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: Because this is good. I mean a few, A few

498
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: sometimes is amazing.

499
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 2: Sometimes when I really want to get fool, this might

500
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 2: be too much for you. But I have some fries

501
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 2: and I do it like burrito style, and I put

502
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 2: some fries in there too, so it's like potatoes, beans, rice,

503
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 2: fri doos.

504
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: You can do that. If I did that, I turned

505
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: into Ooper loop. But I could do this in a

506
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: burrito right. But you know what makes this is the

507
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: the friedos.

508
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 2: So y'all don't sleep on the crunch. It's what makes it.

509
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: I have one question, because I'm gonna eat two guys.

510
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 1: Why why are the fredos in another chip?

511
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 2: The fri doos just taste good with it, like Frido's.

512
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 2: You can't do much with it.

513
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: It's not because they're like special because they're like being

514
00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: friendly or something.

515
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 2: Well, they are vegan friendly, so that's part of it too,

516
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 2: but they just go with it. FreeDOS just go with it.

517
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 2: It's just one of those things, just mixing it up

518
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 2: in the kitchen when you when you don't got the

519
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,239
Speaker 2: money and you just scot still laying around and you

520
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 2: just you just make it work, kind of like you know,

521
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 2: the big value pack of chips, like the thirty pack.

522
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: The free Doos is always last, so they just kind

523
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 2: of always sit in the kitchen.

524
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: Dude, they're on the bottom shelf too.

525
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So people be sleeping on them.

526
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna lie. The Fredos makes this thing work.

527
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: You lucky almost the fos out likes.

528
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it, That's what's up.

529
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish my tackle before we get back. Then, no,

530
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: you go because the crunch this is really good.

531
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm glad you like it.

532
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: I want to go vegan, but I don't know how

533
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: to you in.

534
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 2: The Perfect City with.

535
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: Austin or La La good. But I'm gonna be trying

536
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: to do Backhostal and Austin.

537
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 2: I mean Austin literally is a mini La man. They

538
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 2: they got so much vegan food.

539
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: And man, okay, so chocolates is a one for those

540
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: doing it at home. Because of the refried beans, you

541
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: definitely can't go without the salsa, and because of the crunch,

542
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: you can't go without with the friedo. So facts, if

543
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: you do this at home, the best way to enjoy

544
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: this one hundred percent is to do all of the ingredients,

545
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: the Spanish rice, the salsa, the friedo chips, the corner das,

546
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: and the beans. Ten out of ten for vegan.

547
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 2: You had it without the avocados, that's what's crazy.

548
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: And well, you know what, the refried beans kind of

549
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,719
Speaker 1: because avocado and refried beans have the same textures and

550
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: avocado doesn't have that strong of a taste, right, Yeah, honestly,

551
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: you could keep your cow avocado that they had way

552
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: too with brown. Personally, if I would have seen once back,

553
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: it would have been down out.

554
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: That is too funny.

555
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: My daughter eats an avocado with da oh yeah yeah,

556
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: if it was up to her, she eat like four.

557
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 2: But avocados is what it is, and you can put

558
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: that on anything man salad, you can put in your smoothie,

559
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: you can put it in whatever you want to.

560
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: I feel like, well, I'm going to get to that

561
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 1: I want when we get to the smoothie era. But

562
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: the part of me feels like you're not judging this

563
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: because you're in the smoothie business. Like you don't judge markings.

564
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 2: On fruit bananas, you will probably lose your shit.

565
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: But banana's the sweeter.

566
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 2: They are seeing a lot of customers they see that

567
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 2: and they're like, what is that. I don't want that banana.

568
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: I'll be trying to explain to them, like, no.

569
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: They're better that way. But I also have a rule.

570
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm Jamaican. My mom raised us. If it doesn't look

571
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: spotty and all that, it's not right.

572
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 2: That's not right.

573
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: And so even my daughter shows, I'm like, girl, that's

574
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: the only way you want to eat a banana unless

575
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: you want to eat a nasty exactly and smoothie. Your

576
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: banana has to.

577
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: Look exactly freckled facts.

578
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: And you know that's the same for like banana.

579
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 2: Bread and banana bread. Yeah, that's what I always try

580
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 2: to explain. I'm like, have you ever made banana bread

581
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: like you don't want.

582
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: You don't want to know, yo, non inspect of bananas.

583
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: But we're not talking about how to make a smoothie.

584
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: We're talking about how to get a paycheck. Facts with

585
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: Skylar paycheck go. So go back to these season tickets.

586
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 2: All right. So I basically long story short, I'm in

587
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: the arena. I'm like, I'm gonna take a gamble. I'm

588
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 2: already making money. I already got two streams of income

589
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: coming in. Let me take this gamble. Worst case you.

590
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: Don't have a day job, just to your two streams,

591
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: but the second stream is delayed. Yes, so the first

592
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: stream is the one you're living off of.

593
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: What the second one. We'll get into that later. There's

594
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: ways where you can make money daily and the stock market,

595
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 2: but we'll get into all that later. But for the

596
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: time being, yes, it's delayed. So that's kind of sitting there.

597
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: And I got those two streams of income going. So

598
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, again, let me take this gamble. Best case scenario,

599
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 2: I break even. Worst case scenario, I get to go

600
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 2: to a bunch of mever games. So I bought those,

601
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: and I thought, and I bought a few other.

602
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: Seats, and what's your dad doing while you're doing the seat, Like, man,

603
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: I don't even need to buy seats because you got enough.

604
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: You know, he bought his own as well, so you know,

605
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: he's just he knows me by now. If I say

606
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 2: I'm going to do something, I want something, then I

607
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 2: like that. You know, he's just like cool. So I

608
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 2: get those going. So that ends up being really big

609
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: for me.

610
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: Like, people, what do you do with these seats? Walk

611
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: us through it?

612
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 2: So you can do Facebook, Marketplace obviously, these different tickets

613
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: sites and all of this, and that you just put

614
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 2: them on there. You put them up higher than the

615
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: value and you're making money. So picture having multiple tickets

616
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: for all season, you know what I mean. And Dallas

617
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: is a huge city, so people love sports over there,

618
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: so people got money in Dallas. So people are buying

619
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: these season tickets easy, and so that's making money. So

620
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: now that's three, three sources of income. So this is

621
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: where I'm starting to feel like I'm the man. I'm

622
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: starting to feel like I'm good, you know what I mean.

623
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 2: I got some money, you know what I mean. So

624
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 2: I tell my dad, I said, hey, let me talk

625
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: to you about franchising again. And he was like, all right,

626
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: I got why.

627
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, like you started

628
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: buying ridiculous things.

629
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: No, I've always yeah, yeah, no, I've always been.

630
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: And how many years are you going from that first

631
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: meeting to the point where you're like, let me pick

632
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: up the franchise ball again.

633
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: So it's about four years.

634
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: Four years wow, So four years of pustling and you

635
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: go revisit.

