Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a
Speaker 1: very special guest. I'm very excited about this guest because
Speaker 1: I traditionally have like a little bit of a bias
Speaker 1: against younger folk. But this this is Skyler Paycheck, entrepreneur, franchisee,
Speaker 1: owner of Smoothie King for franchises. Let's go self made.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's on the show. We are about to eat
Speaker 1: an Eating while Broke dish. But I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: have you food all the way down from Texas. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to be schooled. And you know, potentially
Speaker 1: we can all learn how to potentially own a Smoothie
Speaker 1: King franchise. But you also do other stuff outside typical entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: What other businesses do you have?
Speaker 2: I got my hands in everything, franchises in the stock market,
Speaker 2: like crazy, call me mister Flippick because I'm always flipping something.
Speaker 2: I'm always finding ways to make money. That's why I'm
Speaker 2: here to educate you guys on how to make money
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Is that why your name is Skyler Paycheck? Hey?
Speaker 2: Because I'm all about that paycheck.
Speaker 1: I was like Scaler we're going by your last names. Like, no,
Speaker 1: it's paycheck. So what are you gonna have me eating today?
Speaker 2: Man, We're keeping it real simple, real broke. So we're
Speaker 2: gonna have tacos with beans, Mexican rice. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: a little avocado. You gotta have the Friedo's. You gotta
Speaker 2: crunch those in there with the saucer, real broken.
Speaker 1: And you got some avocado, you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know, Hey, avocado's going up, by the way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but you know what I've learned, even on
Speaker 1: this show, you can actually eat healthy on a budget.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you threw some avocado in there. I
Speaker 1: wasn't too sure about the friedos. Guys, don't judge me,
Speaker 1: but I was in the store asking like, is Friedo's
Speaker 1: like a special term? Are we talking Frido's chips? And
Speaker 1: then I actually had to like Google. I was like,
Speaker 1: I ain't seen fredos in so long.
Speaker 2: Got in there.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm excited, so go ahead, start cooking. Oh and
Speaker 1: then he has the corn. Is the corn tortillas usually used?
Speaker 2: I mean flower, but we're gonna rock with corn today.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 1: I love flower tortillas. But I was up in the store,
Speaker 1: asking people like were you people go better with his tacos?
Speaker 1: There's like cord all right. So while you're going ahead
Speaker 1: started these guys, he's pouring the olive oil up in here.
Speaker 2: Gotta add to olive oil.
Speaker 1: And then he's got the refried beans on the stove.
Speaker 1: So there's no meat, is there? Is there no meat
Speaker 1: because it's affordability or is it like you don't eat meat?
Speaker 2: No meat because I'm vegan man la la style vegan
Speaker 2: oka And yeah, I've been like that for quite some
Speaker 2: time now actually, and so yeah, man, it's all about
Speaker 2: health reasons and I'll get into that later on down
Speaker 2: the line. Certain things happen in my life to make
Speaker 2: make me go vegan.
Speaker 1: And how long have you been vegan for?
Speaker 2: And I've been vegan for about twelve years.
Speaker 1: Now, twelve years. Isn't that like half your life?
Speaker 2: It's a lone part of my life. But but I
Speaker 2: mean he's starting early. Yeah, it's it's because it's very
Speaker 2: important again, health reasons in my family and everything like that.
Speaker 2: So I have to get to it.
Speaker 1: So just because you're young, I want a good picture
Speaker 1: of your family life. How many siblings, parents, married, divorced, so.
Speaker 2: My parents are married. Rest in peace to my mom.
Speaker 2: She's no longer here. But my parents, it's all good.
Speaker 2: My parents were married, and I have two siblings. Rest
Speaker 2: in peace to one of my brothers as well. And
Speaker 2: we'll get into.
Speaker 1: All that lady trauma going on here.
Speaker 2: Say it was not easy. Let me tell y'all. Nothing
Speaker 2: comes easy. And even though you get knocked down, you
Speaker 2: gotta get back up and you gotta keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, so you have two siblings living right now.
Speaker 2: So one's living in one of them. He's no longer here.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you and your pops now.
Speaker 2: Well me, my pop's in one of my other brothers,
Speaker 2: my oldest brother.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you your pop okay, got it? Got it? Wow? Okay.
Speaker 1: So we're starting out right out the gates. Okay, So
Speaker 1: take me back to what was going on during this dish.
Speaker 2: So this is this is high school scholar here, and
Speaker 2: what I mean by that is I always again been
Speaker 2: about that check. I always been about that money. So
Speaker 2: back in high school, I had the same mentality I
Speaker 2: have now. I had it all the way. Back in
Speaker 2: high school, I was a straight hustler the legal way.
Speaker 2: I was the person in school that was selling CDs,
Speaker 2: I was selling candy. I would buy shoes water shoes
Speaker 2: to school, have everyone saying, man, no, shoes look nice.
Speaker 2: Then I would sell them to them and go buy
Speaker 2: more shoes.
Speaker 1: Now, but how are you selling them to mark them
Speaker 1: up if they could buy them from the store.
Speaker 2: So I look at it this way. I had to
Speaker 2: fly your shoes, you know what I mean, the shoes
Speaker 2: that you can't get in them all, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. So I was doing that, and this is
Speaker 2: the big part. While all of this was going on,
Speaker 2: I also created a music group and so I was
Speaker 2: the creator of that. We would sell CDs there. We
Speaker 2: did R and B slash rap kind of like pretty
Speaker 2: Ricky Alls. So we were doing that. But the biggest
Speaker 2: thing is we were throwing parties. We had merch. So
Speaker 2: we were doing.
Speaker 1: All in high school.
Speaker 2: All in high school.
Speaker 1: Now, is this when you had a dual.
Speaker 2: Parent home or yeah, dual parent home?
Speaker 1: So how are your parents handling like their hustling son?
Speaker 1: Are you keeping your grades up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Kid? Oh yeah, my mama was a principal, so
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, and so yeah the school the principal in
Speaker 2: the same district. So I was gonna say, yeah, all
Speaker 2: the all the principals knew about my mom and everything
Speaker 2: like that. So yeah, education was a must in the household.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they were chill about it because again I
Speaker 2: kept my grades up and I'm a good kid, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I never got in trouble.
Speaker 2: And so, no, I'm the youngest, I'm the youngest.
Speaker 1: You're the youngest.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so yeah, I'm the I'm the youngest kid.
Speaker 1: Where does this entrepreneur but come from, because usually, you know.
Speaker 2: You know, it comes from my pops. My pops was
Speaker 2: still is. He He's the man, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: He's the man when it comes to hustling and and
Speaker 2: and just knowing people. He knew everybody in the in
Speaker 2: the city.
Speaker 1: You may't want to turn that stove up, man, it's
Speaker 1: not yeah, it's not you hot to turn that you know,
Speaker 1: we taking you all the way back to last then
Speaker 1: things look like they just soaking up. Just turn it
Speaker 1: all the way up, man. Yeah right there, Okay, so continue,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're trying to save you so.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, so that's going on. I'm paying it.
Speaker 2: I'm paying attention to my dad as I grow up
Speaker 2: as a kid, and again everyone in the city of
Speaker 2: Dallas knew him. So he he worked for Social Security.
Speaker 2: But here's the kicker. He was also a movie credit
Speaker 2: on K one O four FM out in Dallas, so
Speaker 2: the biggest rap station in the in the Metroplex. He
Speaker 2: was also a movie credit there, so he knew a
Speaker 2: movie critic. So think of it like a food critic,
Speaker 2: but you but you do movies.
Speaker 1: But he was at a radio station doing that.
Speaker 2: So he would he didn't work for the radio station,
Speaker 2: but he was like a little segment that they were Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he would call up there and he would review,
Speaker 2: review movies and all of that good stuff. So as
Speaker 2: a kid, you just pay attention to all those little things.
Speaker 2: And my dad was actually a pivotal part in helping
Speaker 2: me as well on my journey.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you saw him do that. Now he did
Speaker 1: the movie critic as his own thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as his own thing. The other hustles, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure. Man. My dad was kind of just like me,
Speaker 2: just always hustling, always just finding the way. He would
Speaker 2: throw boat parties, swing out parties.
Speaker 1: He and you would see him do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh so I would see him do it and
Speaker 2: It's one of those things he never never necessarily taught me.
Speaker 2: But I'm just paying attention. You know, kids watch everything,
Speaker 2: so they pay attention to everything that you're doing. So yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I made these a little but that's all.
Speaker 1: Okay, keep trying them. It's because the heat wasn't up high,
Speaker 1: but it's about to get hot. You got time.
Speaker 2: But my point in saying all this is that was
Speaker 2: just kind of like the beginning of beginning of everything
Speaker 2: as far as man, this this one just thinks, but
Speaker 2: we're gonna keep it rocking. But anyway, but that was
Speaker 2: kind of the startup thing. So music ended up kind
Speaker 2: of fizzling out, and so at this point, I was
Speaker 2: telling myself, Okay, plan a was always to get a
Speaker 2: big record deal like everybody and buy a franchise from there,
Speaker 2: because this is something that I've always wanted to do.
Speaker 2: So all my days, I always said I was going
Speaker 2: to own a wingstop. And it's a whole funny story
Speaker 2: to that bottle way. But all my friends and everybody
Speaker 2: already knew that. So again, the music's kind of fizzling out.
Speaker 2: Things don't work our way. So I end up telling
Speaker 2: my dad, like, hey, I want to own a franchise?
Speaker 2: What do I need to do to get there? And
Speaker 2: my dad was saying, Hey, I know the perfect person
Speaker 2: for you, because again he networks with everybody. So he said,
Speaker 2: I know somebody at Wingstop. I want you to go
Speaker 2: talk to him. So he sets up the meeting.
Speaker 1: And how old are you at the time?
Speaker 2: I am, what seventeen?
Speaker 1: Okay? So your dad's taking you very serious something like
Speaker 1: that because.
Speaker 2: He always knew. I was always a person again with money,
Speaker 2: so he knew.
Speaker 1: And what were you doing with the money though? You
Speaker 1: were just reinvesting in.
Speaker 2: Or reinvesting in saving. I'm a big savior and love that.
