Zeus & Melina - Journey of a Social Media-Driven Candy Empire.

Welcome to another exciting episode of GMRT Experience, featuring the industrious young duo from Trendy Treats. As we talk about their journey from crafting entrepreneurial dreams to building a successful candy company and content creation venture, you'll gain valuable insights into the world of successful entrepreneurship.

Building a successful business is one thing, but maintaining a strong relationship with your business partner is another. Listen to these power-duo as they discuss the importance of dividing tasks based on individual strengths, fostering respect for each other's expertise, and mastering the art of maintaining a balanced conversation between work and personal life.

You’ll also gain insights about their YouTube journey, from the hurdles they had to overcome, the joy of reaching a million subscribers, and the key lessons they learned along their journey. This episode presents a real-world view of what it means to be a 'Millionaire' in today's entrepreneurial landscape, highlighting the important role of discipline and tireless commitment in achieving success.

Get ready to debunk the 'work-four-hours-a-day' mindset and explore the realities of entrepreneurship. Moreover, shed the traditional 9-5 mindset and learn what it takes to thrive in a saturated market. Learn refreshing perspectives about successful management, the significance of employee growth, and the necessity of firing fast for your business' overall health.

Finally, gain inspiration from these accomplished entrepreneurs who highlight the beauty of integrating faith into business. Discover their stories of resilience relying on their spiritual beliefs during tough times and learn why it's important not to be judgmental but rather to be accepting of everyone's potential to improve and learn.

Join us in this enriching conversation to unearth the secrets behind the sweet success of Trendy Treats and get inspired to make your entrepreneurial dreams come true.

Episode Transcript

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Music.

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What's up guys? Welcome to another episode of the GMRT experience. Let's go.
We are so excited to be here. It is literally a museum in here.
I am kind of embarrassed now. I don't want him to come over because it's like
just white walls, but I know you're going to give us some great ideas.
So we'll definitely have you over.

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We are. I'm excited for this episode because you guys are going to get a lot
of value out of this because these two are young entrepreneurs that they're actually doing it.
When I started this podcast, I wanted to make sure that I will bring people that are doing things.
When I was in the other side trying to figure things out, I will look at people

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doing podcasts or building their business and think that they were from another planet.
Like, what are these guys doing? How do you do that? How do you start a business?
How do you like do YouTube, like all that cool stuff? So we're going to go deep
in this episode because a lot of these are the people are listening to this.
They're either starting their business, they're already on their journey.

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But what I noticed from the messages that I've gotten.
People are, you know, like sometimes they're a little bit afraid to start.
So we're going to give them some games, some value so they can get going.
So just to start out, just tell us a little bit about who you are,
what you do and all that fun stuff.
We're Trendy Treats. We're a candy manufacturer. I like to say we're a social

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media company, but Mel handles all our operations.
I'll let her talk more about that, but I handle more of the media side of the
company. but we make cool content for kids and we sell candy through social
media and in retail stores.
That's kind of our background. I can let Mel talk a little bit about what she handles.

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So I basically focus on all the logistics. So moving our product in and out
of our warehouse and managing our entire team, which is very stressful,
but very fun. And I wouldn't trade it for a thing.
And he definitely eats more candy than me, but we're both candy lovers.
I eat candy every day, every day, all day.

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That'll test your product, dude. Dude, I eat all types. Like I even eat the
worst candies. I was eating candy corn all week just because it's Halloween.
And I'm like, I don't know, dude. I was literally like, you're literally eating
the worst candy possible.
What are you doing? Like stop eating candy corn. We have better candy in the office.
So I wanted to ask you guys, like before we go into like what you do and all that cool stuff.

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So how did you guys meet? How did that happen? And just tell us,
because this is going to tie it in into what you guys do and how you're doing it together.
I'll let Mel tell this one. She's usually better at the love story.
All right. So the love story starts when we were 15 years old.
So I had the biggest crush on him in high school, but we were just friends.

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I got friend zoned. It's OK. Puberty helped.
And fast forward, it's my second to last year in college. college suze is already
living out here in utah and we were good friends he was going back to visit
in texas and he was like hey we should go on a date and i was like this,
playing you know we're just friends I already

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know he's messing around it ended up being an actual
date and then he asked me out and I was like no you live in Utah I live in Texas
like this isn't gonna work and he's like just think about it all right I thought
about it we ended up being in a long-distance relationship for a year and a
half and then during COVID we both both got the opportunity.

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Sorry, during COVID, we both had the opportunity to move in together and also
start our business since everything was on pause.
He had a production company, I was working retail. And so I know a lot about
the struggles of retail.
And we got laid off. And we're both workaholics. And we're like, we need to do something.
And so we decided to start a

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candy store because we had made TikTok videos
and there was a large kid following and it was a
consumable product that we can sell and during COVID
the manufacturers were closed overseas so
there wasn't a lot of opportunity to get candy and we
started making our own I remember Suze told me like oh we
can make our own candy and I was like what do you know about making candy you

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do not know how to make candy and he started mixing things
up and we started testing stuff in the the kitchen and
after a lot of no's we finally got a yes and
we've been running it now for three years together and
it was very hard at the beginning but we've definitely learned how
to work together more and that just goes with like having as we've grown it's

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easier and easier because we have more defined tasks where before we were both
working on the same thing and we would kind of butt heads a lot because we're
both I feel like leader we both have leadership inside.
And so it was like, well, I want to do this. Well, I want to do this.
But now I think we allow each other, like if it's a marketing thing, Suze has a final answer.

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And if it's an operations thing, I have the final answer. So good.
That's, that's really good. You know, like, I don't know.
That you guys have something special because, you know, I'm a soup,
like from what I'm listening, you're doing what you're good at and he's doing
what he's good at. Right.
And that's kind of how I'm doing, building this thing. I don't have a wife or

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a girlfriend right now, but I rely a lot on my team.
So they let me do what I'm good at. And then I allow them to do what they're
good at. And you find that balance.
And what I'm realizing, especially this year, that's how you're really, really grow.
Yeah. Yeah, no, that is true. I mean, it's the same with any team member.
The only difference with a wife is you don't leave, right? Like you can't leave.

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Your team members can leave. But once it's your wife, it's like you're not going
anywhere. So do your part.
As soon as you go home and you're still mad about what happened at work. Yeah. So, okay.
Actually, let's talk about that. So, yeah, like once you guys are,
I mean, I know there's no like off work because you're always going.

