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David Kalsow 0:17

I'm David Kalsow. And you're listening to APC Presents Bri showcase independent podcasters from Northeast Wisconsin. And this week God Dave's faves were stealing from the battle warrior podcast. Our guest last week Chad Smith sits down with his guest, Eric ground hopper to talk bidness Eric is the owner of royal reputation out of Tampa Bay, Florida and talks about his latest business service podcasting. I'm pleased to present a loyal reputation with Eric groundcover from the battle warrior podcast.

Chad Smith 0:58

Every week, we're going to be dropping new episodes mix from my past and mix in the studio here with the venture project. So guys, stay tuned on Instagram, Facebook, all our fun social media pages. Like I said, battle warrior podcast is kicking back in gear. I am in Oshkosh, we are in the venture project studio guys and we're gonna come at you with a lot of big time guests. So stay tuned guys

Chad Smith 1:48

Hey guys, welcome to the battle warrior podcast. We are supposed to introduce you right away man we jump right in. We started talking business and shit. My brain goes on left when it goes business so obviously, man, kill me if I say it wrong. But live from Tampa, Florida. We have Eric Grant Hoffer. Perfect nail. Perfect. Perfect. Well, he's Hey, guys, he's the owner royal reputation. And obviously, there's gonna be some other stuff down the pipeline here. But we're chit chatting about business. And I'm like, dude, time out. So we're talking about personal branding. And I think we're gonna hit the gold where we were just talking about like, the full cycle of life and entrepreneurship. So we were going to talk about other stuff. But you know what, man, this is gold. So?

Eric Grundhoefer 2:33

Absolutely, yeah, no, we're just talking about so I love everything that you have going on. Again, thank you so much for having me on. This is like really exciting. And I'm the same way like, we immediately started talking business and like, like future plans and goals. And that's how I feel like, like, that's how you know you're surrounding yourself with the right people is when you're literally within first five seconds and talking. You literally know the person's like goals for the next five years, their plans for the next 10. And it's not, people will be like, Oh, that's bragging, it's literally it's not bragging at all, you're like, you're literally just like you're throwing out ideas. You're like pink, like, I'm inspired by everything that you're doing. You have two, two books coming out, you have all of this stuff happening of supplements down the line, like the embroidery stuff. So I was just saying like you a lot of people don't they're like, I don't get branding, I don't understand is that okay? And like, it's just them second guessing it. But I love that all of your stuff. As you said derived from your podcast, everything is connected, and you just know, you know what you like. So you're like, I like cars. This thing's about this, you use the car analogy, the car metaphors. But then you also are tying in Chad, the warrior, like all of these things. And it all just comes full circle. And all you're doing is connecting the dots, you're making this, like relate to this to this relate to this and then bring it back full circle so that way your brand is a complete, like set of all the things that you like in your life, as opposed to like, Oh, I'm gonna do and like it doesn't have to be no like, it's like I've seen plenty of people do like they have a different name for every single thing and none of its related and that's fine to me mentally. I would not be able to do 10 Different businesses if they all had a separate name and unrelated thing in completely different industries. That's just me like I need them all to somehow work in within my life and be somehow connected because then it all makes sense for me. And it's like I'm I'm Eric and I'm like the top of all the royal reputation the royal nutrition the royal you know becoming legends podcasts all with the line at the top like that's like that's my goal is to just have everything like that I do be related.

