WEBVTT - SKYLER PAYCHECK - One Smoothe Move At A Time

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a

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<v Speaker 1>very special guest. I'm very excited about this guest because

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<v Speaker 1>I traditionally have like a little bit of a bias

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<v Speaker 1>against younger folk. But this this is Skyler Paycheck, entrepreneur, franchisee,

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<v Speaker 1>owner of Smoothie King for franchises. Let's go self made.

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously he's on the show. We are about to eat

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<v Speaker 1>an Eating while Broke dish. But I'm really excited to

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<v Speaker 1>have you food all the way down from Texas. Yes,

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

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<v Speaker 1>we can all learn how to potentially own a Smoothie

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<v Speaker 1>King franchise. But you also do other stuff outside typical entrepreneur.

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<v Speaker 1>What other businesses do you have?

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<v Speaker 2>I got my hands in everything, franchises in the stock market,

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

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<v Speaker 2>I'm always finding ways to make money. That's why I'm

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<v Speaker 2>here to educate you guys on how to make money

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<v Speaker 2>as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that why your name is Skyler Paycheck? Hey?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I'm all about that paycheck.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Man, We're keeping it real simple, real broke. So we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna have tacos with beans, Mexican rice. We're gonna have

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<v Speaker 2>a little avocado. You gotta have the Friedo's. You gotta

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<v Speaker 2>crunch those in there with the saucer, real broken.

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<v Speaker 1>And you got some avocado, you.

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

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, but you know what I've learned, even on

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<v Speaker 1>this show, you can actually eat healthy on a budget.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm glad you threw some avocado in there. I

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

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<v Speaker 1>but I was in the store asking like, is Friedo's

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<v Speaker 1>like a special term? Are we talking Frido's chips? And

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<v Speaker 1>then I actually had to like Google. I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I ain't seen fredos in so long.

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<v Speaker 2>Got in there.

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

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<v Speaker 1>then he has the corn. Is the corn tortillas usually used?

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

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<v Speaker 2>It's all good.

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<v Speaker 1>I love flower tortillas. But I was up in the store,

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<v Speaker 1>asking people like were you people go better with his tacos?

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Gotta add to olive oil.

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<v Speaker 1>And then he's got the refried beans on the stove.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's no meat, is there? Is there no meat

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

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<v Speaker 2>No meat because I'm vegan man la la style vegan

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<v Speaker 2>oka And yeah, I've been like that for quite some

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<v Speaker 2>time now actually, and so yeah, man, it's all about

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<v Speaker 2>health reasons and I'll get into that later on down

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<v Speaker 2>the line. Certain things happen in my life to make

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<v Speaker 2>make me go vegan.

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<v Speaker 1>And how long have you been vegan for?

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<v Speaker 2>And I've been vegan for about twelve years.

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

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<v Speaker 2>It's a lone part of my life. But but I

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<v Speaker 2>mean he's starting early. Yeah, it's it's because it's very

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<v Speaker 2>important again, health reasons in my family and everything like that.

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<v Speaker 2>So I have to get to it.

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<v Speaker 1>So just because you're young, I want a good picture

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<v Speaker 1>of your family life. How many siblings, parents, married, divorced, so.

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<v Speaker 2>My parents are married. Rest in peace to my mom.

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

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<v Speaker 2>My parents were married, and I have two siblings. Rest

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<v Speaker 2>in peace to one of my brothers as well. And

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<v Speaker 2>we'll get into.

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<v Speaker 1>All that lady trauma going on here.

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<v Speaker 2>Say it was not easy. Let me tell y'all. Nothing

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<v Speaker 2>comes easy. And even though you get knocked down, you

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<v Speaker 2>gotta get back up and you gotta keep going.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. So, so you have two siblings living right now.

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<v Speaker 2>So one's living in one of them. He's no longer here.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so you and your pops now.

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<v Speaker 2>Well me, my pop's in one of my other brothers,

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<v Speaker 2>my oldest brother.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, so you your pop okay, got it? Got it? Wow? Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're starting out right out the gates. Okay, So

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<v Speaker 1>take me back to what was going on during this dish.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is this is high school scholar here, and

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean by that is I always again been

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<v Speaker 2>about that check. I always been about that money. So

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<v Speaker 2>back in high school, I had the same mentality I

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<v Speaker 2>have now. I had it all the way. Back in

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<v Speaker 2>high school, I was a straight hustler the legal way.

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<v Speaker 2>I was the person in school that was selling CDs,

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<v Speaker 2>I was selling candy. I would buy shoes water shoes

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<v Speaker 2>to school, have everyone saying, man, no, shoes look nice.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I would sell them to them and go buy

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<v Speaker 2>more shoes.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, but how are you selling them to mark them

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<v Speaker 1>up if they could buy them from the store.

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<v Speaker 2>So I look at it this way. I had to

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<v Speaker 2>fly your shoes, you know what I mean, the shoes

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<v Speaker 2>that you can't get in them all, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. So I was doing that, and this is

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<v Speaker 2>the big part. While all of this was going on,

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<v Speaker 2>I also created a music group and so I was

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<v Speaker 2>the creator of that. We would sell CDs there. We

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<v Speaker 2>did R and B slash rap kind of like pretty

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<v Speaker 2>Ricky Alls. So we were doing that. But the biggest

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<v Speaker 2>thing is we were throwing parties. We had merch. So

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<v Speaker 2>we were doing.

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<v Speaker 1>All in high school.

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<v Speaker 2>All in high school.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, is this when you had a dual.

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<v Speaker 2>Parent home or yeah, dual parent home?

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<v Speaker 1>So how are your parents handling like their hustling son?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you keeping your grades up?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Kid? Oh yeah, my mama was a principal, so

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<v Speaker 2>yeah yeah, and so yeah the school the principal in

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<v Speaker 2>the same district. So I was gonna say, yeah, all

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<v Speaker 2>the all the principals knew about my mom and everything

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<v Speaker 2>like that. So yeah, education was a must in the household.

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<v Speaker 2>And yeah, they were chill about it because again I

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<v Speaker 2>kept my grades up and I'm a good kid, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. So I never got in trouble.

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<v Speaker 2>And so, no, I'm the youngest, I'm the youngest.

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<v Speaker 1>You're the youngest.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, so yeah, I'm the I'm the youngest kid.

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<v Speaker 1>Where does this entrepreneur but come from, because usually, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it comes from my pops. My pops was

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

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<v Speaker 2>He's the man when it comes to hustling and and

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<v Speaker 2>and just knowing people. He knew everybody in the in

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<v Speaker 2>the city.

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

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<v Speaker 1>not yeah, it's not you hot to turn that you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we taking you all the way back to last then

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<v Speaker 1>things look like they just soaking up. Just turn it

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<v Speaker 1>all the way up, man. Yeah right there, Okay, so continue,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, you're trying to save you so.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I'm paying attention to my dad as I grow up

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<v Speaker 2>as a kid, and again everyone in the city of

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<v Speaker 2>Dallas knew him. So he he worked for Social Security.

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<v Speaker 2>But here's the kicker. He was also a movie credit

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<v Speaker 2>on K one O four FM out in Dallas, so

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<v Speaker 2>the biggest rap station in the in the Metroplex. He

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<v Speaker 2>was also a movie credit there, so he knew a

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<v Speaker 2>movie critic. So think of it like a food critic,

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<v Speaker 2>but you but you do movies.

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<v Speaker 1>But he was at a radio station doing that.

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<v Speaker 2>So he would he didn't work for the radio station,

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

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<v Speaker 2>so he would call up there and he would review,

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<v Speaker 2>review movies and all of that good stuff. So as

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<v Speaker 2>a kid, you just pay attention to all those little things.

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<v Speaker 2>And my dad was actually a pivotal part in helping

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<v Speaker 2>me as well on my journey.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so you saw him do that. Now he did

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<v Speaker 1>the movie critic as his own thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, as his own thing. The other hustles, oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>for sure. Man. My dad was kind of just like me,

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<v Speaker 2>just always hustling, always just finding the way. He would

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<v Speaker 2>throw boat parties, swing out parties.

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<v Speaker 1>He and you would see him do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Uh so I would see him do it and

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<v Speaker 2>It's one of those things he never never necessarily taught me.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>I made these a little but that's all.

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

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<v Speaker 1>but it's about to get hot. You got time.

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<v Speaker 2>But my point in saying all this is that was

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<v Speaker 2>just kind of like the beginning of beginning of everything

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<v Speaker 2>as far as man, this this one just thinks, but

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

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<v Speaker 2>kind of the startup thing. So music ended up kind

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<v Speaker 2>of fizzling out, and so at this point, I was

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<v Speaker 2>telling myself, Okay, plan a was always to get a

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<v Speaker 2>big record deal like everybody and buy a franchise from there,

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<v Speaker 2>because this is something that I've always wanted to do.

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<v Speaker 2>So all my days, I always said I was going

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<v Speaker 2>to own a wingstop. And it's a whole funny story

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<v Speaker 2>to that bottle way. But all my friends and everybody

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<v Speaker 2>already knew that. So again, the music's kind of fizzling out.

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<v Speaker 2>Things don't work our way. So I end up telling

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<v Speaker 2>my dad, like, hey, I want to own a franchise?

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<v Speaker 2>What do I need to do to get there? And

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<v Speaker 2>my dad was saying, Hey, I know the perfect person

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<v Speaker 2>for you, because again he networks with everybody. So he said,

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<v Speaker 2>I know somebody at Wingstop. I want you to go

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<v Speaker 2>talk to him. So he sets up the meeting.

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<v Speaker 1>And how old are you at the time?

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<v Speaker 2>I am, what seventeen?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay? So your dad's taking you very serious something like

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<v Speaker 1>that because.

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<v Speaker 2>He always knew. I was always a person again with money,

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<v Speaker 2>so he knew.

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<v Speaker 1>And what were you doing with the money though? You

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<v Speaker 1>were just reinvesting in.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Like this meal. I ate this meal the other day

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<v Speaker 2>because I never want to go broke. So I am.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't spend a lot on close. I don't spend

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<v Speaker 2>a lot on anything really okay.

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<v Speaker 1>I like that. So you're not like flashy cars, flashy

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<v Speaker 1>any of that. Wow. So and then I would assume

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<v Speaker 1>based on that your credit is really good too. What school?

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>that secure credit card. Spend They're going to give you

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<v Speaker 2>like a two hundred three hundred dollars limit. Once you

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<v Speaker 2>get that secure credit card, keep it at about ten percent.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't go any higher than ten percent. Pay that bill

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<v Speaker 2>on time. Never let any interest build up. That credit

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<v Speaker 2>is going to go up over time.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>But so at the so back to the Wingstop things.

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<v Speaker 2>So my dad only takes me there. I sit there

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<v Speaker 2>and talk to the dude. Little little did I know

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<v Speaker 2>that not only is he a franchise owner for Wingstop,

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<v Speaker 2>but he is the actual person that bought franchising to

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<v Speaker 2>the company. So oh yeah, so yeah, he's a he's

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<v Speaker 2>a Wingstop og.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So he's talking to me, He's telling me what I

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<v Speaker 2>need to do. I got a notepad. I'm writing everything down.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm taking notes on everything that I need to do

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<v Speaker 2>to become a franchise on it. So he says, once

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<v Speaker 2>you get that done, come back and talk to me.

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<v Speaker 2>I say, cool. So this is where things start to

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<v Speaker 2>get This is where things starts to get interesting, and

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<v Speaker 2>this is where the journey really starts. I end up

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<v Speaker 2>having a job because now I'm trying to make money

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<v Speaker 2>and get this franchise. I work at co Hunter. You

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<v Speaker 2>know what co hunt is? Okay, So co Hunt is

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<v Speaker 2>a shoe store. It's kind of like middle tier. Is

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<v Speaker 2>not necessarily Gucci, Louie and all of that, but it's

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like middle tier. So I go to and

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<v Speaker 2>I get the job, and everything's going good. It's nothing big,

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<v Speaker 2>just a little part time job. But my manager tells me,

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<v Speaker 2>we get fifteen vouchers to where we can buy shoes

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<v Speaker 2>for really cheap. So say, these three hundred and four

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<v Speaker 2>hundred dollars shoes, you can get them for forty dollars. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>keep in mind, but you have to of course work there. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Keep in mind, I'm a hustler. So I'm looking at

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<v Speaker 2>these vouchers and I'm saying, I'm gonna bodies and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna sell them online. So I create an eBay and

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<v Speaker 2>Amazon account. So I'm selling these shoes for really cheap,

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<v Speaker 2>making a great profit. My boss calls me in one

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<v Speaker 2>day and he fires me on the spot. He had

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<v Speaker 2>a whole, a whole trail of everything I was doing

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<v Speaker 2>on eBay and Amazon. So at this point I'm in

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<v Speaker 2>a rut. O my back is against the wall. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>starting to lose money. Yeah, and one thing about me,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm sure you can agree, nobody likes to see

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<v Speaker 2>their bank account go backwards. So all of my different

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<v Speaker 2>business accounts and everything, anytime I see it going this way,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like.

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<v Speaker 1>You kept all your businesses separate, all of them separate, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>got it? And then I'm just curissed. Do you keep

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<v Speaker 1>them in separate bank account banks too, or just separate accounts.

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<v Speaker 2>Separate accounts, separate accounts, same bank, same bank. So h man,

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<v Speaker 2>this is gonna be a tostado.

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<v Speaker 1>It looks good. You gotta make the other ones like

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<v Speaker 1>more fry though, Yeah, nah.

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<v Speaker 2>For sure, for sure. Let me put a few more

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<v Speaker 2>on you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, save yourself, all right, continue with your.

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<v Speaker 2>Story, all right. So look, I'm in a rut. My

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<v Speaker 2>back is against the wall. I'm like, I gotta make

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<v Speaker 2>something shake because I'm not making no money. I'm trying

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<v Speaker 2>to figure things out. But I know that Skyler, you're

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<v Speaker 2>already a hustler. You already do this for a living.

