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So names? Giovanni.

Giovanni.

That's what's up, bro. You want to bring the mic a little bit closer?

Yeah.

So we'll just jump straight in, bro. Okay. So Scott told me a little bit, a little bit about your story. So obviously this is a single dad's podcast, so we like to do a bunch of single dad talk. I personally love to go deep.

Okay.

Scott always wants to keep it a little bit lighter, and he brings that side to it a little bit more and the entrepreneur side. But I like going deep onto like, bro, like, what the hell happened? How did you get out of it? How did it impact your life? How is it impacting your kids lives? How? You see what I'm saying? And he was telling me how you're pretty successful. So it's really encouraging. First of all, because I'm an entrepreneur as well, and a lot of people that go through things that we've gone through, they usually end up feeling like their life's done right. I'll never forget, whenever I knocked up my girlfriend When I was 18 years old, my cousin, who was like one of, like my mentors and just helping me in life was like bawling her eyes out and just telling me, your life is over, you just ruined your life.

Oh.

And I was like, what the hell?

Did you hear that from people all the time? Yeah, yeah, I did.

I did.

Yeah. So walk us a little bit through that. What was your situation like, brother?

Yeah, for sure, man. So I had. I had my daughter very young. I was 19, bro. I was in college before she was born. I found out she was my. My girlfriend at the time was pregnant. When I was in my first semester at college, I went to TJC at a full, full ride scholarship, plan to. Plan to do the whole four year thing. Didn't work out. Did one semester, found out my daughter was pregnant. But before then, I didn't even know the value of a dollar, man. I never had a job. Never had a job.

Dang.

Never worked, never worked. Parents gave me everything in college. My dad gave me an allowance. Never worked for money.

Yeah.

So out of college, when I found out I was having a daughter, got out of. Got out of college, went back home, and I got my first job at Walmart.

Humble beginnings. Let's go.

Humble beginnings, man.

No doubt.

I was a cashier bagging groceries.

Let's go.

And during that process, I was having conversations with a lot of people telling them I had a daughter on the way. And they just felt sorry for me. Yeah. They felt bad for me. And it got to me, you know, all the people that just felt sorry for me felt, you know, felt, felt, felt bad that I was so young and working at Walmart and had a daughter on the way, man. And that feeling got to me, bro. It got to me. But it, but it brought out the inner beast, you know. And so believe it or not, a lot of opportunities were presented to me from being a cashier. So I did that for like three months. And, and I was introduced to this guy named Leo and he was an insurance agent. He had actually had his own company.

Yeah.

And so he hired me, brought me on. He's like, dude, you, you got the personality, got the, you know, you got the look, the energy.

Wait, how you meet this guy where I was bagging groceries so he was checking out, literally, bro, that's, that's, that's, I love that because so many people hate what I call jobs, right? But I'm like, bro, life, all of life is happening for you.

That's it.

So wherever you're at, if you take advantage of those situations and you show up as your best self, like you were, opportunities begin to come out of nothing, out of bagging groceries. Sorry.

If you're bagging groceries and you have, I mean, that demonstrates you have enough energy, if you're meeting people that you're bagging groceries enough so that they're gonna.

First of all, if you're happy and you're working at Walmart.

Seriously, man, Seriously?

Seriously?

Yeah.

Okay.

That was my first job, man. I was grateful to just be making money, man. And like I said, but just the fact that people just felt bad for me, it got to me.

It opened your eyes?

It opened my eyes, man. I was like, man, why do they feel bad for me? Why do they treat me like that? Why do they feel sorry for me? And then I started to realize, man, it's because I work at Walmart. I'm a 19 year old kid and I got a daughter on the way. And so Leo, he presented me an opportunity to work with him, work with his team. I did that for a little bit. I did that for like three months. And then I went on this, this journey of like job hopping. Okay, yeah, this long journey of job hopping. And through that, man, I did everything, bro. I went, I went through car sales, I did medical sales, home health care sales, selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. Yeah, all that, man, I did all that. It's all good experience, man. It was good experience. But, but through that journey, what I realized, man, is that I just, I, I didn't like working for anybody.

