October 9, 2025 • 35 mins
This week on At Home with Roby, Irishman Brian Boland of HTL Freight joins Trent and Patrick to share how his parents’ values, Irish heritage, and love of math led him to entrepreneurship. Brian discovered his passion during a class at Emory and never looked back.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick pick Isaac
from Roby Commercial Services on Trent Hayston from the Roby
Family of Companies. We are your host, Trent. If you
just heard inflection in my voice, I believe I might
have just broken my pinky on this chair. But I
think I'm gonna be all right. I think it gonna
be don't don't swing real hard.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
That's how Steve Scallia was here earlier. It's gonna take
you back. He set me up. I want to give
a plug for that show. We had a lot of fun.
I hope this one's just as fun. What a wonderful fella. Yeah, great,
great stories.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Never give up he is unless he got a pivot.
Fold him and then if you got a pivot, you
gotta he gets my problem.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't ever fold that him.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You get a two and the three. You put that
thing to bed.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Buddy. I love when they closed the casino and make
me leave win loser draw. I gotta go, dude.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I had a pretty good run the casino. A couple
of weeks ago, bro I was was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It was in the same uh, the same conference I
was at our as Brian Bowling, but uh, dressed like
Woody from Toy Story. Yeah you were? Yeah? What were
you dressed as? Brian Man?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was dressed like Woody from I might I might
dress like Woody from toy I thought I had the
country a saccent around until I met this fire.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Stay tuned. If you want to hear worse, I mean
my catfish. I mean my acent only tints of catfish.
Your accent has a smell, It definitely does, Okay, especially
on a day like.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
To day, the rivers down a little bit of up,
a little bit, little rain came.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Through the lord that river water. Man. I tell people,
I'm like, man, they talked about how dirty the Tava
River is. I'm like, all rivers are dirty. I mean yeah,
for eons they dump wasting the rivers and that's just
what they do. Uh. I'm like, but man, I'm drinking
more of that river water, a lot of it. Man
carrying on the tradition. And I used to get on
(01:58):
my dad. I was like, why don't you why don't
you ever swim? He's like, I ain't got time to
swim in that thing. And now my kids are like,
why don't you get into the water. I'm like a
been there done that.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You see that guy's arm that just floated by. That's why,
that's why I'm not getting in.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, you know, when I was a kid, we'll talk
about this. Speaking of catfish. Uh, you know, my neighbor
used to have tires set about three feet in the water,
and you cut a hole in the in the wall
of them. I don't know if this is a great
thing to say on the radio, but I'm saying it.
And you would tie the inner part of the tire
together so so it'd be closed and uh, and you
(02:36):
set them out there and catfish would would get inside
of them and couldn't get out. And you would every
every week or so you pulled the tire out and something.
These big old catfish out. Eat them right now, heck yeah,
eat them up and fry them.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Heck yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And everybody's like, I don't letn't eat anything out of
that river. I'm like, man, I've eaten more catfish out
of that river. I might go get me a tire.
I think that's illegal. Now. I shouldn't even say that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Good staring or something like that. Yeah, I know what
you're talking. The name for it, I mean, I don't
know you're the one talking about it. You know I'm
talking about it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I just littalized. We got at home and throw me
on all these TV screens. Man, we've only been in
here for like seven months. Hey, who do you wave
it at the teak the camera? Oh for the people
that watch, thinking people watch? I think so really no, no,
I mean I think you watch it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I won't want you watch yourself on on on a podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, like over and over and over. I'm driving. You
know what's funny, Kelvin, I think he's being serious. You
know what's funny I think is uh is. I have
two daughters seventeen and sixteen that have their license in driving.
And the Piper Piper, my feisty ones the goodest scene
(03:54):
and she just took driver's ed.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, girl's got that weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
She takes it on the on the Peter Peter, you know,
and man, she's getting pretty critical of her old man.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh goodness, I didn't think about that. If Scarlett has
hers on Saturday and so you know this is that
the the backup alarm when you're about to hit something.
My advice to everyone listening has never turned that thing off.
Uh So I backed into a pole about five years
ago at South Park Mall, and anytime any kind of
driving comes up, Scarlett's like, oh, you hit a pole.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You can't talk.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That's what she tells you. She says she's doing drivers that.
So if Piper's already giving you grieve for drivers said,
I'm gonna get it, like probably double.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You do.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I will agree on your you know, when you're backing up,
I'll turn that off. But I drive up and turn
around at Mike Campbell's house and when I back up,
if you're going real fast, it doesn't matter how much
it beats. You hit the tree anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Where's the backup thing?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And it's broke, there's the back and then you have
a din in your bumper. You gotta go spending two
thousand dollars in own censored up. It was like fifty
two hundred dollars to fix a dent. I'm like, what, like,
what's going on? Like, oh, sir, electronics in the back
of this thing. Gotta fix all that. It's a bunch
of hogwatch. Everything's so expensive, big day. So things called inflation.
Is that you mean you're an eCOM majors. I mean
(05:16):
you would know what I mean. Scalia, the guy that
was on here last episode. He's a bio pharmaceutical man.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Scale.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Uh, not Scalia, but I do know about inflation.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He is, like, definitely, his ears are burning wherever he's
at right now.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He's probably sitting down on the bench. He can tackle
me when I come out there.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's that's such a nice man. You'd call him Scalia.
It's Scalia, Scalia. Remember we did the whole Italian thing
like flat red pizzas well.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, we've had we had a really really tremendous
run on inflation the last couple of years. I think
is subsided, which is great. Hopefully, uh, things will will
will stay at a two three percent and people can
afford to live. Uh. But we didn't have inflation for
for twenty years, so I think that we've got it
(06:08):
all at once, and I'm not happy for it. But uh,
it's like even even even even even even even even
even even two that's how it felt.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, our guests, Brian, Brian might want to chime in
on something like that here a little bit. Don't know,
I think you might know a thing or two about
a thing or two.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Really, Yeah, Well, did you know that I'm an economics major. Yeah,
I did. I think you might have an NBA from
Emery right right? Wow, Oh man, he's wicked smat. I
don't need I don't need his country buck coming in
here telling me about my craft. This is my craft,
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I think he's from Alabama.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Goodness gracious. I like Alabama. I like my brother at
Alabama folk. So yeah, I'm with you all. I mean, hey,
we said last show, we were talking about how good
Canadian folks are. Alabama folk pretty good too. Virginia folks
pretty good there, young man. I got my kimlocked shirt on.
(07:03):
He thought this was Irish. It might have some Irish roots.
But the piece of land is in rolling Oat, Virginia,
right outside of rowing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Not is that?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
What's that the dormy course up there? It's like right
next to that, right does it have the.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Sheep or the.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Rolling o? What's the other place in Richmond? Richmond? I
messed up. It's not near rowing. I'm thinking of bally Hack.
Ballly Hack is in rowing outside of rowing, that is.
I have been there. That's a pretty cool place. I
haven't been. Yeahs it is pretty cool. It's got a
lot of hills. And a lot of weeds. Uh. But yeah,
(07:42):
sir Patrick, have you have you accomplished anything at work
this week?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We got Brian Bowling coming up. Uh, he'll be with
us from h till.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I've been a pretty good week.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
How about you? How about you? I have not done
any any work this week.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, if you're always always hustling.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I will tell you this. Tell me My good buddy
Jared Cheney had had the phase down at their house
and Sunday night, preparing for my non work week. Sunday night,
at about eleven twenty, I was sitting at my vanity
with my computer working preparing for my week, and they
(08:23):
got this wild hair to FaceTime at eleven twenty on
Sunday night, and you know, I was in the middle
of working, but I was like, Hey, I got to
capitalize on this. I'm working. I'm gonna be able to
show my computer and then showing my pretty wife and
two of my kids laying laying in my bed. And
I answered, and they were shocked. Reagan was like with raying,
start laughing. She's like he works, like they just think
(08:47):
of some mythical thing that this work gets done.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But uh, I like it that you that you're working at.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Jay Rod Jay Rod. I capitalize on that opportunity. I
face time to show them my computer and he's like,
you're on the computer. I was like yeah, I mean
you just think this stuff just falls out of the sky.
What is that at Gateway?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Who works on a vanity?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Can you just say a desk? That sounds a lot cooler.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I was sitting at my vanity. I mean it was great.
My heated flour was on. It felt good. I mean
it was perfect. All right. I have my family right there.
