Digital Social Hour - Near Death Experience, Growing up in a Violent City & Overcoming PTSD | Hector Perdomo DSH #285

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

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My first financial breakthrough was right after the car accident. Because just like that, what am I leaving my wife and kids? After the accident, I took the company from zero to $1.3 million in 10 months. Wow. I would not stop no matter what. I wanted to be successful just because that was a big wake-up call. You don't change things. What kind of person are you that you have these kids and you have your wife and you leave them with nothing?

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was get me out of there and not growing up. Because who knows what could have happened if I would have stayed there. Yeah. So which city was that? Lawrence, Massachusetts. I haven't even heard of it. Yeah.

So you know who Nicky Jam is? Yeah. So he has a little story on Netflix. That's where he's from. Oh. Yeah. So like, you know, the shit you've seen and everything that was going on there with his mom. Like, that's from. Oh, ****. Yeah, so like, you know, the **** you seen and everything that was going on there

with his mom. Like, that's Lawrence. Damn. Yeah. Did you get wrapped up in the **** scene? No, I left. I was like five years old.

Okay. My dad was from the street and he seen a lot of it and he was like, man, this ain't, this isn't what I want for my, my, my, it was only me at the time.

My mom was pregnant with my younger brother, but he was like, man, I don't, came to Orlando, like we came for a vacation. He's like, yeah, this don't know. Came to Orlando. We came for a vacation. He's like, yeah, this is, I got to get away from. That's the spot.

So you've been in Orlando since you were five? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. And growing up there, what was that like? It's changed a lot, like comparing to what it is now. Like I lived in a city called Kissimmee. Same thing, Orlando, Kissimmee.

But it's changed dramatically um I would say like there's certain events that happened like uh when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico a lot of people came okay and then when um when the pandemic hit like a lot of people from northeast came to Florida specifically like central Florida because they were you know remote workers and everything like that so cost of living was cheaper in florida but they got to keep the northeast wages you know what i mean so we've seen like a big change in central florida because of that that's why orlando tampa miami's market is through the roof now so your real estate's gone up a lot out there yeah like the tampa market is huge orlando's always kind of been and then miami of course miami skyrocketed yeah but even

tampa i hear a lot of people moving to tampa yeah no business wise is booming um me and my wife like we were contemplating because my cousin one of my other cousins he lives in like durell yeah he's like man come down here for networking i was like man if i land the next one client a month i cover the overage but we were looking it's like a 42 43 increase in rent i got three kids at home damn i have an oldest you know hopefully he can come like i needed a five bedroom minimum right i'm gonna pay like eight grand a month you know what i mean so we're like now let's just you know stick it out in orlando we found um a good spot where we live at we live on like on a golf course and everything now so real good spot in orlando yeah and you had kids early right early age 19 damn was that planned if you're watching this sorry no no it wasn't planned um

i mean i thought i was gonna hoop growing up man you were nice i was pretty good we got a play out here man yeah yeah no absolutely um a lot of people my friends i i was like a had a late growth spurt you know what i mean so i played since i was like four or five years old damn but i didn't really start getting like really really good till i was like 12 or 13 okay we went to um i went to you know in high school you go to those camps in the summer yeah we did au so uh i played for a team called kasimi wildcats we actually went nationals nice played against dwight howard and josh smith man let me tell you like there's certain people that you can just tell when they're young they're gonna make it and dwight and josh were that you knew at 13 they were gonna oh they were amazing

yeah how tall was dwight at 13 um man i don't remember exactly he was taller no he was duncan at 13 yeah man he was like if you see him, like, we came, again, even from down here, I mean, in Orlando, Kissimmee, we didn't have a lot of money. You know what I mean? So we did, like, car washes and stuff just to get to certain tournaments. Damn. Man, they're sponsored by Adidas. We see all this gear and stuff.