Yeah.

It just wasn't for me. You know, through all that, you know, those I. I found actually a lot of good jobs, you know, and a lot of good opportunities that were paying me at the time. Like a 19 year old kid getting paid like 50,000, $55,000 base salary plus commission. That's pretty good, man. Back in the day, too, Without.

Without a college degree for a 19 year old. Absolutely.

A lot of people would get complacent.

Right.

Or content, I should say, with that. And never move from it.

Yeah, that's it.

That's it. So with me, man, it just. It still wasn't enough for me. It didn't bring out the inner beast inside, man. I just didn't have the motivation to like, really get out there and hustle, man. Yeah. So what I realized is that I just. I just wasn't meant to work for anybody, man. So, long story short, I got introduced to real estate. Okay. I got introduced to it by a buddy of mine. And he showed me about it, told me about it. He showed the reason I got so motivated is because he showed me a check of his first deal. He made $20,000. He sent me a pic. I'm like, okay, man, this is the. This is the real deal, man. This is like. You're really doing this.

Yeah.

And so I was working my job at the time and I tried it out a little bit. I did it for like two to three months and it didn't work out for me. I got discouraged. So I went, you know, I just went back all in with my job and kind of forgot about that. Yeah. And then I lost my job.

Yeah, you got the rug pulled out from underneath you with the insurance job.

No, I was, I was doing home health care at the time.

Oh, okay.

Home health care, dang. Yeah. Sales and marketing. So I got let go of my job and I was unemployed, I want to say, for a good probably six months. And so, man, I got so broke that I, like, man, I couldn't even afford to eat, man. I wasn't your daughter by this. I didn't, like, I had my daughter at this point, but I didn't. I wasn't even with her, man. I was. I wasn't spending time with her. I didn't, you know, I was.

I was lost, man.

And bro, honestly, you were probably trying to build something for her.

Yeah.

So you weren't with her, but you were with her.

Right.

Because your motivation was her.

Right.

But at that, at the same time, bro, at that age, you just. You don't know where the hell you're going.

That's it.

You don't know. And you're just tasting everything.

That's it.

You know what I mean?

That's it.

Because that's exactly where I was.

Yeah.

Like, at that age, you're just tasting everything. You're like, what do I. Like, what do I not? Like, what do I want to build? And when you have something that's like an idea or that feeling of I got to do something that's bigger than me, I'm sorry, but normal doesn't cut it, right? Like, a normal 9 to 5 does not cut it. And you don't want that for your kid either. So you'd rather put yourself through the ringer, right. To make sure that you come out leaving something bigger than yourself.

Right.

That's pretty awesome, though.

That's it, man. Yeah, that's it.

Lost your job, right? What happened next?

I lost my job. Was unemployed for a good six months. And then, man, I got. Like I said, I got so broke, bro, that I didn't even. I didn't have a place to stay. My parents wouldn't let me in. My dad kind of gave me the boot because I, you know, I had a daughter and I was unemployed, and I got out of college, and his whole dream was for me to play. Play pro ball.

I remember. Amazing soccer player.

Yeah, man. I could ball, man. I don't got it like I used to, man, but I used to ball for sure.

Still show up in indoor arenas sometime?

No, Every now and then, man. Every now and then. But now it's about the kids, so. Yeah, but. Yeah, man, back on that. So I was. I. And then I. I was introduced to a buddy who actually is my partner now. And I didn't even know this guy. He was introduced to me from a friend, one of my good friends that I went to high school with. It was actually his cousin. Yeah. And they let me crash. Crash their couch. Wow. He let me crash his couch, you know, I didn't have a place to stay, and they didn't really know me. They knew me through his cousin, which was a good buddy of mine. And so I was just couch surfing, man. Just trying to figure it out, bro. Yeah. Just trying to figure it out. And so I got my tax income check, and what I did with that, man, is I opened up a barber shop.

