Digital Social Hour - From Worship Pastor to Million-Dollar Entrepreneur | Josh Dominguez DSH #1195

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

In this episode, we sit down with Josh Dominguez from Refresh LED to talk about the power of LED technology, how it's revolutionizing podcast studios, churches, and immersive experiences, and why faith and business go hand in hand. Josh shares his journey from worship pastor to entrepreneur, balancing fatherhood with running a business, and even how he overcame a life-changing kidney transplant while building a million-dollar company. We also dive into deep topics like faith in business, personal development, avoiding social media traps, and the power of accountability. If you're looking for motivation, business insights, and life lessons, this episode is for you! Key Timestamps 00:00 - How Jesus Was a Businessman 00:22 - Introducing Josh Adams from Refresh LED 00:57 - How LED Screens are Changing Events & Studios 02:05 - The Rise of Immersive LED Experiences 02:50 - Josh’s Transition from Worship Pastor to LED Entrepreneur 04:40 - The Importance of Faith in Business 06:20 - Balancing Family, Business & Faith 09:35 - Giving Back: Philly Dream Center & Community Impact 12:00 - Parenting in a Social Media-Dominated World 17:00 - The Power of Words & Speaking Life into Others 20:45 - Social Media, Comparison, & Mental Health 25:00 - Josh’s Kidney Transplant & Overcoming Health Battles 30:15 - The Power of Purpose & Finding Meaning in Business 33:50 - Where to Find Refresh LED & Josh Dominguez   📲 Follow Josh & Refresh LED: ➡️ Instagram: @JoshAdams619 ➡️ Website: RefreshLED.com 🔥 APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application 📩 BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]

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do? What can ministries do without money? No, I agree because certain people go down too far where they neglect money. They go too religious, too spiritual. And then it's like, how are you providing for your family? Yeah. All right, guys, Josh from Refresh LED here. He provides LED screens at my events and soon to be at the studio, man. So thanks for, thanks for hopping on. Absolutely, man. Glad to be here. It's been awesome just being a part of your events thus far. Yeah, very innovative product. I haven't seen it before.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, LED is coming a long way. Technology is coming a long way. And we're just happy to be on the forefront and helping people like you take advantage of it and be able to use it. Yeah, we got this whole strip here. This is LED, right?

Yeah, this is cool. Yeah, this is cool. I love the design you got going on. I mean, LED is really the way of the the feature and we're seeing a lot of podcasts Utilizing it where we have our own podcast on the East Coast and we have a huge LED wall that we use and love it Yeah, we're seeing it just pick up like crazy right now. Yeah, father taking off. I'm curious if the sphere uses LEDs The whole thing. Yeah, the whole thing man. Well the whole exterior. Yeah The whole thing. Yeah, the whole thing man. Well the whole exterior. Yeah. Wow, man It is insane what they've done here in Vegas and with the new casinos popping up and you know, even

Like the Cosmo is doing us all the precursors some renovations and they're gonna be do some LEDs there It's just it's exciting to see yeah the old strip to have you been out there? I have yeah the whole yeah Tunnel thing is LED, right? It's incredible. I mean, that can't be cheap. Well, that's the thing, man. I mean, right now, immersive experiences are everything. You know, even in people's homes, like people are starting to put them in their home theaters, in their spaces where, you know, they want to have entertainment spaces and everything, even outdoors by their pool. That's baller.

I mean, it's pretty cool. Super cool. When did you get into this? Was it even an emerging technology? Yeah, it was back in 2017. First got into it. I was in church ministry. I was a worship pastor, man just loving what I was doing.

And obviously, in any type of church venue setting, you're messing with gear, kind of like what you are here. And we were just always integrating new equipment. I was always trying new equipment. Really got into it and really just loved playing around with the new technology that was coming out. And I just kind of fell into this industry. I left the ministry and got into this by helping a friend of mine

with his church and I just fell in love with him. So now we do it. We got about 30 team members now and it's just a lot of fun. And you're in a lot of churches now too. We're in a lot of churches. Uh, we're in a lot of retail stores, restaurants. Uh, it's really cool because the sky's the limit of who we can help. Yeah.

