1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,880 Hey guys, welcome back to the Homework Assignment Podcast. 2 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,280 I'm your host, RJ Patino. 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,640 Today we have a great show lined up for you guys. 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,800 We are going to be doing a Q&A. 5 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,040 We have pulled some questions from different social media platforms. 6 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:32,000 We are trying to pull up some questions that we are really wondering what you guys are 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,240 thinking and what questions you guys may have. 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,680 Obviously there's a ton of topics we can dive deeper into. 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,360 Other topics we haven't even discussed yet. 10 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:44,440 So we have a great show lined up and we are really excited to get an open discussion going. 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Question number one. 12 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,400 Alright, so question number one is, as you restructure your business from home remodeling 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:57,160 and additions and gear towards custom home building, what are some fundamental changes 14 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,560 or obstacles you need to overcome? 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:10,920 So for those of you guys that do not know, the last or I guess the first part of Elders 16 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:17,320 Life we have been doing a lot of home remodels and additions. 17 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:22,640 So renovations and additions and stuff and commercial as well. 18 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,880 But residential has been kind of our main focus. 19 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:33,320 And as we have grown and have gained more experience and whatnot, we have been able 20 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:36,860 to kind of see where exactly we want to go. 21 00:01:36,860 --> 00:01:41,080 When I first started Elder, the vision for me was simply freedom. 22 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,560 I wanted to, I loved business. 23 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,280 I loved, my father had a business growing up. 24 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,360 And so for me, I mainly just want to be an entrepreneur because I was able to see the 25 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:54,560 freedom that came with that if you did it successfully. 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,120 And also all the other benefits. 27 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,440 Money is a good benefit to have. 28 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:07,400 I think for me mostly, I just wanted to be able to, I used to watch movies. 29 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,040 I still watch movies a lot. 30 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,040 Big movie goers. 31 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:17,920 But in some movies growing up, I recall seeing these fathers that were super busy, whether 32 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,960 it was a low income job, high income job, didn't really matter. 33 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:26,440 But a lot of times there's these moments in these movies where the daughter had a, I guess 34 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:32,080 I can put it on Jingle all the way for those of you that have seen that movie with Arnold 35 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,000 Schwarzenegger and he was a corporate or he had a mattress business or something like 36 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 that. 37 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,840 His son had a karate thing and he was just so busy and he couldn't make it to that. 38 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,960 And that may, I mean, I think it comes in different forms for him. 39 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,400 I think he ran his own business. 40 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,600 So he had the opportunity to set his priorities straight and did it. 41 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,480 And then there's the other form of people who have a job that they have to report to 42 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:57,480 at a certain time. 43 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,440 And so if there's a dance recital or something that comes up for one of their children, they're 44 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,880 not able to go because their boss won't let them have that time off. 45 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,180 I did not want to be there on any of those sides. 46 00:03:07,180 --> 00:03:12,640 So for me, I really just wanted to dive into business and that kind of took off where I 47 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:17,160 started landscaping, went to construction and I already had a background in construction. 48 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:23,760 So the love for construction didn't really begin to, well, it started to grow once I 49 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,760 got into it. 50 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,040 But now at this point, my passion is in construction. 51 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,920 I love everything about it. 52 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:36,400 The design, the build, dealing with the clients, the systems that we have to have in the background. 53 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:43,400 And so to kind of get back on track, what happened is as we grew, you get more employees 54 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,560 and more your team grows, you get bigger jobs as you go on, your reputation grows. 55 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:57,440 So it leads to the point of becoming you know a company that hits the custom home building or the 56 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:58,440 luxury part. 57 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,360 I mean, there's only so you have to go and grow and grow, grow, and then you get to a 58 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:03,760 point where that's the next step. 59 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,200 And that's kind of where we are, or at least where we want to go. 60 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,960 I guess we could have, we could stay specialized in where we're at, but I'm not trying to 61 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:18,160 be, we're not trying to be a company that is just on volume. 62 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,880 We want to be able to leave a legacy, build a name for ourselves, reputation and do some 63 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,240 amazing projects, things that you don't see typically every day. 64 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,560 And that's driven by that passion that we have. 65 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:39,000 So as we have grown, made it to a mid tier company, as far as revenue goes and the type 66 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,640 of projects we've been in, the next step that we're taking is we're going into that high 67 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:47,840 end luxury, custom building, custom home remodeling, development part. 68 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:53,020 So it's been an interesting transition and it's still going on. 69 00:04:53,020 --> 00:04:59,400 And with this transition comes all new systems, procedures, even new softwares. 70 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,560 We're doing something that is different. 71 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:08,280 Now we have a 3D LiDAR scanning camera that goes in and scans the entire property and 72 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:10,040 there's a lot more marketing involved. 73 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:16,200 And a lot of our clientele isn't these people on Facebook anymore that are you know looking for recommendation 74 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:17,560 on a bathroom remodel. 75 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,620 Now we still get those and we still do them if we can vet the customer and the lead well 76 00:05:22,620 --> 00:05:25,400 enough to know that they can afford us. 77 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,000 Because obviously with a lot more overhead, we can't just do jobs where there's no money 78 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,260 or not enough money involved. 