I was watching the end of the tie football game,
NFL game. How do you tie a football game? Don't know? Yeah? Cowboys? Yeah,
well the Cowboys did good. They did better than people
(09:30):
gave him credit for. Let's go Jerry Jones. My wife
kept rewinding by how old Jerry Jones looked. I was like,
he's always looked that old.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
He's like it is mid eighties.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That guy's stud People like to hate him. Okay, we
got Brian Let's bulling bowling when we return, he's a
fellow EO goaling on the at Home with Ruby show
hanging there.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
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back that home with Roby. I'm Patrick mccasac from Roby
Commercial and Services on with Trent Houston from the Robie
family of Companies. We are your hosts. We've been podcasting
(10:13):
for a little while now, Trent, if you've got a
chance to go back, check out some of our episodes.
If you can't have fun hanging out with us, I mean,
something's wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
We should have raving fans in my opinion, but I
don't know if all five are happy.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We got my parents, we got Kelvin. I'm not gonna yet.
We'll keep We'll move on.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
From that life, Brian, Brian, the only reason why you're
on here is we want your network.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, we can work on that.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That is not fact.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Nice to meet you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, we were saying before we came into this segment.
Patrick had told me, Brian that you were up a
spark plug spitfire, and uh, I'm feisty, so I think
two we're gonna be real mellow you are too.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Positively, No, we're not going to do that. Nobody wants
hearing about. And I said you were very excitable, which
I which I appreciate when people are talking about things
that they're passionate in, because I think when the way
you describe what you have going on in your business world,
like especially were at nerve and things like that, it
gets other people excited. I mean, people want to work
with people that have passion and energy, and you always
(11:22):
portray that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, I appreciate that. Patrick.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I think you've got to have a really good reason
to get out of bed in the morning, right And yeah,
and apart from the beautiful family that I'm blessed to have, like,
I've also got a business that's super exciting and great
people in that business. So you know, I get out
of bed at six o'clock every morning with a ton
of energy ready to go every day. So I'm super
blessed to be an entrepreneur here in the beautiful United
States of America. And yeah, so thanks for having me so.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Help me out here. What part of South Carolina are
you from?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So the southern tip of South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, then you got to go about three and a
half thousand miles east across the ocean. You'll find an
island there, pretty green well too. Right in the middle
of that island, that's where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I got two things for you. One, graciously, congratulations on
the Ryder Cup victory. That was That was a pretty
cool fun It's always a great thing to watch, man.
I'll tell you a bucket list to be able to
go when it's in Ireland would be would be I know,
probably for you to be awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I'd love to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And yeah, and two and the second thing is the
NFL played their first football game in Dublin this past weekend,
which was really cool and that had never happened. And
I didn't realize that. The Rooney family, the Pittsburgh Steelers
rooting family, this is something they've been working on for
years and years and years. Uh played the Minnesota Vikings
in Dublin.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Originally Irish heritage, big Irish heritage in the Pittsburghers and
the foundation there. Yes, okay, it was a great history
behind that if you if you read into it. So
the NFL coming to Dublin, people are super excited and
arned about that, Like it's sold out months and months
in advance. Wow, it's a super big weekend. They did
college football there. The last couple of years, Notre.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Dame has been to play Georgia Tech. I saw that
in being an American. We went to Germany when the
Panthers played the Giants last year and it, Man, it
was like being at a super Bowl. Like it was
so cool. The Germans they hadn't had a game of
Munich yet and they were so pomped about American football.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Being being there.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
The only the only kind of interesting part is like
everybody's got their own team and so like it was
like a Smorgasborg of jerseys in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But I told this to trend.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
A few times.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I sat next to a guy that was from Munich
and he spoke enough English to where I could understand
what he was saying. And I could understand just enough
German that I could understand him. And may we had
the best time. I had a couple couple, you know,
big big old beers, and I was explaining to him
about football.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
He was telling me about the culture. I mean, it
was just something that I'll never forget. And so having that.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Experience in Dublin would be would be amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Awesome man, and I Folt is so popular in Europe,
like it's primetime Sunday night. Primetime is when the one
o'clock ams are on, so there's not a lot of
competition because the soccer is generally over. So it's actually
very very popular. Got it, people, folks got a team.
And when I first lined it here in twenty twelve,
I've lined a filecun season ticket before I arrived.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Probably the salesman's stream right like there was a ton available,
but he didn't tell me that at the time.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So look at it now.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah, my season ticket bought before I even landed.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
The old dirty birds.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You gotta watch out from them Georgia. People may ill
swindle you. We gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So when you came here, you lived in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I was in Atlanta for about nine years.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, well brought you here.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So I worked for a big building materials company. I
had come to the US when I was nineteen on
a summer Visapen while with New Jersey worked in a
musement park and I remember saying to my friends after
that summer, I'm coming back, and I just loved the energy.
I love the energy and the environment here in America.
So I am after playing some some golf and college
major in a accountant of finance. I worked for a
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big building materials company. Well, I first worked for consulting
construction consulting at KPMG. So my grandfather the construction business
and uncles in the construction so I knew that pretty well.
So I did some work at KPMG, and then I
worked for big building materials company that was one of
the biggest clients. They had a US ARM. So after
about six months there, I was like, any chance I
can go to America And then were like maybe. And
(15:01):
then a year later and you know, ho was that
a marketing And it eventually evolved and they created a
role for me in the in the Atlanta office. So
I came out there in September of twelve on a
on an eighty month project. And here I am thirteen
years later. Welcome in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Were you married when you moved to Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
No, I met my wife after two years.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
So we met and I played soccer on a cold
winter's night in Atlanta silver Backs. Yeah, and the rest
is history. So we We were Atlanta for nine years
and here in Charlotte the last two years.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So did you go to school college and play golf
in Europe? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
So I went to college in Dublin City University, majoring
in accounting and finance. There, played some golf and some
billards in college, and then and then did an NBA
at Emory when I came here with my my c
H Big bill Material. Did NB at Emory. That's where
I met my business partner and we got into the
logistics from there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Got it. Did you say billiards in college?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I was going to try to stop you on that one.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So I actually played for Ireland in university billiards. Yes,
I played for those couple of years. So yeah, the
local Longview Pillars tournament last year, and I.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Think it could be good for a number of reasons.
For golf, our accents, for clash, and I like to
play pool with the caddies.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
When I first came to when I was in Jersey
for the summer, I used to put like the daughter
of fifty to fifty cent down at the table and
I'd play eight or ten games until I until I
got knocked off the table. And then the boys in
college used always double up against me and handicapped me
and used to have a my brother at home, but
like a eight and l head start up to ten
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
He could make a run at Sorrentos.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I think, man, I'm telling you we read to buy
you last night. I'm missing missing layups.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
In Ireland, writing in the pubs, like there's generally pool tables,
dart boards, you know. So my dad had had a
bar until we were about thirteen. I was too young
to work in at the time. But you picked up
darts and pool pretty early, and you play with your
uncles and you want to get better, right, so you
you'd be playing against them, And so got a pool
table in the room. My brother and we just rack
up frames.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And that's college.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
When you're twelve hours a week or thirteen hours a week.
We just play pool with the guys and yeah, good
hand eye coordination. But I think pool and golf are
really good, like like all sorts of dynamics, most of
it's mental, Like it's where I learned most of my
life lessons. Like most people give up on themselves, like
hit a bad shot, give up on themselves. Same as
golf I learned very quickly, like if you just hang
in there and belief in yourself, like my dad was
an internal optimist and I carried that. And you know,
(17:24):
the thing is, if you don't have self belief, you
certainly won't do it right. And if you have self belief,
well you might right. So that's a that's the starting point.
If you don't have that, what's the what's the.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What's the old quote? If if you think you can,
you can.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
If you think you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, there you go, and you can just fake it
till you make it. You believe in yourself and all
of a sudden you end up sitting on a spot.
So I found that's carried me a long way, and
it really it's a you know, really a lot to
my dad for that and give me that that that
mentality it said, like I said, it's carried me a
long way. Like bad weather in golf, like you think
about Ireland, like so many matches you played in bad
weather and you just watch people mentally tap out right,
(17:57):
and it just it's amazing. It's amazing if you just
hang off and then life that holds great in business too.
