Episode 054: JR Garage - Youtuber, Car Enthusiast, Crypto, Entrepreneur

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What up everyone? Casey Adams here. Welcome to the Rise of the Young podcast today, episode 54. We have Jeff from JR Garage with us here today. And a lot of you guys may know him from his car YouTube channel known as JR Garage. But today we're going to kind of break down more about the business that he does, how he did it when he started, and try to just break down his story. So welcome my man, Jeff.

Boom. Thank you so much for having me. Casey, I got to congratulate you on your success with the podcast so far. Some crazy heavy hitters on there. It's always so much fun to listen to him on long drives or just when I'm busy working. So huge congrats, dude.

For sure, man. So number one, bro, before we kind of get into it, I'm sure a lot of people, like I said, know you from your car YouTube channel, right? Number one, what's your YouTube channel currently at? How long you've been doing it?

Yeah, so about it was In February of 2016, I posted my first video on YouTube. I kind of started as just a fun thing to do. I'm like, you know what, you know, why not post some videos? It's a cool place to host just some content for myself. I didn't really think it would be big. And sure enough, after like four months, I had like 20 followers, 10 of which were like friends and family. Actually probably all of which were friends and family. But I'm like, you know, it's so much fun. I just continued with it, you know, built up steady Very slow progress. We got to 50, then 100. You know, when I. When I hit 100 subs, I'm like, oh, man, this is it. I'm like, I'm making it. But then we got to 500, then a thousand. Then by the time we hit 1,000, we started, you know, gain some traction really, really well. And then we had the video go viral. And that video is driving my Viper to high school at 17. Crazy reactions or whatever I titled it. So basically that video, one day I drove to school. You know, a note is, I always walk to school. I live just a few blocks away. There's no point in me driving. So no one knew I had these cars, like, no one. So this one day, when I pulled up in a Viper, everyone freaked out. And it's just a super funny video. It got millions of views in just a few weeks, and it really took off the channel.

So that was like your first viral hit from YouTube. So for everyone listening, how many cars do you have right now?

We were just talking about this. I think we're up to like 13 or 14.

Okay. And how old are you for everyone listening?

18.

18. So you're 18. You're almost reaching your age limit in cars you own.

And.

Yeah, because I know what the YouTube channel. A lot of people know you from that. But I really want to get into, like, number one, when people see the YouTube channels, like, how do you afford these cars? What got you to that level? You're only 18. So before we kind of jump into everything just to kind of touch on the YouTube channel, so far, you've had it for around a year or two years, you said.

Yeah, so just over a year. Almost two years.

About two years. And you're up to 800,000 subscribers, right?

You're right. We're almost at 800,000 subscribers on the main car channel, JR Garage, and then we'll get into the junior business channel in just a little bit. But that's our second channel that has a hundred and a little over 150,000 subscribers now. And then all the according social media accounts with, you know, tens of thousands as well. So over a million combined at this point. So awesome. I did not expect that to happen, but it's been a true blessing. It's so awesome. And the impact we've had on the, you know, young crowd and the young entrepreneur community, what we've been able to give back and inspire is super awesome. So it's been so much fun and just networking with others. Networking. Your favorite word, bro. So we've been able to network with some. That's how we met you. I mean, Pat, listen to us. Geez. So you hit. You hit Kieran up right first. Yeah.

For everyone listening before we get into this story. So Kieran, a lot of you guys know, he hit me up on Instagram, he introduced me to Jeff, and then we've just been homies ever since. Traveling, doing stuff, going to car shows.

You came up to a car show that one day. I vividly remember that day is when we just got our Lamborghini wrapped, a pretty crazy design. We said, hey, come up. You. You made the drive, you made some moves, got up there, and that was a legendary day. We had a lot of fun. A lot of fun.

So, wow. Then we freaking forever listening. I went to this car show and like hundreds of people started running up to Jeff. Little kids. I was like, dude, this is pop.

Everyone's running up to you, bro.

Like one person, my boy. Yeah. But so for me, before we, like I said, go into the details. You start on social media like itself, YouTube, Instagram, like over a year and.

A half ago, under two years ago. And since then, you know, you have.

Millions of followers, all car enthusiasts, total views.

Just for anyone wondering out there, I think she's probably up to over 75 million now, maybe up over 80 million. So we're approaching 100 million page views. So we've had many videos go viral and a lot of traction. So.

Okay, so before we get out of the car section, what is your favorite car that you own?

Oh, that's tough. You're asking me to pick like my favorite child. You can't be doing that.

Well, your most funnest to drive and you can have.

All right, so see the Tesla, my Tesla Model X P90D. Ludicrous. That's like, that's like an all around car. It fits 7 people 0 to 60 in 3 seconds flat. Ridiculously fast, little to no maintenance. Just such a fun car. Futuristic. It's got the falcon wing doors I wrote in it. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. And then. But if I want to be like loud and obnoxious, we'll take out the Ferrari F430 or the Lamborghini Gallardo. The Ferrari F430 with the straight pipe exhaust. It's. It's quite obnoxious to say the least. So, yeah, those are the favorite cars.

Okay.

It's a fun thing. But. But cars are really what give us the motivation to. To succeed and get where we are. It was always cars, you know, From a young age, I remember the, the first time riding in it was like a neighbor kind of family, friends of ours. And he had a 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo 996. And I was like 7 years old when I first rode in that car. And from then on out, he also had a Ferrari. He let me sit in it. And I vividly remember that yellow prancing horse. I'll never forget that day. And I just said, one day. Yeah, one day I will have my own yellow prancing horse in front of me on the steering wheel.

And you were.

And here we are, seven. Two Ferraris. Yeah, I was seven back then. And from then on, I'm like, it will happen one day. And back then, of course, we had no money, family had no, like, we didn't come from a wealthy family, nothing. So most people look at that, would just laugh and say, oh, no, that's impossible. We got that all the time. And you know that's not going to happen. They just kind of laugh. But it's like, yeah, yeah, one day. And I want to do it soon. I don't want this crap by the time I'm 40. Yeah, no, no, I want it by the time I leave high school.

So that was, that was your thought process when you were seven. You were thinking about the cars you wanted to own from your neighbors within.

The next 10 years.

Okay, and you're seven at the time. And at the time, what, you were just in school, you weren't doing anything business wise. Like, what was your life when you were seven?

Yeah, so really back then, we, we, we were pretty entrepreneurial since basically day one. Like around that time period when I was like six, seven years old, we had a lemonade stand, me and my brother. It's basically like a meme now. People, people think it's a joke, but, you know, really, it's not. We learned, you know, we got our first taste at business. Pardon the pun, but we, we really learned about just the basics of business and how to control supply and little employees. Like, we were hiring out the neighborhood.

Kids for the lemonade stand.

Yeah, yeah. We would actually pay them in snow cones and lemonade. So they'd basically be working for free. We'd give them like, you know, 20 cents worth of ice with syrup on it for them to work the stands. Like, so it was fun and like running our own little thing. And we were making, we were making good money, like over $100 a day. So in the first summer. Yeah, yeah. So we did it for about three years and we made over $10,000.

