The Everyday Millionaire Show
Ryan Greenberg and Nick Kalfas are two Maryland based business owners and investors. Ryan and Nick discuss topics such as basics of financial literacy, building businesses, investing, and real estate. This podcast is for people looking to achieve financial freedom.
The Everyday Millionaire Show
Navigating the Philippines: From Airport Chaos to Island Paradise
From island hopping in the Philippines to building million-dollar real estate developments, this episode takes you on a journey through entrepreneurial growth, strategic networking, and authentic business building.
Ryan kicks things off with tales from his Philippines adventure – navigating a grueling 48-hour journey across multiple continents only to immediately dive with whale sharks upon arrival. His cultural immersion with his Filipino VA, Carl, highlights the value of building strong relationships which encompasses a professional one. From Carl staying shredded despite mountains of rice to experiencing pristine beaches with affordable luxury provide a fascinating glimpse into Filipino culture.
The conversation shifts to the entrepreneurial mindset and how they invest in coaching despite being coaches themselves. This cycle of continuous learning demonstrates why surrounding yourself with people who are where you want to be accelerates success.
As they prepare for their upcoming Ironman race and announce two exciting networking events, one thing becomes clear – success leaves clues, and those clues often appear in the people you choose to surround yourself with.
Welcome to the Everyday Millionaire Show with Ryan Greenberg and Nick Kalfas. Alright guys, welcome back to another episode of the Everyday Millionaire Show. We're here, just Chase and I. Nick had a ceremony of some sort to go to today, so he will not be making it. We wanted to make sure we got another episode out, so today you just have young Chase and myself, let's go episode out um, so today you just have young chase and myself.
Speaker 1:Um, I was in the philippines for the last two weeks, so that's why we've been not uh hadn't released anything, um, that's why I'm rocking this shirt. Carl, who's uh been my va now for almost three years, um, in the philippines, and it's been that long it's it's I think it's almost three years now and um, we've talked for hundreds of hours on on zooms and the phone and he's been helping me run my life for for the last three years and I've never met him in person. And I got to meet him in person and he hooked me up with this shirt, he hooked you and nick up with some hats and uh look at these hats, man.
Speaker 1:These hats are sick, it's it's pronounced davio I'm gonna butcher this devio, devio, we'll have to. We'll have to ask carl to punch in a uh like pronunciation of it these are.
Speaker 2:I think it's deval and I should know this because he's talked about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice. So we got some hats, we got some Filipino snacks here. So I'm fasting right now because I gained 10 fucking pounds on vacation, because all we did was eat the whole time. I literally gained 10 pounds. So I'm fasting right now, so I'm not going to eat this, but I want to show it. Thank you, carl. He hooked us up with some chocolates, some different local chocolates, some chips, and it's funny because, like a lot of these chips, they everything tastes a little different there and it's because they don't have all the processed shit that we have here. Um, it's all like natural stuff. That's why they're all skinny. I was like I think I said at one point I was like there's not really many fat people here and they eat a ton of rice.
Speaker 2:I mean you saw the picture of Carl.
Speaker 1:He's completely ripped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was crazy, but you were also sending these group chat pictures of dinner and it was just like this potluck of rice and shrimp and it was crazy. I've never eaten so much rice and I've been crazy.
Speaker 1:It was crazy. I've never eaten so much rice and I've never wondered why everybody's not fat there. And Carl, we would eat breakfast and the man would have because we had a big breakfast buffet at our resort and he would have like four plates pastries, like rice, all this stuff and he stays, just stays, shredded. That's crazy. And I gained 10 pounds and now I'm not. I haven't eaten since last night because I'm like I'm like I'm gonna carry around an extra 10 pounds at this race this week how far is that?
Speaker 1:flight dude, that's something we could talk about. It's a hell of a journey. So on the way there, um, we got stuck in dc because of a storm, missed our flight from atlanta. So we were flying from dc to atlanta, atlanta to south korea, south korea to manila, then manila to cebu, and we got stuck in dc because of a storm, so I missed my flight from atlanta to south korea. Got to atlanta at like 2 am was like I'm just'm just going to get a Hilton because we booked.
Speaker 1:Delta put us on the next flight the next day in the morning, but it's really hard when you're booking the seats that we got those first class like pods. There's only a couple of them on each plane, so it's not like they just have like a ton of extra seats, especially side by side, just have like a ton of extra seats, especially side by side. I wanted to be next to my wife, for the big flight was like 15, 16 hours or something like that. So that was a whole mess. We got to the airport hotel, the hilton, and I was.
Speaker 1:It was two o'clock in the morning. I went up to the lady and I was like hey, can I get a room for the night and you couldn't book it online because it was after midnight. So you, if you booked it, that it would be for that day like check-in at 3 pm. So I just went to the front desk and she's like, sir, there's not a hotel room in this town, beyonce's in town and the WWE's in town, like you're not going to find a hotel room. So now I'm sitting at the airport. Now I don't have any of my luggage. All I have is a carry-on.
Speaker 2:My luggage was checked and it's still like being checked through to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they don't give it to you, they don't give it back to you. So I'm. I have one change of clothes that I was supposed to use in south korea when I got there, so I just slept naked not to be too much information, just so I didn't ruin another set of clothes because I didn't have anything extra and luckily I had my toiletry bag with me so I could still like brush my teeth and everything. But after they denied us at the first Hilton, we were sitting in the lobby of this Hilton for like 30 minutes just calling around. Finally found a room 30 minutes away from the airport, so I had to get in another Uber at like 2.30 in the morning, got into this hotel, stayed there from basically like 3 am to like 6 am three hours. I paid 500 for the hotel room for three hours. I probably could have paid an uber xl to just drive me around for three hours and have me sleep in the back like a baby and paid less.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so we stayed in this hotel for three hours, got on the flew I think it was 16 hours, was the first plane and then another four hours from South Korea to Manila and then another hour and a half. From Manila to Cebu, it was a journey, and then from Cebu, after we left that island, we went to the wedding. That was a hour plane and then a van ride and then a boat ride. Plane and then a van ride and then a boat ride and then another van. It was wild. So the day to get there was two to two full days, like 48 hours of traveling, and then the way back was about 36 hours of traveling.
Speaker 2:Jesus- yeah, that's a lot of traveling and it takes a lot of coordination yeah, I'm sure your wife was super thrilled when you guys were stranded for a while I was.
Speaker 1:She was actually better than I was. I was like losing my mind. I was like we're never gonna fucking make it, we're wasting all this money. And then we had a tour booked the whale sharks, like scuba diving with these whale sharks booked for that day that we arrived. So we literally arrived at the airport at 5am Filipino time.
