Locked In with Ian Bick - I Tried to Rob a Bank — Then Ended Up in a Texas Prison | Steven Trevino

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Steven Trevino grew up battling opiate and pill addiction — and when the money ran out he made a desperate decision that changed everything. He tried to rob a bank. Then a civilian. He got caught by state police and then the feds — and ended up spending over three years in Texas state and federal prisons. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, he opens up about what surviving Texas prisons really looked like — race fights gang threats and being targeted for refusing to fall into prison politics. He rolled with the Paisas and navigated one of the most dangerous environments imaginable. Then came 20 days in segregation after a prison fight — and the spiritual awakening nobody saw coming. He came out of that cell a completely different person. Released in 2020 with nothing — no license no car and strict parole conditions — he built himself back from absolute zero. And he did it by starting a business called I Scoop Poop — your dog's business is his business. _____________________________________________ #BankRobbery #truecrimecommunity #prison _____________________________________________ Connect with Steven Trevino: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steven.trevino.3572/ Website: https://www.iscooppoopdfw.com/ _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro: From Top Salesman to Federal Prison 03:35 How Sales Success Fueled My Addiction 05:55 Hooked on Prescription Pills 09:02 Heroin Addiction & My First Rehab 13:13 Rock Bottom: Losing My Job, Seizures & Crime 16:01 The Botched Robberies That Got Me Arrested 21:22 Facing Federal Charges & Real Prison Time 23:31 Surviving Racial Politics Behind Bars 26:06 Prison Fights & How I Made Peace 32:32 Solitary Confinement & Finding Faith 40:32 Divorce & Reinventing Myself in Prison 49:01 Parole, Transition & the Politics of Getting Out 58:01 Walking Out: Rebuilding Life From Zero 01:03:03 Starting My First Business After Prison 01:11:19 Love, Relationships & Redemption 01:14:47 Scaling the Business & Learning to Win 01:27:01 A Second Federal Case & the Lessons It Taught Me 01:29:29 The Biggest Lessons From It All 01:33:01 Faith, Contentment & Final Thoughts _____________________________________________ To advertise on the show, contact [e-mail] or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/LockedInWithIanBicka Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My guest today grew up battling addiction, and when the money ran out, he tried to rob a bank, then a civilian. The cops caught him, and he ended up spending over three years at Texas state and federal prisons surviving race riots, gang threats, and solitary confinement, where something happened that completely changed who he was. And when he got out in 2020, with nothing to his name, no license, no car, and strict parole, he built himself back the only way he could. His name is Stephen Trevino, and this is his story. Where'd you grow up, Stephen? Grand Prairie, Texas, the Dallas-Forth Metroplex.

Oh, that's where the Federal Bureau of Prisons is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. It is. Absolutely. What was your upbringing like? Man, I grew up with a great family. I have an older brother, older sister. My parents, they're still married. They've been married 42 years. We went to church every Sunday And my dad

He owned a car lot So we were pretty wealthy Not wealthy wealthy, but we were We were good You know Anything we wanted we We had And it was cool

Because my mom She worked for my dad She did all the admin work and stuff like that And it was cool watching my dad my dad buy cars at the at the auction he would do this anytime he would bid on a car he would you know and i and i would watch him he'd buy a car for 22 2300 bucks and then he'd flip it for 6,500 plus interest and he did that all the time i mean he sold hundreds and hundreds of cars um my sister she's 10 months older than me and um i played sports my whole life

So when I was playing football, she was on the sideline cheering for me. So that was fun from my parents. My brother, he's four years older than us. He played golf. He was the captain of the golf team on his freshman year all the way to his senior year. He was a very good golfer. I've always looked up to him. And yeah, man, we just, we grew up very fantastic.

family oriented. Aside from sports, how also would you have described yourself? When I was younger, when I was younger, man, I was a smart kid, but I was also a follower. You know, I'd always want to fit in with the crowd. And, you know, growing up into my, into my teen years, I just, my brother was four years older than me. And I saw him start to party, you know, at seven, 17, 18, and at 13 or 14, especially when I became a freshman, I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to do what he was doing because I always looked up to him. So I was a good kid, man. I passed all my grades.

I did really well in sports. But I was probably more of a follower, to be honest. What were you thinking of for the future? Did you want to go to college? I tried that for a couple semesters. I always thought that I would sell cars like my pops. He was so good at it. He taught me how to do it.

And that's what I thought I was going to do. I did get into sales after I graduated high school. I got on with TXU Energy. It's an electricity company out there in Texas. And my job was to go door to door and show these people that we could save them money on their electric bill. So I would knock on their door, say hi, I'm Steven. I'm with TXU Energy, the government. They changed the laws for everyone.

You could get a discount on your electric bill now. You know how you have a winter rate and a summer rate that's a lot higher. And I nodded my head yes like this. And they'd agree with me. And once they nodded their head, yes, I was like, okay, I got them. they would show me a copy of their electric bill and I would just, you know, numbers don't lie. I would show them exactly how to save money on their electric bill. So I got into sales because I knew when I was younger that I was going to be in cells. So back to your question,

did I know what I was I thinking about my future? I wasn't really. But at the end of the day, it was going to be cells that I was going to be in. Now in high school, did you have any drug or alcohol use? Yeah. When I was, when I was 15, I got prescribed to a bottle of 90 hydrocodone with two refills. And that was for a football injury from my shoulder. And I remember after that bottle expired, not expired, but after I finished it, I remember waking up, I was 15, maybe going on 16. And I remember just having this really, really uncomfortable feeling like, man, like what is wrong with me? I felt depressed. I felt anxious.

I didn't want to go to, I didn't want to go to school. Something, something felt wrong. All the football players, though, they were all getting prescribed to hydrocodons. I mean, it was going around everywhere. So my buddy Nick had some, and I would give him my lunch money, and he would just give me a handful of them. And that's when I knew I had a problem. I was like, holy moly, I'm addicted to pills. That's crazy.

Like, it was kind of hard to fathom because I needed it. I needed those pills. And even when I got that job at TXU Energy, I was still taking pills. I never went a day without it. And I was good at my job, man. I was really good. There was a competitor. named Direct Energy, who even recruited me to go work for them. They were like, hey, you're getting

paid $70 a deal. We'll pay you $150 a deal plus a bonus, but we want you to come work for us. And I was like, all right, yeah. My nickname was Steady Steve because I was real good at knocking doors, man. I just, I knew how to close people. I knew how to be really polite with them. And just, hey, just go give me a copy of your electric ball. I'll show you exactly how it works. Old one, new one, It's fine. And they would come and bam, I'd show them and, you know, deal closed. Do you think the pills took away a pain that you might have experienced, you know, maybe early on in childhood or anything emotionally? Nah, it felt good. There was no trauma. There was no trauma when I was younger. It was, it was perfect. My childhood was really, really good. No, man, it just felt good. Did your parents know you're struggling?

while you're in high school going after? No, they didn't. It was pretty easy to hide it from everyone besides my sweating. Man, I'd always sweat. No, they didn't know until I actually admitted to them when I was like 18 or 19. And I was like, I need help. And, you know, we went to go see this outpatient doctor and stuff. And, you know, they prescribed me to some suboxin to put under my tongue.

So I was like, okay, so this is a good start to get away from the pills. But it didn't make it worse. I thought taking this a box and I was good. We used to go on road trips for direct energy. We would go to like Stephenville, Texas, a neighborhood that's never been touched. And they didn't know anything about the deregulation of electricity. So we would go start knocking doors at 9 a.m. to like 6 p.m. and lacing everybody up on the deregulation.

And, man, we were getting eight, ten deals a day just signing. I mean, we were making well over $1,000 a day on those road trips. And this guy who I sold electricity with, he was always notting off. And I was familiar with that knot off. And I asked him what it was. And he said it was heroin. And I was like, damn, I said, well, you know, I'm on Suboxone. And he's like, no, man, this stuff is a lot better.

it's cheaper uh it hits you right away and he started uh whenever i did experience it again man i don't know i was just a little punk kid follower who who never grew up until he was like 30 years old and i tried it and i loved it and i uh i got addicted to heroin so from like uh like 21 to 27 i was uh I was always shooting dope every day. It was crazy. I ended up getting locked up. And I had to do an inpatient rehab called SafeP. It was like a prison rehab.

