Speaker 1: 0:14

Hey guys, it's John McNamara, our host right in Vegas. We're talking local sports, business, real estate. If you guys like what you see today, please subscribe. Follow us on the Vegas Podcast today.

Speaker 2: 0:28

I love that intro. Okay, loving the energy already here, john, what's?

Speaker 1: 0:31

up.

Speaker 2: 0:32

Vegas How's it going? Happy to be here. Happy to be here with you, john.

Speaker 1: 0:35

Yeah thanks for being on.

Speaker 2: 0:37

We're at Pinch's. Well, I don't drink anymore, but like having a margarita at Pinch's and relaxing and talking about life.

Speaker 1: 0:42

Yes, we got so special guests. Owner of peaches tacos, javier naya, thank you for being on thank you for inviting me, john. Excited to have you on. So let's let's know more about your background, where you're from.

Speaker 2: 0:53

Okay, well, I'm from los angeles. Please, no judging, um, you know, uh, come from an immigrant family. Foremost, to know my story, I'm the first born here, uh, in the states, in 1976. I know you can't tell, but you know it's just a simple life about family, culture, food, growing up running around in the neighborhood playing games like ding dong, ditch. But food was always something important to us and something natural, organic, right Like when people tell me when was the first time that you ever knew that food was something I'm like. Well, food was Like. When people tell me when was the first time that you ever knew that food was something I'm like. Well, food was always everything. You know. It was those moments that we had with the family and for some reason, my parents always knew when to cook. We'd go play outside with our friends and we'd come back at random times and you get there, the food's ready and we're like, huh, it's always magical.

Speaker 2: 1:42

I remember my dad always working doubles and the only times we actually had to spend with him were Sunday mornings and he still had to go work at night. He would sleep during church but he would cook, simple his beans over easy eggs, some queso fresco, some fried serranos, a tortilla, and just that. When people ask me what's your last meal that you know? So, home something, and just that. When people ask me what's your last meal that you know? So, homie, you know, right now, people get creative. I have nothing against you know creative, getting creative with food, but at the end of the day, the how people cook it and where it comes from is the most important thing, right? So people always, you know, um, try to, how would I say, without insulting people, um, they want to make a show of it, right, they? They think food is something. Oh, let me get creative, and whatnot.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Food doesn't taste cute, john right, you're not going to be like oh that was cute, that was creative. Yeah, I've never heard that.

Speaker 2: 2:33

So food's always been our lives and you know what we started Beanshiz 17 years ago. Wow. So you've seen it all, yes, everything, yes, all of that talk is still all that you know.

Speaker 2: 2:44

I don't want to come first to roaches, because we never die, but but you know what I kind of, you know what I, luckily, and we have to go through stuff like that to grow, unfortunately, yeah right, a lot of. So I was asked once, uh, when was the last time you took a l? And I'm like, wow, I had to think about it. It's been a while, because my last l was my last l? Um and it turned into lessons.

Speaker 2: 3:08

Yeah, um, because life's gonna life, you guys, um, you know, from covid, uh, from recessions, you can't avoid all that and that's something that you have to get used to. And I think, through the restaurant business and through life's journey, you realize like, damn, that wasn't my fault, but it happened, yeah right, and then you start thinking about what could I have done different? So in the restaurant business that uh and our family, uh, together we've grown as one. You know, people always ask me how can you be partners with your brothers? Right, like my mama to this day, get us like this? That is tough, yeah, it is tough right like when you think about it.

Speaker 1: 3:43

Yeah, I have a real estate partnership with my best friend. Yeah, and you know, we have our days, jorge. Yeah, so so you?

Speaker 2: 3:51

know, I know, yes, of course, yeah, it's yeah it is a different dynamic absolutely you have a personal relationship with them.

Speaker 1: 3:57

So how do you?

Speaker 2: 3:58

yeah, so I'm the youngest one, okay, which means that you learn from all of them. I know they will be like, uh, um, so I think you get the best of everybody, yeah, uh, and to me, honestly, I think, um, focusing on the right things. I think that little by little my dad instilled in us and to this day I feel, people get lost in their entrepreneurial journey. They start believing that they're that guy right. Because once you, once you reach a level of, of, of, of success, yeah, where you either have employees or recognition or or people always telling you like, hey, you're the man, you start walking around believing you're the man right, you know, and people get lost in that.

