The Code To Winning - $50,000 DEAL CHANGED EVERYTHING: THE BLUEPRINT TO REAL ESTATE FREEDOM || JAMIL DAMJI || EPISODE 069

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

Jamil Damji’s story is one of the most powerful examples of resilience and reinvention you’ll ever hear. As the co-founder of Keegly, a national real estate wholesaling franchise with over 100+ lo...cations, and founder of AstroFlipping, one of the largest real estate training communities in the country, Jamil has helped transform thousands of lives through real estate education and mindset mastery. But before the success, the fame, and the seven-figure deals, his life was filled with unimaginable pain.   From being bullied, beaten, and even chained as a child, to battling addiction, poverty, and hopelessness, Jamil’s early life was marked by struggle. Yet through every dark chapter, he refused to give up on himself or his dreams. His journey from addiction to becoming a multi-millionaire real estate entrepreneur proves that no matter where you start, transformation is always possible when you choose to rise above your circumstances.   In this powerful conversation, Jamil shares the $50,000 deal that changed everything, the mindset shift that turned him into an opportunist in real estate, and the importance of staying authentic and aligned with your purpose. He also opens up about the emotional story of a homeless Indian girl that completely shifted his perspective on success and fulfillment — a story that will stay with you long after the episode ends.   Whether you’re looking for motivation, healing, or insight into real estate success, this interview will challenge the way you think about winning. It’s more than just business — it’s about growth, gratitude, and becoming the person you were meant to be.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 And I'm walking by a house that has a for rent sign on it. Now, oddly enough, I was actually trying to rent the house a few months earlier, but it was $200 a month out of my budget. So it was the upper floor and I really could only afford a basement suite. So I didn't get to rent the house, but it was still available three months later. So I call. And the lady picks up the phone and I ask her if she'd be interested in selling it instead of renting it because she hasn't been successful yet. And her answer was, sure, for the right price. And I asked what that number would be.
Starting point is 00:00:27 And she said, I need at least $350,000 for the house. And I'm like, cool, thank you. So I run to the office and I go talk to my partner. And I think this was the pivotal moment for me because most people would go into that meeting and say, I can buy this house for $350,000, which, you know, would be the normal thing to do. But my mind didn't work like that. I went in and I said, hey, here's an address of a lady who's interested in selling her house. What would you pay for that?
Starting point is 00:00:51 And then he says, 400,000 all day. I'm like, cool, thanks. Let me work on it. So now I have a $50,000 problem to solve because I can buy the house for $350,000. grand. I can sell the house for 400 grand and I don't have any money. What do I do? Well, I do what I had been doing every day for the last six months, which was go into the yellow pages and start calling people. And I tell them everything that I'm going through. I'm like, I can buy this house for $350,000. I don't have any money. I have a buyer for it for $400,000. And I just don't
Starting point is 00:01:19 know how to do this. Do you know where I could borrow money? Do you know anything like how transaction like this could get done? And he says, oh my God, that's so easy. You want to do what's called a skip transfer. I'm like, huh? It's like, yeah, that's called a skip transfer. I'm like, okay, so what do you mean? It's like, well, what you're going to need is two contracts. What's your email address? I'll send them to you now. I'm like, okay. So he emails me a contract. He's like, all right. So it's the same contract. One of them is going to be one where you're buying the property for 350,000. Now, just know this on the name where it says your name, just write and or a signy. On the second contract, you're going to be the seller and you're going to have the $400,000
Starting point is 00:01:55 price. So you're going to buy it for $350. You're going to sell. You're going to sell. for 400 everything else on those contracts has to match up so I don't need money says no I'm like how it's like well the buyer who's gonna buy it for 400 grand is gonna bring the money to the table I'm gonna use that money to pay the 350,000 you can do that he's like oh yeah people do this all the time and it gave me a model because I took that first deal and I didn't look back I then went drove around every neighborhood of that city looking for every for sign that I could find and then I went and got newspapers and I would call the classified section of the newspaper everywhere that there was a for rent section obviously the paradigm shift
Starting point is 00:02:36 completely changed making 50,000 from one transaction is what usually people would make not even in a food calendar year as well what was the next step to try and like you know put this into provision and try and build like an empire from like the whole set well I just started doing it more and more and more and more and I got to a in your mind looking at that time frame between like seven-year period knowing how much you potentially made even though you you took a break, you realized the potential that is there and the circumstances that you face, considering that you were younger, how did you end up like incorporating getting back into the real estate space while you were in the US?
Starting point is 00:03:08 I think that I'm supposed to do this. And I believe that with all of my heart because everything that has pulled me here has been an organic pull. How am I going to do this? I'm as this broke-ass comedian in L.A. I can barely live. So I'm now going back to what I know makes money. And so I open up the internet, I go into Craigslist, and I start looking at real estate in
Starting point is 00:03:32 the... The code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow. This is going to be a very unique special guest. We have a man who literally drove hours and hours away to come to the studio. He is... I'll call him one of the godfathers of wholesaling. So if you're curious learning about like astrophlipping, wholesaling, learning about real estate, we have the OG in the studio with us.
Starting point is 00:04:00 So this next episode, tune in. I will have a lot of the links in the description section as well. But before I begin, some intros I usually just like to say from the top of my head, but this one I'm going to read word for it because it's too darn good for me to miss a single term. So without further ado, his name is Jamil Damjeet. Is an internationally renowned real estate investor and entrepreneur whose true passion is to empower others to create generational wealth through real estate. Jamil co-founded Kegli,
Starting point is 00:04:31 a nationally franchise real estate wholesaling, outlet operating in 118 markets and counting. Additionally, Jamil is a visionary behind astrophlipping. We're going to talk a lot about that. The most successful community of real estate wholesalers with over 4,000 active members and 10 million of dollars in student profit. So like I said, an OG.
Starting point is 00:04:54 I'm super excited to have him over a year. He took flights. He took, you know, driving all the way to get just so a bit. Road a camel. That was an interesting part of the journey. Why didn't you tell me I was going to ride a camel to get here, David, in the middle of the desert here. And where are we, Morocco? Casablanca, do you be exact.
Starting point is 00:05:14 Also, thank you very much for coming to me. Of course. Great to be here. Thank you for the invitation. And for any of you that are wondering, we're in Phoenix, Arizona. and it was about a 20 minute drive from my house. Also, I want to know, what was the defining moment? You're Indian, obviously, ethnically wise,
Starting point is 00:05:34 and I know that you obviously left the passion for pursuing medicine to try and... Well, I was never passionate about it. I was just told that's what I was going to do. I was, my family, you know, when you grow up Indian, you've got a couple of choices for a career path. engineer or it's a doctor. Right? Like, even trying to be an attorney, which I would have been more suited for my gifts because
Starting point is 00:05:58 I'm, you know, a talker. I love communication. I was winning debate in speech competitions as a young kid. And so, or, you know, being an orator was a part of, I imagine, my life plan. And my parents were just not for it. Like, you know, I had so many teachers say to my mom and dad, he would be an incredible attorney. You know, this guy could be a politician one day.