And when I got out, I had like a year left on probation. So for that whole year, I was doing good. I didn't touch drugs or anything. I actually ended up proposing to this girl. She's my ex-wife now, which is crazy, man, because I guess whenever I was fine and level-headed, I guess that was the right move. You know, I was making good money. I had a good job. And then I asked her to marry me.

And, man, when I got off probation, I started doing drugs again. I started taking pills again. And then I started doing heroin again. And then I started doing Xanax, man. I started doing Xanax and dude I had a really really really high tolerance for Xanax and I would always always come home messed up my brother my sister they would call me out hey why you slurring your words why you slurring your words you don't come to mom and dad's house messed up how does your wife not know about this and she just always thought I was tired she was she was real green when it came to

when it came to stuff like that so I was I wasn't a good husband man I always like I always to her. I was always wrecking cars. I was always stealing. I just wasn't a good person. It was, it was bad, man. And, you know, I still carry a little guilt to this day just because of, you know, who I was and who I hurt back then because my intentions weren't to hurt anybody. But it was just, it was just a bad, bad ordeal. What did you get locked up for that first time? It was a drug-related charge, and I was on probation, and I kept failing drug test. And so they finally just locked me up and said, hey, you got to do this drug program.

And yeah, it was because I just kept continuously failing drug test. Oh, but it was for possession. That's why I was on probation for possession. I got pulled over, and they found needles. They found heroin. Okay, I have to tell you all about the sponsor. because it's genuinely perfect for me specifically. If you've watched a show for any amount of time,

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But I own it. I own it. So what had happened was I was taking like 10 Xanax at a time, maybe like six and then another four later during the day. And I was going to the methadone clinic every morning and I was still shooting heroin. I mean, I was I was out there. I'm surprised I didn't die. And my Xanax dealer was out. He had no more.

And if I ever went two or three days without pills, then I would start having seizures. And the day before I actually got arrested, arrested, arrested, I had a seizure. And what I would do, give me one second, let's rewind real quick. I was working for a company called Gecko Green. And I was doing good. I was making $800 a week plus commission. And during that time, my job was to go door to door and let people know that their grass basically look like crap.

And my company could spray the proper nutrients and vitamins that your grass needs to make the grass thick, luscious, in full. Sir, you see all these thin spots right here in these weeds. My company's going to take care of all of that. I could do the first one for $29.99. Then we could do $70 a month after. Does that sound good?

All right. Your number 972 or 214. Bam, I'd sign him up. And I was good at it. My boss knew that I was, I was on drugs, though. But I had to be on drugs to work. I had to take my Xanax. I had to shoot my heroin.

Or if I wasn't shooting heroin, I had to be on methadone to work. If I wasn't, I wouldn't show up to work until I got my fix. Sometimes I would, a lot of times I would even hang out at different Walmarts when I was, when I was broke, broke and ask people for money, hey, I'm $33 short of a tow truck. My car is broken down. Can you please help me out? And me panhandling in those, uh, in those parking lots, I would, I would make some decent coin. Right when I had a hundred bucks, I'd go straight to the dope house.

Um, so my addiction was wild. It was absolutely just, it was, it was my, it was my downfall to everything that was going to happen. But, you know, I'll get into what happened. one day I'm withdrawing I'm sick I just had a seizure oh I don't feel

I don't feel like I don't feel like asking people for money I'm delusional bro and my dealer he's out of Xanax my heroin dealer won't front me I can't get any money to go to the methadone clinic My ex-wife, she's at work.

And I was like, man, screw it. I'm going into a bank. I went into a bank and I said, give me some money or I'll blow this place up. And I showed them the letter. And she looked and I was like, no, never mind. And I took the letter and I bounced. And I got in my car.

rolled out through the letter out the window and i was like damn what the hell did i just do i'm tripping i was like how the hell am i going to get money how the hell am i got to get money i'm so fucking sick i'm sick i was praying to god god please please help me help me help me and i uh i go up to the park small in arlington and i see this old man and i pull up to him to him. I have my face covered. Hey, give me your wallet. And he looks and he says, not today.

And I drive off. And I'm like, damn, man, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? So I'm driving. And all of a sudden I get pulled over by some cops and I'm like, oh damn, there's like four or five around me. And then so I pull over and dude, these cops got ARs just pointed

at me pull over we're gonna shoot pull over we're gonna shoot i'm like oh shit okay okay okay okay you got me you got me you got me bam dude i'm talking about they i mean they had their knee to my neck like i was george floyd dude um i was i was like all right all right so they they arrested me and they hit me for aggravated robbery because the guy was older than 65 And I'm like, oh no, they give me a $20,000 bond. And I remember calling my ex-wife, my wife at the time, and I said, hey, I'm arrested. I need you to come up with two grand and get me out. She's all crying.

Like, what do you mean? What do you mean you're arrested? You know, what happened? I'll explain to you later. Just help me. She said, okay. A couple hours later, I call her. Hey, what's up?

Did you pay the bond? The bondsman's telling me not to do it. The bondsman's telling me not to pay. You have a hold on you. So what do you mean to have a hold on me? She said, yeah, I don't know. I said, I completed probation already. I shouldn't have a hold on me.

I was like, all right, man. I was like, don't listen to him. Just freaking pay it. So I hang up the first. phone, hang up the phone. All I hear is Trevino. And it's the guards. I'm like, yeah, come here. And they put me in shackles. Where the hell am I going? And they take me to this room and there's two federal agents there. And I said, what's up, gentlemen? And they said, hey, were you the one that tried to rob the bank in Grand Prairie? And I was like, hell no. And I was. And I was, hell no. And I. And I was.

I'm thinking to myself, oh shit, I forgot about that. Damn. No, no, sir, I didn't. Is this you in this photo? Yeah, that's me, but I didn't try to rob a bank. This lady says that you threatened her, and she called us. So we're hitting you with bank robbery. I said, you're hitting you with bank robbery.

There was no money taken or anything. He says, you try to rob a. a bank we're hitting you with bank robbery and they put a federal hold on me and i could not get out of jail i had to call my parents my parents got in a wreck like uh maybe like five or six days prior and uh my dad and i weren't detailing cars at the time so i didn't have no money i was uh so when i got fired from gecko green i was detailing cars with my pops and um And I was actually picking up dog poop for my brother and my sister's house at that time. But they would have to call me like, hey, are you coming to my house?

I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be right there. You know, I'd drive over there. I'd get a glove and I'd pick up the poop by hand. And I was detailing cars with my pops. And my pops couldn't work. So I couldn't work. And I just got fired from Gecko Green and I had no money. and I just had this seizure and I'm withdrawn from Xanax and heroin and it doesn't matter if I take

my methadone or not because I don't have my Xanax so I am just sick dude and um anyways so I call my pops and I tell them what happened I said pops I think I think I fucked up what happened I said man And they hit me with bank robbery. Bank robbery. What do you mean? I'm on my way. And he comes and visits me. And he looks at me and he says, did you do this?

And I said, no, pops. I didn't. I didn't take no money or nothing. And did you go in the bank, though? Yes. Damn it. There's two things in life you need to do. take care of your wife and make money.

Take care of your wife and make money. And that's it. What are you doing? Man, I'm like, I know, pops. I know I'm sorry, fool, I'm sorry. He's like, bud, they're going to hold you in here for a long, long time. Man, that was a tough pill to swallow. And then telling my wife about that was,

she came to see me and she was crying. And she was like, it's not supposed to be this way. It's not supposed to be this way. And I was like, man, I know. Man, I messed her up pretty bad, man. Anyways. So now I'm in Tarrant County. And I can't leave.

I have this federal hold on me. The feds come and they pick me up. and they take me to the Mansfield Federal Holdover, which is cool because it's like 10 minutes away from my parents. My parents live in Mansfield. So that was a good thing. I was in this tank that was a jungle, though. It was straight Mexicans versus blacks.

I'm not in no gang. I'm Mexican. I'm 6 foot 2 inches tall. I don't speak Spanish, and I'm not in a gang. So whenever these Paisas, I'm sure you know what Paisas are. You've been to the feds, right? Yeah. I was with them.