Really?

Three to, three to $5,000 a summer.

Like cash, you guys, Cash money.

Cash money. We got shut down like three times. But we. It was so funny, dude. Cops would show up.

That was like your first business venture at seven, right?

Actually that started in 2005, so six years old.

So you were six and your brother Chris was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone listening? When I say we, me, you know, that's my brothers and I and yeah, so Chris and I were out there all day on this lemonade stand. But yeah, when 6 years old making 5k in the summer, that's pretty legit. So. Yeah, but it all rooted back to the fact that we didn't have money. We wanted nice things and we weren't going to be handed them. So we figured, okay, well, what's, what's left but for us to go out and get them ourselves? So we said, we'll do anything it takes to get to that point. We knew it was going to be a long ride. I was listening, you know Andy Frisella's podcast that was Fire, by the way. Casey.

Thank you.

One of my favorite things, he said, he said it's going to take a long time. I think he said it took him like 12 years. And he says with modern day technology, you can maybe get it done in half, six years. So he's like, you got to be in it for the long haul. And he says he made a great, great point. Everyone idolizes like this, you know, image of, oh, overnight success. I did it in half a year and just boom, I have my Lamborghini. But that's not realistic. You want it for the long haul and you really want the strong foundation to really be, you know, successful for decades.

So he said, you don't. He's like, you want it for sure. He's like, you don't want it. Yeah, you want it for sure.

You don't want it for today and tomorrow. You want it, you want it for the long, long term. So we knew it would take years and years. It did take. I mean, look it, we've been doing it for over 10 years now and.

Our main investment from 6 to 16. That's your first.

Yeah, our main investment business, which I'll get into in a second here, that started in 2000. So that's, it's clicking over 10 years now. 10 year anniversary.

That's why. Because some people, it's like you started 15 or 17. Like I would say my kind of breakthrough was like 15. So my 10 years is like 25, but you started at like 6. So your 10 years is like 16.

Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, people think it's like unbelievable. You know, they see the age and it's sometimes hard to believe. You're like, okay, so you're gonna tell me you're 17 and have, you know, over a dozen cars and you know, a lot of them don't realize it's the last 10 years of work and they just, a lot of people don't believe at that point. You know, we both get our hater.

Sure.

You get time. Oh, you're young, bro. You're verified on Instagram. I'm just gonna hate on you real quick. Same deal with us. They see the cars. You know, these keyboard warriors are just so quick to hate and you know, they just don't want to sometimes success, like, people are jealous of success these days. So, you know, you always bring the hate. But you know, I always say just, just, just silence them with success, you know, you know, numbers don't lie. So, yeah, that's how it works.

Okay, so you have more cars than fingers. You said 14.

Yeah.

With that, obviously a lot of people don't even get to the point where they have one Lamborghini or one Ferrari. But you guys, Lamborghini, Ferrari, all these cars. And that's awesome. But obviously there's a business behind it that you guys have done that you guys have made money with to afford these cars.

Right?

So for everyone listening, like, when did you really start making the cash to buy your first car? To buy your first. Know that you said you flipped a few cars before getting a bunch. But like, what was the backstory like to really even get to the point where you have 14 cars? Like, for a lot of people listening, like, even for myself, like, that's just a tainted, like there's another level, you know, like 14 cars give a warehouse, not like a two car, four car garage. The warehouse. Right. So everyone listening, like, how did you first start, like you said, the investment business. Like, where did that start? And Right, right.

So the cars were always a driving factor. You know, we will do whatever it takes to get to the cars. So that's what initiated the businesses, of course. And real quick, just to hit on like our first car. You're probably wondering when that came along. So in 2012, you gotta keep in mind. So the business started in 2008. For the first four years, you know, we didn't treat ourselves to anything. Nothing. We don't have fancy clothes, we don't have Gucci hats. We don't have. We don't have, like, all these. All these things that some people would go out and splurge on because we were like, okay, why get this for. Same thing with clothing. You know, Kieran and all of, you know, my close friends know that I'll shop at Goodwill and thrift stores every day of the week. Like, that's where I'm gonna get my clothing. Why go out there and spend 40 bucks for a shirt when I can get it for four bucks and reinvest the $36 I saved back into my business and turn that into 360, you know, 10x that money grant Cardone up in here.

So.

So we didn't. For those first four years, we didn't treat ourselves to anything. And that is when we bought our first car. It was a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. We were big fans of that car. We noticed they were really depreciated, bottom of the depreciation curve. We picked that car up for $2,200.

Porsche at what age?

I was 13. Christian was 15. I'm in middle school telling my friends I just bought a Porsche. Although none of them really cared about cars, so they didn't really know what that meant. But little did they know is left. It was cheaper than a haunt like a used Honda Civic.

$2,200.

Right? So that's what got us, you know, Kickstarter with the cars that gave us the car bug. And later, I mean, it's like four years later now, we ended up flipping it for $9,500. So our first treat to ourselves, we ended up quadrupling our money.

Okay.

So when we buy cars, we try to make money on them. That's always the goal. We haven't lost money on a car so far. So that's an important. That's an important note. Yes, 14 cars. But they are kind of investments in a way, holding their value, if not appreciating in value. So we're actually making money from our cars.

The first car. You were 13 when you got your first car. So when did you kind of start generating the cash from your businesses to start getting multiple different cars? And for everyone listening, like, what is the main cash flow source that's driving you all this success in cars? Like, what's. Like, the back end that they would call it from the Internet marketing space.

So. So I just. But the big picture, I just say, like, the investment business, because that's in simple terms, but in more complicated terms, Like, I was teaching you at dinner tonight. You know, I mean, numismatist. Oh, what is a new mismatch is for the people listening. That's just a basically person who buys and sells or collects vintage. Vintage coins and currency or other collectibles. I mean, some other collectibles, for that matter, but mainly old money. So, you know, we always say, like, I make money off my money. And that's really true. So in 2008.

Crazy, everyone, go ahead.

So in 2008, like, you're wondering how it all started. Summer of 08, my aunt gave us an Indian head penny. It's worth, like a dollar. It's pretty. It's a neat.

So the penny was worth a dollar?

Yeah, yeah.

Start.

Yeah, yeah. So because it was about a hundred. 105 years old at that point.

Oh, my gosh.

So I'm like, this is so cool. This is so cool. So when I got home, I started doing research on it, and then I started learning about coins and currency and just old collectibles in general. I love old, historic, historical items, old documents, things like that. So this kind of got me into the coin realm. So I went to our first trade show, our first coin show, to buy some inventory and start our collection. That day, we spent $50. And that was the start of this whole business. $50, we started this business with. And then once we, you know, spent a lot of our money and we couldn't afford to expand our collection, we had to start selling some pieces from our collection at that point. When we started selling them, we turned a profit on them. So we're like, okay, wait, wait, wait. Fundamentals of business. We just turned a profit. We're flipping this thing. Can we grow this, Put it on a larger scale and really turn it into a big business and build up a clientele? And that we did. So in 2008, I mean, that was a half year, our first full year in 2009, we started buying and selling every coin we could get our hands on and then we could afford and learning as much as we could. That's very important. Learn every day. You never know it all, no matter what business you're in. I mean, heck, you. You learn stuff every day of the week.