Starting point is 00:06:22 but it was just like doctor don't come home you know and so yeah i didn't get into medical school and so that started a whole new path but i wasn't passionate about it and i and i can and i understand why i didn't get in even though i had phenomenal scores on my medical school entrance exam the mcats i had near 4.0 GPA i was not authentically a doctor like i i wanted when i when i was asked what type of medicine do you want to practice? I said, I want to be a plastic surgeon for the, for the purposes of what it can make you financially. You shouldn't give a guy like that, the power to write prescriptions, right? Because I probably was going to do not the right things, you know, and I don't believe I was in there for the right reasons. And so I'm, I'm grateful.
Starting point is 00:07:10 I'm so grateful that that whoever it was that made the decision that said no to me, did that because my life is so much better than it would have been if I was a doctor. Oh no, I couldn't agree more. And like I think I told you earlier on before we started when we were talking, I'm originally from South Africa. So historical context, if you know that South Africa has got the highest population of Indian people actually outside India in terms of numbers. And so growing up, even in high school, the smartest kids were Indians. Yeah. And just it's like almost a culturally like invested way to try and teach kids.
Starting point is 00:07:42 Listen, yeah, learn, get the best grades and usually end up becoming like the engineers and the doctors. but even coming to America living in both coast, east coast and west coast, you'd see it in the Wall Street. Like, you know, you see it in Silicon Valley, especially living in the Bay Area. You know, they follow that path. However, I've been seeing a change, though. Like, I've been seeing a lot within like the entrepreneurial space and becoming super successful. I mean, I'll follow Vivekram Swami, massive fan of him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:07 But, yeah, so I want to know, like, how did you get that first wholesale deal? What made you pursue that journey? It was an accident, a happy one. So, you know, I don't get into medical school, and now I'm kind of like, what do I do with myself? And I'm getting into trouble. I grew up in an interesting demographic and, you know, part of my part of Calgary, Alberta, where I grew up. I was surrounded by violence, surrounded by, you know, not the best ways to make money. Just that was my, that was my world. That was my environment. But I was a little, I was different from them because, A, I'm Indian B, I'm also smart.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Like, I'm really intelligent, but I'm just, my environment is not conducive to me letting that be a real thing. And so the girl I'm dating is kind of, you know, trying to push me away from the friends and the people. And she says, hey, you know, there's this, there's this friend of mine who has a media company that is struggling. They can't make any sales. and you're awesome on the phone because I was working as a telemarketer part-time to pay bills and whatnot. And so that's where I met the girl that put me in touch with these people. And she's like, you're always winning the sales competitions. You're so good on the phone.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Why don't you try talking to these guys and seeing if there's an opportunity for you there? So I go. I meet these people. And it's a startup. They're in the business of reaching out to business owners, convincing them that the thing called the internet was real and that they should start investing in building websites instead of only advertising in the yellow pages. And so that was the company. It was called Trinity Media House. They were selling six-page websites for $600. It was like an about me page,
Starting point is 00:09:59 contact page, a glossary, all the little services we provide, all the things. And where was this in? In Calgary. And so I get in and in one week, I, I, sell more websites than they sold in a quarter. And so they really want me in this company. They want me to come in, bring my sales skills, and help them. It's a long answer to my first wholesale deal, but I'll get there, I promise. So I tell them I want to take over the company. If they want me there, I want 51% ownership of it. I was bold. And they're like, yeah, okay. We're literally a week away from going under if you don't come in and save us. So whatever you want. Now, not the best move on my part because I didn't know anything about how these guys operated and come to find out
Starting point is 00:10:55 that every six page website I sold for $600 actually cost us $700 to make. These guys sucked. They had no clue what their costs were. They didn't understand anything. They were just brand new entrepreneurs as well. The funny thing about it is that the other owner in that company, he was also doing real estate with his father, and that's what got me to my first wholesale deal. Because I'm struggling in this company. We're trying to sell these websites every week. Cash is coming in, but more cash is leaving than is coming in, and I can't make sense of it all. Like, it's like, what is going on here? Meanwhile, I hear my partner and his dad popping a bottle of champagne because they just sold a luxury duplex that made them $160,000. And I'm figuring out how to
Starting point is 00:11:39 survive on $200 bucks a week, right? So I ask, how do I get involved in what you guys are doing? And they're immediately saying, you can't, dude. You don't have any money. You don't have any credit. You don't have a real estate license. Like, what could you possibly bring to the table? And I didn't have an idea for them.
Starting point is 00:11:57 I had nothing. And so they carried on. Now, in that conversation, however, they start complaining about needing more building lots. So then I jump back into the conversation. I said, well, what does that mean? What do you need? They're like, well, we need more houses to tear down because these duplexies. is we take these old bungalows and we tear them down and then we build a luxury duplex.
Starting point is 00:12:18 So they need to be, you know, 50 feet with at least 110 feet in depth. They need to be zoned R2 so that we can subdivide and put a duplex on there. And they need to be in these specific areas of the city, their inner city part of Calgary. Oddly enough, I live in an inner city neighborhood in a rental there. And that, in the neighborhood that I'm living in, this type of development is rampant. It's like they're tearing down houses left, right, and center over there and building up these duplexes. And so I am very familiar with the types of projects they're talking about. The next morning, after I hear this and have this conversation with them, I'm walking my dog, and I'm walking by a house that has a for rent sign on it.
Starting point is 00:12:59 Now, oddly enough, I was actually trying to rent the house a few months earlier, but it was $200 a month out of my budget. Okay. So it was the upper floor, and I really could only afford a basement suite. So I didn't get to rent that. house, but it was still available three months later. So I call. And the lady picks up the phone and I ask her if she'd be interested in selling it instead of renting it because she hasn't been successful yet. And her answer was sure, for the right price. And I asked what that number would be. And she said, I need at least 350,000 for the house. And I'm like, cool, thank you. So I run to the office and I go
Starting point is 00:13:34 talk to my partner. And I think this was the pivotal moment for me because most people would go into that meeting and say, I can buy this house for $350,000, which, you know, would be the normal thing to do. But my mind didn't work like that. I went in and I said, hey, here's an address of a lady who's interested in selling her house. What would you pay for that? And then he says, 400,000 all day. I'm like, cool, thanks. Let me work on it. So now I have a few. $50,000 problem to solve because I can buy the house for $350,000, I can sell the house for $400,000, and I don't have any money. What do I do? Well, I do what I had been doing every day for the last six months, which was go into the yellow pages and start calling people, so I start calling
Starting point is 00:14:21 attorneys in the yellow pages. And I get all the way to the letter S in that section. And an attorney by the name of David Steed picks up the phone. He's fresh out of law school, doesn't even have a secretary yet. And I tell him everything that I'm going through. I'm like, I can buy this house for 350,000. I don't have any money. I have a buyer for it for 400,000. And I just don't know how to do this. Do you know where I could borrow money? Do you know anything like how a transaction like this could get done? And he says, oh my God, that's so easy. You want to do what's called a skip transfer. I'm like, huh? He's like, yeah, that's called a skip transfer. I'm like, okay, so what do you mean? He's like, well, what you're going to need is two contracts.