So do you help with the installation too? We do. Yep. Our team comes out. So do you help with the installation too? We do. Yep. Our team comes out. We do everything from start to finish and yeah, it's just fun to be on site. Yeah. It, it, from a podcast studio point of view, it puts your studio at another level when you have a nice led wall. It does.

It does. It just brings a whole nother. I mean, like what you got going on here. Yeah. And I think, uh, I think Panetta or Bradley has one too. He does Yeah run Panetta. We helped him out with his screen, right? Yeah, and it's just it's awesome to help guys like like you and and Ryan over there. So yeah Let's talk about some non LED stuff. Yeah. Yeah for sure. I'm sure the church stuff talking about that journey

Yeah, well, I went to Bible College back in 2002 and Really thought of and go into ministry. Specifically in the worship leading space, I'm a musician, I love playing keyboard and just love doing it. I had a position in San Diego, then I moved to Virginia, then I had another position in New York there just helping multiple ministries with music. In New York we did a lot of street ministry which is really cool just helping people that didn't have access to just a lot of technology and just being able to hear the gospel in a

fresh way so that was really exciting to be a part of. Street. So are those the ones that are like on the side of the street reading the Bible out loud? No, we actually went out, we set up full stages and we would do music on the stage. Wow. We'll give out free food, give out some bikes to the kids, draw people in and then be able to preach the gospel. So what my part was putting together all the technology

and then also being able to do some live music there as well So that's always been a big passion of mine. I love doing it I love tying my passion for music into the business as well Yeah, and it just ties in so well because we work with a lot of stages Whether it's a theater out in San Diego or churches all over the country. Yeah, it's really neat. So you went to Bible college I went to Bible college man. I didn't know that was a thing to be honest. I never heard of that It's not as prominent now me back then in the early 2000s There were a lot more Bible colleges and are now and you know

If you're feeling called to go into a ministry type of vocation, you know, you want to go to a Bible a ministry type of vocation. You know, you want to go to a Bible-focused school that will teach you theology, but then also be able to teach you how to work with people. And you know, if it's music, like what I focus on, you learning the craft of music itself and learning how to implement that in a church and ministry setting. So I went there, met my wife, Amanda there, We have six kids now. So after moving all over the country, we have landed in Pennsylvania. And it's been quite the journey, man. The Lord led us out of the last search we were out in New York, and then that's when

I got into this business now with doing LEDs. And it's been quite the road, man, just having six kids and launching a business and You trying to juggle it all which I'm sure there's a lot of Your listeners are entrepreneurs and they have families and they're trying to juggle the kids the business and the other life Responsibilities and everything it's a daily battle. It's a daily battle. Yeah, it's ongoing, too I don't think there's ever like a solution that stops it. No, I mean you focus your Your goals and really what your personal core values are and you kind of you filter your decisions and the direction you want to go Yeah based on those core values and that's been The key factor that has been leading me every step of the way and obviously for me

My faith is a very strong part of my decision-making process with anything, even in business. And we were talking before we hit play here. And man, business and faith, for me, they go hand in hand. And it's really important for me that we do that. And it's been such a key part to our success. And just doors opening up and down here with guys like you

you know, I just I believe that God opens those doors and When you walk through it, I mean God does the rest. What's up guys? Shout out to our X sugar one of my favorite snack brands that about to try a flavor I've never had before vanilla cream. Let's see what we got here Let's see what we got here. Mmm, that's solid. That little vanilla is my favorite ice cream flavor. Definitely check them out guys, R-Sugar. I actually had one guest on here talk about how Jesus was a businessman. Yeah.

