The Money Mondays - From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back 🏰 E166

Episode Date: April 12, 2026

In this special episode of Money Mondays, Dan Fleyshman sits down with entrepreneur Vince Ricci for a powerful conversation on making money, investing wisely, and creating lasting impact. Vince shares... how he built Hubbell Studio into a premier full-service production company by focusing on elite service, loyalty, and long-term relationships. He also breaks down his approach to scaling brands, spotting real estate opportunities, and making investment decisions by betting on the person behind the business. The conversation goes far beyond business. Vince opens up about discipline, self-investment, fatherhood, pressure, and what it means to stay ready when life gets hard. He explains the mindset behind his “pull the trigger” philosophy and why decisive action, resilience, and personal accountability have shaped both his career and his life. On the charity side, Vince shares the growth of Trina’s Kids Foundation, from helping local families in the neighborhood around Hubbell Studio to creating large-scale toy drives and impact events across multiple cities. This episode is full of lessons on leadership, legacy, service, and building something that matters.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Monday's podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. This gentleman has been a part of my life for many, many, many years. Over 12 years ago, we started this charity called the Trina's Kids Foundation. So the charity part of this episode at the end, you're going to hear from someone that broke the Guinness Brook World Record for the world's largest toy drive. We're actually inside of the building where it all started called the Hubble Studio in downtown, Los Angeles where when the charity first started, there was eight volunteers on the floor, now filling up stadiums, the Miami basketball arena, et cetera, et cetera. We'll get into that later.
Starting point is 00:00:44 On the make money side, Publis Studio also is multiple buildings. There's tens of thousands of square feet, multiple different studios, so we're going to dive into that. This will be one of those episodes that is not just for you. It could be for someone from your past, present, or future. It could be for someone four months from now or four years from now where you remember, I need to show this episode and share it with them because you might be able to be a lot of to change their life what this guest tells you today.
Starting point is 00:01:07 So without further ado, Vince Ritchie, give us the quick two-minute bio, swing it straight to the money. What's going on, Dan? My name is Vince Ritchie, and I'm Italian-American from the Bronx, New York. Migrated out to California 13 years ago, seeking an opportunity. This is when I felt like a lot of people were coming this way. Production industry was coming back. They had just recently lowered a bunch of taxes on bringing a lot of stuff back from Canada,
Starting point is 00:01:31 open Hubble Studio. Hubble Studio exploded within photo and film industry. So we created Hubble Agency, which then produced the content, built assets to different marketing campaigns for people. And then under that, I ended up getting involved in a couple of adventures, different brands, cannabis brand, a coffee brand, a clothing brand, makeup brand, different things like that. All right, that's a lot to unpack there.
Starting point is 00:01:54 On the make money side of this podcast, how does a studio, like Hubble Studio, how do you make money? What's the business here? If a client was listening, what were they utilized you guys for? So we're a full service production company. So basically more high-end, high-demanding companies like Avog, Harper-Vizor, Nike, Allo, Hyper-Ice, would want to use us because we're a one-stop shop. You don't need a huge team.
Starting point is 00:02:20 You could shop. We provide all the production, all digital, all lighting, down to craft, catering, valet parking, every single aspect that you need to do. A production is pretty much a mini-event. It's going to be a 12-hour day. You have talent that you have to entertain. You have celebrity photographers you have to change, celebrity directors
Starting point is 00:02:40 you have to entertain some of these people that are very high paid, they have very high maintenance. Everybody's a celebrity that day. We cater up. Our uniqueness in our business is that we treat everybody AAA, everybody that walks on.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Everybody's important. Nobody gets felt like they don't understand what's going on. So it makes your job very easy as a producer that you come in and you know that we have it covered. And at any minute, we could cover whatever problem you have. That's really uniqueness in what we do as a business. So when a brand calls and they don't know what to do, how do you guide them like, you know, hey, we have a $100,000 budget or $200,000 dollar budget.
