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do . Let's get right into this one . Donald

1:14

man , for anyone who hasn't had the opportunity

1:16

to get to know you , to get to meet you yet , brother

1:19

, tell us your elevator pitch . Man , who are

1:21

you and what do you do ?

1:22

So my name is Donald Xama . I'm a serial

1:25

entrepreneur . I teach people how to

1:27

make money through passive income , whether that may

1:29

be vending machines , whether it may be YouTube , rental

1:31

cars , basically anything passive

1:34

. Because I realized from , like our early age

1:36

like if you , if you work with , if you

1:38

work with your hands all the time , then you won't be able to really

1:40

, if you work , if you do everything like

1:43

active , then you won't be able to really make money while

1:45

you sleep . And Warren Buffett said . Warren Buffett said if you

1:47

can't make money while you sleep and you won't ever

1:49

be rich . So that's really who I am

1:51

. A regular guy just helping regular

1:53

average day people just make money passively

1:55

.

1:55

Yeah , and Donald , real

1:58

quick , before we get into the conversation , like

2:00

let us know how old you are , man , Cause

2:02

I know either way , you think you're a couple of years older than me , right At 24

2:05

, if I'm mistaken 23 , 23 , 23 .

2:07

Yeah , just turned 23 . 23

2:10

.

2:10

Blessings , man . Congrats on that . So you're 23

2:12

and you're already helping people learn how

2:15

to make passing income , and you're already , you

2:17

know , running multiple businesses , man . So

2:19

before we get into that , though , take

2:21

us back in a time machine , man . What was little

2:23

Donald like growing up , man ?

2:26

Like when I was growing up . I was like

2:28

I was an athlete Like

2:30

I never thought like thinking

2:32

back . I never thought I would be in business . I'll never

2:34

thought I'd be helping people through business . I

2:36

never thought I would be in this path Like I

2:38

was more of like an athlete growing up by

2:40

the time , like I was in high school . By the time I got to

2:42

high school is when , like my entrepreneurial

2:45

, my business started . Because I

2:47

basically started , I met this girl

2:49

and she had this event called like the Pinkathon , where

2:51

we're selling like different bracelets and stuff . And

2:54

basically this girl was like yo Donald , can you sell all these bracelets

2:56

? And I ended up selling like 75 bracelets

2:59

in a night and from

3:01

there I was like wow , like I could really be an entrepreneur

3:03

. And , mind you , those bracelets were $3 . Imagine

3:06

trying to make someone buy , like high school students

3:08

trying to buy a $3 bracelet . And that's what I did

3:10

. And from there I was like wow

3:12

, like maybe I could really be a big entrepreneur

3:15

, Maybe I could really do like be

3:17

a businessman by the time I got to college

3:19

. Like that's when it really started to like grow on me , Like

3:22

my goal at first was just to own a

3:24

car wash . Like I told myself , like I just

3:26

want to own a car wash , I just want to do something like

3:28

that . And then from there , like

3:30

I just exploded and I just started

3:33

meeting new people , never came

3:35

new people and I started gaining

3:37

, like this , entrepreneur mindset .

3:40

Yeah . So before we get into it , man , take

3:42

us back a little bit . You said at the Ping-a-Tang you sold 75

3:44

bracelets at $3 a pop . Anyone

3:47

that needs to do the math , that's what ? 225

3:49

right there . 225 , yeah , your

3:51

nice little 225 that you just made in high school

3:53

. Now , I don't know about you , man , but in

3:55

high school 225 , you know how

3:57

many snacks I could . That's like a

3:59

whole like . And my high school , you feel me

4:01

, we had this little spot called JRLTC and

4:04

like the , you know the military like the army

4:06

people . Yeah , and

4:08

they always had this candy , like the snack

4:10

shop , bro . So now it was a spot between periods

4:13

Like we'll go to JLTC .

4:14

I'll get me some Oreos and Skittles and some

4:16

of this .

4:16

Oh yeah , they sell chocolate . Yeah

4:18

, but ours they had everything Like they had Pringles

4:21

, chips , freaking candy chocolate

4:24

, you name it , they had it . Bro , there was like

4:26

a whole little mini , like vending shop in there

4:28

, like little convenience store , and so that was

4:30

the spot as well . So I know 225

4:33

, man , that would have been good money for me . And you said that

4:35

that was like your first , like real thing where it kind of

4:37

kicked off . But do you think that there's anything

4:39

that led up to that that made you potentially

4:42

good at that Cause , like , and not a lot of people

4:44

that can just , especially back in high school where everyone's

4:46

still pressed and you know about peer pressure and

4:48

worried about what other people got to say , not

4:50

a lot of people that can just go up to people and start selling

4:53

stuff at that age , and

4:55

especially to other high schoolers who you

4:57

know ? Is there anything else that you

4:59

did that might have helped you , like , excel

5:01

at that bro ?

5:02

I was , but when , like thinking in high school

5:05

, I was always like a very outgoing

5:07

person , like I always liked to meet new people or it's

5:09

like to have different conversations with people , so

5:11

I think like that always like benefited me . I

5:13

was never afraid to walk up to somebody and talk

5:15

to them . I was never like like I

5:18

just didn't have any fear , like I was . I'll take all

5:20

the risks now and , being being that

5:22

, I was playing sports , I was running track and I was like

5:24

known in the school , like it just made

5:26

it easier for me and people was like able to connect with

5:29

me , people was able to trust me at

5:31

that time . Yeah , and like that's what

5:33

, like I feel like that also helped me to be

5:35

like in my like entrepreneurial journey .

5:38

Yeah , no , that's just that . You know they always say people do business

5:40

with people . They like knowing trust , and it was already

5:43

cool in the school , so it's

5:45

like it made everything that

5:47

much easier . Back early on you said you did track . What

5:50

other sports did ?

5:51

you play . I did track , I did cross country and

5:53

I did . I played football . Like my first

5:55

two years I played football but like when I was playing

5:57

football like I was in , like the best , and then when

5:59

I got to track , like they treated

6:02

me like I was like amazing in track , like we were breaking

6:04

school records , like I was doing a lot in track , like

6:06

I barely made JV for like the football

6:08

team . And then when I got to

6:10

track like varsity , like my first year

6:12

I was the captain of the cross country team and

6:15

I didn't even run cross country like that Like I was . Even

6:17

I was a sprinter .

6:17

Yeah .

6:18

And I was still able to be like the co captain of like the

6:20

cross country team . So that was like . That

6:22

was like pretty cool . That taught me like leadership at

6:25

a young age as well . Like it taught me how to become

6:27

a leader . Like I have people like

6:29

following my instructions and I'm not even like the

6:31

fastest one there in terms

6:33

of like distance wise , so

6:35

that that that I feel like like those

6:37

experiences , like they helped me , like they

6:40

shaped who I am like today

6:42

, like those experiences back in

6:44

high school , yeah , and

6:46

I feel it because I played football .