Starting point is 00:15:05 What's your email address? I'll send them to you now. I'm like, okay. So he emails me a contract. He's like, all right. So it's the same contract. One of them is going to be one where you're buying the property for $350,000. Now just know this on the name where it says your name, just write and or a signy.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Okay. On the second contract, you're going to be the seller. And you're going to have the $400,000 price. So you're going to buy it for $350. You're going to sell for $400. everything else on those contracts has to match up. From inspection times to deposit amounts to closing dates to the attorney, who's me, fill all of that out. If you have any questions, you can call me.
Starting point is 00:15:46 I can help you with filling out the contract. And as soon as they're done, bring them to my office. And then what happens? He says, well, I'll start doing my job. And in a couple of weeks, if everything works out, I'll have a check for you. I said, so I don't need money? He says, no. I'm like, how?
Starting point is 00:16:05 He's like, well, the buyer who's going to buy it for 400 grand is going to bring the money to the table. I'm going to use that money to pay the $350,000. Like, you can do that? He's like, oh, yeah. People do this all the time. And that was it. Wow. Mind, paradigm change, right?
Starting point is 00:16:25 Because now I have a tool. And I actually do it. it. I pull it off. I get the house under contract. I sell the deal. It turns out to be $47,000 and change after the attorney took his fee. Wow. And I have this cashier's check that I'm fearful of cashing. I didn't cash that thing for months, bro. I folded it up. I put it in my wallet and I just walked around with it. Like, I didn't know what to do. And then a friend of mine was like, if you don't cash that thing, it's going to expire. Oh, yeah. You got to cash that. I was fearful. I was still living in lack. I was still living in all of this in scarcity. I didn't think
Starting point is 00:17:06 that that could happen again. And so, like, I was guarding that 50,000 with my life. It was more money than I'd ever seen. But it gave me a model because I took that first deal and I didn't look back. I then went, drove around every neighborhood of that city looking for every for rent sign that I could find. And then I went and got the newspapers. And I would called the classified section of the newspaper, everywhere that there was a for rent section. Which year was this? This would be early 2000.
Starting point is 00:17:36 So it's like 2002. 2002. That's crazy. The early days of the internet, early everything. Microsoft XP kind of coming out. It's like, yeah, we're, we're, I mean, it's like, I'm using internet explorer as my browser. You know, like it's early, early internet. It's AOL days, you know.
Starting point is 00:17:58 That's mad. And from then, obviously, the paradigm shift completely changed. Making $50,000 from one transaction is what usually people would make, not even in a full calendar year as well. What was the next step to try and, like, you know, put this into fruition and try and build like an empire from like, in a wholesaling? Well, I just started doing it more and more and more and more.
Starting point is 00:18:16 And I got to a place where I, I pieced together what was going on. Yeah. Right? I'm like, okay. So these developers need this product. They need these houses to tear down. Well, where else? is stuff like this happening. And then I'm looking at condominiums that are in town and they're
Starting point is 00:18:34 taking these old apartment buildings and they're and they're gutting them and they're turning them into luxury condos. And they're, you know, they're taking the one apartment building and turning them into condo, condo buildings. And so I'm like, well, maybe I can wholesale that. I didn't call it wholesaling at the time. I didn't even know wholesaling was a word. But maybe I can skip transfer one of those things, right? And so that's what I did. I went driving around the neighborhoods, calling anywhere that there was a building. that had a for rent sign that was handwritten, like, I knew it was self-managed. And if it was self-managed, that means that the owner or someone close to the owner
Starting point is 00:19:07 was going to answer the call when I call on the for-rent sign. Smart, yeah. And so I would make a hundred grand flipping those buildings. And I, for a few years, just stacked money. I didn't, you know, it was interesting. I'm, of course, I'm in my early 20s, so I'm buying dumb stuff, right? Like I end up buying myself a home that overlooks the entire town. I buy my mom a house on a lake.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I buy too many cars. I have a very expensive, very, very manipulative girlfriend. It's like I do all the things that you should do in your 20s when you become a millionaire. Right? You mess it all up. Especially when you haven't experienced that before. Oh yeah. Exactly. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:53 And like, and then it all. all left. I lost it all in 2008. And it was an interesting loss because I build up 12 million bucks essentially from 2002 to 2007 call it. I make like $12 million. And I'm loaded. I've got a bunch of cash, a bunch of cars. Like, life is great. I could, I never think I can lose it. And what takes me down? I'm standing. One day the developer who I'm selling these apartment buildings to, he pulls up. He wants to meet me because he's like, who is this kid who I'm buying all these buildings from? Like, I want to see this guy.
Starting point is 00:20:36 I want to meet this guy. So he's telling his acquisitions person, when I come to town, have him meet me. Bring him to the building. I want to shake this guy's hand. And so I was like, cool. I go and I'm waiting for him outside and this Rolls-Royce Phantom pulls up. now I don't have a Rolls Royce at that time, right? And so I see this phantom pull up and this woman walks out of the car.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Oh my goodness. It's like one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen in my life. Bumba cluck. And then this guy walks out of the car and he's like five foot two, maybe 180 pounds. And he's bald. And he's like, his belly's falling out of his pants. Like I'm like, this dude has that. girl.
Starting point is 00:21:25 The methane method. And I was like, I got it. This is how I do it. I got to do what he's doing. And so the next four buildings that I got under contract, I didn't wholesale. I bought them. I closed on them. And I had my mom and dad co-sign all the construction loans.
Starting point is 00:21:47 And then the market crashed. Oh, 2008 financial crisis. And I lost all. of it. Not only did I lose the 12 million in cash I made. I lost all of those buildings. I was negative $1.8 million at the end of it. Wow. And I remember, I think it was the Oenagoration Day in 2009, 20th of January. The Dow continued to plummet that day as well. And then it continued like the next few months, just everything just going down with trajectory. So that affected you still in Algarite in Canada at that time because it was such a good effect. Well, yeah, it was global, right? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:22:23 I, you know, I'm in my 20s, of course. I don't know how to mitigate that type of a problem. Like I didn't know that I could go and negotiate all the, and I'm in Canada at this point, too. So like banking is way different in Canada that it is in the States. The banks are essentially the government in Canada. Like the government is involved in the banks and they have the police behind them. It's not like banks here where it's like a private entity. In Canada, they're way too.
Starting point is 00:22:53 intertwined. It's like it's social, it's it's it's borderline communism in Canada, right? It's a social democracy. And so the government has has their hands in everything. Everything from from media to the electric company utilities, banking, all of it. The government is involved in everything. And they were also involved in banking. And so when they want to take a building back, when they want to when they want to take something from you, they take it. That's ridiculous. It was. It was. It was. It was. It's borderline criminal. If that would if what had happened to us in those buildings being taken away, the way that they took them happened here in the United States, it would have been a, it would have been fraudulent banking. It would have been predatory lending.
Starting point is 00:23:39 In Canada, it's business. And so it is what it is. I'm, I'm not salty about it. I, I, I, had to take a break from real estate for a little while after that. And I went to become a stand-up comedian in LA. So I went and did like a few years of stand up and sketch comedy and like just kind of licked my wounds and and figured it out. But you know the I think the hardest thing about that is the fact that in your mind looking at that time frame between like seven year period knowing how much you potentially made even though you took a break you realized the potential that is there and the circumstance that you face considering that you were younger. The beautiful thing about experiences that you end up learning from your flaws, your mistakes, your shortcomings as well.
