"At 5 I Picked Fields w/ My Mom… Now I'm a CEO Processing BILLIONS!" (American Dream Story)
The Passionate Few
OMAR ELATTAR
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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In this episode, we sit down with Moses Heredia — founder of Global Processing Systems — to hear how he went from picking cucumbers in the fields of New Mexico to building a multimillion-dollar empire in payment processing. From stealing toilet paper and surviving a near-death shooting as a teen, to earning $1K on commission and launching his own company, Moses reveals the faith, grit, and values that turned his rock bottom into generational success. This one's raw, emotional, and full of wisdom for anyone chasing a better life.
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Timestamps:
00:01:47 – Intro: From the fields to fortune
00:03:10 – Scale of Moses' business today
00:05:25 – His mother's early hustle: candles, motels & restaurants
00:08:15 – Childhood in the fields & lessons from cucumber farming
00:12:00 – Getting paid in tokens & learning commission at 13
00:14:45 – Greyhound ticket to California at 17
00:17:30 – First job: $4.25/hour in telemarketing
00:20:05 – Breakthrough client: $1K commission changes his life
00:23:00 – The honest sales approach that made him win
00:26:00 – What separates world-class salespeople
00:28:15 – Early setbacks: car accident, no utilities, stealing toilet paper
00:31:00 – Why faith kept him going
00:33:30 – Building a 6-figure income in his 20s
00:36:00 – Leaving corporate to start his own company
00:38:45 – No support from mentors — only from God
00:41:10 – Launching Global Processing Systems with $250K
00:43:45 – Year 1 struggles & reinvesting every dollar
00:46:15 – Surviving the 2008 crash without layoffs
00:48:30 – Building leaders from within
00:50:20 – Culture, ownership & company mindset
00:52:10 – The 4 G's: God, Goals, Grind, Global Impact
00:54:20 – Losing his mom & delayed grief
00:57:05 – Healing through the ocean ceremony
00:59:40 – Lessons in humility & leadership
01:01:45 – Final convo with his mom & letting go
01:04:00 – Advice to young entrepreneurs
01:06:15 – The power of meditation & faith
01:08:15 – Last message: God is real, and dreams do come true
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| 0:00.0 | The biggest problem with entrepreneurs is the fear, and that's in the Bible, like 365 times I think in the Bible, |
| 0:05.8 | brother, it's fear. They're afraid to take that leap. And I encourage people, you just have to start somewhere. |
| 0:11.9 | It doesn't matter how you start. Just start. Moses Heredia, a faith-driven son of an immigrant who went from |
| 0:16.8 | working the fields as a kid to becoming CEO of global processing systems and best-selling |
| 0:21.5 | author of Fields to Fortune. Moses, I know you come from very humble beginnings. You take us back to kind of where you grew up. I'll give you guys a little quick snapshot. So I actually am a son of an immigrant and I grew up working on the fields, a young child. I remember working 14, 16, 18 hours days. brutal, right? And I was like, if I don't get out of here, I'm not going to succeed in life. So I got out of there with a Greyhound ticket and one way to California. Did you have any money? Absolutely not. I just had a backpack. That's where it all started after that, man, the success. How important was you taking imperfect action and kind of figuring out along the way? |
| 0:54.1 | What another ingredients that he has |
| 0:55.8 | that I've been gifted by God is just... |
| 0:58.3 | That's beautiful. |
| 0:59.3 | And I actually have a question for you. |
| 1:00.8 | What were some of the pivots you made that didn't work |
| 1:02.8 | versus did work? |
| 1:03.5 | What are some of the biggest challenges you deal with |
| 1:05.2 | even present day? |
| 1:06.2 | What would be your best 60 second piece of advice |
| 1:08.0 | to get someone unstuck and really start living |
| 1:10.0 | in the momentum they crave. Here's what I always say is, hi, I'm Moses Radia. I went from picking cucumbers |
| 1:17.7 | in the farms to processing billions of dollars in payments, and I'm one of the passionate |
| 1:22.0 | few. Thanks so much for being on the show today, Moses. Hey man, thank you for having me, man. It's an honor to be here with you, Omar. It's a pleasure, man. Thank you. Excited to do this, bro. I know a lot of people on social media don't know your story yet, but it's incredible. Can you give the audience kind of before we get into it a little bit of context on the scale of your business today and then we'll get into your story because I know |
| 1:47.9 | you come from very humble beginnings so let's first at the top talk about what you're doing |
| 1:52.4 | business today and then we'll kind of unpack the story of how you got there absolutely |
| 1:56.0 | omar so my name is moses radio founder and CEO of global processing systems. |
| 2:01.6 | My company, what we do is we enable anyone that has a business to accept any form of payment |
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