Hey guys, welcome to the homework assignment podcast where it is our assignment to find
the balance between work life and home life.
I'm your host, RJ Patino.
Today I'm here with my lovely wife.
Hi, I'm Ashtyn Patino.
Today what we want to do is give you guys a rundown of what this entire podcast is going
to entail.
We have a lot of amazing information, amazing advice and discussions that we're going to
be able to provide for you guys.
We're going to cover topics such as fitness and health, business, startups or whether
you have a business and you're looking to scale it.
We're going to talk about relationships, both personal between boyfriend, girlfriend, husband,
wife, relationships with your children, how to parent and also relationships with the
outside world.
We're going to talk about social media.
We're going to talk about everything that literally you need to do, not just in work
but as well as at home for yourself in order to get to where you want to be and reach your
goals.
The way that we're going to start this off is we're first going to give you guys a little
bit of background about us, who we are, who I am and what we do.
Again, I'm RJ Patino.
I am the CEO and founder of Elder Contracting.
What we do is we specialize in residential and commercial construction and remodeling.
The journey that I have been through, that my lovely wife has been through with me by
my side and some of my closest friends which are in the room.
We got Kyle, our producer, Mikey, co-producer, co-host and it's just been a crazy ride.
We've had a lot of ups, we've had a lot of downs.
There's been times where we weren't sure if we were doing what we were supposed to do.
We weren't sure if we were actually going to make it where we wanted to go.
We just want to share that story with you guys.
In order to understand that story, first I need to bring you back to my childhood and
what my life was a little bit like.
I grew up in a household of six siblings.
I am the oldest.
I'm currently 28 years old and I have five younger siblings.
I have three sisters and two brothers.
Growing up, I would say I had an amazing life.
I didn't have very many hardships.
My dad was a business owner himself.
His main trade was in the mechanical and vehicle industry, the tire shop, the mechanic shop.
I was able to grow up during my summers and most of my breaks I would go and work with
him and I learned a lot of my ethics.
I learned a lot of my discipline and I guess money knowledge as well from watching my dad
run that shop, him giving me certain responsibilities.
My work ethic definitely was built and established during that as well as sports.
I played a lot of sports.
Football was my main sport.
I did BMX for a while.
I was a lot better at BMXing than football, but football was more of a dream for me.
I learned a lot of amazing lessons in how to work with people as well through those
sports.
Fast forward a little bit into 2008 when the economy really took a hit.
My father was struggling with his business and come to find out at this point, he was
acting a little weird and we found out that he was a heavy drug abuser and he had been
this way for many years before we had even found out or it hadn't actually portrayed
itself.
I definitely know it portrayed itself because of the economy and everything that was happening
in my dad's business.
He was a lot more stressed and he ended up just getting a lot worse.
During that time as well, I was in high school.
I was a sophomore and I had a lot going on and I was trying to figure out how to plan
my life like most kids do in high school, trying to figure out where they're going to
go in the next few years.
With that on that side as well, it made it very difficult for me to even see what the
future was going to entail.
Luckily, I have amazing friends so I was able to distract myself from my home life at that
point.
Then come to find out also my mom was also a heavy drug user but she did a lot better
because she didn't portray it at home.
She would do it when we were asleep, take her pills or whatever she was doing.
My dad was actually starting to do it and playing sight in public during the day.
It didn't matter what time he'd come to my football games and be completely just out
of his mind trying to get onto the field.
I remember my coach telling me one time, hey, your dad can't come to anymore games.
Anyways, long story short, we'll cover a lot more of that detail a little bit throughout
every podcast as the topics come up.
Yeah, it was a very interesting situation.
Most of my high school life or period of my high school, there was a lot of home struggle
going on and trying to figure out what I was going to do.
I got hurt in football.
I didn't really care to play college football but that's kind of the only thing I had going
for me.
My dad was a big sports guy so that was where we wanted to head.
Then I had also planned on taking over the family business.
I felt like I had a decent plan but when we lost the shop, lost our home and we had to
go live with the aunts and stuff until we could get some stuff figured out.
I had that disappear and then I ripped partially, had three partial tears in a few of my ligaments
in my ankle my senior year, my third game into the season.
