February 28, 2024 • 47 mins
Sitting down with Donald Luxama, a 23-year-old beacon of financial empowerment, we uncover the transformative journey from a factory worker to a serial entrepreneur whose life exemplifies the power of passive income. Donald's tale began with selling bracelets during a high school fundraiser and flourished into a diversified business portfolio, all under the guiding principle that true wealth is about making money while you sleep—a gem of wisdom from none other than Warren Buffett. This episode promises to take you through the highs and lows that have shaped Donald's unique path, revealing the potential within all of us to thrive financially without being tethered to a conventional nine-to-five.
The parallels between the discipline of sports and the rigor of entrepreneurship are potent, as I share from personal experience. A disheartening moment in high school basketball led me to embrace track and field, where I found my true calling. This shift not only brought unexpected success but also unveiled the deeper lessons of accountability and teamwork—qualities that are indispensable in the challenging world of business. Here, we thread together the fabric of personal growth through sports and how it aligns with the success I've found in various ventures, from DSK Products to content creation, despite the backdrop of a global pandemic.
Our dialogue goes beyond mere anecdotes, diving into the mindset required for financial success. We explore the contrasts between those who succeed against all odds and those hindered by entitlement, stressing the importance of lifelong learning and personal growth. Donald's experiences with vending machines paint a vivid picture of how determination can translate into a steady income stream. Above all, this conversation is a rallying cry for like-minded individuals to band together, support one another, and relentlessly pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, regardless of the skeptics that may lurk along the way. Join us as we navigate the waters of creating meaningful success and living a life that truly belongs to us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For me.
I just wanted more because whenyou work a nine to five job,
like, you're limited.
I just always had like anentrepreneur mindset.
Like I remember, I was in afactory.
I was working for Bed, Bath andBeyond.
Mind you, I'm making $16 anhour.
Meanwhile I'm counting up allthe invoices because I'm
packaging all the boxes.
I'm reading the invoices $50,$100, $150, $200.
This company just made likealmost a million dollars in the
(00:20):
hour that I just worked and Ijust got paid $16.
And that always frustrated me.
I was like, why can't it be me?
Why can't I make this move?
Why does my money have to bedocked by the amount of hours I
work?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The journey to wealth is a long walk and some may
walk quicker than others, butwhat good is sprinting to the
finish line if you pass out whenyou cross it?
On Walk to Wealth, we enlightenand empower young adults to
build wealthy, abundant lives.
They say the journey of athousand miles begins with a
single step and your first stepstarts right now.
This is Walk to Wealth withyour host, john Mendez.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Walk to Wealth
podcast.
If you're tuning in on YouTubeor any of the podcast
directories, make sure to doyourself one teeny, tiny little
favor and make sure to give us afollow, because I don't want
you to miss out on any of theamazing guests I got coming on
this year.
But I'll further do.
Let's get right into this one.
Donald man, for anyone whohasn't had the opportunity to
(01:17):
get to know you, to get to meetyou yet, brother, tell us your
elevator pitch.
Man, who are you and what doyou do?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So my name is Donald Xama.
I'm a serial entrepreneur.
I teach people how to makemoney through passive income,
whether that may be vendingmachines, whether it may be
YouTube, rental cars, basicallyanything passive.
Because I realized from, likeour early age like if you, if
you work with, if you work withyour hands all the time, then
you won't be able to really, ifyou work, if you do everything
like active, then you won't beable to really make money while
(01:45):
you sleep.
And Warren Buffett said.
Warren Buffett said if youcan't make money while you sleep
and you won't ever be rich.
So that's really who I am.
A regular guy just helpingregular average day people just
make money passively.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, and Donald, real quick, before we get into
the conversation, like let usknow how old you are, man, Cause
I know either way, you thinkyou're a couple of years older
than me, right At 24, if I'mmistaken 23, 23, 23.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, just turned 23.
23.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Blessings, man.
Congrats on that.
So you're 23 and you're alreadyhelping people learn how to
make passing income, and you'realready, you know, running
multiple businesses, man.
So before we get into that,though, take us back in a time
machine, man.
What was little Donald likegrowing up, man?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Like when I was growing up.
I was like I was an athleteLike I never thought like
thinking back.
I never thought I would be inbusiness.
I'll never thought I'd behelping people through business.
I never thought I would be inthis path Like I was more of
like an athlete growing up bythe time, like I was in high
school.
By the time I got to high schoolis when, like my
entrepreneurial, my businessstarted.
(02:46):
Because I basically started, Imet this girl and she had this
event called like the Pinkathon,where we're selling like
different bracelets and stuff.
And basically this girl waslike yo Donald, can you sell all
these bracelets?
And I ended up selling like 75bracelets in a night and from
there I was like wow, like Icould really be an entrepreneur.
And, mind you, those braceletswere $3.
Imagine trying to make someonebuy, like high school students
(03:08):
trying to buy a $3 bracelet.
And that's what I did.
And from there I was like wow,like maybe I could really be a
big entrepreneur, Maybe I couldreally do like be a businessman
by the time I got to college.
Like that's when it reallystarted to like grow on me, Like
my goal at first was just toown a car wash.
Like I told myself, like I justwant to own a car wash, I just
want to do something like that.
(03:28):
And then from there, like Ijust exploded and I just started
meeting new people, never camenew people and I started gaining
, like this, entrepreneurmindset.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
So before we get into it, man,take us back a little bit.
You said at the Ping-a-Tang yousold 75 bracelets at $3 a pop.
Anyone that needs to do themath, that's what?
225 right there.
225, yeah, your nice little 225that you just made in high
school.
Now, I don't know about you,man, but in high school 225, you
know how many snacks I could.
That's like a whole like.
(04:00):
And my high school, you feel me, we had this little spot called
JRLTC and like the, you knowthe military like the army
people.
Yeah, and they always had thiscandy, like the snack shop, bro.
So now it was a spot betweenperiods Like we'll go to JLTC.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'll get me some Oreos and Skittles and some of
this.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh yeah, they sell chocolate.
Yeah, but ours they hadeverything Like they had
Pringles, chips, freaking candychocolate, you name it, they had
it.
Bro, there was like a wholelittle mini, like vending shop
in there, like littleconvenience store, and so that
was the spot as well.
So I know 225, man, that wouldhave been good money for me.
And you said that that was likeyour first, like real thing
(04:36):
where it kind of kicked off.
But do you think that there'sanything that led up to that
that made you potentially goodat that Cause, like, and not a
lot of people that can just,especially back in high school
where everyone's still pressedand you know about peer pressure
and worried about what otherpeople got to say, not a lot of
people that can just go up topeople and start selling stuff
at that age, and especially toother high schoolers who you
(04:57):
know?
Is there anything else that youdid that might have helped you,
like, excel at that bro?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was, but when, like thinking in high school, I was
always like a very outgoingperson, like I always liked to
meet new people or it's like tohave different conversations
with people, so I think likethat always like benefited me.
I was never afraid to walk upto somebody and talk to them.
I was never like like I justdidn't have any fear, like I was
.
I'll take all the risks now and, being being that, I was
(05:23):
playing sports, I was runningtrack and I was like known in
the school, like it just made iteasier for me and people was
like able to connect with me,people was able to trust me at
that time.
Yeah, and like that's what, likeI feel like that also helped me
to be like in my likeentrepreneurial journey.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, no, that's just that.
You know they always say peopledo business with people.
They like knowing trust, and itwas already cool in the school,
so it's like it made everythingthat much easier.
Back early on you said you didtrack.
What other sports did?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
you play.
I did track, I did crosscountry and I did.
I played football.
Like my first two years Iplayed football but like when I
was playing football like I wasin, like the best, and then when
I got to track, like theytreated me like I was like
amazing in track, like we werebreaking school records, like I
was doing a lot in track, like Ibarely made JV for like the
football team.
And then when I got to tracklike varsity, like my first year
(06:12):
I was the captain of the crosscountry team and I didn't even
run cross country like that LikeI was.
Even I was a sprinter.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I was still able to be like the co captain of
like the cross country team.
So that was like.
That was like pretty cool.
That taught me like leadershipat a young age as well.
Like it taught me how to becomea leader.
Like I have people likefollowing my instructions and
I'm not even like the fastestone there in terms of like
distance wise, so that that thatI feel like like those
experiences, like they helped me, like they shaped who I am like
(06:42):
today, like those experiencesback in high school, yeah, and I
feel it because I playedfootball.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I saw I played football, that was my main sport
.
I did basketball for a year, mysophomore year.
I made the team and quit thesame day I made it and then I
picked up track my senior year.
That's how long story short,this is a lesson, right?
If you feel like you're notdoing something for you, it's
okay to walk away from it.
So for me, a little bit ofbackstory.
(07:08):
Right, I made the team myfreshman year.
Right, and my coach my freshmanyear.
He.
If you weren't in the side offive, you pretty much didn't get
any play time, and what suckedis the person that was starting
over me.
I played point guard, but theguard starting over me sucked.
Like he was one of those guysthat made the team in middle
school Just because, like hepassed with two hands and like
(07:28):
you know, he, he made sure toprotect the ball when he
dribbles like super technical.
He wasn't actually an athlete,though he wasn't, he wasn't a
hoop of Pharrell, and so he madethe team just cuz, like he's
like the coach's pet, right?
He's the ex-unfair basketballplayer that follows everything
to tee, and so that's that's allI made.
And he's starting over me and Iknow I'm better than him.
So I'm like, damn, I ain't noquitter.
(07:50):
So I was like I'll just ride itout and then we start.
I said I get more play time,more play time, and then our
city rivals stand for high.
We played them mid-season, byfreshman year, and you know that
last two minutes crunch timelike those are very valuable
minutes.
It was a close game.
The whole game coach put me inright cuz I Fourth quarter, two
minutes left, so that last twominutes I got like three steals
(08:14):
and I got the game Changing, laylay up because we was down, I
think one.
And then on a fast break Ibroke out.
It was wide open, made the laya boom, we got the lead.
Then I got two steals and thenI got that.
I had the game closer, freethrows to Close out.
So I'm pretty much I ain't gonnasay I don't keep on the game
for us.
(08:34):
You feel me I don't keep on thegame for us and I'm thinking in
my head like yo, like we let,I'm about to start playing more.
He's not gonna start.
And coach just started playingme even less.
Like I was like alright bro.
So I was kind of miserable,low-key playing.
Sophomore year, fast forward abit, basketball trials come.
I don't know how it was at yourschool, but at our school
basketball trials like the like,the Function to be at it was
(08:57):
like a party.
Like there was mad people thathad, yeah, people that had no
business in a basketball courtwill pull up just to say like yo
, we're going to try out, soyou're going to go in it.
Yo, you got a basketball yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm going to basketball.
I like it's like in full, yeah,but Jim full and so I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I ended up making a team Right, and the day we made
it as they, we had a scrimmageand so they were gonna
officially announced that I madeit pretty much at the end of
that game, and so I'm on the busthere waiting.
I remember I had my headphonesin and I was just sitting there
listening to music.
I was like two rows in theright hand side of the bus.
Man, I remember this visitvividly, for whatever reason,
and I'm just sitting therelistening my music and I was
(09:34):
just in my head thinking like yo, am I really doing this for me?
Is it because, like Everyonedoes, you know, goes to tryouts
and I just happened to make itthis year?
And when I really came down toit I couldn't say that I was
doing it for me, right, and so Iliterally I ain't saying that
no one.
I got off the bus and Fromthere walked off.
I went to go hide in my my calcteachers I was a junior, I'm
(09:58):
like one of my math teachers, Ithink what to go hide in her
room.
And then I took off the 330after school bus and that was
that.
Never played basketball, atleast for organized, ever again.