79 00:05:31,260 --> 00:05:40,080 So with all of that, it's been a little chaotic, but it's been an organized chaos. 80 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,640 There's been a vision, there's been steps that have been taken. 81 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:49,240 The way the information is being hammered in and quickly, I might add, it's been taken 82 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:50,240 very well. 83 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:56,120 I think it's been organized in that matter and talking about some of the difficulties 84 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,720 that come into that is we've had habits. 85 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,080 When you build a company or when you do anything in life, we end up building habits. 86 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:10,200 And sometimes those habits, whether they're good and bad or bad, if you have to change 87 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,800 them, it can be hard. 88 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,680 And so having to go through and implement these new procedures and processes, we're 89 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:23,040 having to kick out all those other habits that we've had and adapt or adopt these new 90 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,040 ones. 91 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,040 And that's been a little bit of a struggle. 92 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:26,800 I think it's going to continue to be a struggle. 93 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,160 We've added more people to our team, more leadership. 94 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,600 We've rearranged how the teams operate. 95 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:39,080 And so I know for a fact, I'm extremely impressed with everybody here in our company, our entire 96 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,520 team and how they're taking this and how they're responding to it. 97 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,880 Obviously we're having little bumps here and there and hiccups, but everybody knows where 98 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:47,880 we're going. 99 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:53,080 We're all on the same page and we're all doing what we have to and need to be able to get 100 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,080 there. 101 00:06:54,080 --> 00:07:00,240 But like with any transition, there's going to be lots of ups and lots of downs. 102 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:08,760 And I think for me, I know I'm kind of just like pushing this on and there wasn't, you 103 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,560 know, let's talk about transitions for a second. 104 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:11,560 Right? 105 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,400 I mean, when you know you need to make a change, I think there's a couple of ways you can go 106 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:17,400 about it. 107 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:22,720 You can go a very slow and planned route, which some people think that's the best way 108 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:23,960 or that'll work for them. 109 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:29,600 And then there's other people like me that I've been and I've operated a different way 110 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,180 my whole life and it's worked for me. 111 00:07:31,180 --> 00:07:34,040 So I have no reason to not operate like this anymore. 112 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,800 And that is I just go and run into the fire. 113 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,400 I get into what I got to and then I figured out along the way sometimes. 114 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,320 And that's not to say I do not plan. 115 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,120 I definitely do plan. 116 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,400 But at the same time, there's never a good moment to do it. 117 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,160 Every moment you have is a good moment to do it. 118 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:57,440 We talked about this a little bit on the podcast, the last one we just on episode 10. 119 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,280 And that is, you know, sometimes people are like, oh, you know what? 120 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:06,000 I need to I probably need to wait to do this until I get here. 121 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,920 Or you know, I'm 100 steps away from being able to do what I want to do. 122 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,240 Or you know, we talk about home life like we talked about episode 10. 123 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,840 And you know, maybe I should wait to my career is a little bit more available for I have 124 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,840 kids or maybe I should wait till this happens before I get married. 125 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:25,640 And so what happens is that commit that commitment point takes forever to hit. 126 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,680 And then it gets further and further away, especially without a well organized plan. 127 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,120 Well for me and what's worked for me is I know what I want and I'm a little impulsive 128 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,320 and I've worked on that. 129 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,460 But also I don't think it's a bad thing to have a little bit of impulsivity. 130 00:08:40,460 --> 00:08:42,080 And I, you know, I do that. 131 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:43,280 I'm like, hey, I want to do this now. 132 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:44,280 We're going to do it now. 133 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,280 Let's get it done. 134 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,440 And hey, what best what's the best idea we have right now? 135 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,440 How can we do this? 136 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,040 Or, you know, what can we do about it? 137 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:52,320 And we just kind of dive into it. 138 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,160 And so that's kind of how we've handled this transition as well as, you know, wake up one 139 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,160 morning. 140 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:58,160 I'm like, OK, this is where we need to go. 141 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,160 This is where we're already heading. 142 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,440 We're already getting the client that, you know, the clientele that we need for this. 143 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,440 We already have the resources. 144 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,040 We already have the experience. 145 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,560 And, you know, we're missing a software here. 146 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:08,680 We're missing a procedure here. 147 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:10,640 Well, let's go fill those in and let's dive into it. 148 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,840 There's no better time to start than now. 149 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,360 And if you wait too long, sometimes that kind of kills the vision, kills the dream, and 150 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,920 you never even end up getting there. 151 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:25,520 So I think for me, the transition is we all are aware that transitions come with many 152 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,400 forms of hiccups and variables. 153 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:34,480 But at the end of the day, those variables can can be fought back with solutions. 154 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,520 And, you know, like we talked about before is that you're always going to run into problems, okay. 155 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,600 You can run into the problem of not growing or you can run into the problems that come 156 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:44,600 with growing. 157 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:45,600 Which one's better? 158 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,440 Well, for us, we want to go somewhere. 