Starting point is 00:03:16 How do you guide them to figure out what the heck they're supposed to be doing? Well, break down how many assets they want, what do they really want to achieve how to do it. And really, we try to help them save money, which is, doesn't behoove me as a business owner, but I try it all the time. That's why we have loyalty to our customers, because people know, I'm like, hey, you definitely don't need to do this for this. Let's do this. Unpack it and say, what do you really need to spend on? You don't need to spend on that. You don't need to spend on this. You don't need all the models all day. You can book them throughout the day, especially if they're not
Starting point is 00:03:46 shooting together. Just different ways of having them save money and we come in and help them budget. And that's really where the longevity has been for us with our clientele. So someone like a brand like Vogue magazine they can choose from a lot of studios all over Los Angeles why do they keep coming back to you over and over the years strictly relationships because most likely they've been on set and something went wrong and we were like don't worry about it we'll cover it we've had goat here one time and they literally go like Tom Brady or go like a no no like this this neat company and their talent just didn't show up and the producer started the cry and I was here late that day and I was like you know what don't worry about it
Starting point is 00:04:26 I said, every book in the budget, this and I said, everything was in house, everything we did. Wow. We didn't lose that much. You know, it was a day. Sure.
Starting point is 00:04:35 It was a working day. But they were a great partner. We had done collabs with them together. And it was like, you know what? Just don't worry about it. Just come back. It's on us. Wow.
Starting point is 00:04:47 I felt like that was a strategic business move. Sure. You know, that kept a relationship. And people want to come back because of the relationship. When you deal with a human, you come back.
Starting point is 00:04:55 when you go to the Beverly Hills Hotel and then the concierge knows who you are, you come back. When you go to the Equinox Hotel in New York and they greet you downstairs, you come back. When you go somewhere else and they're like, who are you?
Starting point is 00:05:06 Oh, we're sorry that they didn't show up today, but here's your invoice for the day. You still got to OS $45,000. Yeah, exactly. You take the human aspect out of it. We make everything human. And that's why Trina's kids have been so successful here.
Starting point is 00:05:18 So many of a clients show up. So many of volunteers show up work with us, or previous employees, these previous clients, existing clients, future clients come, and it just creates this ecosystem. So as you're building up over the years of first, there was the one main building over here, and then there's a second building, a third building. I think we're in number three or number four buildings that you have here.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Like when did you decide, you know what, I'm going to start expanding to more buildings? Well, two things happened. I knew that they were knocking down the old bridge. So I purchased the original buildings. And they were building this colossal 6th Street bridge in this big park underneath that. I don't know if you've walked by. it's going to be this monumental thing for the city of Los Angeles. And I said, you know, this is going to be key for the city and for this area down here.
Starting point is 00:06:02 I want to, you know, kind of make my mark right here. Put your flag in the ground. Yeah. And we're adjacent to Boyle Heights. That's a big community that we invite in for a lot of our events. So I know these kids. I watch these kids grow up. And I was already so invested into the community.
Starting point is 00:06:17 I said, let's just start to expand. And I seen the business going somewhere. I seen that I was good at it. And I seen that people like to deal with me. And I could figure things out on the fly. And I said, all right, let's start to expand. So the cannabis brand, the clothing brand, are all the same names with these different brands?
Starting point is 00:06:31 Walk us through the different brands. They're all different brands. We have a kids clothing line called Can Be a Kids that my wife actually created. That's completely separate. For the people who know, know that it's on the Hubble Studio, we have the Hubble brand, and then we have Balance, which is a cannabis brand. Balance became his own thing and it really took off during COVID, and we watched it skyrocket.
Starting point is 00:06:51 I think that the bespoke part about it is that people that know the exclusivity of Hubble and what we've done, then know that balance is under it. They're like, oh, that makes sense. That's why their branding is so good. That's why they have very sexy appeal. It's why you're very modern when you know you know. So it's kind of like a, what is Italian fashion houses that own a bunch of other brands, but when you know it's part of that, that's how you know.
Starting point is 00:07:16 LVMH. Yeah. So there are thousands and thousands of thousands. thousands of cannabis brands. There are thousands of thousands of kids clothing brands. How do you stand out from these competitors? For the clothing brand side, it's our blends that my wife hand purists goes through. Yeah, the material that it's more of a higher end.
Starting point is 00:07:38 It's what we want to put our kids in. It's adorable. Until I had kids, I didn't realize how good it was. And the one I realized. You needed to be durable. I needed to be durable one and two, I'm physically grabbing that. Not because it's mine, not because. because we own the brand because I personally like it.
