The Home Service Expert Podcast - From Prison to Purpose: Peter Meyerhoff's Journey of Redemption

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

In this episode, Peter Meyerhoff shares his incredible journey from a troubled youth and time in prison to becoming a successful entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and advocate for change. Peter discusses the pivotal moments that led to his transformation, including overcoming addiction, finding purpose, and building a new life dedicated to helping others. His story is one of resilience, redemption, and the power of mindset in achieving personal and professional success. 00:00 From Addiction to Redemption 03:08 The Journey Through Crime and Prison 05:54 Life Lessons from Solitary Confinement 09:00 The Turning Point: Overcoming Addiction 11:53 Building a New Life After Prison 14:47 The Power of Mindset and Resilience 17:36 Creating Change: Helping Others in Prison 20:41 The Importance of Community and Support 23:41 Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life 26:36 The Role of Faith and Spirituality 29:34 Living a Life of Impact and Service 32:26 Final Thoughts: Never Give Up on Yourself

I just turned a drug addiction to a money addiction and got sober and just changed everything, bro. Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, to find out what's really behind their success in business. Now, your host, The Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to implement what you learned today. To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. So I ask the team to take notes for you. Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-5-2-6-1-2-99. That's 888-5-2-6-1-2-99, and you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's

episode. Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. I'll share with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million company in 22 states. Just go to elevate and win.com for slash podcast to get your copy. Now let's go back into the interview. All right, guys, welcome back to the home service expert. Today's going to be awesome. I got my boy Peter Meyerhoff here. He wrote the book, Against All Odds. He's an expert in motivational speaking, podcasting and resilience. He's based out of L.A. The podcaster is called Ro Roll Call with Chappie.

But he's, like I said, the author of Against All Odds. He's got an incredible story, and we're going to be going over it. At 15 years old, Peter became involved in a life crime and drugs. At 18 years old, he was since 12 years in prison and ultimately spent nearly a year in solitary confinement. But since his release, Peter turned his life around. He's become a bestselling author, motivational speaker, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He currently runs a sober clothing line and has also created a prison career. curriculum app that helps inmates transform their futures. Peter's story is about resilience,

redemption, and refusing to make excuses. Today, he's not just an advocate for change. He's living proof of what's possible when you can turn pain into purpose. Hey, it's a pleasure to have you, my brother. I like to appreciate that. The only mix up is I'm based out of Arizona, not L.A. Oh, you are in Arizona. People think that because I do so much stuff out in L.A., and I'm always like, I'm going out there next week. I'm out there every month. Yeah, because you're at Queen Creek, right? Yep. Queen Creek just built the house out there last month with my beautiful. beautiful black wife. And that's crazy from an ex-do that we used to run your arts for the Aryan Brotherhood. Wow. We got a lot to talk about, man. Tell us, you know, about your story

where you're at today, where you're looking forward to going. Yeah. If you want to get into the backstory of how I got there, you know, I was a, I said I had a good as a kid, but I just, I realized now that I have kids that I just, like, blocked all the bad stuff out of my childhood. So I don't have too many memories. But like my parents, I lived in a cul-de-sac. So it was cool until I was about 10. My dad was a drug addict alcoholic. My mom left him. when we were 10, and that's when the trouble started. I went to go live with a single mother who was a flight attendant, so four or five nights a week, I was home alone.

And, you know, when you're in middle school, if your mom's not there to wake up and make you go to school, you're going to go to school? No. Usually not, you know, so I usually would have attendance about one or two days a week at school and started going down the bad path. So anyways, I go to prison at 12 years old. I wonder how I went to prison? At 12?

I mean, 18 years old for 12 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I want to know. I end up. So what did you drop out? You were... Freshman year? Oh, so you're like, I never made it to a semester high school.

Yeah, never made it to a semester high school. I got probably two or three months of high school. So you have four years of your life just chilling, doing drugs, fucking off. Doing drugs and fucking off. Okay. And the thing is, I would always get arrested for stupid dumb shit, though. When you're a kid, you could do anything. Like, literally, like, there's been multiple times, like, they were, the cops were on there telling my mom, like, come pick your kid up.

She's like, I'm not picking him up. He needs to go to jail. And they're like, we can't. He's a juvenile, man. You know, that's what they tell my mom. So I still kind of have that mindset. I steal a Mercedes-Benz from the Mercedes-Benz a dealership right here brand new, like still had plastic on the seats.

This was back when Gawney's 60 seconds came out. So they were like, they're unstealed. They have the red laser-cut keys, and I'm just like, that's all we did. We guard all night. And like, I've been the first to believe I was not in a big time dude on the streets. I was a little petty shithead thief. Like, literally that's all I did. We'd go right.

And it's embarrassing even saying the shit I did now, you know? Like, we'd go on just stealing shit all night long, you know, like with bolt-cutters and stuff. So that's what I did. I stole Mercedes-Benzor. I get arrested. LoJack had just came out. Didn't know nothing about LoJack, you know, so I get surrounded two hours later. And I get three months jail and probation now, right?

Even then I'm, like, thinking, damn, I just robbed a Mercedes. I only got three months jail. You know what I'm saying? And now, like, the fear of jail is gone for me. You know what I'm saying? Because I always have that fear in the back of the head. Like, we don't know what jail or prisons really like, you know what I'm saying? Now I've been to jail.

It sucks, but it's not that scary, you know what I'm saying? And I only got three months. It's not like the deep prison. Yeah, no. And it's, yeah, and I was on minimum security shit. So there's nothing gangster. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And so it's like, and then I'm like, now that's all gone for me.

And I only got three months for stealing Mercedes-Benz, you know, I'll just be a little more careful this time or whatever, you know. And spring break, which should have been my senior year of high school, my brother and his friends come back. What's crazy is I went to prison for burglarizing a house that was already burgurized. And whose house it was, it was my best friend that didn't stand up for me, which is why we did it. So coming full circle, right?

So four years later now, it's spring break, and they're the most spoiled rotten rich kids and all about two. They have like a 15,000 square foot house out there. And they're in Hawaii. My brother and his friends come back and just had a bunch of shit. And they're like, we just burgerize the Nelson's house. We're like, where are they? Like, they're in Hawaii.

And I'm like, oh, shit, they do go to Hawaii every spring break. Like, so no one is there. Like, yeah, no one's there. We're like, so like I'm just keeping it on the loan. Like when my brother's friends leave because they drink, so they're going to pass out two or three in the morning. Me and my buddies, we don't sleep. We're on drugs, you know?

