I needed to find a way to handle the amount of customers that I had.

So I started telling them to meet me in the store.

I knew a couple of key things, discounted items, and layaways are the two things that needed to be approved by managers. So I know I said, just come in there, just say you want to put this on layaway. Say a living room set. I don't know you didn't mean pills if you say, bedroom set, and leave me coke. and I just started categorizing different vignettes.

Pete Polis grew up on Long Island, the son of an NYP. know you didn't mean pills, if you say, bedroom set, and then you mean coke. And I just started categorizing different vignettes.

Pete Polis grew up on Long Island, the son of an NYPD detective, with dreams of making it big in baseball.

He did just that, playing for the Blue Jays, White Sox, and Yankees, before walking away from the game.

After a stint as a pastor, he took a job at a furniture store and secretly built an intricate

drug operation out of the back, eventually working with a cartel.

It all came crashing down when he got caught and was sentenced to four years in federal prison.

Today, Pete's sober and running a recovery house, and this is the unbelievable story of how a pro ball player turned drug trafficker found redemption.

Pete, welcome to Lockton, man. Thanks so much for coming today.

Thanks for having me. You have an incredible story. I think you're our second ever baseball-type story on the podcast, and the first one was the Danny Collins one I was telling you about, and everyone loved it. And you just have a very interesting story. I think the audience is really going to love it. I appreciate it. I went through a lot, I can tell you that. Yeah, but at least you're positive about it now, you know. It would be one thing to go through a lot and not learn from it and be miserable, miserable, but you went through a lot and you're positive about it and, you know, you're offbeat. You're not down in the dumps. It takes just as much energy to be positive, it does negative. Yeah, absolutely. Before we get rolling, I want to tell you about Magic Mind. Magic Mind is one of the sponsors of our show. And this is a Macha Energy performance shot. So I take these before every interview, got them stocked up in the studio out here.

Is it a little toast to you? Yeah, if you'd like to have one, we'd love for you to have one too. The cool thing about this is I see you got a

coffee there. You can have it with coffee so it doesn't replace necessarily the coffee. It's just

an extra performance shot, gives you mental clarity, doesn't leave you with like that hangover

like some energy drinks do. So they're good. And have you ever had macha?

I have not.

But I'm about to try it with you. Yeah, they're best served cold too.

And it's so good.

I like it.

Salute.

Yeah, cheers.

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