Escaping the Drift with John Gafford - The Profit of Pressure Washing with Robert Eisenstadt

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

Discover the incredible journey of Robert Eisenstadt, an entrepreneur who transformed his life and business against all odds. Robert shares how he quickly scaled Property Pros, a pressure washing busi...ness, from humble beginnings in Chicago to unexpected success in Las Vegas. His story serves as a beacon for aspiring entrepreneurs, showcasing the potential in home services and the power of resilience, even in the face of personal loss and early life challenges. Through his experiences, Robert highlights the critical lessons of financial management and strategic business growth, emphasizing the importance of honing one's craft and seizing opportunities.   Our conversation with Robert takes a deeper dive into his personal struggles and triumphs, painting a raw picture of his battles with grief and adversity. From losing dear friends and family to navigating the tumultuous path of teenage hustles, his narrative is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. But it's not all hardship; Robert's story is infused with hope and determination. He turned life's obstacles into stepping stones for success, demonstrating how adversity can fuel personal growth and ambition rather than hinder it. His insights on financial discipline and business acumen offer valuable takeaways for anyone facing their own challenges.   Beyond business and personal growth, we also explore the transformative role of technology in our daily lives. From using ChatGPT as a personal assistant to innovative marketing strategies in the pressure washing business and potential expansions into the holiday lights market, Robert's journey illustrates the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship. The episode concludes with a thought-provoking discussion on the evolving landscape of real estate, AI's role in law and medicine, and the importance of taking risks in pursuit of one's dreams. Robert's story is not just one of business success; it's a compelling narrative of overcoming life's trials and using them as a springboard to greatness.   CHAPTERS    (00:00) - Entrepreneurship Journey (03:13) - Traumatic Loss and Financial Lessons (09:08) - Choice and Perspective (19:40) - Business Growth and Financial Challenges (25:05) - Scaling a Commercial Pressure Washing Business (36:05) - Overcoming Health Challenges With Determination (41:05) - Harnessing the Power of AI (49:25) - The Future of Real Estate   💬 Did you enjoy this podcast episode? Tell us all about it in the comment section below!    ☑️  If you liked this video, consider subscribing to Escaping The Drift with John Gafford  ************* 💯 About John Gafford: After appearing on NBC's "The Apprentice", John relocated to the Las Vegas Valley and founded several successful companies in the real estate space.   ➡️ The Gafford Group at Simply Vegas, top 1% of all REALTORS nationwide in terms of production. Simply Vegas, a 500 agent brokerage with billions in annual sales Clear Title, a 7-figure full-service title and escrow company.   ➡️ Streamline Home Loans - An independent mortgage bank with more than 100 loan officers. The Simply Group, A national expansion vehicle partnering with large brokers across the country to vertically integrate their real estate brokerages.   *************   ✅ Follow John Gafford on social media:   Instagram ▶️ / thejohngafford   Facebook ▶️ / gafford2   🎧 Stream The Escaping The Drift Podcast with John Gafford Episode here: Listen On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cWN80gtZ4m4wl3DqQoJmK?si=2d60fd72329d44a9 Listen On Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/escaping-the-drift-with-john-gafford/id1582927283    *************   #escapingthedrift #roberteisenstadt #entrepreneurship #propertypros #pressurewashingbusiness #lasvegas #financialmanagement #strategicbusinessgrowth #homeservices #resilience #personalloss #businesssuccess #financialdiscipline #businessacumen #technology #personalassistant #marketingstrategies #expansion #realestate #ai #law #medicine #risktaking

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Chat GPT is starting to be a game changer for me. Bro. I like crazy. I use it every day. Have you built out? Well, you have a bunch, but have you built out like your own personal assistance? Oh dude, I have nutritionists. I have my, my, my chat GPT, I have a nutritionist on there that knows my macros and everything I want to eat. It's like, I used to track all my macros on my fitness pound stuff.
Starting point is 00:00:21 Now I just take pictures of what I'm eating and automatically tracks the macros. And then towards the end of the day, if I like need to hit a certain like level of stuff, I take a picture of what's in my fridge and I take a picture of my pantry and it tells me what to eat. What? And now escaping the drift,
Starting point is 00:00:38 the show designed to get you from where you are to where you wanna be. I'm John Gafford and I have a knack for getting extraordinary achievers to drop their secrets to help you want to pad the greatness. So stop drifting along, escape the drift and it's time to start right now. Back again, back again for another episode of the podcast that gets you from where you are to where you want to go. And man, you know, it's kind of in vogue right now and I keep hearing a lot it. And it's thanks to people like Cody Sanchez that are talking about buying businesses
Starting point is 00:01:08 and doing these things. And there is so much money in home-based businesses. And I'm talking about not home-based businesses necessarily, home services businesses is what I meant to say. Home base would be like selling Amway. Home services businesses, is there's so much money. So I said to myself, I want to have somebody home services on. I've had some, some of the greats on through here.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Tommy Mello has been through here. Um, you know, just some of the greats have been through, but I wanted to get, you know, it's kind of hard if you're starting out to listen to a dude like Tommy Mello, that's banging out, you know, $200 million. And I said, let's get somebody that's doing extremely well. That's a little closer to the starting line than the finish line and get a And I said, let's get somebody that's doing extremely well. That's a little closer to the starting line than the finish line and get a little bit different perspective for you.
Starting point is 00:01:50 If you're out there listening and thinking, I want to start a business. And even if it's not a home services business, if you're just getting started in business, I wanted to hear kind of some of the lessons cause this dude's doing it well, man. He has gone really fast to take in something that, you know, you would hear and say, that's a little silly into a real business
Starting point is 00:02:07 Man, that's doing well. So ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. This is Robert Einstein All right, buddy. Good. He's an iron city in German. We just learned He is the proprietor of property pros, which is a pressure washing business And I know you're thinking this dude's out doing people's driveways. And is that where it started? No, actually, no, you went right for the big stuff, right? It kind of fell in my lap. I started with a chain of gas stations. Okay. But I started my business as a carpet cleaning business.
Starting point is 00:02:39 So you started that. Let's get back up a little bit because you know, most great entrepreneurs are, I like to think the nature versus nurture and most of them are made not born. It is what it is. So tell me about you growing up, dude. Yeah. So I was born in Chicago, Illinois, middle-class household. Dad was always at work.