6:48

I saw I played football , that was my main sport . I

6:50

did basketball for a year , my

6:52

sophomore year . I made the team and quit the same day I made it

6:54

and then I picked up track my

6:56

senior year . That's how long story

6:58

short , this is a lesson , right ? If

7:03

you feel like you're not doing something for you , it's

7:05

okay to walk away from it . So for me , a little

7:08

bit of backstory . Right , I made the team my freshman year . Right

7:10

, and my coach my freshman year . He

7:13

. If you weren't in the side of five , you pretty

7:15

much didn't get any play time , and what sucked

7:17

is the person that was starting over me . I played point guard

7:19

, but the guard starting over me

7:21

sucked . Like he was one of those guys

7:24

that made the team in middle school Just

7:26

because , like he passed with two hands and like

7:28

you know , he , he made sure to protect

7:30

the ball when he dribbles like super technical . He

7:33

wasn't actually an athlete , though he wasn't , he wasn't

7:35

a hoop of Pharrell , and so he made the team

7:37

just cuz , like he's like the coach's

7:39

pet , right ? He's the ex-unfair

7:41

basketball player that follows everything

7:44

to tee , and so that's that's all I made

7:46

. And he's starting over me and I know I'm better than him

7:48

. So I'm like , damn , I ain't no quitter

7:50

. So I was like I'll

7:52

just ride it out and then we start . I said I get more play

7:54

time , more play time , and then our city rivals

7:56

stand for high . We played them mid-season , by

7:59

freshman year , and you know

8:01

that last two minutes crunch time

8:03

like those are very valuable minutes

8:05

. It was a close game . The whole game coach put me

8:07

in right cuz I Fourth quarter

8:09

, two minutes left , so that last two

8:12

minutes I got like three steals and

8:14

I got the game Changing

8:17

, lay lay up because we was down , I think one

8:19

. And then on a fast break I broke

8:21

out . It was wide open , made the lay

8:24

a boom , we got the lead . Then I got

8:26

two steals and then I

8:28

got that . I had the game closer , free throws to Close

8:30

out . So I'm pretty much I ain't

8:33

gonna say I don't keep on the game for us . You feel me I don't

8:35

keep on the game for us and I'm thinking in my

8:37

head like yo , like we let , I'm about to

8:39

start playing more . He's not gonna start

8:41

. And coach just started playing me even

8:43

less . Like I was like alright bro . So

8:45

I was kind of miserable , low-key playing . Sophomore

8:48

year , fast forward a bit , basketball trials

8:50

come . I don't know how it was at your school , but at our

8:52

school basketball trials like the

8:54

like , the Function to be

8:56

at it was like a party . Like there was mad

8:58

people that had , yeah , people that

9:00

had no business in a basketball

9:03

court will pull up just to say like yo

9:05

, we're going to try out , so you're going to go in it . Yo , you got a basketball

9:07

yeah .

9:07

I'm going to basketball . I like it's like

9:09

in full , yeah

9:11

, but Jim full and so I'm

9:13

.

9:13

I ended up making a team Right

9:16

, and the day we made it as they , we had

9:18

a scrimmage and so they were

9:20

gonna officially announced that I made it pretty much at

9:22

the end of that game , and so I'm on the bus

9:24

there waiting . I remember I had my headphones in and

9:27

I was just sitting there listening to music . I was like two

9:29

rows in the right hand side of the bus . Man , I remember

9:31

this visit vividly , for whatever reason , and

9:33

I'm just sitting there listening my music and I was just in my head thinking

9:35

like yo , am I really doing this for

9:37

me ? Is it because , like Everyone

9:41

does , you know , goes to tryouts and I just happened

9:43

to make it this year ? And when I really came down to it I

9:47

couldn't say that I was doing it for me , right

9:49

, and so I literally I ain't saying that no one . I got off the bus and From

9:53

there walked off . I went to go hide in my my calc teachers

9:55

I was a junior , I'm

9:58

like one of my math teachers , I think what to go hide in her

10:00

room . And then I took off the 330 after school bus and that

10:04

was that . Never played basketball , at least for organized , ever

10:06

again . After that Long story short , I just

10:08

said I Knew I wasn't doing it for

10:10

me , right , and I'd be damn if I'd

10:13

go live my life for other people or

10:15

live my life not for other people . Live my life , live

10:18

the life that other people want for me instead

10:20

of the life that I want for myself . That's

10:23

better for myself , you feel me , and so it's like I know how to worry back then . But

10:25

that's essentially what I was thinking and so I just quit

10:28

the team and right . And then I ended up playing

10:30

track my senior year . I did javelin and I had

10:32

I always had an arm , so

10:37

like I was just going running around with

10:39

a spear just slinging that joint . And I did track as well . I did hurdles

10:41

, literally the last track meet . Because why not

10:44

, not ? Not because I guess Did

10:47

you do one , ten or four hundred

10:50

?

10:51

I did , I didn't know .

10:53

I did the , I did the 110 , which was crazy

10:55

, and then I did the 300 , or

10:58

it was a , it was three , it wasn't 400

11:01

. Yeah , it wasn't foreign , it was 300 . And that was funny

11:03

. I was running and literally there's

11:05

this guy next to me . I got

11:07

dumb tired by the time we turned around to hit the loop . That last

11:10

hundred meters I was so gassed and

11:12

we only had like four hurdles left or

11:14

like three hurdles left , and

11:17

the guy next to me had caught up to me . Guy dusted

11:19

him and then , you know , he literally jumped , he got caught on

11:22

the hurdle and fell in his face . So

11:24

I look back and I see him fall

11:26

, bro

11:29

. I see him fall , bro . I was like I'm

11:31

walking to the finish line , I don't care anymore . So I still beat him

11:33

technically . But that was pretty much that , man . But

11:36

long story short . I say all that to say

11:38

, man , I played sports

11:41

growing up and it made a big impact on my life . Man , it really

11:43

did . You know ? Help define who . I am

11:45

psyched for you , man , like . How

11:48

has sports like impacted you and do

11:50

you think you have a lot of impact

11:52

on your life and do you think you'll be who you

11:54

are today without the sports ?