I wasn't able to play the rest of the season.
Got another cool story there with my friend Mikey that I would love to explain a little
bit later.
It was definitely an interesting ride and an emotional one for sure.
I got on a path that I didn't really want to be on, that I never wanted to be on, a
path that I am ashamed of.
I didn't like a lot of the things that I became, a lot of the things that I was doing, a lot
of the decisions I was making.
When I ended high school to about 21 years old I just had my odd phase of partying and
living a very interesting lifestyle.
Me and my friends from high school, we all did it together.
There still was a little bit of comfortability there I think for all of us at that time in
our lives trying to figure out what we were doing with ourselves.
Point in time came, which I think it does for most people, you finally figure out who
you want to be and you finally get that motivation and that drive to actually change.
One of the things I had to do for myself, which weighs heavily on the religion I believe
in, is I felt and wanted to for myself go and serve a mission for my church.
I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and so for me that had
always also been a plan was to go on a mission and since I kind of came off that path I was
like okay I need to go back, I need to realign myself with my beliefs and my core values.
I basically dropped where I was, who I was hanging out with for the most part, so kept
in contact with a few friends and I moved into a stranger's house out in San Tane Valley
for those of you that live in Arizona.
I moved in with a guy named David Phillips, he is like a father figure to me today, great
mentor and lived with him for about eight months.
At first it was very awkward and weird but I could tell he cared for me, I could tell
he loved me and he wanted only the best for me.
So I worked with him, I followed him, I listened to his counsel and advice and I ended up changing
my life.
There was still some stuff that I definitely had to work on but I got myself to a point
where I was actually getting on a plane to go to South America where I was called to
serve a mission in Santiago, Chile and I went and served that mission for two years.
That was an amazing experience in itself, again a lot of hardships, I learned a lot
of lessons, I learned how to persevere, I learned how to push myself to limits I didn't
think were possible yet again.
Which was kind of cool because I think once I got off that path of sports and having that
family business and being the older sibling and once I got off that path I was able to
you know, one it's like practice right, you have to practice to make something perfect
and so when you practice mental toughness constantly obviously you get better and better
and then when you let go of it it's kind of like the gym if you start working out, if
you're heading to the gym you start working out for a day the old saying is hey every
day you miss in the gym is a week of progress lost, it's kind of that same thing.
So I went years, stopped, I had stopped practicing that mental toughness and then going on my
mission I realized wow I had really regressed and I was able to actually work on that again
which was phenomenal.
People in my opinion think or at least people who are going to serve a mission they think
it's about hey you know my main part of my mission is to go and help other people and
that is a huge part of it if not one of the main pieces to the mission but the other part
of it is that you end up working on yourself, you end up finding all the little things that
you don't like about yourself that you want to work on that you want to change and you're
able to have the time and you're able to focus on that because one of the things that our
religion teaches and something that I'm really big on is that you have to work on yourself
first before you can help other people because if you are trying to help other people whether
it's good intention or not and you're not okay yourself you're only going to hurt yourself
more and you're not really going to help them as much as you're wanting to even if you hurt
them if at all at that point.
So it's really important to you know I had to cleanse myself, I had to clean the inner
vessel before I could actually make a difference in the world which is something I've always
wanted to do.
Love helping people, I love working with people and so yeah two years of that was fantastic.
I kept in contact with Kyle, Mikey and a few other people and obviously my family had a
lot of struggles going back home going on back home and that was also really hard seeing
certain things transpire and I wasn't able to be there to kind of have my family out.
So anyways fast forward come home from my mission and well actually let me back up.
So while I was on my mission just about a couple months before heading home I had plans
to go to Utah.
I had signed up for LDS business college and I was going to get a degree in business management.
I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I didn't know what I wanted to do exactly but I definitely
wanted to be an entrepreneur.
So I had those plans, I had potential plans to move in into a room or share a room with
a roommate for my mission and then about a month before I was going to come home or get
on the plane to leave my mission I felt like I really needed to just go back home.