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Yeah but okay once you're at home do you guys
bring that at home or like is there like okay we're not talking
about that or how does that work no we tried
at the beginning but honestly and it's just the
way i feel personally like i feel like i am my work so and i know i know mel
feels like this sometimes obviously we have things we like to do outside of

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work but i feel like i am my work and if there's anything i ever want to talk
about it's probably work or it's something and if we don't want to talk about work.
There usually is something that happens where it's like, hey,
we have to talk about this.
So one way or another, we always end up talking about work. I think as long
as your relationship is good, it won't be a problem.

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Like if we're spending time together, if we're giving each other time,
if we're respecting each other, we can talk about work all day, every day.
And as long as we're holding that flame and passion behind it,
it's not going to be a problem.
I think where it's a problem, it's where we're butting heads on ideas.
We're going home someone hasn't put their ego down

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i think that's where it's an issue because work is
awesome and talking about the same thing is it's awesome right it's like
your passion it's being it's just like having that like desire for something
and just loving it so much and i think it only becomes a problem when someone
can't put their ego down so good and i think i think we've also learned to like

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read each other because there is days where we're both like Like, it's rare.
We're always talking about work. We're literally like about to fall asleep.
It's like, wait, I forgot to tell you something that happened today.
But we've learned to read each other. And I've learned that like when we're
like absolutely exhausted, we'll kind of both look at each other and it's like,
okay, we're just gonna sit in silence for a little because we're,

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we've, we've had a long day.
But for the most part, I mean, we'll go eat dinner and we'll talk about work.
And I think at times it becomes a little bit difficult.
And I remember I used to be like, oh, well, where do we draw the line,
right? and relationship and co-founders.
But I feel like now we found a perfect balance. We'll talk about work,
but then we'll talk about something about ourselves and it'll just kind of come

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naturally from a conversation.
I think you can't draw a strict line because if you try to draw a strict line,
you're just going to be focusing on that person crossing it. So good.
And I think there's more issues. It's like, okay, here's the line.
Now it's like, okay, now I'm waiting to see if you're going to cross it.
Dude, that's really good because it's funny because the last episode that I
just did a couple of days ago, I was this other guy, very successful kid.

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And I was asking him because something that I struggle when I bring somebody into my life.
I don't have an on and off. Like, I'm always on.
And I've realized that when they come into my world, a lot of times it catches them off guard.
And as you know, we go to the same church.

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As I'm walking this path with God, I've been trying to think about when that
woman shows up into my life, I need to be upfront and honest.
Hey, this is who I am. I'm very passionate about what I do.
I want to bring you in. but it's like
i've never done that before and i used to crash
with a lot of good people actually now that i think

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about it dude i had some good woman in
my life but i couldn't express like this
is me 24 7 like i live eat and breathe this thing yeah and i think it's good
like i think you like someone has to love you for who you are and i think that
that's what's going to bring you someone like if you're very creative like i
feel like you need someone creative in your life because they're They're going

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to understand that even if they're not as creative, right?
They're going to understand the passion and the drive and someone who's willing
to go through their journey with you, which I think is something like super
rewarding where we're both like there's been times where he wants to go home
or I want to go home and we understand like,
oh, no, they want to stay, you know, when there's times where he wants to stay
longer, there's times where I want to stay longer.

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And it's like, oh, I understand your passion and I understand your drive and
I'm here to support it, you know? And I think that that's a successful relationship
where you guys can support each other's goals, even if it's not the same goal.
Because in a way, even though we work together and we're working towards the
same company, our goals are different.
Like he wants to be a YouTuber, you know, like he's accomplished one of his goals now.

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And I want to like manage like over 50 employees like that. We have different
goals within the same company.
So I think as long as you're able to build together, that's like the ideal relationship.
Relationship. Yeah. And I think you got to figure out your role,
right? Not everybody is meant to work together.
And me going into my relationship, it is something that I wanted.
I loved power couples and I liked looking at power couples.

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And a lot of my close friends were power couples and they work together and
manage businesses together. So I was like, oh, I want that.
But I feel like sometimes finding the right person might be someone to hold it down at home,
someone like be there for you emotionally someone
to raise your family if that's what your goal is
and i think it's also important to like hey sometimes your partner is

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not meant to be a part of your of your
company and that's okay i think it's it's it's okay to not be a part of it and
it's also awesome if that's what you want because i know it won't work for everybody
it is something i think that we love to do and it's something that i i craved
and it's something that works works well but I also think it's important to

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realize like hey you know like the day might come where.
Like where we might split as far as like our career, where like one of us might
say, hey, I'm done with this or I want to venture into something else.
And I think that we have to realize like, hey, that's that's OK.
Like we're one couple, but we're still individuals and we got to be there for

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each other, whether it means being co-founders or whether it's just being a family at home.
So good. That's really good. I got deep.
That's good hey so what's in the water so
so going back to that and that
because she was talking about one of my questions for
you suze was i recently you know i

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saw that the big goal that you just hit on youtube
and you know i was when you posted that
a real you know you showed some
videos like when you started and when you wanted
to quit and you know how how was
that that journey hitting that 1 million subscribers and
because i know bro like when you start and you

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said something that you know you wanted to quit and all of that
like please take us there how did that happen and
like what was the journey from like wanting to quit
starting wanting to quit and not not look at you yeah it's funny this is the
first time i actually talk about it like talk talk about it I think it hasn't
fully settled in yet like I still don't believe it and I think that like my

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emotions haven't caught up to it yet to even now like you saying that it's like oh wow.
The truth is, I never wanted to quit. And I've never thought about quitting.
I did think it was probably not possible at some points. Like, maybe it wasn't me.
But that video of me as a kid where I say that I don't know if I want to keep going.

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It's actually like a lip sync video where I sing Rihanna's Unfaithful song.
Like, I don't want to do this anymore.
And it was a whole joke. And I'm like, oh, this works perfectly for this video.
But looking back at it, I never I never wanted to quit.
I think it's just like it. It never happened for me. Right.