So when they go to sleep, then we go back to the house. Because that was the only deal, like, do not go back to house. We're like, no, we won't, you know? So go back there. I know where the house is. The back door's open. I don't even make it out of the garage, bro. Like, I was going to take just stupid stuff.

And it's coming full circle now. It's just crazy how you can see. Like, I just want a shit that I couldn't afford. You know, I took Jordan basketball shorts, Jordan sandals, and a snowboard and a drill. You know what I'm saying? Like, and now it's like, oh, it's such a, like, my kid wears Jordan shit every single day now.

You know what I'm saying? Because I can never wear that shit as a kid. And it feels so good. Just little shit. Just seeing my kid come out. I'm like, dude, now it's cool seeing the life I get to raise my kids Because I got two little babies now.

So anyways, we do that. I don't make it out of the garage. My buddies come and they take all the jewelry upstairs. And we get home and he pulls out this bag of jewelry, man, and it's like a bag of jewelry, $330,000 for the jewelry. And I'm like, keep in mind, I'm out in big time, dude. Like, this is bigger than my drug dealer that I, you know, we go still shit and give it to him and give us drugs and money.

Like, he can't even buy this shit. You know, he lives on a trail right up the street from here. Phoenix, bro. Yeah. Like, literally. I was having flashbacks. Anytime I turn on Broadway, I have flashbacks. Yeah. And, of course, 10 kids involved. My friend that took the jewelry, of course, tells the cops that he was sleeping at my mom's house. I burglarized the house. I even told them where the jewelry is hidden because I had him on probation, so now I'm this hard ass. So I ain't saying shit to the cops. The other five kids that went to the house first, every single one of them said that I had did it. I had told them I did it. They don't know nothing about this except

I told him I had done it. And they say they're going to make an example of me. And I'm just like, bring it, you know? Like, I think I'm this little bad, tough-ass dude, you know? And worst case, you know, I thought I would get like two, three, four years. And at this point, like... Did you have a court-appointed attorney? No, I actually had a... So I had a court-appointed attorney at first, and then when they were still trying to

give me the same plea, four to six to nine years, my dad had got me... I had the attorney that ran for the Attorney General for the state of Arizona. And he lost the election right during my case. I had the worst judge in Arizona's history. They ended up banning him because he was too harsh on his sentences afterwards, but they didn't resent me and they sentenced me and I never forget his words. He goes, I find it mitigated for the fact

that you're only 18 years at the time you committed this crime. He goes, I also find it mitigated for the fact that I think you have a drug problem rather than a thieving problem. He goes, and his next words are, but I think this also calls for an aggravated sentence of 12 years.

And I was like, and I remember before my sentencing, I told my lawyer, because we were looking at 4.25 to 6 or 6 and a half. Didn't they give you, didn't the prosecutor give you a plea bargain? Yeah. Yeah, so this is how dirty this is. I got a plea.

So all the kids had did it, all they had on me was everybody's, all these kids telling on me, right? I know they'd already did it. And then that time I got my police support, the five kids had all got seen. They went to this house in the daytime. So there, it was a maroon Malibu had got seen and spotted by the neighbors. So I'm knowing if it goes to trial, like I was the only one I knew, I wore gloves, my fingerprints were nowhere.

These were all kids that got spotted. And my brothers, they're all kids. I'm like, think of worst case now. My brother gets probation. I take this shit to trial. I skate on this, right? So I was fought my case for almost two years in the county jail. Nobody's in there for like non-dangerous crimes for that long, right?

Like literally nobody. Yeah. And I was in it for 20 or 21 months. So, but they won't budge on this. So then what do they do? A year in my case, they charge my mom, my dad, and my grandma all with my crimes. Because my grandma lived in my mom's house, and they said that my mom and my dad knowingly possessed the stolen stuff and didn't do anything about it.

Oh, my God. Right? So now I'm fighting this. Dude, that's crazy. And they don't budge in anything. So then finally we go to the settlement conference. And everything's recorded in court hearings, right? Except a settlement conference, because a settlement conference is your final mediation before you go to trial.

Okay, so it's the last step. So for your settlement conference, you're going to go in front of, I don't remember the name, but I went in front of a different judge. And it's like a mediation. So it's not recording. And it's just like, they put you guys in room, like, figure this shit out before you want to go to trial because they're saying you don't really want to go to trial. Yes, that's saying you get out. Please figure this out. You know what I'm saying?

To tell me, that's like, you really don't know what you're looking at if you're losing trial. the telling the process, you're like, yo, you don't really want to go to trial, this and all that. And then, so I tell him to give me a different plea. She says no. I said, okay, how about this? Drop the charges against my family and then recommend the minimum. I said, you do that. I'll sign your plea bargain today.

Minimum is 4.25. She says, if you sign this plea, I'll drop the charge against your family and recommend the minimum. Cool. Done. Whatever. It is what it is. So I signed the plea bargain. So now I know I'm going to get 4.25 to 6 or 6.5.

I remember telling my lawyer, like it was yesterday, you just got to. make sure I don't get the six years. I cannot do six years. Like, I cannot do. I'm claustrophobic. I'm everything. Which is why I say, like, you can do anything you want to as long as you train your mind to do it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, I lived in a five by seven and I'm claustrophobic, you know, for years too. Like, not only a year in solitary. And I go to my sentencing. At this point, I'm just ready to go to prison. I've been in county jail forever, right? So I go there and you're like all shackled up together. Your lawyer usually comes and talks to you right when you get to. Wait, you said I can't do six

years. They gave you 12. Yeah. And then they count the two that Was it in the county? Yeah. So I went to prison at in May of 2005, got locked up in April of 2003, and I got released in February of 2015. Dude, don't you get to get out earlier for good behavior or anything or like a pills? I got out of Supermax on an investigation for attempted murder. Like, I didn't behave good in there.

Oh, you didn't behave? Yeah. Oh, my God. It was the exact opposite. I didn't change my life until I overdosed on fentanyl after I got out and found God. And what year was that? A year after I got out. So 2018?

No, 2016. So you got out in 2015, 2016, you almost died. So that's nine years ago. Just over 10. Because I have 10 years sober now too, yeah. And they made $2 million in the next five years with zero education, no help nothing. Two million? Mm-hmm.

Wow. And so keep going to, I want to hear these details because I don't get a whole lot of stories like this. I was going to say, people only ask these details. It was pretty cool, even me talking about this now. And it brings it up for me, too, because sometimes, you know, I tell dudes the worst thing I can do is forget how shitty my life used to be. You know what I'm saying? Because then I'll get complacent. I don't have perspective,

and I don't have as much gratitude as I should have. Yep. So you had these shackles. Yeah, so the sentence comes down, my lawyer won't even look at me. I knew, I have gruesome. I just knew it was a bad day. I just had it.