636
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 2: And I thought I was doing something, but I was

637
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,719
Speaker 2: nowhere close to being a franchise only yet I'm already

638
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: feeling myself and I'm like, hey, pop, I want a franchise.

639
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: Now I got the money, I'm good.

640
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: So how much money did you think you had at

641
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: the time that was enough to start having that conversation.

642
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 2: About one hundred grand okay for all your listeners, And

643
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: how old were you at the time. I was, what

644
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: twenty four?

645
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: Okay?

646
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: So so yeah, man, like one hundred grand, everything's good.

647
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: I think I'm someone, I think I'm something.

648
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely feel that.

649
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: And you know, now one hundred grand isn't much now, but.

650
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: At the time, we're also twenty four. Okay.

651
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: So my dad introduced me to his Fratt brother at

652
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: William's Chicken and He's like, man, I like what you're doing.

653
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 2: I like everything about you. So he was like, how

654
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 2: about we do this. How about you do an internship

655
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 2: and just kind of see and float around the store

656
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: to see if this is what you really want, because

657
00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 2: a lot of people might say they want a frame,

658
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 2: but they don't know about franchise. So I'm doing that

659
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, I can get down with this.

660
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: And about a week or so later, he's like, hey,

661
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: you know what, we have a problem at one of

662
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: these other stores. How about you become a manager and

663
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: this can be the store that you end up owning,

664
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: so you can manage it. Just play like you're the manager,

665
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 2: and then this can be the store that you own.

666
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: Okay, and then what's the name of this franchise?

667
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 2: It is Williams Chicken.

668
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: William's Chicken. Again, you jump on the opportunity. You go

669
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: from intern which is free, to manager. And so they

670
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: had senior work ethic or something to say, hey, we

671
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: want to give you.

672
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 2: I think it was crazy. They must have thought that

673
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 2: I was some manager or something. So this is the

674
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 2: crazy part. So let me so let me back up here.

675
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: So I didn't have any manager experience at all. But

676
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 2: my mindset is like, Okay, I'm not going to tell

677
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: them I don't have any managers, right, so I'm looking

678
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: at it like I'm going to do whatever i need

679
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 2: to do to get to where I'm going. I'm going

680
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 2: to learn franchising and management on the fly. So no experience, nothing,

681
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 2: I take it. So the good thing about it also

682
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: is I need for everyone to understand internship. Let me

683
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: say it on this camera. Don't be afraid to be

684
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: an intern. I know a lot of the younger generation

685
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: they don't want to be interns. They think that nothing

686
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: comes with it. You don't know who you're going to meet,

687
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: you don't know what you're going to learn. Forget if

688
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: it doesn't have any money attached to it.

689
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: But now you're also speaking from the perspective of a

690
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: seasoned entrepreneur. You'll also have residual money coming in. But

691
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: I still agree with you on the sense of that.

692
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: But you know you are talking from the perspective of

693
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: I can take one for the team because I have

694
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: residual businesses.

695
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 2: Right right, very true, But I do also want to

696
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: make that a lot of people, a lot of people

697
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: they think I'm not going to do this internship. You

698
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 2: just never internships.

699
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: Hell no, I want to jumped on that internship, especially

700
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: if I'm trying to get into franchising, because you know,

701
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: there's people that go to college never they're like, I'm

702
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: going to go to school to be a lawyer, and

703
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: then they spend all this money and they become a

704
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: lawyer and they realize they don't even like that. So

705
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: internship is definitely a way to go. But I do

706
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: want to emphasize the fact that you put in a

707
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: lot of work to have residual money, so it was

708
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: a lot easier to pursue your dreams when you have

709
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: your residual I'm sure you're still working, but it was

710
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: more residuals. At this point, it's a machine because I'll continue.

711
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 2: Sorry, no, you're good, You're good. So I look at

712
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: it like I already got those three strings of income coming.

713
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 2: This is extream number four. I am now a general

714
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: manager getting paid a salary to learn the business. So

715
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 2: now that's four strings and income. So all that's going on,

716
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: I'm learning the system, I'm learning the ropes, and I'm

717
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: a damn good manager.

718
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: And do you love it?

719
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: It's cool? You know what I mean? I love that

720
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: I'm learning, but I realize over time that this might

721
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: not be for me, at least Williams. So I kind

722
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 2: of start to take a step back and I kind

723
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: of go my own out and.

724
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: Say, you know what made you say it may not

725
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: be for you?

726
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 2: I think it's just it's cool locally, but I'm thinking

727
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: bigger than that. Okay, So I'm like, I'm gonna do

728
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: something different. So I kind of take a step back

729
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 2: and I kind of just take that risk and say,

730
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 2: you know what, I appreciate the experience and I appreciate

731
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 2: the opportunity, but I'm a pass So remember.

732
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: How soon did you make that decision? Oh?

733
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 2: No, it was like maybe seven eight, nine months, So

734
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 2: I definitely put in the work. So remember that Wingstop

735
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 2: person I told you about I met fresh out of

736
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 2: high school. I end up getting back in contact with him,

737
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 2: and when I come back to him, I tell him, Hey,

738
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 2: do you remember me? Did you told me all this

739
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 2: and that? And what's crazy? Is he right? And what's

740
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 2: crazy is he didn't really remember? But hilarious. But I mean,

741
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 2: I'm sure so many people that you know.

742
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: But I love that you came back to him. But

743
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: continue shows a lot of integrity.

744
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: It does. And he was like, I don't remember much

745
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: about our conversation, but man, you have everything, Like on

746
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: why you're killing it. He was like, you are doing

747
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: way better than people your age, and so I'm like yeah.

748
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: So basically he's like, I tell you what I do,

749
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 2: and this is where networking and everything is very important

750
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 2: to everyone listening and watching. He said, how about you

751
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 2: come work for me and over time, I'll let you

752
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: buy fifty percent of one of my stores. And so,

753
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 2: so keep in mind this the og that.

754
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: So this is him right up the alley you want.

755
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 2: And keep in mind this the og that bought franchise

756
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: in two wing stops. Yeah, so he's like, you got

757
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 2: to think he has all this money, all these millions.

758
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: So he's scarious. What's his race? I hate to be

759
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: that person. He's a black guy. So it's and so

760
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: so totally something you could really exactly exactly.

761
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: You know how they say though, be careful meeting your heroes.

762
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 2: He wasn't necessarily my hero, but I get into that

763
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 2: in a minute. But so I'm doing that. I'm like,

764
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: let's get it, like I fifty wingstop, Like, let me

765
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: do it. So I'm working at Wingstop doing the managing stuff,

766
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 2: and oh, by the way, let me throw this in there.

767
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: He said. Basically, you'll get the fifty percent and then

768
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 2: you can either buy me out over time for my

769
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: fifty percent, or you can have the fifty percent and

770
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,959
Speaker 2: you can go open up your own wingstop. But rest

771
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: assured I'll be there to help you get that because

772
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 2: you helped me out, I'm gonna help you out.