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And it's just like, oh, like maybe this isn't for me. Like I did one YouTube
channel for like two years.
And then it's just to where like, oh, like, like, it's not me.
Like, I'm not going to be the YouTuber.
Like, it's just like I'm not making money. It's not happening.
And then I just did it again and again and again and again.
End and every single time it was the same result where it's

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like oh like like you go in with it like
saying hey like i'm going to like be a youtuber get a
million subscribers and you just do it for so long
that it fades where it's like oh like you you do it
because you love it but you don't exactly have that
like that like oh i want to get there
anymore i think my latest youtube videos i was just doing

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just to do like i wasn't trying to
make it anymore you could say i i
i was was creating content when we started dating and it
was just like I was already a videographer I was getting paid
to make videos so it was just extra to me it was like
hey I'm just gonna make tiktoks and make videos because it's what I truly like
and I wasn't even going at it with the intention of like hey let's let's hit

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it let's hit it hard you know and then when we started selling candy it was
like oh like now I need to make sure this works like because it's our our marketing.
Like I need to make sure we sell.
And I think that pushed me more. And.
We saw it grow. Like, I think we figured out the content that worked.
And I remember getting like a million views and then a million views a few days

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later, and then a million views a few days after that.
And then I had a client that I was doing videos for. And I remember like,
I got a new client, his first video hit a million views.
And then I did a video for a buddy of mine and his video got a million views.
And I think it clicked where I was like, oh, I figured it out.
And i always thought like

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man like one day it's not gonna hit
a million views and i think we've we've been
going viral now for two years and now it's
like okay like we're here like we hit the million subs and
it was crazy honestly it still hasn't fully settled
in like i think the day will come maybe next week
i need to add on to this so when we found

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out that we added a million subscribers
we he was really sick that
day he was literally i think he got food poisoning
i don't know he was like in bed like and i
was like we hit it we hit it and he was like i
saw like he was just like he was dead and
so i feel like we were both anticipating the moment

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so much so that it can be celebrated but he was just
so sick the day we hit it and he was kind of frustrated because we.
Were out of town when we hit it and he was like i really wanted to
be home when we hit it and then we were out of town when we received the
plaque so he couldn't like get that.
Moment receiving the plaque so we came back I think
it was like a couple days later when the plaque arrived to
the office and then they finally opened

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it and it was still like I feel like it
was still like unreal to everybody in the team like we
had we saw it all in the office and it was like oh there's
a plaque but it didn't fully kick in we did a
photo shoot this week with the plaque and it's still
I feel like we're still like like we're holding
it like we don't know what it is so does this okay

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i want to go a little deep on this i'm
curious so how does it work do you get an email do you
does somebody on youtube call you like hey how
does it work yeah so we get so on our on
our back end we see like the live subscriber count and
we were we were waiting for the live subscriber count because
we were going to make our candy store free for one minute what's what's your

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youtube channel trendy treats okay so we were
gonna make our whole website free for one minute and we were
we were in the middle we were in the middle east and we
were in a hotel and i was laying down and i was just watching it like i had
been in bed for like two days we extended our trip one day just so i could sleep
at the hotel because i'm like i'm not flying back like this like i'm not getting

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on a plane but to answer your question you hit it and then it's kind of awkward
at the beginning because you don't hear anything from anyone.
It's just like you hit it. And I think we were like at... We had already passed
a million by like 80,000 and we still hadn't heard anything.
And then you get an email from YouTube saying, hey, like...
Like you've hit a million subscribers congratulations we just need

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to verify because they won't give certain chat not everybody
gets a plaque there's channels that are banned from plaques or channels that
are not allowed to get it i guess if you're like just
reposting movies right that aren't yours or if
you have a lot of strikes with youtube because of
your content but there's there's channels that won't get it so
they just have to verify that and then you actually get an

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email with a code to go to a website and
claim it and then you enter your your code you claim it
and then they actually let you type in what you want it to say which
i hate because like our channel is trendy treats but they actually like ask
you like what do you want it to say and you can type in anything and
the only reason that scares me is because i misspell
a lot of stuff so i had everyone check it i'm like i know this is dumb but i'm

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like just look at it like you don't know the amount of stuff i've ordered with
something misspelled so i'm just like just verify it i just can't be the only
one that verifies this but that's the way it works and And then once you receive
it, you can actually order a replica if you want it.
Fancy. That's pretty cool. So where do you have your plaque?
Is it in your office, your home?
Get it right now. It's in our office. So it's going to be in,

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it's actually next to a Jesus piece that we got from Scott Travis.
Do you have the purple or blue? The blue. Blue, okay. Yeah. And we have it next to our 100,000 plaque.
But I ordered a replica for the apartment just because, I mean,
it's something that I've wanted
since I was 13. I'm like, I have to see it in like in my house, right?
Like I have to see it when I wake up. Dude, that's so good.

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So, so I guess you, you already answered kind of how,
when you started your business and all of that, but something that I had here
on my notes as I was prepping for this episode was there was a Pathfinder breakfast
like a couple months ago and you spoke and,
And you were talking and you said something very profound that it just, it hit.

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God did something in your life. Like you, I think you said you,
you guys already had hit a million dollars or seven figures, something like that.
But once you went through that Pathfinder apprenticeship or however they call
it, it made that seem like nothing.
Or something like that. What did that mean, bro?

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Like, I've been meaning to ask you that, like, because I'm actually thinking
about doing it right after I finish Awaken You.
And I was like, what does that mean? Can you explain that to me, please?
Yeah. So I, I don't know. I've always been really closed off to doing groups
and stuff and things like that, just because I've always been like,
oh, you got to focus on your lane, right?
Which I think is good for a season of your life, not your entire life.

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But it's funny, me and Mel were just talking about this. I have a,
I've had it for like five years now, but I read the, I loved the book Think
and Grow Rich and it has the power of commitment.
And my power of commitment was right to become a millionaire by age, like I think it was 19.
And I have it, I have it on my desk. It's the same one since 2019.

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And every year I've scratched it off, added a year and then signed it to seal
it like, oh, it's next year.
So it's like, it says, I'll become a millionaire and more by 2019,
scratch, 2020, scratch, 2021, scratch, and then 2022, scratch.
And then Mel was asking me the other day, she's like, she's like,
well, right, like, what is the definition of a millionaire?

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Because yeah because that
that can mean a lot of things like by asset valuation
it's like you checked it off but i feel
like when what you think a millionaire is is not the same as you doing a million
in sales because it comes with overhead costs it's not your profit yeah right

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you could have sold five million dollars but it doesn't mean you can go afford
like the million dollar house yet. Yep.
So what I meant by that was I met people that have already been through that.
I've met people that have sold like over done like a million dollars in sales
and stuff and even like at a way bigger level.