Starting point is 00:02:58 Mom stayed at home. When I was eight years old, we moved to Vegas because my aunt was starting to get sick, my dad's sister, so we moved out to Vegas. Both of my parents were, they sold shoes, so they worked at Nordstrom literally my entire life. We moved out to Vegas and it was just kind of like this crazy roller coaster of death since as soon as we moved here. His sister died, all my cousins started dying,
Starting point is 00:03:27 and then all of my friends started dying. And this is like over like a how? I don't really remember how my aunt passed away or my cousins passed away, probably heart attacks or something. How did your friends start? So yeah, so when I was 17 years old, my best friend growing up, it was the first person I met when I moved to Vegas. He committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. I was with him three hours before and I found him two minutes after he shot himself. He did it in our neighborhood park. Oh my gosh. Yeah, me, my ex-girlfriend, his mom and his sister found him. his mom and his sister found him and
Starting point is 00:04:06 At 17 years old it was like extremely gory It really messed me up for a long time. I mean I couldn't walk in the dark alone for six months I mean I could still to this day like picture his shoes were set perfectly what he was wearing Like I could picture everything it was very traumatic. Yeah, it's terrible Less than a year later. My other closest friend died on a street bike. He hit a city of Henderson vehicle, a city Henderson vehicle pulled out. He hit the B or he hit the T bone to the car, went through the windshield, hit the B pillar, which the B pillar is where like your seatbelt comes out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:39 Broke almost every single bone in his body, de-gloved his arm. So basically his arm got skinned. Um, by the time I got there, I saw his bike on the ground. de-gloved his arm. So basically his arm got skinned. By the time I got there, I saw his bike on the ground. I was like the second person there. His shoes, all that stuff, went to the hospital. By the time I got to the hospital, his nose was completely flush with his face. It was crazy.
Starting point is 00:04:58 There was like blood all over the hospital room. It was nuts. He died, I think, twice on the way to the hospital and then obviously, you know Did there was it's a lot for a kid to take in? Yeah, and then I think a few months later another good friend of mine overdosed the other closest person I grew up with also overdosed all these people were getting into drugs and doing all these crazy stuff and Is that never really your thing? No, never your sound really. I mean everybody's tried stuff or whatever,
Starting point is 00:05:25 you know, but, uh, I don't think I really have a super addictive personality. Yeah. So, uh, were you, were you a good student? Like, no, dude, I was horrible. I hated school. I hated school. I was getting in fights all the time because I was getting bullied. Um, which is so funny too, like all the people that get bullied in school always end up doing well in life and all the boys, like I got in a fight in my high school locker room or whatever, some dude was drawing a swastika on my locker, I ran and tackled him or whatever, got in a fight, got suspended, got kicked out of school or whatever, and you know, he ended up passing away. I don't know from what probably a drug overdose. Yeah, dude. I tell my kids all the time, they're not my kids on a lot of trouble at school, but every now and again, you'll have somebody that does, you know, kids are terrible. All of your anti bullying stuff like school, not working kids are still terrible. They will always be terrible. They're just terrible.
Starting point is 00:06:18 And when my kids deal with something that's just dumb, I always tell them like, here's the truest thing over here. The people that are giving you the most grief, this is the highlight of their life. They're like 17 years old and this is it. Like they're the ones 30 years from now are they going to be going to every high school reunion, reliving the glory days, baby. It's going to be like, yeah. Uh, so don't worry about it, right? Coming up. If, if that's something that's happening to your kids, just always remind them of that. There's just, I mean, those people are just struggling so much internally. Yeah. They don't worry about it, right? Coming up, if that's something that's happening to your kids, just always remind them of that. I love that. I mean, those people are just struggling
Starting point is 00:06:47 so much internally. Yeah. They don't know how to deal with their emotions. Well, it has nothing to do with you. It has to do with their shortcomings. For sure. Is what it is. Nobody ever tries to, nobody ever hates down.
Starting point is 00:06:57 You know what I mean? They always try to pull the people they perceive above them down. Yep. So that's how it works. What was the first hustle for money, man? Selling weed. Was selling weed.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Yeah. But dude, I wasn't smoking it. I was just selling it. I've always wanted money. I was the kid that, again, we did okay. We had a roof over our head. We had food on our table. But if you wanted, you had to go get it.
Starting point is 00:07:23 Yeah, we didn't have extra money. And so I see all my friends with bikes and all this stuff growing up. We had food on our table. But if you wanted, you had to go get it. Yeah, like we didn't have extra money. Yeah. And so like I see all my friends with bikes and you know, all this stuff growing up, I didn't get that. We had toys, it just wasn't always the best and I've just always wanted the best. And so as soon as I could, dude,
Starting point is 00:07:35 I probably started selling pot at 14, 15 years old. And then I turned into the guy that started paying for everybody to do everything because I wanted people around me and you know Whatever until I got too big for my bridges and learned a lot of lessons so That was kind of like my first hustle. Did you voluntarily leave the industry? Oh, is there was there intervention? I learned a lot about finances at that point too. Like I
Starting point is 00:08:01 Was getting fronted what it was called, you know? And I spent some money on a street bike that I shouldn't have spent, and then there was threats and all this kind of stuff, and I had to like, go to my pops and be like, hey man, I need to borrow some money. This is like, kind of serious, and so he lent me the money and I was done. Yeah, you know, see I'm trying to teach my kids
Starting point is 00:08:21 about credit a little bit different way than that. They all, my kids carry credit cards, and you know, they, I'm trying to teach my kids about credit a little bit different way than that. They all, my kids carry credit cards and, you know, they charge all the stuff they want through the course of the month, but on the first of the month they have to pay for it. And, and yeah, if you're short, I'd use some 25% interest or whatever they're short. And they, you know, you'll pay 25% interest a couple of times before they're like, damn, this sucks. And they make, so now it's very much within their means of what they earn. I only use American express now. Yeah. Uh, like the charge cards. And then like the platinum and the gold or whatever for the benefits, but it's a charge card. It's on a credit card.
Starting point is 00:08:56 So I paid off at the end of every month. If you're not paying your credit cards off every two weeks, you're doing it wrong. Um, okay, let's talk about this. So, so you obviously didn't excel in high school. So there was no college was not necessarily on the horizon for you. So what did you, so did you always go out and just right into the carpet cleaning or do you have a couple of terrible jobs where you're terrible? I had quite a few jobs. So, uh, 11th grade, I got pulled out of school because of my anger problems in high school.
Starting point is 00:09:33 I tested out, I got my GED, my good enough diploma. And I wanted my diploma. I missed one question, didn't get it. So I had to go get a job. My first job was at Del Taco. Okay. Yep. And it lasted about a week. I just have, I've never been good with authority. And I find that with most entrepreneurs, but I've never been good with authority. Lasted about a week, I quit. I went back to selling weed again. That last- Tried and true.
Starting point is 00:09:54 Yeah, it lasted like a little bit until I ended up getting a job as a photographer for some attractions, like up on the stratosphere at the top, the zip lines. Then I became a tour guide for the zip lines, uh, like the flight lines out in Boulder city. They're closed now. Um, I don't know if you ever got a chance to do it, but it's awesome. The flight lines where? Oh, Boulder city. Yeah, no, I never, I never did.
Starting point is 00:10:16 It's closed now, but it was really cool. It was a great job. Uh, and then I ended up becoming a lot Porter at a Ford dealership. And from the lot porter, I went to like a loop tech pretty quickly. And then from there, I went to a service advisor and the service advisor was the last job I ever had. And by that time, so when I was 20 years old, my parents got divorced. My mom moved to Florida. When I was 21 years old, it was a Saturday, November 8th, 2014, I was at work.