I'm sure, you guys know is business people like you
get through tough times and difficult times like COVID and
the likes, and you just hang tough and you just
hang in there and do your best, take it day
by day, hour by hour. And you know they said,
there's an old saying that hard times make make make
strong strong people, and uh, weak times, easy times make
(18:20):
make make weaker people.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
One I always love is, uh, tough times don't last,
but tough people do.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wow on your note real quick, on your note of
not giving up. There's been plenty of times where I've
been playing golf with Trent in an eight one the
whole okay, so he hit two in the woods, don't
quit Because.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I was gonna say. My buddy David Stoufell, who's been
on the At Home a Ruby Show multiple times, we
play a lot of golf together and it makes me
feel good when he tells people I'm not that good
of a golfer. But he's like, he's never out of
a hole. He'd be over there in the woods and
do this and do that.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You'd be surprised the amount of competitive matches at high levels. Right,
it's one a hole like it happens.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Everyone falls apart.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, well that I mean, I mean, I'll just let
you keep talking. But I pulled this up my buddy
Brent Beeson in my in my YPO forum sent this
out the life words you speak matter in The words
you speak matter in life in business Jesse. It'sler motivational speech,
just an eight minute and I sent it to my
wife because he said he ran a fifty mile race
(19:20):
or one hundred mile race and he ate even two miles,
was wanting to give up, and the guy that was
pushing him was like, no, you you say I'm outstanding.
I'm outstanding. I'm outstanding, and you will yourself to do it. It
was awesome. I sent it to my wife and she's like,
oh yeah. The girls follow him like crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It was like he's got this thing called the Big
Ass Calendar that's one of the one of the products
he sells. But he has claim to fame. And he's
married to Sarah Blakey that started spanks. Yeah yeah, that's
h she's a person. Okay, yeah, yeah, I would be
surprised if he's not in YPO or something coming together.
He he also was as part owner of the Hawks.
(19:59):
He not net jets, but he owned a similar wow,
like a similar business to net jets. Yeah, he's legit.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I can see why.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It's good that your daughters are following him.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, there's another saying like what you say to yourself
when you talk to yourself, Like that's just super super important,
like like like like and again, it's just the more
positive things you say in life and carry that true life.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm a big believer in Carara too, Like you bring
that positive energy.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You bring that.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, we were talking about it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
You're you're automatically attracted to other people like that. Like
Patrick's an example, right, you asked me to be on
the podcast. Yeah, we don't know or that long, but
like but we talked your energy, man, Like.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
We talked about that at nervous like negative people is like,
I mean, I just can't do it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I can't be around No, I just want to get
as far away from that as Yes, but like you're a.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Nerve, Like you're just coming in a bundle of energy,
smiles dressed up. It's like full of beads.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I was like this guy, this guy is looking like wood.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That is I need you to send me those pictures again.
I gotta save it as your screen savers because you
did look corny. I'll be honest with you. You were so cool.
Del MONTI couldn't cant Oh but a bunch del Monti
makes canned vegetables. If you were wondering, it's a it's
a really, it's a United States staple. You take my
(21:13):
Maia's not that right. I don't tell you that he knows,
And I'm just I'm just saying he was picking earlier
when he said you were smarty.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
This smart's relative, right, you know, you got to know
the right things. But again, like coming from Ireland, right,
Like it's all how you carry yourself socially. Right, So
like you come into the you come into a situation.
You just got to be able to carry yourself socially
in that group. It doesn't matter if there's a doctor
in a group, if there's a janitor in a group,
it don't matter. You're able to crack jokes, You able
to carry yourself. Are you able to like crack jokes
about yourself like like like in a fun way. So
(21:41):
growing up in that social environment, it's it's just it's
a great I think lesson in life as carries well
across the world. Like there's Irish people everywhere, right, there's
always one somewhere, and you're taught that those great skills
from a social perspective, and yeah, just feel very beast
come from very humble backgrounds and then had the opportunity
to to work at KPMG and you get exposed to
more people that are successful. So I like to feel
(22:01):
that you're able to live in those worlds. But I'm
definitely most comfortable where I can just be relaxed, be myself,
have just genuine conversation and genuine people. And the country
clubs are a good example of that, right, Like I've
been in stuff your country clubs and more relaxed country clubs,
and they just much prefer when I can just be myself.
You can just have a genuine Yeah, you don't have
to pretend that you're someone you're Now.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Do you think I hang out at the stuffy country
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I don't try to hang out the ones I like
to hang out. I think we could have have a
game and have a beer. I think we have great time,
whether they like me or not.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, because I've been a plenty of those we get
asked to talk in your shirt, right, and that's fine, Like,
it's it's your country club, it's your rules. And I've
been there and great people there too. It's just I've realized,
you know, I'm forty one now and I've kind of like, hey,
I just want to be comfortable, and you want to
be around people that you like and enjoy and yeah,
so yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, you do have to tuck in your shirt at
my two clubs. But my favorite thing about playing and
then these Captain Choice can ruction tournaments or cherry tournaments.
As I've on topped my shirt. It feels so good.
She feels so free, you know. So is your wife Irish?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
She's American. She grew up in Atlanta, so we met
there in twenty fourteen. Yeah, so she's parents Jamaican heritage.
So did Jamake and was on Irish actually got on
quite quite well. We had a wedding in Ireland back
in back at the end of COVID, so it was
actually the Jamaicans of Europe. Hey, that's cool, the Irish
and Jamaicans. They're late for everything, right, So I was glad,
(23:29):
gladly glad. The actual it happened, but yeah, it's it's
a good cultural cultural mix. So it's actually good. It's
pretty good chill chill environment. She's got the in laws
moved here recently with a baby girl. She's two and
a half now, so she's she's grown into a into
into a into a young young girl. But in laws
are here now, so they just moved recently. Charlott's it's
(23:49):
great to have that family. It's one of Mednaly. Yeah,
my daughter's named after my grandmother, so her great grandmother.
So I given her that blesson, Like because I was
around my grandparents were younger when I was young, when
I was when I was younger, they were bout in
the fifties, I got a chance to spend a lot
of time with them. So nice to give that blessing
to her and.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Nora.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
So it's it's you know, I think over time she'll
feel connected back to the family back home, and they'll
feel connected to her.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So it was a nice blessing for her.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Named after my my dad's mom, my grand grandmother, so
like those values carry well, like, like I always feel
connected back to the heritage. You had great grandparents, you know,
brought me up with great value showed me, you know,
great values in life. They always say, you know, the
legacy is two generations down. So I think about that
a lot now is how can I continue their legacy
and their values and align align with what they'd want
(24:37):
me to do. So that's that's It's a nice way
to feel connected. You're here, you're here in the US,
and you're doing your building, your family, building your business,
but still feel connected to that heritage and those values
that are passed down.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Wow, we think about that. I mean, my man's got it.
Uh So how did you start your business or how'd
you get in the business.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, So I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. My
dad was an entrepreneur. I had family members and entrepreneur grandparents,
so it's always something I wanted. But the parents were
always told me to get as much education as you can.
So so went went to university, worked in consulting, worked
with CRH, and I sat in a I sat and
I did my MBA. I went back to school, did
my mb and I sat in this class called Entrepreneurship
(25:16):
True Acquisition. And I never knew you could buy a
cash flow and business like I told you to start
from scratch, build your customer base. And there's this class
called Entrepreneurship to Acquisition at Emory in college. Yeah, and
literally twenty minutes into the class, I was like, this
is what I'm going to do, Like I cannot believe
that you can.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You can.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Again that I'm a big math guy and I can
do numbers in my mind a lot, And basically that
the switch for me was startups have a ninety percent
failure rate, and if you buy a stable cash flow business,
there's a ninety percent chance it'll stay cash flow if
you don't mess it up right, So you basically flip
in the odds. So I met my business partner who
(25:53):
it's sitting in that class. We had four things in common.
We both wanted to be entrepreneurs. We bought new logistics
reason well, I had worked on the building material side
of the logistics. He had his own carrier company before.
We both played some collegic sports. He played college ball
at Georgia Tech. And with very similar values, very very
similar similar values in life, very competitive, very ambitious, but
(26:14):
like humble at growth mindsets right, just want to get.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Better every day.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
So we spent about eighteen months looking for the right
business to buy and found a small freight brokerage here
in Charlotte and spent the first eighteen months or so
driving up seventy five on Sunday night and back on
Friday afternoon, and had an apartment here in Plaza Midwood
and eventually moved our families here. We did another acquisition
in Wilmington, North Carolina, about nine months after the first one,
(26:40):
and then did a third one in Illinois, did a
fourth deal in New Hampshire and the start of last year,
and then six weeks about sorry three months ago, we
did a deal on the West coast. So we've done
five acquisitions for last four and a half years in
the a supplied freight logistics supply chain space. So we
have a freight brokerage and managed services business based here
in in a south Park in the office here. We've
(27:01):
officed in south Park office in New Hampshire. We have
a number of people down to Meda in Columbia, down
in the Columbia Mountains, and we've folks look at it
all across the US. So it's been a blast the
last four and a half years. I've never worked as hard,
I've never used all those skills that I got talk
grown up right' you know, go to bed tired every day.