Here is a team from Kissimmee having to do car washes just to make it over. Shout out to the Science of Sc podcast hosted by mark roberge it's brought to you by the hub spot podcast network the audio destination for business professionals each week mark founding cro at hub spot cro and senior lecturer at harvard business school interviews some of the most successful sales leaders in tech to learn the secrets strategies and tactics to scaling company growth he recently had on the head of sales from open ai and that was a very interesting episode on the future of ai listen to the science of scaling wherever you get your podcast today make it over here and we were getting destroyed yeah and my dad and uh one of my coaches who he ended up passing uh last year well 2022 um he's like man if y'all don't man up like they're you know cussing at us y'all better man up or we're gonna leave and it was like our first game of the we were starstruck yeah you know it's

our first time in a major tournament aau nationals you know they really hype it up and we were like just stuck blown out yeah we were but we're down by like 40 or 50 i have time my dad and my coach was like either tighten up or we'll leave and we brought it down to like 10 15 points it was respectable we still lost like 15 20 points but man it was it was amazing experience but man there's certain people from a young age you know like they're gonna make it yeah and dwight was absolutely one of those i feel uh so did you end up playing college no i was i was gonna walk on at uc i mean i had a kid early um my dad had left so i had to work like two jobs like once i graduated high school so i had a full ride to use like any college really

wow graduated with a 4.3 gpa holy high. High school? Mm-hmm. That is insane. Yeah, I had a scholarship, full ride, like 75% paid nationwide, 100% paid if I stayed in Florida. Yeah. I decided to stay local because my mom got really sick, so I stayed close to home. I went to UCF. Had to work like two jobs, help out in the house, you know what I mean? Had a kid at 19, so all that, you know. Yeah. You got to man up and take care of responsibilities that you just, I mean had a kid at 19 so all that you know yeah you got a man

up and take care responsibilities that you just i mean i was there's no excuses you know i made that decision so i had a man up wow dance you were really nice dude i can't wait to see you play and then you had a uh a car accident right yeah january 4th 2021 geez you sent me the photos and and there was an article about it, right? Yeah. That is insane. What happened? I was actually on my way to, I just signed a lease for our office. And I'm driving on a road.

It's like one way north, one way south. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know what the kid was thinking. He was only 21 years old, man. I don't know what he was thinking. And he was doing like 80. And he tried to pass like three or four cars. And I'm a durango he's in a civic i'm doing 50 55 and we just hit head on holy crap yeah like i blacked out i was talking to my wife on the bluetooth in the

car yeah um i remember seeing him come at me and i said oh i try to go into like the woods not allowed to say those words i'm in a car with my wife yeah because she like gets ptsd from it still oh wow and um like i just remember seeing him come at me and like i blacked out what i remember isn't what happened wow because i remember turning right and i remember seeing him trying to get back into the lane after passing the cars but he actually was trying to go back like into the woods so i hit him on the passenger side and he spun and hit my truck again damn so he ended up passing away then the passenger she flew out the car and like when i opened my door her body was like right in front of me like he had a passenger in the car yeah he had a passenger and a little girl in the back none

of them were in their seat belts oh my gosh my gosh. And they all passed away? So the passenger and the driver did. The little girl survived. Holy crap. That's so true. His body, his body, it was, he wasn't a hero. And I'm not here to like talk bad about anyone, but. Yeah. His body stretched back and prevented the little girl from flying out.

Wow. But it wasn't like he was trying to protect her. It was just, it was a. I mean, honestly, I say it was a blessing because him not wearing his seat belt allowed him to be projected backwards to stop the little girl from flying out wow so did she end up getting new uh foster care or something um i have no idea like the laws in florida yeah are tough like i had full coverage on my truck so i thought anybody like get uninsured motorists and specifically ask for uninsured motorist. I thought full coverage on a truck, you're fully covered, but you specifically have to

ask for that or they won't cover uninsured motorist. I did not know that. I'm glad you said that because I just bought a G-Wagon and one of the tabs was uninsured motorist and my friend was like, you don't need that. Get it. So after hearing this. I got nothing from the car accident i got nothing yeah you almost lost your life and you lost a bag yeah um all they did was pay off the truck but i had to go get i mean truck was you've seen the

pictures yeah it was destroyed so i had to go get another vehicle they didn't pay for any of that yeah and your own recovery i had to pay for my physical therapy all that stuff yeah ptsd ptsd still to this day sometimes like um i'll be driving and if i depending on the road like it replays in my head jeez january 4th every year so far like i replay the accident in my head oh my god so and your wife heard all of this yeah so um when we hit so like i said i remember him coming at me, but that's it. I don't know how long I was blacked out for. And I was basically like, I remember hearing my wife like, babe, babe, wake up. And I finally like snapped out of it.

I'm like, I got hit. I just didn't know where I was at. So crazy story. Like my seatbelt snapped off. Damn. So I don't know how bad the car accident is. I see a cop coming at me. I was like, ****, put my seatbelt snapped off. Damn. So I don't know how bad the car accident is. I see a cop coming at me. I was like, ****, put my seatbelt back on.