159 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,200 We have a vision and we know what we want to do. 160 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,840 So we accept the problems that come with growing with transition and new processes and procedures. 161 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,000 And we're aware of them. 162 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,920 We don't fear them and we're ready for them. 163 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,720 So I think for me, that's kind of how that transition is going. 164 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:02,800 And we're super excited. 165 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,920 So for those of you guys, you know, didn't know before, we are now going into custom 166 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,520 home remodeling, renovations, commercial as well, as well as custom new builds. 167 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,840 I'm really excited to be part of the game and show the world and show our clients what 168 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:18,840 we're capable of. 169 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,840 And, yeah, we're super excited. 170 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:22,840 All right. 171 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,320 Ready for question two? 172 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,320 Yep. 173 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:26,320 All right. 174 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:33,440 How do you transmute negative events or setbacks into a positive experience? 175 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,440 So negative experiences. 176 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:46,280 I last week, we went up to we had a summit out in Austin, Texas. 177 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:53,080 And so it was my birthday and I decided to me and my wife, decided to go to all go together. 178 00:10:53,080 --> 00:11:00,000 So went up there, went with my father-in-law, Jed, who also is part of our team here, at Elder 179 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,840 and my mother-in-law and then my two daughters and my wife. 180 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:10,320 So I was thinking about flying from Phoenix to Austin, but then I was like, OK, it's going 181 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,960 to be about five thousand dollars for tickets. 182 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,760 It's kind of a waste, in my opinion. 183 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,360 And then, you know, obviously, I started looking for other, you know, see if there's cheaper 184 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,120 flights and stuff, because that's just how I am. 185 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:26,120 So I decided, hey, it would be a little fun to go on a little road trip, drive to Vegas, 186 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,440 hop on a flight there, which was literally a fifth of the price. 187 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,200 And then we get that road trip experience with our daughters. 188 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,200 We love traveling. 189 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,200 I love driving. 190 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:35,480 My wife loves driving. 191 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,480 So for us, it was like, that's perfect. 192 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:42,880 We didn't want to drive 15 hours with our three year old and two year old, but six hours 193 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,440 or five and a half hours to a family member's house who actually lives in Vegas would be 194 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,920 fun and then hopping on a flight early morning, six a.m. going from Vegas to Austin was going 195 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,320 to be pretty fun. 196 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,360 So that's what we did. 197 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:58,360 And everything went good. 198 00:11:58,360 --> 00:11:59,360 Everything went to plan. 199 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:05,800 So we drove to Vegas and from Arizona, you go through a little town called Wickenburg, 200 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:10,120 had to do a little bathroom break there and ran into one of our workers because we have 201 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,120 a job going on there. 202 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,440 So that was kind of a cool little coincidence. 203 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,360 And from there, we get to Vegas at like nine, nine thirty, I believe. 204 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,400 And you know, we chat a little bit with our with our family that we have up there. 205 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,720 And from there, we went to sleep. 206 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:29,880 Now, before I continue the story, I want you guys to keep in mind that every morning my 207 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,400 alarm is set five, five thirty. 208 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,200 And if I don't wake up then to my alarm, I'm already up because I couldn't sleep for some 209 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:38,200 reason. 210 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,400 So I am an early bird. 211 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:40,840 I've been that way since I was a child. 212 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:41,960 I love waking up early. 213 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:42,960 I hate sleeping in. 214 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:48,800 If I sleep until eight o'clock, I feel like I wasted like hours of my life. 215 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:53,440 And I've hated naps, but my wife's kind of got me into a little bit of a nap mode on 216 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,920 Sundays when I'm home with the family. 217 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:56,480 And that's mostly because she takes a nap. 218 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:57,480 My daughter's taking a nap. 219 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:58,960 And so I'll go lay down with them. 220 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,360 But so, you know, I'm used to waking up. 221 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,800 I have a natural alarm clock in my body already and never have never have any issues. 222 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:14,280 I think I have woken up at the same time without missing a day or missing a beat for a couple 223 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,280 of years. 224 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,880 And so anyways, you know, how our alarm set, I double check the alarm because we had to 225 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,920 get up at a certain time, be at the airport a couple of hours early. 226 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:26,080 And as you can tell where I'm going with the story, neither my alarm or my wife's went 227 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,080 off. 228 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:33,640 So my father-in-law's knocking on the door and we didn't wake up to that either. 229 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,920 So whatever for whatever reason, I mean, at this point, we kind of feel like it was for 230 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,920 a good reason, but we didn't wake up for our flight. 231 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:46,120 So we get to the airport, we're going, we get there and we're trying to get our bags 232 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:47,120 aligned and stuff. 233 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,920 And they're like, yeah, I just don't think you're going to make it. 234 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,920 I think you're probably going to miss it, but like, let's try. 235 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,040 And then I realized I didn't have my wife's license on me. 236 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,520 I left her wallet in the car. 237 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,400 And so I'm asking a lady, I'm like, hey, are we going to make it? 238 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,400 We're going to make it. 239 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:01,960 And she's like, I don't think you're going to make it. 240 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:02,960 I'm like, okay, whatever. 