Starting point is 00:10:45 And that's the day my dad died. So I was 21 years old, I was at work. I got a phone call from his boss and my dad was always a hard worker. His boss calls me on my cell phone. I didn't even know she had my number. Calls me and goes, Hey, your dad never showed up for work today. He's never missed a day in the 30 years, whatever. Yeah, we're worried about him. I just want to make. He's never missed a day in the 30 years, whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:05 We're worried about him. Uh, I just want to make sure he's okay. And I'm like, that's weird. So I call my ex who was at my house that night. I had worked super early and I was like, Hey, is my dad still there? And she goes, I don't know. I already left. I'm like, Hey, can you please go back to my house and see if my dad is, is still
Starting point is 00:11:22 at the house, she pulls up to the house, walks into the house, walks into my dad's bedroom and she goes, uh, she calls me and she goes, Robert, your dad's not waking up. And so it's kind of a blur. Yeah. But, um, yeah, I called nine one one, didn't say anything to anybody I left.
Starting point is 00:11:41 Went home by the time I got to my house, my house is full of cops and paramedics. And so he suffered his third heart attack and passed away in his sleep. Thankfully he was like peaceful, you know? Yeah. And they gave me like four or five days off of work, but it wasn't enough. I mean, it was just me and my dad. He was upside down on his house. I was helping him cover bills. And like, so I have all this stress of a funeral, where I'm gonna live, like all this stuff. I tried going back to work for like two days, all I could do is sit in my office and cry.
Starting point is 00:12:10 And I'm like, dude, I'm useless here. And they're like, sorry, we need you here. And I'm like, well, I'm sorry, you could pound sand, I'm done. So I quit. And went to Sedona, Arizona for a few days, cleared my head and just told myself, I'll never let anybody tell me what I can
Starting point is 00:12:24 and can't do ever again. Dude, it's so interesting because you hear that story. There's a lot of tragedy in that from the time you were 17 and terrible stuff you saw and now you're 21 and dead. So many people, man, would just have gone in a tank at that point. You hear these stories like, well, this is the reason, all of these reasons, all of these, the story is why I'm a complete screw up, right? You hear this, this is the justification for my behavior
Starting point is 00:12:48 in being a drug addict and being self-sabotaging behavior that just gets me nowhere. So what is the difference in you, you think, that made you take that and use it as fuel instead of as luggage? It's just perspective, man. Life is just, everything in life is just perspective, right? Like you can look at a situation and think,
Starting point is 00:13:08 woe is me, or you could just be a victor out of that pain. Right? So it's like, I've seen, throughout the tragedy, I've realized the main thing is, I know that I could die tomorrow. I could die, I could leave this podcast, I could die on the way to my office. Like I have a very clear understanding of that.
Starting point is 00:13:26 So it's like, why wouldn't you try? Why wouldn't you try and do something great? Why wouldn't you try and benefit other people's lives? Why wouldn't you try and give your kids everything that you never had? So it's like, yeah, I could sit there in my sorrows, but that does nothing for me. And the thing that I fall back into a lot of times is like, I look at like emotions, anxiety, depression, and then presence. Right? So like my perspective of depression is living in the past. Right. My perspective of anxiety is living in the future. Yeah. So happiness comes from the present and happiness is never a destination. How Buddhist of you.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Well, I mean, seriously. That's Buddhist philosophy. Yeah, and that's great. I've written some books. I don't pay attention too much of whatever it comes from or whatever. No, dude, hey man, whatever works. It's so funny, I say it all the time in here, man.
Starting point is 00:14:17 It's like, you know, you hear things in like, I'll say things even here in the podcast and I'll think, man, that was really profound. And then like every now and again, I'll tell you a funny story. Every now and again, I'll run into the person that said it first. Right?
Starting point is 00:14:34 And I'll think like, like I just, cause it's just, if you're a student of life and other people and you listen to what people say and you try to get the most information that you can to better yourself and those around you, there's going to be bleed over of thought process and you can't remember where you heard everything. But I had Ari Maizel on here and a couple of weeks ago, Ari's great dude. He's a, he is the master at efficiency.
Starting point is 00:14:58 He's like the efficiency master literally wrote the book on it. And apparently I'd read, I'd read that book at some point because I was like, here's what I like to do. Ari. I like to, you know, I turned all of the notifications off on all of the apps on my cell phone. So I'm not distracted during the day. And he's like, Oh really? Where'd you hear that? And I'm like, I don't know. Maybe I thought I was about,
Starting point is 00:15:17 but he's like, or maybe it was chapter three of my book. And I was like, holy shit. So yeah, but it is, it's true. So listen, I, I say like, holy shit. That's funny. So yeah, but it is. It's true. So listen, I say this. Never apologize for spreading good information regardless as if you don't, don't recall the source. Never apologize. I always remain a student, man. That's like, yeah, dude, never apologize for that.
Starting point is 00:15:36 That's good stuff. So yeah, but, but, but again, man, so many people like would have, you would have used your story and, and spiraled the wrong way. And you chose to say, okay, look, I'm going to make something out of this. And that's the key though. Yeah. Chose. You chose. Yeah. But he has a choice. You could do whatever you want. Like, it's like that old like saying that your parents used to tell you, like you could do anything you want. As long as you put your mind to it.
Starting point is 00:16:03 It's true. Yeah. Just have to choose to do it. Like I could choose to be a depressed junkie and sit on the couch all day and do drugs, or I could choose to go make something in the world. That's what I choose. I'm gonna, now that we're quoting other people, the movie Young Guns, dude, as stupid as this is, I always remember there's a scene in Young Guns
Starting point is 00:16:21 where Kiefer Sutherland's talking about, talk to somebody, your past is like a Paper book novel when you're done with it You throw it away and buy a new one and I think that philosophy of being able to choose what happens next And not wallow and what happened before is is really a difference maker for a lot of people. Yeah, which is amazing. So back to your story you decided not to Not to stay in the job that gave you no bereavement time, which is a little crazy to me decided not to stay in the job that gave you no bereavement time, which is a little crazy to me, decided not to stay in the job.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Um, what was the first choice or what, what, what's your decision process? Now I was trying to open up a restaurant. I wanted to open up. I started with a Capri Auties, uh, but there was no allocation for any locations here in Las Vegas left at that time. So I went to try to open up a Buffalo Wild Wings. You had to have 750K liquid. I didn't have that as a 21 year old kid.
Starting point is 00:17:12 I did get $80,000 for life insurance. Most of that went to like bills. I ended up getting a tattoo done of his portrait and stuff and I bought myself a truck. And then I went to a party one night and I was talking to my buddy and he goes, dude, you should just start a carpet cleaning business. I work for this guy that does carpet cleaning
Starting point is 00:17:29 and he makes pretty good money. And I was like, absolutely not, I'm not doing that. A week went by and I was like, I have to start something. And so I called him back up. You felt the wheels starting to sink into the sand. I had to do something. I gotta get some Ford in my motion. And I tell everybody, I got to get some, I get some forward motion.
Starting point is 00:17:45 And I tell everybody, I'm like, dude, whatever you start doing, it's probably not going to be what you end up doing. You just got to start learning some lessons. And you'll, you know, you'll adapt and transition. Yeah. And so I called him back up. I said, hey, give me your boss's phone number. Got ahold of him.