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<v Speaker 2>Just do it to the next level. So I take

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<v Speaker 2>some time. I take about two to three weeks and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm researching like crazy, like what can I flip? What

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<v Speaker 2>can I sell? I already got the eBay and Mamazon account, going,

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<v Speaker 2>what do I need to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Now back up a second, when you did the eBay

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<v Speaker 1>and Amazon account. Now, I'm not a digital girl, really

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<v Speaker 1>was there a little bit of a learning curve doing

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<v Speaker 1>those businesses too.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not really that hard like they And it started

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<v Speaker 2>from me, you going back to high school selling shoes.

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<v Speaker 2>I would just sell some of my U shoes on

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<v Speaker 2>eBay and you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know people will buy it.

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<v Speaker 2>So I already kind of know the system. So I'm

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<v Speaker 2>researching on the internet. I'm spending weeks figuring out what

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<v Speaker 2>do people want, what do people need, and where is

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<v Speaker 2>their angle for me to get in with eBay and Amazon,

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<v Speaker 2>something that's not too oversaturated, something to where I can

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<v Speaker 2>make some money. So I figure it out. I'm doing

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<v Speaker 2>trial and error, and one thing that sticks out to

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<v Speaker 2>me a lot is micro s D cards.

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<v Speaker 1>At the time, so holy count your okay gone, so

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<v Speaker 1>holy cow, all right gone.

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<v Speaker 2>So I start with just ten ten micro SD cards

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<v Speaker 2>and they in the first day, So I'm like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>that did good. I ended up getting thirty and thirty

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<v Speaker 2>sold in a day. And keep in mind, I did

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<v Speaker 2>all of this so tiny, so tiny, so tiny, but

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<v Speaker 2>everybody needs them. Hell yeah them right.

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<v Speaker 1>So you purposely look for something small at a lower

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<v Speaker 1>price point.

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<v Speaker 2>Something lower price point, and again something that people want

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<v Speaker 2>and something that people need, like every day essentials.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and so that looks a little too old, Vinyl.

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<v Speaker 1>Your story is better than your cooking.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Hey, by the way, I can't cook for nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>Just let me just say that. Okay, But so that's going.

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<v Speaker 2>So thirty goes to one hundred, and then I keep

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<v Speaker 2>going to the point to where it's so good that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm selling about a thousand and two weeks, so money

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<v Speaker 2>is coming in. So that's income source number one right there.

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<v Speaker 2>And I want to walk out through every source of

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<v Speaker 2>income that I had to get to where I got

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<v Speaker 2>to so that y'all can know how to do it

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<v Speaker 2>as well. So that's income source number one going. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>remember I told you about stocks. I didn't know anything

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<v Speaker 2>about stocks, so I didn't know anything about stocks. But

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<v Speaker 2>I'm looking at it like continue, I'm I want to

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<v Speaker 2>get into stocks. I don't know anything about stocks, but

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<v Speaker 2>I look at it like, Okay, I got this business going,

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<v Speaker 2>I got money to blow, so let me get into

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<v Speaker 2>the market. And so what I do is I just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of take a leap of faith and I just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of start investing a little bit. So all I

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<v Speaker 2>do is Amazon, Apple, Intesla.

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<v Speaker 1>Stuff that you're using smart that's that's that's all.

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<v Speaker 2>That's all I do. And I look at it like

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<v Speaker 2>worst case scenario. I make a little bit of money

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<v Speaker 2>out of it. So what happens is and by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>this is something that I want. Just our culture, just

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<v Speaker 2>minorities in general. Our parents aren't teaching us these things, like,

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<v Speaker 2>so I think the younger generation, like us, we're doing

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<v Speaker 2>better with kids and teaching kids. But like my parents,

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<v Speaker 2>they just went went to work, did their thing. But

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know about all of this.

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<v Speaker 1>And they probably didn't know. It's not like if they knew,

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<v Speaker 1>they would definitely, you know, right, all right, So go

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<v Speaker 1>back to the stocks. So you invest in these stocks,

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<v Speaker 1>but the way you've iron it out in your head

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<v Speaker 1>is like worst case, I'm not going to make that

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<v Speaker 1>a high profit, but I'm at least investing in the

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<v Speaker 1>things that I know correct that people buy.

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<v Speaker 2>So Amma's you fast forward a little bit of time,

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<v Speaker 2>Amazon and Apple is doing really good, and I wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>thinking long term. So this drives me crazy to this

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<v Speaker 2>day that I ended up selling my Amazon and my

0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.080
<v Speaker 2>Apple and it would be worth so much money right now.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's all good.

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<v Speaker 1>But you never got on the bitcoin phrase.

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<v Speaker 2>We for sure. I'm on bitcoin too. I can definitely

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<v Speaker 2>get to that.

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<v Speaker 1>As well, So I don't want to skip around.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So you're.

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<v Speaker 1>Selling the SD cards and you're making profit, and you're

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<v Speaker 1>you're doing the whole thing where you're like going to

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<v Speaker 1>the do you buy them wholesale? You found a place

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<v Speaker 1>to buy them wholesale? And then you're going to the

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<v Speaker 1>mail every day and shipping these babos, shipping.

0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.600
<v Speaker 2>Them straight from from the post office. So getting getting

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<v Speaker 2>the labels on eBay because eBay they eBay and Amazon

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<v Speaker 2>they do all that for you. All you gotta do

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<v Speaker 2>is print out the label after you sell it, Just

0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.199
<v Speaker 2>print out the label, ship it off. That's so crazy,

0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.800
<v Speaker 2>that's it. So that that money's coming in. Now, let

0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.320
<v Speaker 2>me get the Tesla because this is where things get crazy.

0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.680
<v Speaker 2>So I hold on to it because it's not making

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<v Speaker 2>the money that Apple and Amazon is making so and

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<v Speaker 2>plus I like the Tesla cars, and so I hold

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<v Speaker 2>on to it. And I'm noticing over time like this

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<v Speaker 2>keeps going up. Like I got in it was only

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<v Speaker 2>like one ninety eight at the time, it keeps going

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<v Speaker 2>up and up and up, and next thing, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred goes to three hundred, four hundred, five hundred,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's getting close to one thousand. So as this

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<v Speaker 2>is going on, I get I get a news alert

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<v Speaker 2>and it says Tesla is doing a five for one

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<v Speaker 2>stock split. Do you know? Do you know? Okay? So

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<v Speaker 2>a stock split basically means a stock price is gonna

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<v Speaker 2>get so high like Tesla was in the thousands.

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<v Speaker 1>Ye.

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<v Speaker 2>So to make it more affordable for the everyday person,

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna give the people that already bought in, We're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna give y'all five shares for each one. So say

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<v Speaker 2>you have thirty shares, right, So, say you have thirty

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<v Speaker 2>shares of Tesla. After that stock split, you wake up

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<v Speaker 2>the next morning, you're gonna have one hundred and fifty.

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<v Speaker 1>Holy cow.

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<v Speaker 2>So the value stays the same, everything stays the same,

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<v Speaker 2>but now you have more shares, and now the price

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<v Speaker 2>drops back down for the everyday average person.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So is that good or is it bad?

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<v Speaker 2>No? That's amazing, amazing for you, especially because now instead

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<v Speaker 2>of thirty shares, now you have.

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<v Speaker 1>One fifty, and now they're worth a little less.

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<v Speaker 2>No, they're worth the same thing. Yeah, it's just a

0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.680
<v Speaker 2>stock basically buying more damn right about more stocks. So

0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.520
<v Speaker 2>now I have a whole bunch of shares and I

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<v Speaker 2>continuing to buy more. So nonetheless, that's income source number two. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so I got the eBay Amazon, and I got the

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<v Speaker 2>stock the stock portfolio buility.

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<v Speaker 1>And then how are you paying your bills? Are you

0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.119
<v Speaker 1>still living at home? Are you being frugal? What are you? Oh?

0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm being very very And then.

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<v Speaker 1>Your pops and everybody's watching. Are they taking notes? Are

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<v Speaker 1>they are they watching or they they doing they mimicking?

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<v Speaker 2>No, they're not, actually that. My pops is kind of

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<v Speaker 2>more old school, you know what I mean. So I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just kind of doing my thing. Just just with that.

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<v Speaker 2>With all of that, so that's two sources of income.

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<v Speaker 2>So all that's making money. And I just so happened

0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.680
<v Speaker 2>to once again be with my dad. He's a hardcore

0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.000
<v Speaker 2>sports fan, Mavericks, Cowboys, you name it. By the way,

0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm hurt that the Lakers got Luca. Let me just

0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.919
<v Speaker 2>say that on camera. I didn't like that trade, but

0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.320
<v Speaker 2>it is what it is. So I go with him

0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.840
<v Speaker 2>because he's renewing his season tickets because he's a season

0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.160
<v Speaker 2>ticket hole for Mavericks. So I'm just there and at

0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.560
<v Speaker 2>the time, you could just pick the seats, like you

0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.679
<v Speaker 2>can just grab a paper and pick the seats. So

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<v Speaker 2>when I'm looking around, I'm like, man, like, I see

0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.280
<v Speaker 2>some seats that's close to court side. Let me look

0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.240
<v Speaker 2>at the price of these. So I'm looking at the

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<v Speaker 2>price of them. Not necessarily court side, but they're a

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<v Speaker 2>little further back to where say you're on a date

0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:05.879
<v Speaker 2>and a dude takes you on a date and he

0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.760
<v Speaker 2>want a stunt or save you on Instagram, right, you

0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.720
<v Speaker 2>don'na feel good? So I'm looking. I'm like, let me

0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.320
<v Speaker 2>get those seats. So I see seats too. It was

0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:20.560
<v Speaker 2>first time. I'm all about risk, So I see, I

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<v Speaker 2>see those seats. Oh man, all right, So I see

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<v Speaker 2>those yo? I did? I did? So I see those seats, right,

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<v Speaker 2>and you are.

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<v Speaker 1>You ready to sit with me? Or what? Let's let's

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<v Speaker 1>did you want to play these or do whatever with me?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, let's do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's do What do we have to do? Is hot?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? So take us to how we're doing this?

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<v Speaker 1>What are we doing?

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<v Speaker 2>All right?

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<v Speaker 1>I take a taco.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you can take whichever one I know at Okay,

0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:54.840
<v Speaker 2>you want to go Crispy.

0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.439
<v Speaker 1>I want to go Crispy. Okay, all right, there, I

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<v Speaker 1>got my two tacos. All right, did you do three?

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<v Speaker 2>Go here, go for it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not taking a little I'm taking all your best ones.

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<v Speaker 2>No, you're good.

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<v Speaker 1>Here we go, three tacos. What do we do next?

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<v Speaker 2>All right, So we're gonna get the beans and then well,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll let you do the beans.

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<v Speaker 1>You tell me how to do it, all right, because.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you like a lot a little.

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<v Speaker 1>I've never done this before. I'm doing it the way

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<v Speaker 1>you eat at home, all right. All right, So we

0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:26.480
<v Speaker 1>got the beans on it, so.

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<v Speaker 2>You just want to kind of mash those in.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is what you be doing at home.

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<v Speaker 2>Yo, straight up. But I do flour. So it's a little,

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit bigger, a little bit easier.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh the bigger taco.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. But now we're gonna rock with this though.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, we got the tacos, all right, No

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<v Speaker 1>cheese because we're vegan.

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<v Speaker 2>No cheese because we're vegan. Okay, all right, so do

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<v Speaker 2>we have us?

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<v Speaker 1>They play us shout outs to the producers today.

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<v Speaker 2>I just want a little bit of rice.

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<v Speaker 1>There you go, Spanish rice for a reason.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean Spanish rice is just clutch. I mean Cilantro

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<v Speaker 2>was cool too, but Spanish rice is.

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<v Speaker 1>Now all right. So now I'm hungry.

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<v Speaker 2>Now we can do you want some avocados? Are they

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<v Speaker 2>so risky? You like? I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll do it all right, No, man, some of them

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<v Speaker 1>look risky. Nah that look that looks let me see

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<v Speaker 1>you really nice skylet I'm gonna tell you right now,

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<v Speaker 1>you're not going for it. Yeah, yeah, I'll skip the avocado.

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<v Speaker 1>How is guys? He's not an a that has a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>Of All right, I'm gonna do a little bit of saucer.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe you even did that. No, they look sketch.

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<v Speaker 2>You wanta saucer?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? All right, them avocados look, I don't know. It's

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<v Speaker 1>nice to know you're not a Oh I'm spilling this.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing a really bad Nah.

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<v Speaker 2>You good? You could all right? Then you gotta get

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<v Speaker 2>a little Frido's to get that, to get that crunch.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I thought you were gonna crunch it, crunch it.

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<v Speaker 2>I do that as well, But again it's it's it's

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<v Speaker 2>so small.

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<v Speaker 1>The taco shell. Yeah, okay, I just recently started eating

0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:39.760
<v Speaker 1>chips on sandwiches after eating all broke because someone didn't

0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:46.200
<v Speaker 1>on the show. I can't remember who. Okay, taco tasting time. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we got the beans, Spanish rice, freedo, crunchy tortilla, tacoma.

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<v Speaker 2>Let you go first.

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<v Speaker 1>This is amazing, is it? Really? That's what's I would

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<v Speaker 1>totally eat these. Do you know all they're vegan haacks?

0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:09.359
<v Speaker 1>Because this is good. I mean a few, A few

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes is amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes when I really want to get fool, this might

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<v Speaker 2>be too much for you. But I have some fries

0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.320
<v Speaker 2>and I do it like burrito style, and I put

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<v Speaker 2>some fries in there too, so it's like potatoes, beans, rice,

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<v Speaker 2>fri doos.

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<v Speaker 1>You can do that. If I did that, I turned

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<v Speaker 1>into Ooper loop. But I could do this in a

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<v Speaker 1>burrito right. But you know what makes this is the

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<v Speaker 1>the friedos.

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<v Speaker 2>So y'all don't sleep on the crunch. It's what makes it.

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<v Speaker 1>I have one question, because I'm gonna eat two guys.

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<v Speaker 1>Why why are the fredos in another chip?

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<v Speaker 2>The fri doos just taste good with it, like Frido's.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't do much with it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not because they're like special because they're like being

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<v Speaker 1>friendly or something.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, they are vegan friendly, so that's part of it too,

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<v Speaker 2>but they just go with it. FreeDOS just go with it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just one of those things, just mixing it up

0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:11.879
<v Speaker 2>in the kitchen when you when you don't got the

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<v Speaker 2>money and you just scot still laying around and you

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<v Speaker 2>just you just make it work, kind of like you know,

0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:19.960
<v Speaker 2>the big value pack of chips, like the thirty pack.

