Las Vegas entrepreneur/owner Lucas Barcelo talks about his amazing career as an entrepreneur with Solaire and Thrivin’ Life! Lucas was born in Key West, Fl, raised in Miami before planting his roots in Las Vegas and talks about losing both his parents at 21 and began a career in the financial industry as a personal banker later becoming an entrepreneur with Solaire-dedicated to sustainable energy solutions & Thrivin’ Life-a life insurance agency catering specially to medical professionals while helping provide meaningful work and committed to philanthropy and more! Check out the amazing Lucas Barcelo on all major platforms and www.lbarcelo.com today! #lucasbarcelo #lasvegas #entrepreneur #businessowner #solaire #thrivinlife #keywest #miami #financialindustry #lifeinsurance #medicalprofessionals #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerlucasbarcelo #themikewagnershowlucasbarcelo
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We're here at Terriferic. Chentleman who's an entrepreneur and owner
of a couple of amazing companies. Born in Key West, Florida,
raised in Miami, now living in Las Vegas and nevab
Before playing roots there, he lost both of his parents
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at twenty one. Began his career in financial industry as
a personal banker live becoming an entrepreneur. He created a
high ticket sales marketing and financial services as well, and
he also filed a company which deadicate suspainable energy solutions
and another company Life insurance and see knry specifically to
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medical professionals help provide meaningful work and consistent philanthropy. Well
tell you to talk about that. Live ladies and general
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the owner of Thriving Life sol there and more than
most town. Lucas ourself, Lucas warning, good afternoon, good evening,
Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Thank you for having me man. I'm truly honored. I'm
blessed to be here, and you know, I just appreciate
your time.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
What's great to have you on board, Lucas. You're an entrepreneur,
You're an owner of private Life. You're born in Key West, Florida,
raised in Miami for planting your seeds and roots in
Las Vegas, whilst both of your parents are twenty one.
Began a career in financial industry as a personal banker,
lived became an entrepreneur. You find it Solaire dedicated to
sustainable energy solutions and also Thriving Life Life Insurance Agency
(02:48):
CANNY specifically to medical professionals and more. You're involved in
meaningful work philanthropies as well too. Before getting all the
Lucas tell us how I first got started.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah, so it goes back to kind of around that
time where my parents had passed away, and at that time,
you know, you're you're young, living with your family, you
kind of don't really have your path in life kind
of carved out. So it was a wake up call
time to time to put my big boy pants on
and figure out what life has in store for me.
And that's that's when I decided that the financial sector
(03:20):
kind of called me interested in me. So I became
a personal banker Bank of America, and as I grew,
I tried to start going down the ladder of you know,
Merrill Lynch and becoming a financial advisor. For for reasons
that it just kind of didn't play out to my suits.
So there's a lot of a lot of barriers to entry,
(03:41):
and you need to know high net worth individuals, and
at twenty one years old, I did not know those
high networks to become a financial advisor. I ended up
branching off and just figuring out my own path in life.
And that's when I started getting into the high ticket
sales and ended up creating my first entity along with
my wife, sol Air, that was a solar company, still
(04:02):
have it today. We operate out of most of America
aside from you know, some of the snowy or states.
But that was my first love of business and kind
of getting an idea of how building a trusted brand
really helps you expand and word of mouth, how that
all you know kind of comes together. Now my full
(04:24):
time thing is growing out my life insurance agency Thriving.
We do cater to medical professionals, but we obviously we
can help out any family or individual with with that.
So I mean that's kind of where I'm at today
and flying all over the US and licensed in a
majority of the states. And yeah, that's about the short
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summary to save you all some sleep time.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Ah, that's okay. I think you got a great story
to tell and was at one exact, precise moment that
simply influenced you to what you do in the rest
of your career because you into financial services. What was
at one light bulb moment is this is exactly what
I want to do?
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yeah, it was. It was while I was working as
the personal banker. The light bulb that kind of hit
me was I feel like there's something that calls to
a lot of us that we want to work for ourselves, right,
We don't want to have to punch a clock and
report to a manager or anything like that. And there's
nothing wrong with that lifestyle. But for me specifically, it
was just that I knew, I knew what I'm capable of,
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and especially if you're not getting the recognition that you
feel that you deserve when you're putting in one hundred
and ten percent effort, you know, for someone else, it
it became something like, you know what, I'm going to
just start seeding my own grass and seeing what grows
out of that. So that was the light bulb that
kind of kicked to me that said, you know, it's
time that we try it on our own. And at
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that point it becomes a sinker swim type scenario. And
fortunately I'm a good swimmer.
