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Built on Purpose with Joe Huff · Dos Amigos

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  Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm wilmer about the rama.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the DOOS podcast where all of our dreams come.
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  Speaker 1: True, All of our dreams come true.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have another great episode.
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  Speaker 3: Very excited to tap into some inspiration keeping giving all
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  Speaker 3: of our dogs community, uh more things too. I realized
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  Speaker 3: that you got what it takes to actually live a
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  Speaker 3: happy life.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's right. And a real third amigo.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I like to introduce everyone to Joe Huff.
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  Speaker 4: Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Joey is a very dear, very dear friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: We've known each other for many, many many years and
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  Speaker 3: I we'll dive right into it. But above it all,
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  Speaker 3: he's an author, he's an entrepreneur, he's an incredible father,
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  Speaker 3: he's a you know, like a C plus friend. It
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  Speaker 3: kind of goes yes, but he's very good Chicago. And
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  Speaker 3: I will also say, you know, he is the godfather
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  Speaker 3: to my daughter and I kind of very interesting. I
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  Speaker 3: hope is that it's something happened to me that they
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  Speaker 3: pick it up where I left off.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe be would have to be.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, Welcome to those podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very excited to have you finally have look, we
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  Speaker 3: we as we were continuing to talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the themes of this season, you know, which is like
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  Speaker 3: what are we living on the table, like what are
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  Speaker 3: we letting.
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  Speaker 2: Go of ourselves?
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  Speaker 3: But also how we building a more uh uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: a space that makes things possible, you know, and more
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  Speaker 3: and more and more possible space.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think the idea that you can find happiness and
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  Speaker 3: not just who you are, but the strengths that you've
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  Speaker 3: yet to recognize, I think is really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: You've had quite an amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Story, and I would love to share your heart and
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  Speaker 3: your spirit with everybody that listens to those amigos. But
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  Speaker 3: starting from scratch, wouldn't you tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, where you're from. I know you guys were talking
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  Speaker 2: about Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: You were shutdown, baby, shutdown.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I didn't know there were going to
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  Speaker 5: be hard questions. I'm probably gonna dip out starting off
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  Speaker 5: hart Yeah. Yeah, originally yeah, from Chicago, but we moved
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  Speaker 5: when I was a kid to Sokel and I acclimated
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  Speaker 5: too well. I think it's why the sunny weather every
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  Speaker 5: time I go back to Chicago and it's not fall
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  Speaker 5: or spring. Yeah, I remember why my parents decided moving
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  Speaker 5: was a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: But no polar vortex for you.
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  Speaker 5: No, yeah, yeah, I was just back actually in Minneapolis
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  Speaker 5: for some work and there's like negative seventeen. It's like
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  Speaker 5: almost like eighty four degrees in LA when I left.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, so it's it's great to be a so
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  Speaker 5: cal person with perspective. I feel like that's important. You
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  Speaker 5: know a lot of people you hear say things like
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  Speaker 5: I just want to live where there are seasons that
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  Speaker 5: have never lived where there are seasons. It's a little
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  Speaker 5: bit yeah, it's a little bit of a statement, but uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I I grew up in Sokeel, not too far from
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  Speaker 5: the LA area, like thirty forty minutes away, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: I had a kind of crazy adolescence where.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wasn't going to go into that. But now, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where we're at.
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  Speaker 5: You got it.
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  Speaker 2: I got that exactly where we're at now, you got No.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy that you bring that up because they think
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  Speaker 3: that that adventure is like, let's get it down. Mentality
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  Speaker 3: comes from somewhere, and you definitely cultivated it at a
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  Speaker 3: very specific time of your life. You know, Joe had
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  Speaker 3: very long heavy metal hair really.
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  Speaker 2: For those who are going to be watching that picture
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  Speaker 2: on the screen also that at some point. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he uh.
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  Speaker 3: The first time I met him, he said, Hi, I
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  Speaker 3: am Joey.
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  Speaker 4: Does What year was it?
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  Speaker 2: That was his go to? I don't remember. We both
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  Speaker 2: like tequila back then.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was actually about twenty six years ago, believe
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  Speaker 5: it or not.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were both ten something like that.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, but so, do you have any brothers? You know,
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  Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about your family.
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  Speaker 5: Two older brothers, you know, they're there West Coast, once
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  Speaker 5: in San Francisco, the other ones in Irvine, kids, wives,
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  Speaker 5: the whole shebang. I'm the youngest, and yeah, typical kind
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  Speaker 5: of sokeel stranger.