I don't want a ticket. Right? Yeah. And now the cop is like, hey, are you okay? I'm like, yeah, I mean, I think I'm okay. And he's like, is anybody in the car with you? I was like, no. He's like, get the hell out the car.

So there was oil all over the place. There was a little bit of fire on the car. So he just told me to get out. Yeah. That's when I got out, no. He's like, get the hell out the car. So there was oil all over the place. There was a little bit of fire on the car. So he just told me to get out. That's when I got out, seen her body. I was like limping a little bit because I love that truck. We bought another one. Yeah. Because the way those are set up is like kind of like an accordion.

So everything like went down, the motor dropped, and the airbags. So it hit my foot, which is good because, you know what I mean? It prevented anything from happening, my foot getting more damage. But I like sprained ligaments or something like that on my foot which is good because you know what i mean it prevented anything from happening my foot getting more damage but i like sprained ligaments or something like that on my foot yeah so i was limping for a little bit damn that is a crazy story man i tried to hoop after you still tried to hoop oh it's not like right after i would say like a year later i tried to hoop because i had to do my own physical therapy and stuff and not the same bro like my wife was like come here really quick

and she looked at me my hips were like this oh my god i was like my whole body was shifted so i have to like strengthen my core just so that way you know what i mean i could like be all right you need a good chiropractor session man i tried chiropractor it didn't work didn't work it relieved a little bit i tried physical therapy didn't really work what really helped me and i live by this my boy tomo um he has like an anti-aging clinic he does a superhuman protocol that um yeah but gary brancardone and brank yeah that's what helped me interesting yeah because i had i guess so much inflammation in my back that that reduced inflammation and kind of gave my back some room to breathe the day before i walked in there

was having sharp pains and i'm time i was 34 i'm like i guess i gotta live with you know this pain and um so when i finally walked out i'd go to the owner i was like bro like i don't feel the sharp pain he's like serious i was like i don't feel it anymore when he was saying that i had so much inflammation it's not normal on the first session to feel that. But because it was so much that it reduced it enough to, like, allow my back to breathe. Wow. I got to check that out. Hopefully there's one in Vegas.

Yeah, I know. I know he's opening up more, my guy Tomo. He's opening up more clinics. But, bro, I live by that. I tell everybody that I'm, like, running into a health, I'm like, hey, man, like hey man you gotta hit up my guy like he really helped me out anything health related um my mom she was having really bad inflammation problems i took her to the clinic inflammation went away some more inflammation all in her like organs and stuff damn and that is what helped her that's dope yeah i gotta look into that i'm all about health man health is super important to me because

yeah man i neglected mine for a while same here like um i mean sometimes like you don't think you're unhealthy you think oh no i'm good and like certain things happen in your life you're like damn i really gotta start shifting things around yeah and i do my blood work now like every three to six months you know what i mean just i stay on top of it because you just never know man you really don't matter how much money you have to like if you're not healthy enough to enjoy it no point point yeah if you're not healthy enough and if you don't have people to enjoy it with i noticed yeah because i've been you know super rich without friends and it's way worse yeah than having friends and being yeah mentally like just surrounding yourself by like the right people good people like i'm big on all of that man physical

health and mental health because like i've been through certain, with the PTSD and stuff, but now I look at life completely different. I don't like people draining my energy just because it's like, man, I'd rather, I can go down the street, somebody's going to drain my energy. At least I don't have to be around that person for too long. They'll drain me and then whatever, get out of here. I cut that shit quick, bro.

If I see someone constantly doing it to me, maybe two, three times, they're gone. I think it's necessary. I think sometimes, like, especially in my culture, it's like family, family, family. But sometimes, man, it's your own family who, like, drain you. And I think sometimes you really have to take a step back and like evaluate what's good for yourself first because like the whole airport airplane thing they're like put the oxygen mask on yourself first then take care of everybody else i don't think that's selfish i think even as a parent like if i'm not healthy enough or mentally stable to take care of my kids what good am i to them yeah so i feel like like we have to start taking care of ourselves yeah i want to dive into

the business side of things and how you um you know got out of poverty what was that first big financial breakthrough for you first financial breakthrough was like right after the car accident like i was um i was always in sales i made and i mean like good money like i was always in sales i made like you make three six grand a week i mean that's cool for a salesperson but my first financial breakthrough was right after the car accident because like just like that like what am i leaving my wife and kids like i could have died right then and there right and then what i leave my wife with our three kids and nothing and my oldest nothing you know what i mean so um after the accident i took the company from zero to 1.3 million dollars in 10 months wow and i was just so like laser focused that i would not stop no matter what like i wanted to be successful just because like that was a big like wake-up call like man heck if you don't change

