S2 E30 | Healing Meets Momentum: Crystian Martinez's Journey - Happy Hour Holidaze

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Manny Febre (00:00):
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It's been great.
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(00:22):
Manny Fresh, we got the resume,Sean Fabre and in studio today
we got Christian Martinez On hismotherfucking birthday.

Crystian Martinez (00:28):
With a commercial.
Thank you thank you.

So, Christian, tell us a little bit about what your
business does and how it helpsand you know, kind of mediate
Between the attorneys, thepersonal injury, all that goes
into Accidents basically.

Definitely so .
First and foremost, thank youfor having me on guys.
This is truly a blessing.
Already, as it is man, myclinic runs a little different,
man.
We wanted to not only establisha business that will cater to
the patient, but also fill inthe gaps from A to Z.
So what I wanted to do is notonly create the rehabilitative
side, but, for my years of doingmarketing in this industry, I
wanted to mend the gap betweenattorney and patient or client.

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A lot of times we get theseclients that are coming in and
they have so-and-so name ofattorneys that they're not
having a good experience.
So what we did on our side isnot only did we mend the gap and
create a relationship withthese attorneys, but we also
went a little further andcreated some personalized events
that we can talk to theattorneys and say listen, this
patient is dealing with this,this is their insurance, this is
where they're located, this iswhat their insurance is telling

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the patient.
Now not only are we creating anarrative for these attorneys,
but we're also assuring thispatient is going to get looked
at as an actual individual andnot just a number that's filling
a roster.

How do you?
How do you vet the attorneysthat you decide to work with?
Or is it just hey, this is myclient first, and then you kind
of analyze who they're dealingwith as far as the attorney, or
are you recommending theattorneys for these people?

Yeah, definitely.
So we can't directly recommendthe attorney to the actual
patient, but what we do, man, isfrom establishing these
patients for over theseattorneys for so many years we
have created personalrelationships.
That's, we were talking offcamera.
I actually hang out with theseattorneys.
I get to meet them on apersonal level.
Therefore, we're able to vettheir personalities and assure
that we're matching the patientwith a proper attorney.
At the end of the day, being apatient advocate first and

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lastly, I want to be a patientadvocate.
We understand there's a moneycomponent to this whole
situation, so we want to makesure we're going to get them to
a proper attorney who hasexperience in whatever their
case may be and they're able toprogress forward with that.

Sean Febre (02:25):
This seems like such a unique business.
How did you go about gettinginto it?
Because you were telling me alittle bit about your background
.
You're a former athlete.
Can you tell us a little bitabout the history of Christian
Martinez?

Yeah, tell us a little bit about when you got
out of high school.
Who made you today, man?

The biggest thing for me has been failure,
man.
So, in all transparency, my wayto look at business was I have
a really great idea, I'm goingto attack the idea.
But every time I met resistance, there was an excuse to fall
back and say, hey, maybe thisisn't the right platform.
A lot of times we look atbusinesses as that oh, I'm going
to create a business, ThereforeI'm going to be wealthy and I'm

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going to be having a luxuriouslifestyle.
Nobody tells you the backsideto the camera, Nobody sees all
the hard work and dedicationthat comes to it.
So in about 2020, I was injured.
I have partial paralysis now onmy right foot.
So I fractured my back in threedifferent places, had a brain
bleed, had an S1.
How'd that happen?
Injury, so I had a fall.
So I had two events.
So I had a substantial fall andthen I ignored the fall.

(03:26):
Later, going to the gym, I wasbodybuilding at the time.
I'm warming up with my fatherand we have something light.
We have 225 in the bar gettingready to do some squats.
Man, Get on the bar One timegoing down a weight that was
nothing at that point Go down.
I hear the loudest snap in myback.
I drop to my basically I dropon the ground like I'm dead man

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and I'm not feeling anything atall.
I look at my father and I'mlike, hey, man, I think there's
something definitely wrong, andI explained to him about my fall
previously.
I tell him listen, this issomething that is starting to be
worrisome.
I can't feel my right side.
Get me home, man.
Everything was just the entireright side.
My entire right side wascompletely shut I could not move

(04:08):
my entire right side.
So it was very your arms oranything, my, my arm I could
move from my hip down was justshot.
So I'm scared, you know, atthat time you know I'm like dude
, what am I gonna do?
My daughter was just born nottoo long ago.
Like what, what am I doing?
This can't be happening to me.
And you hear the horror storiesof the gym and style and then
what happens in the gym andstuff like that.
So I didn't want to believethat's what was going on.
So my dad gets me home, I callmy wife at the time because I'm

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living on the second floor theyget me upstairs, I lay down and
I just not going away.
Not going away.
We call a buddy of ours.
They owns Park Place MRI.
I was like, hey, man, we needan MRI.
Reading I don't know what'sgoing on.
Like this is weird.
So Dan, my guy man, he knows itall, he's the guy, the main
marketing guy over there.
He's like, hey, man, come infor an MRI, we'll get you right

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away.
So basically, I have 95%occlusion in my nerve root.
So down your spine you haveyour nerve where everything
connects and exits away fromyour spine.
So everything is shut down.
I blew out my back when Ifracture my back.
All that this debris wasoccluding 90 95 of my nerve root
, meaning unfortunately therewas a side where accessing l4,

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l5, where you have the mainconnection to your actual leg
motor reflex or dorsiflex, itlifts and puts down your foot.
That was completely shut off.
So I go into surgery 24 hoursafter that.
Damn, that's awesome.
Wake up from the surgery and Ican't move.
Man, I can't move.
I'm looking at the surgeon, manthis entire body yeah, entire
right side completely gone.

Sean Febre (05:35):
I'm crying my wife at the time is like calm down.

yeah, even worse, bro, even worse.
You know, the whole time I waslike I got a young wife, I got
young kids.
Like what am?
What am I going to do?
How am I going to be a father?
At this point, like my careercomes to my mind.
I'm like I'm having the time ofmy life.
I'm doing what I completelydream of doing, and that was
being a firefighter.
That's everything I ever wantedto do in my life.
It's like that's gone in aninstant.
You know your head.

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It's like what am I going to do?
So, progressing forward, I havetwo other surgeries.
Post that surgery, regain theside lost the foot, so I have
what is called drop foot, or theinability to lift your foot up
Right.
So during that point, you know,not only am I losing my career,
my the fire department that I'mworking for at the time gets me
about a three month windowbefore I can come back.
They're like listen, take yourtime, try to heal, go through
your therapies, man before.
I can come back.
They're like listen, take yourtime, try to heal, go through

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your therapies, man, and it wasjust paid.
I'm wondering.
Oh no, it was not paid, man.
So you know, luckily my wife atthe time held those down.
Man, she's just really, she wassuper stubborn.
Man Talking off camera, cubanwoman, you know, she's like you
don't give our first respondersthe knowledge and the power and
the applaud that they deserve.
You know, you never call thefire department on a good day.

(06:52):
You're going to call them onyour worst day.
Somebody's sick, your house isburning down, your car is
burning or somebody died.
Those are the only times youreally called it, man.
So at this time I'm like yo,what am I going to do and how?
How do I reinvent myself?
So everything after that.
You know, as a father, I triedto provide for my kids.
So I tried everything otherthan the son.
Man, I had a wrapping anddesign business, you know,
during COVID, which was veryhard to get product vehicles.

(07:15):
Yeah, I was wrapping cars,wrapping windows, man, I was
doing everything I needed to doto pay.

But you got your.
When did you get your your?
Your function, yeah, myfunction.

So I didn't really get function into, I want
to say like around end ofOctober.
So I went into surgerySeptember, October, October of
2020 is when I really startedrecently.
Oh yeah, man, yeah.
So it's coming up and myanniversary is coming up.

So what was the reason why the your back gave
out like that, or or it's now?

was the reason why the your back gave
out like that, or or it's now.
So basically, you can'tdirectly correlate it to which
accent really created the issue.
However, ignoring the firstaccent and later on putting more
compression, more tension underthe spine, pretty much said hey
, listen, I'm alreadycompromised.
I try to give you signs.
Sometimes, you know, we, wethink we're invincible.
We don't want to give our bodythe attention it deserves man
ignored it.
Go lift, man.

(08:07):
At that time I was pushingheavy weight.
So you know, I'm excited, I'mgrowing, I'm doing things and
yeah, man, what kind of fall wasit?

Sean Febre (08:13):
so I had a first, the first one, so I had a 12
foot fall, yeah a slip and fall.

So it wasn't nothing slip and fall 12 feet
down, that's not just a fall,bro, that's.
You know, it's one of thosethings that you don't really
look so far into it, but howeveryou're like okay is it off a
roof or?
Something.
Yeah, yeah.
So you know, you look at thosethings.

Sean Febre (08:33):
Yeah, pretty much were you doing roofing at the
time yeah, I was on a roof.

I was on a roof, yeah, but I always say you
know what's crazy is I alwayspinpointed to that lifting
accent.
That's really what.
What did it, man?
Because you know, you see allthese good meatheads man?

Sean Febre (08:46):
I don't know, bro, that's 12 foot.

You see all these meatheads you know they're
getting under the bar and youknow you're lifting the weight
and it's time.
Under tension, man, you'reconstantly putting that
compression, compression,compression, compression.
Mine was just it, man.
My ticket was.

Sean Febre (09:00):
When you were squatting, did you have the
safety rails on the side?
No, no, I didn't man, so itfell on top of you.

No, so it dropped behind me.
My father was spotting me so hepulled it off right away, but I
mean it was a prettysubstantial pop.
You could hear it.
You could hear it.
So I'm almost 99% sure that'swhat really solidified it and
put the stamp on it.
Because you could hear it, man.
Because you could hear it, man,everything in me.
Man was craziest when yourbody's shutting down.

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And I actually got to listen tosomebody else's experience.
He's an attorney, his name isCole.
Man pretty much jumped off adock and same kind of ordeal.
His is a lot worse, but we talkdifferent things.
And then there was anotherspeaker that she said when she
was paralyzed she could feel herbody shutting down gradually.
Man, and that's crazy, becauseto me that's exactly what I felt
that day Everything within meonce the accident happened, I

(09:49):
could feel everything shuttingdown slowly.
It was the weirdest feeling,almost like running cold water
through your body and you justslowly start to progress down,
down, down, down, until Icouldn't feel anything again.
So you know.

Sean Febre (10:00):
Have you ever had a and I'm just asking this to try
to get a sense of what it wouldfeel like have you ever had
something go numb when you'resleeping?

Yes, Is that what it feels like?

No, that's what you would think right, Because
you're like oh my God, it's numb, I can't feel it.
But you can still feel it,right.

Sean Febre (10:16):
You get pins and needles and little ants all over
, no man.

It felt like somebody turned off.
No shit, just somebody flippedthe switch.
I go from pinching myself Ican't feel anything.
I'm like poking myself with aneedle I can't feel anything.
I'm trying everything andanything to give me a sign of
life.
Right, I'm like, oh my God,like this can't be it, this
can't be it.
Now I feel everything all theway until I get to the foot.

Sean Febre (10:36):
So how does that work?
You can't actually feel yourright foot, no, so how can you
walk?

I have a device man, so I have many
devices.
So this is a soft brace.
This is something I utilizewhenever I'm wearing clothes,
you know, trying to look goodand stuff like that Hide the
brace and stuff like that.
However, hanger Clinic createda brace for me.
That's actually a kicker for aprofessional NFL team I can't
remember the name right now, butthey created the brace for him

(11:02):
and this guy's kicking crazyfield goals and stuff.
Sorry, excuse me, he's aquarterback, yeah, he's a
quarterback wood drop foot.
So I saw the brace.
I'm like I need that.
So I go to hangar.
I'm like, hey, man, this iswhat I saw.
I want to run again.
Before my accident, I wasrunning 10 miles.
After my accident, I'm likeshut down, dude.
I used to walk, lifting myentire leg.