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And I think the bigger, the more people you meet that have been there,
the more it opens your eyes. Yeah.
We we've we had a year of maybe last year
was like i think it was like 3.5 and that's
someone's like worst day like not
even year like there's people out there that are running a

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business that if they did 3.5 in a day man they
would lose it and i think just meeting people that
are playing at the higher level and also have been
there for so long right it's it's one thing to like do over
a a million in sales one year and it's different to
be able to do it for five consecutive years because now
you have money coming in from every year but when you do it one year you have

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so many expenses that it's like hey if you want to keep growing you got to
spend it all so i met people that i met people in pathfinders that
had been doing it for years and even
if it's not that super high like someone that's
able to do one or two million a year for 20 consecutive
years is going to be better off than like the person that made it
in one year and spent it all and never did it again so

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it just opened my eyes to meet people that had
been there already and i did
i did meet like maybe one
or two people in there that had hit over a hundred million and that's when i
was like man like once you hit your goal i think you also realize how small
it is so see that's that's what i realized as i meet a lot of like successful

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people you know bring them into my podcast or go go to their events.
It's like the definition of millionaire is just, it's different to everybody,
but it's the same thing that as you're talking about, like it's hard to do that
first million, but it's even harder to keep doing it again and again and again.
And the discipline that it takes to operate at that level.

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I experienced it. I know for me, like,
you know, like, and we were talking about it off camera, like,
I have to have a lot of things placed in my life routines because,
yeah, I might not be a millionaire yet in whatever aspect the world will think.
But the discipline that it takes, I need to start that discipline right now

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because that's what it's going to require at that level.
Yeah and i think a lot of people have like a misconception right
where they want the lifestyle but they're not willing to put in the work and
i think that that's that's the most like eye-opening
thing for me right where it's like oh i
want to be a millionaire but i only want to work four hours a day like you're
not going to get there that way you know and like hard like the risk i i do

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i do i'm a firm believer in what you put in is what you get out and we have
dedicated complicated, literally our life,
like we've, at one point, we even kind of like put our relationship on the side
to just go full on on the business because we want it so bad.
And so I think you just have to be willing to put in the work and anybody out

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there who's listening, right, who wants to start a business,
just know that you're going to work twice as hard, right? Twice as many hours as you're working.
Because if you don't have that discipline, like you say,
you're not gonna accomplish anything because you
need to show up for your business and and that's
what i that's why i have this podcast because i
want everybody that's starting out to know the truth when i started out i it

(25:59):
was hard for me to find like this type of information like people that kept
it real like dude yeah it's gonna be freaking hard yeah no i hate it i mean
my biggest pet peeve is uh people always tell me like man i want to start a
business so like i can just like,
Like chill, chill, like so I can make my own schedule.
And I don't see like I just let people talk, you know, like especially if I don't know them.

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I'm just like like I like hearing people out and like seeing what they think.
But the amount of times I get of like, man, like like I'm going to start my
own business so I don't have to work nine to five. I'm like, man.
I have to work nine to five. Like I have to, it was like, I have to work six
to 10 sometimes, but it's, it's true. It's a lot more work. And I think that, right.

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You either have to be extremely talented or lucky to, there is those like millionaire
entrepreneurs that did it.
They got really lucky investing or, or did something, but you,
I mean, the average person can't compare themselves to that.
It's like, it's like comparing yourself to an artist or an athlete.
Unless you have the the talent you're not gonna get

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rich quick and if you do you still got to
work hard now because now you're in a pool of talent that
you're going against that's so good that bro you
just hit it on the spot because at this
once you start playing at this level there's a
lot of talent oh yeah man or like what
we considered our competitors two years

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ago i look at them now and i'm like yeah like i'm
cheering them on i'm like i'm cheering you on because i'm seeing the competition we
have and they're gonna shut you down oh that's dude me
and my team talk about that all the time like the people
that we were comparing ourselves before i'm like bro like good
luck to those guys we're comparing ourselves to other stuff so
that's so you're hitting it on the spot because that that

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tells you the levels that there is in this
game yeah and it's crazy i feel like oh like we
surpass like even like because we we i think it's
good to have competition and kind of like work towards something so
i remember like back in covid there was people with
more followers than us and kind of comparing ourselves like.
Oh they still have more followers than us and then we just literally surpassed them

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now it's like oh i didn't even remember them you know and now
it's like a whole different group of people and it's like wow i
didn't even know these people existed until we got there you know
and so it's it's an ongoing battle because i feel like also our competition
it's what has allowed us to keep pivoting and keep innovating in our business
because you need competition because it's not I feel like when you feel like

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you're the only one or you're on top of the world you really lose it like.
You're going to lose your focus. You're going to lose your drive.
You're going to lose your creativity.
And when you see a magician, it's like literally like someone's running behind
you with a saw and you're like, I got to get as far away as possible from that.
So it's stressful. I definitely am the one that like freaks out at first.

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I'll freak out, but I'll still like be working. But I'm like panicking, having a stress attack.
And then Suze is just like calm, but like strategic in his head.
And I'm like how are you not freaking out
about this and he's like we'll be fine we'll be fine
we just got to keep working I like
being put up against the wall dude I relate to that

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because that's how I tell my team like they
they're they're the ones that watch what other people
are doing I don't like I like to
dream I'm a dreamer so I tell them
okay if there's something thing that i need to know please let
me know but i don't because it used to get to
me like it will actually competition used to paralyze

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me i used to like oh shit okay now.
I gotta do what that guy's doing because i like he's
better than me or that guy so now we i found that
balance that okay the team kind of like keeps an
eye like hey we should be doing this we should be doing that
okay let's talk about that and i
just focus more on the broader mission and then

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we just put everything thing together and that that's how we keep scaling i
like to remind myself that you got to look at your competition
but focus on your customer yeah because i
feel like i mean if you're just always looking at
your competition it's gonna eat you alive like no matter
what like you're gonna feel like they're drowning you when
you might not even be drowning you might be drowning them you

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know so you just have to keep doing what you're doing and i think
like you said like obviously see what they're doing but
don't stop what you're doing because you're doing something right and i think
that's been the case for us a lot where it's like oh like
we're really focused on like the media side as well
like we're constantly creating content we focus on
attractive packaging and like a family-friendly brand so I feel like we really

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know like our brand identity and it's important not to just and we've seen it
a lot with people where it's like oh they're doing here now let's do that like
they'll go with the trends but it's like you're not being honest to yourself
or or what you're building. And, and.
Feel like consumers feel that you know they're gonna feel like oh
one day he's doing this one day he's doing another people like consistency and

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if they follow you it's because they like you for who
you are yeah so good so that ties into my next
question so what are some tips for anybody
starting now or there there might be already
years on their journey to build their
brand when it comes to like social media content
how they brand themselves and all of that because you guys

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are of doing it really really good at a high level i think
it's just one just one of the best things i've heard is to
document right if you if you're tired of creating because i
know as a creative you can get tired of creating new things and some like i
don't know you could run out of ideas you might be creating for so long that
you don't even know what to create and sometimes the best thing to do is just

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to document because as long as you're working there's going to be something thing to document.
I think that we create a lot right now. We're in a stage where we're creating
a lot, where we're constantly coming with new ideas, setting budgets for sets,
going out and actually writing a script.
And when we have no ideas, it's like, okay, let's just go do something fun and

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document it. And that'll usually also get us content.
You don't have to create to get content. There's a lot of ways to get content.
And I think it's becoming more accessible.
I was one of the best advice that I ever got is the the best camera is the one in your pocket and.
I know I used to be like this But you don't need a camera or a tripod or the

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most expensive light you if you have a camera start creating content because
I've gotten more views off videos I've made on my iPhone 12 and I used to have
a red camera that was like 30 grand and I.
Like now I look at it and I always have fights with like filmmakers and stuff
because I'm like, it's, it's about reach at the end of the day.