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<v Speaker 2>The free Doos is always last, so they just kind

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<v Speaker 2>of always sit in the kitchen.

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<v Speaker 1>Dude, they're on the bottom shelf too.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So people be sleeping on them.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm not gonna lie. The Fredos makes this thing work.

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<v Speaker 1>You lucky almost the fos out likes.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm glad you like it, That's what's up.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna finish my tackle before we get back. Then, no,

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<v Speaker 1>you go because the crunch this is really good.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, I'm glad you like it.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to go vegan, but I don't know how

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<v Speaker 1>to you in.

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<v Speaker 2>The Perfect City with.

0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:04.960
<v Speaker 1>Austin or La La good. But I'm gonna be trying

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<v Speaker 1>to do Backhostal and Austin.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean Austin literally is a mini La man. They

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<v Speaker 2>they got so much vegan food.

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<v Speaker 1>And man, okay, so chocolates is a one for those

0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.240
<v Speaker 1>doing it at home. Because of the refried beans, you

0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:31.760
<v Speaker 1>definitely can't go without the salsa, and because of the crunch,

0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:35.200
<v Speaker 1>you can't go without with the friedo. So facts, if

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<v Speaker 1>you do this at home, the best way to enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>this one hundred percent is to do all of the ingredients,

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<v Speaker 1>the Spanish rice, the salsa, the friedo chips, the corner das,

0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:47.560
<v Speaker 1>and the beans. Ten out of ten for vegan.

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<v Speaker 2>You had it without the avocados, that's what's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>And well, you know what, the refried beans kind of

0:26:52.760 --> 0:26:55.719
<v Speaker 1>because avocado and refried beans have the same textures and

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<v Speaker 1>avocado doesn't have that strong of a taste, right, Yeah, honestly,

0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:05.280
<v Speaker 1>you could keep your cow avocado that they had way

0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:08.080
<v Speaker 1>too with brown. Personally, if I would have seen once back,

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<v Speaker 1>it would have been down out.

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<v Speaker 2>That is too funny.

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<v Speaker 1>My daughter eats an avocado with da oh yeah yeah,

0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:15.000
<v Speaker 1>if it was up to her, she eat like four.

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<v Speaker 2>But avocados is what it is, and you can put

0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:21.440
<v Speaker 2>that on anything man salad, you can put in your smoothie,

0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:23.080
<v Speaker 2>you can put it in whatever you want to.

0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:25.920
<v Speaker 1>I feel like, well, I'm going to get to that

0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:28.719
<v Speaker 1>I want when we get to the smoothie era. But

0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:31.359
<v Speaker 1>the part of me feels like you're not judging this

0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:35.560
<v Speaker 1>because you're in the smoothie business. Like you don't judge markings.

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<v Speaker 2>On fruit bananas, you will probably lose your shit.

0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:39.919
<v Speaker 1>But banana's the sweeter.

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<v Speaker 2>They are seeing a lot of customers they see that

0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:45.960
<v Speaker 2>and they're like, what is that. I don't want that banana.

0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:47.800
<v Speaker 2>I'll be trying to explain to them, like, no.

0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:50.280
<v Speaker 1>They're better that way. But I also have a rule.

0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:53.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm Jamaican. My mom raised us. If it doesn't look

0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:54.840
<v Speaker 1>spotty and all that, it's not right.

0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:55.560
<v Speaker 2>That's not right.

0:27:55.600 --> 0:27:58.680
<v Speaker 1>And so even my daughter shows, I'm like, girl, that's

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<v Speaker 1>the only way you want to eat a banana unless

0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:03.680
<v Speaker 1>you want to eat a nasty exactly and smoothie. Your

0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:04.760
<v Speaker 1>banana has to.

0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:08.400
<v Speaker 2>Look exactly freckled facts.

0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:10.520
<v Speaker 1>And you know that's the same for like banana.

0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:12.639
<v Speaker 2>Bread and banana bread. Yeah, that's what I always try

0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:14.560
<v Speaker 2>to explain. I'm like, have you ever made banana bread

0:28:14.800 --> 0:28:16.800
<v Speaker 2>like you don't want.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't want to know, yo, non inspect of bananas.

0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:23.520
<v Speaker 1>But we're not talking about how to make a smoothie.

0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:26.320
<v Speaker 1>We're talking about how to get a paycheck. Facts with

0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:31.280
<v Speaker 1>Skylar paycheck go. So go back to these season tickets.

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<v Speaker 2>All right. So I basically long story short, I'm in

0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:39.560
<v Speaker 2>the arena. I'm like, I'm gonna take a gamble. I'm

0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:42.240
<v Speaker 2>already making money. I already got two streams of income

0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:45.360
<v Speaker 2>coming in. Let me take this gamble. Worst case you.

0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:48.520
<v Speaker 1>Don't have a day job, just to your two streams,

0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:52.520
<v Speaker 1>but the second stream is delayed. Yes, so the first

0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:53.920
<v Speaker 1>stream is the one you're living off of.

0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:58.800
<v Speaker 2>What the second one. We'll get into that later. There's

0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:00.920
<v Speaker 2>ways where you can make money daily and the stock market,

0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:03.840
<v Speaker 2>but we'll get into all that later. But for the

0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:07.600
<v Speaker 2>time being, yes, it's delayed. So that's kind of sitting there.

0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:10.240
<v Speaker 2>And I got those two streams of income going. So

0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:14.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, again, let me take this gamble. Best case scenario,

0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:18.160
<v Speaker 2>I break even. Worst case scenario, I get to go

0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:20.120
<v Speaker 2>to a bunch of mever games. So I bought those,

0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:22.960
<v Speaker 2>and I thought, and I bought a few other.

0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:26.280
<v Speaker 1>Seats, and what's your dad doing while you're doing the seat, Like, man,

0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:28.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't even need to buy seats because you got enough.

0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:31.640
<v Speaker 2>You know, he bought his own as well, so you know,

0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:33.840
<v Speaker 2>he's just he knows me by now. If I say

0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:36.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to do something, I want something, then I

0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:38.960
<v Speaker 2>like that. You know, he's just like cool. So I

0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:42.000
<v Speaker 2>get those going. So that ends up being really big

0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:42.320
<v Speaker 2>for me.

0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:44.600
<v Speaker 1>Like, people, what do you do with these seats? Walk

0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:45.160
<v Speaker 1>us through it?

0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:50.000
<v Speaker 2>So you can do Facebook, Marketplace obviously, these different tickets

0:29:50.080 --> 0:29:51.800
<v Speaker 2>sites and all of this, and that you just put

0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:53.920
<v Speaker 2>them on there. You put them up higher than the

0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:58.200
<v Speaker 2>value and you're making money. So picture having multiple tickets

0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:01.240
<v Speaker 2>for all season, you know what I mean. And Dallas

0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:03.880
<v Speaker 2>is a huge city, so people love sports over there,

0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:07.400
<v Speaker 2>so people got money in Dallas. So people are buying

0:30:07.400 --> 0:30:11.360
<v Speaker 2>these season tickets easy, and so that's making money. So

0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:15.120
<v Speaker 2>now that's three, three sources of income. So this is

0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.000
<v Speaker 2>where I'm starting to feel like I'm the man. I'm

0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:19.680
<v Speaker 2>starting to feel like I'm good, you know what I mean.

0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:24.000
<v Speaker 2>I got some money, you know what I mean. So

0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:27.840
<v Speaker 2>I tell my dad, I said, hey, let me talk

0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:31.440
<v Speaker 2>to you about franchising again. And he was like, all right,

0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:32.200
<v Speaker 2>I got why.

0:30:32.240 --> 0:30:33.680
<v Speaker 1>I thought you were going to say, like you started

0:30:33.680 --> 0:30:35.000
<v Speaker 1>buying ridiculous things.

0:30:35.200 --> 0:30:40.000
<v Speaker 2>No, I've always yeah, yeah, no, I've always been.

0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:42.360
<v Speaker 1>And how many years are you going from that first

0:30:42.400 --> 0:30:45.000
<v Speaker 1>meeting to the point where you're like, let me pick

0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:46.120
<v Speaker 1>up the franchise ball again.

0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:47.640
<v Speaker 2>So it's about four years.

0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:49.720
<v Speaker 1>Four years wow, So four years of pustling and you

0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:51.040
<v Speaker 1>go revisit.

0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:55.080
<v Speaker 2>And I thought I was doing something, but I was

0:30:55.120 --> 0:30:57.719
<v Speaker 2>nowhere close to being a franchise only yet I'm already

0:30:57.720 --> 0:31:01.480
<v Speaker 2>feeling myself and I'm like, hey, pop, I want a franchise.

0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:03.040
<v Speaker 2>Now I got the money, I'm good.

0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:05.480
<v Speaker 1>So how much money did you think you had at

0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:08.800
<v Speaker 1>the time that was enough to start having that conversation.

0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:14.320
<v Speaker 2>About one hundred grand okay for all your listeners, And

0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:17.160
<v Speaker 2>how old were you at the time. I was, what

0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:21.560
<v Speaker 2>twenty four?

0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:22.280
<v Speaker 1>Okay?

0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:28.720
<v Speaker 2>So so yeah, man, like one hundred grand, everything's good.

0:31:29.640 --> 0:31:31.800
<v Speaker 2>I think I'm someone, I think I'm something.

0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:34.080
<v Speaker 1>I would I would definitely feel that.

0:31:34.480 --> 0:31:37.360
<v Speaker 2>And you know, now one hundred grand isn't much now, but.

0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:41.000
<v Speaker 1>At the time, we're also twenty four. Okay.

0:31:41.360 --> 0:31:44.600
<v Speaker 2>So my dad introduced me to his Fratt brother at

0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:48.200
<v Speaker 2>William's Chicken and He's like, man, I like what you're doing.

0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:51.040
<v Speaker 2>I like everything about you. So he was like, how

0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:53.360
<v Speaker 2>about we do this. How about you do an internship

0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:56.240
<v Speaker 2>and just kind of see and float around the store

0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:58.440
<v Speaker 2>to see if this is what you really want, because

0:31:58.480 --> 0:31:59.960
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people might say they want a frame,

0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:03.959
<v Speaker 2>but they don't know about franchise. So I'm doing that

0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:06.840
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, okay, I can get down with this.

0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:09.640
<v Speaker 2>And about a week or so later, he's like, hey,

0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:11.400
<v Speaker 2>you know what, we have a problem at one of

0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:15.520
<v Speaker 2>these other stores. How about you become a manager and

0:32:16.680 --> 0:32:19.640
<v Speaker 2>this can be the store that you end up owning,

0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:22.320
<v Speaker 2>so you can manage it. Just play like you're the manager,

0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:24.440
<v Speaker 2>and then this can be the store that you own.

0:32:24.680 --> 0:32:26.400
<v Speaker 1>Okay, and then what's the name of this franchise?

0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:27.480
<v Speaker 2>It is Williams Chicken.

0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:30.160
<v Speaker 1>William's Chicken. Again, you jump on the opportunity. You go

0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:34.520
<v Speaker 1>from intern which is free, to manager. And so they

0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:36.800
<v Speaker 1>had senior work ethic or something to say, hey, we

0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:37.320
<v Speaker 1>want to give you.

0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:39.600
<v Speaker 2>I think it was crazy. They must have thought that

0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:42.440
<v Speaker 2>I was some manager or something. So this is the

0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:45.000
<v Speaker 2>crazy part. So let me so let me back up here.

0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:49.720
<v Speaker 2>So I didn't have any manager experience at all. But

0:32:49.960 --> 0:32:52.360
<v Speaker 2>my mindset is like, Okay, I'm not going to tell

0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:56.000
<v Speaker 2>them I don't have any managers, right, so I'm looking

0:32:56.040 --> 0:32:58.040
<v Speaker 2>at it like I'm going to do whatever i need

0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:01.040
<v Speaker 2>to do to get to where I'm going. I'm going

0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:06.120
<v Speaker 2>to learn franchising and management on the fly. So no experience, nothing,

0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:09.000
<v Speaker 2>I take it. So the good thing about it also

0:33:09.200 --> 0:33:12.400
<v Speaker 2>is I need for everyone to understand internship. Let me

0:33:12.400 --> 0:33:14.920
<v Speaker 2>say it on this camera. Don't be afraid to be

0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:17.520
<v Speaker 2>an intern. I know a lot of the younger generation

0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:21.840
<v Speaker 2>they don't want to be interns. They think that nothing

0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:23.760
<v Speaker 2>comes with it. You don't know who you're going to meet,

0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:26.520
<v Speaker 2>you don't know what you're going to learn. Forget if

0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:28.040
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't have any money attached to it.

0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:30.640
<v Speaker 1>But now you're also speaking from the perspective of a

0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:34.440
<v Speaker 1>seasoned entrepreneur. You'll also have residual money coming in. But

0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:36.880
<v Speaker 1>I still agree with you on the sense of that.

0:33:37.400 --> 0:33:39.960
<v Speaker 1>But you know you are talking from the perspective of

0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:42.240
<v Speaker 1>I can take one for the team because I have

0:33:42.360 --> 0:33:44.120
<v Speaker 1>residual businesses.

0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:46.920
<v Speaker 2>Right right, very true, But I do also want to

0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:50.160
<v Speaker 2>make that a lot of people, a lot of people

0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:52.160
<v Speaker 2>they think I'm not going to do this internship. You

0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:54.120
<v Speaker 2>just never internships.

0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:56.560
<v Speaker 1>Hell no, I want to jumped on that internship, especially

0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:58.760
<v Speaker 1>if I'm trying to get into franchising, because you know,

0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:02.280
<v Speaker 1>there's people that go to college never they're like, I'm

0:34:02.280 --> 0:34:04.200
<v Speaker 1>going to go to school to be a lawyer, and

0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:06.040
<v Speaker 1>then they spend all this money and they become a

0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:08.520
<v Speaker 1>lawyer and they realize they don't even like that. So

0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:11.080
<v Speaker 1>internship is definitely a way to go. But I do

0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:13.440
<v Speaker 1>want to emphasize the fact that you put in a

0:34:13.480 --> 0:34:16.160
<v Speaker 1>lot of work to have residual money, so it was

0:34:16.239 --> 0:34:18.480
<v Speaker 1>a lot easier to pursue your dreams when you have

0:34:18.600 --> 0:34:21.360
<v Speaker 1>your residual I'm sure you're still working, but it was

0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:24.840
<v Speaker 1>more residuals. At this point, it's a machine because I'll continue.