(11:22):
I couldn't really put a properstep out.
So when they created the bracefor me, six weeks later I get my
brace.
First day feels like crap.
Second day feels like crap.
So I'm starting to lose hope.
And two weeks in, I'm like whoabro, this feels good.
So I tried my first run, man,and my first run I was able to
run a mile nonstop and I waslike you didn't fall at all at
all, brother.

(11:43):
Biggest smile on my face littlethings in life, bro.
Yeah, I mean, we never givethanks to god for the little
stuff bro, like you, you'rewalking you wake up, man,
everybody's like.
Oh, I'm just unconsciously I'mwalking, I'm physically walking.
So you're like man.
Thank you know.
Thank god I get to walk.

None of us do that, man none of us because I didn't
do, I don't.
I mean I take it for granted,you because you're just like you
know, you're like I'm breathing.
I got my arms.
But you know there's people outthere that are literally waking
up and going.
Either they don't have any armsor something like that, and
you're just like A lot of peoplelike to say that your heart is
the engine of your body.

I disagree, man, because being compromised
in your legs, bro, that's reallywhat moves you around.
Really, heart is just yourtransmission.
It's what keeps you flowing andmoving, you know.
So those are the little thingsthat I look at is now in this
life.
Now, so I was.
I got baptized in November of2024.
So when I dunked my head, man, Iliterally erased everything.
I was like I want a new start.

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I want to look a life different.
You know, I was diagnosed withPTSD in 2020 and everything was
dark and this crazy thing wassaid to me and was wild.
And everything was dark andthis crazy thing was said to me
and was wild If you can onlyfocus on the negative in my
retrospect in my life was oh myGod, I'm crippled.
Now, I would never be theathlete I was.
Most people are like I don'tmake the money that I want to
make, or others are like oh myGod, I'm living in a shitty

(12:58):
situation, but you have theability to change your thought
process.
Right, you can say I'm going tobe better for tomorrow.
I'm done being the person Ionce was.
Let me be grateful for what Ihave.
Therefore, I progress myselfforward because I'm a strong
believer you put good out intothe world, good will happen for
you.
So some of those little thingscan really make a difference.
And I adapted that into thebusiness world.

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I said things are going to bedifficult, but if I overcame
paralysis, I can overcome theselittle obstacles that present
yourself in business, whetherit's getting a new client,
whether it's selling a propertythat you're not able to sell
because nobody's looking at it.
And my side is right now youknow being we are officially
been open for going on fourweeks.
So next Monday will be fourweeks a month that we've been in

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business.
I've been seven years in themarketing side of things, but I
want to rebrand myself.
Not only did I want to createthose connections that I already
had all over again, I wanted tofall back into the space of hey
, listen, we're here to dobusiness, we're going to do it
the right way.
But with my experienceeverything, I've overcame
building that callous mentality.
Right, because it's very easyto create an excuse.

(14:01):
I used to do it.
Right.
Business is guard.
Hey, let's look for the otherventure because this is really
not going to pan out, ratherthan say let's just put our
heads down, grind a littleharder, callous our mindset,
tell ourselves in the mirror hey, everything's going to be okay,
we can push forward past thisand we'll create a better
tomorrow.
So sometimes it's not about whoyou know or what you know.
It's how long you can sustainyour business until people find

(14:21):
you popular and then everybodywants to be your friend.
Right, look at it in a podcast.
You know, day one.
Nobody really knows you, nobodyreally will probably listen to
the whole.

Thing.

But what's crazy is, the more you do it,
the more influence you have.
Then you get those people thatstart watching you retrovert
back and start listening to thefirst ones, the second ones, and
third ones, because now you'repopular, everybody wants to be
your friend when you're popular.
Everybody wants to be yourfriend when you're popular.
So that's my mentality now.
We're going to grind reallyhard until we become popular and
then those people want to be inbusiness with us.
I love it, man.

Sean Febre (14:49):
I got one more question.
And then I'm going to move awayfrom the paralysis.
When you're walking, you haveto anticipate every right step.

Every step.

Sean Febre (14:58):
It is a conscious thought that I do every day,
because you said something aboutgoing to the bathroom in the
middle of the night or gettingout of bed, and you just do it
unconsciously.
You now have to focus on everysingle step, full conscious,
full conscious.

I have to know, especially when that brace
is off, because it's very easyfor me to roll my foot.

Sean Febre (15:13):
Can you feel the weight of your foot when you're
walking?
Yeah, yeah.

So it's very heavy because my toes drag.
Whenever I don't have the braceon, my toes would drag on the
and that's how I know where I'mat.
You know, a blind person findsit by touching A person with
drop foot.
Just, we look at our step likethat, which is wild to me,
because when you walk in youshouldn't consciously think
about it.
But now it's like everydaything, every second thing, Like
I have to be careful.
If there's ledges, I'm likeokay, cables, I have to be

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careful.
You know I'm a clinic in theoffice.
I want everybody to see I'm thehardest person working in the
building, so I'm constantlygoing back and forward, but as
I'm moving, I have to alsoconsciously be like hey, don't
trip.
So it's wild man.
The other day I tripped man.
And one thing that I found outabout adulthood falling hurts.

(15:59):
Falling hurts, bro.
Like I fell the other day andI'm like sitting on the floor
looking up and I'm like, oh ithurts, bro.
Like I fell the other day andI'm like sitting on the floor
looking up and I'm like, damn,this shit sucks, bro.
Like I fell, like this, as anadult, it hurts.
You know, I see my kids fallingall the time.
I'm like how can you just falland get back?

up.
Yeah, I know they fall.
You're indestructible man.

I fall.
I'm down there for to get upright now.

Sean Febre (16:21):
So, sitting there like oh shit, but yeah, you
still do squats.

No, I do air squats now, so my complete
training switch.

Well, that's one thing I want to talk to you
about too, christian, because Imean I go to the gym and I lift.
I'm more like a heavy lifter,yeah, and I'm thinking.

Sean Febre (16:35):
my friends always tell me you better watch out
with your military press,because he was like military
press.

You know, even though you're sitting down,
you're really compressing yourback every time you go down, so
I didn't even think about it.
Now you're.
You're talking about thatcompression on your back.
What are the?
What are the like the mainexercises that you feel like
compress your back the most?
The squats and military press?
I mean, I wouldn't see so muchbench press because you're
laying on your back, but I wasjust worried about other ones

(17:03):
that could possibly.

Yeah, deadlifts are I don't do for
injuries, squats are very, butflat benches another, another
exercise that you can do.
That's not really good for thebody.
A lot of things I switched upand it's very easy to answer
your question by yourself.
Look up every freakingbodybuilder that's out there
post 10 years of lifting allthese weights.
Look at their bodies.
They look like crap.
All of them look like crap oncethey retire.

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They're just not looking thatsame.
Look at ronnie coleman.
So ronnie coleman actually hasmy condition.
He has drop foot I and Ibelieve he has it on both feet.
Damn, you know his againcompression over time.

Sean Febre (17:37):
So then how do you build chest?
Then if you're, I mean there'sso much more you can do.

I'm a big guy when itumbbells are great, because
they're not keeping you in astatic position.

But you know the pulley systems, man,
something that's going to be lowimpact and what's wild.
So when I was lifting man, Icould show you guys a picture.
I was a big dude.
I got up to 275 pounds, feltgreat.

Don't get me wrong, because I was a freaking tank
dude.

So I mean it was wild.
So I became a fridge man.
I just became addicted.
I became addicted why?
Because I would look at myselfin the mirror and I wasn't
satisfied who I was seeing,because all I was focused on was
in the foot.
So it was crazy my biggestshape.
I got in after freaking, afterdead foot, after dead foot bro,
damn bro, or drop foot, dropfoot.

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Holy shit.
So how much?

Sean Febre (18:24):
do you weigh now?

Right now I'm 220.
So that was 275.
Jesus man, oh my, I becameaddicted, right Because my
mentality was it?

is addicting to do that shit.

If I'm compensated, then I want people
to look at me like I'm not goingto mess with that dude right,
he's gimpy bro, but.

I'm not going to mess with him, bro, so you know
I was always making fun ofmyself.

You know, one more rep.
You know if somebody's going tolook at your foot, man.
One more rep.
I became obsessed with it, man,to the point where I would do
things I saw you walking.

Sean Febre (18:51):
You didn't walk with a limp bro.

Really Well, I appreciate that man.
That's conscious mindset, right.
I'm constantly making surepersona thing.
At this point, you know, it'salmost becoming my brand.
Now everybody knows me.
Oh, the guy with the limp foot.
I'm like, yeah, that's me, man.
Now I get proud of it.
But before, man, when it firsthappened, I'm like damn.
Like you know, sometimes I willgo to the gym and people only
look at my foot.

(19:13):
What's wild man is when you seesomebody who is missing a limb?

the first thing.
We do unconsciously is look atthe limb, yeah right.

So for me, I got to see it on the other side
of the table, right, I will see.
Eyeballs no longer met myeyeballs, that will meet my leg.
So I shied away from I shiedaway from the gym and then I
just became super freaking,addicted with it man, to the
point where it will be a bad dayif I wasn't at the gym, like I
was freaking, so entwined withthe whole scenario that I was.

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I wanted to become the biggestguy in the room because I didn't
want people to look at my footanymore.

But you can't tell if you're wearing shoes, can you
?

No, so unless I'm wearing my athletic brace.

Sean Febre (19:51):
Well, I mean, but then it just looks like a brace
for your ankle.
Yeah, and I get a lot of people.

Oh, I thought that was just an ankle brace.
I don't know, my foot'sparalyzed, but thank you.

Sean Febre (20:01):
So do you still fight?
Uh, because you said youmentioned, you did.

No, I don't I don't man, so I I, you know, I
see it as a spectator now, whichis crazy.
Like you know, vince or boy,you know I saw him, you know,
throwing hands man.
I was like I'm proud of thatguy because I know it takes a
lot of balls to get in that ringman and do something that you
want to do.
But it was always a dream manto be able to do those kind of
things.
Man, I always wanted to tryeverything.
I was one of those guys thateverybody says you wear 43 hats

(20:24):
because I wanted to try it on.
My mentality is I don't want tobe 60 years old and say, oh, it
would have been cool to trythat.
So I'll go scuba diving.
Man, I'm in the water with somehuge sharks.
People are like why are you?

Sean Febre (20:35):
in there Because it's people, bro, not a lot of
people.
A lot of people are like Iain't going there.
The deepest I've been was, like, I think, 25 feet.

Oh man.

Sean Febre (20:52):
Once you pass that 70 feet man and you have to be
compressed though also.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get yoursafety stuff, are you?

certified then yeah .

I am.

Oh, uh, when I tore my ACL twice, you know, first
time I was like 21.
So I was, I was obsessed withsoccer.
I mean, as soon as I got out ofhigh school, I play soccer
every fucking day.
Like as soon as I got done withwork, I go to the fields and I I
tore the first time, you know,acl and all shit man and then I

(21:29):
you know I was 21 so I said thedoctor's like hey, I hope you
don't go out there and try to doanything until you're back in
six months.
Six months goes by and I'm likeoh, I'm ready.
not even, uh, not even fiveminutes.
Running down the soccer field Ihit a pothole fucking, tore it
completely up, damn, and thedoctor goes.
I hope you like playing golf,manny, because that's all you're
going to be able to play.
He's like you got no cartilagein your knee.

(21:52):
You're completely fucking,there's no cartilage.
He's like we're going to do theACL again, but I mean you need
to.
You know, yeah, and even withgolf, I still with off, I still
with the twerking.
Yeah, I mean, every single dayI I deal with pain in this knee
and also like to keep the weightoff.
It used to be easy.
Oh, I'll go and you know, playflag football yeah basketball,
whatever, and you know theweight melts off.