Isn't that crazy? Yeah, I mean he was a carpenter. He had a skill trade. And if you look at Paul, you know, he was a tent maker. And, you know, God and business and money are all intertwined. Look at how many times the Bible talks about money. You know, money is all throughout the Bible, and he talks about the parable of the talents, and the Bible talks about giving their first fruits, and back then that was their form of currency, was their first literal fruits as they farmed their land. So I think it's important that we look at that because without money, what can the church do?

What can what can ministries do without money? No, I agree because certain people go down too far where they neglect money They go to religious to spiritual exactly. It's like how are you providing for your family? Yeah. Yeah, and I really felt that the Lord kind of shifted my My life focus to be more in business, to help support ministries, to help launch ministries. You know, I'm on the board for the Philly Dream Center. Nice. And they're right down the road from Kensington where, man, I don't know if you've been out there. No. It is insane. It's like zombie land. Really? Yeah. And you can go on YouTube and check out the videos, but man, people are just strung up on drugs. Damn. Crazy.

This is in Philly? This is in Philly. And it's just, it's infested with needles everywhere you go. You literally see needles all over the place. Holy crap. It is insane. So the vision and the mission of the Philly Dream Center is to help bring life and bring the gospel and bring opportunities to those people who can get out of that lifestyle. And being in business, uh, and having, uh, having an entrepreneurial calling

now, which I call it a marketplace calling, um, I'm able to give now to those types of initiatives to help, you know, so I think it's really neat when you tie in ministry and business and you're calling from the Lord altogether. I love that. Yeah, I do like when I see churches given back to the homeless or to the less fortunate. Yeah, yeah. I may not be on staff at a church.

I may not be a pastor by any means, but I feel stronger than ever that my ministry is my business. And my job is to make money, so that way I can be a resource in my community. And you just had Grant Cardona, really? Yeah, Scientology. Yeah, well, he has this saying that success is your duty.

It's your responsibility. I've seen that. And I take that to heart, too. He's one of my mentors, and just hearing him say that Really stuck with me. Yeah, I think it's your responsibility like accountability for me is the main thing Yeah, like please take accountability good or bad. Absolutely. I guess so annoying when people don't take accountability, man Absolutely, especially when you have kids and you know, just responsibility for you know, what's in front of you?

Yeah, but let alone responsibility for what's in front of you. But let alone responsibility for your community, for those who you're interacting with. It's important that you look at what you're doing and you ask yourself, who is it benefiting? Is it just benefiting me? Is it just benefiting my family or my kids? Is my community that I'm in benefiting from what I'm doing.

And I think that's important to ask yourself. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I actually love chess players because when you lose a game, it's on you. You have the full accountability for it. Yeah. So I tell all my friends to play chess. Right. It's one of those games where it's just on you. Yeah. You can't point the blame on anybody else. You have to look at yourself. Yeah. It's gonna be one of the first things I teach my kids. It's how to take some accountability, you know? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely, man. Because you cannot raise people that will point the finger and say it wasn't my fault. You know? Yeah, you have to take responsibility. I love talking with parents. I have a lot of kids. Actually, you have six children, six kids. What

ages are those? Seven months to 16. Wow, that's a wide range. It's a wide range. of kids actually you have six children six kids what are the ages of those seven months to 16? Wow, that's a wide range. It's a wide range. Yeah, so you have you know, they're all into different stages of life and just growing and Developing so I kind of have to shift my mindset from kid to kid right because they're also growing up in different generations Yeah, absolutely now technologies is everywhere. I thought the oldest one probably wasn't really experiencing that right no no I'm I wasn't something he barely got his phone couple years ago. Yeah, you know you waited out. Yeah, we did Yeah, in fact my 12 year old she doesn't have fun yet Wow yeah, I was like 13 or 14 I was late though in my school. Yeah, yeah, but I I hated it at the time, but I looking back. It was great Yeah, yeah kind of sucks is that you're all your friends. Oh it sucks. Yeah. Yeah, you I I hate it at the time but I looking back it was great. Yeah. Yeah kind of sucks