You know, I was with them. And they were talking to me in Spanish and I couldn't respond. They would, I would study like 50 words of Spanish words, like translations. And they would give me a test that night and stuff. And they'd say, hey, you don't get all these right. We're going to, we're going to bang you up. I'd always get them right. But in the feds where I was at,

you can get DVDs sent to you. So my brother would send me DVDs, my parents would. And then you get a big packet of DVDs where you could skim through and you could pick four DVDs for the weekend. In my tank, there was eight black people. There was one white guy who thought he was black, eight black people, eight Colombians that were all on the same case, and then eight Mexicans.

And there was three different rooms. And again, the tension was very, very high with the blacks and the Mexicans. And there was this big dude. I don't want to use any names, but we'll call him Jay. He was like six foot four. He always worked out. Real dude. boys and he was a blood and all of them were bloods even the white dude was a blood he was so much of a blood that he wouldn't even say the word cowboys he would say bow boys super blood and dude they were just rude to everybody they thought that they ran that tank and uh whenever it was the mexicans turns to get dvds you know big j you know eight-packed swole works out every day he'd look at the DVDs and say, trash, trash, trash, trash. Y'all have fucked up the whole weekend. And nobody really

did anything. And I'm just thinking, you know, like, dude, this guy needs to be put in his place. I'm not much of a fighter. I've been in fights. I played football my whole life. So I'm, you know, I know how to take somebody down. But I knew that fool could whip me. He could whip anybody in the pod. So one day, the Mexicans didn't turn in the DVDs to the Bean Shoot at 6 a.m. If you don't turn in the DVDs at 6 a.m., you don't get DVDs the next weekend. And it was the blacks turned to get DVDs. And they were all messed up. They were pissed off.

And the Mexicans were like, hey, Thervino? Go holler at Jay, fool. I'm like, for what? Hey, fool, we told you to put the DVDs up. I'm like, man, y'all don't even let me order movies, fool. Like, what you mean? Like, that's y'all, that's y'all's problem. Therino.

Go see what Jacobs wants. All right. I put on my knee brace. I put on my shoes just in case something pops off. The 2006 Chevrolet Equinox awarded the most dependable compact SUV in the U.S. by J.D. Power. It's designed for your everyday. And with available all-wheel drive, you can handle your to-do list with total confidence. Start your build at Chevrolet.ca.

Details at jdpower.com. I'm scared. And I go in the black tank. Everybody's watching. My heart's beating. And Jay says, uh, hey, Trino, you fucked up our weekend. What you want to do about it? I said, Jay.

I said, bro. I said, I'm sorry, fool. I am. I said, it wasn't my fault, but I'm going to take the heat. I said, I would really like to make peace. He says, all right. Who you want? Me or T.G., who you want? And I'm sitting there. I'm like, damn, four, I still got a fight. Who you want? TG's like, I got him. I got him. And I'm like, oh, shit, I'm about to get a fight. And then bam, bam, he just starts hitting me in the head. And so, dude, like just guerrilla mode comes on. And I start punching them. I do a hip swing on them.

Bam! Slam them to the ground. Everybody's like, ooh, I let him get up. And we start going again, pop, pop, pop, pop, bye, and do it again. Bam, I slam him again. And by the second time, he looks at me with his hands on his knees, like he's real tired. And he's not that tired because we only went for about 20 seconds. And he only landed two punches.

me, which were the first two. And he looks in me like, like, Trevino, I'm done. And I'm like, are we good? He's like, yeah, bam, bam. We shook hands and that was it. Me and me and this fool, we used to play chess together. I don't even know why we're fighting. So, uh, me and the Mexicans, we have a big old spread. We make inchie lavas at night and stuff. And Jacobs is pissed. Jacobs is pissed at that that happen. I think he was more mad that I body slammed him. Hard. And the next day, I'm playing handball with Parita. His name is Salvador Lopez Barra. He was one of my best friends. He was an old school Mexican man. And I need to go see him. I really do. But I don't know if I need to go see him because let me tell you what happened. He was cool. Him and I got along really, really well. We're out there

playing handball and Jacobs oh man i didn't want to drop his name jay he uh he comes up to me and he says hey travino if i hear you boasting about that fight i'm gonna knock your bitch ass out and i'm like damn fool like you won't hear me boast about it like that's that and uh and you know what fool i didn't even care that that that he called me a bitch you know what i just whipped your friend yesterday I ain't trying to fight this full. Like, whatever. Barita goes and tells the leader of the Paisas. Hey, Jay just called Trevino a bitch.

And Biazza was like, okay. So the doors, there's count time from 1 to 2.30. And I, they're like, hey, you got to fight this full. I'm like, y'all want me to fight Jacobs. You got to fight them, Trevino? Or you get out. I'm like, man, I don't want to get out. Like, I like kicking it with y'all.

Like, I don't want to get out. So, uh, you got to fight them. So the Mexicans talk to the Colombians through a little mirror. Hey, Trevino, he's going to fight Jay at 2.30. Are y'all with us or what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell Tarino we got his back. So all the Mexicans and all the Colombians, they all have my back. And they say, Threvino, if anybody jumps in, I swear to God, we'll kill him.

We'd kill him. I'm like, oh, my God, Lord, Father God, in Jesus' name, please help me. So I put on my knee brace again. I put on my shoes. And all you could hear is just these Colombians. Everybody's working out, doing push-ups, working out. All you could hear is do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, damn.

I'm like, I am in a middle of a freaking race war. I was so scared, man. This dude had an eight-pack, a huge chest. He looked like a wide receiver in the NFL. He was huge, tatted up from the neck down. And I said, the Mexicans get into prayer and they start praying. It was all eight of us and they start praying in Spanish. I don't know what they're saying.

But I said, Father God, in Jesus Christ's name, I come to you. There's a time for war. There's a time for peace. Father God, I'm going to war. I said, in the name of Jesus, man, help me whoop this fool. Amen. 2.30 rolls. I go up to Jacobs.

I said, what's up, foe? I said, he called me a bitch, and I ain't a bitch. And if you want to fight, I ain't backing down. What you mean, you ain't backing down? Let's go then. And he wanted to go in the black tank. I said, nah, let's go in the Colombian tank. I'm due for a fist fight.

I'm due for a fist fight. This fool takes off all his clothes, but his boxers. And before he rose in there, I just do this. And he comes in and he's just swinging crazy all on my head. Bam, bam, bam.

And I get him right in the chest and I push him up against the chest. Same thing I do to his friend yesterday I did to him. But I picked him up over my shoulder because he was a lot bigger. Boom! Man, I slam him so hard. hard everybody at the exact same time, even the blacks.

Ooh! And man, I'm punching him, and every punch is landing. Like, because I'm looking at his stomach, and it looks like I'm about to punch his stomach, and he blocks his stomach, and then bam, I hit him in his face. And then when I look at his face, he blocks his face and bam, I hit his stomach. And, dude, every punch was landing. It was awesome. And all we hear is

And it's the guards And they mace us. They mace me, dude, but by the power of the Holy Spirit Like it barely got on me. This fool is so mad that I just whooped them. He's punching the guards trying to get to me. Elbowing the guards. And I'm like sitting down like, y'all better.

Y'all better not let this. full go because he looked like he was about to kill me. I probably, I don't know what would have happened. I probably would have still defended myself well. But I mean, I play football my whole life, man. So I mean, I'm a pretty strong cat. And, dude, they mace this dude like no other. And so they put me in handcuffs and they take me from one side of the holdover to the other. And all, and everybody sees all the guards running from one side to another. So, All the inmates are looking out the window and they see me walking through. And I knew a few of them.

I was cool with everybody. And I was in handcuffs. And everybody's like, damn, Therino got in a fight. And so they take me to say. And then Jacobs comes. This fool's maced up. He's pieced up. He's just, he's all banged up.

And they're like, damn. We both go to Seg. I could hear him through the vents, like literally crying because of how much Mace got on him. I remember the nurse, James, he came up to me when I was in Seg. And he was like, hey, dude, you did a number on that guy. He's asking for ibuprofen like every four hours. And he was always complaining about his ribs hurting. I was like, damn, for real?

He's like, yeah. I was like, wow. Seg was cool, but it was terrible. I'm going to tell you why. They put me in Seg for 20 days from October 4th of 2018 to October 24th of 2018. So I called my parents and I said, Mom, Dad, I just got in a fight. They would come see me once a week. I said, I just got in a fight.