Starting point is 00:07:53 I like the way it drapes off my kids. I like the way it's constantly reusable and it still looks great. You know, it's expensive, but it continues to look great. And I'd rather buy stuff that last 68 washes, as opposed to something that last four washes or a shirt that my daughter got at a kid's birthday party that she loves, but literally three times in it looks distorted. The cars are messed up.
Starting point is 00:08:15 From the cannabis side, it's a whole different business because that business has evolved. now it's just about shortening an operating cycle and being cash flow positive and be able to maintain. Cannabis business is in a rough spot right now before it goes federally legal and I think that they're strongly going to survive. So for many years federally legal has been on everyone's minds. Do you think it's actually approaching? 100%. It would be within the next two, three years. But as the regulations got a little tighter, as we expanded in multiple states, overproduction, You know, a lot of other products are like production controlled, whether it's milk or eggs.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Cannabis wasn't like that. You just gave out tons of licenses and you overproduced and nobody knew what the addressable market was. Now we've kind of seen that peak and people starting to go out of business as the prices dropped down. And if you weren't able to manage your cogs, you weren't able to exist. And especially if you weren't able to ramp up in volume, you couldn't exist. What we've recently done was showing our terms from 30 days to one week, one completely wholesale. We've cut out all of our marketing budget, all of our other stuff to deal more direct less direct to consumer and more direct B2B
Starting point is 00:09:24 And it's skyrocketed our business. It's been insane All right, so the investing side of the podcast I like to understand the evolution you start to start you know you had you're making money Then you started building businesses and now you got this brand this brand this brand at what point do you say you know what I'm gonna start investing into some real estate Maybe I'll do some apartments or maybe I'll do some fix and flips or maybe I'll do the stock market like At what point you decide I'm going to start investing other things. Well, it was less of an emotional decision on do I want to do real estate right now was per deal when I felt like it was a good opportunity.
Starting point is 00:09:57 I did it. I've been investing in real estate since 2008. I was pretty young when I started doing it. And I've continued to do it. I'm divesting from New York right now because I feel like the residential housing is going to take a little dip because of certain things that are going on there. So I'm going to get out of that. and then 1031 down to some more commercial opportunities in Los Angeles because I'm here.
Starting point is 00:10:20 I'm able to do it. I can control my construction team. I can go through it. The opportunities are more unique here because it was when I seen an opportunity, I had the capital to jump on it and I went after it. Now, it's like if you want to buy a GT3, a car, a Porsche, for instance. It's oversells right now for $250,000 overstick. If you really want that car, you're going to go buy that car right now. you're going to pay $550,000 for the car.
Starting point is 00:10:47 If you want to make a deal, if you want to go get an allocation, take care of somebody and wait, you'll get the car for 30 over MSRP, and you'll be walking $200,000 equity the minute you buy the car. Same thing with real estate. So you get pitched a lot. People come to you all the time because you throw events here.
Starting point is 00:11:06 You're out and about. You're at the conventions, events. Everyone's coming here. When someone pitches you, hey, invest into my clothing brand. invest into my shoe company, invest into my plant company. How do you talk to them? How do you decide what you want to invest into? I think I'm betting on the jockey and not the horse at that point.
Starting point is 00:11:23 It's how much I believe in the person. And one, it's, I need radical transparency. The minute me and you talk about this all the time, the minute I catch somebody in some sort of fib, some sort of lie, I don't care what you're pitching. I'm not doing it. Literally, if you start off in a lie within the first minute, the rest of the conversation is just like I'm tuning it out.
Starting point is 00:11:45 I think that, you know, we've seen thousands and thousands of different opportunities come all way and just around us in our ecosystem. It comes down to the person who could stick it out, the person who's going to evolve and understand that, like, what worked for Jerry Lorenzo in fashion in 2015 is not going to work today.
Starting point is 00:12:06 What worked for, you know, Teddy Santos with ADL in 2000, in the early 2000, It's not going to work now. How are they changing? How are they pivoting? Paying attention all the time and knowing you most likely are not the market maker. You're not going to be the guys doing it. I also want the humility in person that's pitching to me to say, I know that what I know right now only lasts me today.