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  Speaker 2: Fairy, typical upbringing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a lot of BMX bikes, you know, right
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  Speaker 5: around on trails, kind of lack of supervision, latch key.
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  Speaker 1: Kids come home and the lights go turn straight up
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  Speaker 1: and maybe yeah, maybe your mom's scream if it was
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  Speaker 1: too dark, Like, yeah, wait, how did you two meet?
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  Speaker 4: Though?
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  Speaker 1: What was the what was the long hair? And the.
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  Speaker 2: So how do I say this?
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  Speaker 4: And it was delicate for him.
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  Speaker 3: I was doing my first movie ever, cool summer catch
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  Speaker 3: starting Freddy Prince Junior and Jessica Biel, Matt t. Lillar, who,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, shout out to Matt de Lillard. He
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  Speaker 3: was a major class act. On on that said, he
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  Speaker 3: was like just an amazing nurser and friend, incredible man
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  Speaker 3: Mark Bluke, Cedric Pendleton, Christian Kane, Brian Denahey, fred.
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  Speaker 2: Ward just like.
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  Speaker 3: It was so fun and was same producers Baschadory Blues.
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  Speaker 3: It was this beautiful baseball movie. We were in South Polk, Okayland.
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  Speaker 3: And at the time, you know, Joe and and Freddie
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  Speaker 3: Prince Junior, which I have been remained really good friends
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  Speaker 3: this whole time. Uh, they were best friends and I
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  Speaker 3: think were you guys roommates.
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  Speaker 4: Roommates for like five years.
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  Speaker 5: I met Freddie when he first moved from New Mexico
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  Speaker 5: to La before he had ever acted in anything, and
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  Speaker 5: he was in my other roommates acting class and he
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  Speaker 5: needed a place to live and we had an extra room,
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  Speaker 5: so I was like, yeah, sure, you got a friend
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  Speaker 5: that wants to move in. He moved in, and then
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  Speaker 5: he got a couple of jobs, and then one of
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  Speaker 5: them turned out to be a number one movie.
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  Speaker 4: Right it was I know what you did last summer?
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, were you? Were you all actors?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: No, I was just trying to figure out life still
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  Speaker 5: at that time.
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  Speaker 4: Voice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was acting like a bartender mostly and a waiter, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: a mover all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When did you get the first bug to entrepreneurship when
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  Speaker 3: we were like, oh, you know, I like to start
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  Speaker 3: this aster that, you know, I like.
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  Speaker 4: To build things.
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  Speaker 5: I just always felt one thing I think I got
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  Speaker 5: from my parents which was really helpful, is my dad
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  Speaker 5: specifically always maybe believe I could do anything.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's really powerful.
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  Speaker 5: And it wasn't that my dad was like some super
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  Speaker 5: successful person, but he really instilled in me that.
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  Speaker 4: If you think you can do something, you do it.
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  Speaker 5: Go do it. You could do it, why can't you?
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  Speaker 5: And that mentality really stuck. And I really had a
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  Speaker 5: couple of key moments though, you know, as I alluded
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  Speaker 5: to earlier, but I had like a crazy adolescence that
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  Speaker 5: got really this exclamation point where I just started to
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  Speaker 5: figure things out.
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  Speaker 4: I got and kicked out of high school. I figured
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  Speaker 4: out how to get back into high school.
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  Speaker 5: I started figuring out that maybe the decisions I was
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  Speaker 5: making were actually terrible yeah, and I was looking at
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  Speaker 5: my friends. A lot of people were going to jail,
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of other terrible things were going on.