11:57

Now I don't think I wouldn't be with who I am today

11:59

, because sports it teaches you like a lot . It teaches you

12:01

discipline , like , imagine , like

12:03

you have to go to practice every single day

12:06

. I don't know about you , but I practice like every

12:08

single day for track in high school and in

12:10

college I was going to practice every single day . We had a weight

12:12

room , we had to go to the trainers , we had rehab

12:14

, we had all these different things . I think sports teaches

12:16

you discipline , it teaches you that you need to show

12:18

up and it teaches like accountability and

12:20

also to since track is like a team sport like

12:23

you have to show up for your team , even though it's an individual

12:25

sport . But when you go to like these big meets , you

12:27

have to . You're what you have to win To get that as a team

12:29

. So I think , like sports teaches you

12:31

accountability , it teaches you teamwork , how

12:34

to get along with people right . There's . There

12:36

was times that I had we're doing

12:38

relays , relays based like four people on a team

12:40

and if I , if Me

12:43

and like somebody on the relay was mad at each other

12:45

, we had to learn how to Basically

12:47

come , come together and work out those different

12:49

problems . So I think Sports for

12:51

anyone , anybody should do . Sports teaches

12:54

you discipline . It teaches you responsibility . It teaches

12:56

you that you need to show up and you need to get it done . No

12:59

excuses , you have to get whatever . Whatever the

13:01

task is at hand , you have to get it done . I think , sports

13:04

really shows you that .

13:07

Yeah . So now you said after

13:09

the high school Pinkathon

13:11

, right , you said you started to

13:13

embrace it more , which actually wasn't that

13:16

long ago . So like , where

13:18

did it really start taking off for you ? Where did

13:20

it really go from there once you got into college ?

13:23

So like freshman year right , covid happened

13:25

, my freshman year I was running track , I was doing

13:27

amazing . I was doing amazing in track , I was

13:29

one of the fastest people on my track

13:31

team , right . And then COVID hit

13:33

bang . So when COVID hit , everything

13:37

got shut down , track was closed , everything

13:39

was closed , right . So basically

13:41

, during that time , we

13:44

were stuck in the dorms right , the dorms was the

13:46

only place that we could stand . So during that

13:48

time , my business partner me and her at the time

13:50

, my business partner at the time we started this company

13:52

called DSK Products and we were selling hand

13:54

sanitizers because there was no hand sanitizer

13:57

in the store . Like , I was going to all

13:59

these different stores like Shoprite , walmart

14:01

, and I realized that there was no hand sanitizer in the stores

14:03

and one of my teachers said , oh , hand sanitizers

14:06

will be a good business . So my business partner actually

14:08

knew how to make the hand sanitizers . So I

14:10

went over on Instagram and I type , I went

14:12

on my story and was like yo , does anybody have hand

14:14

? Does anybody have alcohol ? Because you

14:16

mix alcohol and what's

14:18

the green thing Aloe vera together

14:21

. And that makes hand

14:23

sanitizer . So

14:25

, that's when it really started . So we made six bottles

14:27

of hand sanitizers and we sold those

14:30

hand sanitizers . That day , you

14:32

feel me . We went to Dollar Tree to

14:34

get the bottles . We went to this place

14:36

called Vista Print to print out the labels of

14:38

our logo and stuff . And that's when

14:41

business actually started . The

14:43

DSK Products started in the

14:45

dorm room . And

14:49

then from there , from DSK Products , it led into the

14:51

vending machines , it led into YouTube channels . It

14:54

led into that's where it originally started

14:56

.

14:58

From DSK Products . So it was a talk for me , though , because

15:01

for me , I know , pandemic

15:03

happened and I didn't turn into

15:05

an entrepreneur . I ended up reading Wish that

15:07

Poredad , and I tried to get into real estate and then

15:09

, from real estate , I tried to get real estate investing

15:11

at first , and then , from there , I became an agent . So

15:14

, for you , I was watching

15:17

a lot of podcasts , a lot of YouTube videos

15:19

. Who were you watching ? What were you listening to ? Because

15:21

I know we go

15:23

to network and meetups and business , but

15:26

most people our age aren't doing that , bro . So

15:28

I was just like , what were you listening to at the time ? What

15:31

were you watching at the time ? Reading at the time , were

15:33

you even reading ? What even made you

15:35

want to do that ? Because , as I said , starting

15:37

a business isn't the norm for most people at this age

15:39

.

16:12

For me . I just wanted more , because

16:14

when you work a nine to five job , you're limited . I

16:16

remember I just always had an

16:18

entrepreneur mindset . I remember I was in a factory

16:21

. I was working for Bed , bath and Beyond . Mind you

16:23

, I'm making $16 an hour . Meanwhile , I'm

16:25

counting up all the invoices , because

16:28

I'm packaging all the boxes . I'm reading the invoices

16:30

$50 , $100 , $150

16:32

, $200 . This company just made

16:34

almost a million dollars in the hour

16:37

that I just worked and I just got paid $16 . And

16:39

that always frustrated me . I was like why can't

16:41

it be me ? Why can't I make this ?

16:43

money .

16:44

Why does my money have to be docked by the amount of hours

16:46

I work ? So

16:48

then I read Rich Dad , poor Dad . Somebody sent me

16:50

Rich Dad , poor Dad to read and I

16:52

started , like you said , I started watching

16:54

all the business stuff I could . I

16:57

watched Earn your Leisure podcast , the

16:59

Social Proof podcast , I watched Alex

17:01

Hermozzi , I was watching Dave

17:03

Ramsey , every Wall Street trapper

17:06

, pushman , all the

17:08

African

17:11

American entrepreneurs and other people . I was just watching

17:13

all of them just to really just get inspired

17:16

, because I'm the type of person I don't really need

17:18

someone to hold my hand , I just need you to tell

17:20

me hey , I

17:23

made $5,000 a month from Vending

17:25

Machines and now my mind is like woof . Now

17:28

I have to prove to myself that I can do it . That's

17:30

the type of person I always am . I'm very competitive , right

17:32

. So

17:35

once I see it , I challenge myself

17:37

like can you really do that ? Can you actually do that

17:39

? Because I started watching

17:41

this guy named Hamiah Ibnes . He's basically

17:43

one of the biggest Vending Machine channels

17:46

on YouTube . I started watching him back in the

17:48

early stage . He didn't have a lot of subscribers this was

17:50

during the pandemic and stuff and I was

17:52

like , yo , I

17:54

could start a Vending Machine business . Maybe

17:59

I could do it too . And

18:03

those are the different people that

18:05

I was watching to really get inspired . Because

18:07

for me , I just have to see it , because

18:10

I feel like the problem with people is they can't see

18:12

it , so

18:14

they really can't do it . And I always had a big imagination

18:16

. I tell people all the time you want

18:18

to be a millionaire , you want to make hundreds of thousands

18:20

of dollars a year , you need to be able to see it before

18:23

it's ever in your hands . I'm

18:25

not a millionaire yet , but I'm still telling myself

18:28

yo , you're going to be a millionaire one day . Yo , you're going

18:30

to be driving this far . So I get exposed to this stuff

18:32

. That's when we go to these networking

18:34

events . You get exposed to different types of people

18:36

. You meet millionaires and

18:39

billionaires . You meet people . I've

18:41

been in rooms with millionaires , and the way

18:43

that they speak and the way that they move and that

18:46

exposure alone just makes me

18:48

want to be great all together .