Okay.

I opened up a barber shop. That was my first business I opened up. And that was an interesting story. I'm not going to go into all the details about it. But long story short, the whole goal was to find a good location, renovate the place, make it nice, go to the barber college and recruit barbers and have them pay me booth rent.

Yeah.

That, you know, that would exceed the, you know, what I'm paying monthly for rent.

Yeah.

And with all that being. With all of it being done with my plan, I was going to be cash flowing like 2500 bucks a month, which, you know, is my first business, man. I know it's not a lot, but hey, it's passive.

That's it.

That's exactly so. Long story short, you know, teen, you know, I think at that time I was 20, 21, everything went well. The grand opening went well. Got barbers in there. I had all my stations filled. It was in a good location right off the highway. And the barbershop was jumping for a good like five, six months.

Yeah.

And then the barbers started to get comfortable, man. Started to get real comfortable. And then they, you know, were paying late on booth rent. Not, not really taking care of the place, not being respectful of the place and taking advantage of the fact that they were grown men and I was kid, you know, and so they, you know, I was trying to tell them what to do, enforce rules, and they kind of just got. Got to the point where they just like laughed at me, man. And so it got so bad, man, that they were. They started like smoking in the back of the, like, shop, like, with customers there, like smoking weed, bro.

Yeah, yeah.

So.

And you're in a tough situation there because you're like, I can let them, I can boot them.

Right?

You ain't got the liability of the lease, right?

Yep, yep. Yeah, I could boot them. And I did end up booting a lot of them. But it got to the point where, man, I didn't have a lot of money, so I needed to at least cover like, the expenses. I had my own expenses on top of the, you know, the expenses from the barbershop. And it got to a point where I was just kind of in a pickle and couldn't, you know. And so long story short, man, I ended up just, just getting, just getting all the stuff that I invested, the chairs, the TVs, all the equipment. I got that out of the barber shop. The guys tried to, like, the barbers, try to like, fight me while I was doing that. Seriously, like, these are grown, grown men, bro. Like, three times my size. Like, one of the barbers, he's like, no joke, probably like 300 pounds. He's like, Bro, you taking this stuff, like, you know, and literally tried to fight me, man. Yes.

Yeah, I bought it.

Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. And so, bro, like, through that, through that journey, it was just like, just, just humbling, man. It was humbling because I was like, man, like I, I just wanted to put myself in a position where I was never disrespected like that again. And so I reflected on that journey for a good, like three months. Went back on my buddy's couch, I was couch surfing, and the guy that introduced me to real estate was still doing it, man, and he was cashing checks, like, seriously. And so I decided that I was going to go all in with this real estate thing.

Yeah.

Okay. And so I didn't have any money. I was like, I reached out to my dad. My dad gave me a 500 loan, gave me 500. So what I did with that 500 is I went to Dollar General, I got some signs and I wrote we buy houses on them. And I started flooding the city with those signs. Yeah, I got my first deal like three weeks later, and I made $17,000.

Dang, bro.

Yeah.

And that's, that's what started it off.

That's what started it off.

That's $17,000. And just parlayed that into reinvest.

I mean, if you turned 500 into 17,000, what could you turn 17,000 into?

That's it. That's it. That's it. Now, Now I've got a million dollar company in the past three years. We do, we do a million dollar in, Million dollars in revenue in real estate wholesaling.

Come on, man.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Bro, that's amazing. I love that. It was the, it was like the crap.

Yeah.

That led you, it almost like forced you there. I mean, and everyone, everyone goes through hard times that I tell people all the time, especially like my clients, I'm like, the one thing that we have guaranteed in life is pain.

Right.

You come out of the womb crying, bro, that's it. It's the one thing we, we have guaranteed. But what you do with it is different.

That's it.

Like, that's what makes you different.

One thing I would. Biggest takeaway, I want, you know, listeners, viewers to get from this, because what I got is you literally, as you said, had no idea what a dollar was.

Yeah.