Social media.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Hearing people's stories. Oh, doing this podcast, dude, you learn about so many different industries, and it's awesome that you're interested in hearing about coins and currency. We were talking all night at dinner, but. So, 2009, our first full year. Learned a lot, did a lot, met a Lot of great mentors and stuff. So that. That first year, we did $25,000 in sales.

And you were.

I was 10 years old, my brother.

So this is before you bought the poor.

Yeah.

So this is 10 years old, 25 grand year, you and your brother killing it, selling coins.

That was in 2009. This was the downturn of the market. Like, recession.

Okay.

Everyone's business, you see, bankruptcy, things all left and right. So a lot of people, you know, would make the excuse, oh, we're going into hard times. That's why my sales are lacking down. Right. But in 2010, you know, guess what we did $50,000 in sales.

We doubled. We doubled it within a year.

Guess what?

Downturn.

Yeah, guess what? Guess what we did in 2011.

Tripled it.

Yeah, just about. We did over $100,000 in sales.

So you were at the hundred thousand mark, Six figures. You were what?

Yeah, but we made our first $100,000. By the time I left elementary school.

I was 11 years old. You hear that, everyone? Elementary school, six figures, next level.

Yeah, this. I haven't even. I briefly told this on my YouTube channel, but this is. I. I haven't even told this to a lot of people. So this is.

This is some real stuff, everyone.

Yeah. So 100, 100k by 11. And then, of course, in the next year, what are we on to? Like, 2012? From a little over 100k again. Down. Down market. We did over a quarter of a million dollars in sales.

And you were now sixth grade.

Yeah. Coming into middle school, eighth grade now, and, you know, freshman year in high school again, we just kept growing exponentially, and, you know, we just never looked back. We. I was watching this Gerard Adams interview. I briefly touched on this at the Vegas Mastermind, and he was interviewing the guys from movement watches, and it was Jake. Yeah. Yeah.

They're about to get on the podcast. Oh, no way. Yeah. Yeah.

Geez. So, man, Casey's killing it. So I was. I was listening to it, and Gerard's like, hey, you guys did tens of millions of dollars last year in sales. You know, haven't you guys made it? Aren't you, like, they're like, what do you feel? You know? And they're like, no matter how, like, big we are, even at this moment, we don't feel like, you know, we're there yet. We don't feel like. We're like, we. We haven't tapped out all of our, like, resources. And I'm just like, that's fascinating that they don't even think they're there yet and they did tens of millions. So we were kind of the same way. No matter how big we got, we knew there was more in us. And there's no. That's what I love. There's no limit on how much money you can make in this country in entrepreneurship. So why not make more? Why not work harder? Why not work more? Late nights, you know, this is middle school. We're up till 1, 2, 3, 4am and got school next day at 7am and maintaining good grades.

A lot of people wonder what to say. Like, what was your school situation like? You made a quarter million dollars? Sixth, seventh grade. A lot of people are just learning algebra.

Yeah.

A lot of, a lot of stressing about tests and like, so what was before? We kind of keep going, like briefly touch on like, what was your school life like? That's interesting to me.

That's a big question. Because a lot of people are like, oh, you must not give two craps about school at this point. You're making more than your entire teacher roster combined. But the thing is, like, we're just very dedicated and we try hard in everything we do. So school is no exception. All A's, you know, we, we didn't get Bs in, in middle school. Every single quarter, every single class each year.

A's, A's.

Every single.

No B in middle school.

Like, no, not a single one. And high school, these are like hard classes, you know. I'm going into high school. All IB and AP classes. Top level math class, highest level I can possibly take. It was legit stuff, you know, Physics, ib, Physics too. All like crazy stuff. Never a basic class, always honors ap, all that stuff.

So freshman year, like that was. You came in hot.

Yeah. Came in high school. Yeah. Yeah. 4.4.25, 4.25 GPA. Freshman year, 4.3 sophomore year. And I finished out high school with a 4.23 cumulative GPA.

Wow. Like top of your class.

Yeah, top, top diploma too.

I beat valedictorian.

No. Oh no, no. Wasn't that. I was very high at the top. I think my, my class size was pretty big, like 700. So a lot to compete with. But I was up there.

I don't know how close 4.4 is. Definitely.

I don't even think my square school published the winners cuz like it's like they're, they're too worried that like it would make some people feel bad or whatever, so. That's right. They didn't even publish. So I don't know What I was, I was up there, but. And I graduated one of the highest diplomas, IB Career program. So career focused on business. I picked a field I liked and they.

So did you take like full AP classes all the way through high school?

Yeah, ib.

Full schedules.

Ib yeah, full schedules. Like it was, it was legit.

And you know, did that interfere with business?

Not really. I always. I kind of put business first, but school was a close second. Yeah. So, I mean, you start talking 2014, 2015, when we're really getting the big numbers, breaking into the seven figure marks and you know, still having to do my English summer assignment. It's like it got hard for me at that point because I'm like, why am I, why am I trying so hard? Like I need to, you know, pull back the throttle on school a little bit, put a little more into business. But something about me couldn't. Couldn't let school up. So.

Okay, you think that's something like your parents instilled into you? Or was that something like seeing it be just like internally did not make you feel good or not? What was it you think?

You know, a little bit of family and parents. Like, you know, we just. Yeah, I'd say a little bit of that. But also just I'm. I like the challenge. I don't know, I love just. I'm a workaholic. Throw anything you got at me. Oh, and then you throw the YouTube channel on at this stuff senior year.

Oh, Yeah.

I have two, two verified YouTube channels. All the schoolwork and a multi million dollar business to keep. Check. You know, like, holy cow. And this is just, you know, my brother and I, we, we don't have.

Yeah, yeah. Touching that. Like they have no outsourcing, no employees. It's just you and your brother.

Yeah. And some great friends around us. You know, we rely on some helpful hands, of course, and you know, the people we network with. But you know, there's no like, you know, no, no group of 12 employees.

You know, in the Philippines doing everything for you.

Yeah, no, it's. It's all us. It's all. It's always hands on and for everyone that doesn't understand.

So you have inventory of these coins that you're then selling.

Right, right. So.

Because I feel like a lot of people just don't get like coin business, you know, it's like, are you drop shipping like, you know, saying people listening might like, what, what's he doing? You know, so just, I'd love you to like, just touch on that.

Yeah.

Model of the business.

Yeah, because it's a lot different than what a lot of people are doing.

Yeah, way different.

Yeah. So many people these days got their, excuse me, shopify stores, you know, drop shipping things out of China, this and that. So that's what a lot, you know, a lot of people doing. And I'm over here with, you know, old collectibles, and they're like, what? You know, nobody's doing it because there's a big learning curve to it. It takes years and years and years to learn. Even a fraction of it, I still don't know at all. And I've been doing it for 10 years. But basically what I do, I travel the country. Oftentimes you always see me traveling. Whenever I travel, I'm always working. So I never go for leisure, but I'll stop by. I go to coin conventions, so think, you know, like VidCon, but for old, you know, coins and currency.

