Cesar Espino has overcome many obstacles in his life. From growing up without a father, followed by his mother leaving, living in extreme poverty in Mexico, all the way to growing a thriving real estate investing + coaching career- Cesar has an incredibly powerful story to share and I was honored to be able to sit down and talk with him! 

You can find his books and follow his journey at the below links.

Website: https://www.cesarrespino.com/

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used to sew clothes just to survive. I didn't have a

childhood I didn't have the opportunity to either go out and

play with kids. I didn't have the opportunity to be a kid

because I was growing up to survive there was times we

didn't have enough food that I said we have the the Mexicans

dish, which was just a tortilla with a grain of salt in.

Hello, fellow Earthlings. Welcome to the becoming the big

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Hello, hello.

Welcome.

beautiful, amazing souls. Thank you so much for tuning in to

another episode of The becoming the big knee podcast I have with

me here today. Cesar Spino, a full time real estate investor

and author of the book you can overcome anything, even when the

world says no, a real estate mentor and business coach. He

works with people to help create Win Win solutions, whether that

be through real estate business, consulting, and inspiring and

empowering others to reach their full potential he sees or how's

it going today?

Hey, Jimmy Lam doing wonderful. It's a beautiful day today here

in Los Angeles. So I'm excited to be here. So thank you.

Awesome. I'm

super excited to have you here as well, and dive into your

story a little bit more. So let's just get right into it.

Take it back. Tell me a little bit about growing up your

childhood? And what's kind of helped form you to be the person

that you are now today?

Yeah, yeah, definitely. So let me start off by saying, I'm

originally from Mexico City. And I came to the states when I was

about 10 years old, right. And for me, my story really started

when I when I was born, the day that I was born is you know, the

day that really define who I was back then, and who am I to

become now, right. And so to give you a little bit of that

backstory, I was only I was born into a very poor family, right?

We didn't really have anything, I only had one parent, which is

my mom, I don't know who's my biological father, at this

point, I have never met him, nor that I know his name. And so,

you know, when I grew up, in Mexico, I was probably one of

the families that were, you know, the lowest of the lowest

in terms of social classification. Mexico is one of

those countries that they really classified their, you know,

people by, you know, their level of wealth, and you know, the

classifications, nevertheless, we didn't have anything, right.

So I will we, I lived in a in a in a what I considered to be my

home, which was really about 250 square feet of just a room. It

was my mom, my grandmother, my older brother, and myself. So he

was four of us in that little room that we consider to be our

home, we didn't have any running water, we didn't have

electricity. It was made out of sheet metal and plywood. And

that was our home. Right. And so that's really where my story

started. Because as they go back into that into that time, you

know, we didn't have anything. So we have to really, as

probably many people in different countries, how we have

to work early enough to start supporting ourselves. One thing

happened just after I turned 40 years old, my mom decided to

take her leap of faith and left us and came to the States. And

so at that time, you know, as a kid, you go back and like, what

did I do? Like I blame myself like, Did I do something that,

you know, I have no father, and now my mum decided to leave to

go someplace else. And I didn't understand why. Right? That was

a changing in my life. One I was trying to question what

happened, what did I do and number two, he turned out to be

only my my older brother and my grandma. And at that point, we

decided we It was not really a decision, we had to start

working. So we will go to the flea market. We'll be working.