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Now it's like I go to the gymto lift weights but I I try to
do stairmaster for 10 minutes.

I'm fucking throbbing pain is crazy, yeah,
brain is crazy.

It's like I get home, but you know riding a bike
, yeah the bike would be thething.

Sean Febre (22:26):
That's great man yeah, we have.

My ass hurts all the time listen man, I did
cycling too bro so I can tellyou that, that's another, but
right now my addiction ispickleball man oh damn
everybody's freaking addicted topickleball dude is up with that
dude.

Sean Febre (22:42):
It's the fastest growing sport in the world.
It's played.

Over a billion people play it.

It's so crazy, everybody who we've had recently
has said pickleball Great formarketing bro, Great for
marketing.

Great for marketing.

Sean Febre (22:54):
Which is wild is they're turning a lot of tennis
courts into pickleball courts.
Because they can fit like twoon one, as opposed to just
having one tennis court.

Well, they're talking about putting that shit
in the Olympics now, bro?
They should, but as loud asfuck it's.
Yeah, bro, Freaking pickleballis addicting, bro, yeah.
And a lot of people are like,oh, that's easy tennis.
I'm like get your ass go playfour hours real quick.

We'll see how easy it is, you sweat.

Yeah, you sweat.
Oh hours, I'm burning out 1,200calories.

But is it a lot of lateral movement?

It can be, but I only play doubles because
of my foot.

So I can only play doubles.
That's the only way I would beable to play.

You'll be able to play.
We'll play.
We're in a small box and you'llbe set.
Man, you'll be set, or bringout your competitive edge.
They call it in the kitchen orsome shit.
Yeah, yeah, it'll be fun 100%.

Man.
When we get back with HappyHour Holidays, we'll continue
with Christian Martinez andcontinue to learn about his
business.
And we got a little piece of it.
We want the whole thing.
We'll be right back.
We're back with Happy HourHolidays here with the Christian
Martinez story.
We're loving it.
Man, it's very interesting overhere.
So you were telling us offcamera that you do a lot of

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scuba diving, which is, I mean,it's pretty cool with sharks.
I mean big ass sharks and shitlike that you go pretty deep.
So what got you into the scubadiving?

I know you're an adventurous guy, so I was
thinking that probably was partof it so the biggest catalyst to
getting into scuba was alwaysfinding out the why I had the
love for the ocean.
But aside from that, when Ifirst got bit by the scuba
diving bug, it was due to peace.
Man, Life above water is soloud, it's so fast-paced, it's
never stopping man.
So the first time I wentunderwater I was like wait,

(24:32):
somebody muted the world.
All you can hear is the bubblesof your own air tank.
Like this is different.
So I fell in love with it, man.
So I remember this dive like itwas yesterday.
So I had my certification dive.
We're going into this placecalled Devil's Den, so we go to
Devil's Den.

Sean Febre (24:47):
I've heard of Devil's Den.
It's outside of Mexico, right?
No, it's actually here.
It's in Florida.
Yeah, it's in.

Florida.
I were up from here, oh fuck.
It's like a cave right, yeah, soI'm at my there.
Um, the guy I won't say thename of the company, they're no
longer in business man, the guyforgets that he's with a whole
bunch of students, leaves me atthe bottom.
At this point I was like Idon't know how to come up.
Man like you didn't teach menothing about how to work my

(25:15):
equipment or nothing.
What's wild is, though, I wasscared and I couldn't see much.
I felt the most peace I everdid, man.
So.
So that was the initial kind oflike hey, man, this is kind of
interesting, this is kind of fun.
I don't feel like I'm freakingout, I feel like I'm at peace.
So I closed my eyes, man, Iclosed my eyes and I just
breathed for a little bit.
I relaxed.
I opened my eyes.

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I see that there was light.
So I could see a flashlight inthe distance, and I started
swimming towards the flashlightAt night.
Well, it flashlight at night.
Uh, well, it's a cave, so it'spretty dark.
Yeah, it's pretty dark in there, man, I mean, even though they
have a hole in the middle wherethe sun shines, but there's
trees everywhere, so it's prettydark regardless of the fact.
So you pretty much might callit night, um, so I can come up.
I look at the dude.

(25:56):
I mean, I mean he has longhairs all over his face.
I'm like dude, like you goteverybody else out here, but my
punk ass still in the bottom.
Like what the fuck bro?
Like I want to come up for air.
I'm scared.
So he's like I'm sorry, I knowyou will be okay, as only you
can go up.
I'm like bullshit, I try tocome up.
I hit my head on the damnmountain.
Luckily, man, I started feelingfor my exit and I was able to

(26:17):
come out.
But yeah, that was the initialthing, man.
So later on, you know, I Iswitched shops.
I now I became a member atCalypso Divers.
Man.

Sean Febre (26:25):
That's the one off of Bears, and 275?
The best people ever Do theyhave a pool in there?
They do, they do.

They do.
So you can do your intro toscuba man.
Don't do it, bro, if you don'twant to get addicted, man,
because once you do that, you'regoing to want to keep going.
Yeah, but then started divingsome cool places, went to miami,
dove, the underwater cemeterywhich is by a famous, yes,
called neptune memorial reef.
Yeah, so it's a beautiful,beautiful area.
You know, it's actually anartist I forget the name of the

(26:53):
artist did all these structureson the bottom, man, um, you can
find it on youtube.
I can't remember, man, but Imean it's beautiful under there,
man, huge barracudas bro.
You read my mind, like, how doyou get past, like the fear when
you do like?
I mean it's beautiful underthere, man, huge barracudas bro?
That's what I was going to tellyou the biggest freaking
barracudas I've ever seen.

You read my mind.
How do you get past the fearwhen you do sharks?
Yeah, like sharks or otherthings?
Well, the shark is my favoriteanimal, man.

So I don't have a natural fear for sharks.
I mean, I respect them.
A lot of people it you knowsituations.
Sometimes, when you don'teducate yourself on a certain
topic, we just don't have theother information or the data
that is needed to make aninformed consent about what the
situation may be For us.

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You know we're afraid of sharksbecause all we see is shark
reef.
This guy you know got eaten orthey're eating this man.
I've been in the water so manytimes.
Not even one shark has comearound.
Man I've been in the water somany times.
Not even one shark has comearound.

Sean Febre (27:44):
You know I.

They don't attack you, right?
No, I mean, unless you're outthere freaking shooting fish,
which spearfishing is anaddiction as well oh, yeah,
right, unless you're shootingfish, man, you've really
probably not encountered a sharkin the wild man, it's very hard
to see one.
Yeah, I've been in the waternumerous, numerous times.
Never came close.

Sean Febre (28:01):
What about Bimini, Bahamas?
I haven't done Bahamas, man,and that's one of my favorite
places, man.

That's one of my favorite places.
I want to dive Bahamas man.

Sean Febre (28:09):
Because the water's only like what, like 50 feet
deep, but there's sharkseverywhere.
It's clear man, it's clearwater.

It's clear water.
So I mean, I like to think whatreally brings sharks into your
natural area?
Vibration is not even blood,man.
They can smell a drop of blooda mile away, but it's the
vibration right, because whatthis vibration tells you, it
says something's in distress.
And that's really what?
Oh, easy pickings, it's a quickdinner.
Something's in distress, that'sreally when you're calm, man.
And I'm telling you, I've beenin the water probably over 70

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times.
If I've seen a shark, probablya handful of times.

Sean Febre (28:40):
What's the deepest you've ever been 127 feet yeah.

Yeah, how long did it take you to come up?
So 127 feet.
I spent about 20 minutes onbottom, then safety stop.
So probably you want to saylike a good 20 minutes and then
you got to make sure you gotenough air to do all that.

Sean Febre (28:56):
Yeah, yeah.

So you calculate all of that before you
go on the water, right, you goin there, you plan your dive,
you say I'm going to spend thismuch at this depth.
You know, and things normally,if you do your right homework,
you're going to be okay, you'regoing to have plenty of oxygen.
You know, the lower you are,the less oxygen you have.
What's crazy about schoolwayswith that tank?
Let's say you go to 100 feet.
At 100 feet, you same 10minutes.

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Now duplicate it.
Maybe you have 20 minutes.
Now as you come up higher,maybe you have 25 minutes.
So unless you're out therehuffing and puffing on your
oxygen, you're going to haveplenty of air.
You'll probably come out with aweight to surface and still
have 500 to 1,000 still left onyour bottle, because the higher
you ascend, the more oxygenyou'll have.

Sean Febre (29:36):
How much time does that?

equate to I can pretty much on a full bottle
at 120 feet to surface.
Just one right, not two.
Yeah, I'm diving one bottle,man.
I mean I'm spending more timethan I need to be honest with
you, I'm spending about 20minutes up bottom, I mean still
coming to the surface.
I still have between 500 to athousand.
So I'm really planning my dive,but I'm also cautious.

(29:58):
Right, I'm gonna say, hey,something goes bad.
What is my exit strategy?
And that's how I take a lifetoo.
Now, right, like, if thisstarts taking a shit, how can I
exit this situation with minimalyou know, minimal chances for
something bad to happen?

Sean Febre (30:13):
And do you have like backup canisters on your belt?

I don't, I don't, no, I'm going there, man
Just in case.
My backup canister is my divebuddy, bro, so I go in there
like hey bro, like my shit wentbad Give me your ears, bro, like
we need to survive man.

Sean Febre (30:26):
So you probably got like an additional maybe 30
minutes of air or something likethat.

Easy man, easy 30 minutes, which is enough
.
Oh, plenty of time, plenty oftime, man.
I mean people that dive deepman and they're coming up with
like more than half of theirbottle because they've just been
doing it for so long.
They know how to breathe, theyknow how to breathe and that's
the biggest thing it's relaxedright relaxed yeah a lot of
people that they go diving.
You know they're claustrophobic,so they put that mask on and

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they're freaking out.
Or they'll see an animal thatthey're afraid of and they'll
start freaking out and theystart threshing on the water.

Sean Febre (30:58):
So every time you're doing that, you're wasting
oxygen, valuable oxygen you havethe full face mask, where I
don't wear the normal.
No, I wear the normal one.
You know what's what I'mtalking about.

Yeah, yeah, those are dope those gotta be
expensive.
Oh, they're like 1500 dollarsfor that mask yeah, are you
kidding?
But that means an expensivesport, I mean, if you're wanting
to get a good rig and I meanlike a good equipment.
Talking, I mean, I spentprobably like nine or ten grand
on my equipment.

Sean Febre (31:22):
So it's not cheap.
Yeah, it's not cheap for ametal container yeah, man, I
want something, I want qualitystuff.

My life is in the line, man I ain't skipping on
the penny.

We ain't buying shit off a groupon, bro,
that's for sure so, uh, onequestion here about the canister
.

Sean Febre (31:43):
Uh, the can is how thick is it?
Like, let's say, you hit itagainst a rock, it doesn't
puncture oh, dude, I droppedthem all the time man so it's
not gonna.

It's really thick right, yeah, it's, it's
thick wall like if you'retalking about you know, we were
talking about that submarinethat imploded down there.
Man, I mean, these things arenot gonna.
You really have to do somecrazy shit.
A lot of people go back to themovies oh, they're shot and they
go flying.

It's just air escaping Air escapes.

That's it, man.
It ain't deep blue sea?

No, that is one thing I've always been
fascinated with is the ocean.

Sean Febre (32:17):
It's fucking fun.

Because it's fucking fun.
But it's not only about how bigthe ocean is, but everything
inside of it.
It's the unknown factor bro,and then the fucking storms that
go out there.
One of my favorite things isalways to watch.
I don't know, I like survival,ocean movies.

Sean Febre (32:34):
You should watch that, yeah, those are dope.

Those are dope yeah dude, I'm like which one?

Sean Febre (32:37):
Last.

Breath.