Speaker 2: 4:39

You know, my dad always just showed us the simple things in life matter, humble, and, to this day, a man that kept that philosophy all his life. If I would tell you what he attained in life without knowing how to read or write, you guys. So my dad to this day does not know how to read or write Spanish or English and he came to a foreign country and what he created the base for us and him by himself, as a chef in in Beverly Hills in the 80s and just saving his pennies on simple things. He's Relaxed for the last 15 years. He loved his, he loves his garden. You know so that as a family and brothers, going back to the question, we talk intentions. That's what has kept us together. You know, we check each other In our Mexican culture, if you think you're cool, the first thing you're relax. No te creas tan chingón. Eh, yeah, it is. It is that thing that hey, relax. All right, good, you did it now.

Speaker 1: 5:40

Yeah, no, I understand, I have my mexican brother too, so, yeah, I get, we check each other, so that's a good way to put it, and then you, you start checking yourself yeah, going back to that and it humbles you right. It humbles you right.

Speaker 2: 5:52

So I think I, you know, one of the things I like to share now, at 49, is knowing how to check yourself. Um, for you, not for anyone else. Yeah, yeah, right, a lot, a lot of, we think, a lot of the things that we need to fix, we are going to do it for someone else. Yeah, the patience, my patience is for me, it's not for anyone else. You know, I'm the one that's going to feel that energy, and especially in the restaurant business you've been there before. When we are busy, people are just doing everything you have to. Somehow, one of my mentors told me, learn how to meditate in the midst of chaos, learn how to slow everything down. So how do you do that?

Speaker 1: 6:29

Oh, Because you guys are passing all the time, it being something natural to me.

Speaker 2: 6:34

I think we're all born with something special and, and you know, it tends to lead us in certain directions. I think we are uh, we do come up with our own blueprint as we're born. Obviously we're molded through our families and society and culture, right, yeah, but I think we are and I think it does have to be in you. Not everyone is meant to be in the restaurant business and deal with people from all walks of life on a daily basis. You got your vendors, you got your employees you have to, uh, talk to. You have everything. So how can you make all that positive on a daily basis?

Speaker 2: 7:01

yeah so you start learning to not give in to energy that doesn't even belong to you right like you know. Yeah, just because you're in a bad mood, that's not my problem why am I gonna make?

Speaker 2: 7:11

it my problem, yeah, right so you're able just to walk around and be like all right, what can I? Okay, look at the scenario, take a deep breath, what's going on? And it comes with this clarity. But this clarity doesn't just you can't read a book, right? Everyone wants to read books and be like, ah, I found my clarity. No, clarity comes through work with yourself and letting go of everything. Going back to when I told you, we start believing who. We are the rolex, we're the bmw, we're the guy in the suit. Nah, I mean, you've been to peaches. People don't know I'm one of the owners till maybe the 10th time that they meet me. Yeah, because I'm over there with picking up plates and whatnot. Not that a restaurant owner doesn't define me. Yeah, you know, I'm defined by how, uh are I?

Speaker 1: 7:53

I connect with people I think, yeah, yeah, I, I didn't know your story, yeah, but when you told me you how you were raised and your family and the food, it reminded me of your restaurant, because it's authentic. Yes, it is a family restaurant and it's our atmosphere energy to it I should say right, we're like. I come in, I feel like I'm family. Yeah, you give me a big hug. Yeah, you may talk a little shit, whatever that's a good stuff, yeah, right, yeah it feels like you're at home yeah, you know, and it's it's a totally different vibe.

Speaker 1: 8:22

All guards are down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know that I'm excited now.

Speaker 2: 8:26

You're just excited to see you guys, so you start creating when you it's different yeah your love and inner peace, guys.

Speaker 2: 8:31

So you, you are, love yourself and I, you know, without getting corny, uh, people try to find love in other things, whether it's a career or I'm a. I'm a, I was born an entrepreneur. That's my spirit. No, it's not, bro. You have energy and you're smart. You're no one's born entrepreneur. No one's like oh, this is mine, nah, you just can't do anything else. You need that balance and you have to realize that so you're.

