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19: Coffee, Running, and Belonging: Building Community with Steve Garcia · The Everyday Awesome Project

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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Hey everybody, I'm here today with my good friend, steve Garcia, owner of Sixth Street Coffee and the founder of Just Move.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: What's up, Steve?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Trying to stay alive.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Is that your theme song this week?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Staying alive, staying alive, yeah.
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Steve Garcia: You know, every day is one of those days right where you're just kind of like what are the challenges of today and are we, kind of like, ready for?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: it.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Are we ready for it?
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Steve Garcia: And so I guess you know staying alive.
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Steve Garcia: It's a joke, right, but it's like are we ready for today's challenges?
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Steve Garcia: Because every day has its own challenge.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yes, it does, because we're humans.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: It wouldn't be anything different, right?
1:06
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Everybody's got their challenges, no matter how you slice it.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Your story is unique in many ways, but I want to have you tell the audience a little bit about your backstory.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: So who are you?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Where'd you come from?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Where'd you grow up?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: What's life looking like before we get to what's all going down in today's world?
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, let's take it all the way back to 1988.
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Steve Garcia: Is that when you were born?
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Steve Garcia: I was born in 1988.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Sweet, that was a good year.
1:36
Steve Garcia: Yeah, if you find a wine bottle that says 1988 on it.
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Steve Garcia: Please Send it to me yeah.
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Steve Garcia: But no, I was born here in the Coachella Valley in the city of Indio.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, we moved around a lot, you know, growing up.
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Steve Garcia: It's interesting and I often joke and I say that we were a military family because oftentimes that makes sense why people move around so much.
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Steve Garcia: It's very understanding, but in our case it wasn't.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Okay.
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Steve Garcia: You know we just moved around a ton.
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Steve Garcia: But you know, as an adult I now realize why we had to move around so much.
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Steve Garcia: You know it was just you know, parents and just them doing their own thing, I guess.
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Steve Garcia: But we lived here in the city of Coachella for a little while Indio Desert, hot Springs, la Quinta.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: You know, we just kind of moved around a lot all before the age of like eight, all in the coachella valley.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, maybe, yeah so I mean, I don't know, I forget how old you are when you're like in the third grade, but um, I remember doing my third grade year in san diego what yeah, so we were in the city a, a neighboring city to you know, san Diego, right, and so I remember going to school out there.
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Steve Garcia: Then we lived in, like Mexico, for a few months, that's cool.
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Steve Garcia: We came back to San Diego and then I came back in the fourth grade I think I was no, it was somewhere around that time back out here to the valley and my parents had split.
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Steve Garcia: When I was no, it was somewhere around that time, back out here to the valley and my parents had split.
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Steve Garcia: When I was like very young, um, so my dad lived out here and then my mom stayed in San Diego.
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Steve Garcia: We moved to Phoenix, arizona.
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Steve Garcia: Um, I forgot what year it was, but I remember starting like my fourth grade year out there and then in 2006 it was my sophomore year of high school I moved to live with my dad out here in the valley and I've been here ever since.
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Steve Garcia: Okay, so that's kind of like childhood.
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Steve Garcia: Steve story siblings yeah, I have uh three wow.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: So all these kids moved around also, or did they?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: No?
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Steve Garcia: so, mom, some go with dad no, so I'm the second of um four.
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Steve Garcia: Okay, I have my older sister, denise, who was raised by my grandparents um.
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Steve Garcia: They live in san diego.
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Steve Garcia: My sister, she still lives out in, like the chile, in the city of chile vista, whereas my grandparents well, my grandmother now, but uh, they lived out in in el cajon City.
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Steve Garcia: I don't know if you know.
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Steve Garcia: So that's where they're at.
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Steve Garcia: My sister lives in Chula Vista.
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Steve Garcia: I have two siblings that live out here in the desert.
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Steve Garcia: One lives in Desert Hot Springs and the other one kind of moves around a lot as well.
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Steve Garcia: But, yeah, ever since 2006 and 2007, we've all been out here.
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Steve Garcia: But I, I grew up with my two sisters that are out here.
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Steve Garcia: My sister, denise, was raised by my grandparents.
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Steve Garcia: Okay, um, and so, yeah, I'm the uh, only brother, the boy, the boy, the only boy, and um, but yeah, I'm very close to Valerie.
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Steve Garcia: She lives in Desert Hot Springs.
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Steve Garcia: I mean, she's 29,.
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Steve Garcia: I think she's going to be 30 in June and we're very similar in a lot of ways.
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Steve Garcia: So that's my closest sibling.
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Steve Garcia: I often say that if we were to go on a cross-country trip, that she'd be the one to go with me, just because there's— she's your ride or die.
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Steve Garcia: Well, you know a cross country trip that she'd be the one to go with me, just because there's she's a ride or die.
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Steve Garcia: Well, you know, there's that.
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Steve Garcia: And then there's like she really, um, she really is fun to talk to.
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Steve Garcia: Right, we're, um, we're, we're very, uh, we're very close in that way where we see where we could disagree on a lot but also agree on on a lot as well, but it keeps the conversation going, you know.
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Steve Garcia: so, uh, but again, we're very similar in a lot of ways, so that's pretty cool to have a thing Like in middle school, like junior high and all that I was very involved in sports with like basketball was my sport.
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Steve Garcia: I loved basketball as a kid.
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Steve Garcia: I loved the Lakers.
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Steve Garcia: I remember in my room in Phoenix it's crazy right, phoenix, arizona but I'm a los angeles laker fan, you know.
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Steve Garcia: And I'm only a laker fan because I remember in elementary school, out here, um, in the desert, in the valley, uh, my, I asked my teacher, you know, who his favorite basketball team was and he said the lakers.
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Steve Garcia: At that time I didn't know lakers or bulls or anybody right.
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Steve Garcia: You respected this teacher so he said lakers, oh now I'm a laker, fan, yeah now I'm a laker fan because of him and you know, I carry that into my adult life because of that man.
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Steve Garcia: You know, wow, yeah that's actually a really cool story, yeah yeah, uh, my parents, you know, my my, they weren't no sports fans or anything like that.
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Steve Garcia: But you know, being like Hispanic, my dad would kind of try to push soccer on me a little bit but he saw that there wasn't an interest so he just kind of like, all right, I guess his basketball is his thing and so that was my thing for a while, you know, for a long time, until today.
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Steve Garcia: You know I try to stay active playing the sport.
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Steve Garcia: But you know, these kids show me why remind me that, hey, man, too old for this.
7:13
Steve Garcia: They humble me that's okay.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: You have another sport now running that we share the passion most definitely.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: It's all good it's all good yeah, but yeah, it was, uh, it was basketball and you know, yeah, it was so, as a young man, you're here in the Coachella Valley, and what did you do after high school?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: I worked okay, what were you into working?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: What were you doing?
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Steve Garcia: retail, I started very young to have a family.
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Steve Garcia: I, my son, was born in July of 2007.
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Steve Garcia: That August I had just turned 18.
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Steve Garcia: Oh, okay, so I started a family.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, exactly Responsibility.
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Steve Garcia: No more basketball for Steve, no more basketball for Steve.
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Steve Garcia: I traded in the sneakers for a Home Depot apron.
8:02
Steve Garcia: There you go.
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Steve Garcia: And that was my no actually.