Speaker 1:I'm exhausted. Obviously, we just travel for two days and the van picks us up and we drive to go scuba diving. So we literally got off the plane, the van picked us up and then we drove to go scuba diving with the whale sharks. I'm like on zero sleep. My timeline it's 12 hours ahead, so my timeline's all messed up, um, and we just get in the car and we just did this excursion all day long and I was so tired at the end of the day that I in the van that we took to the, to the tours, I forgot I had all my luggage in there all day, but I took some stuff out of my luggage to like change midday Cause we like we're in the water and stuff.
Speaker 1:I forgot my Ironman hat and my glasses, my Costas, my travel pillow and blanket, my GoPro accessory box. Luckily I had my GoPro with me still, cause I would use it to scuba dive. But all the accessories my hair trimmer was in that box lost that everything left in the in this van. Then I asked the driver to come back to my hotel and drop it off and he was like I live four hours away, so the next time I'm in downtown cebu like I'll come bring it by then it was too late, so, carl, thank you. Carl met him after I'd already left. Now kimbo has all my shit and he's got to carry it all back, but but I still lost they. He didn't find my iron man hat and my glasses no, so I got iron.
Speaker 1:Man's gonna get me for another 50 bucks this weekend another hat.
Speaker 1:And then I went to the mall and everything in the Philippines is cheaper than here, except for nice sunglasses, because they're like Oakley's or they didn't have coasts. I ended up getting a pair of Oakley's and they were like 300 bucks, so that was a big L, but overall, good trip. Carl was uh. Him and his wife were super cool. Um, the whole the whole trip was like a cool experience, just learning their culture. They, their language is very it has a lot of spanish to it because they were colonized by spain. So every once in a while I'd pick up on some words and I'd be like is that what you just said? And it's definitely different, but they're like the numbers are the same and there's definitely words that are the same, which is pretty cool. So um definitely suggest, if you're um into traveling, that's a place to go on your list yeah, that what was like your top favorite part of the whole trip.
Speaker 1:So scuba diving with the whale sharks was super cool because these creatures are just like you can't fathom, like how big these things are and they're just like swimming above you and it's like it shadows the sun. It's like insanely big. But I would say that the best part was the last day before we left. We went island hopping. So we take this boat and there's like a thousand, there's over like a thousand islands in the Philippines I don't know the exact number, carl can put it up on the screen. Um, we went from island to island and each island had like a different theme. So we'd like the one had a cliff jumping. It had like five, four or five levels of like diving boards and so we can clip in. Um, I did like a front flip off of the one. The one was, I think it was 15 meters high, so that's like 45 feet above the water and you jump in and jump into the water from all the different levels. So that was super cool. And then we went like snorkeling with at this like reef, and the guys on the boat, the tour guides, were like throwing chum in the water and like all these fish were just surrounding you. So I have videos of that we try to. I'll try to upload, um, some more videos, but it was that day was sick and then the whale shark day. We did that and we went swimming at this like big waterfall.
Speaker 1:That was pretty cool, um, but it's, it's uh, it's crazy because they don't have like very like their infrastructure. There is not like it is here. So, like the highways, like the maximum speed that I think we got up to in any vehicle was like 45 miles an hour maybe, like there's no, like the traffic also is absolutely insane. There was a flood, so apparently they don't have very good drainage systems and they we went during the wet season. They had a big storm and there was such bad flooding that we went to go eight miles. It took us over three hours. Like it's worse than Manhattan traffic, the worst traffic I've ever experienced in my life, but other than that it was.
Speaker 1:It was really cool learning, learning about the culture and, um, our money goes really far there. So, like you know your average, like dinner is gonna be like I don't know, six to ten bucks american for like a good meal. God, I would love to go there and eat. Yeah, that's why I gained so much weight. The massages are like. Carl ended up getting a masseuse to come to his room and it was like 10 bucks for an hour american wow.
Speaker 2:So that's cool what would you say? The the like.
Speaker 1:Your number one tip for someone traveling to the philippines is um, having somebody, having the locals so I had carl for the first half of the trip with me and his wife and then Laura, who's Kimbo's wife is from there too. So having them like showing us and telling us about the culture and all that was really like. If I didn't have them, I feel like I wouldn't have learned or like experienced it the same way, because I would have just been a tourist doing the tourist things where instead, like they were like most people speak english but they were still like speaking their language to the cab drivers and to the and we got like a lot. I think we got like the hook up on a lot of things because they were locals and it wasn't just like us being tourists. Um, so, meeting somebody know, if you know somebody there, having somebody to like kind of guide you around, and just really the people there are super, super nice. They're like super grateful.
Speaker 1:I mean some of the people you see walking around the streets are clearly, like you know, not financially well off, but everybody's nice and I felt pretty safe the whole time. Like there was not a lot of security Like they. They definitely they definitely had like when you walk in the mall, there's like metal detectors and stuff, so like to keep it fairly safe, um, for the amount of poverty that's there, I think there's, you know, um. So I think my number one tip would be to either plan it through like a guide person there or have somebody that comes with you, like having Carl and Laura guide us through, and every day we were like learning more stuff about the culture. It was really cool.
Speaker 2:Did they know like places to go and things to do?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because, like you said, it's really, there's tons of islands.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Cebu is actually where Laura's from. So the first day, laura and Kimbo and me and Carl and Carl's wife and Paige, um, we did the all the tours together. So Laura and Carl were talking and they knew, like where to go, what we were going to do, um, and then when we got to the second island, barakai, that's like a tourist island. There's no cars, it's just little e-trikes they call them, and we could put a picture of one. It's literally like a bike with a little box in the back that you sit in.
Speaker 1:The only people that have cars are the resorts that have the vans to drive people back and forth to the boat, but other than that it's either little motor, little motor you know mopeds, or these e-trikes, and like an e-trike you call them. It's like a kind of like an uber, and basically to go anywhere in the island that we would go, like up and down the beach to the scuba diving place, to the nightclubs, to wherever. It was like one or two dollars american, wow, so it's like a $150 pace, and this is where you were staying.
Speaker 1:From where I was staying, yeah, and the second island we went to. It was basically $2 American to get anywhere else on the island by E-Trike, so it's cool. The Baracay was beautiful, like crystal clear water. People were super nice, definitely a lot of like people trying to sell you stuff on the beach and stuff like that which is typical of any kind of tourist trap, but overall like felt safe, met a lot of cool people. Um, everybody speaks pretty good english so you can get by with not knowing the local language. They have a couple of different dialects. I think it's 52 dialects in the Philippines of of their language, tagalog. So that was cool. But yeah, man, it was just the journey. If you're going to like the people that I'm that I met out there like friends that flew coach or economy and I don't I feel like I'm going to people are gonna comment like I'm a rich cuck again like they did on the last one.
Speaker 1:But I don't know that I could travel that far without having like the sleep pods on the plane because it was so fucking long like to be on a plane for 16 hours straight and just be sitting up in a chair.
Speaker 2:That would be tough, it would be, it would be really tough, so I don't know that I would survive, like my wife would probably squeeze my hand off or something she hates flying, so yeah, yeah, and when we were looking at the route on the screen, you can like pull up the the route that you're taking.
