literally 25 years of my life and 35 years of my mom's life. She woke up every single morning at

3.30 a.m. went to Costco and worked, and she did it so that she could come home for her lunch

break to take us to school. And then by the time she was off work, she could pick us up from school.

And knowing what I know now about sleep and how important it is,

her whole life she's had no sleep. Her whole life she had no money. Her whole life she had no

support. And so I knew that I owed it to my mom and my dad as well. But I owe it to them to become

successful and to be the best version of myself because they sacrificed everything.

Welcome to the Rich Stummer's Report where we talk real estate, business, and wealth

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All right, guys, welcome to another episode of The Report today.

I got a special guest and I'm very excited because he drove down from Newport Beach. We got a repeat guest, someone who's making big waves, doing big things in the real estate space at all levels. I got my man, Blake Rocha. Blake, welcome back to the show. How are we doing, Rich?

Dude, doing so freaking good, man. It's been a minute since we've caught up, man, and things are good. We're rocking and rolling. This is a year of learning for me. And as we kind of approach the end of the year, I'm doing a lot of reflecting right now and getting clear on what the target is for next year, man. But I see all the moves that you've been making, dude. I see all the success. I'm sure that you got a lot of wins and losses under your belt for this year. And, you know, it's cool to think like six months ago, 12 months ago, we all look back. I'm sure, I'm sure you know this better than I do. We look back and we see the fucking growth. You know, when I see content from a year ago, I'm like, oh, it makes me cringe. When I see, like, what I was doing a year ago in terms of, like, what my baseline, my standard was makes me cringe because every two months I'm resetting the bar. And then I level up and that's a new baseline. And I'm sure you see that too. 100%. Yeah. I mean, I try my best to look at everything like it's a lesson and not a loss. And when I look at old content or I look at the properties that I started with from an investing standpoint, from a business standpoint, from a content standpoint, I'm like, I really was doing it like that? Like, I can't believe that this is how we're moving now, but I wouldn't have known that unless I had gone through the mistakes. I had seen the big wins. The good thing about doing the social media stuff is we have metrics to track a lot of the times, as well as with real estate to see like, what am I doing that's working and what am I doing that's not working and be able to in real time take action and, but again, you wouldn't know unless you, you post it. Unless you did it. This game is about the reps. It's about the at-bats. That's how Kobe Bryant became Kobe Bryant. That's how Michael Jordan became Michael Jordan. But one thing I was just thinking about when you mentioned like the social media thing, we're both very active on social. One of the things that no one talks about is like when we're old one day, we have all those videos to like go back and like watch old memories and like reminisce about what we used to do. Like I can't imagine not having all those

like videos and like memories just kind of like stockpiled, you know? Yeah, 100% agree. So do you remember

when you were a kid? Maybe it was different for me. But when I was a kid, my parents, these VHS tape recorders

where we go back and watch ourselves growing up.

Yes.

So you're 17 years old and it's the first time seeing yourself running around, open up

Christmas gifts when you were four or five, six years old.

The best decision that I made this year was starting my YouTube channel because the style

of video that I wanted to do was I was only seeing people in like the fashion industry do it,

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