Speaker 2: Like this meal. I ate this meal the other day
Speaker 2: because I never want to go broke. So I am.
Speaker 2: I don't spend a lot on close. I don't spend
Speaker 2: a lot on anything really okay.
Speaker 1: I like that. So you're not like flashy cars, flashy
Speaker 1: any of that. Wow. So and then I would assume
Speaker 1: based on that your credit is really good too. What school?
Speaker 2: Yo? So let me tell y'all, get a secure credit card.
Speaker 2: Go to your bank. If you don't have credit, get
Speaker 2: that secure credit card. Spend They're going to give you
Speaker 2: like a two hundred three hundred dollars limit. Once you
Speaker 2: get that secure credit card, keep it at about ten percent.
Speaker 2: Don't go any higher than ten percent. Pay that bill
Speaker 2: on time. Never let any interest build up. That credit
Speaker 2: is going to go up over time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But so at the so back to the Wingstop things.
Speaker 2: So my dad only takes me there. I sit there
Speaker 2: and talk to the dude. Little little did I know
Speaker 2: that not only is he a franchise owner for Wingstop,
Speaker 2: but he is the actual person that bought franchising to
Speaker 2: the company. So oh yeah, so yeah, he's a he's
Speaker 2: a Wingstop og.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So he's talking to me, He's telling me what I
Speaker 2: need to do. I got a notepad. I'm writing everything down.
Speaker 2: I'm taking notes on everything that I need to do
Speaker 2: to become a franchise on it. So he says, once
Speaker 2: you get that done, come back and talk to me.
Speaker 2: I say, cool. So this is where things start to
Speaker 2: get This is where things starts to get interesting, and
Speaker 2: this is where the journey really starts. I end up
Speaker 2: having a job because now I'm trying to make money
Speaker 2: and get this franchise. I work at co Hunter. You
Speaker 2: know what co hunt is? Okay, So co Hunt is
Speaker 2: a shoe store. It's kind of like middle tier. Is
Speaker 2: not necessarily Gucci, Louie and all of that, but it's
Speaker 2: kind of like middle tier. So I go to and
Speaker 2: I get the job, and everything's going good. It's nothing big,
Speaker 2: just a little part time job. But my manager tells me,
Speaker 2: we get fifteen vouchers to where we can buy shoes
Speaker 2: for really cheap. So say, these three hundred and four
Speaker 2: hundred dollars shoes, you can get them for forty dollars. Now,
Speaker 2: keep in mind, but you have to of course work there. Now.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, I'm a hustler. So I'm looking at
Speaker 2: these vouchers and I'm saying, I'm gonna bodies and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna sell them online. So I create an eBay and
Speaker 2: Amazon account. So I'm selling these shoes for really cheap,
Speaker 2: making a great profit. My boss calls me in one
Speaker 2: day and he fires me on the spot. He had
Speaker 2: a whole, a whole trail of everything I was doing
Speaker 2: on eBay and Amazon. So at this point I'm in
Speaker 2: a rut. O my back is against the wall. I'm
Speaker 2: starting to lose money. Yeah, and one thing about me,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you can agree, nobody likes to see
Speaker 2: their bank account go backwards. So all of my different
Speaker 2: business accounts and everything, anytime I see it going this way,
Speaker 2: I'm like.
Speaker 1: You kept all your businesses separate, all of them separate, Okay,
Speaker 1: got it? And then I'm just curissed. Do you keep
Speaker 1: them in separate bank account banks too, or just separate accounts.
Speaker 2: Separate accounts, separate accounts, same bank, same bank. So h man,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be a tostado.
Speaker 1: It looks good. You gotta make the other ones like
Speaker 1: more fry though, Yeah, nah.
Speaker 2: For sure, for sure. Let me put a few more
Speaker 2: on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, save yourself, all right, continue with your.
Speaker 2: Story, all right. So look, I'm in a rut. My
Speaker 2: back is against the wall. I'm like, I gotta make
Speaker 2: something shake because I'm not making no money. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to figure things out. But I know that Skyler, you're
Speaker 2: already a hustler. You already do this for a living.
Speaker 2: Just do it to the next level. So I take
Speaker 2: some time. I take about two to three weeks and
Speaker 2: I'm researching like crazy, like what can I flip? What
Speaker 2: can I sell? I already got the eBay and Mamazon account, going,
Speaker 2: what do I need to do.
Speaker 1: Now back up a second, when you did the eBay
Speaker 1: and Amazon account. Now, I'm not a digital girl, really
Speaker 1: was there a little bit of a learning curve doing
Speaker 1: those businesses too.
Speaker 2: It's not really that hard like they And it started
Speaker 2: from me, you going back to high school selling shoes.
Speaker 2: I would just sell some of my U shoes on
Speaker 2: eBay and you.
Speaker 1: Know people will buy it.
Speaker 2: So I already kind of know the system. So I'm
Speaker 2: researching on the internet. I'm spending weeks figuring out what
Speaker 2: do people want, what do people need, and where is
Speaker 2: their angle for me to get in with eBay and Amazon,
Speaker 2: something that's not too oversaturated, something to where I can
Speaker 2: make some money. So I figure it out. I'm doing
Speaker 2: trial and error, and one thing that sticks out to
Speaker 2: me a lot is micro s D cards.
Speaker 1: At the time, so holy count your okay gone, so
Speaker 1: holy cow, all right gone.
Speaker 2: So I start with just ten ten micro SD cards
Speaker 2: and they in the first day, So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: that did good. I ended up getting thirty and thirty
Speaker 2: sold in a day. And keep in mind, I did
Speaker 2: all of this so tiny, so tiny, so tiny, but
Speaker 2: everybody needs them. Hell yeah them right.
Speaker 1: So you purposely look for something small at a lower
Speaker 1: price point.
Speaker 2: Something lower price point, and again something that people want
Speaker 2: and something that people need, like every day essentials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that looks a little too old, Vinyl.
Speaker 1: Your story is better than your cooking.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, by the way, I can't cook for nothing.
Speaker 2: Just let me just say that. Okay, But so that's going.
Speaker 2: So thirty goes to one hundred, and then I keep
Speaker 2: going to the point to where it's so good that
Speaker 2: I'm selling about a thousand and two weeks, so money
Speaker 2: is coming in. So that's income source number one right there.
Speaker 2: And I want to walk out through every source of
Speaker 2: income that I had to get to where I got
Speaker 2: to so that y'all can know how to do it
Speaker 2: as well. So that's income source number one going. Now,
Speaker 2: remember I told you about stocks. I didn't know anything
Speaker 2: about stocks, so I didn't know anything about stocks. But
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it like continue, I'm I want to
Speaker 2: get into stocks. I don't know anything about stocks, but
Speaker 2: I look at it like, Okay, I got this business going,
Speaker 2: I got money to blow, so let me get into
Speaker 2: the market. And so what I do is I just
Speaker 2: kind of take a leap of faith and I just
Speaker 2: kind of start investing a little bit. So all I
Speaker 2: do is Amazon, Apple, Intesla.
Speaker 1: Stuff that you're using smart that's that's that's all.
Speaker 2: That's all I do. And I look at it like
Speaker 2: worst case scenario. I make a little bit of money
Speaker 2: out of it. So what happens is and by the way,
Speaker 2: this is something that I want. Just our culture, just
Speaker 2: minorities in general. Our parents aren't teaching us these things, like,
Speaker 2: so I think the younger generation, like us, we're doing
Speaker 2: better with kids and teaching kids. But like my parents,
Speaker 2: they just went went to work, did their thing. But
Speaker 2: I didn't know about all of this.
Speaker 1: And they probably didn't know. It's not like if they knew,
Speaker 1: they would definitely, you know, right, all right, So go
Speaker 1: back to the stocks. So you invest in these stocks,
Speaker 1: but the way you've iron it out in your head
Speaker 1: is like worst case, I'm not going to make that
Speaker 1: a high profit, but I'm at least investing in the
Speaker 1: things that I know correct that people buy.
Speaker 2: So Amma's you fast forward a little bit of time,
Speaker 2: Amazon and Apple is doing really good, and I wasn't
Speaker 2: thinking long term. So this drives me crazy to this
Speaker 2: day that I ended up selling my Amazon and my
Speaker 2: Apple and it would be worth so much money right now.
Speaker 2: But it's all good.
Speaker 1: But you never got on the bitcoin phrase.
Speaker 2: We for sure. I'm on bitcoin too. I can definitely
Speaker 2: get to that.
Speaker 1: As well, So I don't want to skip around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're.
Speaker 1: Selling the SD cards and you're making profit, and you're
Speaker 1: you're doing the whole thing where you're like going to
Speaker 1: the do you buy them wholesale? You found a place
Speaker 1: to buy them wholesale? And then you're going to the
Speaker 1: mail every day and shipping these babos, shipping.
Speaker 2: Them straight from from the post office. So getting getting
Speaker 2: the labels on eBay because eBay they eBay and Amazon
Speaker 2: they do all that for you. All you gotta do
Speaker 2: is print out the label after you sell it, Just
Speaker 2: print out the label, ship it off. That's so crazy,
Speaker 2: that's it. So that that money's coming in. Now, let
Speaker 2: me get the Tesla because this is where things get crazy.
Speaker 2: So I hold on to it because it's not making
Speaker 2: the money that Apple and Amazon is making so and
Speaker 2: plus I like the Tesla cars, and so I hold
Speaker 2: on to it. And I'm noticing over time like this
Speaker 2: keeps going up. Like I got in it was only
Speaker 2: like one ninety eight at the time, it keeps going
Speaker 2: up and up and up, and next thing, you know,
Speaker 2: two hundred goes to three hundred, four hundred, five hundred,
Speaker 2: and it's getting close to one thousand. So as this
Speaker 2: is going on, I get I get a news alert
Speaker 2: and it says Tesla is doing a five for one
Speaker 2: stock split. Do you know? Do you know? Okay? So
Speaker 2: a stock split basically means a stock price is gonna
Speaker 2: get so high like Tesla was in the thousands.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: So to make it more affordable for the everyday person,
Speaker 2: we're gonna give the people that already bought in, We're
Speaker 2: gonna give y'all five shares for each one. So say
Speaker 2: you have thirty shares, right, So, say you have thirty
Speaker 2: shares of Tesla. After that stock split, you wake up
Speaker 2: the next morning, you're gonna have one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Holy cow.