18:51

Yeah , no , I feel

18:54

you . I felt that OD because I went to a lot

18:56

of networking events in and bro

18:58

this . I got Quite

19:01

a lot of . I got a good amount of million years

19:03

of my phone , bro , like in my contacts , save

19:05

, bro and the people I could call up

19:07

. Now they may not pick up first call

19:09

, now I'm not . I'll be transparent for me , I'm

19:12

not him yet you feel me , but they still

19:14

in my phone . It's not I still I still could speak

19:16

to them , bro . They might not pick up first call but maybe

19:19

second call they pick up , at least they'll text me back and

19:21

it's like you can see it surrounded around

19:24

that stuff . And then , bro , you , the way

19:26

you speak starts to change it , not in like a cold switch

19:28

, like hi , I'm John Mendez , nice to meet you . Like

19:30

the way you speak in terms of like the

19:32

things you believe , how you start

19:34

to articulate yourself . And just because you

19:37

use slang doesn't mean you're in articulate , bro . That's

19:39

one thing I hate about people , that

19:41

it's like oh , you know , they try

19:43

to use these over complicated words and

19:45

and just to try to get the point of

19:47

grass , like congrats , right , you read the

19:49

dictionary , bro . Good for you . Great

19:53

. It was just like you start meeting up with these people and

19:55

you start realizing like the way

19:57

they maneuver , the way they conduct themselves

20:00

is way different than the majority of

20:02

society , and Most people

20:04

don't understand that success leaves clues . It's

20:06

like why are you know ? I said

20:08

I'm asking and , and I Think

20:11

too , like talking to enough people , I

20:13

started to realize , bro , like the quality

20:15

of your life Really can

20:18

be . There's always like a direct correlation

20:20

, correlation between your quality

20:22

of life and the quality of questions you ask right

20:25

, and most people ask the wrong

20:27

questions . I , oh , why me ? Why

20:29

does this , all that happen to me ? You know

20:31

why my life suck ? Why don't I have money for

20:34

this ? Why can't I afford this ? And say , bro

20:36

, it's like , what are the people that money doing ? How

20:38

can I make that money ? How can I afford it ? In

20:40

sects ? It's very subtle things and it's

20:42

so much easier said than done , though that's the

20:44

one thing I don't want people to miss . I think it's easier

20:47

said than done because you can read it in the book , but

20:49

it's like Living that out

20:51

is a lot . You have to go through to , kind of

20:53

untapped that and rewire

20:55

yourself almost to the Conditioning

20:58

, into the , all the social programming that

21:00

goes into us . Like for you , bro , like what was that

21:02

process like for you ? Because for me

21:05

, I know there's a ton of things that I had to uncover

21:07

that I even know I had , because

21:09

I was never thinking entrepreneurally and

21:11

then , once I did , I kept running into these walls . I

21:13

didn't know I was running too , because there was things that

21:15

I haven't dealt with from what I learned

21:17

growing up . So I , what was that like for you , bro ? I ?

