Hello and welcome back to Redirected. My name is Andrew East and this is a show we sit down with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, really anybody who has experienced a pivot or change in life.

At some point or another, we all go through them and I wanted to sit down with people who have made it through these changes well in order to glean wisdom about how they made it through those situations well, but also hear some entertaining stories.

And my story is I studied civil engineering in college with the full intention of building wells in third world countries got derailed by the NFL for a couple years and now we're here making YouTube videos and I love where we're at.

So today we have a great guest joining us. His name is Raz Roman Eskieu and if you pull up this guy's Instagram, which will link down below. He's a co founder and CEO of the following companies, game, Lancer, style, girls,

NPM, Perfew, Nail Boo, Hyde, Tatbrow, Underlining and Memes, let's see that is nine different companies. This guy has his hands full and I was pleasantly surprised by this conversation. He's very thoughtful has a lot of wisdom and I think you will be able to glean a lot of good stuff from my conversation with RAS.

You want to find out more about RAS and what he's up to, including his companies will link that in the show on the symbol. And before we get into it, please subscribe and give the show a rating on whatever platform you're listening on without further ado, here is RAS Roman Eskieu.

RAS, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to meet you. I got to say when I came across your profile. I saw founder and CEO of how many companies are you in charge of right now?

Three companies at the moment. Holy smokes. I got one. It's not that big and it's keep my hands full. So I can't wait to dig into who you are and how you do it. But I would love if you could kind of for those watching on video, you have a beautiful background. I would love for you to set the scene of where you are right now, RAS.

I mean, that Panama City Panama Central America. Me and quite a few of my co-founders made the move out here from Canada or Los Angeles. And we have a entrepreneur out here and just worked 24 seven and a pretty decent casual life.

It seems it seems like you have embraced the local pronunciation of Panama. Maybe the more, you know, bushly.

I was getting some momentum learning Spanish when I first moved here than the quarantine hit pretty hard. So everything went on lockdown and started learning more from like Netflix subtitles and like we were eating.

I was in that kind of day. So, but yeah, things are back open here. So definitely trying to get food.

You're all the way in. I would love if you could kind of set the scene of how you grew up where you grew up. Little anything that's like a breadcrumbs trail of how you got to where you are today.

Yeah, sounds good. So originally I was born in Romania, moved to Canada when I was about five years old. Remain used to be communist. There wasn't best country to be from. So not a lot of opportunity there.

Still to the state.

My dad actually moved to London right when I was born to take a job there and find a way to actually get us to Canada and out of Romania. So I didn't actually meet him till I was about five.

And when he came back to Romania, it was pretty much let's go to Canada. So I was kind of a pivotal thing in my life when I realized that you know you got to take big risk to make big moves.

So when I saw some operate.

I didn't really hesitate to make the jump because I think at an early age I saw what it meant to take risk in order to get where you want to be.

In Canada, it was a great place to live.

Quite a few of my business partners actually from there online.

When I went to school, it was not necessarily for me. I was always finding other more efficient scalable things to make money. And I just felt like I wouldn't really fit too well in an organization unless I had at least some say what was happening in the strategy, et cetera.

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