Speaker 2: So the value stays the same, everything stays the same,
Speaker 2: but now you have more shares, and now the price
Speaker 2: drops back down for the everyday average person.
Speaker 1: Okay, So is that good or is it bad?
Speaker 2: No? That's amazing, amazing for you, especially because now instead
Speaker 2: of thirty shares, now you have.
Speaker 1: One fifty, and now they're worth a little less.
Speaker 2: No, they're worth the same thing. Yeah, it's just a
Speaker 2: stock basically buying more damn right about more stocks. So
Speaker 2: now I have a whole bunch of shares and I
Speaker 2: continuing to buy more. So nonetheless, that's income source number two. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I got the eBay Amazon, and I got the
Speaker 2: stock the stock portfolio buility.
Speaker 1: And then how are you paying your bills? Are you
Speaker 1: still living at home? Are you being frugal? What are you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm being very very And then.
Speaker 1: Your pops and everybody's watching. Are they taking notes? Are
Speaker 1: they are they watching or they they doing they mimicking?
Speaker 2: No, they're not, actually that. My pops is kind of
Speaker 2: more old school, you know what I mean. So I'm
Speaker 2: just kind of doing my thing. Just just with that.
Speaker 2: With all of that, so that's two sources of income.
Speaker 2: So all that's making money. And I just so happened
Speaker 2: to once again be with my dad. He's a hardcore
Speaker 2: sports fan, Mavericks, Cowboys, you name it. By the way,
Speaker 2: I'm hurt that the Lakers got Luca. Let me just
Speaker 2: say that on camera. I didn't like that trade, but
Speaker 2: it is what it is. So I go with him
Speaker 2: because he's renewing his season tickets because he's a season
Speaker 2: ticket hole for Mavericks. So I'm just there and at
Speaker 2: the time, you could just pick the seats, like you
Speaker 2: can just grab a paper and pick the seats. So
Speaker 2: when I'm looking around, I'm like, man, like, I see
Speaker 2: some seats that's close to court side. Let me look
Speaker 2: at the price of these. So I'm looking at the
Speaker 2: price of them. Not necessarily court side, but they're a
Speaker 2: little further back to where say you're on a date
Speaker 2: and a dude takes you on a date and he
Speaker 2: want a stunt or save you on Instagram, right, you
Speaker 2: don'na feel good? So I'm looking. I'm like, let me
Speaker 2: get those seats. So I see seats too. It was
Speaker 2: first time. I'm all about risk, So I see, I
Speaker 2: see those seats. Oh man, all right, So I see
Speaker 2: those yo? I did? I did? So I see those seats, right,
Speaker 2: and you are.
Speaker 1: You ready to sit with me? Or what? Let's let's
Speaker 1: did you want to play these or do whatever with me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do What do we have to do? Is hot?
Speaker 1: All right? So take us to how we're doing this?
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: I take a taco.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can take whichever one I know at Okay,
Speaker 2: you want to go Crispy.
Speaker 1: I want to go Crispy. Okay, all right, there, I
Speaker 1: got my two tacos. All right, did you do three?
Speaker 2: Go here, go for it.
Speaker 1: I'm not taking a little I'm taking all your best ones.
Speaker 2: No, you're good.
Speaker 1: Here we go, three tacos. What do we do next?
Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna get the beans and then well,
Speaker 2: I'll let you do the beans.
Speaker 1: You tell me how to do it, all right, because.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you like a lot a little.
Speaker 1: I've never done this before. I'm doing it the way
Speaker 1: you eat at home, all right. All right, So we
Speaker 1: got the beans on it, so.
Speaker 2: You just want to kind of mash those in.
Speaker 1: So this is what you be doing at home.
Speaker 2: Yo, straight up. But I do flour. So it's a little,
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger, a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: Oh the bigger taco.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But now we're gonna rock with this though.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we got the tacos, all right, No
Speaker 1: cheese because we're vegan.
Speaker 2: No cheese because we're vegan. Okay, all right, so do
Speaker 2: we have us?
Speaker 1: They play us shout outs to the producers today.
Speaker 2: I just want a little bit of rice.
Speaker 1: There you go, Spanish rice for a reason.
Speaker 2: I mean Spanish rice is just clutch. I mean Cilantro
Speaker 2: was cool too, but Spanish rice is.
Speaker 1: Now all right. So now I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: Now we can do you want some avocados? Are they
Speaker 2: so risky? You like? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll do it all right, No, man, some of them
Speaker 1: look risky. Nah that look that looks let me see
Speaker 1: you really nice skylet I'm gonna tell you right now,
Speaker 1: you're not going for it. Yeah, yeah, I'll skip the avocado.
Speaker 1: How is guys? He's not an a that has a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: Of All right, I'm gonna do a little bit of saucer.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you even did that. No, they look sketch.
Speaker 2: You wanta saucer?
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, them avocados look, I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: nice to know you're not a Oh I'm spilling this.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a really bad Nah.
Speaker 2: You good? You could all right? Then you gotta get
Speaker 2: a little Frido's to get that, to get that crunch.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were gonna crunch it, crunch it.
Speaker 2: I do that as well, But again it's it's it's
Speaker 2: so small.
Speaker 1: The taco shell. Yeah, okay, I just recently started eating
Speaker 1: chips on sandwiches after eating all broke because someone didn't
Speaker 1: on the show. I can't remember who. Okay, taco tasting time. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got the beans, Spanish rice, freedo, crunchy tortilla, tacoma.
Speaker 2: Let you go first.
Speaker 1: This is amazing, is it? Really? That's what's I would
Speaker 1: totally eat these. Do you know all they're vegan haacks?
Speaker 1: Because this is good. I mean a few, A few
Speaker 1: sometimes is amazing.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when I really want to get fool, this might
Speaker 2: be too much for you. But I have some fries
Speaker 2: and I do it like burrito style, and I put
Speaker 2: some fries in there too, so it's like potatoes, beans, rice,
Speaker 2: fri doos.
Speaker 1: You can do that. If I did that, I turned
Speaker 1: into Ooper loop. But I could do this in a
Speaker 1: burrito right. But you know what makes this is the
Speaker 1: the friedos.
Speaker 2: So y'all don't sleep on the crunch. It's what makes it.
Speaker 1: I have one question, because I'm gonna eat two guys.
Speaker 1: Why why are the fredos in another chip?
Speaker 2: The fri doos just taste good with it, like Frido's.
Speaker 2: You can't do much with it.
Speaker 1: It's not because they're like special because they're like being
Speaker 1: friendly or something.
Speaker 2: Well, they are vegan friendly, so that's part of it too,
Speaker 2: but they just go with it. FreeDOS just go with it.
Speaker 2: It's just one of those things, just mixing it up
Speaker 2: in the kitchen when you when you don't got the
Speaker 2: money and you just scot still laying around and you
Speaker 2: just you just make it work, kind of like you know,
Speaker 2: the big value pack of chips, like the thirty pack.
Speaker 2: The free Doos is always last, so they just kind
Speaker 2: of always sit in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Dude, they're on the bottom shelf too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So people be sleeping on them.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna lie. The Fredos makes this thing work.
Speaker 1: You lucky almost the fos out likes.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it, That's what's up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish my tackle before we get back. Then, no,
Speaker 1: you go because the crunch this is really good.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 1: I want to go vegan, but I don't know how
Speaker 1: to you in.
Speaker 2: The Perfect City with.
Speaker 1: Austin or La La good. But I'm gonna be trying
Speaker 1: to do Backhostal and Austin.
Speaker 2: I mean Austin literally is a mini La man. They
Speaker 2: they got so much vegan food.
Speaker 1: And man, okay, so chocolates is a one for those
Speaker 1: doing it at home. Because of the refried beans, you
Speaker 1: definitely can't go without the salsa, and because of the crunch,
Speaker 1: you can't go without with the friedo. So facts, if
Speaker 1: you do this at home, the best way to enjoy
Speaker 1: this one hundred percent is to do all of the ingredients,
Speaker 1: the Spanish rice, the salsa, the friedo chips, the corner das,
Speaker 1: and the beans. Ten out of ten for vegan.
Speaker 2: You had it without the avocados, that's what's crazy.
Speaker 1: And well, you know what, the refried beans kind of
Speaker 1: because avocado and refried beans have the same textures and
Speaker 1: avocado doesn't have that strong of a taste, right, Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: you could keep your cow avocado that they had way
Speaker 1: too with brown. Personally, if I would have seen once back,
Speaker 1: it would have been down out.
Speaker 2: That is too funny.
Speaker 1: My daughter eats an avocado with da oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: if it was up to her, she eat like four.
Speaker 2: But avocados is what it is, and you can put
Speaker 2: that on anything man salad, you can put in your smoothie,
Speaker 2: you can put it in whatever you want to.
Speaker 1: I feel like, well, I'm going to get to that
Speaker 1: I want when we get to the smoothie era. But
Speaker 1: the part of me feels like you're not judging this
Speaker 1: because you're in the smoothie business. Like you don't judge markings.
Speaker 2: On fruit bananas, you will probably lose your shit.
Speaker 1: But banana's the sweeter.
Speaker 2: They are seeing a lot of customers they see that
Speaker 2: and they're like, what is that. I don't want that banana.
Speaker 2: I'll be trying to explain to them, like, no.
Speaker 1: They're better that way. But I also have a rule.
Speaker 1: I'm Jamaican. My mom raised us. If it doesn't look
Speaker 1: spotty and all that, it's not right.
Speaker 2: That's not right.
Speaker 1: And so even my daughter shows, I'm like, girl, that's
Speaker 1: the only way you want to eat a banana unless
Speaker 1: you want to eat a nasty exactly and smoothie. Your
Speaker 1: banana has to.
Speaker 2: Look exactly freckled facts.
Speaker 1: And you know that's the same for like banana.