773
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: Wait. He saw you as helping him.

774
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 2: Out right, because he was like, you're learning the game,

775
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 2: but also I need help at one of my stores.

776
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: Got it so okay? And he's now if you think

777
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: about from his perspective, he's it's a smart chess move

778
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: for him because he has an employee slash partner that's

779
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: really invested in now exactly got it.

780
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 2: And that's another way for everyone watching and listening. If

781
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 2: you don't have the money, there's ways to get into

782
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 2: the game. There's ways to get into the game to

783
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 2: where you might not have the money, but find you

784
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: a OG, a season OG that has the money has

785
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 2: the opportunities to basically get you in the door. You'll

786
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 2: just be surprised.

787
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: And if you pay attention to your story too, communication

788
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: is key here. Yes, when you're in business for yourself,

789
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: hiring the right people is probably one of the hardest

790
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: and the most riskiest investments you can make. So when

791
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: you get someone that's intentional about working for you that's like, hey,

792
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: I want to be where you're at, you now know

793
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: that your investment is a little bit more safer, especially

794
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: if they have the level of integrity that Skyler has,

795
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: where he's like, I did your checklist here, I am anxiety,

796
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: so I'll continue and I'm just recapping with you all

797
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: that good.

798
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 2: You're good. So over time I'm realizing I'm killing everything

799
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: that he's asking me to do, and I'm checking everything

800
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 2: off the box. I'm running his store good. I helped

801
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: him open up a brand new store, hired all his staff.

802
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 2: I just did all of those different things for him.

803
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 2: But I've noticed as Tom's going, he's not holding his

804
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: end of the of the bargain. So I'm like, I

805
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 2: almost feel like I'm just working there.

806
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: And his end would be like when you guys have

807
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: that discussion.

808
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: Right, and when I would kind of bring it up,

809
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 2: he would kind of like, we'll get to it later.

810
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 2: We'll get to it later. And so I'm like, all right,

811
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 2: I'll see how this's going. And one thing about me,

812
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: I like to control my own destiny. I don't really

813
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: like when somebody tries to almost like I'm a puppet

814
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 2: and you're controlling the streams.

815
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: Well, you're an entrepreneur, right, You're you're you believe in

816
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: controlling that ship. Right, So I can see that, and

817
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 1: I can see how if you're coming from a place

818
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: of integrity, how when someone lacks integrity, it's it's almost

819
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: like off putting and deflating, right because now you're like,

820
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: what am I doing? Right?

821
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 2: And I will say, though, shout out to him, because

822
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 2: I still learned a lot. Now I have experience from two.

823
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: Different So he didn't end up holding up.

824
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: He didn't end up holding it, and I left. I

825
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: chose to leave because I'm like, man, I kind of

826
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: feel like i'm and played a little bit, and so

827
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 2: I took that risk and so I'm back in the rut.

828
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 2: But I still have the other income coming in. But

829
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: again going back to what I said earlier, I hate

830
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: seeing certain accounts.

831
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: Okay, well no, especially because now you're at you came

832
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: from now two places that are offering you salaries. So

833
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: this is your fourth income, and it's a sustainable, healthy

834
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: fourth income. So yeah, I can understand that. That's how

835
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,479
Speaker 1: I am, just so you know, I'll be not for.

836
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 2: Real, for real, and so all of that's going on.

837
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 2: So I'm back almost starting from scratch. Do you watch Martin?

838
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you know the.

839
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 2: Episode start from Scratch? That was literally me. So I'm

840
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:38,720
Speaker 2: starting back from scratch.

841
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: But now, but here's the thing, though, You're starting back

842
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,439
Speaker 1: from scratch with a lot of years of entrepreneurship for sure,

843
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: management two different franchises that you've been managed, able to build,

844
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: and you know the processes and all.

845
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: So you already see all in the groundwork. I'm literally

846
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 2: laying the groundwork.

847
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: You don't succeed, I'd be surprised, all right. I see

848
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: where Smooie King's coming, right, So what happens?

849
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to figure it out. And now I'm

850
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 2: thinking Smoothie King. So this is where I thought I

851
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: was close, but I'm still not even close to being close.

852
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 2: So I see Smovie King, and I see that they're

853
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 2: hiring for a manager, and I also know that their

854
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: corporate headquarters is in Dallas, Texas. Okay, so I'm like,

855
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: how about I work there. The corporate offices are right there.

856
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: I be there every day in bug them. If I

857
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 2: have to, I'm going to get a franchise. And for

858
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: those that don't know, Smoovie King is the number one

859
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: smoothie brand in.

860
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: The nation than Jambas and everybody else.

861
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 2: Way bigger than Jumba. Very funny story about Jumba by

862
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 2: the way. But yeah, well, Smoovie King was really close

863
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 2: to being in in California, really really close. A lot

864
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: of people always ask about Smovie King being there. It

865
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 2: was really close. But nonetheless, who was their first movie

866
00:41:54,840 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 2: or Jamva in California in general? Oh, Smoovie King, movie King,

867
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 2: literally Smoovies. It started from Smoovie King.

868
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: Got it?

869
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: Yeah?

870
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're the OG's and you're number one in

871
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: the nation, right, Okay, so gone, you're do you apply

872
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: for this manager position?

873
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 2: I apply for the manager position. But I learned my

874
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 2: lesson from my last run, and I told them at

875
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 2: the interview the only way that I am going to

876
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 2: do this is that y'all know I'm not here long term.

877
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 2: I am here to be a franchisee. That's it. They agreed,

878
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 2: they said, cool, So as soon as I got hired.

879
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 2: Now I'm on LinkedIn shooting my LinkedIn shot at anybody

880
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 2: that works for Smoovie King, any franchise owner. I'm just

881
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: sending messages because you got to think about it. The

882
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 2: worst thing that can happen is they don't respond.

883
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: But now, what about the manager that you're reporting to

884
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: that's above you. There you shooting your shot with them?

885
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 1: You just didn't feel I.

886
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: Didn't because they're working on the corporate end. So the

887
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 2: Smoothie King corporate stores, like they have corporate stores, and

888
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 2: then obviously majority of it is franchise So.

889
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 1: You were at a corporate st.

890
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was at a corporate store. So if you're

891
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 2: putting the two to two together, I'm working for corporate

892
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 2: so that y'all can know my name and know about me,

893
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 2: and the corporate office is here, so I'm basically trying

894
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 2: to make sure that y'all know exactly who I am.

895
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: Now, is that better that you went to work for

896
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: corporate versus a franchise e? Well, at this point after

897
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: your experience.

898
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: With financially as well, Yeah, because corporate obviously is gonna.

899
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: Pay more, got it.

900
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 2: But again, I'm just trying to make sure that my

901
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 2: name is being known. So again I'm shooting shooting my

902
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: my my corporate shot at anyone. I'm talking. I'm shooting

903
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 2: this to the CEO, say, you know, just hey, how's

904
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 2: it going. My name is Skuyler. I'm recently a general manager.