Starting point is 00:24:24 How did you end up incorporating getting back into the real estate space while you were in the U.S.? Well, you know, again, one of those accidental, happy accidents, right? I need these accidents, Jamil. Where do I get these accidents? I really think that I'm supposed to do this. And I believe that with all of my heart, because everything that has pulled me here has been an organic pull. It wasn't me like running out and saying, I'm going to do this thing. It was like, well, this is the most obvious next choice. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:00 So I'm in L.A. I'm not successful as a comedian. I'm doing okay, right? I'm making some money, but I'm not Kevin Hart, right? I don't, I'm not on television or anything like that. I've been on a few stages. I get, you know, I get booked on, on, to do actual sets on at, at, at nice comedy clubs. You know, I performed at the comedy store.
Starting point is 00:25:25 I performed at the Hollywood Improv at the Laugh Factory. I've, I've been on big stages. But I wasn't a headliner by any means, right? I was like the, I was the filler dude in the middle. You know, I'm that guy at that point. And, um, I had just asked my, uh, the girl I was with if she wanted to, if she would marry me. And of course, she says, yes,
Starting point is 00:25:48 but now I'm like, how am I going to support this family, right? Like she's in Canada, I have to immigrate her to the States. How am I going to do this? As this broke-ass comedian in L.A., I can barely live. So I'm now going back to what I know makes money.
Starting point is 00:26:10 And so I open up the internet, I go into Craigslist and I start looking at real estate in Phoenix because funny enough in Phoenix, you could put these properties under contract that were short sales and you could wholesale those. I didn't understand the whole mechanics behind it because I was just getting back into it. But I started looking at real estate in Phoenix. And my sister, on the other hand, she had been trying to rebuild our family. So the four years of hiatus that I took as a comedian, thankfully my sister was the like the saving grace of our family because she had went and worked on rebuilding a little bit of cash for us in Canada.
Starting point is 00:26:51 We had a couple of buildings that didn't get foreclosed on that we were able to keep, but they were in the roughest neighborhood in all of Canada. It's called the North Central part of Regina, Saskatchewan. A hellhole. She took those two buildings that we actually bought as a joke. We bought these two buildings as a joke for a birthday present for my dad. we were like let's go buy our dad two multi-family buildings in the worst neighborhood in all of Canada for his birthday and those were the two buildings they ended up saving our asses my sister went and they were condemned
Starting point is 00:27:25 and unit by unit renovated them and and made them into sober living and sold them and got nearly a million dollars for them meanwhile i'm telling bad jokes in l.a doing nothing but now she's got this million bucks. She's like, okay, I've got a million bucks. What can we do with it? And so I have to step back, I step back in and I say, okay, look, in Phoenix right now, you can buy these condominiums for like $25,000 because the market had crashed so low. And they were renting for like $800 a month. Where can you buy something for $25,000 that gives you $800 a month in cash flow? Right. So my thought was, let's take the million bucks and let's just go buy as much of this cheap real estate as we can possibly buy in Phoenix. Yeah. And then we'll use the rent money to, to fund our lives
Starting point is 00:28:15 wherever we're living. Yeah. So it made sense. And so that's what we do. I start writing offers on these short sales. But the way the short sales work is even though you write an offer on it doesn't mean it gets accepted because it's a bank negotiation. They take forever. Short sale can take sometimes six months to come to fruit. And so you write way more offers than you can actually close on. That's the trick with sort when it's a short sale market, you have to pepper the entire marketplace with your offers because if you write a hundred offers, you might only get five of them accepted. And was that the only option you could do like doing the short sale in that? Yeah, because the market was the market it crashed. Everything was upside down. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Everything was upside down. Nothing was selling traditionally. Everything was selling by short sale. So I start doing that. I start writing offers on short sales and then how I get back. into wholesaling is two houses get approved by the bank and we ran out of money. We had already placed all of our funds into other properties that we are now renting out and turning into cash flow. And so now I have these two contracts that are accepted that are really great deals that I can't close on. So what do I do? I do what I know how to do. I go to Craigslist. I write an ad and I say I have these two contracts for sale. If you're interested, call me.
Starting point is 00:29:42 Bro, 10 minutes, don't go by. And I get a phone call. For real. I get a phone call by a guy named Tim Wynn here in Arizona. And he drives by the homes and he says, I'll take them both. And I make just under 20 grand. And it takes me like a half an hour. And I'm sitting there thinking, what am I doing here?
Starting point is 00:30:04 Why am I in Phoenix? Why am I in L.A.? Why am I trying to do this comedy thing? Like I'm, this is irresponsible with me. I'm, I, I'm just about to get married. I have this skill set that can make tens of thousands of dollars. And I'm able to literally do this in my sleep, it feels like. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:30:25 So what am I doing? So that's why I have these, you know, it's a 40, I got these knuckle tats. Like, people laugh at me because I'm like, in my mid-40s and they're like, you got knuckle tattoos, well, you're a knucklehead. And, but, but they're, but they mean 1212, 12. Because on 12, 12, 12, 12, that was my birthday. Hey, I'm the, I'm 13th of December. Oh, cool, dude.
Starting point is 00:30:47 So you're 12, 13. So you're Sajj as well. So 12, 12, 12, I'm in a U-Haul, leaving L.A., driving to Phoenix, Arizona, taking the trip of my life. And that's how everything changed. My goodness. No, that sounds amazing. And, I mean, I think the best thing about everything is that not only you say everything was accidental. The entrepreneurs always sees on opportunities. They always sees on the circumstances
Starting point is 00:31:11 that they're currently in as well. And obviously looking back at that, when you realize the skills that you had, the most important thing is that you've kept like evolving and adjusting according to the market. Obviously wholesaling in 2025 is so different to when you were doing it before in 2000 as well. Now that you've in Phoenix and the state is so hot, I love it. The best people you'll come across, but gosh dang, I need air conditioning 24. Oh, I know. It's terrible. It's terrible here in the summer, man. I don't even know how I'm wearing this shirt right now. It's gross. It's so gross. I mean, now that you're in Phoenix at this point, I think one of the hardest thing on Troppaniels to do, they don't, they don't delegate, build teams and try to upscale the business that way. When did you realize, hey, listen, I got the skill set. I want to try and build an empire from this thing when you were in Phoenix.
Starting point is 00:32:00 I get approached at this sandwich packing party because I'm, I start building a name from myself here, but I do it in this funny way, right? Because I'm here in Arizona, I'm doing a lot of wholesale deals. And my secret that I was on how I was getting all the deals is I was, I was contacting every realtor that, like I got every database I could find, and I co-called every real estate agent. And I said, hey, look, I'm a cash buyer. I want to be your, like, secret weapon in your back pocket. if you have anything that's in like dated condition or hoarder house or something that's just like needs a total redo I'm your guy but don't tell anybody who I am and they'd be like huh I want to stay super private so I will be your secret weapon I'll be your cash buyer I'll be the guy that you can
Starting point is 00:32:58 deploy to do all types of deals on the condition that you never tell anybody was that because of the trauma that you had from Canada. It was because of the, it's why I said that was because of the trauma that I had. I didn't want any notoriety. I didn't want any eyes on me. I wanted to be just, I wanted to be invisible. Plus, I was still $1.8 million in debt from the foreclosures. And so I was wanting to like get my feet together before I could, before I figured out how to pay that debt off, right? So I had a few reasons as to why I'm saying this to people. But what happens when you tell somebody not to say it, not to think something or not something. It's not dodgy. It's the first thing. Well, that's the first thing. Well, that's,
Starting point is 00:33:34 not what they thought. They were like, oh, who's this guy? Yeah. Because I'm actually closing on all my deals. So they started talking about me even more and more and more. And I became like an urban legend here. I'm not kidding. Like everybody was talking about this guy that they're not supposed to talk about.