Is it you're all your friends? Oh, it sucks. Yeah. Yeah, you can't text anyone. Yeah, your friends are on Facebook Yeah, you feel like here's the oddball without a phone But I think they could be dangerous for kids Yeah, and that's why we're waiting, you know Even though a lot of our peers have you know, ten- year olds with phones, eight year olds with phones. And I'm like, why? You know, okay, they need to call you for emergencies or whatnot. But then the rest, 99% of the time, they're looking at their phone,

scrolling on social or just playing games. Yeah. I don't think it's healthy. If it was just for the reason of calling, you could just get them a regular flip phone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they make those phones that- That's what I started. Only make phone calls and that's it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's really

concerned to get them that. It's a tricky one man there's a lot of influences at that age. Being a parent right now is a tough, tough feat man. I mean with the influence of social media and culture and all of the options out there for identity and, you know, media is shaping the minds of our young kids sooner than what we were exposed to with getting phones and getting online and everything. Being a parent now is a fight. It's a daily fight. We're fighting against culture. You know, when culture and YouTube and everything else is saying, it's okay to do this. It's okay to think you're that.

You know, and then us trying to raise our kids in a godly home and trying to teach morals and we're trying to raise good people with strong character. It is a very intentional process, and it's very difficult, and you have to be very committed to it. I see too many parents nowadays that just get their kid a phone and just have fun. Kids go off in their room, shut the door. You won't see him for a couple hours,

and who knows what they're doing You know, that's why I'm preparing now. I don't even have kids yet, but I know it's a full-time job and it's a lot of work Yeah, it is a lot of work. I'm actually with six man hats off to you. Yeah I mean we're not perfect, you know, but we try our best and we try to be intentional with it and we just want to raise quality people Yeah, no all these people that contribute to society and hopefully they follow the Lord and they follow the same steps

that we've laid out in front of them. Yeah, yeah, no one's perfect. I learned that. I tried to be a perfectionist when I was younger. It's super toxic. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's- Because nothing's ever good enough. You're not gonna be perfect.

Nothing's ever good enough. And if you keep telling yourself that, I mean, you's... Because nothing's ever good enough. You're not gonna be perfect. Nothing's ever good enough. And if you keep telling yourself that, I mean, you start to believe it, you know, but you gotta be who you are. And as parents, you know, when you're gonna have kids, you know, you kinda, you have to live that example. It's one thing to tell them what they should do, but the reality is that kids are gonna mimic exactly what you're doing.

If you're on your phone scrolling 24 seven, you give them a phone, guess what? They're gonna be scrolling 24 seven. If you're cursing in your house and you tell them, hey, don't curse, well, you're cursing. What's your rule with cursing in your house? We just don't. I mean, I don't personally curse,

so for my kids to do it, it wouldn't be picked up for me. And we just don't. I mean, I don't personally curse. So for my kids to do it, it wouldn't be picked up for me. And we just don't allow it because, you know, we want to speak life. I think you have two choices when you're talking to somebody. You can speak life to them. You can speak death, you know, and the power of life and death is in your tongue. It's a bad habit of mine for sure. It's, it's, it's okay because what's in your heart, you know? Yeah.

It's like Gary V. I always drops the F-bonter offense, but he's trying to help people. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what's in your heart? Yeah. You know, and that's really what matters. You know, I feel that.

Yeah. What does the Bible say about using words like that? Well, the Bible literally says that the tongue has the power to give life or death. And when you are speaking to somebody or you're in a situation where you're upset, you can literally speak life over somebody by saying, Sean, man, you are such an influencer to thousands. I mean, there's people you haven't even met that you have touched and you have moved their hearts and minds