905
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 2: I'm trying to franchise with you guys, just all of

906
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 2: that type of stuff, just you know, just really, you know.

907
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 2: So I'm doing that. I don't get a lot of

908
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 2: response responses from people, which, of course, but there are

909
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: some franchises, franchisees that reach back out from different parts

910
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 2: of the country and everything like that. So they're they're

911
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 2: and they know who they are, so shout out to

912
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: them that we're still talking to this day. So that's

913
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 2: going on. I'm starting to talk to the bank now

914
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 2: because again I'm feeling myself. I think that I'm ready.

915
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is it? So I thought. So I

916
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 2: reach out to a bank and the bank is like,

917
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 2: everything is great. You have everything on paper, your credit

918
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 2: score is good, your financing is good. Yeah, you got

919
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 2: the experience. You got everything we need and everything we're

920
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: looking for. So I'm talking to the bank. But there's

921
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 2: two sides of this. I'm talking to the Smovie King

922
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 2: as well. Both ends got to prove your financials. So

923
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Smovie King. They look over my financials

924
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 2: and they say, everything looks good. Come to Discovery Day.

925
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 2: So discovery day is basically where the franchise, the potential

926
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 2: franchisee goes and flies out to the corporate headquarters. But

927
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 2: I'm already in Dallas, So all I gotta do is try.

928
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 2: They come and learn about the business. They come and

929
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 2: learn about everything. So the CEO is in there presenting

930
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 2: everything to everybody. He's talking about the brand and everything

931
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 2: about that. As after he's finished, he has everybody in

932
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 2: the room that wants to be a part of Smoothie

933
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 2: King introduced themselves. Everyone standing up. I mean they just flexing.

934
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: I own fifteen Taco bells and I own this, I

935
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 2: own fifty franchises. I mean, everyone just flexing. And when

936
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 2: it's my turn to stand.

937
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: Up on before you get to that, how does that

938
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: make you feel?

939
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 2: Very little? Okay, very little? It's my turn to speak.

940
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 2: So I'm hearing as.

941
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: The young person, right, and are you do other people

942
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: look like you? Meaning like black? Or they all different?

943
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: There were a few black people, but you know, they're

944
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 2: all older, gray hair, all of that. So I stand

945
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 2: up after hearing all these people say everything, and I'm

946
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 2: just like, hey, how's it going. My name is Skuyler.

947
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be a franchise owner, and I am

948
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 2: a multi union manager for Smoothe King Corps because by

949
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,879
Speaker 2: this time, I ended up managing multiple stores. So I'm

950
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 2: a multi union manager for Smoothe King. And then I

951
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 2: sit down and I feel like a clown at this point.

952
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 2: So the CEO goes back about his debt and he's

953
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 2: walking out the door, but before he leaves, he looks

954
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 2: at me in my eyes and walks up to me

955
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,399
Speaker 2: and shakes my hand and says, you're doing a really

956
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 2: good job. So and then he walks out. So but

957
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, pitt your erin this big room

958
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 2: all I felt amazing, okay.

959
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: And do you think he was saying that because you're

960
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: running his stores or because.

961
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 2: Like you got to this point, got to that.

962
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: Point, got it, got it?

963
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,479
Speaker 2: So so he says, you're doing a really good job.

964
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 2: So at this point, I'm smiling ear to ear okay,

965
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking everything is in the bag. If the

966
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 2: CEO knows who I am, you know, so I thought. So.

967
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 2: I remember later on that day I'll never forget there

968
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 2: was this older black dude. He was like, man, why

969
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 2: are you smiling so much? And I was just like, man,

970
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: if you knew what I had to do to get here,

971
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 2: then you would understand that. You know, I'm just happy.

972
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 2: And by the way, and while this is going on,

973
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 2: six months prior, that's when I lost my mom and

974
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 2: my brother. So I lost still so around the time

975
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 2: before I got Tomovie King, that's when I lost my

976
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 2: mom and I lost my brother six months apart from

977
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: each other. So all this is going on. But again

978
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I'm not gonna stop.

979
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: And so now to backtrack a little bit, this burger

980
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: gets personal. There's everyone close with depression differently right now,

981
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: are you a coper? Do you think that, looking back,

982
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: that you were coping with the distraction of these high

983
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: mountains that you had to climb.

984
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 2: It was definitely good to have that. But I'm one

985
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: of those obviously I miss him. I'm sad, but I

986
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 2: mean that's unfortunate. You know, that's part of life. It hurts, But.

987
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: Losing your mom at a young age, I don't know

988
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: if it was like, like my grandfather he died of

989
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: cancer to a new hospice or whatever. Was it one

990
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: of those where you were kind of preparing for them

991
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: or was it a shocker?

992
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 2: It was not my brother that was a complete shocker. Okay,

993
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 2: that was like, got that phone call.

994
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, he's young, but your mom you kind

995
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: of knew there was some kind of Okay, is that

996
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: part of the health journey?

997
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 2: It is?

998
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: Okay, got it? So go back to why you're smiling.

999
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, no, you're good. So I'm just smiling because

1000
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, if you knew what I've been going

1001
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: through in my journey to get here, just to be

1002
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 2: around all y'all rich folks, you will know why I'm smiling.

1003
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. So that's what was going on.

1004
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 2: So a few days past in Smoovie King Cosmic back

1005
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 2: and say, hey, Skylar, so you met the financial liquid cash,

1006
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 2: but your net worth wasn't there. So at this point

1007
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 2: I'm like, bruh what.

1008
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: So like, what do you mean no no assets?

1009
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: Well, so I have the liquid assets, but would be

1010
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 2: like You're like yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And I

1011
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 2: didn't even have a home or anything at the time.

1012
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: So but now is that one of those situations where

1013
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: you could finagle like, hey, my dad owns an asset,

1014
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: and I'm.

1015
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: Well, see that's the thing. My we came from a

1016
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 2: middle class, so it's not let me make that very

1017
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 2: there my dad and he wasn't like some rich man

1018
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 2: or you know, just a middle No.

1019
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: So when you hit that, there was no way around.

1020
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 2: So when my mom ended up getting sick, we ended

1021
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 2: up selling our house and so all of that. So

1022
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 2: all of that's going on, so smoothe king says that,

1023
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 2: and I'm like, so, like, what do I do now?

1024
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 2: And then to the open wound to add salt? Poor

1025
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 2: the whole bottle of salt in it. The bank caused

1026
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: me back and say, so we're actually going in a

1027
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 2: different direction right now, so we're not going to be

1028
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 2: able to fund you. So now I'm back at square

1029
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 2: one again. I said every curse word probably.

1030
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: A thousand times.

1031
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 2: I didn't cry. I was hurt, but I didn't cry.