241 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:03,960 I'm going to give it a shot. 242 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:10,240 So I ran sprinted all the way back to the parking lot to get this license, you know, 243 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:11,720 huffing and puffing along the way. 244 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,280 I don't think I've ran that fast since I was, you know, in high school playing football 245 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,400 and make it back only for her to tell me, yeah, you're not going to make it. 246 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:21,520 Sorry, you missed your flight. 247 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:28,200 So we booked a flight for the next morning and then we were stuck in Las Vegas, which 248 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,080 isn't the worst place to be stuck in. 249 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,600 But I was really disappointed because as you know, this transition that we've been talking 250 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,440 about that we're making, there's a lot of things that we're getting into, a lot of stuff 251 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,920 that we're trying, you know, networking and relationships we're trying to build to be 252 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:50,000 able to get into this this era of our company and this summit I was going to, you know, 253 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,280 where we were going to be surrounded by some of the top builders in the entire nation and 254 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,680 the knowledge that was going to be irreplaceable. 255 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,300 And the experience itself, I was going to miss half of that first day. 256 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:04,880 And so I was pretty bummed out. 257 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:13,120 And, you know, Brad Levitt, who is one of the people who operate the conference we went 258 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,360 to, you know, he's like, hey, no worries, it's going to be cool. 259 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,040 You know, we'll have some one on one time. 260 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,360 And so I definitely, you know, ease my mind a little bit. 261 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:20,520 But still, it was hard. 262 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:25,000 I, you know, my birthday was the next day and this was like something I really wanted 263 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 to do for my birthday. 264 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,040 So I was kind of bummed out and really irritated. 265 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:30,720 Plus, it was chaotic that morning. 266 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,720 So like all these emotions are kind of floating around and we get in the car, load all the 267 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,720 bags back up and we're trying to figure out where we're going to go stay, trying to get 268 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:43,680 a hotel, which is hard to do because check-ins are at four typically for hotels and stuff 269 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:44,680 like that. 270 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:50,720 So it took me a minute, but we went to IHOP to eat breakfast and I just sat in the car 271 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:51,720 for a second. 272 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:56,920 I just had to calm myself down and realign my mind and understand or remind myself that 273 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,840 things happen for a reason. 274 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,160 And I was beginning to feel like, hey, it's a waste at this point. 275 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:07,840 I'm going to miss the first half of the day, miss all these relationship moments and meetings 276 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:08,840 and all this stuff. 277 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:14,600 But I was able to kind of calm myself down, realign myself, ended up getting a hotel, 278 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,800 pay a little bit more money to get in there, early check-in. 279 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:24,960 And then we decided to go to this Disney illumination thing where it's just an amazing room and 280 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,880 it's like the entire screen or all the walls are the entire screen. 281 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,760 And it was all these different songs from different popular Disney movies. 282 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,520 And so I had my daughters with me and it was just a fun interactive experience and it was 283 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,480 honestly a blast. 284 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,260 And then kind of going out to eat, being at the resort, we stayed at the circus, circus 285 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:43,620 for those of you who've been there. 286 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:44,620 So that was kind of cool too. 287 00:16:44,620 --> 00:16:49,120 They have an amusement park, arcades, all kinds of stuff there. 288 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:50,120 So we made the best of it. 289 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,200 It was honestly a great experience. 290 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,800 And even though I was missing the first half of the first day of the conference, it didn't 291 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:57,800 matter. 292 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:58,800 We made the best of it. 293 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,800 It was important. 294 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,040 And that's a learning lesson for me. 295 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:07,720 I'm not always like that, but sometimes you can't do anything about the bad things that 296 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:08,720 are happening in life. 297 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,240 We live in what I call a fallen world, if you haven't heard that term before. 298 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:18,120 And that is no matter what positive force or faith you believe in, things happen in 299 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:19,920 this world because people have free will. 300 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:26,280 So if something bad happens and it's out of your control completely, I mean, there's nothing 301 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,200 you can do about it. 302 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,920 And sometimes it's hard to come to terms with that. 303 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,420 And so for this experience, which it wasn't anything great, obviously, but it was something 304 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:39,160 very important to me and something I was looking forward to for months and planning on and 305 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:40,160 whatnot. 306 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,520 And so being able to kind of take that moment real on myself and realize, hey, it doesn't 307 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,880 matter what obstacles I'm going to face because I'm going to have more. 308 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,920 And this is one of them and can't do anything about it right now. 309 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,360 So I'm going to make the best of what I got and I'll be ready for tomorrow. 310 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:56,360 And that's exactly what happened. 311 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:00,000 I woke up, got on the plane, you know, running late already. 312 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,440 We landed Houston or in Austin, Texas. 313 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,360 And then we can't unboard because someone decided to raise their hand to use the restroom 314 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,480 and the pilots like, hey, if you guys get up and go to the restroom right now, we're 315 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:10,480 not going to be able to dock. 316 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,200 They're going to take another plane. 