Speaker 2: 8:52

Once you start truly loving who you are as a person, the simplicity of it, because you know, when you go you'll be like man. I like Javi, because he's a great guy, always authentic, cool, this simple stuff. Yeah, not because he has money or you see the car he drives or you see what he does his Crocs are, but right. So it's that walking around with that, that peace, you know, and love, that inner peace, that nothing money doesn't buy you. Your career won't buy you that.

Speaker 2: 9:19

Obviously we want to do something we love, guys, don't get me wrong. You have to be passionate about something, but we are here to be well-rounded, you know, and we get lost in the journey, we get lost in the money. We're not taking those yachts to our other life. People aren't gonna remember. People are gonna remember the memories they had with you and how profound your life was right now, how rich you were, the people that will. But you know, at the end, when you do make money, when you start making money, you start realizing like no, I mean, we need it. Don't get me wrong I like to travel.

Speaker 2: 9:48

Guys, I like to eat. Don't get me wrong. I'm not anti. Let's make money, don't let it make you.

Speaker 1: 9:53

I think that's the end of the day and that happens, yeah I've been doing real estate for 20 years and I, I, um, I agree with you, because I went through all of that and now, 20 years later, it is coming back to like, hey, what are my values? Yeah, right, and what? What really does make me happy? Because it's not. It's not the real estate deals or the money. At the end of the day, I'm not going to remember any of that.

Speaker 1: 10:12

I'm going to remember the relationships and the memories and the vacations, whatever it looks like so it's and it's reminding yourself patience right so how do you? How do you do? Because I know you say you do that and you you show it, because there is a calming energy about you yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2: 10:27

That's what I love, like you?

Speaker 1: 10:28

just you can feel your energy absolutely come in big hug whatever it looks like you. You know I'm not going to look at you in any way, but as here you go, john, a person, yeah I feel that yeah yeah, it's love, yeah, it's love, and, and I think um do you practice this on the side, or is this like you're just doing it?

Speaker 2: 10:46

like yeah, it's something that you live, it's not a idea, and it starts with your daily routine, right? So what does that look like my daily routine? Oh, yeah, so typically when my daughters are in school, I have two daughters and a son. Blessed uh, 13, 7, and one uh. One was the oops baby, but blessing um, I take. I'm lucky to take both of my daughters to school, so they our part. Take one to school, take the other one to school. Come home, get ready to work.

Speaker 2: 11:14

I'm at work by 845. Chelita's there. Hey, chela, I'm gonna make sure you watch this. Chela's there. Talk to her about what happened. Go get my coffee at Coov, the new nice little spot that we have there that you have to go to, a specialty coffee. Come back, make sure I don't have any emails that I check. I know my brothers are gonna be like you don't check your emails like this. I do um call, call my brothers in los angeles. What's going on? Cool? Uh, do we have anything going on this week? I'll get on my phone. Uh, I'm very good with dms, you guys.

Speaker 2: 11:44

One thing I started doing a long time ago is uh, whenever I go through everyone's story, that's funny, oh, that's cool, oh, cool, stay fresh in their minds. Yeah, and it's naturally something I have time. I want to do. That it's not like, haha, let me no. So. And I started doing that a year ago and, wow, what has become of that. The interaction has become of them coming more. Yeah, you know, they stay in their mind. They don't forget about you guys. We sometimes we reach uh, uh, we think we've made it. No, you never make it, you have to continue to go right.

Speaker 2: 12:18

You know, they always tell us is it the destination of the journey? I'm like it's the journey. What destination are you talking about? That's still, we don't know what that is. Yeah right.

Speaker 1: 12:27

It's funny to say that because I look back in my life and some of the happiest times it's like when you're trying to make it yes, yes, now, because it's when you grow the most, you have the best memories. And then kind of when you get there, like how do I keep it all together?

Speaker 2: 12:41

yeah, absolutely yeah. It's gonna fall apart tomorrow, and then you gotta.

Speaker 2: 12:44

It's a whole different level of mindset you gotta work on that stage, that first stage starts, yeah, right when that stage is like, okay, you know, when we got hit by the first recession in 2010, yeah, we had opened up, we had sunset that went on the sunset strip in los angeles. We just had committed to uh, the mall in santa monica never again, never do malls uh ran into a recession and at the same time, we over uh our budget for this uh mall one was just ridiculous piping here there and we're like man in the red looking at each other, not paying each other because we have employees. I remember my brother, george, and I for New Year's, like crying, holding each other, like damn, oh, wow, you know, we have kids and this is going on. And it's like let's go back to basics and to this day, that's what we get. We got stronger. That's okay.