So I ended up doing that and then when I got off the plane to the airport I saw and again
so I had been in communication with my family I knew there were some harsh hits but I wasn't
nobody was kind of letting me know what was going on.
I think they wanted to keep me separated they didn't want me to worry because I was 17 hours
on a plane away from them.
So I get off the plane and I remember walking through the terminal or whatever and I see
my little brother he's yards away from my family like as close as he can get to me but
without crossing the security threshold and he's like crying just really excited to see
me and it was awesome.
I remember seeing everybody and then I remember looking at my mom and I remember seeing my
mom looking just the worst I had ever seen her just completely sick.
I didn't quite know what it was but come to find out a few days later she was still heavily
addicted addicted to drugs we had thought that she had kind of stopped that while I
was on that mission.
So I noticed that right away and called her out on it.
That was a tough experience.
She fought that quite a bit but we were able to get her to rehab.
So before I explain that a little bit of the picture talk a little bit about how I met
my wife because I was kind of in between there.
So basically from the time I got off the plane I think I got back on a Tuesday if I remember
correctly and that Sunday we do what's called a homecoming talk.
So I get up on a pulpit and I got 15 minutes to talk about my mission explain who I am
because I haven't seen these people in two years and there's probably a lot of new people
that have come to ward and I get to talk about my experience and what I've learned and share
my testimony of my faith.
And on that pulpit I looked down in the third row just to the right a little bit was the
Jobe family and my wife was sitting there looking all beautiful and I remember feeling really
anxious and I love love public speaking I was pretty good at it and I don't know if
I choke or anything but I remember trying to keep my line my mind aligned on my talk
because all I want to do was just keep looking over at her to see if she's looking at me.
And yeah so after that talk I did not approach her I was a little weak on that point mostly
because I was like I'm not going to be like the typical stereotype come home and get married
in two months even though that's exactly what happened.
I ignored her right after that I didn't want to go talk to her and a couple days later
I get a DM on Instagram saying hey I'm Ashtyn and I saw you give your homecoming talk and
-I think you're really cute and -I asked you on a date -yeah she basically asked me out so well she did she did ask me
out she sent my DMs asking out and I said yes and two months later got on a knee at
a lantern festival and proposed to her.
Yeah top three scariest moments in my life and she said no I'm just kidding she said
yes I thought she was going to say no but she did say yes I don't know why but she
did and so yeah then four months later we got married I did marry her in high school
I think that's a very important piece of the puzzle of our lives and we got a little bit
of backlash on that a little bit of judgment but for us we were just in love I loved her
and there was no point in waiting I wanted to start a family with her and I needed her
by my side to be able to reach and achieve my goals I knew that right off the bat it's
kind of true because I always tell her and I don't know how this makes her feel because
one she's stunningly gorgeous you guys can see that but I saw her potential and that's
what mostly attracted me to her I saw a little bit of a glimpse of the future of what she
was going to become and what we were going to become together and that is what really
drove me my attraction towards her and she in the last four years of the marriage over
four years and I mean just watching that potential unfold and seeing those, I mean she's already
reached the potential that I actually saw and now she's beyond that and I'm just like
really excited to see I mean she's 22 I'm 28 so we've only been married four years
and just knowing like in this four years that she's reached her potential I'm just so excited
to see what we're going to be able to accomplish together so yes we got married and a few months
later we found out we were pregnant with our first daughter. Nova and that was an interesting
pregnancy if you want to talk a little bit about it.
I was sick the whole pregnancy so that was not fun and then I towards the end of the
pregnancy I had retained a lot of water so I just was uncomfortable constantly my hips
hurt it was just a very uncomfortable time in pregnancy.
And she's had four knee surgeries that's super important so she has really bad knees two
on each knee and she still has problems she'll be walking and her knee will pop out of place
or dislocate.
Either way it hurts her a lot and it's really really sad to watch and so that did not help
right.
No yeah just all my knees and hips and feet are all kind of messed up so I made the pregnancy
a little bit worse and then we had to have an emergency c-section with her so that was
just an addition to that pregnancy.
Yeah so that labor was about 26 hours and I'm getting all this information right guys
because this is like our 80th take on this podcast so I've been able to be I've been
corrected a lot that I'll put it that way so 26 hour labor and there is a picture somewhere
on Instagram of me sleeping.