I said, I need y'all to come see me Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I said, I'm going crazy in here. I need help. And they come and see me. And when I was walking from one side of the prison to the other, like everybody was just showing me mad respect because I just worked that full. And he was just the biggest bully ever.

That's what happens when you mess with the child of God. So my dad, did you win? I was like, yeah. He says, how's the other guy look? I don't know, Pops, but he was so proud of me. Segregation was great because I found Jesus in segregation. I started reading the Bible. I was reading Proverbs.

Dude, if anybody, anybody wants to get close to Jesus, bro, they have to start with Proverbs. It's a book that you can't disagree. with. It's straight, common sense. It's the best book in the world. I started with Proverbs and I was just so amazed. But I was also across from the girls that were locked up, the federal girls. Man, hold on. Man, I was in that segregation room. Boy, I was reading the Bible and I was lusting at the same time. They kept them on the same tier? No, they just kept them in And yeah, everybody, it's a one-story building.

But all the federal girls have their own dorm. And there was like 24 of them. So they were cool because, I mean, I was, did you get familiar with sign language, the prison sign language? But I know in the MDC, they used to talk to the girls that are either above or below through the toilets. Really? Yeah, because the girls were like either the floor above or the floor below. Yeah, with the toilets, you can't get no action. I was getting action.

But let me say this before that my wife at that time decided to divorce me 61 days after I got locked up. So her and I were already... She didn't make it that long. Yeah, she couldn't, man. And I have absolutely nothing bad to say about her. She was great. She just wasn't strong enough because I was always lying to her and ruined. her credit and everything and she just had enough.

I have absolutely nothing bad to say about her. I respect her. I respect her family. And I respect her decision for wanting to leave. Because if it was my daughter, I probably would have told her to move around. So, yeah, so I'm talking to the girls on the other side. And I'm like, what's up? Like, hey, y'all kiss.

each other. They're just throwing up all, just throwing up all, just lustful, lustful sign language. And they were doing the same back to me, you know. They wanted action, I wanted action. Man, I had them girls kissing each other. I had me three or four girlfriends at that time. It was so, it was, it was cool. I hated being in segregation because I'm not used to being in a room by myself for 20 days.

But it was cool just talking to them, you know, throwing up the sign language. and they knew the sign language back, and I got a lot of their information, and I was writing them and stuff. And that was cool. It was also the Dallas Cowboys season at that time. So the girls, you know, they would let me watch the cowboy game. They would let me pick a movie.

Officer G would bring me the DVD packet, and the girls would let me pick a movie. So whenever they would watch a movie, they'd let me watch my movie too. I mean, that's how close I was to these girls. But is it just like open where they're, I don't get how you got such a clear view. Okay, because my segregation room, I had a segregation room and then a window like like like like this big. And my window was right towards the girls.

And the girls dorm was a huge window, a huge window, probably about half the size of that wall. And that's all the dorms were like that. All the dorms were like they all had huge windows. So you're looking through their window. to see their TV? Yes, absolutely. That was a good view? I mean, yeah, I mean, it was a little far, but I mean, it was a decent view.

I could see the cowboy game and I had my radio on so I could kind of go by. I mean, they had pretty, pretty decent sized TVs too. But, I mean, I was right there. I could see their whole dorm. I could see when they were eating breakfast, lunch, dinner, when they were playing spades, I could see everything. You know, if they wanted a show me, perfect view, you know. some of the guards would get mad because they knew I was they knew I was flirting with them

but some of the guards were like do your thing Trevino you know but I also I also had tough times in there too and I just got you know I I I just had a it's weird to say that because at the same time I was lusting but I was also like getting close to God at the same time and And during that time, I made a promise to God. I hated being in SEG so much. I hated being around the people so much. I hated everything about how I was living. I just felt like, man, I don't deserve to be here.

But I did. And I made a promise to Jesus. And I said, Jesus, I'll never, ever stick a needle in my arm again. I'll never, ever do opiates or prescription pills again. I'll never, ever yell at my mom again. These are my promises to you, and I stick with them. Because I knew, I knew that even if I ever did try to do opiates again or try to do like a Suboxone or something and get that feeling and then hide from a drug test, you know,

from Suboxone and still getting that feeling, I knew like if I ever felt that ever again, that I knew that I would just go down, go downhill again and eventually do heroin. And I knew right then and there that I could never, ever do that not even once. So I made a promise to God that I would never do opiates or prescript. This spring, denim gets a softer, lighter update. Introducing Old Navy's drapey denim wide leg, a new fit that moves with you. It's everything you want denim to feel like for summer. Easy, breathable, and effortlessly cool.

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what that means just so the audience has clarification. Yeah, it's just a group of Mexicans and they're all together, just, I guess, similar to like Tango Blast in state or like the Mexican mafia. I don't know. But it's just a Paisaz is a bunch of Mexicans that click up together in the federal system. I don't even know if there's Tango Blast members in the federal system, is there? I mean, I think that's more down south. I didn't think I was a down south, but I know there's a ton of POTS.

I went through Oklahoma City, which is kind of like right near Texas or people are in transit heading to Texas at that federal detention center there, the airplane one where Con Air goes to. So there'd be a lot of guys waiting there and to go to Texas and you'd have a ton of like Pisces and I'm sure others. I mean, at the time, I didn't know what Tongoblast was. I didn't know what they were until I started doing this. Right. But, yeah, there are those.

Yeah, I mean, there's so many gangs, you know. There's so many, I mean, I had heard the term PISA because people were like, hey, yo, Paisa, you know. But I didn't even know that was a gang. I just thought that was referring to someone or I didn't understand that. But are there even that many politics in the holdover? The dorm that I was in, absolutely. But after when I got out on, when I got out, I just told myself that I'm not kicking it with anybody.

I'm solo, dolo. I'm not going to gamble. I'm not going to do anything. I'm just going to stick to my Bible and mind my own business. I'm not hanging out with the Mexicans. I'm not clicking up with anybody. And how'd they take that? When I moved to a different dorm, it was very diverse, so that was cool. When I went back to state, they did not take that well at all. So before we get there, tell everyone what happened to the Fed case then. Okay, so I ended up getting 37 months in the feds. I remember I was fasting for a whole seven days, praying to Jesus, Lord, please get me time served. I would only eat from 5 to 6 p.m. every day for seven days. I wouldn't cuss. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I mean, I sacrificed the eating for seven days. And I said, you know, Lord, in exchange, I want time. sir, please. I didn't get it. And I was like, man, that's unfortunate. So I went back to state and they ended up dropping that aggravated robbery charge to an attempted robbery. Dude, I was in the murder tank though when I was in state because I had that aggravated robbery

charge. They wouldn't put me like with the trustees or anything. So it was, it wasn't hard in there. It was just in there with a bunch of weirdos. Wait, so they give you the 36 months in the feds and they don't make you serve the time before they kick you back to the state? Yeah, I'm about to get there. Okay. Yeah, so I did like 16 months in the feds.

Then I went back to state, and they sentenced me to 36 months. And I ended up going to Abilene, Middleton unit in Abilene. And the whole time I was in state, prison, I didn't have a federal hold on me. And I was riding the feds. I was writing the warden, the lieutenant. It's like, hey, why don't I have a federal hold on me? I was trying to go to federal prison and eat good, you know, because, or get some AC. I don't, I mean, word on the street is that federal prisons have ACs. I mean, the detention centers do, like where you were at. Yeah, probably

had it, but most would in, like a camp or a low. Nice and cold, baby. Yeah, or the shoes would have them, but like at a, like a camp, say somewhere, like when I was at a camp or even at the low, no AC unless you're in like the unit, the unit staff area. But otherwise. Or like the medical unit or something. Yeah, you wouldn't, you wouldn't have had AC. There would have been fans, you know. But staying in the detention center would have been ideal, but that's not cushy.

That's no different than the state, you know. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's county time. So that, those 16 months that you did with the feds, that was in a detention center. Yes. You never switched over to a real prison. Correct. Okay.

So I go to Middleton unit, and again, I'm not messing with anybody. I'm just solo. And I go up to the warden, and I say, hey, warden, my name is Stephen Trevino. I just got here. I said, I'm not a gang member. I'm not a flight risk, and I know how to cut hair. I said, will you please let me be the officer barber? He said, come here.