We'll sell food, you know, a bunch of different things to

survive. And that didn't cut it. We're not making you know, the

means. Then we started doing another thing. We actually

started sewing clothes, right? So we actually I used to have a

sewing machine. I know how to sew. So we used to sew clothes

just to survive. I didn't have a choice. When I didn't have the

opportunity to either go out and play with kids, I didn't have

the opportunity to be a kid because I was growing up to

survive, there was times we didn't have enough food that I

said, we have the, the Mexicans dish, which was just a tortilla

with a grain of salt in, that's all we had four days. And so

again, I go back to that, and I'm like, I'm grateful to an

extent I don't, I don't condone for anyone to be doing that at

that age. So that's what's made me become who I am. Now, fast

forward to when I was 10. Finally, my mom came back. And,

you know, it seems like we had the opportunity to come to the

States. And I didn't want to be here to be honest with you, I

didn't want to be in the states for a couple of reasons. Number

one, I couldn't speak the language. Number two, I couldn't

communicate with anybody. Number three, I was in a in a place

where I didn't know anyone, you know, it was very difficult for

me to get adjusted to this live. And, you know, working for all

these years and coming to the States, I felt like I was not

fitting in, you know, I got discriminated when I was kid

growing up in in the in the school system, because again, I

couldn't speak, I couldn't communicate, people that didn't,

you know, I couldn't connect with people. So that was just

very, very bad. And I remember one time telling my mom, I'm

like, I don't want to be here, do whatever, really, whatever

you need to do send me back to Mexico. I don't want to be here.

Luckily, I'm glad she didn't send me back. Because I'm glad

that I'm here. You know, there's definitely a great nation. But

again, I have to go through all those different obstacles,

right. And, you know, luckily, after being here two years, I

was able to communicate, I was able to master the language, I

was able to talk to people. And I did what many people didn't

do, right. And I talked about, I talked about this in my book, a

lot of people come from different countries, forgetting

about a purpose or forgetting about that opportunity that this

country has to offer. Right. And I seen that time after time.

People come from other countries, and I'm not sure why

and I cannot comprehend. They tend to fall into those negative

influences, whether it's gangs, tagging, cruise, Robin, whatever

the case may be some sort of crime, right? I set up so many

different times, growing up in middle school and high school, I

decided to not do that. I decided to not do that. My focus

was you know, let me focus on school. Let me focus on myself.

And just continue to do that. Now I'm not saying I'm perfect,

because I'm not right, I went through so many different

things. And I think my second challenge coming to the States,

the first one was that I was being discriminated, I didn't

know how to fit in with with this society. The second one, at

the age of 15. I you know, not having a diet dad or someone to

tell me what's right or wrong. From from a male perspective. I

ended up you know, I had a girlfriend, and at the age of

15, we got pregnant, right. So just at the age of, sorry, age

of 15, at the age of 16, my daughter was born again. So when

I think about that, it's like, I'm a a kid, that's raising a

kid, right. And I know a lot of people can relate to that a lot

of there's a lot of teen moms, a lot of teen parents, and a lot

of times, like what I can tell you with that is that you have

to be able to take that particular case and just make

the best out of it. I remember telling my daughter when she was

born, I made one promise. And so far, I've been able to keep up

that promise. I said, You know what, I'm gonna give you

whatever I didn't have when I was a kid, because when I was a

kid, I didn't have anything. I said, you're never gonna have to

work when you're a kid, you're never gonna have to suffer,

you're never gonna have to worry about not having food or

clothes, or any of that stuff. That's my promise to you. So

that became my motivation, right? Instead of that being a

negative thing. I say, you know what I got to deal with what

emerges. I'm a kid having a kid is sick. Now I'm just going to

be my motivation. So then I went out and started to work in an

early age. You know, I was going to school working, school

working school working, that was my focus, you know, they they

out? And yeah, I continue right. Fast forward, I had a couple of

more obstacles that came after the fact. I have, unfortunately,

I had another really huge setback when I was 22. And it

will see a dispute that I have with my, my my daughter's mom,

and I'm not proud of it. It's it is the reality. And at that

point, you know, again, not having that no fear not having

all these different things, unfortunately, went to jail for

a couple of days. Right? And so again, it's those little things

that come up, and I'm like, What is the lesson that I need to

learn here from this year? And lucky enough, you know, I came

out and say, Okay, I this isn't me, I need to do something

better for myself. And and so I talked about a lot about this in

my book, because there's so many different obstacles that life is

going to be hidden and pushing on you. And so, either you're

going to give in or you're going to learn from that, right?

You're either going through the pain, you're going through the

pain or you're growing through the pain, right? And so I

decided to grow from that pain

now If I look at, you know, my years now, I was working for a

very good, credible company worldwide company, I was working

on corporate making really good money over six figures traveling

all over the place. Except I think my mind, my heart was

telling me, you know what, there's more to you than this.

And I decided to take my leap of faith, I left my my corporate

job, left everything behind behind to pursue my purpose and

what I believe to be my purpose nine, and that is to help people

to empower empower people and inspire people through my

lessons and be able to give back in that sense. So that's kind of

where I am right now.