You know, you learned everything the hard way.

Yeah.

And yeah, you were forced to.

Yeah.

And, you know, I hope, I hope that somebody, I know it's cliche to say this, but somebody is inspired and by that Story. Because I'm inspired by it.

Absolutely.

And one thing I know you left out because you've got a couple more kids, right?

I've got. Yeah, A couple more. Yeah. I've got four kids now. Four kids.

Boys been putting in work.

Yeah, man. Yeah. Out there like a jackrabbit.

That's what's up. So how is it being a dad of four girls and you're not married?

I'm not. I'm not.

Okay.

I'm not. So I've got two daughters and then I've got two sons, so. Got twins. The boys are four or five. And then I've got my oldest daughter's nine and then my youngest daughter's six, so. Nine, six and five. Wow. Yeah, they keep me on my toes.

What's the difference, man? Because he's got, he's got a boy and I got a girl.

Yeah.

And so how is it different parenting a. Like both.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? I feel like it. I feel like you go from dad mode to like girl dad mode.

Let's make this a two part question. You know, how is it? And do you have any issues with your baby mamas, man?

For a couple years, like, like I did, but I learned that it just has made my life easier to like get on good terms with them, you know, to have a good relationship, a good civil relationship. For the sake of my kids, for the sake of my sanity, for the sake of. Man, I got other stuff going on in my life and so. And it's just like the small things, man, just showing up on time, respecting them. It's just a matter of respect. Let's respect each other for the sake of our children and, and, and we're in that place right now and everything's all good.

That's what's up, man.

That's awesome, man. But we, I know we have a lot of listeners that have issues, a lot of, you know, issues with their baby's mama and that's why I brought it up. And have you had any, I guess times in the past where they were irrational and like you had to take the higher road and tell us about that if you did.

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So, man, they like, I think just with, with time they started to like, mature and started. Start to realize that. That everything's not about them. I think selfishness is what caused them to.

Oh, yeah.

Not be like reasonable, like when it comes to holidays and stuff like that. The fact that, you know, they technically have custody because, you know, the mothers have the. I Guess the upper hand with stuff like that. They, you know, they, they took advantage of that and so, but, but over time, you know, they started to realize that it's not all about them. It's not all about their family. You know, my child also has another family, you know, and for the sake of, of, you know, making sure that our kids understand that they have two separate families, it's not all about them. Yeah, it just, it got to them eventually and I think with the time, with age, you know, came maturity and they started being more reasonable and now we, we take turns. Yeah.

Yeah, that's, that's really good, man. Because it just, bro, it really is all selfishness.

Yeah.

Like suffering is self inflicting. And the reason I say that is because suffering happens when you make it about you, right? Somebody does something offensive, you get offended in the moment, but then you make it about yourself and you hold on to the offense.

That's it.

Why they mean to do that to me? Oh, they probably think this about me. They whatever. And now your butt hurt. You see what I'm saying? And so this is what we do in these type of situations. And I'm like, bro, like with my ex wife, yeah. I'm like, I could care less what you do with your life, right? With all due respect, as long as you know you're still showing up for my little girl, right? I'm like, but stop being selfish. Like, bro, I cannot put my 9 year old into sports right now because there's no team that exists, no soccer team specifically, that exists that only has practice Tuesday nights and only plays on my weekends.

Right?

Because that is what she wants. She's like, as long as it doesn't cut into my time. I'm like, dude, when is it going to stop being your time, my time, and is it going to be about giving our kid a childhood?

Right.

Like an actual childhood. Right. And like, I don't get hurt about that or mad or anything. I get frustrated because of my little girl.

Right?

But then at the same time, it's like, there's nothing really if you can't control another human. You getting frustrated, worried, stressed, does absolutely nothing. The best thing you can do is show up for you and for her and that's it. And then let time take its course. Like you said, I think time has helped them mature.

Yeah.