Speaker 1:We actually I thought we were going to go like over california. We actually went up over canada and over over Alaska and like across the globe that way, rather than going West. So it was, it was a journey and a half, but I would say I would say the next time, if I was to go again, I would go to New York and there's a straight flight from New York to Manila and that JFK to Manila straight, rather than going through south korea. South south korea airport is probably the nicest airport in the world, in my, the nicest airport I've ever been to I don't want to say in the world, because I haven't been to all the airports but it had like massage parlor.
Speaker 1:I went and got a two-hour massage. It had nap rooms. You can go in and, for free, just go in, take a nap. They had like I don't know little like pods where you can go in and, for free, just go in, take a nap. They had like I don't know little like pods where you can go in and sleep. They had a shower area where you could pay five bucks and you get shower and it was super. They had hermes, gucci, louis vuitton stores, like it was basically a shopping mall at the airport. Um, but the layovers and all that kills your time. Like I think we spent a total probably 10 hours in south korea airport, so you just like burn in time. So if I had the chance to do it again, I would go to new york straight, or I would go to like la, because there's a direct flight from there, and spend a day in california and then fly direct instead, rather than like two full days of just getting off and on airplanes and waiting in airports is fucking brutal yeah, that's miserable that was.
Speaker 1:It was miserable and now you have to do something more miserable and drive a car nine hours yeah, so that that's the other thing, that as soon as I felt like I got on that time schedule, which is 12 hours difference, I left, so now I'm like back to trying to acclimate to east coast time. So and it's funny, actually too, carl is on american time too, so his time when we were, you know, we were hanging out during the day there on philippine times, but he's used to staying up all night.
Speaker 1:It was messing him up too and his baby is also used to being up at night and sleeping during the day. So it was, it was messing, messing with all of us. Um, so there was days I was in the gym at like 3 am because I just like couldn't sleep and the the hotel gym, luckily, at the first place was open 24 hours. And then I finally felt like I'm like okay, I'm finally like adjusted to this time and then, all right, it's time to leave. Now I gotta adjust back. And now tomorrow I was here for 24 hours. Now we leave. Now I've got to adjust back. And now tomorrow I was here for 24 hours. Now we leave and drive to Maine to race. So you might have a chance to beat me, because I don't know how much sleep I'll be getting.
Speaker 2:We'll see. I think it might play out good for you. So you've been waking up at like 2 or 3. And then we're going to have to wake up probably at like 2.30, because transition opens at like 4 15 and we have an hour drive from portland to augusta, yeah. So I'm thinking we're definitely probably gonna have to wake up at like you know, at least 245 yeah, that might actually work out in my favor yeah, so I might.
Speaker 2:I did probably didn't gain an advantage there besides all your travel time. Well, you finally got a new bike. Yeah, I did so. Now we're equals on that. We'll see the mechanics.
Speaker 1:Part of it is equal. Yeah, we'll see about your little legs, but yeah that I'm excited for this race. Then it's, uh, essentially dialing in for ironman maryland, for the full.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's when I'm just sitting here thinking about is like how in the hell are we gonna finish that? So I mean we have some time.
Speaker 1:This is what week eight or week 10 or something like that of like our 16 week adventure when we started yeah, the idea of doing a race like that for 12 hours is definitely getting to me mentally already, but I'm excited to break myself a little bit and see what we can do. That one, to me, is like survival. I've been talking to my coach about it. I'm signed up for not officially actually I have it all queued up and I'm signing up for Lake Placid next year. So are you the full? Lake Placid, it's told to me to be one of the best races in the world, the best ironman races. So we're gonna we?
Speaker 2:first of all, can we just announce that they say that about every ironman event. They say chattanooga was the best, this, the ironman maryland is the best swim. Yeah, so they're all the best. Yeah, whatever lake plac.
Speaker 1:Maryland is the best swim.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they're all the best. Yeah, whatever Lake.
Speaker 1:Placid is the best of the best Now. So the first one is just survival and I want to figure out nutrition and like how to keep my muscles going for 12 hours. I'm not necessarily worried about anything, except for the run A full marathon. I've never even, and probably never will up until that day, not run a full marathon. I've never even, and probably never will up until that day, not run a full marathon. So I'm not going to really know what it's like to run for four hours after biking for six hours and swimming for an hour and a half.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's, that's the biggest part. Well, that in the mental, like the, the mental just capacity of training and doing physical load for 12 hours, just mind boggles me Like it's. I mean, we did it the other day, our training, we didn't do 12 hours, we did six, seven hours of training and at that point I was like dude, I've had enough, like I cannot go, like I, physically I can keep going on, but mentally I was just tapped out. I was just like I'm ready to go home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that that's the whole game. I think once you're in the shape, like the physical shape, it's all a mental game and I think that's what Ironman really is. If you know, if you notice, a lot of people that do this stuff are either like ex drug addicts or like ex like superior athletes, like in some way like they're and they're missing that part of their life, like they went from being like a college athlete or a drug addict and then they needed something to challenge themselves and like to be like mentally challenged, essentially physically and mentally challenged, and this is like the ultimate mental and physical battle.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:The history of it is there was it started in Hawaii with a bunch of Navy SEALs that all argued about who was a better athlete a cyclist, a swimmer or a runner and they said, well, fuck it, let's do all three. And these are the. They just did these distances and it just became a thing. I think it was like 1970 something. They fuck it, let's do all three. And they just did these distances and it just became a thing. I think it was like 1970-something. They started it and the first race was like 12 people and seven of them finished. And now there's like races every weekend all over the world and thousands of people do them, and we're some of those idiots that do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was just talking to the bike fitter about that. He said that, um, the traveling sport as an industry has kind of taken a hit. But I don't really see that. I mean, I know it's expensive, like even entry level, to get in. Like you know, bikes used to cost a couple thousand dollars.
Speaker 1:You can still get a used bike for a couple thousand dollars, like I did, but now you're buying bikes that are two, three, five, 10, $20, thousand dollars, like it really just depends on how crazy you want to get. Yeah, if you want to compete at a high level, it's an expensive sport, um, but you can also do it on a budget. The races are expensive, but dude, I don't know how he said that because all of them sell out, like maine sold out, lake placid sold out, maryland sold out. I mean, these are 3 000 participant races and they're selling out. So I don't know how that you've just bought a 10 plus thousand dollar bike. I just bought a 10 plus thousand dollar bike. How is it hurting?
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm not really sure. I mean he. He said um attendance was down, but, like I said, I didn't see it. It seems like to me they're all always packed yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think tons of people, I think, if anything, it's getting more popular like the whole, like fitness thing is becoming well the triathlon as a sport and being a hybrid athlete is because definitely becoming more popular and, like you know, you got nick bear pushing it. All these like really crazy, like bodybuilders that were bodybuilders and then they were like, hey, I want to go be an athlete too, and now they're kind of doing that hybrid mix yeah, have you seen?