And he takes me into the officer barber, to the barbershop and he says, give Officer Martinez, give Sergeant Martinez a high and tight. I was like, what do you want? A one, two on top? What do you want? He's like, give me a two. And if you fuck me up, you're going to the south side of prison. I was like, dang. All right. And these little clippers were clipons. I've never used them before. I hooked them up. I gave them a nice high and tight, two on top and zero on the sides. How do you know how to cut hair?

I was cutting hair before. I was pretty good with my clippers before. I probably had about eight or nine customers whose hair I would cut on a regular. So I was familiar with the clippers. Not that familiar. I got real good. I got real good because when I made parole and they moved me to the Larry Gist unit, I became the inmate barber. And that's when I was really, really hustling.

It was cool when I was the officer barber because I would cut Lieutenant King's hair and a few other high-ranking officers. And they would let me get ODR food and big old cheese burgers, and damn, I was eating good. And all the Mexicans, not even the, everybody hated me because I'm six foot two, I'm Mexican. I don't speak Spanish.

I'm not a gang member, and I have the best job in the unit where the AC's at. And now we work from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., which was awesome, Because like whenever I wasn't cutting, cutting the guards hair, I would just walk the prison up and down, up and down at nighttime, you know, at 2, 3 a.m., you know, just out there praying, asking God to let me prosper when I get out and stuff and, you know, telling him, you know, I'm definite about this promise to you, God, like, this is, this is more than just a covenant. This is, this is my loyalty to you. So, yeah, man, they tried to make me do everything to crash out. A fool, a fool, bring us back some blades or a fool, bring us back, bring us back the clippers or bring us back some watchos.

And I kept telling them, no, fool, no, I'm going to lose my job. I don't want to lose my job. Hey, why are you eating with that Moreno? Who sticks? I said, that's my boy. Yeah, full of the Mexicans, we don't eat with the blacks. Like, man, fool, like his girl is talking to my mom. She's lacing my mama up on how to put money on the J-Pay and send me money and emails and photos and stuff.

I said, man, Sticks is cool. Him and I chop it up. I wasn't a gang member. I wasn't part of them. I could eat with sticks if I wanted to. Sticks was my boy. And I remember, yeah, they just, they hated me, fool. I remember one time I just made parole

And a few people knew about it Including this one dude named Champ And Champ wanted to fight me right after I made parole He's all he's all walking around and stuff And I'm thinking to myself I ain't getting in no freaking fights Because I'm not going to segregation I'm not losing my job I have it way too good here And he wanted to fight me

And I'm like champ no fool chill chill champ please chill in the Mexican. Hey, Trevino. This fool's calling you out. You got to fight them. I'm like, bro, I'm not going to fight them. I'm not.

It's not that I'm a pussy. It's just because I just made parole today and I don't want to lose my job. Why can't you guys see that? I don't want to fight them. Sticks got word of it that I was about to get in a fight with Champ and they were trying to make me fight.

One of the dudes, Gordo, was like, Hey, fool, if you, if you don't fight this, fool, don't fuck with me no more. And I'm like, man, fool, I'm like, obviously you don't care about my well-being. All right, fool, I won't fuck with you. Sticks comes running in. Hey, Trubino, hey, hey, who's trying to make you fight champ? Hey, hey, I fight for Trevino on Crip. On Crip, I fight for Trino.

Which one of these pussy-ass Mexicans trying to make you fight champ? Trinio, tell me. He's shaking my... Trevino, tell me, tell me! Like, he wanted to whoop one of them fools. And, dude, Sticks was like 6'5, and he was a huge crib. He had a big old tattoo on his back like this. It said, Cripping ain't easy.

He wasn't, he wasn't playing no games. And he had my back. Man, it was so humbling that he had my back. And the guys, the guys came up to me. They were like, hey, Trevino. Hey, man, it's cool. I'm glad you made the decision not to fight that boy for. We just want to see you go home.

And I'm thinking to myself, nah, man, fuck that. Y'all fight him. Fight him. I didn't say that, but I was thinking that. I didn't want no conflict or anything like that. Sticks ends up getting moved to another dorm,

so my backup ain't there. I, my celly, he's making hooch, and he has it right in between our lockers. And I tell this full, bro you got to move this move it oh to vino we're gonna drink full it's cool dog those cool

if we get caught i'll take the heat i'm like no bro if we get caught and you take the heat they're gonna they're gonna get me too and i'm gonna lose my job dude these guys were riding fake kites on me and stuff saying that trevino has drugs on them trevino's making alcohol and lieutenant king would ask me trevino who the hells you piss off i'm like what you mean he's like man every every other day I got a kite, an anonymous kite saying you have drugs on you. I'm like, Lieutenant King, you could check me, you could search me, you can do whatever you want. I said, they're just trying to take my job. He's like, I know, man, you're a good kid. I'm like, appreciate

that. So they're making hooch and I tell them like, man, y'all got to move this. And I was tripping about it. Not like, hey, fool, y'all, you know, just, hey, fool, I just made parole. You know, I'm about to be up out of here. Please get this up. Please. So they end up dumping it. And the next day, they say the guards come in. And they search me and Bobby's Bopi's bunk. And I'm like, damn. And everybody's all looking at me like I snitched or something.

And they end up moving my celly to the south side of the prison. And they were all messed up about that because he was like, He was like the main guy who would break bread with him and stuff. He was just a good dude. He was a baller or two. And he got moved to the south side of prison. So all these inmates were coming up to me saying, A, three, they think you snitched.

Like, just watch out. I'm like, damn, for real. And they're all looking at me and stuff. And I'm like, oh, my God. They think I snitched. Like, oh, my God, I'm going to have to tell the guard. I'm going to have to get up out of here, full. Man, they were me mugging me so bad

because they thought I snitched. I ended up going to the chow hall. I go to the chow hall. And this one guy just comes back from church and says, damn, man, I go from church into the jungle. And I knew what that meant. He was right behind me, and all of them were right behind me. and that dude trouble he's just like ready just to pounce on me and they're all in the same tank as

i am i am so in fear of my life dude i am like shaking and i'm just like i was like maybe this is why i should have joined the game to get back up but man some people were vouching for me because they knew i was a good dude some people were vouching for me saying man threvino didn't do that Thirvino didn't do that. So I end up getting my tray, throwing it in the bean shoot, and I go straight to my dorm. I don't tell the guards that I'm in fear of my life. My heart's beating right now because it was intense. I go to my bunk.

I put my knee braces on because I need to protect my knees. They'll fall out. I tie up my shoes real tight, and I sit there. And there was like seven or eight of them. They all come in and they go to their table and they're looking at me like, and I'm like, oh my God, one of my buddies, man, you need to go check that shit. You need to go check that shit. And I just be quietful.

Leave me alone. I pray to God. Father God, I'm so scared right now. Please, please fill me with some kind of bravery, Father God. Please feel me with bravery or something, Lord. Please defuse this situation. Please. Amen.

and I'm sitting there for about five or ten minutes. Take a deep breath and I go up to him and I say, hey, hey, excuse me, excuse me, guys. I said, I know what y'all are thinking, man. People are coming up to me and saying the same thing that I snitch. I said, but I didn't snitch. I promised you I didn't. I said, I'm about to go home.

I said, but whoever is saying that I am snitching, tell them come meet me at that blue door. And I go to the blue door where there's no cameras where people fight. And I stood there and I waited. And I'm mad and there's a little tears coming down my eyes. And I'm waiting. And not one of them got up. And I went to go,

I went to go sit back on my bunk. Fool, I thought I was going to get stabbed that night. I stayed up all night. Just, I was scared, fool. And the leader, the leader of that gang, I don't even want to mention the gang's name. He comes up to me. He's having his coffee in the morning. It was already like 7 a.m. I haven't had one inch of sleep.

I go to him. I said, what's up to your job? He says, hey, I don't want you to tell anybody this, but I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm sorry. and we found out who snitched and it wasn't you and I'm sorry I said all right fool I said dog I'm just trying to go home full and we we dapped up and and that was it man it's like they were they were doing everything they can to just come at me in all different ways but like dude like they couldn't touch me fool I was like I really had like an invisible protection

of like the god and his angels around me or something it was just It was crazy. So I ended up going to end up getting paroled, had to do this drug program, and I become the inmate barber. I still don't have a federal hold on me. And it was cool, man, because I was charging everybody a $1.50 or $2 for a fade, low fade, midfade, high fade, drop fade, south side fade, edge of.