It's just got time for work and family, you know,
(27:22):
for you know, you know, given my wife and daughter
the time that they deserve at the end of every day,
and trying to keep fit. And I've never as healthy
and worked out and not as much time for golf
as I'd like, but you know, every now and then
I can, I can have a good round out there.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So wow, yeah, that is awesome. So five years five plus.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah, four and a half years into the first business
and five acquisitions in so but we're between the search period.
We're six years in. Yeah, so it's it's it's been
a blast. I don't think I could ever go back.
I think I would be at a bad employee. At
this point, you kind of get used to the entrepreneurial lifestyle.
It's definitely for me, not for the faint of heart. Right,
when you're doing the like we we did, we start
(28:01):
with an SBA loan and a personal guarantee, right, so
like you got all this sitting with all that downside risk, right,
you definitely have no problem getting out of bed every morning,
but wouldn't change it, Like we didn't do everything perfect.
We made plenty of plenty of errors along the way,
but like like a bad shot and goth right, you
just focus on what you can control. Is at control
the next shot and the next move. And COVID was interesting, right,
(28:22):
Like it was crazy ups and downs. Tariffs have been
crazy ups and downs, but you just got to control
what you can control. And I've been blessed have a
great business partner and great people.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
In the business.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Now we've got a lot more people in it, Like
we started with six people in feb twenty twenty one
and we're worth to sixty five now for years later.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So dang, pretty cool. Wow. What sport did your business
partner play?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
He played football? Football is a wide receiver for Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Really, that's no joke.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, what's his name only? Okay?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Yeah, he played with the Marius Thomas back and the
yeah wow Thomas was yeah really he said he was
doing a lot of blocking for the Marius to get
the ball. He'll tell you good stories there. But the
sports mindset is really plays really about the business really,
it just applies so well. And the team mindset as well. Yeah,
yeah cool.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I have one question, but U unless you got something
before I gotta clear something up.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
This is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Pretty lighthearted here, and then we're gonna we had to
do or we do make a wish story until a
wish story for our core whole tournament coming up on
November first. So my my cousin married somebody from Ireland. Okay, okay,
and my dad and my late uncle their twins went
to Ireland for the wedding.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I did not go.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I was like thirteen, And he tells me that still
to this day, that it is appropriate and okay, and
I might have twenty this before to say the F word,
and this is his story. I want we're gonna get
some verification because he might be full of full of that.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
In the right context. Swear words can be said quite
playfully in Ireland. But again, in the right context you
can you can use them playfully and you generally know
what the tone. Yeah, it's not a thing in the US.
I realized that very quickly when I moved here. But
they can be used quite playfully. So if you're in
if you're in an Irish pired, you're having to drink
with somebody and there and they're you know, using a
(30:08):
swear word you kind of have to interpret the tone, right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So his story is this, It goes like this. He
and my uncle were having a beer on the church
property walking into the wedding, and a priest came up
to him and said, there'll be no f and beer
drinking in my f in church. And they were like
like stone like didn't know what to say or anything.
And then they figured out it was okay to say
the F word. And he said pretty much every third
(30:31):
word from that time on, from the trip until he
came home, was the F word.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It can be quite common, yeah, and it's quite common
in society, and it's kind of just again in certain
parts it is. I mean, certainly coming over here to
the south again, I had to make some adjustments very
quickly to know that that was not appropriate here, right,
and again you know, for appreciate, but even you know,
good people around me in the office next door and
to bring me in and said, Brian, hey, you know
you need to just you know, be aware it is
and be aware of that. So it's great to have
(30:56):
those things. You know that that person a good friend
of mine, you know, Sam, Sam Cushman. He won't me,
he won't mind me. Uh, saying his name. But he
told me he couldn't understand what I was telling him.
For the first four or five months, he just kept
laughing at my jokes, and I was like, God, Sam,
I kept coming back in telling those jokes. I thought
you talket were funny, right, He just couldn't understand what
I was saying.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But that's the same issue.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I hope it's got better over time.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I mean, my wife says it's fine now, but when
I go home or I'm talking to my dad with me,
she says, I don't understand what you're saying. When you
get into Lingo and you get back home, he said,
you just talk. You talk a different language, but you
just get comfortable.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
With my po buddies. When I get going late at night,
they say, somebody'll lean over to that know me that
Like what did he just say? Everybody's laughing and he's like,
I don't have a clue, just laugh. So thanks. That
was It's nice to meks having Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Guys, it's pleasure, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Look to see what you're doing here and ut Patrick,
the EO community has been amazing Charlotte for the year
and with it it's it's an amazing group of folks
and uh, I'm just great, great, great community here in Charley.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So Brian and I were in Forum training together. That's
we initially met. And so yeah, it's been good. I agree,
I agree, couldn't be better, couldn't say.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
November to first, we have our eighteenth flip gears a
little bit, we skipped one because we had to do
walt for Wishes during COVID we couldn't gather for a
corn hale tournament. This is our eighteenth year raising money.
The last sixteen have been for the Make a Wish
Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina. So the ten
shows leading up to November to first at Freedom Park,
(32:28):
we like to tell a wish story because it reiterates
while we do this and polish our asset, our diamond,
our blessings to help grant wishes for kids with life
threatening illness. So Patrick, I'll let you take it from here.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, yeah, let's recognize our sponsors here. Platinum sponsors are
Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company plus Renewa Buyer Anderson
Home Technology Solutions, United Healthcare, New Gold sponsors or, Vanswelding
and envisioned millwork, and we were going to talk about Greasie. Okay,
Greasy A vibrant seven year old with a love for
theater and all things Sparkley, has faced more challenges than
(33:03):
most children her age, living with heart failure and awaiting
a heart transplant. Gracie's days are often filled with dotor's
appointments and medical concerns, but through the power of a wish,
Gracie's world transformed into a dazzling celebration of her dreams.
For one unforgettable weekend, Gracie didn't have to think about
hospitals or treatment. She was simply a star shining in
her spotlight with the help of the Belk help of Belk,
(33:24):
I'm sorry. The weekend began with a VIP shopping spree
where Gracie was treated at glamorous hair makeup, making her
feel like the stars. She is surrounded by family and friends.
Gracie's love for theater took center stage when her ultimate
wish came through her very own theater stage built right
in her home. The moment was nothing short of magical.
As the curtains were drawn back and the stage was revealed,
Gracie's face lit up with pure joy. Her family and
(33:46):
friends were there to celebrate, cheering her on as she
stepped into the spotlight. This was more than just a
dream fulfilled It was a moment of hope and empowerment
for Gracie and her family. For one weekend, Gracie wasn't
defined by her medical condition. She was a performer, a dreamer,
a shining star. Her new theater stage will not only
allow her to immerse herself and the art she loves,
will also serve as a daily reminder of the community
(34:06):
that came together to make her dream reality. Gracie's story
is a testament to the power of a wish to
provide joy, hope, strength when it is needed most.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Wow, Amen, powerful man.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Man, can only imagine that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Wow and go belt well, you know, and like there's
just so much tremm we talk about make a wish,
like all the things that you can do to be
a part of it and to participate in these wish grantings.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I know you've done one.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
This one reminded me of the time they I was
you know, they had two kids that wanted to be superheroes,
and they just every little detail is thought out. I
was the on red carpet reporter, so the kids got
out of the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I was like, tell me what your besst scene was, Brian.
I was on the board and they didn't ask me
to skip me.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It was just but you can do this stuff. You
can volunteer to do these types.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
It's wonderful. Yeah, it'll touch your heart. You'll never forget it.
All is your diamond so great? And make a wish
to do es so much for these families and these
kids and uh give gives them such vitality and freshness
in the in the midst of mist of struggles and
find what we were talking about on the show. Brian,
(35:17):
It's so nice to meet you. Look forward to hanging
out with you.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I think like after the show, I think I think
that's that's a statistic uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
As I said, I talked to my wife and see
what time I have to be somewhere. Go do the
Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to be
treated always, even when it's tough. That's when you got
to do it and carry a smile around on your face.