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and owner a thrival life and Solaire here on the
Mic Wadner's Show. And let's talk about first Solare And
how'd you first get involved with us? Solre?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Yeah, so it was me and my wife's idea when
we were I met her in high ticket sales. We
were working previously in a timeshare and you know, we
were we were kind of getting tired of the lifestyle
on that, you know, offering a product that doesn't necessarily
help everyone, right, So.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Right, I know what you mean. Yeah, it gets draining
after a while. Timeshare is hay to say, it doesn't
really benefit anybody these days.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Yeah, and the older products death only had their their purpose,
especially for someone who travels the same exact way with
family or something like that owning a week and I'm
not saying that doesn't necessarily work for anyone. However, what
we found was that there was there was people who
ended up, you know, purchasing a timeshare, which you know,
it hurt them, you know, and so we we decided
to call that quits. We bought an RV and just
(09:20):
decided to travel around the country for nine months, rented
out the house and just left. And when we were
coming back, it was like, what are we going to
do now? You know, we took a nice little sabbatical,
but you know, back to reality. And at that point
we had some friends who had started their own solar organization,
and you know, we were looking at it. Things just
(09:42):
didn't add up. And so I decided to do some
research and find the appropriate partners that we can you know,
start enterprising ourselves with. And fortunately we were able to
make some great deals and start our own or our
own organization to be able to provide people you know,
the better price, seeing better products and at the same time,
you know, make profit and at the end of the day,
(10:04):
that's that's where our trust in our brand is is
kind of highlighted because the transparency, especially coming from you know,
previous sales and especially no one likes salespeople, right you
go to a car dealership and you're you're just like,
there's a bad feeling. But when you're able to provide
a very transparent sales process, explain to people exactly how
(10:27):
it works, how to break down the pricing and even
display the profit that the organization makes in order to
allow us to you know, scale and help more, it
becomes something that has a cascading effect. So our referrals
go through the roof, and we were well positioned during
COVID lockdowns with you know, digital advertising and a virtual
sales process, so that really elevated our growth.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
And consistency is the key as well.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Too, Absolutely, yeah, consistency and once again with the consistency
in transparency, right of making sure that our process never veers.
And that's something that we've also translated over to the
life insurance side. Why we're able to help you know,
Medicare professionals and things like that with with their own policies.
Is because especially with a savvier group, you need you
(11:14):
need to have your ducks in a row and they
need to be able to understand and feel that they're
with someone who has, you know, them and their family's
best interest at heart.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And most importantly as well too that you know, you
get asked all the time, what's unique selling point? How
do you stand out from the rest or crowd with solar?
How do you different differentiate from the rest of the
solar business.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, so that's that was a real key in it.
And once again, I think a lot of sales they
there's like a hiding. There's almost like a shady sales
practice that goes on where there's there's no transparency. It's
like this is how much it costs, and no one
has an understanding of why or what that product's going
to do for them. The solar industry, I'm sure you've heard,
has a sketchy reputation, because.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yes, and I'm gonna say something about the solar industry,
it is a nice idea. But up in Bismarck, North Dakota,
I mean, we have like feels like nine months of
winter maybe three months of center. So, I mean, this
is my hoss opinion. Solar panels really don't work up
in the northern States, like in Bismarck where it snows
like nine months, just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, well, and so then it comes down to a
dollars and cents aspect, right, So even if it was
able to work, the question is how much am I
gonna have to pay to get any sort of results?
And are those results meaningful towards what I'm paying for that?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
So breaking down that transparency and actually showing people this
is how many panels you would need, this is how
much energy it's going to provide based off of what
you use like last year from the energy company, and
just creating those levels of transparency and walking someone through that.
Otherwise they would say, oh yeah, just sign here and
we're gonna give you solar and that's going to take
care of your energy bills. It's like, how do I
(12:51):
know that that's true?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
But some people ended up signing that document in blind
faith and no fault on the customer, right, but a
lot on the sale rep because they're they're they're selling
something to make a commission blah, blah blah. But if
your sales process shows someone and explains to them and
has proven track records of energy uses usage that they
had for their home, and we can show how that
(13:13):
covers up and their sun production based off of their
homes location, it becomes a much more transparent process. So
we're educating the customer to the point where they could
be a sales rep because they know how to break
this whole thing down right exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Of course, you know, referrals wear a mouth and everything.
I don't know if you're run to remember. I remember
watching it at back a while that it was a
shampoo commercial and there was like two ladies there. They're
shampoo so great. I told two of my friends, and
they told two of their friends and told too of
their friends, and so on and so on. That's the
whole concept of it. But of course, one size doesn't
(13:48):
always fits all. You know, certain solar panels works great
for others, but some don't work for others as well.
And basically that customer needs are definitely most important, right.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And that's exactly right. So when you think of the
education factor, if we're able to teach one customer exactly
how to break down the utility bill, exactly how to
break down how much panel production looks like. They talk
to their friends and they're like, well, I don't know
about solar, But then now they're able to break it
down and now they just refer us business. So once
again it had a very nice cascading effect. By providing
(14:20):
education and a platform where people can trust the sales process,
they're able to duplicate that on their own and just
send referrals over because they're like, these are the guys
who taught us. They'll show you exactly break down and
maybe they can answer some of those harder questions. And
that's been the key to our success. And now I
think why most people don't do that is because it
is harder.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You have a lot more education that you have to
provide and a lot more steps, and most importantly, you
have to answer calls when there is issues. Right and
I'm not saying that we're a perfect company. There's always
issues that arise in any company. But it's not about
avoiding every issue. It's about how you handle the issues
when they come up. And so that's been the true key,
just working out of our heart, not just for the
(15:04):
dollars that it could put into our pocket.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And what are some more common issues that you encounter
as well too? What's been the most difficult issues that
you guys have to deal with?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Well, yes, some of the most difficult issues that we
deal with in a constantly changing industry. Right, the solar
is still relatively new, so there's still a lot of
landscape changes from regulations, and each state is handling it
in a completely different way. So, for example, one of
the larger challenges that we had here in Nevada is
that due to some of the shady sales practice that
(15:35):
have gone on from other organizations, they implemented something to
where with the install organization, the sales rep actually has
to be a W two employee as opposed to a
ten ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Cons Wow, what's the difference between W two and ten
ninety nine?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
So the difference between W two and ten ninety nine
is a W two employee is someone that's actually employed
by the company, whereas in most states still today they
could just be a ten ninety nine contractor. So there's
there's such a level of operation, and I think it's
a good change that they implemented here. But so for example,
let's say that I have an install organization, and I'm
(16:08):
gonna let Joe Schmoe start selling for us. I don't
know what he's saying to a customer, and there's a
degree of separation to where he can be lying I
now install something. This customer got told one thing, but
then they got a completely different product, right, And so
that's caused a lot of riffs in the industry, and
that's why Nevada cracked down. But so once again, that's
a very localized issue in Nevada. If we're working in
(16:30):
forty six different states, this one has these regulations. California
is always on their own planet with regulations.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh my gosh, don't get me start in that state.