If you got waves, I'll make them hit hard. But man, I was a fool with those gloopers. I still am. And it was cool because my parents would send me money and then I would make a bunch of commissary. So any time that I would cook, I always cook extra. I'd always throw an extra soup or some rice or something. And I'd always roll up some tortillas and give it to the guys that were less fortunate

who wouldn't have a commissary. Because it's really sad to see people who don't have any loved ones out there. So I would always break bread with them, man. And always, I end up getting out. I end up getting released on an ankle monitor for my first 60 days. And I remember I'm talking to my mom on the phone, and I tell her my release date, and I'd say, Mom, don't come pick me up. The feds are going to be there.

The feds are going to be there. She says, I don't care. I'm coming. Uncle Carlos is coming. Leonard's coming. Your sister's coming. Man, I just couldn't let him down. And I was excited, but I was like, I was like, don't show up because the feds, I get out and I'm looking for the feds and they're not there.

And my mom was like, I got your cereal ready. I got your milk ready. I need to get it together. Hold on for them. All right. Here we go. Help me, Lord. Help me speak this story.

So I tell them, so she has milk and stuff and cereal and stuff ready for me, man. and she was just so ready for me to come home and I have an ankle monitor on. I still ain't heard shit from the feds. But I have a really, really cool parole officer from the state named Gail Johnson, who I'm actually still friends with on Facebook right now. God, she was awesome.

She is the absolute best parole officer. Anyways, so I get released, and I tell my pops. My pops and I are detailing cars again. So I get released. I go by, I go by clippers. I want to be a barber. I want to go to barber school.

I get a backpack. I get a hand vac and everything. And I'm like, I'm going to cut hair and we're going to, and I'm going to build me a badass business cutting hair. And my dad's like, yeah, you can do that. You're going to detail cars with me too. I'm like, all right, cool. So we started detailing cars and I was letting everybody know I was cutting hair. and my sister's friends and my brother's friends and everybody,

they knew who I was and they were excited for me to get out. They didn't know who I was, but I met him. And they're like, oh, man, this dude's cool. Like, I didn't know you had such a cool-ass little brother. And I called the feds and I say, hey, what am I supposed to do? I said, I'm supposed to be on three years federal probation. I ain't heard nothing from y'all since I got sentenced. All right, we'll call you back.

And I'm sitting there for 48 hours, dude, just thinking, that they're going to come through the door and arrest me. And they don't. They call me back two days later, and they give me a probation officer. And I'm like, oh, thank God. Thank God. His name was Officer Poundts, and he was a good dude, too. So I'm on federal probation.

I'm detailing cars, and I'm cutting hair, and I'm afraid to go to a bank and even get a bank account, you know. So I have all the money that I'm making with my pops, detailing cars. I'm putting in this little bank bag. I call my sister and my brother and I say, hey, can I pick up poop for you guys again? I said, but I said, this time, you don't have to call me. I said, I'm going to be there every Friday and you're going to pay me 20 bucks. And I'll be there every Friday. I promise, I promise. Brother, I didn't have a driver's license. I didn't have a car. I didn't have a girlfriend. I had an ankle monitor on.

It was the middle of summer. And my neighbor, he says, hey, you know, if you're picking up poop, pick up, pick up dog poop for my yard too. So I'm like, all right, cool. So in the morning, I'm detailing cars with my pops. In the afternoon at night, I'm cutting hair. And every Friday, I'm picking up this dog poop. And everybody lives so close together. So, you know, I made a quick 60 bucks in like,

30 minutes, you know? And my dad's like, bud, you know, maybe you should get a few more customers. And I start doing the math. And I'm like, hold up, hold up, hold up. You're telling me at $20 a week and there's $52 weeks out of the year. That's equivalent to $1,040. I said, you're telling me if I get 50 customers, I can make $50,000. I was like, Pops, I'm going to get my 50. I was already used to knocking doors. I told my brother what I wanted to do, and my brother's like, damn, he said, yeah, that's a good idea.

My brother always wanted to start a poops scoop company. He never told me that my sister was telling me, you know, you should start a poops scoop company. And I'm like, yeah, I am, I am. my brother I don't have a lick to I don't have any money my first 500 bucks I made I went to the dentist because I had a huge gap and I had holes in my teeth

my smile was all messed up you know and that's the most important thing you know is your smile you know and I used to have a good smile but I had missing teeth so my first 500 bucks I made I went to the dentist and I got me a little flipper well I had the biggest list in the city when I when I reached out to carry do you want to go out of do you want to go on a date do you want to catch out yeah I just had a I just had a nasty list but anyways so I didn't have any money excuse me

my brother buys me a box of door hangers about 3,000 of them that says I scoop poop affordable weekly and biweekly rates call Stephen and with my number. And at this time, like, I already gained me like three or four more customers because every customer, because the cars that my dad and I were detailing, if I heard a dog bark, hey, hey, I'll come scoop your poop every week for, for 20 bucks. Yeah, and bam, I had like seven customers off the rip. I was like, okay. And my brother buys me these door hangers. And he says, where are you going with the door hangers, I said, I'm going to go pray over this box. And he started, my parents didn't know how spiritual I got in prison.

I haven't even, I kind of skipped over that whole part. Oh, forgive me, God. I rewind back. When I was in prison, I heard God tell me, Stephen, pray for others and you will be blessed. This is your calling. He says, Stephen, not all sin leads to death. Pray for others and you will be blessed. This is your calling.

And I heard it like three times. And I remember looking up in my bunk. And about five or six months prior, I remember cutting my finger and wiping my blood in a cross on top of the bunk. And I never saw it again because there was all kinds of graffiti and stuff on the bunk. And I had a lower bunk. When I heard those words, I was like, God, was that you? And I heard it again. And I looked up and I saw that cross with my blood on it.

And I was like, oh, damn. And I knew he was talking to me. And it made so much sense because when I was younger, dude, I always prayed for everything. And it would always dramatically come true quite quickly too. I knew that whatever I prayed for would come true. Like it was, I almost felt like I had this power. And then I got hooked on drugs at 15 to 27 and I stopped talking to God. So when I heard that, I was like, okay, I know what to do.

Pray for others. That makes sense. I started off the rip. I started praying for inmates even till this day. My mind's consumed by Jesus and the evil versus good and everything. I'm very aware of it. And it's a good thing because I'm always talking to him and I'm always praying for end of it. Not always.

And I'm not going to sit here and say like I'm holy because I'm definitely not. And I fall short every day. I gamble a little too much. I cuss a little too much. That's why we all need a savior because he forgives you. And I do feel forgiven. And my intentions are good. My intentions are to help people.

Those are my only attention is to help people and pray for people. Anyways. So I'm detailing cars, picking up poop, and cutting hair. I have about 10 customers now, which is cool.

And I'm on Facebook, man. I'm hitting up all the girls. Let me rewind back one more time. Remember hitting up all the girls. When I got those door hangers, my parents saw me with this box of door hangers too, and they said, where are you going to go with that box? I said, I'm going to go upstairs in my room, and I'm going to pray over this box.

I feel like this is a good idea. I said, I feel like I could build an empire with this for this poop scoop company, and my brother is going to help me. I go upstairs and I pray over this box. Oh, Father, God, in the name of Jesus, I pray over this box. God, I really, really feel like this is a good. good idea and I need you to help me with this bless me with good customers please god please help me with this i work for you amen and uh it was in the middle of summer and i had jeans on because of that

ankle monitor that had the first 60 days and i was just going door to door and putting these door tags on everybody's uh uh door my mom would drop me off at like uh 10 a m and at one side of the neighborhood. And she picked me up at 5.30 on the other side of the neighborhood because my parole requirements were to come back to my house at 6. And when she picked me up, how to go? I got two customers. I got two customers a day.

When I was putting these door hangers on, I would hear a dog bark. Bap, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, I'd knock on the door. Hey, my name's Steven. I'm the poop guy. Just want to let you know that I could come to your house every Friday and scoop your dog poop for $20. if that's okay. All I need is a name, number, and address, and I could start today. Really? Every Friday? Every Friday. I'll be here every Friday at 20 bucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And bam. And then the next day, pops, I got two customers, pops. I'm at 14 customers. 14. All I wanted was 50 to be at a $50,000 residual income. So it's cool, man. I'm building this. business and I reach out to Carrie. Carrie was my junior high crush. Her and I used to go to wet and wild when we were younger and I would always carry her tube up the slide and stuff and she liked me when I was younger. I did not think that that she did, but I definitely liked her, but I really thought that she wasn't into me. Well, when I got out, I was, you know, I was reaching out to a you girls and stuff. Hey, you want to come over, watch a movie, whatever, whatever. I can't leave.