Speaker 1:nick bear is doing a new series because he's training for ironman arizona I think he's gotten skinny as heck, really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you look at him, uh, like, look at his last video he used to be like yoked, like big, big muscles, and he's he's thinned out like a bunch right. So I think he's probably trying to like I'm not eating right now so I could drop a couple pounds because I don't want to carry it around for the next six, you know, six hours during the race. But, um, I think the fitness world in general is on the rise. If, just like across the board, more people are signing up for marathons, half marathons, 5ks, you know, I think that's and it's a good thing. I mean, was it you that were like?
Speaker 2:you pointed out like there's like a music festival for like yeah, yeah, out in Texas there's a man it was. I forgot what it's called, but it's like a um coffee, like coffee and fitness coffee and plunge or something, yeah, so there's like no alcohol.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just like coffee and cold plunges a day rave yeah, daytime rave.
Speaker 1:So I think that's. I mean, I think that whole world I think there's a lot of uh, people looking to you know change their lives. I think people here in america have gotten so fat and like unhealthy that and and I think it's mostly people in their like late 20s to early 30s all like doing it, starting, you know, to get out of the party scene and get into the fitness scene. So I don't know, I think that guy's wrong about the industry hurting. I think it's.
Speaker 2:I think the fitness industry right now is booming, if anything yeah, yeah, I mean, these races are like I said, they're always packed and we keep signing up for them.
Speaker 1:So yeah, they got our money. Something's working, um, but yeah, so wrap the philippines up that. That trip was awesome. Shout out to car Carl for giving me all the stuff and us, and he thought about you and Nick too. And the Ironman race this weekend. We'll report back on that Business. Right now I don't even know what to say. The freaking market is so unpredictable. Not buying really much real estate right now, but houses are still selling. I think the prices have kind of flattened out. What are you seeing?
Speaker 2:Oh man, I've been super slammed with listings, more retail stuff and, like you said, you stopped buying and pulled back. So that means I kind of stopped buying as well, um, and kind of just doing more retail. I think we're both trying to invest more back into our business right now. Um, I mean, I would still love to buy. I'm still on the, the more aggressive take. I think you're the more conservative one of the two of us.
Speaker 1:The deal makes sense and, depending on what my tax implications are, this year we're gonna buy some more stuff, but I'm just being real picky about what we buy.
Speaker 2:I think, if we're being honest, it depends on the area and the price point of the house. I have one investor right now. She had another agent they started at like I think it was 580. They had a list of that and it's a house in Glen Burnie. So 580, that's a high price point already in glen bernie because you could go to, you know, savannah park, arnold, anywhere else and get a 580 house and be in good school districts. So that was already a high price point. I told her I wouldn't take the list unless it was at 540 because I thought you know, even below that is probably where it would sell. We we're at like 515 now. So she's like really getting hit hard on this, carrying hard money. She gutted the whole house Like um, but on the flip side of that I just sold a listing that was a small rancher, 700 square foot, the one you quoted, um and we sold it for 30 K over, had five offers, 13 showings the first day, no inspections, 10k appraisal waiver, closing tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just all over the place. That's I mean. And we're doing some. We are buying, like we're buying some lots right now and building some new constructions and I think those are selling a little bit easier, but the market's just all over the place. I think we need to see the interest rates come down a little bit, which I'm hoping over the next year. We start seeing them tick down and then I think the the buyers are out there somewhere.
Speaker 1:But I'm just being real picky. I mean, we did a couple of flips this year and some went well, some broke even so, you know, like I, just like you said, I'm making a lot of money in the business and I really want to focus on investing in that, putting a lot of money into marketing, into getting systems dialed in. We just hired an HR company they're called Growth Solutions. They've helped a number of businesses scale, so they're helping us get to a point where we can hit the next level. And that's another thing, like if you have a business that you feel like and and jet, who shout out to a dreamers event rentals, um. Jet is one of my coaching clients and I'm helping him try to break the ceiling. Like he's hit the ceiling um in in sales and systems.
Speaker 1:If you, if you feel like you've hit that ceiling in your business, you need to consult with somebody, like he's consulting with me and I'm doing you know more business than him and I'm consulting with somebody else and they've built businesses bigger than mine.
Speaker 1:So don't ever think that you're like too good to be coached, because I coach people and I'm currently getting coached so that I think investing in yourself like we're paying a lot of money every month to these um HR growth specialists just to know what the companies that we aspire to be Like. If I'm trying to get to 20 million in sales they know they've helped build those companies that are similar to mine that are at 20 million in sales and if I'm going to double my revenue, what does that look like without breaking the systems? Because that's what's happened multiple times, where we hit these ceilings and then the systems break and then you have to rebuild and it kind of it happens to everybody and and it kind of it happens to everybody I'm sure you know it happened to you. That's why you had to get a VA. You had to start organizing and putting stuff together. You can only do so much by yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, and that's what I was going to say, um, coming back to your like coaching point, is that, like, at the end of the day, hiring a coach, it doesn't just help you get to the next level, but it helps you get there twice as fast because they've already been there right. And I've been preaching that since you know, the beginning of time, um, and I've never, I've never really paid for mentorships. I've been like off and on, um. You were more of a coach to me. That was kind of more like a mentor, so like in in my way. That's how I see it. But and you did it smart, you basically got it for free yeah, you just gotta.
Speaker 2:You know like weasel your way in there and but that's a real thing.
Speaker 1:I mean you surround yourself with people that are doing what you want to do and, like the, the saying you are the net you know your net worth is the five people you know the average. Like the saying you are the net you know your net worth is the five people you know the average of the five people you surround yourself with. If when I was younger and I was your age, I was doing the same thing. I was attaching myself to people that were doing things that I wanted to do or at places where I want to be and you learn from them and whether you're paying for that or you're paying through, like what I was doing, I was driving people's boats and like learning how these people got so rich that they can hire me as a captain to drive their boat around you. Just, you came to one of my events and asked me can you just roll around with me for a couple weeks? And you weren't, didn't ask for a paycheck. I was telling that to jet the other day.
Speaker 2:I was like chase never asked for a paycheck, he just asked to come learn and you made a couple hundred thousand dollars yeah, 10x my net worth, yeah it was never asked for a paycheck, so well and the thing was like, through all of that, I think like I had, I had seen the coaching stuff and and I've always been big on like the people you hang around here, I am 27. I don't hang out with many 27 year olds because many 27 year olds are not where I want to be at. Right, you know what I mean. So, like the guys like you that are in there like 32, 34, like building businesses, like that's where I want to be at. So why would I hang out with somebody that's, you know, my age or younger Not saying that there's anything wrong with that, and like I don't have to always be around people that are scaling and doing business, but at the end of the day, like, if I want to be better, I'm going to surround myself with those, those people where I want to be at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, totally Um about who.