I'll tell you, Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Right, So those are some of the bigger challenges and
I mean we we just overcome them by obviously being compliant.
And I think if you always make it your priority
to do what's best by the customer, it all ends
up working out because we you know, there's been times
where we run into a situation where this people have
been you know, genuinely hurt monetarily, emotionally, financially, whatever. And
(17:05):
if you come in and you're able to even help
out problems that another company caused. They may not be
a direct deal to me, but I guarantee you they
they'll be thinking of us when someone else needs and
then they're like, listen, don't go with the guy I
went with, just go with them. So we're always trying
to help out and it doesn't matter whatever the case
may be. But that's how we overcome it.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And where you see SOLE in about five years, your
latest news or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, so so Lair at the end of the day,
with the regulations that are changing, I don't want to
grow it any further. We're just kind of letting it
run an organic course. So no more you know, paid advertising.
There's so many shifts going on politically, geopolitically, tariffs right,
so it's right now. So Laire is kind of just
we're letting it do its thing. My major focus now
(17:56):
I obviously have Thriven where we're doing the life insurance agency.
I also do business consulting and business automation, so a
lot of my technical side is coming out to where
I'm helping other businesses catch on to the twenty first
century and you know, just use AI and chat features
and all anything you can imagine, I try and help
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We're back to the multi talent entrepreneur owner of FIV
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And let's talk about thriving life. And I just first
get interested in the company or the transition going from
solaire over to a thriving life.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Yeah. So we had a few of our sales reps,
very powerful reps that we had among our solar organization.
They were at a manager level with us. They ended up,
you know, finding an our opportunity in life insurance. And
you know, we're always of whatever path you choose in
your life, we support you fully. Right. So, although it
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hurts losing people to a different opportunity. You have to
respect what's best for their life. And because of that
connection and the understanding, it never burns bridges. So what
ends up happening is someone finds some good success and
they find an industry that they really enjoy. Now they're
sharing it with me, and then I look at it
(22:30):
from a business perspective and say, you know, does this
make sense? Are we able to help people? Are we
able to make profit? And are we able to grow
something bigger? Sure enough, the answer was a resounding guest.
And ever since we've jumped in, it's been a phenomenal industry.
And once again, using all of the things that we
learn through our other organizations, building trust, it's just a
(22:52):
rinse and repeat model that always works. If people like you,
they trust you, they believe that you're there to care
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Speaker 2 (23:00):
Now.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Once again, it's a hard thing to do, but as
long as you're willing to take those steps and crawl
through the mud, you can grow any sort of business.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
And this is an insurance agency that basically caters to
medical professionals. But Marlin's just medical professionals. There are some
others you can advocate not just medical professionals, but loss
can it kiter too.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Well, so anyone. Right, So life insurance being the overall
financial product, I would say that we help people with,
but it opens us up to so many more opportunities. Right,
there's annuities, for example, for retiring members. Obviously, right now
we have the largest baby boomers in history going into retirement.
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stock market kind of do this right now. So they
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the only type of product where you can guarantee no
losses on your original capital but also get some of
the upside appreciation of a market. So we we cater
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to the medical professions. But the way that I like
to analogize it, if you will, is like a Navy
federal Right, they cater to a military members, right, but
now if you're affiliated with that military member, you can
also get a bank account. So same thing with us, right,
So we cater to a medical professional. But if they're families,
they're they're referring other people in. We can help out anyone,
And as always, I believe in giving a lot of
(24:27):
value first. So if some random person called me and
had questions regarding life insurance annuities, I uls anything that
their financial needs require, I'm happy to answer or help
out in any capacity that I can.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
You talked about Navy Federal Credit Union, you know, you know,
being a part of it. You have to serve in
the Navy and everything you talk about. Someone joining just
have to be a family member ken maybe second cousin,
third cousin or anything like that. Or it could be
just like you know, a referral if you haven't even
servant Navy, like say like like say jose Is serve
(25:01):
in the Navy as well too, and then he reached
out to me, Can I join like that?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
So I don't know official Navy Federal guidelines, right, but
more so of the.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Idea, same principle like the medical professional thing too, right.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yeah, So for our personal circumstances, it's not just medical
professionals that I serve, right, I serve, like I said,
anyone who needs help in any financial capacity with either
life insurance, retirement, any sort of financial guidance I can
help out with. But what are I would say our
niche sector is is medical professionals. Right, So anyone who's
(25:35):
a doctor, a nurse, a CNA, or anything like that,
they would typically find us via you know, advertising or
marketing because we cater to that group and we understand
their needs very specifically because a lot of the times
they have things like student loans that are through the roof, right,
they have a difficult a different financial outcome that they're
(25:57):
looking for usually than just anyone else. But once again,
being licensed in almost every state in the United States,
I'm able to help out with anyone. But that's kind
of our niche. We understand medical professionals.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
And of course too consistency, that's the same principle as
well too. Just keep it. I think that self explanatory
differentiations that that's fairly self explanatory. If you want to
talk about prioritizing needs. That again, the fact that it's
not one size fit salt, that you could have a
simple plan or maybe a little more complex too.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Exactly, Yeah, no, and you're one hundred percent spot on.