Awesome. So what would you say was the biggest turning point in

your life? Was it going to jail? Or was it leaving that corporate

position?

Yeah, I think, you know, I think having I can, yeah, right. Yeah.

You know, I think at any given point, there was different

turning points in my life, I think each one of those were had

a different lesson. And there was something different for me

to learn off of each of those. If I look. Now, where I'm at

now, and what I'm doing now, I would say my biggest thing was

leaving my job, you know, the most recent thing, because,

again, you're going from that, and I think 99% of the people

are going through this is, you're in that comfort zone,

you're, you're so comfortable getting that paycheck, even

though you know that they can fire you any time. A lot of

people know that I'm like, I might go to work today. And I

may not have that job, because it is not my company, right? It

said people are so comfortable with that with the idea that I

have benefits. I have vacation, I have a job that's paying me

that secure paycheck. And so to me, that was probably the most

recent turning point in my life. It actually took me about 10

months to make this decision. I was going to do this 10 months

prior for me leaving the job. And I got cold feet. I just

couldn't do it. I broke down I I just couldn't do it. Right. And

so it took me literally 10 months to realize that I should

have done what I did that time 10 months prior.

Okay. Yeah. And during this time, were you kind of in the

personal development world, yet I know that you're really

immersed in it. Now. That's how we connected, right? But were

you involved in any of that stuff? Where were you doing that

inner work? Did you have a spiritual kind of background or

anything of that nature?

So I started, I would say maybe two years prior to leaving my

corporate job, I kind of getting introduced or involving to the

self development to, you know, becoming the better version

writing and doing things that I didn't do in the past. So I

started doing some of it, I didn't do a whole lot. I would

say maybe there were those 10 months when I said, you know

what I need to definitely just take this leap of faith during

those 10 months is when I got more spiritual sound. That was

one thing that I didn't, I lost for for a minute, right? My, my,

my grandmother when I was in Mexico, and even after coming

here, were various perfectly sound from from from that

perspective, you know, and then I lost that touch, I got

disconnected. And then I got reconnected again, with that

higher power. And I said, You know what, I was very spiritual.

And then I got connected with myself, What am I going to do to

become, you know, that person that I'm looking to become. And

so those last 10 months, I got more involved with that self

development, spiritually, working on myself, things like

that. And so I can tell you, at least for me, I needed to find

myself spiritually, emotionally, to be able to do this, what I'm

doing now, otherwise, I will probably be back working for

that company, which again, is a good company isn't working for

somebody else and not doing what I'm doing now.

Now, can you walk me kind of through some of these practices

that you use for yourself to keep yourself sound and

emotional, you know, your emotional intelligence up? Like

what are you doing for yourself? Because I know that you are

serving people all the time in your business and with coaching

and with your real estate investment, like a lot of times

we get so caught up in serving others, how are you serving

yourself?

Yeah, so one thing that I decided to do, there's a couple

of things that I do on a day to day basis. The first thing that

I do when I wake up is I give gratitude to God, I I literally

spend, I would say the first 30 minutes doing a couple of

things. Number one, I do daily affirmations that are empowering

to you know, any can be necessarily I am a millionaire,

you know, that could definitely be one but it's not necessarily

that it's more about I am loved. I am I am I am healthy, you

know, I am wanted I serve people, right? And so I do the

affirmations every day, when I wake up. I also do a gratitude

to myself a lot of times I find this and I started doing this

maybe about six months ago now. More so now. A lot of times I've

you find People that they're waiting for somebody else's

validation of you to say, Jamila, you're beautiful

Djemilah, you're wonderful. Djemilah You're great, right?

And you're waiting for that person to tell you that. It

said, what about you do it yourself. So I actually get in

front of the mirror. And I say three things. And I actually

have it here in my book. So what I say three things to myself, as

I say, Caesars, you know, I appreciate you, Caesar Spino, I

think you Caesar spin Spino I love you. And those are the

three things I tell myself every day, right? So I do

affirmations, I do a prayer of gratitude, I tell myself how

grateful I am for myself. And then I do meditate and

visualize, right, so I didn't when I wake up, before I go to

sleep, I do the same exercise. So I do it twice a day, at any

given point. And then, throughout the day, one of the

things that I started doing now more so than before is I am

doing self learning by educating myself in reading. Now, before I

get to read I that's kind of ironic, because I read a book.