1032
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: Damn so strong. I know a lot of even rappers

1033
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: on this show that will be like, yeah, I tear

1034
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: up out of frustration.

1035
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 2: Frustration was.

1036
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: So how did you deal with it? You just set

1037
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: a couple of cursors.

1038
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 2: Oh no, I cussed them to hell out. C Yeah,

1039
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 2: I cursed them to hell out. Not Smovie King, but

1040
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 2: the bank. I was pissed, but I kept it pushing

1041
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: because I'm like, I am going to get this.

1042
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: But now, when you get a call about net worth,

1043
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: how do you I could see someone like you going,

1044
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: what do I gotta do to build this net worth? Right?

1045
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: Is that what you're thinking?

1046
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I ended up buying a house. That was

1047
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 2: one thing I did. I was like, okay, we're going

1048
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 2: to buy a home. And so all I'm doing as

1049
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 2: well is that liquid cash. I'm continuing to do that.

1050
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 2: So I'm just finding out different ways to build that

1051
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 2: net worth up. So all of this is going on.

1052
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: Sorry, I love you. It's just and I just got

1053
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: to say this. The fact that you said, yeah, okay,

1054
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: they said net worth, which is I assumed you know,

1055
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: you'd have to own a home or whatever, right, But

1056
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: the fact that you just glided over that fact that, yeah,

1057
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: I found out I didn't have enough net worth, So

1058
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: what did you do? Well? Then I had to go

1059
00:50:55,680 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: buy a home, right? Amazing? Amazing, Like, oh, okay, this

1060
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: is the rules. I'll play by the rules.

1061
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 2: Okay, you're right, You're not going to tell me no.

1062
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 2: So I'm going to get it one way or another.

1063
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 2: Just let me know what I need to do so

1064
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 2: that I can do it so I can become a print.

1065
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: Now, did you a little sidebar? Did you go for

1066
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: a hollorrific home or what were you looking for when

1067
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: you bought to creation this? Fine? Right?

1068
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: So I bought this home just to basically make it

1069
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: a just to basically make it an asset, to make

1070
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 2: it to where I can make it a rental property.

1071
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 2: So I buy it with the intention of it's the

1072
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 2: first time home, but it is brand new, it's in

1073
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 2: a very nice area where people we will never have

1074
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 2: a problem rented out. But it also look great on paper.

1075
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 2: That was my whole reason.

1076
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: So you were looking for Now, were you looking for

1077
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: equity from the jump or you just looking for just

1078
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: something that has like a value of say five hundred

1079
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: thousand or whatever? Is that? What point are you looking

1080
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: for when you're looking to both?

1081
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 2: Actually both, And I'm still learning the home business at

1082
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 2: the time, so I'm just thinking I'll just buy a home.

1083
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 2: But yes, so that's basically what I did it for

1084
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 2: for equity and just to have this on paper. That

1085
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 2: was my whole sole.

1086
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: Reason for it, right, all right, So continue.

1087
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 2: So no you're good. So no, no, you're good. You're good.

1088
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: I don't know why, all right.

1089
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 2: So every all that's going on. So I'm back to

1090
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 2: square one again because both of those, the bank and

1091
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: Smovie King, that didn't work out, So going back to.

1092
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 1: Wait, they didn't work out, but they were more on hold.

1093
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 2: Not right, Yeah, for sure, for sure. So as I'm

1094
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 2: still working a movie king, I tell my pops Lie,

1095
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 2: I tell him the situation because I talked to my

1096
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 2: mom and my dad a lot about all those things. Obviously,

1097
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 2: my mom's not there anymore at that point, but I

1098
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 2: did talk to them along the way, so she knew

1099
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,919
Speaker 2: the journey, she knew the mission. So that's one good

1100
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 2: thing I have out of it all. She knew before

1101
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 2: she died that I was going to get a franchised.

1102
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 2: So all that's going on. He says, Hey, remember he's

1103
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 2: a networker, he knows everyone. He says, I have another

1104
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 2: frid brother that's the CEO of a bank. I want

1105
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,760
Speaker 2: you to go talk to him. So so man shouts

1106
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 2: out to my dad. So I go and I meet

1107
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 2: with him. Everything's going good. I'm all nice, nicely clean

1108
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: cut suit and tie, have a nice presentation, everything is

1109
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 2: going great. I'm thinking that everything's going to pan out.

1110
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 2: This is my shot. He already knows my dad really well,

1111
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 2: so this is I got this, so I thought. So

1112
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 2: I meet up with him and he's like, look, Skyler,

1113
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 2: everything you have is good. Everything you have is amazing.

1114
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 2: And at this point I'm fresher. I'm like, yeah, I know,

1115
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 2: but you can't help me out. Just go ahead and

1116
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 2: tell me. So he was like, but this isn't really

1117
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 2: the direction that we want to go as at our bank.

1118
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: So so I'm just like all right. So he say

1119
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 2: he'll call around, but you know, but I was just like,

1120
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 2: it's all good. At this point, I'm already good myself anyway.

1121
00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 2: So I end up keeping in touch with him, and

1122
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: I get back to him down the line. So I

1123
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 2: end up saying a little about a year or so

1124
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 2: passes by, and this is now we're getting kind of

1125
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 2: closer to COVID. So at this point, at this point,

1126
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 2: at this point, again my money, I'm just stacking it

1127
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 2: in and continuing renters. No, not even yet. So this

1128
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 2: is just this is just me I haven't even got

1129
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 2: to the renting.

1130
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: Part yet, living in the house and living over there

1131
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: at least.

1132
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 2: No, no, he's not.

1133
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: So you're you're you're you're flowing.

1134
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no for sure. And the good thing about it,

1135
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 2: if you remember during COVID, that's when the market value

1136
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 2: of homes just shot through the roof.

1137
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: Oh well, I feel like the best time to buy.

1138
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 2: Well, it was definitely good to buy, especially interest racing everything.

1139
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, I.

1140
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: Think you're right. They were they because my house was

1141
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: probably the most ever was.

1142
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 2: So I go and now I can do it things

1143
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 2: on my own. So I go back to a different

1144
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 2: bank and I start talking to them, and then on

1145
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 2: the other side, I start talking to Smoothie King again.

1146
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm in a better space. Now let's get

1147
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 2: to talking. And I find a franchise owner in the area,

1148
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 2: in the Dallas Fort Worth area that's trying to sell

1149
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 2: because she has a whole bunch of airbnbs and everything

1150
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,439
Speaker 2: like that. So she's just like, I want to sell

1151
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 2: my Smoothie King and just do real estate. So we

1152
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 2: start negotiating something I presented the Smoothie King and this

1153
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 2: is where the amazing part happened. So remember that that

1154
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 2: same CEO that shook my hand, he ended up being

1155
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 2: the one to sign off on me becoming a franchise owner.

1156
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 2: So I finally did it. I finally did it. I

1157
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 2: finally did it. But wow, that that CEO today is

1158
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 2: my personal mentor.