things like what kind of person are you that you have these kids and you have your wife and you leave them with nothing so i mean that was 2021 was really my first like and honestly man i built all that with relationships um i was good on the phones i was good at building relationships like good at sales and i just transferred that to networking and business like just be good to people and just make sure you're doing the right thing and then like you'll attract good positive people around you absolutely which business was that was that the credit repair business no so it was a consulting company so i had a consulting company with an ex-business partner um it was called nerdy biz and i left that company like i completely left um this is where like you know people who are draining you you gotta you gotta cut it yeah um even though i was super

successful like i closed all the contracts i made all the money for the company and everything, but it was just me. If it's just going to be me, it might as well be me all the way through. You know what I mean? My wife used to warn me. She's like, man, I was wearing 18, 20 hours a day. After the accident, I became obsessed. My wife is like, you're missing certain things going on around you and that's why i'm so big on like checking my surroundings with people and not just letting

people drain my energy anymore yeah i mean you get used to it that you don't notice it but like once you pick up on it once then you start to notice it all the time you know what i mean are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a guest we'll click the application link below in the description of this video we are always looking for cool stories cool entrepreneurs to talk to about business and life click the application link below and here's the episode guys oh yeah but my whole life i mean even my own parents sometimes you know and that that's a tough one because you can't really cut them off but sometimes you gotta like distance yourselves a little bit. I'm big on that.

I've had to do it, even myself with my parents. It's unfortunate, but I think this is what pushes me to be a better dad. I don't have the best relationship with my father. It is what it is. And I want to be such a good dad to my kids. Sometimes I'm a little rough on them just because I want to prepare them for what i've had to go through what i've seen i don't want no one to take advantage of them my wife is like you know the softer side to it so it's cool like i let her be that because i have to be tough on them but every day is like daddy daddy daddy so i know

they understand it's just genuine tough love yeah it's never disrespectful or anything like that but i've had to step away man because they want want want and then it's draining your energy yep like you know i made the decision to be married and have kids like that's my focus not you guys are grown adults find a way to make it happen i'm sorry like these kids depend on me yeah you know what i mean so i think it happens more often and depending on your cultures like in my culture like oh don't you dare leave your parents behind how dare you but you can't be like that yeah that's tough i have noticed that with with your culture yeah because my my um fiance is latina and so big on family dude they run like 15 20 deep when they go out it's like damn like that

wasn't how i was raised you know what i mean no they're all about family yeah man um every time i go back home you know north boston like we're always together man we do everything together have a lot of cousins like when we're together is great you know what i mean like we're a big family but man sometimes that you have to distance yourself yeah take care of yourself to set things up and then after you set everything up cool then go back and be like hey look i'll take care of you now but um i'm big on like season like i always say this like sometimes you meet people for a reason sometimes it's for a season that's also your family and sometimes like you have certain relationships within your family

but it needs to be seasonal and if you don't like i've messed up with this i've allowed certain relationships like no there's a reason i met this person or there's a reason i'm here no it's seasonal to get you to like another level and like making that mistake has cost me a lot of money yeah it's learning lessons. It's learning. I try not to give out loans to family, actually, because it can create some animosity. They also weren't there for me when I was starting. They actually talked s*** stuff when I dropped out of college.

So I keep that in the back of my head. All the time. Like, oh, you had a kid early. Oh, you could have. All right, cool. That's done and over with you know what i mean i take my experiences in basketball and like apply it towards business like i'm very competitive like i keep that competitive edge in business like if somebody

tells me you can't do it i'm like all right watch facts and i'll do it and um i've had business partners that's why i said ex-business partners. Because again, same thing, reason, season. And my wife is really big on catching this. But I get so prideful sometimes. I'm like, no, no, no. I didn't make a mistake here. No, I know this is a good decision. I was taking advantage the whole time.

Something about the girls, man. They're good at sensing that. Bro, they're so good at intuition and energy. I get so mad sometimes. My wife is like, wrong again. Bro, I don't think my girl's ever been wrong about someone's, like, energy. Energy? Bro, same here.