Starting point is 00:12:31 I need to constantly change every single day and evolve. That's like the number one rule I see and want to partner up with somebody. Are they willing to learn? Also on the investing side, you have to make decisions about investing. to yourself. You work out every single day. You're posting the content sometimes, but I know that you're working out daily. You're training on shooting. You're constantly, you're reading, like, you're constantly making yourself into a human weapon. Why do you spend so much time investing into yourself? Emotionally, it keeps me always ready. Emotionally, it makes me be able to deal with
Starting point is 00:13:03 bad clients. You know, when you have someone who owes your money, it tells you, they're going to send you a wife at $300,000 on Monday, and it's six Mondays from now, and they still have. haven't sent you, it's very draining. It's very emotionally draining. You fight with your spouse. You get annoyed by your kids. You get annoyed by your employees. You got to make another while.
Starting point is 00:13:23 You're counting on this to do that. When you're fully optimized in your health, it makes it a lot easier to handle a lot of that, and I could tune it out. And I think it just ups my threshold. I want to keep my hair as long as possible. I don't want to lose it from stress. And dealing with so many different clients
Starting point is 00:13:42 and so many different vendors, and it's constantly money and money out with so many different businesses, it could cause a lot of stress. And if I do it at 165 pounds, feeling real good about myself, it makes it a little easier. So normally I don't talk outside of the money investing in the business side, but I want to ask you a question
Starting point is 00:13:59 because you did have a video that went viral, getting hundreds of millions of views on every major television news station. They were interviewing about this shooting that took place in front of your house. Dealing with that from a logical perspective of, you know, the police taking away, your gun for a little while or your permit for a while walk us through getting that many
Starting point is 00:14:21 hundreds of millions of views on you especially knowing that you stopped to run your businesses you stuff to run your operations but now the world saw you shoot back at three gentlemen I don't call them gentlemen three criminals in front of your house not gentlemen I think you know the biggest stress of that that was how it packed my wife it didn't bother me it bothered me but it didn't bother me as my as I might have bothered other people because I'm able to put things behind me. I've learned to deal grief bearing my parents. I've learned to deal with hard times.
Starting point is 00:14:53 And grew up in a Bronx, a very definitely privilege was not in my vocabulary. I think that, you know, I feel like I've motivated a lot of people when they seen their video to learn that they have to stand up for themselves. And I received a lot of negative feedback, a lot of flack. But then they issued me my gun permit again two years later. And things got better.
Starting point is 00:15:17 And I walk on my house without any trauma from the past. People are like, how are you still living in that house? I said, I don't think we even fix the fence. I'm pretty sure the gunholes are still there. I haven't looked in a while, but I know my guys went there, but I don't think it's fixed because it doesn't bother me. Because sometimes you've got to put things behind you. Now, am I happy that I was able to do exactly what I said I would do?
Starting point is 00:15:40 When push came to shove, yes, but that comes from every day showing up to be exactly who I am. and every single day. It's like somebody posting about being a fitness guy and this and there's certain other people that we both know that their whole presence is this masculinity, is this and that. And then they're going out and getting high on the weekends because they can't deal with their problems
Starting point is 00:16:00 or they're drinking their problems away doing that. It's not being masculine. It's not being a man. It's not being a father. I think that, you know, I dealt with my issues like a man. I dealt with my issues like a boss. And when people see that and when they want to invest with me,
Starting point is 00:16:15 they know he could turn around, he could deal with a major issue, he could handle the publicity about it, good and bad, and he can get right back to work. I've buried my mother, I went to work the next day. I buried my father, I went to work the next day because people still depended on me. My kids need me to show up, my employees need me to show, my clients need me to show up. Just because I'm going through something, it doesn't mean the world stops. We need to show up every single day, and that's the number one rule about being an entrepreneur. You've got to show up every day.