These are all usually tend to be older people. I know, we talked about that.

Exactly. So what a delta from like my YouTube work where I'm only hanging out with young people to my real, you know, work where I hang out with all these 60, 70, 80 year old people. I was telling Casey and Karen today at dinner, just one of my biggest mentors. John, local coin shop owner. Bias. He's approaching 80 years old and he can still kick your butt. He's like, sharp as a tack. He drives a dodge challenger Hellcat, 707 horsepower. The dude's a beast. He's taught me so much of what I know, and him combined with other mentors in the industry, combined with other mentors in general, and that can even be someone like your dad. Like, my dad is very knowledgeable about business. He taught us from a very young age because we were hungry. We were hungry to learn about business. So we learned all we could get our hands on through him and every other mentor.

Okay, that's wild. So for everyone listening, I think a lot of people are like high school, college area. So for me, still in high school, when you were coming in high school, like, what was your business situation then? Like, was it stressful with the numbers? Like, just so people can kind of understand, like, where you started when you were like 6, 7 years old, like, the progression of time. Where were you at? Like in getting go to going in the high school area?

Yeah, it's. It's pretty legit because, you know, when we're starting, it's just us doing the thing, and now five years later, it's a hundred times as much as 100 times as many orders, 100 times as much sales and it's still just us. So that means 100 times as much time in the business before. And it was like, you know, once every couple days. Once every day for a little bit of time. Yeah, ship, you know, just like everyone's starting out ebay, you ship five things here, five things there, and now it's like, oh, did you say 500 things there? Like it's hundreds of things and still just us. So it takes a toll.

Okay?

Like, I mean, heck, combining with school, you know, you're talking 100 hour work weeks of school and work and everything. It's like, I mean it takes a toll. But I, I would, I wouldn't change it for anything because when you look at the bottom line at the end of the day and you're like, holy crap, I made $20,000 a day. It's like, yeah, I wouldn't change that for anything. So, so, and then after we would buy up all this inventory, of course we would then flip it and sell it as fast as possible. And then, you know, that's the name of the game, you know, turn and burn. So where do we go to sell it? A lot of people wonder. Well, everything, just about everything we do is E commerce. You know, we definitely take advantage of technology so we have a decent sized presence on ebay. Amazon, you know, now Shopify, we have like two shop, two or three Shopify, multiple Shopify stores like Etsy, just any platform where we can sell these collectible items and then our clientele base themselves. You know, we, we can hit up our list of people who we know, okay, yo, Tom's going to buy this coin because this is exactly what he needs. We have want list and we have our clients reach out to us and say, yo, I need this, this and this. I'm looking for this for my portfolio, you know, whatever it may be. We have a lot of people just looking to build out their investment portfolio and just sit on this stuff because it tends to rise in value. If you look at the charts over the past few decades, coins, currency collectibles have had a pretty good upswing. So especially with the, you know, everyone, a lot of people unsure of the US dollar, a ton of people are investing in gold and silver. So we've ran into, we've had a pretty good business in that field as well. So it's been a lot of fun. So that's where we sell some of the stuff. But building up the clientele base is really, really important. We have Tens of thousands of investors.

So when you say into the tens and thousands, is that like you have a database full of them or you just know them or what?

Yeah, yeah, databases full. And we keep a very personal contact with a lot of them because it's pretty often that they say, hey, I'm looking for this. Isn't this.

Find this for certain coins and then you're like the plug for coins.

Yeah, I'm the, I'm the Benjamin Kicks or whatever. Not for Yeezys, but for coins a little less cool. But I'm okay with it because yeah, we scour all these, you know, different conventions, shops everywhere. We search the country for these things.

So a lot of like movement to go to different things. Yeah, it's not online. You're building a store, you're selling it, like for everyone listening. Like he's moving, meeting people, getting out there, networking, building relationships. Like you're doing the whole entire system, you know.

Yeah, that is important thing I want to touch on. You know, I'm kind of jealous of some of these, you know, drop shipping guys who literally do not touch a thing and just got the money coming in the bank. But I understand that that may be not permanent, you know, like we were touching on. I want long lasting. So I want that Clientele base of 30,000 people who I can consistently sell stuff to for years. I'd much rather have that. So I'm willing to put in the work now. Yeah, yeah, it's a ton of work like we hit on. But you know, hey, it's my business, it works. You know, that's how it is. It's very hands on. It's very, you know, shipping out hundreds of thousands of things. I mean we just crossed over. For those of you wondering, just about a year back we hit over a hundred thousand transactions on like your online platform that you're selling on all online platforms. 100,000 thousand transactions. Transactions. So meaning we shipped out a hundred thousand things, 100,000 packages, and you've personally.

Put on every single label.

Yes sir.

So for everyone listening also, I mean these coins, a lot of people might not even like understand the coin market. Like what do these coins tend to go for? Like, yeah, like the lowest coin all the way to like the highest coin slash collectible item that you've sold for, Right?

Yeah. People are probably wondering what's the, what's the average price of the coin? Because 100, 100k transactions, what are they all like?

No sense.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the cheapest stuff we do, I mean we we try not to get below like a few dollars, like anything less than that's not worth shipping and not worth the hassle. A few dollars on the low end.

But these coins and sell them for a few dollars.

Yeah, on the low end, that's just to, you know, keep a feedback up, build new clients, you know, and things like that. Those are kind of lost leaders. But bigger coins, I mean, they. The most expensive coin that's ever sold in America sold for $15 million. So for everyone thinking, you know, that Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for 20, 30, 40 mil is so expensive, you're getting a Ferrari here, you're getting a coin, a little dollar coin for 15 million. So coins can be just as expensive. People underestimate them. It's a big market, multi billion dollar market. So it's a lot to go around. But the most expensive coin that we've ever bought and sold. People ask me that all the time. I was just telling you it is a penny. Yes. You hear that, right? A $0.01 coin from 1793, the first penny design ever made in America. It's called the chain cent. They made very, very few of them. They're extremely rare. This one was in 10 points out of 70 condition. The grading scale goes up to 70. And this was only 10. So not very nice at all. Not very nice. And I paid $10,000 for that coin.

So you personally paid $10,000 for a penny?

Yes, you heard that, right?

I remember you telling me, how old were you when you bought a penny for $10,000?

Yeah, I was about 12 years old. 12 or 13 years old. So you hear that, right?

So you're not going out, buying clothes, shopping, cashing out?

Absolutely not.

Bought a penny for ten grand. And you were happy at.

We reinvest all money back in the business, back into inventory. Sitting cash is no good to me. I want it all. I want a bunch of it in inventory that I can turn and burn for a profit. So I saw this opportunity came up. He thought I was kidding when I asked to see it and asked for the price. And he's like, it's $10,000. Or maybe said 11,000. And I said, you know, how about 10? He thought I was joking. And then I went to the bank, grabbed $10,000 in cash, laid it out and bought the coin.