So it's more so about just being able to help.
But I think in any business it is to some degree.
It's usually the best avenue to pick a demographic or
a certain group of people and understand that group thoroughly
to be able to service at least them, if no
one else. But obviously, if you're able to help out
(26:54):
the masses, you have one group that you focus on,
and then the masses end up coming via a.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Right exactly. And then what are some of the other
ventures that you plan on getting to to add on
to Solar and Thrive a Life, any other plans to
kick on other companies or anything.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, So I mean I have a bunch of different
things that I work on. So back to business consulting
and business automation. So there's Thrive in Life, which is
the life insurance agency. But I also have Thrive in Biz,
which is my business consulting. So thrivendot biz is the
official website. But that's just where I help. Any business
that may feel like they're kind of behind on technology,
(27:36):
Maybe they don't have a CRM to manage their customer database.
Maybe they're not using automation to reach out to their
customers via email or text. Message or anything I have,
and I build AI chatbots that can be fully trained
on someone's company. We can put a chat widget on
their website and someone can go to their website ask questions,
(27:57):
and even an automated phone I assistant. And it's not
like the generic press one to get here, press two.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
And yeah, that gets annoying after a while.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Trust me, it gets Oh I know, I got you.
It gets very annoying, very fast. But this is a genuine,
authentic conversation because AI is progressing so fast, fat and
I'm sure you're you're already a well aware of how
crazy that's going.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Oh my gosh, it's almost like an alarming rate. It's like,
what do I do? That's the thing.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Are you ready for them? You ready for the terminator experience?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Mike, you mean we'll be Bach or you'll be Bach?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Oh my gosh. And in the meantime, work when you
find Thriving Live sol air and everything on it, Lucas,
what was that and where can you find all her
works in? And how did people get a hold of you? Oh?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Yes, So Thriving dot Me is our Thriving Life insurance
agency and Thriving dot biz is the is. If you
need business help, business consultant, I'm always happy to provide
any sort of advice. If you email, I'll support at
thrivn dot biz. You can always reach me directly through
there and I'm always happy to answer questions. But other
(29:08):
than that, I mean find me on Instagram, Las Vegas Lucas,
same on Facebook, same on any social media platform, Las
Vegas Lucas.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
We'll certainly check that out. We're here the multitown Lucas
Barceli here on the Mike Wedners Show, Entrepreneur Orner, Thriving Life,
sol Air, Thriving Biz and more and just a few
more things. What else can we expect me twenty twenty five,
Young Lucas.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I think our main focus right now is just getting
this life insurance agency to be able to help as
many people as possible. So within the next six months
to a year, we're expecting to have a couple of
different offices around the nation, and then within the next
five years, I look to be a household name for
anyone who's needing any type of insurance. So we want
(29:52):
to be able to branch off horizontally in the insurance
sector to be able to help out with not just
life and annuities, but to be able to help with
auto or health. There's a million different ways that you
can go on insurance and personally. That's why it's become
such a large passion Amonge and.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Of course that trend as well too. With independent agency
have to rely on the big ones, that's gonna be
big as well too, especially online. I admire what you're
doing auto health, life and everything just coming for one person,
not relying on corporate being agent through a company exactly.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
And then that's kind of the other reason why I
chose to be a broker as opposed to know being
an agent for one specific thing, because I don't feel
like same thing like we were talking about before, there's
not one size that fits all. So being a broker
it allows me access to so many companies and I
can find and tailored products that will fit into an
exact person's needs and find them qualifying products based off
(30:45):
of their health conditions and obviously fitted into a budget.
That makes sense too.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I think that makes a lot of sense too,
and we encourage everybody to check lucas on that. Who
do you consider biggest influence in your career.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I'd have to give it up to Elon Musk and
it's just because he embodies something that I feel that
we've as humanity has needed for such a long time.