21:21

Feel , like when I became an entrepreneur like you

21:23

have to change your mindset , like you said , like you

21:25

have to change the way you think of things . You have to change

21:27

the way you look at things . Everything about you

21:29

has to change right and that change needs to

21:31

start with , like your environment . Who are the people influencing

21:34

influencing you ? When I was in college

21:36

and when I was in the dorm rooms , I realized like all

21:38

these , all these people that was in college were average , all

21:41

these people weren't going places . So I have to insert

21:43

myself in these rooms where , like , like you

21:46

said , those millionaires and those people that's actually like

21:48

grinding people that actually have plans , because

21:50

there's a bunch of people that you're gonna meet like yo , million-dollar

21:54

dreams but a minimum wage worth at , they

21:56

like they don't , they don't really want it , they just kind

21:58

of wanted . They just like , oh , I want to be a millionaire

22:00

, but they have no steps to it , they had no plans

22:02

, they have no goals . So the first thing that you , the first

22:04

thing that you have to do , is you have to change your mindset . What

22:07

do you want ? You're filming . You have to be

22:09

clear and specific on the goals that

22:11

you want . That's why I started to do , right , if

22:13

I said I want , if I said I

22:15

want a Tesla , that's my dream car , you

22:17

have to know how much that Tesla cars . So I was

22:19

like , okay , the Tesla cost $60,000 with

22:21

all these features that I want . Is this ? What type of house

22:23

Do you want to live in ? What type of dreams ? We have to

22:26

be super specific . Right

22:28

, that's what . That's why I started to Change

22:31

my mindset about things , like I stopped , and also

22:33

to the words that you say are

22:35

very important . Right , I just don't say

22:38

anything anymore . I realized a lot of people did , just did a

22:40

speak and it is . They don't understand , like

22:42

, how words have power . Right , the Bible

22:44

says , like there's death and life in the power

22:46

of the tongue . Like , if you tell yourself like you're

22:48

broke , if you tell yourself that you're average , if you

22:50

tell yourself that you're not worthy enough , then that's

22:53

the , that's the place where you're gonna be . You're

22:55

never gonna outgrow from it , right , and a lot

22:57

of people , like they've been hearing that their

22:59

whole lives , that they would , can never be rich . They've been

23:01

hearing that they could never , that can never be

23:03

the first million in the family , they can never be the first person

23:06

to go to college and then they that mindset it

23:08

gets stuck to them and then they get . They get stuck

23:10

where they are , right , like what

23:13

I'm realizing this is gonna be always gonna be a hot take

23:15

when I'm realizing People

23:18

from that are not born

23:20

in this country , right

23:22

, people that are not born in this country

23:24

, people that come to this country I don't know what

23:26

it is , but like their mindset and they're

23:28

grinding their work ethic is like always

23:31

crazy compared to the people that's born in

23:33

in the United States . Like I

23:35

meet people that's born like , outside the country and

23:37

like when they come here , no college

23:39

degree but they own multiple houses , their millionaires

23:42

, right , and you got people that live in the United

23:44

States is , they're very entitled . You

23:46

feel me and , like I said to , with

23:49

mindset , you can't be a

23:51

victim , even though , even

23:53

though , like , the Chains

23:56

and shackles are not on our hands , no more , I feel

23:58

like people have shackles in their mind . Yeah

24:01

, I mean , and we're talking before and you were telling me how you

24:03

, how you made your course and the course didn't work , and you

24:05

and you told me oh , I gotta blame myself . I

24:08

started doing that , like I started Every

24:10

. I started like everything that happened in my life

24:12

. I just started blaming myself for it , right

24:14

? Oh , I don't have the

24:16

money I want . It's my fault , I'm not where I want

24:18

to be in my life . It's my fault . And a lot of people don't

24:20

do that . They blame everybody else for their problems

24:23

and they never really and they don't , and they're

24:25

the root of the problem why they're in that position . Right

24:27

, people will blame McDonald's for being fat

24:29

. People will blame the government for being poor

24:31

. People will blame the , the

24:34

cigarettes , for the cancer , but they're

24:36

the problem . So , for

24:38

first , like you have to , if you want to be an entrepreneur

24:40

, you want to be in that 1% , you want to be making millions

24:42

of dollars a year , millions of dollars a day . You

24:45

have to change your mindset and the words that you say to yourself . You

24:47

need to start telling yourself that you're worthy . You

24:49

need to start telling yourself that you're enough , right ? Also

24:52

, you need to change , like , your spending

24:54

habits . When it comes to money . A lot of people

24:56

have , like financial trauma , right ? People

24:59

will rather buy a $50,000

25:01

car and sleep in the car , then put that

25:03

$50,000 within themselves

25:05

and and invest in themselves . Right

25:07

, you have to understand that if you

25:09

want to be rich , if you want to get to the next level , if

25:11

you want to get somewhere in life that now a lot of people could get to

25:14

, you have to invest in yourself . You have to invest

25:16

in assets and not liabilities . You have to

25:18

invest in stuff that's gonna help you in the future

25:20

. Right , I Seen people

25:22

in college . Right , I talk

25:24

about cars in the dorm rooms , like you'll

25:26

see , like a lot of things . You'll see people . Five

25:29

thousand dollars , sneaker collection , zero

25:31

stocks , like

25:34

that's . That's a backwards mentality . People's always the

25:36

problem with people and the mindset is people always trying to impress

25:38

the next person and the next man , and I feel like this happens

25:40

a lot in the black community . We're always trying to impress the next person

25:42

and then you do that , you do that for so long and then you realize , like

25:44

yo , I

25:49

have no money , I have no credit , my

25:51

life , my life , is not where I wanted to be . I'm behind in life because

25:54

you spent all that time . You basically spent all that

25:56

time trying to impress other people . So , in terms of

25:58

mindset , I believe you

26:00

have to speak good things in your life . You have to . You

26:02

have to Really

26:06

change you for me and put

26:08

yourself in those environments where millionaires and billionaires

26:10

and higher cheevers are gonna be .

26:11

Yeah , no , you didn't , man , you dropped a lot I want to touch on

26:14

the part where you said in college I'll people have a five

26:16

thousand dollar you feel me ? Sneaker collection and Not

26:23

. I think the . I think the black Americans spend like A

26:27

billion and dollars a

26:29

year and shoot and I can design it alone or something like that

26:31

. This Africa , what the exact number is , but the numbers crazy , like

26:33

people are spending crazy money , bro , and it's like for me , it always

26:36

amazed me because we got people in high school

26:38

rocking V loan in the mirror . He's

26:42

in freaking Christian Dior and and and Louis Vuitton and

26:44

and Fendi and all the stuff and

26:46

freaking . Why is

26:48

that ? Fair gamma belts and all that stuff . Fair

26:50

gamma effects .

26:56

You have to . Why are they doing that ?

26:57

though that you're living above your means for what you

27:00

feel me , I

27:03

still People are so worried about

27:05

, if people are so worried about like

27:08

they drip if I mean how they dress

27:10

and how and not worried about Things

27:13

that are actually gonna move them forward in life . And

27:15

so it's like for me , it's like I understand

27:17

, like People always say

27:20

like , oh , you know , if I work hard for something

27:22

, you know it's okay to treat myself

27:24

. And it's like , no

27:26

, it's not . It is . It

27:29

is not okay to treat yourself if you don't

27:31

got your priorities straight . Bro , I don't care how

27:33

hard you work , don't treat yourself bro Until

27:35

you got your priorities put together right . And

27:38

then , whatever that may look like now , I'm not saying

27:40

go invest in stocks . I'm not saying go invest in real estate . I'm

27:42

not saying go and you feel me , whatever , whatever . But

27:44

if you just worked the 80 hour week and

27:47

you feel me , you just worked hard and you about

27:49

to treat yourself , but you still only got a $500

27:51

freaking savings like account

27:53

, it's like Treating yourself

27:56

is making sure your , your emergency fund is , for me

27:58

, put together . Treat yourself is making sure

28:00

you got your credit right . Treat yourself is

28:02

making sure that you stick

28:04

into your budget like People

28:07

need a redefine what , and I hate telling

28:09

people what they need to do . But what I would recommend

28:11

doing is I redefining . First

28:14

, ask yourself why the things you find is

28:16

treating yourself or treating yourself like for me . So

28:19

I grew up in the in the church . I started

28:21

going to church around third grade and I helped me Build

28:23

up a lot of who I am . So , like in

28:25

high school , like I was never into promiscuity

28:28

, bro , I was never . It's still not to this day , bro . I

28:30

was never into smoking . Like I never smoked

28:32

. To this day I never did drugs . I

28:35

ain't start drinking and I only drink like socially

28:37

. I ain't start drinking till I was like almost

28:39

19 and I'm Dominican , bro . I could have started drinking

28:41

out . I probably could have started drinking at third grade

28:43

if I wanted to . Just growing up in a Dominican

28:45

household , right , that's just culturally , that's

28:47

the norm , bro . It's nothing bad about that . That's

28:50

just what the norm is culturally . It's

28:52

like and I grew up on a project , so it's like

28:54

I knew all the people that was doing it

28:56

. It's not like it was never there in my life

28:58

. The opportunity was always there , but it's like

29:00

For me it's one of those things was

29:02

like , bro I

29:05

, because I had a different belief

29:07

system that I was founded on . Like I

29:09

just viewed a lot of the vice of the world

29:12

was like nah , like I'm

29:14

good off of that . Like I was never into designer

29:16

clothing , I'm yeah , if you see me

29:18

on a day-to-day bro , I'm fine with it . Just a freakin

29:20

, a plain white or black T bro

29:23

. Some , some ripped jeans , you for

29:25

me and then , like you for me

29:27

, some like air forces . I'm good , bro , like

29:29

I'll need to get some . You

29:31

know designer anything and not say that

29:33

as bad as like well

29:36

, is your stuff in check

29:38

before you start ? You know Explosion on

29:40

things that you don't necessarily

29:43

need because , like what could ? It's having

29:45

money if it's not to me ? Like to , you know

29:47

, to Enjoy

29:49

it right and to help others . A

29:51

lot of people work hard and never get to enjoy life .

29:53

And next thing you know , yeah

29:56

, exactly , and that's the things it's like they don't

29:58

even have money , like you're

30:00

trying to portray , that you actually

30:02

have money but you don't .