However, I didn't read and the last time that I actually read a

book, is because I was forced to read a book in my English class

back in high school, you know, and so it said, Now I'm reading,

you know, and that's something that I feel like, is good to

self educate yourself. Right. So those are just some of the

practices that I do. And I also like to do, walk or run, you

know, at any time and just to, you know, clear my mind and

appreciate life and go out and and just, you know, have some

time to clear my mind, you know,

yeah, I love that. Those are all things that I incorporate in my

life as well now, you know, the past two years, and I can

definitely relate to the reading. I even in high school,

I actually didn't read I was the notorious Cliff Notes. Who was

my teachers used to get so mad at me because I'm a really good

storyteller. And I was always able to, like Ace all of my

recordings and, and speeches about books, just because I

would listen to what other people would say. And I wouldn't

lie. But I wouldn't actually read until the last two years is

when I really started reading. I probably read more books last

two years in my entire life.

Yeah, so have I. Yeah.

So let's wind it back a second, again, to when you were leaving

that corporate position? Did you go right into real estate at

that time? or What did you do?

No, yeah, so I had already started real estate. Um, I would

say maybe three years prior to me leaving my corporate job. So

to back up a little bit, I started real estate back in

2007 2008 2009, when the housing market took a hit. I went with

that hit, right. So I lost a lot, I lost properties, I lost,

I was foreclosed on a few shorts on some other ones. So I said,

You know what, this is not for me. And so when, when that took

place, I said, You know, I just need to focus on my, on my work

and working for somebody else. And, and, and so I ended up

doing that I went back to school, got my master's degree.

And I just that was my focus at that point. And then I got

reintroduced to real estate again, I think it was 2004 2000

sorry, 2014 2015. Around that time. And, and I said, You know

what, let me give it a try. I'm a different person now. And you

know, you're I'm growing, I have my master's degree now. I can

definitely, you know, see, see what I can do now. Right. And so

I got reintroduced, it took me some time to get my business up

and running again, because it's not, it's not that that simple,

you know, or it wasn't that simple for me at that time. And

so I got into reintroduce, and I started doing, you know, deals,

I started wholesaling properties, I started buying,

fixing and flipping properties. So you know, so I had that in

the back end. So one of the reasons why I said, you know,

what, I need to either focus 100% on my real estate business,

or 100% on my job is because he was definitely taking a lot of a

lot of my, my, you know, energy, right. And not only me also on

people that were around me, you know, unfortunately, I would

say, because of this, at that time, I was on a long term

relationship. I think everything just getting together, he just

ended up creating a challenge for me, where I ended up losing

a 10 year relationship over all the different things that I was

doing for myself, right. And so I said, you know what I need to,

I just need to do one or the other. And that's why I decided

to do the leap of faith into the real estate. So I was already in

the business. And that was the only business that I was

actually doing, by the way, real estate at that time.

And remind me again, do you have a real estate license or not?

No. Okay. No,

that's, that's something I would like you to share a little bit

more about with our listeners, because I know there's a lot of

people that are always looking for other ways to make money and

a lot of times people think to be In real estate, you have to

have that real estate license. And I remember you saying that

your speech at the Better Business summit, you didn't have

that. So can you

add on that a little bit more?

Yeah, definitely. So there's essentially a one year timer

real estate, there's different strategies, right. And so the

most common that a lot of people know about is, you know, become

a realtor, you know, go out and, you know, either help people buy

or sell their property, right? For that you have your license,

when you look at a real estate investor, you don't have to have

a license, you can actually get into real estate, you can

actually work on deals by not having your license, right. And

the most common, which I talked about on the Better Business

summit, is assignment of contract, right? You don't need

to have, you know, really even a lot of capital to be able to do

that. And so a lot of people just don't know about it, right?