8:04
Steve Garcia: I'm sorry, I was at a Del Taco.
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Steve Garcia: Before Home Depot yeah, yeah, and then, you know, there was other jobs in between them, but then, like, home Depot gave me like full-time position right away, and so I took that up and that was where I was at.
8:19
Steve Garcia: So I had to grow up really fast, and not just because of my son, john, but because of all the moving around, and so there is some responsibility, you know, I was being the only son, but it was also, it was also the making that decision to leave my mom to come to live in in in india with my dad, and so, you know, my mom was always around, but to the point that she wasn't because I was, you know, out here.
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Steve Garcia: Um, but even then I remember being like 16 years old and like was so determined to get a job right to work and and there's a lot of reasons for that but, yeah, I had to grow up really fast so I always had that work ethic, that work mentality In order to get what you want, you have to work for it.
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Steve Garcia: And so that was instilled into me at a very, very young age, because of not that anyone was pushing that on me, but I just by observing, yeah, and observing that, ok, you have not because you're working not.
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Steve Garcia: Right.
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Steve Garcia: And so, you know, just seeing my mom and you know, towards a later time when I left, it was like all right, I can't be here in this area no more.
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Steve Garcia: I see no growth in my own life here in Phoenix, and so I'm going to make the decision to.
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Steve Garcia: I'm going to make a grown man decision here At 16.
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Steve Garcia: At 16, which no kid should be making, right, right.
10:00
Steve Garcia: Yep.
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Steve Garcia: And I got on that Greyhound bus and came out to uh, back to the desert I didn't know.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: We had that story in common because I did the same thing at 16.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Look, at how radical yeah it's cool right sometimes it's the right decision, but you do reflect back you know we're both parents and all that and be like, excuse me, they let us make that decision.
10:22
Coach Samantha Pruitt: What in the heck?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: But, it's fine, here we are today.
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Steve Garcia: No, exactly Proving it worked, being in business and having some kind of success, I guess, with what we do now, you're often asked what is success we do now?
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Steve Garcia: My, you know you're often asked you know what is success right?
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Steve Garcia: And for me, you know, as I mentioned, we moved around a lot and my success is that my kids don't have that story, you know.
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Steve Garcia: And so I remember moving around so much that we didn't have Christmas in more than one space like one residence, and so every Christmas was somewhere different.
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Steve Garcia: And my kids.
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Steve Garcia: You know I went to three different high schools, so many elementary schools, maybe like four middle schools, and my kids don't have that story.
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Steve Garcia: You know, they, they know their space, they have their home and that is the ultimate success for me that they have stability, you know, and I love that for them.
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Steve Garcia: I love that when I say these things like well, I had it this way growing up.
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Steve Garcia: You know we had to do this.
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Steve Garcia: They don't have to say that.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah.
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Steve Garcia: You know, and so there's a lot that they don't have to say Thank God.
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Steve Garcia: But you know, it's still good for me to let them know, like how I grew up, so they have an understanding of where their dad comes from and why I see or think or feel a certain way about certain things.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: And how many people in the world do not have?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Right.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: This makes a lot of sense to me, and how we know each other and some of the things I am privy to already you know really getting to know you well around are building community, contributing to your community and being a home of sorts whether it's with the coffee shop itself or with Just Move that we'll talk about in a little bit but like creating spaces for other people.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: So is that a little bit of your why that you do do that?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Because you didn't have that yourself.
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Steve Garcia: You know, I'm not sure why I do it.
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Steve Garcia: It hasn't.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Because you need more things on your plate.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: I mean, you know, you have so much downtime.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, right, right, I just feel that you know there's power in community there really is.
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Steve Garcia: You know there's power in community there really is, and I see that and I want to tap into that, and you know there's always somebody.
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Steve Garcia: You know that, in terms of business, right, they have a dream also and, um, in terms of like the just move, you know they have a story too, and so I feel that, you know, when we share our stories, there's healing in that, right, there's healing in me explaining to you or telling you about how I grew up, like you know 100 and so there's also healing on the receiving end, right of who's hearing the story, because they're like, wow, I guess I'm not the only one right.
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Steve Garcia: And in terms of business, um, they're, everyone has a dream right of what they want to do.
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Steve Garcia: And if I tell people, when asked what?
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Steve Garcia: Um, you know how, how'd you get started, steve, you know what was the reasoning behind it, you know, then they're inspired right.
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Steve Garcia: And so there's power in that right, there's power in storytelling, there's power in this community that you know that we've been able to build here, you know.
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Steve Garcia: And so I love that.
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Steve Garcia: I love being able to bring people together and people together and just kind of hear each other out and have an understanding of who we are as individuals and who we are as people and beautiful, awesome humans.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: You know, what's interesting is you have this so far the story, the trajectory experience of becoming independent, young, young, making you know adult-ish decisions along the way quite rapidly, and that projected you into early fatherhood.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: You know more responsibility, et cetera.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Fast forward to today being a small business owner and a community leader and a founder of movement like that didn't happen overnight somewhere in between that space of you at 18 19 into where you are today, the amount of personal growth and awareness, self-awareness you had to have as an individual to be like, hey, I want more for myself, I want more for my kids.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: I see something else is possible.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Where the hell that come from?
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Steve Garcia: um, I've just always been very like, observant I just always was just very aware of my surroundings.
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Steve Garcia: Um, I paid attention a lot to people, right, and I know that this works, that doesn't work, right, I was able to tell the difference and, you know, just kind of like just being a student to life, right.
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Steve Garcia: But you know, I often ask myself that question too is like where did that come from?
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Steve Garcia: in me you know I and for me it's I have this, this, this um way of thinking of where it's like, sure there are things that are impossible, but there are also a lot that's very possible for people.
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Steve Garcia: You know I don't see a limit to anything.
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Steve Garcia: People say sky is the limit.
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Steve Garcia: You know that's still a limit, because beyond the sky, you have the unknown.
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Steve Garcia: Space and the unknown.
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Steve Garcia: So there's really no limit right, limit right, and so you know you could go as far as you want to go if you know this to be true, how do you know this to be true?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: trial and error, just trial and error life experiences and taking risks.
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Steve Garcia: Taking risk is is, you know, I guess that's.
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Steve Garcia: It's.
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Steve Garcia: That's funny to me.
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Steve Garcia: You know the whole risk concept, because in anything I really just kind of like, well, let's just see how this works out, that's a risk in itself, right, and just be ready for the outcome, whether it works or not, and then we'll figure it out.
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Steve Garcia: Then type of thing.
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Steve Garcia: It's not very promising, right, that something that is going to work out, life happens.
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Steve Garcia: But you know, not taking that risk is probably more dangerous because of you know you're almost settling for what's comfortable.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Well, you definitely are settling for the comfort zone.
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Steve Garcia: And so, yeah, but you know.
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Steve Garcia: Again, to answer the question, honestly, I just don't know where that comes from.
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Steve Garcia: It's just I would have to really think about that one, like just spend some time alone and really like where is this derived from you?
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Steve Garcia: Like where is this derived from you know where is it coming from and why do I feel this way, why have I always thought this way?