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And my iPhone's gotten me more attention than a high cinema camera.
So at the end of the day, my iPhone was a better camera in my purpose for what I wanted to achieve.
Dude, I relate to that because every, every piece of content that we create is created on an iPhone.
Phone i had i i i was like

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okay i can't afford a full-time videographer so
i had to get creative okay i have a phone so i
and i got a second phone and in my team they have one phone i have this phone
and everything we do i tell them everything we do every single day when we go
to costco when we go visit client it's content get out the phone and then let's

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let's roll yeah and i feel like a lot of people set their limits with that it's
like oh well i don't have a light i don't have this.
And it's like, you look at all these influencers.
Now you look at tech talk, everyone's shooting on their iPhone,
like no one's going to take out a camera, learn how to edit,
learn how to download the SIM card, when we all know how to use our iPhone.
So I feel like a lot of people, it's stopping you by complicating things,

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right? Like when you complicate things, you're not going to get things done.
And as far to go back to your question, what I would recommend is delegating
and building people up, which has been what has allowed us to grow so much.
We found, okay, what is something at this stage of the business that we can delegate?
And we're constantly doing that. Okay, who can we delegate this to, right?

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Because that allows like him to be more creative and focus on his ideas and his strengths, right?
Because before we were packaging orders, we were packaging candy,
we were doing everything where it's like, it gets to a point where.
And I feel like this was more for me because I'm kind of like a control freak, right?
Like I have OCD, like things need to be done like my way because I'm very specific

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on how I like things done.
But I realized like I can't, if I'm like, if I'm packaging candy all day or
I'm packaging orders all day, I'm never going to be able to get more clients, right?
I'm never going to be able to structure the business, right? In our operations.
And so I think the biggest tip is don't be afraid to
delegate things and trusting people with the

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things that you know and I think that's always
been back when I was in retail and management I've never
been like greedy with my knowledge because just
because you share and Zeus kind of shared this
too when we started dating just because you share something with somebody doesn't
mean that they're gonna go out and do it you know like you can't be greedy with

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your knowledge and I feel like that that's just what helps a company grow right
like if you You weren't willing to show people how to sew or how to do the cuts.
I mean, you're never going to
be able to grow because you need to be doing other parts of the business.
No, it's very interesting because right now I'm in that season delegating.

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So a couple of months ago, I hired a mental coach because I realized for our
company to get to the next level, it wasn't because the art or like if I tell
my team, let's go fucking build a table and customize.
Whatever we're gonna do it it was all right
here and then our coach he's been

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working with everybody in the company and he
works with them and then he comes up to me and they okay this is
what you need to work so the business starts flowing and
that's been the biggest thing he's like you need to start delegating
more because i thought like i had to micromanage every single
thing every customer so now i pass things
along and it's been like it's been more

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framed because now i'm like i can see the vision i
can dream and then i go dream and then
i come to the team hey let's do this and then they're
excited so it's been so good this year just
like well not this year like two three months i just
been doing this and it's been the best thing i've ever done and i totally get
you and like the like i just feel like you and because it's it's i always say

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like we don't have a baby but our business is our baby like anybody talks bad
anybody touches it i'm like mama bear coming Like, this is mine.
Like, you're not gonna tell me this is not it. And I feel like that's what creates
that like, you obviously don't want your reputation with your customers to be ruined, right?
But you'll I think if you find the right people, they're going to kind of hop

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on your train of your mission, and they're gonna help you move it forward.
How many employees do you guys have right now? We currently have 20 employees
and we actually... Can we talk, okay, how do you manage that?
So I'm basically the one who manages everybody.
I had previous experience management, so I was able to commit a lot of mistakes

(37:33):
elsewhere, which was good.
But it's really, at the end of the day, it's about caring for people, honestly.
Like if you don't care for your employees, they're not going to care for the work that they do.
And I make sure that they know that my door is always open, whether it's for
a personal and I always tell them if you guys need advice, if you guys are going

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through a rough time financially or emotionally, my door is always open for you guys to come.
And there's been multiple times where they have the confidence,
right, to come and not the confidence, the openness, I don't know,
right, like the trust to come to me with an issue, whether it's financial or
personal, and I make sure that I, I show up for them.

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And I always tell them like if you and likewise, like if they have something
going on on their personal life, right, I'm always like I will respect your
schedule as long as you respect the schedule that you're like assigned.
And I think caring for people is really, really important.
Like I don't I can't imagine going into work and not saying hi to anybody every single day.

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I make sure I go into our warehouse because we have two warehouses.
We have the production warehouse and then we have like our media and packaging. jinx.
And so I always make sure I go and I greet everybody. Good morning, everybody.
Or when if I'm leaving, hey guys, see you tomorrow. And I think it's just having
those attentions and company culture.
Every month I try to do a team activity, right?

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And or to give back to our employees.
We do like soccer games. We do like cookouts. We do a bunch of stuff because
we want that company culture and we want people to stay because it's way more
expensive for you to hire someone else and train them.
And then like the training process alone is a long process, right?

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People that don't just get it unless they have previous experience,
but even then they have to learn your style and your customers.
So it's way more valuable to retain your employees and develop them and grow them.
And I think that's another thing is encouraging growth and development where
it's like, oh, if you work here, you're not going to learn anything.
You're just going to do this one job until you decide to leave

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and i'm constantly like no like it if you
like are here i'm gonna make sure that i
also add value to you and you're gonna if you
decide to leave our company one day you're gonna leave with
more knowledge than what you came in because that's what i want to be as a leader
so good i also think that it's it's it's and i've always heard it and it's something

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that we didn't do at the beginning because it's something that we couldn't do
but i think that You really do have to hire slow and fire fast. I grew up.
Like when I grew up, right, like when I started my first venture,
I was like, I was hiring the people around me, the people that were passionate,
the people that like, I need a videographer.
Oh, I know this cool videographer. I need a photographer. I know a cool photographer.