I was very very tired and stressed and that is not saying obviously she had the worst
thing in the world but I do feel bad for sleeping but I do think it's kind of a funny memory.
I don't know if that's a stereotype of dads falling asleep on their wives during labor but
I was definitely that guy so I even tried to drink a lot of caffeine for my second baby
and I think I fell asleep with Atheena too but we'll get to that part in here in a minute
but anyways so yeah 26 hours of labor they had tried breaking the water and so there
wasn't any liquid in the placenta with my daughter and she was losing oxygen and her
heart rate was dropping kind of like a wave and they because they gave me pitosis the
contractions were stronger so that was also making her lose oxygen so they did an emergency
c-section second scariest moment of my life.
Anyways yeah she's healthy now she's adorable she has her mom's attitude so I get walked
over every day of my life by all three of my girls so that's lovely and fun for me and
my wallet does go missing from time to time.
Athena brought it to me this morning actually she goes here and I was like oh that's my
wallet was thank you and yeah 18 months after that we well a few months later we got pregnant
again and so 18 months after that we had Atheena and Atheena is what her pregnancy was another
emergency c-section but we knew the c-section might happen so we were a lot more mentally
prepared for it and again I think I fell asleep during that pregnancy too did I?
I don't know.
We'll leave it at that I did not she doesn't remember so we're gonna go so it's the first
thing she hasn't remembered in four years of my marriage to her so that's fantastic
and Athena was born she's adorable big bug eyes very very extremely ultimately sensitive
very sensitive I don't know if I can say that enough but she, she has the sweetest heart
in the world -Yes shes so sweet - and if you even look at her like you're mad at her she will break down in a plethora
of tears and which I guess is a little manipulative at sometimes -no -in my opinion she's too young
to do it my wife says but she knows she knows I swear she knows because you can't just help
but love her and she just gets what she wants but anyways I think she's really smart so
but yeah those are our two daughters and they're fantastic and so our oldest is three so we've
been parents for about three years and during this whole time of trying to figure out how
to be a parent how to parent which I think some kind of new an idea but obviously there's
no book on how to write or no book written on how to parent -well there are plenty, but they dont work, you can't read them and learn -but you can't even compare
to the real life experience and during that time so my mom my siblings my younger siblings
I have a younger sister who Bella she's 15 and I've been their brother Gunner who is
13 now and they were living with my mom and my mom was even though she went through rehab
I don't think she ever got over her addiction I think she got really good at hiding it again
because she went through rehab for a month for what over a decade worth of an addiction
to prescription pills I mean and it wasn't our choice she gave they let her out and I
don't know if they could keep her there obviously but she she stopped going after a month and
she wasn't as bad but I think she was still doing it she was just on how to control it
not do it around us she dove into work she was working literally all the time she was
hardly ever home but I got married and I moved out of the house I didn't see a lot of that but
she started drinking quite a bit and she was driving with the kids and something happened
so I kind of got us involved and to figure out what was kind of going on and at this
point your dad and your mom were separated right yeah so dad mom mom and dad separated
like a year after so like in 2014 dad left and I'll explain that sort of a little bit
later of how I kind of got into the lifestyle that I didn't want to live a lot of that had
to do with him and but so yeah my siblings were just sitting with my mom and she you
know was drinking a lot had it her addictions to some other stuff and so we ended up taking
in our siblings DCS got involved not not due to us it's not there was a school incident
and nothing in the school either it was an anonymous call from someone anonymous call
whoever that person was thank you yeah because I don't know if I would have I would have
I could have controlled the situation myself but it wouldn't have really progressed anywhere
without the involvement of DCS and so we've been indeed working with DCS and child services
with our siblings they've been in our care for the last two years and the plan has been
reunification with my mother but she has not been showing progress so it looks like we're
going to be leading towards guardianship and adoption here shortly but what's interesting
for us at least is that you know we're trying to establish how to parent we're building
our family starting our lives all of that plus taking in my two siblings and that burden
on my 22 year old wife who that I mean I'm just so proud of her and the way she handled
that she has just been my anchor in that because if she couldn't handle it like I don't know
what I would do with my siblings but they wouldn't be in my house because my wife is
my pride and joy but she's been great and that's there of course there's been absolutely
tough moments again like a business there's been moments where she's wanting to give up
and I wanted to give up and we've you know luckily never felt that quite at the same
time and we've been able to kind of pull each other out of those moments and I think a lot