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  Speaker 5: And I started to turn my life around, got back
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  Speaker 5: into high school, and right before I graduated, my dad
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  Speaker 5: had a heart attack. I came downstairs. He's white as
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  Speaker 5: a sheet and dreshed in sweabs. This really crazy moment.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, my dad's having a heart attack, and
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  Speaker 5: we turn him the hospital. But it turned out it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't a heart attack. He actually had advanced stage heart disease,
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  Speaker 5: and so it was failing and he wound up going
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  Speaker 5: on life support and needing a heart transplant. And it
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  Speaker 5: was this period of a couple months of just this
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  Speaker 5: just intense fear of Wow, like all the things my
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  Speaker 5: dad always wanted to do, he's not going to get
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  Speaker 5: a chance to do those things. He was only forty
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  Speaker 5: eight years old. It was just crazy and it just
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  Speaker 5: woke me up. That was like this really powerful moment
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  Speaker 5: of life can change in an instant. Yeah, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: the most important thing is our time. And we all
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  Speaker 5: talk about it, but do we really get especially when
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  Speaker 5: you're young, right, we all think we're going to live
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  Speaker 5: forever and all that and really what happened was my
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  Speaker 5: dad got the transplant and immediately had to like change
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  Speaker 5: his entire life around because he realized he had done
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  Speaker 5: all these things he wanted to do with his life,
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  Speaker 5: and that watching him just kind of go after his
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  Speaker 5: dreams and goals really inspired me to take action, not
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  Speaker 5: just think I could do things, but like, I should
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  Speaker 5: figure this out and start trying. And that was really
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  Speaker 5: the impetus. I think to, like, what do I want
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  Speaker 5: to do with my life? And I literally tried my
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  Speaker 5: first company. I graduated high school and immediately great side story,
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  Speaker 5: moved to the beach with two girls I met at
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  Speaker 5: a party the week before.
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  Speaker 4: The roommates didn't last.
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  Speaker 5: They only lasted a few months, but I had already
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  Speaker 5: made it to the beach, so I got new roommates
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  Speaker 5: that yeah, exactly, I got different roommates and wound up
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  Speaker 5: staying at the beach, and one of those roommates inspired
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  Speaker 5: me to start my first clothing company, which was T
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  Speaker 5: shirts that were grabbing T shirts that we made with
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  Speaker 5: a credit card, my first ever credit card that I
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  Speaker 5: maxed out immediately, and that company, as we all not,
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  Speaker 5: turned into one of the most successful T shirt companies
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  Speaker 5: of all time, which is I'm just kidding on My
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  Speaker 5: lasted about a year, way more shirts than we sold
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  Speaker 5: our friends all had.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, turns out that's not a good business.
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  Speaker 5: Plan, but it was a great experience and to me
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  Speaker 5: it kind of gave me the bug of like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I should try to build something after it. I pay
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  Speaker 5: off this credit card. But what was.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that you saw after your dad got well?
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  Speaker 1: Because you said something interesting, you said, you know, my
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  Speaker 1: dad got well and he decided that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to change things around and follow specific goals that he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't following before, Like what was a goal? What was
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that stood out the most that he
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  Speaker 1: did once he got well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, there's a couple That's a great question
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  Speaker 5: because there's a couple different answers in that question. And
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  Speaker 5: really he was also part of the story that I
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  Speaker 5: left out. He got out of the hospital and he
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  Speaker 5: was on permanent disability, like he had like this crazy
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  Speaker 5: limited income of like seven hundred dollars a month.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 5: He could have easily just kind of curled up in
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  Speaker 5: a ball and just said, yeah, I'm just gonna stay
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  Speaker 5: close to the doctors and the hospital and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 5: but he knew because of what had happened, right, this
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  Speaker 5: is like, this is this crazy risk, this is my
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  Speaker 5: one and only life. So he not only had to
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  Speaker 5: make decisions, we had to make decisions with these extraordinary constraints,
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  Speaker 5: both financial and otherwise. Right at the same time, my
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  Speaker 5: parents actually wound up getting divorced, and there was just
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  Speaker 5: this whole mess of situation. And my dad up and
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  Speaker 5: moved to Mexico, to this small beach town where he
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  Speaker 5: could afford to live on this beach in this tiny house.
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  Speaker 5: And it turned out to be like this, you know,
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  Speaker 5: extraordinary decision because it changed this entire last chapter of
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  Speaker 5: his life. He called his last chapter his bonus round, right,
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  Speaker 5: and that was like the kickoff moment to just this
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  Speaker 5: entirely new chapter. I really truly believe it was that
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  Speaker 5: last chapter of his life that changed his life story,
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  Speaker 5: his own eulogy into like the one he was proud of.
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  Speaker 4: He did.
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  Speaker 5: He did all kinds of like kayaking and mountain biking
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  Speaker 5: and about to sale and dancing and all kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I never thought my dad, if you knew my dad
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  Speaker 5: before that, my dad got up at four thirty or
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  Speaker 5: five in the morning, went to work, put a suit on,
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  Speaker 5: went to work, came home at like seven thirty and
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  Speaker 5: I ate dinner, went to bed, repeat, you know, Monday
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  Speaker 5: through Saturday, Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Did the crossrod puzzle, watch some football. That was it?