After that Long story short, Ijust said I Knew I wasn't doing
it for me, right, and I'd bedamn if I'd go live my life for
other people or live my life notfor other people.
Live my life, live the lifethat other people want for me
(10:20):
instead of the life that I wantfor myself.
That's better for myself, youfeel me, and so it's like I know
how to worry back then.
But that's essentially what Iwas thinking and so I just quit
the team and right.
And then I ended up playingtrack my senior year.
I did javelin and I had Ialways had an arm, so like I was
just going running around witha spear just slinging that joint
(10:40):
.
And I did track as well.
I did hurdles, literally thelast track meet.
Because why not, not?
Not because I guess Did you doone, ten or four hundred?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I did, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I did the, I did the 110, which was crazy, and then I
did the 300, or it was a, itwas three, it wasn't 400.
Yeah, it wasn't foreign, it was300.
And that was funny.
I was running and literallythere's this guy next to me.
I got dumb tired by the time weturned around to hit the loop.
That last hundred meters I wasso gassed and we only had like
(11:13):
four hurdles left or like threehurdles left, and the guy next
to me had caught up to me.
Guy dusted him and then, youknow, he literally jumped, he
got caught on the hurdle andfell in his face.
So I look back and I see himfall, bro.
I see him fall, bro.
I was like I'm walking to thefinish line, I don't care
anymore.
So I still beat him technically.
(11:34):
But that was pretty much that,man.
But long story short.
I say all that to say, man, Iplayed sports growing up and it
made a big impact on my life.
Man, it really did.
You know?
Help define who.
I am psyched for you, man, like.
How has sports like impactedyou and do you think you have a
lot of impact on your life anddo you think you'll be who you
(11:54):
are today without the sports?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Now I don't think I wouldn't be with who I am today,
because sports it teaches youlike a lot.
It teaches you discipline, like, imagine, like you have to go
to practice every single day.
I don't know about you, but Ipractice like every single day
for track in high school and incollege I was going to practice
every single day.
We had a weight room, we had togo to the trainers, we had rehab
, we had all these differentthings.
I think sports teaches youdiscipline, it teaches you that
(12:18):
you need to show up and itteaches like accountability and
also to since track is like ateam sport like you have to show
up for your team, even thoughit's an individual sport.
But when you go to like thesebig meets, you have to.
You're what you have to win Toget that as a team.
So I think, like sports teachesyou accountability, it teaches
you teamwork, how to get alongwith people right.
There's.
There was times that I hadwe're doing relays, relays based
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like four people on a team andif I, if Me and like somebody on
the relay was mad at each other, we had to learn how to
Basically come, come togetherand work out those different
problems.
So I think Sports for anyone,anybody should do.
Sports teaches you discipline.
It teaches you responsibility.
It teaches you that you need toshow up and you need to get it
done.
No excuses, you have to getwhatever.
(13:00):
Whatever the task is at hand,you have to get it done.
I think, sports really showsyou that.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah.
So now you said after the highschool Pinkathon, right, you
said you started to embrace itmore, which actually wasn't that
long ago.
So like, where did it reallystart taking off for you?
Where did it really go fromthere once you got into college?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So like freshman year right, covid happened, my
freshman year I was runningtrack, I was doing amazing.
I was doing amazing in track, Iwas one of the fastest people
on my track team, right.
And then COVID hit bang.
So when COVID hit, everythinggot shut down, track was closed,
everything was closed, right.
So basically, during that time,we were stuck in the dorms
(13:45):
right, the dorms was the onlyplace that we could stand.
So during that time, my businesspartner me and her at the time,
my business partner at the timewe started this company called
DSK Products and we were sellinghand sanitizers because there
was no hand sanitizer in thestore.
Like, I was going to all thesedifferent stores like Shoprite,
walmart, and I realized thatthere was no hand sanitizer in
the stores and one of myteachers said, oh, hand
(14:05):
sanitizers will be a goodbusiness.
So my business partner actuallyknew how to make the hand
sanitizers.
So I went over on Instagram andI type, I went on my story and
was like yo, does anybody havehand?
Does anybody have alcohol?
Because you mix alcohol andwhat's the green thing Aloe vera
together.
And that makes hand sanitizer.
So, that's when it reallystarted.
(14:26):
So we made six bottles of handsanitizers and we sold those
hand sanitizers.
That day, you feel me.
We went to Dollar Tree to getthe bottles.
We went to this place calledVista Print to print out the
labels of our logo and stuff.
And that's when businessactually started.
The DSK Products started in thedorm room.
And then from there, from DSKProducts, it led into the
(14:51):
vending machines, it led intoYouTube channels.
It led into that's where itoriginally started.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
From DSK Products.
So it was a talk for me, though, because for me, I know,
pandemic happened and I didn'tturn into an entrepreneur.
I ended up reading Wish thatPoredad, and I tried to get into
real estate and then, from realestate, I tried to get real
estate investing at first, andthen, from there, I became an
agent.
So, for you, I was watching alot of podcasts, a lot of
(15:18):
YouTube videos.
Who were you watching?
What were you listening to?
Because I know we go to networkand meetups and business, but
most people our age aren't doingthat, bro.
So I was just like, what wereyou listening to at the time?
What were you watching at thetime?
Reading at the time, were youeven reading?
What even made you want to dothat?
Because, as I said, starting abusiness isn't the norm for most
(15:38):
people at this age.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
For me.
I just wanted more, becausewhen you work a nine to five job
, you're limited.
I remember I just always had anentrepreneur mindset.
I remember I was in a factory.
I was working for Bed, bath andBeyond.
Mind you, I'm making $16 anhour.
Meanwhile, I'm counting up allthe invoices, because I'm
packaging all the boxes.
I'm reading the invoices $50,$100, $150, $200.
(16:03):
This company just made almost amillion dollars in the hour
that I just worked and I justgot paid $16.
And that always frustrated me.
I was like why can't it be me?
Why can't I make this?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
money.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Why does my money have to be docked by the amount
of hours I work?
So then I read Rich Dad, poorDad.
Somebody sent me Rich Dad, poorDad to read and I started, like
you said, I started watchingall the business stuff I could.
I watched Earn your Leisurepodcast, the Social Proof
podcast, I watched Alex Hermozzi, I was watching Dave Ramsey,
(16:35):
every Wall Street trapper,pushman, all the African
American entrepreneurs and otherpeople.
I was just watching all of themjust to really just get
inspired, because I'm the typeof person I don't really need
someone to hold my hand, I justneed you to tell me hey, I made
$5,000 a month from VendingMachines and now my mind is like
(16:57):
woof.
Now I have to prove to myselfthat I can do it.
That's the type of person Ialways am.
I'm very competitive, right.
So once I see it, I challengemyself like can you really do
that?
Can you actually do that?
Because I started watching thisguy named Hamiah Ibnes.
He's basically one of thebiggest Vending Machine channels
on YouTube.
I started watching him back inthe early stage.
(17:19):
He didn't have a lot ofsubscribers this was during the
pandemic and stuff and I waslike, yo, I could start a
Vending Machine business.
Maybe I could do it too.
And those are the differentpeople that I was watching to
really get inspired.
Because for me, I just have tosee it, because I feel like the
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problem with people is theycan't see it, so they really
can't do it.
And I always had a bigimagination.
I tell people all the time youwant to be a millionaire, you
want to make hundreds ofthousands of dollars a year, you
need to be able to see itbefore it's ever in your hands.
I'm not a millionaire yet, butI'm still telling myself yo,
you're going to be a millionaireone day.
Yo, you're going to be drivingthis far.
(18:01):
So I get exposed to this stuff.
That's when we go to thesenetworking events.
You get exposed to differenttypes of people.
You meet millionaires andbillionaires.
You meet people.
I've been in rooms withmillionaires, and the way that
they speak and the way that theymove and that exposure alone
just makes me want to be greatall together.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, no, I feel you.
I felt that OD because I wentto a lot of networking events in
and bro this.
I got Quite a lot of.
I got a good amount of millionyears of my phone, bro, like in
my contacts, save, bro and thepeople I could call up.
Now they may not pick up firstcall, now I'm not.
I'll be transparent for me, I'mnot him yet you feel me, but
(18:44):
they still in my phone.
It's not I still I still couldspeak to them, bro.
They might not pick up firstcall but maybe second call they
pick up, at least they'll textme back and it's like you can
see it surrounded around thatstuff.
And then, bro, you, the way youspeak starts to change it, not
in like a cold switch, like hi,I'm John Mendez, nice to meet
you.
Like the way you speak in termsof like the things you believe,
how you start to articulateyourself.
(19:06):
And just because you use slangdoesn't mean you're in
articulate, bro.
That's one thing I hate aboutpeople, that it's like oh, you
know, they try to use these overcomplicated words and and just
to try to get the point of grass, like congrats, right, you read
the dictionary, bro.
Good for you.
Great.
It was just like you startmeeting up with these people and
you start realizing like theway they maneuver, the way they
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conduct themselves is waydifferent than the majority of
society, and Most people don'tunderstand that success leaves
clues.
It's like why are you know?
I said I'm asking and, and IThink too, like talking to
enough people, I started torealize, bro, like the quality
of your life Really can be.
There's always like a directcorrelation, correlation between
(19:52):
your quality of life and thequality of questions you ask
right, and most people ask thewrong questions.
I, oh, why me?
Why does this, all that happento me?
You know why my life suck?
Why don't I have money for this?
Why can't I afford this?
And say, bro, it's like, whatare the people that money doing?
How can I make that money?
How can I afford it?
In sects?
It's very subtle things and it'sso much easier said than done,
(20:14):
though that's the one thing Idon't want people to miss.
I think it's easier said thandone because you can read it in
the book, but it's like Livingthat out is a lot.
You have to go through to, kindof untapped that and rewire
yourself almost to theConditioning, into the, all the
social programming that goesinto us.
Like for you, bro, like whatwas that process like for you?
Because for me, I know there'sa ton of things that I had to
(20:36):
uncover that I even know I had,because I was never thinking
entrepreneurally and then, onceI did, I kept running into these
walls.
I didn't know I was running too, because there was things that
I haven't dealt with from what Ilearned growing up.
So I, what was that like foryou, bro?
I?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Feel, like when I became an entrepreneur like you
have to change your mindset,like you said, like you have to
change the way you think ofthings.
You have to change the way youlook at things.
Everything about you has tochange right and that change
needs to start with, like yourenvironment.
Who are the people influencinginfluencing you?
When I was in college and whenI was in the dorm rooms, I
realized like all these, allthese people that was in college
were average, all these peopleweren't going places.
(21:12):
So I have to insert myself inthese rooms where, like, like
you said, those millionaires andthose people that's actually
like grinding people thatactually have plans, because
there's a bunch of people thatyou're gonna meet like yo,
million-dollar dreams but aminimum wage worth at, they like
they don't, they don't reallywant it, they just kind of
wanted.
They just like, oh, I want tobe a millionaire, but they have
no steps to it, they had noplans, they have no goals.
(21:33):
So the first thing that you,the first thing that you have to
do, is you have to change yourmindset.
What do you want?
You're filming.
You have to be clear andspecific on the goals that you
want.
That's why I started to do,right, if I said I want, if I
said I want a Tesla, that's mydream car, you have to know how
much that Tesla cars.
So I was like, okay, the Teslacost $60,000 with all these
features that I want.
Is this?
What type of house Do you wantto live in?
(21:54):
What type of dreams?
We have to be super specific.
Right, that's what.
That's why I started to Changemy mindset about things, like I
stopped, and also to the wordsthat you say are very important.
Right, I just don't sayanything anymore.
I realized a lot of people did,just did a speak and it is.
They don't understand, like,how words have power.
Right, the Bible says, likethere's death and life in the
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power of the tongue.