Starting point is 00:17:58 Went and bought like a whole truck and truck mount box truck, no air conditioning. And I told my buddy, I said, hey, quit your job, come teach me how to clean carpet, I'll guarantee you a paycheck of 800 bucks a week, and we'll try and figure this out. That lasted, I don't know, maybe like seven or eight months until I went broke.
Starting point is 00:18:17 Because I had no, I had no money coming in. I didn't know how to run a business, I had no idea what I was doing. So I had, you know, my friends or whatever would pay us to do their house, you know, just to kind of help us out or whatever. But I mean, I'm knocking doors left and right. Nobody's doing anything.
Starting point is 00:18:33 You know, I'm trying to get into apartments, all this stuff. And so it got to a point where it was like, I either need to shut down my business and go get a job. Okay, well hang on, let's back up. So let's learn a lesson from this. So you hired your buddy to teach you how to clean carpets, but cleaning carpets had nothing to do with running a business. So you'd have been better off hiring his boss to teach you how to run a business. Sure. Because honestly, the cleaning carpets,
Starting point is 00:19:02 you can probably watch a YouTube video. But again, you know, young, dumb, naive. Well, here's the thing though. People don't understand that they think the process or the service or the product is so important and they don't understand that understanding how to market it, understanding how to run a P and L and running and understanding how to actually make money in cashflow business. That's the value of, of the knowledge, the product or process can be applied to anything. It took me a long time to learn that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:34 Thankfully I did by hiring coaches and mentors and all that stuff. Um, but yeah, so I went broke paying him and it was basically either shut down my business and go get a job or I have to let him go. Either way he was losing his job. Thankfully, he was super cool with it. We're still friends. He just went back to his job that he had previously and I just started knocking doors as hard as I could.
Starting point is 00:19:58 Yeah, because he can always just clean carpets anywhere. I probably knocked the door here at some point because I was going to real estate and property management companies My thought process was how can I get the most amount of work with the least amount of business as possible? Sure, right so property management companies Apartment complexes those kind of things and so I went got on with a couple property management companies started cleaning carpets Until I got to like a thousand bucks a day and I was like, all right, like I'm doing. Now I'm feeling better.
Starting point is 00:20:28 I'm doing okay, like my bills are paid, whatever. But then, you know, life happens, I had a baby and then I started going broke again. It wasn't that I was losing business, it's just my lifestyle increased. I had a child I had to care for and all this stuff. And so I went to one of the property management companies and I said, hey, I literally can't pay my rent this month.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Do you have anything I can do? And the business license that I had was an R25, which is a handyman license. And it was like right place, right time. The property management company had a work order sitting on their desk. It was 2,200 bucks. And she goes, well, if you have a handyman license,
Starting point is 00:21:07 you can go do this job. Our handyman just flaked. I was like, yep. Took the work order, went and maxed out my credit card at Home Depot, got all the materials, worked in that house all night and made the 2,200 bucks. And I was like, maybe I have some here, you know? So we started working on properties,
Starting point is 00:21:22 getting them ready to rent again, you know? You know a of yeah sure so going in property preservation is what you're doing It's called. Yeah, this is what you're doing so paint drywall Tile repairs carpet cleaning and we had it on maid services. That was a joke Just anything I can get my hands on right and Alright, we'll stop for a second because this is my hands on, right? And- All right, well stop for a second, because this is another good lesson, right?
Starting point is 00:21:49 When you're trying to scale a business, you can go deeper, you can go wide, right? And what that means is to go, let's say you have one thing that you do, you do, let's just call it painting, you're a painter, right? You can either go out and find five, you know, if you're doing a thousand jobs a year painting, the only way to scale is to go out and find two thousand jobs a year painting or you can find out what your customers that you're
Starting point is 00:22:11 doing paint for what they also need and then you can add other trades and other and you can start doing bolt-ons they can help them your existing customer base become a one-stop shop for me the best way to do that I don't know what you did but for me the best way to do that, I don't know what you did, but for me the best way to do that is to find other people that are already doing that business and then say, hey look, I'll bring business to you. We'll split the fee, we'll split the cost. I'll become the marketing arm and then when you take over
Starting point is 00:22:37 and you become 50% of their total business, well then you say, hey look, let's become partners. How'd you do it? The lesson comes, the lesson comes. You got to take it in the lumps first. Okay, trust me. The lesson comes. My buddy calls me one day and he goes, Hey, we fired our pressure washing contractor. Do you want the contract? Sure. Went out and bought a $15,000 pressure washer. No idea what I'm doing again,
Starting point is 00:23:05 and started cleaning these gas stations. Just started learning. YouTube University definitely helped me that time. Started learning, started learning. So I'm cleaning carpets during the day, working on houses during the day, and then I'm out pressure washing gas stations all night. I'm working myself to death.
Starting point is 00:23:22 And fast forward quite a few years, this went on a few years. My wife, again, I'm so busy, I have no time to pay attention to death. And fast forward quite a few years, this went on a few years, my wife, again, I'm so busy I have no time to pay attention to anything. I'm trying to run all this stuff. At this time I have probably eight or nine trucks out on the road. We're doing bathroom remodels, all this kind of stuff. My wife goes through my books without me knowing. I was losing $20,000 a month and I had absolutely no idea.
Starting point is 00:23:42 There was so much money coming in and so much money going out, I didn't even know how to read a P&L. Where were you leaking money? Materials. I just, I wasn't running a business efficiently. I was overpaying on labor. Insurance was crazy. There was not just one thing, right?
Starting point is 00:24:02 And so she was like, you need to figure this out fast. But it was, it was like a constant game of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Yeah. Cause you have credit cards, right? So like everything that I was doing was pretty much on net 30 or net 45. So I'd get paid from those jobs, go pay off my credit card and then use that credit card to go fund the next job.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Yeah. And so it was just that constant game, but there was money coming in and going out all the time. It felt like I had money. Yeah. I didn't. Right. And so just in 2020, I game, but there was money coming in and going out all the time. It felt like I had money.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Yeah. I didn't. Right. And so just in 2020, end of 2021, we shut everything down to just focus on pressure washing, and this is where that go deep or go wide thing kind of funnels in, right? Uh, I only had that one account, which was at that time eight stores because they had acquired two more and So it was like probably close to seven thousand dollars a month. I was like, okay, I can live off this like I'll figure it out and
Starting point is 00:24:54 So that was three four years ago and now well, let's say well, let's take a look so you were doing all this stuff because you went you started going wide with everything that you could do and Did you start? Here's a problem. A lot of people, a lot of people have is they like to take all of their income and dump it in one big bucket and then all of their expenses and dump them one big bucket when they do this. So they don't understand what's actually working and where they're actually getting their money. They don't understand.
Starting point is 00:25:21 Like every facet of your business has got to make money Yeah, and if it doesn't you got to get rid of it And so the problem is people you know start dumping all of all of the revenue from all these different little services into one bucket And then they don't realize that they're losing money because of this this this and you could cut back Get rid of three of these things save all of time, and still be as profitable or more profitable with less headaches. Yeah. That's what I mean.