And I get so mad. I'm like, man, she don't know this business side. Like, she hasn't been in it. Like, she's not understanding the numbers or whatever. And she was 100% right. I'm like, damn and it's gotten to the point where now it scares me when she says something because i know she's right yeah like like just recently like i was in a relationship i'm like building something and i'm working on something and i'm like looking at her i'm like all right what are your feelings

like what are you thinking and she'll tell me i'm like all right damn it i'm not even going down that road because it's happened to me bro where i've lost a lot same dude that business all the profit i had to split wow not even contractually it was just that's what i said i was gonna do so i just did it your word is bond yeah so i didn't have to right and you were doing all the work, right? I did all the work. Exactly. My relationships, my experience. This is where I got into credit. He was supposed to be building our business credit. He was supposed to know credit and all this stuff.

Right. And I come from the call center, but I started my own funding company. I had relationships with hedge funds. I had relationships with merchant cash advance companies and all that. So like we were building a program. We get a money. He was supposed to fix the credit. Right.

He couldn't do that part of the business. Like it wasn't happening. And he was still getting the money. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, what's going on? You know what I mean? I had relationships where I had over like 200 people working for me at one time.

Doing customer service back end stuff. Like I'm real big on um outsourcing man some amazing people that don't live in our country that can work for you but that speak our dialect like I have call centers in Nicaragua Mexico I've dealt with you know different countries and they've worked amazing nice so like we built a company on that and it was another work. Yeah. Like to the point where my wife was like, hey, let's take a weekend. Like your your dream. And I wasn't taking care of my health.

This was after the accident. Like I was not because after the accident, my mom picks me up from the hospital. She had. And this was 2021. So you got it. I had a quarantine. I tested positive. So I couldn't do anything for two weeks

after the accident so imagine like every day at 1 30 my head was ringing like if i just got hit again and i could do not so that's why i dove so much into work because it was the only thing that would distract my mind it was your escape yeah and the kids were in school so like during those hours my wife was working i was like i felt, I felt, like, just going crazy. So I just, like, dove into work. But, like, I was asking for my business partner to help. I was like, hey, can you help? Like, no, man.

I was like, oh, I said, let's just get away for a weekend. So we went to Colorado, went in the mountains, and it felt great. Came back, same thing, 20 hours a day of work. She's like, so let's go to Chicago. So I told them, I was like, listen, bro, I need a break. Like, I'm drained. Sean, we land on the airport. We're not even on the subway yet in Chicago, and my phone's blowing up.

I'm like, I couldn't get a weekend. We're splitting the money. You know what I mean? But I learned. I learned a lot. Like, that's reason season. I thought it was a reason that we were in business together. And I'm not, like, I learned a lot like that's reason season um i thought it was a reason that we were in business together and i'm not like i learned a lot from that but if i would have understood reason season

then i could have saved a lot of money yeah you know what i mean i think everything happens for a reason absolutely um you know i've had partners like that too and now i'm super selective and now i lay out the groundwork well in advance on paper roles and responsibilities and if you don't follow this then you lose this you know what i mean yeah i think like me learning that got me some amazing relationships now like now i say i'm like resource rich right like i have some amazing relationships that they're not monetary yet but when put in the right place, it's going to be amazing. Absolutely. You started a couple men's clubs, right? Yes. So 700 and 800 men club is like my passion. We were talking about like mental health and I

lost a really, really good friend of mine in 2022 to s**t. And if you were to look at him you would never think right um he was a he was a navy vet um he went to school at full sail so he had a couple degrees there like his thing was to take musicians and he would you know engineer like producing but do the marketing for them so they don't get taken advantage of by like you know these these deals labels yeah right labels and deals and then i was going to teach credit and funding for them so they could like basically just fund themselves right and um but he was my director of marketing for my my company and i'd never seen it man like we were laughing all the time together two days before father's day i talked to him the night before we were about to close the deal and like he missed the meeting the zoom meeting and i'm like that's

not like him so i hit up our graphic designer i'm like hey have you heard from josh he's like no but let me call him and they committed damn man i was just talking to him no signs at all no signs and i'm talking about bro this guy was healthy he was like he wanted to get into like semi-pro boxing yeah he was in physical shape he meditated you know what i mean he smoked so he was like at ease so i thought and i don't know when it's just you on the four walls that's why i'm so big on that especially for men um we're taught man up right right like you you can't be weak which is we have to we have to be providers but man there's certain times where man we just need to talk and we don't feel human

like it's almost inhumane what we have to provide for our families and um i want to provide an outlet for men for that so that's where 700 men club is me providing resources for men like physical health mental health helping them with credit, helping them get funding for their business. My ultimate goal is to build almost like a homeless shelter, resource center for men who could just go in there. If they have to be there for a year, live there for a year, it is what it is.