Right then, when he went look at me, I knew there something was wrong, you know. And what I should have done going back is I should have had her cap the plea, because if I would have told her cap the plea, which means she said she'd recommend the minimum. But if I tell her to put the only, it can be in the plea bargain.

They can say, and I'm recommending the minimum for this. I didn't do that. I didn't do that because it's a lawyer. She's telling me to my face. How am I thinking a lawyer's going to fly out of my face in front of the judge? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So then she goes and my lawyer hands me this pre-sense report, which they do before you get sent

every time, which is they do, like, separate people go through the whole case and they kind of give the recommendations to the judge on what they should do, right? He gives this whole thing, and he's like, here's this. And I'm like, what the F is this? What do you expect me to do with this? What am I looking at? You know, and he points right here, he goes, that's her recommendation. She recommends 13 years.

I'm like, but she said to me, he's, I know, I know, man, but it was in front of a different judge. We don't have anything recorded. and I'm just like, oh, my God. And then we do the talking thing. And I still was like, I was like, there's no chance the judge is going to give me this much time. You know, like, keep my,

I've been in there for two years now. So I've seen dudes, you know, murders and manslaughterers five, 10 years. Like, I've seen all this shit. There's no way they're going to give a kid like me 12 years for a theft charge. Like, not so much I didn't even think 12 was even on the table. I thought the worst case would be six to nine, you know? Yeah. And then he says that, and I go from like bawling my eyes out when he says that 12 years

to like just flat out shock. And then the next thing I know, you can hear like just the court erupt man and I turn around behind me you know like my grandma's there and she's like flipping out like please let me hug my grandson because he's gonna be dead by the time I get out now like barely holding himself up like so like you're seen in the movies bro you know and uh um you know I'm a big family you know it's crazy now I made it through all this one I don't talk to any of them you don't talk to your grandma I'm sorry my grandma my mom are the only two people on my entire family I talked to both sides my dad no no

what about your uncle no my dad's 27 years sober So you don't talk. I don't talk to my, the last talk I got into my uncle was like, I will whoop your ass, I'm that dude now. You said that to him? To my uncle, the one that taught me out of box. So you don't, you talk to your mom and grandma only. That's it.

I don't even talk to my own brother that, like, we're like this. Your younger brother? Yeah. And you know. What's the deal with that? I had a hard time being this because I don't ever want to bad mouth my family and shit like that. But like, here's the thing.

Like, I'm a servant for God, bro. You know what I'm saying? And like, my message is supposed to help people. So, like, if the truth hurts, then my brother needs to change, you know? And, like, I won't have negative bad stuff around my family, you know? And whether you're- So your uncle, your dad, your brother, you just don't feel like they're living. They don't. Every one of them.

I don't, especially with bad people now, bro. Like, blood or not, like, I don't, I'm a firm believer, like, just because you have the same bloods, but does not mean your family. Like, I have dudes that have not even a trace the same blood as me. And, like, I would die for them and they would do the same for me. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy, man. Prison will teach you real quick, like, about loyalty, man, and how important it is to have someone that's, like, loyalty, like, really loyal to the court, not just saying they're loyal to you.

Well, loyalty, so you go in and there's a few, so talk to me about the- It's hard to even picture because I was a model. I used to, I was in a movie as a kid, too. Like, I was a stud athlete. Like, I was six foot, 144 pounds with long, blonde hair, like a little pretty boy. And this was, what did you weigh when you went in? 6 foot 144. That's when you went into prison? No, okay, so I put on like 20 pounds in jail, so I think I was like 160, 170. And then I got released.

I was 6, 4, 264 pounds. What do you weigh now? 220, 225. But I got, yeah, I put on, shit, what did? I came to do the math, 120 pounds in there, and grew three inches. I barely had armpit hair.

Yeah. I was the last person to hit, like, puberty out of my friends. Like, I was like literally just like a little kid when I went away, bro. And, you know, that's, that's, honestly, it made it easier for me, though, because it'd be so hard, bro, if I knew that life was this good out here. Seriously, I didn't even know what I was missing. So it kind of made it easier for me, you know?

That was after two years in a county jail right there, too. Oh, boy. Wow. So tell me about the gangs. I just want to hear a little more. I want to jump into what the future looks like. Yeah, for sure. So you walk in and you, what did you get in a bunk with someone else?

Yeah, and a little cubicle, like you're an absolute nobody. They run the rules down to you, like, yo, here's what it is. Like, you got 12 years. Like, you better pay attention and put your head down, you know? And, like, you know what they call it a sucker punch? Do you? No. Because you're the sucker if you could punch.

I was like, what does that mean? He's like, if someone raise their voice at you, you even think you're going to get into someone, you just take off on them. And I was like, you take off on them. I was like, really? I was like, we can do that. He's like, yes, this is prison. He goes, you don't ever let someone get the better hand on you.

If you even think you can go there, he goes, it's always better to say sorry afterwards. So you hit him. Yeah, that's what they tell me to. So I ended up using this on the same guy, like a couple weeks later. And my first fight in prison was the guy that ran the rules down to me and was running the building and was built like me and you now. And I was built like 160, 170-pound kid back then. And you had already learned a little bit about boxing. I used to box.

So I already know and I have a cheat code. You know if you actually know how to fight and like a trained person, like no one on the streets knows how to fight. You know, and that goes for prison the same thing. You know, so like out of the streets, one out of a hundred knows how to fight in prison, 10 out of a hundred know how to fight, you know. So he says some smartest shit about his playing cards in his little cubicle area. And I already made it my mind after count them. I was going to take it there, like, say something where he had to fight.

And I'm just good on reading vibes. I knew no one respected me or looked at me. I was like, I'm going to at least show these guys I can fight, you know? So he does it and then says, I'm going to teach the little young punks how to respect your elders and goes to take the chew out of his mouth and turns his back to me while he does this. I'm like, dude, you told me the rules here, you know? So, like, I'm on top of him within five seconds, doesn't even get a hand on me.

They end up ripping me off him and beat the brakes off this dude. the next morning like the weirdest thing about going to prison after especially when your poplar kid is like you're a nobody bro no one cares about you like no one even talks to

they're gonna see if you're gonna be gonna last a week or two you know what I'm saying like literally no one even messes with you because they think especially a kid like me a little privy but they're like this dude's gonna check in in two seconds

to request protective custody you know but yeah but you was it like the what are there's gangs you either got to go with or not right like you so there's I only have one choice I can either run with the Aryan brotherhood

or I can be a lame those are the only two choices and then the other ones are Yeah, you got the Mexian Mafia. You have Sourdainos, which is the Cali guys. Glendale's so big. Glendale has their own race and gang in prisons now, too. And then you got the Paisas and the Border Brothers for them,

which we were at complete war with in the prison before I left, like literally full in war. And that's what you... Like, they had a separate yard. They should murder each other. Like, dudes, yeah, the head dude of my, the Aryan Brotherhood was like stabbed the head dude of the Mexians and killed him in his right-hand man, right in the yard in front of everybody.