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Steve Garcia: But I don't know.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Well, our paths are long right and we experience so many things.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Especially I moved around a lot too.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: So in kind of thinking about that when you were sharing your own story, I was thinking we got exposed to a lot more than other people because of that.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: So that's a win to me Right Like at the time I didn't think it was a win.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: It was pretty awful as a kid not having friends and all the craziness that goes on with moving a lot and your parents stress you know finances et cetera.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: But the amount of exposure that we got to new people, new places, new experiences, et cetera.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: We had to keep adapting and we were able to keep adapting.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: So if we know that we can adapt we learned that growing up and it was role modeled for us.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Why would we ever believe anything different?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah that whatever rolls at us, we're nimble, we can adapt, so we don't get stuck into this one mold or this one zone of like.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: This is how my life has to be, and if it is different, how will I move forward?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: We already know we can do that.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: We have that skill.
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Steve Garcia: Right, you know, as I think about it, I think of, you know, my early childhood and then like growing up, right, so there was always a chase for something better, right?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: My parents were immigrants and it was definitely a chase.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, Constant.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, you know, for my mom too, it's like where are we going to live next?
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Steve Garcia: So we're chasing the next move.
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Steve Garcia: And so for me, as an early child, I know what I don't want.
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Steve Garcia: I definitely don't want to be moving around a lot all the time.
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Steve Garcia: And so, number one now I have a kid, and so it's time to be dad, it's time to be responsible and give them a right, give them stability.
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Steve Garcia: So there is, there is just that, uh, today, the reason probably why I'm always chasing the next.
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Steve Garcia: It's not even a chase, it's more so like just going after it, right, um, there is a difference.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, there's a drive there, but I understand why.
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Steve Garcia: It's because there is always movement in my life right, and so that's probably where the love for running comes from you know, because I, I'm always moving to the next thing.
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Steve Garcia: You know, it's always it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I'm, I'm, I'm not okay with being, you know, just stagnant, not without movement, right, the the I have to go, I just have to go.
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Steve Garcia: I don't know where I'm going, but I have to go, I have to move and I have to keep moving.
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Steve Garcia: It's kind of it's almost sometimes.
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Steve Garcia: It's kind of like like I think if I think about it too much, it kind of worries me because it's like where are you going, steve?
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Steve Garcia: But even if I say, well, like if I set out like a 10 year goal, right, okay, fine, I just said it, now I've accomplished it.
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Steve Garcia: Now what, I'm always going to keep going, moving, moving, moving.
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Steve Garcia: So that's it's in me to just what's the next move, right.
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Steve Garcia: Why am I always running, you know, physically, on a trail or on this road?
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Steve Garcia: Right, I'm running, but I'm also applying that same run into my life.
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Steve Garcia: Why are you always running?
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Steve Garcia: What are you running to?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: interesting you know, and um that, that's that, that drive right that um I would maybe challenge you to use a different terminology evolution, because what I see you doing is continuing to evolve from a young person quickly into adulthood, quickly into fatherhood, very quickly into determining I should be my own business person I'm capable of these skills, you know and then continuing to evolve into now I am more than a small business owner in my community.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: I'm a community leader.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Now I am going to actually start this entire movement for the betterment of humanity.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: I mean, you're taking leaps and bounds continuously, but I see it as evolution, not necessarily running.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: You're definitely not standing still anytime soon.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Why coffee?
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: I mean, why did you decide to start Sixth Street Coffee here in Coachella?
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Steve Garcia: Well, it wasn't so much like it had to be here in the city of Coachella right.
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Steve Garcia: But coffee itself was because, you know, I joke and I say because I'm not good at anything else, you know.
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Steve Garcia: So no, but I doubt that's true, that's the you know.
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Steve Garcia: but I've worked retail a lot, right for many years.
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Steve Garcia: In 2014, I used to work at a local grocery store out here and I remember just thinking, like you know, I don't want to do this the rest of my life.
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Steve Garcia: I don't want to, like be working and taking.
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Steve Garcia: You know, there's just there's got be something else, right, and I want to do something else.
23:26
Steve Garcia: I don't want to just be here.
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Steve Garcia: And so I saw that being there, there was like getting too comfortable, and I was kind of scared of that because what's the word?
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Steve Garcia: I guess it's it's.
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Steve Garcia: I know that I could have grown into that company, right, and there's nothing wrong with that, but for me there was Okay, right, I didn't want it, because then it's like then what, what are you going to do?
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Steve Garcia: Like you know, you're making this salary and now what?
23:56
Steve Garcia: This is it.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: It wasn't your story.
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Steve Garcia: It wasn't mine, right.
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Steve Garcia: And so I remember just at the time in the grocery store, I think it was like a Starbucks or a Coffee Bean or something like that inside the grocery store and I would always get coffee there, right, just black coffee, and I loved one.
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Steve Garcia: I liked coffee, but outside of that, you know, I love the, the culture of it, yeah, the coffee culture and what, what, what it does, right, how coffee brings people together, and so, um, I'm sitting there and then one day it was just like I, I'm going to open a coffee shop.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: Nice.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, I'm going to open a coffee shop and I remember sitting there at this in the table in front of the uh, you know, this um kiosk inside the grocery store, this coffee kiosk, and I was just like this is what I'm going to do.
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Like I've made up my mind, this is what I'm going to do.
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Yeah.
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Steve Garcia: Like no coffee experience.
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Steve Garcia: I had no, like I didn't know what, I didn't even know the word barista, nice, you know, I didn't know that.
25:08
Steve Garcia: I didn't know anything about coffee.
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Steve Garcia: All I knew was that I liked it and I loved again the coffee culture.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: The emotions.
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Steve Garcia: Yeah, I liked all of it, I loved it, right, that was, and, uh, and I said this is what I'm gonna do.
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Steve Garcia: And so two weeks later we um down the street from the store.
25:40
Steve Garcia: There was this space available and it had.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: It was literally move-in ready and refrigeration machines, the.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: The universe just dropped that on your lap.
25:45
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah.
25:46
Steve Garcia: Probably to challenge me.
25:47
Steve Garcia: Just two weeks ago it was just an idea.
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Steve Garcia: I had no Boom.
25:55
Steve Garcia: There's here you go, steve, it's everything you're going to need.
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Coach Samantha Pruitt: You said you want it.
26:00
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, let's rock and roll.
26:01
Steve Garcia: It's everything that you said you want to do.
26:04
Steve Garcia: And here it is.
26:04
Steve Garcia: Are you going to take it?
26:05
Steve Garcia: You know, and then, not knowing any better, I, you know, I call like the number on the window, like, hey, man, like I want to open a cafe.
26:12
Steve Garcia: This seems like a really cool spot.
26:14
Steve Garcia: It seems like it wasn't time.
26:27
Steve Garcia: You know it wasn't time, but I was like this is a great opportunity.
26:29
Steve Garcia: This place is literally moving ready.
26:31
Steve Garcia: And then it's me challenging myself or talking to myself.
26:34
Steve Garcia: And then, you know, talking to you know, my ex, you know my, the mother of my children at the time, and she was like you know, we're not ready, steve, like this was just an idea two weeks ago, like what do you know about coffee?
26:49
Steve Garcia: I'm like I don't know, but we're going to figure it out.
26:51
Steve Garcia: She goes I don't think this is it.
26:54
Steve Garcia: And I remember telling her, like this place is move-in ready.
26:57
Steve Garcia: She goes I don't think so, you're not ready to move in.
27:01
Steve Garcia: It's move-in ready, but you're not ready to move in.
27:05
Steve Garcia: So I was like, all right, you're right.