of that also stems from is that these two kids are teenagers and we've never dealt with
teenagers I think I mean my wife literally was a teenager a few years ago and had an
adorable attitude that she kind of still has anyways but yeah so trying to figure out new
babies and terrible twos and two teenagers that are like trying to figure out their life
and going through puberty and you know my brother never had a sex talk so I you know
anyways it's been a it's been a wild ride I am grateful for it I think we learned a
lot of lessons and we do love Gunnar and Bella -very muvh - they are frustrating a lot of the times and
there was so much of like life lessons that they didn't get taught there was so much schooling
I mean they were failing you know each year for multiple years they didn't have clothes
that fit there I mean it just and so they were so regressed and they didn't have the
common sense that kids their age should have like they were almost like reading but living
at a fourth grade level when they were in you know eighth grade and high school and
so that was very frustrating just even teaching them how to do stuff that they should have
learned to do in fifth grade and then on top of all that they also have the trauma of like
my mom and my dad not being there or kind of being around and them so you know having
addictions and stuff and they actually had the worst because like me you know I had 15
years and not even knowing what was going on but like good parents like you know my
dad in the business we went to church every Sunday we did family events together we were
active in sports active in you know our community both my parents were community leaders and
you know we had some great vacations and so they didn't get that they just got the drug
part and so they have this trauma and on top of being a teenager and figuring out life
and on top of having to come live with us that I think is a huge reason of just the
chaos that's kind of been surrounding us and them for the last couple years but I'm glad
that out of there I'm glad that with us and we're doing the best that we can for them
they both progressed quite a bit there's been some regression in some areas with them as
well but they definitely have done great so that is our family life in a nutshell and
through doing all that and I mean summarizing all that crap that's been you know going on
in our lives and good crap bad crap whatever just the whole experience in itself I've all
I also started a business and just to give you a little background on our business again
is I own Elder Contracting so we it's a construction company remodeling company
we specialize in a variety of residential commercial and community type of construction
and that's been a wild ride for the last five years as well I basically I got off the plane
on my mission and while trying to convince and sell myself to my wife to get her to marry me
I started landscaping I print out hundreds of cards and flyers and I hit as many houses
our neighborhood as possible and you know a lot of people in our neighborhood that know me
and I didn't get one call I don't recall I know for a fact not one person called me in that
neighborhood no matter how many flyers and cards I printed out but I started getting other work
elsewhere and I think that was an interesting lesson in itself to kind of see like where I was
putting my efforts weren't bearing me fruits but the action of doing something still bore me fruits
and I don't know how that all worked out well I do know and I do have a great theory but I'll get
into that in another day another time and I started I started landscaping I built a really good
clientele I was making some decent money I was able to you know flex on my wife a little bit and
take her to restaurants and get her gifts and didn't really plan on saving too much never really
learned how to save honestly my whole family they my parents at least were big spenders and I never
learned anything about finances I think in my in my mind it was just hey if you need to save money
you ought to just make more money than you spend and I've learned a lot more since that mindset
but it went it went well and I ended up meeting a guy named Scott a tree fell out of my my truck
on the road one day and outside of a big American in Chandler and this kid came up and said you
know to help me which was awesome he's like hey do you own a landscaping company do you
ask him like yeah you know kind of give him a rundown and then he introduced himself he also had
a little landscaping business and a pretty good clientele and we met and we decided to team up so
we teamed up and I was the field guy running the jobs and he was the mind behind the scenes doing
all the office work and we did end up getting um we did some jobs and I think a lot of the experience
of going from landscape to hardscape as well we did pavers turfs and all that um and that that was
an amazing experience as well it didn't last very long we ended up going separate ways my heart was
more in the construction part and he loved the landscape and so we ended up splitting up and I
started getting into remodels which I already had a pretty decent knowledge base of construction
general construction I worked for a lot of restoration companies growing up um damage control
restoration slave restoration I'm in a few other companies and so um I had a pretty good general
knowledge apart from that which is always good with my hands grew up in a mechanic shop and so
I was good with putting two and two together kind of solutionizing problems which I tend to do a lot