Thanks for joining us at home with Ruby.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Amen. Thanks Case
Welcome to at Home with Roby. I'm Patrick pick Isaac
from Roby Commercial Services on Trent Hayston from the Roby
Family of Companies. We are your host, Trent. If you
just heard inflection in my voice, I believe I might
have just broken my pinky on this chair. But I
think I'm gonna be all right. I think it gonna
be don't don't swing real hard.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
That's how Steve Scallia was here earlier. It's gonna take
you back. He set me up. I want to give
a plug for that show. We had a lot of fun.
I hope this one's just as fun. What a wonderful fella. Yeah, great,
great stories.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Never give up he is unless he got a pivot.
Fold him and then if you got a pivot, you
gotta he gets my problem.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't ever fold that him.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You get a two and the three. You put that
thing to bed.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Buddy. I love when they closed the casino and make
me leave win loser draw. I gotta go, dude.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I had a pretty good run the casino. A couple
of weeks ago, bro I was was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It was in the same uh, the same conference I
was at our as Brian Bowling, but uh, dressed like
Woody from Toy Story. Yeah you were? Yeah? What were
you dressed as? Brian Man?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was dressed like Woody from I might I might
dress like Woody from toy I thought I had the
country a saccent around until I met this fire.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Stay tuned. If you want to hear worse, I mean
my catfish. I mean my acent only tints of catfish.
Your accent has a smell, It definitely does, Okay, especially
on a day like.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
To day, the rivers down a little bit of up,
a little bit, little rain came.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Through the lord that river water. Man. I tell people,
I'm like, man, they talked about how dirty the Tava
River is. I'm like, all rivers are dirty. I mean yeah,
for eons they dump wasting the rivers and that's just
what they do. Uh. I'm like, but man, I'm drinking
more of that river water, a lot of it. Man
carrying on the tradition. And I used to get on
(01:58):
my dad. I was like, why don't you why don't
you ever swim? He's like, I ain't got time to
swim in that thing. And now my kids are like,
why don't you get into the water. I'm like a
been there done that.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You see that guy's arm that just floated by. That's why,
that's why I'm not getting in.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, you know, when I was a kid, we'll talk
about this. Speaking of catfish. Uh, you know, my neighbor
used to have tires set about three feet in the water,
and you cut a hole in the in the wall
of them. I don't know if this is a great
thing to say on the radio, but I'm saying it.
And you would tie the inner part of the tire
together so so it'd be closed and uh, and you
(02:36):
set them out there and catfish would would get inside
of them and couldn't get out. And you would every
every week or so you pulled the tire out and something.
These big old catfish out. Eat them right now, heck yeah,
eat them up and fry them.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Heck yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And everybody's like, I don't letn't eat anything out of
that river. I'm like, man, I've eaten more catfish out
of that river. I might go get me a tire.
I think that's illegal. Now. I shouldn't even say that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Good staring or something like that. Yeah, I know what
you're talking. The name for it, I mean, I don't
know you're the one talking about it. You know I'm
talking about it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I just littalized. We got at home and throw me
on all these TV screens. Man, we've only been in
here for like seven months. Hey, who do you wave
it at the teak the camera? Oh for the people
that watch, thinking people watch? I think so really no, no,
I mean I think you watch it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I won't want you watch yourself on on on a podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, like over and over and over. I'm driving. You
know what's funny, Kelvin, I think he's being serious. You
know what's funny I think is uh is. I have
two daughters seventeen and sixteen that have their license in driving.
And the Piper Piper, my feisty ones the goodest scene
(03:54):
and she just took driver's ed.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, girl's got that weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
She takes it on the on the Peter Peter, you know,
and man, she's getting pretty critical of her old man.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh goodness, I didn't think about that. If Scarlett has
hers on Saturday and so you know this is that
the the backup alarm when you're about to hit something.
My advice to everyone listening has never turned that thing off.
Uh So I backed into a pole about five years
ago at South Park Mall, and anytime any kind of
driving comes up, Scarlett's like, oh, you hit a pole.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You can't talk.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That's what she tells you. She says she's doing drivers that.
So if Piper's already giving you grieve for drivers said,
I'm gonna get it, like probably double.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You do.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I will agree on your you know, when you're backing up,
I'll turn that off. But I drive up and turn
around at Mike Campbell's house and when I back up,
if you're going real fast, it doesn't matter how much
it beats. You hit the tree anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Where's the backup thing?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And it's broke, there's the back and then you have
a din in your bumper. You gotta go spending two
thousand dollars in own censored up. It was like fifty
two hundred dollars to fix a dent. I'm like, what, like,
what's going on? Like, oh, sir, electronics in the back
of this thing. Gotta fix all that. It's a bunch
of hogwatch. Everything's so expensive, big day. So things called inflation.
Is that you mean you're an eCOM majors. I mean
(05:16):
you would know what I mean. Scalia, the guy that
was on here last episode. He's a bio pharmaceutical man.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Scale.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Uh, not Scalia, but I do know about inflation.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He is, like, definitely, his ears are burning wherever he's
at right now.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He's probably sitting down on the bench. He can tackle
me when I come out there.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's that's such a nice man. You'd call him Scalia.
It's Scalia, Scalia. Remember we did the whole Italian thing
like flat red pizzas well.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, we've had we had a really really tremendous
run on inflation the last couple of years. I think
is subsided, which is great. Hopefully, uh, things will will
will stay at a two three percent and people can
afford to live. Uh. But we didn't have inflation for
for twenty years, so I think that we've got it
(06:08):
all at once, and I'm not happy for it. But uh,
it's like even even even even even even even even
even even two that's how it felt.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, our guests, Brian, Brian might want to chime in
on something like that here a little bit. Don't know,
I think you might know a thing or two about
a thing or two.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Really, Yeah, Well, did you know that I'm an economics major. Yeah,
I did. I think you might have an NBA from
Emery right right? Wow, Oh man, he's wicked smat. I
don't need I don't need his country buck coming in
here telling me about my craft. This is my craft,
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I think he's from Alabama.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Goodness gracious. I like Alabama. I like my brother at
Alabama folk. So yeah, I'm with you all. I mean, hey,
we said last show, we were talking about how good
Canadian folks are. Alabama folk pretty good too. Virginia folks
pretty good there, young man. I got my kimlocked shirt on.
(07:03):
He thought this was Irish. It might have some Irish roots.
But the piece of land is in rolling Oat, Virginia,
right outside of rowing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Not is that?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
What's that the dormy course up there? It's like right
next to that, right does it have the.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Sheep or the.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Rolling o? What's the other place in Richmond? Richmond? I
messed up. It's not near rowing. I'm thinking of bally Hack.
Ballly Hack is in rowing outside of rowing, that is.
I have been there. That's a pretty cool place. I
haven't been. Yeahs it is pretty cool. It's got a
lot of hills. And a lot of weeds. Uh. But yeah,
(07:42):
sir Patrick, have you have you accomplished anything at work
this week?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We got Brian Bowling coming up. Uh, he'll be with
us from h till.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I've been a pretty good week.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
How about you? How about you? I have not done
any any work this week.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, if you're always always hustling.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I will tell you this. Tell me My good buddy
Jared Cheney had had the phase down at their house
and Sunday night, preparing for my non work week. Sunday night,
at about eleven twenty, I was sitting at my vanity
with my computer working preparing for my week, and they
(08:23):
got this wild hair to FaceTime at eleven twenty on
Sunday night, and you know, I was in the middle
of working, but I was like, Hey, I got to
capitalize on this. I'm working. I'm gonna be able to
show my computer and then showing my pretty wife and
two of my kids laying laying in my bed. And
I answered, and they were shocked. Reagan was like with raying,
start laughing. She's like he works, like they just think
(08:47):
of some mythical thing that this work gets done.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But uh, I like it that you that you're working at.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Jay Rod Jay Rod. I capitalize on that opportunity. I
face time to show them my computer and he's like,
you're on the computer. I was like yeah, I mean
you just think this stuff just falls out of the sky.
What is that at Gateway?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Who works on a vanity?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Can you just say a desk? That sounds a lot cooler.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I was sitting at my vanity. I mean it was great.
My heated flour was on. It felt good. I mean
it was perfect. All right. I have my family right there.