Like, if you tell yourself likeyou're broke, if you tell
yourself that you're average, ifyou tell yourself that you're
not worthy enough, then that'sthe, that's the place where
you're gonna be.
You're never gonna outgrow fromit, right, and a lot of people,
like they've been hearing thattheir whole lives, that they
would, can never be rich.
They've been hearing that theycould never, that can never be
the first million in the family,they can never be the first
person to go to college and thenthey that mindset it gets stuck
(22:39):
to them and then they get.
They get stuck where they are,right, like what I'm realizing
this is gonna be always gonna bea hot take when I'm realizing
People from that are not born inthis country, right, people
that are not born in thiscountry, people that come to
this country I don't know whatit is, but like their mindset
and they're grinding their workethic is like always crazy
(23:02):
compared to the people that'sborn in in the United States.
Like I meet people that's bornlike, outside the country and
like when they come here, nocollege degree but they own
multiple houses, theirmillionaires, right, and you got
people that live in the UnitedStates is, they're very entitled
.
You feel me and, like I said to, with mindset, you can't be a
(23:22):
victim, even though, even though, like, the Chains and shackles
are not on our hands, no more, Ifeel like people have shackles
in their mind.
Yeah, I mean, and we're talkingbefore and you were telling me
how you, how you made yourcourse and the course didn't
work, and you and you told me oh, I gotta blame myself.
I started doing that, like Istarted Every.
I started like everything thathappened in my life.
(23:43):
I just started blaming myselffor it, right?
Oh, I don't have the money Iwant.
It's my fault, I'm not where Iwant to be in my life.
It's my fault.
And a lot of people don't dothat.
They blame everybody else fortheir problems and they never
really and they don't, andthey're the root of the problem
why they're in that position.
Right, people will blameMcDonald's for being fat.
People will blame thegovernment for being poor.
People will blame the, thecigarettes, for the cancer, but
(24:06):
they're the problem.
So, for first, like you have to,if you want to be an
entrepreneur, you want to be inthat 1%, you want to be making
millions of dollars a year,millions of dollars a day.
You have to change your mindsetand the words that you say to
yourself.
You need to start tellingyourself that you're worthy.
You need to start tellingyourself that you're enough,
right?
Also, you need to change, like,your spending habits.
When it comes to money.
A lot of people have, likefinancial trauma, right?
(24:28):
People will rather buy a$50,000 car and sleep in the car
, then put that $50,000 withinthemselves and and invest in
themselves.
Right, you have to understandthat if you want to be rich, if
you want to get to the nextlevel, if you want to get
somewhere in life that now a lotof people could get to, you
have to invest in yourself.
You have to invest in assetsand not liabilities.
You have to invest in stuffthat's gonna help you in the
(24:50):
future.
Right, I Seen people in college.
Right, I talk about cars in thedorm rooms, like you'll see,
like a lot of things.
You'll see people.
Five thousand dollars, sneakercollection, zero stocks, like
that's.
That's a backwards mentality.
People's always the problem withpeople and the mindset is
people always trying to impressthe next person and the next man
, and I feel like this happens alot in the black community.
(25:11):
We're always trying to impressthe next person and then you do
that, you do that for so longand then you realize, like yo, I
have no money, I have no credit, my life, my life, is not where
I wanted to be.
I'm behind in life because youspent all that time.
You basically spent all thattime trying to impress other
people.
So, in terms of mindset, Ibelieve you have to speak good
things in your life.
(25:31):
You have to.
You have to Really change youfor me and put yourself in those
environments where millionairesand billionaires and higher
cheevers are gonna be.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, no, you didn't, man, you dropped a lot I want
to touch on the part where yousaid in college I'll people have
a five thousand dollar you feelme?
Sneaker collection and Not.
I think the.
I think the black Americansspend like A billion and dollars
a year and shoot and I candesign it alone or something
like that.
This Africa, what the exactnumber is, but the numbers crazy
(26:02):
, like people are spending crazymoney, bro, and it's like for
me, it always amazed me becausewe got people in high school
rocking V loan in the mirror.
He's in freaking Christian Diorand and and Louis Vuitton and
and Fendi and all the stuff andfreaking.
Why is that?
Fair gamma belts and all thatstuff.
Fair gamma effects.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
You have to.
Why are they doing that?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
though that you're living above your means for what
you feel me, I still People areso worried about, if people are
so worried about like they dripif I mean how they dress and
how and not worried about Thingsthat are actually gonna move
them forward in life.
And so it's like for me, it'slike I understand, like People
(26:49):
always say like, oh, you know,if I work hard for something,
you know it's okay to treatmyself.
And it's like, no, it's not.
It is.
It is not okay to treatyourself if you don't got your
priorities straight.
Bro, I don't care how hard youwork, don't treat yourself bro
Until you got your prioritiesput together right.
And then, whatever that maylook like now, I'm not saying go
(27:10):
invest in stocks.
I'm not saying go invest inreal estate.
I'm not saying go and you feelme, whatever, whatever.
But if you just worked the 80hour week and you feel me, you
just worked hard and you aboutto treat yourself, but you still
only got a $500 freakingsavings like account, it's like
Treating yourself is making sureyour, your emergency fund is,
for me, put together.
Treat yourself is making sureyou got your credit right.
(27:31):
Treat yourself is making surethat you stick into your budget
like People need a redefine what, and I hate telling people what
they need to do.
But what I would recommenddoing is I redefining.
First, ask yourself why thethings you find is treating
yourself or treating yourselflike for me.
So I grew up in the in thechurch.
I started going to churcharound third grade and I helped
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me Build up a lot of who I am.
So, like in high school, like Iwas never into promiscuity, bro
, I was never.
It's still not to this day, bro.
I was never into smoking.
Like I never smoked.
To this day I never did drugs.
I ain't start drinking and Ionly drink like socially.
I ain't start drinking till Iwas like almost 19 and I'm
Dominican, bro.
I could have started drinkingout.
I probably could have starteddrinking at third grade if I
(28:14):
wanted to.
Just growing up in a Dominicanhousehold, right, that's just
culturally, that's the norm, bro.
It's nothing bad about that.
That's just what the norm isculturally.
It's like and I grew up on aproject, so it's like I knew all
the people that was doing it.
It's not like it was neverthere in my life.
The opportunity was alwaysthere, but it's like For me it's
one of those things was like,bro I, because I had a different
(28:37):
belief system that I wasfounded on.
Like I just viewed a lot of thevice of the world was like nah,
like I'm good off of that.
Like I was never into designerclothing, I'm yeah, if you see
me on a day-to-day bro, I'm finewith it.
Just a freakin, a plain whiteor black T bro.
Some, some ripped jeans, youfor me and then, like you for me
(28:57):
, some like air forces.
I'm good, bro, like I'll needto get some.
You know designer anything andnot say that as bad as like well
, is your stuff in check beforeyou start?
You know Explosion on thingsthat you don't necessarily need
because, like what could?
It's having money if it's notto me?
Like to, you know, to Enjoy itright and to help others.
(29:20):
A lot of people work hard andnever get to enjoy life.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And next thing you know, yeah, exactly, and that's
the things it's like they don'teven have money, like you're
trying to portray, that youactually have money but you
don't.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Exactly, and I actually mosey was talking about
it and he was like To to thepeople who actually are players
in the game like all that stuffis.
Like it's for the birds, bro.
It's like people, people know,like the real, like, if I'm
always he were to see you inthat fair gamma, whatever,
whatever.
Like bro, he's making ninefigures a year, bro, easy, and
breaking rockin a tank top.
(29:56):
Like he's.
He's you, feel me, he's goodand he doesn't have to impress
anybody.
Now.
He could be dressing a littlenicer.
You could say that maybe heshould be right, whatever, but
he's, he got it popping and heknows that, bro.
It's not about how you look, bro, it's about what you actually
have going on, and a lot ofpeople try to make it look like
they have a Something going oninstead of getting something
(30:17):
going on and then figuring outthe rest later.
Right, and it's like, once youdo have something going on, you
want to splurge on some clothes.
By all mean, get that fiveDowns out of singer collection,
feel me.
By all means, go, splurge outfair gamma or you leave a ton,
but make sure your other stuffis situated first, right before
you start doing that, because Ithink, I think I don't know If
you know we're meat set, the buthe talks about.
(30:37):
Like, when it comes to budgeting, you should have like three
categories that you spend on,and that's just.
You.
Like you know, you don't careso whether that's coffees or,
you know, starbucks, lattes,whatever, whatever that maybe
might be avocado toast, it mightbe designer shoes and might be,
you know, animate collection,whatever it may be.
Like, have areas in your lifewhere you can enjoy your money,
but then also have other areasin life for, like, you're making
(31:00):
sure you're you're, you're goodand your future is good.
You have money to invest andgrow and stuff like that,
investing in yourself as well,before you start investing in
materialistic things.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's a fact.
That's a fact and the thing is,I'm realizing to like a lot, of
, a lot of people.
Um, I saw this quote yesterdayfrom this guy.
Named him 500.
His name is Marcus Barney.
Like a credit, yeah he saidsomething like Like you have to,
it's okay to miss the wave toget to the ocean.
I did not thought that was likewow, you for me, but go ahead
(31:33):
with your saying, right, I knowyou're not that that's dope, no,
that's dope, bro.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I never heard that one before.
It's okay to miss the wave toget to the ocean.
Everyone trying to be, you know, try to get on board, like we
was trendy and stuff.
Like it's okay to miss crypto,it's okay to miss NFTs, it's
okay to miss, you feel me, allthese little buzzwords, web 3,
whatever, to get to where youneed to get to, because there's
always it talks about that andRichard's made a Babylon 2.
I don't know if you read thatbook, but it talked about like
(31:59):
one of the chapters was like howthey went to a foreign village
with some crystals and ended upgetting a scam because the
crystals were fake and it goesto show.
Like when you try to get into,they get money rich quick and
like the get rich quick schemesand stuff like that it's as fast
as it goes.
You know how fast it comes, asfast as it goes.
(32:20):
And being okay with the Withthe journey, I feel, since like
I mean, you were in college notthat long ago, bro, so like once
you started getting more andtomorrow into business, like
where did that journey go?
Did you finish college?
Did you end up dropping outlike me like where did your
journey go from there?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So like I mean, I'm in college still like I was
supposed to graduate last yearby some problem of credits, so
I'm taking my last class, I havetwo more credits and then I
should be graduated this year.
But yes, I'm finished college.
But I realized that college forme was more like a networking
place, more than like more thanlike Education, because a lot of
people that go to college.
(32:57):
Like they go to college just toshow that they got the degree or
they got forced by theirparents to go, whatever it is,
but like I think college for mewas more of like a networking
place.
You have to College.
I feel like it's a trapSometimes, in some cases cause
to be a trap for some people,because some people get to
college, they finish and thenthey stop learning.
You always have to be a studentof life.
(33:17):
You, for me, you always have tobe a student of the game, like
if you, if you have to reallykeep on studying your craft and
keep on getting better Everysingle day.
And I feel like people incollege with college degrees
like they feel so entitled, likethey're looking my degree, look
what I done, look what I didwith it.
They stop learning.
You always have to constantlybe learning and I feel like to.
In college, I was in someentrepreneur classes where the
(33:40):
teachers weren't evenentrepreneurs.
Teachers won't even teach mebusiness for real.
You, for me, I was making moremoney than some of my teachers.
When my teachers will look atme and they would try to Like,
like, downplay what I'm doingRight, they'll try to downplay
like my success because, sinceI'm younger than them, since
they feel like they're likePeople see that I'm young and
then of course, they're gonnatry to they downplay my success,
(34:02):
downplay what I do, becausethey, because they're trying to
put they're trying to put it'son the same level of life, and
that's the thing I feel like alot of people do.