I mean, so for anyone that's listening right now, that's going through issues, stop being a pansy, bro. And like, if you just show up, men are made to lead. Men are, period. It's Biblical. Okay. It doesn't matter if you show up into a room with women that, you know, don't know. Doesn't matter. If you show up and you lead, they will follow. So they will follow your lead. So just show up and lead and eventually they'll get there. May take them a little bit slower, but, man, like, you got to be able to cut that crap out specifically for your kids.

That's it.

For real.

That's it.

No doubt. And for you to know that at age 29. I didn't know that at 29.

Right.

And, you know, I'm. I'm learning a lot. Like, wow, man, I. I learned so much the hard way because some of the stuff that you guys know at 29, I'm a man.

But I think that's a lot. Like 30 something, but. But I think that's because we had a kid at 18, 19 years old.

Right?

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, my clients, I work with, so I'm a divorced men's coach, so I help men get out of the pain of divorce.

Sure. Right.

And get. Get back on track with their life and build a life that they're passionate about. It's awesome. It's incredible. But a lot of my clients, they're obviously older than me. Some of them are in the 40s, some of them 50s. Like, and when I start off my calls, I tell them, I'm like, just so you know, my journey started when I was 18. I'm like, it's not like I'm just some, like, punk 29 year old. Absolutely not.

Right.

Like, I'm a grown man. I've been through a lot. I'm like, I've been through multiple companies that I've built and failed at and succeeded in some areas. I've gone through heartache. I've gone through hardsh. I've gone through mentorship. I'm like, I've. I've gone through so much, and I have so much more to go through. And it's like that. It's almost like you were talking about with the barbershop. You feel that, like, man, I hope these people don't think just because I'm young, you know, I mean.

Right.

But then you just show up and you bring out, like you said, your inner beast, what you carry. And, bro, people can't deny that.

That's it.

Your inner beast doesn't have an age and it doesn't have a cap. It doesn't. It's not limited. It's. It's what you carry. And when you start displaying what you car. I don't care how old you are, that penetrates people's spirits and their soul. You know what I mean? That's when you start, like, communicating at a higher level and reaching people. So I don't know, man.

What do you think is the biggest lesson or. Or thing that you learned along the way that you carry with you today and teach to those that you're now mentoring and teaching the business that you're in?

That. That. I would say that it's okay to fail.

Yeah.

You know that it's okay to fail. You know, you've got it.

You got.

Bottom line, you've got to take action, man. What I tell, like, the fundamental of, like, what I teach my mentees and the people I coach is you got to take action, man. If you take action, you either win or you learn.

You learn a lesson, right.

There's no such thing as a loss, man. You lose when you don't take action, when you don't move, when you don't.

Take initiative, when you don't take that leap.

But if you take action, it's a win. Either win or you're going to learn.

Yep.

When you're always winning, get out there.

And do it, man.

Yeah.

I think the people that are afraid to fail are people that are afraid to learn personally.

That's it.

Because if you're willing to learn, then you'll take a shot at anything, right? Anything in life.

Well, if.

Go ahead, Jonathan. He was telling me this. It was like this analogy. He said, everyone's throwing darts. Everyone. But some people throw two, and then they give up because they didn't hit a bullseye. He was like, some people, they sit there and they just. Okay, that one didn't work. Boom. I'm gonna adjust my elbow. I'm gonna. And. And then you finally hit. And then everyone's like, oh, well, you just got lucky, right? You just lucked out.

That's it.

Bs. You have no idea how many darts.

I threw all that practice, man.

Yeah. You have no idea. Like. Well, I got tendonitis on my elbow because I've been throwing so many darts. You know what I mean? But that's because of that, like, right? If you don't take action, bro, like, what are you doing? You're spinning your wheels.

It's fear.

Yeah.

People don't take action because they're fearful of whether it's failure, whether it's what people are going to think of them if this happens or that happens in some. I mean, even in sales, people are scared to ask for the business because they fear being told no.