Yeah, you'll never know, you know the full grasp of the impact you're having on people, you know And that's hopefully life-giving to you to hear, you know, or I can say the opposite which I don't want to say You know, no, I know you mean though. Yeah grew up in a negative environment So I've experienced both sides, right now I get a lot of praise these days, but I definitely experienced the other side, and you can start believing it just as easily. Yeah, yeah, and it's one of those things

where you will repeat to yourself more the negative that you heard than the positive. Oh, easily. Yeah, it's something with our wiring. I don't know if it's a survival thing or something, but we definitely think about the negative stuff way more. Yeah. Yeah, because we we believe it quicker than the good things we hear Yeah, I wonder if that's from like insecurity or something, you know, yeah, it's it's uh, you know there's a battle on our minds going on all the time and we're trying to measure ourselves up to everybody else around us and

The second we hear somebody or something say to us that we are not good enough or we're not as good as that person, it only amplifies what we're already fighting in our head. Right. Did you struggle with comparison growing up? I think we all did. As kids, we're comparing to other kids, teenagers, and then we get into our 20s and you know, comparing to other people our age. I mean, I'm 41 right now, still doing it. You know, I'm like, man, that guy's 41 and he's already done this, this, and that. Yeah, I think it's natural. Yeah. Yeah. You look at people that are your age or in your stage of life and you're comparing like that. I missed the boat You know and it's not healthy. It's not it's just like inevitable though

Like I still do it even though I'm aware that I shouldn't be doing it. Yeah Yeah, and it's a mental discipline because you need to catch yourself in those moments You know those self-talk moments where you're saying man, I've missed missed the ball there, or I wish I was that, or I wish I could do this. Just like how Sean does it, you know, I wish I had a podcast with millions of viewers. Well, that's not healthy for me to think. That's not, you know, it's a negative talk. And I'm speaking death over myself, really, you know? Yeah, I'm not a fan of completely copying one as well. Like, I think you could learn and kind of mimic. A lot of people copy, and that's just not productive.

No. You'll never be yourself. Yeah. I mean, you're made to be you. There's no other person with your DNA, with your traits, on the face of the Earth, or ever will be. So you have been put on this earth to do something specific, you know, and so be you.

Why copy anybody else? Why try to be like anybody else? Sure pull inspiration from your mentors, from those you're following. Sure gain skill sets from other people, but at the end of the day, you're gonna be you. Yeah. Yeah, this hits deep with me because they're doing a lot of studies now on social media

mental health and the correlation and it's like a direct cause of mental health issues because of comparison. Yes. And people trying to copy each other and trying to like mimic lifestyles because on Instagram you could portray whatever you want. Yeah so highlight reel. Yeah. Yeah and we cannot compare. No. We just can't. I'm trying to teach my kids kids that so I actually don't scroll on my feed Which is crazy really yeah, so the only time I'll scroll is when I'm studying the algorithm But it's on the for you page, so it's people I don't follow And that's because I have an intention of I'm looking for interesting guests or topics to talk about okay

So I use it for a business so when you're in line for coffee. You're at a talk about. Okay. So I use it for a business. So when you're in line for coffee, you're at a restaurant or whatnot. Yeah. You ever just scroll just for the heck of it? Uh, yeah, but not on my feed. It'll just be for business. Gotcha. You know, so you have an intention. I have an intention, but that's not what most people are doing on social media. And I acknowledge that. Okay. And at the same time, these are the people I watch my show too. So I gotta, I gotta see it from their their lens as well Okay, it's a tricky dichotomy. You ever fight that urge to just want to binge scroll like No, cuz I'm so I haven't looked at my main feed in years at this point So I don't ever crave that so even though I follow 7500 people. I don't know what my they're up to I only use the for you page. Okay, do you scroll on your main feed? Sometimes I do. Yeah, sometimes I do I have a lot of family and friends. Well, that's different. I think family. Yeah, you want to keep up to date with them Yeah, I cut off most of mine. So that's where we differ on that. Okay. Okay. Yeah

Maybe that's something I can do too is just scroll with intention Yeah, you know and that can be a different mental shift and just scrolling to kill time. Yeah, because you could scroll with the intention of, oh, maybe I could get this guy as a client. Maybe I could do this podcast there, whatever. And you find yourself sending a lot of messages. Every day. That's how I've grown the show. Cold DMs, baby. Or cold email, because some of them, their DMs are closed. Gotcha. So you gotta cold email them. That's good. I wish I would have known that six hours ago I was on the airplane. Oh, flights, I'm closed. Gotcha. So you gotta cold email them. That's good. I wish I would have known that six hours ago

I was on the airplane. Oh, flights, I'm deadly. Yeah. The whole flight I'm cold DMing people. Wow. Or I'm texting people, catching up with people. Okay. That's where I'll kind of review my Rolodex.