Chad Smith 4:41

Eric Grundhoefer 6:55

I was just talking my wife today, it just makes me think like, I was talking to my wife and like a ton of a couple friends, business partners, my business partner that's doing royal nutrition with us. And so we have this new service that we're rolling out. So like, right now, this isn't a plug, this is just giving context. Royal reputation is an online reputation management firm. So we do two things, we do marketing, which is a lot under the the marketing, branding, and all of that which is involved in marketing, if someone wants a logo or something, we help them out with their, or create the brand from scratch for them. And then on the other side is really the rep management stuff. So like if someone got if an attorney called me and he got a DUI, and it's for his name, because it's attached to the firm, and he has something that's out there, I would look his case up. And I would go I can, he wants to get rid of it or suppress it, I can reach out to those places, either get rid of it, or we can create content and suppress that stuff. So that's mainly the two things that we're doing for and on the other end, we do promotion to for online reputation management. So like, you know, we're creating content so that way, if something bad happens, or a bad review happens down the road, it doesn't sink your entire business. So there's those two services. But what I have been non stop thinking about for the last, really the last seven years, and I didn't know how to put it together for whatever reason my brain could not figure out a way to make this service work until recently is we're doing I'm calling it the legends package playing into the podcast. And it's getting people on four podcasts a month. So we take CEOs, we get them on four podcasts a month. And we then take those four podcasts. And as you and I were talking every podcast for that CEO, we would edit one podcast into 37 different pieces of content. And then I would distribute that my team would distribute that on social media for that person. So we will put on their LinkedIn, their YouTube, their Instagram, and then we would just be basically running a personal branding campaign with the podcast that we're getting them on. So not only are they getting exposure from the podcasts, but they're getting exposure from the social media building a following on the social media being seen as experts in the field on social media, from the things that we're doing rinse and repeat. So one hand washes the other. So that I've been up for whatever reason, I needed those three things, get you on the podcast, to like cut and edit the videos properly and then distribute. I couldn't put it together on how I wanted to do it until, for whatever reason for the last like 60 days. And we've partnered with PR firms and stuff like that no one offers this. So I only say that not to plug a new service truly.

Eric Grundhoefer 9:36

You put 150 grand into Facebook, dude, you'd be frickin reaching a billion people.

Yeah, there's and you're like, you're literally making yourself a millionaire off of 100 it's like that's your investment. You're getting it back. So again, I'm sorry. I'm like laughing right now I'm going down this like road.

This is reality, guys. And the reason why I'm bringing this up is and to be 100% Honest, man, I was not in radio. It just, I had a friend that said to get into podcasting, and I loved it. So like, all of a sudden I started listening to Joe Rogan, we could talk about his love Joe. I'm just gonna we're gonna pause this for two seconds, just say Joe Rogan on this one. So the power of podcasting guys like people that understand Joe Rogan now? I don't think he really understand his leverage and the power of his podcast until the slash, what, four months? Yeah. And all of a sudden, it's like, oh, wow, like we have a leader developing even though he doesn't want to be it. There's a leader developing in that that is just insane with our podcast with them. What is the number one hit between him and Peterson and I think there's other big players in their in the person belt and world but I think he's on like, He's the king of the King right now. Tip. No one ever will. And that that's the thing I was gonna say the power podcast where it's like it's moving away from him. And the thing is, I used him and I use Christian articles, which is cheese. I can't think of it right now. But like a few wrestling podcast, okay. Okay, this is a timing. So it's like, I talked, and I did three, four episodes a week just to get that that grind. So it's like, okay, pause and then I added my own stuff. And to be honest, I want that grunt work because for me, it's the learning of the time in the pause field. I wanted to dive into it be like, Okay, this is how I did it, and that that's how I survived like tournament fishing and stuff. It's like, if you dived into it, you put the practice and you get the feel for it, then you could feel naturally okay, hey, turn right turn, left turn, whatever it is, to me is I got absorbed by that industry. I absorbed myself into it. So when it comes to like, this stuff, me talking in the mic and all that stuff, like, Yeah, dude, I can run next and things on this side. And I don't want to use that term. But for me, it's the pausing it's, and to be brutally honest, guys, some days you're on, some days are off. It's just the nature of the beast, but it's the timing. It's the love of it. And it's the stuff that I just felt natural, like my gifts to talk and I'm like, Dude, I'm gonna make some money and have some fun with it and not even make money at it. Like it's fun first, and then money comes back.

Exactly. Exactly. I always say to like, it's funny. You said you just said that. Because I literally say my only talent is communication. Which is funny because I like I hedge I talk over myself. So you know what I mean? Like, I go back and forth. Like I'm ping pong and stuff. I like contradict myself. But it makes sense. If you really listen to the conversation, like the context like, it's, it's crazy. So, but I think that that's my only strength. Like, my biggest strength is the way I communicate. So I like you was like, this is becoming legends. I think I have 12 episodes out on 60 episodes deep. So I actually just reached out to my team, and I was like, we need to start releasing two or three week because I can't be 18 weeks out right now out of all that for like people can't wait 18 weeks.

Yeah, you gotta Yeah, like deadlines and stuff to like, if they got a book coming out to God TV, whatever it is like you got to hit that.