I got an ankle monitor on. Yeah, sure, I'll be right there. But I reached out to Carrie and I was like, oh, man, look, she's single. She doesn't have a husband. She doesn't have kids. Hey, Carrie, what's up? You know, hey, how are you doing? Hey, just wondering if, you know, you want to meet up and have some dinner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Immediately she said yes. My mom, I didn't have a car, her driver's license, or anything. And my mom drops me off at walk-ons. And Carrie and I, we just start chopping it up. And I tell her everything about where I've been.

I was in prison for three years. I was married. I got a divorce in prison. I found Jesus. And now I have this poop scoop business. I also cut hair and I also detail cars. And I flip cars because, you know, there was. was a time when I flipped the truck, bought it for five grand, and flipped it for eight.

Anyways, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's changing the subject. But that's what my, that's what my pops taught me was to buy cars for cheap and flip them. I was, I was, I was busy, man. And I just wanted to stack up some bread because I saw the success that my brother and my sister had. So I said, I could do this. And I said, instead, I'm going to knock doors and I'm going to work for myself. And, um, carry was more fond.

bond of me knowing Jesus because she knows Jesus and she's, she walks that walk. And so, yeah, a few months later, we were hanging out all the time. And I asked her to be my girlfriend. And she became my girlfriend. And three years later, we ended up getting married. And she's my, she's my wife now. We got married in November of 2023. We just had our first son.

He's seven months old. His name is Lawson Wayne Trevino, and he is the best baby in the world. She has been so supportive through all of this, and she's had a front row seat to watching me build I scoop poop. So that's the, after I had about 20 customers, my brother says that he wants to be my business partner. And I said, yeah, dude, absolutely. Like, I need help, you know, collecting and stuff like that. And he says, all right, we're going to, we're going to make it Facebook official.

I said, all right, cool, cool, cool, cool. So we make it, we make it Facebook official. And they post a picture of me with my thumbs up. And I have a truck full of poop, you know, just in, just in grocery bags. And it's stacked all the way up. And the caption says, Hi, I'm Stephen. I'm the owner of I Scoop Poop or your dog's business is my business. I have very affordable weekly and biweekly rates.

If you don't want to ever pick up dog poop again, reach out to me. And bam, my number was right there. Man, dude, when I put it on Facebook, it blew up. Everybody was signing up. Everybody. And everybody who I would service on the first day, I would ask him to give me a shout out on Facebook, give me a shout out on the next door app any kind of community facebook page you have please if you would just give me a shout out and say that you were satisfied with me picking up your dog poop

today and uh i say okay okay i will and dude my phone my phone was blowing off the hooks by uh by december 31st um of 2020 i had 45 customers by my 31st birthday which was february 21st of I hit my 100 customers. And it was, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that my brother and I built a six-figure residual income business. I could not believe it. And I was just like, wow, this is, this is nuts. And my phone kept ringing.

And I was like, this is too, this is too good to be true. because now I don't even really have to work and I can make money because I hired a guy named Sam and he had his own truck and I would give him the route and go do he would go do 30 houses in six hours the houses were so close to each other you could do five to six houses an hour and I would just pay him to do it I pay him you know 15 bucks an hour plus gas compensation and he was happy with that so I was still detailing cars with my pops I had this business a six figure business and I was still cutting hair at night. It was, it was unbelievable. But I started feeling really, really guilty. Do you want to ask me a question? No, you're doing great, man. Keep going. Sorry, dog.

I felt really guilty. I felt really bad. I felt like this was all too good to be true. I couldn't sleep at night. Like my revenge wanted to be my success. for everybody who doubted me. Everybody who doubted me and left me when I was in prison who never wrote me back, I wanted to just be like, you know what, you were wrong, you know? When I was in there, you know,

I was told, you know, who's going to want to hire you? How are you going to support me? Are you just going to wash cars with your dad and pick up poop? You know, it's, and I'm just like, man, I said, yeah, yeah, and I'm going to work out and I'm going to do my best. And she looks at me and says, you're not going to work out.

And I'm like, damn. I'm like, all right, watch this. So I started working now, and I started reading the Bible, and I wanted my success to be my revenge. But it kind of flipped on me. Because now, God is blessing me in more ways than one. And I'm asking God like Jesus, like, Thank you. Thank you. This is too much. Like, like, I feel like, man, you're really blessing me. Like, like now, you know, my ankle monitor's off. I got a nice truck now. And I have, I have a great income. And I'm just like, man, so I started feeling really guilty. And my wife, Carrie, she would wake up in the middle of the night. What's wrong? Why do you, why do you, why do you keep cussing?

Because I would turn over. Damn. Shit. And she said, why do you keep cussing? And I said, I said, babe, you don't know. You don't know the messed up things that I used to do. I said, I wasn't a good person.

And I just feel so guilty. I feel guilty of, like, who I was and the people I hurt. And I said, I just feel guilty. And I said, and I'm going to lose it. I'm going to lose it. I'm going to lose you. I'm going to lose the business. I'm going to get locked back up again.

I said, I just know it. I know it. It always happens. It always happens. I always fuck up. And it always happened. I always fucked up. And it was, she said, hey, she said, you are not that guy no more.

She said, if you were that guy, I wouldn't be here. She says, I understand you can't forgive yourself, but you need to. She said, because Jesus is already forgiven you. And I was like, damn. I was like, man. I need to marry this girl. I need to marry this girl. It's hard to find a faithful woman who loves Jesus more than she loves you. And I said, okay. I said, okay, I will. And I remember I was scooping up poop one time for this customer. Her name was Andrea. And it was so weird. She was like, she's like, you have a real good. She's like, you have a real good energy about you. She says, you have a beautiful soul. And I said, thank you, Andrew.

I appreciate it. And she had poop all over her yard. I'm just scooping and listening to her. And she says, I have a gift and God has a message for you. I want you to listen. And I said, what do you mean? And she's like, she's like, you've been struggling with something, haven't you? And she's like, yeah.

And she says, and you just found out that you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody right? And I said, yeah. I said, how would you know that? I said, I'm getting engaged tomorrow. And my mom and my sister and my brother are the only ones that know that. It's impossible that you know that. She said, I have a gift. And she said, God wants me to tell you that the way you trust in him is the way you need to trust in yourself because you are not going to fail. And I was like, oh, damn. Like who says, who says? that to people. You know, that's a powerful statement. And she's like, your dad, he's a little overwhelmed. Your dad's a little overwhelmed by your success. And I said, how do you know that? And she says, she says, he is. He doesn't know how to take it. She says, you know, he's just, he's just a little, he's scared too. She said, he's scared too. You need to let him know that you're not going to fail. And I was like, damn. And I was like, man, thank you. Thank you so much for telling you.

me that and I ended up giving her the service for free. I called my parents. I said, can y'all meet me at Buffalo Wildlings? They said, yeah. And I met him. And I was like, Pops, is there anything you want to tell me? He's like, nah, but I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. And I said, Pops, I want to let you know I'm not going to fail. I don't want you to have reservations for me that I'm going to fuck up because I'm not. And he, you could tell it struck a nerve in his heart. And he was like, I know, but I know. And, yeah, man, I was really struggling with my success for a while. But I ended up shaking it away, man.