Starting point is 00:16:42 So if you guys want to see that, just put in Vince Ritchie's shooting and you'll see him defending his household with his wife and children inside and fighting off three gunmen that approached his house that he successfully shot back at. During the man in the arena tour, you gave a speech called Pull the Trigger. Can you walk us through the concept of what is pulled the trigger? What does that mean to you? You just got to do what you. You've got to make a decision, a decisive decision. You need to handle it and deal with it. Like, I mean, you've spoken about different, we've both been in different situations. previous partners, people that we did a deal with,
Starting point is 00:17:17 we might have sold something with, and now waiting they're paid, or something's happening, all right, let's make a deal right now, let's execute the deal. What we think we should do. I call you up, you say, go left. I'm not waiting to go left. I'm turning left immediately, I'm pulling the trigger right now.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Even though that may not be the best plan, it's not the most thought out plan, but it's what two reasonably well thought out people made up right now. Let's do it. Sometimes you're better off just pulling the trigger and getting through the problem and finding out what's going on and fixing it before somebody else would have even started. You know what I mean? If we get to a race, I'm not sitting there warming up. I'm warming up on the first mile. I'm going to stretch while I'm warming up while I'm going. I'd rather just get this thing going and get it started. So I'm showing up. I'm pulling the trigger. Let's launch. Let's do it. Let's see what's
Starting point is 00:18:11 going on. And there's so many people that waste so many years of being scared to launch this thing, I'm being scared to do this. And their life's wasted. I'm 40 years old. I'm just scratching the surface at being a really good CEO, understanding exactly level mindset, really having my hands in the sand of saying, like, I've done a good amount of things that I know what's going on. Am I on the Jamie Diamond level? No, he's the best. But I'm now just getting a at the level where I really got to see the table. So we've had friends around us that have either been lazy or got fat and things like that, and you've taken upon yourself to check them and jeopardize your relationship with them by being so stern with them.
Starting point is 00:18:54 But now we see them become fit, healthy, and some of them even become their whole persona now about being fit and healthy. Talk us through why you're willing to risk your relationship and why it's important to be able to tell your friends the truth, the blunt truth. My mother was a physical trainer. When she was younger, she helped a lot of women around her. She really trained other women, lose weight and change their lives. And I watched the impact from a very young age of these women that lost 100 pounds. They would call my mom on the phone, and she'd be on the cord phone in the kitchen.
Starting point is 00:19:22 Don't eat that. Don't do that. Let's go for a walk. Let's meet. And just all those things, she had such an impact and such a glow. And as I got older, I watched a lot of other people when they were going through something. They resorted back to, they would come and talk to her. And some people didn't want to hear it when she would rebutt.
Starting point is 00:19:41 reach out to them, but when they really needed her, she was the one they reached out to. She was a staple in our community, even though it was a small community. I wanna make an impact. And I can't call myself your friend if I'm just sitting there watching you fucking fail, or kill yourself, and not say anything.
Starting point is 00:20:00 And like, hey, like I'm doing it. Like you're right next to me, let's do it together. It's like somebody being around me and you and not wanting to do business. Just be lazy. Yeah, it just, it doesn't, like we're talking about so much, many ideas, we're constant going on. It's not bragging. It's like we're thrilled to keep doing
Starting point is 00:20:17 and keep moving forward, keep making stuff happen. If you're going to be around us or even in my peripheral, I want to push you too. It's exciting to see somebody. It's like investing into that person. You're making them better. There's no more rewarding feeling than they'll invest into a person. All right. Let's talk about the charity side of things. So 12 years ago, you named Trina's Kids Foundation after your mother. What was the original concept when we first started here in Hubble Studio in Boyle Heights and having the first three or 400 families come over here to pick up toys or Thanksgiving and food drives, et cetera?
Starting point is 00:20:53 Well, we're right here. We're across the street as Boyle Heights. It's a low-income housing community right across the street. I didn't know it was that when we first moved here because it looked so nice. But to me, the projects in New York look a lot different than projects in California. everything looks nice yet when it's sunny out. And when we decided to do it, I said, well, if we're going to give back at all, let's do it right in our community.
Starting point is 00:21:16 You can make an impact right here. And if every business owner out there that made two, three million dollars in revenue that has a pick and pack shipment facility and commerce or this thing and cut a hay or whatever it is, just said, okay, let's do an annual event and give back right in our community. And that spreads to Arizona. to Wyoming, to all these other places, thinking about how big of a change you can make. That's like, you know, we could give back to world hunger
Starting point is 00:21:44 and build a well in Africa, but when we leave, who knows who's going to maintain that, what's going to happen, what we do is right here, centralized to where we are. And now we're traveling to all these other cities and we're working with local businesses right there, whether it's a sports team, a screen printing company, a jet company in Tampa
Starting point is 00:22:01 or whatever other company we deal with, they're in those communities. We're giving back to those communities. There's no better feeling that giving back in the community you're in. So the evolution of the charity Trina's Kids Foundation, again, started with eight volunteers in year one, year two, there was 20, then 40, then 100, just kept growing and growing. But now it's Miami Heat Arena, Raider Stadium, SoFi Stadium, BMO Stadium, like we're talking about stadiums and arenas.
