Was that to use the capital, like physical capital to help people or was that to give you more time to help people?

no so uh god just said you're making all this money you're doing all this stuff and uh basically the conversation i had with him and then when i woke up in the hospital i thought about legacy like we all talk about leaving and building a legacy but at the end of the day are we really right how many people have a business how many people have a job how many people go out every day to make a living And they say they do it for their kids.

They say they do it for their family, but their family, their kids, they can only get what's left.

The frustration, the aggravation, them when they're tired, them on their phone, them trying to catch up.

And they're not really living for the reason why they say they are.

So when I was in a hospital after I woke up, I thought about this situation where it's like, hey, I thought I was building legacy for 20 some odd years.

But at the end of the day, if my kids 10 years from today were having a conversation with some other people, And they go, hey, well, what did your dad do? Oh, my dad built a couple houses.

So do you think that he should be morally changing, not owning a bar? Or do you think that if that's a source of income, or anybody that owns a bar or something like that, do you think that they should?

Oh, yeah.

There was a circle on it, you know, when the garage sale and it had a one and a dash.

So it was obviously a dollar.

So I played real stupid.

I go, how much is the book? They were like, kid, you could have it.

We're going to throw it up.

We're clean, throw it out.

so how what are what are some of like the values and standards that have done well for you in your life that you live by now

Please help me welcome Dan Sakowski.

I started my first business at 17.

I had no idea what I was doing, ignorance on fire.

24 years old, I got a 5,000 square foot house.

I got two Escalades.

I got an S55 AMG.

There comes a point in your life where you realize that there's a problem.

Mm-hmm.

Well,

you know what, this will take you an hour and a half to read, maybe two hours, read it, you'll understand where I'm coming from.

Because I think the value is that everything I teach and everything I talk about is based from experience.

And I used all of those as pivotal points in my life to realize that Everyone in this world is screwed up, but I'm screwed up too.

And as long as I can admit the fact that, hey, we're all screwed up in our own way, but the only way we're going to learn is to admit that three things happen from every situation.

We have to understand what it's doing for us and where it's gonna take us.

And that's a learning curve.

You know, how long did it take you to make that transition to actually get to the place where you were a very grounded, regulated, and looked from an awareness standpoint?

Mm-hmm.

So a lot of tension.

I was like, animosity, resentment, there has to be.

A ton of it.

That was the downfall of us.

Because I built this extravagant life, and all of a sudden I just took it away.

Poof.

What were you doing, if anything, to cause the heart attack?

And I want to go back further because I recall before we jumped on, you said that you struggled with your weight when you

were younger.

Yeah.

So this all stemmed, you know, for all the battles I faced in my life from the age of like seven years old to 14 years old.

My mom was Portuguese.

My dad was Polish.

My dad used to introduce me to everybody in public.

Otherwise, I'm not going to fucking go to work today.

But what spark ignited you to start your original entrepreneurial journey? Was it out of survival? Was it life circumstances? Tell me your story.

Yeah, so I grew up super humble beginnings.

We grew up in an apartment in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

We were there until I was 14.

We moved to the suburbs when I was 14 in Howell, New Jersey.

And we moved into a three-bedroom house.

My uncle and my grandparents moved in with us.

That's fantastic.