And these guys are doing, what were their sentences like? A lot of them are not even kind of, like, so the my... Were they, like, less than 10 years and they still did that? And now they're down, now they're doing life. The main guy that was the top dude for the Arian Brotherhood that I'll show you afterwards, and he's like a man of God. He's the most remarkable dude I met now. Came down for a three-year burglary charge back in the 90s

and murdered a black dude in the child home and picked up 30 years. And he didn't have for three years. And when you get out, some of these guys, they... Do you know Andre? Norman? Yeah. He was just on my show last week. I know Andre really well.

Okay, he was just down at my show last week. He was like, the one, he, well, he says he's one of the bosses. Yeah. He's like, look, he'd walk in and be like, make me a sandwich. I made him say that story on my show too. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Andrew's cool as shit. So, like, that's one of the guys.

Same kind of stuff, yeah. And that's the same thing. So he was, you can tell about the dude's verbiages and stuff like that. Yeah, how it is. And you know what that says is that, Andre, not only that, but he did time on a real yard. Because those real yards, those cops just want to go home, but they're not trying to start no shit. they don't want no problems or any of that stuff oh there we go that's my man we'll hit him up later yeah so the world right so now you're you go through all this and you go through the

struggles and who's visiting you so then and then my mom my brother and my dad I always had I always had chicks too like it was just kind of easy for me you know like I like I always say like I had the toughest time possible I had it as good as possible with all that stuff you know I always had visits and stuff like that and always had comments especially you're running on the yard you have to have that stuff but so that was addicting for the attention like the next morning when i come out like all these ojs that i used to like look at on the yard you know like or now i want to shake my hand you know because they heard this little kid what way that was running the building you know so now they wait out there to shake my hand and now it's as addicting as

anything possible it's like making your first money when you're trying to become an entrepreneur you know what i'm saying and i just jump head first into the politics and i'm like oh yeah if you guys want anybody smash please let me know like i don't like god if he's real he don't like me wait this is right when you get out no when i get in right when you get in right when you get in the politics now and then by the time i was 23 years old i ran my first yard which is a for it i was on i've no joke like pulled a corrections officer i had that yard so crazy i was in a relationship with the co i had the lieutenant on the team that was helping us make sure we could go certain places um we're drinking promethazine with coating on the yard smoking blunts in a on a for yard in

the morning just it was like u of a to me bro that's why i said that was my taste of college but then You get your first predator packet, which means they say, like, literally the state and staff says that you're a predator on the yard, and it's automatic maximum security. So that's my first one. I got four of those done on me. Maximum security is hell. Five by seven. Five by seven. You can touch this. You can't even do a push-up beside yourself, and you're in there 24 hours a day. 24 hours a day. The only time you get to get out is you get to go to a wreck cage. That's the same exact, smaller than this, but dirty-ass concrete, and you get to go out there. They shackle you walk you out there like that, and then unshackle you, once you're in the cage, you'll never out of your cell without full-on cuffs on.

And so you never can do that. And like birdbass, you take a bird bath in your cell because showers is like, when you go to the shower, it's you get a shower either Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Not to mention that, by the time they put you in the shower, say you're up on Henry Run, they put you up on the shower at Henry Run, then they go down, Ida Run, whatever, all the way down to Abel Baker, Charlie on the other side. So by the time they come back to you, it's almost an hour, like you're full on drenched and sweat and this little hot-ass, you know, shower that you just went in.

So, like, I don't even shower, bro. Like, when I was in Mexico, usually I'd spend a year not even leaving that cell, bro. You spend a year in the same freaking cell. Did you, what do you do? And I'm claustrophobic. You just, you read? Did you get, like, are you? Do you want to know how crazy this and how hard my time was?

I'm so ADD and ADHD I never even read in there. I was in VCU where all you get is a Bible and didn't even open it. Oh, jeez. I would just pace. And I still know my thing. I would pace one and a half steps this way, one and a half steps this way. And you know, I would do it like that, why I still lean like this, is because it's always freezing cold and so every time you're in there, all you do is like this, you have your hands

in there because they don't give you anything. You go like this, one and a half steps this way, and then my shoulder bounce on the door like this, and I'd turn on like this, go one and a half steps that way, and then my shoulder hit the other wall. Oh, my gosh. And you just pace for 12 hours. It saved my life. I was 170 pounds on the yard, strung out, shooting dope.

I go to the hole for 11 months. I get out 263 pounds. Finally, I was able to get 11 months of like, not even positive shit, but at least not just doing drugs on the yard and this prison politics, you know what I mean? And I'm actually able to like every week I get a phone call to some call on my brother, my mom. And I'm actually talking like normal stuff now, not yard politics, but I'm hearing every day for 12 years straight. But I got out of prison. I didn't even know what to do, bro. Like I didn't even have a plan. Like I thought somehow get a construction job, like trying to figure out how to get sober, but like have no fun,

but at least you're not in prison. Like that was like, if I can find success, that's what it looks like. And I didn't even know how I was going to do that. And so you get out. Get out. And I'm entitled to party. Never been to, never been on a date, never worked a day in my life, never been to a bar, never done any of this stuff, right? Like, I was a little kid when I went out. So, like any normal good person, place would be to spend time, it would be sandbar. So I went to that sandbar over there and I took you six days a week. I used to, I opened that sandbar. Yeah, pulled chicks there. We were part of the ones that closed it out, but pulled chicks there like every day, would just hook up with chicks every day, did nothing positive, getting an assault case on parole,

blacked out, and then over notice on fentanyl, blacked out, blacked out, wasn't even doing drugs, but I was blacked out drunk and I had to go through my phone afterwards and I ended up leaving the bar blacked out drunk and one of my youngsters from the joint literally hit me up in Guadalupe. I drove my truck from hobnob right there in Chandler

to Guadalupe blacked out drunk. Don't remember driving it and wake up in an ambulance, nine months out of prison. And I'm like, it was fat and all? And I wake up in an ambulance and I'm like,

I've been out of prison nine months. All I've done is drink and party. I have nothing bad but nothing positive either. You know, like nothing like I'm not doing. Did you have a job? No, no. I have this mindset. Who the hell is like,

wants to hire me you know what did you like just mom's helping you my dad would give me fifteen hundred bucks a month at first okay that's it just to live off of you know and he's like and that was the deal i'd have to like act like i was putting in job applications every day yeah and i wake up in ambulance and i tell the paramedic what the hell happened and he's like you're overdosed i was like i don't even use drugs anymore he's like you did today by the time they got me to the hospital my heart was only beating six beats a minute they gave me seven shots in arcan had to recessed me when they found me i was dead no heartbeat completely dead This is another reason that I really believe in God.