But fear goes two ways, though. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe fears would drove you to success, honestly, because. And this is. This is why I say that from hearing your story, it sounds like you were scared to be what everybody was painting you out to be. They were feeling bad for you. They were putting you in a category, and you're like, that's not what I'm gonna be. And also for me, fear of not providing for my little girl and setting her up for the future and giving her the life that she deserves. When you fear that more than you fear failure, fear actually catapults you to move. You mean like when the rug got pulled out from under you in those businesses, you're probably scared shitless.

Yeah.

No.

So what? What'd you do? I'm gonna get signs, and I'm gonna make this work. I'm gonna make this work. So I. I love fear because it is. It is a powerful tool.

Gio, when you decided I'm gonna go all in, what was it that you were feeling?

Man, it was. It was all that stuff built up, man. The fear, the doubt, the hate. Honestly, at the time, bro, I, like, you can ask anybody, man. I. I had an inner beast inside me. You could see it on the soccer field. You could see it, you know, in certain places, and my family knows that. And. And what really brings out that aggression is when people tell me it's not possible. I can't do it. You're not gonna do that.

Nah, man.

It's not gonna happen.

Happen. Yeah. All right. All right.

Yeah.

And all that stuff eventually built up, man, and I just. I just. It was. I was like, let's go. It's time, man. It's time. That's it.

Yeah.

I don't care what it. What I have to do, what it takes, how much time, I'm going all in.

Yeah, bro, I love that.

I. I remember my moment where I, you know, it was, you know what? Screw all y'. All. Watch this.

Yeah.

And you know, nothing was going to make me. Me not succeed. It's gonna find a way, no matter what.

The moment you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, that's the moment your life changes.

That's it.

But it takes a lot. I mean, bro, some. Some of us, we just tolerate too much. And what we tolerate, we invite more of it.

That's it.

Honestly. So it's like, for anyone that's listening right now, like, you, you. You can decide. Okay. Today I'm going to decide to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Right.

It's just, it's like a light bulb, a flip, a switch that you can just flip in your mind. You know what I mean? Right, bro? That's incredible. I love, I love hearing your story, what you've built, man.

Yeah, it's.

It's pretty awesome.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

Because you're how old?

29.

29.

Yeah, bro, you're 29, right?

Yeah. So, yeah.

Yeah, I was like, you guys have, you know, similar stories, but he's just got more kids.

That's it, man.

More kids and more cash. But I'm. I'm coming there, bro. I'm coming there.

Let's get it.

I'm.

I'm running. I'm running so hard right now.

Let's get it, man.

Let's get it.

Let's get it.

No, man. Yeah, that's. I love your story. I love everything. Just that what you stand for, bro, you stand for those people that don't believe that they can. You stand for the people that, like, honestly, you had everything going for you, right. And you took it for granted. Let's. Let's be honest, you know, I mean, your parents were helping you.

That's it.

And you took it for granted. And then you were like, oh, yeah, then you made a hard adjustment.

So that pregnancy, that pregnancy was so life altering. I mean, in hindsight, looking back, right?

It was so life altering.

Yeah, absolutely.

And for the people that are listening and they're like, oh, well, he had his parents helping him. Well, I did, but I didn't take advantage of it.

That's it.

Then you can now talk to both crowds.

Yeah, right. That's it.

You can reach the people in the penthouses and you can reach the people in the streets, because I know, I know both ways. And so literally, life handed you the perfect cards to create influence in your life. And you can use it as anyone listening right now. You can use it as that, or you can use it for the opposite and just feel bad for yourself and just sit around, mope.

Yeah, don't. Don't be too good for Walmart. You never know what checks is gonna bring you.

That's it. I mean, literally, a lot of people go to Walmart, man.

You'd be surprised, bro. What's. Do you have any new idea of something that you want to do in the near future that's not like real estate?

Yeah, man, I want. My ultimate goal is to, like, get.

More involved in the ministry. I want to spend more time like just, just. And just, you know, I want to dedicate more time to God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love. Right now I'm in the process of just building my assets up to the point where I can pretty much live off of them passively, man. And based upon the plan, I can get there in a year or two.