0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:26.840
<v Speaker 2>Sorry, no, you're good, You're good. So I look at

0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:29.040
<v Speaker 2>it like I already got those three strings of income coming.

0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:32.640
<v Speaker 2>This is extream number four. I am now a general

0:34:32.680 --> 0:34:36.520
<v Speaker 2>manager getting paid a salary to learn the business. So

0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:39.839
<v Speaker 2>now that's four strings and income. So all that's going on,

0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm learning the system, I'm learning the ropes, and I'm

0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:44.200
<v Speaker 2>a damn good manager.

0:34:44.320 --> 0:34:46.319
<v Speaker 1>And do you love it?

0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:49.040
<v Speaker 2>It's cool? You know what I mean? I love that

0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:53.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm learning, but I realize over time that this might

0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:56.560
<v Speaker 2>not be for me, at least Williams. So I kind

0:34:56.560 --> 0:34:58.879
<v Speaker 2>of start to take a step back and I kind

0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:00.319
<v Speaker 2>of go my own out and.

0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:02.359
<v Speaker 1>Say, you know what made you say it may not

0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:03.000
<v Speaker 1>be for you?

0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:06.400
<v Speaker 2>I think it's just it's cool locally, but I'm thinking

0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:10.600
<v Speaker 2>bigger than that. Okay, So I'm like, I'm gonna do

0:35:10.680 --> 0:35:13.600
<v Speaker 2>something different. So I kind of take a step back

0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:15.719
<v Speaker 2>and I kind of just take that risk and say,

0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:18.320
<v Speaker 2>you know what, I appreciate the experience and I appreciate

0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:21.840
<v Speaker 2>the opportunity, but I'm a pass So remember.

0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:23.680
<v Speaker 1>How soon did you make that decision? Oh?

0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:27.640
<v Speaker 2>No, it was like maybe seven eight, nine months, So

0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:30.720
<v Speaker 2>I definitely put in the work. So remember that Wingstop

0:35:30.840 --> 0:35:32.920
<v Speaker 2>person I told you about I met fresh out of

0:35:32.960 --> 0:35:35.839
<v Speaker 2>high school. I end up getting back in contact with him,

0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:39.719
<v Speaker 2>and when I come back to him, I tell him, Hey,

0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:42.279
<v Speaker 2>do you remember me? Did you told me all this

0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.799
<v Speaker 2>and that? And what's crazy? Is he right? And what's

0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:50.640
<v Speaker 2>crazy is he didn't really remember? But hilarious. But I mean,

0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:53.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure so many people that you know.

0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:55.759
<v Speaker 1>But I love that you came back to him. But

0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:57.759
<v Speaker 1>continue shows a lot of integrity.

0:35:57.920 --> 0:36:00.759
<v Speaker 2>It does. And he was like, I don't remember much

0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:04.160
<v Speaker 2>about our conversation, but man, you have everything, Like on

0:36:04.360 --> 0:36:06.640
<v Speaker 2>why you're killing it. He was like, you are doing

0:36:06.920 --> 0:36:10.920
<v Speaker 2>way better than people your age, and so I'm like yeah.

0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:13.680
<v Speaker 2>So basically he's like, I tell you what I do,

0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.880
<v Speaker 2>and this is where networking and everything is very important

0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:20.560
<v Speaker 2>to everyone listening and watching. He said, how about you

0:36:20.560 --> 0:36:23.920
<v Speaker 2>come work for me and over time, I'll let you

0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:28.640
<v Speaker 2>buy fifty percent of one of my stores. And so,

0:36:28.640 --> 0:36:30.279
<v Speaker 2>so keep in mind this the og that.

0:36:31.200 --> 0:36:34.360
<v Speaker 1>So this is him right up the alley you want.

0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:35.880
<v Speaker 2>And keep in mind this the og that bought franchise

0:36:35.960 --> 0:36:38.680
<v Speaker 2>in two wing stops. Yeah, so he's like, you got

0:36:38.680 --> 0:36:40.960
<v Speaker 2>to think he has all this money, all these millions.

0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:43.160
<v Speaker 1>So he's scarious. What's his race? I hate to be

0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:46.120
<v Speaker 1>that person. He's a black guy. So it's and so

0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:50.239
<v Speaker 1>so totally something you could really exactly exactly.

0:36:50.520 --> 0:36:53.960
<v Speaker 2>You know how they say though, be careful meeting your heroes.

0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:56.640
<v Speaker 2>He wasn't necessarily my hero, but I get into that

0:36:56.640 --> 0:37:00.360
<v Speaker 2>in a minute. But so I'm doing that. I'm like,

0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:05.120
<v Speaker 2>let's get it, like I fifty wingstop, Like, let me

0:37:05.160 --> 0:37:08.600
<v Speaker 2>do it. So I'm working at Wingstop doing the managing stuff,

0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:10.480
<v Speaker 2>and oh, by the way, let me throw this in there.

0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:12.960
<v Speaker 2>He said. Basically, you'll get the fifty percent and then

0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:15.640
<v Speaker 2>you can either buy me out over time for my

0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:18.520
<v Speaker 2>fifty percent, or you can have the fifty percent and

0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:20.959
<v Speaker 2>you can go open up your own wingstop. But rest

0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:23.520
<v Speaker 2>assured I'll be there to help you get that because

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.440
<v Speaker 2>you helped me out, I'm gonna help you out.

0:37:25.520 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 1>Wait. He saw you as helping him.

0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:29.879
<v Speaker 2>Out right, because he was like, you're learning the game,

0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:32.080
<v Speaker 2>but also I need help at one of my stores.

0:37:32.200 --> 0:37:34.960
<v Speaker 1>Got it so okay? And he's now if you think

0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:38.920
<v Speaker 1>about from his perspective, he's it's a smart chess move

0:37:38.960 --> 0:37:42.160
<v Speaker 1>for him because he has an employee slash partner that's

0:37:42.320 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 1>really invested in now exactly got it.

0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:47.719
<v Speaker 2>And that's another way for everyone watching and listening. If

0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:50.959
<v Speaker 2>you don't have the money, there's ways to get into

0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:53.440
<v Speaker 2>the game. There's ways to get into the game to

0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:57.120
<v Speaker 2>where you might not have the money, but find you

0:37:57.160 --> 0:38:01.640
<v Speaker 2>a OG, a season OG that has the money has

0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:06.000
<v Speaker 2>the opportunities to basically get you in the door. You'll

0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:06.840
<v Speaker 2>just be surprised.

0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:10.239
<v Speaker 1>And if you pay attention to your story too, communication

0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:14.440
<v Speaker 1>is key here. Yes, when you're in business for yourself,

0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:18.560
<v Speaker 1>hiring the right people is probably one of the hardest

0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:21.920
<v Speaker 1>and the most riskiest investments you can make. So when

0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:25.239
<v Speaker 1>you get someone that's intentional about working for you that's like, hey,

0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.600
<v Speaker 1>I want to be where you're at, you now know

0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.480
<v Speaker 1>that your investment is a little bit more safer, especially

0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:34.200
<v Speaker 1>if they have the level of integrity that Skyler has,

0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:37.880
<v Speaker 1>where he's like, I did your checklist here, I am anxiety,

0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:40.560
<v Speaker 1>so I'll continue and I'm just recapping with you all

0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:41.319
<v Speaker 1>that good.

0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:46.480
<v Speaker 2>You're good. So over time I'm realizing I'm killing everything

0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:49.840
<v Speaker 2>that he's asking me to do, and I'm checking everything

0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:51.919
<v Speaker 2>off the box. I'm running his store good. I helped

0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:54.960
<v Speaker 2>him open up a brand new store, hired all his staff.

0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:57.040
<v Speaker 2>I just did all of those different things for him.

0:38:57.320 --> 0:39:00.520
<v Speaker 2>But I've noticed as Tom's going, he's not holding his

0:39:00.719 --> 0:39:03.440
<v Speaker 2>end of the of the bargain. So I'm like, I

0:39:03.520 --> 0:39:05.399
<v Speaker 2>almost feel like I'm just working there.

0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:07.840
<v Speaker 1>And his end would be like when you guys have

0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:09.600
<v Speaker 1>that discussion.

0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:10.960
<v Speaker 2>Right, and when I would kind of bring it up,

0:39:11.000 --> 0:39:12.479
<v Speaker 2>he would kind of like, we'll get to it later.

0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:15.560
<v Speaker 2>We'll get to it later. And so I'm like, all right,

0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:18.160
<v Speaker 2>I'll see how this's going. And one thing about me,

0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:21.440
<v Speaker 2>I like to control my own destiny. I don't really

0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:26.160
<v Speaker 2>like when somebody tries to almost like I'm a puppet

0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:27.560
<v Speaker 2>and you're controlling the streams.

0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:30.640
<v Speaker 1>Well, you're an entrepreneur, right, You're you're you believe in

0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:34.080
<v Speaker 1>controlling that ship. Right, So I can see that, and

0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:36.439
<v Speaker 1>I can see how if you're coming from a place

0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:41.000
<v Speaker 1>of integrity, how when someone lacks integrity, it's it's almost

0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:43.920
<v Speaker 1>like off putting and deflating, right because now you're like,

0:39:44.360 --> 0:39:45.480
<v Speaker 1>what am I doing? Right?

0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:48.720
<v Speaker 2>And I will say, though, shout out to him, because

0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:52.040
<v Speaker 2>I still learned a lot. Now I have experience from two.

0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:53.560
<v Speaker 1>Different So he didn't end up holding up.

0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:57.080
<v Speaker 2>He didn't end up holding it, and I left. I

0:39:57.160 --> 0:39:59.480
<v Speaker 2>chose to leave because I'm like, man, I kind of

0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.640
<v Speaker 2>feel like i'm and played a little bit, and so

0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:06.640
<v Speaker 2>I took that risk and so I'm back in the rut.

0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:09.000
<v Speaker 2>But I still have the other income coming in. But

0:40:09.120 --> 0:40:11.120
<v Speaker 2>again going back to what I said earlier, I hate

0:40:11.160 --> 0:40:12.200
<v Speaker 2>seeing certain accounts.

0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:15.080
<v Speaker 1>Okay, well no, especially because now you're at you came

0:40:15.120 --> 0:40:17.520
<v Speaker 1>from now two places that are offering you salaries. So

0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:21.040
<v Speaker 1>this is your fourth income, and it's a sustainable, healthy

0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:24.200
<v Speaker 1>fourth income. So yeah, I can understand that. That's how

0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:26.479
<v Speaker 1>I am, just so you know, I'll be not for.

0:40:26.400 --> 0:40:29.239
<v Speaker 2>Real, for real, and so all of that's going on.

0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:33.240
<v Speaker 2>So I'm back almost starting from scratch. Do you watch Martin?

0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:34.640
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Yeah, you know the.

0:40:34.560 --> 0:40:37.560
<v Speaker 2>Episode start from Scratch? That was literally me. So I'm

0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:38.720
<v Speaker 2>starting back from scratch.

0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:40.960
<v Speaker 1>But now, but here's the thing, though, You're starting back

0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:44.439
<v Speaker 1>from scratch with a lot of years of entrepreneurship for sure,

0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:48.640
<v Speaker 1>management two different franchises that you've been managed, able to build,

0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:50.160
<v Speaker 1>and you know the processes and all.

0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:53.920
<v Speaker 2>So you already see all in the groundwork. I'm literally

0:40:54.000 --> 0:40:54.840
<v Speaker 2>laying the groundwork.

0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:57.279
<v Speaker 1>You don't succeed, I'd be surprised, all right. I see

0:40:57.280 --> 0:41:00.480
<v Speaker 1>where Smooie King's coming, right, So what happens?

0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.480
<v Speaker 2>So I'm trying to figure it out. And now I'm

0:41:03.520 --> 0:41:06.840
<v Speaker 2>thinking Smoothie King. So this is where I thought I

0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:09.560
<v Speaker 2>was close, but I'm still not even close to being close.

0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:12.520
<v Speaker 2>So I see Smovie King, and I see that they're

0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:15.759
<v Speaker 2>hiring for a manager, and I also know that their

0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:20.160
<v Speaker 2>corporate headquarters is in Dallas, Texas. Okay, so I'm like,

0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:24.960
<v Speaker 2>how about I work there. The corporate offices are right there.

0:41:25.040 --> 0:41:26.640
<v Speaker 2>I be there every day in bug them. If I

0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.719
<v Speaker 2>have to, I'm going to get a franchise. And for

0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:32.520
<v Speaker 2>those that don't know, Smoovie King is the number one

0:41:32.680 --> 0:41:34.200
<v Speaker 2>smoothie brand in.

0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:37.040
<v Speaker 1>The nation than Jambas and everybody else.

0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:40.879
<v Speaker 2>Way bigger than Jumba. Very funny story about Jumba by

0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:44.399
<v Speaker 2>the way. But yeah, well, Smoovie King was really close

0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:47.880
<v Speaker 2>to being in in California, really really close. A lot

0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:50.440
<v Speaker 2>of people always ask about Smovie King being there. It

0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:54.719
<v Speaker 2>was really close. But nonetheless, who was their first movie

0:41:54.840 --> 0:42:00.759
<v Speaker 2>or Jamva in California in general? Oh, Smoovie King, movie King,

0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:03.959
<v Speaker 2>literally Smoovies. It started from Smoovie King.

0:42:04.080 --> 0:42:04.440
<v Speaker 1>Got it?

0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:04.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:06.920
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so they're the OG's and you're number one in

0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:10.000
<v Speaker 1>the nation, right, Okay, so gone, you're do you apply

0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:11.160
<v Speaker 1>for this manager position?

0:42:11.239 --> 0:42:13.279
<v Speaker 2>I apply for the manager position. But I learned my

0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:15.879
<v Speaker 2>lesson from my last run, and I told them at

0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:18.879
<v Speaker 2>the interview the only way that I am going to

0:42:19.000 --> 0:42:22.359
<v Speaker 2>do this is that y'all know I'm not here long term.