317 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:17,320 And sure enough, that person couldn't hold it, not going to judge, a little irritating, 318 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:22,800 but almost an hour and a half, I think, on a tarmac just sitting there waiting to un-knock. 319 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:27,960 So not only did I miss the first half, I also missed an extra hour or two, I think, of that 320 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:28,960 first day. 321 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,080 So a little bit of a bummer. 322 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:36,120 But once I got there, once we got involved, it was worth every single penny moment, you 323 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:41,560 know, obstacle, whatever, you know, feelings of stress, anxiety was worth it all. 324 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,720 And it made a world of difference for our company and for myself as well. 325 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,960 So like I said, you can't do anything about the bad things that happen in life, whether 326 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:50,880 the personal or in business. 327 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,240 All you can do is look forward and get through it and not sit on it. 328 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:00,440 If you sit and you soak in, you know, in that, it's just going to bring you down further 329 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,440 and further and further. 330 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,440 So the quicker you can realign your mind with what's going on. 331 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,320 And even if you don't have a solution, understanding that, hey, right now may not be the time, 332 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:14,040 but I will have that moment where it's going to work. 333 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:18,340 You're going to be able to succeed a lot more often, a lot quicker. 334 00:19:18,340 --> 00:19:22,320 And you're going to be able to also recognize those things before they even happen and be 335 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:23,560 able to avoid them. 336 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:24,560 Right. 337 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:29,360 So I think, yeah, the negative, it's all part of life and we just got to learn how to deal 338 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:30,360 with it. 339 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:35,200 We have to adapt and be ready for it as much as possible. 340 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:40,200 So yeah, question number three. 341 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,200 Yes. 342 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:48,600 Question three, how do you correlate faith into your business and home life? 343 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,600 All right. 344 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:57,480 So faith, I think this is a big thing. 345 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:04,840 Obviously this isn't a religious podcast by any means, but we do, we will and will continue, 346 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,120 or at least we have talked a little bit about faith before. 347 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:15,080 And I believe in our Savior Jesus Christ first and foremost and in our Heavenly Father. 348 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,920 And I served a mission in Chile, Santiago. 349 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,840 The mission was called Santiago East. 350 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:28,640 I went to South America and that was an absolutely amazing, insane and humbling experience all 351 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,160 the way around. 352 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:33,580 And I had a plan for my life. 353 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:38,720 And so my plan was to go to a college on Utah called LDS Business College and I wanted to 354 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:43,000 get a degree in business and management and didn't quite know where I wanted to go. 355 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,520 Like I said, I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur, but didn't quite know what field I was going 356 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,280 to specialize in. 357 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:59,960 And so about three months before my mission ended, I was in an area called Las Condes 358 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:03,220 and it was one of the richer areas. 359 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:04,840 Just kind of give you guys a setting or background. 360 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:12,160 So I went from one of the most dangerous places in all of Chile and all of the country called 361 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,520 El Castillo, where I saw some really insane stuff. 362 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:23,440 I mean, anything you guys can think of from getting a gun pulled on me to watching horrible 363 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:31,200 acts of violence transpire in front of my eyes to other really crazy faith based stuff. 364 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:36,200 All these scary movies you guys go watch, but that could be another podcast for another 365 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,440 day. 366 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:44,720 And then I went to this very high end area where over here and in most parts of Chile, 367 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,200 our church sessions that we had, they're all in Spanish. 368 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,760 Over here was richer area. 369 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,600 I think it was the most developed city in all of South America. 370 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,080 And a lot of people from America that moved there, they start the businesses. 371 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,920 So there were sessions in English even, not just Spanish because there were so many people 372 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,040 and what they call gringos Americans there. 373 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:14,920 So when I got there, like I said, I had this plant, I was getting a room set up with someone 374 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,600 that I was going to, we were going to live together in a dorm or whatever as students 375 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:19,600 and stuff. 376 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,200 And I had this, what we call an impression, I had this impression that I needed to return 377 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,200 home. 378 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:31,880 I'm not going to dig into that story, but my mom, I had come to find out my mom was 379 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,240 really bad with drugs and stuff. 380 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,440 So that led to me getting a rehab and all that kind of stuff. 381 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,240 But anyways, so it was for a good reason that I had that impression. 382 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:45,720 But for this area that I was in, I was also for the first time training another missionary. 383 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,280 And so once you've been on the mission for a little while, you become a trainer and you 384 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,720 train a new guy who just started his mission. 385 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,520 The mission length is 24 months, it's two years. 386 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,400 The women, they serve for 18 months, a year and a half. 387 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:09,080 And so I had this kid from Peru and he was awesome and it was just a great experience. 388 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:15,720 But now that I decided that I was going home and again, I didn't know why at this moment, 389 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:20,920 but now that I decided to go home, I had to figure out what I was going to do for work. 390 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:26,520 So before I left, I wasn't in the best place in my life and I didn't have very much. 391 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:32,280 So I came home from my mission with literally nothing. 392 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,840 I had the shoes that I wore on my mission, which were almost worn through, an old ragged 393 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,960 suit and a few other gym clothes and whatnot. 