Speaker 1:You're around and I feel it even when I'm like around some old um friends. Every once in a while you get around some people and you're around, and I feel it even when I'm like around some old friends. Every once in a while you get around some people and you're like there's a reason that we're not like tight anymore. And then you get around the people that are all thinking the same, talking like our group of friends. Everybody's always like scheming in some way, like how can we turn this into a business? And those are the people that drive you to like get to that next level so that and and not only in business and money like physically too, like we, without the group of friends that we have that all train together, there's no fucking way in hell I'd be training for 20 hours a week doing this.
Speaker 2:Iron man, stuff even like. So I went to duck one week and then when I got back you left and so like two weeks I was training by myself and and, um, for the most part, uh, you know, I'd run with sean and ran with benji, but those days when you're by yourself, oh boy, that shit is tough yeah that's.
Speaker 1:that was me in the philippines. I was, I was getting like you know, two hour days in and I'm just sitting there on the treadmill for an hour just running and it's like you're listening to music, you're listening to a podcast or whatever, but I'm like God, this is terrible. So, having the group of friends both to push you mentally, physically, super, super important, getting you know, just get in front of people that you aspire to be like, and your life will change for the better. I think that's, um, I think that's definitely something that a lot of people think that they're stuck with the people that they have around them right now. But you can go, branch out, go to these. We have a shameless plug. We have an event. Go to these. We have a shameless plug. We have an event, two events next week. Fucking Chase decided to plan a second event the day after our July 31st podcast event. 6 to 9, deerco Road, timonium Look it up on Facebook. And then Friday at the new development that we just built, 1428 Hull Street Yep.
Speaker 2:Five to nine baby.
Speaker 1:Five to nine, just throwing a house party at a house we just built Back to back. Thanks for all the sponsors for those events. We couldn't do it without it. These events are you said it to me in a text these events are a pain to plan. They're expensive. There's a lot of moving parts. You got to figure out how many people are coming, how much food you need, how much alcohol you need, how many. You know it's a.
Speaker 2:It's a lot behind it too. Just the marketing alone is a full-time job. Like I'm up till 10, 10, 30, 11 o'clock last night making banners for the sponsors and you know, marketing and pushing this event out. It's like man dude, like doing this in two weeks.
Speaker 1:That's a tough job, yeah yeah, luckily, with the podcast events I've kind of like come into like a rhythm, but this one's now at a different location. So there's, you know, logistics that had to be changed and, um, people you have to deal with and order food. But shout out to all the people that have helped. Like we have um mike grith, who's been on the podcast a couple of times. He represents Albers and Associates law firm and Mid-Atlantic Title. They're hosting and sponsoring. Brian Valdivia, with Beltway Lending, is a big sponsor. That's one of our platinum sponsors and they've all helped not only financially but by pushing out the event and making videos without even us asking, marketing it online. So I'm hoping this next event is a big one.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you this, ryan, because you guys have been recording this podcast for four plus years, right? Why did you start the event and why do you continue to do the event Like? Why do we continue to do the events? Because, like again, we don't make any money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we definitely don't make any money.
Speaker 1:And we're, and we're doing these events, we're bringing everybody together, so like so I shouldn't say that we don't make money because it's hard and this is one of the reasons that we've just got this new CRM and all that for the construction company. I can't quantify how much money I've made through the events because every one, almost every single event, a client has come out of or a connection has come out of. So, like the events, this podcast, it costs money. Like we pay Eric several hundred dollars a month, we pay for the platforms. I pay carl to edit the, the podcast. We have all this equipment. We have to buy new mic stands. You know this shit's breaking. We had to buy the table that came in too small. We have this space in the office. Um, it nets negative amount of money and hopefully soon we get, you know, full-time sponsors. Now we're getting two million clicks and views a month on average between the platforms. But it's really about the connections and I I truly believe that, like there are people that listen I know this for a fact because they've hit me up and they'd be like I got inspired by this story that this person told, or you told, or when you talk to Chase about this house, that you lost money. I related to that and then that person was like oh hey, I also just got this house. Can you sell it or can you fix it or whatever. So the events we could sit here and talk in front of cameras all day.
Speaker 1:But bringing people together, I think, is just a powerful and a good thing to do for the community.
Speaker 1:And I think if you ask a lot of people in the real estate investment community, if they know who you are, they know who I am or they know who Nick is. Most people know who we are and a big part of that is because of the podcast and because of the events and the podcast in general. Like you know, I have direct competition that are competitors of mine that have been on the podcast before multiple and I love that Like. I think that that's like a a cool way to talk to other people doing the same thing, even if they're competitors. Talk to other people doing the same thing, even if they're competitors. We get to learn from them. Sure, maybe somebody listens to whoever I have on that owns a property management company and they might use them instead of me. But I think the value of like bringing that person together and masterminding and putting it out there for all these people to listen to is more valuable to me than the money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the collaboration, the learning I mean for me, like I had gotten stationed here back in 2020 and I hadn't like put myself out there.
Speaker 2:As far as, like going to events, I was just, you know, did the retail thing as an agent. So, like, when I went to your event, it was because of Marcus and he told me to you know, come on, you know come to the event and come out. And then I ended up winning a TV. And then I was like, all right, this guy's doing what I want to do and that's how you, you know you get in with people. And so, like, if you're listening to this and you're in the in the local area, you're new, thinking about getting into investing, or you're just somebody that is a hustler, like you should come out to the event network with the people. You don't even have to really talk to that many people, just talk to a couple of people and you'll find your way, you know, again with you'll go to the next event and you'll see those same people. And then it's like, hey, now you're building your little small network.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah, it's cool too, like no-transcript, rsvp'd um and it's free. It's not like a sales or gimmicky thing. A lot of these events you go to I feel like they sit you down, they try to sell you something like a fucking timeshare, you kind of like scam um, where this is literally just a three hour happy hour. We we provide drinks, food, and I'm not. I talk for less than five minutes on the mic and all I'm doing is really thanking the sponsors and giving stuff away. I'm not like sitting there telling everybody to use my business or whatever. So, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:I think it's a way that I feel like you know you need to give back too. It feels good to like have these, host these events and do these things and educate people. I was a teacher for nine years, so like that, I think this like scratches that itch um of giving back and helping people and it's so rewarding. Every time, like jet or somebody else that I've helped, even just on a phone call or a consultation, says like hey, dude, I did what you said and it did this for me, or this happened, and that's. I mean that's cool. Like you know, you were um working a full-time job for the government and then within a year we're able to quit your job, make more money than you would ever made for the government, and you didn't really have to, uh, spend all that much time. You just put in't really have to uh, spend all that much time. You just put in the. I mean spend all that much money, you put in the time and the effort and it paid off and that's.