30:05

Exactly , and I actually mosey

30:07

was talking about it and he was like To

30:10

to the people who actually are players in

30:13

the game like all that stuff

30:15

is . Like it's for the birds , bro . It's like people

30:17

, people know , like the real , like , if I'm always

30:19

he were to see you in that fair gamma , whatever , whatever

30:21

. Like bro , he's making nine figures a year

30:23

, bro , easy , and breaking rockin

30:26

a tank top . Like he's

30:28

. He's you , feel me , he's good and he

30:30

doesn't have to impress anybody . Now . He could

30:32

be dressing a little nicer . You could say that

30:34

maybe he should be right , whatever , but he's

30:36

, he got it popping and he knows that , bro

30:39

. It's not about how you look , bro , it's

30:41

about what you actually have going on , and a lot

30:43

of people try to make it look like they have a Something going

30:45

on instead of getting something going on

30:47

and then figuring out the rest later . Right , and it's

30:49

like , once you do have something going

30:51

on , you want to splurge on some clothes . By

30:53

all mean , get that five Downs out of singer

30:56

collection , feel me . By all means , go

30:58

, splurge out fair gamma or you leave a ton , but

31:00

make sure your other stuff is situated first , right

31:03

before you start doing that , because I think , I

31:05

think I don't know If you know we're meat set , the but he talks about . Like

31:07

, when it comes to budgeting , you should have like three categories

31:09

that you spend on , and that's

31:12

just . You . Like you know , you don't care so whether that's

31:14

coffees or , you know , starbucks , lattes

31:16

, whatever , whatever that maybe might be

31:18

avocado toast , it might be designer shoes

31:20

and might be , you know , animate collection

31:22

, whatever it may be . Like , have areas

31:24

in your life where you can enjoy your money , but

31:27

then also have other areas in life for , like , you're

31:29

making sure you're you're , you're good and your future

31:31

is good . You have money to invest and grow and stuff

31:34

like that , investing in yourself as well , before

31:36

you start investing in materialistic things

31:38

.

31:39

That's a fact . That's a fact and

31:42

the thing is , I'm realizing to like a lot , of

31:44

, a lot of people . Um

31:46

, I saw this quote yesterday from this guy . Named

31:48

him 500 . His name is Marcus Barney . Like a credit

31:50

, yeah he said something like Like

31:53

you have to , it's okay

31:55

to miss the wave to get to the ocean . I

31:59

did not thought that was like wow , you

32:01

for me , but go ahead with your

32:03

saying , right , I know you're not that that's dope

32:05

, no , that's dope , bro .

32:06

I never heard that one before . It's okay to miss the wave

32:08

to get to the ocean . Everyone trying to be , you

32:10

know , try to get on board , like we was trendy

32:13

and stuff . Like it's okay to miss crypto , it's okay

32:15

to miss NFTs , it's okay to miss , you

32:18

feel me , all these little buzzwords

32:20

, web 3 , whatever , to get to

32:22

where you need to get to , because there's always it

32:24

talks about that and Richard's made a Babylon 2 . I don't know if you

32:26

read that book , but it talked about like

32:28

one of the chapters was like how they went to

32:31

a foreign village with some crystals

32:33

and ended up getting a scam

32:35

because the crystals were fake and

32:37

it goes to show . Like when

32:40

you try to get into , they get money rich quick

32:42

and like the get rich quick schemes

32:44

and stuff like that it's as

32:46

fast as it goes . You know how fast

32:48

it comes , as fast as it goes . And

32:50

being okay with the With

32:53

the journey , I feel , since like I

32:55

mean , you were in college not that long ago

32:57

, bro , so like once you started getting more

32:59

and tomorrow into business , like where did that journey go

33:01

? Did you finish college ? Did you end up dropping out like me

33:03

like where did your journey go from there ?

33:06

So like I mean , I'm in college still

33:08

like I was supposed to graduate last year by some

33:10

problem of credits , so I'm taking my last class

33:12

, I have two more credits and then I should be graduated

33:14

this year . But yes

33:16

, I'm finished college . But I realized that college

33:19

for me was more like a networking place , more than

33:21

like more than like Education

33:24

, because a lot of people that go to college

33:26

. Like they go to college just to show that

33:28

they got the degree or they got forced by

33:30

their parents to go , whatever it is , but like I think

33:32

college for me was more of like a networking place

33:35

. You have to College

33:37

. I feel like it's a trap Sometimes

33:39

, in some cases cause to be a trap for some people

33:41

, because some people get to college , they finish and

33:43

then they stop learning . You always

33:45

have to be a student of life . You , for me , you always

33:47

have to be a student of the game , like if you , if

33:50

you have to really keep on studying your

33:52

craft and keep on getting better Every single day

33:54

. And I feel like people in college with college

33:56

degrees like they feel so entitled , like they're

33:58

looking my degree , look what I done , look what I did

34:00

with it . They stop learning . You

34:03

always have to constantly be learning and

34:05

I feel like to . In college , I

34:07

was in some entrepreneur classes where the teachers

34:10

weren't even entrepreneurs . Teachers won't even

34:12

teach me business for real . You , for me

34:14

, I was making more money than some of my teachers . When

34:16

my teachers will look at me and they would try

34:18

to Like , like , downplay

34:21

what I'm doing Right , they'll try to downplay

34:23

like my success because , since I'm younger

34:25

than them , since they feel like they're like People

34:28

see that I'm young and then of course , they're gonna try to

34:30

they downplay my success , downplay what

34:32

I do , because they , because they're trying

34:35

to put they're trying to put it's on the same level of life

34:37

, and that's the thing I feel like a lot of

34:39

people do . When you're , when you're on a different

34:41

level than people , they really try to put labels on you

34:43

. So they don't so they , so they feel like you

34:45

guys could be at the same level . When it comes

34:47

to like , when it comes to success is

34:49

nobody wants to feel . Nobody wants to feel

34:51

like they're missing out or they're not like you

34:53

know , I'm saying yeah

34:56

, no , I feel you .