Where he's not only successful financially, but unlike someone like
Besos and no, no hate on Bezos, but I mean
a lot of people probably would have taken a similar
path to Bezos, where you know, you got your billions,
(31:18):
I'm gonna go chill on a mega yacht now, right,
Whereas Elon has literally doubled down to make humanity better
through his actions. Although he doesn't need to spend any
more waking hours doing anything except the stuff that he
would want to do, but he's spending his time helping
people and you know, taking losses at times just to
make better moves for humanity.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So I.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And I think that's great as well. And what's the
best advice you can give to a By this point.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
You can literally do anything that you put your mind to,
but the key is to have have a bigger why
than just yourself or your personal needs. I think your
needs will get filled as you help others fill this.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
And I think that's great advice as well too. Here
with the amazing Lucas Barcelo, owner entrepreneur of a Thriving Life,
Solaire and Thriving Biz here on The Mike Wadner Show. Luca,
It's a very big thank you time, deep and absolute
fantastic learn a lot looking forehead and soon keeps us
up to date, Keep in touch, lavavy back, And what's
your website? How do people contact you? Whoring people purchase
(32:22):
or check out your works?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Uh so, the easiest way to get a hold of
me if you if you have quick questions or anything
like that, support at thrivendt Biz. I can answer you
back via email. You can always check me out on
any social media platform Las Vegas. Lucas is my handle
on ninety nine percent of them and then other than that, Yeah,
that's that's pretty much the best way.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
We'll certainly check those out once again, Luca's a very
big thanks you, time peeping, absolute fantastic looking forehead and
soon keeps us up to date, Keep in touch, lave
avy back. We wish all best and Lucas, you definitely
have a great feat Chucky.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Thank you, Mike, I appreciate your time. Brother.
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Speaker 6 (02:21):
Thank you for having me man. I'm truly honored. I'm
blessed to be here, and you know, I just appreciate
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What's great to have you on board, Lucas. You're an entrepreneur,
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raised in Miami for planting your seeds and roots in
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Lucas tell us how I first got started.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah, so it goes back to kind of around that
time where my parents had passed away, and at that time,
you know, you're you're young, living with your family, you
kind of don't really have your path in life kind
of carved out. So it was a wake up call
time to time to put my big boy pants on
and figure out what life has in store for me.
And that's that's when I decided that the financial sector
(03:20):
kind of called me interested in me. So I became
a personal banker Bank of America, and as I grew,
I tried to start going down the ladder of you know,
Merrill Lynch and becoming a financial advisor. For for reasons
that it just kind of didn't play out to my suits.
So there's a lot of a lot of barriers to entry,
(03:41):
and you need to know high net worth individuals, and
at twenty one years old, I did not know those
high networks to become a financial advisor. I ended up
branching off and just figuring out my own path in life.
And that's when I started getting into the high ticket
sales and ended up creating my first entity along with
my wife, sol Air, that was a solar company, still
(04:02):
have it today. We operate out of most of America
aside from you know, some of the snowy or states.
But that was my first love of business and kind
of getting an idea of how building a trusted brand
really helps you expand and word of mouth, how that
all you know kind of comes together. Now my full
(04:24):
time thing is growing out my life insurance agency Thriving.
We do cater to medical professionals, but we obviously we
can help out any family or individual with with that.
So I mean that's kind of where I'm at today
and flying all over the US and licensed in a
majority of the states. And yeah, that's about the short
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Speaker 4 (04:49):
Ah, that's okay. I think you got a great story
to tell and was at one exact, precise moment that
simply influenced you to what you do in the rest
of your career because you into financial services. What was
at one light bulb moment is this is exactly what
I want to do?
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yeah, it was. It was while I was working as
the personal banker. The light bulb that kind of hit
me was I feel like there's something that calls to
a lot of us that we want to work for ourselves, right,
We don't want to have to punch a clock and
report to a manager or anything like that. And there's
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was just that I knew, I knew what I'm capable of,
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feel that you deserve when you're putting in one hundred
and ten percent effort, you know, for someone else, it
it became something like, you know what, I'm going to
just start seeding my own grass and seeing what grows
out of that. So that was the light bulb that
kind of kicked to me that said, you know, it's
time that we try it on our own. And at
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how'd you first get involved with us? Solre?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Yeah, so it was me and my wife's idea when
we were I met her in high ticket sales. We
were working previously in a timeshare and you know, we
were we were kind of getting tired of the lifestyle
on that, you know, offering a product that doesn't necessarily
help everyone, right, So.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Right, I know what you mean. Yeah, it gets draining
after a while. Timeshare is hay to say, it doesn't
really benefit anybody these days.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Yeah, and the older products death only had their their purpose,
especially for someone who travels the same exact way with
family or something like that owning a week and I'm
not saying that doesn't necessarily work for anyone. However, what
we found was that there was there was people who
ended up, you know, purchasing a timeshare, which you know,
it hurt them, you know, and so we we decided
to call that quits. We bought an RV and just
(09:20):
decided to travel around the country for nine months, rented
out the house and just left. And when we were
coming back, it was like, what are we going to
do now? You know, we took a nice little sabbatical,
but you know, back to reality. And at that point
we had some friends who had started their own solar organization,
and you know, we were looking at it. Things just
(09:42):
didn't add up. And so I decided to do some
research and find the appropriate partners that we can you know,
start enterprising ourselves with. And fortunately we were able to
make some great deals and start our own or our
own organization to be able to provide people you know,
the better price, seeing better products and at the same time,
you know, make profit and at the end of the day,
(10:04):
that's that's where our trust in our brand is is
kind of highlighted because the transparency, especially coming from you know,
previous sales and especially no one likes salespeople, right you
go to a car dealership and you're you're just like,
there's a bad feeling. But when you're able to provide
a very transparent sales process, explain to people exactly how
(10:27):
it works, how to break down the pricing and even
display the profit that the organization makes in order to
allow us to you know, scale and help more, it
becomes something that has a cascading effect. So our referrals
go through the roof, and we were well positioned during
COVID lockdowns with you know, digital advertising and a virtual
sales process, so that really elevated our growth.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
And consistency is the key as well.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Too, Absolutely, yeah, consistency and once again with the consistency
in transparency, right of making sure that our process never veers.