27:08
Steve Garcia: So it goes to show you that not every good opportunity is your good opportunity, right.
27:14
Steve Garcia: Yeah.
27:17
Steve Garcia: So it might be a.
27:19
Steve Garcia: It sounds like an opportunity, it sounds like a great opportunity, but that opportunity might be for someone else.
27:24
Steve Garcia: But I was able to see, get a taste of that, and I think that, from that, what that did to me was like I have to have it even more now.
27:36
Steve Garcia: Oh, wow.
27:36
Steve Garcia: And so then we're back on the search, but doing research now it's like okay, I wasn't moving ready, then Now let's start to prepare for when that time happens again, and so this was back in like 2014.
27:54
Steve Garcia: And then I had to fall in love with the craft of coffee.
28:04
Steve Garcia: And if I really liked the culture of it, what was it about the culture?
28:08
Steve Garcia: I had to find all that out for myself.
28:11
Steve Garcia: I had to do all of that research.
28:13
Steve Garcia: I had to learn about coffee.
28:15
Steve Garcia: Why do people drink coffee?
28:17
Steve Garcia: It literally took me four years.
28:21
Coach Samantha Pruitt: You went to basically your own university.
28:22
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Exactly, yeah, four years.
28:22
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Right, yeah, four years and so 20,.
28:22
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Basically your own university.
28:23
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Exactly yeah, four years.
28:24
Steve Garcia: Right.
28:25
Steve Garcia: And so, yeah, that's interesting, never saw it that way.
28:27
Steve Garcia: But within those four years, there was, you know, me looking for spaces.
28:33
Steve Garcia: There was me like diving into machines and what works, what doesn't work.
28:37
Steve Garcia: You know certain tools and techniques, and you know, there was just so much learning, there was so much research that I had to go through, and then I saw that there was like this barista academy in San Diego and I was like I need to jump on this.
28:55
Steve Garcia: And then it was like you know, I and I did, and this was like 2016, in June, it was my first big investment into my business, because it was $2,600.
29:08
Steve Garcia: Where did I get that money from?
29:10
Steve Garcia: I don't know, but it was for a week course.
29:12
Steve Garcia: Wow, that's how bad I wanted it.
29:14
Steve Garcia: Yeah, you know, I'm pretty much taking $2,600 away from my family, you know, from our from from our home, really kind of like.
29:23
Steve Garcia: You know, this was money that we we could have used for something else, right, but I trusted the process, right, and so I knew that this is what I wanted and I felt it inside of me that one day you're going to thank yourself for doing this.
29:39
Steve Garcia: And so there was a.
29:42
Steve Garcia: It was a week course.
29:44
Steve Garcia: It was monday through friday and the cool thing was that I had family out there, right, my grandparents live out there, so I crashed with them for a week and it was cool to be with them, you know, for that week.
29:55
Steve Garcia: And I learned so much at this, um, at this, uh, like this week, course you.
30:00
Steve Garcia: We learned about how to open a shop, how to run your shop management, how to hire, we talked coffee, where coffee comes from and just everything in terms of running a coffee shop, and that was again 2016.
30:16
Steve Garcia: And then coming back out here forgive me, no, that was 2015.
30:18
Steve Garcia: Coming back out here, forgive me, no, that was 2015.
30:21
Steve Garcia: In 2016, when I was already from 2016 to 2017, I was just looking for a cafe to work at and there was no real kind of like coffee shops doing coffee the way I wanted to do coffee or the way, like a lot of these coastal cities, like LA and San Diego, they have, like this specialty coffee industry and they really have it dialed in out there, whereas out here in the desert there was nothing like that.
30:48
Steve Garcia: All we knew was like this commercial chains and stuff like that and like Starbucks, but you know, that's all we had.
30:52
Steve Garcia: And so one day a buddy of mine like connects me with someone else and he gets me a job where he was working at.
30:59
Steve Garcia: And I learned so much from the owner at this cafe in Palm Springs I would drive every day from Coachella to Palm Springs and I learned so much from all of them there.
31:13
Steve Garcia: And later on I went to go work at another restaurant Again.
31:21
Steve Garcia: This is kind of rushing through the story here, where I met the mayor of Coachella and he tells me about an opportunity in the city of Coachella, about a library that's going to be constructed and they have this space for a cafe, and he just casually tells me, like, if you know anybody or you, know anybody that may be interested in something like that?
31:40
Steve Garcia: Are you kidding me?
31:41
Steve Garcia: Yeah?
31:41
Steve Garcia: it's like let me know, and I'm like dude, I have a business plan ready to go.
31:45
Steve Garcia: Yeah, you know, I worked at a bar and he was, and at a restaurant.
31:48
Steve Garcia: I ran the bar and he went and had lunch there with a colleague of his and he, um, again, you know, I introduced myself as a resident of the city, that he's a mayor of right and he, um, yeah, very casually, if you know anybody, I'm like dude, I have like a business plan.
32:05
Steve Garcia: He's like email it to this guy.
32:07
Steve Garcia: This was in july of 2018 and then in september we signed the lease.
32:16
Steve Garcia: In october we started construction.
32:18
Steve Garcia: April that following year 2019 was our April 6.
32:23
Steve Garcia: 2019 was our day one day yeah, so it really was a four-year kind of like a four-year process, but through all that I had to, I had to go through my own kind of like schooling, like you said.
32:32
Steve Garcia: Yeah, you know, I never thought of it that way, but you know I'm glad I went through all that time self-invest Seriously.
32:39
Steve Garcia: Yeah.
32:40
Coach Samantha Pruitt: I mean, think about how many people have dreams that they never even say out loud, never mind, like let me put this out to friends, family, whatever, put this out into the universe publicly and then let me start chipping away at it.
32:56
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, or people do that and then they bail.
32:59
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah Right, they get redirected.
33:01
Coach Samantha Pruitt: They don't believe in themselves, like so many things occur in life that they consider to be.
33:06
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Oh, I guess you know, my dream is over.
33:08
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah.
33:09
Coach Samantha Pruitt: You were taking no.
33:12
Coach Samantha Pruitt: No was not ever going to be an answer on the radar of this dream that you had, which is sort of remarkable.
33:19
Steve Garcia: I was never really scared of like rejection.
33:21
Steve Garcia: Okay, you know, even like, like in.
33:23
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Or even failure.
33:24
Steve Garcia: I say rejection because I've always like what's the worst that could happen, like you know, and I use rejection because I talk to, like you know, my son about it.
33:33
Steve Garcia: I'm like you know, don't be scared to be rejected by girls.
33:38
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Right yeah, or your peers or whatever Like it to be rejected by girls, right, yeah, like it just doesn't work.
33:42
Steve Garcia: We were talking about a particular girl that he was interested, that's why I said it, and so he's like but, dad, this, and that I'm like dude, look, it's just, sometimes it's just not for you, right?
33:51
Steve Garcia: You just, you know, don't, don't be afraid, like, go up to someone if you want to meet someone, and you know my name is john, whatever, blah, blah, this and that, and so you know, just don't be afraid of rejection in anything, son, don't feel that way.
34:05
Steve Garcia: It's either something is for you or it's not, right, right.
34:07
Steve Garcia: And so I was never really scared of rejection or failure or anything like that, because I've always felt like, okay, well, that's not my opportunity, that's not for me, but I don't know that until I go and I test it out.