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  Speaker 4: Like he I don't, Sadly, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: As much as my dad inspired me by telling me
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  Speaker 5: I could do those things. He didn't go to a
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  Speaker 5: sporting event or I don't remember him in any activity
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  Speaker 5: taking me doing it. There were no moments like that
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  Speaker 5: because he was just working all the time. He was
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  Speaker 5: just trying to get to this imaginary finish line that
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  Speaker 5: maybe doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 4: Right. So that's kind of the lesson.
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  Speaker 5: That I took away from it, Like everybody's planning for this,
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  Speaker 5: you know, let's let's plan for this future that just
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  Speaker 5: might be an apparition.
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  Speaker 4: So that's why I invested in it. Today it's pretty
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  Speaker 4: cuy wow.
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  Speaker 3: So going back to your investments and going and what
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  Speaker 3: you learn from there, what do you said your launched
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  Speaker 3: that a teacher company, and then and then what took
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  Speaker 3: cute to that? Then you started kind of trying to
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  Speaker 3: find your plays again because I remember you just started
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  Speaker 3: doing a little stand up well again, I.
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  Speaker 5: Moved actually So I was still living at the beach then,
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  Speaker 5: and this went on for a few years, and I
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  Speaker 5: was just trying to figure out how to survive and
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  Speaker 5: get by and figure out how to scrape up enough
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  Speaker 5: money to actually start something. Again, I didn't have like
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  Speaker 5: a access to capital or anything. I didn't even know
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  Speaker 5: anybody that had any access to capital or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: So I was just trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 5: make enough money to start something that could work. And
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  Speaker 5: after a few years, I just realized the beach was
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  Speaker 5: kind of a smaller environment. I didn't want to get
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: involved in, like the serve for action sports community, so
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  Speaker 5: I said, you know, I think I'll move to LA
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  Speaker 5: And there was one guy who from high school that
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  Speaker 5: had moved to LA after high school and he lived
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  Speaker 5: in Hollywood, and I told him and he was like,
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  Speaker 5: I need a new place.
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  Speaker 4: So we were found this house and moved up to LA.
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  Speaker 5: And when we got to LA, I was just kind
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  Speaker 5: of trying to figure out things that I like. And
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  Speaker 5: I had always been kind of the comedian, funny friend
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  Speaker 5: or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: People were like, oh, you should try comedy, and first
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  Speaker 5: of all, absolutely terrifying. One of the most terrifying things. Ever,
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  Speaker 5: there's a great lesson in that though too. But so
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  Speaker 5: I was still I was. I started doing personal training,
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  Speaker 5: all the typical stuff that you hear like people that
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  Speaker 5: are living in LA trying to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, if anybody noticed that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the season three of that seventies show, fest was a
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  Speaker 3: little buffer than usually.
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  Speaker 2: It was this guy putting the first time.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what, I also got to say thank
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  Speaker 3: you because you were the first one to say you
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  Speaker 3: got to train now for whatever life you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have after that seventy show.
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  Speaker 2: And I needed to look like who I.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted to play next in the movies, when the TV
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  Speaker 3: shows and all that stuff, and if it wasn't for him,
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  Speaker 3: like transforming the way I thought about my physical appearance
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff because I was gonny, skinny you
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  Speaker 3: know kid, you know get well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean it was I just love
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  Speaker 2: ranch stressing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You craft services was like corn dogs every Friday. But
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  Speaker 3: I think that the thing that really that really uh
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  Speaker 3: stuk might be is like making this long term decisions
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  Speaker 3: at a time where you are coherent enough to understand
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  Speaker 3: that you know you need the runway to get to
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  Speaker 3: the most ambitious version of yourself and you come in
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  Speaker 3: full circle to that moment in time where you started
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  Speaker 3: personal training and all that. And I remember you even
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  Speaker 3: launch another T shirt company.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you learned your lessons from the first one.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't enough I did. I did not none the lesson
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  Speaker 5: and uh, I was doing the comedy. And by the way,
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  Speaker 5: the actual wardrobe folks on seventies would actually tell me
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  Speaker 5: when you'd go to the taping, they would say, stop training.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's close anymore. They're actually getting mad at me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in their defense my bell bottoms.
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  Speaker 3: Where as they said back then, juicy mo better juicy
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  Speaker 3: against stand up company is really hard. Yeah, So I
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  Speaker 3: started this other T.