I was watching the end of the tie football game,
NFL game. How do you tie a football game? Don't know? Yeah? Cowboys? Yeah,
well the Cowboys did good. They did better than people
(09:30):
gave him credit for. Let's go Jerry Jones. My wife
kept rewinding by how old Jerry Jones looked. I was like,
he's always looked that old.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
He's like it is mid eighties.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That guy's stud People like to hate him. Okay, we
got Brian Let's bulling bowling when we return, he's a
fellow EO goaling on the at Home with Ruby show
hanging there.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
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back that home with Roby. I'm Patrick mccasac from Roby
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family of Companies. We are your hosts. We've been podcasting
(10:13):
for a little while now, Trent, if you've got a
chance to go back, check out some of our episodes.
If you can't have fun hanging out with us, I mean,
something's wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
We should have raving fans in my opinion, but I
don't know if all five are happy.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We got my parents, we got Kelvin. I'm not gonna yet.
We'll keep We'll move on.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
From that life, Brian, Brian, the only reason why you're
on here is we want your network.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, we can work on that.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That is not fact.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Nice to meet you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, we were saying before we came into this segment.
Patrick had told me, Brian that you were up a
spark plug spitfire, and uh, I'm feisty, so I think
two we're gonna be real mellow you are too.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Positively, No, we're not going to do that. Nobody wants
hearing about. And I said you were very excitable, which
I which I appreciate when people are talking about things
that they're passionate in, because I think when the way
you describe what you have going on in your business world,
like especially were at nerve and things like that, it
gets other people excited. I mean, people want to work
with people that have passion and energy, and you always
(11:22):
portray that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, I appreciate that. Patrick.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I think you've got to have a really good reason
to get out of bed in the morning, right And yeah,
and apart from the beautiful family that I'm blessed to have, like,
I've also got a business that's super exciting and great
people in that business. So you know, I get out
of bed at six o'clock every morning with a ton
of energy ready to go every day. So I'm super
blessed to be an entrepreneur here in the beautiful United
States of America. And yeah, so thanks for having me so.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Help me out here. What part of South Carolina are
you from?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So the southern tip of South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, then you got to go about three and a
half thousand miles east across the ocean. You'll find an
island there, pretty green well too. Right in the middle
of that island, that's where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I got two things for you. One, graciously, congratulations on
the Ryder Cup victory. That was That was a pretty
cool fun It's always a great thing to watch, man.
I'll tell you a bucket list to be able to
go when it's in Ireland would be would be I know,
probably for you to be awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I'd love to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And yeah, and two and the second thing is the
NFL played their first football game in Dublin this past weekend,
which was really cool and that had never happened. And
I didn't realize that. The Rooney family, the Pittsburgh Steelers
rooting family, this is something they've been working on for
years and years and years. Uh played the Minnesota Vikings
in Dublin.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Originally Irish heritage, big Irish heritage in the Pittsburghers and
the foundation there. Yes, okay, it was a great history
behind that if you if you read into it. So
the NFL coming to Dublin, people are super excited and
arned about that, Like it's sold out months and months
in advance. Wow, it's a super big weekend. They did
college football there. The last couple of years, Notre.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Dame has been to play Georgia Tech. I saw that
in being an American. We went to Germany when the
Panthers played the Giants last year and it, Man, it
was like being at a super Bowl. Like it was
so cool. The Germans they hadn't had a game of
Munich yet and they were so pomped about American football.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Being being there.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
The only the only kind of interesting part is like
everybody's got their own team and so like it was
like a Smorgasborg of jerseys in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But I told this to trend.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
A few times.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I sat next to a guy that was from Munich
and he spoke enough English to where I could understand
what he was saying. And I could understand just enough
German that I could understand him. And may we had
the best time. I had a couple couple, you know,
big big old beers, and I was explaining to him
about football.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
He was telling me about the culture. I mean, it
was just something that I'll never forget. And so having that.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Experience in Dublin would be would be amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Awesome man, and I Folt is so popular in Europe,
like it's primetime Sunday night. Primetime is when the one
o'clock ams are on, so there's not a lot of
competition because the soccer is generally over. So it's actually
very very popular. Got it, people, folks got a team.
And when I first lined it here in twenty twelve,
I've lined a filecun season ticket before I arrived.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Probably the salesman's stream right like there was a ton available,
but he didn't tell me that at the time.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So look at it now.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah, my season ticket bought before I even landed.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
The old dirty birds.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You gotta watch out from them Georgia. People may ill
swindle you. We gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So when you came here, you lived in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I was in Atlanta for about nine years.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, well brought you here.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So I worked for a big building materials company. I
had come to the US when I was nineteen on
a summer Visapen while with New Jersey worked in a
musement park and I remember saying to my friends after
that summer, I'm coming back, and I just loved the energy.
I love the energy and the environment here in America.
So I am after playing some some golf and college
major in a accountant of finance. I worked for a
(14:39):
big building materials company. Well, I first worked for consulting
construction consulting at KPMG. So my grandfather the construction business
and uncles in the construction so I knew that pretty well.
So I did some work at KPMG, and then I
worked for big building materials company that was one of
the biggest clients. They had a US ARM. So after
about six months there, I was like, any chance I
can go to America And then were like maybe. And
(15:01):
then a year later and you know, ho was that
a marketing And it eventually evolved and they created a
role for me in the in the Atlanta office. So
I came out there in September of twelve on a
on an eighty month project. And here I am thirteen
years later. Welcome in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Were you married when you moved to Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
No, I met my wife after two years.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
So we met and I played soccer on a cold
winter's night in Atlanta silver Backs. Yeah, and the rest
is history. So we We were Atlanta for nine years
and here in Charlotte the last two years.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So did you go to school college and play golf
in Europe? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
So I went to college in Dublin City University, majoring
in accounting and finance. There, played some golf and some
billards in college, and then and then did an NBA
at Emory when I came here with my my c
H Big bill Material. Did NB at Emory. That's where
I met my business partner and we got into the
logistics from there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Got it. Did you say billiards in college?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I was going to try to stop you on that one.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So I actually played for Ireland in university billiards. Yes,
I played for those couple of years. So yeah, the
local Longview Pillars tournament last year, and I.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Think it could be good for a number of reasons.
For golf, our accents, for clash, and I like to
play pool with the caddies.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
When I first came to when I was in Jersey
for the summer, I used to put like the daughter
of fifty to fifty cent down at the table and
I'd play eight or ten games until I until I
got knocked off the table. And then the boys in
college used always double up against me and handicapped me
and used to have a my brother at home, but
like a eight and l head start up to ten
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
He could make a run at Sorrentos.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I think, man, I'm telling you we read to buy
you last night. I'm missing missing layups.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
In Ireland, writing in the pubs, like there's generally pool tables,
dart boards, you know. So my dad had had a
bar until we were about thirteen. I was too young
to work in at the time. But you picked up
darts and pool pretty early, and you play with your
uncles and you want to get better, right, so you
you'd be playing against them, And so got a pool
table in the room. My brother and we just rack
up frames.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And that's college.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
When you're twelve hours a week or thirteen hours a week.
We just play pool with the guys and yeah, good
hand eye coordination. But I think pool and golf are
really good, like like all sorts of dynamics, most of
it's mental, Like it's where I learned most of my
life lessons. Like most people give up on themselves, like
hit a bad shot, give up on themselves. Same as
golf I learned very quickly, like if you just hang
in there and belief in yourself, like my dad was
an internal optimist and I carried that. And you know,
(17:24):
the thing is, if you don't have self belief, you
certainly won't do it right. And if you have self belief,
well you might right. So that's a that's the starting point.
If you don't have that, what's the what's the.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What's the old quote? If if you think you can,
you can.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
If you think you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, there you go, and you can just fake it
till you make it. You believe in yourself and all
of a sudden you end up sitting on a spot.
So I found that's carried me a long way, and
it really it's a you know, really a lot to
my dad for that and give me that that that
mentality it said, like I said, it's carried me a
long way. Like bad weather in golf, like you think
about Ireland, like so many matches you played in bad
weather and you just watch people mentally tap out right,
(17:57):
and it just it's amazing. It's amazing if you just
hang off and then life that holds great in business too.
