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Johnny Persón

Johnny Persón

Founder of Aug11 Co, a seven-figure premium headwear brand, and nearly 16 years sober after overcoming OxyContin, Xanax, and alcohol addiction.

Oct 7, 2026

36:40
Wow.
36:41
Um, he's still involved in my sister's life, but that was the last time I ever saw him or spoke to him.
36:46
And that was when kind of my homelessness started.
36:49
Mm.
36:49
Um, I called some friends.
36:52
I was like, "Hey, can I stay at your house?" He's like, "Yeah, you have like a three-hour window where you can sleep here before, like, my dad's gonna know." Mm.
36:59
So, like, I would do that.

33 MINS LATER

69:36
Mm-hmm.
23:14
like my guy best friends, you know, and I just would love to know, not even to get into that situation specifically, but the advice that you would give to people with you currently going through the loss of people in your life, what would you tell them that they have to do in order to like maybe push past that?
23:29
My thinking is it always comes back to focus on yourself, King.
23:34
You know what I mean? Like really and truly though, focus on yourself.
23:38
The way that these people walked out of my life, anytime somebody has left my life, it has never, I mean, besides maybe a breakup or two, it's like, oh, we just don't work together.
23:48
I love you.
23:49
I care about, like that rarely happens, right? Especially with friends, that's not going to happen because they all aren't fucking.
23:56
You don't have that you got to worry about, right? So I think this has been very weird for me to process and it has made me think about relationships very differently as a whole, like intimate relationships and relationships with friends.

1 HR 12 MINS LATER

96:40
yeah, yeah.

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