Nice. And see who I wanna keep building with, see who I wanna cut off. Okay. And how did you build that muscle of just, you know, cause you, you, you got a phone probably way uh I was in high school but I wasn't using it for business and I was okay I don't even know if they had a four no they didn't have like a for you page back

down it was just your feed mmm but once I started the pod I've been DMing people yeah every single day that's how I get so many gals yeah cuz I've had 1400 episodes so I'd say most of those were from the end no no so you have that built-in discipline and when you're just waiting in those in-between moments you're doing something for the business yeah I usually set aside time but yeah I'll do it occasionally like that too okay yeah I also watch a lot of podcasts and I get guests that way. Gotcha. Yeah. Love that. Do you watch any other shows? I do. I follow grants. I follow Ben. Ben Spiro? Yeah. Yeah,

that's a good one. Yeah. I mean, anybody in the real estate world, I do real estate on the side as well. Graham Stephan. Yeah. Pace Morby, Ryan Panetta right down the road here. So I just draw a lot of business insights and just inspiration from those guys. But you know, if my time killers, if you will, are more so just listening to audible books and listening to podcasts and just trying to gain something, I always take the mentality of what can I learn today? You know, what's the one thing that I didn't know that I can gain, you know, out of this time on the plane or staying in line for coffee or whatever it is. You know, sometimes I would just even have a plane

in my pocket while, you know, I'm walking around and sometimes I'll catch something, you know, and I'll just take a mental note. I love that. Yeah. You gotta be constantly be learning, right? You have to, yeah, especially if you're, if you're driven, you're in business, you're trying to make money, you know, and I'll just take a mental note. I love that. Yeah. You got to be constantly be learning, right? You have to.

Yeah. Especially if you're, uh, if you're driven, you're in business, you're trying to grow a podcast, trying to grow a business, you have to be in learning mode constantly, and that's the only way you're going to, uh, have a level up on your competition and it's probably why you've grown as quickly as you have. Yeah. I got a pretty crazy audible strategy actually. Yeah.

You want to hear it? Yeah. So, um, there's a site called Goodreads. Have you heard of it? I have. Yes. Yeah. So I'll go on there.

I'll see what books my, uh, like mentors are recommending, like save Grant Cardone recommended a book. The Goodreads has all the books he's recommended. So I'll click on that, read the reviews a little bit. Then I'll go on chat GPT, summarize the book. So I'll click on that read the reviews a little bit then I'll go on chat GPT summarize the book if I like the summary I'll get the book on audible and then to X speed Okay, while I'm in the car, okay So when you're in the car you could really focus right because I try to play them while I'm working

But then I get distracted so I noticed in the car or working out That's like the best time to listen to them nice as you're locked in Yes, okay, and then to X speed you could get done with the book in like a day or two Okay, is there any one book you're listening to right now? Not right now right now. I'm on a podcast bender, but once in a while. I'll do like a audible spree Mmm, you like 10 in a row. Okay. Yeah, I just got choose your enemies wisely by Patrick about David Okay, and Mel Robbins just dropped the book I forget the name but those are my next two nice Let's have to check that one out dude books are amazing. It's the best ROI. Yeah. I'm other you do you read physical books ever

I collect them, but I don't read them. Okay, but I like having them Yeah, we got a bookcase out here of all the previous guests. Yeah, but I'm more audible. There's different types of learning Yeah, so you're a reader. I love to read I love both sometimes. Oh, you're both. Yeah. But I'm more audible. There's different types of learning. Yeah. So you're a reader? I love to read. I love both. Sometimes. Oh, you're both. Yeah. That's rare, man. Like reading a book book. And I think that when you can highlight or write notes on the page or underline things, it just connects on a deeper level. Oh, it does. There are certain books too that I feel you need to read once a year. One of them, Atomic Habits. Yeah, it's classic. How to Win Friends and Influence People.