1159
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 1: Wow.

1160
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 2: So yeah, everything's great. He's my personal mentor. Everything is amazing.

1161
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: I was like, man, you are both.

1162
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: So what's crazy is though, So remember that CEO at

1163
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 2: the bank, right, Yeah, I ended up getting cool em.

1164
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 2: He's my personal mentor now. So now I'm talking to

1165
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 2: them on a whole different level now. So now the

1166
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 2: CEO is my personal mentor. The bank, the bank of

1167
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 2: the CEO of the bank, he's my personal mentor. And

1168
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 2: now they're giving me game that I didn't even know

1169
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 2: about it. You know, I'm talking to the obviously, he's

1170
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 2: the CEO of Smoothie King. So man, the stuff that

1171
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,280
Speaker 2: he knows and the knowledge.

1172
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: That he has and you got hands on as a

1173
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 1: franchise owner. So like when you're really faced in the dark,

1174
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: you get to call the the real Now also with

1175
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: him being your mentor, is is he able to I

1176
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: don't want to ask this, but I'm gonna is he

1177
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: able to my mentors are assholes, like in the sense

1178
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: of they make me great because they do not bend

1179
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 1: the rules for me.

1180
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 2: He does not for me.

1181
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: So that's how I was asking.

1182
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 2: He does not be in the rules for me, but

1183
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 2: he holds me to a standard, like the goal for

1184
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 2: me is twenty five plus movie kings. And I'm on

1185
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 2: store number four, working on store, working.

1186
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: To get for the stores that that lady had.

1187
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, bought the stores that the well only about

1188
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 2: that one store, so she only had one store and

1189
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 2: then so I've multiplied ever since then.

1190
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: So so how did you get the other stores? So

1191
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: after you got the one, did you become when did

1192
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: he become your mentor?

1193
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 2: So he became a mentor, like right when I was

1194
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 2: getting that first one.

1195
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: So and he shook your hand and he signed he

1196
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: was there, is he traditionally there with all of the

1197
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: signings or just.

1198
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 2: Oh just me, you know, you know, I gotta have

1199
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: some gotta have some kind of perks today.

1200
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: But so he showed up for you. Did you think

1201
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: he remembered.

1202
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 2: Are you talking about remember from Discovery day or from

1203
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 2: Discovery Yeah, no, he for sure remembered.

1204
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: So he wanted to be there for yours.

1205
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 2: Yes, and so he mane one is amazing that that

1206
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 2: dude therapy.

1207
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: I've seen a picture of him on your Instagram. Yes,

1208
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: I think it was your Instagram. I was snooping.

1209
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's all good. Yeah, so man, we have

1210
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 2: several pictures and again I'm gonna be with him later

1211
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 2: this week actually, but man, I'm forever indebted to that man.

1212
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 2: He he literally helped get me over that hurdle. And

1213
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 2: that goes back to again networking and showing your worth

1214
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 2: and showing who you are as an individual.

1215
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: You showed a lot of integrity though, Like I if

1216
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: you walked out of here today and said I want

1217
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: to build a robot, I'd be like, like, you know,

1218
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: even if it takes him ten years.

1219
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 2: Right now, and well, let me say this is what

1220
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. So back to the CEO of the bank.

1221
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 2: That's my personal mentor we have a relationship now to

1222
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 2: where Man, these people got like athlete money. I need

1223
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 2: for people to understand. I think they hear me, but

1224
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: I don't think they understand these people got money, money, money, money, money,

1225
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 2: and what I like about when we hang out. Now

1226
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 2: he's trying to introduce me and me have me be

1227
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 2: a part of his golfing club to where all his

1228
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 2: buddies they they have Like, so they're.

1229
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: Trying to invest in you probably now, man.

1230
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 2: If you want to call it investing or just showing

1231
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 2: the young buck the ropes. I mean, I'm around people

1232
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 2: that got millions of.

1233
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: Mens like, oh, you're golfing and stuff.

1234
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 2: I haven't got to golfing yet. But he's trying to

1235
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 2: get me there, and so no, for real, for real,

1236
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 2: and so he's man, he's like, this person knows this,

1237
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 2: this person owns this, this person has this, this person

1238
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 2: has that. So they're showing me the ropes and getting

1239
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 2: me cause that's kind of where I'm at now, is okay,

1240
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 2: how do I get to the next level? Like I've

1241
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 2: already reached seven figures? How do I reach the next level?

1242
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 2: How do I get to eight figures?

1243
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of things in w to touch on. One.

1244
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: Is he the one that does your loans for Smoothie King? Now?

1245
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 2: No?

1246
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: No, no, he still doesn't.

1247
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 2: No. And now I'm to the point to where I

1248
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 2: don't even got to get loans, you know what I mean, Like, oh,

1249
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you know hey.

1250
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: Love, I love Flex. Oh you ain't got apologize. I'm

1251
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: apologetic about that flex.

1252
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 2: So yeah.

1253
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: And then my other question was from to go from

1254
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: one franchise to the second, to the third to the fourth.

1255
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: How hard was that easy?

1256
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 2: It was easier after you get that first franchise. I

1257
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 2: need for everyone to understand. Once you get that first one,

1258
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 2: it's almost like that's all you gotta do because after that,

1259
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 2: it's up from there. Now, those same banks that were

1260
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 2: turning me down this and that, and now they calling

1261
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 2: my phone saying, hey, mister Skyler, when do you want

1262
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 2: to open up another franchise? Now they're asking me when

1263
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 2: do you want to like Smoothie King my my capital

1264
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 2: and everything is so good now I don't have to

1265
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 2: go through the same thing I went.

1266
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: Do you own other houses? Are you just good with

1267
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: your one right now?

1268
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 2: I'm good with my one because I'm cheap, But.

1269
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm not cheap. You're wiseman money financially, you're financially literate.

1270
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 2: But you know, bigger things comes like people around in

1271
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 2: my circle this and that, they want to see better

1272
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 2: for me, you know, like my immediate family. They're like, Skylar,

1273
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 2: let's get a house let's get a bigger house, you

1274
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So that's that's where I'm at

1275
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 2: now with that.

1276
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: Now do you think some of that comes from how

1277
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,919
Speaker 1: do I put this delicately? Like, you know, I think

1278
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur, you're so focused on the goal. My

1279
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: dad used to have this thing where he would say, like,

1280
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: frame what you do because sometimes when something hits me,

1281
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: like all those hurdles that you hit, you go on

1282
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: to the point. Well, for me personally, I go into

1283
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: self doubt. It's like I'm constantly me and this self

1284
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: doubt devils like believe in yourself. Don't believe in yourself.