according to my wife um and I guess not everything needs a solution but um and so yeah so that's
yeah so that's that's where all my knowledge came down like you know what I'm gonna start doing
construction so I started doing construction my father or my stepfather was a huge piece of that
puzzle um he he'd been handyman his whole life apart from another other skill sets and so he
worked with me and we did all kinds of stuff built bathrooms additions we painted commercial buildings
him me and my younger brother colton who is now part of the Elder team which again huge family
company there are some great people in here and um so yeah so that's that's where we learned how to
you know do everything with our hands and I finally got officially license and going bigger
and building bigger and I failed pretty big too um I don't know what year it was I can't remember
everything's such a blur at this point but there it was a Christmas time and I had that whole year
been pretty consistent work and pretty consistent in having jobs and getting jobs done and making
good money and 2018 19 2019 and it just slowed down and I didn't know what I was doing on the
like I knew how to do construction but running a business is so different that's another point I
really want to bring out and we're going to talk a lot about in the future is you know you can have
a skill set you can have a talent and if you want to start a business it is not the same thing okay
you may be good at swinging a hammer you may be good at putting up tile like like I felt I was
but running a business and having systems and a culture and knowing how to be a leader those I
mean it's just a completely different and separate skill set that you need to have more than the
experience of construction and again I'm talking about construction companies here and so I failed
horribly I could get the work I could sell all day long I'm a great salesman I could sell ice to an
Eskimo I think it's a phrase something like that but I did not know how to run or organize a business
and because of that the summer of 2019 I had no money I everything I had tried to build all the
jobs and capital I tried to build was gone I had lost money throughout many jobs and that's due to
poor organization and management again not knowing what I was doing not knowing how to control cash
flow and we had a Christmas trip planned with her family to go up to to Colorado that that Christmas
and I didn't have money to pay for the gas I had a vehicle so I had to go to family and our church
and get help to pay my bills and that was a very low moment that was a moment where I felt like I
wanted to quit I felt like I could be doing other stuff because my main priority was to provide for
Ashtyn and she was pregnant with Nova at that time so I had all these priorities in my head and I'm
like okay you know maybe I need to go do something else take my skill set maybe go sell at a dealership
my uncles and her family they all own a construction company they're all contractors and so I knew I
could you know go do stuff for them and I had a lot of people also that cared for me that are like
hey you just need more experience so why don't you go you know working hang windows why don't you go
do more landscaping or focus on where you can get more experience about how to run a business
and again looking knowing what I know now looking back it had nothing to do with hands-on experience
I need to go get business experience about how business management construction management
experience is what I really needed but I had all these people that cared for me cared for you know
my wife that were just like hey you need to maybe do something else and I think that was a pivotal
moment for me in my personal life and in our relationship as well because she was going to
have to support whatever decision I made you know on basically what hey if I want to do something
I need to just do it I decided to keep going I decided to keep pressing forward I went with an
uncle with my uncle who had a business opportunity to help him build a restoration company so I spent
six months with him on a very low salary that didn't pay for our bills very well during that
time we had our first baby went through that whole experience and then I was still failing on trying
a restoration is way different than construction it was a harder business to get in with insurance
companies so again lack of experience and knowledge we try to build this without the proper resources
and I ended up we didn't make that work either so that's another company that someone entrusted me
which it wasn't my company but my uncle brought me on to build it and to get work because I'm a great
salesman but you don't sell people on emergencies you know I mean there might be some cases but for
the most part emergency people call them they call 911 they call the fire department for fires they
call you know plumbers for floods and so I'm this guy trying to chase basically and that's how the
process used to be back in the day you know fire chases all those people would chase these jobs
and get the reconstruction working for me I was just trying to you know get people on social
media on Facebook hey I have a leak and trying to be the first one to get there or try and contact
them to go and it just didn't work out and so I started picking up you know I kept getting calls
from remodeling because that's what I had done and so I was still kind of doing that on the side to
cover the other expensive living that you know this salary wasn't covering so you know I'd work
all day long trying to get jobs for this company and build it and then still have to go out and