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  Speaker 5: Shirt company and I'm doing comedy, like, you know, poorly,
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  Speaker 5: probably just it was fun and it's funny. This is
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  Speaker 5: I like to say that it's a great lesson because
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  Speaker 5: the first time I did stand up, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: was I was plausible as passable, and if people laughed,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, that was really fun. It wasn't like amazing, amazing,
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  Speaker 5: but as hard as it was, it was actually so
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  Speaker 5: much fun that I was like, oh, I could see
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  Speaker 5: doing this more. And I did it more and more
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  Speaker 5: until I actually got good enough that I was performing
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: pretty regularly, and I grew to really love.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: It, and I loved like the whole process of it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: And I think that's a great example of like doing
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: things you're afraid of and that you're not good at
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: naturally and seeing what happens, because most people aren't good
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: at things that are worth doing, you know, the first
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: time around. Most people start as beginners. Surfing is another
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: great example. Always say like, I'm a terrible surfer, but
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: I love it. But if everybody that you know was
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: a terrible surfer never served, that, no one would serve
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: because you start off terrible, right. But yeah, So I
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: started this next T shirt company with a really a
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: good friend of mine, and you know, it's the same
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: kind of thing the T shirt companies. It takes off
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: at first, and it's really hard. It's not really getting anywhere.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: We have this small garage a couple thousand square feet,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: and we're trying to figure out how to make this
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: thing survive. And a friend of ours comes over and
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: looks around and he's like, you know, you got a
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: lot of extra room here, wy, don't you help me
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: ship my company's products? Since you're not using all the space,
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: which again I feel like was a nice way for
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: him to say, it looks like your T shirt company's failing.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: But yeah, so we we wound up helping him ship
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: his inventory. And some other friends were like, oh, you
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: know you you actually are helping Rob ship his inventory.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: We were not that good, I don't want you to
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: help us, and okay, and slowly but surely we turned
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: this T your company that was failing that we loved,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: by the way, and absolutely, Ya's such a great brand.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: But you know, after like three years of trying to
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: get it somewhere, the shipping company was like take skyrocketing,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: and his teacher company was like stagnating or decreasing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: What were you doing in your shipping company that was
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: so different than everyone? How come they couldn't?
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: It was a couple of things.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: I think that shipping as an industry was just dominated
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: by massive players and with like old like Italian guys
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: in like the New Jersey Meadowlands.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: They're smoking cigars.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Go let me tell you how, I'm gonna put your
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: stuff in the corner and it's going to go next
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: to some vacuum cleaners and mayonnaise jars, and we were young.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: We were like young friends of all these people going
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: to all these trade shows, like apparel and fashion trade shows,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: and they're like, I want my stuff to go in
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: the cool you know place with all the other guys
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: cool stuff.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: You know, Like it was all a premium apparel brands.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: So it just became like the place for it and
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: just grew and grew and grew here every year. So
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: that was like my first real successful right. It was
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: probably already my fifth company at that point of attempts
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: of things that I had tried to start.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: So you eventually sold that company, yeah, right, and then
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: you went into something.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Sold the shipping company.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and made up pretty good on that add and
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: what with that successful organisation that so, you know, selling
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the company, he decided to go into a more humanitarian,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: you know journey, and he started thinking about other companies.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I don't want to paraphrase it, but I think I
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: were saying that his heart has always been the thing
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: that people you know, really connect to. He's he'll he'll
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: always be there, he'll he'll always show up, and translated
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: into you know, I think the next chapter of his life,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: which was the you know, giving a piece of himself
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: to humanity in a way that came in a form
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: of different you know, humanitarian moments, you know, And maybe
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: talking about listening will be a really because listen is like,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: you know, what you were able to see in humanity,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: you know, and how you travel the world would listen.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I think there's something that was very inspiring. Do you
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: mind talking a little bit.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: About listening and you started listening and what listen eventually
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: went out to do?
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mind, I definitely mind talking. That was
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: no questions day.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: So you know, there's all stemmed again, you know, not randomly,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: but you know, I think it's important to point out
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: it's stemmed again from my dad. What happened was my
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: dad actually after fifteen years of his bonus round, he
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: passed away. And when my dad passed away, at that moment,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I remember those last moments I was with him, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I remember thinking, what does he care about?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: What is he thinking about right now? What mattered to
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: him in his life?
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: And he even told me some of the things that
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: were the most important things those last few days. And
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: it was just this like great realization again of like
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: what am I going to care about?