Speaker 2: 13:35

What did we do? How can we prevent? We could prevent this that next time we could do this cool to get out of holes like that, and I'm talking about we were like in a quarter of a million dollars in debt. Oh my god. Okay, that's a lot. Yeah, you know, and again, just buckling down. Never borrow money from anyone. It's always been that family money, that that we worked hard for and, yeah, that was our first big like. We did that cool. And then we have. We had a smaller one around 2017 again, and then y'all remember covid. I don't have to tell you about covid.

Speaker 2: 14:08

Yeah, restaurants got hit, so then, we got hit by covid and I'm like, damn okay, what do we do? We do I put on my apron yeah, my apron, my cape, I call it my cape. And I told Christy, I called my brothers in Los Angeles, let's do this labor. I mean, we got down to the business aspect of it, because it's not just cooking. You guys Like, how do we get the numbers? So we worked on our numbers and we worked every day.

Speaker 2: 14:31

What else can we get business from? Oh, there's this thing called easy catering. Let's sign up to get easy catering. Hey, let's make sure we do this. Let's hey events and uh, we started, we, we felt the recession late 2023 and obviously through 2024. A lot of my real estate friends told me too, like they were down 40 percent. A lot of restaurants in 2024 I know you guys don't know they were down 40, 50 percent. We were blessed that some of our la stores held strong and didn't take us a big dip, but we in vegas took a big hit because it was growing at the same time yeah we had new places, you know, as the recession is going and new places opening up, and you know.

Speaker 2: 15:07

So what do we do? We do what we did best and just went back to basis make sure everything comes out great, make sure everyone's smiling at each other. And the more we go through, the more we grow, the more peaceful I get yeah you know I wouldn't be in the place I am right now if I didn't go through.

Speaker 1: 15:21

I would right sounds silly, right yeah, yeah, I've been there, yeah, and I love it. Yeah, and to go back, because, like on dms, because even you were like, hey, let's be instagram, let's follow each other you dm me immediately. Now I feel even more connected to connected to you and we do that in real estate as well because you feel like you're a little bit more connected absolutely just a tax-free fine you'll see me on a daily basis.

Speaker 2: 15:44

The writer's stories.

Speaker 1: 15:45

Yes, I knew before came down like that what's this going on?

Speaker 2: 15:48

you know I'm asking all these questions about yeah and you'll see something that I want, I want to share with everyone. You'll see me at the restaurant, that person, that hobby you're going to see at the grocery store, you're going to see at the bank, you're going to see everywhere you go, and that's one thing I tell people be a consistent you. Yeah. When I heard someone, the first question, I asked him when are you the happiest? That? What? When are do you feel you're? Oh, when I want my friends, when we're hanging out. There's something you don't want to feel that all the time.

Speaker 2: 16:18

Oh, that's a get on right. So, and you know, but going back to early on, how we let other people's energy affect us, I'm gonna be me. I don't care if you're mad.

Speaker 2: 16:24

Yeah, I'm not gonna be happy because you're, or I'm gonna act weird because I don't. I think you might be in a no that you, you stay in your bad mood, yeah, you know so. So embracing that and the consistent consistency of a happy person is everywhere in their life. Right, I can't be a happy person and be a horrible dad. Yeah, but at the same time you could be a, an amazing businessman, but be a horrible dad, yeah, a horrible friend, right, you know, I said this other day, I'm like, uh, when people say, oh, it's lonely at the top, I'm like you climbed the wrong mountain.

Speaker 2: 17:00

You took the. You remember um man upstairs, he took the copper, uh, uh, not the gold-plated cup, yeah, you know. And when I look at me, because why? I'm telling you I'm on the top, because of all the love around me, all the people around me, the daily human connection that I have, and to me that's being on top, not being alone, rich. You know, my brother told me one day, yeah, I told my friend one day I feel bad for you. You're so poor, the only thing you have is money. And I know there's a lot of people out there all y'all do because you never had it, yeah, because you've never had it. You don't know how people act. I don't want people to like me because I have money. Yeah, that's weird it is weird, right?