Speaker 2:I think that's um, you know, you're my, you're my protege and the protege of the podcast events so I mean that's why I kind of asked that question, is because to me it it means a little bit more um, because I like I said I was a newbie, I didn't didn't know what to do. And I mean I knew what to do but I just didn't take action. And like I finally got around people that were taking action, um, but again, like you said, it's not anything where you have to come pay sit down, get taught a lesson or anything like that.
Speaker 1:There's nothing wrong with that if someone's providing real value. You know what I mean. So I hate those events though that like that's just like a rich dude up there that's talking about how they got rich and how, like you know, like I don't want to hate on like the andy elliott's of the world, but like it's just him yelling at people and saying I'm fucking rich and ripped and if you don't do all these things, you'll never be like me. That's kind of like the vibe that I get from a lot of these people. And you know some people need a different um perspective. Some people just need to have a simple conversation with somebody over you know, a beer or something at these events to to really change their trajectory. They don't need somebody sitting up there lecturing them or yelling at them. And, um, I think the events I w I would love to know there's I think it's impossible to know or figure out, but like how much business has been conducted at all, like the entirety of our quarterly events we do for a year.
Speaker 1:Like how many millions of dollars has traded hands over these events. Like justin sold houses. Like he's out there selling houses and like putting, he's like you got a house to sell. He's like, hang on one second, he walks over here and he's selling it to somebody. So it would be impossible to figure out. But, um, there are. I would confidently say there has been millions of dollars transacted from the events, like a hundred percent, without, without any uncertainty. So that's why we do it, that's why we do the podcast. Um, the the podcast has been a slow and steady grind for a long time. Um, we brought you on as a host, uh, six months ago or something like that, and, um, it's been going really well. Now, people are listening. They were getting a lot of views. Um, we made $92 off of Facebook last month.
Speaker 2:Let's go you just you getting made fun of, right, yeah, and that and that is funny.
Speaker 1:So, for everybody out there, please roast me in the comments, because it seems like every time that one of my videos goes viral, it's always of me getting roasted. It's never of fucking Chase or Nick saying something stupid. It's always me saying something stupid or sounding like an asshole and then it gets 2 million views in a day and all these people are just making fun of me in the comments and I eventually stopped reading the comments, but some of them are actually hysterical and, um, that's what makes us the most money. All the all the videos that go viral because of the people that are hating on me in the comments. Um, and sometimes I'll sit in bed and scroll through them and be like, wow, this is a good one, like when the guy that said he bought I bought my boat on Timu or something like that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean we've gotten over the course of the last six months, we've gained over 20,000 subscribers between Facebook, instagram and youtube, so there are people that are listening and watching. Um, and yeah, it's, it's been. I mean, in the beginning we were doing it and if we got like seven watches on a or listens on a podcast, we're like sick. Seven people heard us now we're like two million a month on. Just I mean, just facebook alone has been doing over two million a month, which is cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is super cool.
Speaker 1:I mean and shout out to eric, because he's been grinding, and carl, um, both of them been grinding and helping us get out all these clips and different videos and short forms and I think that's truly helped a lot yeah, it's, but it's a it's a full-time, like it's a full time job to get this content, like we have to go pack the van and drive to Maine in a couple hours. But I was like dude, we have to do a podcast tonight because if we don't upload something and have these clips for next week, our viewers going to go down and we're not going to be in that algorithm, in that you know and you know the social media game.
Speaker 2:It's all about consistency.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you're not posting every week, every day, you're out of the algorithm and that's it, yeah, so let me pick your brain real quick.
Speaker 2:Talking about social media was going back and forth with Sean yesterday. I was like, dude, I'm and this is free game for you guys right here, coach Ryan I'm and this is free game for you guys right here, coach Ryan, I'm gonna give you free game right now. So I'm talking to Sean the other day and I'm, like you know, adding up all my just my business expenses, right, and this is going to sound like pennies to you, little smackles it's four thousand dollars a month, right? So I'm paying fifteen hundred dollars for a VA. I'm paying a thousand dollars a month for um, video and content 12 pieces of content and then I have like a slew of different subscriptions.
Speaker 2:You know whether that's MLS, dues, crms, whatever, Right? So I'm like dude, I don't know what I'm spending, like this is a lot of money. Like I feel like I need to cut back a little bit and I don't know if I just like started being like, oh hey, like let's do this, let's do that, and started spending a slew of money. However, the $1,000 a month towards video to me feels like that's my prospecting, that's my marketing and that's kind of where my marketing budget's going so I was like I don't really know where to cut back, or if I should cut back or if I should keep going, and just like four thousand dollars a month is nothing to bat an eye at, like people could live off of that yeah, but you really have to look at it as like, uh, what's your projected return on investment?
Speaker 1:like, do you believe? Like I truly believe video is the future, the short clips that you make, like I'm pissed that you stopped doing the Ironman videos, because I think that was a thing that would have taken off. I still myself, after doing multiple Ironman races, watch other people's journey, so I don't think that you should cut back on that at all. I think, if anything, you should lean more into the video. You've already gotten traction in social media and other ways dancing on tiktok like a fool when you're younger. But the the short answer is is like you need to track what you're making and how you're making it, and I'm just now starting to do this better than before with BuilderTrend and tracking where the leads are coming from. And $4,000 a month if you're making. Even if you're making only $6,000 a month and you're in the positive, it's really based on what you need to live and everybody has a different threshold right. Like and and the hard part is it's that lifestyle creep. That's the hard part Like, if I'm, if I could make, if I was making the money that I'm making now and living the lifestyle I lived 10 years ago, I would have so much more money. The lifestyle creep is hard. You know, when you're making more money, you tend to spend more money. So I would say, like that's going to be the thing that I think you got to focus on the most is, like, for a certain amount of time, instead of thinking about cutting back because you can only save so much, you can make an unlimited amount. I think you got to just realize, okay, this is how much I need to live, and like, if you're, if you're saying like, okay, $4,000 a month is what I'm using to run my business and I'm making $10,000 a month, I'm 6,000 a month in the positive and you need only 4,000 a month or 5,000 a month to. I would say, take whatever you can live off minimally and invest the rest into the business and start building it that way. And I think that a lot of people are just scared to invest in themselves.
Speaker 1:Where, the way that I did it, I just jumped in the deep end. I'm like on that ready fire, aim or aim fire, aim ready kind of thing, like you, I just like started doing these, these things and then they scaled and then you just have no choice but to like feed the machine, like you got to keep feeding the machine, and now we have so much overhead. You know I'm spending well over a half a million dollars a month on overhead. Just between materials, labor, you know, um, like you said, subscriptions, softwares, whatever I mean it it's between five and $700,000 a month that we pay out. So, like that happened over time. But if I don't, if, if I, if you can't stop it, or you're just like you got to sell it and like I have to keep grinding now, like it's just at a different scale where if, like I don't get the next job, I still have to pay that money. So I think you have to really like say this is what I'm, like, I'm all in, I'm going to do this and whatever, whether it's $1,000 a month that you're going to start spending or $500,000 a month, you just have to know, okay, I have, this is how much I need to live. I need to pay my mortgage, I need to pay my whatever my car, my gas, my food, my for my baby, whatever it is. You know you figure out that number and everybody has a different goal. I think that's another thing too. Like you have to set goals. Like not everybody wants to live the way that I live. Like I live in a constant state of stress all the time.