When you're, when you're on adifferent level than people,
they really try to put labels onyou.
So they don't so they, so theyfeel like you guys could be at
the same level.
When it comes to like, when itcomes to success is nobody wants
to feel.
Nobody wants to feel likethey're missing out or they're
(34:22):
not like you know, I'm sayingyeah, no, I feel you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I think for me For me personally, I haven't had that
happened too too much.
But in a certain situation, asthis one time, this lady at
church, like I, was huge, shewanted to get into but estate as
an agent and she's working at anursery or something like that
or she's a nurse and she wasasking me about velocity and
then she's like, oh, that'samazing, she's mind you, she's
(34:49):
looking up, like she's asked mefor advice and like you know
what my opinion on stuff was.
And then literally sameconversation.
Then she asked me like, oh, so,like what happened with like
the word you end up going toschool and stuff like that?
So I went to you con, you said,oh, when do you graduate?
That's what I dropped out.
And then all of a sudden, nowshe tried to tell me about what
I should do with my life.
Now I was like you wasliterally just asking me for
advice on what you should dowith yours and you two times my
(35:11):
senior bro, and now, because Ididn't graduate, now you're
gonna try to have like, but it'sfor me it's like I seen
something on my IG the other dayand it was like the people
Around you.
The reason why people around youdon't support you is because
the version of you that theyloved and grew to know is is
(35:36):
dying off Right.
But think about it like whenyou're changing right, when
you're growing, when you startevolving like the old you was
dying.
You're, you know, you'returning into this new person,
you're starting to learn more,you're starting to grow more,
you're starting to get into newopportunities, that old you
starting to die off.
So it's the reason why a lot ofpeople don't support is because
, like the version of you thatthey did know, that they grew to
(35:58):
love, that they grew Up withright is dying off right in
front of their face and there'snothing they could do about it.
You feel me and it's not becausefor ill cause, if they want to,
you know Tight that back nowI'm gonna say it not for ill
cause sometimes, like it's notalways because, like they want
you to Pre-keep you down.
You feel me not because theydon't want you to grow, but it's
also like, damn, the personthey knew was you feel me no
(36:19):
longer there.
So of course it's gonna betough for them as well.
So now everyone I feel is likeyou know, I don't have like a
pessimistic view where, likeeveryone's like that's not an
entrepreneur, not on thisjourney is out to get me or hold
me back.
It's like sometime.
It's like they doing it withgood intent but like it's just
not the best for me and whereI'm going, you feel me.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
That's a fact and I feel like there's a lot of
people that there's too manyreverse role models out here.
There's people in your lifethat that you respect.
But they're there, but youdon't want to end up like them,
like a lot of people yeah theysay, look, I want to be a
millionaire.
And then they go to theirparents for advice.
And their parents were nevermillionaires, right?
I feel, like you need, likethere's a lot of like.
(36:59):
You have to Find people, likerole models in your life or
people that you look up to, ourmentors.
So I feel like finding a mentoris like the fastest way to like
, grow to or get to, like theway you're trying to get to,
because because, mind you, ifSome of our parents only made
six figures, so that's the onlything that they could show us
how to do.
Like if your goal was to be amillionaire and your parents
(37:20):
make six figures, your parentscould only get you the six
figures because that's what theydid, right.
So I feel like we need to watchout for reverse role models in
our life.
We need to find mentors.
You need to find people that'sgoing to basically uplift you
and, like you said about theoutgrown people, I Definitely
agree with you in terms ofoutgrown people.
There are some people that arestill in that like.
They're still in like that highschool mindset.
(37:41):
They're still in that oh, Igotta have fun minds.
They're still in that like Nottaking responsibilities mindset
right, because, as a man, aslike somebody that's someone
that wants to be respected inthe future, you need to make
sure that you're handling yourresponsibility.
The parties, the fun, allthat's gonna be there, all
that's still gonna be there.
(38:03):
Like people try to make me feelbad.
Like you said the woman, I saidthe woman, your church, try
make you feel bad.
Like people would try to makeme feel bad for not going to the
parties.
Like days to come back from theparties in my dorm rooms at
four in the morning and theyused to come back and they used
to find me still working.
Don't down the why you're notgoing to those parties, down the
why you're not coming.
I had a million dollars on mymind.
You feel me at doing thosetimes.
(38:23):
You, for me, like, even eveneven though my, my bank account
was negative, I had credit cardsthat was maxed out.
I saw millions at that time andI was like yo, I can't, I can't
, I can't go party.
Right now, you feel me I can'thave fun because I can't even
imagine, even though, eventhough, like, I don't recommend,
I don't recommend being anexperience anybody, I was in
sleeping, like I was the type ofperson I was just on go and I
(38:46):
was like yo, like I see, I seemillions right now.
Like, how can I, how can I stopyou from.
How can I, how can I let up you?
For me, and those people like yoand I'm and people were
wondering, like yo, donald, likehow you, how are you able to
get all this money?
How are you able to run up50,000?
I mean, I'm almost made likelike a hundred thousand dollars
in a dorm room, right.
But the problem with people ispeople love to tie my success
(39:09):
from where they tie my successback to, like, let's say, my
parents are like my situation.
Like Donald, oh, you live inthe suburbs.
That's the reason that you'reable to be successful.
Oh, your parents make thisamount of money.
That's where you're able to besuccessful.
But meanwhile you y'all didn'tsee the nights that I stayed up
to get to where I got, to youfor me, nobody saw those nights.
(39:29):
Nobody saw when I didn't sleeplike I, like it was so point, I
don't even go to sleep now,right, I just fall asleep like
I'm at the point right now.
I just fall asleep like I'mworking so much and there's
videos and like pictures of me,just like passing out with my
laptop Open from work and stufffor me because I'm going.
I'm going hard type jump, goingas hard as possible.
(39:49):
So I can advice for somebodylike Surround yourself with the
right friends and the rightpeople.
If you even got to ask somebodylike your boyfriend, your
girlfriend, your best friends,if they believe in you, they
probably don't believe in you,they probably don't believe in
your dream, they probably don'tbelieve in your vision.
And you need to get away fromthose people.
Right, because if you tell, ifyou tell a small minded person
your dream Like they're notgonna understand it, they're not
(40:11):
gonna, then they can't fathomit.
Right, because God, if God puta dream in your head and you're
trying to tell the next man thatdream, they're probably gonna
shoot it down.
It's not gonna work.
Like when I told, when I told myfamily member oh, um, yeah, I'm
starting a vending machinebusiness, I'm doing this.
That was talking about DonaldColveys here, bro, they will my
shut down.
They gave me all types of alltypes of problems and all type
(40:33):
of excuses, right, and that'swhy I tell people like, if
you're trying to, when you'retrying to get to like the next
level of life, you're trying toget somewhere where, where,
where not a lot of people are ornone of you, nobody in your
family, reach, you have to beable to be locked in and you
have to be able to be focusedlike tunnel vision.
You feel me.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, 100%, bro.
It reminds me of a quote man,it's uh, if you stick with
something long enough,eventually determination starts
to look like talent, and that'sI quote I heard pretty recently,
but it's something that thatreally just resonated with me
while you were speaking.
Man, it's just like.
Man, where could we connectwith you, donald?
Where could we find you?
I want to, like you know, learnthis how to start making
passive income.
(41:13):
We want to learn more aboutyour story, what you have going
on this year.
Man, like, where do we go to?
Man, you could find me on.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I have a YouTube channel everything DSK you could
find me out of all the gems,can I actually can actually get
the money?
I actually want to like talkabout that too, because I don't
want to leave without giving thegem and stuff.
I can't tell people real quickjust how to start a vending
machine business or like startmaking.
Like let me, I was gonna givelike a little gem file before
you know me 60 second gem, bro,six-six gem.
(41:42):
So okay, so you want to start avending machine business?
Speaker 3 (41:46):
right.
You want to make passive income.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
You want to make an extra thousand miles a month,
because a thousand knots canreally change some people's life
.
Right.
So to start a vending machinebusiness right, because a
thousand knots can really changesome people's life.
Right.
So to start a vending machinebusiness, the first thing you're
gonna do is you're gonna youwant to find a vending machine
location.
A location is basically whereyou're gonna put the vending
machine.
So you can find a vendingmachine location by asking your
friends and family, you'reasking your neighbors, you're
(42:08):
asking different business ownersaround around your state,
around your county, around yourcity.
After you find, after you, youfind a location, you go to
facebook marketplace, off ruffin craigslist to find the
vending machine.
Right, you're looking for apvending machines.
You're looking for ap vendingmachines, royal vending machines
, dixie, narco vending machines.
Stay away from sega vendingmachines right.
Once you find that vendingmachine, either facebook
(42:30):
marketplace or you could go tolike a vending machine warehouse
.
A warehouse is basically a, aplace where they sell
refurbished vending machines butthey have like a warranty on
top of their vending machines.
So the warranty is basicallygoing to help you.
The warranty is going to giveyou it's more safer.
Like facebook marketplace, offruff in craigslist.
You don't have a warranty.
So you have to make sure thatyou test out these vending
machines.
To test out a vending machine,what you have to do is you have
(42:52):
to make sure that acceptsdollars, nickels, quarters,
dimes, all types of payments.
You want to make sure that thevending machine is mdb
compatible.
That means it could take carreaders.
If it's not mdb compatible, itcannot take a car reader.
If it's a drink vending machine, you want to tell the owner 15
minutes before you get there toum to turn on the vending
machine.
So you, so you know that itgets cold.
(43:13):
And you want to make sure for asnack vending machine, you test
all the coils.
So a1, b1, c1, d1, you want tomake sure that all those coils
spin.
And then, after you do that,you move that vending machine to
location.
You fill it up, you go toCostco, bj sands, club, you go
to these wholesale spots to findthe the snacks Fill, collect,
repeat, and that's how you starta vending machine.
I just want to say that becauseI know some people's like all
(43:34):
day.
I want to start a vendingmachine business.
So that's like.
That's like the quick versionof it, that's like the quick
version of it, and.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
And then there's the youtube to get the deeper
version of all of it.
And now it's time for our andnow being a show Knows.
For anyone that wants to gocheck that out for now, for
anyone that, um, now it's timefor our famous five questions,
right, rapid fire around.
Question number one what is themost impactful lesson you've
learned in life?
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Oh, oh, the.
The most impactful lesson Ilearned in life was probably um
learned to say no, because whenyou say, when you say yes to
something, you're saying no tosomething else.
So learn to say no in life.
That's like the most impactfullesson I learned.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
So what is the most admirable trait a person could
have?
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Oh, admirable trait.
I would say what's the wordLord?
What's that word?
I would say the most admirablesome trait is I don't know the
word, but just to define it,it's like somebody that um, that
their word means something.
I don't know, I can't definethe word right now, but it's
(44:38):
like, whatever I say I'm gonnado.
If I say I'm gonna show up, ifI say I'm gonna do this, that is
what's gonna happen.
I don't know what the word, Idon't know if it's lord T or I,
just I forgot the word, justyour name, just everything you
say you know you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Okay, I forget the word too.
Man, I'm like accountable I'mlike I'm like.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
I'm not a brain book integrity.
Yeah, integrity yes, all right,yes, integrity, integrity yes.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
All right, uh, if you had to change someone's life,
but you only had one book torecommend, which one would it be
?
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Uh, the bible so many life lessons in the bible, so
many life lessons.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
What is the legacy that you're working on leaving
behind?
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Um, like, oof, I want to be able to, um, I just want
to be able to help people.
At the end of the day, I justwant to be able to, um, like,
just put on for my last name.
I want to be able to Basicallyjust give back to my community
and just basically help my help,create generational wealth for
my family in the future.
That's like the legacy I wantto leave behind.