That just came out.
Oh, dude, I'm going to have towatch that, did you see?

the one where the lady, the chick, got stuck in
the storage container, pregnantDude that was a wild movie, bro.

Sean Febre (32:47):
How crazy was that, Bro?

the whole time I'm glued to the TV.

Sean Febre (32:49):
I know, me too.

I'm breathing heavy for the lady bro,
Everything I'm like, what thefuck.

Sean Febre (33:02):
How are was going to be good.
You should watch it.
It was good, it was really goodit was really good.

Well, I mean, the plot was crazy.
We won't ruin it for you, butthe plot was like what the fuck?
Everything that could go wrongwent wrong for that lady, yeah.

And my wife was like this is the movie for you,
Manny, You're going to love this.
I literally go through Amazonand I look at every single
survival.
I even like regular survivalmovies, but any kind of survival
movies, I fucking watch themall man.

I'm watching Lost.
I'm watching Lost.
I'm behind man.

Everybody was always saying watch Lost.
I've never watched Lost either.

Dude, don't freaking, start watching it, you
won't stop.
Really, if you can get pastepisode two, bro.
You're going to be hooked tothe point where you start
fiending to watch this one.

Sean Febre (33:39):
How many seasons are we talking about?

Bro, I'm in season five.
I don't even know how manyseasons there are how many
episodes per season?
Yeah, they're like 10, 12episodes per season.

Jesus Christ, bro.
Isn't there like 10 or 12seasons too?
Bro, there's a lot, there's alot, there's a lot.

Sean Febre (33:52):
There's a lot of motherfucking watching out there
to sit down and watch movies.

So whenever I'm doing computer work or busy
work, I'll just put it on in thebackground and I'll listen to
it.
And even listening to it isinteresting.
Even listening to it isinteresting.

I've been wanting to, but my wife doesn't.

She's like now I'm on 1923.
So I'm about to start watchingthat, bro.
It's fucking phenomenal.
Did you watch the Lands?
What the hell happened withthat show?
Just fell off the face of thefucking no.
No, no, they got season two.
Season two is coming back.
All right, I got to hop back onit.

Sean Febre (34:23):
No, no it's not out yet.
It's in post-production, soit's going to come out soon.

Dude talk about the fucking cliffhanger on
that show.
I'm like what the hell, bro,you didn't let you know usually
shows you.
This is the first show wepicked to watch together.
So he calls me and we talkabout the show and we're like,
oh, this show is dope.
It's crazy.

And I don't know.
And the bitch is hot, what thefuck.

Sean Febre (34:48):
She's on 1923.

No shit, she's also on 1923.
Isn't?

Sean Febre (34:53):
it supposed to be like.
1923 is the same as Landsman no1923 is about Yellowstone, yeah
, it's about Yellowstone.

That no 1923 is about Yellowstone, yeah, it's
about Yellowstone.
But I mean she's probably it'sthe same writer, I think as
Yellowstone.

Sean Febre (35:05):
Well, it's also AMC, right, yeah, so?

that's why they probably picked her.

Sean Febre (35:08):
They were like oh well, you know, she's a smoke
show.

Yeah, she is, bro, yeah, she is, and that
show is fire, fire show I likethat one and right there like
that one, me and my wife.

Sean Febre (35:23):
we've already watched all the episodes now
we're waiting every sunday whenthe new one comes out.
The new one comes out.
Harrison ford's in that one,right, yeah, harrison ford.
Man, dude, that guy, he's inevery everything, everything
western.

He has to be, have a part in it he's like
aliens and cowboys, yeah helooks like, he's like 75 seconds
bro.

Sean Febre (35:38):
He's gonna be like in his 80s, bro.

This guy has never retired from acting.
He has steadily loved to act.

And he's always consistent too.

He's always a great actor, no matter which part he
plays.

You know exactly where you're going to
get.
The guy's just really good athis craft, except maybe, Indiana
Jones in the Kingdom of theCrystals.

You didn't like it, I liked it, I liked it.

Sean Febre (35:59):
That one, but I thought the storyline was so
stupid man.

Yeah, because .
I always believe it's a play onthe actual original you know
I'm a 90s kid, so I always goback to the like oh my God,
here's the original, let mewatch.
Oh, it was never good as theoriginal.

Sean Febre (36:16):
Well, I mean, this is what I'm saying If they never
found the crystal skull, theRussians would have died and the
kingdom would have already-.

Dude, you're ruining it for me.
I never saw it.
I'm just fucking with you.
You just ruined it for somebody.

Sean Febre (36:27):
Think about it.
They would have found it, theywould have returned it and she
would have asked the samequestion.
For sure, and I mean it gotwiped off the face of the
mountain in the Amazon jungle,yeah, yeah, I mean, his entire
part in that entire story madeno sense.

It's like he's just fucking present.

That's really what it is.

We just needed him, so the movie could
be good.

Sean Febre (36:52):
That's all it is.
It's ticket sales, bro, and youknow there's an Indiana Jones 6
coming out.

When are?

they going to drop that shit.

Sean Febre (37:02):
I'm like dude, how many from Indiana?
They make close to a billiondollars every single time.

The thing is that they don't make movies like
Indiana Jones, the Mummy.
Like all the shows that comeout now are movies.
I mean for me there are a lotof like sequels that are like
come on bro, like really, orthey don't make anything
creative like that.

Sean Febre (37:18):
I mean I was watching last night Death on the
Nile, that's a pretty creativeone.
Glass Onion or Knives Out GlassOnion.
That's also a good one, DanielCraig movie.
I mean, they're murdermysteries.

Okay, that's what they are.
I like murder mysteries.

Sean Febre (37:31):
Yeah, those are good , but then I try to figure the
shit out before it actuallyhappens, bro out, I'm over here
like, well, if he would havedone that, maybe that's the
motherfucker.
Maybe, because then at the endof the movie your guess could be
right, or it could be right,you're like, it's like that
board game.

What's uh, bro, I like that game.
It's fun, my parents.
We used to play that as afamily all the time.
Yeah, that's a dope, that's adope game.
That's a very dope game.

Sean Febre (37:59):
Yeah, it was Manny in the library with a wrench.

You were always a killer, Fuck he has the
battery.

He's the boss.
That's awesome, though.

Definitely definitely.

No, yeah.
What else do you like to do inyour spare time?

Christian Spare time man Again, bro.
Like you like motivational, Ido like motivational speaking
man.

Who's your favorite motivational speaker?
I'm with my brother because wewere listening to this guy Les
Brown.

Les Brown is good.
Yeah, les Brown man.
I mean, I like Eric Thomas too,Eric Thomas is my guy man Eric
Thomas is what made me fall inlove with motivational speaker,
because I like his story rightyeah, His story is not only
inspirational.

Recap it real quick .

Well, you know, being a homeless guy, you
know, and not really amountingto a lot of things that he tried
to do, I see a lot of myselfwithin him.
You know, I've tried a lot ofthings, gentlemen.
I've tried a lot and whether Iquit the situation or whether I
just failed, I saw myselfmeeting resistance in everything
I tried.
Sometimes you might have theright mindset in this retrospect

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for the metaphor the rightvehicle, just in the right
zoning, and for me that was itright.
I was always trying to dosomething that maybe I didn't
have a lot of knowledge in or Ididn't have the passion for it.
So Eric was a lot of the samething, you know, being homeless,
not having a lot of peoplevouch for him because, you know,
nothing worked out for him.

Sean Febre (39:13):
His mom kicking him out.
Yeah, man, which might havebeen the best to him in my
opinion.
Yeah, dude.
I mean, I believe hard timescalluses you, man, and it makes
you be, the better man andtomorrow and you know now he's a
very educated man.

They call me t dude is crazy with it, man.
Crazy with it, I mean.
But I, I love motivationalspeaking man.
I actually that's one of mygoals in life that I hope to
have the blessing and privilegeto do is to be able to speak to
people, you know, because I justlove to motivate people.
But my new life is differentman.
I utilize God as my foundationman.
You know, I gave my life to Godin November of 24.
I'm not a perfect man I wouldnever claim to be perfect but I
just know that I'm thankful forGod Almighty because he gave me

(39:52):
the life that I have today.
I'm here because of hisblessing and his forgiveness and
I'm able to cataly.
I don't license myself forward,whether it's business or
personally, because this isgrazing water for me, rob
Markman, how old are you?

DJ?

Premieres I'm 34 today.
Rob Markman 34?
.

Sean Febre (40:04):
DJ Premieres 34?
.
Rob Markman 34?
.
Dj Premieres yeah, the youngestone in the room, rob Markman,
34 today.

How about you , Johnny?
Dj Premieres 37.

Sean Febre (40:10):
Rob Markman 37.
Dj Premieres 36.

Rob Markman, 36.
Dj.

Premier a lot already.

I mean shit dude.

Sean Febre (40:20):
So then, what inspired you to start Inertia
and move it forward?
You said it only started fourweeks ago.

Yeah, four weeks.
So it's been in the works forabout five years, man, five
years.
It was always something youknow, and my wife at the time I
always used to tell her I waslike, listen, we're working hard
making somebody wealthy, whynot do this for ourselves?
And it was always thatresistance We'll meet resistance
, meet resistance.
Every time we try to dosomething to progress forward,
it was like, hey, maybe it's notthe right time.
And essentially, man, I justgot tired of saying it's not the

(40:50):
right time because it willnever be the right time.

A lot of people like to say yeah.
A lot of people say, oh, youcan have a baby.
You're not ready to have a baby.

You could never be ready to have a baby.
You wouldn't.
You're not ready to have a baby.
You could never be ready tohave a baby, never with business
.
You're never ready to have abusiness.
It sucks, bro.
I'll be honest with you.
It's very freaking hard.
I wake up every day scared andI go to bed scared.
But I go to bed and wake uphopeful that things will turn
out right.
Right, because if we keep thatuh, I guess that that dagger in

(41:17):
the back to say listen, man, ifyou lax off, you're going to
make it, if you just back up alittle bit, you're not really
going to do it.

A buddy of mine, that's a fact actually.

Yeah, man, and it's wild man you can't let
go man.

And to do it with a family too, I mean.
I could never imagine startingour business when we have a wife
, kids.
I mean there's no way.
What was?

crazy bro is throughout the building of my
clinic.
Man, I went through a divorce.
So everything, everything wentbad.
Bro.
When I tell you like everythingwent bad, I was going through a
divorce, unexpected divorce tomy best friend man.
The builder was just notworking out for us, the
licensing, yeah, and thecontractor it was just.

(41:58):
You know, it was always moremoney, more money more money.

You were building a house or the office, the office
itself.

so then my father property no, so we rent
the the space, but it was ablank space so we had to build
out all the rooms, man ourbuilding looked like it was
stuck in that 70s show man withan old shack carpet, freaking
laminate floor.
It looked terrible, dude,terrible.
I was like, oh man, you reallygot to see the vision.
It's almost like when you guyslook at a house like a wholesale
property, you're like, oh man,we're really going to take one

(42:25):
in the chin this time.
And then I don't know wherepeople start putting money into
it.
You're like that's not the samehouse.
That's how I feel when I go tomy clinic.
That's everybody's comment Like, wow, man, every dollar
possible to make people feelgood.
But also for us to feel thatpride of going into the building
and saying this is our home,this is where we want people to
feel good.
And so, yeah, man, everythingthroughout the building.

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It was very difficult, you know, it was very hard.
Going through a divorce wasprobably borderline.

You had what?
Two or three kids?

Two kids.
We have a 13-year-old and afour-year-wife right With the
ex-wife, yeah.

But that was at the time.
The kids were 13 and 4 at thattime.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So my divorce happened veryrecent man.
We're talking about seven,eight months ago, Holy shit.

Sean Febre (43:09):
Yeah, so very recent , man, man, all this is recent.