They, they think they have to have the license to do a real

estate transaction is not so much about that. It's more about

how to structure it, and what do you need to do to make sure that

you can actually do it, and not get it, you know, in any in any

issue. So, at the end of the day, you can do a lot of deals

in and have a license. One thing that I talked about in my

mentoring program is you have to have a what I consider to be a

Power Team, a Power Team will be you know, numerous people, one

of those people is going to be a realtor that's going to help you

transact that transaction that you get yourself into.

Okay, and how do you how have you found those people? How have

you kind of built that sphere? For you have the right people

that have the same mission as you?

Yeah, it's through networking. I mean, I, you know, it's, I

cannot reinforce that enough, right. And if you're afraid to

go to a speaking event, or you're afraid to go to any kind

of event, or a meetup event, or even work to somebody and talk

to somebody, you're not going to grow, right, you have to make

sure that you network, so, you know, when it comes down to

like, even my, my community, like the way I found you, right,

in my community of the entrepreneurs, the people who

want to more for the lives it has been through through events

and sermons, right? If I, when I first got into this business,

and I and I wanted to find a realtor, I actually want to open

houses, I wasn't going to buy the house, I just went to

connect. And, you know, I said, Hey, I'm a real estate investor,

I'm looking to work with somebody, will you be

interested? And then we started the conversation, and then we

started looking at it, you know, is that person a good fit for

me? Or am I a good fit for that person? And that's how I found

some of the realtors that I work with right now. So Matter of

fact, one of the realtors that I've been doing business with

for about four years now, we, we we've done transactions where I

found properties, she represented me on that

transaction. And you know, she made the sale, or just

yesterday, we enter into a joint venture where we're actually

going to be flipping a property together. So again, it's just

those things that you can find ready, you have to be able to

network with people.

networking and leveraging. Yep. Oh, yeah. Others skills. Yeah,

right. Yeah, exactly. And that's the other thing, too, is like,

don't believe that you know, everything you have to know, you

know enough to to be able to find the right person for you.

So yes, you're right, leveraging people. And I don't consider it

to be a bad thing. Because again, it's kind of a win win.

Right? Again, basically, like in this joint venture. I'm going to

help her she's going to help me we're going to have a you know,

a pretty good combination there.

Yeah. And that kind of leads into my next question, how big

of a part in your journey and your story has been like

mentorship?

Huge, has been huge. I think, throughout the last, I will say,

throughout the last three years, I've had maybe five, six

different mentors, and again, in different areas, right. So you

know, I think that's huge. I mean, I, again, I go back to the

same thing, you know, it's just like, if you go to school,

right, and this is probably the best way that I can put it, a

lot of people don't see the value of that. I'm like, why did

I get to pay somebody this money? or Why did I get to be

part of the network? Well, even if you were going to a public

school, right? Or if you're going to private school, it's

like going to school, you have a teacher, that teacher

essentially is your mentor, they're teaching you something,

they're, they're showing you how to do something in there

material. Well, it's like in anything in our real life is the

same thing. You have to get somebody that has already done

that can help you get there faster, and can teach you and so

to me, I'm constantly getting mentored by people and learning

from those people. Because I know the power of that, right? A

lot of times even when we're when we get out of you know,

college, it's like, Okay, that's it. I've learned I put my money,

I went to school, I don't need to do anything else. I know

everything and that's not the case. So to me, that has been

very, very important for my real estate business. I've gone into

a couple of different businesses now. Where I have, you know,

I've got mentors for that. And even just, you know, the self

self love and self development, you know, learning from People

that are doing it. I'm like, Okay, that makes sense. They're

happy. They're enjoying their life. I need to do that. Let me

learn from them. Right. So I 100% approve of that. Yeah, I

agree. mentorship has been like one of the biggest things for me

and, and also like having that that financial investment into

it. Yeah, is really, really powerful. I don't know if you've

noticed this as well. But once you start paying for something,

you're like, Oh, crap, I got it.