I want to leave behind thatlike nothing, nothing's
(45:41):
impossible.
Nothing's impossible with God,you know like.
That's why I want to leavebehind for my, for my family.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
And for anyone that wants to embark on their walk to
wealth today.
What is the first step yourecommend they take?
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Change your mindset.
Change your mindset, changeyour environment and I promise
you you're gonna see asignificant difference.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
Amazing, I don't know that.
Is it for an interview?
Thanks again for hopping on mybrother.
Thanks again for dropping theknowledge.
We definitely have to bring youback because I said we couldn't
fit everything in one episode.
But thanks, I just said thanksfor hopping on.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
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John Mendez.
For me.
I just wanted more because whenyou work a nine to five job,
like, you're limited.
I just always had like anentrepreneur mindset.
Like I remember, I was in afactory.
I was working for Bed, Bath andBeyond.
Mind you, I'm making $16 anhour.
Meanwhile I'm counting up allthe invoices because I'm
packaging all the boxes.
I'm reading the invoices $50,$100, $150, $200.
This company just made likealmost a million dollars in the
(00:20):
hour that I just worked and Ijust got paid $16.
And that always frustrated me.
I was like, why can't it be me?
Why can't I make this move?
Why does my money have to bedocked by the amount of hours I
work?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The journey to wealth is a long walk and some may
walk quicker than others, butwhat good is sprinting to the
finish line if you pass out whenyou cross it?
On Walk to Wealth, we enlightenand empower young adults to
build wealthy, abundant lives.
They say the journey of athousand miles begins with a
single step and your first stepstarts right now.
This is Walk to Wealth withyour host, john Mendez.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Walk to Wealth
podcast.
If you're tuning in on YouTubeor any of the podcast
directories, make sure to doyourself one teeny, tiny little
favor and make sure to give us afollow, because I don't want
you to miss out on any of theamazing guests I got coming on
this year.
But I'll further do.
Let's get right into this one.
Donald man, for anyone whohasn't had the opportunity to
(01:17):
get to know you, to get to meetyou yet, brother, tell us your
elevator pitch.
Man, who are you and what doyou do?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So my name is Donald Xama.
I'm a serial entrepreneur.
I teach people how to makemoney through passive income,
whether that may be vendingmachines, whether it may be
YouTube, rental cars, basicallyanything passive.
Because I realized from, likeour early age like if you, if
you work with, if you work withyour hands all the time, then
you won't be able to really, ifyou work, if you do everything
like active, then you won't beable to really make money while
(01:45):
you sleep.
And Warren Buffett said.
Warren Buffett said if youcan't make money while you sleep
and you won't ever be rich.
So that's really who I am.
A regular guy just helpingregular average day people just
make money passively.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, and Donald, real quick, before we get into
the conversation, like let usknow how old you are, man, Cause
I know either way, you thinkyou're a couple of years older
than me, right At 24, if I'mmistaken 23, 23, 23.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, just turned 23.
23.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Blessings, man.
Congrats on that.
So you're 23 and you're alreadyhelping people learn how to
make passing income, and you'realready, you know, running
multiple businesses, man.
So before we get into that,though, take us back in a time
machine, man.
What was little Donald likegrowing up, man?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Like when I was growing up.
I was like I was an athleteLike I never thought like
thinking back.
I never thought I would be inbusiness.
I'll never thought I'd behelping people through business.
I never thought I would be inthis path Like I was more of
like an athlete growing up bythe time, like I was in high
school.
By the time I got to high schoolis when, like my
entrepreneurial, my businessstarted.
(02:46):
Because I basically started, Imet this girl and she had this
event called like the Pinkathon,where we're selling like
different bracelets and stuff.
And basically this girl waslike yo Donald, can you sell all
these bracelets?
And I ended up selling like 75bracelets in a night and from
there I was like wow, like Icould really be an entrepreneur.
And, mind you, those braceletswere $3.
Imagine trying to make someonebuy, like high school students
(03:08):
trying to buy a $3 bracelet.
And that's what I did.
And from there I was like wow,like maybe I could really be a
big entrepreneur, Maybe I couldreally do like be a businessman
by the time I got to college.
Like that's when it reallystarted to like grow on me, Like
my goal at first was just toown a car wash.
Like I told myself, like I justwant to own a car wash, I just
want to do something like that.
(03:28):
And then from there, like Ijust exploded and I just started
meeting new people, never camenew people and I started gaining
, like this, entrepreneurmindset.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
So before we get into it, man,take us back a little bit.
You said at the Ping-a-Tang yousold 75 bracelets at $3 a pop.
Anyone that needs to do themath, that's what?
225 right there.
225, yeah, your nice little 225that you just made in high
school.
Now, I don't know about you,man, but in high school 225, you
know how many snacks I could.
That's like a whole like.
(04:00):
And my high school, you feel me, we had this little spot called
JRLTC and like the, you knowthe military like the army
people.
Yeah, and they always had thiscandy, like the snack shop, bro.
So now it was a spot betweenperiods Like we'll go to JLTC.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'll get me some Oreos and Skittles and some of
this.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh yeah, they sell chocolate.
Yeah, but ours they hadeverything Like they had
Pringles, chips, freaking candychocolate, you name it, they had
it.
Bro, there was like a wholelittle mini, like vending shop
in there, like littleconvenience store, and so that
was the spot as well.
So I know 225, man, that wouldhave been good money for me.
And you said that that was likeyour first, like real thing
(04:36):
where it kind of kicked off.
But do you think that there'sanything that led up to that
that made you potentially goodat that Cause, like, and not a
lot of people that can just,especially back in high school
where everyone's still pressedand you know about peer pressure
and worried about what otherpeople got to say, not a lot of
people that can just go up topeople and start selling stuff
at that age, and especially toother high schoolers who you
(04:57):
know?
Is there anything else that youdid that might have helped you,
like, excel at that bro?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was, but when, like thinking in high school, I was
always like a very outgoingperson, like I always liked to
meet new people or it's like tohave different conversations
with people, so I think likethat always like benefited me.
I was never afraid to walk upto somebody and talk to them.
I was never like like I justdidn't have any fear, like I was
.
I'll take all the risks now and, being being that, I was
(05:23):
playing sports, I was runningtrack and I was like known in
the school, like it just made iteasier for me and people was
like able to connect with me,people was able to trust me at
that time.
Yeah, and like that's what, likeI feel like that also helped me
to be like in my likeentrepreneurial journey.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, no, that's just that.
You know they always say peopledo business with people.
They like knowing trust, and itwas already cool in the school,
so it's like it made everythingthat much easier.
Back early on you said you didtrack.
What other sports did?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
you play.
I did track, I did crosscountry and I did.
I played football.
Like my first two years Iplayed football but like when I
was playing football like I wasin, like the best, and then when
I got to track, like theytreated me like I was like
amazing in track, like we werebreaking school records, like I
was doing a lot in track, like Ibarely made JV for like the
football team.
And then when I got to tracklike varsity, like my first year
(06:12):
I was the captain of the crosscountry team and I didn't even
run cross country like that LikeI was.
Even I was a sprinter.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I was still able to be like the co captain of
like the cross country team.
So that was like.
That was like pretty cool.
That taught me like leadershipat a young age as well.
Like it taught me how to becomea leader.
Like I have people likefollowing my instructions and
I'm not even like the fastestone there in terms of like
distance wise, so that that thatI feel like like those
experiences, like they helped me, like they shaped who I am like
(06:42):
today, like those experiencesback in high school, yeah, and I
feel it because I playedfootball.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I saw I played football, that was my main sport
.
I did basketball for a year, mysophomore year.
I made the team and quit thesame day I made it and then I
picked up track my senior year.
That's how long story short,this is a lesson, right?
If you feel like you're notdoing something for you, it's
okay to walk away from it.
So for me, a little bit ofbackstory.
(07:08):
Right, I made the team myfreshman year.
Right, and my coach my freshmanyear.
He.
If you weren't in the side offive, you pretty much didn't get
any play time, and what suckedis the person that was starting
over me.
I played point guard, but theguard starting over me sucked.
Like he was one of those guysthat made the team in middle
school Just because, like hepassed with two hands and like
(07:28):
you know, he, he made sure toprotect the ball when he
dribbles like super technical.
He wasn't actually an athlete,though he wasn't, he wasn't a
hoop of Pharrell, and so he madethe team just cuz, like he's
like the coach's pet, right?
He's the ex-unfair basketballplayer that follows everything
to tee, and so that's that's allI made.
And he's starting over me and Iknow I'm better than him.
So I'm like, damn, I ain't noquitter.
(07:50):
So I was like I'll just ride itout and then we start.
I said I get more play time,more play time, and then our
city rivals stand for high.
We played them mid-season, byfreshman year, and you know that
last two minutes crunch timelike those are very valuable
minutes.
It was a close game.
The whole game coach put me inright cuz I Fourth quarter, two
minutes left, so that last twominutes I got like three steals
(08:14):
and I got the game Changing, laylay up because we was down, I
think one.
And then on a fast break Ibroke out.
It was wide open, made the laya boom, we got the lead.
Then I got two steals and thenI got that.
I had the game closer, freethrows to Close out.
So I'm pretty much I ain't gonnasay I don't keep on the game
for us.
(08:34):
You feel me I don't keep on thegame for us and I'm thinking in
my head like yo, like we let,I'm about to start playing more.
He's not gonna start.
And coach just started playingme even less.
Like I was like alright bro.
So I was kind of miserable,low-key playing.
Sophomore year, fast forward abit, basketball trials come.
I don't know how it was at yourschool, but at our school
basketball trials like the like,the Function to be at it was
(08:57):
like a party.
Like there was mad people thathad, yeah, people that had no
business in a basketball courtwill pull up just to say like yo
, we're going to try out, soyou're going to go in it.
Yo, you got a basketball yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm going to basketball.
I like it's like in full, yeah,but Jim full and so I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I ended up making a team Right, and the day we made
it as they, we had a scrimmageand so they were gonna
officially announced that I madeit pretty much at the end of
that game, and so I'm on the busthere waiting.
I remember I had my headphonesin and I was just sitting there
listening to music.
I was like two rows in theright hand side of the bus.
Man, I remember this visitvividly, for whatever reason,
and I'm just sitting therelistening my music and I was
(09:34):
just in my head thinking like yo, am I really doing this for me?
Is it because, like Everyonedoes, you know, goes to tryouts
and I just happened to make itthis year?
And when I really came down toit I couldn't say that I was
doing it for me, right, and so Iliterally I ain't saying that
no one.
I got off the bus and Fromthere walked off.
I went to go hide in my my calcteachers I was a junior, I'm
(09:58):
like one of my math teachers, Ithink what to go hide in her
room.
And then I took off the 330after school bus and that was
that.
Never played basketball, atleast for organized, ever again.
After that Long story short, Ijust said I Knew I wasn't doing
it for me, right, and I'd bedamn if I'd go live my life for
other people or live my life notfor other people.
Live my life, live the lifethat other people want for me
(10:20):
instead of the life that I wantfor myself.
That's better for myself, youfeel me, and so it's like I know
how to worry back then.
But that's essentially what Iwas thinking and so I just quit
the team and right.
And then I ended up playingtrack my senior year.
I did javelin and I had Ialways had an arm, so like I was
just going running around witha spear just slinging that joint
(10:40):
.
And I did track as well.
I did hurdles, literally thelast track meet.
Because why not, not?
Not because I guess Did you doone, ten or four hundred?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I did, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I did the, I did the 110, which was crazy, and then I
did the 300, or it was a, itwas three, it wasn't 400.
Yeah, it wasn't foreign, it was300.
And that was funny.
I was running and literallythere's this guy next to me.
I got dumb tired by the time weturned around to hit the loop.