Starting point is 00:22:29 The efficiency, the execution, the operation is now at a massive scale. we did 240,000 toys last December, breaking another Guinness Book World Record. Walk us through your thoughts now going from, okay, we're going to take care of and help your local 3,400 families that would come over to now still doing that, but taking it to 10 cities and 240,000 toys.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Well, I think I see a lot of other big companies, well, big charities that are doing it when they take 7% of the annual budget and spend it on toys, and we stake 100% of our budget and we spend it on toys, how much bigger could we get because we're doing it for the right reasons?
Starting point is 00:23:10 And it's exciting. And my mother-in-law asked me one day, she said, when are you going to sit down and settle down for the holidays and stay with the family? I said, never. This is what my family will do. My children will grow up knowing we're giving back.
Starting point is 00:23:21 We're going to travel around. There's no more rewarding feeling than giving back, but there's also no worse feeling that when you're in another state and the truck gets stolen. And the 18-wheel gets stolen in the way They're like we've had every problem. It's so much stress.
Starting point is 00:23:36 But the joy on the kids' faces, the mothers that come and... The relief on their faces, the pants. And it's like, this is their kids' holiday. They're never going to run on a professional field or NBA court. And they're meeting these players and they're seeing it and they're aspiring in their life to grow up and come back here and play here. They make it real. When Alan Iverson is sitting in a cafeteria with other kids and they see, that kid is not much shorter than he is.
Starting point is 00:24:02 And he's from this neighborhood and he's giving back. They could do it too. There's no excuses. I guess I just want to keep getting bigger and bigger. I want to keep doing it. Not for ego just because we're making every single time where we touch your kid's life, that could be the kid that comes the next Alan Iverson.
Starting point is 00:24:20 They come, Ben and Matabio, the next one. And, like... And Damon John, there's so many characters coming now. It's insane. It's just we do need support, and the bigger we get, the more we grow, the more people that want to get involved. because, you know, we've self-funded this thing for a decade
Starting point is 00:24:35 until finally a couple people got involved, thank God. But the more and more people are involved, the more and more it spreads. And people know that what we're doing, we take such a small amount and exponentially, monumentally grow that. Imagine we can do it 10 times what we have now. So when it comes to charity,
Starting point is 00:24:55 every time there's the volunteers, whether it's five, 10 volunteers in a random city or there's 100 plus volunteers here at Hubble Studio, you give a speech beforehand to make them realize, to make the volunteers realize that outside of them taking a picture and just kind of being around, you want them to work or you'd rather them leave. But you also say this thing that's really important
Starting point is 00:25:15 about making the kids and those kids' parents feel seen. Why do you explain that? What does that mean? Walk us through, kind of give us the little mini speech that you do there for those volunteers. Because a lot of people detach themselves that come in and I'm a volunteer and these people attendees and I'm supposed to just do this.
Starting point is 00:25:32 And it's like walking into work. and like walking by someone in the hallway and not saying hello or not making eye contact. That is not the element of what we do. The element is the human element of why it makes it. It's not about the toy or the place or the Thanksgiving turkey or the backpack filled with stuff. Sock bowlers are going to out in Puerto Rico. It's the experience with the person that they look up to.
Starting point is 00:25:56 A lot of these kids come in and they feel second glass. They feel like God has overlooked them. Their community has overlooked them. father has left them behind, their live with their aunt because their mother's in jail, or whatever situation it is, and they feel less than. When you make them feel seen, now they're on your level. And you are a person who shows up looking clean, looking nice, looking like you got your stuff together, and they're aspiring to be like you.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Even though they don't know it right there or they don't say it to you, that's what they want to be like. They want to be somebody who's happy because they feel less than. So when you make them feel seen, when you make that mother feel seen, everything changes. Everything changes in their life. And like it becomes one of the most moment moments of their life.