Yeah, man, a lot of the situations that had
molded the person I am today hasbeen through these things.
They, man, so went throughdivorce, pushing forward hard,
man.
Everything I push forward, Imeet resistance.
So what's crazy, man, is theinitial plan for the business
was for my wife.
I didn't want her to be anemployee anymore.
I believed in her so much thatI would say, hey, listen, I'm

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willing to do everything andanything possible to give you
what you deserve, because you'renot a number, you're a person
that does it all, and I want youto have that glory and have
something that's yours.
So, throughout the process don'tknow what happened, man we just
got set, we pulled distance outof nowhere, we separated with
divorce and I'm sitting there tothis day, man.
Luckily enough, I have a lot ofpeople helping me.
But a lot of the stuff that Ido on a day-to-day operation is

(43:56):
learned either on the spot orfrom general knowledge.
Or I call, phone my wife, man,my ex-wife.
I'm like, hey, this is whatwe're doing, I'm struggling with
this.
How would you go about this?
Or can you help me with thisman?

Sean Febre (44:07):
and sometimes involved in the business.

She's not involved, but she's more than willing to
help me, so like an advisor yeah, as an advisor, you, she
consults I mean at least it'slike a mutual, it's not like a
nasty one, you know, no man.
I mean mean, I would suck man.

Listen, man, the person I was pre-baptism man
would have been that guy thateverybody would expect.
That macho man like nah, youdid me dirty, like no.
That person died in that tank.
Man, I look a life differentman.
How can I judge somebody when Iwent and met my maker and I said
, hey, man, I want you to takeme in and I want you to accept
me.
You know, when I truly met God,god meets you for who you are,

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bro, and I don't bring a lot ofbiblical factors into my life.
But when there is credit to bedue man, I tell people the
reason I'm here is because ofhim.
But aside from that, I'm ableto look at everybody.
Don't matter what you did inthe past, man, I respect and
love you, no matter what.
Because I met judgment and Iwas like hey, man, I want to be

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with you, I want to ride withyou.
Help me be a better person.
And you can't be a Christian ona Sunday and be a thug on a
Monday.
That ain't going to fly, bro.
A lot of people my pastor, sayyo, pastor Q.
Shout out to Pastor Q at thechapel in Trinity man, this
dude's so dope.
This dude puts it how it is,man.
That's why I found God, becauseof him.
Man, this guy says listen, youcan't feed two masters, right?
You can't say I'm for God.
And then on Monday you're outthere freaking, doing the
devil's work and trying to doall these things.

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It's never going to fly, man.
But when you are humbled enoughto say, hey, I'm not going to
be perfect, I just want to berealistic in life and push out
that light man, it's differentman.
I look at my ex-wife and I'mlike, hey, listen, I'm
appreciative for everything youdid for my life.
I'm thankful, thank you forhelping me.
Her boyfriend, I give him a hug, I put out.
Good man.
And it's different man.
When you become a man of god,your life completely changes.

It's like a complete 180 man and I'm, and
I'll tell you something I'vebeen when I go home from the gym
, you know I I go, know try togo four days a week, but I have
Joel Osteen or yeah he'smotivational and he's a preacher
or a priest or whatever youknow.
So I listen.
He has, you know, he has atopic about.

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You know what he's talkingabout and everything that he
says in it.
Man, it's like if I'm havingthis situational day, I look at
all his uh, his um, uh videosand I'll find one that you know.

Sean Febre (46:26):
They're 30 minutes long, but I find one that is
kind of matching what yeah,resonates.

Yeah, congruent or resonates with what I have and
it just helps me so much andit's only.
I mean it's a 15-minute ride,so I get through 15 minutes
every day.
But he starts off withsomething funny.

He tells you you know certain situations with
the Bible and it just likerelates to me perfectly and I
don't go anywhere, but it reallythis is my 15 minutes of you,
know, and that's a beautifulthing the fact that you're
conscious enough to say listen,and this is the cool thing about
Christianity, or God or churchchurches are everywhere you go,
like churches right now.
So the beautiful thing aboutthat is that you're actually

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willing and able to do somethingthat most men are not, because
we're so prideful as humanbeings that we like to be macho.
Machismo is the catalyst to allevil, and when all evil
presents, you're nothing butdeath walking in this spirited
world, Because if you cannotkneel before God, your maker,
the man that puts you on thisearth, who are you as a man on
this earth?
Who are you as a man?
Listen, I'd rather follow theguy that kneels before Christ,

(47:27):
eating any day, into any battle,than the man that's sitting
there freaking, taking pictureswith popping bottles left and
right, which is so cool.
I do it.
But who are we going to follow?
Where are we going?
At the end of the day, everybodyfalls in a hole.
Are you going to go with theguy that made you or are you
going to go with the guy who'strying to burn you?
I choose different man.
I choose light above all man,and if it makes me less friends,
so be it.
I'll be lonely.
I got God, almighty bro, If itmakes me cool because people are

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like, hey, that guy's tatted uphe comes from.
I was born and raised inBrooklyn, New York.
Man, I come from the hood.
I come from the hood my father,one of the scariest guys ever
to walk the face of this planet.
This guy kneels before God.
I actually just posted him thisprevious Sunday on his knees
crying before God.
This is a guy who has done somecrazy shit in his life.
This guy still kneels beforeChrist man.
So to me that's like theepitome of like wow, that's

(48:10):
different bro.

That's a real man, bro, as well said as you could.
Christian man.
It is tough man, but when we getback with Happy Hour Holidays
we'll continue with christianmartinez.
Thank you all for tuning inlike, comment and subscribe.
All right, guys, and we're backwith happy hour holidays and
we're kind of talking a littlebit about what's going on now
with the tariffs and the importsand stuff and you had brought
up a good point.
You know about the miami beingone of the largest and you know

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florida being gdp wise, thefifth largest could be the fifth
largest country in the world.

Sean Febre (48:39):
I think it's more around eight.
I think California is fifth,but yet California is broke and
Florida Broke Come on, I went toCalifornia, the other day I'm
like damn, y'all broke, thegovernment is broke and the
Florida government has a surplusin spending.
They have such a surplus inspending that Governor DeSantis

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issued $493 million back to thefederal government in unused
funds, because that is how muchmoney Florida makes.
Florida's main economic sourceis tourism.
That is literally a fact.
It's tourism and that is whatallows us, because it's not just
people from the United Statescoming to Florida, it's people

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from Europe, it's people fromAfrica, it's people from Russia,
it's people from Australia.
Bro, I don't know how manytimes I've been to the salt
shack right there off of Westshore in Gandy and I've had a
conversation with a European andthey're like oh man, you
Americans are stupid, you don'tknow what the fuck you're
talking about.
And then I had to school him onsome history.
He was like okay, you're one ofthe few.

I'm like no, that's just.
You're like I got this shit.

Stay in Florida.
I got this.

Sean Febre (49:49):
Well, I mean also.
I mean I went to college, Itook a lot of courses and you
know I'm fucking six or sevenclasses away from bachelor's
degree in engineering.
I took all that shit during hccand, uh, what I tend to learn
is that people that come toflorida, it's mainly tourism, it
is literally our economicbackbone and having disney in

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orlando, that's the hub rightthere.
But then you have a differentkind of tourism, which is like
spring break in miami, panamacity, which is up in the
panhandle.
The beaches, the beaches.
The beaches Clearwater numberone beach in the entire fucking
world.
Don't ask me why I don't thinkthat's right.
I was about to say bro.

That's a by TripAdvisor, by TripAdvisor.

Yeah by TripAdvisor .
I wouldn't say Clearwater asnumber one.

Sean Febre (50:40):
That's what I say, or maybe not in the world, maybe
in the US it's TripAdvisor,right, If you want to visit any
beach in all the United States,where are you going to go?
They suggest Clearwater, Thenthey suggest somewhere out in
California, Then they suggestMiami, Then they suggest Panama
City.
But I mean that is the kind ofeconomy that is being brought
into Florida, economy that isbeing brought into Florida and,

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uh, what we see is maybe anelimination of the tax bracket
or of the property tax.
You may consider as oh, they'regoing to put it somewhere else,
but our sales taxes dropped you.
Yeah, I mean now they'retalking about bringing it down
to like six and a half percent.

Right now is 7%, at least in uh, Hillsborough
, and when it got risen to 8%like four years ago and it came
back down yeah, yeah I mean, Idon't, I don't see how tariffs
are going to influence at leastthe economy of florida I mean
I'll be happy if the censusdecides to take off these tolls,
man, because if I can't go fivemiles without hitting a toll,

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we got a problem.
I mean you've already paid thatroad 10 times over.
It's like, oh, you're stillpaying for the highways.

No, fuck it the highway's beautiful bro, I know.
Well, that's what they said.
They go well.
That's because we're the mainthing for you still.

Sean Febre (51:48):
Well, I mean the tolls is a way to supplement
some of these taxes that arebeing eliminated, but the tolls
have always been there?
Yeah, they've been supersededtime and time again if you if
you go down the veterans tolls,if you go down the crosstown
tolls, if you go down the salmontolls.
And now they got a toll, uh,across the howard franklin.
Yeah, that just opened likethree days ago.

You know what's funny?
Because we mentioned california.

I just spent some time in san diego, california
probably a few months ago, oh mygod, but I've heard out of all
the places, san diego is thebest brother, I'm addicted man.

I honestly tell you.
I called my parents while I wasin San Diego.
I'm like I might not come back.

If it wasn't for my kids I would have stayed out
there.

They're like oh it's expensive, yeah, bro,
but look at the type of qualityof life you're having out there,
man.
Everybody was happy.
I didn't meet one pissed offindividual while I was in all
the beaches everything Gorgeous,bro, Spot clean.
I was like wait, I don't seetrash on the floor, man.

Sean Febre (52:42):
That ain't San Francisco, that's San.

Diego man, San Diego, clean.
You could eat off the floor.
And I'm telling you, I traveledall over it Beautiful, clean,
no tolls.
I saw one toll the entirefreaking week I was there.
I'm like bro, that's just tomake it to LA, that's the only
toll, that's out there.
I was like, so it makes mequestion Florida.
What is really your significantbackground to kind of say this

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is the reason why we have thetolls?

Sean Febre (53:06):
So the reason there's tolls is because the
state of Florida doesn't pay forthe veterans, it's the Florida
Highway Authority, and those arethe ones that are paying for
the road.
And then, in jest, the statesays, okay, we're going to let
you buy all this right away,build a road, build an

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expressway, and then you'regoing to have to pay us money
because we got to pay for theroad that we let, uh, the
florida highway authority buildthrough those right-of-ways, and
I guess it makes sense, but atsome point the road's paid for.
Yeah, why continue to havethose tolls?

because the veterans, bro, it's been there
since, fuck I can remember,they're still extending out to
it if you go all the way downlike brooksville they're still
pushing out to it.

Sean Febre (53:53):
If you go all the way down, like Brooksville,
they're still pushing past it,but even all the way up to
Lakanto, where you like to go.
Yeah, bro, when I go to Lakanto, bro.

I'm literally I hit a toll a mile before I
get off the last stop, literallythe last stop of the veterans.
I'm like this is some bullshitbro I'm paying you what nobody
wants to be, but there's analternative.

Sean Febre (54:11):
You could take $275 to $75 and drop all the way up
there.

I'll pay the toll.
There you go, I'll pay the toll.

Sean Febre (54:18):
Convenience costs, Convenience Fuck.

I just wrote my own freaking argument I'll
pay the convenience back to them, but I'll pay the.

Sean Febre (54:24):
You could also take $41.

I'd rather pay the all right, fuck it, I'll pay the
dollar, or whatever it is.

Well, now it's probably more.
I owe those fools $1,500 that Ido by the end of today.

Sean Febre (54:38):
Well, that's what For the tolls I owe so much
tolls, you don't have a SunPass.