And that's something that we've also translated over to the
life insurance side. Why we're able to help you know,
Medicare professionals and things like that with with their own policies.
Is because especially with a savvier group, you need you
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need to have your ducks in a row and they
need to be able to understand and feel that they're
with someone who has, you know, them and their family's
best interest at heart.
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And most importantly as well too that you know, you
get asked all the time, what's unique selling point? How
do you stand out from the rest or crowd with solar?
How do you different differentiate from the rest of the
solar business.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, so that's that was a real key in it.
And once again, I think a lot of sales they
there's like a hiding. There's almost like a shady sales
practice that goes on where there's there's no transparency. It's
like this is how much it costs, and no one
has an understanding of why or what that product's going
to do for them. The solar industry, I'm sure you've heard,
has a sketchy reputation, because.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yes, and I'm gonna say something about the solar industry,
it is a nice idea. But up in Bismarck, North Dakota,
I mean, we have like feels like nine months of
winter maybe three months of center. So, I mean, this
is my hoss opinion. Solar panels really don't work up
in the northern States, like in Bismarck where it snows
like nine months, just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, well, and so then it comes down to a
dollars and cents aspect, right, So even if it was
able to work, the question is how much am I
gonna have to pay to get any sort of results?
And are those results meaningful towards what I'm paying for that?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
So breaking down that transparency and actually showing people this
is how many panels you would need, this is how
much energy it's going to provide based off of what
you use like last year from the energy company, and
just creating those levels of transparency and walking someone through that.
Otherwise they would say, oh yeah, just sign here and
we're gonna give you solar and that's going to take
care of your energy bills. It's like, how do I
(12:51):
know that that's true?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
But some people ended up signing that document in blind
faith and no fault on the customer, right, but a
lot on the sale rep because they're they're they're selling
something to make a commission blah, blah blah. But if
your sales process shows someone and explains to them and
has proven track records of energy uses usage that they
had for their home, and we can show how that
(13:13):
covers up and their sun production based off of their
homes location, it becomes a much more transparent process. So
we're educating the customer to the point where they could
be a sales rep because they know how to break
this whole thing down right exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Of course, you know, referrals wear a mouth and everything.
I don't know if you're run to remember. I remember
watching it at back a while that it was a
shampoo commercial and there was like two ladies there. They're
shampoo so great. I told two of my friends, and
they told two of their friends and told too of
their friends, and so on and so on. That's the
whole concept of it. But of course, one size doesn't
(13:48):
always fits all. You know, certain solar panels works great
for others, but some don't work for others as well.
And basically that customer needs are definitely most important, right.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And that's exactly right. So when you think of the
education factor, if we're able to teach one customer exactly
how to break down the utility bill, exactly how to
break down how much panel production looks like. They talk
to their friends and they're like, well, I don't know
about solar, But then now they're able to break it
down and now they just refer us business. So once
again it had a very nice cascading effect. By providing
(14:20):
education and a platform where people can trust the sales process,
they're able to duplicate that on their own and just
send referrals over because they're like, these are the guys
who taught us. They'll show you exactly break down and
maybe they can answer some of those harder questions. And
that's been the key to our success. And now I
think why most people don't do that is because it
is harder.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You have a lot more education that you have to
provide and a lot more steps, and most importantly, you
have to answer calls when there is issues. Right and
I'm not saying that we're a perfect company. There's always
issues that arise in any company. But it's not about
avoiding every issue. It's about how you handle the issues
when they come up. And so that's been the true key,
just working out of our heart, not just for the
(15:04):
dollars that it could put into our pocket.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And what are some more common issues that you encounter
as well too? What's been the most difficult issues that
you guys have to deal with?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Well, yes, some of the most difficult issues that we
deal with in a constantly changing industry. Right, the solar
is still relatively new, so there's still a lot of
landscape changes from regulations, and each state is handling it
in a completely different way. So, for example, one of
the larger challenges that we had here in Nevada is
that due to some of the shady sales practice that
(15:35):
have gone on from other organizations, they implemented something to
where with the install organization, the sales rep actually has
to be a W two employee as opposed to a
ten ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Cons Wow, what's the difference between W two and ten
ninety nine?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
So the difference between W two and ten ninety nine
is a W two employee is someone that's actually employed
by the company, whereas in most states still today they
could just be a ten ninety nine contractor. So there's
there's such a level of operation, and I think it's
a good change that they implemented here. But so for example,
let's say that I have an install organization, and I'm
(16:08):
gonna let Joe Schmoe start selling for us. I don't
know what he's saying to a customer, and there's a
degree of separation to where he can be lying I
now install something. This customer got told one thing, but
then they got a completely different product, right, And so
that's caused a lot of riffs in the industry, and
that's why Nevada cracked down. But so once again, that's
a very localized issue in Nevada. If we're working in
(16:30):
forty six different states, this one has these regulations. California
is always on their own planet with regulations.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh my gosh, don't get me start in that state.
I'll tell you, Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Right, So those are some of the bigger challenges and
I mean we we just overcome them by obviously being compliant.