Exactly. So we I'm like, we got to speed this up a little. And then so but this is so I started in January of this year. And literally, this is like the third iteration of the podcast. I think the first time I did it, I wanted to be like Gary Vee, and he had to ask Gary Vee show. Yeah. And so I started it. And it was I was doing it all myself just like you did. And I was, it was just called the Eric G show when I thought that was cool. And then I was like, not really getting guests. I was kind of just me talking and ants trying to ask questions like or answer questions like Gary Vee, that didn't work. And then I kind of did a version of it was called stupid questions with Eric. And it was just no, the gimmick was no questions, a stupid question. It just didn't feel right after three or four episodes, and then for whatever reason becoming legends hit. And it just caught like wildfire. Like it was it was within my brand, like, you know, and everything connected. And I'm getting like, having millionaires on my podcast. And I'm like, learning so much. Having just such a simple conversation like you and I are having now. And I'm obsessed with it. I'm just like you. I'm like, I learned from Joe, like, learn from Joe Rogan, like just immerse myself in that immerse myself into that kind of podcast world. And I was just like, taking from all the greats. This is what I like, out of this one mind. This is what I like, out of this one mind, like reverse engineering, and then just putting my own spin on it and doing doing mine. And I'm just like learning from all these people who have like, have years and years and years of experience and I feel like it's like a life hack. Like I'm like cheating at life right now. Because I'm getting firsthand free knowledge off of millionaires who are just like, let me tell you how to do everything that I do. I'm like, This is amazing.

It really have you read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

Yeah, I love it. Quick notes. Cliff Notes,

guys. We're gonna plug this in your 30 seconds. I'm not getting paid for this book. It's just I know if you look at a lot of millionaires and stuff between that one how to be influential leader how to match power, think about whatever there's like four or five big books and that one is number one, I'm pretty much across the whole board. And the thing that just stuck in my mind when we were talking about this and how you're going was define learn do so like he would always talk to say define where you want to go learn what we have to do and just do it like versus what back in the day or what we go to school for and I'm not gonna get too technical here but like, do learn to find so it's like Dude, you're going to school, get a degree that's going to find where you're going and just okay, let me go back. Okay to find learn, do do learn to find Okay, so you go to college, learn it, and then that defines your life. Right? And that's a life hack dude. I never noticed how much of a like life hack that is. And all of a sudden mean you're going it's like oh, this is what we're doing. This is okay. So you have your goals written down. It's like this is what we got to talk to you get to it. Okay, modify whatever and then you just go and the goal is just seems slow at the beginning. In Yes, you will lose momentum. You'd be like, Why the fuck am I doing this? And then all of a sudden it just clicks and then it just shoots up like crazy. Exactly.

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oh, no, all I was gonna say is like, and then there are days though, like you said, like, you hit like the nail on the head. There's days where you aren't on it. Like I just did a 21 day no caffeine, like went from 500 to 1000 milligrams of caffeine a day. No pre workout at the gym a mat just imagine your life without parole. I get a nice temporary workout. And I'm talking I was a different person. Like yes, I was tired in the first week after that I got over it. And then I was I felt great. I did so like that's fine. But I was also I realized I'm not as hyper as I have always thought I was it's literally I'm built on caffeine. And so like, without that I was like realizing actually, these became more and more difficult to get through because I was like I'm not I didn't feel like myself. It's like right now today was the first day I was actually able to drink pre workout at the gym and I just had a little bit ago which is why I can't shut up right now and you're probably like, what the hell's going on? But uh so like I feel amazing I feel like I'm back to myself like I feel great talking with my hands like like I could run a mile right now and be fine like you know so it's just I'm obsessed that but there are days where the energy is down like you you got to try to bring it as much as possible because you only get out of it. What you're giving and that's really that's like so true you got to bring to the conversation add to the conversation.

Yeah, and you're getting the full full energized like Dude if I do record a podcast Thursday and Friday especially getting four hours of sleep every night like you can tell and you can backup couple episodes ago and nothing against her the guest is phenomenal girl She's amazing. I learned a lot of things from her. You can tell in my tone that I was run on empty like I would have people reach out be like okay, dude, you were tired. Like they weren't sugar corn and be like bro get some sleep. Get some sleep man Come on. And I'll explain it this way guys. And the secret is this is I'm still working full time a lot of hours on top again all this stuff going on so I want to be outside of my job pretty quick here. But just just like business and you get it dude man when you get stuff rolling all of a sudden money's flying here money's flying there and money's fine there you're trying to save some here and it's just a lot of moving parts until that first initial push come so like once everything is done like when I get off with you man I gotta release podcast. I gotta get a W nine form situated after that dude, I'm done. Like I can think I can you know do whatever I need to do Wednesday or Thursday but it's there's so much of a snowball rolling that you know slowly but surely chips away. And yeah, you talk to me again in January do like middle of January I'll be like okay, hey, I got all this gone but thank God all the paperwork.