Starting point is 00:26:40 They're thrilled and they will think about that day for the rest of their life. After our last event, I was walking on Melrose and some woman pulled up in a car and said six years ago, you gave my son a pair of soccer cleats and he started playing soccer
Starting point is 00:26:53 and he never stopped. I don't want to thank you. You got, she was a good guy from treating his kids, blah, blah, blah. And I said, yeah. And she said to me and I was, Wow, cable should remember who I was. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:04 You know, but it was that, that's what you want to leave these people with, that feeling, that memorable moment. All right, I've never done this before, but I want to ask you a couple of pop quizzes. What do you think or what would you say to the men that are lazy and they're not taking care of their kids? That not taking care of kids financially? Just in general. You never should have had kids. You never should have been slipping with women. Go sleep with dudes.
Starting point is 00:27:30 I don't mean like that, but it's the truth. Like you, everything goes out the window when you become a father. I stopped skydiving after the day we did the announcement at your house because it wasn't worth risking it. My kids need me. I don't drive fast anymore because my kids need me. There's a lot of things I don't do anymore because my job, my whole existence is to be the best I could be for my kids.
Starting point is 00:27:53 I can't imagine, you know, my fall was taken away from me at a young age in and out of jones. jail and different things and the thought of me intentionally not wanting to do the right thing or give them the best life to me is nuts I had somebody recently that that's a well-off dude said oh I'm going to put my kid in public school because he needs to learn grit so you're just going to give him a below average education I mean you could clearly afford to spend the money or you're complaining about your kids dance classes you're complaining about your kids education like you shouldn't have been a parent shouldn't have been a parent then that kid becomes number one you do
Starting point is 00:28:30 what you can for them because they're relying on you because they can't take care of themselves. When I was eight years old, I remember sitting outside the hospital, my mother was dying, my dad was in jail, and I said, one day I won't need to rely on nobody else. I'll be able to completely take care of myself and the whole world will fear when I'm coming. And my kids will never have to think like that because they'll know that daddy's there and they got nothing to worry about because he'll take care of everything. What are most brands doing wrong with their social media? It's not organic.
Starting point is 00:29:04 It's not real. It's not who they really are. They're not creating congruent lifestyle that's like this is what they stick to. Represent, made the run club. They kept the minimal. They kept it running. It's in line with the kid George. I don't even know the owner, but he shoots here all the time.
Starting point is 00:29:20 But his lifestyle is about health. His lifestyle is about running in high rocks. They sponsor other athletes. They sponsor high rock athletes, people like that. It's very congruent. And that's why I think they do very well. it's very congruent with who they are. When you try to do too many things,
Starting point is 00:29:35 you're posting about art, you're posting about top of Ford fashion shows, and you're doing this, but you're in luxury streetwear, but it's minimal. It's like, it's too much. Stick to what you know.
Starting point is 00:29:46 So there's only one question that I ask on every single episode, and I've never gotten the same answer before, and I'm not going to get the same answer today. Many, many, many, many years from now, hopefully it's over 100 years from now, and it's time for Vince Richie to finally pass away. Budge, you've been,
Starting point is 00:30:01 built up cannabis brands, clothing brands, Hubble Studios in 10 different cities and countries, and you got multiple billions of dollars. What percentage of your net worth do you leave to those three kids of yours? I'm gearing up to raise them the most morally sound, honest, genuine, giving back to each other that every single aspect of my life will be given to them because they will take over to these kids. They will continue all the work we're doing. They're going to it. I know I hear a lot of people say the opposite. If they're going to leave X amount to their kids and I want to spoil them, my kids are going to work for it. And I mean, that's my legacy. That's all I got. I've got anything else. I've got a sister, which she does well for herself. My kids are going
Starting point is 00:30:48 to take over everything I'm doing. 100%. All right, guys, as I framed this at the very beginning, these episodes, especially special ones like this, are not just for you. Think about things that were said today that might be relevant to one of your friends later. one of your coworkers later, when your kids, parents, adults, people in your ecosystem, later, you might think of something that Vince said today and you share this podcast with them. The reason for the Money Mondays, we're number 30 in the world today is because of you guys. Sharing, commenting, liking, subscribing, all those things are mission critical for us because we're not sitting here running ads.
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