I didn't find this out until after. My ex-girlfriend's sister found me, right? She went home after work to go tanning. So she pulled in the parking lot, parked her car, got out of her car, walked up to the door, put her hand on the door to open the door. She said the second she put on her hand on that door, some told her to go home for some reason. So she said she took her hand off the door,

got back in her car to go home and take a nap and finds me dead in the bathtub. If she even walks in there and then decides to go home, like another few seconds, I'm probably not here today, you know? And like instantly I went from, I remember, In that hostel bed, I was thinking, like, why did I survive this? Why could I just die and been done with this life, man? Like, I was done, bro. Like, I still hadn't even worked, so I didn't even know, like, if I was going to make

something to myself, like, I felt like I've been fighting my whole life, bro. I was just done. Like, I was just, but I always wanted to kill myself, but I never would because of my mom, you know? And I just wanted to die. And then I went from that moment to, like, thinking, maybe I was saved and this is, like, God, and maybe this is my chance to, like, try and get sober. And so my last, my little talk I had myself in the hostel bed is, like,

how much do you want to, like, prove that you're entitled to go drink and party silver and figured life at least once, like, and told myself, give yourself a shot. You've never even tried to live life, you know? Went out to South Dakota, stay with my dad, went to like two or three, eight meetings a week, had no idea what to do. But luckily, my co-defendant was the finance director at a marquee up in Scottsdale, so he's going to get me a job to go sell cars, and I got out. And my dad sent me back here with five pairs of khakis, buy one, get one free at

coals, five dress shirts, buy one, get one free, and I had to pay him back with my first paycheck, and made $10 grand my first month ever working for selling cars, and 13 months, I was in finance manager making $350,000 a year with my own office and just murdered shit. I just turned a drug addiction to a money addiction and got sober and just changed everything, bro. So you go into cars. My dad used to run AMCO on Scott Dillon Thomas. He owned a transmission shop before that. I grew up at auto shops.

So I love car. I bought and sold over a thousand cars. Really? Wow. I bought them on Craigslist. I used to buy G20 Infinities, Honda Civics. It just clean them all up, put new tires on and change the oil. And my dad would fix them if they need anything.

Yeah, that's dope. But that's great. So you got 350 grand coming in, and then what's the next calling after this? So then, yeah, I do that for four or five years. And, like, you know, as well as anybody, like, money doesn't make you happy. It's cool when you first get it. But then after a while, all does is open your eyes up to more expensive stuff. And then you realize you don't really have as much money as you think you have, you know.

And then it's like, so I did that and, like, you know, worked forever. A lot of hours, 70 hours a week. Yeah, that's what I'm working all these hours. And I'm just like, I have this, you know, a million-dollar house. But it's like, what is I'm not meant to do this. I know for a fact I'm not meant to do this. I had no idea what I was going to do except a Vice TV producer

had reached out to me and you ever seen that show I was a teenage fellow in that yeah so season 2 episode 5 is my whole life story it's the shot call episode so vice producer reaches out to me and I was like I had 400 followers

on Instagram I was like I'm gonna try to make a run at this shit like I'm dumb and naive as enough as it is you know I have a great story yeah I got a few hundred grants saved up and I'm like if this Joe Schmoz can get Instagram rich

I can get Instagram rich too you know that was my mindset back then you know but I knew I wanted to help you I knew my story wasn't meant to sit in that office all day long you know and I was right on I was on the free rents on Indian school right there. So the finance office is like the glass window on in Marquis,

if you're driving out, you'll see it now. Like, that was my office right there. So, like, Saturday, I would just look at cars driving around the free. And I'd be like, dude, I used to spend Saturdays locked in a cell. And I'm like, now I'm just locked in another cell out here. You know, it just felt like this was not what I was meant to do. But I had no idea or no experience. I hadn't done anything positive.

Like, I'm not one of those guys that did schooling or programming or anything, you know, like, so I don't know anything. I just know how to sell shit, you know? And but I saved up a few hundred grand. I was like, I'm just going to go meet with whoever the hell I can. But I had a rule with myself. I went to a different gym every day. And I would, at bare minimum, at least get one new dude's phone number every single day

and go up to the dude that looked like you. You know, I had a nice shit on at the gym or something. I got and just go sparkable conversation, you know? And I used to get roasted by my brother and his friends back then because they'd say I would go to the gym to pull dudes. But I'm like, look at the network I built by myself, though, literally two years. You know what I'm saying? You know what I met snow? Like, just the same way I do just networking.

I don't know, but I know everybody just like you can, you know? And so I did all that. And then, you know, if someone tells you, I get interviewed by on a couple shows and they're like, the first episode of that one gets 20,000 views. And I was like, holy shit, we might be on something here. And started the podcasting for a few years. And, you know, wrote the book. Yeah, start playing with some crypto.

I ended up right in a book. And then meet my just amazing wife. And then to come full circle, you know, like I get, you know, I had white pride tattooed across my stomach, got it seven sessions, the most painful shit ever got that completely removed. And I had to tell my wife at first. Like, you know, like, I had one session left, but I told like a second day I met her.

I was like, I was like, yeah, I got to tell you something. because I had a bad experience with that not telling a woman before. I just flipped out in the middle of the night when I first got out. So I tell her and she's like, oh, I don't care about that. I'm like, are you serious for real? Another cool thing about my wife is, I don't know stuff except for what I see. So I'm like, I think of this is gorgeous black woman. I'm like, my only rule is don't talk politics with her before, you know what I'm saying?

Before you see what kind of woman she is, you know? Her second day over my house, she's like, I just got to ask you one question. I was like, what? She's like, what's your political beliefs? I was like, I don't really do politics, you know? She's like, but come on, she's like, who do you believe? Would you be like conservative or a Republican if you could say? I was like, all I could say is this, I don't like Joe Biden.

She's like, oh, my God, thank God. I was like, I was like, all right, we got something on here, you know? And she grew up Mormon, like complete polar opposites. She was a all-American volleyball player. She was Mormon? Yeah, grew up. Mesa? Queen Creek.