Bro, I do, but I think I guess it didn't work,
bro, because suspended yourlicense yeah, they do that.

They call me yesterday.

Yeah, I went through it when I was, when I
was younger, I'd be like, ohfuck it, I'll just take the toll
.
And then all of a sudden, uh Igot I got freaking lucky man.
I got saved, you know, by godfor that day, because I
literally was working for, uh uh, one of the pesticide companies
that spray the grass yeah andum, I was doing sales.
I you know I wasn't doing thespraying, but I was doing the
sales and the and the cop pullsme over.

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He's like you know, you have asuspended license.
I was like there's no way, howdo I have a suspended?

Sean Febre (55:16):
license.

And he goes.
You know, I got to take you tojail because it's a suspended
license.
Oh damn bro yeah they take youto jail.
If you have a suspended license, you go to jail.
Bro, I'm too to let you driveto this gas station and then
have somebody pick you up.

Can you imagine that bullshit
conversation?
What you in here for, bro?
I didn't pay my toll today,what you in?
Here for Bro.
I just shot somebody.

Fuck.

Sean Febre (55:46):
You don't remember the time where you had to drive
all the way to Orlando when Iwas dropping posts for OfferPad.

Yeah.

Sean Febre (55:52):
And they said I had a suspended license because I
didn't pay a traffic ticket.
Yeah, turned out, I did pay thetraffic ticket.
You took me all the way toPinellas.
I said, fuck you, pinellasCounty.

Oh man, that's the worst, bro.
I paid it, Fuck you over.

Sean Febre (56:06):
They said I did not pay it.
I showed the officer on myphone because you can go to
Pinellas County clerk of circuitcourt, and show them hey,
listen, the fine I paid.
And I paid it all the time andeverything.
And they're like yeah, but westill can't let you drive.
So I had to park the vehicle ona driveway where I was dropping
a post and then he picked me up, drove all the way to Pinellas.

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Pinellas said oh fuck, we didfuck up.
Then I had to drive all the wayback to Orlando show them and
they were like yeah, now it'slifted.
It's like are you fuckingkidding?

me Damn.
Yeah, it's wild, bro, and Iwill tell you I'm going to be a
huge advocate for this, you know, bus stops.
I just received the ticket.
Now bus stops have camerasinstalled.
The buses?
Yeah Bro, but it's weird,they're in the complete opposite
road.

Sean Febre (56:48):
A freaking big-ass median, and then I'm in the
other side.

I'm like no freaking bratty-ass kid is going
to cross this street.

There's no way I didn't know that, because I
think it's only the one.
If you don't stop.

they hit you with a ticket.
They got to my house $255.
Fucking Bro, I was like youknow how many years I've been
driving, I'm in the completeopposite side.
There's no way a kid is goingto pass this major highway.
It happened right there onfreaking Memorial, bro, Freaking
right by Cedar or some shit man.
They're busing that other side.
Everybody's going bro.

I'm telling you, the cops made some serious dough
that day, bro.

Bro, that was at least 20, 30 cars that kept
going Because we didn't knowthis shit right.
We never had to stop for a bus,it was on the complete opposite
side.

Sean Febre (57:32):
I never heard that that happened this year, bro,
they hit me with a $255 ticket.

Yep Ticket clerk Bro no, I pay that shit,
bro.
You know sometimes my life isso busy at this point in life,
I'm like fuck it, I'm payingthis shit, bro.
I paid it real quick.
But but yeah, bro, now you gotticketed, so now I'm pissing
people off behind me.
I'm like honk all you want oryou get your 255, bro, because
I'm staying right here.

Yeah, I know.

Sean Febre (57:55):
Yeah, dude, that was a good thing you said that they
stopped doing that becausethere was a lot of I call them
pedestrians, but students onBush that were getting hit by
cars.

And I can see that.

Sean Febre (58:05):
But what was worris.

Yeah, I always slow down and be cautious
, but no kid is going to crossthat damn street.

But yeah, still 255 , bro, that shit hurt it was
like the red light cameras man,and when that shit first came
out I was like bro, how can yousnap a picture?
I know where they're all at.
I was in the fire departmentwhen that shit played full
effect.

We were going to accidents left and right.
People will freak out in themiddle of the intersection, bro.
They will slam on their fuckingbrakes Out of nowhere you got
another car just bashing throughthem bro.

So what did they do ?
They did away with them, right.
A lot of places have.
A lot of places have.

Apparently, the city of Tampa doesn't mess
with them as much anymore, butthere's a few still out there,
because I know that you canstill see them up there, but
some I still slow down, for themI'm stopping.

Sean Febre (58:52):
Anytime I'm crossing Bears or, I'm sorry, if I'm
crossing Nebraska or Florida,I'll look ahead on the left side
to see if there's those redlight cams, Because they're on
the sides of the road.
So then I'm like I thinkthere's one on Fletcher and I'll
look.

I'll just be like, okay, it is this road and
then I think there's one also onfowler, on, uh, nebraska and
that's one on fowler, nebraska.
So I pass that fucker.
Every morning we haveconversations.
I'm running late to a meeting.
I'm like, oh fuck, are youyellow, yellow, yellow yellow,
even yellow freaks me the fuckout, because you're supposed to
be all right, but you're not,and I'm always.

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If my front tires pass thisfucking line, I'm gonna be good.
No, I still get hit with them,bro.

Sean Febre (59:33):
And then that goes to what you're saying People
slam on the brakes because theydon't want that ticket and then
maybe get rear-ended.

Yeah, because the person behind you might be
like fuck it, I'm going bro.
Yeah, bro, there's a lot, andthen I get happy because I'm
like bro, this sounds messed up,bro, but having a personal
injury medical clinic, rainydays are great and red light
cameras are great for me.
I need this to stay around, broCause as long as there's people
freaking out behind the wheel,I'm going to be in business, bro
.
So sorry, not sorry.

Manny Febre (01:00:01):
I'm always like crazy, like you're, like you see
the it's about to be red, andthen you get the guy behind you
Take it to your life.
Shit, he took it.

Crystian Martinez (01:00:09):
And you know that fucker was red bro I was
like, bro, I was alreadydrowning Yo ass dead.

Yeah that's funny, bro.

Sean Febre (01:00:15):
That's funny, you say that because I do that
sometimes on a yellow light andthen it turns red.
As I'm crossing the stop barand I'm going across the
intersection and this guy justfollows me.
I'm like whoa.

You know what's funny, bro?
And I never thought thoughtthis shit would happen to me.
So you know how it says onevehicle at a time, the fucking
left and post shit so I'm goingto my buddy's house.

He lives out there in racetrack road.
Yeah, bro, it says one vehicleat a time.

Bro, I'm like I'm puerto rican, bro.
I don't listen to that shit.
One means 30, bro, so I'mfollowing my boy and we're about
to go play football.
Uh, play pickleball.
We're excited, bro.
That shit slammed on top of myhead, bro, scratched my entire
Damn.
That happened to you.

That happened to me when we used to take pictures.
We're like you know, I'm like,oh, this lady isn't picking up.
She forgot to give me the gatecode and then we're like, all
right, fuck it, let's go.

And then all of a sudden, here, all my hood and I
got a truck and I'm like go gogo, go, go, go, go, go, go go go
go go go, go, go, go, go, go gogo, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go gogo go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,go, go, go, go, go, go go go, go
, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go

(01:01:20):
, go go go, go, go, go, go, go,go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,go, go go go go, go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
go so

they just like kind of snap open if somebody hits
it instead of, like you know,breaking so.
But yeah, they've been battlinglike okay, we're going to close
the gates and we're going tohave these things.
When I first moved there, itwas like, oh, we only have these
things, the gates always open.
But now it's like so now it'slike all right, well, I got to
wait here, the thing blinks.

Then the gate opens, then that shit fucking
pops up damn bro, you bringing asnack with you, bro, that's a
lot of movement.
I don't know.
I'm telling you that place is.

There's a lot of houses in there, so I mean it's
a busy freaking.

You know how you can get away with that is just
leave it open during the day,during business hours exactly
where there's fucking peoplethat are, you know.

But I'll tell you what bro, how many veterans
do we have sitting out in thestreets not being able to do
anything?
You got a problem with people.
Want you want to keep yourcommunity safe?
Hide those people.

Put them out there the problem is what they're
going.
Is they're going uh, digital orover the phone, where you push,
push the keypad and then thenyou get a uh over the air person
answering oh, where are yougoing?
Show me your id and all thisbullshit.
Yeah, my neighborhood now hasthat too, but during the day my
neighborhood is just wide open.

We'll meet at my house, bro.
I'm not dealing with all thatbullshit.

I live in the hood.

Everybody in the mother company.
Yeah, I'm not doing that, man.
You know it's cool.
I love those type ofneighborhoods because they are
beautiful, they're aestheticallypleasing and stuff like that,
but to me it's like fuck bro,like whoever wants to get in,
it's going to get in.
You know what's funny?
I saw one of those gates, theother day.

That's true, whoever wants to get in.

They're going to get in, bro.
They're going to get freakingcoral reef.

That was my night too, he had a massive one.

Oh bro, I'll show you my tank.

You'll be like what he had it in a wall.
You can see it from both sides.
Yeah, that's my tank, bro, I'llshow you.

But anyways, I'm going to go pick up some
coral, bro.
So they had the gate Beautiful,cool, dandy, safe right.
Then you son can jump thisthing, bro, like what are you
keeping away?
What's the point of this punk?

ass too, bro, you're right so well, the one
point is that it adds value tothe neighborhood because now it
becomes semi-private that's mywife, my wife's like oh, gated
neighborhoods, I'm like bro,people are gonna be able to get
it.

Well, there's obviously not enough puerto
ricans and cuban around, bro.
If they cross the fucking water, bro, they'll cross that gate
not to mention, we got our ownlittle security system yeah I
mean it's in front of my house.
Man, you can play at your ownrisk you come in once you cross
that door man as a matter offact, I'll unlock it for you I

(01:04:05):
actually uh talk about guns here.

You told us, um all fair, that you're an avid gun
owner, and shooter you shot upto a thousand yards, a thousand
yards, man just uh very recently, about a year like oh, man, uh,
I want to say I hit a three bythree plate.

So at a thousand yards a three by three
plate is pretty small man soyou're three feet, three feet by
three feet but a thousand yards.
Man hitting on such a tightgrouping man.
It was pretty, pretty awesometo get out and touch something
like that, because not a lot ofpeople can put a gun in their
hand and say you're a thousandyards man, what kind of rifle do
?
you have.
I should have tico tactical man.
So tico tactical is a six, fivecreed moore's flat shooting

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round.
It's one of the best rounds inmy opinion.
Caliber, yeah, yeah, it's a.
It's a beast bro so what's thecaliber?

six five creed moore I don't know what the fuck that
is, it's about yay, big man.
I got a 30 on 6.
I mean.

Nah man 6'5 Creepmore man.

It's bigger.

It's not only bigger man, that thing just
flies fast, man.
It flies flat and fast.
It hits the target At 1,000yards.
You're hitting in about two tothree seconds, so it was a
pretty fun.
Yeah, so you're talking abouttwo to three shots at 1,000
yards, bro, that's freakinglightning Is that out of Myaka
that was in Lakanto.

Lakanto's got 1,000 yard range yeah they do they
have an 800.

They have an 800.
They build 1,000.
There's talks of being a2,000-yard range.
We'll see, but it'll be fun,man, it'll be fun.

I mean shot was 100 yards at Shooter's World off of
Fletcher in 275.
And I used to be a member thereand my spread was like this big
, so like a diameter of like 100yards.

You teach me golf, I'll teach you shooting.

So you're better than that.
You're more like this.

I mean I can show you bro, I'm probably at
100 yards, bro, I'm taking out aquarter bro.

What kind of scope do you have of magnification?