Speaker 2: 17:41

you don't know if they really like you, or is it all authentic?

Speaker 1: 17:44

relationship or not? Right, because it's a big difference absolutely.

Speaker 2: 17:48

And I'm not opposed guys to having a nice car. Please, you have your car, you just yeah. I have friends that have nice stuff but they don't. It doesn't make them, they don't walk around like you know, but because they've had it, it's a natural thing, it's just what they do. I'm sure you have to put on that suit once in a while, that nice watch, because in your industry you don't want people to be like you, don't. It'll mess up your business. So I get it, you know, uh, but don't let it make you, don't let it be that whole the, the guy with the. You don't want to be the flyest guy all the time. No right, there's the guy like with the flyest suit. I went to an event I won't say where it was especially not like, I think, california and vegas.

Speaker 1: 18:24

it's different cultures. Absolutely yes, in the Northeast when I came, out we all wore ties and collars right, so it was a big switch here, yeah, and now it's like every year I get a little bit more casual.

Speaker 2: 18:35

I think the culture is changing.

Speaker 1: 18:37

So yeah, it's a different vibe out here, but it's more what you say, it's more your vibe.

Speaker 2: 18:41

Absolutely A thousand percent, but I think I would say it's a. I think in general, I think it's most people's vibe, it's just what we're exposed to right.

Speaker 2: 18:46

I was talking to my friend that his family's big time lawyers and he felt weird growing up because he wasn't that guy. Yeah, and he wasn't the guy getting the straight energy and he would get the. And I told him that's a blessing, what do you mean? Because you're telling me how miserable everyone was and because you have to get the status quo and you got to be the law firm and all this and you weren't caught up in that. Yeah, you told me they weren't happy. Yeah, so it was a blessing that you were born like that. That it was all weird to you. I know how you felt like an outcast because your surroundings, but when you move you realize like no, that's not life.

Speaker 2: 19:21

Yeah, you know so even in the west coast it is more cultural because it's you got the stock market out there, you got it's just, it is. Yeah, but even they kind of feel more natural when they're wearing the suits. But yeah, when they want to have a good time, what do they do?

Speaker 1: 19:33

yeah, for sure let's go well. That's one of the reasons I moved out here, because I felt more connected to folks on this part of the country, because very much I don't know how it is. It's been like it's funny, because you started PG-7. I moved here about around that time. I came out to Vegas about 17 years ago but I just remember the culture, I enjoyed it more and most of my friends are from California so I just I felt it right, it's Northeast, it's where'd you go to school, how much money you make, what's your job and I felt it.

Speaker 1: 20:03

you know it didn't feel good it was like I had an opportunity to move out here and I never looked back. Who didn't pay me to go back to the Northeast?

Speaker 2: 20:11

Yeah it's crazy.

Speaker 2: 20:12

But, like you know, from schooling to everything, I mean, I was always the guy that you know. When you had the decathlon team or where you go for state and you have to get an A student, a B student, a C student, a student, a b student, a c student and a d student yeah, why was that scene in between like like that that they would get calm? You know, because I school was never for me. Yeah, you know, I was all. You know. I had expectations and my parent, my the teachers, would tell my parents if he would focus in school, that he could do whatever he wants. I'm like, well, I don't want to focus on school. I made it. I know you guys are going to get scared, but I graduated high school you won't believe this with a 1.67 gpa. Wow. And people like, how do you say with a smile I'm like because it's hard to do. Yeah, you know I. I bring up the, the movie ferris bueller's day off, like how'd you do it from? You know what? You also had the teacher. I also had 67 absences my senior year. Please don't, it's just my nephews would use me as an example. But Harvey, uncle Harvey, don't compare yourself to Uncle Harvey, I don't recommend this, you know, but it is kind of.

Speaker 2: 21:15

You know, my teachers would not want to pass me because I didn't show up more than so it's like it's okay that you did enough to pass, because that's what I would do. What do I have to do to pass? You know? But because that's what I would do, what do I have to do to pass, you know, but it's not always. You don't always take the role people tell you to take. Yeah, and I think that was me. I wasn't trying to be rebellious, but I was just that guy. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna do it how you want me to do it. Yeah, for all my life, the people thought I was lazy or being. No, I'm not lazy. You know, I follow this guru on Instagram called sad. He's like if you procrastinate in things and you just do stuff like that, it's not who you are right. So I'm going back to like, yeah, could I have gotten straight a's easily?