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And I was hiring off like my circle of friends that I knew.
And this week, we actually have two new people joining the media team,
which is really exciting because we we hire two people at at the same time.
And it's, that's never been done. And, and we're, we're hiring for media.
It's like, we haven't grown our media team.

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We've obviously production it's, it's, it's Womel overseas and it's,
we're, we're running a manufacturing business.
It's, it's a whole business of its own and a whole company of its own.
And I think it helps that we have it in a different warehouse,
but that's like a standalone business right there is just like the manufacturing side of it.
So it's exciting to grow our creative side and get people in there.

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But I think that one of the best things I just realized and I learned this recently
is there's talent out there. There's people out there.
Don't settle for what you think is around you.
Because I always hired from the people around me and I am someone that believes in people.
And I think that that's also a weakness of mine, right?

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When you believe in people and you see the good in everybody,
you think that everybody can achieve great things.
But the truth is that not everybody is meant to be on your team.
And if you're going up against a big battle and you want to grow to be a multimillion
dollar corporation, you're not going to get there with weak people.
And I think this is the first First time I ever review like over 50 resumes,

(41:53):
go in there, pay to promote the job search, post it on three different platforms,
do an interview, cut it down to three, and then still have my wife go in there
and do a second interview just to make sure she approves of them because she
knows me well enough to know like,

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oh, this would make a good person on his team.
And I was scared because I was like, man, I really like this person.
I was just praying like, like, I hope she likes him because if not,
there's going to be a problem because I already mentally hired them.
But, but yeah, I think you just have to hire slow.
And it's something that I realized, like the people starting us with us this,

(42:34):
this week, I'm super excited because it's like, like I, it was different this
time. I didn't, I didn't settle for the people I knew already.
I went out there and looked for what I thought our team deserved.
And just to add on to that, I feel like the wrong person can bring your whole team down.
Like one bad apple will rot all the apples around you.

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And I think we've learned that like the hard way. Right.
And it's it's all a learning curve.
Like as long as you learn from your experiences, I feel like you're good.
But it's when you make the same mistake over and over because that person can set you back.
Like we we've had employees where it's like we and I and I think I'm like a
fighter. I'm like, no, I believe in people like Zeus.

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I believe in them. They're going to do better. They're going to get better.
But me holding on to that thought just held us back.
Because as soon as those people were let go of, it was like, boom.
Production doubled or tripled. Content doubled or tripled.
It was insane what one person can do to a team. I made that mistake.

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I made it last year. That's why I do what you talk about.
It's like when I hire people, I make sure I take my time.
And then if I need to let somebody go, which it hasn't happened since last year.
Because I used to hold into, I see it. I can see your potential.

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You just need a little bit more time. Let me coach you more.
And it cost me money, clients. clients
last one it cost me a big fucking client
and like even when i think about
that client still hurts me because i'm like
i lost that client because i didn't fire fast

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even when i call her to let her go i'm like well maybe maybe go take some time
off like like saying the words you're fired was hard now i'm like i if something
happens i let go quick like because it's just like it's It's hurting me and my own employees, too.
The ones that are actually doing the good thing, the right job.

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Yeah. And I think you just have to, like, I think it can be hard because it can be discouraging.
I know I was discouraged at one point. Like, oh, I'm not going to,
like, teach anybody anything.
I'm going to, like, I'm done. Like, people don't even appreciate it, you know.
But I think if you have the right people, it's just going to,
like, you being a good person is not bad.

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I think it's just, like, the wrong person.
Yeah. Yeah, someone also told me once, which like opened my mind because I was
having this issue and they told me they're like, if you want to help people go start a nonprofit.
They're like, run your business. If you want to go help people, then start a nonprofit.
And I was like, it's true. There's different ways to help people.

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And sometimes keeping them, keeping a bad apple is not the way to do it.
Dude. So let me ask you this now.
So do you guys, you know, are believers, you walk in this faith?
You know, one of the things that I've done this year, I had this massive goal
this year. You're like, I'm going to hit a million dollars.
I'm going to have this warehouse, all these employees.

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And as I started, you know, going to church and like learning all this stuff
and battling my own things.
You know, every like, you know, what God has done on me this year, there's no value.
There's no money value that I will put on it.
But I've allowed him into my business. business the decisions

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that i make like once that that alignment
tells me okay you need to go this way that way how
do you guys do that in your business as far
as like you're saying like as far as like bringing
like god into our business yes the for me i think something that's always helped
is i have gotten a lot stronger in my faith recently but something that i could

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say that i've always had was i've never feared to to lose because i've always felt like.
I've always believed that what i
pray for is gonna happen i i truly have and i i've always i believe in god and
you always been always been christian i've always been christian i i grew up
going to christian and catholic church and i never like i never really knew

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as a kid right like hey i'm christian or i'm catholic but i i was my mom always
taught me to pray and i've always prayed prayed to God.
Like even if I went five years without going to church, I prayed because it's
what I knew how to do. And it made me feel good.
And I honestly like felt like every time I prayed, God answered my prayers.
And I saw that growing up. And it's just like, I've felt like I couldn't fail.

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I've just like, like, I have God on my side, and I'm not gonna fail.
And it's just something that I've always had. And I know that I've come off
as annoying to people throughout my life, just because they think that I'm joking
where I'm like, Oh, like, like God's with us. Like we're not going to lose.
And sometimes I do say like jokingly, but I'm not, it truly is from like, from my heart.

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I feel like I can't fail just because, I mean, if you, if you have faith and have it like, yeah.
Right. Like have it, like, that's what it means to have faith and have it.
Cause if, if you're, if you're scared, it's okay to be scared,
but if you truly don't believe it, then you have faith issues.
So the truth is, is like, I feel like I'm going to win.

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Even if I were to lose it all today, I feel like, oh, like God's doing this to teach me something.
And it's just the mentality that I always keep. And...
I don't know, sometimes I might come off like a crazy Christian,
but I, like, I'm like, I won, like, I have God on my side.
I, my intentions are good. And, and it doesn't matter what happens.