So you bought this one little penny. Does it come in a case? Like, how do you know you put this in your pocket, you just walk home from the store?

Literally, yes. It had this little, you know, plastic holder which Is, you know, so you don't damage it. But nothing was guaranteed it, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't third party graded or anything. Nothing.

Please give this dude 10 grand or 12.

And I got a penny worth 3 cents in copper. That's wild.

That's wild.

So, yeah. So you're probably wondering, okay, tell me you made money on this. What the heck did you do with it? Do you still have it? No, I do not still have it. That was way too much money to hold back then. I'm not keeping anything worth that much. So I reached out to my clientele base. I knew a guy who would be interested in it, contacted him. Within a week, I had it sold for $14,000.

Wow. So 12 years old, bought a penny for 10 grand, sold for 14 grand.

That is correct.

That's wild. So that's one of like the bigger transactions that you've done with coins, right?

That's one of the bigger ones. So anywhere from a few bucks to 14,000 bucks. So it all depends. But we do it all. We do all years. We do a lot of different countries. We focus on us stuff because that's where our primary knowledge base is. But, you know, it's so much fun. We have a passion for it. And that's what we're going to be talking about on one of my business videos is turning your passion into profit. And that's so important. Do what you love and it'll, you know, it'll never feel like working.

You've been doing this since you were six, right? Coins or eight or nine?

Eight or nine. Okay, eight or nine on the coins. And wow. If, if I had to, you know, like, like what Elon Musk said, if you don't love it, you're gonna like drive yourself crazy with the amount of work you put in. But since we love it, it doesn't feel like work and it just everyone listening.

So you say he usually stays like 6 o' clock at night and like wake up at like 12 in the afternoon?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's. What time is it right now?

It's like two. We're recording this podcast. Like, yeah, get the time, get the time. Let's check it out. 1:14am and the date is what? March 25th.

Okay, it's 1:14am Yeah, I woke up like, I don't know, this is like middle of the afternoon for me. Like, I'm like, where's lunch? Because I'll be up till, I don't know, maybe six or something. I've been grinding on a few different ebay listings the last few nights, one of which I was showing you how it's just popping right now. We've been able to really get a good feel for eBay SEO. So we've, we've, we've done a good job in ranking high and that's very important. We've, there's just so many little hacks to know about ebay. That's why we try to make videos and teaching people all the different things. But, you know, having a good picture, having a good listing, like, like, like amazing pictures and listing don't just cheapen out on them. And then, you know, having a just solid offering and voila. And having good SEO and you're well on your way and having a good clientele, good feedback points. There's a lot that goes into it. I make it seem easy, but it's, it's a process. So much fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So before we move on to the next question, I know we were talking about, so, high school, you're coming to high school, you're making a lot of money, you're buying cars. And a lot of people tend to say, like, yeah, my high school years, I was hanging with the wrong people. I was doing drugs around the wrong people, just not making good choices. I wasn't making a hundred thousand dollars by 12, all that sort of stuff. So for you, like, you're in the high school scene, who are you hanging out with? Like, what did your high school life looks, look like when it comes to friends or parties? Like, was that something you did or what?

Yeah, I think what you said there is very true about how a lot of people, like, man, I'm hanging out the wrong crowd, but, like, I don't know what to do. Like, it's so hard to just cut them out of my life. And I think Gary V. Is the one who says it the most. He's just like, people who are bringing you down straight up, cut them out of your life, simple. And replace them with people who bring you up. Yeah, like, it's as simple as that. I was the same way. I'm like, why would I just waste time kind of. It basically is a waste of time if you're just, you know, doing stupid crap and it's not advancing you forward. Yeah, I, to answer your question about parties and all that stuff, like, why would I go to a party when I can stay home and make $5,000? That's kind of my logic.

That was your reality, though, you know? Okay.

Yeah, so.

So.

So I. I didn't hang out, you know, I had. I had friends in all crowds, basically. Just people who I associated with. But I would specifically, you know, target and hang out with the people who were at my level or just. Just the good people to be around. But I didn't have anyone in high school who was like, super, super entrepreneurial or own their own business.

Lone wolf in high school.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But who was talking about Andy?

Andy.

Andy was talking about that, how he was kind of doing his own thing and he was. Yeah, lone wolf. So I'd say we're. We were kind of in that boat when it comes to entrepreneurship. You know, we weren't like antisocial people. We saw a lot of friends. It's just people weren't in the entrepreneur field. I did have one buddy, his name's Hayter, if you're listening. He had a YouTube channel. I didn't even realize that until senior year. I met him in senior year, but he's like, yeah, bro, you need to keep doing YouTube. I think I had like a couple hundred at that point. And one. One morning I woke up, I had 200 at that point. I woke up with 300 subscribers. I'm like, what just happened? Lo and behold, I learned that he gave me a little shout out to give me a little boost. And that little. That little boost, you know, got me just. It just motivates you when you get. Just.

You get a little something features you on their story. Anything like that. Little shout outs.

Yeah, just something to get the ball rolling. So he really helped with that. So, you know, he's one guy. But it's. It's an unfortunate reality, you know, our generation, a lot of people, I hate to say it, are lazy, but it's a sad truth. Like, that's just how it is. So many people just fit into the mold, man. You start talking mold, oh, my goodness, you go to high school, you go to college, you work your 9 to 5 job, and then you're a slave for the rest of your life. Okay, maybe that's a little hard terms.

But that's the truth. That's the truth. Obviously, there's a few barbecues and cookouts and kids along the way, but.

Right.

I mean, in reality, that's the mold they put on you from a young age.

Exactly. And living close to D.C. i see it on the Metro every time I like every time I take the metro into D.C. during like rush hour, the people look like zombies. They're just. They're just so Miserable, I feel like. And I'm like, dang, there's another way. Like, there's another way. And not enough kids are taking that route, breaking the mold. And that leading into JR Business is why we started our second YouTube channel called JR Business. And if JR Garage wasn't enough inspiration and motivation for young people to get out there and set their own path and say that anything is possible, no matter what situation you're in, that's why I went ahead up and set up JR Business. Yeah. Solely for entrepreneurial content.

I feel it, like, there would be, like, two types of listeners. People that would just watch it get entertained, move on, and then people, like, watch it get entertained. Like, wait, like, how do these kids have.

Yeah.

12 cars in this garage? And, like, they're just, like, happy there's doing their things. It's called life. And, like, I feel like that. Is that, like, a main. Were you getting questions like, hey, how do you do this? How do you do that? Was that, like, a core purpose of starting that channel?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just at that point, I was like, okay, I can make more money. I can buy another car. Like, yeah, that's all great. But. And then I started to say, you know, no, I need to, like, share what I'm doing. I need to motivate others. I need to help others who were maybe in my position of, okay, you're flat broke, you don't have money, but you want nice things. I mean, that's everyone's. I feel like that's a lot of people's goal. Andy was talking about it how his dream goal was to own a Lamborghini. That was mine.