Starting point is 00:25:49 The CPA, hiring a good CPA, and like a good bookkeeper to reconcile my books, does wonders, because now everything is like broken out. They started compartmentalizing revenue, didn't they? I'm like, oh yeah, well yeah, and we have other services now, and I'm like, oh okay, like this is what's doing super well, this is what we can adjust. Yeah. So again,
Starting point is 00:26:06 just massive learning lessons, but I don't regret any of those. Right? Like I'm super happy that I had all of those fails, all of those lessons because now I know. Well you were, you were, you were failing successfully as I like to say, failing forward. Yeah. Like, yeah, I'm failing successfully, which I've done in quite a few businesses myself. So I get that. That's cool. So when you really drill down now on pressure washing, is this is the best bang for the buck
Starting point is 00:26:30 of everything you were doing, which obviously having a good accountant and compartmentalizing these things helped you see that. So you started just with gas stations, and now you're like, I need to grow this. How do you grow? Relationships. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Everything is just relationships. Shaking hands and kissing babies. Yep. So, uh, again, same thing. I didn't want, I don't want to be doing driveways and stuff. So we're a commercial pressure washing business. Uh, so we service large industrial complexes, retail shopping centers, uh, grocery stores, gas stations, hospitals, those kinds of areas that need to have that service done on a consistent basis regardless for two main reasons, right? So there's cams, you know what cams are,
Starting point is 00:27:09 common area maintenance fees. They're paying that money regardless. Somebody is going to do it. It might as well be me. And then there's ADA reasons, you know, coefficient of friction. If, you know, let's say somebody walks outside and slips and falls, there's a thing actually
Starting point is 00:27:24 called a tripometer that they can measure the coefficient of friction of your surface outside. And if it's above a 0.8, then you can get sued. You're liable. See, does everyone know that? That owns commercial property? No, no, no. We're, we're working on the lunch and learns are a big thing. I don't know if people ever try and do lunch and learns here for you. Um, but lunch and learns are a big thing. That's't know if people ever try and do lunch and learns here for you, but lunch and learns are a big thing. That's your time to be able to educate the client, right?
Starting point is 00:27:49 So we're working on framing all this out now and building out the educational portion of our business to where we start educating the client on a deeper level. Dude, I would make my marketing pieces for you. Just brainstorming, seriously, my marketing pieces would look exactly like the service of a lawsuit yeah that's exactly what it would look like and would say like someone's slip and fell your coefficient or whatever it is on your sidewalks is X or whatever you said it was and now here's
Starting point is 00:28:16 a lawsuit either suing you for a million dollars at the bottom and I just say or you could avoid all of this by having us pressure wash your sidewalks because literally that'd be like, holy shit. And now they're reading it and then they get, they might be mad at you. I don't know, but it would definitely get me to read, read whatever you sent me in the mail. That's not the only reason though, like look at your car.
Starting point is 00:28:33 Yeah. Do you want to go to a gas station and step out in some nasty shit? No. Where do you want to, like, you don't want to have to detail your car after you go to a gas station, right? Like you want it to be clean. So again, everything is marketing and marketing is everything.
Starting point is 00:28:46 So it's like you want to be able to attract good clients to your store so they can pump fuel at your store and make you money. Yeah. So now, so, but, but now in that small time, right? Just since you, since you zeroed in on pressure washing now it's been four years. Yep. You guys are north of seven figures in sales every year. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Yeah. And relatively still small crew Yep, so what's the plan going forward? How do you scale it? How do you scale from here? Yeah, so it's it's it's so interesting I love it. So well number one we've added holiday lights Which is just fun, right? That was my way to tap into a residential market Seasonal kind of fun, but as far as the pressure washing goes We've been building all these crazy different systems to help us scale, which we've been building them by hand.
Starting point is 00:29:31 So basically we have different tiered technician platforms. Once you get to like the third tier, you're able to go out on your own and train another person. So we have a two man crews. Once that other person is trained to that third tier, they can go out on their own and add another person. So it's literally just like multiplying, right? So just separating, adding, separating, adding.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Does that make sense? Yeah, separating, adding. Well, here's the question. Like, I'm just trying to think of all the ways that if it was me, how do I market my, how do I market my? The commercial industry is so much different than the residential industry. Yeah. Well, I'm saying by the commercial, like I, like I would maybe have a dude,
Starting point is 00:30:12 I would maybe have the name of my company with a stencil, with my phone number and I'd find a really dirty like parking lot or sidewalks and a shopping center. And I would just lay the stencil down on the sidewalk and just, yeah, we've done that that just brush wash it clean out of thing How how expensive is the equipment to test if the sidewalks are slippery? The tripometer is about 10 grand I Mean, but insurance adjusters are usually the ones that have it. Yeah, but I'm saying I know what if you had it and you could like hey man
Starting point is 00:30:45 Here's a serious risk if somebody falls out here. You're gonna get sued because here's your numbers like I'll give you a free test Yeah The free test of the tripometer. It's it's it's definitely been a thought process I Just haven't pulled the trigger. All right, no This is what we do in here, man. I'm just here trying to, no, I know. It's definitely been a thought process. See, cause now I'm thinking I'll get a tripometer.
Starting point is 00:31:09 I'll send out there and I'll start sending you leads. And then when I find leads, we've got 50% of your business. Oh, TRIB. Yeah. Tribometer. Yeah. Sounds better. Tribometer. Well, that's why I say this is not really what it should be. And I'm thinking, see, this is my problem. This, this conversation right here, somebody asked me that day They said uh Because I've made a commitment to myself to not go to any of my mastermind groups between now and when my book comes out
Starting point is 00:31:31 Why because conversation just like this because now you're thinking about buying a tripometer Generally leads for pressure washing business instead of what I would need to be doing all right Here's what we'll do this is how my brain works. Here's what we'll do. Go ahead. You do that, okay? Go generate revenue, and then become 50% of my business will become finished. That's what, see, I don't need to do that because I need to focus on what I'm doing here.
Starting point is 00:31:55 See, this is just so distracting. This is how my brain works. I'm just like, dude, there's a lot of money in this. Honestly though, like dude, all jokes aside, service business, it's never going away. Yeah. It's, like dude, all jokes aside, service business is, it's never going away. Yeah. It's, I truly enjoy it. I love being able to serve people, serve our clients, right? And it's so easy to just, at least now add businesses to it. Well, dude, it, it's something that like, okay, for example, a friend of mine, uh, buddy
Starting point is 00:32:21 of mine, Todd Haskell, Todd, if you're listening, how you doing? Old friend of mine from back in the day from the restaurant business. Recently, and this dude was a lifer in the restaurant business. And I was so happy to see that he had quit, finally got out of it. He was a lifer at like managing restaurants. I knew him a million years ago
Starting point is 00:32:38 when I worked in corporate restaurants. And he finally got out of the business and started a pressure washing business. And he's just doing residential. And I thought to myself, man, that's great. And how, how rewarding that must be for him after having to deal with a boss his whole life to now he gets to take care of him and do what everyone wants to do. And I guarantee just from watching him online,
Starting point is 00:32:59 he's making more money than he was making running restaurants guaranteed, probably just doing residential. So, you know, it's so, AI will. Guaranteed. Probably. Just in residential. So, you know, it's so, AI will never replace what you do. Nope. Just won't happen. You know, I talk about check GBT taking over the old power washing space, which is awesome. Someday. Oh, and there's also a big difference between owner operator. Yeah. Having a business, but, uh, I mean, there, I'm sure you can relate to this. Some days you just want to throw in the towel. You're like, fuck this dude. This is a lot. Well, I always say if, uh, if you don't want to quit at least once a week and go work at McDonald's,
Starting point is 00:33:31 you're not entrepreneurial hard enough. But here's the thing, but, but okay, I'm gonna hit you with the can't close the Aism. Here it comes. You ready? What would happen to your business if you went out, if you just left for walked out the door for six months and didn't call, didn't do anything, just left for six months. Well, what happened to your business? Continue to operate. That's what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Absolutely. So you have a company, not a job. A lot of people that own businesses think they own companies when really all they're doing is they're their own boss in the job. And you want to know what now for the first time in my life, it would continue to grow as well. It would continue to grow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:04 So you, you made some key hires over the last little bit. Who were the key hires you made? Business development managers. Okay. Yep. Sales, operation managers, somewhat of an HR spot, I guess. Yeah. How'd you make those hires?