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Like I see competition come up and I'm like, oh, like it's, God wants me to get more creative.
He, he wants me to do this. And I don't think, I mean, God's not out there starting
this competition or, or giving me bad days, but it's like, if you point all your faith to, to God,
then what are are you scared of so good dude
that's that helps me a lot because you know i'm this

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god thing it's new to me i was
literally straight up for the world on paper i was technically good and then
this year it's just been like okay like once you walk this path it's just like
i literally tell my team and everybody around me i got the secret sauce which
is god jesus like every time no matter matter what happens,

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I tell them, we've got the secret sauce. Let's stay on the path.
Yeah. The way I like to incorporate it, I mean, all of our team,
we're open about our religion, and I am very thankful right now.
I think everybody in our team is Christian, which is good. I mean,
they're Christ believers.
They're not all Christians, but they all believe in Christ.

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And what I like to do, when we're going through really stressful moments,
before anybody gets to the warehouse, the production warehouse is all blast
because they always play like reggaeton and Hispanic music in the production warehouse.
But I always, it's like 5.30 a.m.
I'll go in and I'll play worship music and I just allow God to come into our space, you know?

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And I think that that has given me a lot of peace of mind because even though
I'm not in that warehouse all day, I know that I started it,
you know, praising him and he's there, you know, he's there watching over it.
And something else is I always like to encourage it, kind of share it in our
meeting. So we had a meeting on Friday.

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And I ended the meeting by saying like, fear not for God is with us.
It's one of my favorite Bible verses. And the reason I always find like a different
inspiration and I feel like God tells me what they need to hear that week.
And what it was is one of my employees was telling me that he wouldn't let his
son take the tracks because he was scared.

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And I told him, I was like, you can't instill that fear in your son.
And I told them my favorite Bible verse was
fear not because I am with you because I used to be super scared
of the dark and every time now I'm in the
dark I just say like oh there's nothing to fear like God is with me and so I
like to encourage like inspired it with our team and sometimes even when they're

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going through a challenging time we had one of our employees go through a really
bad car accident and we all gathered together as a team and we prayed for him
because that's the the culture we want to have,
like, you're not just here to just work, but you're also here because these people support you.
These people are here for you. And I think bringing, that's how we bring God into our business.

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And now even more, like, I think this year we've kind of gotten stronger in
our faith with Awaken and realizing, like, we need to, we need to speak up as Christians, right?
Like we, I feel like I used to shy around, like, oh,
I don't know if I should say that I'm a Christian, you know like but
we've we've really doubled down and now we have

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jesus painting in our office so anybody who walks in
sees that automatically too yeah i think
it's also important to not judge
right because i think when you build a company and stuff it's good to have values
and things but it's sometimes people are brought to you for you to be that awakening
in them right like it's It's there's only one requirement that I know of that

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you need to get into heaven.
And that's to accept that Jesus died for you and have faith in him.
From what I've learned, that's the only requirement. I think that's the only requirement.
And am I right? You guys are experts.
I'm not an expert. I have to call Jesus. I'm not an expert, but we've been reading the Bible recently.

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And that's the only requirement and when
jesus came he hung out with sinners
yeah and we're all sinners so yep
like don't i think it gets a bad rep and
i i tell people all this all the time because i've been told like oh like i
want to go to your church but i don't think they allow this type of people i'm
like man like i i hate that you think that yeah like we jesus loved sinners

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and Jesus loved people more that sinned and accepted him and wanted better for
themselves than people who.
Showed themselves as perfect. And I think that don't like, we were all born sinners.
So there isn't a perfect person and grow your team, meet people,

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because you might see someone that's like, oh, like, right. They don't have the same values as me.
They're, they're doing this. They're doing that
well then if you truly are a Christian
then your job is to bring them to God not
to push them away further so so I think
that's something that's really important it's like your entire team doesn't

(53:45):
have to be Christian or you don't you obviously want to look for people with
similar right similar values but let people come into your life and I try to
challenge myself like anyone that that comes into my life,
I'm going to try to make them better.
I, I, I tell people I go to church because it makes me a better person.

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And if you, you want to go with me, you're invited.
And if you think it makes you a better person, I'm just telling you what I've
done, what's worked for me, but I'm not going to hold it against you.
If, if, if you haven't found that in you.
Yeah, dude. And it's so good because, so I have my own, I host my own events
here and all of that. And one of the things that I've made a point is that my

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employees know that this walk that I've had.
As a matter of fact, they know the guy that I was before I was walking this
path. They knew all the things because I'm open.
I tell them, hey, this is what I've been working on. Like, this is my struggles.
And even recently, like, when I have my events, I bring a lot of people from
Awaken. And one of the guys that I've been hanging out with the most is Blake.

(54:57):
Dude, and Blake, it's like he prays over people and all of that.
And he prayed over one of my employees. We went out to dinner.
And then, believe it or not, this week, my right hand, Ozzy,
he was like, dude, I want to go to church with you.
That was like, to me, the biggest compliment ever because he's been seeing it,

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what I've been doing since I started doing Awaken You.
He's been seeing it and he's been asking me, he's like, hey,
are you doing, how is that going?
Like, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, hey, bro, like, yeah, this is what I'm
doing. And he asked me this week and in every event that I have here, I start with a prayer.
I allow the Holy Spirit to come in here and then open our hearts and our minds.

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So you're saying all of that.
Dude, you're helping me a lot right now. Like I'm connecting a lot of dots.
So especially you, you also said that, you know, at 530 in the morning, you're worshiping.
I do the same thing here when we have events, but I need to do that more.
I need to do that way more. Yeah. And I'm never going to force somebody.

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Like there has been team members that if they don't want to pray,
it's okay, but they'll just be in our huddle, you know, and we respect that.
And I think that that's important, too.
Like it's like he said, like not everybody's in the same journey as you.
And something I recently learned at the Cherish Conference was that if God has
put you in a position right where I feel like right now we're learning more

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about our faith, we're growing and you feel like you're in a good spot.
It's to pick other people up. Who needs your help?
Who needs your service? Who needs you to lift them up?
And I've realized like, oh, if I feel like right now my life is good,
my relationships are good, I'm growing spiritually and it's a never ending journey.

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Now it's time to turn around and who can I help? Who can I bring up with me?
It's not just like, oh, well, I'm here and you're over there and you're going
to stay over there. It's like, let me bring you up with me. So good.
So just to wrap it up, you know, like I want to honor you guys' time.
One of the last questions that I ask everybody in the podcast,

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and it could be anything.
It could be multiple things. times right now, your current situation,
where you are in life, what are the things that you're most grateful for? My wife.
I'm extremely grateful for that. We've been able to build and it's something
that I've been thinking about lately.
It's hard to find good people in your life.

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And it's even better if you can find someone like a wife that that's that good
person for you. Not everyone has a healthy relationship or a happy relationship
or not. Everybody has a supportive partner.
And I never wanted to date when I had my media company because I saw it as a waste of time.