394 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,160 I had nothing when I came home, but I'm kind of moving ahead there. 395 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,540 Anyway, so on my mission, every morning we would have time to exercise. 396 00:23:48,540 --> 00:23:53,520 So I would go on a run around the park and it was fantastic. 397 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,720 And the seasons are opposite. 398 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,880 So when it's winter here, it's summer there. 399 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:02,440 So I spent two Christmases in the heat, 100 degree weather, it was really weird. 400 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:08,520 But the mornings that I would go, I would go, we'd run and we'd finally finish our 401 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:16,760 run in this amazing, enormous park, smack dab, pretty much in the center of the city. 402 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,360 And I would sit there while my companion would do some stretching and stuff like that. 403 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:25,480 And I'd walk into the kind of middle of this field, take my hoodie back and just stare 404 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,320 up at the sky and just talk to God. 405 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:35,440 And basically just telling him what I wanted to do and let him know that, hey, this is 406 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,880 my plan. 407 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,480 I wasn't asking for guidance necessarily. 408 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,320 I was letting him know this is what I want to do. 409 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,120 This is what I'm going to do about it. 410 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,280 And I want you to support me in it. 411 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:51,360 And I want to stop there because I do think I'm not a professional with religion or anything 412 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:52,360 like that. 413 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:57,440 All I have is my experience and what I've been taught in my religion. 414 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:03,960 But I know for a fact that going to God with a plan, letting him know what you're going 415 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:10,160 to do and having him basically bless that plan or approve of that plan or give you that, 416 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,200 his support in that plan is a very good way to go about it. 417 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,200 And I know that because of the experiences I've had with that. 418 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,600 There's been times where I'm like, hey, don't know what to do. 419 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,600 What should I do here? 420 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,600 What should I do here? 421 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,020 And a lot of times trying to get those answers is a little hard. 422 00:25:25,020 --> 00:25:27,840 But going about it the other way where it's like, hey, this is what I want to do. 423 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:28,840 Is this a great idea? 424 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,840 Are you cool with this? 425 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,160 Are you going to help me with this? 426 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,320 Being able to receive those answers are a lot easier for me at least. 427 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,280 And I think everybody's different obviously. 428 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,240 But I told him I said, hey, I'm going to go home. 429 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,640 My mom was married at the time to someone she's not now. 430 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:51,040 So her ex-husband, Chris, who was a great mentor and role model for me, he had all these 431 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,600 landscape equipment that anything you can think of. 432 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,760 And he's like, hey, when you come home, what I can do for you is I can let you borrow a 433 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,560 truck and I can lend you all my landscape tools. 434 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,480 And I have a little trailer that you can use. 435 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,000 And so I said, OK, here's my plan. 436 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,000 I'm going to go home. 437 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000 I'm going to start here. 438 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,720 And I want to build something. 439 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,000 And I did that every single day for like three full months. 440 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,640 Go in that park, talk to him and just repetitively ask him the same thing, tell him about the 441 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:24,880 same thing and just beg for that support and that help in this plan that I wanted to execute. 442 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:32,600 So when I came home from my mission, the homecoming was not what I imagined, but it was great. 443 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,800 And came home from the airport. 444 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,400 We went off to the rooms to go take their evening nap or whatever. 445 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:41,400 I think I got home on a Wednesday. 446 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,960 So I'm like, I don't know why everybody's napping. 447 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,040 But so I was there, left there with my suitcases and I was kind of sorting through stuff and 448 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,080 I said, OK, well, what am I going to do now? 449 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,640 So hopped online and ordered some cards with my name, say I'm a landscaper. 450 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,820 So for the next week and a half, I went to every single house in my neighborhood, put 451 00:26:59,820 --> 00:27:03,840 a card in the door, knocked on the door, try to try to get some business right. 452 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:10,400 And I'd come home, get on my knees and I asked my father to bless my efforts because I think 453 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,280 this is a known lesson in the Christian faith. 454 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,760 And that is you have to do your part. 455 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,280 You can't expect God to come in and just all of a sudden have all these miracles happen 456 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,160 just because he loves you. 457 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:25,480 You need to show him that you're doing your part. 458 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,120 You need to do your part and then he'll do the rest. 459 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:30,280 And so that's what I did. 460 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,280 I had that faith. 461 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,560 I knew that that was going to work. 462 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,960 Oddly enough, I built a landscape company with some good clientele and I feel like I 463 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:48,080 was pretty successful for an amateur with what I had built that went on for about a 464 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,080 year. 465 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,440 But what's funny to kind of look back is to know that out of the thousands and I don't 466 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,660 know how many people were in the neighborhood, but out of the hundreds or thousands of houses 467 00:27:56,660 --> 00:28:00,780 that I put this card into, not one person ever called. 468 00:28:00,780 --> 00:28:05,440 I never got one job in the neighborhood, but what I did get was jobs in all kinds of different 469 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,600 neighborhoods. 470 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,680 And so it was kind of interesting for me to see like, okay, you know, this is where this 471 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,560 is the area that I was attacking, but not one person called. 