Seriously, now? Exactly. Yeah, yeah, there's a different,

there's a, there's a different sense of, I guess,

responsibility and accountability. When you do

that, you know, it's funny, because I referred to a lot of

people, they go to community college, or many people, they go

to community college, right. And they're paying the school or the

public system is paying for for the community college, right? I

found that a lot of people are, they're just wasting their time,

right, and I call them seat warmers, they're just sitting in

warm up the seat, that's all they're doing. And it goes back

to that door. If you're someone that's paying for something, the

responsibility and accountability tends to be 10

times bigger than somebody who's getting it for free. So I also

believe that if you're getting a mentor for free, you're probably

not gonna do the work, and you're probably not going to do

the, you know, the tasks, you're probably gonna put in 100% of

your time. Because you don't have any, you know, risking on

your side, you know. So, again, we see that time over time with

different things. And I believe that Yeah, you know, having a

mentor, being able to have that financial responsibility is

definitely gonna push you to the next level. And I myself, I'm

sure you have to, you know, in the last three years, I spend,

you know, a lot of people say, Well, what you can spend so much

money, because I keep learning because I keep growing because

they become a better person. I spend so much money in mentoring

and is, and I'm okay with that. Because I'm learning from that a

lot of people are afraid of that.

Yeah, and sometimes like getting in a little bit uncomfortable

situation, which I know logically, a lot of people are

like, no, but for me, like sometimes putting that a little

bit amount of money that's a little bit uncomfortable. It

really helps light that fire, where you really start to see

things happening at a much quicker pace. Yep.

Yep. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And that's, that's one thing that,

um, you know, I also see it as a different thing, right? A lot of

people go through traditional school, right? So traditional

school is, you know, just like any, in any traditional college,

I consider this to be a non traditional educational for

yourself, again, you're working on yourself is self development

is not traditional. A lot of people are okay to go get a

student loan and pay $30,000 to get a degree. I mean, and I'm a

firm believer of education does I have a Master's I, you know, I

would do it 100 times over. The difference now, by the way, is

that, if you're going to go back to school, make sure that is for

you in this my advice, and I was telling my daughter this last

time, if you want to go back to school, to get a degree, make

sure that that is for you is a self accomplishment for you. Not

because you want to use a piece of paper to go get a job, that's

that was my mentality, then it's not my mentality now. So

anyways, a lot of people are okay to, you know, find the

means to get a student loan, you know, of, let's say, $30,000, to

get a degree so that they can hope to get a job, right.

However, our people are not okay to get the same amount of money.

I don't care how you borrow that money, and get mentor non

traditional education by somebody else that can help you

and skyrocket your your your future. I don't get it, you

know, and so, again, I don't know what's your putting your

thought on that. But that's, that's the reality, right? Are

people go through it? So yeah, I

don't I don't get it at all.

It's one

of those things, I completely blows my mind. Like, Oh, my

gosh, I'm gonna go to school for all this time, pay all this

money to enter a job where I'm not even going to be making

$100,000 a year,

right. Now, not only that a lot of times again, you you have a

degree, and you work in a different field. Yeah, that

happened to me with my bachelor's, I had a I have a

background in it. And I was working in operations, nothing

to do with computers or software that deal with any of that. So I

mean, it just the reality. So anyways, yeah,

I take the classes that you want to learn about, right?

Yeah, exactly.

So I'm curious because now you're your daughter. How old is

your daughter? She's older. She's out of the house. Right?

Well, she lives with me. I mean, she's 23.

Okay. Yeah. So I was I was gonna ask, so what is your big driving

factor? Now? I mean, you've been able to provide her a much

better life than you grew up with. Like, what is keeps that

fire burning for you to keep growing and expanding? Because I

know that you're just keep doing like all these crazy things.

Yeah, yeah. I, you know, I think now more so and so my next

purpose is I really want to read Tired my parents, right? So I

and I actually have it I put on the universe, I believe, but

again, and just maybe for your listeners, I am a firm believer

of putting things out to the universe, writing it down, you

know, and just really focusing on that, that one thing that you

want. So anyways, I put out on the universe, I haven't on

paper, I want to retire my parents. That's number one.