34:20
Steve Garcia: That's just the way I've always kind of operated and uh, and and being okay with the it not being good for you, you know, and um, the.
34:34
Steve Garcia: I had to learn that you know at an early age, like, if it's not for you, it's not for you.
34:41
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yes.
34:51
Steve Garcia: You know, and if there's anything, that there's two things that I've learned in the last four years, and that's don't rush.
34:57
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Okay.
34:58
Steve Garcia: And always have like a contingency plan, like what's your plan b in the event that a doesn't work out?
35:06
Steve Garcia: And so the for me, my plan b, my contingency.
35:15
Steve Garcia: I remember talking to my buddy I'm like man, I don't know if this deal is going to go through with the city of coachella where I'm going to get this space.
35:20
Steve Garcia: You know, I don't, I don't think I'm going to get it.
35:21
Steve Garcia: Man, I don't know if this deal is going to go through with the city of Coachella where I'm going to get this space.
35:23
Steve Garcia: You know, I don't, I don't think I'm going to get it.
35:24
Steve Garcia: Man, I don't think I'm going to get, I don't think the coffee shop is right for me right now.
35:26
Steve Garcia: Like, this doesn't seem like, it seems like a great opportunity, but I don't think I'm going to get it.
35:32
Steve Garcia: He's like, dude, it's for you, man.
35:33
Steve Garcia: And I told him, but I'm going to be okay if I don't.
35:40
Steve Garcia: I told him, like, if this doesn't work out, I'm going to leave retail and I'm going to go and work maintenance at one of the golf courses, like my dad did for so many years, and I'm okay with that.
35:54
Steve Garcia: I tell him, like, monday through Friday, every other weekend, I'm home by dinner, I get to see my kids and take them to practice, whatever it is, you know, like I'm OK with that, I'm OK with it.
36:02
Steve Garcia: So that's good man.
36:04
Steve Garcia: And so I had to mentally prepare myself and be OK with that.
36:09
Steve Garcia: You know, if that were to be the outcome and today I see it the same way, like you can, I can make whatever plan I have.
36:20
Steve Garcia: I could, you know, you know, try to do something new, try to move on to the next thing.
36:25
Steve Garcia: But if it doesn't work, what's your plan B?
36:27
Steve Garcia: And I always have something there in the works and I'm okay with it.
36:38
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Well, somehow you have determined that your identity and, even more importantly, your worth, is not attached to that outcome.
36:46
Coach Samantha Pruitt: So what happens next doesn't determine the value of steve, the human being on the planet.
36:53
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Okay, shit doesn't work all the time exactly I mean every day of the week.
36:59
Coach Samantha Pruitt: You know, millions of people are having shit storms in their lives.
37:02
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Right, things are going terribly wrong, but you have determined to be steadfast about what your true value is and how.
37:09
Coach Samantha Pruitt: It's not aligned with the success or failure of a thing, whether it's a business or some other opportunity.
37:15
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Right, we don't have that much control anyway.
37:18
Steve Garcia: I mean, we pretend, we do.
37:19
Steve Garcia: I like you always having a plan b.
37:22
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, I mean, that just seems logical.
37:25
Coach Samantha Pruitt: But how funny that maybe a lot of us don't have plan b's, right we get so sucked into that plan a that we can't say our way out of it right, and then it's more devastating, of course, when it doesn't go our way.
37:36
Coach Samantha Pruitt: We don't get picked or chosen for whatever the job, the promotion, the, this, the that, the your son with the girl right, like there's millions of girls yeah you know what I mean, that kind of dynamic yeah, and that's where people give up at right.
37:52
Steve Garcia: That's right because if it fails the first time, well, I'm not going to do it again.
37:56
Steve Garcia: Like you know, I'm going to throw in the tower.
37:59
Steve Garcia: It's just not for me.
37:59
Steve Garcia: Maybe this isn't for me, maybe this isn't for my life, but that's one defense mechanism.
38:05
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, yeah exactly.
38:07
Steve Garcia: And so I wasn't okay with it, like I've always knew what I wanted, like, if that were to have happened, I was telling my buddy, like, if this doesn't go through, like I'm just going to, you know, know, do this, get hired at one of these local golf courses, right, and?
38:22
Steve Garcia: And you know, do that, raise my family that way and and you know, just kind of like, rack up and save money as much as possible.
38:30
Steve Garcia: Then, boom, you know pursue my next dream, yeah well, it was always going to be, it was going to be.
38:35
Steve Garcia: I really wanted a coffee shop so the next so the next opportunity, just be ready for it, yep, you know, and so that's that was the plan B is just go back and just start, you know, save even more and then, like, go from there and then if that next opportunity comes your way, then, you know, just take it.
38:53
Steve Garcia: You know, I've always wanted my own business.
38:58
Steve Garcia: I just didn't know, like I didn't.
39:01
Steve Garcia: I was 27, 26, 27 years old, right, when I finally figured out I'm going to be a businessman, I'm going to have a coffee shop.
39:09
Steve Garcia: You know, prior to that I had no idea what I was going to do.
39:13
Steve Garcia: I had no idea and I was kind of okay.
39:16
Steve Garcia: You know, my we, we, we.
39:18
Steve Garcia: We had a home, right, we, we, right.
39:21
Steve Garcia: I was 20 years old when we bought our first home.
39:24
Steve Garcia: We got married, we bought our first home and then, yeah, I was okay, like we were blessed.
39:33
Steve Garcia: But I knew that there was something else that you know I wanted, and it was always to have something of my own, in the sense that I wanted to get my own business.
39:43
Steve Garcia: I just didn't know what it was going to be.
39:45
Steve Garcia: But it's funny because thinking about it today, I remember being a kid and just thinking one day I'm going to have my own restaurant and where that came from I don't know.
39:59
Steve Garcia: And where that came from, I don't know.
40:02
Steve Garcia: My family we didn't come from a family of business or chefs or cooks or anything like that?
40:07
Steve Garcia: No, none of it.
40:08
Steve Garcia: But I always envisioned what it would look like.
40:10
Steve Garcia: It was no way what my shop looks like today.
40:15
Steve Garcia: Right, we're not a restaurant, well, you serve food, we serve food, we're in the food establishment, but I've always said like I'm going to have my own restaurant.
40:24
Steve Garcia: Never a cafe, never a coffee shop.
40:25
Steve Garcia: It was always I'm going to have this and, um, maybe it was just a young boy kind of like seeing the future of what it kind of had had for me and you know, and working towards that.
40:38
Coach Samantha Pruitt: How long have you been in six street coffee?
40:41
Steve Garcia: it was five years last week okay, just five year university.
40:45
Steve Garcia: Yeah, that's massive yeah, I saw, you know, going back to the store right I today actually I saw, uh, an old co-worker of mine from the store.
40:54
Steve Garcia: He's like are you steve?
40:55
Steve Garcia: Like yeah.
40:56
Steve Garcia: He's like, did you work at rouse?
40:58
Steve Garcia: I'm like, yeah, he's like I'm you know and Rouse.
40:59
Steve Garcia: I'm like yeah, he's like I'm you know, and I'm like dude, what's up, man?
41:03
Steve Garcia: And then we were talking a little bit and he's like I remember, man, when you said you were going to do this.
41:07
Steve Garcia: I'm like really.