I'm sure, you guys know is business people like you
get through tough times and difficult times like COVID and
the likes, and you just hang tough and you just
hang in there and do your best, take it day
by day, hour by hour. And you know they said,
there's an old saying that hard times make make make
strong strong people, and uh, weak times, easy times make
(18:20):
make make weaker people.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
One I always love is, uh, tough times don't last,
but tough people do.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wow on your note real quick, on your note of
not giving up. There's been plenty of times where I've
been playing golf with Trent in an eight one the
whole okay, so he hit two in the woods, don't
quit Because.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I was gonna say. My buddy David Stoufell, who's been
on the At Home a Ruby Show multiple times, we
play a lot of golf together and it makes me
feel good when he tells people I'm not that good
of a golfer. But he's like, he's never out of
a hole. He'd be over there in the woods and
do this and do that.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You'd be surprised the amount of competitive matches at high levels. Right,
it's one a hole like it happens.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Everyone falls apart.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, well that I mean, I mean, I'll just let
you keep talking. But I pulled this up my buddy
Brent Beeson in my in my YPO forum sent this
out the life words you speak matter in The words
you speak matter in life in business Jesse. It'sler motivational speech,
just an eight minute and I sent it to my
wife because he said he ran a fifty mile race
(19:20):
or one hundred mile race and he ate even two miles,
was wanting to give up, and the guy that was
pushing him was like, no, you you say I'm outstanding.
I'm outstanding. I'm outstanding, and you will yourself to do it. It
was awesome. I sent it to my wife and she's like,
oh yeah. The girls follow him like crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It was like he's got this thing called the Big
Ass Calendar that's one of the one of the products
he sells. But he has claim to fame. And he's
married to Sarah Blakey that started spanks. Yeah yeah, that's
h she's a person. Okay, yeah, yeah, I would be
surprised if he's not in YPO or something coming together.
He he also was as part owner of the Hawks.
(19:59):
He not net jets, but he owned a similar wow,
like a similar business to net jets. Yeah, he's legit.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I can see why.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It's good that your daughters are following him.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, there's another saying like what you say to yourself
when you talk to yourself, Like that's just super super important,
like like like like and again, it's just the more
positive things you say in life and carry that true life.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm a big believer in Carara too, Like you bring
that positive energy.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You bring that.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, we were talking about it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
You're you're automatically attracted to other people like that. Like
Patrick's an example, right, you asked me to be on
the podcast. Yeah, we don't know or that long, but
like but we talked your energy, man, Like.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
We talked about that at nervous like negative people is like,
I mean, I just can't do it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I can't be around No, I just want to get
as far away from that as Yes, but like you're a.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Nerve, Like you're just coming in a bundle of energy,
smiles dressed up. It's like full of beads.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I was like this guy, this guy is looking like wood.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That is I need you to send me those pictures again.
I gotta save it as your screen savers because you
did look corny. I'll be honest with you. You were so cool.
Del MONTI couldn't cant Oh but a bunch del Monti
makes canned vegetables. If you were wondering, it's a it's
a really, it's a United States staple. You take my
(21:13):
Maia's not that right. I don't tell you that he knows,
And I'm just I'm just saying he was picking earlier
when he said you were smarty.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
This smart's relative, right, you know, you got to know
the right things. But again, like coming from Ireland, right,
Like it's all how you carry yourself socially. Right, So
like you come into the you come into a situation.
You just got to be able to carry yourself socially
in that group. It doesn't matter if there's a doctor
in a group, if there's a janitor in a group,
it don't matter. You're able to crack jokes, You able
to carry yourself. Are you able to like crack jokes
about yourself like like like in a fun way. So
(21:41):
growing up in that social environment, it's it's just it's
a great I think lesson in life as carries well
across the world. Like there's Irish people everywhere, right, there's
always one somewhere, and you're taught that those great skills
from a social perspective, and yeah, just feel very beast
come from very humble backgrounds and then had the opportunity
to to work at KPMG and you get exposed to
more people that are successful. So I like to feel
(22:01):
that you're able to live in those worlds. But I'm
definitely most comfortable where I can just be relaxed, be myself,
have just genuine conversation and genuine people. And the country
clubs are a good example of that, right, Like I've
been in stuff your country clubs and more relaxed country clubs,
and they just much prefer when I can just be myself.
You can just have a genuine Yeah, you don't have
to pretend that you're someone you're Now.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Do you think I hang out at the stuffy country
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I don't try to hang out the ones I like
to hang out. I think we could have have a
game and have a beer. I think we have great time,
whether they like me or not.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, because I've been a plenty of those we get
asked to talk in your shirt, right, and that's fine, Like,
it's it's your country club, it's your rules. And I've
been there and great people there too. It's just I've realized,
you know, I'm forty one now and I've kind of like, hey,
I just want to be comfortable, and you want to
be around people that you like and enjoy and yeah,
so yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, you do have to tuck in your shirt at
my two clubs. But my favorite thing about playing and
then these Captain Choice can ruction tournaments or cherry tournaments.
As I've on topped my shirt. It feels so good.
She feels so free, you know. So is your wife Irish?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
She's American. She grew up in Atlanta, so we met
there in twenty fourteen. Yeah, so she's parents Jamaican heritage.
So did Jamake and was on Irish actually got on
quite quite well. We had a wedding in Ireland back
in back at the end of COVID, so it was
actually the Jamaicans of Europe. Hey, that's cool, the Irish
and Jamaicans. They're late for everything, right, So I was glad,
(23:29):
gladly glad. The actual it happened, but yeah, it's it's
a good cultural cultural mix. So it's actually good. It's
pretty good chill chill environment. She's got the in laws
moved here recently with a baby girl. She's two and
a half now, so she's she's grown into a into
into a into a young young girl. But in laws
are here now, so they just moved recently. Charlott's it's
(23:49):
great to have that family. It's one of Mednaly. Yeah,
my daughter's named after my grandmother, so her great grandmother.
So I given her that blesson, Like because I was
around my grandparents were younger when I was young, when
I was when I was younger, they were bout in
the fifties, I got a chance to spend a lot
of time with them. So nice to give that blessing
to her and.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Nora.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
So it's it's you know, I think over time she'll
feel connected back to the family back home, and they'll
feel connected to her.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So it was a nice blessing for her.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Named after my my dad's mom, my grand grandmother, so
like those values carry well, like, like I always feel
connected back to the heritage. You had great grandparents, you know,
brought me up with great value showed me, you know,
great values in life. They always say, you know, the
legacy is two generations down. So I think about that
a lot now is how can I continue their legacy
and their values and align align with what they'd want
(24:37):
me to do. So that's that's It's a nice way
to feel connected. You're here, you're here in the US,
and you're doing your building, your family, building your business,
but still feel connected to that heritage and those values
that are passed down.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Wow, we think about that. I mean, my man's got it.
Uh So how did you start your business or how'd
you get in the business.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, So I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. My
dad was an entrepreneur. I had family members and entrepreneur grandparents,
so it's always something I wanted. But the parents were
always told me to get as much education as you can.
So so went went to university, worked in consulting, worked
with CRH, and I sat in a I sat and
I did my MBA. I went back to school, did
my mb and I sat in this class called Entrepreneurship
(25:16):
True Acquisition. And I never knew you could buy a
cash flow and business like I told you to start
from scratch, build your customer base. And there's this class
called Entrepreneurship to Acquisition at Emory in college. Yeah, and
literally twenty minutes into the class, I was like, this
is what I'm going to do, Like I cannot believe
that you can.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You can.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Again that I'm a big math guy and I can
do numbers in my mind a lot, And basically that
the switch for me was startups have a ninety percent
failure rate, and if you buy a stable cash flow business,
there's a ninety percent chance it'll stay cash flow if
you don't mess it up right, So you basically flip
in the odds. So I met my business partner who
(25:53):
it's sitting in that class. We had four things in common.
We both wanted to be entrepreneurs. We bought new logistics
reason well, I had worked on the building material side
of the logistics. He had his own carrier company before.
We both played some collegic sports. He played college ball
at Georgia Tech. And with very similar values, very very
similar similar values in life, very competitive, very ambitious, but
(26:14):
like humble at growth mindsets right, just want to get.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Better every day.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
So we spent about eighteen months looking for the right
business to buy and found a small freight brokerage here
in Charlotte and spent the first eighteen months or so
driving up seventy five on Sunday night and back on
Friday afternoon, and had an apartment here in Plaza Midwood
and eventually moved our families here. We did another acquisition
in Wilmington, North Carolina, about nine months after the first one,
(26:40):
and then did a third one in Illinois, did a
fourth deal in New Hampshire and the start of last year,
and then six weeks about sorry three months ago, we
did a deal on the West coast. So we've done
five acquisitions for last four and a half years in
the a supplied freight logistics supply chain space. So we
have a freight brokerage and managed services business based here
in in a south Park in the office here. We've
(27:01):
officed in south Park office in New Hampshire. We have
a number of people down to Meda in Columbia, down
in the Columbia Mountains, and we've folks look at it
all across the US. So it's been a blast the
last four and a half years. I've never worked as hard,
I've never used all those skills that I got talk
grown up right' you know, go to bed tired every day.