That last hundred meters I wasso gassed and we only had like
(11:13):
four hurdles left or like threehurdles left, and the guy next
to me had caught up to me.
Guy dusted him and then, youknow, he literally jumped, he
got caught on the hurdle andfell in his face.
So I look back and I see himfall, bro.
I see him fall, bro.
I was like I'm walking to thefinish line, I don't care
anymore.
So I still beat him technically.
(11:34):
But that was pretty much that,man.
But long story short.
I say all that to say, man, Iplayed sports growing up and it
made a big impact on my life.
Man, it really did.
You know?
Help define who.
I am psyched for you, man, like.
How has sports like impactedyou and do you think you have a
lot of impact on your life anddo you think you'll be who you
(11:54):
are today without the sports?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Now I don't think I wouldn't be with who I am today,
because sports it teaches youlike a lot.
It teaches you discipline, like, imagine, like you have to go
to practice every single day.
I don't know about you, but Ipractice like every single day
for track in high school and incollege I was going to practice
every single day.
We had a weight room, we had togo to the trainers, we had rehab
, we had all these differentthings.
I think sports teaches youdiscipline, it teaches you that
(12:18):
you need to show up and itteaches like accountability and
also to since track is like ateam sport like you have to show
up for your team, even thoughit's an individual sport.
But when you go to like thesebig meets, you have to.
You're what you have to win Toget that as a team.
So I think, like sports teachesyou accountability, it teaches
you teamwork, how to get alongwith people right.
There's.
There was times that I hadwe're doing relays, relays based
(12:39):
like four people on a team andif I, if Me and like somebody on
the relay was mad at each other, we had to learn how to
Basically come, come togetherand work out those different
problems.
So I think Sports for anyone,anybody should do.
Sports teaches you discipline.
It teaches you responsibility.
It teaches you that you need toshow up and you need to get it
done.
No excuses, you have to getwhatever.
(13:00):
Whatever the task is at hand,you have to get it done.
I think, sports really showsyou that.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah.
So now you said after the highschool Pinkathon, right, you
said you started to embrace itmore, which actually wasn't that
long ago.
So like, where did it reallystart taking off for you?
Where did it really go fromthere once you got into college?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So like freshman year right, covid happened, my
freshman year I was runningtrack, I was doing amazing.
I was doing amazing in track, Iwas one of the fastest people
on my track team, right.
And then COVID hit bang.
So when COVID hit, everythinggot shut down, track was closed,
everything was closed, right.
So basically, during that time,we were stuck in the dorms
(13:45):
right, the dorms was the onlyplace that we could stand.
So during that time, my businesspartner me and her at the time,
my business partner at the timewe started this company called
DSK Products and we were sellinghand sanitizers because there
was no hand sanitizer in thestore.
Like, I was going to all thesedifferent stores like Shoprite,
walmart, and I realized thatthere was no hand sanitizer in
the stores and one of myteachers said, oh, hand
(14:05):
sanitizers will be a goodbusiness.
So my business partner actuallyknew how to make the hand
sanitizers.
So I went over on Instagram andI type, I went on my story and
was like yo, does anybody havehand?
Does anybody have alcohol?
Because you mix alcohol andwhat's the green thing Aloe vera
together.
And that makes hand sanitizer.
So, that's when it reallystarted.
(14:26):
So we made six bottles of handsanitizers and we sold those
hand sanitizers.
That day, you feel me.
We went to Dollar Tree to getthe bottles.
We went to this place calledVista Print to print out the
labels of our logo and stuff.
And that's when businessactually started.
The DSK Products started in thedorm room.
And then from there, from DSKProducts, it led into the
(14:51):
vending machines, it led intoYouTube channels.
It led into that's where itoriginally started.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
From DSK Products.
So it was a talk for me, though, because for me, I know,
pandemic happened and I didn'tturn into an entrepreneur.
I ended up reading Wish thatPoredad, and I tried to get into
real estate and then, from realestate, I tried to get real
estate investing at first, andthen, from there, I became an
agent.
So, for you, I was watching alot of podcasts, a lot of
(15:18):
YouTube videos.
Who were you watching?
What were you listening to?
Because I know we go to networkand meetups and business, but
most people our age aren't doingthat, bro.
So I was just like, what wereyou listening to at the time?
What were you watching at thetime?
Reading at the time, were youeven reading?
What even made you want to dothat?
Because, as I said, starting abusiness isn't the norm for most
(15:38):
people at this age.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
For me.
I just wanted more, becausewhen you work a nine to five job
, you're limited.
I remember I just always had anentrepreneur mindset.
I remember I was in a factory.
I was working for Bed, bath andBeyond.
Mind you, I'm making $16 anhour.
Meanwhile, I'm counting up allthe invoices, because I'm
packaging all the boxes.
I'm reading the invoices $50,$100, $150, $200.
(16:03):
This company just made almost amillion dollars in the hour
that I just worked and I justgot paid $16.
And that always frustrated me.
I was like why can't it be me?
Why can't I make this?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
money.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Why does my money have to be docked by the amount
of hours I work?
So then I read Rich Dad, poorDad.
Somebody sent me Rich Dad, poorDad to read and I started, like
you said, I started watchingall the business stuff I could.
I watched Earn your Leisurepodcast, the Social Proof
podcast, I watched Alex Hermozzi, I was watching Dave Ramsey,
(16:35):
every Wall Street trapper,pushman, all the African
American entrepreneurs and otherpeople.
I was just watching all of themjust to really just get
inspired, because I'm the typeof person I don't really need
someone to hold my hand, I justneed you to tell me hey, I made
$5,000 a month from VendingMachines and now my mind is like
(16:57):
woof.
Now I have to prove to myselfthat I can do it.
That's the type of person Ialways am.
I'm very competitive, right.
So once I see it, I challengemyself like can you really do
that?
Can you actually do that?
Because I started watching thisguy named Hamiah Ibnes.
He's basically one of thebiggest Vending Machine channels
on YouTube.
I started watching him back inthe early stage.
(17:19):
He didn't have a lot ofsubscribers this was during the
pandemic and stuff and I waslike, yo, I could start a
Vending Machine business.
Maybe I could do it too.
And those are the differentpeople that I was watching to
really get inspired.
Because for me, I just have tosee it, because I feel like the
(17:40):
problem with people is theycan't see it, so they really
can't do it.
And I always had a bigimagination.
I tell people all the time youwant to be a millionaire, you
want to make hundreds ofthousands of dollars a year, you
need to be able to see itbefore it's ever in your hands.
I'm not a millionaire yet, butI'm still telling myself yo,
you're going to be a millionaireone day.
Yo, you're going to be drivingthis far.
(18:01):
So I get exposed to this stuff.
That's when we go to thesenetworking events.
You get exposed to differenttypes of people.
You meet millionaires andbillionaires.
You meet people.
I've been in rooms withmillionaires, and the way that
they speak and the way that theymove and that exposure alone
just makes me want to be greatall together.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, no, I feel you.
I felt that OD because I wentto a lot of networking events in
and bro this.
I got Quite a lot of.
I got a good amount of millionyears of my phone, bro, like in
my contacts, save, bro and thepeople I could call up.
Now they may not pick up firstcall, now I'm not.
I'll be transparent for me, I'mnot him yet you feel me, but
(18:44):
they still in my phone.
It's not I still I still couldspeak to them, bro.
They might not pick up firstcall but maybe second call they
pick up, at least they'll textme back and it's like you can
see it surrounded around thatstuff.
And then, bro, you, the way youspeak starts to change it, not
in like a cold switch, like hi,I'm John Mendez, nice to meet
you.
Like the way you speak in termsof like the things you believe,
how you start to articulateyourself.
(19:06):
And just because you use slangdoesn't mean you're in
articulate, bro.
That's one thing I hate aboutpeople, that it's like oh, you
know, they try to use these overcomplicated words and and just
to try to get the point of grass, like congrats, right, you read
the dictionary, bro.
Good for you.
Great.
It was just like you startmeeting up with these people and
you start realizing like theway they maneuver, the way they
(19:29):
conduct themselves is waydifferent than the majority of
society, and Most people don'tunderstand that success leaves
clues.
It's like why are you know?
I said I'm asking and, and IThink too, like talking to
enough people, I started torealize, bro, like the quality
of your life Really can be.
There's always like a directcorrelation, correlation between
(19:52):
your quality of life and thequality of questions you ask
right, and most people ask thewrong questions.
I, oh, why me?
Why does this, all that happento me?
You know why my life suck?
Why don't I have money for this?
Why can't I afford this?
And say, bro, it's like, whatare the people that money doing?
How can I make that money?
How can I afford it?
In sects?
It's very subtle things and it'sso much easier said than done,
(20:14):
though that's the one thing Idon't want people to miss.
I think it's easier said thandone because you can read it in
the book, but it's like Livingthat out is a lot.
You have to go through to, kindof untapped that and rewire
yourself almost to theConditioning, into the, all the
social programming that goesinto us.
Like for you, bro, like whatwas that process like for you?
Because for me, I know there'sa ton of things that I had to
(20:36):
uncover that I even know I had,because I was never thinking
entrepreneurally and then, onceI did, I kept running into these
walls.
I didn't know I was running too, because there was things that
I haven't dealt with from what Ilearned growing up.
So I, what was that like foryou, bro?
I?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Feel, like when I became an entrepreneur like you
have to change your mindset,like you said, like you have to
change the way you think ofthings.
You have to change the way youlook at things.
Everything about you has tochange right and that change
needs to start with, like yourenvironment.
Who are the people influencinginfluencing you?
When I was in college and whenI was in the dorm rooms, I
realized like all these, allthese people that was in college
were average, all these peopleweren't going places.
(21:12):
So I have to insert myself inthese rooms where, like, like
you said, those millionaires andthose people that's actually
like grinding people thatactually have plans, because
there's a bunch of people thatyou're gonna meet like yo,
million-dollar dreams but aminimum wage worth at, they like
they don't, they don't reallywant it, they just kind of
wanted.
They just like, oh, I want tobe a millionaire, but they have
no steps to it, they had noplans, they have no goals.
(21:33):
So the first thing that you,the first thing that you have to
do, is you have to change yourmindset.
What do you want?
You're filming.
You have to be clear andspecific on the goals that you
want.
That's why I started to do,right, if I said I want, if I
said I want a Tesla, that's mydream car, you have to know how
much that Tesla cars.
So I was like, okay, the Teslacost $60,000 with all these
features that I want.
Is this?
What type of house Do you wantto live in?
(21:54):
What type of dreams?
We have to be super specific.
Right, that's what.
That's why I started to Changemy mindset about things, like I
stopped, and also to the wordsthat you say are very important.
Right, I just don't sayanything anymore.
I realized a lot of people did,just did a speak and it is.
They don't understand, like,how words have power.
Right, the Bible says, likethere's death and life in the
(22:16):
power of the tongue.
Like, if you tell yourself likeyou're broke, if you tell
yourself that you're average, ifyou tell yourself that you're
not worthy enough, then that'sthe, that's the place where
you're gonna be.
You're never gonna outgrow fromit, right, and a lot of people,
like they've been hearing thattheir whole lives, that they
would, can never be rich.
They've been hearing that theycould never, that can never be
the first million in the family,they can never be the first
person to go to college and thenthey that mindset it gets stuck
(22:39):
to them and then they get.
They get stuck where they are,right, like what I'm realizing
this is gonna be always gonna bea hot take when I'm realizing
People from that are not born inthis country, right, people
that are not born in thiscountry, people that come to
this country I don't know whatit is, but like their mindset
and they're grinding their workethic is like always crazy
(23:02):
compared to the people that'sborn in in the United States.