And I think if you always make it your priority
to do what's best by the customer, it all ends
up working out because we you know, there's been times
where we run into a situation where this people have
been you know, genuinely hurt monetarily, emotionally, financially, whatever. And
(17:05):
if you come in and you're able to even help
out problems that another company caused. They may not be
a direct deal to me, but I guarantee you they
they'll be thinking of us when someone else needs and
then they're like, listen, don't go with the guy I
went with, just go with them. So we're always trying
to help out and it doesn't matter whatever the case
may be. But that's how we overcome it.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And where you see SOLE in about five years, your
latest news or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, so so Lair at the end of the day,
with the regulations that are changing, I don't want to
grow it any further. We're just kind of letting it
run an organic course. So no more you know, paid advertising.
There's so many shifts going on politically, geopolitically, tariffs right,
so it's right now. So Laire is kind of just
we're letting it do its thing. My major focus now
(17:56):
I obviously have Thriven where we're doing the life insurance agency.
I also do business consulting and business automation, so a
lot of my technical side is coming out to where
I'm helping other businesses catch on to the twenty first
century and you know, just use AI and chat features
and all anything you can imagine, I try and help
(18:16):
out wherever I can.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
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Speaker 4 (21:34):
We're back to the multi talent entrepreneur owner of FIV
and Life Solar, Lucas Barcela here on the Mike Wagner Show.
And let's talk about thriving life. And I just first
get interested in the company or the transition going from
solaire over to a thriving life.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Yeah. So we had a few of our sales reps,
very powerful reps that we had among our solar organization.
They were at a manager level with us. They ended up,
you know, finding an our opportunity in life insurance. And
you know, we're always of whatever path you choose in
your life, we support you fully. Right. So, although it
(22:10):
hurts losing people to a different opportunity. You have to
respect what's best for their life. And because of that
connection and the understanding, it never burns bridges. So what
ends up happening is someone finds some good success and
they find an industry that they really enjoy. Now they're
sharing it with me, and then I look at it
(22:30):
from a business perspective and say, you know, does this
make sense? Are we able to help people? Are we
able to make profit? And are we able to grow
something bigger? Sure enough, the answer was a resounding guest.
And ever since we've jumped in, it's been a phenomenal industry.
And once again, using all of the things that we
learn through our other organizations, building trust, it's just a
(22:52):
rinse and repeat model that always works. If people like you,
they trust you, they believe that you're there to care
for them and their family, you're always going to see
success in business.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Now.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Once again, it's a hard thing to do, but as
long as you're willing to take those steps and crawl
through the mud, you can grow any sort of business.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
And this is an insurance agency that basically caters to
medical professionals. But Marlin's just medical professionals. There are some
others you can advocate not just medical professionals, but loss
can it kiter too.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Well, so anyone. Right, So life insurance being the overall
financial product, I would say that we help people with,
but it opens us up to so many more opportunities. Right,
there's annuities, for example, for retiring members. Obviously, right now
we have the largest baby boomers in history going into retirement.
They're one, oh yeah, right, cash in on their retirement
(23:41):
funds or do something, put it in a safer place,
especially with all the geopolitical uncertainty, and we're watching the
stock market kind of do this right now. So they
need a safe place to put their money. So we
help out with annuities, which, obviously, if you're unfamiliar, it's
the only type of product where you can guarantee no
losses on your original capital but also get some of
the upside appreciation of a market. So we we cater
(24:04):
to the medical professions. But the way that I like
to analogize it, if you will, is like a Navy
federal Right, they cater to a military members, right, but
now if you're affiliated with that military member, you can
also get a bank account. So same thing with us, right,
So we cater to a medical professional. But if they're families,
they're they're referring other people in. We can help out anyone,
And as always, I believe in giving a lot of
(24:27):
value first. So if some random person called me and
had questions regarding life insurance annuities, I uls anything that
their financial needs require, I'm happy to answer or help
out in any capacity that I can.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
You talked about Navy Federal Credit Union, you know, you know,
being a part of it. You have to serve in
the Navy and everything you talk about. Someone joining just
have to be a family member ken maybe second cousin,
third cousin or anything like that. Or it could be
just like you know, a referral if you haven't even
servant Navy, like say like like say jose Is serve
(25:01):
in the Navy as well too, and then he reached
out to me, Can I join like that?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
So I don't know official Navy Federal guidelines, right, but
more so of the.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Idea, same principle like the medical professional thing too, right.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yeah, So for our personal circumstances, it's not just medical
professionals that I serve, right, I serve, like I said,
anyone who needs help in any financial capacity with either
life insurance, retirement, any sort of financial guidance I can
help out with. But what are I would say our
niche sector is is medical professionals. Right, So anyone who's
(25:35):
a doctor, a nurse, a CNA, or anything like that,
they would typically find us via you know, advertising or
marketing because we cater to that group and we understand
their needs very specifically because a lot of the times
they have things like student loans that are through the roof, right,
they have a difficult a different financial outcome that they're
(25:57):
looking for usually than just anyone else. But once again,
being licensed in almost every state in the United States,
I'm able to help out with anyone. But that's kind
of our niche. We understand medical professionals.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
And of course too consistency, that's the same principle as
well too. Just keep it. I think that self explanatory
differentiations that that's fairly self explanatory. If you want to
talk about prioritizing needs. That again, the fact that it's
not one size fit salt, that you could have a
simple plan or maybe a little more complex too.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Exactly, Yeah, no, and you're one hundred percent spot on.
So it's more so about just being able to help.
But I think in any business it is to some degree.