Yeah.

Realistically.

And just full send into ministry.

No, I wouldn't say full.

I'm going to. I'm going to just kind of like move my money, man.

I'm not going to work.

I'm going to. I'm going to play the game.

Yeah, yeah, bro.

I like that's the same. That's the exact same mission I'm on.

Yeah.

Right now I'm focusing on scaling so that's. I can withdraw a little bit more from the hands on work.

Yeah.

Because I want to do more ministry too. Like just this weekend I was ministering in Atlanta and I love ministry. I love, bro. There's just some. Something about it. And I want to do it in such a different way. Not just preaching.

You go out to do it in Spanish.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And. But in such a different way, bro. Like I would love to go right here, east side McKinney. I used to play baseball in these fields down here.

Yeah.

And just go up to a house. But someone who's struggling with their mortgage. Yeah, man. Here's $5,000.

Yeah.

That's ministry.

Yeah, absolutely.

You mean like helping people and stuff?

Absolutely, bro.

Amazing feeling in the world to do something like that, man.

Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah.

Because I'm. I'm thinking, bro, like with your story, I'm just already thinking of brands like bag boy something. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

I'm just. Or like a couch crashing, whatever ministries, like helping anyone that's like homeless right now. What, whatever. You know what I'm saying? Like utilizing the story. I don't know. That's how my brain works.

Yeah.

That's why I asked because I was like, there's a lot of good brands right here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I appreciate that, man.

And something I want to, I want to.

Go ahead, Scott.

No, go ahead.

Okay.

Something I want to like throw out there, bro, is. I know I just mentioned about, you know, what, what, you know, the. What motivated me to. To get out there and go all in. It was a lot of that doubt, the hate, the, you know, that brought out the inner beast, man. But what that led to through the journey, bro, was, was ego, bro.

You know, once I started getting successful.

Man, the money started coming in. I had power. I was like, you know, and I got to the point where I demanded it, you know, and it got to my head, man. My ego was through the roof, bro.

And right now where I'm at in.

This place, bro, is like, man, I now, that doesn't motivate me. What motivates me is love. What motivates me is being able to coach people and teach people how to do what I did. For sure. But skip all the bull crap.

Impact.

Impact, bro. Impact. Okay? And so love and abundance is. Is what it motivates me now. Yeah. It's not the hate and the doubt.

That goes out one ear and out the other. It's.

It's irrelevant to me, man. I'm on a different frequency.

So I love an abundance.

And. And when you operate on that frequency, man, the. The. It just comes to you, man.

Yeah.

Like, effortlessly.

It does 100.

It's. It's added on to you, bro. I started my divorce coaching business and I never even thought about doing it. Somebody told me that I'd be doing that a year ago. I'd be like, you're crazy, dude.

Yeah.

Like, making money, helping men overcome this. What? And I just started posting on Tick Tock, just encouraging love and abundance. Calendar started getting packed, bro. Booked. Called booked. I can't post on Tick Tock if my calendar is full. I can't do it or else it just gets pushed more and more and more. Like, if I need a break, I stop posting on Tick Tock. But it comes out of that place. Love and abundant. Because people feel that.

Yeah.

When you genuinely want to help someone, you feel that, like, everyone talks about, like, man, I like your vibe right now. Right. Was true. It is. It is true. Like, think about any time you went out to, like, pray for people with a group of people and you had an intention to, like, lead them to the Lord.

Yeah.

You're treating them as a project, not just loving them.

Right.

It just never felt good. You had that awkward exchange, but when you just go up and you're like, man, I like your shoes. How are you doing today, brother? What do you do? Yeah, you just chat.

Yeah.

Way different. Because love and abundance literally draws people to you, period. It's a different energy.

That's it, man. That's facts.

It's what he said is. Is so key. And especially being 29 years old, the fact that, you know, you. You've already gone through the. The phase of, I've got all this Money. I've got this power, I've got this ego that can't fit through the door. And I freaking had that big time, you know, Me.