Starting point is 00:33:51 And I was doing so many deals. So these two kids approached me at a sandwich packing party, Josiah Grams and Hunter Runyon. And they're like, you're that Jamil guy, right? Like, yeah. how many deals did you do last month?
Starting point is 00:34:07 And I looked in my phone. I was like, 14. And they're like, how the hell did you do 14 deals? I can barely get one done. Was that a wolf of Wall Street moment? Like, listen,
Starting point is 00:34:18 you show me that chick, I'll come and work for you right now? It was a little different than that. Okay. They were like, they were interns for Cody Sperber. Okay. So he's a big name in the wholesale world.
Starting point is 00:34:28 And they were like his underlings kind of thing, right? So they had proof of, concept. They knew that the money was real. They just hadn't seen volume like that before. So the guys say, would you give us a shot to sell your deals ever? And at the time, I was in a like a really good working situation with Chris Simon here in town, who's a big wholesaler as well. And he was selling all my deals for me. But Chris has a habit. He likes to go on holidays. A lot. And so this was the time. when he had just kind of broken up with this girl
Starting point is 00:35:06 and wanted to be in the Bahamas all the time and he would never tell me that he was leaving town. It was just, it was like the worst because I'd get these deals under contract and Chris was my Dispo. He was selling my deals for me and he does this BS thing to me again and he disappears and goes to the Bahamas and doesn't tell me. And I got these two contracts that I got to move like ASAP.
Starting point is 00:35:29 I've got earnest money, non-refundable on both of them. I'm not messing around. I got to sell these things and I got to sell them fast and he's not answering his phone. So I called the boys, those two kids who gave me their number at that sandwich packing party. And I'm like, hey, you know you wanted to sell a deal for me? Yeah, I said, now is your chance. I'll send you one right now. And I didn't know at the time. They were in Australia. It was like three o'clock in the morning their time when I called, but they saw my phone number on their phone and bro answered the phone in the middle of his sleep.
Starting point is 00:36:04 He was like, I'm not missing this call. I love that. I love that so much. And he got that deal out in a half an hour and sold it. And I was like, I got another one. Sends it out. 15 minutes later, sells it. I'm like, who the hell are these two kids?
Starting point is 00:36:22 You know? Like, what is going on here? So slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, I start moving more and more and more of my deals over to start doing business with these guys. And then eventually I realized, I realized that these guys are actually very systemized. They've got processes.
Starting point is 00:36:40 They're using tech. They're doing things. I'm a dinosaur at the time. Everything I'm doing, I'm writing down. I have got like agendas. You know, I'm using, everything's in paper and pen. I'm like, super old school. These guys are using CRMs and all this like fun stuff that I'm like, I could care less about. But they're obviously doing something right because they're
Starting point is 00:37:03 reach was so big because of how they were leveraging tech. So then I have the idea that I want to do this all across the country. And I can't do this by myself. I'll need them. So I write a check for a million bucks and we start Kigli. Boom. Yeah. And those two are my partners. Boom. That's crazy. I know that you guys mentioned that you knew people from astro flipping as well. With Kigli, that started in like 2015, 2016? Yeah, 2016. Okay, all right. And I think I kind of want to go into that.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Obviously, it's a national franchise powerhouse. But like, what are the systems that, you know, you partnered up with them, what are one of the most unique systems that is that Kigli does have that other companies don't have in that space as well? Well, you know, I think one of the things that Kigley does really well is sell deals, right? that Kigley is known as a dispositions company. Their job is to help people disposition their wholesale contracts. And our capacity to build buyers lists, I think that's our secret to our success. Now, truth is, is there's a lot of competition out there these days. You've got investor lift, you've got investor base.
Starting point is 00:38:27 They're kind of democratizing what Kigley was doing as a service. So Kigley was doing Dispo as a Service because the reality is why were so many wholesale deals getting canceled? You know, like if you know anything about wholesale, you'll know that wholesaling has a little bit of a bad rap out there with real estate agents and people. Why is that? I have noticed. I mean, every time I speak to a wholesaler, they hate real estate agents. It's almost like there's like a war or a conflict between two. And then wholesaling is just, you've been seeing a lot of special social media people.
Starting point is 00:38:57 It's just been getting a rap of like a bad reputation over time. especially the last two, three years that I've noticed as well. It's been there for a while. The bad rep has been there for a while. But it's because of the BS things wholesalers will do. Like wholesalers will put a seller under contract, put $10 EMD down, not even not just ghost the seller, not close, file a memorandum on the contract, on the property. And then the seller doesn't even know that no one's closing on the house. The seller goes and packs all their stuff.
Starting point is 00:39:31 things in a U-Haul and closing day comes around and no there's no one to be found and wholesalers will do that shit all the time and that sucks another thing that wholesalers will do a lot is they'll lie to real estate agents they won't tell them what they're going to do and so the agents get all flustered because they don't understand what's happening and so what we brought to the table was a way to elevate the ethics of the business model i don't believe in lying i don't believe in and being dishonest with real estate agents. I'm honest with agents. I tell them I might flip this, I might wholesale it,
Starting point is 00:40:06 I might buy it and hold it. I don't know. I'm an investor. I've got multiple exit strategies. How I exit this isn't your business. Your job is to help me get this at the best price I can possibly get it at as my agent. You owe me a duty to help me with my purchase. And my purchases,
Starting point is 00:40:21 I need to buy this for an investment, which means I need to make money on it. And they understand that. They understand the assignment, right? The problem that wholesalers have is that they lie their asses off when they're on the phone with real estate agents and they don't tell them that they may wholesale the deal and that pisses people off. Lack of transparency pretty much. The lack of transparency is just irrefutable. And so that along with
Starting point is 00:40:47 the missed all of the all of the unfulfilled promises that sellers have had with wholesalers is the reason why we built Kigley because we wanted to A, help wholesalers fulfill in their promises. If you're going to go contract a house with a seller, we're going to help you sell that deal because the reputation of this industry is being tarnished by people who are just walking away. And why are they having a hard time selling the deal? Because building a buyer's list is hard.
Starting point is 00:41:18 Like, finding a qualified cash buyer is a six-step process. You've got to identify a company who's flipping a home. So that takes, you got to either look for, okay, what? What house is on the market right now that was just flipped? Okay, who's the owner of that house? Okay, who's the owner of that LLC? Okay, let's find out what that guy's statutory agent's name is. Okay, now let's skip trace that.