Speaker 2: Bread and banana bread. Yeah, that's what I always try
Speaker 2: to explain. I'm like, have you ever made banana bread
Speaker 2: like you don't want.
Speaker 1: You don't want to know, yo, non inspect of bananas.
Speaker 1: But we're not talking about how to make a smoothie.
Speaker 1: We're talking about how to get a paycheck. Facts with
Speaker 1: Skylar paycheck go. So go back to these season tickets.
Speaker 2: All right. So I basically long story short, I'm in
Speaker 2: the arena. I'm like, I'm gonna take a gamble. I'm
Speaker 2: already making money. I already got two streams of income
Speaker 2: coming in. Let me take this gamble. Worst case you.
Speaker 1: Don't have a day job, just to your two streams,
Speaker 1: but the second stream is delayed. Yes, so the first
Speaker 1: stream is the one you're living off of.
Speaker 2: What the second one. We'll get into that later. There's
Speaker 2: ways where you can make money daily and the stock market,
Speaker 2: but we'll get into all that later. But for the
Speaker 2: time being, yes, it's delayed. So that's kind of sitting there.
Speaker 2: And I got those two streams of income going. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, again, let me take this gamble. Best case scenario,
Speaker 2: I break even. Worst case scenario, I get to go
Speaker 2: to a bunch of mever games. So I bought those,
Speaker 2: and I thought, and I bought a few other.
Speaker 1: Seats, and what's your dad doing while you're doing the seat, Like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't even need to buy seats because you got enough.
Speaker 2: You know, he bought his own as well, so you know,
Speaker 2: he's just he knows me by now. If I say
Speaker 2: I'm going to do something, I want something, then I
Speaker 2: like that. You know, he's just like cool. So I
Speaker 2: get those going. So that ends up being really big
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: Like, people, what do you do with these seats? Walk
Speaker 1: us through it?
Speaker 2: So you can do Facebook, Marketplace obviously, these different tickets
Speaker 2: sites and all of this, and that you just put
Speaker 2: them on there. You put them up higher than the
Speaker 2: value and you're making money. So picture having multiple tickets
Speaker 2: for all season, you know what I mean. And Dallas
Speaker 2: is a huge city, so people love sports over there,
Speaker 2: so people got money in Dallas. So people are buying
Speaker 2: these season tickets easy, and so that's making money. So
Speaker 2: now that's three, three sources of income. So this is
Speaker 2: where I'm starting to feel like I'm the man. I'm
Speaker 2: starting to feel like I'm good, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I got some money, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 2: I tell my dad, I said, hey, let me talk
Speaker 2: to you about franchising again. And he was like, all right,
Speaker 2: I got why.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, like you started
Speaker 1: buying ridiculous things.
Speaker 2: No, I've always yeah, yeah, no, I've always been.
Speaker 1: And how many years are you going from that first
Speaker 1: meeting to the point where you're like, let me pick
Speaker 1: up the franchise ball again.
Speaker 2: So it's about four years.
Speaker 1: Four years wow, So four years of pustling and you
Speaker 1: go revisit.
Speaker 2: And I thought I was doing something, but I was
Speaker 2: nowhere close to being a franchise only yet I'm already
Speaker 2: feeling myself and I'm like, hey, pop, I want a franchise.
Speaker 2: Now I got the money, I'm good.
Speaker 1: So how much money did you think you had at
Speaker 1: the time that was enough to start having that conversation.
Speaker 2: About one hundred grand okay for all your listeners, And
Speaker 2: how old were you at the time. I was, what
Speaker 2: twenty four?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: So so yeah, man, like one hundred grand, everything's good.
Speaker 2: I think I'm someone, I think I'm something.
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely feel that.
Speaker 2: And you know, now one hundred grand isn't much now, but.
Speaker 1: At the time, we're also twenty four. Okay.
Speaker 2: So my dad introduced me to his Fratt brother at
Speaker 2: William's Chicken and He's like, man, I like what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I like everything about you. So he was like, how
Speaker 2: about we do this. How about you do an internship
Speaker 2: and just kind of see and float around the store
Speaker 2: to see if this is what you really want, because
Speaker 2: a lot of people might say they want a frame,
Speaker 2: but they don't know about franchise. So I'm doing that
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, I can get down with this.
Speaker 2: And about a week or so later, he's like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, we have a problem at one of
Speaker 2: these other stores. How about you become a manager and
Speaker 2: this can be the store that you end up owning,
Speaker 2: so you can manage it. Just play like you're the manager,
Speaker 2: and then this can be the store that you own.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then what's the name of this franchise?
Speaker 2: It is Williams Chicken.
Speaker 1: William's Chicken. Again, you jump on the opportunity. You go
Speaker 1: from intern which is free, to manager. And so they
Speaker 1: had senior work ethic or something to say, hey, we
Speaker 1: want to give you.
Speaker 2: I think it was crazy. They must have thought that
Speaker 2: I was some manager or something. So this is the
Speaker 2: crazy part. So let me so let me back up here.
Speaker 2: So I didn't have any manager experience at all. But
Speaker 2: my mindset is like, Okay, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 2: them I don't have any managers, right, so I'm looking
Speaker 2: at it like I'm going to do whatever i need
Speaker 2: to do to get to where I'm going. I'm going
Speaker 2: to learn franchising and management on the fly. So no experience, nothing,
Speaker 2: I take it. So the good thing about it also
Speaker 2: is I need for everyone to understand internship. Let me
Speaker 2: say it on this camera. Don't be afraid to be
Speaker 2: an intern. I know a lot of the younger generation
Speaker 2: they don't want to be interns. They think that nothing
Speaker 2: comes with it. You don't know who you're going to meet,
Speaker 2: you don't know what you're going to learn. Forget if
Speaker 2: it doesn't have any money attached to it.
Speaker 1: But now you're also speaking from the perspective of a
Speaker 1: seasoned entrepreneur. You'll also have residual money coming in. But
Speaker 1: I still agree with you on the sense of that.
Speaker 1: But you know you are talking from the perspective of
Speaker 1: I can take one for the team because I have
Speaker 1: residual businesses.
Speaker 2: Right right, very true, But I do also want to
Speaker 2: make that a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 2: they think I'm not going to do this internship. You
Speaker 2: just never internships.
Speaker 1: Hell no, I want to jumped on that internship, especially
Speaker 1: if I'm trying to get into franchising, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's people that go to college never they're like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go to school to be a lawyer, and
Speaker 1: then they spend all this money and they become a
Speaker 1: lawyer and they realize they don't even like that. So
Speaker 1: internship is definitely a way to go. But I do
Speaker 1: want to emphasize the fact that you put in a
Speaker 1: lot of work to have residual money, so it was
Speaker 1: a lot easier to pursue your dreams when you have
Speaker 1: your residual I'm sure you're still working, but it was
Speaker 1: more residuals. At this point, it's a machine because I'll continue.
Speaker 2: Sorry, no, you're good, You're good. So I look at
Speaker 2: it like I already got those three strings of income coming.
Speaker 2: This is extream number four. I am now a general
Speaker 2: manager getting paid a salary to learn the business. So
Speaker 2: now that's four strings and income. So all that's going on,
Speaker 2: I'm learning the system, I'm learning the ropes, and I'm
Speaker 2: a damn good manager.
Speaker 1: And do you love it?
Speaker 2: It's cool? You know what I mean? I love that
Speaker 2: I'm learning, but I realize over time that this might
Speaker 2: not be for me, at least Williams. So I kind
Speaker 2: of start to take a step back and I kind
Speaker 2: of go my own out and.
Speaker 1: Say, you know what made you say it may not
Speaker 1: be for you?
Speaker 2: I think it's just it's cool locally, but I'm thinking
Speaker 2: bigger than that. Okay, So I'm like, I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: something different. So I kind of take a step back
Speaker 2: and I kind of just take that risk and say,
Speaker 2: you know what, I appreciate the experience and I appreciate
Speaker 2: the opportunity, but I'm a pass So remember.
Speaker 1: How soon did you make that decision? Oh?
Speaker 2: No, it was like maybe seven eight, nine months, So
Speaker 2: I definitely put in the work. So remember that Wingstop
Speaker 2: person I told you about I met fresh out of
Speaker 2: high school. I end up getting back in contact with him,
Speaker 2: and when I come back to him, I tell him, Hey,
Speaker 2: do you remember me? Did you told me all this
Speaker 2: and that? And what's crazy? Is he right? And what's
Speaker 2: crazy is he didn't really remember? But hilarious. But I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure so many people that you know.
Speaker 1: But I love that you came back to him. But
Speaker 1: continue shows a lot of integrity.
Speaker 2: It does. And he was like, I don't remember much
Speaker 2: about our conversation, but man, you have everything, Like on
Speaker 2: why you're killing it. He was like, you are doing
Speaker 2: way better than people your age, and so I'm like yeah.
Speaker 2: So basically he's like, I tell you what I do,
Speaker 2: and this is where networking and everything is very important
Speaker 2: to everyone listening and watching. He said, how about you
Speaker 2: come work for me and over time, I'll let you
Speaker 2: buy fifty percent of one of my stores. And so,
Speaker 2: so keep in mind this the og that.
Speaker 1: So this is him right up the alley you want.
Speaker 2: And keep in mind this the og that bought franchise
Speaker 2: in two wing stops. Yeah, so he's like, you got
Speaker 2: to think he has all this money, all these millions.
Speaker 1: So he's scarious. What's his race? I hate to be
Speaker 1: that person. He's a black guy. So it's and so
Speaker 1: so totally something you could really exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: You know how they say though, be careful meeting your heroes.
Speaker 2: He wasn't necessarily my hero, but I get into that
Speaker 2: in a minute. But so I'm doing that. I'm like,
Speaker 2: let's get it, like I fifty wingstop, Like, let me
Speaker 2: do it. So I'm working at Wingstop doing the managing stuff,
Speaker 2: and oh, by the way, let me throw this in there.
Speaker 2: He said. Basically, you'll get the fifty percent and then
Speaker 2: you can either buy me out over time for my
Speaker 2: fifty percent, or you can have the fifty percent and
Speaker 2: you can go open up your own wingstop. But rest
Speaker 2: assured I'll be there to help you get that because
Speaker 2: you helped me out, I'm gonna help you out.