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Like at the end of my life, what am I
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: really going to care about?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: And that's what, you know, inspired me to sell, to
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: basically sell the shipping company, And I said, if what
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: I'm going to care about? And really what the conclusion
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: I came to is what I did to have an impact,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: you know, what I did to make the world a
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: better place in whatever way.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: And you know, people do that a lot of ways.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: People do that through their craft, through their business, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: you know, philanthropy doesn't have to be the only way.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: But I remember thinking at the time, what am I
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: waiting for? Like, am I going to like do something?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe I'm not going to be Bill and
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Melinda Gates or whatever and have some foundation.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Why don't I start something now?
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: And I sold my shares in the company and started
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: first a T shirt company again third one that was
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: dedicated to giving back. And then that led I started
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: doing some work with a water filtration providing clean water
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: and some building schools and things like that that I
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: cared about. But then a friend of mine called, she said, hey,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: you know, Joe, I see you're doing with the T shirts.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: It's really cool and you're doing this charity work. But
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I just saw this video of this girl hearing for
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: the first time, and I did looked it up. There's
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: all these crazy statistics, hundreds of millions of people don't
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: have access.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: And I basically heard.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Her ideas goes, what why don't we sell headphones and
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: try to get people hearing aids?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Like it's a way better idea than my T shirt.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: And by the way I sung it selling shirt, it's like,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: I'm clearly not great at this. And yeah, we actually
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: started that company Listen together, and we had this, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: crazy dream of helping one person here for the first time,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: just like in this video that we saw.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: And you know, but.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: How did you discover that that that headphones and hearing
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: aids could be synonymous?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Well, because we wanted it's story, Like you know that
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: everything's about the story, and people that appreciate and love
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: music that use headphones. The idea of not being able
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: to hear is very easy to explain to someone and say, hey,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: imagine if you couldn't actually hear, whether you couldn't enjoy
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: music or rain or laughter or any of these things
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: that we all take for granted. So tying it to
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: a hearing related thing that not only was something that
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: everyone understands what was global, Like the thing with the
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: T shirt. Companies were doing things like water filtration that
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: doesn't affect everyone, or maybe it was for schools or education,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: but hearing loss actually affects everyone around the world. So
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: it was something that we could tell this story that's like, hey,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: we'll sell headphones and we'll use the proceeds.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: We are about the statistics in that because I think
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: they find them really interesting.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: When I started listen that was twenty twelve. Actually there
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: was over three hundred million people globally that have severe,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: too profound hearing loss that just need access to hearing
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: aids that don't have access, and now it's actually over
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: five hundred thous.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Half a billion people.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: And the craziest part is that, you know, since they're babies,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: they just say, oh, he can't hear, Oh she can't hear,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: and all they realized come to realize later later in life,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: after their last two decades or even three decades of
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: their life, they realized that all they needed was a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: hearing it exactly.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: And so this is our mission statement was selling enough headphones.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: We literally maxed out our credit cards again, bought some inventory,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: built the website, we're gonna sell enough heaphones, so we're
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: gonna give somebody hearing. Just like in that video we
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: saw get out there. We don't even get the product
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: in yet. We build the website and we get an
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: email from the Today Show before we even get product,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: and we don't know how they found us, and they're like, hey,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: we're going to feature you on the show. Like what
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: we literally they feature us. We sell like one hundred
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: thousand dollars in headphones before we even have products. We're
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: like sending your emails, so it's gonna ship soon, et cetera.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: But we wind up, you know, striking this chord with
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: all these people, and this dream of ours, of like
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: helping somebody hearing for the first time, you know, happens
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: in like eight months. We wind up going on a
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: mission in Peru and in front of this young girl
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: and then Maria who had never hurt eighteen or she
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: was like fifteen, and I had never heard before, just
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: never had access, and we get to see this girl
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: here for the first time. And then that just kind
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: of went on to us traveling around the world for
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: a decade and helping over fifty thousand people get hearing. Aids,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: and we got to like see that firsthand's volunteer and
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: work on the ground.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: This is again this this.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: This kid that barely graduated high school, that you had
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: these failed attempts at all these other things. I was like,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I could again, I could do things if I just
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: keep trying and taking action on things that matter.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It is the hearing aid integrated into the headphone?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's like we're selling. Like that's the
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: confusing part of the business. For sure.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: It's like Tom's shoes, right, Tom claim at the beginning,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: it's like you buy a pair of shoes.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: We provide a pair of shoes too.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: We sell actual consumer products like a Beats headphone, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: then we use the proceeds from the sales to give
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: hearing aids now people. So we fund our charity partner,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and then we go work with them and actually fit
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: people with hearing aids.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Got them which and then and then you know the
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: next chapter, which I also think is one of the
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: most it's a major moment of legacy. If you become
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: an author and you know, you guys wrote a book
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: that I thought was one of the most prolific hacks
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: for life. Uh that anyone could discover. So I want
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: to make sure that we talk about this book because
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I want everybody to get this book. This book kind
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: of realigns not just priority, but what you invest in.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: And when I mean investment, I'm talking about how are
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: you investing the hours and the days that you have
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: in life to get the currency that actually really is profitable,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: which is happiness and you know, health, which is living
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: in a life.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Full of experiences. And I think.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: That that that philosophy was so incredible, so obtainable in
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: this book. I felt like was you know, and anybody
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: comes across this book, it's just like like their head
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: explodes because they're like.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: This is what I was missing.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I was missing this part of perspective that allows me
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: to kind of now read this triviu how I lived
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: my life?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: You know this versus Dad? How many of that? How
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: many of this?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: And what are you doing for yourself that actually keeps
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you making memories? Or or what are the memories you
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: take with you when you're no longer here?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: What? What?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: What one?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: What expired inspired this book? And talk a little bit
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: about the name of the the of the book and
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: and and what is it about?