And I ended up continuously working. We had about 250 customers. About two years and some change later, we had about 250 customers, my brother and I. which was awesome. I was like, man, I can't believe this, bro. Like, boy, we need to go on a trip. And I remember we had all these trucks. I had three work trucks, and my employees would come to my house,

and they would pick up the truck, and they would go pick up poop, and then they would come back, and I would have to bag up all the poop, put it in one truck, and take it to the dump. At one point, we had 2,000 pounds of poop for three days of accumulation. I mean, that's how much poop who were picking up. up. And I was telling Tony, I was like, man, dude, I said, these trucks are costing us a lot of money between the commercial insurance and the gas. And that was when gas was really high, probably

about just as high as it is right now. And I said, we need to do something. We need to transform this business. And he said, hey, dude, that's, you know, gas is part of a business expense. I said, no, I said, there's got to be a better way because when we first started, I said, there was no expenses. I'm better off having 150 customers by myself and just doing it by myself than having 250 and three employees and trucks and all that. I said, we're doing it wrong. How do you want to do it? And my, one of my friends, he told me he had a business similar to what I had. He was, I don't, I don't know what it was, but he didn't have, he would have their people use their cars and it saved him a lot of money and I said, dude, I'm going to do the same thing. So I told all of my employees,

guys, if you want to work for me, you have to use your own car. And we're going to put a magnet on your car that says, I scoop poop. And I'm going to show you, if you have a car, I'm going to show you how to work from the trunk and keep everything clean and nice to where it doesn't stink. We're going to use contractor bags real big. And it worked. And I have two employees right now who one drives a maxima, one drives a Honda Accord. And they scoop up poop for me in the back. at their trunk and keep everything back. And man, it was like the most awesome business transformation because bam, now we were back, now we were back in the green.

And we were making good money and we, you know, are only, I mean, yeah, we have expenses, but it was just payroll and insurance and phone bills and gas, but it was cool, man. The CEO of Fossil just became our customer, which is cool. I don't know if you know about fossil watches. Are you familiar with fossil watches? Yeah. I've been wearing fossil watches since forever.

And he became a customer of ours, which is cool. And that's why we expanded out there to North Dallas. But now we have between 525, 530 weekly and biweekly customers. I have one full-time employee. I have three part-time employees. just recently back in July, I was so overweight. Are you one of those media strategy people clicking through slides, scrolling spreadsheets? Yes? Good. This is for you. Because on Spotify, there's an audience that's different, locked in, loyal, invested. They're called fans.

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and I couldn't find good help. And I was praying to God, Lord, please, please help me find a good employee. maybe the week later, I had to reschedule all of my Monday customers to Tuesday because it rained really bad on Monday. And when I did, I was working the Monday route on Tuesday and I ran into this other pooper scooper. And I was like, hey, what's up, man? He's like, hey, I was like, you're scooping poop too. He's like, yeah, we started chopping it up. And he showed me that he had 241 five-star reviews. He was doing about, you know, 45 to 55 houses a day about what, what I do. And I was like, dang. And he was looking for another job. And I said, why do you want another job?

I said, they give you a truck. You have a nice little Maverick. I said, it seems like, you know, you're, seems like everything's going good for you. Why do you want to, why do you want to work for me? And he said, man, I do not like my boss. My boss treats me terrible. And I just want to. to get away from him. So I said, so you want a full-time job. He said, yeah. I said, and you could do this many houses a day. He said, yes, sir. I said, I want you to put in your two-week notice with your current company and then come holler at me when that's up and I'll have a job for you. And he says, he says, yes, sir. He quit on Friday. He quit on Friday. He quit on Friday. And that Monday, he came to work for me.

And, man, when I tell you, when I ask God for a good employee, I wasn't expecting somebody like him. His name's Randall, and he's a monster. I wasn't expecting somebody like him. I was expecting somebody to work two or three days out of the week and, you know, do 30, 30 houses at the most. But, nah, man, that's the power of prayer, you know. And, yeah, dude, between the good employee,

getting the trust of my family back, me and my brother being cool, just my wife, my kid, my trucks, just everything, man. I'm very, very blessed, and I don't take any credit for it. I thank God for all of that. So what happened to the feds? So about eight months later,

my probation officer, officer calls me and says, Mr. Trevino. I said, what's up? He said, you never went to the feds, did you? I said, no. I said, I told you this. I reached out to y'all. He says, you have a warrant out for your arrest right now. Do not go anywhere. I said, why? He says, they think you're on the run. They have pictures and photos of you and they're about to kick down your door. Do not go anywhere. I said, okay, okay, okay, what do I do? He's like, I'm talking to the judge right now. I said, okay. He says, I'll call you back. He calls me back a few hours later.

And he says, the warrant's going to be lifted. And he said, I have never, ever seen the judge do this. But he gave you time served. And I said, are you serious? He gave me time served. I don't have to go to the feds. He says, nope. He says, I told him how good you were doing.

You had a very successful business. You have an employee who depends on you for a paycheck. He says, I told him how good you were doing. And he gave you time. served. Wow. And I said, oh my God. I said, I, I fasted about that. Jesus, let's go. I see you, Jesus. I fasted about that. I fasted for seven days in return. I asked if God could give me time served from the fence. And I never had a hold on me. And I got time served. Not on, not on my timing, not what I wanted. I wanted time serve right then and there. Not, bro. It was on it was on God's

timing. Now, you mentioned it earlier. What happens when you have, about bank accounts when you robbed a bank, when you have a bank robbery charge? I don't know. Are you able, do you have a bank account? Yeah. So you're able to open one, no problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a, I got a few accounts. Just probably not the bank that you tried to rob. Yeah, it was Chase Bank. And, I mean, technically you didn't take any money from them. You didn't have restitution. I bet you if I wanted to get a bank account at Chase Bank that they would, that they would allow me to, especially a business account, you know. What do you think is the biggest lesson that, you know,

everything that's happened to you has taught you through, you know, addiction and going to prison and building a business after? What's that lesson you want to share with everyone? Oh, man, it was not thinking that I have control. My greatest lesson was surrendering my soul to God. and letting him take control. In Proverbs, it says, don't lean on your own understanding, lean on his.

If you want to gain wisdom at all, you got to read Proverbs. That's how anyone can gain wisdom. And when you're reading Proverbs, dude, you're just, like you're reading it and you're like, okay, I want that. Okay, I want that. Okay, how do I get that? You got to call out to it.

And it's just miraculous, words, you know, better to be, better to be rich and act poor than to be poor and act rich. It even says, you know, somebody who is quick to anger is a fool, you know, someone who doesn't heed correction is stupid. And it's true. Like, some of the stuff I'm guilty of, sometimes I'm a little quick to anger, you know. But it was my biggest and most important lesson slash message. is especially for all my addicts out there,

is that I know that I couldn't do it alone. And whenever you find that out and give it to God and let him take control of it and stay in good communication with them, make him a promise about a sin that you love, a sin that you love that you wish would go away. Make him a promise. not to do it again and stick with it. Make it the most important thing you've ever done in your life.

Make that promise to live obedient. Read Proverbs. NLT Bible. Proverbs. And man, it will change your life. It changed mine. I'm doing what he told me to do. Pray for others and you will be blessed. This is your calling. I heard that. I know what I have to do. I did that. I'm doing that. And dude, I am more blessed than I've ever been. People always ask me, oh, dude, you need a franchise. You need a franchise. And instead of making, you know, half a million dollars, you can make two million. And I think to myself, bro, I don't want to.

I have a great, I have a great income. I could do whatever I want. My time is so valuable to me. I could take off of work whenever I want. I could go on vacation whenever I want. I don't need a million dollars. I'm not in love with money. I'm in love with God and my time with my family.

And right now, I'm content with the way things are. I'm content with my relationship with my family. My relationship with my wife is amazing. My time, my freedom, who cares about chasing commas? You know, it's more than that. All that is vanity. All that goes away. important thing that you could do in life is have a relationship with God and do what he

tells you to do because that brings you peace that brings you happiness that brings you true joy and it even says in the Bible that there's I can't hit it up word for word but it says there's nothing better in life than to eat drink and reward yourself with your hard-earned money Think about that. Whenever you go out with your boys, you're eating and you're drinking, having a good time. There's nothing better than to eat and drink and be married with the people you love and reward yourself with your hard-earned money.

And when you enjoy that, that's the hand of God. That's a gift from God. And that specifically says that in Ecclesiastes. There's nothing better than that, bro. And I'm living that right now. I'm happy. and my promise to God is the most important promise I've ever made in my life. And I can't imagine what would happen if I broke it.

Could you imagine if you love God so much and you leaned on him and depended on him for everything? And you made a promise to him and you broke it, how pissed off he'd be. He's one that gives. He's one that takes. And just do what pleases him, bro. Anyways, my bad.

I'm not going to get all that. Holy and Christian on you, but... Stephen, I appreciate you coming on the show, man. This was an awesome episode, and I'm so glad you've been able to find success, and I wish you the best. Thanks, brother. I appreciate it. Appreciate you.