Speaker 1: Wait. He saw you as helping him.
Speaker 2: Out right, because he was like, you're learning the game,
Speaker 2: but also I need help at one of my stores.
Speaker 1: Got it so okay? And he's now if you think
Speaker 1: about from his perspective, he's it's a smart chess move
Speaker 1: for him because he has an employee slash partner that's
Speaker 1: really invested in now exactly got it.
Speaker 2: And that's another way for everyone watching and listening. If
Speaker 2: you don't have the money, there's ways to get into
Speaker 2: the game. There's ways to get into the game to
Speaker 2: where you might not have the money, but find you
Speaker 2: a OG, a season OG that has the money has
Speaker 2: the opportunities to basically get you in the door. You'll
Speaker 2: just be surprised.
Speaker 1: And if you pay attention to your story too, communication
Speaker 1: is key here. Yes, when you're in business for yourself,
Speaker 1: hiring the right people is probably one of the hardest
Speaker 1: and the most riskiest investments you can make. So when
Speaker 1: you get someone that's intentional about working for you that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to be where you're at, you now know
Speaker 1: that your investment is a little bit more safer, especially
Speaker 1: if they have the level of integrity that Skyler has,
Speaker 1: where he's like, I did your checklist here, I am anxiety,
Speaker 1: so I'll continue and I'm just recapping with you all
Speaker 1: that good.
Speaker 2: You're good. So over time I'm realizing I'm killing everything
Speaker 2: that he's asking me to do, and I'm checking everything
Speaker 2: off the box. I'm running his store good. I helped
Speaker 2: him open up a brand new store, hired all his staff.
Speaker 2: I just did all of those different things for him.
Speaker 2: But I've noticed as Tom's going, he's not holding his
Speaker 2: end of the of the bargain. So I'm like, I
Speaker 2: almost feel like I'm just working there.
Speaker 1: And his end would be like when you guys have
Speaker 1: that discussion.
Speaker 2: Right, and when I would kind of bring it up,
Speaker 2: he would kind of like, we'll get to it later.
Speaker 2: We'll get to it later. And so I'm like, all right,
Speaker 2: I'll see how this's going. And one thing about me,
Speaker 2: I like to control my own destiny. I don't really
Speaker 2: like when somebody tries to almost like I'm a puppet
Speaker 2: and you're controlling the streams.
Speaker 1: Well, you're an entrepreneur, right, You're you're you believe in
Speaker 1: controlling that ship. Right, So I can see that, and
Speaker 1: I can see how if you're coming from a place
Speaker 1: of integrity, how when someone lacks integrity, it's it's almost
Speaker 1: like off putting and deflating, right because now you're like,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? Right?
Speaker 2: And I will say, though, shout out to him, because
Speaker 2: I still learned a lot. Now I have experience from two.
Speaker 1: Different So he didn't end up holding up.
Speaker 2: He didn't end up holding it, and I left. I
Speaker 2: chose to leave because I'm like, man, I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like i'm and played a little bit, and so
Speaker 2: I took that risk and so I'm back in the rut.
Speaker 2: But I still have the other income coming in. But
Speaker 2: again going back to what I said earlier, I hate
Speaker 2: seeing certain accounts.
Speaker 1: Okay, well no, especially because now you're at you came
Speaker 1: from now two places that are offering you salaries. So
Speaker 1: this is your fourth income, and it's a sustainable, healthy
Speaker 1: fourth income. So yeah, I can understand that. That's how
Speaker 1: I am, just so you know, I'll be not for.
Speaker 2: Real, for real, and so all of that's going on.
Speaker 2: So I'm back almost starting from scratch. Do you watch Martin?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you know the.
Speaker 2: Episode start from Scratch? That was literally me. So I'm
Speaker 2: starting back from scratch.
Speaker 1: But now, but here's the thing, though, You're starting back
Speaker 1: from scratch with a lot of years of entrepreneurship for sure,
Speaker 1: management two different franchises that you've been managed, able to build,
Speaker 1: and you know the processes and all.
Speaker 2: So you already see all in the groundwork. I'm literally
Speaker 2: laying the groundwork.
Speaker 1: You don't succeed, I'd be surprised, all right. I see
Speaker 1: where Smooie King's coming, right, So what happens?
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to figure it out. And now I'm
Speaker 2: thinking Smoothie King. So this is where I thought I
Speaker 2: was close, but I'm still not even close to being close.
Speaker 2: So I see Smovie King, and I see that they're
Speaker 2: hiring for a manager, and I also know that their
Speaker 2: corporate headquarters is in Dallas, Texas. Okay, so I'm like,
Speaker 2: how about I work there. The corporate offices are right there.
Speaker 2: I be there every day in bug them. If I
Speaker 2: have to, I'm going to get a franchise. And for
Speaker 2: those that don't know, Smoovie King is the number one
Speaker 2: smoothie brand in.
Speaker 1: The nation than Jambas and everybody else.
Speaker 2: Way bigger than Jumba. Very funny story about Jumba by
Speaker 2: the way. But yeah, well, Smoovie King was really close
Speaker 2: to being in in California, really really close. A lot
Speaker 2: of people always ask about Smovie King being there. It
Speaker 2: was really close. But nonetheless, who was their first movie
Speaker 2: or Jamva in California in general? Oh, Smoovie King, movie King,
Speaker 2: literally Smoovies. It started from Smoovie King.
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're the OG's and you're number one in
Speaker 1: the nation, right, Okay, so gone, you're do you apply
Speaker 1: for this manager position?
Speaker 2: I apply for the manager position. But I learned my
Speaker 2: lesson from my last run, and I told them at
Speaker 2: the interview the only way that I am going to
Speaker 2: do this is that y'all know I'm not here long term.
Speaker 2: I am here to be a franchisee. That's it. They agreed,
Speaker 2: they said, cool, So as soon as I got hired.
Speaker 2: Now I'm on LinkedIn shooting my LinkedIn shot at anybody
Speaker 2: that works for Smoovie King, any franchise owner. I'm just
Speaker 2: sending messages because you got to think about it. The
Speaker 2: worst thing that can happen is they don't respond.
Speaker 1: But now, what about the manager that you're reporting to
Speaker 1: that's above you. There you shooting your shot with them?
Speaker 1: You just didn't feel I.
Speaker 2: Didn't because they're working on the corporate end. So the
Speaker 2: Smoothie King corporate stores, like they have corporate stores, and
Speaker 2: then obviously majority of it is franchise So.
Speaker 1: You were at a corporate st.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was at a corporate store. So if you're
Speaker 2: putting the two to two together, I'm working for corporate
Speaker 2: so that y'all can know my name and know about me,
Speaker 2: and the corporate office is here, so I'm basically trying
Speaker 2: to make sure that y'all know exactly who I am.
Speaker 1: Now, is that better that you went to work for
Speaker 1: corporate versus a franchise e? Well, at this point after
Speaker 1: your experience.
Speaker 2: With financially as well, Yeah, because corporate obviously is gonna.
Speaker 1: Pay more, got it.
Speaker 2: But again, I'm just trying to make sure that my
Speaker 2: name is being known. So again I'm shooting shooting my
Speaker 2: my my corporate shot at anyone. I'm talking. I'm shooting
Speaker 2: this to the CEO, say, you know, just hey, how's
Speaker 2: it going. My name is Skuyler. I'm recently a general manager.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to franchise with you guys, just all of
Speaker 2: that type of stuff, just you know, just really, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm doing that. I don't get a lot of
Speaker 2: response responses from people, which, of course, but there are
Speaker 2: some franchises, franchisees that reach back out from different parts
Speaker 2: of the country and everything like that. So they're they're
Speaker 2: and they know who they are, so shout out to
Speaker 2: them that we're still talking to this day. So that's
Speaker 2: going on. I'm starting to talk to the bank now
Speaker 2: because again I'm feeling myself. I think that I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is it? So I thought. So I
Speaker 2: reach out to a bank and the bank is like,
Speaker 2: everything is great. You have everything on paper, your credit
Speaker 2: score is good, your financing is good. Yeah, you got
Speaker 2: the experience. You got everything we need and everything we're
Speaker 2: looking for. So I'm talking to the bank. But there's
Speaker 2: two sides of this. I'm talking to the Smovie King
Speaker 2: as well. Both ends got to prove your financials. So
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Smovie King. They look over my financials
Speaker 2: and they say, everything looks good. Come to Discovery Day.
Speaker 2: So discovery day is basically where the franchise, the potential
Speaker 2: franchisee goes and flies out to the corporate headquarters. But
Speaker 2: I'm already in Dallas, So all I gotta do is try.
Speaker 2: They come and learn about the business. They come and
Speaker 2: learn about everything. So the CEO is in there presenting
Speaker 2: everything to everybody. He's talking about the brand and everything
Speaker 2: about that. As after he's finished, he has everybody in
Speaker 2: the room that wants to be a part of Smoothie
Speaker 2: King introduced themselves. Everyone standing up. I mean they just flexing.
Speaker 2: I own fifteen Taco bells and I own this, I
Speaker 2: own fifty franchises. I mean, everyone just flexing. And when
Speaker 2: it's my turn to stand.
Speaker 1: Up on before you get to that, how does that
Speaker 1: make you feel?
Speaker 2: Very little? Okay, very little? It's my turn to speak.
Speaker 2: So I'm hearing as.
Speaker 1: The young person, right, and are you do other people
Speaker 1: look like you? Meaning like black? Or they all different?
Speaker 2: There were a few black people, but you know, they're
Speaker 2: all older, gray hair, all of that. So I stand
Speaker 2: up after hearing all these people say everything, and I'm
Speaker 2: just like, hey, how's it going. My name is Skuyler.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be a franchise owner, and I am
Speaker 2: a multi union manager for Smoothe King Corps because by
Speaker 2: this time, I ended up managing multiple stores. So I'm
Speaker 2: a multi union manager for Smoothe King. And then I
Speaker 2: sit down and I feel like a clown at this point.