Speaker 1: 21:57

yeah, well, that was not even yeah it's interesting now, right, because, especially back in the day, we were definitely taught go to school. You go to college, right, but who are the most successful people? A lot of them don't go to college they're entrepreneurs, they're building businesses, whatever it looks like it. A lot of times it's because they get bored.

Speaker 2: 22:14

It's like they're not really learning things and it's not lucrative to go to school. When you think about it, they know they will not. Now they will give you the government or whoever sally may, whoever. They'll give you a quarter of a million dollars to go to school and get in debt, yeah, but they won't give you fifty thousand dollars to start a business yeah right, you know, I mean obviously not just to anyone.

Speaker 2: 22:36

I mean, but if I'm a straight, a student coming out of high school and I've done this, why not offer kids that incentive to do? Then kids will know like man, yeah, you mean, if I get straight A's through high school and I don't want to go to school first, you showed that you're responsible. Let's start there. You're getting straight. That show that you could be committed. Yeah, why can't we again?

Speaker 1: 22:56

it's just we're set up to again get in debt and be like the hell yeah, it's interesting concept right, yeah because I think a lot of folks now they go to college, they come out and they think they're just going to get these great jobs or staff, and they're not. It's just to get your foot in door to another thing. Absolutely yes.

Speaker 2: 23:13

Corporate job yeah, my brothers, I mean, they do well and there's nothing wrong with corporate jobs, by the way.

Speaker 1: 23:19

It's just not a history.

Speaker 2: 23:20

They made a history of all the history. Do you do it now? Uh, no, but you know, again, it's just, you know, I don't think we're all meant for uh, for school, yeah, but you know I think it does. Uh, if you show commitment in high school, uh, take, I mean, that's what I tell my daughter. Yeah, my daughter's like, oh, what, what I do after high school? I'm like, oh, just continue doing what you're doing.

Speaker 2: 23:39

I mean, you see her work at the restaurant. She's 13, she's hard worker, uh, understands the value of a dollar, uh, what it is to work. She understands that she's working with adults that are paying rent, yeah, the whole aspect of respecting what it is. So they could learn that at a young age. Yeah, you know, that's why I always uh when people bring up the younger generation and how they're fucking up and all this. And I'm like you raised them, yeah, oh, so do we blame the people that raise them? Yeah, or you know, it's like, like, and I'm a father so I could say that right. So with my daughter, I told her the same thing if you show me you're responsible, you get straight a's through through high school and excel, and then you make your own decision of what you want to do after that?

Speaker 1: 24:21

so that's good advice absolutely and isn't it like every generation that thinks like the next generation?

Speaker 2: 24:28

yes, yes yes, because I you know, I was hearing that when you know, when we were younger, I was hearing that from that like we're all messed up and we're, you know, losers or whatever it's funny, I like that you I bring that up because you yourself have this youthfulness about you, right? And and one of my customers, uh, that has been going to beachesaches professional has his office upstairs. He's like Javi, you had a birthday this Saturday. Yeah, it was great, I turned 49. And he's like why did you always think that you were younger than me? I'm like, I get that a lot, I've always gotten that and I love the fact that I get that. I didn't tell him exactly because I don't want to like go through everything I feel.

Speaker 2: 25:05

But, uh, we were at an event where they had a lot of young kids, uh, 18, 20 and they have this light to them. They have this smile, this, this, this youthfulness. And I was telling my wife I'm like man, it sucks that people lose that. It sucks that people lose that light, that just just that like man, that hope At what point through life? And I would always tell myself at that age, because of what older generations did to us, I'm not going to be that person in my 40s and 50s that looks at the younger generation as stupid. As you see, there I have professionals in their early 20s that go there. We have kids that grew up there, that I've seen, that are taller than me. But I look at a lot of people now and I'm like man, you lost that youthfulness. You can't lose that. I have this thing that says old soul, young spirit. Your old soul keeps you wise.