Yeah, exactly. It's the worst part. It's absolutely the worst part is all the paperwork of the beginning stuff 100% Yeah,

so it's I'm very very very very excited and I'm very trying to contain it but you could slowly people are reaching out they're like okay, man, let's go what's going on? What's coming so it's certain things I will keep private and certain things that that people listen to my own stuff they know what's going on but like anyone outside of my podcast circle that supports it but doesn't quite support it. I keep it very quiet.

Yeah, playing it close to the chest. When do you have like a roadmap of when you anticipate leaving your full time job and making that leap?

I'm not quite yet to be honest, I haven't had that date on there yet. That's a goal I haven't focused on because I want to get all the paperwork situated done first. So once I know I can make it on my own you know hypothetical like after taxes and everything and I stopped with these not say decent quality life but like my life is good but yet yeah, you have to grind and struggle a little bit. But yeah, you can walk away that that's that that goofy stage I can't go quite all in yet. Just because of the student loans and stuff I have but my gut feeling is I probably got a year left at most because like next year I want to be like, you know ZF G's or you know, whatever, you know, ZeroFOX whatever it is like I'm gonna reach out and start doing you know, speaking engagements for certain things. I really don't care what my work says. Like to be 100% honest, because if I do get paid by that it's actually gonna be more potentially than what I make at work. So be like, Bro all Collins Yeah, exactly. Well, I got to get on a plane and, and go to maki or Madison, whatever it is. So I'm sorry, what was that?

No, I was just gonna say what do you do you really think that they will get mad or you're just saying like maybe if there is the potential that they could like get mad?

Um, will they get mad? They probably wouldn't care. It's to be honest, I shouldn't be afraid of that. Because like if I do get Okay, let's say I get back back to back to back speaking engagements I'm gonna do what if scenarios and obviously, what ifs don't pay the bills, I totally get that. There's no F comments, income guys. Like that. It's, uh, it gets to a point where that work loads, like back to back to back to back, then I'll be like, okay, hey, man, my leverage is here. I need you know, I'm, I have enough leverage built up to where I can walk away. So like, right now I'm building that leverage up to where I can have that. You know, first of all, say no to overtime. Which, typically, I don't want to do because I'm workaholic but like saying overtime because you know, something else has your focus. And then slowly, it there's no part time when it comes to that stuff. So it's going to be okay. Hey, I have to leave. But yeah, it's, it's common. I don't have the exact date on that yet.

That's cool, man. I know, congrats. Like that's gonna be I can't wait for you to be able to do that to be like, whether you like your job or don't like, whatever your thoughts are on your current workplace, even if you loved it, to be able to go guys, I'm leaving. I'm doing like this. Everything else is me from now on. is amazing. Like, it's the best feeling in the planet.

In the thing that in my mind, I'm super excited about it's gonna get some pretty cool to say it this way. But it's like I'm going to even though yes, I'm going to have you know, embroidery printing and all that stuff. I'm not going to go retail retail with it. It's going to be more b2b stuff just because I don't want to have a store with you know, embroidery stuff floating around. Like I just want to deal with businesses and orders and behind the scenes stuff. Am I losing profiter helmet? I have no clue. I haven't dug that far into the numbers on that stuff yet. But I want in my vehicle going down the road is gonna have my supplements. And it's gonna have like a T shirt in my in there. So it'd be like, Hey, I'm going past the gym. Alright, cool. I'm gonna say hi. You know, be like, Hey, guys, you know, this is my stuff. Very low. It's gonna sound weird to say it this way insurance like insurance. Your Yes, you have a sales quota with your business. I totally get that. But it's your own stuff. So be like, Okay, guys, hey, thank you very much. You're not interested? Hey, man, I gotta keep moving. You know, it's not like that the confidence of saying Hey, guys, I respect that I can help you. But you know, if you're not looking, that's perfectly fine. I'll just keep keep removing or whatever. It is the same as in states or in Wisconsin here. But it it really sounds this way guys. Like there's 20 year olds that are ready to run a business. And then there's people like me that went through a lot of shit to get to where I'm at to finally realize I want to run business.