0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:27.000
<v Speaker 2>I am here to be a franchisee. That's it. They agreed,

0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:29.600
<v Speaker 2>they said, cool, So as soon as I got hired.

0:42:30.120 --> 0:42:33.080
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm on LinkedIn shooting my LinkedIn shot at anybody

0:42:33.200 --> 0:42:36.799
<v Speaker 2>that works for Smoovie King, any franchise owner. I'm just

0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:39.200
<v Speaker 2>sending messages because you got to think about it. The

0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:41.240
<v Speaker 2>worst thing that can happen is they don't respond.

0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.080
<v Speaker 1>But now, what about the manager that you're reporting to

0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:46.719
<v Speaker 1>that's above you. There you shooting your shot with them?

0:42:46.840 --> 0:42:47.879
<v Speaker 1>You just didn't feel I.

0:42:47.840 --> 0:42:51.480
<v Speaker 2>Didn't because they're working on the corporate end. So the

0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:54.880
<v Speaker 2>Smoothie King corporate stores, like they have corporate stores, and

0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:57.399
<v Speaker 2>then obviously majority of it is franchise So.

0:42:57.400 --> 0:42:58.399
<v Speaker 1>You were at a corporate st.

0:42:58.440 --> 0:43:00.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was at a corporate store. So if you're

0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:02.920
<v Speaker 2>putting the two to two together, I'm working for corporate

0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:05.239
<v Speaker 2>so that y'all can know my name and know about me,

0:43:06.000 --> 0:43:08.120
<v Speaker 2>and the corporate office is here, so I'm basically trying

0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:10.080
<v Speaker 2>to make sure that y'all know exactly who I am.

0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:11.920
<v Speaker 1>Now, is that better that you went to work for

0:43:11.960 --> 0:43:15.040
<v Speaker 1>corporate versus a franchise e? Well, at this point after

0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:16.000
<v Speaker 1>your experience.

0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:19.360
<v Speaker 2>With financially as well, Yeah, because corporate obviously is gonna.

0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:20.080
<v Speaker 1>Pay more, got it.

0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:23.440
<v Speaker 2>But again, I'm just trying to make sure that my

0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:27.840
<v Speaker 2>name is being known. So again I'm shooting shooting my

0:43:27.840 --> 0:43:30.880
<v Speaker 2>my my corporate shot at anyone. I'm talking. I'm shooting

0:43:30.920 --> 0:43:33.839
<v Speaker 2>this to the CEO, say, you know, just hey, how's

0:43:33.840 --> 0:43:36.400
<v Speaker 2>it going. My name is Skuyler. I'm recently a general manager.

0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:39.279
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to franchise with you guys, just all of

0:43:39.320 --> 0:43:42.080
<v Speaker 2>that type of stuff, just you know, just really, you know.

0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:44.759
<v Speaker 2>So I'm doing that. I don't get a lot of

0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:48.759
<v Speaker 2>response responses from people, which, of course, but there are

0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:52.600
<v Speaker 2>some franchises, franchisees that reach back out from different parts

0:43:52.640 --> 0:43:54.879
<v Speaker 2>of the country and everything like that. So they're they're

0:43:55.000 --> 0:43:56.680
<v Speaker 2>and they know who they are, so shout out to

0:43:56.719 --> 0:44:00.640
<v Speaker 2>them that we're still talking to this day. So that's

0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:03.279
<v Speaker 2>going on. I'm starting to talk to the bank now

0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:05.879
<v Speaker 2>because again I'm feeling myself. I think that I'm ready.

0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:09.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, this is it? So I thought. So I

0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:12.080
<v Speaker 2>reach out to a bank and the bank is like,

0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:15.840
<v Speaker 2>everything is great. You have everything on paper, your credit

0:44:15.840 --> 0:44:19.319
<v Speaker 2>score is good, your financing is good. Yeah, you got

0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:22.600
<v Speaker 2>the experience. You got everything we need and everything we're

0:44:22.600 --> 0:44:25.480
<v Speaker 2>looking for. So I'm talking to the bank. But there's

0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:27.960
<v Speaker 2>two sides of this. I'm talking to the Smovie King

0:44:28.040 --> 0:44:31.359
<v Speaker 2>as well. Both ends got to prove your financials. So

0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:34.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking to Smovie King. They look over my financials

0:44:34.320 --> 0:44:37.200
<v Speaker 2>and they say, everything looks good. Come to Discovery Day.

0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:41.960
<v Speaker 2>So discovery day is basically where the franchise, the potential

0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:45.680
<v Speaker 2>franchisee goes and flies out to the corporate headquarters. But

0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:47.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm already in Dallas, So all I gotta do is try.

0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:50.719
<v Speaker 2>They come and learn about the business. They come and

0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:54.719
<v Speaker 2>learn about everything. So the CEO is in there presenting

0:44:54.800 --> 0:44:58.040
<v Speaker 2>everything to everybody. He's talking about the brand and everything

0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:02.640
<v Speaker 2>about that. As after he's finished, he has everybody in

0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:04.440
<v Speaker 2>the room that wants to be a part of Smoothie

0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:08.440
<v Speaker 2>King introduced themselves. Everyone standing up. I mean they just flexing.

0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:11.160
<v Speaker 2>I own fifteen Taco bells and I own this, I

0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:14.839
<v Speaker 2>own fifty franchises. I mean, everyone just flexing. And when

0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:15.960
<v Speaker 2>it's my turn to stand.

0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:18.239
<v Speaker 1>Up on before you get to that, how does that

0:45:18.320 --> 0:45:19.600
<v Speaker 1>make you feel?

0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:24.760
<v Speaker 2>Very little? Okay, very little? It's my turn to speak.

0:45:24.840 --> 0:45:26.560
<v Speaker 2>So I'm hearing as.

0:45:26.160 --> 0:45:29.600
<v Speaker 1>The young person, right, and are you do other people

0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:31.840
<v Speaker 1>look like you? Meaning like black? Or they all different?

0:45:31.920 --> 0:45:34.080
<v Speaker 2>There were a few black people, but you know, they're

0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:38.120
<v Speaker 2>all older, gray hair, all of that. So I stand

0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.759
<v Speaker 2>up after hearing all these people say everything, and I'm

0:45:40.840 --> 0:45:43.120
<v Speaker 2>just like, hey, how's it going. My name is Skuyler.

0:45:43.200 --> 0:45:47.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to be a franchise owner, and I am

0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:50.120
<v Speaker 2>a multi union manager for Smoothe King Corps because by

0:45:50.160 --> 0:45:52.879
<v Speaker 2>this time, I ended up managing multiple stores. So I'm

0:45:52.880 --> 0:45:55.040
<v Speaker 2>a multi union manager for Smoothe King. And then I

0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:57.640
<v Speaker 2>sit down and I feel like a clown at this point.

0:45:58.000 --> 0:46:00.359
<v Speaker 2>So the CEO goes back about his debt and he's

0:46:00.400 --> 0:46:03.840
<v Speaker 2>walking out the door, but before he leaves, he looks

0:46:03.880 --> 0:46:06.239
<v Speaker 2>at me in my eyes and walks up to me

0:46:06.280 --> 0:46:08.399
<v Speaker 2>and shakes my hand and says, you're doing a really

0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:13.799
<v Speaker 2>good job. So and then he walks out. So but

0:46:13.920 --> 0:46:16.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm just saying, like, pitt your erin this big room

0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:18.560
<v Speaker 2>all I felt amazing, okay.

0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:21.160
<v Speaker 1>And do you think he was saying that because you're

0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:23.000
<v Speaker 1>running his stores or because.

0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:25.319
<v Speaker 2>Like you got to this point, got to that.

0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:26.279
<v Speaker 1>Point, got it, got it?

0:46:26.360 --> 0:46:29.479
<v Speaker 2>So so he says, you're doing a really good job.

0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:32.040
<v Speaker 2>So at this point, I'm smiling ear to ear okay,

0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:35.239
<v Speaker 2>and I'm thinking everything is in the bag. If the

0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:38.799
<v Speaker 2>CEO knows who I am, you know, so I thought. So.

0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:42.359
<v Speaker 2>I remember later on that day I'll never forget there

0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:43.880
<v Speaker 2>was this older black dude. He was like, man, why

0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:45.719
<v Speaker 2>are you smiling so much? And I was just like, man,

0:46:45.760 --> 0:46:49.000
<v Speaker 2>if you knew what I had to do to get here,

0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:53.360
<v Speaker 2>then you would understand that. You know, I'm just happy.

0:46:53.560 --> 0:46:56.680
<v Speaker 2>And by the way, and while this is going on,

0:46:57.080 --> 0:46:59.600
<v Speaker 2>six months prior, that's when I lost my mom and

0:46:59.640 --> 0:47:03.680
<v Speaker 2>my brother. So I lost still so around the time

0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:06.520
<v Speaker 2>before I got Tomovie King, that's when I lost my

0:47:06.680 --> 0:47:09.319
<v Speaker 2>mom and I lost my brother six months apart from

0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:12.680
<v Speaker 2>each other. So all this is going on. But again

0:47:12.719 --> 0:47:14.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, I'm not gonna stop.

0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:18.399
<v Speaker 1>And so now to backtrack a little bit, this burger

0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:23.360
<v Speaker 1>gets personal. There's everyone close with depression differently right now,

0:47:23.560 --> 0:47:26.640
<v Speaker 1>are you a coper? Do you think that, looking back,

0:47:26.719 --> 0:47:30.359
<v Speaker 1>that you were coping with the distraction of these high

0:47:30.440 --> 0:47:31.840
<v Speaker 1>mountains that you had to climb.

0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:35.680
<v Speaker 2>It was definitely good to have that. But I'm one

0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:39.120
<v Speaker 2>of those obviously I miss him. I'm sad, but I

0:47:39.239 --> 0:47:43.239
<v Speaker 2>mean that's unfortunate. You know, that's part of life. It hurts, But.

0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:46.600
<v Speaker 1>Losing your mom at a young age, I don't know

0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:48.480
<v Speaker 1>if it was like, like my grandfather he died of

0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:50.520
<v Speaker 1>cancer to a new hospice or whatever. Was it one

0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:52.080
<v Speaker 1>of those where you were kind of preparing for them

0:47:52.360 --> 0:47:53.280
<v Speaker 1>or was it a shocker?

0:47:53.480 --> 0:47:56.240
<v Speaker 2>It was not my brother that was a complete shocker. Okay,

0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:58.200
<v Speaker 2>that was like, got that phone call.

0:47:58.239 --> 0:48:01.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, what, he's young, but your mom you kind

0:48:01.520 --> 0:48:04.359
<v Speaker 1>of knew there was some kind of Okay, is that

0:48:04.480 --> 0:48:05.480
<v Speaker 1>part of the health journey?

0:48:05.520 --> 0:48:05.799
<v Speaker 2>It is?

0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:10.800
<v Speaker 1>Okay, got it? So go back to why you're smiling.

0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:13.719
<v Speaker 2>Sorry, yeah, no, you're good. So I'm just smiling because

0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:16.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, bro, if you knew what I've been going

0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:19.040
<v Speaker 2>through in my journey to get here, just to be

0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:21.760
<v Speaker 2>around all y'all rich folks, you will know why I'm smiling.

0:48:21.800 --> 0:48:23.400
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. So that's what was going on.

0:48:23.600 --> 0:48:27.080
<v Speaker 2>So a few days past in Smoovie King Cosmic back

0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:32.640
<v Speaker 2>and say, hey, Skylar, so you met the financial liquid cash,

0:48:32.920 --> 0:48:35.720
<v Speaker 2>but your net worth wasn't there. So at this point

0:48:35.760 --> 0:48:37.799
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, bruh what.

0:48:37.640 --> 0:48:39.560
<v Speaker 1>So like, what do you mean no no assets?

0:48:40.400 --> 0:48:44.520
<v Speaker 2>Well, so I have the liquid assets, but would be

0:48:44.920 --> 0:48:48.040
<v Speaker 2>like You're like yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And I

0:48:48.040 --> 0:48:50.160
<v Speaker 2>didn't even have a home or anything at the time.

0:48:50.200 --> 0:48:52.359
<v Speaker 1>So but now is that one of those situations where

0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:54.600
<v Speaker 1>you could finagle like, hey, my dad owns an asset,

0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:55.400
<v Speaker 1>and I'm.

0:48:55.400 --> 0:48:57.640
<v Speaker 2>Well, see that's the thing. My we came from a

0:48:57.640 --> 0:48:59.839
<v Speaker 2>middle class, so it's not let me make that very

0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:02.799
<v Speaker 2>there my dad and he wasn't like some rich man

0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:06.160
<v Speaker 2>or you know, just a middle No.

0:49:06.280 --> 0:49:08.880
<v Speaker 1>So when you hit that, there was no way around.

0:49:09.080 --> 0:49:11.960
<v Speaker 2>So when my mom ended up getting sick, we ended

0:49:12.000 --> 0:49:15.160
<v Speaker 2>up selling our house and so all of that. So

0:49:16.160 --> 0:49:19.359
<v Speaker 2>all of that's going on, so smoothe king says that,

0:49:19.480 --> 0:49:22.439
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, so, like, what do I do now?

0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:26.680
<v Speaker 2>And then to the open wound to add salt? Poor

0:49:26.760 --> 0:49:28.840
<v Speaker 2>the whole bottle of salt in it. The bank caused

0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:30.600
<v Speaker 2>me back and say, so we're actually going in a

0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:33.520
<v Speaker 2>different direction right now, so we're not going to be

0:49:33.600 --> 0:49:37.040
<v Speaker 2>able to fund you. So now I'm back at square

0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:41.799
<v Speaker 2>one again. I said every curse word probably.

0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:42.640
<v Speaker 1>A thousand times.

0:49:42.880 --> 0:49:46.080
<v Speaker 2>I didn't cry. I was hurt, but I didn't cry.

0:49:46.200 --> 0:49:49.920
<v Speaker 1>Damn so strong. I know a lot of even rappers

0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:52.279
<v Speaker 1>on this show that will be like, yeah, I tear

0:49:52.400 --> 0:49:53.480
<v Speaker 1>up out of frustration.

