But the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become.

I can't even make this up, he starts walking, I draw back, and he's down, he's right there.

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Hi Joel, welcome to the podcast man, stoked to have you on you are a fascinating story and a great entrepreneur, even though I don't I don't even know if you consider yourself an entrepreneur, you built very successful businesses, but yeah welcome to the podcast.

Thanks buddy, it's my pleasure to be here man, so I want to I want to start it in a place, you know, I got your book and I'm stoked to kind of go through it and it's it's called 31 days to become a better man.

And I think this kind of lines out with a lot of the things that I've found that I've kind of like come up with my own system or whatever and I'm like man Joel stuff is very, very similar and so I'm a huge fan of it and you know doing hard things, getting your finances order all these things, getting your life in order and I think being very diligent about what the life you want.

But one of the fascinating things about you and I really want to dive into this because I do see this a lot is that you know people who migrated here from another country and came from absolutely nothing and to have more drive so let's go back and kind of give your backstory of coming here on a boat at four years old and kind of like you're upbringing I guess the 30,000 foot view where you came from and how you started from virtually nothing.

Yeah, so I agree often times immigrants have more drive and also more appreciation you know one time some American clients of mine came to visit me there from Virginia and they walked into my warehouse at the time and I have a very big American flag hanging in the warehouse and they said why do you have that flag there.

First of all I couldn't believe the question because every single day I think I can't believe I'm here is the greatest place on earth I think that greatness is being challenged right now but but it's still the greatest place on earth and I think about this every day I'm so appreciative to be in this country to have this country have opened its arms to me and and let me do the things that I've done here.

As far as my story sorry I came to the United States fleeing communism out of Cuba when I was a little kid I was little but I do remember it I have a pretty good memory I was four and a half years old and the reason I remember the trip first of all I remember my life in snippets in snapshots when I was in Cuba I didn't know about communism I didn't know that I was in a bad place that had the misfortune of being born there.

But I remember a little bit about life and I remember the trip and the reason I remember the trip and this is meaningful to me because it's come up in my life multiple times is because it took 12 hours on this riggedy boat that had a capacity of maybe 70 people my dad tells me and it was about 150 of us and we were like just wet sardines you know scrunched up in my mom's arms for 12 hours and the most meaningful part about that trip was about four hours of a storm that made it very very difficult.

So until this day and I talk about it in the book I have a fear of deep water out in the ocean and it's because of that I'm pretty sure and so God here got to this country one of the most calming thoughts that I have is coming into that pier in the naval base in Key West the waters were calm after 12 hours of being on a rough boat and we were hungry we had no food we had no water we didn't have anything.

Coming to that pier a black American soldier welcomed us and said welcome to the United States and everybody cheered and was happy and I remember all the volunteers there with soups and soda and water and man that was amazing so that's that's my story of coming here as far as my growing up I grew up in California in the San Francisco Bay area I don't live there anymore for over 20 years I've been in South Florida and grew up poor and that made me search under every rock and look for opportunity.

In this country man if anybody can do it I mean if I can do it anybody can do it this country is jam packed with opportunities and you know kind of going back into your story like you sounds like I don't want to say it's like the classic immigrant but it's like man you just find a way to make a dollar like everything in your life and it sounds like from in childhood and growing up was like how do I make more money how do I make a dollar how do I and it's not like what's my passion or like whatever it's just like this is my life.

This is what I need to do I need to make money why is it the immigrants are so obsessed with money because you don't have it when you don't have something and then you see all the things that you're missing out on you know I grew up in the 80s and I would watch shows like silver spoons and different strokes and and see that man some people have all these things I don't have anything I remember a kid came over in first or second grade to my house I had already gotten to his house and you had a big wooden toy box full of toys.

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