34:58

I think for me For

35:01

me personally , I haven't had that

35:03

happened too too much . But in a certain

35:06

situation , as this one time , this lady at church , like

35:08

I , was huge , she wanted to get into but estate as an

35:10

agent and she's working at a

35:12

nursery or something like that or she's a nurse and

35:15

she was asking me about velocity and

35:17

then she's like , oh , that's amazing , she's mind you

35:19

, she's looking up , like she's asked me for advice and like

35:21

you know what my opinion on stuff was

35:23

. And then literally same conversation . Then she

35:25

asked me like , oh , so , like what happened with like the word you

35:27

end up going to school and stuff like that ? So I went to you con , you

35:29

said , oh , when do you graduate ? That's what I dropped out . And

35:32

then all of a sudden , now she tried to tell me about what

35:34

I should do with my life . Now I was like you was literally

35:37

just asking me for advice on

35:39

what you should do with yours and you two times my senior

35:41

bro , and now , because I didn't graduate

35:43

, now you're gonna try to have like , but it's

35:45

for me it's like I seen something

35:47

on my IG the other day and it was like

35:50

the people Around

35:53

you . The reason why people around you don't

35:56

support you is because

35:58

the version of you that

36:01

they loved and grew to

36:03

know is is

36:05

dying off Right

36:07

. But think about it like when you're changing

36:10

right , when you're growing , when you start evolving

36:12

like the old you was dying . You're

36:14

, you know , you're turning into this new person , you're starting

36:16

to learn more , you're starting to grow more , you're starting to get into new opportunities

36:19

, that old you starting to die off . So

36:22

it's the reason why a lot

36:24

of people don't support is because , like the version of

36:26

you that they did know , that they grew to love , that they grew Up

36:28

with right is dying off

36:30

right in front of their face and there's nothing

36:32

they could do about it . You feel me and

36:35

it's not because for ill cause , if they want to

36:37

, you know Tight that back now I'm gonna

36:39

say it not for ill cause sometimes , like it's not always

36:41

because , like they want you to Pre-keep you down

36:43

. You feel me not because they don't want you to grow , but

36:46

it's also like , damn , the person they knew was you

36:48

feel me no longer there . So of course it's gonna

36:50

be tough for them as well . So now everyone I feel

36:53

is like you know , I don't

36:55

have like a pessimistic view where , like everyone's

36:57

like that's not an entrepreneur , not on this journey

36:59

is out to get me or hold me back . It's like sometime

37:01

. It's like they doing it with good

37:03

intent but like it's

37:06

just not the best for me and where I'm going , you feel me .

37:09

That's a fact and I feel like there's

37:11

a lot of people that there's too many reverse

37:13

role models out here . There's people in

37:15

your life that that you respect . But

37:17

they're there , but you don't want to end up like them

37:19

, like a lot of people yeah they say

37:22

, look , I want to be a millionaire . And then they go to their

37:24

parents for advice . And their parents were never millionaires

37:26

, right ? I feel , like you need , like

37:28

there's a lot of like . You have to Find

37:31

people , like role models in your life

37:33

or people that you look up to , our mentors . So

37:35

I feel like finding a mentor is like the fastest way to like

37:38

, grow to or get to , like the way you're trying to get

37:40

to , because because , mind you , if

37:42

Some of our parents only made six

37:45

figures , so that's the only thing that

37:47

they could show us how to do . Like if your goal was to be a millionaire

37:49

and your parents make six figures , your parents could

37:51

only get you the six figures because that's what they did

37:53

, right . So I feel like we need to watch

37:55

out for reverse role models in our life . We need to find

37:57

mentors . You need to find people that's going to basically

38:00

uplift you and , like you said about the outgrown people

38:02

, I Definitely agree with you

38:04

in terms of outgrown people . There are

38:06

some people that are still in

38:08

that like . They're still in like that high school

38:11

mindset . They're still in that oh , I gotta

38:13

have fun minds . They're still in that like Not

38:16

taking responsibilities mindset

38:18

right , because , as a man , as like

38:20

somebody that's someone that wants

38:22

to be respected in the future , you need to make sure that you're

38:24

handling your responsibility . The

38:26

parties , the fun , all that's

38:29

gonna be there , all that's still gonna

38:31

be there . Like

38:33

people try to make me feel bad

38:35

. Like you said the woman , I said the woman , your church

38:37

, try make you feel bad . Like people would try to make me

38:39

feel bad for not going to the parties . Like days

38:41

to come back from the parties in my dorm rooms at four

38:43

in the morning and they used to come back and they used to find me

38:45

still working . Don't down the why you're

38:47

not going to those parties , down the why you're not coming

38:50

. I had a million dollars on my mind

38:52

. You feel me at doing those times . You , for me , like

38:55

, even even even though my , my bank account

38:57

was negative , I had credit cards that was maxed

38:59

out . I saw millions at

39:01

that time and I was like yo , I can't , I can't

39:03

, I can't go party . Right now , you feel me I can't

39:05

have fun because I can't even imagine , even

39:08

though , even though , like , I don't recommend , I

39:10

don't recommend being an experience anybody , I was in

39:12

sleeping , like I was the type of person

39:14

I was just on go and I was like yo , like

39:16

I see , I see millions right now . Like , how

39:18

can I , how can I stop you from . How

39:20

can I , how can I let up you ? For me , and

39:23

those people like yo and I'm and people

39:25

were wondering , like yo , donald , like how you , how are you

39:27

able to get all this money ? How are you able

39:29

to run up 50,000 ? I mean , I'm almost

39:31

made like like a hundred thousand dollars in a dorm

39:33

room , right . But

39:36

the problem with people is people

39:38

love to tie my success from where

39:40

they tie my success back

39:42

to , like , let's say , my parents are like my situation

39:44

. Like Donald , oh , you live in the suburbs

39:47

. That's the reason that you're able to be successful

39:49

. Oh , your parents make this amount of money . That's

39:51

where you're able to be successful . But meanwhile

39:53

you y'all didn't see the nights

39:55

that I stayed up to get to where I got

39:57

, to you for me , nobody saw those nights . Nobody

39:59

saw when I didn't sleep like I , like

40:02

it was so point , I don't even go

40:04

to sleep now , right , I just fall asleep

40:06

like I'm at the point right now . I just fall asleep

40:08

like I'm working so much and there's

40:10

videos and like pictures of me , just like

40:12

passing out with my laptop Open from

40:14

work and stuff for me because I'm going . I'm

40:16

going hard type jump , going as hard

40:18

as possible . So I can advice

40:21

for somebody like Surround

40:23

yourself with the right friends and the right people

40:25

. If you even got to ask somebody like your boyfriend

40:27

, your girlfriend , your best friends , if they believe in you

40:29

, they probably don't believe in you , they probably don't believe in your dream

40:31

, they probably don't believe in your vision . And you

40:33

need to get away from those people . Right , because

40:36

if you tell , if you tell a small

40:38

minded person your dream Like

40:40

they're not gonna understand it , they're not gonna , then

40:42

they can't fathom it . Right , because God

40:45

, if God put a dream in your head and you're trying to

40:47

tell the next man that dream , they're probably gonna shoot

40:49

it down . It's not gonna work . Like

40:52

when I told , when I told my family member oh

40:54

, um , yeah , I'm starting a vending machine business , I'm

40:56

doing this . That was talking about Donald Colveys

40:58

here , bro , they will my shut down . They gave

41:00

me all types of all types of problems

41:02

and all type of excuses , right , and

41:05

that's why I tell people like , if you're trying to , when you're

41:07

trying to get to like the next level of life , you're trying to get

41:09

somewhere where , where , where

41:12

not a lot of people are or none of you , nobody

41:14

in your family , reach , you have to be able

41:16

to be locked in and you have to be able

41:18

to be focused like tunnel vision

41:20

. You feel me .