Speaker 2: So the CEO goes back about his debt and he's
Speaker 2: walking out the door, but before he leaves, he looks
Speaker 2: at me in my eyes and walks up to me
Speaker 2: and shakes my hand and says, you're doing a really
Speaker 2: good job. So and then he walks out. So but
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, pitt your erin this big room
Speaker 2: all I felt amazing, okay.
Speaker 1: And do you think he was saying that because you're
Speaker 1: running his stores or because.
Speaker 2: Like you got to this point, got to that.
Speaker 1: Point, got it, got it?
Speaker 2: So so he says, you're doing a really good job.
Speaker 2: So at this point, I'm smiling ear to ear okay,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking everything is in the bag. If the
Speaker 2: CEO knows who I am, you know, so I thought. So.
Speaker 2: I remember later on that day I'll never forget there
Speaker 2: was this older black dude. He was like, man, why
Speaker 2: are you smiling so much? And I was just like, man,
Speaker 2: if you knew what I had to do to get here,
Speaker 2: then you would understand that. You know, I'm just happy.
Speaker 2: And by the way, and while this is going on,
Speaker 2: six months prior, that's when I lost my mom and
Speaker 2: my brother. So I lost still so around the time
Speaker 2: before I got Tomovie King, that's when I lost my
Speaker 2: mom and I lost my brother six months apart from
Speaker 2: each other. So all this is going on. But again
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I'm not gonna stop.
Speaker 1: And so now to backtrack a little bit, this burger
Speaker 1: gets personal. There's everyone close with depression differently right now,
Speaker 1: are you a coper? Do you think that, looking back,
Speaker 1: that you were coping with the distraction of these high
Speaker 1: mountains that you had to climb.
Speaker 2: It was definitely good to have that. But I'm one
Speaker 2: of those obviously I miss him. I'm sad, but I
Speaker 2: mean that's unfortunate. You know, that's part of life. It hurts, But.
Speaker 1: Losing your mom at a young age, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was like, like my grandfather he died of
Speaker 1: cancer to a new hospice or whatever. Was it one
Speaker 1: of those where you were kind of preparing for them
Speaker 1: or was it a shocker?
Speaker 2: It was not my brother that was a complete shocker. Okay,
Speaker 2: that was like, got that phone call.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, he's young, but your mom you kind
Speaker 1: of knew there was some kind of Okay, is that
Speaker 1: part of the health journey?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 1: Okay, got it? So go back to why you're smiling.
Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, no, you're good. So I'm just smiling because
Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, if you knew what I've been going
Speaker 2: through in my journey to get here, just to be
Speaker 2: around all y'all rich folks, you will know why I'm smiling.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. So that's what was going on.
Speaker 2: So a few days past in Smoovie King Cosmic back
Speaker 2: and say, hey, Skylar, so you met the financial liquid cash,
Speaker 2: but your net worth wasn't there. So at this point
Speaker 2: I'm like, bruh what.
Speaker 1: So like, what do you mean no no assets?
Speaker 2: Well, so I have the liquid assets, but would be
Speaker 2: like You're like yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And I
Speaker 2: didn't even have a home or anything at the time.
Speaker 1: So but now is that one of those situations where
Speaker 1: you could finagle like, hey, my dad owns an asset,
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 2: Well, see that's the thing. My we came from a
Speaker 2: middle class, so it's not let me make that very
Speaker 2: there my dad and he wasn't like some rich man
Speaker 2: or you know, just a middle No.
Speaker 1: So when you hit that, there was no way around.
Speaker 2: So when my mom ended up getting sick, we ended
Speaker 2: up selling our house and so all of that. So
Speaker 2: all of that's going on, so smoothe king says that,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, so, like, what do I do now?
Speaker 2: And then to the open wound to add salt? Poor
Speaker 2: the whole bottle of salt in it. The bank caused
Speaker 2: me back and say, so we're actually going in a
Speaker 2: different direction right now, so we're not going to be
Speaker 2: able to fund you. So now I'm back at square
Speaker 2: one again. I said every curse word probably.
Speaker 1: A thousand times.
Speaker 2: I didn't cry. I was hurt, but I didn't cry.
Speaker 1: Damn so strong. I know a lot of even rappers
Speaker 1: on this show that will be like, yeah, I tear
Speaker 1: up out of frustration.
Speaker 2: Frustration was.
Speaker 1: So how did you deal with it? You just set
Speaker 1: a couple of cursors.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I cussed them to hell out. C Yeah,
Speaker 2: I cursed them to hell out. Not Smovie King, but
Speaker 2: the bank. I was pissed, but I kept it pushing
Speaker 2: because I'm like, I am going to get this.
Speaker 1: But now, when you get a call about net worth,
Speaker 1: how do you I could see someone like you going,
Speaker 1: what do I gotta do to build this net worth? Right?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're thinking?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I ended up buying a house. That was
Speaker 2: one thing I did. I was like, okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to buy a home. And so all I'm doing as
Speaker 2: well is that liquid cash. I'm continuing to do that.
Speaker 2: So I'm just finding out different ways to build that
Speaker 2: net worth up. So all of this is going on.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I love you. It's just and I just got
Speaker 1: to say this. The fact that you said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: they said net worth, which is I assumed you know,
Speaker 1: you'd have to own a home or whatever, right, But
Speaker 1: the fact that you just glided over that fact that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I found out I didn't have enough net worth, So
Speaker 1: what did you do? Well? Then I had to go
Speaker 1: buy a home, right? Amazing? Amazing, Like, oh, okay, this
Speaker 1: is the rules. I'll play by the rules.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're right, You're not going to tell me no.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to get it one way or another.
Speaker 2: Just let me know what I need to do so
Speaker 2: that I can do it so I can become a print.
Speaker 1: Now, did you a little sidebar? Did you go for
Speaker 1: a hollorrific home or what were you looking for when
Speaker 1: you bought to creation this? Fine? Right?
Speaker 2: So I bought this home just to basically make it
Speaker 2: a just to basically make it an asset, to make
Speaker 2: it to where I can make it a rental property.
Speaker 2: So I buy it with the intention of it's the
Speaker 2: first time home, but it is brand new, it's in
Speaker 2: a very nice area where people we will never have
Speaker 2: a problem rented out. But it also look great on paper.
Speaker 2: That was my whole reason.
Speaker 1: So you were looking for Now, were you looking for
Speaker 1: equity from the jump or you just looking for just
Speaker 1: something that has like a value of say five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand or whatever? Is that? What point are you looking
Speaker 1: for when you're looking to both?
Speaker 2: Actually both, And I'm still learning the home business at
Speaker 2: the time, so I'm just thinking I'll just buy a home.
Speaker 2: But yes, so that's basically what I did it for
Speaker 2: for equity and just to have this on paper. That
Speaker 2: was my whole sole.
Speaker 1: Reason for it, right, all right, So continue.
Speaker 2: So no you're good. So no, no, you're good. You're good.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, all right.
Speaker 2: So every all that's going on. So I'm back to
Speaker 2: square one again because both of those, the bank and
Speaker 2: Smovie King, that didn't work out, So going back to.
Speaker 1: Wait, they didn't work out, but they were more on hold.
Speaker 2: Not right, Yeah, for sure, for sure. So as I'm
Speaker 2: still working a movie king, I tell my pops Lie,
Speaker 2: I tell him the situation because I talked to my
Speaker 2: mom and my dad a lot about all those things. Obviously,
Speaker 2: my mom's not there anymore at that point, but I
Speaker 2: did talk to them along the way, so she knew
Speaker 2: the journey, she knew the mission. So that's one good
Speaker 2: thing I have out of it all. She knew before
Speaker 2: she died that I was going to get a franchised.
Speaker 2: So all that's going on. He says, Hey, remember he's
Speaker 2: a networker, he knows everyone. He says, I have another
Speaker 2: frid brother that's the CEO of a bank. I want
Speaker 2: you to go talk to him. So so man shouts
Speaker 2: out to my dad. So I go and I meet
Speaker 2: with him. Everything's going good. I'm all nice, nicely clean
Speaker 2: cut suit and tie, have a nice presentation, everything is
Speaker 2: going great. I'm thinking that everything's going to pan out.
Speaker 2: This is my shot. He already knows my dad really well,
Speaker 2: so this is I got this, so I thought. So
Speaker 2: I meet up with him and he's like, look, Skyler,
Speaker 2: everything you have is good. Everything you have is amazing.
Speaker 2: And at this point I'm fresher. I'm like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: but you can't help me out. Just go ahead and
Speaker 2: tell me. So he was like, but this isn't really
Speaker 2: the direction that we want to go as at our bank.
Speaker 2: So so I'm just like all right. So he say
Speaker 2: he'll call around, but you know, but I was just like,
Speaker 2: it's all good. At this point, I'm already good myself anyway.
Speaker 2: So I end up keeping in touch with him, and
Speaker 2: I get back to him down the line. So I
Speaker 2: end up saying a little about a year or so
Speaker 2: passes by, and this is now we're getting kind of
Speaker 2: closer to COVID. So at this point, at this point,
Speaker 2: at this point, again my money, I'm just stacking it
Speaker 2: in and continuing renters. No, not even yet. So this
Speaker 2: is just this is just me I haven't even got
Speaker 2: to the renting.
Speaker 1: Part yet, living in the house and living over there
Speaker 1: at least.
Speaker 2: No, no, he's not.
Speaker 1: So you're you're you're you're flowing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no for sure. And the good thing about it,
Speaker 2: if you remember during COVID, that's when the market value
Speaker 2: of homes just shot through the roof.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I feel like the best time to buy.
Speaker 2: Well, it was definitely good to buy, especially interest racing everything.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think you're right. They were they because my house was
Speaker 1: probably the most ever was.
Speaker 2: So I go and now I can do it things
Speaker 2: on my own. So I go back to a different
Speaker 2: bank and I start talking to them, and then on
Speaker 2: the other side, I start talking to Smoothie King again.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm in a better space. Now let's get
Speaker 2: to talking. And I find a franchise owner in the area,
Speaker 2: in the Dallas Fort Worth area that's trying to sell
Speaker 2: because she has a whole bunch of airbnbs and everything
Speaker 2: like that. So she's just like, I want to sell
Speaker 2: my Smoothie King and just do real estate. So we
Speaker 2: start negotiating something I presented the Smoothie King and this
Speaker 2: is where the amazing part happened. So remember that that
Speaker 2: same CEO that shook my hand, he ended up being
Speaker 2: the one to sign off on me becoming a franchise owner.