Starting point is 00:34:20 How'd you find them? I actually, for the operations manager, I went through a platform called HireBus. Have you heard of it? So have you ever done like a personality test? Of course. So it's basically a platform. The operations manager cost me five grand.
Starting point is 00:34:38 So I pay $5,000. It does all of the ad funnels and hiring for me basically. So that's included with my ad spend on like Indeed and ZipRecruiter. You put out the job ads. They do all of the pre-screening for you. So you only get the finalists. So they do like phone interviews, Zoom interviews,
Starting point is 00:34:58 all these kind of different questionnaires. They have to do a personality test. It's called a right seat score. So you have to test a certain. And they help you come up with what those tests are Yeah. And so I get, I get the finalists. Yeah. And then I interviewed the finalists and that's it was five grand to get this done. Yep. And the amount of time that you say, dude, the amount of time you have to spend that is insane. And getting the right person in the right seat is so important. So nothing
Starting point is 00:35:22 will sink your business faster than having the wrong people in the wrong seat. But let me say that I want to shift gears a little bit now because you and I have a similar kind of issue that we deal with very different, but the same both challenging in itself, which is for those of you guys that don't know this about me, I suffer from something called trauma, genion neurology. It is a neurological disease where for periods of give or take six weeks, uh, don't know when they start, don't know when they stop, just shows up, takes off effectively. If the wind blows on the left side of my face, it feels like a taser is touching me. I literally am getting electrocuted on the left side of my face.
Starting point is 00:35:59 They call it. I have the suicide ailment is what they call it is the name name for it. So yeah, it sucks. And, and recently, Robert, I know last year we talked about it, but, but you got diagnosed with a neurological disorder as well. Yep. Uh, yeah. So, um, in 2023, end of July of 2023, actually, cause my son was born July of 2023. So two weeks after my son was born, I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Yeah, because we were on the boat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:30 I remember that. Yeah. Right before that happened. That was actually, I think, the day before. Day before, yeah. Or no, no, no, the day, it was like the day before, yeah. It was right before. Yeah, that's crazy, I forgot about that.
Starting point is 00:36:42 That was right before. Yeah, we went surfing on your Yeah, that's crazy. I forgot about that. That was right before. Yeah, we went surfing on your boat. That was awesome. But yeah, so July of 2023, my son was born. And basically two weeks after he was born, I started losing vision in my right eye. Not losing, but it just went super blurry. And you know, I got diagnosed. Yeah, there's a there's a long story to that. I don't know if you're trying to get into it. No, I got diagnosed.
Starting point is 00:37:05 There's a long story to that. I don't know if you're trying to get into it. No, no, no. Well, no, I mean, the point being is this, is you know, again, it's about what you choose and having this stuff that pops up, you know, you can use it as fuel or you can use it as luggage.
Starting point is 00:37:21 And it just depends on what you, it's gonna go in the trunk or the tank. Dude, check this out. So I was in the hospital for six days, right? Spinal taps. They pumped me full of steroids, soluble meds, all that was the worst part of it. Two days after I got out, I was on a plane in Nashville for a business convention. Yeah. Cause he just got to keep going. Yeah. I mean, life's going to hand you a bunch of weird things, man. You just got to keep pushing through it. Yeah. I mean, life's gonna hand you a bunch of weird things, man.
Starting point is 00:37:45 You just gotta keep pushing through it. Yeah, I mean, and you know, we were just talking before this. It's happening again right now. Like today's like day two or three where my vision is starting to get super blurry and I have a bunch of pressure in my eye and I'm sure the headaches are on the horizon. You know, they're coming.
Starting point is 00:38:02 But dude, like I still went to the gym this morning. I still made it here this morning. I'm still going to go work my ass off today. It's just like little speed bumps. They slow you down. They don't stop you. You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't, I don't, I mean, it's a little bit different, right?
Starting point is 00:38:12 Like I deal with fatigue, lost a vision sometimes. The fatigue is probably the worst for me. You deal with feeling like you have a hundred volts in your face. Yeah. It's definitely an interesting thing. But at the same time, I don't like even when it's going on, I don't call in. Like I'm still here.
Starting point is 00:38:32 Yeah. I'm still working on write down. I've now I have a note on my phone that explains what's going on. So when I'm out in public and it hits me and I just have to stop for a second. And I just show people the note on my phone. Do you not talk? Oh, do what it hits me?
Starting point is 00:38:46 Like for that 45 seconds? You can't do anything. You're being electrocuted. That's crazy. Yeah, so the fact that I can barely get my phone out of my hand, it hurts like really bad. What were you doing when like this happened? The first time it happened?
Starting point is 00:39:01 Yeah, were you in a meeting or something? Oh no, dude, I woke up and I woke up, I rubbed my left eye and got shot out of the bed. Like I just licked, like I ripped the cord out of the lamp and licked it. What? Yeah, I thought I had a stroke. Like, did I just have a stroke?
Starting point is 00:39:17 Like, you don't know, right? It's just so weird. So I immediately Googled, touched my face, got electrocuted and it came right up. I knew what I had before I got diagnosed in 15 seconds. So did you go see a neurologist? Oh, dude, so many neurologists. So many. Yeah, so many. And now for me, luckily, there's a surgery they can do.
Starting point is 00:39:36 So if it sparks up again, they're going to cut out. They're going to cut a quarter size hole out of my skull behind my ear and then go in and essentially just kind of wrap duct tape around that nerve is an easy way to say it. So it doesn't happen anymore. And I've already met with the surgeon and he was very calm about it. He's done it many times, but yeah, that's just, it's no way to kind of to live. Cause it's the, I mean, it's not like you smack your face. It's like, if the breeze gets on it, really like the dude, but the first time this happened, uh,
Starting point is 00:40:03 two years ago now, the nights were going, we're in the dude, but the first time this happened, uh, two years ago now, the nights were going up, we're in the playoffs walking from valet at park to the arena. When it was windy. Yeah. It was almost impossible. Yeah. I'd had a hoodie attached to our hoodie to every game and I'd hold it down, trying to keep the wind off my face. I had to hold it down over my face trying to keep the wind on me. Yeah. I'm glad you're doing better now. Yeah. I'm good right now. Life is good now. I was well, but no, but dude, the message is, you know, I think the reason I wanted
Starting point is 00:40:34 to talk about that is so many people, again, man, you're either looking for an excuse to succeed or excuse to fail. And I think through the course of your life, you've always found a reason to succeed and nothing is going to stop you no matter what it is. And I think through the course of your life, you've always found a reason to succeed and nothing is going to stop you no matter what it is. And I think there's some magic in that. And I think if more people had that, there'd be a lot happier people on this earth. I mean, I think, I forget who says it, but I mean, you can have success or you can have excuses,
Starting point is 00:41:00 but you can't have both. Yeah. I think it's every father on the planet says that. Yeah, probably. But I don't know, man. It's like, I don't focus on anything besides like where I'm going. You know?