Speaker 1: 26:05

Your young spirit keeps you growing. So I think, when people think that I'm younger than them, it's because you guys lost that, yeah right, it's funny I never really consciously thought that, but I look for team members too, like do they have youthful?

Speaker 2: 26:16

energy right. Do they want to learn they?

Speaker 1: 26:18

grow, and I don't care if they're 20 or 60 exactly right, I don't the age doesn't really matter to me it's like do you have the energy and growth and you're asking questions and you're excited about life.

Speaker 2: 26:29

That's all I care about those people in the seventies. Where we they are is because of the youthfulness. Oh yeah, I've seen so old people and I'm like I love that and other people recognize I'm like, those are my mentors. I'm like, I want to be that guy in seventies and eighties and just looks looks great and loving life, big smile that whole getting old thing is no, and we get lost again in the journey.

Speaker 2: 26:48

yeah, and playing a character and we got to be tough that we have to show. You know, we have to build these walls because of this image and, um, you know it's, it's a, it's a short life, you know, yolo, yeah, um, uh, as long as you're respectful, uh, to people and you know, you, you, you, you realize your blessings and you get up every day. I think those are the key things and that's what I teach my daughters. They see everything. I'm not the father that it's like oh, you can't see social media, oh, stay away from this.

Speaker 2: 27:22

When I was a girl dad initially, and people were like, oh, you're a girl dad, blah, blah, blah. What are you going to do when they get older? I'm not gonna wait. That's what I do now. Yes, right, how I treat mom, how I speak to other people, uh, how I work hard, how I speak to them, uh, being making them first of all the most important thing in your life, that's great, you know, I think, I think, uh, when people and parents in the past, when I wasn't a parent, uh, and I would see them complain about, no, I get it. You are unconnected with your kid. You tell your kids to do stuff you don't do. You don't lead by example. Yeah, you know, so Kids are smart. Kids are smart.

Speaker 1: 28:01

yeah, so you know You're not going to be able to trick them.

Speaker 2: 28:05

They're watching everything. Oh, I've, little by little, you know, I'm letting the rains go with my teenager and the other one too, 13 and seven, and when they, when we're in certain situations and they say something because I'm trying to, and they're like no dad, this, this, and that I'm like bite your tongue, walk away, she's right. So, yeah, I told my employees I, man, my daughters are giving me more patience and whatnot, and I'm learning from me and this and that, and you guys are lucky. And they're like oh, javi, but yeah, it's that, it's being able to check yourself. I love that. Yeah, it's crazy. It takes a lot, trust me.

Speaker 1: 28:40

I'm not a parent, but I have friends and brothers that have fat kids and I've seen them level up in life and be great. Uh, just like yourself. Yeah, another level of patience, yes, yes, and that's that's beautiful.

Speaker 2: 28:53

Yeah, depending on how you, yeah and that patience, can I tell you. And it's not that, that patience, that you're ignoring things, guys. It's not that patient that you don't care. It's not because a lot of people do walk around like, hey, look at the no car in the world, I care, um, it's just honest, just being able to be the happiest you can throughout the day, and that comes with action, not just thinking how you smile at that person. Every day you get your coffee. Just you'll be surprised. And if they don't say anything, oh well, that's them.

Speaker 2: 29:22

But if you consistently be the happiest, you and you guys know who you are. I don, you know, we all know who our happiest person is. We've all been in situations where, like, no, and it's not with drugs, you guys, it's not with alcohol, it has to be without that. But yeah, when you are just in that place, that moment where you're at peace and you're like man, I want to feel this, like this every day. Money can get you that Success can get you, that success can't get you that it's truly being happy as a human being and and humanity. And I think, guys, we're losing that. And you know, hopefully through these conversations you don't see, you don't be like hey, who's that hippie looking guy?

Speaker 2: 29:57

I realize it comes from an entrepreneur, a dad, immigrant, immigrant son, a son of an immigrant, someone that's gone hard all his life and continues to go hard. Dude, I love it.

Speaker 1: 30:11

Thank you for being on, of course. Uh, we're gonna leave it like that. Some great words of wisdom here. I really appreciate you and if you want some more, come to peaches, come to peaches tacos hang out with this guy. He's a good time. Javi, appreciate you being on guys this Vegas. Take care of yourselves today.