Yeah, no, exactly. Man, I think everyone's path is different. Like there's no like carbon cut, like footprint where it's like, just because I did it like this, like doesn't mean anything at all. If someone else did something like way different than you, you know. And that's just, that's just how it is. Mine was like, I my first business was a personal training for him buff. I'm from Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. So my first business is, was a training firm there. And we I sold it to my partners after I think 12 months. And I had two other partners and I wanted like, really want to just get away from her. I was like miserable, like, I was like, Hi Fi it was great in the beginning, but money was like not ramping up we had two other partners all equal shares. And then which was a mistake, and like, the business was like doing well financially, but not as good as we thought. So I wasn't making as much money as I thought which then that was kind of hurting, like, my relationship with my wife. And we were we had our first baby and like all of that, and I was just like very stressful times at home. So I ended up selling that to them for almost nothing going to work for a marketing place called hearse media. I don't know I was not qualified at the time to even get the job. I don't know how I got it was 25 times more depressed working for this company than I was like myself I was unhappy because the money not because the job but I then didn't I couldn't do any at the time. I was like 20 So I didn't think like I need to hustle more and do this and do that. I was like, This is my situation. This is my life. Like I accept it for what it was and then I changed it when got super depressed with working for another company stress anxiety, working I was on salary it was they wanted me to sell the phone book. I didn't believe in it. I was there to sell internet marketing and do all these I was actually there because I thought I was going to be doing the marketing but they were just treating me as a Sales Rep. And I hated it. And the management shouldn't have been in there and they treated their employees like crap went and worked for their direct competition, the company culture was phenomenal. But I also realized something, the second I went from, so I was there for a year, then left there to work for that company, though their direct competition. That's when they were partnered with radio and doing all these these things. The company culture was amazing. But I was also like, really dissecting why I was unhappy at the time. And I realized it was because I was working for someone else. And I was like, I don't necessarily think that I know better than the person that's above me. But I also know if I do this my way, I'm going to be 20 times 525 times more successful than if I let them tell me how it needs to be done. And that's just how I'm like a rebel in that sense, where I need to do it my way, even if it's very similar to their way. It's not an ego thing at all. I have no problem like listening. But if I think for one second that it would be better to do it my way. I won't do it someone else's way. Plus, I didn't believe in their product either. Just like the last company that before that. They were not selling great products. So I was like, I can do this. So literally, I left the company and the next day, so it was like 2014 How old was I 25. I left and I was like, bye guys. Next day, I went out as if I still worked for them. And I found a company I had like an appointment with and like walked into this company. And I was just I set an appointment with him walked into a car dealership. And I was like, You guys just started you're in Niagara Falls, you need a website. I built them a $400 a $400 website. I don't know how to build websites. So I was like, give me $400 And then I found someone to build them a decent website for $200. I put the other 200 Back in the company. And at the time I really looking back do not know what I was seeing because I was already I wasn't I didn't have savings. I don't have rich family like I did grow up in a trailer park like actually down the street from a trailer park in a trailer sitting on its own plot of land, which is my opinion worse than a trailer park. Like I grew up. That's how I grew up in a town with one stoplight in it. Like they're like 45 minutes outside of Buffalo, just not super poor, but like, didn't have a ton of money. My parents made sure I had everything I wanted. But we were never wealthy, never super rich, never going on all these trips and stuff. And so I was like, I sold that I found someone about put 200 back in there. And then the company was built on that seven years ago, I just I just did that over and over and over and over and over again. And then finally, like one day, I think we moved to Florida a year later in 2015, because I was getting deals for SEO for like $300 a month in Buffalo. And then I called someone in Tampa somehow got a referral. And I sold something for $1,200 a month. And it was the same thing that I was doing in Buffalo. So I got four times the amount for the same service in Tampa. And I said and like those other companies that I worked at, if someone would have got a $1,200 deal for those companies that I was working at, they would have been the king of the castle like they don't they didn't exist in Buffalo. So the fact that I got that I was like, we're moving to Florida, we literally we have we my wife was pregnant with our second baby. And the he was born in January of 2015. And then I was like she had C sections. So I was like the second. You're okay to travel. We're literally driving through the night and going to Florida in an apartment that I was like, Oh my God, they're $1,500 a month here because I was paying $700 For a full house and land in Buffalo, well outside of Buffalo. And then in Tampa was $1,500 for a three bedroom, two bath 1500 square feet tiny apartment, I was like, I don't care, we're going I sold all my stuff. I actually made money to move, like to Tampa, we drove across the night in April. And like literally I've just been good at it. Then I started doing the $1,200 A month $1,200 A month over and over and over again. And then after that $1,200 I started finding people that were like $3,500 $3,500 and kept doing it all not for the same service. So I don't want anyone thinking that I'm just like, not in like increasing my service, like the quality of the work kept getting better and better and better. And were more offering more and more and more until finally I was hitting 5000 $6,000 A month over and over and over again. And then I was making about $30,000 a year in