41:08
Steve Garcia: And he's like, yeah, I remember you said that this and that that coffee shop.
41:12
Steve Garcia: I'm like, yeah, man like that's, I'm happy for your success.
41:23
Steve Garcia: So you know that was really cool, you know, to to see someone from back in the day and for them to tell you that this is what you wanted and you got it right, and so that was really cool and, to be clear, nothing was handed to you.
41:33
Coach Samantha Pruitt: You know a lot of people will say, yeah, you're lucky and you have this and you have that.
41:37
Coach Samantha Pruitt: There's listen.
41:39
Coach Samantha Pruitt: In business there's no such thing as luck, it's freaking work.
41:43
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, you can be at the right place at the right time and plenty of people have opportunities that blow up because of lots of things and timing, but it's still a massive commitment and investment from the individual from the entrepreneur themselves.
41:58
Coach Samantha Pruitt: That most people just have no idea.
42:01
Steve Garcia: Yeah, the entrepreneur themselves that most people just have no idea.
42:05
Steve Garcia: Yeah, I had to it.
42:06
Steve Garcia: There was within those.
42:06
Steve Garcia: Within that time when it first became an idea to when you know I met the right people to make this happen, there was I still had to, like, do a lot of research about business and coffee running a coffee shop.
42:17
Steve Garcia: So I was definitely working towards dream.
42:20
Steve Garcia: I just didn't know when it was going to happen.
42:22
Steve Garcia: So there was a lot of work involved.
42:25
Steve Garcia: Right, I say that Sixth Street Coffee is five years, but it's actually 10 years Exactly, you know, because that those first you know few years, I had to learn about business and kind of do a lot of research on my own without having to pay those big bucks, right Of going to a business school or whatever.
42:45
Steve Garcia: It was Right.
42:46
Steve Garcia: And so, you know, yeah, I made a small investment taking a barista, but it was for that reason and so, but yeah, I mean there there was a lot of time invested into the business before any dollar was invested into it.
43:03
Steve Garcia: You know, there was like reading and paying attention and going to coffee shops and just kind of like learning how they, you know, maneuver themselves, move behind bar, you know, you know their service, the service industry within the coffee industry, right, and so there was a lot of that and um so you're a builder and a creator, you know, it's just in your blood, you know, and everything that you do, even how the shop is now and the brand and all of that is a reflection of you being creative, and creativity is not something you just crank out.
43:37
Coach Samantha Pruitt: You're not trying to create another starbucks.
43:38
Coach Samantha Pruitt: We all know what that looks like we all know what that smells like, right, we're not trying to do another Starbucks.
43:41
Coach Samantha Pruitt: We all know what that looks like.
43:42
Coach Samantha Pruitt: We all know what that smells like, right, we're not trying to do that.
43:43
Coach Samantha Pruitt: So you're five years into this business and I know you've got some other business ideas, but before that, you've decided to launch this Just Move project, which is basically like a public initiative.
43:55
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Really, if you will, you want to tell us a little bit about that.
43:58
Steve Garcia: Yeah, the idea for Just Move happened in 2020.
44:05
Steve Garcia: You know, we were a little under a year at the shop, but I didn't even know what a run club was.
44:11
Steve Garcia: You know, I didn't know that, like, wow, people actually do this, they meet and they run together.
44:18
Steve Garcia: You know, which is cool, right?
44:21
Steve Garcia: I mean, if there's bike clubs, there's run clubs, if there's run clubs, there's whatever kind of club you could imagine.
44:26
Steve Garcia: Right, there's just there's just a community out there for everything.
44:29
Steve Garcia: And so we, um in in 2020 happened, and then it put a like a hold on a lot of things, right.
44:38
Steve Garcia: And so, um, I, as it was, I I enjoyed running um, and so I knew that there was going to be maybe more people to to kind of that would felt the same way.
44:50
Steve Garcia: And the idea came back to me.
44:54
Steve Garcia: I mean it, it was always there, it was just on the shelf, right, and so I was out for a run here on sixth street and I was like I'm gonna bring it back, like I'm gonna see if we could start this thing and you know, and and get it going.
45:09
Steve Garcia: And, um, I was running and I was like I'm definitely gonna need a team.
45:14
Steve Garcia: I can't do this on my own.
45:15
Steve Garcia: What is this gonna look like?
45:16
Steve Garcia: How much are we gonna run?
45:18
Steve Garcia: you know who's gonna come and you know, in my mind I was thinking you're already running you know, you're already running like just invite people you know just me talking to myself just invite people to do it with you yeah you know and um create the space just create the space right.
45:37
Steve Garcia: And so, um, there is a uh, I knew that it was a, I knew that it would work, because there's a, um, some friends of ours out in riverside who have their coffee shop, started a run club of their own, okay, but, and um, I was like this is dope, like this is already at play here, and um, it's a, it's already a proven concept.
46:03
Steve Garcia: So that's great.
46:04
Steve Garcia: You know, I could do it here too, you know it.
46:08
Steve Garcia: It they just did it a lot sooner than we did.
46:11
Steve Garcia: But when it kind of inspired me like, dude, you can do this.
46:14
Steve Garcia: So so just do it, man, just put a flyer out and invite people.
46:18
Steve Garcia: And so we did that.
46:19
Steve Garcia: And then I have I've always imagined or I thought that it would just be like, you know, just 10 of us, right, just kind of like getting together here at the shop and then going for, you know, running a few, running a few miles.
46:34
Steve Garcia: Our first turnout we had probably I don't know what would you say like maybe 50, 60 people.
46:42
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Oh, definitely over 60 people it was wild.
46:45
Steve Garcia: It was so awesome and I remember just like wow, people really showed up for these people yeah, who are these people?
46:50
Steve Garcia: exactly, and you know it was a, it was a coffee shop thing yep and some of these faces didn't look familiar to me it was just people who love the idea of getting together and going for a run, exactly who they themselves probably don't know of any run clubs out there, and there are.
47:07
Steve Garcia: There's a ton of like-minded individuals out here in our valley that feel the same way about being active together as a community, and when we started this, I was like there's an actual community out here that loves to do this kind of stuff and that really inspired me to keep going and keep it running.
47:26
Steve Garcia: And you know, I'm just like I'm a student of, you know, in the coffee industry still Right, I'm still a student of, you know, like this whole run community, and I'm learning.
47:38
Steve Garcia: I've met really cool people along the way, like yourself, and you know it's just such a beautiful community to be a part of.
48:03
Steve Garcia: And these are people that are willing to these things and their families, their parents that are bringing their kids with them.
48:06
Coach Samantha Pruitt: They're, you know, people that bring their dogs with them, and it's not a run club.
48:07
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Never run a mile.
48:08
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, people that have never been out busting out five and ten k's like it ain't nothing I know isn't that cool.
48:13
Steve Garcia: Well, that's probably that.
48:14
Steve Garcia: That's the whole people coming here to join us for a move.
48:21
Steve Garcia: What I appreciate and what inspires me the most is that, like you said, they've never run a mile before.
48:30
Steve Garcia: And when they say, like I've never run a mile before, dude, that's dope.
48:36
Steve Garcia: I know, I love that.
48:38
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Well, first of all, the courage to show up.
48:40
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Dang yeah Right and the fact that you can create a space that they can be courageous and show up into.
48:51
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Right Like that is the work of humanity Allowing people to feel like they freaking belong Show up.