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so the book, which is called Experiential Billionaire. It
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: was born because we were traveling around the world giving
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: all these hearing aids and doing all this travel at
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: the same time. Of course, so people started coming up
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: to us and saying, well, you guys must be so rich.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: The reality was we were donating most of the money
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: to the chair because it's a charity's work, right, you
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: donate the money or there's no work done, And so
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: we would just laugh and go, we're more like experiential billionaires.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: And then people would always laugh and say, well, I
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: hope you can teach me how to become an experiential
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: billionaire because I want to travel and do these things
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: you're doing.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: And that led us going, maybe we can.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Help people because we realized that after like myself, especially
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: after twenty five years of building these companies and working
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: with all these people and doing all these things on
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: the ground, that like, really there was one thing that
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: all the people that felt like their lives were successful
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: all had in common. And to make sure that we
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: weren't just crazy or egotistical about our opinion of it,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: we decided to write the book. But to write the book,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: we ran a study of over twenty thousand people around
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: the world where we asked them, what are the most
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: valuable things in your life your biggest regrets? Do you
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: feel like your life is successful?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Why or why not?
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: And the study just made it crystal clear, literally at
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: that direct center of our happiness or our regrets is
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: whether or not we're taking action on the things that
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: matter to us. And that taught us that our dreams,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: they're not selfish, they're so important they actually lead to
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: our greatest contributions because when we're living fulfilled, we actually
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: show up better everywhere. We lead better, we're better friends,
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: we're better relationships and collaborators and all those things because
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: we have passion about the things we're doing. And it
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: was just this moment of like, how do we capture
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: this in a book to teach people that it's not
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: about traveling and you know, doing all these exotic, bucketless things.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: It's about identifying what you care about and just trying
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: and taking action. Because what the book shows, I think
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: hopefully well, is that it's not about succeeding. And in
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: the study this came out so clearly because a third
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: of the people's most valuable experiences in their entire life,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: we're negative experiences like my dad probably right, or something
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: gave them some huge value and maybe they tried something,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: it didn't work, it go as planned, but it unlocked
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: something else or so it was just really this powerful moment,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and the book is just this memoir story to try
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: to help people believe that they can do those things.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Do you feel that the hearing aid aspect in regards
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to all of the businesses that you started, do you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: feel that that's been the most fulfilling part?