Like I meet people that's bornlike, outside the country and
like when they come here, nocollege degree but they own
multiple houses, theirmillionaires, right, and you got
people that live in the UnitedStates is, they're very entitled
.
You feel me and, like I said to, with mindset, you can't be a
(23:22):
victim, even though, even though, like, the Chains and shackles
are not on our hands, no more, Ifeel like people have shackles
in their mind.
Yeah, I mean, and we're talkingbefore and you were telling me
how you, how you made yourcourse and the course didn't
work, and you and you told me oh, I gotta blame myself.
I started doing that, like Istarted Every.
I started like everything thathappened in my life.
(23:43):
I just started blaming myselffor it, right?
Oh, I don't have the money Iwant.
It's my fault, I'm not where Iwant to be in my life.
It's my fault.
And a lot of people don't dothat.
They blame everybody else fortheir problems and they never
really and they don't, andthey're the root of the problem
why they're in that position.
Right, people will blameMcDonald's for being fat.
People will blame thegovernment for being poor.
People will blame the, thecigarettes, for the cancer, but
(24:06):
they're the problem.
So, for first, like you have to,if you want to be an
entrepreneur, you want to be inthat 1%, you want to be making
millions of dollars a year,millions of dollars a day.
You have to change your mindsetand the words that you say to
yourself.
You need to start tellingyourself that you're worthy.
You need to start tellingyourself that you're enough,
right?
Also, you need to change, like,your spending habits.
When it comes to money.
A lot of people have, likefinancial trauma, right?
(24:28):
People will rather buy a$50,000 car and sleep in the car
, then put that $50,000 withinthemselves and and invest in
themselves.
Right, you have to understandthat if you want to be rich, if
you want to get to the nextlevel, if you want to get
somewhere in life that now a lotof people could get to, you
have to invest in yourself.
You have to invest in assetsand not liabilities.
You have to invest in stuffthat's gonna help you in the
(24:50):
future.
Right, I Seen people in college.
Right, I talk about cars in thedorm rooms, like you'll see,
like a lot of things.
You'll see people.
Five thousand dollars, sneakercollection, zero stocks, like
that's.
That's a backwards mentality.
People's always the problem withpeople and the mindset is
people always trying to impressthe next person and the next man
, and I feel like this happens alot in the black community.
(25:11):
We're always trying to impressthe next person and then you do
that, you do that for so longand then you realize, like yo, I
have no money, I have no credit, my life, my life, is not where
I wanted to be.
I'm behind in life because youspent all that time.
You basically spent all thattime trying to impress other
people.
So, in terms of mindset, Ibelieve you have to speak good
things in your life.
(25:31):
You have to.
You have to Really change youfor me and put yourself in those
environments where millionairesand billionaires and higher
cheevers are gonna be.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, no, you didn't, man, you dropped a lot I want
to touch on the part where yousaid in college I'll people have
a five thousand dollar you feelme?
Sneaker collection and Not.
I think the.
I think the black Americansspend like A billion and dollars
a year and shoot and I candesign it alone or something
like that.
This Africa, what the exactnumber is, but the numbers crazy
(26:02):
, like people are spending crazymoney, bro, and it's like for
me, it always amazed me becausewe got people in high school
rocking V loan in the mirror.
He's in freaking Christian Diorand and and Louis Vuitton and
and Fendi and all the stuff andfreaking.
Why is that?
Fair gamma belts and all thatstuff.
Fair gamma effects.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
You have to.
Why are they doing that?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
though that you're living above your means for what
you feel me, I still People areso worried about, if people are
so worried about like they dripif I mean how they dress and
how and not worried about Thingsthat are actually gonna move
them forward in life.
And so it's like for me, it'slike I understand, like People
(26:49):
always say like, oh, you know,if I work hard for something,
you know it's okay to treatmyself.
And it's like, no, it's not.
It is.
It is not okay to treatyourself if you don't got your
priorities straight.
Bro, I don't care how hard youwork, don't treat yourself bro
Until you got your prioritiesput together right.
And then, whatever that maylook like now, I'm not saying go
(27:10):
invest in stocks.
I'm not saying go invest inreal estate.
I'm not saying go and you feelme, whatever, whatever.
But if you just worked the 80hour week and you feel me, you
just worked hard and you aboutto treat yourself, but you still
only got a $500 freakingsavings like account, it's like
Treating yourself is making sureyour, your emergency fund is,
for me, put together.
Treat yourself is making sureyou got your credit right.
(27:31):
Treat yourself is making surethat you stick into your budget
like People need a redefine what, and I hate telling people what
they need to do.
But what I would recommenddoing is I redefining.
First, ask yourself why thethings you find is treating
yourself or treating yourselflike for me.
So I grew up in the in thechurch.
I started going to churcharound third grade and I helped
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me Build up a lot of who I am.
So, like in high school, like Iwas never into promiscuity, bro
, I was never.
It's still not to this day, bro.
I was never into smoking.
Like I never smoked.
To this day I never did drugs.
I ain't start drinking and Ionly drink like socially.
I ain't start drinking till Iwas like almost 19 and I'm
Dominican, bro.
I could have started drinkingout.
I probably could have starteddrinking at third grade if I
(28:14):
wanted to.
Just growing up in a Dominicanhousehold, right, that's just
culturally, that's the norm, bro.
It's nothing bad about that.
That's just what the norm isculturally.
It's like and I grew up on aproject, so it's like I knew all
the people that was doing it.
It's not like it was neverthere in my life.
The opportunity was alwaysthere, but it's like For me it's
one of those things was like,bro I, because I had a different
(28:37):
belief system that I wasfounded on.
Like I just viewed a lot of thevice of the world was like nah,
like I'm good off of that.
Like I was never into designerclothing, I'm yeah, if you see
me on a day-to-day bro, I'm finewith it.
Just a freakin, a plain whiteor black T bro.
Some, some ripped jeans, youfor me and then, like you for me
(28:57):
, some like air forces.
I'm good, bro, like I'll needto get some.
You know designer anything andnot say that as bad as like well
, is your stuff in check beforeyou start?
You know Explosion on thingsthat you don't necessarily need
because, like what could?
It's having money if it's notto me?
Like to, you know, to Enjoy itright and to help others.
(29:20):
A lot of people work hard andnever get to enjoy life.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And next thing you know, yeah, exactly, and that's
the things it's like they don'teven have money, like you're
trying to portray, that youactually have money but you
don't.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Exactly, and I actually mosey was talking about
it and he was like To to thepeople who actually are players
in the game like all that stuffis.
Like it's for the birds, bro.
It's like people, people know,like the real, like, if I'm
always he were to see you inthat fair gamma, whatever,
whatever.
Like bro, he's making ninefigures a year, bro, easy, and
breaking rockin a tank top.
(29:56):
Like he's.
He's you, feel me, he's goodand he doesn't have to impress
anybody.
Now.
He could be dressing a littlenicer.
You could say that maybe heshould be right, whatever, but
he's, he got it popping and heknows that, bro.
It's not about how you look, bro, it's about what you actually
have going on, and a lot ofpeople try to make it look like
they have a Something going oninstead of getting something
(30:17):
going on and then figuring outthe rest later.
Right, and it's like, once youdo have something going on, you
want to splurge on some clothes.
By all mean, get that fiveDowns out of singer collection,
feel me.
By all means, go, splurge outfair gamma or you leave a ton,
but make sure your other stuffis situated first, right before
you start doing that, because Ithink, I think I don't know If
you know we're meat set, the buthe talks about.
(30:37):
Like, when it comes to budgeting, you should have like three
categories that you spend on,and that's just.
You.
Like you know, you don't careso whether that's coffees or,
you know, starbucks, lattes,whatever, whatever that maybe
might be avocado toast, it mightbe designer shoes and might be,
you know, animate collection,whatever it may be.
Like, have areas in your lifewhere you can enjoy your money,
but then also have other areasin life for, like, you're making
(31:00):
sure you're you're, you're goodand your future is good.
You have money to invest andgrow and stuff like that,
investing in yourself as well,before you start investing in
materialistic things.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's a fact.
That's a fact and the thing is,I'm realizing to like a lot, of
, a lot of people.
Um, I saw this quote yesterdayfrom this guy.
Named him 500.
His name is Marcus Barney.
Like a credit, yeah he saidsomething like Like you have to,
it's okay to miss the wave toget to the ocean.
I did not thought that was likewow, you for me, but go ahead
(31:33):
with your saying, right, I knowyou're not that that's dope, no,
that's dope, bro.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I never heard that one before.
It's okay to miss the wave toget to the ocean.
Everyone trying to be, you know, try to get on board, like we
was trendy and stuff.
Like it's okay to miss crypto,it's okay to miss NFTs, it's
okay to miss, you feel me, allthese little buzzwords, web 3,
whatever, to get to where youneed to get to, because there's
always it talks about that andRichard's made a Babylon 2.
I don't know if you read thatbook, but it talked about like
(31:59):
one of the chapters was like howthey went to a foreign village
with some crystals and ended upgetting a scam because the
crystals were fake and it goesto show.
Like when you try to get into,they get money rich quick and
like the get rich quick schemesand stuff like that it's as fast
as it goes.
You know how fast it comes, asfast as it goes.
(32:20):
And being okay with the Withthe journey, I feel, since like
I mean, you were in college notthat long ago, bro, so like once
you started getting more andtomorrow into business, like
where did that journey go?
Did you finish college?
Did you end up dropping outlike me like where did your
journey go from there?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So like I mean, I'm in college still like I was
supposed to graduate last yearby some problem of credits, so
I'm taking my last class, I havetwo more credits and then I
should be graduated this year.
But yes, I'm finished college.
But I realized that college forme was more like a networking
place, more than like more thanlike Education, because a lot of
people that go to college.
(32:57):
Like they go to college just toshow that they got the degree or
they got forced by theirparents to go, whatever it is,
but like I think college for mewas more of like a networking
place.
You have to College.
I feel like it's a trapSometimes, in some cases cause
to be a trap for some people,because some people get to
college, they finish and thenthey stop learning.
You always have to be a studentof life.
(33:17):
You, for me, you always have tobe a student of the game, like
if you, if you have to reallykeep on studying your craft and
keep on getting better Everysingle day.
And I feel like people incollege with college degrees
like they feel so entitled, likethey're looking my degree, look
what I done, look what I didwith it.
They stop learning.
You always have to constantlybe learning and I feel like to.
In college, I was in someentrepreneur classes where the
(33:40):
teachers weren't evenentrepreneurs.
Teachers won't even teach mebusiness for real.
You, for me, I was making moremoney than some of my teachers.
When my teachers will look atme and they would try to Like,
like, downplay what I'm doingRight, they'll try to downplay
like my success because, sinceI'm younger than them, since
they feel like they're likePeople see that I'm young and
then of course, they're gonnatry to they downplay my success,
(34:02):
downplay what I do, becausethey, because they're trying to
put they're trying to put it'son the same level of life, and
that's the thing I feel like alot of people do.
When you're, when you're on adifferent level than people,
they really try to put labels onyou.
So they don't so they, so theyfeel like you guys could be at
the same level.
When it comes to like, when itcomes to success is nobody wants
to feel.
Nobody wants to feel likethey're missing out or they're
(34:22):
not like you know, I'm sayingyeah, no, I feel you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I think for me For me personally, I haven't had that
happened too too much.
But in a certain situation, asthis one time, this lady at
church, like I, was huge, shewanted to get into but estate as
an agent and she's working at anursery or something like that
or she's a nurse and she wasasking me about velocity and
then she's like, oh, that'samazing, she's mind you, she's
(34:49):
looking up, like she's asked mefor advice and like you know
what my opinion on stuff was.
And then literally sameconversation.
Then she asked me like, oh, so,like what happened with like
the word you end up going toschool and stuff like that?