41:23

No , 100% , bro . It reminds me of

41:25

a quote man , it's uh , if you stick

41:27

with something long enough , eventually

41:30

determination starts to look like talent

41:32

, and that's I quote I heard pretty

41:34

recently , but it's something that that really just resonated with me while

41:36

you were speaking . Man , it's just like . Man

41:38

, where could we connect with you , donald ? Where

41:40

could we find you ? I want to , like you know , learn this how to

41:42

start making passive income . We

41:46

want to learn more about your story , what you have going on

41:48

this year . Man , like , where do we go to ? Man , you could

41:50

find me on .

41:50

I have a YouTube channel everything DSK you

41:53

could find me out of all the

41:55

gems , can I actually can actually get the money ? I

41:58

actually want to like talk about

42:00

that too , because I don't want to leave without giving the gem and

42:02

stuff . I can't tell people real quick just

42:04

how to start a vending machine business or like start making

42:06

. Like let me , I was gonna give like a little

42:08

gem file before you know

42:10

me 60 second gem , bro , six-six gem . So okay , so

42:14

you want to start a vending machine business ?

42:16

right . You want to make passive income .

42:16

You want to make an extra thousand miles a month , because

42:19

a thousand knots can really change some people's life . Right . So

42:21

to start a vending machine business right , because a

42:24

thousand knots can really change some people's life . Right . So

42:26

to start a vending machine business , the first thing

42:28

you're gonna do is you're gonna you want to find a vending machine location

42:30

. A location is basically where you're gonna put the vending machine

42:33

. So you can find a vending machine location by

42:35

asking your friends and family , you're asking your neighbors

42:37

, you're asking different business owners around

42:39

around your state , around your county

42:41

, around your city . After you find , after

42:43

you , you find a location , you go to facebook

42:45

marketplace , off ruff in craigslist to find the vending

42:47

machine . Right , you're looking for

42:50

ap vending machines . You're looking for ap vending

42:52

machines , royal vending machines , dixie

42:54

, narco vending machines . Stay away from sega vending

42:56

machines right . Once you find that vending machine

42:58

, either facebook marketplace or you could

43:00

go to like a vending machine warehouse . A warehouse

43:02

is basically a , a place where they

43:04

sell refurbished vending machines but they have like a

43:07

warranty on top of their vending machines . So

43:09

the warranty is basically going to help you . The

43:11

warranty is going to give you it's more safer

43:14

. Like facebook marketplace , off ruff in craigslist

43:16

. You don't have a warranty . So you have to make sure that you

43:18

test out these vending machines . To test out a vending

43:20

machine , what you have to do is you have to make sure

43:22

that accepts dollars , nickels , quarters

43:24

, dimes , all types of payments . You want

43:26

to make sure that the vending machine is mdb compatible

43:29

. That means it could take car readers . If it's not

43:31

mdb compatible , it cannot take a car reader

43:33

. If it's a drink vending machine , you want

43:35

to tell the owner 15 minutes before you get there

43:37

to um to turn on the

43:39

vending machine . So you , so you know that

43:41

it gets cold . And you want to make sure

43:43

for a snack vending machine , you test all the coils

43:45

. So a1 , b1 , c1 , d1

43:47

, you want to make sure that all those coils spin . And

43:49

then , after you do that , you move that vending machine

43:52

to location . You fill it up , you go to Costco

43:54

, bj sands , club , you go

43:56

to these wholesale spots to find the the

43:58

snacks Fill , collect , repeat

44:01

, and that's how you start a vending machine . I just want to

44:03

say that because I know some people's like all day . I

44:05

want to start a vending machine business . So that's like . That's like the quick

44:07

version of it , that's like the quick version of it , and .

44:09

And then there's the youtube to get the

44:12

deeper version of all of it . And now it's time for our

44:14

and now being a show Knows . For anyone that wants to go

44:16

check that out for now , for anyone that

44:18

, um , now it's time for our famous five questions , right

44:20

, rapid fire around . Question

44:23

number one what is the most impactful

44:26

lesson you've learned in life ?

44:28

Oh , oh

44:30

, the . The most impactful lesson I learned in life was probably

44:32

um learned to say no , because when you say , when

44:35

you say yes to something , you're saying no to something

44:37

else . So learn to say no in life

44:39

. That's like the most impactful lesson I learned .

44:42

So what is the most admirable trait a person could

44:44

have ?

44:45

Oh , admirable

44:48

trait . I would say what's

44:50

the word Lord

44:54

? What's that word ? I

44:56

would say the most admirable some trait is I

44:59

don't know the word , but just to define

45:01

it , it's like somebody that um , that

45:04

their word means something . I don't know , I can't

45:06

define the word right now , but it's like , whatever

45:08

I say I'm gonna do . If I say I'm gonna show up , if I

45:10

say I'm gonna do this , that is what's gonna happen

45:12

. I don't know what the word , I don't know if it's lord T or I

45:15

, just I forgot the word , just your name

45:17

, just everything you say you know you're gonna do

45:19

.

45:20

Okay , I forget the word

45:22

too . Man , I'm like accountable I'm like I'm like .

45:25

I'm not a brain book integrity . Yeah

45:27

, integrity yes , all right

45:29

, yes , integrity , integrity yes .

45:31

All right , uh , if you had to change someone's

45:33

life , but you only had one book

45:35

to recommend , which one would it be ?

45:38

Uh , the bible so many life lessons

45:40

in the bible , so many life lessons

45:42

.

45:44

What is the legacy that you're working on leaving behind

45:46

?

45:48

Um , like , oof , I

45:50

want to be able to , um , I

45:52

just want to be able to help people . At the end of the day , I just want

45:54

to be able to , um , like

45:56

, just put on for my last name . I want to be

45:58

able to Basically just

46:01

give back to my community and just basically help

46:03

my help , create generational wealth for my

46:05

family in the future . That's like the legacy I want to leave behind

46:07

. I want to leave behind that like nothing

46:10

, nothing's impossible . Nothing's impossible

46:12

with God , you know like . That's why I want to leave behind for my

46:14

, for my family .

46:16

And for anyone that wants to embark on their walk to

46:18

wealth today . What is

46:20

the first step you recommend they take ?

46:23

Change your mindset . Change your mindset , change

46:25

your environment and I promise you you're gonna see

46:27

a significant difference .

46:29

Amazing , I don't know that . Is it

46:31

for an interview ? Thanks again for hopping on my brother

46:33

. Thanks again for dropping the knowledge . We definitely have to bring

46:35

you back because I said we couldn't fit everything in one episode

46:38

. But thanks , I just said thanks for

46:40

hopping on .

46:41

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46:44

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