Starting point is 00:41:12 Like my ship is headed north. You can get on the ship. I'm not trying to pull you. It's just like, it's going to happen. It's not if, it's when. Yeah. Are you somebody that has written goals? Do you write your goals out?
Starting point is 00:41:23 Do you do that? No, I don't feel like I need to write them down because I just visualize them so heavy. Yeah. Are you somebody that has written goals? Do you write your goals out? Do you do that? No, I don't, I just, I don't feel like I need to write them down because I just visualize them so heavy. Okay. Like I could, I could, I believe in manifestation. Like, do you know the red car theory? Yeah. Yeah. Sure. So say it for those of you, for somebody who might not have heard it. So red car theory, it's like, if you drive a red car, you're going to drive around, you're going to see red cars everywhere. Like I drive a lifted F350 dually. I see them everywhere. I don't know if you see your cars everywhere. I see a lot of my cars everywhere, but when I do, I notice.
Starting point is 00:41:51 Yeah, right. Yeah. But that's because it's what you're focused on, right? So it's like, I try not to let these little things affect my day. Like Annie Fricello says, your bitch voice, it'll pop in my head for a minute. And I'm like, no, I don't need that. This is what I'm focused on. So I just focus on where I'm going what I want I could visualize I could see myself
Starting point is 00:42:12 Being in the house on the vacations with the you know Vacation houses and the cars and you know the the perfect family and all that stuff. Nothing's ever perfect now But the visualization is there but I'll give you a freebie. It's one of my favorite uses for chat GBT I have everybody on my team do this, you know people use to make vision boards where they get these magazines and they Yeah, that ain't exact enough dude You can tell chat GBT to create an image of exactly what you want like exactly what you want The right color the right this right this you can put you in it can do whatever and then you have those images You go to the gym at my house, I've got a whole wall of visualizations
Starting point is 00:42:48 of things that I want to come true. And a bunch of, like, I take them off because a lot of them do, right? Because every morning as I'm on the treadmill, I'm looking at those things and I'm feeling like what it's like if they're actually, if already happened, right? But that is like one of my favorite uses.
Starting point is 00:43:04 Even if you're not like a big goal writer outter, dude, use that, bro, especially if they're actually have already happened, right? But that is like one of my favorite uses. Even if you're not like a big goal writer outter, dude use that bro, especially if you're visual and you like to visualize that, use ChatGBT and just like, hey, this is what I'm trying to achieve. ChatGBT is starting to be a game changer for me. Bro, I- Like crazy. I use it every day.
Starting point is 00:43:18 Have you built out, well, you have a bunch, but have you built out like your own personal assistants? Oh dude, I have nutritionists, I have, my ChatGBT, I have a bunch, but have you built out like your own personal assistance? Oh, dude, I have nutritionists. I have My my chat gbt. I have a nutritionist on there that knows my macros and everything I want to eat It's like I used to track all my macros on my fitness pound stuff Now I just take pictures of what i'm eating and it automatically tracks the macros And then towards the end of the day if I like need to hit a certain like level of stuff I take a picture of what's in my fridge and I take a picture of my pantry and it tells me what to eat
Starting point is 00:43:44 What yes, dude dude it's magic. And then like so in that nutritionist thing is also does my workout. So I'll take like progress pictures of myself in the mirror from the front the side. Say based on my progress pictures, alter my workout to improve the areas in your work. Do that. So chat GBT is my trainer, it is my nutritionist, it's everything. That is crazy. It's wild. Did you have to do a bunch of prompts for that? I just told it, you're my nutritionist. And like literally the first time I said, like, you know, I've liked,
Starting point is 00:44:10 I'd like to scale with like all of the stuff on it, like BMI and fat percentage, and all that stuff that shows you the visualizations of everything in your body with the scale. And I just put all of that data into it. I said, you know, I'm 53 year old dude, I'm six four and here you go.. Here's my weight and here's all this. Here's my BMI. Here's my fat. And I want to, this is where I want to go. Give me a diet that will get this on a workout plan to get there and give it. Okay. That is a key though. Like you have to give it all of the details. Yeah. You can't just say, but dude,
Starting point is 00:44:39 you can take a picture of yourself and say, I want to have a perfect physique based on what you see. What do I need to do? That's crazy. People, people don't see, that's the thing that people aren't using enough of Chad GBT is they're not uploading images into it. They're not turning the camera on. That's where the magic is to be a carbon. And I took a picture of a half hidden plate of spicy rigatoni and I was like, Oh, I forgot to track this. And it was like, Oh, you're at carbon. Yes, dude. It knew where I was like I forgot to track this and it was like oh you're at Carbone oh yes dude it knew where I was I think that's off my phone knowing why I was but it knew where I was it knew that was spicy rigatoni it looked on their website found the the nutritional content for it and then
Starting point is 00:45:14 logged it the easiest thing that I found as far as like the business side of using chat GPT for me is like basically just asking a bunch of questions on what I want. So like I built out two different personal assistants, a life personal assistant to make sure I'm more present and you know, just being the best father I can, present with my family, all that kind of stuff, and then a business assistant.
Starting point is 00:45:37 And I basically just said, these are the two assistants I want. I want you to help me with this, this and this. What prompts do you need to know in order to help me curate this? And then I just listed a bunch of questions. I copy the question and then I just paste the question and answer it, paste the question, answer it.