Speaker 2: So I finally did it. I finally did it. I
Speaker 2: finally did it. But wow, that that CEO today is
Speaker 2: my personal mentor.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So yeah, everything's great. He's my personal mentor. Everything is amazing.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, you are both.
Speaker 2: So what's crazy is though, So remember that CEO at
Speaker 2: the bank, right, Yeah, I ended up getting cool em.
Speaker 2: He's my personal mentor now. So now I'm talking to
Speaker 2: them on a whole different level now. So now the
Speaker 2: CEO is my personal mentor. The bank, the bank of
Speaker 2: the CEO of the bank, he's my personal mentor. And
Speaker 2: now they're giving me game that I didn't even know
Speaker 2: about it. You know, I'm talking to the obviously, he's
Speaker 2: the CEO of Smoothie King. So man, the stuff that
Speaker 2: he knows and the knowledge.
Speaker 1: That he has and you got hands on as a
Speaker 1: franchise owner. So like when you're really faced in the dark,
Speaker 1: you get to call the the real Now also with
Speaker 1: him being your mentor, is is he able to I
Speaker 1: don't want to ask this, but I'm gonna is he
Speaker 1: able to my mentors are assholes, like in the sense
Speaker 1: of they make me great because they do not bend
Speaker 1: the rules for me.
Speaker 2: He does not for me.
Speaker 1: So that's how I was asking.
Speaker 2: He does not be in the rules for me, but
Speaker 2: he holds me to a standard, like the goal for
Speaker 2: me is twenty five plus movie kings. And I'm on
Speaker 2: store number four, working on store, working.
Speaker 1: To get for the stores that that lady had.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, bought the stores that the well only about
Speaker 2: that one store, so she only had one store and
Speaker 2: then so I've multiplied ever since then.
Speaker 1: So so how did you get the other stores? So
Speaker 1: after you got the one, did you become when did
Speaker 1: he become your mentor?
Speaker 2: So he became a mentor, like right when I was
Speaker 2: getting that first one.
Speaker 1: So and he shook your hand and he signed he
Speaker 1: was there, is he traditionally there with all of the
Speaker 1: signings or just.
Speaker 2: Oh just me, you know, you know, I gotta have
Speaker 2: some gotta have some kind of perks today.
Speaker 1: But so he showed up for you. Did you think
Speaker 1: he remembered.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about remember from Discovery day or from
Speaker 2: Discovery Yeah, no, he for sure remembered.
Speaker 1: So he wanted to be there for yours.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so he mane one is amazing that that
Speaker 2: dude therapy.
Speaker 1: I've seen a picture of him on your Instagram. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think it was your Instagram. I was snooping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's all good. Yeah, so man, we have
Speaker 2: several pictures and again I'm gonna be with him later
Speaker 2: this week actually, but man, I'm forever indebted to that man.
Speaker 2: He he literally helped get me over that hurdle. And
Speaker 2: that goes back to again networking and showing your worth
Speaker 2: and showing who you are as an individual.
Speaker 1: You showed a lot of integrity though, Like I if
Speaker 1: you walked out of here today and said I want
Speaker 1: to build a robot, I'd be like, like, you know,
Speaker 1: even if it takes him ten years.
Speaker 2: Right now, and well, let me say this is what
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. So back to the CEO of the bank.
Speaker 2: That's my personal mentor we have a relationship now to
Speaker 2: where Man, these people got like athlete money. I need
Speaker 2: for people to understand. I think they hear me, but
Speaker 2: I don't think they understand these people got money, money, money, money, money,
Speaker 2: and what I like about when we hang out. Now
Speaker 2: he's trying to introduce me and me have me be
Speaker 2: a part of his golfing club to where all his
Speaker 2: buddies they they have Like, so they're.
Speaker 1: Trying to invest in you probably now, man.
Speaker 2: If you want to call it investing or just showing
Speaker 2: the young buck the ropes. I mean, I'm around people
Speaker 2: that got millions of.
Speaker 1: Mens like, oh, you're golfing and stuff.
Speaker 2: I haven't got to golfing yet. But he's trying to
Speaker 2: get me there, and so no, for real, for real,
Speaker 2: and so he's man, he's like, this person knows this,
Speaker 2: this person owns this, this person has this, this person
Speaker 2: has that. So they're showing me the ropes and getting
Speaker 2: me cause that's kind of where I'm at now, is okay,
Speaker 2: how do I get to the next level? Like I've
Speaker 2: already reached seven figures? How do I reach the next level?
Speaker 2: How do I get to eight figures?
Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of things in w to touch on. One.
Speaker 1: Is he the one that does your loans for Smoothie King? Now?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, he still doesn't.
Speaker 2: No. And now I'm to the point to where I
Speaker 2: don't even got to get loans, you know what I mean, Like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you know hey.
Speaker 1: Love, I love Flex. Oh you ain't got apologize. I'm
Speaker 1: apologetic about that flex.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 1: And then my other question was from to go from
Speaker 1: one franchise to the second, to the third to the fourth.
Speaker 1: How hard was that easy?
Speaker 2: It was easier after you get that first franchise. I
Speaker 2: need for everyone to understand. Once you get that first one,
Speaker 2: it's almost like that's all you gotta do because after that,
Speaker 2: it's up from there. Now, those same banks that were
Speaker 2: turning me down this and that, and now they calling
Speaker 2: my phone saying, hey, mister Skyler, when do you want
Speaker 2: to open up another franchise? Now they're asking me when
Speaker 2: do you want to like Smoothie King my my capital
Speaker 2: and everything is so good now I don't have to
Speaker 2: go through the same thing I went.
Speaker 1: Do you own other houses? Are you just good with
Speaker 1: your one right now?
Speaker 2: I'm good with my one because I'm cheap, But.
Speaker 1: I'm not cheap. You're wiseman money financially, you're financially literate.
Speaker 2: But you know, bigger things comes like people around in
Speaker 2: my circle this and that, they want to see better
Speaker 2: for me, you know, like my immediate family. They're like, Skylar,
Speaker 2: let's get a house let's get a bigger house, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So that's that's where I'm at
Speaker 2: now with that.
Speaker 1: Now do you think some of that comes from how
Speaker 1: do I put this delicately? Like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur, you're so focused on the goal. My
Speaker 1: dad used to have this thing where he would say, like,
Speaker 1: frame what you do because sometimes when something hits me,
Speaker 1: like all those hurdles that you hit, you go on
Speaker 1: to the point. Well, for me personally, I go into
Speaker 1: self doubt. It's like I'm constantly me and this self
Speaker 1: doubt devils like believe in yourself. Don't believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: Believe in yourself. Don't. And my dad would be like,
Speaker 1: frame these milestones because you're working so hard you don't
Speaker 1: see that. And then there's like the self love gets
Speaker 1: a little funky because your way of self love is
Speaker 1: pursuing these dreams. Right. But then if you don't take
Speaker 1: the time to like treat yourself good, you know, and
Speaker 1: especially be an entrepreneur, you know that it's never like
Speaker 1: you it looks like it's kind of this, but it
Speaker 1: technically is like this, you know. And so do you
Speaker 1: think that some of your frugality is rooted in the
Speaker 1: fact of like not really looking out for you.
Speaker 2: I look out for everybody but me, you know. And
Speaker 2: it's funny you say that because there's a video when
Speaker 2: I first got my franchise and reading the email and
Speaker 2: everything during COVID, and I.
Speaker 1: Was just can you send us that? By the way,
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 2: I was looking so rough.
Speaker 1: A right, all right, so.
Speaker 2: No haircuts nothing.
Speaker 1: We would love the video if you do, get okay.
Speaker 2: But I was reading the email and looking back and
Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't even crack a smile or anything,
Speaker 2: because I just went through so much to get there.
Speaker 2: I was just like, finally, like what's next. So yeah,
Speaker 2: you would think that I was happy jumping up and down,
Speaker 2: but I just I didn't even crack a smile in
Speaker 2: that video. Wow, because man, it was just so much
Speaker 2: to get there.
Speaker 1: Now I see though, it's important for you to share
Speaker 1: your story and to motivate others. Where do you think
Speaker 1: that's coming from.
Speaker 2: Man, because I know the ropes. I'd been there, and
Speaker 2: I think that people on the other end, I don't
Speaker 2: think that they know that they can do it too,
Speaker 2: Like anybody can be Skylar, You're not. Let's be real
Speaker 2: about this. You're not gonna be Lebron James. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna be jay Z. Shout out jay Z. I know
Speaker 2: that's your favorite artist. You're not gonna be jay Z.
Speaker 2: You're not going to be Tyler the Creator. We're in
Speaker 2: La Tyler the Creator. You're not going to be those people.
Speaker 2: You can, but it's like you got a better chance
Speaker 2: of maybe hitting the lottery than that. It's it's kind
Speaker 2: of even maybe so, but anyone can be me. And
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people in our culture they
Speaker 2: don't understand that you can be a franchise owner. I
Speaker 2: don't even think, especially when I go to talk to
Speaker 2: the youth at schools and stuff like that, they don't
Speaker 2: even really know what franchising is. So it's my purpose
Speaker 2: and my duty to show them, Hey, let me tap
Speaker 2: into some of y'all at a young mind to where
Speaker 2: you can do this too, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: just start, just start, though, I.
Speaker 1: Will say, though I'm older now, and I will say,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of I've done a lot of these interviews,
Speaker 1: and there's core characteristics between the people that can do
Speaker 1: it and cannot. And there's a couple of things I've
Speaker 1: learned across doing these shows. One, if you listen to
Speaker 1: scholars story, there's no balance. There's no balance of I'm
Speaker 1: spending time with my friends volunteering at the VET, and
Speaker 1: I have my girlfriend's slash wife or whatever, or I'm
Speaker 1: spending all this time with the kids. I can almost
Speaker 1: take a guess that there's no balance there.