Number two. Although I have given my daughter a lot of a lot

throughout her years, I want to leave more for her, I want to

give her more options so that if I'm not here, tomorrow, she has

something to fall back on, right, I want to be able to give

that to her. Number three, I really want to help people. And

there's certain people that have been there for me in the sense

of, you know, I see your vision, because a lot of people you tend

to lose a lot of people you've been to, a lot of people tend to

walk away from you, they think you're crazy, and they're not

gonna support you. And then there's some of those people

that might stick around and say, You know what, I feel you, I

hear you, right. So my little brother hasn't been very

supportive on this. So I want to be able to empower them and help

them through, right. And the last thing is, I want to be able

to give back, right, I need coming back from my very humble

beginning, not having a whole lot not having a lot of options,

I want to be able to take some of that and take it back and

give back to people. As a matter of fact, one of the things that

I do now, and I'm trying to really grow them a lot more is I

go down to so we're not too far from Ross, in Sonora, Mexico,

right? Just the border of San Diego. And one of the things

that I do there is I actually go out with a group of people, this

isn't none church related. It's just people that that want to,

you know, help others and we go out and we build houses. For

people that don't don't have anything, people that came the

same way that I came that didn't have anything. So in three days,

we actually spent the time in building a house, with concrete,

with lights, with insulation with all of that stuff. And so I

want to be able to do more of that. That's my driving, it's

like I want to just be able to give back, you know,

yeah, that's, that's one of my big driving factors as well. And

I feel like, you know, a lot of times people have a negative

connotation with wealth, and they feel as if you know, money

is the root of all evil is something that you hear all the

time, right. And I just want, you know, to stress, like, like,

all these amazing things that Caesar is able to do now, if he

had not grown his business and grown his wealth in the way that

he has, he wouldn't be able to do that money is an amplifier of

whatever is already inside of you. So if you're are if you

have ill intentions and you get more money, then sure, you can

do bad things with money. But if you're have good intentions,

then money just amplifies that. And it allows you to do all of

these incredible things like like Cesar is doing, and I'm

sure that all of the more things that are going to come as, as

your life just continues to expand.

Yeah, yeah. And that's exactly right. I mean, I believe that

money is a good vehicle to to give back and help out. And

again, at least, that's my vehicle, you know, similarly, my

primary business being realistic, that's my vehicle to

help me do the things that I want to be able to do. Right.

And so, I, again, people have to take away the negative belief of

money, the negative belief of I cannot do this, the negative

belief that, you know, I don't know how to do accounting, we

have to change that frame, and be able to say, Well, how are

what do I need to learn to be able to get to the level? Who do

I need to be around to be able to learn from them? Right? I

would this I'll tell you, there's, there's, I do believe

that the that you are the average of the five people you

hang around with. And one thing that I would say is there's

three kinds of people you want to have in that group number

one, you want to have people that are playing at a higher

level and then you are why because then they're gonna

inspire you for you to become that you know, it's a driving

force. Number two, you won't have people that are playing

maybe the same level as you are. However, they are edifying you,

they're helping you on, you know, you're growing with them.

And then number three, you want to have people right below you,

that are looking up to you so that you can reach down and pull

them back up with you. And that's to me is like you have

that mix, man. You're golden, you know?

Yeah, and, okay, I want to I want to talk a little bit more

about your coaching program and kind of what you do with with

your students, are you just focusing on the real estate

investing or are you kind of what's your mentorship look

like? Like, what are you kind of?

Yeah, yeah, so so my Yeah, so overall, the mentoring program

is for real estate investing. So it's for people that want to get

into real estate, they've never done it, they want to get

another stream of income, right. And so we talked about the the

assignment of contract the we talked about buying, fixing and

flipping houses. Pretty sweet. That's the mention program.