472 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,880 But my business started to build in all these other areas that weren't that neighborhood. 473 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,720 And it's just kind of funny how like, you know, you may have a plan, but it doesn't 474 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:24,720 right. 475 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,720 It doesn't always go as planned. 476 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:30,400 And even though it didn't go as planned, it still worked out and it worked out even better. 477 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,760 And so built a landscape company. 478 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:40,080 And you know, from there, I'm still relying on this faith that I have to presenting this 479 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,680 plan and when my plan would change or add stuff to it, I'd always keep presenting that, 480 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,960 keep presenting that and keep presenting that. 481 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,440 And so everything's completely worked out. 482 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,240 It hasn't worked out exactly how I thought it was going to and or planned on it going, 483 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,000 but it worked out and it's always worked out for the better. 484 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,800 So I went from landscaping, met a partner, started hardscape being learned a ton of lessons 485 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,760 there and then decided to start and do a bathroom remodel for a friend. 486 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,160 And then I was like, okay, like this. 487 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:15,140 And then started doing bathroom remodels for my wife's grandpa, doing stuff for him up 488 00:29:15,140 --> 00:29:18,880 in places that are kind of the middle of nowhere, which was a great experience. 489 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,080 Met some other subs that I still use now through all that. 490 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,560 And then finally ended up getting my license. 491 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,360 And the rest is kind of history brought us all to where we are now. 492 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:34,000 And it's interesting. 493 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:44,040 And actually, this is a great question for today because there is a now I receive what 494 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,240 we call revelation. 495 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,640 I feel like every every child of God has a different way of receiving their answers from 496 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,480 God or the revelation, whether they hear a voice or they focus on the way they feel. 497 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,120 So for me, it's always been through scriptures. 498 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,720 And so I always kind of communicate through scriptures. 499 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:07,400 And so some of the ways that work for me is I'm able to ask for some guidance or ask a 500 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,880 question and not all the time. 501 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,880 I want to be very clear. 502 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:15,160 It's not like it works every single time because sometimes the answer is no or Heavenly Father 503 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,200 has a different plan for us. 504 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:22,480 But for the most part, I always focus on trying to envision or have a certain scripture come 505 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,480 to my mind. 506 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,840 And this is kind of a personal, I guess, subject right now on this whole faith basing and how 507 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,040 it's affecting my business. 508 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,640 But I feel very blessed. 509 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,360 I feel like we're a very blessed company. 510 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,400 I feel like everybody involved is very blessed. 511 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:45,880 I think we all have this similar faith backgrounds and beliefs and we're able to put that into 512 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:51,000 our company and really rely on that as well to help us build what we're trying to build. 513 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,640 But as things have gone busier, as the business has grown outstandingly, I mean, we've grown 514 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:03,120 so much in these last two and a half years that I mean, it's absolutely kind of insane. 515 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,440 I don't know if it's a normal thing because I haven't seen it, but we've grown really 516 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,640 incredibly fast and consider that a blessing, obviously. 517 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:19,920 But with that, as that's happened, as I've had my first child, then my second child, 518 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,120 then a miscarriage, now my wife's pregnant again. 519 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:27,280 And then I'm going through the whole adoption process or guardianship process with my younger 520 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,960 teenage siblings. 521 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,320 And the business has grown, we've grown, more people are. 522 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,920 I mean, it's just been absolutely chaotic and insane. 523 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,680 And in that, some of my good habits with my faith have kind of died down. 524 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:45,240 And so just the other day, I was at my wife, I was asking for some guidance and stuff. 525 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:52,840 And I felt like I wasn't as in tune with my faith and stuff, which always bugs me. 526 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:53,840 I always hate that. 527 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,240 Like, you know, I was saying my prayers daily when I first got back from a mission for the 528 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,400 first couple of years. 529 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,120 And then as life got busy, now it's like sometimes I remember, sometimes I don't. 530 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,440 I've always it's always just bug me because I know everything we have is because of our 531 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,440 faith. 532 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:15,160 Anyway, so going back to what I asked and the scripture came up to my head. 533 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:21,560 And it's a weird chapter that I really it's one of my least favorite chapters. 534 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,960 I think we all may have those, some of them that are hard to read or that just kind of 535 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,960 like are about a subject you don't really like that much. 536 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,360 But it was one of those chapters. 537 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,960 I was like, what the heck is in here? 538 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,000 Like I've read this book multiple times and I'm like, I know what's in these chapters. 539 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,720 Like what is in here? 540 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,320 That's going to really I was like, maybe I am not listening right. 541 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,460 So open this scripture and I read the scripture and it's talking about how Heavenly Father 542 00:32:46,460 --> 00:32:52,740 blesses his children to prosper and they help them build all these great things, help them 543 00:32:52,740 --> 00:32:55,840 along the way and give them answers to their prayers and stuff. 544 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:04,840 And when things are going good, the children of men forget to forget their father in heaven. 