So those genre of books for me are once a year reads that need to be worked on. I mean, Atomic Habits, you take one area of the book and apply it. It sometimes will take me months, you know, just to master it, to get the concept, put it to practice, come back to it, read it again, before I can get to the next chapter, you know? So there's probably 10 to 15 books that I like to physically have,

and I'll just pick up and look at some lines that I underlined maybe last year, but I do like to do audible as well. Yeah, yeah. Something about highlighting and underlining, it just makes it stick more. It connects to the brain. No, yeah, they've done studies on that.

For me, 100 Million Offers was a game changer. Oh, nice. Have you read that one? I have not. Alex Hormozi. Okay. That one doubled my revenue in a year. No kidding.

Yeah, just that book. Okay. So crazy. Shout out to Alex, he lives in Vegas. Does he? Okay. Yeah. I do follow him too, I love watching his videos. Yeah, he's he? Okay. Yeah, I do follow him to I love watching his videos. Yeah, he's cool. Yeah. Yeah, I go through phases where I'll do like business. I'll do spirituality. I had a little dating phase like a relationship phase. Okay, wanting to improve my relationship. So read like five books there depends on the phase of my life.

Yeah, yeah. So you're a learner too. So you like to grow and always Yeah, cuz in I thought I hated learning in school Mmm, did you get good grades? No bad grades didn't care about the topics Wow, and I thought I hated learning hated reading cuz all the books I didn't like But once I started watching Grant Cardone and like people like that on YouTube. I'm like wait. I'm like interested in this. Mm-hmm This is weird, you know, yeah. Yes. You had a mental shift. Mental shift, yeah. Well, just topics I cared about, I think. Right.

At the time, it was making money. Yeah. That was like my first seven years. Nice. Now it's probably gonna be shifting towards family and purpose. Yeah, yeah. I still like making money too, but that's not like

the number one thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you said family and purpose though, so that's- That's where I'm at now. Yeah, that's gonna be the next phase, I think making money's probably number two number three. Yeah, and that's the thing when you When you look for purpose and you find your purpose then that gives you the energy That you need and then the money comes. Yeah, you know, because if you have a purpose and your purpose is tied the money I mean, you know unstoppable. That's what I'm saying. We have with the podcast, I feel like I'm really close

to figuring out the purpose part. And I know the money will follow because I can almost feel it. It's like weird feeling. Like I just feel, I know I have a lot of eyeballs now and I know there's a way to like really make some money. Yeah. How old are you now? 28 on Friday.

Okay. What would you say is your purpose with this podcast? Still figuring it out, but it's definitely tied to this podcast somehow. Certain episodes, just seeing the feedback makes me feel like incredible. So I don't know how to like summarize it yet, but I'm on the right track. It's good. Yeah. What about you? That's awesome. Yeah. For me, my purpose is to leave a lasting legacy for my family, my community, my church, my business,

leaving something bigger than myself behind. And if it doesn't even have to do with my name, I'm okay with that. We are a kingdom-minded business. I'm a kingdom-minded family guy. And what that means is building God's kingdom. Yeah. And sometimes that's working on stage, you're working in Philly, or it's that little moment at a restaurant where you get the blessings of the waitress who's been struggling. Yeah.

You know, just speaking life to her. You know, that's building the kingdom. And that's my purpose, man. Leaving a legacy. Uh, I find that entrepreneurship and my purpose go hand in hand, uh, because I, I want to make a lot of money, you know, I want to, I want to do a grant Cardo's doing being an impactful person to his community where, Hey, my family needs something.