It's usually the best avenue to pick a demographic or
a certain group of people and understand that group thoroughly
to be able to service at least them, if no
one else. But obviously, if you're able to help out
(26:54):
the masses, you have one group that you focus on,
and then the masses end up coming via a.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Right exactly. And then what are some of the other
ventures that you plan on getting to to add on
to Solar and Thrive a Life, any other plans to
kick on other companies or anything.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, So I mean I have a bunch of different
things that I work on. So back to business consulting
and business automation. So there's Thrive in Life, which is
the life insurance agency. But I also have Thrive in Biz,
which is my business consulting. So thrivendot biz is the
official website. But that's just where I help. Any business
that may feel like they're kind of behind on technology,
(27:36):
Maybe they don't have a CRM to manage their customer database.
Maybe they're not using automation to reach out to their
customers via email or text. Message or anything I have,
and I build AI chatbots that can be fully trained
on someone's company. We can put a chat widget on
their website and someone can go to their website ask questions,
(27:57):
and even an automated phone I assistant. And it's not
like the generic press one to get here, press two.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
And yeah, that gets annoying after a while.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Trust me, it gets Oh I know, I got you.
It gets very annoying, very fast. But this is a genuine,
authentic conversation because AI is progressing so fast, fat and
I'm sure you're you're already a well aware of how
crazy that's going.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Oh my gosh, it's almost like an alarming rate. It's like,
what do I do? That's the thing.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Are you ready for them? You ready for the terminator experience?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Mike, you mean we'll be Bach or you'll be Bach?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Oh my gosh. And in the meantime, work when you
find Thriving Live sol air and everything on it, Lucas,
what was that and where can you find all her
works in? And how did people get a hold of you? Oh?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Yes, So Thriving dot Me is our Thriving Life insurance
agency and Thriving dot biz is the is. If you
need business help, business consultant, I'm always happy to provide
any sort of advice. If you email, I'll support at
thrivn dot biz. You can always reach me directly through
there and I'm always happy to answer questions. But other
(29:08):
than that, I mean find me on Instagram, Las Vegas Lucas,
same on Facebook, same on any social media platform, Las
Vegas Lucas.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
We'll certainly check that out. We're here the multitown Lucas
Barceli here on the Mike Wedners Show, Entrepreneur Orner, Thriving Life,
sol Air, Thriving Biz and more and just a few
more things. What else can we expect me twenty twenty five,
Young Lucas.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I think our main focus right now is just getting
this life insurance agency to be able to help as
many people as possible. So within the next six months
to a year, we're expecting to have a couple of
different offices around the nation, and then within the next
five years, I look to be a household name for
anyone who's needing any type of insurance. So we want
(29:52):
to be able to branch off horizontally in the insurance
sector to be able to help out with not just
life and annuities, but to be able to help with
auto or health. There's a million different ways that you
can go on insurance and personally. That's why it's become
such a large passion Amonge and.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Of course that trend as well too. With independent agency
have to rely on the big ones, that's gonna be
big as well too, especially online. I admire what you're
doing auto health, life and everything just coming for one person,
not relying on corporate being agent through a company exactly.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
And then that's kind of the other reason why I
chose to be a broker as opposed to know being
an agent for one specific thing, because I don't feel
like same thing like we were talking about before, there's
not one size that fits all. So being a broker
it allows me access to so many companies and I
can find and tailored products that will fit into an
exact person's needs and find them qualifying products based off
(30:45):
of their health conditions and obviously fitted into a budget.
That makes sense too.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I think that makes a lot of sense too,
and we encourage everybody to check lucas on that. Who
do you consider biggest influence in your career.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I'd have to give it up to Elon Musk and
it's just because he embodies something that I feel that
we've as humanity has needed for such a long time.
Where he's not only successful financially, but unlike someone like
Besos and no, no hate on Bezos, but I mean
a lot of people probably would have taken a similar
path to Bezos, where you know, you got your billions,
(31:18):
I'm gonna go chill on a mega yacht now, right,
Whereas Elon has literally doubled down to make humanity better
through his actions. Although he doesn't need to spend any
more waking hours doing anything except the stuff that he
would want to do, but he's spending his time helping
people and you know, taking losses at times just to
make better moves for humanity.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So I.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And I think that's great as well. And what's the
best advice you can give to a By this point.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
You can literally do anything that you put your mind to,
but the key is to have have a bigger why
than just yourself or your personal needs. I think your
needs will get filled as you help others fill this.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
And I think that's great advice as well too. Here
with the amazing Lucas Barcelo, owner entrepreneur of a Thriving Life,
Solaire and Thriving Biz here on The Mike Wadner Show. Luca,
It's a very big thank you time, deep and absolute
fantastic learn a lot looking forehead and soon keeps us
up to date, Keep in touch, lavavy back, And what's
your website? How do people contact you? Whoring people purchase
(32:22):
or check out your works?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Uh so, the easiest way to get a hold of
me if you if you have quick questions or anything
like that, support at thrivendt Biz. I can answer you
back via email. You can always check me out on
any social media platform Las Vegas. Lucas is my handle
on ninety nine percent of them and then other than that, Yeah,
that's that's pretty much the best way.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
We'll certainly check those out once again, Luca's a very
big thanks you, time peeping, absolute fantastic looking forehead and
soon keeps us up to date, Keep in touch, lave
avy back. We wish all best and Lucas, you definitely
have a great feat Chucky.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Thank you, Mike, I appreciate your time. Brother.
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