545 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:10,600 And for God, he loves us so much that he rather if we're doing too good and that's when we're 546 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,000 doing good, we're not remembering him. 547 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,000 He wants to bring us back down and humble us so that we can continue to build our relationship 548 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,240 with him because him giving us what we want is not worth him losing us. 549 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,320 And so he sometimes due to our decisions, we may go through good times and bad times 550 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,320 because of that concept. 551 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,480 And that's what I believe. 552 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,800 And so for me, it was just like I'd already been feeling like I wasn't doing my part of 553 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:33,800 my faith again. 554 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:38,680 And to read that scripture, it was like, OK, yeah, you're right. 555 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:43,760 I need to remember that even when things are going good to make sure that I'm still keeping 556 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,680 my faith and make sure that I'm doing the things that I'm supposed to do that make me 557 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:55,040 feel like I'm close with my Heavenly Father because at the end of the day, where I started 558 00:33:55,040 --> 00:34:01,360 and the landscape and that whole experience I just explained, that was all due to a consistent 559 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,800 relationship that I had with my faith and my father in heaven. 560 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:10,420 And then as things kind of got really good in our business, it seemed like I was only 561 00:34:10,420 --> 00:34:16,040 really remembering that when things went wrong rather than remembering it even when things 562 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:17,040 are going right. 563 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,600 And so me and my wife, we talked about it and now we're really trying to realign our 564 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:26,020 faith again and trying to make sure that we're doing what we want to do and know we should 565 00:34:26,020 --> 00:34:28,800 do to be able to have that great relationship with our faith. 566 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,240 And I think things are going to work out even better. 567 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:37,600 It's not necessarily why I'm doing it, but for sure I think that's how faith really correlates 568 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:44,200 is that I'm faith driven and it goes into every single thing and everything that we 569 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,720 have to do with our business is we want to be honest in the dealings with our fellow 570 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:49,720 men. 571 00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:50,720 We want to be the best that we can be. 572 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:57,760 We want to be Christ-like and love everybody and give and just be in all around a shining 573 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:02,920 light where people can look and come and be part of something absolutely amazing. 574 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,000 So I don't know if that answers the question. 575 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,120 I think it definitely gets the question answered there. 576 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,440 You ready for the last one? 577 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:11,440 Yep. 578 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:12,440 Okay. 579 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,960 So this is more of a bonus question. 580 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,960 You don't have to answer it if you don't want to. 581 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,380 It's a little personal and deep, but this is from James Buchanan. 582 00:35:22,380 --> 00:35:26,280 So we got a question in from our Instagram. 583 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:43,080 Are you able to balance your work and home life better by working the saddle mustache? 584 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:49,760 I don't know. 585 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,800 Is it working? 586 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,800 Looks great to me. 587 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,480 I think it's funny because I'm Mexican. 588 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,680 My wife loves Mexican. 589 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,400 She always has. 590 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:05,080 So for me, being Mexican, I think that's one of the things that attracted her. 591 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:10,200 She loves the culture and everything and I obviously love it too. 592 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:16,160 I'm half Mexican, so I don't feel like... 593 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,200 I think I've been at a couple of quinceaneras, but I'm not going to do it for my daughter. 594 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:24,040 But I do love a lot of the other culture things that are in that. 595 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,800 But one of the things was, I always kind of wanted a mustache. 596 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,840 One day I remember shaving my beard and I decided just to shave the beard and I shaved 597 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:35,320 the stash and I walked in my bedroom like, hey, babe, take a look. 598 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,600 She was like, she's laughing about it first. 599 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:39,600 I think I like that. 600 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,000 I was like, oh no, does she like it? 601 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,560 I think I've had a mustache ever since. 602 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,440 I think I shaved it off on accident once because I went too high. 603 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:53,560 But other than that, I've had a mustache for a long time and I think it works. 604 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,400 I think I look more professional. 605 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,320 I think when my mustache is gone, I look more like a kid. 606 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,320 So I think clients don't trust me as much maybe, or they're like, hey, who's this young 607 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:03,320 guy? 608 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,480 Why am I going to give this guy hundreds of thousands of dollars? 609 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,480 My mustache kind of brings that in. 610 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,760 Like, hey, I know what I'm talking about. 611 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:09,920 I have the experience. 612 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,400 So I think I'm going to keep it, James, but thanks. 613 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:14,400 Thanks for the mustache. 614 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,400 Yeah. 615 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,060 Plus my wife loves it. 616 00:37:17,060 --> 00:37:19,080 Number three, probably due to the stash. 617 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,080 I'm not going to lie. 618 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,080 So I got to roll out of here. 619 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:28,000 Love you too. 620 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,960 All that for the gram, huh? 621 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,520 All right. 622 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,600 So all in all, great questions. 623 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,600 Fantastic. 624 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,040 And I want to hear more questions from you guys. 625 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,680 We have, like I said, we have a lot of topics we can dig into, but what are you guys dealing 626 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:47,680 with? 627 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,800 What do you guys have questions on? 628 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:54,280 It doesn't have to necessarily be about construction, obviously, or even business could just be 629 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,640 about the home life or the balance, or it could be another question in general. 630 00:37:58,640 --> 00:37:59,640 Let us know where your questions are. 631 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:00,640 Okay. 632 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