So I went to you con, you said,oh, when do you graduate?
That's what I dropped out.
And then all of a sudden, nowshe tried to tell me about what
I should do with my life.
Now I was like you wasliterally just asking me for
advice on what you should dowith yours and you two times my
(35:11):
senior bro, and now, because Ididn't graduate, now you're
gonna try to have like, but it'sfor me it's like I seen
something on my IG the other dayand it was like the people
Around you.
The reason why people around youdon't support you is because
the version of you that theyloved and grew to know is is
(35:36):
dying off Right.
But think about it like whenyou're changing right, when
you're growing, when you startevolving like the old you was
dying.
You're, you know, you'returning into this new person,
you're starting to learn more,you're starting to grow more,
you're starting to get into newopportunities, that old you
starting to die off.
So it's the reason why a lot ofpeople don't support is because
, like the version of you thatthey did know, that they grew to
(35:58):
love, that they grew Up withright is dying off right in
front of their face and there'snothing they could do about it.
You feel me and it's not becausefor ill cause, if they want to,
you know Tight that back nowI'm gonna say it not for ill
cause sometimes, like it's notalways because, like they want
you to Pre-keep you down.
You feel me not because theydon't want you to grow, but it's
also like, damn, the personthey knew was you feel me no
(36:19):
longer there.
So of course it's gonna betough for them as well.
So now everyone I feel is likeyou know, I don't have like a
pessimistic view where, likeeveryone's like that's not an
entrepreneur, not on thisjourney is out to get me or hold
me back.
It's like sometime.
It's like they doing it withgood intent but like it's just
not the best for me and whereI'm going, you feel me.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
That's a fact and I feel like there's a lot of
people that there's too manyreverse role models out here.
There's people in your lifethat that you respect.
But they're there, but youdon't want to end up like them,
like a lot of people yeah theysay, look, I want to be a
millionaire.
And then they go to theirparents for advice.
And their parents were nevermillionaires, right?
I feel, like you need, likethere's a lot of like.
(36:59):
You have to Find people, likerole models in your life or
people that you look up to, ourmentors.
So I feel like finding a mentoris like the fastest way to like
, grow to or get to, like theway you're trying to get to,
because because, mind you, ifSome of our parents only made
six figures, so that's the onlything that they could show us
how to do.
Like if your goal was to be amillionaire and your parents
(37:20):
make six figures, your parentscould only get you the six
figures because that's what theydid, right.
So I feel like we need to watchout for reverse role models in
our life.
We need to find mentors.
You need to find people that'sgoing to basically uplift you
and, like you said about theoutgrown people, I Definitely
agree with you in terms ofoutgrown people.
There are some people that arestill in that like.
They're still in like that highschool mindset.
(37:41):
They're still in that oh, Igotta have fun minds.
They're still in that like Nottaking responsibilities mindset
right, because, as a man, aslike somebody that's someone
that wants to be respected inthe future, you need to make
sure that you're handling yourresponsibility.
The parties, the fun, allthat's gonna be there, all
that's still gonna be there.
(38:03):
Like people try to make me feelbad.
Like you said the woman, I saidthe woman, your church, try
make you feel bad.
Like people would try to makeme feel bad for not going to the
parties.
Like days to come back from theparties in my dorm rooms at
four in the morning and theyused to come back and they used
to find me still working.
Don't down the why you're notgoing to those parties, down the
why you're not coming.
I had a million dollars on mymind.
You feel me at doing thosetimes.
(38:23):
You, for me, like, even eveneven though my, my bank account
was negative, I had credit cardsthat was maxed out.
I saw millions at that time andI was like yo, I can't, I can't
, I can't go party.
Right now, you feel me I can'thave fun because I can't even
imagine, even though, eventhough, like, I don't recommend,
I don't recommend being anexperience anybody, I was in
sleeping, like I was the type ofperson I was just on go and I
(38:46):
was like yo, like I see, I seemillions right now.
Like, how can I, how can I stopyou from.
How can I, how can I let up you?
For me, and those people like yoand I'm and people were
wondering, like yo, donald, likehow you, how are you able to
get all this money?
How are you able to run up50,000?
I mean, I'm almost made likelike a hundred thousand dollars
in a dorm room, right.
But the problem with people ispeople love to tie my success
(39:09):
from where they tie my successback to, like, let's say, my
parents are like my situation.
Like Donald, oh, you live inthe suburbs.
That's the reason that you'reable to be successful.
Oh, your parents make thisamount of money.
That's where you're able to besuccessful.
But meanwhile you y'all didn'tsee the nights that I stayed up
to get to where I got, to youfor me, nobody saw those nights.
(39:29):
Nobody saw when I didn't sleeplike I, like it was so point, I
don't even go to sleep now,right, I just fall asleep like
I'm at the point right now.
I just fall asleep like I'mworking so much and there's
videos and like pictures of me,just like passing out with my
laptop Open from work and stufffor me because I'm going.
I'm going hard type jump, goingas hard as possible.
(39:49):
So I can advice for somebodylike Surround yourself with the
right friends and the rightpeople.
If you even got to ask somebodylike your boyfriend, your
girlfriend, your best friends,if they believe in you, they
probably don't believe in you,they probably don't believe in
your dream, they probably don'tbelieve in your vision.
And you need to get away fromthose people.
Right, because if you tell, ifyou tell a small minded person
your dream Like they're notgonna understand it, they're not
(40:11):
gonna, then they can't fathomit.
Right, because God, if God puta dream in your head and you're
trying to tell the next man thatdream, they're probably gonna
shoot it down.
It's not gonna work.
Like when I told, when I told myfamily member oh, um, yeah, I'm
starting a vending machinebusiness, I'm doing this.
That was talking about DonaldColveys here, bro, they will my
shut down.
They gave me all types of alltypes of problems and all type
(40:33):
of excuses, right, and that'swhy I tell people like, if
you're trying to, when you'retrying to get to like the next
level of life, you're trying toget somewhere where, where,
where not a lot of people are ornone of you, nobody in your
family, reach, you have to beable to be locked in and you
have to be able to be focusedlike tunnel vision.
You feel me.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, 100%, bro.
It reminds me of a quote man,it's uh, if you stick with
something long enough,eventually determination starts
to look like talent, and that'sI quote I heard pretty recently,
but it's something that thatreally just resonated with me
while you were speaking.
Man, it's just like.
Man, where could we connectwith you, donald?
Where could we find you?
I want to, like you know, learnthis how to start making
passive income.
(41:13):
We want to learn more aboutyour story, what you have going
on this year.
Man, like, where do we go to?
Man, you could find me on.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I have a YouTube channel everything DSK you could
find me out of all the gems,can I actually can actually get
the money?
I actually want to like talkabout that too, because I don't
want to leave without giving thegem and stuff.
I can't tell people real quickjust how to start a vending
machine business or like startmaking.
Like let me, I was gonna givelike a little gem file before
you know me 60 second gem, bro,six-six gem.
(41:42):
So okay, so you want to start avending machine business?
Speaker 3 (41:46):
right.
You want to make passive income.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
You want to make an extra thousand miles a month,
because a thousand knots canreally change some people's life
.
Right.
So to start a vending machinebusiness right, because a
thousand knots can really changesome people's life.
Right.
So to start a vending machinebusiness, the first thing you're
gonna do is you're gonna youwant to find a vending machine
location.
A location is basically whereyou're gonna put the vending
machine.
So you can find a vendingmachine location by asking your
friends and family, you'reasking your neighbors, you're
(42:08):
asking different business ownersaround around your state,
around your county, around yourcity.
After you find, after you, youfind a location, you go to
facebook marketplace, off ruffin craigslist to find the
vending machine.
Right, you're looking for apvending machines.
You're looking for ap vendingmachines, royal vending machines
, dixie, narco vending machines.
Stay away from sega vendingmachines right.
Once you find that vendingmachine, either facebook
(42:30):
marketplace or you could go tolike a vending machine warehouse
.
A warehouse is basically a, aplace where they sell
refurbished vending machines butthey have like a warranty on
top of their vending machines.
So the warranty is basicallygoing to help you.
The warranty is going to giveyou it's more safer.
Like facebook marketplace, offruff in craigslist.
You don't have a warranty.
So you have to make sure thatyou test out these vending
machines.
To test out a vending machine,what you have to do is you have
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to make sure that acceptsdollars, nickels, quarters,
dimes, all types of payments.
You want to make sure that thevending machine is mdb
compatible.
That means it could take carreaders.
If it's not mdb compatible, itcannot take a car reader.
If it's a drink vending machine, you want to tell the owner 15
minutes before you get there toum to turn on the vending
machine.
So you, so you know that itgets cold.
(43:13):
And you want to make sure for asnack vending machine, you test
all the coils.
So a1, b1, c1, d1, you want tomake sure that all those coils
spin.
And then, after you do that,you move that vending machine to
location.
You fill it up, you go toCostco, bj sands, club, you go
to these wholesale spots to findthe the snacks Fill, collect,
repeat, and that's how you starta vending machine.
I just want to say that becauseI know some people's like all
(43:34):
day.
I want to start a vendingmachine business.
So that's like.
That's like the quick versionof it, that's like the quick
version of it, and.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
And then there's the youtube to get the deeper
version of all of it.
And now it's time for our andnow being a show Knows.
For anyone that wants to gocheck that out for now, for
anyone that, um, now it's timefor our famous five questions,
right, rapid fire around.
Question number one what is themost impactful lesson you've
learned in life?
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Oh, oh, the.
The most impactful lesson Ilearned in life was probably um
learned to say no, because whenyou say, when you say yes to
something, you're saying no tosomething else.
So learn to say no in life.
That's like the most impactfullesson I learned.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
So what is the most admirable trait a person could
have?
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Oh, admirable trait.
I would say what's the wordLord?
What's that word?
I would say the most admirablesome trait is I don't know the
word, but just to define it,it's like somebody that um, that
their word means something.
I don't know, I can't definethe word right now, but it's
(44:38):
like, whatever I say I'm gonnado.
If I say I'm gonna show up, ifI say I'm gonna do this, that is
what's gonna happen.
I don't know what the word, Idon't know if it's lord T or I,
just I forgot the word, justyour name, just everything you
say you know you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Okay, I forget the word too.
Man, I'm like accountable I'mlike I'm like.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
I'm not a brain book integrity.
Yeah, integrity yes, all right,yes, integrity, integrity yes.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
All right, uh, if you had to change someone's life,
but you only had one book torecommend, which one would it be
?
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Uh, the bible so many life lessons in the bible, so
many life lessons.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
What is the legacy that you're working on leaving
behind?
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Um, like, oof, I want to be able to, um, I just want
to be able to help people.
At the end of the day, I justwant to be able to, um, like,
just put on for my last name.
I want to be able to Basicallyjust give back to my community
and just basically help my help,create generational wealth for
my family in the future.
That's like the legacy I wantto leave behind.
I want to leave behind thatlike nothing, nothing's
(45:41):
impossible.
Nothing's impossible with God,you know like.
That's why I want to leavebehind for my, for my family.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
And for anyone that wants to embark on their walk to
wealth today.
What is the first step yourecommend they take?
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Change your mindset.
Change your mindset, changeyour environment and I promise
you you're gonna see asignificant difference.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
Amazing, I don't know that.
Is it for an interview?
Thanks again for hopping on mybrother.
Thanks again for dropping theknowledge.
We definitely have to bring youback because I said we couldn't
fit everything in one episode.
But thanks, I just said thanksfor hopping on.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
You've now finished taking the first step.
Now Let us help you take thenext one.
Subscribe to our newsletter atwalk to wealthcom.
That's walk the number two,wealth dot com, so we can keep
you moving on your journey.
We'll see you on the nextepisode of walk to wealth with
John Mendez.
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