49:00
Coach Samantha Pruitt: We will ensure that anything that happens after that will be good yeah like come on, that's the work of, like all of us right now right you're using running as, like, the tool to draw in and to create the conversation and the movement that you're currently, you know, activating.
49:19
Coach Samantha Pruitt: But I mean, I'm confident that just move will become other types of movement almost definitely you already have yoga and you've got other things going on.
49:27
Coach Samantha Pruitt: So you know, this is the beginning of something.
49:29
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Oh, yeah incredible, yeah, and far beyond this community.
49:33
Coach Samantha Pruitt: I think you know for sure valley wide and coachella valley is a big-ass valley, as you know.
49:38
Coach Samantha Pruitt: You know, but people are hungry and we're seeing that and we feel that when they show up and you know we look them in the eyes, we can, we can sense that.
49:46
Steve Garcia: Right.
49:46
Steve Garcia: You know, yeah, we've been.
49:49
Steve Garcia: It's been really fun to still continue to see a lot of new faces.
49:55
Steve Garcia: You know, we have a pretty big following to like on our social media pages.
49:59
Steve Garcia: We have a pretty big following too, like on our social media pages, and it's not a lot we're still under 1,000, but it's like a few hundred people actually follow us.
50:07
Steve Garcia: That's cool.
50:08
Steve Garcia: They're actually interested yeah no-transcript.
50:28
Coach Samantha Pruitt: These are people who are actually genuinely drawn into a value.
50:32
Coach Samantha Pruitt: It's all organic oriented brand, which is an experience that you're creating.
50:37
Steve Garcia: Yeah, most definitely.
50:38
Steve Garcia: And uh, that that's.
50:40
Steve Garcia: That's really cool.
50:41
Steve Garcia: Every time I see that I'm like wow, like when I, when people are pulling up, whatever the number is, if, even if it's just one person or myself, it's like this person is the only person that pulled up on the sunday.
50:51
Steve Garcia: That's really cool.
50:53
Steve Garcia: Nobody pulls up and I'm here by myself you're still gonna run.
50:57
Steve Garcia: You're still gonna run, but steve you made it man, like you know, and but man.
51:01
Steve Garcia: But it's been really cool and we've gotten to meet a lot of cool people with their own stories and they believe in what we're doing and it's really cool and we have people coming from throughout the valley it's not just locals to Coachella or its neighboring city, indio, or La Quinta.
51:18
Steve Garcia: It's from Palm.
51:19
Steve Garcia: Springs Cathedral City.
51:20
Steve Garcia: They're making the drive out here just to run with us.
51:25
Steve Garcia: I mean, if you know, I have to wake up at 530 to be here at, you know, 630, right, so could you imagine what time they might be waking up.
51:33
Steve Garcia: That's that long ride out here to Coachella, and so they're doing it, you know, because they believe in what we're doing.
51:38
Steve Garcia: That's really cool.
51:40
Coach Samantha Pruitt: And they want to be in community.
51:41
Steve Garcia: Yeah, they want to be in community.
51:42
Coach Samantha Pruitt: What do you feel is the next steps for Just Move?
51:45
Coach Samantha Pruitt: What do you think is going to transpire in the next year with this movement?
51:50
Steve Garcia: Right now we're in the building process, right, creating, creating process, right, um, creating, creating, building, what, um you know, still kind of setting up on top of the foundation, right, just kind of building up to um what will ultimately be right.
52:09
Steve Garcia: And so we have a there's a few ideas, um, but I really see this thing as being one of those things that it's just kind of like it's a valley-wide thing and it's something that people look forward to because they appreciate community, they appreciate um what, uh, what we're doing out here, and they want to be a part of it, in the sense that it's like all we're doing is working out and um, we're just running or walking, you know, and we're doing it together and um, you know, I, I, I this thing is gonna, I feel like I it could really has a potential to be one of the biggest like active clubs in the Valley.
53:01
Steve Garcia: For sure.
53:02
Steve Garcia: It really has that potential, and so the idea is to kind of like, continue to branch out into other cities and, you know, hopefully there's other people that would want to be a part of it from the other cities.
53:12
Steve Garcia: That way there's a just move throughout the Valley, right, it's not just in Coachella.
53:16
Steve Garcia: Right, and it's when we put Coachella in our, in our, in our name.
53:22
Steve Garcia: Here it's not, it's in general the Coachella Valley, not just so much the city.
53:26
Steve Garcia: Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a statement, right, just move Coachella Valley without the Valley, right, and so it's.
53:31
Steve Garcia: It's.
53:32
Steve Garcia: It's telling everyone to just move right and let's do it together.
53:37
Steve Garcia: So that's where I see it, and there's a lot of cool, fun things that we have in mind that we'd really like to do, like annual meeting somewhere, like this games day type thing, right, where we're all active, kind of like a wellness day, like games day type thing right, where we're all active, kind of like a wellness day.
53:57
Steve Garcia: You know it's, it's a, it's a day dedicated to just wellness, right, moving together, you know.
54:03
Steve Garcia: So, um, there there's definitely vision, right, and so it's um.
54:14
Coach Samantha Pruitt: And you said you know, we're just working out, but I'll challenge you because that's not just what we're doing.
54:17
Coach Samantha Pruitt: I mean, right, we're doing something much.
54:19
Coach Samantha Pruitt: We've gone to many gyms, many workouts, many clubs.
54:23
Coach Samantha Pruitt: I literally have lost track.
54:24
Coach Samantha Pruitt: I couldn't even tell you, Right, and in some places you do go and you just work out.
54:29
Coach Samantha Pruitt: But this is totally different.
54:32
Coach Samantha Pruitt: So working out is like the backdrop of the experience.
54:37
Coach Samantha Pruitt: The experience is connection.
54:39
Coach Samantha Pruitt: So we're creating a space where people can connect, not just to each other hey, who are you, what are you into?
54:46
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Let's you know, make sure that everybody's welcome here which we obviously do that Right but a sense of connection to themselves.
54:57
Coach Samantha Pruitt: So if you create the right space, people can actually get into themselves and have their own internal process, not just an external process, and I think that's one of the things that you and I, when we talk about the mission of the organization, what rings true for both of us is that element of fostering mental health and physical health equally are important.
55:16
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Those two things right.
55:18
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, we want people to come out, and in this case, run or walk, but why are they coming?
55:24
Coach Samantha Pruitt: What is the need?
55:25
Coach Samantha Pruitt: the need is much greater than did somebody burn some calories or get their exercise this week right yeah, that's, that's it.
55:35
Steve Garcia: It's, you're right.
55:36
Steve Garcia: Working out is more like you're working out, like to get to a certain goal.
55:43
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, get some guns.
55:44
Steve Garcia: Yeah, get some guns, get the six pack, get the beach body going right, that's, I guess that's just the benefit, right, that's the outer benefit of of working out what a lot of people don't realize.
55:59
Steve Garcia: It's what it's doing internally.
56:00
Steve Garcia: You know, and so you know.
56:06
Steve Garcia: I asked the question why are you doing this?
56:09
Steve Garcia: Why are you?
56:10
Steve Garcia: Why?
56:11
Steve Garcia: Why do you run?
56:13
Steve Garcia: Why do you work out?
56:14
Steve Garcia: Why are you this and that?
56:15
Steve Garcia: Right.