Starting point is 00:41:42 There's like six steps to getting that phone number, to calling that guy. So wholesalers are notoriously lazy, bro. Like, we don't want to do extra work. It's just a part of how we operate. And so we're great at talking. We're great at getting deals under contract. We're great at negotiating, but following through, it's not our best part. So we're there as the follow-through, right?
Starting point is 00:42:09 And that's, I think, why Kigley became successful is because that was a massive problem. Now, there's platforms and other softwares out there that have been competing with Kigley. Investor Lift is one. I think they do a phenomenal job, right? I really like Robert Wensley, the owner of Investor Lift. I think he's done phenomenally well. Good dude. You should have him on the podcast as well. I think you just recently moved to Arizona. Yeah, yeah, he's here in town. I can connect you to him. He's a great dude. Also, investor base. They're out of South Carolina. They're a very, very, they're a newer platform. But you just put an address into this thing and it'll spit out like 10, 10 cash buyers who have bought right in that area.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Unbelievable. And it give you their phone number and their name. And so now if I have a deal under contract, I don't have to go to a Kigli. I can just, put the address into investor base and boom there I go I make money. Wow. So we, I'm grateful that we were first movers in the business and we built this big brand and we're doing great across the country. I also see that there's room for competition and, and I welcome it.
Starting point is 00:43:18 I think that it's, that, that is, if you're doing it, if you're doing your best to elevate this industry and, and that competes with me, I'm absolutely grateful for the competition. I just want the industry to do better.
Starting point is 00:43:30 I love that so much. And which kind of even segue is to that, despite the fact that there may be competition, one of the things I also do admire about is the fact that you also involve in collaboration and uplifting. And I think one of the people that you partnered up with, you two are probably the most prominent figures in Arizona. It's Pace Morby.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Yeah. We're in the same church as him as well. You guys are all LDF? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Served our missions and all that. And so, I kind of want to talk
Starting point is 00:44:00 like how did you guys form a collaboration because like you and Pace are just popping up on everyone's feet all the time I haven't heard an ill thing said about both of you You know he's He's such a Incredible guy right
Starting point is 00:44:13 Like I adore that man And and our friendship is such an interesting one Because it started in a problem Right like he He was being ripped off By this wholesaler in town that was flipping houses. John May, I'm happy to say his name.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Pace and I for the longest time never said his name because we were like, fuck that guy. Excuse my language, because I know you guys are Mormon, so you don't like to hear it. But F that guy, you know? And so, but yeah, John May, he was robbing Pace, like hand over fist. And I did business with John back in the day.
Starting point is 00:44:54 I had done a lot of wholesale deals with him. And then I stopped. And so people were wondering, like, why did Jamil stop doing business with John? And so people said to Pace, when he was running into problems with him, you should reach out to this guy named Jamil. He knows a lot about John. He's done quite a few deals with him. And then they stopped for some reason. So maybe he knows something that you need to know.
Starting point is 00:45:18 And so Pace does that. He DMs me on Instagram. Now, this is pre-Jamil Damjy, social media Jamil Damjee. I don't even have my profile picture isn't even in my face. It's an owl. That was my IG. I just had an owl as my face, right? I like owls.
Starting point is 00:45:39 And so he DMs this owl profile and he says, hey man, I've heard so much about you. Everyone says I need to know you. And I'm reaching out because I'm in a problem. and I think you might know the guy who's, I'm in this situation with John owes me a tremendous amount of money and I'm wondering if I'm going to ever see that money. Now, I don't see the message for weeks.
Starting point is 00:46:08 Like three weeks go by. But then I finally see it and then I reach back out to him and I'm like, hey, man, yeah, I'm happy to talk to you. So he says, let's meet at this grocery store. Actually, we met at the Henry. There's this really good restaurant in Camelback and Fortier Street, delicious place. We meet there, but it's full. There's no seats. And so he's like, you want to just cross the street, go to the grocery store and get a sandwich? And I'm like, sure. So we cross over to
Starting point is 00:46:34 AJ's right across the street there, and we go pick up a couple of deli sandwiches, and we sit there in their deli. And he's telling me all about what's going on. And I said to him, what are you doing tonight? He's like, well, just hanging out with my wife. I'm like, you and your wife come to my house. Let me show you what's really happening. I had uncovered. John's Ponzi scheme like months prior. I had all of the research done. I was watching John build a massive Ponzi scheme. And I knew this thing was about to collapse. I was just waiting for it to collapse because I was going to go in and clean up underneath it. Right? So I was, I saw the ticking time bomb. I knew it was there. But now I know a guy who's going to get hurt by it,
Starting point is 00:47:16 right? And so at the time, the only person who I knew was going to get hurt was John. And I didn't give a shit about John. So like, John can do whatever he wants. But when Pace is telling me now that he's going to get into trouble, I tell Pace, bro, you got to run. Like, I wouldn't, a, the 250 grand he's got of yours right now, you're not getting it back. And if he's asking for any more money, run away. Wow. Run away now. This whole thing's about to collapse. I show it to him. I look at every home that John owns, like let's just say John owns, buys the house for us. 100 grand. He, and it's worth 100 grand, he's got a mortgage on it for 150.
Starting point is 00:47:58 That doesn't math. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Everything is over leveraged. Everything was over leveraged. There was no way he was getting out of that. There was no way. So Pace doesn't listen. He continues to give John money. He gives him over a million dollars. Oh my gosh. But John eventually files bankruptcy and the Ponzi collapses. Now in this time, Pace realizes that, my God, you know, that Jamil was right.
Starting point is 00:48:31 And he was honest with me and he was real with me. And him and I are starting to do a few wholesale deals together. So he just, you know, he says to me, you know, I got to build, I got to rebuild my life, dude. This guy just, and it's like, it's hot. He gets, he gets the notice that John's going to file bankruptcy on him the day Corbyn is born, his daughter. Oh, my gosh. They're in the hospital.
Starting point is 00:48:54 He gets served the bankruptcy papers. And they just gave birth. And you lose everything at the time as an investor. If somebody fell for bankruptcy, there's no chance. Yeah, he's getting nothing. And it's like over a million bucks, all of his money. And so him and I start running together really closely then because I'm helping him rebuild. That's like 2018-ish or?
Starting point is 00:49:20 Yeah, yeah, yeah, about 20. We've been friends almost eight, nine. years now. So yeah, about 2017. And yeah, we didn't look back. After that, we started
Starting point is 00:49:33 collaborating pretty heavily. But we're competing at this time, right? Because we're both wholesalers. We're both chasing the same deals. But what was really interesting about our dynamic was like, I didn't care if Pace beat me on a deal. It never bothered me.
Starting point is 00:49:49 And he didn't care if I beat him on a deal. If there was a resource, I had that he needed, I'd give it to him. And if there was a resource that he had that I needed, he gave it to me. You know how many people Pace introduced me to that I still do deals with today? That's ridiculous. That's amazing. That he could be doing those deals with, but he instead made the connection to me. I think that defines healthy competition as well. Amazing. competing as well, but you're still collaborating and working together. Absolutely. Which is the entire purpose of what competition is meant to do. Yep. Yep. And that's what we did.