Starting point is 00:45:52 And I have like two personal assistants that. I did something similar with life coach thing. I said, ask me to, I said, I wanna find blind spots in my life of where I can improve. Ask me 200 questions in every aspect of my life, like 15 in each, in four different aspects of my life and figure of where I can improve. Ask me 200 questions in every aspect of my life, like 15 in each, in, in four different aspects of my life and figure out where I can improve. And dude, it asked me 200 questions about family fitness, faith, uh, and, and business. And it spit out a manual of one I need to work on.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Like an 80 page PDF. Dude, I have loaded data from our company into it, like all of our sales data, everything into it. Um, I load our P and L's in where, you know, analyze this, your, your job as COO, tell me where I'm leaking. Tell me I'm doing this. I mean, if you're not using that for everything you do, you're nuts. If I have a difficult situation with an employee, I'll say, here's my situation. What should I do? Oh yeah. You you know because I've negotiated contracts with it everything it's wild do you have any kind of fear no I don't in the space that I'm in I don't I in
Starting point is 00:46:56 real estate in general I do not have it I mean with with chat GPT like it taken over the world or just like uploading all of your information like I mean I've uploaded like P&L sheets in there Like no can analyze this work night because here's the thing. What what could somebody really do with that data? What could they really do with the data? You know, I think if anything the fear should be from I think you're already seeing If I was India, I'd be very worried Pakistan would be very worried because all the outsourcers are done. Oh, yeah
Starting point is 00:47:24 I mean, they're just data entry outsourcers. You're cooked. I wonder how VA's are doing. You're cooked. They're all cooked. I have old VA's that I used for years like constantly emailing me. Sir please do you have any work because now I've just automated so much of what they used to do with GBTs or with the automations you can run within Google that network network within Google Sheets and everything else. I've just automated so much of it that I don't need, I don't need it anymore. I mean, dude, my brother-in-law is in the software business
Starting point is 00:47:54 and full systems that it used to take him months to spin up for people, he can spin up now in a matter of a couple of weeks with no help. It's crazy. Because he's just telling it, it and just spitting the code out. Like crazy, like, and now it comes. It's wild. What what businesses like top five businesses do you think that AI is not going to affect?
Starting point is 00:48:15 Not going to affect. Um, well, like I tell my kids all the time, right? Like the number one thing I try to teach my kids is by the time they are adults and I'm talking about 30, right? My kids are 17 and 15. By the time they're in their thirties, the skillset that will be most in most in demand in this world is the ability to look and another human being in the eye and connect with them on a visceral level. If you can do that, because their whole generation is heads and phones,
Starting point is 00:48:42 they're all like this, right? The ability to communicate with another person and reach them is still going to be in very high demand, but like real estate, like what we do. And this is not a shot at people that are listening to this to say, well, that's not true. Bye bye. Why? You know, like you look at what orbits did to the travel industry, like people kind of stopped going to travel agents as much. I still love a good travel agent, especially if I'm planning an elaborate trip.
Starting point is 00:49:09 I love a good travel agent, so they just can't be replaced. But that industry as a whole got condensed because of Orbitz and those travel websites. The reason that I don't think real estate will ever get replaced like that, like Zillow trying to create an end-to-end, seamlessly agentless transaction. It'll never happen.
Starting point is 00:49:31 And here's why. Because the majority of people on this earth, when they're making the largest single financial transaction of their lives, they still need somebody there to tell them it's okay. Most people. They want somebody to say, this is the right move. Yes, there's a certain fraction of the population
Starting point is 00:49:56 that can do this without realtor. I understand that. But a lot of people still like somebody to say, this is the right move. Like, I don't know shit about crypto, but I know a handful of dudes that know everything about it. And if I'm gonna trade some crypto, I want them to tell me it's okay.
Starting point is 00:50:11 Would you argue asking AI if this is the right move would be a more beneficial thing? And the only reason I'm saying that is because it was on a commercial side, but I had it, I had Ch chat GBT negotiate my commercial lease. No, which is fine. But here's what you have to understand. Chat GBT again, at this current iteration and it may become cyborgs.
Starting point is 00:50:33 I don't know, but it does not have the ability to look at other human in the eye and connect on a visceral level. True. Whereas I can look across the table at a first time home buyer that's scared to death. Am I doing the right thing? And because of my heart, I know it's the right thing because I've done this 5,000 times. I can tell them, guys, this is what you need to do.
Starting point is 00:50:55 And they believe me at their core and everything is okay. Until a computer can replace that interaction, I'm not worried about it. I think it makes good people better at their jobs and it will eliminate the people that suck. Yeah. Okay so real estate? Yeah. What else? I think as much as it can do for law, I think as much as it can do for contracts and everything else, I still think a good lawyer is worth this is worth his weight in salt. I think medicine you're always gonna need people to say this is okay even though I think I, you're always going to need people to say this is okay. Even though I think, I think you're going to,
Starting point is 00:51:25 I think you're going to watch the advancements in medicine go nuclear in the next couple of years. You know, my good, my, my good buddy, Nick, sent me a thing yesterday and it was a company where now it's full genetic testing and they can create an AI replicant of you in cyberspace from your, if your genetic testing. And then based on they'll do your blood work every six weeks. And then they can say this perfect version of you should be aging at this rate versus the real you. And then they can make changes in your genomes with peptides
Starting point is 00:51:54 based on what's going on. And it's like five or six grand a year. And my response, no, I think the full service is like 12 grand a year. And my response back to them was in three years, this is going to be 49 bucks a month. Yeah. Like that's how fast this is gonna be 49 bucks a month. Yeah. Like that's how fast this is going.
Starting point is 00:52:07 It's quantum leaps. You know, you see, I think you're gonna see, I think you'll see cures for some of this stuff. Hopefully things like ALS, hopefully things like MS will get cured because the computer can just compound and interact the data so much faster than we can. Have you dove into, what is it called?
Starting point is 00:52:30 Worms. What is it? What? Little worms inside your brain. Little worms in your brain? Not maggots. Nope. You're losing me here, buddy.
Starting point is 00:52:39 I don't know about the worms in your brain. Do you want the Neuralink? No, no, no. Medicine, as far as like, you eat sushi or whatever, there could be. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure. I'm drawing a blank. Parasites.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Parasites, thank you. Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. There's a bunch of new studies coming out saying that like MS and other neurological issues are caused by parasites. Wow. So I actually need to go down there today, but do you like a parasite cleanse? Yeah, dude.
Starting point is 00:53:07 I have friends that have had all of these crazy issues. They go on this huge parasite cleanse and they feel better than they ever have in their entire life. And they're literally urinating out parasites. Oh my God, dude. I can tell you, I'll try anything like that. Like I'm game.
Starting point is 00:53:22 I'm your Huckleberry friend. No, because dude, I believe that all of the things that we've been putting in our body and the environment is trying to kill us every day. Oh yeah. I firmly believe that, right? Well, look at testosterone. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:32 What was the average of testosterone back in the 60s? What do you got? Probably like 1200. Yeah. Now it's 400. 300. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:41 You know, and like, what does that come from? Diet. Diet, you know, a lot of the women back then weren't on, uh, birth control. So the pheromones that they're releasing aren't as often or frequent or strong. All of these things are like, I mean, I'm not even going to get into the whole because quite frankly, neither one of us is qualified to talk about it,
Starting point is 00:54:03 but that's okay. Well, dude, look, man, I appreciate you coming on and telling your story. I hope it's inspirational to somebody that's out there. That's trying to start a business, man. You can just do it, man. Just try, especially when you're young, right? Cause even if you fail, you got plenty of time to figure it out and try again. Yeah. I mean, what's the worst that happens? You end up where you are.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Yeah, exactly. What's the worst that can happen? You stay exactly where you are. And with that note, we'll see you next week. What's up, everybody? Thanks for joining us for another episode of Escaping the Drift. Hope you got a bunch out of it, or at least as much as I did out of it. Anyway, if you want to learn more about the show, you can always go over to escapingthedrift.com. You can join our mailing list,capingTheDrift.com. You can join our mailing list. But do me a favor, if you wouldn't mind, throw up that five star review, give us a share,
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