work a little bit to get these jobs done and pay for this so my uncle knew that you know he was
supportive of that he knew that what I was making wasn't good enough at the time and again COVID
things I mean inflation started to hit and things got more expensive so it was really tough and
businesses shut down right so I basically got my uncle and you know his partner with the resting
company restoration company I said hey you know I'm getting a ton of work right now why don't we
go where the money is and let's take care of these jobs and we'll still try to build this company but
let's take these jobs get them done and let's make some money and they agreed and that really is where
elder actually grew in personality and identity for itself and I from there haven't stopped and
last year we you know or just that first year getting back into it we cleared seven figures
of revenue and we've about tripled that every single year leading up to this year you know we
have goals to go beyond what we did last year and again we have you know dozens of employees and
work vehicles and a great team great culture we have our office and you know trailers so
and I say all this to explain that like hey in four years you know we went from nothing to being a
very successful construction company and we saw so many flaws we're still learning so much we're
still learning you know about the people that we need to bring on the people that we're looking for
and there's always stuff to learn but it's just awesome to see how much everybody has really come
together and build what we currently have and the relationships with investors corporate companies
and our residential clients and you know we never ever marketed really ever and we always were busy
referral basis was huge and we weren't perfect we did we do have did have bad jobs and every now and
then there's mistakes made right but we've learned how to solutionize that we've learned how to
handle those situations very properly and you know Elder has just been a huge part of our life now so
on top of all that going on we built a I hate using the word successful company because I don't
feel successful mostly because I have a high vision high goals which I think is really important
Grant Cardone talks about the broke mindset about always bringing whatever you have down to
zero every day because you know that's how the hustle stays alive and I think now after I've
always been that way I never felt really satisfied and you know we'll talk more about how that affects
our relationship in our home life but I'm very happy and grateful about where we are what we've
built and the people that have helped me build it because there's no way I would have been able to
bring this where we are today without the key players in our company which are brothers fathers
and the people that support them as well it's just been a phenomenal time and that is why we
are trying to why we are taking it upon ourselves to talk about the assignment which is to balance
home life and work life because you can't do one or the other again if things aren't good on this
side it's like what were those skills called the equilibrium scales or whatever like if too much
weight on one side then you're you're not even you got to bring it even and when you're even when
your equilibrium is set you're able to succeed and progress at a heavier rate than you would be if
you know your relationship with your wife and your children is crap over here and you're out here
hustling okay because you're having stress from home you're not at your at 100% operating capacity
you're not at your best and to be able to build and reach your goals and your visions you need to
be over 100% capacity you need to be able to put your entire self your entire heart in and then
have your you know the people who support you also be able to do that on the back end
and that's where the balance comes into play so we're really excited to get this podcast
started and really just share our experiences our lives and again we're still growing we're not
you know this huge multi-billion dollar company we just want to share with other people our
experiences we all have different experiences and what we've learned and one thing i will say
before we end today is that i have learned that the principles and and ways of building starting
businesses and operating your home and work life they've been the same for centuries they've been
implemented differently is the only difference okay that is why we have taken it upon ourselves
to you know the responsibility to find that balance and talk about that balance between home
life and work life we're really excited to share with you guys our experiences we're going to be
having a variety of different people on the show we're going to be having key key players co-hosts
you know family members and co-workers here co-partners share their experiences with us kind
of our culture and also their personal experiences of what they've learned and we're also going to
have guest speakers we have a great lineup coming up of business owners that started at from zero
and have built million dollar multi hundred million dollar companies multi-million dollar
companies people that have done incredible things in the business and home world and i can tell you
right now every one of these successful people that I know that we're going to be interviewing
they are amazing people they have mastered themselves to a point to where their business
is a reflection of them and I think that's one of the most important principles so we're really
excited guys thank you for joining us if you have any questions or comments
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