0:49:55.000 --> 0:49:56.120
<v Speaker 2>Frustration was.

0:49:57.760 --> 0:49:59.319
<v Speaker 1>So how did you deal with it? You just set

0:49:59.320 --> 0:50:00.160
<v Speaker 1>a couple of cursors.

0:50:00.360 --> 0:50:03.200
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, I cussed them to hell out. C Yeah,

0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:05.040
<v Speaker 2>I cursed them to hell out. Not Smovie King, but

0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:08.400
<v Speaker 2>the bank. I was pissed, but I kept it pushing

0:50:08.400 --> 0:50:10.080
<v Speaker 2>because I'm like, I am going to get this.

0:50:10.200 --> 0:50:12.400
<v Speaker 1>But now, when you get a call about net worth,

0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:15.879
<v Speaker 1>how do you I could see someone like you going,

0:50:15.920 --> 0:50:18.200
<v Speaker 1>what do I gotta do to build this net worth? Right?

0:50:18.480 --> 0:50:19.480
<v Speaker 1>Is that what you're thinking?

0:50:19.640 --> 0:50:21.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? So I ended up buying a house. That was

0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:23.560
<v Speaker 2>one thing I did. I was like, okay, we're going

0:50:23.600 --> 0:50:26.480
<v Speaker 2>to buy a home. And so all I'm doing as

0:50:26.480 --> 0:50:28.920
<v Speaker 2>well is that liquid cash. I'm continuing to do that.

0:50:28.960 --> 0:50:30.960
<v Speaker 2>So I'm just finding out different ways to build that

0:50:31.080 --> 0:50:34.359
<v Speaker 2>net worth up. So all of this is going on.

0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:38.600
<v Speaker 1>Sorry, I love you. It's just and I just got

0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:43.040
<v Speaker 1>to say this. The fact that you said, yeah, okay,

0:50:43.040 --> 0:50:45.120
<v Speaker 1>they said net worth, which is I assumed you know,

0:50:45.160 --> 0:50:47.480
<v Speaker 1>you'd have to own a home or whatever, right, But

0:50:47.520 --> 0:50:50.560
<v Speaker 1>the fact that you just glided over that fact that, yeah,

0:50:50.600 --> 0:50:53.719
<v Speaker 1>I found out I didn't have enough net worth, So

0:50:53.760 --> 0:50:55.640
<v Speaker 1>what did you do? Well? Then I had to go

0:50:55.680 --> 0:51:00.360
<v Speaker 1>buy a home, right? Amazing? Amazing, Like, oh, okay, this

0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:02.000
<v Speaker 1>is the rules. I'll play by the rules.

0:51:02.040 --> 0:51:04.920
<v Speaker 2>Okay, you're right, You're not going to tell me no.

0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:07.040
<v Speaker 2>So I'm going to get it one way or another.

0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:08.640
<v Speaker 2>Just let me know what I need to do so

0:51:08.719 --> 0:51:10.239
<v Speaker 2>that I can do it so I can become a print.

0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:12.680
<v Speaker 1>Now, did you a little sidebar? Did you go for

0:51:12.800 --> 0:51:15.040
<v Speaker 1>a hollorrific home or what were you looking for when

0:51:15.080 --> 0:51:17.520
<v Speaker 1>you bought to creation this? Fine? Right?

0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:22.200
<v Speaker 2>So I bought this home just to basically make it

0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:24.480
<v Speaker 2>a just to basically make it an asset, to make

0:51:24.520 --> 0:51:26.200
<v Speaker 2>it to where I can make it a rental property.

0:51:26.600 --> 0:51:28.440
<v Speaker 2>So I buy it with the intention of it's the

0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:31.239
<v Speaker 2>first time home, but it is brand new, it's in

0:51:31.280 --> 0:51:33.840
<v Speaker 2>a very nice area where people we will never have

0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:36.720
<v Speaker 2>a problem rented out. But it also look great on paper.

0:51:36.760 --> 0:51:37.520
<v Speaker 2>That was my whole reason.

0:51:37.960 --> 0:51:39.960
<v Speaker 1>So you were looking for Now, were you looking for

0:51:40.080 --> 0:51:42.440
<v Speaker 1>equity from the jump or you just looking for just

0:51:42.520 --> 0:51:46.080
<v Speaker 1>something that has like a value of say five hundred

0:51:46.120 --> 0:51:48.600
<v Speaker 1>thousand or whatever? Is that? What point are you looking

0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:50.000
<v Speaker 1>for when you're looking to both?

0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:53.200
<v Speaker 2>Actually both, And I'm still learning the home business at

0:51:53.239 --> 0:51:55.359
<v Speaker 2>the time, so I'm just thinking I'll just buy a home.

0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:57.560
<v Speaker 2>But yes, so that's basically what I did it for

0:51:57.560 --> 0:52:00.560
<v Speaker 2>for equity and just to have this on paper. That

0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:01.680
<v Speaker 2>was my whole sole.

0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.759
<v Speaker 1>Reason for it, right, all right, So continue.

0:52:04.520 --> 0:52:08.399
<v Speaker 2>So no you're good. So no, no, you're good. You're good.

0:52:08.440 --> 0:52:09.400
<v Speaker 1>I don't know why, all right.

0:52:09.880 --> 0:52:13.680
<v Speaker 2>So every all that's going on. So I'm back to

0:52:13.760 --> 0:52:17.320
<v Speaker 2>square one again because both of those, the bank and

0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:20.000
<v Speaker 2>Smovie King, that didn't work out, So going back to.

0:52:20.160 --> 0:52:22.919
<v Speaker 1>Wait, they didn't work out, but they were more on hold.

0:52:22.719 --> 0:52:26.759
<v Speaker 2>Not right, Yeah, for sure, for sure. So as I'm

0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:29.279
<v Speaker 2>still working a movie king, I tell my pops Lie,

0:52:29.280 --> 0:52:31.360
<v Speaker 2>I tell him the situation because I talked to my

0:52:31.440 --> 0:52:33.680
<v Speaker 2>mom and my dad a lot about all those things. Obviously,

0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:35.719
<v Speaker 2>my mom's not there anymore at that point, but I

0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:37.520
<v Speaker 2>did talk to them along the way, so she knew

0:52:37.560 --> 0:52:39.919
<v Speaker 2>the journey, she knew the mission. So that's one good

0:52:39.960 --> 0:52:42.360
<v Speaker 2>thing I have out of it all. She knew before

0:52:42.440 --> 0:52:44.920
<v Speaker 2>she died that I was going to get a franchised.

0:52:45.600 --> 0:52:49.319
<v Speaker 2>So all that's going on. He says, Hey, remember he's

0:52:49.360 --> 0:52:51.360
<v Speaker 2>a networker, he knows everyone. He says, I have another

0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:54.279
<v Speaker 2>frid brother that's the CEO of a bank. I want

0:52:54.320 --> 0:52:59.760
<v Speaker 2>you to go talk to him. So so man shouts

0:52:59.800 --> 0:53:03.879
<v Speaker 2>out to my dad. So I go and I meet

0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:08.760
<v Speaker 2>with him. Everything's going good. I'm all nice, nicely clean

0:53:08.840 --> 0:53:12.520
<v Speaker 2>cut suit and tie, have a nice presentation, everything is

0:53:12.560 --> 0:53:17.279
<v Speaker 2>going great. I'm thinking that everything's going to pan out.

0:53:17.520 --> 0:53:20.200
<v Speaker 2>This is my shot. He already knows my dad really well,

0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:23.480
<v Speaker 2>so this is I got this, so I thought. So

0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:26.960
<v Speaker 2>I meet up with him and he's like, look, Skyler,

0:53:27.560 --> 0:53:32.400
<v Speaker 2>everything you have is good. Everything you have is amazing.

0:53:32.440 --> 0:53:34.279
<v Speaker 2>And at this point I'm fresher. I'm like, yeah, I know,

0:53:34.320 --> 0:53:35.960
<v Speaker 2>but you can't help me out. Just go ahead and

0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:37.960
<v Speaker 2>tell me. So he was like, but this isn't really

0:53:38.000 --> 0:53:40.600
<v Speaker 2>the direction that we want to go as at our bank.

0:53:41.320 --> 0:53:49.040
<v Speaker 2>So so I'm just like all right. So he say

0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:52.640
<v Speaker 2>he'll call around, but you know, but I was just like,

0:53:52.719 --> 0:53:56.040
<v Speaker 2>it's all good. At this point, I'm already good myself anyway.

0:53:56.239 --> 0:54:00.200
<v Speaker 2>So I end up keeping in touch with him, and

0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:03.480
<v Speaker 2>I get back to him down the line. So I

0:54:03.560 --> 0:54:05.640
<v Speaker 2>end up saying a little about a year or so

0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:07.800
<v Speaker 2>passes by, and this is now we're getting kind of

0:54:07.840 --> 0:54:17.200
<v Speaker 2>closer to COVID. So at this point, at this point,

0:54:17.920 --> 0:54:20.680
<v Speaker 2>at this point, again my money, I'm just stacking it

0:54:20.719 --> 0:54:25.440
<v Speaker 2>in and continuing renters. No, not even yet. So this

0:54:25.560 --> 0:54:27.200
<v Speaker 2>is just this is just me I haven't even got

0:54:27.200 --> 0:54:27.960
<v Speaker 2>to the renting.

0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:31.799
<v Speaker 1>Part yet, living in the house and living over there

0:54:31.800 --> 0:54:32.200
<v Speaker 1>at least.

0:54:32.280 --> 0:54:32.880
<v Speaker 2>No, no, he's not.

0:54:33.520 --> 0:54:35.480
<v Speaker 1>So you're you're you're you're flowing.

0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:37.320
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, no for sure. And the good thing about it,

0:54:37.320 --> 0:54:40.680
<v Speaker 2>if you remember during COVID, that's when the market value

0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:42.319
<v Speaker 2>of homes just shot through the roof.

0:54:44.680 --> 0:54:48.319
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, I feel like the best time to buy.

0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:51.760
<v Speaker 2>Well, it was definitely good to buy, especially interest racing everything.

0:54:52.239 --> 0:54:53.960
<v Speaker 2>But like, yeah, I.

0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:56.160
<v Speaker 1>Think you're right. They were they because my house was

0:54:56.200 --> 0:54:57.400
<v Speaker 1>probably the most ever was.

0:54:58.120 --> 0:55:02.160
<v Speaker 2>So I go and now I can do it things

0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:04.200
<v Speaker 2>on my own. So I go back to a different

0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:07.480
<v Speaker 2>bank and I start talking to them, and then on

0:55:07.520 --> 0:55:10.839
<v Speaker 2>the other side, I start talking to Smoothie King again.

0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:14.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm in a better space. Now let's get

0:55:14.080 --> 0:55:18.600
<v Speaker 2>to talking. And I find a franchise owner in the area,

0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:20.759
<v Speaker 2>in the Dallas Fort Worth area that's trying to sell

0:55:20.800 --> 0:55:23.360
<v Speaker 2>because she has a whole bunch of airbnbs and everything

0:55:23.400 --> 0:55:25.439
<v Speaker 2>like that. So she's just like, I want to sell

0:55:25.480 --> 0:55:29.319
<v Speaker 2>my Smoothie King and just do real estate. So we

0:55:29.400 --> 0:55:32.719
<v Speaker 2>start negotiating something I presented the Smoothie King and this

0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:37.000
<v Speaker 2>is where the amazing part happened. So remember that that

0:55:37.160 --> 0:55:42.759
<v Speaker 2>same CEO that shook my hand, he ended up being

0:55:42.840 --> 0:55:45.840
<v Speaker 2>the one to sign off on me becoming a franchise owner.

0:55:46.320 --> 0:55:52.640
<v Speaker 2>So I finally did it. I finally did it. I

0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:59.720
<v Speaker 2>finally did it. But wow, that that CEO today is

0:55:59.840 --> 0:56:01.120
<v Speaker 2>my personal mentor.

0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:02.280
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:56:02.840 --> 0:56:10.960
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, everything's great. He's my personal mentor. Everything is amazing.

0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:14.239
<v Speaker 1>I was like, man, you are both.

0:56:16.640 --> 0:56:20.160
<v Speaker 2>So what's crazy is though, So remember that CEO at

0:56:20.160 --> 0:56:23.879
<v Speaker 2>the bank, right, Yeah, I ended up getting cool em.

0:56:24.040 --> 0:56:28.360
<v Speaker 2>He's my personal mentor now. So now I'm talking to

0:56:28.400 --> 0:56:31.759
<v Speaker 2>them on a whole different level now. So now the

0:56:31.800 --> 0:56:35.400
<v Speaker 2>CEO is my personal mentor. The bank, the bank of

0:56:35.400 --> 0:56:38.000
<v Speaker 2>the CEO of the bank, he's my personal mentor. And

0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:41.440
<v Speaker 2>now they're giving me game that I didn't even know

0:56:41.480 --> 0:56:44.799
<v Speaker 2>about it. You know, I'm talking to the obviously, he's

0:56:44.840 --> 0:56:48.359
<v Speaker 2>the CEO of Smoothie King. So man, the stuff that

0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:50.280
<v Speaker 2>he knows and the knowledge.

0:56:49.880 --> 0:56:51.880
<v Speaker 1>That he has and you got hands on as a

0:56:51.920 --> 0:56:54.839
<v Speaker 1>franchise owner. So like when you're really faced in the dark,

0:56:54.960 --> 0:56:59.000
<v Speaker 1>you get to call the the real Now also with

0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:02.360
<v Speaker 1>him being your mentor, is is he able to I

0:57:02.360 --> 0:57:04.560
<v Speaker 1>don't want to ask this, but I'm gonna is he

0:57:04.600 --> 0:57:07.759
<v Speaker 1>able to my mentors are assholes, like in the sense

0:57:07.800 --> 0:57:11.239
<v Speaker 1>of they make me great because they do not bend

0:57:11.239 --> 0:57:11.880
<v Speaker 1>the rules for me.

0:57:12.200 --> 0:57:13.480
<v Speaker 2>He does not for me.

0:57:13.560 --> 0:57:16.600
<v Speaker 1>So that's how I was asking.