I got it. My community needs something. I got it. You know, there's somebody sick in my church that needs help with medical bills. Let's take care of it. You know, and for me, that is, that is a driving factor to why I get up and work as hard as I do. I love that.

Yeah. I think mine's tied to either like exposing the truth, waking people up, something along those lines with the podcasts. That's where I feel like the most fulfilled, I'd say. Okay. Yeah. On those episodes where we're really exposing stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything in particular that you've seen exposed that really helped open up eyes? The health thing's been big with the vaccines and, you know natural living I like talking about that talking about purpose yeah spirituality religion yeah I think all that's really interesting to awesome yeah and then teach people I make money is a good feeling too yeah if you could teach someone that I mean you're

changing not just their life but generations hundred percent like their kids their wives whatever their whole family hundred percent that's a powerful thing to teach someone. Yeah, when you teach them how to work and how to have the mindset of an entrepreneur or just how to be driven, how to be disciplined. I mean, that will go into their kids and their kids. And I love that.

Yeah, so that's really fulfilling to me. So yeah, I got to figure out how to bundle everything up and then explain it to someone. So yeah, I got to figure out how to bundle everything up and then Explain it. So well you mentioned health. I had a kidney transplant back in 2020. Damn. Yeah, that's crazy Yeah, and funny thing I started my business this business in 2019. So I have a fresh new business out the door zero money no investors no loans 2020 got hit with a kidney disease and find out I need to go on dialysis and I need to get a kidney transplant. The whole deal.

2020, they weren't doing surgeries. Oh yeah, COVID, right? Yeah, COVID. And so I'm fighting the health journey, the health struggles, launching a new business at the same time. And it was just such a challenging season, but I'm so thankful for it. And man, what, what God did through that season of growing my business. I mean, we saw growth from year after year after year while I was going through all the kidney issues, I did get a transplant in 2020, my sister

donated her kidney and man, it's, I did get a transplant in 2020. My sister donated her kidney. Wow. And man, I've been great ever since. It's been awesome what medical technology can do nowadays. Yeah. And here we are 2025 and our business has gone from zero to about 10 million. Incredible. Five years. So it's been awesome to see.

American dream, baby. Yeah, we're getting there. It's alive. Yeah, we're getting there. Shout out to your sister. You guys must have been real close for her to do that. Yeah, she really came through for me. That's beautiful, man.

She's in San Diego. I live on the East Coast. She flew out. Wow. A couple times just to do tasks and everything. Wow. And man, it was just a powerful time. Yeah, I'm an only child, so I can't relate.

Really? But I want multiple kids. Yeah. And that sounds beautiful, man. I want them to be tight like that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that is the foundation of why I am the way I am, because I was raised in a tight-knit family.

And now my kids are tight-knit. Yeah. So I have no doubt if something were to happen to them Their siblings will step up and you know, that's beautiful. Did they tell you what caused that condition or not? They didn't they could have done a biopsy, but it just wasn't worth the risk of finding out why I'm going through all the procedures Got it to get the biopsy done This is sometimes it happens. Was it all of a sudden or did you have like gradual signs? I think it was gradual. Um, but I just didn't get... The tests.

Yeah, I didn't get the tests. I didn't find out till it was too late. Damn. Yeah. That is crazy. By the time I found out, my kidneys were working at like 13%. Geez. Yeah, so I was like, wow. Kidneys are...

My body was just overcompensating the whole time. Wow. How were you even working on that? I? Don't know that's the power of the mind. Yeah Wow. Yep. Just going that's off to you man. That's a crazy journey Josh where can people find refresh LEDs? Yeah, we're on Instagram get refresh LED or refresh LED comm my personal Instagram is a Josh Dom 619 and I'd love to connect with any of your viewers and your listeners that have kids or struggling with anything in their health journey as well and just love to be resource people. Love it. Shoot them a message if you need LED guys. Thanks for coming on. having me, man. Bet MGM is an official sports betting partner of the National Hockey League

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