I have a Vortex, yeah, so I mean you can
see the target, no problem.
Yeah, but what's crazy aboutshooting man is like— so what's
the?

magnification times.

I mean I can go 53 times.
The magn department was asniper in the Army man this guy
is.
He taught you, he kind ofworked me up into being okay
with shooting further on adistance because you want to
follow trajectory.
So I was always zooming out andletting that thing fly, man,
and just watching how it does,man, and it's a beautiful you
know thing scenario to see anactual round hit impact and when

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you can track it from the pointof shot to point of impact,
it's a sexy beast, man.
So when I shot my big board nottoo long ago last year, I went
on a board hunt, man, andactually started implementing
those things, man, and seeingthat thing go down, I was like,
oh man, that's a drug man,because when you're up close you
don't see nothing else.
When you're far away you startseeing that thing flying smack,

(01:06:54):
you're like.

So are you dialing in your scope?

dependent on the wind wind, um, humidity,
temperature, the coriolis effectthere's a lot of math there.
But you know, engineers, youguys are used to math and shit
like that, so that was a coolfactor, right, I suck at adding
two and two together, but youput a rifle in my hand and I
gotta, you know, do some math totry to get the best point of
impact.
Bro, that to me is fun.
That to me is fun, man, yeah,but it's just math was crazy

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about math.
I believe the us school systemhas set you, set up our kids or
ourselves up for failure becausethey don't really teach real
life.
Right, if you want to teach akid real math, start teaching
them about how to manage money.
Yes, how do you money manage inthe real world?
Why are we not teaching this tothe kids?
Why?
I'll give you the answer weneed employees.

Yeah, we need employees.

We need employees.
No-transcript and not sayinghey, I want to be like you, boss
, let me do it, which everybodycan do it, man.

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Last year I was an employee.
I was sitting on the other sideof the table and I was hustling
.
I had that time clock right andI look at my son all the time,
my son's 13, going on 14.
I tell him all the time man,learn how to use money.
Financial literacy willsupersede any studies that you
can get in school.
Man, there will never beanything equivalent to that,
because it's very easy.

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You get a dollar, you spend adollar, you have nothing.
A lot of millionaires that Imeet, they're like yeah, I'm a
multimillionaire.
I'm like cool.
My brain goes what is your debt?
Yep, you might be a millionaire, but if you have $999,000 in
debt because nobody taught youhow to manage, money.

You're not really a millionaire Now.
Debt is not always bad.

Debt is not a bad thing.
I believe everybody should havedebt.
Because other people's moneycan make you more money Of
course, of course, right, youcan have a million dollar
business, but if you have$555,000 tied into assets that
are going to catalyze yourbusiness forward, yes, you're
not a millionaire.
You had debt, but you'reprogressing forward.
A lot of multi-billionairesdon't really have the billions

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On paper.
They do, but they're reallyjust putting their money to work
for them.

Yeah, because a lot of them aren't liquid Correct,
and that's what a lot of peopledon't understand.
And that's why when you getpeople saying, oh, we want to
tax the billionaires on theirunrealized gains, that makes no
sense, that's stupid.

That's stupid .
Not only is that regressive,that is ignorance.
It is that is ignorance becauseobviously they did something
for the world to create thatfinancial freedom for themselves
.

They have to put in work.
That's what people don'tunderstand.
Before, I used to be that guy.
That's what people don'tunderstand.

Before I used to be that guy.
I was like oh, tax the fuckingbig guys.
Now, as being a business owner,I'm like yo, this shit is
harder work than being anemployee.
And even yesterday I had thisthought.
I was like I could go work anine to five, have a shirt check
on Friday.
No, I'm getting off by five.
No, I can have a social life orI can be a business owner.
I'm.
I still picked it up.

On the watch, right On the watch.
I picked that shit up, yeah, Iwas like hello so-and-so.
So how may I help you?

You know, as an employee you never have to
worry about having to do that.

But as a business owner.
Man, Friday you check out andyou're like, okay, I'm good to
go you know what?

It was funny Social hours, bro.
That's a funny joke.
I was like I don't know when Istart, I don't know when I stop.
That's what I tell everybody.
So it's easier that way.

Yeah, I know Without a doubt.
All right guys, we'll be backwith Happy Hour Holidays.
Appreciate everybody tuning in,We'll be back.

And we're back with Happy Hour Holidays.
We were talking to Mr Martinezabout certain things and about
certain things, and the onething that we haven't taken a
deep dive into is inertia.
Yes, sir, let's do that on thisfinal segment.
Let's learn everything and howit can benefit your customers.
So tell us about inertia.

(01:10:44):
I know you spoke a little bitabout it in the first segment,
but let's hear about it just onemore time.

Awesome, awesome brother.
Well, inertia is where healingmeets momentum man.
Our inertia is no other thanmovement and catalystic right.
We want to be positive Everytime that a patient comes in.
What I tell everybody in abusiness world is a lot of
people get this constantmistaken right.
A lot of people say because,let's say, both you and I were
in real estate, you will see meas competition man.
In business, there's really nosuch thing as competition,

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there's only collaboration andmy side of things.
The beautiful thing about thisis there's going to be a point
in time in my business where I'mnot going to be able to take a
patient, whether it's justscheduling issues suit with us
and making sure that not onlyare we advocating for that
patient, but we're alsoprogressing forward and giving
the quality experience to thepatient that serves.
And I think that's a majormisconception when it comes to

(01:11:30):
businesses.
And it happens on a weeklybasis.
Right, I'm going to a marketingevent and somebody finds out
that my company is going.
They're retroverted to thisregressive mindset.

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They're like oh my God, that'scompetition.
Why are you having that?
I thought you were my friend andwhat I tried to change in the
business world is it does notmatter that we do the same thing
.
What matters is the number oneaspect in the room is how can we
be better for the patients thatare out there?
What my company does is notonly mitigates that relationship
with patients, but as well asties them into an attorney
factor.

(01:12:11):
So not only do I know mypatient's going to get the best
care possible, so why mess withthe rest when you can come treat
with the best?
I'm constantly putting that outthere because my company, we
take pride in what we perform.
Right, not only do we have thebest therapists, we have the
best doctors, we have the bestnurse practitioners and the best
chiropractor.
What separates us from the restis we are educators.

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We want to educate the patient.
One of the things that we do toassure our experience is, before
you, as our patient, get puthands on, we're going to explain
to you everything that's goingto happen during this process.
Every patient sits down with me.
We do a free consultation.
I'm going to sit down with you.
Ask my patient hey, man, here'swhen your accident happened,
here's where it happened.
Here's your insurance.
Hey, what do you think?

(01:12:52):
What does your insurance thinksyou keep your car?
A lot of times these people arelike oh my God, there's money,
I got hit, I'm going to make$10,000 basic PIP right,
personal injury $10,000 in thestate of.
Florida?
Yeah, and they're.
You know before.
You know your insurance things.
Your car is parked in Tampa,but you're actually living in
Largo.
Now you're, in a way, creatingfraud insurance fraud because

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you're not being factual to yourinsurance company.
So that's what I do when yousit down with me as the owner of
my company.
I'm going to find thisnarrative to paint to the
attorney.
So when I say, hey, listen, Ithink this attorney will be a
phenomenal option for you, Ithink you should give them a
call.
At the end of the day, it'syour ultimate option to go with
that attorney or not.

I just have your best interest in mind I'm
wondering do you actually haveto testify in court sometimes?

there's there .
There's times where we can getsubpoenaed to testify in court
if it goes to pipsuits and stufflike that, if the patient has
to go and put out some thingsthere.
There's times where mytreatment team will be
subpoenaed to actually have totestify on their own benefit of
the defendant.

I'm assuming it it's in the benefit of the defendant
.
I'm assuming.

It's always in the benefit of the patient.

Yes, definitely we're patient advocates.

How did?

you get into it though, because you never
explained that part.
Yeah, yeah, or did you when yousaid no?

I did not.
I didn't really dive deep in it, I think, what catalyzed me to
go forward-.
Because, this seems very niche.
It is the way I kind of fellinto this industry, obviously in
the marketing side, you know,and going through my healing
journey I fell in love withholistic medicine and you know,
going from being an athlete tocompletely shut down and not

(01:14:19):
knowing what.

I was going to do so .
Wait is inertia, holistic.

Inertia is completely holistic medicine.
We don't do any painmedications, anything of that
sort.
It is complete treatment.
Throughout our holisticapproach, we do manual therapy,
we do shockwave therapy.
Shockwave therapy is what keptme away from a fourth surgery.
You know, this therapy isphenomenal.
It goes in a cellular level, itbreaks down scar tissue and it
really enhances the area to getfilled with oxygenated blood,

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therefore furthering your injuryby healing it.

When you say shockwave, do you mean like
electricity?

No, it's actually a pulse system.
So it's a pulse system.
So it's a pulse system.
It goes by pulse and frequencyin hertz.
So it is this machine that tapsthe muscle in the affected area
and it brings, you know, bringsthat oxygenated blood, that
healing blood that you want inthat area to start working and
breaking down those scar tissues.

So it's almost like getting rid of lactic acid.

Boom boom boom, definitely, so it really
breaks down.
I mean, it's one of thosetherapies, man.
We also have cold laser.
Cold laser breaks again and acellular level breaks down those
you know, fatty deposits, scartissue breakdown.
So it really helps greatly forthe patient in a holistic way.
I want to say, man, one of thethings that stands out the most
to me when it came from apatient perspective shockwave.

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Man, I was getting shockwaveone time a week.
I will get shockwave today,tomorrow.
I was already feeling 10 timesbetter.

Have you ever seen that it's like a gun, but it's
not really a gun.
That has like a ball at the endand a stick into this machine
and then they just pounds themuscle.

Yeah, I like the tear guns.
I utilize the tear gun as asupplement to my daily routine.
Right, we were discussing offcamera my stretching routine.
You stretch for an hour a day.

It's a great time to meditate, which is wild, bro.
You only got 24 hours andyou're stretching for 60 fucking
minutes.

I mean, but you still have the same 24 hours
I have right.
Yeah, that's true, some peopleutilize sleep to supplement,
which sleep is great.
Sleep is the ultimate epitometo healing.
But man so is stretching so is,you know, having a proper body
maintenance when you stretch,when you breathe?
A lot of people like to breathewith their mouth.
Man, nose breathing, nosebreathing, nose breathing, nose
breathing it is.
I'm a huge advocate for itbecause of the benefits for it.

(01:16:23):
But aside from that, when youutilize and conjoin the both of
them the stretching and the nosebreathing together, man and you
meditate, it is a beautifulchange to your life.
You start feeling better, youlook at life with a different
energy and, overall, is when youheal your body internally,
externally, you're going to feelbetter, you're going to act
better.

I'm wondering.
You said that you only startedthis business four weeks ago,
right?
What would you say is thebiggest obstacle you've had to
climb?
Is it finding new customers?
Is it finding a location?
I know we talked about thebuild out and all that stuff.
But let's say someone wants tostart a business.
Maybe they're afraid.
I know you've owned previousbusinesses before.

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What would you say is one thingthat you could tell an
individual that is hesitant tostart a business?
What is the best piece ofadvice you can give that
individual?

The biggest advice I can give a new up and
comer business owner.
I developed this mantra shut in, shut out.
You got to shut in your innerthoughts because the number one
enemy is the person in themirror, because you will start
to question every day whatyou're doing within that
business.
And you got to shut out thenoise.
Everybody, not only, is goingto tell you oh you're crazy, oh
my God, this is not possible, ohmy God, it's saturated in my

(01:17:36):
network, oh it's a very hardbusiness, pip is going to go
away.
Or oh my God, like there's 30different clinics.
Listen, when there is noise inan industry, it's a reason for
having that noise.
You just have to find yourproper formula and what sets you
apart.
So when you shut in, you shutout that noise in the outside.
You shut in the person that'sin the mirror because you are

(01:17:57):
your biggest enemy.
You will start believing whatpeople are telling you.
You will start believing oh myGod, it's not possible.
Oh my God, I'm not getting newpatients.
And how am I going to pay mybills?
My staff gets really welcome.
They said how do I pay thesepeople?
So my biggest thing is tellingeverybody is how you can shut
out that external noise and howyou can shut out the person in
the mirror will definitely makea difference.
Why?
Because when you believe youhave something good, that you

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can create something good, it'sgoing to come with a facet of a
mountain that you got to climb.
Anything worth doing will comewith resistance.