That's mine, too, everyone.

So just showing people that there is that other route, and that is why we set up that channel just specifically for that. And it's. It's like I said, at a little over 150,000 subscribers, we post all sorts of content on there. You. You're in a couple videos.

We're about to do one right after this podcast.

Yep, yep. Jaden's in a video. It's so fun. We do interviews, we talk. Just various entrepreneurial things. We. We've been talking a little crypto stuff. Oh, yeah, Because. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Actually quite a bit. We've had. We've had some big wins in that. And the thing with crypto is we were looking on YouTube, like, when we were starting to. And we're like, okay, everyone. You know, no offense to the older guys, but a lot of people are like, 30, 4050 years old or older. And I was like, man, that's so, like, unengaging. Like, where's the young faces? And. And, you know, where's something more than just a screen, a screen recording. Because they're all just screen recordings showing big charts. Yeah. With your little head. Yeah, exactly. So I'm like, there's got to be a different way. So when we started some of our crypto videos, we specifically made them not boring and engaging. You know, we mixed a little car content, mixed a little young vibes into it, and that's why the, you know, crypto stuff took off so much.

Yeah.

And are we the best experts when it comes to crypto and teaching crypto? Absolutely not. We don't ever claim to be. We just share our knowledge with others and we. We talk about, like, our tutorials and how to do things and try to put them in simple, fun terms. So that's why it's taken off so much. It's been a lot of fun, bro.

That is crazy. So for everyone listening, you graduated high school last year.

Yeah.

Correct. So you graduated high school last year, and I know you touched on schooling. So you're not going to college. How does that look like right now in your life?

Yeah, I decided not to go the college route. And when the teacher.

Permanent or just like.

It could be.

For everyone, it's permanent.

Oh, man, I don't see any futures going immediately back to college and at that time where everyone's all getting their acceptance letters and telling their teachers, oh, my gosh, Ms. Dixon, I just got accepted to UVA or something. Yeah, actually, that's my business teacher shout out to you, Ms. Dixon. Business was a fun class. Man, I love favorite class ever. I mean, you know, no high school business class is going to teach you really, the street smart aspect of business. But you can learn a lot of the technical stuff, which. Which I need a little help with because I was doing a lot of street business stuff. I was really good with, you know, my own thing, but, you know, the technical BCG matrix diagrams and all these things, cash flow charts, you know, all that stuff. So I enjoyed it a lot. But. But like I was saying, so everyone was saying which colleges they were getting into. And then all my teachers knew that I was a really good student. They're like, where are you going, Jeffrey? I'm like, I guess I'm not going to college. I guess I'm just doing the business route. But they knew what I had going on, so they understood. But it was just an interesting time where Everyone was going to college at, like, everyone. All my friends are in college. And then here I am, breaking the mold. Like. Like we said, breaking the mold. There's the different route. There's that pathway for entrepreneurship.

Yeah. Okay. So for everyone listening, I would like to ask, like, do you have, like, core characteristics or, like, daily things, habits, things you always write down that you consistently do, whether that be like a little, hey, like, I stay up till 6. Are you a night owl? Is that your thing or what you have what's, like, your daily tips or tactics that you personally have used that, have you noticed, have helped you?

Yeah, I was. I saw how you asked Andy that the other day, and he was like, he gets on his phone, he writes down his goals, you know, or he says, like, what he's thankful for. He hits the gym. I don't have any, like, specific procedures throughout the day because it's kind of different every day. Maybe one day, yesterday, geez, I've been going all over the place. Yesterday, I was up at a convention a couple hours north buying some more inventory. That was a busy day. And then today, first day back, I was shipping out a ton of orders from the inventory I just bought.

Making sales.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big, big, big sales. Today was a. A lot of. Lot of orders going out.

Like, like 17 pennies. It was crazy.

Yeah. I tell you, man, big, big day. But no, no, crazy, like, procedures go different every day, but night owl, for sure. Like you said, I get so much work. I was telling Karen this the other day. I get so much work done between midnight and, like, 5am because no one else is awake. Like, no one's bugging me on my phone.

Okay.

YouTube notifications.

Shout out to my boy, Anthony Bose. Heck, yeah, Anthony does that. He's an artist. Go check him out.

It's like.

It's like.

It's literally like I'm in my own little peaceful place. Like, just no one. No distractions, because phones are so distracting. Video games.

Holy Fortnite.

Can we talk about that? God lock. I'm a. I'm a smashing these Fortnite computers, my friends. Like, oh, my God, Fortnite.

If you play Fortnite and you're listening to this podcast, let me know we got something to tell you guys.

Oh, my goodness. So, yeah, I just don't. Messing around with those, like, addictive. Your phone's so addictive. It literally is. So I just sometimes slide it away and I'm in my peaceful place grinding out hard. So night out. I just work like crazy at night. I work crazy.

So it's just like, hard effing work every single day.

Yep.

And no days off. Like, what's your thing on that? Do you have, like. I have some people that's like, on Sunday, I kind of chill out. It's just like, do you get lost about, like, what day it is usually?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of times I'm like, oh, it's a Sunday. Mail doesn't collect today. Maybe some days on Sundays. No, but Sundays are the days I go film JR Garage and JR Business content. So literally, there's no stop.

I'm just assuming it's like, it doesn't really feel like work. You're just doing your thing, looking at things you love, shooting your videos, driving your cars.

Yeah. How can it feel like work when you're traveling the world, taking spontaneous adventures, riding in cool cars, taking private jets places?

Like, it's.

It's amazing. It's more than I could have ever asked for in life. So it never, ever feels like work a day in my life, even though it is work.

Yeah, for sure. So I want to touch on this. I always ask people, like, with your phone, are you the type of person that you wake up, go to your phone, or what do you do when you wake up? Like, what's like the first 10 to 15 minutes usually look like?

I oftentimes check my phone because I got to know what orders came in. Then. Talk about making money in your sleep. Oh, that is my favorite thing. I've talked about it a few times. Just. Just the feeling of making money in your sleep sleep, which is oftentimes only possible through entrepreneurship, is the most. Probably one of the most amazing feelings ever.

Yeah.

Like when you wake up and there's a thousand more dollars sitting in your account. It's amazing. It's incredible. And the fact that, you know, it's just being done in your sleep while you sleep, making money.

24.

7 making money. So I always check the orders, see what comes, see what came in, see what I have to write up. You know, ship out, pick the orders, always try to reply to some DMS and Snapchats like you were talking about it. Engage. Oh, holy crap. Engaging. Engaging with your followers is the number one thing you can do. Like, with your personal brand, you can attest to that. Like, yeah, if you don't have a story that they can connect to, and if you don't engage with, oh, my God, Hundreds, thousands. Just like, you know, Gary and Andy, like, all these people are super big on social media, and they actually care about.

You had dinner with him tonight.

Exactly. Exactly. The second you show that you care about your followers, you'll just get tenfold back. Like, that's the amount of DMs on the amount of Snapchat replies I've gotten. Oh, my God, you responded. You're the only YouTuber on public that I have. And I'm like, what? Why isn't everyone on public? Like, why wouldn't you want to communicate with your fans? So that's so big. That's so big. I love it.