0:57:14.760 --> 0:57:21.520
<v Speaker 2>He does not be in the rules for me, but

0:57:22.000 --> 0:57:24.360
<v Speaker 2>he holds me to a standard, like the goal for

0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:28.680
<v Speaker 2>me is twenty five plus movie kings. And I'm on

0:57:28.800 --> 0:57:31.680
<v Speaker 2>store number four, working on store, working.

0:57:31.400 --> 0:57:33.760
<v Speaker 1>To get for the stores that that lady had.

0:57:34.360 --> 0:57:36.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, bought the stores that the well only about

0:57:36.680 --> 0:57:39.080
<v Speaker 2>that one store, so she only had one store and

0:57:39.120 --> 0:57:41.040
<v Speaker 2>then so I've multiplied ever since then.

0:57:41.120 --> 0:57:42.960
<v Speaker 1>So so how did you get the other stores? So

0:57:43.160 --> 0:57:44.920
<v Speaker 1>after you got the one, did you become when did

0:57:44.920 --> 0:57:45.800
<v Speaker 1>he become your mentor?

0:57:45.960 --> 0:57:48.280
<v Speaker 2>So he became a mentor, like right when I was

0:57:48.320 --> 0:57:49.280
<v Speaker 2>getting that first one.

0:57:49.960 --> 0:57:52.280
<v Speaker 1>So and he shook your hand and he signed he

0:57:52.360 --> 0:57:54.720
<v Speaker 1>was there, is he traditionally there with all of the

0:57:54.800 --> 0:57:55.920
<v Speaker 1>signings or just.

0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:58.240
<v Speaker 2>Oh just me, you know, you know, I gotta have

0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:00.200
<v Speaker 2>some gotta have some kind of perks today.

0:58:00.520 --> 0:58:02.840
<v Speaker 1>But so he showed up for you. Did you think

0:58:02.880 --> 0:58:04.120
<v Speaker 1>he remembered.

0:58:04.240 --> 0:58:07.040
<v Speaker 2>Are you talking about remember from Discovery day or from

0:58:07.080 --> 0:58:08.840
<v Speaker 2>Discovery Yeah, no, he for sure remembered.

0:58:09.080 --> 0:58:11.040
<v Speaker 1>So he wanted to be there for yours.

0:58:11.160 --> 0:58:16.280
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and so he mane one is amazing that that

0:58:16.360 --> 0:58:16.960
<v Speaker 2>dude therapy.

0:58:17.040 --> 0:58:18.840
<v Speaker 1>I've seen a picture of him on your Instagram. Yes,

0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:21.040
<v Speaker 1>I think it was your Instagram. I was snooping.

0:58:21.280 --> 0:58:23.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, it's all good. Yeah, so man, we have

0:58:23.480 --> 0:58:25.880
<v Speaker 2>several pictures and again I'm gonna be with him later

0:58:25.920 --> 0:58:29.200
<v Speaker 2>this week actually, but man, I'm forever indebted to that man.

0:58:29.280 --> 0:58:34.480
<v Speaker 2>He he literally helped get me over that hurdle. And

0:58:34.520 --> 0:58:37.640
<v Speaker 2>that goes back to again networking and showing your worth

0:58:37.680 --> 0:58:39.720
<v Speaker 2>and showing who you are as an individual.

0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:41.960
<v Speaker 1>You showed a lot of integrity though, Like I if

0:58:41.960 --> 0:58:43.720
<v Speaker 1>you walked out of here today and said I want

0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:47.600
<v Speaker 1>to build a robot, I'd be like, like, you know,

0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:49.520
<v Speaker 1>even if it takes him ten years.

0:58:49.680 --> 0:58:51.920
<v Speaker 2>Right now, and well, let me say this is what

0:58:51.960 --> 0:58:54.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry. So back to the CEO of the bank.

0:58:54.920 --> 0:58:58.280
<v Speaker 2>That's my personal mentor we have a relationship now to

0:58:58.320 --> 0:59:02.440
<v Speaker 2>where Man, these people got like athlete money. I need

0:59:02.480 --> 0:59:04.320
<v Speaker 2>for people to understand. I think they hear me, but

0:59:04.360 --> 0:59:08.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't think they understand these people got money, money, money, money, money,

0:59:08.720 --> 0:59:11.000
<v Speaker 2>and what I like about when we hang out. Now

0:59:11.040 --> 0:59:13.720
<v Speaker 2>he's trying to introduce me and me have me be

0:59:13.760 --> 0:59:16.840
<v Speaker 2>a part of his golfing club to where all his

0:59:16.960 --> 0:59:20.440
<v Speaker 2>buddies they they have Like, so they're.

0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:23.400
<v Speaker 1>Trying to invest in you probably now, man.

0:59:23.120 --> 0:59:25.920
<v Speaker 2>If you want to call it investing or just showing

0:59:25.960 --> 0:59:28.400
<v Speaker 2>the young buck the ropes. I mean, I'm around people

0:59:28.480 --> 0:59:29.760
<v Speaker 2>that got millions of.

0:59:29.760 --> 0:59:31.600
<v Speaker 1>Mens like, oh, you're golfing and stuff.

0:59:31.720 --> 0:59:33.400
<v Speaker 2>I haven't got to golfing yet. But he's trying to

0:59:33.400 --> 0:59:38.160
<v Speaker 2>get me there, and so no, for real, for real,

0:59:38.560 --> 0:59:41.680
<v Speaker 2>and so he's man, he's like, this person knows this,

0:59:41.680 --> 0:59:44.240
<v Speaker 2>this person owns this, this person has this, this person

0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:48.200
<v Speaker 2>has that. So they're showing me the ropes and getting

0:59:48.240 --> 0:59:50.800
<v Speaker 2>me cause that's kind of where I'm at now, is okay,

0:59:51.080 --> 0:59:53.360
<v Speaker 2>how do I get to the next level? Like I've

0:59:53.360 --> 0:59:57.000
<v Speaker 2>already reached seven figures? How do I reach the next level?

0:59:57.040 --> 0:59:58.440
<v Speaker 2>How do I get to eight figures?

0:59:58.480 --> 1:00:01.600
<v Speaker 1>Well, there's a couple of things in w to touch on. One.

1:00:01.760 --> 1:00:04.200
<v Speaker 1>Is he the one that does your loans for Smoothie King? Now?

1:00:04.800 --> 1:00:05.040
<v Speaker 2>No?

1:00:05.040 --> 1:00:06.120
<v Speaker 1>No, no, he still doesn't.

1:00:06.200 --> 1:00:08.720
<v Speaker 2>No. And now I'm to the point to where I

1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:12.200
<v Speaker 2>don't even got to get loans, you know what I mean, Like, oh,

1:00:12.240 --> 1:00:13.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, you know hey.

1:00:13.640 --> 1:00:17.280
<v Speaker 1>Love, I love Flex. Oh you ain't got apologize. I'm

1:00:17.320 --> 1:00:18.840
<v Speaker 1>apologetic about that flex.

1:00:19.000 --> 1:00:19.520
<v Speaker 2>So yeah.

1:00:19.520 --> 1:00:22.880
<v Speaker 1>And then my other question was from to go from

1:00:22.920 --> 1:00:25.480
<v Speaker 1>one franchise to the second, to the third to the fourth.

1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:27.800
<v Speaker 1>How hard was that easy?

1:00:28.280 --> 1:00:31.400
<v Speaker 2>It was easier after you get that first franchise. I

1:00:31.480 --> 1:00:34.640
<v Speaker 2>need for everyone to understand. Once you get that first one,

1:00:34.760 --> 1:00:38.040
<v Speaker 2>it's almost like that's all you gotta do because after that,

1:00:38.080 --> 1:00:41.000
<v Speaker 2>it's up from there. Now, those same banks that were

1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:42.800
<v Speaker 2>turning me down this and that, and now they calling

1:00:42.880 --> 1:00:46.320
<v Speaker 2>my phone saying, hey, mister Skyler, when do you want

1:00:46.360 --> 1:00:49.320
<v Speaker 2>to open up another franchise? Now they're asking me when

1:00:49.320 --> 1:00:53.880
<v Speaker 2>do you want to like Smoothie King my my capital

1:00:54.000 --> 1:00:57.120
<v Speaker 2>and everything is so good now I don't have to

1:00:57.120 --> 1:00:58.200
<v Speaker 2>go through the same thing I went.

1:00:58.560 --> 1:01:00.560
<v Speaker 1>Do you own other houses? Are you just good with

1:01:00.680 --> 1:01:01.360
<v Speaker 1>your one right now?

1:01:01.440 --> 1:01:03.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm good with my one because I'm cheap, But.

1:01:04.240 --> 1:01:09.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm not cheap. You're wiseman money financially, you're financially literate.

1:01:09.800 --> 1:01:15.040
<v Speaker 2>But you know, bigger things comes like people around in

1:01:15.080 --> 1:01:17.880
<v Speaker 2>my circle this and that, they want to see better

1:01:17.920 --> 1:01:21.040
<v Speaker 2>for me, you know, like my immediate family. They're like, Skylar,

1:01:21.360 --> 1:01:23.440
<v Speaker 2>let's get a house let's get a bigger house, you

1:01:23.480 --> 1:01:26.400
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. So that's that's where I'm at

1:01:26.440 --> 1:01:27.040
<v Speaker 2>now with that.

1:01:27.320 --> 1:01:31.680
<v Speaker 1>Now do you think some of that comes from how

1:01:31.680 --> 1:01:34.919
<v Speaker 1>do I put this delicately? Like, you know, I think

1:01:35.080 --> 1:01:37.920
<v Speaker 1>being an entrepreneur, you're so focused on the goal. My

1:01:38.040 --> 1:01:39.960
<v Speaker 1>dad used to have this thing where he would say, like,

1:01:40.520 --> 1:01:43.280
<v Speaker 1>frame what you do because sometimes when something hits me,

1:01:43.400 --> 1:01:46.000
<v Speaker 1>like all those hurdles that you hit, you go on

1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:49.000
<v Speaker 1>to the point. Well, for me personally, I go into

1:01:49.040 --> 1:01:51.640
<v Speaker 1>self doubt. It's like I'm constantly me and this self

1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:54.560
<v Speaker 1>doubt devils like believe in yourself. Don't believe in yourself.

1:01:54.600 --> 1:01:56.840
<v Speaker 1>Believe in yourself. Don't. And my dad would be like,

1:01:56.920 --> 1:01:59.640
<v Speaker 1>frame these milestones because you're working so hard you don't

1:01:59.680 --> 1:02:03.160
<v Speaker 1>see that. And then there's like the self love gets

1:02:03.160 --> 1:02:05.400
<v Speaker 1>a little funky because your way of self love is

1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:08.120
<v Speaker 1>pursuing these dreams. Right. But then if you don't take

1:02:08.120 --> 1:02:12.280
<v Speaker 1>the time to like treat yourself good, you know, and

1:02:12.520 --> 1:02:15.760
<v Speaker 1>especially be an entrepreneur, you know that it's never like

1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:18.600
<v Speaker 1>you it looks like it's kind of this, but it

1:02:19.120 --> 1:02:22.240
<v Speaker 1>technically is like this, you know. And so do you

1:02:22.280 --> 1:02:25.520
<v Speaker 1>think that some of your frugality is rooted in the

1:02:25.600 --> 1:02:28.760
<v Speaker 1>fact of like not really looking out for you.

1:02:29.200 --> 1:02:31.880
<v Speaker 2>I look out for everybody but me, you know. And

1:02:32.200 --> 1:02:35.480
<v Speaker 2>it's funny you say that because there's a video when

1:02:35.520 --> 1:02:38.040
<v Speaker 2>I first got my franchise and reading the email and

1:02:38.080 --> 1:02:40.040
<v Speaker 2>everything during COVID, and I.

1:02:40.080 --> 1:02:41.720
<v Speaker 1>Was just can you send us that? By the way,

1:02:42.080 --> 1:02:42.640
<v Speaker 1>Oh man.

1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:43.480
<v Speaker 2>I was looking so rough.

1:02:46.640 --> 1:02:47.640
<v Speaker 1>A right, all right, so.

1:02:49.320 --> 1:02:50.600
<v Speaker 2>No haircuts nothing.

1:02:50.600 --> 1:02:53.000
<v Speaker 1>We would love the video if you do, get okay.

1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:56.360
<v Speaker 2>But I was reading the email and looking back and

1:02:56.440 --> 1:02:58.720
<v Speaker 2>I was like, I didn't even crack a smile or anything,

1:02:58.760 --> 1:03:01.160
<v Speaker 2>because I just went through so much to get there.

1:03:01.320 --> 1:03:05.360
<v Speaker 2>I was just like, finally, like what's next. So yeah,

1:03:05.480 --> 1:03:07.880
<v Speaker 2>you would think that I was happy jumping up and down,

1:03:07.960 --> 1:03:09.840
<v Speaker 2>but I just I didn't even crack a smile in

1:03:09.880 --> 1:03:13.000
<v Speaker 2>that video. Wow, because man, it was just so much

1:03:13.080 --> 1:03:13.720
<v Speaker 2>to get there.

1:03:14.160 --> 1:03:17.919
<v Speaker 1>Now I see though, it's important for you to share

1:03:17.960 --> 1:03:20.280
<v Speaker 1>your story and to motivate others. Where do you think

1:03:20.320 --> 1:03:21.560
<v Speaker 1>that's coming from.

1:03:22.000 --> 1:03:25.200
<v Speaker 2>Man, because I know the ropes. I'd been there, and

1:03:25.280 --> 1:03:27.720
<v Speaker 2>I think that people on the other end, I don't

1:03:27.760 --> 1:03:29.960
<v Speaker 2>think that they know that they can do it too,

1:03:30.680 --> 1:03:34.560
<v Speaker 2>Like anybody can be Skylar, You're not. Let's be real

1:03:34.600 --> 1:03:36.840
<v Speaker 2>about this. You're not gonna be Lebron James. You're not

1:03:36.880 --> 1:03:38.520
<v Speaker 2>gonna be jay Z. Shout out jay Z. I know

1:03:38.520 --> 1:03:40.720
<v Speaker 2>that's your favorite artist. You're not gonna be jay Z.