1285
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: Believe in yourself. Don't. And my dad would be like,

1286
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: frame these milestones because you're working so hard you don't

1287
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: see that. And then there's like the self love gets

1288
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: a little funky because your way of self love is

1289
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: pursuing these dreams. Right. But then if you don't take

1290
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Speaker 1: the time to like treat yourself good, you know, and

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01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: especially be an entrepreneur, you know that it's never like

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01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: you it looks like it's kind of this, but it

1293
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: technically is like this, you know. And so do you

1294
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: think that some of your frugality is rooted in the

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01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: fact of like not really looking out for you.

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01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 2: I look out for everybody but me, you know. And

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01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 2: it's funny you say that because there's a video when

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01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 2: I first got my franchise and reading the email and

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01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 2: everything during COVID, and I.

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Speaker 1: Was just can you send us that? By the way,

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01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: Oh man.

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01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 2: I was looking so rough.

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01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: A right, all right, so.

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01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 2: No haircuts nothing.

1305
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: We would love the video if you do, get okay.

1306
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 2: But I was reading the email and looking back and

1307
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't even crack a smile or anything,

1308
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 2: because I just went through so much to get there.

1309
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 2: I was just like, finally, like what's next. So yeah,

1310
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 2: you would think that I was happy jumping up and down,

1311
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 2: but I just I didn't even crack a smile in

1312
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 2: that video. Wow, because man, it was just so much

1313
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 2: to get there.

1314
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,919
Speaker 1: Now I see though, it's important for you to share

1315
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: your story and to motivate others. Where do you think

1316
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 1: that's coming from.

1317
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 2: Man, because I know the ropes. I'd been there, and

1318
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 2: I think that people on the other end, I don't

1319
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 2: think that they know that they can do it too,

1320
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 2: Like anybody can be Skylar, You're not. Let's be real

1321
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 2: about this. You're not gonna be Lebron James. You're not

1322
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 2: gonna be jay Z. Shout out jay Z. I know

1323
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 2: that's your favorite artist. You're not gonna be jay Z.

1324
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 2: You're not going to be Tyler the Creator. We're in

1325
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 2: La Tyler the Creator. You're not going to be those people.

1326
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 2: You can, but it's like you got a better chance

1327
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 2: of maybe hitting the lottery than that. It's it's kind

1328
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 2: of even maybe so, but anyone can be me. And

1329
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people in our culture they

1330
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 2: don't understand that you can be a franchise owner. I

1331
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 2: don't even think, especially when I go to talk to

1332
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 2: the youth at schools and stuff like that, they don't

1333
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 2: even really know what franchising is. So it's my purpose

1334
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 2: and my duty to show them, Hey, let me tap

1335
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 2: into some of y'all at a young mind to where

1336
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 2: you can do this too, you know what I mean, Like,

1337
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 2: just start, just start, though, I.

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01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 1: Will say, though I'm older now, and I will say,

1339
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of I've done a lot of these interviews,

1340
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 1: and there's core characteristics between the people that can do

1341
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: it and cannot. And there's a couple of things I've

1342
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: learned across doing these shows. One, if you listen to

1343
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: scholars story, there's no balance. There's no balance of I'm

1344
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: spending time with my friends volunteering at the VET, and

1345
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: I have my girlfriend's slash wife or whatever, or I'm

1346
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: spending all this time with the kids. I can almost

1347
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: take a guess that there's no balance there.

1348
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 2: Right, It's I tried to keep a healthy balance. But

1349
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 2: to your point, yes it is. And you you have

1350
01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 2: to be all in. You have to be.

1351
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: Deady and dedicated to the work. And then the other

1352
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: thing is And I just want to to because your

1353
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: story sounds amazing, but I want you guys to understand

1354
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 1: out there like this is a person on a mission.

1355
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: You got kicked down, got up, kicked down again. I

1356
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:18,959
Speaker 1: personally would have I go through a victim route. Where

1357
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: I go it's because I'm young, and maybe if I'm

1358
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: closed on them, they would believe in me or whatever.

1359
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: You know. But the other thing you have that is

1360
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: the undeniable force is integrity, and integrity is going to

1361
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: beat it every time. And yes, whether you do or

1362
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: do not have the jay Z skills, you know you're

1363
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: right in that regard. But if you lack integrity, if

1364
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: you give your word on getting someone. You know, my

1365
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 1: daughter asked for some flower seeds, you know, even something

1366
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 1: as small as I told my daughter I was gonna

1367
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: give her some flower seeds before I got home. That

1368
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: level of integrity, I can almost guess without a doubt

1369
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: you're that level of intagraon that if you say something,

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01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it. And I think if you're at home,

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01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: even if you're fourteen, twenty one or forty, you got

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01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: to start with that level of your word and your

1373
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: brand because people are going to tie your brand to

1374
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 1: your word, and if you look at Skuylar's story, all

1375
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 1: you're seeing is integrity word, integrity word, integrity word, integrity.

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01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 2: Facts. Yeah, and I think it sucks because along the way,

1377
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 2: I've always had a few people that I wanted to

1378
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 2: bring up with me, and I do have one. So

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01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 2: shout out to my district manager Patrick, like he's one

1380
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 2: of the only ones that man, he gets it. But

1381
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 2: along the way of my journey, I've had so many

1382
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 2: people that I want to bring up with me to help,

1383
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 2: and to your point, they don't. They don't get it.

1384
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 2: They don't get it.

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01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: Yep. I've had this studio for like five years and

1386
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: I've had so many friends and I'm like, look, you

1387
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: want to shoot, come in free on the house. I

1388
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 1: would tell that to even guess, freak on the house.

1389
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm not even charging anyways, show up. Every time we

1390
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: get on the phone. It's the same thing. And I

1391
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: just like, and I don't know how you deal with

1392
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: separating because your time is so valuable the people. And

1393
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 1: that's for integrity for me is like I see it,

1394
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 1: and if you don't have it, you're not even gonna

1395
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: clear like past a certain level with me. But for instance,

1396
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: like with your district manager, you see that level of integrity, right,

1397
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: that work, I think right for everyone else. When you

1398
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 1: start to see those signs, are you less invested in

1399
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: them because you already kind of seen.

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01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna say less invested. I always give

1401
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 2: everyone a shot. Anyone can be a late bloomer. You

1402
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 2: don't know someone's situation, what they're going through, whatever, So

1403
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 2: I try to keep it fair for everybody. But I

1404
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 2: also at the same time do like to focus a

1405
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 2: little bit more of my time on people that get

1406
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 2: it and actually care. So yeah, man, And what's crazy

1407
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 2: is this is just the beginning for me like this

1408
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 2: is just the beginning. This to me, this is just

1409
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 2: the start of the journey. Like, man, I'm trying to

1410
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 2: be on Shacks level. I'm trying to.

1411
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: Be on well believe you'll get there without doubt.