Okay, so do you think you spend a lot of time, like, daily, like, whether that be five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, like, on social media, getting back to people that follow you, you'd.

Say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone who shoots me a dm, I always try to get it, you know, like, you. We get hundreds. It's hard. It's hard.

So many right now.

Yeah, we oftentimes try our best. So, yeah, I'll spend, you know, just little chunks when I need a break and when my eyes can't keep focusing on little tiny coins. I just need to check out my phone. Just take a look. Little breather. I'll do that. So that's important.

Well, dope. So we talked about coins, we talked about cars, talked about school, we talked about social media. So when it comes to, like, I don't want to say your daily routine, but just, like, your. Your flow of work, like, I just wanted to kind of pull, like, a tactical piece of advice for everyone listening. Like, is it. You try to silence your phone like this. What's something tactical that you use that maybe people. People want to experiment with? Maybe people would, like, say, hey, I do that as well. That you do when you're working, literally.

Taking your phone and chucking it to the other side of the room, like, I've done that a few times now. I will just. I'll just take my phone, either turn it off or something, and I'll just go slide it to the other end of the room so I can't even see it.

That's wild.

But, like, so much of my work is on my phone. Yeah, I get that. But oftentimes I just need to hunker down, get to work. But. But literally just the big distractions, the video games and all that stuff. Like, please. Oh, my God, Just that. Yeah, Number one thing. Like, limit it. Limit it. Set a timer. You know, little bits are. Okay, I get it. Things are fun to do, but. Yeah, but the second you're playing Fortnite for 12 hours.

That's unless you're like, pro.

Yeah, yeah. Unless you're making money on Twitch now.

Playing Fortnite.

Talk about jealous. I'm so jealous of them. Holy crap.

But that's a non profit, like you talked about.

That's the thing. I shouldn't use the word jealous because I'm always happy for them. That's the thing with, like, entrepreneurship and us, our community. I'm never like, oh, dang. Oh, dang. Casey just made 10k today. What can. Oh, man. I'm always like, boom. Casey made 10k today. Karen made 5k. I'm just happy. I'm thrilled. I'm like, how can I level up? It motivates me to work harder. So no hate on the Twitch streamer. They are making mad money and they are killing it. But to anyone who's not a famous Twitch streamer, making half a million on fortnight, that 12 hours. At 12 hours, you play Fortnite today? Yeah, that was 12 hours. I just got ahead. So they're just. They're just putting themselves behind. Like, I'm getting ahead. Every hour you play Fortnite, I'm getting ahead with business. So I don't want to give up an hour of my time for somebody to get an hour ahead. Heck no. That same thing with sleep. I get little sleep because, you know.

What'S your average, like, sleeping per day? How many hours you sleep per night? I think that's super interesting. Yeah, I mean, average.

Yeah. See, I'm one of the people. I'm not like, who do we know that gets like, no sleep? Was it Jaden? Jade?

What is Jaden? Gross. Oh, Jaden, if you're listening, he said he usually tries to get like six, five, six.

Ricky. Ricky. My buddy Ricky Gutierrez in Phoenix. He's like, yeah, I'm chill with like three or four hours a night. I'm like, God, I just can't do that. My body to function. Maybe it's since I'm like growing so fast. Guys, I'm like six. Six for you. For anyone who doesn't know, I don't.

Know my body 5, 6. For everyone that doesn't know, my body needs like.

My body needs like, it's. It's at least six hours or something. But the other night, you know, I'm in my, like, up till 4 or 5am sleep schedule. So I went to bed at 4 and I had to get up at 7 for the big convention up in Baltimore.

So it really depends.

Yeah, I. I'll. I'll put sleep behind Business, anytime I need, stay up all day, so whatever. But yeah, no, no fixed number or anything. So boom, boom, boom.

So I have like two more questions. Number one, networking. So like obviously in your business it's kind of different than sending DMs. Like for me, I can DM people. For you, it's like you're building a network. You're building a, like you said, a clientele. Always networking, traveling. What's your thoughts on networking? How important has it been for you and just kind of what's your entire life mindset on it?

Yeah, networking is 110% essential to anyone listening out there, no matter what you're doing. If you're going down the path of entrepreneurship, fantastic. Network with other entrepreneurs in your area, network with other people over social media. If not, you're just getting so, so far behind. So like, like you're saying with my industry it's a, it's a little different. I don't shoot people DMs to talk about coin, like fly you out. Because you know, some of my mentors and the people I network with are like I said, in their 60s, 70s, 80s. So they don't have Instagram, but well.

They need to tell them to hit me up.

Hit you up? Yep. So of course they're older, they don't use it, but it's still so key with making connections in the industry. That's why I always go to trade shows, always introduce myself. Hey, hey, hey. I'm this in the spot where they are always. Yeah, go to where they are. Go to where anything in life. Yeah, that's so true. At least like, I don't know, at least once a month you should be going to some. It doesn't have to be flying cross country to come to a Vegas Mastermind. It can be in your local city there. I guarantee you there are entrepreneurs and people you can network with.

If you go to a W hotel, talk to someone that's on their laptop, they may be doing business, they may be not doing business, but like just be around people that are.

Oh my.

In a good environment, asking questions, meet someone new. You know, like that's how I would say is like you just ask them whether that be you're about to leave for a flight or wherever, going to the library, just.

Yep.

Have conversations with people, lead to something.

And like there's so many stories like that. Yeah. Oh, so many crazy stories. Like Andy said, they're willing to help you. We're all in this together. I love how you said that. We are all in this together. We're all going the same place. We were once there. Gary. Gary was once a 12 year old just learning about business and somebody had to help him. Exactly. Oh, the flip chop. I love Gary for being so adamant on Facebook, flipping things and making money. There's so much money to be made out there, guys. Anyone who's listening. This day and age is an incredible time to be alive as an entrepreneur. The best time to be alive. There's so many ways to make money out there. It's crazy. But everyone starts somewhere.

Yeah.

So you just like how we help people younger than us just starting, you know, because when we were younger people helped us and everyone is in it together. There's very few, you know, very few mean people in this industry from, from our community. Everyone gets along, everyone's so nice. Everyone's down to help young entrepreneurs.

No matter what level you're at, literally.

No matter what level you're at, even on YouTube, like if you want to collab with me, if you want to meet me, great. I don't care if you a hundredth of the amount of followers that I have. I literally do not care. It's, it's. We're all in this together.

Yeah. Yeah. And everyone listening, all of his social media, Instagram, YouTube websites, everything will be down in the description so you won't have to try to get, get all the information what he's saying. But yeah, all the links will be down below. But last question. So you're 12 years old, you're killing it. You still are killing it. Graduated high school, now you're chillin. I don't always like to ask like, alright, so what is your next three, six months, 12, five years look like? Like from your perspective? Like what's like the next thing for you or where do you see yourself in the next three months? Six months, 18 months. I think that's about a time frame.