Oh, she was in Queen Creek. Yeah, so she has the kills record of Colorado State, then went to Grand Canyon, got her master's degree, full rides everywhere. I was going to go play professionally overseas, but tore her Achilles. And she knows she's a chick I just want to hook up with and I would have never even tried to have a relationship with her because I was like I'd have to do way too much fixing internally to have to date a woman like that, you know? And not to say it's the greatest thing that's ever happening. It's just such a far understatement. Like, this woman had changed my life beyond belief. Like, change it in ways I didn't even know was changed and, like, made me believe that I can do so much.

At first I just thought I had to get sober, you know? Like, that's just such a... It's a low bar. The barometer. Like, that's what these old guys had they've been sitting on it for 30 years. going to aiming. It's like, cool, congrats, but you got it over 30 years ago. Who do you help? What have you done or what have you fixed on top of that? You know what? Their dream is too small. Yes, you know, that's most people that I meet. They're like, I want to do this. I'm like, yeah,

that's money. What else? Literally. Then what are you going to do after you do that, right? And then they say I do this all for my wife and kids. I'm like, what about you? If you can't love yourself. Yeah. Yeah. And then the thing I'm most proud of now is like, so I was kicked out of prison, right? Like, I'm, I'll tell you this. When I, when I was at the, when I was in a solitary confinement in the last year, right? SSU, who's like the gang detectives in there, if you get booked on anything in prison is from the SSU staff, right? So once we find out this guy survived and everything, now I'm like, now I'm like, all right, this investigation is up. The investigation is up. The investigation is up. Investigation is called a 2A investigation, right?

They can extend them every 30 days, but whatever. It's usually a month. Sometimes they extend it twice, right? So they come in, I've been here like three or four months now and I'm telling the SSU, I was like, yo, what's up? You guys got to let me out of this hole. Like, let me go to the yard. I'm like, you can't expect me to go home after 12 years and solidity confinement and then make something in myself. That was back. I'm thinking they want you to succeed. And he's like, no, he's like, you're done. He's like, you're done. He's like, Meyerhoff, we're done with you. Verbatim, he says, we're done with you and here in prison. We're going to let their streets have their luck with you. You're going to sit in the cell until you go home.

And my release, dude, I was released in five point shackles walking to my release cage. Like with all the release guys walking through their own thing, I was separate with five point shackles, completely walking in there. And, you know, you got to see the video after this. but I had no idea what to do. And now I have one of the biggest podcasts, so they all have tablets now. So I have this, I'm the second most downloaded dude

in all the prison tablets across the entire country. The only dude that's bigger is that Eckhart Tolley and Gabiheim bars because they do their stuff together. And I develop prison curriculum now that I get to teach to prisons all over and prisons and states pay me

to come teach inmates what to do now. What are your number one lessons? Mindset's number one anything. Like routine and mindset is anything. Because people, just like you said a second, you know, people are, like, too small-minded. Like, you just have to get them to open up their mindset to show them what's possible.

Like, here's the deal. Like, I thought I had a cheat code, and I thought I was doing a disservice to everybody that had been locked up before when I made $10 in that first month. And I was like, I got that first check. And I was like, $4,400 after taxes for my bonus check. And I was like, oh, my God. All it did was show me, holy shit, it's possible. And I remember thinking, like, what the F didn't they tell me that we could do this

in prison? You know what I mean? Do you know how much harder I would have tried to do something productive if I knew that? If we had known that we could do cool shit when we get out of here, people are going to trial a lot harder in prison, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

And which is why my curriculum's so different because, like, anybody you see watching go to these prison yards, they're going to minimum security yards, these low security yards, and they're talking these dudes that are in and out of prison their whole life. It's like, I go to the high, high security yards.

Like Soledad, that place I went, that's a, for it, it's called a direct out from the shoe. So anybody that comes from security housing unit which is Supermax goes directly there. It's your first yard ever out of the shoe. And if you don't make it there, you go right back to the shoe. And then when I got done with that program there,

and I get these killers on the yard, bro, to, like, cry, bro, and, like, literally act like I've never even seen dudes in prison act in my entire life. And not only that, when I get done with there, you know what the warden tells? He goes, dude, where do you want to go to next? I was like, what's a higher security prison than this? He's like, Salinas, but he's like, we can't go to Salinas. I'm like, why? He's like, they're killing each other right now.

They're killing cops and everything like that guy. He's like, no one can go to that yard right now. And I'm like, all right, if they cleared up, can I go there? That's what I want to do. because when you get the shot callers to pass it down, you can change 100 lives with one person. If you're just changed those little kids that are in and out of prison every two, three years,

you're not changing nobody. You're barely changing one out of a thousand of them. If you can get the shot callers to preach this shit on the yard. Well, the other thing is change it in the streets. Yes, absolutely. Because they can make a big impact going, look, you guys, you listen to me. They were big.

Which is why I finally do coaching out here too. I didn't want to forever. Like, no joke for sale is one of the guys that talked me into it, too. And I didn't realize how many people are just like, like don't know how to live life, bro. You know, like, and that's what I'm just, I feel like I'm a pro.

I'm just, you could throw me anywhere, but I'm going to figure it out. You know what I'm saying? I always said like this, like you could put me in the middle of mountain of Afghanistan. And in about six months of year, I'm going to be running that mountain.

Yeah, I don't know how about I will. Yeah, for sure. You know what I'm saying? You know, you got the same trait? I never went through, dude.

You know, what's interesting is somebody's cat could die when they're nine and that will traumatize them for life. And somebody else could watch their mother overdose, and it doesn't mean anything of the, way they were lived. So you don't know what people go through and what's a lot to people. One hundred percent. You've been through a lot more shit, dude. I've had a lot of impactful things. But I look back and I'm like, man, everything happened for a reason. I had

great parents. They went through their own trials. But at the end of the day, like one of the most important things is, look, I've got a lot of people that don't believe the same way I do. Not in God, but just, I just had to have a big heart and just say, you know what? you know look I'm not going to coach you on this but you know your uncle your dad your brother I don't know maybe if they seen you and plus you got kids and obviously you don't want them to leave a bad influence but if you met with them every once in a while for sure yeah I don't know man let's hear no I won't be real yeah the deal is for me if a guy like me like dude I didn't get to where I did not listen to dudes like you well it's just you know I would never want regrets

and I tell you dude there's a lot of regrets I have is like my dad almost stuy through COVID. And I prayed hard. I'm crying, going to visit him. And he's like, I'm not ready to go. And I said, if you let my dad live, not only will I be a better son, but I'll tell everybody on every stage. And this guy calls me a year later and goes, did you make a deal with God? Shut the fuck. No, I'm not kidding. And I got goosebumps. Man, I'm walking around. And he goes, he goes, I don't know what you did, but I imagine you on your knees praying. And I was like, who are you? He's like, I'm not any crazy. you know he goes this is the first time i've ever done this he goes but uh whatever deal you

made make sure you keep it because just as quick as he gave it to you you can take it away and i was like oh boy i redid my powerpoint yeah and so the first thing i do in my orientation is show when i got baptized and like i believe in jesus christ but listen i'm not going to tell you guys whatever religion you are i'm not i'm just telling you who i am but yeah it's important and wow man you know i started hanging out with travis herne if you get a chance you you to go meet him at Impact Church. I've only been to two church or it's been an impact and then I go to Echoes with Daniel Golding out there now too, but yeah.