1412
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 2: Like seeing people like Charlemagne with the crystals, to me,

1413
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 2: that's that's inspiring. Like, so you you already got all

1414
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 2: this going on. You got this going on. I can

1415
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 2: keep naming athletes and rappers Rick Cross with the wingstops,

1416
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Stuff like that shows me like, man,

1417
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 2: this is just the beginning, and I'm slowly starting to

1418
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 2: not rub shoulders with them, but I'm at least being

1419
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 2: noticed that I can do this same to the same

1420
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 2: level that they're doing it. And so that's that's the

1421
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 2: next goal. Like, man, I'm trying to be rich rich,

1422
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to show people you can be rich

1423
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 2: rich as well.

1424
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think you like the art of

1425
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:54,679
Speaker 1: making money more than you like spending, which I align

1426
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: with a lot, Like I don't really do nothing with money.

1427
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 1: It's like flipping it. Man.

1428
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 2: People, if you are around me and hung around me,

1429
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 2: you will probably think I'm broke because I don't eat

1430
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 2: expensive meals. I don't wear expensive clothes, I don't drive

1431
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 2: an expensive car. I could, but I just yea Man's

1432
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 2: what's the point?

1433
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know? Yeah, well you know what I will

1434
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: say though, you know you may be a late bloomer

1435
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: in that area. You know what I'm saying. You may

1436
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: hang out with your golf buddies and say, watches the

1437
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:27,480
Speaker 1: treat myself.

1438
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 2: And that's the cars that they have.

1439
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 1: Man, And that's so cool. Though. You know it's okay

1440
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 1: to like show love to yourself. Skyler. I can't thank

1441
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: you enough. We never shoot on Sundays, just so you know.

1442
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: You know you are special. You are very special. And

1443
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,759
Speaker 1: I loved every bit of this interview. There's one hundred

1444
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 1: percent inspiring. I'm hoping I can keep your number. I'm

1445
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: gonna put off for sure. And then where can everybody

1446
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: keep up with Skyler paycheck and also have the opportunity

1447
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: to go into one of your franchise stores.

1448
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, so for sure, if you are ever in the

1449
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 2: Dallas Fort Worth metric, please hit me up, shoot me

1450
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 2: a DM on ig TikTok wherever pull up. I give

1451
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 2: you the address and the addresses of all of them

1452
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 2: is on my ig by the way my ig is

1453
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 2: I M Skylar B I A M s K y

1454
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 2: l E r B not a E and then all

1455
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 2: my other platforms, TikTok, YouTube, all of that is Skyler, paycheck,

1456
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 2: s K y l E r P A y c

1457
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:27,799
Speaker 2: h e c K.

1458
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: And then just a last I can see a lot

1459
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 1: of people watching this interview saying like, is there a

1460
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:37,200
Speaker 1: chance to get Skylar to mentor me? What's there to

1461
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 1: come in regards to your mentorship. I know you're starting

1462
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: to push out more content promoting that everyone can do this,

1463
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:45,719
Speaker 1: but is there a plan or is there a way?

1464
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: Do people just DM you? How does that hold?

1465
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 2: So I definitely get a lot of d ms about

1466
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,760
Speaker 2: mentorship this and that. That kind of goes back to

1467
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 2: what you were saying about who's really serious and who's not,

1468
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 2: you know, But I do get a lot of that,

1469
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 2: And I'm still learning, you know, I'm still learning how

1470
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 2: to where do I put my time? Like how do

1471
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 2: I talk to this group of individuals? How do I

1472
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 2: do this? How do I do that? So I'm still

1473
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 2: learning on the curve, you know what I mean. I

1474
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 2: spent so much time with my head down and I'm

1475
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 2: kind of playing ketchup on this on this end of things,

1476
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 2: you know, so, but I'm open. So if you have

1477
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 2: any advice or anything you want to tell me, please

1478
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 2: let me know. I love to learn. I'm a host.

1479
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: I love to learn. I feel like we'll be learning

1480
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 1: from each other. And then are you going to start

1481
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: doing speaking engagements you think? Are you? Have you considered it?

1482
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: Or is this like what no?

1483
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 2: I would love to I've done a few here and there,

1484
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 2: but again, I'm kind of learning that in so I

1485
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 2: just I don't know. I guess I need to talk

1486
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 2: to the right people to be able to do that

1487
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 2: or you know, but I'm I would love to learn.

1488
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 2: It's just about doing it.

1489
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: And then how far off are you or like, what's

1490
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 1: your timeline to get to that twenty five?

1491
01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 2: I think it all depends. It depends on which I

1492
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 2: want to go. Do I want to keep cause like

1493
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 2: last year two thousands before I opened up two stores,

1494
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 2: so that was a new goal for me. That was

1495
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 2: a new milestone for me. So I don't know if

1496
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 2: maybe next year open three when I open one this year,

1497
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 2: or I can go to route where I'm trying to

1498
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 2: acquire a few that are already existing, or do I

1499
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 2: want to hop in a financial group and do it

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Speaker 2: as a group. There's so many things that I'm thinking

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01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 2: of of which way I want to go, and.

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01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: Would you be open to would you be open to

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01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 1: another franchise outside of Smoothie King.

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01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 2: I thought about it. You know, it just has to

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01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 2: make sense for me. But no, I'm definitely not against it.

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01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:42,759
Speaker 2: It's just about finding which one works for me. And yeah,

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01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 2: so yeah, no, I'm definitely open for that as well.

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01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: And then what's your favorite smoothie? These are just randoms.

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01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm no, No, You're good.

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01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 2: You're good. So I usually do the Collagen Pineapple kl

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01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 2: so and I put a little ginger and mangos in there.

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01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 2: So it's going to have pineapples, it's going to have spinach,

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01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 2: it's going to have kal it's going to have the Banngo.

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01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,639
Speaker 2: So it's a nice Yeah, it's a really good movie.

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01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 2: And another one I'll usually get because I get to

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01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 2: every time I'm at any store in the morning time.

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01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 2: I'm going to get that for my breakfast and then

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01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 2: when I leave for like lunch, I'm going to do

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01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 2: a peanut Power and that's more like a chocolate peanut

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01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 2: butter kind.

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01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 1: Of smooth, but can you take a lot of can

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01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 1: you taste a lot of the peanut butter?

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01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 2: You know, people are interesting about peanut butter.

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01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: Some people a peanut butter.

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01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 2: Some people will say a little, some people say a lot.

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01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 1: You know.

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01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 2: I think it just boils down to taste buds, like bananas.

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01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 2: Some people, if it's just a little banana, could be

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01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 2: about that big and they'll be like it's too much banana,

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01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 2: and some people get extra. So I think it just

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01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:46,240
Speaker 2: goes down to taste buds everyone has.

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01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 1: And are you using those and meal replacements because you say.

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01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, okay, replacements. So so that's the I

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01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:54,919
Speaker 2: guess the perk of smoothie king. I get free smoothies,

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01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm making money while doing it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, thank you for tuning in, Just

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Speaker 1: so you know, a sidebar note, Well, you know what,

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01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: thank you guys for tuning in. We really appreciate you

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01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 1: guys listening. Check out Skylar paycheck on all social media platforms.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for this dish, oh for sure. Peace out, guys,