1:03:40.960 --> 1:03:43.240
<v Speaker 2>You're not going to be Tyler the Creator. We're in

1:03:43.360 --> 1:03:45.520
<v Speaker 2>La Tyler the Creator. You're not going to be those people.

1:03:45.560 --> 1:03:48.160
<v Speaker 2>You can, but it's like you got a better chance

1:03:48.160 --> 1:03:50.240
<v Speaker 2>of maybe hitting the lottery than that. It's it's kind

1:03:50.240 --> 1:03:53.440
<v Speaker 2>of even maybe so, but anyone can be me. And

1:03:53.480 --> 1:03:56.040
<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of people in our culture they

1:03:56.040 --> 1:03:58.640
<v Speaker 2>don't understand that you can be a franchise owner. I

1:03:58.640 --> 1:04:00.680
<v Speaker 2>don't even think, especially when I go to talk to

1:04:00.720 --> 1:04:03.480
<v Speaker 2>the youth at schools and stuff like that, they don't

1:04:03.520 --> 1:04:07.440
<v Speaker 2>even really know what franchising is. So it's my purpose

1:04:07.440 --> 1:04:09.680
<v Speaker 2>and my duty to show them, Hey, let me tap

1:04:09.720 --> 1:04:12.680
<v Speaker 2>into some of y'all at a young mind to where

1:04:13.000 --> 1:04:15.440
<v Speaker 2>you can do this too, you know what I mean, Like,

1:04:15.920 --> 1:04:19.880
<v Speaker 2>just start, just start, though, I.

1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:23.920
<v Speaker 1>Will say, though I'm older now, and I will say,

1:04:24.120 --> 1:04:26.680
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of I've done a lot of these interviews,

1:04:27.400 --> 1:04:31.000
<v Speaker 1>and there's core characteristics between the people that can do

1:04:31.080 --> 1:04:33.400
<v Speaker 1>it and cannot. And there's a couple of things I've

1:04:33.560 --> 1:04:36.600
<v Speaker 1>learned across doing these shows. One, if you listen to

1:04:36.600 --> 1:04:40.720
<v Speaker 1>scholars story, there's no balance. There's no balance of I'm

1:04:40.800 --> 1:04:43.960
<v Speaker 1>spending time with my friends volunteering at the VET, and

1:04:44.000 --> 1:04:46.760
<v Speaker 1>I have my girlfriend's slash wife or whatever, or I'm

1:04:46.760 --> 1:04:49.600
<v Speaker 1>spending all this time with the kids. I can almost

1:04:49.640 --> 1:04:51.400
<v Speaker 1>take a guess that there's no balance there.

1:04:51.520 --> 1:04:55.200
<v Speaker 2>Right, It's I tried to keep a healthy balance. But

1:04:55.280 --> 1:04:57.640
<v Speaker 2>to your point, yes it is. And you you have

1:04:57.760 --> 1:04:59.320
<v Speaker 2>to be all in. You have to be.

1:04:59.680 --> 1:05:02.640
<v Speaker 1>Deady and dedicated to the work. And then the other

1:05:02.720 --> 1:05:05.960
<v Speaker 1>thing is And I just want to to because your

1:05:06.000 --> 1:05:08.800
<v Speaker 1>story sounds amazing, but I want you guys to understand

1:05:08.800 --> 1:05:12.920
<v Speaker 1>out there like this is a person on a mission.

1:05:13.320 --> 1:05:16.040
<v Speaker 1>You got kicked down, got up, kicked down again. I

1:05:16.080 --> 1:05:18.959
<v Speaker 1>personally would have I go through a victim route. Where

1:05:18.960 --> 1:05:21.120
<v Speaker 1>I go it's because I'm young, and maybe if I'm

1:05:21.160 --> 1:05:23.640
<v Speaker 1>closed on them, they would believe in me or whatever.

1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:26.680
<v Speaker 1>You know. But the other thing you have that is

1:05:26.760 --> 1:05:32.840
<v Speaker 1>the undeniable force is integrity, and integrity is going to

1:05:33.000 --> 1:05:36.320
<v Speaker 1>beat it every time. And yes, whether you do or

1:05:36.360 --> 1:05:39.040
<v Speaker 1>do not have the jay Z skills, you know you're

1:05:39.120 --> 1:05:42.080
<v Speaker 1>right in that regard. But if you lack integrity, if

1:05:42.080 --> 1:05:46.280
<v Speaker 1>you give your word on getting someone. You know, my

1:05:46.360 --> 1:05:49.760
<v Speaker 1>daughter asked for some flower seeds, you know, even something

1:05:49.760 --> 1:05:51.439
<v Speaker 1>as small as I told my daughter I was gonna

1:05:51.440 --> 1:05:55.240
<v Speaker 1>give her some flower seeds before I got home. That

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<v Speaker 1>level of integrity, I can almost guess without a doubt

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<v Speaker 1>you're that level of intagraon that if you say something,

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna do it. And I think if you're at home,

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<v Speaker 1>even if you're fourteen, twenty one or forty, you got

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<v Speaker 1>to start with that level of your word and your

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<v Speaker 1>brand because people are going to tie your brand to

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<v Speaker 1>your word, and if you look at Skuylar's story, all

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<v Speaker 1>you're seeing is integrity word, integrity word, integrity word, integrity.

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<v Speaker 2>Facts. Yeah, and I think it sucks because along the way,

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<v Speaker 2>I've always had a few people that I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>bring up with me, and I do have one. So

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<v Speaker 2>shout out to my district manager Patrick, like he's one

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<v Speaker 2>of the only ones that man, he gets it. But

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<v Speaker 2>along the way of my journey, I've had so many

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<v Speaker 2>people that I want to bring up with me to help,

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<v Speaker 2>and to your point, they don't. They don't get it.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't get it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep. I've had this studio for like five years and

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<v Speaker 1>I've had so many friends and I'm like, look, you

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<v Speaker 1>want to shoot, come in free on the house. I

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<v Speaker 1>would tell that to even guess, freak on the house.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not even charging anyways, show up. Every time we

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<v Speaker 1>get on the phone. It's the same thing. And I

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<v Speaker 1>just like, and I don't know how you deal with

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<v Speaker 1>separating because your time is so valuable the people. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's for integrity for me is like I see it,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you don't have it, you're not even gonna

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<v Speaker 1>clear like past a certain level with me. But for instance,

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<v Speaker 1>like with your district manager, you see that level of integrity, right,

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<v Speaker 1>that work, I think right for everyone else. When you

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<v Speaker 1>start to see those signs, are you less invested in

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<v Speaker 1>them because you already kind of seen.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm not gonna say less invested. I always give

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<v Speaker 2>everyone a shot. Anyone can be a late bloomer. You

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<v Speaker 2>don't know someone's situation, what they're going through, whatever, So

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<v Speaker 2>I try to keep it fair for everybody. But I

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<v Speaker 2>also at the same time do like to focus a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit more of my time on people that get

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<v Speaker 2>it and actually care. So yeah, man, And what's crazy

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<v Speaker 2>is this is just the beginning for me like this

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<v Speaker 2>is just the beginning. This to me, this is just

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<v Speaker 2>the start of the journey. Like, man, I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 2>be on Shacks level. I'm trying to.

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<v Speaker 1>Be on well believe you'll get there without doubt.

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<v Speaker 2>Like seeing people like Charlemagne with the crystals, to me,

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<v Speaker 2>that's that's inspiring. Like, so you you already got all

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<v Speaker 2>this going on. You got this going on. I can

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<v Speaker 2>keep naming athletes and rappers Rick Cross with the wingstops,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Stuff like that shows me like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>this is just the beginning, and I'm slowly starting to

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<v Speaker 2>not rub shoulders with them, but I'm at least being

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<v Speaker 2>noticed that I can do this same to the same

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<v Speaker 2>level that they're doing it. And so that's that's the

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<v Speaker 2>next goal. Like, man, I'm trying to be rich rich,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm trying to show people you can be rich

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<v Speaker 2>rich as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, And I think you like the art of

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<v Speaker 1>making money more than you like spending, which I align

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<v Speaker 1>with a lot, Like I don't really do nothing with money.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like flipping it. Man.

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<v Speaker 2>People, if you are around me and hung around me,

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<v Speaker 2>you will probably think I'm broke because I don't eat

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<v Speaker 2>expensive meals. I don't wear expensive clothes, I don't drive

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<v Speaker 2>an expensive car. I could, but I just yea Man's

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<v Speaker 2>what's the point?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know? Yeah, well you know what I will

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<v Speaker 1>say though, you know you may be a late bloomer

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<v Speaker 1>in that area. You know what I'm saying. You may

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<v Speaker 1>hang out with your golf buddies and say, watches the

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<v Speaker 1>treat myself.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's the cars that they have.

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<v Speaker 1>Man, And that's so cool. Though. You know it's okay

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<v Speaker 1>to like show love to yourself. Skyler. I can't thank

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<v Speaker 1>you enough. We never shoot on Sundays, just so you know.

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<v Speaker 1>You know you are special. You are very special. And

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<v Speaker 1>I loved every bit of this interview. There's one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>percent inspiring. I'm hoping I can keep your number. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna put off for sure. And then where can everybody

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<v Speaker 1>keep up with Skyler paycheck and also have the opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>to go into one of your franchise stores.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so for sure, if you are ever in the

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<v Speaker 2>Dallas Fort Worth metric, please hit me up, shoot me

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<v Speaker 2>a DM on ig TikTok wherever pull up. I give

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<v Speaker 2>you the address and the addresses of all of them

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<v Speaker 2>is on my ig by the way my ig is

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<v Speaker 2>I M Skylar B I A M s K y

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<v Speaker 2>l E r B not a E and then all

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<v Speaker 2>my other platforms, TikTok, YouTube, all of that is Skyler, paycheck,

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<v Speaker 2>s K y l E r P A y c

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<v Speaker 2>h e c K.

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<v Speaker 1>And then just a last I can see a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people watching this interview saying like, is there a

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<v Speaker 1>chance to get Skylar to mentor me? What's there to

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<v Speaker 1>come in regards to your mentorship. I know you're starting

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<v Speaker 1>to push out more content promoting that everyone can do this,

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<v Speaker 1>but is there a plan or is there a way?

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<v Speaker 1>Do people just DM you? How does that hold?

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<v Speaker 2>So I definitely get a lot of d ms about

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<v Speaker 2>mentorship this and that. That kind of goes back to

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<v Speaker 2>what you were saying about who's really serious and who's not,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, But I do get a lot of that,

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm still learning, you know, I'm still learning how

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<v Speaker 2>to where do I put my time? Like how do

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<v Speaker 2>I talk to this group of individuals? How do I

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<v Speaker 2>do this? How do I do that? So I'm still

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<v Speaker 2>learning on the curve, you know what I mean. I

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<v Speaker 2>spent so much time with my head down and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>kind of playing ketchup on this on this end of things,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, so, but I'm open. So if you have

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<v Speaker 2>any advice or anything you want to tell me, please

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<v Speaker 2>let me know. I love to learn. I'm a host.

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<v Speaker 1>I love to learn. I feel like we'll be learning

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<v Speaker 1>from each other. And then are you going to start

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<v Speaker 1>doing speaking engagements you think? Are you? Have you considered it?

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<v Speaker 1>Or is this like what no?

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<v Speaker 2>I would love to I've done a few here and there,

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<v Speaker 2>but again, I'm kind of learning that in so I

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<v Speaker 2>just I don't know. I guess I need to talk

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<v Speaker 2>to the right people to be able to do that

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<v Speaker 2>or you know, but I'm I would love to learn.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just about doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>And then how far off are you or like, what's

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<v Speaker 1>your timeline to get to that twenty five?

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<v Speaker 2>I think it all depends. It depends on which I

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<v Speaker 2>want to go. Do I want to keep cause like

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<v Speaker 2>last year two thousands before I opened up two stores,

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<v Speaker 2>so that was a new goal for me. That was

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<v Speaker 2>a new milestone for me. So I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>maybe next year open three when I open one this year,

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<v Speaker 2>or I can go to route where I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 2>acquire a few that are already existing, or do I

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<v Speaker 2>want to hop in a financial group and do it

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<v Speaker 2>as a group. There's so many things that I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 2>of of which way I want to go, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Would you be open to would you be open to

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<v Speaker 1>another franchise outside of Smoothie King.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought about it. You know, it just has to

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<v Speaker 2>make sense for me. But no, I'm definitely not against it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just about finding which one works for me. And yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so yeah, no, I'm definitely open for that as well.

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<v Speaker 1>And then what's your favorite smoothie? These are just randoms.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, I'm no, No, You're good.

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<v Speaker 2>You're good. So I usually do the Collagen Pineapple kl

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<v Speaker 2>so and I put a little ginger and mangos in there.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's going to have pineapples, it's going to have spinach,

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<v Speaker 2>it's going to have kal it's going to have the Banngo.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's a nice Yeah, it's a really good movie.

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<v Speaker 2>And another one I'll usually get because I get to

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<v Speaker 2>every time I'm at any store in the morning time.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to get that for my breakfast and then

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<v Speaker 2>when I leave for like lunch, I'm going to do

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<v Speaker 2>a peanut Power and that's more like a chocolate peanut

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<v Speaker 2>butter kind.

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<v Speaker 1>Of smooth, but can you take a lot of can

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<v Speaker 1>you taste a lot of the peanut butter?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, people are interesting about peanut butter.

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<v Speaker 1>Some people a peanut butter.

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<v Speaker 2>Some people will say a little, some people say a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it just boils down to taste buds, like bananas.

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<v Speaker 2>Some people, if it's just a little banana, could be

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<v Speaker 2>about that big and they'll be like it's too much banana,

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<v Speaker 2>and some people get extra. So I think it just

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<v Speaker 2>goes down to taste buds everyone has.

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<v Speaker 1>And are you using those and meal replacements because you say.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, for sure, okay, replacements. So so that's the I

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<v Speaker 2>guess the perk of smoothie king. I get free smoothies,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and I'm making money while doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, Well, thank you for tuning in, Just

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<v Speaker 1>so you know, a sidebar note, Well, you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you guys for tuning in. We really appreciate you

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<v Speaker 1>guys listening. Check out Skylar paycheck on all social media platforms.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for this dish, oh for sure. Peace out, guys,