And, dude, I'm going to start. Like, I feel like it's my obligation. Like, if you are, you know, four out of five people will go to church if you invite them, but nobody invites them. Really? So I'm going to go blow that church up, dude. I'm going to bring our A1 trucks out. We're going to get there 45 minutes early.

I just want to go once a month and just show up and be dressed like this and just say, listen, guys, if you want this life, I don't care if you come. or not. It's, I'm just inviting you. And then you decide. And I'm going to go meet with Travis, heaven, talk to us. I'll tell you this. Like, now, like, all the cool shit I've done, everything. Like, even though, like, I'm most proud of the parents I'm not on my kids and stuff. But, like, because what's crazy is, like, the household I get to, I raise right now is one I've never even seen except in the movies, which is crazy to me. Like, think about that. I get to, like, raise my kids and have, like, a standard in my household. And they get to,

like, see love in my household. I've never even seen in my entire life. You know what I'm saying? Like, me and my wife are like this, bro, like, five times a day. I'm like, babe, anytime off I get up, do you need anything? Can I do anything for it? You know, like checking on each other, like putting the other person first and making sure the kids go first over anything. Like, out of anything, I was going to say, I'm rambling there, but out of anything that I was most proud about, it was a, damn, I just lost my train and thought that I was saying with that. It's all good, man. We added this shit. So you teach mindset, you know, where are you going from here? I mean, what is your big Harry? This is cool. What's your

dream? My dream is I want to be the big. biggest speaker, and I just want to travel to prisons across the entire world, bro. I got so many people I'm going to introduce to you, three that come to mind. And all of these guys came from prison. One of my buddies trafficking a lot, a lot, a lot of cocaine. Spent a long time. He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. Another buddy changing people's lives, getting them in shape.

Sean, I want to introduce you to these guys because, you know, I don't know if you enjoy kicking it with guys that know the like the serve time like you. Keegan came out. His dad had a small business, electric business. Well, Keegan learned how to do A-Jack in prison. And he stayed in the hole because they transferred him to Atlanta. And he's like, I can't go out there. Like he just, he's got stories and he gets teary.

Yeah. And so he just spent it locked up and he gets out. And you know what's crazy about prison? If these guys come out, if they want to make it, they can make as much money, they could have any relationship they can live the best life ever if they choose to because they've already seen

they've been to rock bottom it's straight up that's what I teach and it's like this if they find their brother and I don't even want to call it a brotherhood I like to call it a wolf pack because wolves will attack

if an animal attacks one wolf they all come in and Navy SEALs all wolfbacks I spent some time with Jocko extreme ownership and dude he's soft when you're with him

he lives this David guy gets kind of hard-faced. I'm not going to say he's a soft dude, but he's been through the ringer. And he gave me some of the best compliments ever. And he's like, look, if you ever want to get into business, you know, I'm an investor. Just call me. He's like, I'm in. And like, you know, I get access to these people, but I don't go in there going, hey, dude, here's what I'm going to do. Wait, do you see me. I'm just like, hey, man, we'd be friends. I want to learn from you. And I'm going to take notes. And I'm going to actually do the work. Yeah. So, dude, I like your story. I love your story.

and the fact that you're going back to the prisons and the impact they could have externally, I mean, that's real and that's impacting, that's massive, massive impact. No, but like I said, dude, it makes your mom safer at home. No, it's, you know, we got a rule here is treat people like mom, and if you didn't raise by a great mom,

maybe it was a grandma, maybe it was an uncle, maybe it was a coach, but just do the right thing. And I don't need to teach my guy sales. I'm like, smile more, play with the dog, make friends, and do what you would do for your mom's house. If we do that, we're winning. But they can't believe, here's the hard part. A lot of people believe that's a lot of money.

My buddy that lives in Fresno, his average ticket in A-TRAC is $38,000. Average ticket. And I go, what's a lot of money? If we all wrote down what's a lot of money, somebody would put $10,000, another person would put $10 million. It's like, when you own a house,

you want things done right. And if you got two little kids at home like you do, you want to make sure they're trustworthy with your wife, when she's a loaned in the H-VAC or whatever goes out. What other things do you want the audience to know about? Don't ever stop finding your true purpose. You know, like, I can't tell you how many guys that I know that I work with now, they're 30s, 40s, 50s, and, like, just still feel lost and feel like they don't know where to go.

It's never too late to restart. Like, I didn't start working until I was 30 years old. I never worked a day in my life. Like, you could, whether you're 40 years old, and I did that stuff. And, I mean, I was semi-retired than five years. You know what I'm saying? Like, you could legit restart anything. And another thing I like to do is I try to get dudes from prison, like, ready to attack the world.

Just like you said, they've had their backs against the wall. Like, when they get done, like, going through my program in prison, the number one thing is their mindset should be that they have an advantage on regular people out here because of what we've been through. So when you can, like, literally use your screw-ups to help you better off, like, you have an advantage on the normal society, you know? You have braced a failure and you remember where you came from, dude, it's hard. Like, listen, would you rather hire a PhD or somebody that's been through 10 years of literally war and business, and they've been through all the mistakes? Absolutely. I'll tell you, there's a great book you need to throw on the top of your list. It's called The Man Search for Meaning.

Okay. And the dude went through Holocaust, and he made it out. And when you could find meaning in a place like that, I mean, I would imagine that the Germans, that was worse than prison when you're watching your family's getting. murder. Every Jewish person just treated like their bones. Their arms are smaller than my wrist. And that's the ultimate to go through that. And you know, read more of the Bible. I want to I got a book that every day. It's a new scripture that I just read. And then there's the Bible app. I don't. I just got that Bible up to that. So I read. I'd do that. And I'm going reading like, I think the, I don't even know, like the book of John or James, only the two.