Starting point is 00:50:17 We realized that what we were doing was special, that it was different, that it went against the grain of what people normally do and how we normally operate in scarcity and lack and that collaborating and caring and living in abundance and caring about your brother and wanting him him to win and celebrating him when he wins that that's what life's really about that that's the better frequency that's the way that we want to live and so him and i decide to take that message out on the road and we do Pace and Jamil does America. It was so funny. We took our heads and we put them on to the Beavis and Butthead.
Starting point is 00:50:55 Beavis and Butthead do America poster. We just plastered our heads on top of Beavis and Butthead. We made this cute little drawing. And we went around the entire country. And it started off as like grassroots and very small. I think the first meetup we did was in Orlando and 13 people came. Now if we go to Orlando, 1,300 will come out. Wow. Wow. And I think, you know, that's the beauty. That's why I wanted to kind of stress on it because I've always like admired your guys' relationship for a mile away. Matter of fact, Brittany got back to me because Pace going to be releasing a book, I think, in October as well. Because it was the schedule is to get both you and Pace right. But he's in Montana every now and then as well. But one of the things I kind of want to talk about, I've done sales for a while. I did like solar sales. I did pest control. And the hard thing about especially the Dordado industry is the,
Starting point is 00:51:48 the fact that you probably know Sam Taggart in Utah, yeah, I guess. Well, the hard thing about that industry is that there could be potential of, like, integrity issues, like lying and not telling the customers the truth. And you've seen it. You've been burned with, you know, the Johns and so forth. What have you been doing with your societies to try and ensure that integrity is an important part of how you people do business on a day-to-day basis?
Starting point is 00:52:15 Well, I think everything starts on the inside. I really do believe that. And I don't believe my success is because I'm really good at wholesaling. I think that I've tapped into a frequency. And in that frequency, there is transparency, there's truth, there's honor, there is love, there is the choice to live in higher centers, to be more heart centered than to be more ambitious and to, you know, win it all. costs. I believe that your life is being lived on the inside out. I think everything that you're seeing right now is an outpicturing of what's going on inside of you. So if you're living in a moment of chaos, then you're probably living in chaos internally. And if you're living in peace,
Starting point is 00:53:03 if you're finding peaceful opportunities, peaceful people, peaceful situations, then you're in peace yourself. And I'm always seeing that get reflected to me all the time. And so then I'm I realized that we're all really just frequency. We're all energy. And I, you know, this is where my science background comes into play because I've, I've not only read this, I've proven this in my studies in university. We are all energy. Energy can't be created. It can't be destroyed. It's just transferred from one form to another. And money, my friend, is an energy. And there's a frequency to it. And if you can tap into that frequency, then abundance is impossible. It's impossible not to have. You are abundance. You are that. And so for me, the reason that I feel that the communities
Starting point is 00:53:58 that we're shaping are of the highest integrity, because we don't believe in incoherence. I can't be one way on the inside and then pretend to be another way on the out. That doesn't line up. I have to be inside what I am outside. And that's why you see the integrity. That's why you see the honesty. That's why you see people within my community and Pace's community champion truth above all else, champion transparency above all, collaboration above all, to be happy to walk away from a few extra bucks if it means keeping your integrity intact. That's powerful, you know? And that to me is important because
Starting point is 00:54:39 okay I make an extra $1,000 today and I hurt five people in the process right those five people now have animosity towards me
Starting point is 00:54:49 they've got negative energy that they're sending my way and I'm blemished by it as well I'm blemished by that I'm blemished by that that behavior
Starting point is 00:54:59 or that thing that hurt them and I have to account for that at some point and there's no getting around that you don't get away from your energy You can lie your ass off as much as you want out there, brother, but the energy doesn't lie.
Starting point is 00:55:14 Powerful. It just doesn't lie. And so, you know, when I walk into a room, I can feel the room. I can feel the energy of a room. I know what it is, and I can sense the frequency. And the room will spit me out as fast as it'll attract me in if it's not in alignment with me. Love that. Love that so much.
Starting point is 00:55:32 I know I want to sort of respect your time. I want to kind of ask about, like, astroflipping. how did it come about and what made it to become such an effective when creating success for the amount of students that it has right now? Well, it's, you know, based off of the success that I've had in the wholesale business, I've left nothing off the table. I've taught it all. I didn't hold any secrets or any strategies to myself that made me successful.
Starting point is 00:56:01 I shared it all. But that also meant sharing my, the things that I do. personally to tune myself up, to live in those frequencies, to live in those alignments. And so I not only teach you how to wholesale, but I make meditation one of the primary things that people need to do on a day-to-day basis, that having that relationship with your creator is how you will be a better successful wholesaler. You can't do any of this on your own. And if we're, if you want to do it the hard way, if you want to do it the way where you don't have help, where you are denying that you're connected to everything, I,
Starting point is 00:56:37 I believe that I'm connected to my next deal. I'm not only believe I'm connected to my next deal. I believe I'm connected to every deal that I'll ever do. All I have to do is draw those connections to me. And I do that by maintaining my frequency. I do that by maintaining my vibration and maintaining who I am as a human. And I continue walking and I just show up.
Starting point is 00:56:59 And the phone rings. And there's money. Powerful. And did you ever have mentors? Because I know every single successful person. I haven't touched on that. Like did somebody ever walk you through something? Because it looks like you learned from trial and error.
Starting point is 00:57:13 Yeah, trial and error. My mother, you know, my mom's a really positive person. And my dad, too. My dad, because I've seen him suffer, I saw how hard it was for him. And he's still with us. And I love him so much. But he's always been pessimistic, a little negative, a little hard, you know. And if you see the two of them in their 80s right now, you can see my mom is a spitfire.
Starting point is 00:57:35 She's moving around. she's laughing, giggling, you know, just enjoying life. My dad can barely move. You know? And so it's energy again, you know? It's energy. Yeah. And so like that was an example for me.
Starting point is 00:57:47 One of my, I'd say, greatest teachers was Tupac. You know, listening to his music was very inspiring for me because it gave me the, the contrast of what I could see in my life in my childhood as my environment. but that a beautiful rose can still grow from that concrete jungle, that you can still have that. You can still be God's kid in a cell, but you have to first acknowledge your God's kid. That's 100%.
Starting point is 00:58:20 And if you, obviously, I think I spoke about our faith, the beauty that we know that when we are Heavenly Father's children, we're literally the spiritual offspring, and the fact that I know that I am a son of God, I know that I mean, I am capable of literally achieving my full potential as well. And once you can put that in your head and understand that, nothing can stop you from like achieving anything you want to put your mind to as well. Somebody out there that's watching this podcast and I just want to just want to the last two
Starting point is 00:58:49 questions and is an entrepreneur and it's probably like in that plateau stage started. It's in that phase. What's the advice you'd give them to try and like upscale and just push forward towards their goal and their dreams? well i think we tend to want everything now right i want it all now i want my success now i want the hot girl now i want the uh you know the mcclaren now i don't want to wait for it and it's that it's the constant denial of your current circumstances that i think keeps people in perpetual agony.
Starting point is 00:59:32 Like, you are where you are for a reason, bro. So own it. And see the magic of every minute. There are no wasted people. Like, for instance, let me share a story with you. Yes, sir. Because this is, I think, probably one of the most powerful proof of concepts that I've seen in a long time.