I'm going to guess you fired some friends.
He's shaking his head.
Yes, on camera.

You have right, yeah, yeah Was that hard.
Yeah, man.

I mean, you must have fired him.

Business world is lonely when you have
something that you want to gofor, why you are directly
correlated and dignified,defined by the five people you
hang around with.
Right?
If you hang out with whitepeople, they want to go drinking
every day, go do these thingsevery day.
Go play around on a Fridaynight when you can be at a

(01:18:57):
marketing event.
Is that the person that youneed in this season of life?
It's crazy.
The reason why you say firefriends brought that look in my
face was because business islonely.
Sometimes you get depressed,sometimes you get like, oh my
God, I'm putting 120% effort butonly seeing 2% return.
The normal business owner willsay, oh my God, it's time to

(01:19:19):
activate that exit strategy.
The 1% will say, listen, I cansee past this.
Not only are these not thepeople I need in my life right
now maybe I'll keep them out ofarm's length, but they don't
just don't directly need to benext to me.
And that sometimes we can'tcorrectly correlate like who
needs to be next to me right now, because it's all an investment
, right?
If I want to invest in myfuture as a business owner, I

(01:19:41):
must revolve myself aroundpeople like you, people like
your brother, people like Vince,people like my buddy Marlon
that owns La Gozadera.
People like Dex that ownsCaribbean too.
It's people like Jax has a mealprep company.
These guys are not only knowingexactly what I'm living, but
they're doing everything thatthey're telling me to do,
because they're becomingsuccessful by practicing that

(01:20:02):
formula that they're giving me.
So those are the people I liketo surround myself, because
these people not only are aidingin my future, but they're
providing that little nugget tosay, hey, this is what I'm doing
, it's working.
Hey, I did that last week, butmaybe I got 2% return.
If you do it this way, you'regoing to get a better return,
and sometimes, surroundingyourself around those
like-minded individuals that canprovide that, rather than the

(01:20:23):
guys hey yo, it's Friday, weballing.
That's not really what I needto do right now, because I can
ball later in the future, butright now it's put my head down
and work.

I'm curious, man have you ever had a mentor?
I didn't, man.
Or did you just learn this frombooks through the grace of God?
You know, I know in 2020 yougot baptized, but I mean you're
speaking like an individual thatis very well educated and I
mean never had a mentor.
You just said you never did.
Never man.
Where'd you get all yourknowledge?

(01:20:51):
From failure?

failure, failure is my best friend.
I aim for failure.
So then, what was like theworst business you failed at?
Uh, I think my rapping anddesign business, man.
Yeah, you know what's crazy my.

Was it in brooklyn or was it?
No, I was here.

it was local man.
So, uh, what's funny is I,married at the time, started
from my garage man, had this bigprinter, didn't know how to
work.
I didn't know how to laminateanything.
I went to Orlando, took acourse with Geek Wraps and I
always you know the businessesbefore a nursing medical center
was always how do I become a manto provide for my family?
I no longer have the firedepartment, but my kids still

(01:21:23):
got to eat.
Brent is still doing the first.
My wife still deserves mehelping out with the bills.
So what can I create to?
You know, while I'm dealingwith this injury, how can I
still provide for my family man?
So I created that business in awhim and literally I did very
good work.
It was just, I was in the rightvehicle, meaning mindset.
I was in the right trajectorybecause it wasn't really what I

(01:21:44):
had a calling for.
I love medicine.
Medicine is my baby.
I love everything aboutmedicine.
I did it professionally andgoing into the space.
Not only did it change thefocus, but it also put that ease
that I no longer had tensionpulling me back, but I had that
progression going forward.
Though it is hard and thetomorrow is not promised.
I can still look at myself andsay today we can create a new

(01:22:05):
business by creating newconnections, and in this type of
business, it's not about whatyou know, it's not about who you
know, it's how you can setyourself different than the
people that are already in place.

You always talk about marketing.
You mentioned it a couple timesand you said you marketed it in
the medicine space.
Were you working for a personalinjury clinic before?

I was, I was, so my wife.
You know, at the time we kindof were dual.

You know, we just kind of went back and forth.

Ex-wife, Ex-wife.
So you know we kind of workedhand in hand together.
Not only were we out theremarketing, we were able to
create connections because weworked as a team.
People not only had the ease ofaccess to meet me and known
that they were getting somewherewhere they were going to get
their patients taken care of,but also knew that they had
somebody in-house that was goingto assure that formula.
Going into my own space is notonly are you meeting me the

(01:22:54):
person that's out in themarketing field, you're shaking
my hand but you're also knowingthe person that they're going to
meet the first time they comeinto office is me as well.
So not only does it developthat trust factor, it develops
that transparency, and at timeswe forget that business is a
transactional business, right,Whether there's monetary
exchange or personal exchange,it's still monetary because, at
the end of the day, you'reproviding your trust within me

(01:23:15):
to send me somebody who you hopeis going to have the quality of
experience when they come intomy practice.

So there's been a lot of things where I'm thinking
, and correct me if I'm wrong.
You've used YouTube Universitya lot, right?
Oh, that's the best universitythere is, man, that's the only
fucking university.
That's the only way, man.
It's the only one where youdon't get student loans and
they're like oh, you got to paythis shit back.
Youtube is free, dog.

I learned to do group speaking off of YouTube
University.

Yeah, because you also said you want to do some
public speaking.

Yeah, man.
So that's and say what got youto be there?
Was it daddy's money?
Was it just your experiences?
I tend to gravitate like we'retalking to ET man, eric Thomas.
Is I gravitate to Eric Thomasbecause this guy's been in the
room?
What?

about.

Goggins oh, bro, dave Goggins man, I'm
reading his second book rightnow.

Oh shit Okay.

Goggins is crazy because I do 75 Hard.
75 Hard has a good outlinewithin his first book.

Goggins gets a lot of hate, but at the end of the
day he's a man's man.

I don't understand why I really don't
get it either, man.

You know, they must just not like the way he looks.

I'm not talking about his skin color, I
just mean his face.
You know what's crazy, bro, is.
Sometimes, when you become to acertain level of popularity,
you still have people that aresaying, oh well, you took the
bullshit way out.
Maybe you weren't completelyfactual.
Sometimes it's not aboutextending the truth.
Sometimes it gets depicted andarticulated in a way that you
can uncomprehend.
Therefore, you create anegative condensation of why

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that individual is putting thatword out.
Sometimes we are too quick tojudge and very slow to listen.
I like to say man, god gave youtwo eyes for a reason.
We're twice as much to listenand slower to speak, because we
should really listen to thestory and see what we can pull
out.
A lot of people put out hateinto the world, man, instead of
saying hey, man, that's verycool, I'm very proud of the
person you became.
Maybe you want what youamounted out to be in the field,

(01:25:06):
but you turned out to havehaters online regardless For
sure.

It's going to just be individuals that are low,
succeeding, that wish they werein your position, and all they
can do is insult, insult, insult.
Because I've seen a shit ton ofmotivational videos and
there'll be hate comments andI'm like how the fuck, how can
you hate this speech, yeah, and,or this video, or whatever.
I mean.
A motivational video changed mylife to where I was able to
quit my job and start a companywith my brother, and it blows my

(01:25:48):
mind that I'll go to that exactsame video.
I have the exact video thatchanged my life and there will
be negative comments on thatvideo.
How do you, I guess?
How do you navigate through theminutiae and I don't know if
you have an online presence ornot but how do you navigate
through the minutiae of thenegative comments?
Do you respond to it?

(01:26:09):
Do you ignore?

it Hell.
No, fuck, no, I don't read noneof that bullshit.
Do you know how I do it?

Do you know how I do it?
I talk shit back to them.

You do yeah, yeah, man Because it's fun.

I'm like, okay, look at this little fucking troll,
probably sitting in his mom'sbasement, fucking talking shit.

I don't listen to none of that bullshit
man, I do it for fun.
Yeah, it doesn't bother me yourway of doing things sounds legit
Sounds like it'll be a goodFriday night when you're sitting
at home, but I don't listen tonone of that bullshit, bro.
For every good thing you do,there's going to be 10 people
that are going to bash on you.
Right In my space it's sosaturated.
There are people like fuck thatguy.

(01:26:47):
That guy's doing it, but Idon't want him to do it because
he's two streets down.
Let me bat mouth him.
You know the way I do things,man.
Retrovert back to.
There's no competition, there'sall in collaboration and I
won't say any names.
But just recently, man, I wasinvited to a networking event.
Then, a day before it, I get acall.
Hey man, I'm so sorry, bro, andI like the guy.

(01:27:08):
Hey man, I'm so sorry.
This person who also franchisesmy company, they're down the
street from you, 12 minutes.
Three major streets oh shit,that's fucking close, not to say
the least.
Yeah.
So you look at it like this hey, in my line of business, that
patient can be five minutescloser to your side.
I may be better, but thatperson's still not going to
drive five more minutes.

(01:27:29):
Why not create a bridge to say,hey man, I'd rather shake your
hand and create a businessalongside you.
In the event that we havesomebody that's five minutes
down the street, I'll send youone back while I cover you on
this one Right In the realestate world.
Right, hey, man, I'm sellingthis property.
I know you're not listening toit, bro.
I know you do photography.
You mind helping me out?

You know it's funny.
You say that because weactually have some photographers
that don't do areas we do andthey're like yo, you know, we
got this person.
They want photography.
Can you go photograph it andthen just pay us like a
percentage of the amount?
Yeah, that's collaboration.

Bro, it's collaboration and that's how
business runs.
You think these freaking bigmoguls man are out there looking
at competition.

No, they're not man .

They're making so much money they don't
know what to do with it.
They don't look a competition.

I mean, you know they're, they're investigating
their competition, but they'renot they're not completely
denying their competitionbecause, let's put it this way,
we're in a free market economy.
What we're going to have isindividuals within our same
space and industry doing thesame thing.
We can't, if you can't embraceit, then what you're going to do
is fail, because you cannot bejust isolated in a corner in the

(01:28:36):
industry.
Now, you can dominate anindustry, sure, but domination
also comes with collaboration.

Exactly Damn.
That should be on the shirt.
That should be on the shirt Ialways say it like this man
Failure comes with knowledge andknowledge comes with power.
But with power you come with,with a group of people who has
aid in the process to you togain that knowledge.
Sometimes we're too quick toblock a door that may
potentially open six other ones,because we're afraid what about
if you take my business?
That's close-minded, isn't itClose-minded?

(01:29:04):
Yes, Close-minded.

We're coming to the end of the episode, Christian.
Can you give us some last words, pieces of advice that you
would want to give your audience?

Definitely definitely, man.
Listen.
At the end of the day, we're inbusiness to make money, but
aside from that we're humanbeings.
We want to create not only aspace where you can feel good
sending your family to an urgentmedical center.
It's no other than a patientexperience.
We're not only going to guideyou throughout the process, from
A through Z.
Whether you had an autoaccident, motorcycle accident,
slip and fall, we want to assurethat you're not a number to us.

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We're not only going to createa relationship with the patient.
We want to make sure that theexperience they experienced with
us from day one is aneverlasting one.
We hope to gain not only thebusiness, but also to assure
that we have a great referralnetwork.
That's why we experience.
Our experiences are number onecatalyst.
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