Yeah.

What Ty always tells me like you don't want to look too far but like 6, 12, 18 months.

What I love is that we are all still so young in the grand scheme of things. 18, so young. You look at, I mean some of these big CEOs who are, you know, young at in their high 20s or early 30s and everyone's like, man, they're killing it at such a young age. What the heck, look at us, we're 17, 18, 19 years old and we're already, you know, crushing it as much as we are right now. So it's absolutely amazing that, that regard. But in 18, 18 months, man.

I mean, a year and a half.

That's like since. That's like 18 months. You go 18 months in the past, we didn't have over a million followers. We didn't have all these different revenue streams. So 18 months in the future. I really want to build the YouTube pages. I really want to JR Garage. Over a million alone would be great, you know, JR Business. Over a quarter million. Yeah, that would be amazing. I really want to keep building, you know, the Instagram pages, all that stuff. I want to start doing some more events and, like, speaking at some places like that. Vegas Mastermind. Mastermind was awesome to be on the panel with you guys and just talk business because, you know, a lot of people can resonate with people's stories. Yeah, and a lot of people can resonate with mine, I guess. And yeah, I know people.

You don't tell your story a lies. It's like, this is one of the.

First interviews, the first podcast I think I've ever done. This is. But it's good to be with you, Casey. Legendary podcast. I wouldn't want to be the first with anyone else. So, man, it's like I said, just an awesome time to be live. And I don't want people to make excuses. I think we just. Let's touch on that as a final note. Because, yeah, too many people say because of this, because of that, because I'm from here, because I have these as my parents, because I have this much money in my bank account. I can't do this, this and this. And you just have to take that, bundle it up in a little ball, and chuck it out the window, like, straight up. Everyone has their story. Great. Everyone has a story. I had my story. My parents were $300,000 in debt when we started our businesses, you know, like, verge of losing everything. Everything. Like, literally. It's not like we were at zero. We were broke at zero dollars in the bank. No, we were negative $300,000 in the bank. So imagine that position and saying, yeah, I still want a Lamborghini by the time I'm in high school. It's like, what are you talking about, kid? Like, so to go over the next 10 years, pay off all those debts, you know, make a priority.

You didn't touch on that at all. So, like, yeah, that was a priority for you to make money out of the hole. You're helping your parents.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. When I remembered in 2008, 9, when it was really bad downturn, Dad's company went to nothing, you know, we had the House payment. Like, we could not afford it. Like, but me and my brothers got together and we put in the money to pay the mortgage when we were under, like less than 10 years old. Like, crazy stories like that.

Yeah.

I touch on them every once in a while to show people, like, look, there you go. Like, it's possible I went through crap too. But then again, like I said, we all have our story. We all have our hold back. And everyone, no matter what, someone always has it worse. So don't think you have it like, worse. Like, yeah, the worst case scenario. No, you don't. Somebody always has a worse. Don't make excuses.

You're listening. You have. You can hear. That's a plus. You got ears. Yeah, someone can't hear, they can't listen to a podcast.

And you can start in amazing ways. Oh, I can't start a YouTube channel. I don't have a DSLR and I just can't do it. I need at least $2,000. Heck no. I started my YouTube channel with a used $200 GoPro that I got on Craigslist and started making videos.

Yeah.

And I still only have two GoPros and one G7X point and shoot camera.

Still shops at Goodwill. Is that right?

Still shops at Goodwill. Yes. Let's go. I will never buy a 200 shirt. I. Let's see the outfit. Oh, dang it. They can't see. They can only listen. I got a Dope Italy shirt on from goodwill. That was $2. I got that in Montana. I got some socks from Walmart. These pants are from Goodwill. I printed my own hoodies. So you know, I'm making money on the merch.

So things like that, it's like, that's, that's a fact.

Everyone, no excuses, grind it out, like, run lean and mean and just do it.

That's a fact.

Just do it. Nothing is holding you back and you literally do not need much of anything to get started. Especially in today's day and age with E Commerce or anything. Yeah. Karen started his business with $50. You started your Instagram for free? Like, yeah, I started my things with $50. $50 into a multi million dollar company in under 10 years. It's gonna take.

It's gonna take time though. 10 years.

It's gonna take years. It's gonna take years. It's gonna take an unbelievable amount of work and commitment. It's what, that's what you gotta realize going into it. It's. You're gonna work harder than you ever have in your life.

Commitment.

You're gonna, you're gonna put in more effort than you have ever in your life. But, hey, you may make more money than you ever have in your life, and that's, that's the risk you take. That's a journey of entrepreneurs fact.

So to wrap it up, everyone, like I said, all of his links to the YouTube channel, Instagram page, multiple YouTube pages will be down below. Make sure you go check them out. Let them know that you came from the podcast. But one more thing before we wrap up. If you had to just kind of describe yourself in like, one word, characteristic that, like, really defines you, what would it be?

When I was younger, you know, I would always just say, you know, entrepreneur. But what does that mean, audience while entrepreneur? Someone who, someone who takes an incredible amount of risks and, you know, in search of that ultimate goal and that ultimate goal and journey to success. Oh, now what does success mean, you wonder? And success is different for everyone, I think.

Yeah.

My aunt taught me at a young, super young age, he's like, success is health, wealth and happiness. Not the health, wealth, love and happiness. I know Ty and Forbes and all them are adopting that. Or maybe they have been believing that forever. But when I was younger, before they were around, my aunt always said that health, wealth and happiness, and I always stuck to that. And I'm like, you know what? If I can be healthy, if I can be happy, happy is big. Money doesn't. Money doesn't mean happiness. So if you can be happy through the people around you, what you're doing, satisfied with your ongoing legacy, it's what you leave here on earth when you're gone that really matters.

So, like this podcast?

Yeah, this podcast.

Shout out to the people listening in 2137.

Yeah, let's go. That's pretty crazy to think about, dude. Our stuff that we're uploading now is public and permanent. It'll be there forever. So that's some crazy stuff. But, yeah, everyone's vision of success is different. Minus that, like I said. But if your vision is to lose 50 pounds, is it to be able to bench 300 pounds, or is it to be the next president, United States? It's different for everyone. But I always urge people to achieve, to, you know, chase after their. Their desired level of success, not somebody else's. Be true to yourself. You do, you. They do. They. Like, you just got to be yourself. Find your own. Find your own desired level of success and never give up. Never give up on it.

That is what's up, man. Dude. So everyone listening this was a long podcast. If you stay to the end. I really appreciate you. Make sure you share this episode. This is. Dude, this is like my favorite. One of my favorite episodes. Episodes, bro.

This was a lot.

This is, like. This is my longest podcast. We set a record. We're at an hour and one minute. So if you're listening, you're listening. Yeah. Thank you for taking your hour of your day, your night, your drive, whatever it is, and literally just listening to us talk, it was super dope. I'm glad you could be a part of it. But make sure you subscribe. We have episodes dropping two to three times a week. Stay on the. Stay on the lookout. And for that being said, thanks so much for listening and I will see you guys in the next episod episode.

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