Yeah. Well, my dad can quote every scripture. And by the way, that's how I strive to be. I used to strive to make a lot of money and all stuff now. You know, it's crazy. Like, my number one goals aside from, like, raise my family grade, is like, literally, I want to be able to just, like, know the Bible, like the back of my hand, you know? And, like, I want to be one of those guys that, like, I always say to my wife, I want to be one of those guys that I would have made fun of when I was in prison and called him a Bible thumper and stuff like that. Because, like, why not? Like, all the stuff that we do, like, look at our lives, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, I wake up every day and here's the cool thing. Like, I don't have any pain.

Yeah. I live in the United States of America. Like, some days you're like, man, I just want to do more. and you're like, dude, I am drinking out of a fire hose 24. It's self-inflicted. Yeah. Like my mom goes last week, she goes, hey, honey, you seem really quiet the other night at dinner. Are you okay? I was like, well, anyone's got 920 employees. I got the family office launching three softwares, not to mention 20 other investments.

I've got my event with 1,500 people, and that's growing. We're building two houses. I'm engaged. We want to have children. No, I'm like, dude, that's the, oh, my God. I was sure that just popped in, but it's like, I'm good, but just know I'm in my own head a lot. I'm in my head. Yeah.

But, you know, there's one day a month where I kind of like, man, why do I do all this? And then the rest of the time, I'm like, dude, let's go. You know what I just started doing two weeks ago with me and my wife, too, is like one day on the weekend taking no phones. No phones. Yeah. It's a big thing. And it's, you don't realize how much, because even I'm pretty good, bro. Like, I'm trying to be, I'm really, like, I change all the diapers.

Like, I wake up with them every morning and night. Like, I'm a very, very, very... No phones on Saturdays. We're doing this Sunday this week. So we just pick a day, like, whatever, we have something going on, you know? Like, but we're doing this Sunday, no phones, me and the wife, you know? And it does make a difference because even if you're not bad with it, like, you realize all your attention is there. Like, you don't realize how much you're just flicking it on commercials, you know?

And it's like, instead, then you're playing with your son or something the whole time or giving your wife more attention. It makes a huge difference. No phones, maybe, no phones, no TV. That'd be crazy. Wow. And you really gets snow. Well, the weather's nice now, so you could do that. Yeah.

Yeah, you know, I was with a buddy yesterday in this room, and he sold his house in Paradise Valley, or in Arcadia, and he sold his house in Canada, and he just lives. He's been to 70 countries and all they do. He's got two duffel bags he brings, and he works three months in each different countries. I'm like, dude, I don't know if I could do that, but he's like, dude, I live the best freaking life. Imagine that. And he's on major stages. He gets paid 100 grand per stage. You know what I mean?

And, but by the way, I love stages. I love my time, but every time I leave here to do a stage, I'm losing a shit ton of money. For sure. But I'm impacting lives. So what's it about? Is it about money or impact? I can't believe you have that many employees, bro. Congrats.

I know. No, they're my coworkers. We're a good team. You know, the thing is, is they've changed my life just much, if not more than I've changed there. That's awesome. How do people get a hold of you, Peter? On the gram is Peter underscore Meyerhoff.

My website, petermyroff.com. I'm on every platform though TikTok Podcasts don't forget that Roll call with Chapy on every platform to YouTube All that stuff I'm on everywhere bro What's your favorite podcast you've done?

No offense Josh, no bro Really? And I'm not just saying that Because he's coming up here I tell people all the time bro Like What did you like about his podcast?

You know when you know the whole circle Of all the big dudes around everywhere Like 90% of them dudes are fake Even the ones that aren't fake 80% of those aren't genuine like he's just real genuine and like to be honest he gave me a shout my show wasn't even really big like I was kind of shocked he would do my show and like this is the kind of guy Josh Noah's he showed up to do my show remember I'm like just started I think it was like my 20th episode like no nothing nothing big and

someone just vouched him he came and did it and then showed up like 10 minutes late because he forgot to bring me present so he went to Best Buy and dropped a thousand dollars getting me all his products from Best Buy and then gave me a whole bag of all his snow products he just bought from Best Buy so I could try all his products and like just the greatest conversation and like me you always get it wrong like you always me i'd always think of a guy when you see someone like him or like dude whatever what how how much money did his parents give him or how much you know what i'm saying or how many you know what he's in his parents house i was 17 and grew up and i heard what you did that's why i'm a huge huge fan of yours like he speaks more than highly of you but um yeah and then when you finally

he grew up on the south or in the west side of phoenix and like you know didn't even have a computer just crazy bro and like he's the only pockets i did where i was like holy shit no way, then what? Oh my God, then what? He is a brain. Yeah. Like, he sits down and I don't know how he does it, man, but you talk about brilliance. I don't know what his IQ is, but I still, I was like, he's confusing to even talk to. Like, even I hang out to him like, I'm like, dude, I feel like I need a decoder to even talk to you. You know what I'm saying? I literally was like, he's like, dude, I need grasser help. I showed up there with one of my guys. I'm like, hey, give him the nine, fix everything, replace it all, give him new openers. And I said, Josh, give me one hour a month.

And he would have done that for free. But he's like, dude, he's like, by the way, he's like, I know every group you're part of. He's like, you're one of the only real ones. He's like, these guys drive Ferraris, dude, they don't have any money in the bank. Yeah. But for sure. No, man, I appreciate it. Give me one book.

Is it, because you just started getting into reading. Is there any books that you would recommend other than against all odds? Besides against all odds, the only book that I can legit being real to my character and not lying to people is the Bible. All right. Let's go. And finally, close us out, man. One final thought.

We talked about a lot of cool stuff. We know your story. Just give the audience something to think about. Life is hard. It's hard for everybody. The only time that you're never going to progress is when you actually give up. The only thing that I did right for, I always say 31 years of my life is that I didn't give up.

I don't take no for an answer. If you believe in yourself, you can literally achieve anything. The fact that I'm sitting here today should show you that. And if anybody is not happy where they are, the only thing is stopping you from getting the life you want is you just doing the same thing over and over again every day. Oh, I love it, man. Thanks, Peter. Yeah, thank you, I appreciate you.

Appreciate it. There's a horrible handshake on my part. All right, that was great, brother. Hey there, thanks for tuning into the podcast today. Before I let you go, I want to let everybody know that Elevate is out and ready to buy. I can share with you how I attracted a winning team of over 700 employees in over 20 states. The insights in this book are powerful and can be applied to any business or organization. It's a real game changer for anyone looking to build and develop a high-performing team like over here at A1 Garage Door Service.

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