We help them get them on their feet, and then we bring them back into the world as an asset to the world. We teach them health, physical and mental, because especially someone who's going through that like they need mental health help right you know what i mean um credit and funding is man it's so it's just so different like when you have good credit i would say credit is king king bro because i can go anywhere and pull a quarter million dollars faster than I can go make a quarter, unless you know certain people, right? Yeah.

But you can go get a quarter million dollars very quickly. So help them. Help them with their business. If they don't know a business, help teach them a trade. So that way they don't go back into the world and go back down that road. I've fed the homeless before. And I've always asked, like, hey, like, what happened? One decision.

That was it. Damn. Like, I was talking to one lady one year, and her husband divorced her, and she lost her job within a month. Damn. Became homeless. Just like that. Just like that. Yeah, it is crazy.

I'm really glad to see you help them, honestly. Every year you're doing stuff for homeless people. It's powerful. I feel like, man, it's like my way to give back. You can't just be, like, yes, you have to be selfish to a certain extent, but you got to, like, give something back. It's good karma. Yeah.

Like, I'm big on energy, so if you're not putting out good energy and trying to help those, I'm not sitting there saying give them everything, but, like, just help out. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Like, I deal with barbers. They'll go and cut people's hair for free for a day or something. Like, that changes everything for people.

Like, how you feel, how you look. So just finding ways to give back. You know what I mean? Yeah, and that men's group is so needed, man, because, yeah, we're taught to toughen up. You know, for 25 years, I bottled everything in. I didn't tell anyone. But past year or two, I've been opening up and it feels amazing to get that lifted,

that weight lifted. Nah, so I like, it's so important. Like I started a Discord group. I'm just like starting it. I even have it to where, so the 700 Men Club is to get people

to a certain level. And 800 Men Club is all of us at a level and we're all investing together. We're all doing deals together, whether it's real estate deals. Like I want to, and homelessness in Boston. like i have access to like i work with nation i'm actually the global business director for nations united for peace wow i have access to humanitarian projects

um we can do real estate deals for a third of the cost like we can build real estate for a third of the cost damn all it's like fireproof mold proof hurricane proof it passes like the 14 of 16 humanitarian like boxes that they gotta check right i want to bring that technology home and then after we fix homelessness in boston like go to all the other major cities so like 700 men club is to build men up and then 800 men club we're all making money together i love that you know so that's like my main and it was all started by stuff that I went through, but also like losing my, I knew him for seven years. It wasn't like I just met the guy.

Yeah. He fed homeless people with me. Damn. So losing him was like the ultimate. And this was after my car accident. So I was already kind of like, man, like if I know how PTSD feels, I can't imagine what he was going through. And it wasn't a clean, like, it was how he went was sad.

Yeah, a lot of veterans, man. It's sad. I actually have a lot of them on the podcast to talk about this more because it's, people don't even know. But I think it's, like, it's either four or eight veterans a day. It's crazy. It's crazy. You know what's sad? Like, have you ever seen an all-men's homeless shelter?

No. Why not? Yeah, that's needed man right so women and children have an opportunity to go somewhere but what about the men there's more homeless men than there are anything yeah i usually see when i see homeless people it's like men like 80 of the time yeah so that's my goal like we we bring them somewhere um rehab because a lot of times not always and i'm not excusing anyone for any decisions that they make they make a bad decision you make a bad decision you gotta you gotta lift up lift yourself up and you gotta man up and like that you do you gotta make the decision to you know what i mean want to get better but you also like why not provide the resources to help be there for them? Right.

You know what I mean? And then, all right, cool, you help them get off of shit, but then what? They go back into the world, and, like, temptation is tough. Yep. And if they just got through that, and we're not providing the support to help them in that temptation, I mean, are we really helping them? So, like, that's my ultimate goal is to build that and we're just helping men consistently

Hector where can people find you where can people find out about the clubs let them know at HectorPredomo87 is my Instagram at 800menclub at 700menclub those are my Instagrams for the men's clubs just starting it out

but I'm definitely going to be posting a lot more stuff on there for people to reach out so we can all network and be together. Love it. We'll link it in the video. Thanks for coming on, man. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for watching guys as always.

And I will see you next time.