56:15
Steve Garcia: And if the answer is like well, I'm going to, everyone has their own goals, right, which there's nothing wrong with that.
56:21
Steve Garcia: I'm going to have a wedding, I'm trying to look good by summer so I can hit the beach, or you know this and that, whatever it is, or just health wise, but why?
56:30
Steve Garcia: You have to have a good enough.
56:32
Steve Garcia: Why to keep it consistent.
56:35
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Exactly.
56:36
Steve Garcia: Because what are you going to do after the wedding?
56:39
Coach Samantha Pruitt: That's right.
56:39
Steve Garcia: What are you going to do when summer's over?
56:42
Steve Garcia: And so you have to have a big enough why that'll make sure that you're consistent throughout your lifespan.
56:51
Steve Garcia: Right, just to keep moving.
56:52
Steve Garcia: Make it a lifestyle.
56:53
Steve Garcia: Just to keep moving.
56:53
Steve Garcia: Make it a lifestyle.
56:59
Steve Garcia: And so I believe that if your reasoning, if your why is big enough, then it's going to help you out internally, inside of you.
57:12
Steve Garcia: It's just going to do something that's really good for your heart, but it's also really good for your mental health, and so that's why I do it.
57:20
Steve Garcia: That's why I do it.
57:22
Steve Garcia: You know it's sure, you know it's.
57:25
Steve Garcia: You know to fit in a shirt or you know to have bigger muscles, whatever it is that's that's, that's cool, yeah, that's cool yeah.
57:33
Steve Garcia: That's cool, but I also know what happens if I stop.
57:37
Coach Samantha Pruitt: What does happen?
57:39
Steve Garcia: Well, I get very comfortable and we've already established that I'm meant to continue to move.
57:44
Steve Garcia: You know, and I don't, and I and I'm just going to keep moving in the right direction.
57:49
Steve Garcia: Yeah.
57:50
Steve Garcia: Right, and that's.
57:51
Steve Garcia: You know, I do this for myself and but I've also realized that it's like, if I stop, what else stops around me, and so you keep me going, my children keep me going.
58:05
Steve Garcia: You know that's in business, in my personal life and in running.
58:09
Steve Garcia: Believe me, the people around me keep me running, they keep me going that extra mile.
58:18
Steve Garcia: You know, it's not so much a lot of like there's the whole like stay healthy thing too, right but it's more.
58:30
Steve Garcia: It's like it helps me, for my, for just me personally, like I need it.
58:36
Steve Garcia: I really do need to keep moving, and it doesn't always have to be running.
58:40
Steve Garcia: It helps me, for my, for just me personally, like I need it.
58:43
Steve Garcia: I really do need to keep moving, and it doesn't always have to be running, it's just a walk around the block, you know.
58:46
Steve Garcia: It's lifting a 10 pound weight, maybe just do something Right, and so that stuff keeps me going.
58:50
Steve Garcia: Because, again, if, if I stop what stops around me, you know, and then I have to keep going for my own personal well-being, you know.
58:58
Steve Garcia: And so we, again, we, we, we, we look at the, the, the outer benefit, dropping the weight, the muscles and stuff like that.
59:09
Steve Garcia: But I believe that if people have a good enough, why they can make a really good, healthy lifestyle for themselves and it'll really help them up here, right, um, we need a lot of that, we need a lot of that, and so, um, that's.
59:25
Steve Garcia: I guess that's my reason, right, and so I'm doing.
59:28
Steve Garcia: I do it for myself, but I do it for the people around me who I care really deeply about, and those people are within the community, and it is the community, you know, it's my city and um, and it's those people are also impacting other lives.
59:42
Steve Garcia: Exactly, and so everyone has their own reason right, and so that's mine.
59:48
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Sweet, sweet, sweet.
59:49
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Before we wrap today, I want to ask you a question for our audience, just kind of some closing thoughts on what you might want to impart, based on not just this conversation, but just kind of where you're at with life.
1:00:06
Coach Samantha Pruitt: And how can people out there who are struggling maybe they haven't identified their why, or maybe they're just kind of spinning a little bit right now can't find the drive that you apparently have in every cell of your body and brain?
1:00:21
Coach Samantha Pruitt: yeah you know how can they find some of that?
1:00:24
Coach Samantha Pruitt: How can they tap into that?
1:00:28
Steve Garcia: everybody, I feel, wants to do something.
1:00:33
Steve Garcia: Nobody wants to be like not do anything.
1:00:37
Steve Garcia: Everyone has their own goal.
1:00:39
Coach Samantha Pruitt: If they give themselves permission.
1:00:42
Steve Garcia: Yeah, you have to, you have to want you again.
1:00:46
Steve Garcia: I feel that people, as it is, as we, want something.
1:00:50
Steve Garcia: You just have to go and get it Right.
1:00:53
Steve Garcia: And so it's not being scared of rejection or failure, it's just getting up and making the call to just move and move in the right direction, right, and so I believe we all have that in us.
1:01:08
Steve Garcia: You know, we all want something bigger for our lives.
1:01:11
Steve Garcia: Nobody as much as people could say like I'm really cool where I'm at.
1:01:16
Steve Garcia: No, there's something in you that wants something more out of this life.
1:01:19
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yes.
1:01:20
Steve Garcia: You know, and I believe in that, and you have the power to do that.
1:01:25
Steve Garcia: You know, and there's there's definitely a community out there that'll support you.
1:01:28
Steve Garcia: You know there's a support system.
1:01:31
Steve Garcia: There really is.
1:01:32
Steve Garcia: Not everyone is cruel in this world.
1:01:34
Steve Garcia: There's a lot of, lot of nice people right.
1:01:37
come to just move exactly, there's a lot of nice people with us, right and um it.
1:01:43
Steve Garcia: You just just move in the right direction.
1:01:47
Steve Garcia: Just make that call for yourself like I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna work towards that goal.
1:01:52
Steve Garcia: You know, in my business life, in my personal life, I'm going to be a better father, I'm going to be a better brother, I want to be a better friend, I want to be a better person, and I believe that you know we could all do that.
1:02:10
Steve Garcia: You know, whatever it is right, whatever it is that you want to do, you just have to make that move, make that call and move in that right direction.
1:02:20
Steve Garcia: So just move is more than just getting up and going for a walk or run.
1:02:24
Steve Garcia: It's, it's moving in the right direction in every aspect of your life.
1:02:28
Steve Garcia: It's a statement.
1:02:28
Steve Garcia: It's a statement.
1:02:29
Coach Samantha Pruitt: And that is your call to action.
1:02:31
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, two words, just move.
1:02:33
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, two words.
1:02:34
Steve Garcia: Just move, yeah, just move, I like it.
1:02:37
Coach Samantha Pruitt: This was so, so good.
1:02:39
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, All right.
1:02:39
Coach Samantha Pruitt: Well, we will let people know where to find you, how to follow what you're up to, to see what in the hell you're getting up to next?
1:02:48
Coach Samantha Pruitt: And to, of course, join us.
1:02:49
Steve Garcia: Where have I moved to next?
1:02:50
Steve Garcia: Yeah, this was so good Thanks my friend for hanging out drinking coffee most definitely Coachella, one of my favorite places, and just remembering the audience.
1:03:02
Coach Samantha Pruitt: How your life feels is more important than how it looks, and you're a statement of that as well, my friend.