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And when I started dating Melina, I realized that she helped make me a better person.
And I'm like, oh, wow, like dating doesn't distract you. If you date the right
person, it should only take you forward.
We should just we could end right there.
Yeah wow that wasn't even planned okay that wasn't even planned wow that was

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really good are you gonna propose again i'm just kidding i need points because
i wasn't so good this morning.
I'm just like no no that that was that was honest what about
what about you i yeah i think the
kind of what i was saying right now like our like our life
right now like i'm just so grateful for our life

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like our like being able to live the life that
we do together like the fact that we
I mean earlier this month we got to travel together
two different times for our business and we
got to experience that together like for me that was like
wow like it's so amazing to experience those
things in those moments where you know like we've

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been meeting a lot of people that are like way way
ahead of us right and and I'm just like in
shock and I turned to him and I'm like oh my god
like that is so crazy and and we're experiencing these
things together and I think that's so rewarding and being able
to see each other grow I mean I honestly like I got emotional and I'm gonna

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get emotional right now talking about it like seeing him accomplish his goal
of like hitting a million subscribers like I I'm like I'm so grateful that I'm
able to be supportive and be be by his side to accomplish those goals.
You know, like I was like, cause I remember when we started dating,
like that wasn't even close, you know?

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And I was like, wow, that this is.
It kind of like shows our relationship by the growth, you know,
like, I'm like, if we look back to even like, when we started dating,
like we were completely different people.
Because we are just constantly encouraging each other and growing in our faith

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in our business in our personal lives.
And I that's what I'm grateful for is just seeing the growth. It's, It's so amazing.
It's like it's the most astonishing thing ever.
It's like, wow, like I like I literally close my eyes, look back and I'm like,
I can't believe we were even there, you know, like and now we're here.
And I don't even imagine I'm not a visionary.

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He's the visionary. But I can't even imagine where we'll be like three years from now.
So good. And I just want to tell you guys, like, you know, like from what I've
seen when, you know, I see you guys at church and what I see on social life,
you know, it's very, very beautiful, you know, because,
you know, like I can just talk from my own personal experience,
like I'm building this thing and, you know, it can get very lonely,

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can get very lonely, especially as you're walking this path with God.
You understand that you gotta live those principles.
You got, you have to, there's like, you can't lie.
And as I'm seeing you guys growing your business, your relationship,
relationship, I can see the why.
I can see you guys are doing actually the work behind.

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And a lot of this younger generation, that's why I like to do this podcast because
I'm tying in the cool factor of doing cool looking shoes and the celebrities
and all these athletes that we work with.
But I want to give back to the younger generation so they can understand those
those principles, the principle that you guys live with, it's part of the recipe.

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You can not do that and ask for all these other things.
Yeah, and I think to add on to like you saying.
Feelingness of being alone right i think it happens even
now like even though we have each other like i
i know sometimes it's like oh i just want someone to say like
you're doing a great job keep going you know like kind of

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what we do to our employees you know like oh you're doing so you guys are doing
great but i feel like as an entrepreneur it is it is lonely because you don't
have anyone to tell you hey you're doing really good like keep going or you're
you like you You accomplished this and I feel like it's even hard for us to, like, because we're go,
go, go all the time to just take a moment to take everything in and just,

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like, appreciate everything you've done.
So good. So, and then lastly, one, just to wrap it up here, where can people
find you? Like, social media?
I mean, YouTube channel? Venmo?
Venmo. No, I'm banned from Venmo, actually, but that's a different story.
You can take PayPal, too. Yeah, I'm banned from Venmo, but we'll save that for another time.

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Just Trendy Treats. If you Google Trendy Treats or search us up,
Trendy Treats will pop up anywhere.
So good. And I want to ask you another thing too. You said you guys are in other locations.
Where do people find you if some people don't go on social?
Yeah, online, TrendyTreats.com, Amazon. We have an app, Trendy Treats,

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on the App Store on Google and iPhone.
Phone big cities candy stores like it's sugar hunting stores like shields and
are currently in the process of closing a big one that would put us in every
single city in the u.s so that'll be.
That'll be crazy. So we'll see if that happens. It will happen. Every city.
Every city that matters. Every city that matters.

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I'm sorry for the cities that don't. If your city doesn't have one of these,
then it's like, then it's okay.
You're probably a tad. Here's the thing. If it's not in the city that you're
in, you guys need to move to that city.
Yeah, you're close enough to one of those cities. Yeah, it'll probably be close enough.
And then our personals, he's TrendyZeus, and then I'm Trendymel on Instagram.

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Instagram, and we really post more of our personal on there,
but everything business is on Trendy Treats. Yeah, I'm funner on the Trendy Treats.
I'm a little boring on Trendy Zeus. Oh, really?
Yeah. I don't know. I do cool stuff on Trendy Treats, so just look at that one.
That's the one we got to find out. Yeah, that's the one I'm having fun on.

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Well, guys, I mean, thank you so much. I mean, like I said, I want to honor you guys'.
Time, like but i could keep going here for another hour but
i'll ask those questions later on maybe we
can have you guys you know come up later next year
just to you know keep us updated to see
the growth because like i said the world

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needs this they need to see this like it's
so cool what you guys do like you know like when people
tell me oh what you do is cool yeah i live it
so it's like yeah it's cool but when i meet other people
that are doing all that oh dude tell me behind the scenes how does that
work so i'm excited you know to keep seeing you guys grows
and all the cool things that you guys do we got to make some

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candy shoes let's do it dude let's do
it let's make that video go viral too yeah see you
you heard it here first let's do it no thank you
so much for having us i it was so amazing to see
your space i'm inspired and i'm like i'm
like you need to go give us some ideas because it's so it's
so play it's all white walls i'm like let's just go for the minimalist look and

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thank you so much for having us it's it's really
great i'm so honored and i'm excited to see
what we can do together in the future because of your creativity
and i already want a pair of shoes for myself i might just sneak him in my bag
when we head out no and i love to like have uh we'll set it up but i want to
have my team go we like we'll do a tour and and have them see see some of the stuff that you guys do.

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Cause when I meet cool people like you guys, I bring everybody with me.
I'm like, Oh, there's other dreamers that I met. Let's go, let's go check out their, their place.
So we'll make that happen. Nice. Definitely. Yeah. Let's do it. Okay.
All right, guys. Well, thank you for listening to this episode. It was so good.
I encourage you guys to take some notes, go back, you know, like there was a
lot of nuggets, very inspiring stories that you can take and actually go implement that in your life.

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So, but anyways, guys, we'll see you next time and stay tuned. Peace.