Speaker 1:I will say, though, the last two weeks uh, 10 days I was on vacation in asia and I didn't have access to call, like nobody could call me. And I came back today and I drove around with Chauncey for a little while Shout out to Chauncey for really stepping up while I was gone and Adam, who took my phone both my phone numbers for two weeks almost, and my whole business didn't go on fire. Like I came home and Chauncey drove me around this morning and we went and saw projects that he started and finished while I was away and he texts, you know I was in contact with everybody via text, but I wasn't answering them until like the next day because it was like if it's, you know, 9 am here, it's 9 pm there. So my two-week test I think we talked about this on the last podcast it went fairly well, like people stepped up and did their job, and sure, there were problems Jocelyn being out on maternity right now I had some stuff that I had to deal with while in the Philippines it's funny like even my Filipino assistant was with me on. He was on vacation too, so, like person who handles my emails and you know Carl who helps out a lot with a lot of things, and Clara was on her American time Um, so that um, two week test I think was is a really good thing to do when you have a business.
Speaker 1:That's like question. It's questionable whether you work for the business or you're working on the business, because I still work for my business very much like still very much involved working, um, and everybody has the goal to just be like the ceo. But I left for for two weeks and and the stuff didn't completely go on fire. So I think that was, uh, that was a good test and I suggest anybody that has a business test it, maybe even for just a week. See, like can I? And and I think it's a question you can just ask yourself like could you leave for a week with all the things you have and everything be okay and everything be okay? Because I didn't think it would go as well as it did.
Speaker 1:I think what I also did well was on the front end using AI. I was talking to my chat, my chat GPT app, for the whole week leading up to me leaving, I was talking to it every day, telling it who I was talking to, what projects we were doing, where we were at in the different projects. So it was like learning. And then at the end of the week, right before I left, I was like summarize all the things that I've been telling you that where we're at in projects and communication and this and that and give me like a basic outline and I outlined every project, where we were at, what materials needed to be ordered, what was ordered, who to contact If this happens. Contact this person. If this happens, contact this person. And all of the people here got that email and they followed those instructions and it took me a lot of time on the front end to set that up, but the people that followed it it it went fairly well.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that was a big test. Um, to kind of like like wrap up and recap what you were saying is like knowing your expenses is huge on your lifestyle side. Minimize lifestyle creep and work a little bit harder, um, make more money. But again, it is hard too when you are hanging out with more successful people and they're on a different lifestyle than you and you know like that. Yeah, it makes it a little difficult when they buy a ten thousand dollar bike and then tell you you need to buy a ten thousand dollar bike. It's motivation, just like the sign in the bathroom here at the office.
Speaker 1:yeah, it's motivation, but no, it is. It's very hard and I think it's a serious thing. Like you, um, you know you surround yourself with more successful people. You're gonna see them spend more money on things, and you have to have the self-discipline and the control over your own wants and say, no, I'm not there yet. Right, like I, if I was two years ago, wouldn't have I wouldn't have a race car, I wouldn't have bought a BMW and joined that, that race car club that I'm in.
Speaker 1:If this was two years ago, I well, I did have a boat two years ago. Maybe five years ago I wouldn't have bought a boat. Now I can afford a boat comfortably, but if, if that was going to stress out like my, my life with my wife and being able to pay for my expenses, then you can't do it. You have to. So you have to really have some self control and I think, people, it's hard when you start making some money to not spend it on the fun stuff and really invest.
Speaker 1:Like I spent seven years running this business, tyler and I, and every day was where we see all this money coming in and going out and we feel broke, like we felt broke for seven years and then it, you know, it grew to a point where we were like, at one point we were like, okay, now we can.
Speaker 1:I don't want to say fuck off, but now we can do, we can have a little bit of fun, we can go on these vacations, we can fly first class, we can do the the. You know we're not necessarily buying private jets, but we are doing the things that we want to do and it's not affecting my baseline life that I need to pay for, and you know. So it's hard and and I think I've done it with I've hung out with people that and still do hang out with people that have a lot more money than I do, and I see what they're doing, and then I'm trying to be like them, and then I'm finding myself spending more money, like I probably shouldn't have bought a race car, like that was a stupid thing, but it's something that I did and I'm having fun doing it. So it is what it is, but I think everybody's got to figure out their threshold, their risk tolerance. Um, like I don't have kids yet. I, you know, like I don't really have a lot of like necessary expenses in my life.
Speaker 2:So I'm I'm able to, uh, you know, have a little bit of fun, but I think that's uh yeah, there's a good, there's like a there's a hard line to find, but there is a balance in there and you got to have a little bit of fun because if you don't reward yourself like, you do get burnt out and that's a. That's a big thing and I know you've experienced it. I've experienced it before, um, so like that's one thing. But kind of like going back to you know what I was asking about that I was like that is one thing that I do believe. Like so with social media is like I do want to double down and that's something I told myself this year, like I'm going to go hard at. And I kept saying last year I was going to start social media and I didn't get back on my grind. And finally, this year I'm spending a thousand dollars a month to have my videographer follow me around and you know, come up with content, ideas and we're strategizing. And she was just with me today and I'm going to shoot, you know, content at Mike, with Mike Donovan at whole street and um coming out with all this content.
Speaker 2:I'm I'm doing this new uh million dollar um house series where I'm going and touring. Did you see any of this, dude? Some of these houses are crazy, like I don't even need to talk over them, like they're just that nice and it's cool. Dude, I like me and you are very similar and I think a lot of the people we hang out with are very similar to like. We'll go to a different state and we're like driving past and we're like yo look at that house, like that house is sick and we just like, like the architecture, we like houses um real estate in general, so it's going to be super cool. I'm going to be posting that stuff just on Tik TOK and then doing more like hyperlocal stuff on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I think. I mean, I think people just like seeing the, the story and like the real life, like the IR, what is it called?
Speaker 2:The IRL, the IRL, irl, boomer.
Speaker 1:Like I like that content, like I like watching YouTube videos of people that are doing the stuff that I'm doing, even if it's at a lower level or a higher level than me Like I just like seeing it. And I think the content that you put out there is, like I've said it a million times, like your living resume and it gets people to know you, to connect with you. And I truly believe that the online world, the social media world, is, and a lot of people hate on it, but it is the future. Like all of our kids, you know the people that are growing up I mean you met your wife on TikTok like our generation, like that generation, especially the generation coming up, are living on their phones online. All they're doing is scrolling content.