Speaker 2: Right, It's I tried to keep a healthy balance. But
Speaker 2: to your point, yes it is. And you you have
Speaker 2: to be all in. You have to be.
Speaker 1: Deady and dedicated to the work. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing is And I just want to to because your
Speaker 1: story sounds amazing, but I want you guys to understand
Speaker 1: out there like this is a person on a mission.
Speaker 1: You got kicked down, got up, kicked down again. I
Speaker 1: personally would have I go through a victim route. Where
Speaker 1: I go it's because I'm young, and maybe if I'm
Speaker 1: closed on them, they would believe in me or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know. But the other thing you have that is
Speaker 1: the undeniable force is integrity, and integrity is going to
Speaker 1: beat it every time. And yes, whether you do or
Speaker 1: do not have the jay Z skills, you know you're
Speaker 1: right in that regard. But if you lack integrity, if
Speaker 1: you give your word on getting someone. You know, my
Speaker 1: daughter asked for some flower seeds, you know, even something
Speaker 1: as small as I told my daughter I was gonna
Speaker 1: give her some flower seeds before I got home. That
Speaker 1: level of integrity, I can almost guess without a doubt
Speaker 1: you're that level of intagraon that if you say something,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it. And I think if you're at home,
Speaker 1: even if you're fourteen, twenty one or forty, you got
Speaker 1: to start with that level of your word and your
Speaker 1: brand because people are going to tie your brand to
Speaker 1: your word, and if you look at Skuylar's story, all
Speaker 1: you're seeing is integrity word, integrity word, integrity word, integrity.
Speaker 2: Facts. Yeah, and I think it sucks because along the way,
Speaker 2: I've always had a few people that I wanted to
Speaker 2: bring up with me, and I do have one. So
Speaker 2: shout out to my district manager Patrick, like he's one
Speaker 2: of the only ones that man, he gets it. But
Speaker 2: along the way of my journey, I've had so many
Speaker 2: people that I want to bring up with me to help,
Speaker 2: and to your point, they don't. They don't get it.
Speaker 2: They don't get it.
Speaker 1: Yep. I've had this studio for like five years and
Speaker 1: I've had so many friends and I'm like, look, you
Speaker 1: want to shoot, come in free on the house. I
Speaker 1: would tell that to even guess, freak on the house.
Speaker 1: I'm not even charging anyways, show up. Every time we
Speaker 1: get on the phone. It's the same thing. And I
Speaker 1: just like, and I don't know how you deal with
Speaker 1: separating because your time is so valuable the people. And
Speaker 1: that's for integrity for me is like I see it,
Speaker 1: and if you don't have it, you're not even gonna
Speaker 1: clear like past a certain level with me. But for instance,
Speaker 1: like with your district manager, you see that level of integrity, right,
Speaker 1: that work, I think right for everyone else. When you
Speaker 1: start to see those signs, are you less invested in
Speaker 1: them because you already kind of seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna say less invested. I always give
Speaker 2: everyone a shot. Anyone can be a late bloomer. You
Speaker 2: don't know someone's situation, what they're going through, whatever, So
Speaker 2: I try to keep it fair for everybody. But I
Speaker 2: also at the same time do like to focus a
Speaker 2: little bit more of my time on people that get
Speaker 2: it and actually care. So yeah, man, And what's crazy
Speaker 2: is this is just the beginning for me like this
Speaker 2: is just the beginning. This to me, this is just
Speaker 2: the start of the journey. Like, man, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be on Shacks level. I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: Be on well believe you'll get there without doubt.
Speaker 2: Like seeing people like Charlemagne with the crystals, to me,
Speaker 2: that's that's inspiring. Like, so you you already got all
Speaker 2: this going on. You got this going on. I can
Speaker 2: keep naming athletes and rappers Rick Cross with the wingstops,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Stuff like that shows me like, man,
Speaker 2: this is just the beginning, and I'm slowly starting to
Speaker 2: not rub shoulders with them, but I'm at least being
Speaker 2: noticed that I can do this same to the same
Speaker 2: level that they're doing it. And so that's that's the
Speaker 2: next goal. Like, man, I'm trying to be rich rich,
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to show people you can be rich
Speaker 2: rich as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think you like the art of
Speaker 1: making money more than you like spending, which I align
Speaker 1: with a lot, Like I don't really do nothing with money.
Speaker 1: It's like flipping it. Man.
Speaker 2: People, if you are around me and hung around me,
Speaker 2: you will probably think I'm broke because I don't eat
Speaker 2: expensive meals. I don't wear expensive clothes, I don't drive
Speaker 2: an expensive car. I could, but I just yea Man's
Speaker 2: what's the point?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know? Yeah, well you know what I will
Speaker 1: say though, you know you may be a late bloomer
Speaker 1: in that area. You know what I'm saying. You may
Speaker 1: hang out with your golf buddies and say, watches the
Speaker 1: treat myself.
Speaker 2: And that's the cars that they have.
Speaker 1: Man, And that's so cool. Though. You know it's okay
Speaker 1: to like show love to yourself. Skyler. I can't thank
Speaker 1: you enough. We never shoot on Sundays, just so you know.
Speaker 1: You know you are special. You are very special. And
Speaker 1: I loved every bit of this interview. There's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent inspiring. I'm hoping I can keep your number. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put off for sure. And then where can everybody
Speaker 1: keep up with Skyler paycheck and also have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go into one of your franchise stores.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so for sure, if you are ever in the
Speaker 2: Dallas Fort Worth metric, please hit me up, shoot me
Speaker 2: a DM on ig TikTok wherever pull up. I give
Speaker 2: you the address and the addresses of all of them
Speaker 2: is on my ig by the way my ig is
Speaker 2: I M Skylar B I A M s K y
Speaker 2: l E r B not a E and then all
Speaker 2: my other platforms, TikTok, YouTube, all of that is Skyler, paycheck,
Speaker 2: s K y l E r P A y c
Speaker 2: h e c K.
Speaker 1: And then just a last I can see a lot
Speaker 1: of people watching this interview saying like, is there a
Speaker 1: chance to get Skylar to mentor me? What's there to
Speaker 1: come in regards to your mentorship. I know you're starting
Speaker 1: to push out more content promoting that everyone can do this,
Speaker 1: but is there a plan or is there a way?
Speaker 1: Do people just DM you? How does that hold?
Speaker 2: So I definitely get a lot of d ms about
Speaker 2: mentorship this and that. That kind of goes back to
Speaker 2: what you were saying about who's really serious and who's not,
Speaker 2: you know, But I do get a lot of that,
Speaker 2: And I'm still learning, you know, I'm still learning how
Speaker 2: to where do I put my time? Like how do
Speaker 2: I talk to this group of individuals? How do I
Speaker 2: do this? How do I do that? So I'm still
Speaker 2: learning on the curve, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 2: spent so much time with my head down and I'm
Speaker 2: kind of playing ketchup on this on this end of things,
Speaker 2: you know, so, but I'm open. So if you have
Speaker 2: any advice or anything you want to tell me, please
Speaker 2: let me know. I love to learn. I'm a host.
Speaker 1: I love to learn. I feel like we'll be learning
Speaker 1: from each other. And then are you going to start
Speaker 1: doing speaking engagements you think? Are you? Have you considered it?
Speaker 1: Or is this like what no?
Speaker 2: I would love to I've done a few here and there,
Speaker 2: but again, I'm kind of learning that in so I
Speaker 2: just I don't know. I guess I need to talk
Speaker 2: to the right people to be able to do that
Speaker 2: or you know, but I'm I would love to learn.
Speaker 2: It's just about doing it.
Speaker 1: And then how far off are you or like, what's
Speaker 1: your timeline to get to that twenty five?
Speaker 2: I think it all depends. It depends on which I
Speaker 2: want to go. Do I want to keep cause like
Speaker 2: last year two thousands before I opened up two stores,
Speaker 2: so that was a new goal for me. That was
Speaker 2: a new milestone for me. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: maybe next year open three when I open one this year,
Speaker 2: or I can go to route where I'm trying to
Speaker 2: acquire a few that are already existing, or do I
Speaker 2: want to hop in a financial group and do it
Speaker 2: as a group. There's so many things that I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of of which way I want to go, and.
Speaker 1: Would you be open to would you be open to
Speaker 1: another franchise outside of Smoothie King.
Speaker 2: I thought about it. You know, it just has to
Speaker 2: make sense for me. But no, I'm definitely not against it.
Speaker 2: It's just about finding which one works for me. And yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, no, I'm definitely open for that as well.
Speaker 1: And then what's your favorite smoothie? These are just randoms.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm no, No, You're good.
Speaker 2: You're good. So I usually do the Collagen Pineapple kl
Speaker 2: so and I put a little ginger and mangos in there.
Speaker 2: So it's going to have pineapples, it's going to have spinach,
Speaker 2: it's going to have kal it's going to have the Banngo.
Speaker 2: So it's a nice Yeah, it's a really good movie.
Speaker 2: And another one I'll usually get because I get to
Speaker 2: every time I'm at any store in the morning time.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get that for my breakfast and then
Speaker 2: when I leave for like lunch, I'm going to do
Speaker 2: a peanut Power and that's more like a chocolate peanut
Speaker 2: butter kind.
Speaker 1: Of smooth, but can you take a lot of can
Speaker 1: you taste a lot of the peanut butter?
Speaker 2: You know, people are interesting about peanut butter.
Speaker 1: Some people a peanut butter.
Speaker 2: Some people will say a little, some people say a lot.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I think it just boils down to taste buds, like bananas.
Speaker 2: Some people, if it's just a little banana, could be
Speaker 2: about that big and they'll be like it's too much banana,
Speaker 2: and some people get extra. So I think it just
Speaker 2: goes down to taste buds everyone has.
Speaker 1: And are you using those and meal replacements because you say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, okay, replacements. So so that's the I
Speaker 2: guess the perk of smoothie king. I get free smoothies,
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm making money while doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, thank you for tuning in, Just
Speaker 1: so you know, a sidebar note, Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for tuning in. We really appreciate you
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Speaker 1: Thank you for this dish, oh for sure. Peace out, guys,