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: You know, I think that anytime.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Any interaction I've ever had with someone that led to
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: their life getting better is just so rewarding. The hearing thing, obviously,
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: it unlocks a lot of potential for people, especially in
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: a lot of parts of the world where things might
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: be more limiting if they don't have the ability to
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: you know, communicate like you know, through normal hearing conversations.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: But I think that there's a lot of you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: a lot of other things as well. I've the book
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: has probably been the I hear the most direct fee
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: back of how people have changed their life in extraordinary
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: ways from reading the book because they stopped and took
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: action and started to realize The book is really the
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: core message is what I learned from my dad, which
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: is that life is short and uncertain and it's important
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: to make the most of it. And by the end
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: of the book, people, I think get that pretty clearly.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: And do you feel that people also share stories with
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: you of how they're it? Almost and correct me if
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong here. It almost seems like you're you found
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this need to be of service, right is would that
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: be a correct way to to categorize it? Right? Like? Here,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: you've done well? Right, you started companies, some have done well,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: some have failed, But at the end of the day,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you've been of service of service to people. And so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: do you find that that's when people read your book,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: that that's mainly what they get out of it, and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: they're sharing stories with you about how they've been of service.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, Actually I don't.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: I think think that that's one possible component. But I
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: think one of the beautiful things about taking action on
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: things that matter to you is you unlock a ripple
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: effect of more action and inspiration that you might not
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: even see or know about. For instance, my dad, right
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: my dad passed away, and part of the reason that
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: I started the charity work is because my dad had
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: started a charity with one hundred dollars when he was
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: in Mexico that by the time he passed away had
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: already led to hundreds of underprivileged children going all the
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: way through university.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: But that inspired me to take action and try something right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: So here I've helped fifty thousand people all around the world.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: My dad doesn't know that. You never saw that. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: what are you going to do when you take action
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: on the thing that matters to you? Who are you
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: going to affect? Just by proxy, like someone that just
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: happened to see you and you gave them permission to think,
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: maybe I can take action on my goal or my dream.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: So it doesn't have to be direct aid. I think
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: it's more about just letting people signaling that we all
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: can do these things.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Right, as opposed to sort of the hamster wheel. You
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  Speaker 1: describe your pop being on every day just sort of
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  Speaker 1: putting on the suit and going to work and coming
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  Speaker 1: home and doing something that really matters. Yeah, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: And now Joe is uh, you know, traveling the country
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  Speaker 3: giving speeches to thousands of people, making sure that he's
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  Speaker 3: preaching you know, really the the urgency to start living
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  Speaker 3: the life that you want well, and that.
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  Speaker 5: Was spurred on by the event of the personal nature
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  Speaker 5: that happened to us when I finished the book. If
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  Speaker 5: we finished the book, turned in the book, which was
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: a huge lift.
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  Speaker 4: It was so hard.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you know, writing a book, as you know, is
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: just extraordinarily difficult. You ever written a book forty I haven't. Yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: if you do, call us for support, yes you're going to.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, you know, we finished the book and my
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  Speaker 5: my h my second son was just born, and we
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  Speaker 5: got all these plans for the next few years and
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  Speaker 5: literally turned the book to the publisher, and my wife
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  Speaker 5: is suddenly and unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer. You're very aware, well,
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  Speaker 5: and yeah, that just kicked off a year plus of our.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: She she went through chemo and immunotherapy and radiation, all
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  Speaker 5: this stuff, and when she finally got her cancer free
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  Speaker 5: diagnosis after the treatment, she was like, you got to tell.
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  Speaker 4: People this message. You got to get out and share
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  Speaker 4: this message.
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  Speaker 5: More So, that was really kicked off this urgency to
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  Speaker 5: like the book school, let's start speaking about it, and
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  Speaker 5: let's start really trying to hammer this home and get
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  Speaker 5: as many people to just kind of shake them awake
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  Speaker 5: and start living their lives kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: And when she's an inspiration, she's she's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I'm so grateful that you were able
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  Speaker 3: to be here and tell the world, you know, have
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: you been inspired? Because everybody has a story there at
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  Speaker 3: beginning in middle and yours est that is anywhere near
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  Speaker 3: your last chapter. And you've done so many extraordinary things.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Joe, Absolutely, thank you, Thank you. You know, my dad
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  Speaker 1: passed away a few years ago, my mother passed away
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  Speaker 1: of breast cancer, so I could very much relate sort
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  Speaker 1: of the trajectory that you've been on. And uh, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful. And I've met you before through
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Wilmer and he speaks so highly of you, so.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for you.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful read his book man, Yeah, really great, Absolutely absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: I got one in the car.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, my brother, Joe, godfather, my child,
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  Speaker 3: Yanks for having me.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wilmer Valdorama, I'm Freddie Rodriguez. This is Amigos Podcast
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  Speaker 3: and Joe Houff. We're going to pick up your book.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 1: Those Amigos is a production from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's
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  Speaker 1: Michael Through That podcast network, hosted by Me, Freddie Rodriguez,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: and Wilmer Valdorama.
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  Speaker 3: Those Amigos is produced by Cooper and Sophie Spencer Saviles.
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  Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Wilmri Valderrama, Freddie Rodriguez, and Leo
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Clem at WV Sound.
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  Speaker 3: This show is mixed and mastered by Sean Tracy and
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  Speaker 3: original music by Madison Devenport and Hala Boy.
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  Speaker 2: See you next week.