It's just got time for work and family, you know,
(27:22):
for you know, you know, given my wife and daughter
the time that they deserve at the end of every day,
and trying to keep fit. And I've never as healthy
and worked out and not as much time for golf
as I'd like, but you know, every now and then
I can, I can have a good round out there.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So wow, yeah, that is awesome. So five years five plus.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah, four and a half years into the first business
and five acquisitions in so but we're between the search period.
We're six years in. Yeah, so it's it's it's been
a blast. I don't think I could ever go back.
I think I would be at a bad employee. At
this point, you kind of get used to the entrepreneurial lifestyle.
It's definitely for me, not for the faint of heart. Right,
when you're doing the like we we did, we start
(28:01):
with an SBA loan and a personal guarantee, right, so
like you got all this sitting with all that downside risk, right,
you definitely have no problem getting out of bed every morning,
but wouldn't change it, Like we didn't do everything perfect.
We made plenty of plenty of errors along the way,
but like like a bad shot and goth right, you
just focus on what you can control. Is at control
the next shot and the next move. And COVID was interesting, right,
(28:22):
Like it was crazy ups and downs. Tariffs have been
crazy ups and downs, but you just got to control
what you can control. And I've been blessed have a
great business partner and great people.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
In the business.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Now we've got a lot more people in it, Like
we started with six people in feb twenty twenty one
and we're worth to sixty five now for years later.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So dang, pretty cool. Wow. What sport did your business
partner play?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
He played football? Football is a wide receiver for Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Really, that's no joke.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, what's his name only? Okay?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Yeah, he played with the Marius Thomas back and the
yeah wow Thomas was yeah really he said he was
doing a lot of blocking for the Marius to get
the ball. He'll tell you good stories there. But the
sports mindset is really plays really about the business really,
it just applies so well. And the team mindset as well. Yeah,
yeah cool.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I have one question, but U unless you got something
before I gotta clear something up.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
This is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Pretty lighthearted here, and then we're gonna we had to
do or we do make a wish story until a
wish story for our core whole tournament coming up on
November first. So my my cousin married somebody from Ireland. Okay, okay,
and my dad and my late uncle their twins went
to Ireland for the wedding.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I did not go.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I was like thirteen, And he tells me that still
to this day, that it is appropriate and okay, and
I might have twenty this before to say the F word,
and this is his story. I want we're gonna get
some verification because he might be full of full of that.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
In the right context. Swear words can be said quite
playfully in Ireland. But again, in the right context you
can you can use them playfully and you generally know
what the tone. Yeah, it's not a thing in the US.
I realized that very quickly when I moved here. But
they can be used quite playfully. So if you're in
if you're in an Irish pired, you're having to drink
with somebody and there and they're you know, using a
(30:08):
swear word you kind of have to interpret the tone, right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So his story is this, It goes like this. He
and my uncle were having a beer on the church
property walking into the wedding, and a priest came up
to him and said, there'll be no f and beer
drinking in my f in church. And they were like
like stone like didn't know what to say or anything.
And then they figured out it was okay to say
the F word. And he said pretty much every third
(30:31):
word from that time on, from the trip until he
came home, was the F word.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It can be quite common, yeah, and it's quite common
in society, and it's kind of just again in certain
parts it is. I mean, certainly coming over here to
the south again, I had to make some adjustments very
quickly to know that that was not appropriate here, right,
and again you know, for appreciate, but even you know,
good people around me in the office next door and
to bring me in and said, Brian, hey, you know
you need to just you know, be aware it is
and be aware of that. So it's great to have
(30:56):
those things. You know that that person a good friend
of mine, you know, Sam, Sam Cushman. He won't me,
he won't mind me. Uh, saying his name. But he
told me he couldn't understand what I was telling him.
For the first four or five months, he just kept
laughing at my jokes, and I was like, God, Sam,
I kept coming back in telling those jokes. I thought
you talket were funny, right, He just couldn't understand what
I was saying.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But that's the same issue.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I hope it's got better over time.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I mean, my wife says it's fine now, but when
I go home or I'm talking to my dad with me,
she says, I don't understand what you're saying. When you
get into Lingo and you get back home, he said,
you just talk. You talk a different language, but you
just get comfortable.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
With my po buddies. When I get going late at night,
they say, somebody'll lean over to that know me that
Like what did he just say? Everybody's laughing and he's like,
I don't have a clue, just laugh. So thanks. That
was It's nice to meks having Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Guys, it's pleasure, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Look to see what you're doing here and ut Patrick,
the EO community has been amazing Charlotte for the year
and with it it's it's an amazing group of folks
and uh, I'm just great, great, great community here in Charley.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So Brian and I were in Forum training together. That's
we initially met. And so yeah, it's been good. I agree,
I agree, couldn't be better, couldn't say.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
November to first, we have our eighteenth flip gears a
little bit, we skipped one because we had to do
walt for Wishes during COVID we couldn't gather for a
corn hale tournament. This is our eighteenth year raising money.
The last sixteen have been for the Make a Wish
Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina. So the ten
shows leading up to November to first at Freedom Park,
(32:28):
we like to tell a wish story because it reiterates
while we do this and polish our asset, our diamond,
our blessings to help grant wishes for kids with life
threatening illness. So Patrick, I'll let you take it from here.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, yeah, let's recognize our sponsors here. Platinum sponsors are
Dead Eye Renovations, Barefoot and Company plus Renewa Buyer Anderson
Home Technology Solutions, United Healthcare, New Gold sponsors or, Vanswelding
and envisioned millwork, and we were going to talk about Greasie. Okay,
Greasy A vibrant seven year old with a love for
theater and all things Sparkley, has faced more challenges than
(33:03):
most children her age, living with heart failure and awaiting
a heart transplant. Gracie's days are often filled with dotor's
appointments and medical concerns, but through the power of a wish,
Gracie's world transformed into a dazzling celebration of her dreams.
For one unforgettable weekend, Gracie didn't have to think about
hospitals or treatment. She was simply a star shining in
her spotlight with the help of the Belk help of Belk,
(33:24):
I'm sorry. The weekend began with a VIP shopping spree
where Gracie was treated at glamorous hair makeup, making her
feel like the stars. She is surrounded by family and friends.
Gracie's love for theater took center stage when her ultimate
wish came through her very own theater stage built right
in her home. The moment was nothing short of magical.
As the curtains were drawn back and the stage was revealed,
Gracie's face lit up with pure joy. Her family and
(33:46):
friends were there to celebrate, cheering her on as she
stepped into the spotlight. This was more than just a
dream fulfilled It was a moment of hope and empowerment
for Gracie and her family. For one weekend, Gracie wasn't
defined by her medical condition. She was a performer, a dreamer,
a shining star. Her new theater stage will not only
allow her to immerse herself and the art she loves,
will also serve as a daily reminder of the community
(34:06):
that came together to make her dream reality. Gracie's story
is a testament to the power of a wish to
provide joy, hope, strength when it is needed most.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Wow, Amen, powerful man.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Man, can only imagine that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Wow and go belt well, you know, and like there's
just so much tremm we talk about make a wish,
like all the things that you can do to be
a part of it and to participate in these wish grantings.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I know you've done one.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
This one reminded me of the time they I was
you know, they had two kids that wanted to be superheroes,
and they just every little detail is thought out. I
was the on red carpet reporter, so the kids got
out of the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I was like, tell me what your besst scene was, Brian.
I was on the board and they didn't ask me
to skip me.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It was just but you can do this stuff. You
can volunteer to do these types.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
It's wonderful. Yeah, it'll touch your heart. You'll never forget it.
All is your diamond so great? And make a wish
to do es so much for these families and these
kids and uh give gives them such vitality and freshness
in the in the midst of mist of struggles and
find what we were talking about on the show. Brian,
(35:17):
It's so nice to meet you. Look forward to hanging
out with you.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I think like after the show, I think I think
that's that's a statistic uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
As I said, I talked to my wife and see
what time I have to be somewhere. Go do the
Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to be
treated always, even when it's tough. That's when you got
to do it and carry a smile around on your face.
Thanks for joining us at home with Ruby.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Amen. Thanks Case
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