Starting point is 00:59:52 My sister and I go on a trip every year as siblings to just connect and talk. And so this year we decided to go to Portland, Oregon so we can hike the waterfalls. And so the morning of our hikes wake up and she says, my sister says, I really feel like a donut. Can we go to this voodoo donuts place? It's in downtown. Like it's going to be like a 20 minute line, but like they sell all these awesome donuts. Will you, do you mind? Can we go do that first? And I'm like, sure. You know, we're on a break. Let's go stand in a 30 minute line and get a hot dog, a donut. A donut. No problem. So we get to downtown and we park. And there's a homeless guy sitting outside of a building right there where we park. And my sister walks up to him and says,
Starting point is 01:00:41 hey man, we're going to go get a donut right now from voodoo donuts. You want one? And he says, I do. I do want one. Yes. But I want to make sure you get me the right one. So they've got a couple of different types of chocolate dip donuts in there. They've got one that's like cake. it's like really cakey and they put they put chocolate on top of that that's not the one i want they have another one it's more like a honey glazed donut it's like a honey dipped donut it's more doughy uh it's got like a like a like a more of a sticky thing on it than it is like rough and then it's got chocolate on the top and it's super spongy that's the one i want make sure you get the right one i'm like okay got it so we go and stand in the 30 minute line we get her donut
Starting point is 01:01:28 me and donut and his donut, right? You come back, give him his donut, and he's just happy. He's just eating his donut. And then right at that moment, I yawn. Right? And I'm like an energetic guy. I don't like it tired in the middle of the day. But this yawn comes over me.
Starting point is 01:01:46 And I noticed there was a coffee shop right beside the donut place. So I say to my sister, sorry, we should have got this earlier, but I just got this wave of tired. Can we go grab a coffee? she's like yeah sure no problem so she goes to the homeless guy we're going to go get a cup of coffee you want anything and he's like yeah i do i'm like okay what what he says i want a mocha but i don't want how they normally make the mocha you know mocha's hot chocolate and coffee i don't want it like that i want hot chocolate and two shots of espresso i want it to be a supercharged mocha i'm like super
Starting point is 01:02:29 Moka. Okay, got it. So we go to the coffee shop, come back with a super mocha and my coffee, and we go on our hike. Right? We're out all day long. And then I see that there's this Michelin Star Indian restaurant in Portland. And I'm like, I got to go have this Michelin Star Indian food. Like, I love Indian food. And I've never had Michelin Star Indian food. So we got to eat it, right? We've been hiking all day. So I sit down and I order every. everything on the menu. Like, I'm starving. And the food comes out and I can barely eat like a third of it. So we've got all this leftover food. And so I say to my sister, let's pack it up. And, you know, let's go give it to somebody outside. It's like, we're, you know, Portland. Portland. There's homeless people everywhere. They invented homeless people here. And she's like, okay, cool. And then her and I get into this discussion about how she's packing up the food because I said, you can't pack up Indian food. just willy nilly. You've got to pack it up so it makes sense because they're not going to know what's the entree and what's the bread and what's the dessert if you don't put it like that because he'll be
Starting point is 01:03:40 dipping the dessert balls into the savory sauce and he's going to be like, this is gross. And she's like, you'd not think that this homeless person will have eaten Indian food before. And I'm like, I don't think so. I don't know about you, but I don't know a lot of homeless people that might go out to Michelin Star Indian restaurants. So I don't know. Like maybe this is, maybe this will be new to them. And so we're like in this discussion. She's like, fine, I will go out and I will show them how to eat the food. Okay? And I'm like, perfect.
Starting point is 01:04:06 So we're walking around and we can't find a homeless person to save our life where we're at. Not a single homeless person. And this is Portland, Oregon. That's crazy. Right? So then I have this idea. I'm like, well, you know, your friend from this morning? Why don't we go give it to him?
Starting point is 01:04:22 And she says, well, yeah, that's way on the other side of town. I'm like, yeah, but what do we? we got to do. I ain't got nothing to do right now. I was like, let's just go on a drive. So we put it in the GPS. It's 25 minutes away. Oh, wow. Right? But I'm like, hey, you know, the guy made an impression on me. So let's go give this dude the Indian food. So we go drive 25 minutes to downtown. And now the street where we were parked before is closed. And so we have to park somewhere else. And I'm not going to, I can't see the guy. Right. So I park on this corner and my sister gets out and she takes the food and she's gone like 10 minutes like what what's going on and i'm starting to get
Starting point is 01:05:02 worried so i'm like staring out the passenger window waiting for her and then i start hearing her click clack over her high heels and she comes and bro she's bawling her eyes out hmm and i'm start to like my heart's beating fast i'm like what is what happened just now she sits in the car she's crying and said what happened is he okay like did you see him is he okay like did he die like what's going on. Talk to me. And she says, no, it wasn't him. Like, why are you crying? She said, well, when I walked up, there was this girl laying in the same spot that he was sitting in. And she was speaking Hindi, which is an Indian language. Exactly. And I tapped her on the shoulder and she looks up at me and she's crying. And I asked her, are you hungry? And she said, only if it's Indian
Starting point is 01:05:51 food. And she said, this is what I got. And then the girl starts crying even louder. And my sister says, why are you crying on you? She said, because a half an hour ago, I cried to God that if you're real, you'll prove it to me by bringing me Indian food. No ways. Yeah. Think of that. No. When did that start? When did that start? Energy. Bro. Like, I can't, I can't even say it and not get emotional because it's like, wow. You know, had that man not been so specific on his donut order, on his coffee order, on the whole thing, you think I would have driven 25 minutes to go and do that? And like, what is time even? Because that woman's proof of God moment started in the morning.
Starting point is 01:06:47 Yet she hadn't said it until a half an hour before we got there. And so there are no wasted people. There are no wasted moments. Ever. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much for sharing that, Camille. Thank you for sharing that. Towards the end, we always ask every guest because it's the code to winning insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:07:19 If you were just to define it in just like either a term or even a phrase, what does the term winning mean for you? Man, that would have been so different, so many different versions of me. But I would say today, winning to me is living what I am inside every day. Having a life where I get to live what I am inside, truly, authentically, every moment. Powerful. Yeah. Thank you so much. Jamila, if you could let our viewers know whether you get a hold of you.
Starting point is 01:08:08 If I want to get, like, join one of your companies, whether it's Kegli, whether it's astrophlipping, whatever it may be, where they can get a hold of you on social media. If it's email you take or calls, whatever, can you let our viewers know, please? Yeah. Hi. You can find me on Instagram at J-D-A-M-J-I. Also, I have a YouTube channel where I talk about wholesaling, co-living, which is my current focus in my real estate portfolio growth, as well as some mindset stuff. So if you're into things like breathwork, meditation, or concepts about personal development,
Starting point is 01:08:46 I'm a super nerd when it comes to things like that. And I love sharing and learning. And so you can find me on YouTube at Jamil Damji. Awesome. The co-twining insights you need today to seize the world tomorrow, the OG, the man, the myth, the legend, the man himself, Jemil. Thank you so much, boss. Thanks for having me, brother.

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