Speaker 1:If you're a face that's familiar, I mean look at the Paul's Logan and Jake Paul. Like they started on vine and they started making nine, eight second videos or whatever vine was, and now they're buying $40 million ranches and traveling the world in private jets. Like that all started because of social media. So all the people that hate on the videos that we post and whatever make fun of us for um, posting this stuff, they're just haters and you know, I, I think you gotta especially you, because you already had traction and know what you could do, like, what your potential could be, just in a different, like realm, instead of dancing for little girls yeah, don't say like that on the podcast dude well that's what you were doing.
Speaker 1:You're dancing for young girls and not that you're. You know like. That's what tiktok was. You were doing it and you did it and you were successful at it. Now you're just changing tracks to dancing for little boys oh yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:It'll be in houses, just house tours, and there's no dancing anymore. Um, but yeah, yeah, it's. The other thing is like you get, you get paid, you could get paid to advertise yourself, right, and like I think that's the coolest part. But what you said is the living resume and the being able to connect with people like know and trust you, like they follow you. They start watching your stuff and then they're like I like this guy something resonates or something doesn't, and they don't follow you. They start watching your stuff and then they're like oh, I like this guy something resonates or something doesn't and they don't follow you right like yeah and then they're.
Speaker 1:You're just not meant to kind of be in their network or whatever, so you just put the, put the stuff out in the world and if the people that want to be around you or want to hear about what you're doing, they're going to listen and the people that aren't aren't and I think a lot of it just getting past the. I'm okay being in front of a camera and putting myself out there. You know, it's just like the vulnerability of putting myself out there, Like I'm not just telling success stories. Like we talked about how I lost 90 plus thousand dollars on a flip and I hope somebody learns that from that lesson. You know, and I don't want to sit here and just be a guru, we want to talk about our real life.
Speaker 1:Like you know, we flipped a house recently that basically broke. Even if not I haven't even figured out the numbers we might've lost a couple thousand bucks and we just sat there for six months with interest payments and like it's not all like rainbows and butterflies and I think people like telling people that and showing people the way. Um, cause, everybody can be on social media and say how successful they are. Right, it's like or you could fake it or you could fake it, Right. The people that are renting Lamborghinis, whatever.
Speaker 2:Um, that's not the type of content I want to put out. So, it's all like you know, behind the scenes. That's, that's the, that's the kind of content that I've transitioned to. Is like yo, let's talk real life, the things that have happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So before we wrap up because we do need to wrap up and go pack this van I do want to shout out all of the sponsors for this next event and we can clip this and hopefully put this out there for everybody. So we have All Masters Inc. Electrician they have been a longtime electrician. There have been a long time electrician for us. They also have all masters uh apparel, which is uh. Both of them have been sponsors. Shore united bank. Diligent window um, the fact, the fact that the bank is sponsoring us is cool, like my bank, our bank, they're sponsoring. Shout out to Eric for that. Diligent Window. Supply. Seth and Andrew. Thank you to them. Intrepid Insurance they just hit us up on Facebook and asked to be a sponsor. Never met the guy Paul Messini, I think his name is, so shout out to him. Shameless PE Home Remodeling sponsor. Shameless Cancer.
Speaker 2:Group of five realty sponsor.
Speaker 1:There it is albers and associates and mid-atlantic title, both um owned by ross albers. Um, they have been awesome to us, sending us to suites and games and all all over the place beltway lending brian valdivia. Shout out to brian for not only sponsoring all the events but also just like posting about him. All his um employees are posting. He's sending out mass emails about it. So shout out to brian. He's always been an awesome dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um and there's there. They're another company that's really good with social media too yeah, and they have.
Speaker 1:They do funny shit. I love it. They do funny shit, which is awesome. Old republic title um, they are with mid-atlantic title in some way. I think they're the underwriters. Perry with toss it um studio, a staging, has always been um a sponsor, long-time sponsor, current cabinetry, unlimited plumbing who's just our plumbing company that we use, that we've been using for almost 10 years now. Um, I think that's. And also uh to jet jet with dreamers event rentals. He's um hooking up some tables and stuff for us at our next event. So all these people um, thank you for everybody that you know puts the money up to for us to host these events, because I mean, they cost thousands and thousands of dollars you know to to host and we appreciate everybody and um come to the next event. Hopefully we can get this out before, before it. It's July 31st, the let's, let's say the actual location.
Speaker 2:Yeah, while you're looking that up, I'm going to go ahead and plug the whole street event. Super awesome launch party. We have come in the cancer group it's putting this together. Um, it's not just me, it's my team. So shout out to sean cairo, um, a couple other people that are helping um put this together, and kristen, my wife, um, she's been a big help too. Um, but it's ryan's um development, him and Tyler, and then Troy and Lance who are the other developers. You guys are the builders Did multi-million dollars in development. They already pre-sold once. One closed already. It was one of the highest sold houses in Locust Point in like three or four years. So the whole street house that will be the model house that'll be for sale. Come through with a party. I'm going to have small bites a bartender there, because we're classy, ryan. We're going to have a rooftop DJ. We're going to make it a Cake stands, maybe Athletic brewing cake stands yeah athletic brewing cake stands for sure.
Speaker 2:And then you'll be able to tour the house if you're an investor. The reason I really wanted to push this on here is because if you're an investor, you get to come through not only see the house that's complete, but you'll get to walk to the back house on a harbor and see that one that's still in progress and kind of get the feel what that development looks like. But then they can ask the builders questions, and they can ask the developers questions Like they can ask me questions, Like, if you're an agent, come through and ask me how I built relationship with builders and how the process looks Right. Like all of these things are really cool, really important and they're they're really big projects.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that that um, quick like story that that was an old mechanic shop that we that spanned two blocks, and Tyler I can't take credit for this he had the idea of subdividing it and building four townhomes and he did it and it was a huge undertaking millions and millions of dollars put up. But yeah, so come to that event, come see it. I'm happy to share the stories. Honestly, you'd probably have better off talking to Tyler when we're there, because he did most of the heavy lifting there. I just yelled at him every time that we were behind on payments with the bank. So the podcast event is Thursday, July 31st at 9515 Deer Co Road, Lutherville, Timonium. That is free, free food, open bar. Um, we're given doing giveaways. Albers and associates and middleland title are giving away some of the sweet tickets for the capitals game, the ravens games tickets. So that'll be cool. And then um the whole street event at 1428 whole street in locust point.
Speaker 1:That's baltimore 21230 I'm not sure on zips yeah, well, I think it's 21230, but whole street right in locust point um. Come see what we did the houses that chase is selling, that we built um.
Speaker 2:We'll also have some raffles and two um all version. Associates did give us two tickets to the ravens game um as well, to raffle off.
Speaker 1:So there you go. Keep on giving all right guys until next time. Thank you for listening.