Yeah.

Driven every car in the world, and I went through that phase, man. And it was, in hindsight is just the 30s.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Looking back, I just. I hate it. And. And you know, you get the seven figures and see what happens to you and see that, you know, who's to say you won't go through it?

Yeah.

But. But the fact that you've already gotten past that.

Yeah.

Is. Is so amazing because it's. You can now live life doing, I guess, making it a better place for a lot of people.

Right.

Rather than a better place for yourself.

Absolutely.

And I want to hear how you did it. Okay. So have you heard the term. I think it's a quote by some philosopher. I don't know, bro, but you don't know any philosophers. But it says, weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good men or good times create weak men. It's the vicious cycle. Hard times made you a strong man. A strong man created the good times.

Right.

Created the ego.

Right.

Created a weak man. Right. And so what I've realized, even just in. In business, like, if there's a fluctuation of like, you're. You're hitting success, you're doing high, high successful actions, and then you hit success. And then because of that, comfort comes in a little bit of complacency because I got a little bit of success now. And then you start not producing like you were producing, and then self doubt comes in. So now you got to learn to believe in yourself again to get back on this. So the only way. The only way to break that cycle is KPIs.

That's it.

In business.

Yeah.

Right. Measurables.

Yeah. So, yeah.

Personally, what are your KPIs? What is something that you've used to keep you stable to where it's like, I'm not a strong man. Creating good times, creating me, making me a weak man. What is something that you've chosen that. This is what I'm gonna go. I'm gonna seek this out to keep me level.

Sure. That's a great question.

That's a great question. I don't know where that came from.

Seriously. Seriously. You put me on a pedestal, man.

But hey, honestly, honestly, bro, man, just, just.

Long story short, bro, through, through, like, when I was in that journey of.

Building my business, man, I wasn't really spending time with my. My Kids, my family, like, all that stuff was kind of like. It just wasn't there.

Yeah.

I was so, like, locked in on my business that it consumed all of my time. It literally took me over, bro.

Yeah.

It just made me this ugly, nasty person that nobody wanted to be around, bro. And so that's what. That's what led me to. To the ministry, bro.

And.

And so.

So to answer your question, the KPIs are all biblical, man. You know, all biblical. All qualities that Jesus had, which is, you know, humility, love. Yeah. All things that he did, you know, and so I reflect on certain scriptures in the Bible, and. And those are values and morals that I'm going to live by, that I'm going to lead by, and that. Those are my KPIs, man.

Fantastic, great question. Great, greater answer.

Yeah. Do you have a mentor?

I do. Yeah, I do. I do. So I have a spiritual mentor, and then I also have a financial mentor, bro.

That's. That's what. We talked about it one day on an episode. I was like, you should have a mentor for your relationship. You should have a mentor for your business, spiritual, like, everything. Because not everyone operates at those levels in every single area.

Right.

So if you want the highest quality in every area in your life, that's it. Get a mentor in those areas. You know what I mean?

That's it, man. This has literally been freaking. One of, if not my favorite episode we've done appreciate it. Really enjoyed having you, Gio.

Absolutely.

I know you're a busy guy, so we really appreciate you taking the time.

Yeah, absolutely.

To come hang out with us for a little bit. And, man, I. I've gotten a lot from the show, our listeners, viewers, a lot of takeaways.

Yeah.

Honestly, I'm probably going to send this episode to my 1% men's group.

Awesome.

To all my clients. I'm gonna be like, y' all need to check this out. You guys are gonna learn a lot, bro. Plug your stuff real quick. Where can people find you?

Yeah, so they can find me on Instagram.

It's the Geomorado. I'm on Tick Tock, too. The Geomorado. Let's go. Look me up.

How do you spell Morada?

M U, R. M O, R, A D O. Purple in Spanish.

Perfect. Let's go, let's go. That's a good way to put it.

Yeah. So the Gio Morado, man, or Giovanni.

Morado, that's what's up.

Awesome, man.

That sounds good. We'll log off right there then.