in Buffalo like maybe 30 to 50 Depending on where I was working like what company it was like personal training firm 30 grand a year. I think I had a $40,000 base salary at the next marketing place that I went to I might have made 50 That year, same the next year something like that. So I think 50 is where I kept out. And I literally I quadrupled my income the first year I moved to Florida, and I was like this is it Why would I ever work for anyone ever again. So I've been doing that for, I don't know what peak this ramble and rant, I'm so sorry. But like this, whatever I'll never work for anyone, again, I think is really the moral of the story. Like, I figured out how to do it my own, I sell a better product, even though they might be massive because they have 50 sales reps at both places, making calls all day selling crap products, I don't want that I'm boutique like I want 20 to 30 clients a time. And I want to make them all happy. And I am the Customer Service on every single one of those things. I treat it like a like an attorney. Like I'm the face of the company, no one's gonna care about me. So I do every customer service call. And then I have my team, the rest of my team for reputation delet, I delegate all the work to them. Tell them this is the strategy, please make this I have a writer, a designer, a web, a web developer, and they're all helping you put all this together so that I can tell the client Hey, this is what we're doing. And this is what we've done. Yeah, again, I don't know why or where I was going with that. But it's uh, it's been incredible man, like being just so Oh, you like I can't wait till you can do that like that, that experience to like, leave one day and just never look back. And then be historically right for like, next year in August will be eight years. So like, I just passed the year seven. And like for eight years, that means I'm right. I haven't worked for someone in eight years. Like that's, it's amazing. I love it. I make my own schedule. I mean, I work now, hours wise more than I've ever worked my entire life. But it's my stress. It's my time. It's like what I want to be doing. I'm obsessed with every single thing that I'm doing that I do. I've never been happier in my entire life.

Yeah, and honestly, I could see the same thing happening to me where it's a different state and to be honest, there's there's three loci, obviously four locations or call my name. Obviously I got you know, my sister's down in Houston. I'm not saying I'm not going to be in Houston. But you know, Texas is a big thing. You know, Texas and Florida are pretty parallel with each other where it's like a lot entrepreneurial overall like either it's you know, Houston Austin Dallas Fort Worth, whatever it is done by you, you know, St. Pete Tampa, Orlando. Jacksonville I think's getting big now. So stuff like that, you know, Atlanta, GA, whatever it is down there, obviously. Yeah, it was dude, I love the mountains. So like, you know, if it's springs if it's, you know, Salt Lake City, if it's, you know, Idaho, wherever it is. I don't have a full full toner I'm locked in. But yes, I, what people have been saying is, you know, where I'm at right now, here. It's like, great network, great friendships great everything. That's the only downfall what I'm kind of, has it hesitant about with the embroidery stuff, just because like, it's local, like, I want to travel, I want to be something remote, like, like, kinda like you would be like, you know, yes, he could still edit something in a hotel room, or vice versa. Like, yes, you're traveling. Yes. It's still your business. And yes, it's your travels with you to a point. But yeah, like, dude, I'm upper midwest, I'm Green Bay, man. Parallel. Buffalo and Green Bay are very, very, very parallel with each other. And especially Pittsburgh, too. So like a lot of millwork a lot of union stuff. 40 1000s pretty normal in this area. So it's your you're one of the few that I know, that moved to Florida, you know, in through this, like, I have a friend that just moved down there last year. And I'm like, How is Orlando? He's like, it's besides the humidity. He's like, it's unbelievable when it comes to business. Amazing. Yeah. And, you know, I had a different buddy that built a hotel in Jacksonville. And he's like, Dude, I would move down there and heartbeat. The only downfall like I love firemen to a point. So like, the only thing that I will have to deal with, and we'll worry about that down the road. It's not my focus, but I still want to kick up some dirt somewhere. So that's the only thing about like, hot and efficient, dude. You know, I can do that any state I want to be in. Yeah.