However, I do not start my mentoring program with real

estate, right? My mentoring program, the very first session

we talked about is the mindset. And I focus a lot on the

mindset. And the reason why I spend, you know, I would say a

whole chapter on the mindset is because, again, if I cannot, if

I cannot have you change the frame or look things

differently, it doesn't matter what I teach you, it doesn't

matter if there's real estate, stocks, Bitcoin, it doesn't

matter, if you don't have the mindset to say, you know, what,

there might be those done for them, you might get those, no,

you're gonna get that, you know, all of that negativity that you

tend to see, if you don't know how to attack them and how to

deal with them. I'm not gonna be able to help you. All right. So

I talked a lot about the the mindset I go over, you know,

understanding your why, what is your purpose? What is your,

your, your intention at the end of the day, right? That's one

thing that I cover in the mindset, the only thing that I

that I cover on the mindset is to be able to create daily, what

I consider to be daily rituals or, or habits that are going to

empower you to get better at that. We go over some material

where you read a book, and then and then I have you reflect

yourself into that book into that story. And where do you see

yourself, right? So there's a couple of different things that

we go over a couple different exercises that we'll go over to

make sure that I can get people and then mindset that once we

start talking about real estate, and they send me their first

offer, or, or multiple offers, and they come back and they come

back and say, Hey, sorry, I don't want your offers too low,

that they don't get discouraged. Right, and they can go back and

do it again. So that's that's how I start my mentoring

program. So that's my mentoring program. I do also have an

accountability mentoring group that I that I do on a different

site. And the whole purpose of that is to do a couple of

things. Number one, we want to go over any losses any, anything

that that any wins that have been through the time any aha

moments, and then also be able to give feedback, right? So we

focus on those four things. So during those accountability

meetings, and this can be for anything, by the way, right?

Maybe it could be I want to lose 10 pounds. Okay, so did you have

any major breakthroughs? Did? Is there any aha moments that you

want to share with us? What kind of feedback can we give you?

Right? And so we go over those four different elements in my

accountability group.

Yeah. So it's kind of like a group coaching program. Yes.

Yep. Okay, awesome. So Cesar, I have really, really loved

hearing all about your story and your background, because that's

not anything that I've bought into here yet before. I've

mostly heard, you know, your investment speaks on. So if

there's one key takeaway that people can take out of this

podcast, if they forget everything else that was said

today, what is that one thing?

So there's a couple of reasons. But one, one thing I would say,

would be really to work on yourself. It just comes down to

that, right. And what I mean by that is, a lot of people tend to

work so hard for somebody else, making them, you know, rich, or

wealthy, or whatever the case may be, you know, they're

working so hard on somebody else. And they forget to work on

themselves, right? I always use this analogy, people come from

work or tire or they had a bad day, they come home, they take

it out, they take that anger on their spouse, and now that

creates a very unhealthy relationship, or they're just

simply tired, and they come home. And then the first thing

they do is they sit on the couch, watch TV, and you know,

they forget to do anything else, right. And I say don't do that,

right. And my my advice to anyone is, it doesn't matter how

hard of a day it is, still come back in and work on yourself.

When I was working for that corporate job, I would leave my

you know, work 1012 hours, I'll come home, and I'll work on my

real estate business. And I constantly work on my real

estate business. That's the reason why I was able to leave

my corporate job again, I was getting paid over six figures

really good job. I came home, I will go to sleep every day, on

one or two a night working on myself. Right? And, and it's not

just about working on your business is that it's different

things. are you creating affirmations for you? are you

creating targets for you? Are you changing the habits? Are you

changing your you know, how you talk, you know, your physiology,

the words that you use? Like there's so many different things

that self learning, right? That to me, that is the basis of

getting to the next level, and you have to have to definitely

work on yourself.

And that's one thing that you just brought up that I don't

think we mentioned yet but you guys Cesar is also trained in

neuro linguistic programming as well. So that's a big element to

what he does and his his mentorship programs and his

coaching as well. So it kind of brings in all of all of the

things for you. So if you guys want to hear more of Caesar

story, you definitely need to check out his book. How You can

overcome anything, even when the world says no, no. Cesar, where

can people buy your book? If people want to work with you?

when can they find you? Where do you hang out the most?

Yeah, so I mean social media, Facebook Instagram. The best way

to find me though, is actually you can go to www dot Cesar RSP

no.com which is really my name CSE are my middle initial SP

know that COMM And you can find my books, I have that book. I

also co author another book here, which is pretty good for

people that want to get into entrepreneurship, my mentoring

program and really anything you can contact me directly there

and you can actually book a time with me if you want to through

that website. And anything that I have going on you can actually

find it.

Okay, awesome. And I will put the link to that in the

description down below. So if you guys want to hear more from

Cesar, make sure to check that out. Thank you so much, Cesar

for coming on today. It was such a blessing. And you're awesome.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm very very grateful to have

you. So thanks so much.

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