Yeah, for sure. It's, I mean, it's ever Plus, there's Georgia, like Georgia is like, I mean, where I am, I think it's a four hour ride. Like I take my motorcycle up there all the time. And like, it's a little like, surprisingly a lot cooler, like mountains like, you know, hills, like stuff like that. So, I know a friend of mine is the military, marine. He just moved there hunting, fishing all that stuff. And like he's, he's in heaven. He mean, he's actually from he grew up in there around the Florida area, like Tampa area been here. So he's like, but he's been in New York, for as long as I've known him, and they just moved to Georgia. And he's like, he's obsessed with it. He can't he can't stop. So like, it sounds like you guys are like same. Where I grew up hunting and fishing and doing all that stuff. I just I never continued. I'm sure my boys would love it. I have an 11 year old and a six year old. But I just I've been building business. I mean, we have fun. We do our stuff. Like it's not like I don't do anything with it. I just mean it's one of those things that was like Well, I'm not obsessed with this. So I guess I'm not going to be doing hunting and fishing stuff.

No, well, I'm gonna answer this way. Like it's transitioning more into the business stuff. And someone asked me here before prior good, she's like, so you fish and a lot. And I'm like, No, I've only won a dozen times this year. And when I'm on the boat is much as I want to shut my brain so like, I go on the water to shut off. So like, if I'm out cruising the and I'm using this for example, if I'm out cruising the ocean, I could still get that, you know, mind shutting off or whatever it is. But just in general, like I go on the water to calm me down to reset the do whatever or same thing with the woods. That's my calming down session. What I'm noticing now is when I'm out there, my brain still can't keep moving. So I'm sorry, my brain still keeps moving. And obviously, yeah, we this quick, but like my brain still rolling. So when it comes to this stuff, like Dude, I'm still thinking about business when I'm on that boat, which means I still need to do business.

Yeah, exactly. Man. I mean, that's, that's the same as me, I love the ocean. I never thought I would be this guy. I never thought I would interest me. I'm not trying to sound cool at all, because I didn't grow up with the ocean. But I love I love like, I've only been probably like, I don't know, 2030 times, but I love surfing, I'm not good. I'm very not good. But I there's nothing like sitting out there floating in the ocean, trying to catch a wave. And like, trust me, that makes me sound way cooler than I am. I'm like the least cool person ever. But like that. And it can that's like one of the only things that's where I can just chill out because my sound, we sound very similar. We're like, I'm just, I'm laying in bed at night. And I'm staring at the ceiling. And I'm thinking of 75 different ways I can make money or you know, do this or do that. And you're going over the checklist. And it's that and riding a motorcycle, the two things that as like, I'm focused in and those are the only two things that could shut my brain off long enough to like, focus on that, but everything else in my life. I'm not very, it sounds sad, almost. I'm not super present for it. That's one. One thing I really have to try to learn is to be more present because I'm always planning or thinking of something else. Or, you know, waiting to, you know, talk my next turn to talk to tell me tell you about my exciting thing, you know, yeah, it's always one of those things. It sucks. It's like a gift and a curse, man. It really is. Well, I'm

gonna give you credit, though. What what you sent me earlier about the reschedule. I'm like, oh, yeah, dude, you got to do that. And we're not going to go on that because we both know exactly what that is. I'm sitting there going, I'm like, oh, yeah, man. He's got his head on straight by doing that. What? We'll leave that comment off screen but tell everyone where we can find you. And then we'll talk off the screen here.

Yeah, absolutely. So you guys go to row reputation dot I O I know it's not a.com trend that new.io really cool things reputation.io Or anywhere online. At Eric Brian Hoffer. He Ric Gru MD he fer thanks so much for having me on. Man. This was like, this was a lot of fun. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, no problem, man. And guys, stay tuned for the next show. Come in next week. Deuces.

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